Robert Herrick
Verse
Poems included in <title>Hesperides</title> and <title>Noble Numbers</title>
First published in
Copy, untitled, here beginning
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
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Second copy, headed
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
:
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller.
Mid-17th century.Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.
Recorded in Henry Lawes MS
:
Copy, untitled and here beginning
Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to
Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) Anthony St John/ Ann: St John/ 1640 Bletso
: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) Oliver Beeesfor[d]
; and (f. 81v) John Watts
. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.
Cited in St John MS
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This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Inscribed four times on a flyleaf Tobias Alston his booke
: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end.
Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.
Cited in Alston MS
:
Copy, headed
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 2592. Sotheby's, 10 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 960. Owned in 1896 by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Acquired in 1950 from H.F.B. Brett-Smith, Oxford literary scholar and editor.
Cited in Natley MS
:
Copy, headed
Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.
c.1630s.Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) E Libris Richard Sutclif
. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.
Copy, headed
A flyleaf inscribed [?] Johannes Philips
. Acquired from H. Stevens 11 December 1852.
Cited in John Philips MS
:
Copy, headed
Including twenty poems by Carew, eleven poems by Crashaw on ff. 10-30 passim, and fifteen poems by Strode.
c.1630s.Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1834), item 728. Acquired from C. Booth, October 1857.
Cited in Thorpe MS
:
Copy, headed
Probably compiled by one H.S.
, a Cambridge man.
Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector, with his bookplate and inscription 1806 Purchased of Lansdown of Bristol
. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 192.
Copy, headed
To the righte honoble: the Lorde Thomas Darcy Viscount Colchester(c.1565-1640, Viscount Colchester from 1621 to 1626), 191 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship.
This MS largely transcribed in
Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) Mr John Bowyer
; (f. 2r) Jeronomus ffox
; and (f. 3r) William Ralph Baesh
.
Cited in Colchester MS
:
Copy, untitled and here beginning
Inscribed (f. 179r) This is Sr. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book
: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.
Copy, headed
Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v.
c.1635.Inscribed on f. 111v rev. Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt
. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).
Cited in Harley MS
:
Copy, headed
Including 22 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 13 poems by King, and 24 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and probably associated with Christ Church, Oxford.
c.1633.Inscribed names including (f. 93v, in court hand) ffrancis Baskeruile
: i.e. probably the Francis Baskerville who married Margaret Glanvill in 1635 and was in 1640 MP for Marlborough, Wiltshire. Other scribbling including (f. 1r) accounts referring to Wanborough, Wiltshire; (f. 9v) Elizabeth White
; (f. 54v) William Walrond his booke 1663
; (f. 92r) accounts dated 1658; and (f. 94r) John Wallrond
. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Recorded in Baskerville MS
:
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on a single folio leaf of verse.
Probably collected by Dr Samuel Knight (1677/8-1746), clergyman and antiquary.
Copy, here beginning
Including 14 poems by Carew (and a second copy of one poem), eight poems (plus 3 of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, and 28 poems by Strode (plus a second copy of one and two of doubtful authorship).
c.late 1630s.Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.
Cited in Fulman MS
:
Copy, headed
Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship.
c.1630s.Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9510. (Phillipps sale, lot 1015.) Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 342. Formerly MS 4201. 27. 1.
Cited in Dobell MS II
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Copy, headed R Hericke
.
Inscribed To my euer honored good Cosen Sr John Reresby Barronett these prsent
: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall.
Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.
Cited in Mexborough MS
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Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, here beginning
A folio composite volume of state letters, tracts, and verse, collected by, and mostly in the hand of, William Parkhurst (fl.1604-67), Sir Henry Wotton's secretary in Venice and later Master of the Mint, including various works in verse and prose attributed to Donne, chiefly in a scribal hand, partly in Parkhurst's hand, 373 leaves (including blanks), in old calf.
Among the papers of the Finch family of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland. Mistakenly reported by Grierson and Logan Pearsall Smith to have been destroyed in a fire at Burley c.1908.
Cited in Burley MS
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A neat transcript of parts of the Burley MS (including principally poems on ff. 255r-v, 278v, [279r]-288v, 342v-3r, 294r-300r, 301r-8v), made before 1908, on 35 leaves, is in the
Copy, headed
Among papers of the Clitherow family of London, which included Sir Christopher Clitherow (1578-1642), Lord Mayor of London in 1635. Bookplate of James Clitherow Esq. of Boston House, Middlesex: i.e. either Christopher's son, James Clitherow (1618-82), merchant and banker, who purchased Boston Manor, in the parish of Hanwell, in 1670, or James Clitherow (1694-1752).
Copy, headed
Including ten poems by Carew (and two of doubtful authorship) and 24 poems by Randolph.
c.1630s.Thomas Thorpe,
Cited in Rosenbach MS I
:
Copy, headed
Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by Strode (and two poems of doubtful authorship).
c.1634.The initials M W
stamped on each cover: i.e. M[aidstone] and W[inchilsea]. Evidently compiled by or for Sir Thomas Finch, Viscount Maidstone and Earl of Winchilsea (who succeeded to the peerage in 1633 and died in 1634). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue
The MS came to Rosenbach with a printed exemplum of William Wishcart, M W
; it is inscribed Lord Winchilsea for Mr Locker 1634
; it bears the late 17th-century signatures of Stephen Locker and Alexander Campbell, and the bookplates of Captain William Locker (1731-1800) and Edward Hawke Locker (1777-1849).
Cited in Winchelsea MS
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Copy, run on directly following ten lines headed
A folio verse miscellany, including 15 poems by Donne, f. 162r-v in a rounded italic hand, ff. 164r-74v in a slightly erratic italic hand, ff. 175r-279v in a neat formal italic hand (also responsible for the index on ff. 2r-11v), this miscellany constituting ff. 162r-279v of a single folio volume containing also Part I (
Formerly MS G. 2.21.
Cited in
Copy, headed
A folio verse miscellany, including 15 poems by Donne, f. 162r-v in a rounded italic hand, ff. 164r-74v in a slightly erratic italic hand, ff. 175r-279v in a neat formal italic hand (also responsible for the index on ff. 2r-11v), this miscellany constituting ff. 162r-279v of a single folio volume containing also Part I (
Formerly MS G. 2.21.
Cited in
Copy, headed
Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship.
c.1630s.Formerly Box 22, item II.
Cited in Osborn MS II
:
First published, among verse By other Gentlemen
, in
Copy, headed
Compiled by University or Inns of Court men.
The extracted fols 7, 8 and 54 are now
Inscribed (f. [104v] Thomas White His Book May ye 20 Anno Domine 1691
. Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in his library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.21.
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Including nine poems by Randolph, plus two of doubtful authorship.
c.1630s.Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 10110. Bookplate of Robert Hoe (1839-1909), New York businessman and book collector.
Cited in Huntington MS
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This MS collated in Martin.
First published in
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere.
c.1640s-60s.Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.
Cited in Probert MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, untitled.
Bookplate of Edmund Thomas Warren Horne, publisher, and probably the compiler. Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller.
Mid-17th century.Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.
Recorded in Henry Lawes MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
First published in
Copy.
First published in
Copy, untitled.
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
:
Copy, untitled.
Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to
Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) Anthony St John/ Ann: St John/ 1640 Bletso
: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) Oliver Beeesfor[d]
; and (f. 81v) John Watts
. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.
Cited in St John MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed Rob: Herricke
.
Fols 1r-93v, 95r-100v in the hand of Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London (whose name is inscribed on a flyleaf: f. 1*); f. 94r-v in an unidentified hand, and ff. 101v-2r in that of Peter Calfe's son, Peter Calfe the Younger (d.1693).
c.1650-9.Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1r) Janu. 6. 1738/9
.
Cited in Calfe MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, in a secretary hand, on a single folio leaf of verse.
Probably collected by Dr Samuel Knight (1677/8-1746), clergyman and antiquary.
First published in
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere.
c.1640s-60s.Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.
Cited in Probert MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, headed
Owned and probably compiled by one John Channing, whose label IOHN CHANNING 1694
was on the original spine.
Inscribed in pencil (f. 1r) Alex Tytler 1779
. Label on a flyleaf of Alfred Moffat. Edinburgh. 1896
.
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
Copy, untitled.
Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.
Late 17th century.Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in Rawlinson MS I
:
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 464-6; collated in Martin.
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, headed
Bookplate of Ralph Sympsun Esqr. Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.
This MS collated in Martin.
Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, headed
Inscribed (f. 1v) Richard Gibbon his booke giuen to him by Mr William Lawes all of his owne pricking and composeing
, and Giuen to me J R by his widdow mris Gibbon J R:
, and Borrowed of Alderman Fidye by me Jo: Surgenson
. Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer, and of Julian Marshall (1836-1903), music and print collector and writer.
A complete facsimile of this volume in
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, untitled.
Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).
Cited in Harley Rawlinson MS
:
Copy, untitled.
Inscribed (Part I, f. 1r) Mr John Oldhams Booke
[i.e. the poet John Oldham (1653-83)]. Inscribed (Part II, f. 1r) James Bateman
[(b.1633/4) of Christ's College, Cambridge], and Robert Pierrepont
[either the son of Col. Francis Pierrepont, M.P. (d.1659), or the third Earl of Kingston (1650/1-82), of Holme-Pierrepoint, Nottinghamshire, Oldham's patron]. Formerly Folger MS 621.1.
Described in F.P. Hammond,
Copies, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
I. P..
Leaves excised from these volumes are in the
A flyleaf in the Cantus Secundus part book inscribed Decemb. 30. 1674. Note that I Thomas Clifford bought this sett of Musick Books of Mr Richard Price's widow Mrs Dorothy Price for --7s--6d
.
Copy, untitled.
Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.
Mid-17th century-c.1702.Inscribed (f. [ir]) Sr Robert Killigrew / 1702
. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.
Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth,
Copy, untitled.
Copy, headed
The title-page inscribed Nar. Lutterell: His Book 1682
, i.e. owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector. At Yale formerly Chest II, No. 39.
First published in
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller.
Mid-17th century.Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.
Recorded in Henry Lawes MS
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This MS collated in Martin.
The couplet first published in
Copy.
A commonplace book of quotations from largely devotional or philosophical texts under subject headings, neatly written in a single hand, with a title-page and table of contents.
1657.Inscriptions in the MS including Crescentius Matherus 1680
, Crescentii Matheri Liber 1682
, Nathanaelis Matheri Liber 1683
, By Mr Oakes
, Elijah Warings Book 1734
, Jne Daniell 1832
, and Thos Alexander -- 1847
.
First published in
Copy, headed
Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled
Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny
[presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks
, Edward Randolphe
and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy
. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Cited in Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I)
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This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Inscribed four times on a flyleaf Tobias Alston his booke
: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end.
Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.
Cited in Alston MS
:
Copy, headed
Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to I Nicholas Burgh
occurring on ff. 165r, with the date 3d of June 1638
, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands.
Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Cited in Burghe MS
:
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 456-60; collated in Martin.
Copy.
Owned, and possibly compiled, by John Cave, of Lincoln College, Oxford (M.A. 28 January 1618/19; d.1657). The first page of text is a poem
Also inscribed with names of Elizabeth Park [or Parker], John Nedham, and William Adams. Later owned by the Rev. T.R. O' Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector; by Charles Elkin Matthews (1851-19210, bookseller; and by Richard Jennings. Sotheby's, 28 April 1952 (Jennings sale), lot 12.
Cited in John Cave MS
,
Copy, here ascribed to Dr Corbett
, transcribed from
Chiefly in the hand of John Nedham, of Lincoln College, Oxford, and probably transcribed from the John Cave MS
(
Also owned or used by Millicent Nedham and by one William Edmunde. Possibly the quarto MS of Poems by Dr. Donne and Dr. Corbet
in Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue of a Collection of MSS, 1841, item 600, and in his catalogue of MSS, 1846, p. 29. Later owned by Francis Godolphin Waldron (1743-1818), actor and playwright, and by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.
Cited in Nedham MS
:
Edited from this MS in F.G. Waldron,
Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventer, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.
First published in
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Ramsay (fl.1628-44).
Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere.
c.1640s-60s.Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.
Cited in Probert MS
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Edited from this MS in
Copy, headed
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
:
Second copy, untitled.
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
:
Copy, untitled.
Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to
Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) Anthony St John/ Ann: St John/ 1640 Bletso
: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) Oliver Beeesfor[d]
; and (f. 81v) John Watts
. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.
Cited in St John MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, subscribed Rob: Herrick
.
Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled
Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny
[presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks
, Edward Randolphe
and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy
. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Cited in Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I)
:
This MS recorded in Martin.
Copy, headed J. Grange
.
J. D.) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index). c.1630s.
Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.
Cited in Grey MS
:
Copy.
Inscribed four times on a flyleaf Tobias Alston his booke
: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end.
Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.
Cited in Alston MS
:
Copy.
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, headed
Copy, headed
Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to I Nicholas Burgh
occurring on ff. 165r, with the date 3d of June 1638
, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands.
Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Cited in Burghe MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Second copy, headed
Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to I Nicholas Burgh
occurring on ff. 165r, with the date 3d of June 1638
, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands.
Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Cited in Burghe MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 2592. Sotheby's, 10 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 960. Owned in 1896 by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Acquired in 1950 from H.F.B. Brett-Smith, Oxford literary scholar and editor.
Cited in Natley MS
:
Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
DR. / I.W, with silver clasps.
Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82).
c.1656.Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts,
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow.
Copies, in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.
Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer, with further copies added by Richard Goodson (c.1655-1718), organist and composer.
c.1663-77.Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow.
Copy in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.
Copy, untitled.
Partly in Scottish dialect, one poem by mr. W. Turner
.
Copy, untitled.
Comprising three separate units: ff. 1r-96v all in Sancroft's hand; ff. 97r-104r in a second hand; and ff. 105r-9r in a third hand.
Including (on ff. 2-23, 27ar-v, 70) 94 Latin poems ascribed to Crashaw (including three of doubtful authorship) and (on ff. 29-41, 43v, 44v-58, 60v, 62v-5v, 67-70v, 72-3, 95-6) 101 English poems (plus a second copy of one of them) attributed to him (including one of doubtful authorship) and (on f. 16r-v) one Greek poem attributed to him; a list of contents on the first page beginning Mr. Crashaw's poems transcrib'd fr
.
Cited in Sancroft MS
:
Copy, headed R. Ramsey
: i.e. Robert Ramsey (c.1595-1644), composer and organist.
Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.
c.1630s.Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) E Libris Richard Sutclif
. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
A flyleaf inscribed [?] Johannes Philips
. Acquired from H. Stevens 11 December 1852.
Cited in John Philips MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.
Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by the compiler, Charles Campelman his book June ye 9. 1681
(God give him grace 1682
added in another hand).
Sotheby's, 20 January 1854, lot 1138.
This MS recorded in Martin.
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.
Compiled by John Walter, organist of Eton College (in 1681-1705) and possibly erstwhile chorister in the Chapel Royal (c.1674-7).
c.1682-1700s.Inscribed (last page, inverted) Mr Dolbins book Anno domini 1681/2
and (on the penultimate page) Mr Dolbens Booke
and Mr James Hart
. Bookplate of Robert Smith and (f. 1r) a note signed by him dated 4 June 1813.
This volume discussed in Bruce Wood,
This MS recorded in Martin.
Copy, headed
Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the Edward Smyth MS
(
Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.
This MS is the curious folio volume
lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by the late Lord Harborough
and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his
Cited in Skipwith MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.
Bookplate of Ralph Sympsun Esqr. Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.
This MS recorded in Martin.
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.
Compiled by the composer Henry Bowman, those songs set by himself listed by him on f. 93r.
c.1678-80s.Bookplate of Katherine Sedley (1657-1717), daughter of Sir Charles Sedley and later Countess of Dorchester, of Southfleet, Kent. Inscribed (f. 93r) John James
. Purchased from J. Harvey, 13 July 1877.
This MS recorded in Martin.
Copy, headed
Inscribed (f. 1v, in a court hand) Daniell Leare his Booke
, witnesse William Strode
, and (f. 164r) Mr Daniell Leare eius Liber
: i.e. compiled chiefly by Daniel Leare, a distant cousin of the poet William Strode, probably at Christ Church, Oxford, before he entered the Middle Temple in 1633.
This suggestion, by Mary Hobbs, is supported by entries in the Caution Book of 1625-41 at Christ Church, where Strode is found (p. 22) paying £10 as college security for Leare and where Leare signs (p. 23) on this sum's repayment by Dr Fell on 13 May 1633. Forey suggests (p. lxxix) that he was the Daniell Leare of St Andrews, Holburne, whose will was proved in 1652; but it is more likely that he was the Daniel Leare to whom Henry King, Dean of Rochester, leased property at Chatham on 19 July 1655 (
The volume includes 12 poems by Donne; 15 poems (plus a second copy of one and three of doubtful authorship) by Carew; 20 poems (plus two of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; and 84 poems (plus second copies of eight poems, four poems of doubtful authorship and some apocryphal poems) by Strode, the texts being closely related to, and in part probably transcribed from, the Corpus MS
of Strode's poems (
Inscribed also John Leare
(probably Daniel's younger brother); (f. 1r) Anthony Euans his booke
(who married Daniel Leare's niece Dorothy Leare in 1663); (f. 1v) Alexander Croke his Book 1773
; and (f. 164v) John Scott
(who matriculated at Christ Church in 1632). Rimell & Son, 9 November 1878.
Cited in Leare MS
:
Discussed in Mary Hobbs,
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.
Inscribed (f. 1*r) P. Fussell Winton
, Liber Caroli Morgan e Coll Magd Decmo: 6to Die 7bris: Anno Domini 1682
, and Vincent Novello [(1781-1861), music publisher] The gift of his kind friend Wm Patten
.
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.
Notes (f. 2r) by a son of Dr Williams recording his purchase of the volume from the widdow of Simon Child, organist of New College, Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1v) Phil: Hayes 1757
and The Gift of Mrs Cave
. Bookplates of the Rev. John Parker and Stephen Groombridge, FRS. Bought at Groombridge's sale by J. Smith of Deptford and presented by him in November 1832 to Vincent Novello (1781-1861), music publisher. Acquired by his bequest on 21 March 1887.
This MS recorded in Martin.
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.
Bequeathed by William Henry Husk, 10 November 1887.
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow.
The cover inscribed
Formerly among Lord Leigh's muniments at Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire. Christie's, 16 October 1985, lot 139.
This MS recorded in John P. Cutts,
Copy, headed
Inscribed names (on front paste-down and f. 1r) of Fra: Norreys
(? Sir Francis Norris (1609-69)) and Hen. Balle
. Purchased from J. Harvey 8 December 1877.
This MS collated (and four additional lines edited) in Martin, pp. 467-8.
Copy, headed
Inscribed (f. 179r) This is Sr. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book
: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Including 22 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 13 poems by King, and 24 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and probably associated with Christ Church, Oxford.
c.1633.Inscribed names including (f. 93v, in court hand) ffrancis Baskeruile
: i.e. probably the Francis Baskerville who married Margaret Glanvill in 1635 and was in 1640 MP for Marlborough, Wiltshire. Other scribbling including (f. 1r) accounts referring to Wanborough, Wiltshire; (f. 9v) Elizabeth White
; (f. 54v) William Walrond his booke 1663
; (f. 92r) accounts dated 1658; and (f. 94r) John Wallrond
. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Recorded in Baskerville MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on a single folio leaf of verse.
Probably collected by Dr Samuel Knight (1677/8-1746), clergyman and antiquary.
Copy, headed
Inscriptions include Edwardus Hyde
(at the end) and (f. [ir]) Edward Hyde is a knave
: i.e. probably Edward Hyde (1607-59), royalist divine, who may be the E. H.
responsible for a poem Ned Hide
who is subject of an Robertus Walker
and Elizabeth Walker
. Early 18th-century bookplate of Baron Aston of Forfar. Percy Dobell, sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 345. Later owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.
Cited in Hyde MS
: signature
(which does not correspond to the main handwriting). Sir Geoffrey Keynes,
Copy, headed
Inscribed (p. 1) ffran: Wyrley
, possibly the principal compiler, whose name is also subscribed to several poems.
Also inscribed (f. ii) Michaell Keepis. anno Dom: 1636 ffebruarie. 13th. Me tenet
. Later Phillipps MS 9311. Bookplate of Wyrley Birch. Purchased from Peter Murray Hill, 1950. Formerly S4975M1 [1636-75] Bound.
Copy, headed
Compiled for the most part by a University of Oxford man, with (f. 1r-v) a list of contents.
c.1640s.Once owned by one John Faith, and by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.
Formerly cited as Corpus Christi College, MS E.i.33.
Copy, headed
Bookplate of John Pinkerton (1758-1826), historian and poet. Sotheby's, April 1812 (Pinkerton sale), lot 593, to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1104, to Thomas Thorpe. His catalogue, 1836, bought by Laing.
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow.
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow.
Copy, untitled.
Compiled by University or Inns of Court men.
The extracted fols 7, 8 and 54 are now
Inscribed (f. [104v] Thomas White His Book May ye 20 Anno Domine 1691
. Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in his library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.21.
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed Mr. Ro: Herrick
.
Compiled by University or Inns of Court men.
The extracted fols 7, 8 and 54 are now
Inscribed (f. [104v] Thomas White His Book May ye 20 Anno Domine 1691
. Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in his library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.21.
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship.
c.late 1630s [-1789].Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his
Cited in Thorpe-Halliwell MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Including 12 poems by Carew.
c.1650s.Inscribed Richard Archard his booke Amen 1650
; Richard Archard his penn Amen 1657
; to Mr Satars[?] towads the Casting of ye lead 1657
; Tho: Wise
; John Smith of halmortaine and I…went to Thornebury
; and Edward Watt
. Bookplate of William Harris Arnold.
Cited in Archard MS
:
Copy, headed
Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.
c.1630s.Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.
Cited in Halliwell MS
:
This MS recorded in Martin.
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.
Inscribed (Part I, p. [iii]) Liber Georgij Forman Anno Domini April 8th 1721
; John Ladds Book October the 9 in the year of our Lord 1764
; and (Part II, p. 2) Liber Georgij Forman Anno Domini 1717 November Undecimo Die
; Thomas Lea Southgate, Gipsy Hill, Kent
; and Johannes Gilbert A. M. Coll. Christ. Cantab.
Puttick & Simpson's, 1890. Formerly Folger MS 1634.4.
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow.
Bookplate of William Hayman Cummings, FSA (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1602. Formerly Folger MS cs 1064.
Copy, headed
Inscribed To my euer honored good Cosen Sr John Reresby Barronett these prsent
: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall.
Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.
Cited in Mexborough MS
:
Copy, headed
Among papers of the Clitherow family of London, which included Sir Christopher Clitherow (1578-1642), Lord Mayor of London in 1635. Bookplate of James Clitherow Esq. of Boston House, Middlesex: i.e. either Christopher's son, James Clitherow (1618-82), merchant and banker, who purchased Boston Manor, in the parish of Hanwell, in 1670, or James Clitherow (1694-1752).
Copy, in a musical setting by Morelli.
Copy, untitled.
Including ten poems by Carew (and two of doubtful authorship) and 24 poems by Randolph.
c.1630s.Thomas Thorpe,
Cited in Rosenbach MS I
:
Copy, preceded by a fourteen-line songe
beginning
Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.
c.1634.The initials T. C.
stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue
Cited in Rosenbach MS II
:
This MS collated (and the preceding lines printed) in Patrick, p. 70.
Copy, headed
Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by Strode (and two poems of doubtful authorship).
c.1634.The initials M W
stamped on each cover: i.e. M[aidstone] and W[inchilsea]. Evidently compiled by or for Sir Thomas Finch, Viscount Maidstone and Earl of Winchilsea (who succeeded to the peerage in 1633 and died in 1634). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue
The MS came to Rosenbach with a printed exemplum of William Wishcart, M W
; it is inscribed Lord Winchilsea for Mr Locker 1634
; it bears the late 17th-century signatures of Stephen Locker and Alexander Campbell, and the bookplates of Captain William Locker (1731-1800) and Edward Hawke Locker (1777-1849).
Cited in Winchelsea MS
:
This MS collated in Patrick.
Copy, headed
Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew.
c.1638-42.Inscriptions including Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus
[viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], Thomas Arding
, Thomas Arden
, William Harrington
, Thomas John
, John Anthehope
and Clement Poxall
. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue
Cited in Carey MS
:
This MS (erroneously cited as MS 239/22
) collated in Patrick.
Copy, headed
The name of the possible compiler John Pike
inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).
Cited in Pike MS
:
Copy, headed
Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.
Cited in Morley MS
: Killigrew MS
(
Facsimile of f. 49r in
Copy, headed
In the hands of two amanuenses associated with King: i.e. Scribe A (c.1636), pp. 1-214, that of Thomas Manne's imitator
using two styles (a: pp. 1-62, 64-6, 133-4, 147-215; and b, the earlier: pp. 63, 67-132, 135-45); and Scribe B (c.1641): pp. 217-47, that of the scribe responsible for the Phillipps MS (
The flyleaf inscribed Ex dono Eugenii Stoughton Die Octobrii 23 Anno-1738-Domini
: i.e. owned before 1738 by the Stoughton family, of St John's House, Warwick.
Cited in Stoughton MS
:
Copy.
Including twelve poems by Carew, nine poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph and nineteen (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the miscellany associated with Oxford University and possibly related to
Inscribed inside the front cover by a later owner: April 1853 Read to Lit[erary] & Philosophical] Soc[iet]y of L[iver]pool
. Acquired in 1940 by Edwin Wolf II (1911-91), Philadelphia librarian.
Cited in Wolf MS
:
Copy, headed
In non-professional hands, the miscellany entitled
Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.
Copy, headed
Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship.
c.1630s.Formerly Box 22, item II.
Cited in Osborn MS II
:
Copy, headed
Formerly Osborn MS. Chest II, Number 4
.
Copy, in a musical setting, headed
Inscribed inside the front cover Tho: Benson
.
Martin, pp. 323-4.
First published in
Copy, of a twenty-one-stanza version, untitled.
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
:
Copy of a twenty-stanza version, headed
Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to
Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) Anthony St John/ Ann: St John/ 1640 Bletso
: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) Oliver Beeesfor[d]
; and (f. 81v) John Watts
. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.
Cited in St John MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy of a twenty-stanza version, headed Rob: Herrick:
.
Fols 1r-93v, 95r-100v in the hand of Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London (whose name is inscribed on a flyleaf: f. 1*); f. 94r-v in an unidentified hand, and ff. 101v-2r in that of Peter Calfe's son, Peter Calfe the Younger (d.1693).
c.1650-9.Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1r) Janu. 6. 1738/9
.
Cited in Calfe MS
:
Edited from this MS in Martin, pp. 455-60, and in Patrick, pp. 81-6.
First published in
Copy, in a neat secretary hand, subscribed R: Herrick
.
Erroneously described in 1965 as a commonplace book of the poet Robert Herrick. The so-called Herrick hand
responsible for complete poems or substantial passages on pp. 73-4, 102-3, 253, 312-13, 319-21, 323, 328 and 343, this hand also responsible for corrections and brief insertions in both verse and prose on pp. 55-6, 58-60, 68, 71, 75-6, 78, 83, 89, 91, 93, 97, 99. 108-9, 203, 266, 285, 291, 348 and 350.
Scribbling on front- and end-leaves including Georgius Cantuarien
, Thomas Hobson
[?the Cambridge Carrier], Benjamin Broadeface
, To my very long friend mr John Bond
, To the right reuerend ffather in God George Archbyshop of Canterbury his grace
, Whereas the Bearer hereof Thomas Hall hath serued his sixe weekes…
, To the right honor Sr Tho: Moore Whereas the Bearer hereof John Tis[?]sdale
, Williamson
and Phillip de Maceden
. Puttick and Simpson's, 30 May 1849, lot 158 (erroneously described as a commonplace book of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 12341*. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 146 (as Herrick's commonplace book). House of El Dieff (Lew David Feldman), New York, sale catalogue No. 65 (1965), with facsimile page as frontispiece. Formerly Ms File/(Herrick, R)/Works B.
Also facsimiles of p. 323 in the Sotheby's sale catalogue (frontispiece) and of p. 253 (as if in Herrick's hand) in Croft,
The MS discussed by Farmer in loc. cit. and in Herrick
Manuscript.
Copy, headed
Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled
Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny
[presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks
, Edward Randolphe
and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy
. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Cited in Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I)
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed finis Ro: Herr:
.
J. D.) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index). c.1630s.
Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.
Cited in Grey MS
:
Copy, headed
Inscribed four times on a flyleaf Tobias Alston his booke
: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end.
Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.
Cited in Alston MS
:
Copy, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter. c.1620s-30s.
Volume CCXXXVI of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add 17 and 18.
Sotheby's sale catalogue,
Facsimile the last ten lines in Sotheby's catalogue,
Copy.
Owned before 1959 by the Lingard-Guthrie family.
Copy, headed
Including twenty poems by Randolph, plus ten of doubtful authorship (some here ascribed to T.R.
), in two hands (A: pp. 3-99; B: pp. 1, 99-129), with some scribbling and one heading in other hands on pp. 3, 98 and 133; a poem on p. 1 (beginning To ye] Incomparably vertuous Lady the Lady Harflette
: i.e. Afra (d.1664), wife of Sir Christopher Harflete of Canterbury.
Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
Cited in
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in Michell MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Indexat the end, in contemporary vellum boards.
Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).
c.1636.Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire
(following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.
Cited in Chute MS
:
This MS text collated in Martin.
Copy, subscribed R: H:
.
Including 22 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 13 poems by King, and 24 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and probably associated with Christ Church, Oxford.
c.1633.Inscribed names including (f. 93v, in court hand) ffrancis Baskeruile
: i.e. probably the Francis Baskerville who married Margaret Glanvill in 1635 and was in 1640 MP for Marlborough, Wiltshire. Other scribbling including (f. 1r) accounts referring to Wanborough, Wiltshire; (f. 9v) Elizabeth White
; (f. 54v) William Walrond his booke 1663
; (f. 92r) accounts dated 1658; and (f. 94r) John Wallrond
. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Recorded in Baskerville MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, subscribed R J
.
Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by the compiler, Richardus Jackson 1623
and Richard Jackson his booke
, who is described in a later pencil note as perhaps the brachygrapher. On ff. 113v-16r, in a later hand, is a Catalogue of ye Books lately belonging to ye. Rev. Mr Jackson Rectr of Tatham
.
Also inscribed (f. 1r) John Pecke
. Sold by Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, in 1831-2. Among collections of James Orchard Halliwell (from 1872 Halliwell-Phillipps) (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bought by him in 1871 from Sotheran's, London.
A 247-page transcript of this volume made c.1830 is in the Folger Shakespeare Library, MS M.b.26.
Copy, headed
Compiled by University or Inns of Court men.
The extracted fols 7, 8 and 54 are now
Inscribed (f. [104v] Thomas White His Book May ye 20 Anno Domine 1691
. Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in his library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.21.
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
The pagination cited below relates to the second, main series of pagination.
c.1640.Inscribed on a flyleaf in red ink Matheus Day me suum vvst
: i.e. Matthew Day (d.1661), five times Mayor of Windsor. Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger. Collier's sale, 1884, lot 906. Formerly Folger MS 452.1.
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy.
Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).
Cited in
Copy, headed
Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.
c.1634.The initials T. C.
stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue
Cited in Rosenbach MS II
:
This MS collated in Patrick.
Copy.
Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue,
Cited in Bishop MS
:
This MS collated in Patrick.
Copy, headed
Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew.
c.1638-42.Inscriptions including Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus
[viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], Thomas Arding
, Thomas Arden
, William Harrington
, Thomas John
, John Anthehope
and Clement Poxall
. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue
Cited in Carey MS
:
This MS collated in Patrick.
Copy, headed
Inscribed (on p. [330]) Robert Lord his book Anno Domini
; (on [p. 335]) william Jacob his booke Amen
; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, Hugh Gibgans of the same
and John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]
. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.
A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.
First published in
Copy, headed
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
:
Copy of a version in which some lines of the poem are reworked into a song of seven sestains plus a chorus, headed 11th Song
and beginning
Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to I Nicholas Burgh
occurring on ff. 165r, with the date 3d of June 1638
, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands.
Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Cited in Burghe MS
:
Copy, headed
Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to
Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) Anthony St John/ Ann: St John/ 1640 Bletso
: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) Oliver Beeesfor[d]
; and (f. 81v) John Watts
. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.
Cited in St John MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed R: Herrick
.
Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled
Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny
[presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks
, Edward Randolphe
and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy
. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Cited in Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I)
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
J. D.) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index). c.1630s.
Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.
Cited in Grey MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, untitled.
Including twenty poems by Randolph, plus ten of doubtful authorship (some here ascribed to T.R.
), in two hands (A: pp. 3-99; B: pp. 1, 99-129), with some scribbling and one heading in other hands on pp. 3, 98 and 133; a poem on p. 1 (beginning To ye] Incomparably vertuous Lady the Lady Harflette
: i.e. Afra (d.1664), wife of Sir Christopher Harflete of Canterbury.
Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
Cited in
Copy, headed
Inscribed (f. 179r) This is Sr. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book
: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed Ro: Herrick:
.
Fols 1r-93v, 95r-100v in the hand of Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London (whose name is inscribed on a flyleaf: f. 1*); f. 94r-v in an unidentified hand, and ff. 101v-2r in that of Peter Calfe's son, Peter Calfe the Younger (d.1693).
c.1650-9.Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1r) Janu. 6. 1738/9
.
Cited in Calfe MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Including ten poems by Carew (and two of doubtful authorship) and 24 poems by Randolph.
c.1630s.Thomas Thorpe,
Cited in Rosenbach MS I
:
This MS (erroneously cited as MS 239/22
) collated in Patrick.
Copy, headed
Later notes and scribbling including the names John Nutting
(ff. 26r, 56r) and John M.
and John Susan
(rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.
Cited in Nutting MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
First published in
Copy of lines 9-22, here beginning Hericke Cat[?] Hall Cambridge
.
Compiled by Sir Thomas Dawes (knighted 1639).
c.1623-30.Purchased on 4 July 1873 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.
Copy, headed
A Sin a gilt lozenge on each cover.
The later additions partly compiled by George Clarke (1661-1736), politician and virtuoso (whose bookplate is inside the cover and whose family coat of arms is on f. [iv]), son of Sir William Clarke (1623?-66), Secretary of War to the Commonwealth and Charles II.
c.1662[-1730s].Inside the front cover inscribed E[?] Barrow
, evidently a member of the family of Samuel Barrow (1625-82), Royal Physician and friend of John Milton, Barrow being the second husband of Sir William Clarke's widow, Dorothy (d.1695). Formerly MSS 6. 13.
Cited in Clarke MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Inscribed (on p. [330]) Robert Lord his book Anno Domini
; (on [p. 335]) william Jacob his booke Amen
; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, Hugh Gibgans of the same
and John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]
. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.
A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.
First published in
Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, headed
Inscribed (f. 1v) Richard Gibbon his booke giuen to him by Mr William Lawes all of his owne pricking and composeing
, and Giuen to me J R by his widdow mris Gibbon J R:
, and Borrowed of Alderman Fidye by me Jo: Surgenson
. Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer, and of Julian Marshall (1836-1903), music and print collector and writer.
A complete facsimile of this volume in
First published in
Copy, apparently transcribed from the text in
Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary.
Late 17th century.Given to the library in 1954 by N.R. Ker.
First published in
Copy, subscribed Rob: Herricke
.
Indexat the end, in contemporary vellum boards.
Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).
c.1636.Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire
(following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.
Cited in Chute MS
:
This MS text collated in Martin.
First published in
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller.
Mid-17th century.Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.
Recorded in Henry Lawes MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
First published in
Copy, untitled.
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
:
Copy, untitled.
Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to
Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) Anthony St John/ Ann: St John/ 1640 Bletso
: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) Oliver Beeesfor[d]
; and (f. 81v) John Watts
. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.
Cited in St John MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, untitled, subscribed finis Ro: Herrick
.
J. D.) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index). c.1630s.
Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.
Cited in Grey MS
:
First published in
Copy, apparently transcribed from the text in
Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary.
Late 17th century.Given to the library in 1954 by N.R. Ker.
First published in
Copy, headed Rob: Herrick
.
Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London.
c.1641-9.Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Cited in Calfe MS
:
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 463-4; collated in Martin.
First published in Thomas Carew,
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere.
c.1640s-60s.Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.
Cited in Probert MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller.
Mid-17th century.Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.
Recorded in Henry Lawes MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, untitled and here beginning
Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.
Late 17th century.Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in Rawlinson MS I
:
Copy, here beginning
Later owned by Thomas Percy (1768-1808), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor, and bearing copious annotations in his hand throughout, with a list by him at the end dated 20 December 1757.
This volume edited as
Hales & Furnivall, II, 35-6.
Copy, headed
Including 14 poems by Donne, six poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, ten poems by Habington and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph. Owned and possibly compiled by Arthur Capell (1631-83), second Earl of Essex, whose name is inscribed in red ink (1*), in a similar roman hand to that on ff. 1r-19r. He married (1653) Elizabeth Percy (1636-1718), daughter of Algernon, tenth Earl of Northumberland; she was therefore the great niece of Habington's mother-in-law, Eleanor Percy, sister of the ninth Earl of Northumberland.
Mid-17th century.Later among the collections of Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son, Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Cited in Capell MS
:
Copy, untitled and here beginning
Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).
Cited in Harley Rawlinson MS
:
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled, here beginning
June the ffirst 1639, 25 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. c.1639.
Bookseller's label of Kenneth Mummery, Bournemouth.
Copy, headed
Inscribed (p. 1) ffran: Wyrley
, possibly the principal compiler, whose name is also subscribed to several poems.
Also inscribed (f. ii) Michaell Keepis. anno Dom: 1636 ffebruarie. 13th. Me tenet
. Later Phillipps MS 9311. Bookplate of Wyrley Birch. Purchased from Peter Murray Hill, 1950. Formerly S4975M1 [1636-75] Bound.
Copy, untitled and here beginning
Inscribed (Part I, f. 1r) Mr John Oldhams Booke
[i.e. the poet John Oldham (1653-83)]. Inscribed (Part II, f. 1r) James Bateman
[(b.1633/4) of Christ's College, Cambridge], and Robert Pierrepont
[either the son of Col. Francis Pierrepont, M.P. (d.1659), or the third Earl of Kingston (1650/1-82), of Holme-Pierrepoint, Nottinghamshire, Oldham's patron]. Formerly Folger MS 621.1.
Described in F.P. Hammond,
Copy, untitled.
Sotheby's, 16-19 June 1930, lot 326, to Quaritch. From the library of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).
Copies, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, here beginning
I. P..
Leaves excised from these volumes are in the
A flyleaf in the Cantus Secundus part book inscribed Decemb. 30. 1674. Note that I Thomas Clifford bought this sett of Musick Books of Mr Richard Price's widow Mrs Dorothy Price for --7s--6d
.
Copy, headed
Incept. March. 23. 1652/3., 190 leaves, in old brown calf gilt (rebacked). c.1653-64.
Purchased c.1798.
Copy, headed
Inscribed, and probably compiled, by Hugh Barrow (b.1617/18), of Brasenose College, Oxford.
c.1638.Also inscribed names of George Hope, Peter Wynne and [?]Anselm Huff. Later owned by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia bookseller and scholar: Rosenbach MS 192.
Copy, in a musical setting, here beginning
Cattalogueof contents, 229 leaves.
Owned (in 1659) and partly compiled by the composer John Gamble (d.1687), with some misnumbering.
c.1630s-50s.Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.
A complete facsimile is in
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, untitled and here beginning
Bookplate of Charles W.G. Howard, The Gift of the Rt. Hon. Sir David Dundas Knt. of Ochtertyre 1877
. Formerly Osborn MS. Chest II, No. 13. vol. 2.
Copy, untitled and here beginning
Formerly Chest II, No. 21.
First published in
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller.
Mid-17th century.Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.
Recorded in Henry Lawes MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
First published in
Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, headed
Inscribed (f. 1v) Richard Gibbon his booke giuen to him by Mr William Lawes all of his owne pricking and composeing
, and Giuen to me J R by his widdow mris Gibbon J R:
, and Borrowed of Alderman Fidye by me Jo: Surgenson
. Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer, and of Julian Marshall (1836-1903), music and print collector and writer.
A complete facsimile of this volume in
This MS collated (and the second stanza printed) in Martin, pp. 474-5.
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
June the ffirst 1639, 25 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. c.1639.
Bookseller's label of Kenneth Mummery, Bournemouth.
First published in
Copy of a nineteen-stanza version, headed
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
:
Copy of a twenty-stanza version, headed
Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to
Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) Anthony St John/ Ann: St John/ 1640 Bletso
: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) Oliver Beeesfor[d]
; and (f. 81v) John Watts
. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.
Cited in St John MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy of a nineteen-stanza version, headed finis R: Her:
and (at the end) finis Ro: Herrick
.
J. D.) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index). c.1630s.
Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.
Cited in Grey MS
:
Copy of a nineteen-stanza version, headed
Including twenty poems by Randolph, plus ten of doubtful authorship (some here ascribed to T.R.
), in two hands (A: pp. 3-99; B: pp. 1, 99-129), with some scribbling and one heading in other hands on pp. 3, 98 and 133; a poem on p. 1 (beginning To ye] Incomparably vertuous Lady the Lady Harflette
: i.e. Afra (d.1664), wife of Sir Christopher Harflete of Canterbury.
Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
Cited in
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy of a twenty-three-stanza version, headed R. Her
, transcribed from
Transcribed from
Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 13 May 1856 (Pickering sale), lot 258.
Cited in Pickering MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy of a twenty-three-stanza version, headed RHer:
.
To the righte honoble: the Lorde Thomas Darcy Viscount Colchester(c.1565-1640, Viscount Colchester from 1621 to 1626), 191 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship.
This MS largely transcribed in
Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) Mr John Bowyer
; (f. 2r) Jeronomus ffox
; and (f. 3r) William Ralph Baesh
.
Cited in Colchester MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy of a twenty-three stanza version, headed R: Herrick
.
Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London.
c.1641-9.Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Cited in Calfe MS
:
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 448-55; collated in Martin.
Copy in the hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple, headed
Sotheby's, 16 December 1950, lot 560. Owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Given to the Houghton Library by Robert S Pirie in 1959.
First published complete, with six preliminary lines beginning Shapcot! To thee the Fairy State
, in
Copy, headed in the margin
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
:
Second copy, headed Sr Simon Stewarde
.
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
:
Copy, without the preliminary lines, subscribed R Herrick
.
Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled
Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny
[presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks
, Edward Randolphe
and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy
. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Cited in Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I)
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, without the preliminary lines.
J. D.) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index). c.1630s.
Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.
Cited in Grey MS
:
Copy, complete with the preliminary lines.
Inscribed four times on a flyleaf Tobias Alston his booke
: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end.
Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.
Cited in Alston MS
:
Facsimile in Sotheby's sale catalogue (hardback), 27 June 1972, lot 309, facing p. 55.
Copy, headed
Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to I Nicholas Burgh
occurring on ff. 165r, with the date 3d of June 1638
, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands.
Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Cited in Burghe MS
:
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 470-2; collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Including twenty poems by Randolph, plus ten of doubtful authorship (some here ascribed to T.R.
), in two hands (A: pp. 3-99; B: pp. 1, 99-129), with some scribbling and one heading in other hands on pp. 3, 98 and 133; a poem on p. 1 (beginning To ye] Incomparably vertuous Lady the Lady Harflette
: i.e. Afra (d.1664), wife of Sir Christopher Harflete of Canterbury.
Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
Cited in
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, without the preliminary lines and subscribed Rich: Hiericke of Clare Hall
.
Inscribed (p. i) Ex dono B. R. ao J
.
This MS collated in Martin.
Extracts, comprising eighteen lines beginning at line 19 (here
Probably compiled principally by an Oxford University man.
c.1630s-40s.Names inscribed on rear flyleaf and paste-down Elizabeth hosman
and William Blois
.
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 481-2.
Copy, headed Rob: Herrick
.
The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in Michell MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, without the preliminary lines.
Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 17 of the Hopkinson MSS.
c.1670.Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 295-6.
Copy, imperfect, lacking a heading and the first four lines.
Including twenty poems by Carew, eleven poems by Crashaw on ff. 10-30 passim, and fifteen poems by Strode.
c.1630s.Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1834), item 728. Acquired from C. Booth, October 1857.
Cited in Thorpe MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed Herricke
.
Probably compiled by one H.S.
, a Cambridge man.
Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector, with his bookplate and inscription 1806 Purchased of Lansdown of Bristol
. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 192.
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, without the preliminary lines, headed
Owned in 1921 by George Neilson, then by Charles R. Cowie, and now in the John Cowie Collection.
Discussed in G. Neilson,
This MS recorded in Neilson,
Copy, headed
Inscriptions including (Part I, pp. 1, 3 and 42) Edward Lewis his Book 1753
, John Parker
, P H Warburton
, and John Aden
, and (Part II, p. 33) Thomas Lloyd Esq
. Wigfair MS 43, among papers mainly of the Lloyd family of Hafodunos, Denbighshire, and Wigfair, near St Asaph, Flintshire, purchased in 1926-7 from Colonel H.C. Lloyd Howard, of Wigfair.
Copy, headed
Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by Strode (and two poems of doubtful authorship).
c.1634.The initials M W
stamped on each cover: i.e. M[aidstone] and W[inchilsea]. Evidently compiled by or for Sir Thomas Finch, Viscount Maidstone and Earl of Winchilsea (who succeeded to the peerage in 1633 and died in 1634). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue
The MS came to Rosenbach with a printed exemplum of William Wishcart, M W
; it is inscribed Lord Winchilsea for Mr Locker 1634
; it bears the late 17th-century signatures of Stephen Locker and Alexander Campbell, and the bookplates of Captain William Locker (1731-1800) and Edward Hawke Locker (1777-1849).
Cited in Winchelsea MS
:
Copy, headed
Inscribed (on p. [330]) Robert Lord his book Anno Domini
; (on [p. 335]) william Jacob his booke Amen
; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, Hugh Gibgans of the same
and John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]
. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.
A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.
First published, with eight preliminary lines beginning After the Feast (my Shapcot) see
, in
Copy, without the preliminary lines.
Inscribed four times on a flyleaf Tobias Alston his booke
: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end.
Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.
Cited in Alston MS
:
Copy in two hands, without the preliminary lines and with lines 69-107 first copied on p. 105 and repeated on p. 103.
Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to I Nicholas Burgh
occurring on ff. 165r, with the date 3d of June 1638
, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands.
Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Cited in Burghe MS
:
Edited evidently from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 466-70; collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Including twenty poems by Randolph, plus ten of doubtful authorship (some here ascribed to T.R.
), in two hands (A: pp. 3-99; B: pp. 1, 99-129), with some scribbling and one heading in other hands on pp. 3, 98 and 133; a poem on p. 1 (beginning To ye] Incomparably vertuous Lady the Lady Harflette
: i.e. Afra (d.1664), wife of Sir Christopher Harflete of Canterbury.
Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
Cited in
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed R: Herick
.
The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in Michell MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed Hericke
.
Probably compiled by one H.S.
, a Cambridge man.
Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector, with his bookplate and inscription 1806 Purchased of Lansdown of Bristol
. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 192.
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, without the preliminary lines, subscribed Exp: R: H.
To the righte honoble: the Lorde Thomas Darcy Viscount Colchester(c.1565-1640, Viscount Colchester from 1621 to 1626), 191 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship.
This MS largely transcribed in
Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) Mr John Bowyer
; (f. 2r) Jeronomus ffox
; and (f. 3r) William Ralph Baesh
.
Cited in Colchester MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy of lines 1-26, without the eight introductory lines, incomplete.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Timothy Raylor, Lost
Facsimile of this MS in Raylor, p. 106.
First published in
Copy, headed
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
:
Copy, headed
Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to
Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) Anthony St John/ Ann: St John/ 1640 Bletso
: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) Oliver Beeesfor[d]
; and (f. 81v) John Watts
. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.
Cited in St John MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed Robert Herrick
.
Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled
Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny
[presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks
, Edward Randolphe
and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy
. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Cited in Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I)
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed finis Ro: Herrick
.
J. D.) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index). c.1630s.
Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.
Cited in Grey MS
:
Copy, headed
Inscribed four times on a flyleaf Tobias Alston his booke
: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end.
Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.
Cited in Alston MS
:
Copy, headed
Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to I Nicholas Burgh
occurring on ff. 165r, with the date 3d of June 1638
, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands.
Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Cited in Burghe MS
:
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 460-3; collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in Michell MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Probably compiled by one H.S.
, a Cambridge man.
Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector, with his bookplate and inscription 1806 Purchased of Lansdown of Bristol
. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 192.
This MS collated in Martin.
First published in
Copy.
Inscribed (f. 101v) Henry Lawson
(or just possibly Lamson
). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.
Cited in Lawson MS
:
Copy, headed
Copy, headed Phil: Massenger
.
Inscribed (p. 1) ffran: Wyrley
, possibly the principal compiler, whose name is also subscribed to several poems.
Also inscribed (f. ii) Michaell Keepis. anno Dom: 1636 ffebruarie. 13th. Me tenet
. Later Phillipps MS 9311. Bookplate of Wyrley Birch. Purchased from Peter Murray Hill, 1950. Formerly S4975M1 [1636-75] Bound.
Copy, headed
Including ten poems by Carew (and two of doubtful authorship) and 24 poems by Randolph.
c.1630s.Thomas Thorpe,
Cited in Rosenbach MS I
:
Edited from this MS in Patrick, pp. 122-3.
Copy, headed
Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.
c.1634.The initials T. C.
stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue
Cited in Rosenbach MS II
:
Printed from this MS in Martin, pp. 460-1.
Copy, headed
Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.
Mid-17th century-c.1702.Inscribed (f. [ir]) Sr Robert Killigrew / 1702
. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.
Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth,
Copy, headed
The contents, the latest of which (on pp. 203-7) can be dated to a marriage that took place in November 1656, reflect the taste of Interregnum Royalist sympathisers.
c.Late 1650s.Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 4001. Sotheby's, 29 June 1946, lot 164, to Myers. Then in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Copy, headed
Inscribed (on p. [330]) Robert Lord his book Anno Domini
; (on [p. 335]) william Jacob his booke Amen
; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, Hugh Gibgans of the same
and John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]
. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.
A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.
First published in
Copy, untitled and here beginning
Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to I Nicholas Burgh
occurring on ff. 165r, with the date 3d of June 1638
, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands.
Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Cited in Burghe MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.
c.1630s.Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) E Libris Richard Sutclif
. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Formerly (before 1686) in the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. Possibly acquired by Charles Louis (1617-80), Elector Palatine, while at the English court of his uncle, Charles I, from 1635 to 1649.
This volume discovered, and announced in the
First published in Thomas Carew, By other Gentlemen
, in
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller.
Mid-17th century.Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.
Recorded in Henry Lawes MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, as by Herrick
.
Copy.
Including 14 poems by Donne, six poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, ten poems by Habington and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph. Owned and possibly compiled by Arthur Capell (1631-83), second Earl of Essex, whose name is inscribed in red ink (1*), in a similar roman hand to that on ff. 1r-19r. He married (1653) Elizabeth Percy (1636-1718), daughter of Algernon, tenth Earl of Northumberland; she was therefore the great niece of Habington's mother-in-law, Eleanor Percy, sister of the ninth Earl of Northumberland.
Mid-17th century.Later among the collections of Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son, Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Cited in Capell MS
:
First published in
Copy, headed
Compiled by Thomas Fane (1683-1736), sixth Earl of Westmorland.
Early 18th century.First published, among verse By other Gentlemen
, in
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere.
c.1640s-60s.Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.
Cited in Probert MS
:
Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts,
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller.
Mid-17th century.Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.
Recorded in Henry Lawes MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed Herricke
.
Compiled principally by one H. S.
, a Cambridge University man.
This MS volume edited in Diana Julia Rose,
This MS probably the unspecified MS from which the text printed in Hazlitt, II, 466; collated from Hazlitt in Martin, pp. 468-9.
Copy, in a musical setting by John Hilton, untitled.
Puttick & Simpson's, 2 March 1866, lot 230.
A complete facsimile of this volume in
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, untitled.
Including ten poems by Carew (and two of doubtful authorship) and 24 poems by Randolph.
c.1630s.Thomas Thorpe,
Cited in Rosenbach MS I
:
Edited from this MS (erroneously cited as MS 239/22
) in Patrick.
First published in
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller.
Mid-17th century.Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.
Recorded in Henry Lawes MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, untitled.
Inscribed (Part I, f. 1r) Mr John Oldhams Booke
[i.e. the poet John Oldham (1653-83)]. Inscribed (Part II, f. 1r) James Bateman
[(b.1633/4) of Christ's College, Cambridge], and Robert Pierrepont
[either the son of Col. Francis Pierrepont, M.P. (d.1659), or the third Earl of Kingston (1650/1-82), of Holme-Pierrepoint, Nottinghamshire, Oldham's patron]. Formerly Folger MS 621.1.
Described in F.P. Hammond,
Copy, in a musical setting.
Cattalogueof contents, 229 leaves.
Owned (in 1659) and partly compiled by the composer John Gamble (d.1687), with some misnumbering.
c.1630s-50s.Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.
A complete facsimile is in
This MS collated in Martin.
First published in
Copy.
Compiled by John Phillipps, of Exeter College, Oxford, and the Middle Temple, who has inscribed the front pastedown John Phillipps. med: Temp: Lond: 1776
.
Acquired from Cumming of Exeter, 1941.
Copy, as by Herrick
.
First published in
Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, headed
Inscribed (f. 1v) Richard Gibbon his booke giuen to him by Mr William Lawes all of his owne pricking and composeing
, and Giuen to me J R by his widdow mris Gibbon J R:
, and Borrowed of Alderman Fidye by me Jo: Surgenson
. Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer, and of Julian Marshall (1836-1903), music and print collector and writer.
A complete facsimile of this volume in
This MS collated in Martin.
First published in
Copy, headed
The pagination cited below relates to the second, main series of pagination.
c.1640.Inscribed on a flyleaf in red ink Matheus Day me suum vvst
: i.e. Matthew Day (d.1661), five times Mayor of Windsor. Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger. Collier's sale, 1884, lot 906. Formerly Folger MS 452.1.
This MS collated in Martin.
First published (in a six-line version) in
Copy of an untitled eight-line version, in a musical setting.
Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere.
c.1640s-60s.Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.
Cited in Probert MS
:
Printed from this MS in John P. Cutts,
Copy of a sixteen-line version.
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
:
Edited from this MS in Margaret Crum,
Copy of an eight-line version, in a musical setting.
Owned and probably compiled by Elizabeth Davenant (sister of Sir William Davenant), of Oxford.
c.1624-30s.Complete facsimile of this MS volume in Jorgens, VII (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts,
This MS collated in Martin.
First published in
Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, untitled.
Inscribed (f. 1v) Richard Gibbon his booke giuen to him by Mr William Lawes all of his owne pricking and composeing
, and Giuen to me J R by his widdow mris Gibbon J R:
, and Borrowed of Alderman Fidye by me Jo: Surgenson
. Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer, and of Julian Marshall (1836-1903), music and print collector and writer.
A complete facsimile of this volume in
This MS collated (and the second stanza printed) in Martin, p. 469.
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
June the ffirst 1639, 25 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. c.1639.
Bookseller's label of Kenneth Mummery, Bournemouth.
First published in
Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, headed
Inscribed (f. 1v) Richard Gibbon his booke giuen to him by Mr William Lawes all of his owne pricking and composeing
, and Giuen to me J R by his widdow mris Gibbon J R:
, and Borrowed of Alderman Fidye by me Jo: Surgenson
. Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer, and of Julian Marshall (1836-1903), music and print collector and writer.
A complete facsimile of this volume in
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.
Puttick & Simpson's, 2 March 1866, lot 230.
A complete facsimile of this volume in
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, untitled and here beginning
Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.
Mid-17th century-c.1702.Inscribed (f. [ir]) Sr Robert Killigrew / 1702
. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.
Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth,
First published in
Copy in a musical setting by William Lawes.
Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere.
c.1640s-60s.Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.
Cited in Probert MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.
Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.
c.1650s.Bookplate of Povert Henley.
Copy of the first two lines, in a three-part musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.
Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.
Mid-late-17th century.Copy, untitled.
Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.
Late 17th century.Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in Rawlinson MS I
:
Copy.
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.
Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer (his signature f. 2v).
c.1654-70s.Arms of Eleanor Bursh on a seal affixed to f. 56r. Later owned and annotated in pencil by Thomas Oliphant (1799-1873), music editor and cataloguer.
A complete facsimile of this volume in
This MS collated in Martin.
Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, untitled.
Inscribed (f. 1v) Richard Gibbon his booke giuen to him by Mr William Lawes all of his owne pricking and composeing
, and Giuen to me J R by his widdow mris Gibbon J R:
, and Borrowed of Alderman Fidye by me Jo: Surgenson
. Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer, and of Julian Marshall (1836-1903), music and print collector and writer.
A complete facsimile of this volume in
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
Acquired from Julian Marshall (1836-1903), music and print collector and writer, 1880-81.
Copy, headed
Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).
Cited in Harley Rawlinson MS
:
This MS recorded in Martin.
Copy, headed
Fols 1r-93v, 95r-100v in the hand of Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London (whose name is inscribed on a flyleaf: f. 1*); f. 94r-v in an unidentified hand, and ff. 101v-2r in that of Peter Calfe's son, Peter Calfe the Younger (d.1693).
c.1650-9.Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1r) Janu. 6. 1738/9
.
Cited in Calfe MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, untitled.
June the ffirst 1639, 25 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. c.1639.
Bookseller's label of Kenneth Mummery, Bournemouth.
Copy of the incipit, in a musical setting for the Viol da Gamba, in the hand of A. J. Wighton.
Transcript, made by A.J. Wighton (d.c.1884), of a transcript (then belonging to James Davie of Aberdeen) of the original Blaikie MS
, a music book dated [Glasgow] 1692.
Owned in the early 19th century by Andrew Blaikie, engraver in Paisley. Bequeathed c.1884 by A.J. Wighton.
This MS recorded in Nelly Diem,
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.
Compiled entirely by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.
Mid-late 17th century.Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.
Discussed in John P. Cutts,
Copy of the first two lines, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.
I S.
Inscribed several times John Squyer
, probably the compiler.
Also inscribed (p. 1) Ane Cattologue of books 1700
, and (p. 25) Joanne Squier
. Owned by David Laing in June 1855.
Copy, untitled.
Inscribed (in another hand) on the front pastedown Thomas Boydell
. Formerly Folger MS 4108.
Copy of lines 1-4, untitled.
Inscribed, and evidently compiled, by Sir Henry Oxinden (1609-70), of Barham, Kent.
c.1642-70.Inscribed Lee Warly. Canterbury. 1764
. Booklabel of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector.
This MS collated in Martin.
Copies, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.
I. P..
Leaves excised from these volumes are in the
A flyleaf in the Cantus Secundus part book inscribed Decemb. 30. 1674. Note that I Thomas Clifford bought this sett of Musick Books of Mr Richard Price's widow Mrs Dorothy Price for --7s--6d
.
Copy in a musical setting by William Lawes, in an italic hand, untitled.
Inscriptions including (f. 1v) Janet Glesone
; (ff. 2r and 33v) Heline ffergusone
; (f. 5v) Andrew Gardner Est Hujus Liber Anno domini
; (f. 9v) John Patsen
; and (f. 32r) John Watson
. Purchased at the sale of the books of David Constable in 1828, lot 2905.
Copy in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.
Inscribed (f. 9v) Mrs Agnes Hume her book Anno Dom 1704
.
Edited from this MS in Nelly Diem,
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
Once owned by the Shirley family, Earls Ferrers, of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. Also owned, and annotated, by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.
Generally cited as the Earl Ferrers MS. Collated in Cutts,
This MS collated in Cutts,
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
Cattalogueof contents, 229 leaves.
Owned (in 1659) and partly compiled by the composer John Gamble (d.1687), with some misnumbering.
c.1630s-50s.Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.
A complete facsimile is in
This MS recorded in Martin.
Copy of the incipit, in a musical setting.
Later owned by John Leyden (1775-1811).
Discussed in Christopher Hunt,
Copy, in William Lawes's musical setting.
Once owned by John Henry Mee.
Copy, in a musical setting, among the appended Italian songs.
In the Atholl Collection of Music, assembled by Lady Dorothea Stewart-Murray (1866-1937), daughter of John Stewart-Murray (1840-1917), seventh Duke of Atholl. Formerly in the Sandeman Library, Perth.
Copy, untitled.
Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.
Mid-17th century-c.1702.Inscribed (f. [ir]) Sr Robert Killigrew / 1702
. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.
Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth,
First published in John Stow,
Copy.
Copy, headed
Copy, headed
Owned in 1785 by Mary Windsor of Tottenham High Cross, Owned in 1821 by one John Marris [i.e. Morris?]. Bookplate of James Walsh, FSA, FRAS. Purchased from J. R. Smith 9 December 1848.
First published in
Copy of an untitled version beginning
Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere.
c.1640s-60s.Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.
Cited in Probert MS
:
Printed from this MS in Martin, p. 467.
Copy of a version beginning
Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller.
Mid-17th century.Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.
Recorded in Henry Lawes MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy of a version beginning
Possibly compiled in part by one T. C.
Inscribed (f. 1v) R. Guise [of Abbey] Feb: 12. 1760
. Purchased from Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, 17 June 1839.
A complete facsimile of this volume in
Copy of a version beginning
Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer (his signature f. 2v).
c.1654-70s.Arms of Eleanor Bursh on a seal affixed to f. 56r. Later owned and annotated in pencil by Thomas Oliphant (1799-1873), music editor and cataloguer.
A complete facsimile of this volume in
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy of a version beginning
Puttick & Simpson's, 2 March 1866, lot 230.
A complete facsimile of this volume in
First published in
Copy, untitled.
Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to
Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) Anthony St John/ Ann: St John/ 1640 Bletso
: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) Oliver Beeesfor[d]
; and (f. 81v) John Watts
. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.
Cited in St John MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, untitled, subscribed Finis Ro: Herrick
.
J. D.) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index). c.1630s.
Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.
Cited in Grey MS
:
Copy, headed Rob: Herrick.
Fols 1r-93v, 95r-100v in the hand of Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London (whose name is inscribed on a flyleaf: f. 1*); f. 94r-v in an unidentified hand, and ff. 101v-2r in that of Peter Calfe's son, Peter Calfe the Younger (d.1693).
c.1650-9.Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1r) Janu. 6. 1738/9
.
Cited in Calfe MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
First published in
Copy, in a neat secretary hand, headed
Erroneously described in 1965 as a commonplace book of the poet Robert Herrick. The so-called Herrick hand
responsible for complete poems or substantial passages on pp. 73-4, 102-3, 253, 312-13, 319-21, 323, 328 and 343, this hand also responsible for corrections and brief insertions in both verse and prose on pp. 55-6, 58-60, 68, 71, 75-6, 78, 83, 89, 91, 93, 97, 99. 108-9, 203, 266, 285, 291, 348 and 350.
Scribbling on front- and end-leaves including Georgius Cantuarien
, Thomas Hobson
[?the Cambridge Carrier], Benjamin Broadeface
, To my very long friend mr John Bond
, To the right reuerend ffather in God George Archbyshop of Canterbury his grace
, Whereas the Bearer hereof Thomas Hall hath serued his sixe weekes…
, To the right honor Sr Tho: Moore Whereas the Bearer hereof John Tis[?]sdale
, Williamson
and Phillip de Maceden
. Puttick and Simpson's, 30 May 1849, lot 158 (erroneously described as a commonplace book of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 12341*. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 146 (as Herrick's commonplace book). House of El Dieff (Lew David Feldman), New York, sale catalogue No. 65 (1965), with facsimile page as frontispiece. Formerly Ms File/(Herrick, R)/Works B.
Also facsimiles of p. 323 in the Sotheby's sale catalogue (frontispiece) and of p. 253 (as if in Herrick's hand) in Croft,
The MS discussed by Farmer in loc. cit. and in Herrick
Manuscript.
Copy, headed
Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled
Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny
[presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks
, Edward Randolphe
and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy
. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Cited in Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I)
:
This MS collated in part in Martin.
Copy, headed finis Ro: Herrick
.
J. D.) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index). c.1630s.
Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.
Cited in Grey MS
:
Copy, headed
Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.
c.1630s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Elizabeth Lane hir booke
and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, Johannes Finch
. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.
Cited in Elizabeth Lane MS
:
Copy, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, headed
Volume CCXXXVI of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add 17 and 18.
Sotheby's sale catalogue,
Copy, headed
Owned before 1959 by the Lingard-Guthrie family.
Copy, headed
Including twenty poems by Randolph, plus ten of doubtful authorship (some here ascribed to T.R.
), in two hands (A: pp. 3-99; B: pp. 1, 99-129), with some scribbling and one heading in other hands on pp. 3, 98 and 133; a poem on p. 1 (beginning To ye] Incomparably vertuous Lady the Lady Harflette
: i.e. Afra (d.1664), wife of Sir Christopher Harflete of Canterbury.
Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
Cited in
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Scribbling on f. iir including ffor mr William Rabey in New=market...
, ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at mr Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk]
, ffor mr John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge
; notes on f. iiiv-ivr, one Recd 22 July 1669
, subscribed John Cooke
and including, on f. vir, ffor mr John Cocke at his howse neere the white harte in Thetford...
. Later owned, in the 1730s, by Charles Barlow, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (his bookplate f. iiv).
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy of an abridged version, headed
Probably compiled principally by an Oxford University man.
c.1630s-40s.Names inscribed on rear flyleaf and paste-down Elizabeth hosman
and William Blois
.
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 455-6; recorded in Martin.
Copy, headed
The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in Michell MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
A flyleaf inscribed [?] Johannes Philips
. Acquired from H. Stevens 11 December 1852.
Cited in John Philips MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Probably compiled by one H.S.
, a Cambridge man.
Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector, with his bookplate and inscription 1806 Purchased of Lansdown of Bristol
. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 192.
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Inscribed (f. 1v, in a court hand) Daniell Leare his Booke
, witnesse William Strode
, and (f. 164r) Mr Daniell Leare eius Liber
: i.e. compiled chiefly by Daniel Leare, a distant cousin of the poet William Strode, probably at Christ Church, Oxford, before he entered the Middle Temple in 1633.
This suggestion, by Mary Hobbs, is supported by entries in the Caution Book of 1625-41 at Christ Church, where Strode is found (p. 22) paying £10 as college security for Leare and where Leare signs (p. 23) on this sum's repayment by Dr Fell on 13 May 1633. Forey suggests (p. lxxix) that he was the Daniell Leare of St Andrews, Holburne, whose will was proved in 1652; but it is more likely that he was the Daniel Leare to whom Henry King, Dean of Rochester, leased property at Chatham on 19 July 1655 (
The volume includes 12 poems by Donne; 15 poems (plus a second copy of one and three of doubtful authorship) by Carew; 20 poems (plus two of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; and 84 poems (plus second copies of eight poems, four poems of doubtful authorship and some apocryphal poems) by Strode, the texts being closely related to, and in part probably transcribed from, the Corpus MS
of Strode's poems (
Inscribed also John Leare
(probably Daniel's younger brother); (f. 1r) Anthony Euans his booke
(who married Daniel Leare's niece Dorothy Leare in 1663); (f. 1v) Alexander Croke his Book 1773
; and (f. 164v) John Scott
(who matriculated at Christ Church in 1632). Rimell & Son, 9 November 1878.
Cited in Leare MS
:
Discussed in Mary Hobbs,
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Indexat the end, in contemporary vellum boards.
Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).
c.1636.Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire
(following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.
Cited in Chute MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v.
c.1635.Inscribed on f. 111v rev. Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt
. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).
Cited in Harley MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed R: H:
.
Including 22 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 13 poems by King, and 24 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and probably associated with Christ Church, Oxford.
c.1633.Inscribed names including (f. 93v, in court hand) ffrancis Baskeruile
: i.e. probably the Francis Baskerville who married Margaret Glanvill in 1635 and was in 1640 MP for Marlborough, Wiltshire. Other scribbling including (f. 1r) accounts referring to Wanborough, Wiltshire; (f. 9v) Elizabeth White
; (f. 54v) William Walrond his booke 1663
; (f. 92r) accounts dated 1658; and (f. 94r) John Wallrond
. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Recorded in Baskerville MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from
Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A
of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison
. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Cited in Killigrew MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, untitled.
Recorded as being compiled by Thomas Smyth, of Manchester.
c.1630.Bookplate of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Afterwards owned by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Formerly Chetham's MS 8010.
Copy, subscribed R. J.
Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by the compiler, Richardus Jackson 1623
and Richard Jackson his booke
, who is described in a later pencil note as perhaps the brachygrapher. On ff. 113v-16r, in a later hand, is a Catalogue of ye Books lately belonging to ye. Rev. Mr Jackson Rectr of Tatham
.
Also inscribed (f. 1r) John Pecke
. Sold by Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, in 1831-2. Among collections of James Orchard Halliwell (from 1872 Halliwell-Phillipps) (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bought by him in 1871 from Sotheran's, London.
A 247-page transcript of this volume made c.1830 is in the Folger Shakespeare Library, MS M.b.26.
Copy, headed
Compiled by University or Inns of Court men.
The extracted fols 7, 8 and 54 are now
Inscribed (f. [104v] Thomas White His Book May ye 20 Anno Domine 1691
. Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in his library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.21.
This MS collated in part in Martin.
Copy, headed
Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship.
c.late 1630s [-1789].Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his
Cited in Thorpe-Halliwell MS
:
This MS collated in part in Martin.
Copy, headed
Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode.
c.1630s[-55].Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.
Cited in Dobell MS
:
This MS collated in part in Martin.
Part I, including some Welsh, comprises sixteen leaves, all (but for f. 15r-v) in the cursive hand of William Jordan, schoolmaster of Denbigh or Caernarvon, whose name (Gulielmus Jordan
) is inscribed, the dates 1680-83 occurring.
Part II comprises 60 leaves, ff. 1-50v in a neat italic hand, ff. 51r-60r in several other cursive hands.
c.1674-84.The vellum wrapper on Part II bears notes on a debt by William Jordan in 1674 relating to Evan Thomas
and Mr Richard Wilkinsn in pepper street
. Formerly Folger MS 1669.2.
This MS collated in part, and six additional lines printed, in Martin, pp. 469-73.
Copy, headed
Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).
Cited in
Copy, headed
Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.
c.1634.The initials T. C.
stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue
Cited in Rosenbach MS II
:
Copy, headed
Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue,
Cited in Bishop MS
:
This MS collated in part in Patrick.
Copy, headed
Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew.
c.1638-42.Inscriptions including Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus
[viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], Thomas Arding
, Thomas Arden
, William Harrington
, Thomas John
, John Anthehope
and Clement Poxall
. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue
Cited in Carey MS
:
This MS collated in part in Patrick.
Copy, headed
Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode.
c.1650.Scribbling on the first page including the words Peyton Chester…
.
Cited in Osborn MS I
:
Copy, headed
Inscribed (on p. [330]) Robert Lord his book Anno Domini
; (on [p. 335]) william Jacob his booke Amen
; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, Hugh Gibgans of the same
and John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]
. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.
A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.
First published in
Copy in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, untitled.
Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere.
c.1640s-60s.Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.
Cited in Probert MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller.
Mid-17th century.Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.
Recorded in Henry Lawes MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, untitled.
Inscribed (Part I, f. 1r) Mr John Oldhams Booke
[i.e. the poet John Oldham (1653-83)]. Inscribed (Part II, f. 1r) James Bateman
[(b.1633/4) of Christ's College, Cambridge], and Robert Pierrepont
[either the son of Col. Francis Pierrepont, M.P. (d.1659), or the third Earl of Kingston (1650/1-82), of Holme-Pierrepoint, Nottinghamshire, Oldham's patron]. Formerly Folger MS 621.1.
Described in F.P. Hammond,
First published in
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller.
Mid-17th century.Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.
Recorded in Henry Lawes MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
First published in
Copy, headed Rob: Herricke
.
Indexat the end, in contemporary vellum boards.
Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).
c.1636.Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire
(following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.
Cited in Chute MS
:
This MS text collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Compiled by Sir John Perceval, Bt (1629-65), probably while at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Volume CXCII of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family.
c.1646-9.Other Poems by or Attributed to Herrick
First published, in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Not attributed to Herrick hitherto
). Not included in Patrick.
Copy, untitled.
Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to I Nicholas Burgh
occurring on ff. 165r, with the date 3d of June 1638
, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands.
Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Cited in Burghe MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, untitled.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 2592. Sotheby's, 10 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 960. Owned in 1896 by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Acquired in 1950 from H.F.B. Brett-Smith, Oxford literary scholar and editor.
Cited in Natley MS
:
Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
DR. / I.W, with silver clasps.
Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82).
c.1656.Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts,
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, untitled.
Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the Edward Smyth MS
(
Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.
This MS is the curious folio volume
lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by the late Lord Harborough
and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his
Cited in Skipwith MS
:
Edited from this MS in Martin.
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer (his signature f. 2v).
c.1654-70s.Arms of Eleanor Bursh on a seal affixed to f. 56r. Later owned and annotated in pencil by Thomas Oliphant (1799-1873), music editor and cataloguer.
