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Notes
See his "Sir John Harington's Manuscript of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia," in Stephen Parks and Croft, Literary Autographs (1983), pp. 39-75; also Autograph Poetry in the English Language (1973), I, no. 20; and his review of Anthony G. Petti's English Literary Hands from Chaucer to Dryden, in TLS, 24 Feb. 1978, p. 241. I wish to thank the following libraries for permission to reproduce manuscript materials from their collections: the Bodleian for Bodl. MS. Rawl. B. 162, the Folger Shakespeare Library for Fo. MS. V.a.249, the Syndics of Cambridge University Library for Cambr. Adv. b. 8. 1, and the British Library for B.L. Add. MS. 46370, B.L. Add. MS. 18920, and B.L. Royal MS. 17 B xxii.
These manuscripts are described as autograph in, respectively, Catalog of the Folger Shakespeare Library (1971), II: 172-173; W. W. Greg, English Literary Autographs (1932), no. XLV, and my own article (alas), "Sir John Harington's A Supplie or Addicion to the Catalogue of Bishops: Composition and Text," SB, 30 (1977), 150.
Juxtaposed facsimiles of both italic hands, that of B.L. Add. 18920 and Cambr. Adv. b. 8. 1, are given in Greg, no. XLV, items b and c, where he describes both as autograph.
It should also be noted that in Harington's manuscript of his translation and commentary on Book VI of the Aeneid (Berkshire Record Office, Trumbull Add. 23), the Latin text of the Aeneid is in a scribal italic hand, with Harington's translation and commentary in his autograph secretary. A facsimile is given in Beal, pp. 126-127. The contrast between the scribal italic hand and Harington's can be seen in the words Harington glosses from the Latin text and the form those same words take in the Latin text.
See Harington's letters from 1607 on in Norman McClure, Letters and Epigrams of Sir John Harington (1930), pp. 39, 109, 142. Ian Grimble, The Harington Family (1957), p. 148, mentions that by 1607 Harington was so palsied he had to have his son handle some of his correspondence, but I have not been able to discover the source of his information. Harington's late hand, c. 1609, can be seen in B.L. Add. 27632 (Beal HrJ 338) in various places.
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