Gabriel Harvey
Verse
Twenty lines, first published in Relle (1972), p. 408.
Autograph, subscribed Axiophilus
.
Edited from this MS in Relle.
Eight lines, first published in Relle (1972), p. 407.
Autograph, subscribed Axiophilus
.
Edited from this MS in Relle.
Four quatrains, first published in Relle (1972), p. 408.
Autograph, subscribed Axiophilus
.
Edited from this MS in Relle.
Moore Smith, as
Autograph verses.
Edited from this MS in Moore Smith and in Harman, pp. 27-8.
A Latin gratulatio
to Lord Burghley, including a 14-line address by the poet, beginning
Autograph fair copy, the presentation MS to Lord Burghley, in Harvey's roman hand, entitled Gabriel Haruejus
, on nine quarto leaves.
Among collections of John Strype (1643-1737), ecclesiastical historian and biographer, incorporating papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.
Moore Smith, p. 79. Stern, p. 243.
Miscellaneous Manuscripts and Letters
Harvey's autograph commonplace book, in Latin and English, very closely written, with his extracts from innumerable books reflecting his literary, classical, linguistic and other interests.
Later owned by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector (his note on f. 1r). Sotheby's, 20 June 1885 (Crossley sale), lot 3002.
Selections of this MS edited in Moore Smith, pp. 87-109.
Bookplates of Frederick William Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector, and of Thomas Jefferson McKee (1840-99), New York lawyer and collector. Anderson Galleries, New York, 2-3 December 1901 (McKee sale, Part IV), lot 2960, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue. Afterwards owned by George Clifford Thomas (1839-1909), Philadelphia financier and collector. Bookplate also of John Gribbel (1858-1936), Philadelphia financier and collector. Parke Bernet, 7-8 May 1945 (Gribbel sale, Part Four), lot 240, to Stonehill Books, New Haven.
Stern, p. 243 (as whereabouts unknown
). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Alvan Bregman,
Autograph letterbook, comprising drafts in a largely cursive italic hand, including an account of the attempted seduction of his sister by a lascivious nobleman, headed (f. i) Gabrielis Harvæi epistolæ æc.
, bearing dates between 1573 and 1578.
Edited by Edward John Long Scott, Camden Society, NS 33 (1884). Moore Smith, p. 79. Stern, p. 243. Discussed in Edward George Harman,
The account relating to his sister discussed, and its modelling on George Gascoigne's A Nobleman's Suit to a Country Maid
Autograph letter signed by Harvey, to the Earl of Leicester, from Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 24 April 1579.
Recorded in E.M. Tenison,
Autograph letter signed by Harvey, in Latin, to Lord Burghley, from Cambridge, 2 April 1579.
Recorded in Moore Smith, pp. 35-6.
Autograph letter signed (Gabriel Haruejus
), in Latin, to Lord Burghley, from Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 14 June 1580.
Facsimile examples in Greg,
Autograph letter signed by Harvey, to Lord Burghley, 15 February 1585
.
Recorded in Moore Smith, pp. 46-8. Facsimile examples in Greg,
Copy of a letter by Harvey, to Thomas Hatcher.
MS Baker 36.
Late 17th-early 18th century.Edited in HMC, Salisbury, VIII (1899), pp. 160-1. Moore Smith, pp. 72-4.
Gabriel Harvey of Walden...Essex Doctor of the lawe aged threeskore and thirteene yeres or thereaboutes, at Saffron Walden, 12 April 1626. 1626.
Recorded in Eccles, pp. 61-2.
Printed Books and Manuscripts with Harvey's Inscriptions or Marginalia
Autograph signature on the title-page, Latin mottos on A2v and the last blank page, and a few pencil markings.
Stern, p. 241.
Autograph annotations and marginalia.
Probably in the library of John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, afterwards of his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician (his sale, 1759, lot 397, to Joseph Ames. Ames's sale, 1760, lot 357, to Snelling. Henry White sale, 1902, lot 1408.
Moore Smith, p. 80. Stern, p. 242.
GabrielisHaruey 1583, his notes opposite dated
1587, an octavo in contemporary limp vellum. 1583-7.
Stern, pp. 240-1.
Autograph annotations and marginalia.
Probably in the library of John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, afterwards of his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician (his sale, 1759, lot 397, to Joseph Ames. Ames's sale, 1760, lot 357, to Snelling. Henry White sale, 1902, lot 1408.
Moore Smith, p. 80. Stern, p. 242.
W.C. Hazlitt. Moore Smith, p. 80. Stern, p. 240 (as whereabouts unknown
). Owned and recorded in Thomas W. Jones's list of 1854 in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.
Owned and recorded in Thomas W. Jones's list of 1854 in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.
Heydelberge[i.e. London], 1575)
Owned and recorded in Thomas W. Jones's list of 1854 in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.
1579on the title-page, occasional autograph annotations, and a full autograph page by him at the end relating to Parliament.
The volume was once Library of Congress KD7290 .F57132 1579, but was destroyed probably in the late 1980s. A microfilm is Library of Congress, Microfilm 85/10017 LL.
1579.Probably the exemplum of
Stern, p. 213 (recording the volume as whereabouts unknown
).
Autograph annotations and marginalia.
Probably in the library of John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, afterwards of his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician (his sale, 1759, lot 397, to Joseph Ames. Ames's sale, 1760, lot 357, to Snelling. Henry White sale, 1902, lot 1408.
Moore Smith, p. 80. Stern, p. 242.
Incerti Authoris 1584. 1584.
Owned and recorded in Thomas W. Jones's list of 1854 in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.
In the library of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.
Stern, p. 200.
Inscribed E. Gordon Ch. Ch.
: i.e. Edward Gordon, matric. Christ Church, Oxford, in 1785. Sotheby's, 3 August 1858 (Samuel Weller Singer sale).
Stern, p. 200 (recorded as whereabouts unknown
). Discussed in Carl T. Berkhout,
Stern, p. 201.
Formerly STC 3060 Houghton *70.83.
Stern, p. 202.
Stern, p. 203.
gabrielhauejus) on the title-page, an octavo in later morocco. c.1572.
Item 123 in an unidentified sale catalogue. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.
Stern, pp. 204-5.
Gabrielis Harvey) on the title-page, an octavo in later leather. c.1571.
Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 3 March 1845, lot 818, and 15 June 1858, lot 778. Puttick & Simpson's, 14 July 1862, lot 130; 16 June 1863, lot 365; and 14 May 1866, lot 1311. W. H. Robinson's sale catalogue No. 77 (1948), item 75, with a facsimile of the title-page in the catalogue.
Stern, p. 205. Recorded in W. Carew Hazlitt,
Gabrielis Harueijand
gabrielharuey, 1572, a note by him on the penultimate page dated
1580, in a quarto volume, in modern morocco gilt. 1572-80.
Booklabel of Louis H. Silver.
Stern, pp. 205-6.
Gabriel Arvejo. Late 16th century?
Owned in April 1904 by the Rev. Walter Begley, 24 Greencroft Gardens, Hampstead.
Moore Smith, p. 81. Stern, p. 205.
Including (f. 422v) Harvey's celebrated comment: The younger sort takes much delight in Shakespeares Venus & Adonis, but his Lucrece, & his tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, haue it in them, to please the Wiser sort.
Inscribed E Libris Tho: Dromore 1782
: i.e. by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Bookplate of Thomas Millington, of Gosfeild Hall, Essex.
This volume recorded and the annotations discussed in James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps,
First published in
Copy (f. 1r-2r) of an anonymous poem, in a small neat secretary hand, beginning Gabriel Harvey
.
Stern, p. 243.
Auction sale by F. O. Beggi, 17 March 1864, lot 357.
Stern, p. 206.
Stern, pp. 206-7.
Including three lines on the flyleaf opposite the title page; Percyuals Bibliotheca Hispanica. 1591.
and gabrielisharueij...GH
on the title-page; occasional underlining; five lines of notes in Latin on linguistic matters signed gabrielharuejus: 1590
on the last page, and a ten-line list of books in Spanish, Latin and English headed by the motto
The annotations printed and discussed in Caroline Brown Bourland,
Including GH.
, gabrielis harueij. 1580
, and Sallust, du Bartas, the only braue Poet in this sacred vein
on the title-page; various underlinings; Hetherto the ancient Originals, before the Histories of the Kinges
(E5r), notes on Solomon (Gr3r), and notes on Judith (K2r-v), the book, which includes 94 woodcuts after Hans Holbein, a quarto in modern brown morocco gilt.
Sale of the library of George Hibbert (1757-1837), merchant and book collector (16 March, 4 and 25 May 1829), lot 8666.
The annotations printed and discussed in Caroline Brown Bourland,
Autograph annotations in pencil and ink on five pages of the rear flyleaves and occasional notes and markings chiefly in pencil elsewhere.
Stern, p. 207.
