‘The hand of Milton: Identifying the author’s annotated copy of Holinshed’s Chronicles’, an essay by researchers Claire M L Bourne, Aaron T Pratt and Jason Scott-Warren, was published in Issue 6320 of The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) on 17 May 2024.  Their identification of John Milton’s handwriting in two volumes of Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles (1587) belonging to the Burton Barr Central Library in Phoenix, Arizona, makes this one of only three known books to preserve Milton’s handwritten reading notes, and one of only nine books to have survived from his library.

Link to the essay in the TLS: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/john-milton-annotated-holinshed-chronicles-commentary/

Claire M L Bourne is Associate Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University.

Aaron T Pratt is Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin.

Jason Scott-Warren is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge