Edward Alleyn's Diary and Account Book

Dulwich College: MS IX

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  • Document Description

    Record title: Edward Alleyn's Diary and Account Book
    Repository: Dulwich College
    Shelfmark: MS IX
    Repository location: Dulwich

    Since Alleyn did not die until 25 November 1626 and was buried at Dulwich on 27 November, he probably started and continued this practice in further books, which do not survive. The 'diary,' really an account book, was first transcribed in Young, Dulwich College, vol 2, pp 51-255, and extracted in Warner, Catalogue, pp 165-95.

    All notes to Alleyn's activities directly relevant to the Bear Garden in Southwark have been included here.

    For a fresh transcription, with introduction and glossaries, and an image of the original manuscript, see Ioppolo, Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project.

    29 September 1617-1 October 1622; English; paper; 62 leaves; modern pencil foliation; ruled in columns for day of the month, entry, and £ s d, ruled header at the top gives the month and year; original vellum cover bound in at the beginning of the volume (on the inner side is a lease from Edward Alleyn to William Penfold, of a wharf in St Mary Overy, dated 1603).

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