Autograph signature and date 1593 on the title-page, pencil and ink notes on front pastedown and two front flyleaves, occasional underlinings, and other annotations in margins and borders.
Stern, pp. 207-8.
Stern, p. 208. Discussed in Walter Colman,
1583[i.e. 1584])
Owned and recorded (as
Stern, p. 209.
Later in the library of James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Sotheby's, 11 June 1885 (Crossley sale), lot 890.
Quattro tragedie, lacking the original
Item 307 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Corresponding to one of Harvey's volumes whose annotations are copied in the octavo MS in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.
Stern, p. 209.
Stern, p. 209.
Stern, pp. 209-10.
Stern, p. 210.
Stern, p. 210.
Including gabrielharuey. Ex dono Autoris, Monsieur du Ploiche
and The French A.B.C.
on the title-page; minor underlining and occasional substantial marginal annotations, such as A necessary Introduction...A paradox in lerning: quo plus, eo minus. Beginners must not leap ouer hastely, lest they ouerleape all. Apt & reddy pronunciation of ye Alphabet on weeks exercise
(A2v) and This, with ye first, will serue for good part of ye grammer. pronunciation, & ye verbs, perfectly learn'd: little othe[r] Grammer needith. My homagenral Dictionary, with daily reading, & speaking will soone supply ye rest
(Hiijr); the motto Poco, y bueno
on A3r and gabrielharuey.1580
on Iivv; the book a quarto in modern brown morocco gilt, the pages cropped.
The annotations printed and discussed in Caroline Brown Bourland,
Including G.H.
, gabrielharuey. 1593.
and For ye French, & Spanish
on the title-page; occasional marginal notes and underlining throughout, such as A ready way to learne Language
(p. 5), ye Queenes Languages
(p. 17), The like Commendation of ye Queen in Florios First Fruits &c
(p. 57), and (pp. 30-3) various references to brave
Virgil, Ariosto, Tasso (the last two heroicall, & diuine Wittes: most braue, & souerain Poets next Homer & Virgil; still my two singular Types [the rest cropped]
), and Du Bartas (for ye maiesty of his heauenly matter, & diuine forms, a most-excellent, & singular Poet: the only Christian Homer to this day
); the book a quarto in modern brown morocco gilt, the pages cropped.
The annotations edited and discussed in Caroline Brown Bourland,
Including GH. gabrielharuey.1592.
on the title-page; occasional brief marginal notes and underlining; gabrielisharueij, et amicorum. 1592
on the verso of the last page, and brief references to France. 1592
and Henrie 4.
on a flyleaf; the book a quarto in modern brown morocco gilt.
The annotations printed and discussed in Caroline Brown Bourland, a folio leaf of MS. in Harvey's hand
, actually in a different book: see
Stern, p. 211. Facsimile of the annotated title-page in
Corresponding to one of Harvey's volumes whose annotations are copied in the octavo MS in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.
Stern, p. 212.
Stern, p. 212.
Formerly Houghton *70-81.
Stern, p. 213. Discussed in Clifford Chalmers Huffman,
Copious autograph annotations by Harvey.
Stern, pp. 213-14.
Autograph annotations and marginalia.
Probably in the library of John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, afterwards of his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician (his sale, 1759, lot 397, to Joseph Ames. Ames's sale, 1760, lot 357, to Snelling. Henry White sale, 1902, lot 1408.
Moore Smith, p. 80. Stern, p. 242.
Later owned by The Rev. John Brand (1744-1806), antiquary and topographer; Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; William Henry Miller, MP (1789-1848), of Britwell Court, Burnham, Buckinghamshire; Quaritch's, 1920; and Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).
Stern, p. 214.
Recorded in 1979 as being in a Private Collection, United States
.
Stern, p. 214.
Gabriel Haruejus. 1580. 1580.
Formerly Houghton Lf.18.54.8*.
Stern, p. 214. Facsimiles of the annotated verso of the title-page and sig. avr in Wilson, Plates IIa and IV after p. 346.
Gabrielis Haruey.
Formerly Houghton 24232.6.25*.
Stern, p. 215. Facsimile of the signed title-page in Wilson, Plate IIb after p. 346.
Stern, p. 216.
Corresponding to one of Harvey's volumes whose annotations are copied in the octavo MS in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.
Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 5 July 1858 (Bliss sale). Puttick & Simpson, 14 December 1893, lot 349.
Moore Smith, p. 86. Stern, p. 217 (as wherabouts unknown
).
Stern, p. 217. Discussed in Kirsty Cochrane,
Gabriel Harvey(deleted) on the title-page, a marginal annotation on sig. D4r, and some underlinings, in a quarto volume, in contemporary limp vellum. c.1581.
Stern, pp. 217-18. Discussed in Kirsty Cochrane,
1580, dated at the end (f. 208v)
1590, an octavo bound (as ff. 73r-211r) with two other works in modern morocco gilt. 1580-90.
Stern, p. 218. Facsimile of f. 73r, the annotated title-page, in Heather Wolfe,
Stern, p. 219.
Stern, pp. 219-20.
GHin a flourished hand on the title-page, in a small quarto, in modern cloth. Late 16th century.
Stern, p. 219.
Ex dono Jo. ffratris. c.1588.
Leighton sale, May 1918, lot 1235. From the library of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).
Stern, p. 220.
Stern, pp. 220-1.
Formerly Houghton STC 13858.2.
Stern, p. 222.
Stern, pp. 222-3.
Stern, p. 223.
Including gabrielharuey. 1592
, giuen mee bie Mr Woolfe [the publisher], for a special rare Discourse
, and other annotations on the title-page and a twelve-line list of books on the verso; various marginal annotations throughout (some badly cropped); considerable underlining; and on the last page gabrielharuey: this August: 1592. Il legere nutrica lo ingegno
; also, tipped-in a long folded sheet of paper with a tabulated list of duchies, provinces, peers, archbishoprics, and academies in France, endorsed A compendious description of france / A proffitable Table
; the book a quarto in modern brown morocco gilt, the pages cropped.
The annotations printed and discussed in Caroline Brown Bourland,
Evidently the
Copious autograph annotations, inscribed Gabriel Haruejus...Ex dono præstantissimi Doctoris Bartholomæi Clarci, Arcuum Decani
.
Discussed in Relle (1972). Stern, p. 223.
Copious autograph annotations, signed gabrielisharveij, et amicorum
.
Discussed in Relle. Stern, p. 223.
Formerly Houghton *70-84.
Stern, p. 223.
Including Gabrielis Harveij...1579. m
on the title page; the motto Poco y bueno
; some underlining and many brief marginal annotations throughout (often cropped); a substantial note on p. 155 referring to the Excellent Comedies, & Tragedies following: full of sweet, & wise Discourse
which were evidently once bound with this book; and (p. [56]) Gabriel Harueius. 1579...Vt de hac Terentij tralatione Sentirem honorificentius; fecit Aldi exquisita Editio; the book an octavo in modern dark brown morocco.
The annotations printed and discussed in Caroline Brown Bourland,
Owned and recorded in Thomas W. Jones's list of 1854 in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.
Recorded by W.C. Hazlitt. Moore Smith, p. 85. Stern, p. 225.
Facsimile of an annotated page in
Owned in 1990 by Lucius Wilmerding, Jr and on deposit at Princeton University.
Stern, p. 225 (as in a Private collection, United States
). Discussed in Lisa Jardine and Anthony Grafton, Studied for Action
: How Gabriel Harvey Read his Livy
Stern, pp. 224-5.
Quaritch's
Stern, p. 226. W.C. Hazlitt. Moore Smith, p. 84. Stern, p. 226 (as in a Private collection, United States
).
W.C. Hazlitt (Bernard Quaritch whereabouts unknown
).
Harvey's annotations transcribed, with a facsimile of the annotated title-page and last page, in Frank Marcham,
Maggs's sale catalogue No. 505 (1928), item 1475, with a facsimile of the title-page as Plate LXII.
Stern, p. 227 (as in a Private collection, United States
).
Formerly Houghton Ott.251.1.20.
Stern, pp. 227-8.
Gabrielis Harveij) and inscription
Ex dono Edmundi Spenseri Episcopi Roffensis Secretarij. c.1578.
Discussed, with a facsimile of the inscribed title-page, in D. M. Rogers,
Stern, p. 228.
Gabrielis Harueij. 1582). 1582.
Recorded in David McKitterick's review of Stern,
Pickering & Chatto, sale catalogue No. 281 (1933), item 71. Sotheby's, Honeyman sale, November 1980?, lot 2290.
G.C. Moore Smith, MLR, 28 (1933), 81. Stern, p. 228 (as whereabouts unknown
). David McKitterick's review of Stern,
Inscribed (front pastedown) Tho: Stukeley M.B.RSS. 1718. Ex dono amici plurimis aestimandi Maur. Johnson Ar.S.T.I.S
.
Stern, p. 229.
W. H. Robinson's sale catalogue No. 55 (1935), item 51.
Stern, p. 229 (as in a Private collection, United States
).
Formerly Houghton A1447.5.10.
Stern, p. 230.
Including gabrielharuejus
and Corranus Spanish, & French Grammer: translated by M. Thorius
on the title-page of one part; GH. Huc meum Dictionarium Homogeneum, propriè, et merè Hispanicum
on the title-page of the second part; with occasional markings; several lines on the last page, including the reference Copia de Carta de su Maiestad al Dugur de Alua, en recommendacion del Doctor Gemma Frisio. In fine Cosmoiriticæ, Cornelij Gemmæ, Medici celeberrimi
; the book a quarto in modern brown morocco gilt, the pages cropped.
The annotations printed and discussed in Caroline Brown Bourland,
Discussed in Gregory Kratzmann,
Stern, p. 230.
Stern, p. 230. Facsimile of f. 72v, the last page of Harvey's notes, in Heather Wolfe,
Copious autograph annotations by Harvey.
Stern, p. 232.
1580, incorporating (with separate title-page)
Stern, p. 233.
Sotheby's, 9 June 1980, lot 25, to Kraus. Kraus's sale catalogue No. 186 (1991), item 79.
Recorded in David McKitterick's review of Stern,
Stern, p. 233.
Sotheby's, 9 June 1980, lot 25, to Kraus. Kraus's sale catalogues No. 164 (1983), item 143, and 186 (1991), item 79.
Recorded in David McKitterick's review of Stern,
Autograph annotations.
Stern, p. 234.
Copious autograph annotations, signed gabrielharvey. gh.
Discussed in Relle. Stern, p. 234.
Sotheby's, 9 June 1980, lot 25, to Kraus.
Recorded in David McKitterick's review of Stern,
Formerly Houghton A1447.3.100F.
Stern, p. 235. Facsimile of f. 68r in Wilson, Plate III after p. 346.
In 1979 in the Collection of Virginia F. Stern, New York
.
Stern, pp. 235-6.
Formerly owned by Lucius Wilmerding, Princeton.
Stern, p. 236 (as in a Private collection, United States
).
Sold by the British Museum as a duplicate in 1804.
Stern, p. 236.
Stern, p. 236.
Formerly Houghton *70-82.
Stern, p. 237.
The title-page bears Harvey's inscription Ex dono Edmundi Spenserij, Episcopi Roffensis Secretarij, 1578
.
Stern, p. 237.
An exemplum. This work is bound in the middle of a composite volume of printed pamphlets.
1575.Owned and annotated by Spenser's friend Gabriel Harvey and the title-page bears Harvey's inscription, Ex dono Edmundi Spenserij, Episcopi Roffensis Secretarij, 1578
.
Sotheby's, 21 March 1966, to Rathbone
. Sotheby's, 3 July 1973, to Francis Edwards.
W.C. Hazlitt. Moore Smith, p. 85. Stern, pp. 237-8.
Stern, p. 238.
Gabrielis Harueij. 1580. Mense Aprile) and annotations. 1580.
Recorded in David McKitterick's review of Stern,
Stern, p. 238.
Stern, p. 238.
Stern, pp. 238-9.
Syr Thomas Mores Jestes, in a quarto printed text, bound with another work by Wilson in contemporary calf.
Stern, p. 239.
Printed Books with Annotations Doubtfully or Erroneously Attributed to Harvey
Stern, p. 267.
Inscribed on the title-page Nathaniel F. Moore
.
Attributed to Gabriel Harvey in Stern, p. 217, with a facsimile of sig. H9v in Plate F after p. 148, but the annotations are not in his hand. See P.J. Croft's review of Stern in
Facsimile of this volume published by the Scolar Press, Menston, 1960). Annotations attributed to Harvey by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary. Stern, p. 218. Not in Harvey's hand. See P.J. Croft's review of Stern in
G. H: preti, but not in Harvey's hand and lacking annotations. c.1620.u i9s
Bookplate of Heathcote of Hursley Barnet
. Inscribed From the library of Norton Perkins November 11, 1925
. Formerly Houghton 14426.4F*.
Stern, pp. 223-4.
Stern, p. 268.
Stern, p. 269.
Annotations attributed to Harvey in Stern, p. 231, but questioned in P.J. Croft's review of Stern in
Stern, p. 269.
Inscribed on the initial title-page of the volume Nathaniel F. Moore
.
Annotations attributed to Gabriel Harvey in Stern, p. 237, with a facsimile of one page in Plate F after p. 148, but the annotations are not in his hand. See P.J. Croft's review of Stern in