Sources at the British Library

Platt, Sir Hugh. Sloane MSS. 2189, 2216, 2210.
These are examples of Platt's manuscript notebooks which contain many of his experiments to address famine and dearth. For example, the image from MS.2210 is an itinerary of experiments and recipes, many of which are designed to cope with scarcity.
Image credit: (c) British Library, London.
Platt, Sir Hugh. Sundrie new and artificall Remedies against Famine. Written by H[ugh] P[latt] Esq., uppon thoccasion of the present Dearth. [London]: Printed by P. S. on Breadstreet Hill, 1596.
Image credit: (c) British Library, London.

Platt, Sir Hugh. A Discoverie of certaine English wants which are royally supplied in this treatise. London: Printed by P. S. for W. Ponsonby, 1595.

Platt, Sir Hugh. The Jewell House of Art and Nature. Conteining diuers rare and profitable inuentions, together with sundry new experimentes in the art of Husbandry, Distillation, and Moulding, etc. [With “Diuerse new sorts of soyle ... for manuring both of pasture and arable ground” and “Diuers chimicall conclusions concerning the art of distillation”.] London: Printed by Peter Short, 1594.
Englands Parnassus: or The choysest Flowers of our Moderne Poets, with their Poeticall comparisons. Descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable. [The dedication and the address to the reader signed: R. A., i.e. Robert Allott.] London: for N. L [N. Ling] C. B [C. Burke] & T. H [T. Hayes], 1600.
A fully digitized copy of the anthology is here.
Image credit: Boston Public Library and Internet Archive.
Struppe, Joachim. Σιτοποτιαματεχνια. Antidotarii antitrimastigi, id est, Medelæ trium extremorum Dei flagellorum, libri I., adumbratio, qui est de corporali nec non spirituali Anchora, famis, sitis, valetudinisque mortalium ... unà cum corollario œconomico, etc. Franckofurti Mœni, 1574.
The British Library's edition is a presentation copy to Queen Elizabeth I, with the author's autograph. A fully digitized copy of the manual itself, cited by Hugh Platt in Remedies against Famine, is here.
Image credit: Google Books.
Nashe, Thomas. Nashes Lenten Stuffe, Containing, the description and first Procreation and Increasse of the towne of Great Yarmouth in Norfolke. With a new Play ... of the praise of the Red Herring. Fitte of all Clearkes of Noblemens Kitchins to be read: and not unnecessary by all Serving men that have short boord-wages to be remembred. London: For N. L. and C. B, 1599.
Nashe, Thomas. Pierce Penilesse his Supplication to the Diuell, describing the ouer-spreading of vice, and suppression of vertue, etc. London: T. C. for N. Ling, 1595.
Previous editions: 1592, 1593. Digitised versions of 1592 editions can be viewed in full on the Folger Library's website.
Image credit: Folger Shakespeare Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Subject

Shekkhopir-deshe Durbhikkho [Famine in Shakespeare-land]

Description

Of the many historical documents and literary texts from the 1590s, held in the British Library, which relate to famine and dearth in this decade, some are selected here. Links to the BL catalogue and digitized editions, where available, are provided.

Creator

The British Library

Source

The British Library Catalogues

Publisher

University of Exeter

Contributor

Mukherjee, Ayesha

Rights

CC BY-NC

Language

English

Type

Catalogue entry
Digitised resource

Coverage

England; 1595-98