a new edition of Tottels Miscellany, Nott discovered Wyatt's own album of poems, partly autograph, the Egerton Manuscript, and also the Arundel-Harington Manuscript, an intermediate source of Tottels, in the library of John Harington, and also the Devonshire Manuscript, a manuscript anthology by many hands contemporary with the poet, a source for 16 more poems by Wyatt (as well as numerous misattributions by modern editors). Nott was the first editor of Wyatt's poems from manuscript (as contrasted with the defective texts in Tottels) and of Surrey's, which he found in the Arundel-Harington Manuscript. Highly skilled as a textual editor due to his training in classical philology, Nott did an excellent job of producing the editiones principes of these two authors. Later editors have improved their texts in minor respects, but modern editors (notably Muir and Rebholz) have badly marred their editions of Wyatt by including over 100 poems which are not Wyatt's. Nott's edition is still an important source for the texts of both poets. His biographies of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and his son Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton supply recondite information. Nott unwarrantably assumed that nearly all Surrey's poems were addressed to the Lady Geraldine (Elizabeth Grey, Countess of Kildare), and gave each a fanciful title based on that assumption. Besides the Bampton lectures and an occasional sermon, Nott also published some translations into Italian, and edited some Italian books. His Italian version of the English Book of Common Prayer (‘Libro delle Preghiere Communi’) appeared in 1831. In 1832 he printed at Florence for the first time, with Italian introduction and notes, ‘Fortunatus Siculus ossia l'Avventuroso Ciciliano di Busone da Gubbio: romanzo storico scritto nel MCCCXI.’ References Attribution 1767 births 1841 deaths 19th-century English Anglican priests Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford