On Life-Writing by Leader Zachary;

Author:Leader, Zachary;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015-08-27T16:00:00+00:00

The Folger’s Stonley diaries constitute three volumes, which presumably derived from a longer run, since they are not chronologically consecutive. The first volume (now Folger MS V.a.459), of 100 leaves, runs from 15 June 1581 to 31 December 1582; the second (V.a.460), 92 leaves long, from 14 May 1593 to 24 May 1594, and the third (V.a.461), some 77 leaves, from 14 March 1596/97 to 18 May 1598. All three are small paper books, purchased already sewn, but blank and unformatted. Stonley writes in them in a remarkably consistent manner. In the first volume (1581–82), there is no evidence of fumbling to find a format, which may suggest that Stonley had been keeping diaries for some time. On the first opening of this first volume, for example (see Figure 9.1), Stonley adopts a very clear layout, in which each page is effectively divided into two columns. The second column, which takes up about three quarters of the space, contains the body of the text; the first column serves as a kind of marginal indicator of what is in that text. Each new day is signalled with the date in Latin centred on the page as if it were a title, so the top of the left-hand page reads ‘Die Solis 18. Iunij’ (Sunday 18 June)—or rather, ‘Die Iunii Solis’, because Stonley slipped and wrote the month before the date. Monday 19 June 1581 starts further down the left-hand page, with Tuesday 20 June five lines into the right-hand page and Wednesday 21 June seven lines further down.

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