A complete facsimile of this volume in
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, closely written in a minute mixed hand, untitled, on the first page of two conjugate octavo leaves probably extracted from a verse miscellany.
Presented by F. Stevens, FSA.
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Inscribed (f. 179r) This is Sr. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book
: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.
Copy, headed
Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.
c.1630s.Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.
Cited in Halliwell MS
:
This MS recorded in Martin.
Copy, untitled.
Probably compiled by two members of the Calverley family (f. 1r contains a poem headed
Later in the library od Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9624. Owned before 1947 by N.M. Broadbent. Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 13 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 135, to Maggs.
Copy, headed
Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).
Cited in
This MS collated in part in T.G.S. Cain,
Copy, headed
Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by Strode (and two poems of doubtful authorship).
c.1634.The initials M W
stamped on each cover: i.e. M[aidstone] and W[inchilsea]. Evidently compiled by or for Sir Thomas Finch, Viscount Maidstone and Earl of Winchilsea (who succeeded to the peerage in 1633 and died in 1634). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue
The MS came to Rosenbach with a printed exemplum of William Wishcart, M W
; it is inscribed Lord Winchilsea for Mr Locker 1634
; it bears the late 17th-century signatures of Stephen Locker and Alexander Campbell, and the bookplates of Captain William Locker (1731-1800) and Edward Hawke Locker (1777-1849).
Cited in Winchelsea MS
:
Copy, headed
A folio verse miscellany, including 15 poems by Donne, f. 162r-v in a rounded italic hand, ff. 164r-74v in a slightly erratic italic hand, ff. 175r-279v in a neat formal italic hand (also responsible for the index on ff. 2r-11v), this miscellany constituting ff. 162r-279v of a single folio volume containing also Part I (
Formerly MS G. 2.21.
Cited in
Copy, headed
In the hands of two amanuenses associated with King: i.e. Scribe A (c.1636), pp. 1-214, that of Thomas Manne's imitator
using two styles (a: pp. 1-62, 64-6, 133-4, 147-215; and b, the earlier: pp. 63, 67-132, 135-45); and Scribe B (c.1641): pp. 217-47, that of the scribe responsible for the Phillipps MS (
The flyleaf inscribed Ex dono Eugenii Stoughton Die Octobrii 23 Anno-1738-Domini
: i.e. owned before 1738 by the Stoughton family, of St John's House, Warwick.
Cited in Stoughton MS
:
First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 445-6. Martin, p. 413. Patrick, pp. 74-5.
Copy, on one side of a single folio leaf.
Collected, and partly written, by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Betagraph of the watermark in f. 29 in Ted-Larry Pebworth,
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt (erroneously cited as Ashmole MS. 38
), in Martin and in Patrick.
First published in Croft,
Autograph fair copy of an elegy on John Browne, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, on a single folio leaf, unsigned and subscribed Trinitall halls/Exequies
, with folds and tears, possibly one of the papers originally attached to Browne's coffin.
Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in Croft. Facsimile and transcript also in Petti,
First published, and attributed to Herrick, in Tom Cain, Christmas Carol
: A New Poem, and its Implications for Patronage
Copy, followed by [Fane's] response
Principally composed and copied by Mildmay Fane (1602-66), second Earl of Westmorland, politician and writer.
c.1640s-50s.This MS recorded in Gerald W. Morton,
Edited from this MS in Cain, the answære
edited on pp. 135-7.
First published in
Copy.
Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled
Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny
[presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks
, Edward Randolphe
and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy
. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Cited in Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I)
:
Edited in part from this MS in Patrick; collated in Martin.
Copy.
Inscribed four times on a flyleaf Tobias Alston his booke
: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end.
Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.
Cited in Alston MS
:
Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to I Nicholas Burgh
occurring on ff. 165r, with the date 3d of June 1638
, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands.
Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Cited in Burghe MS
:
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt; edited in part in Patrick; collated in Martin.
Copy.
The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in Michell MS
:
Edited from this MS in Martin; edited in part from this MS in Patrick.
Copy, subscribed R: W
.
Compiled by one Thomas Crosse, whose name appears (f. 1*) in Tho: Cro:)
to a poem on ff. 23v-4r.
Edited in part from this MS in Patrick; collated in Martin.
First published in Norman Ault, Not attributed to Herrick hitherto
). Not included in Patrick.
Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
DR. / I.W, with silver clasps.
Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82).
c.1656.Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts,
Edited from this MS in Ault, and in Martin.
Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer (his signature f. 2v).
c.1654-70s.Arms of Eleanor Bursh on a seal affixed to f. 56r. Later owned and annotated in pencil by Thomas Oliphant (1799-1873), music editor and cataloguer.
A complete facsimile of this volume in
This MS collated in Martin.
First published in Martin (1956), pp. 443-4 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto
). Not included in Patrick.
Copy, untitled.
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
:
This MS collated in Margaret Crum,
Copy, untitled.
Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to
Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) Anthony St John/ Ann: St John/ 1640 Bletso
: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) Oliver Beeesfor[d]
; and (f. 81v) John Watts
. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.
Cited in St John MS
:
Edited from this MS in Martin.
Copy, headed finis Ro: Herrick
.
J. D.) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index). c.1630s.
Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.
Cited in Grey MS
:
First published, as
Copy.
Indexat the end, in contemporary vellum boards.
Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).
c.1636.Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire
(following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.
Cited in Chute MS
:
Edited from this MS text in Martin and in Patrick.
First published in Martin (1956), pp. 441-2 (in his section Not attributed to Herrick hitherto
). Not included in Patrick.
Copy, untitled.
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
:
Copy, untitled.
Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to
Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) Anthony St John/ Ann: St John/ 1640 Bletso
: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) Oliver Beeesfor[d]
; and (f. 81v) John Watts
. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.
Cited in St John MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy.
Fols 1r-93v, 95r-100v in the hand of Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London (whose name is inscribed on a flyleaf: f. 1*); f. 94r-v in an unidentified hand, and ff. 101v-2r in that of Peter Calfe's son, Peter Calfe the Younger (d.1693).
c.1650-9.Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1r) Janu. 6. 1738/9
.
Cited in Calfe MS
:
Edited from this MS in Martin.
First published, and attributed to Herrick, in T.G.S. Cain,
Copy.
Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).
Cited in
Edited from this MS, with a facsimile of f. 56v, in Cain.
Copy of lines 1-4, headed
Collected, and partly written, by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Betagraph of the watermark in f. 29 in Ted-Larry Pebworth,
This MS recorded in Cain.
Copy of lines 1-4, headed
Compiled in part (ff. 131v-66r) by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
c.1630s-40s.This MS recorded in Cain.
First published in
Copy, untitled.
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
:
Copy of the second part, here beginning
Inscribed (f. 179r) This is Sr. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book
: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.
This MS collated in Brown.
Copy, untitled and unascribed.
Including (ff. 3v-12r), in a single hand, fourteen poems, headed Verses of Madam Orindas
and most subscribed Orinda
, in relatively early versions, none dating later than 1650-51, subscribed (f. 12v) thus Farr Madam Orinda
.
Owned, in 1927 by Percy Dobell, and item 14 in one of his sale catalogues of poetical manuscripts.
Recorded in
Copy, untitled.
Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to
Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) Anthony St John/ Ann: St John/ 1640 Bletso
: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) Oliver Beeesfor[d]
; and (f. 81v) John Watts
. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.
Cited in St John MS
:
Copy, headed
Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled
Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny
[presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks
, Edward Randolphe
and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy
. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Cited in Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I)
:
Copy, in two hands.
Including 59 poems by Donne (and second copies of six poems), in probably six professional secretary hands: A (ff. 1r-25v, 82r-129r); B (ff. 26r, 42v-7v, 49r-63r, 63v-79r, 130r-48r); C (ff. 27r-36v, 41r-2v; with occasional corrections possibly in hand B); D (ff. 37r-40v); E (ff. 63r-v); and F (f. 129v).
c.1620-33.Scribbling includes the name Meriall Tracy
(on f. 148v). Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary; by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary; and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library, lot 624). Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Recorded in Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (II)
:
A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Betagraph of the watermark in f. 43 in Ted-Larry Pebworth,
Copy, untitled, subscribed finis Ro: Herrick
.
J. D.) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index). c.1630s.
Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.
Cited in Grey MS
:
Copy of the six stanzas version, untitled.
Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the Edward Smyth MS
(
Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.
This MS is the curious folio volume
lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by the late Lord Harborough
and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his
Cited in Skipwith MS
:
Edited in part from this MS in Brown. Recorded in Chambers.
Copy of the six stanza version, headed
Fols 1r-93v, 95r-100v in the hand of Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London (whose name is inscribed on a flyleaf: f. 1*); f. 94r-v in an unidentified hand, and ff. 101v-2r in that of Peter Calfe's son, Peter Calfe the Younger (d.1693).
c.1650-9.Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1r) Janu. 6. 1738/9
.
Cited in Calfe MS
:
Partly edited from this MS in Brown. Recorded in Chambers.
Copy, headed
Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by Strode (and two poems of doubtful authorship).
c.1634.The initials M W
stamped on each cover: i.e. M[aidstone] and W[inchilsea]. Evidently compiled by or for Sir Thomas Finch, Viscount Maidstone and Earl of Winchilsea (who succeeded to the peerage in 1633 and died in 1634). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue
The MS came to Rosenbach with a printed exemplum of William Wishcart, M W
; it is inscribed Lord Winchilsea for Mr Locker 1634
; it bears the late 17th-century signatures of Stephen Locker and Alexander Campbell, and the bookplates of Captain William Locker (1731-1800) and Edward Hawke Locker (1777-1849).
Cited in Winchelsea MS
:
Copy, untitled, subscribed Aurelian Tounshind
.
Later notes and scribbling including the names John Nutting
(ff. 26r, 56r) and John M.
and John Susan
(rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.
Cited in Nutting MS
:
Version Two edited from this MS in Brown.
Copy, headed Face
underlined and the word Love
written in the margin in another hand, the poem subscribed Townesend
.
A folio verse miscellany, including 15 poems by Donne, f. 162r-v in a rounded italic hand, ff. 164r-74v in a slightly erratic italic hand, ff. 175r-279v in a neat formal italic hand (also responsible for the index on ff. 2r-11v), this miscellany constituting ff. 162r-279v of a single folio volume containing also Part I (
Formerly MS G. 2.21.
Cited in
Edited from this MS in Chambers and in Brown.
Copy, headed
Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).
Cited in
Copy of the six-stanza version, headed
A folio verse miscellany, including 15 poems by Donne, f. 162r-v in a rounded italic hand, ff. 164r-74v in a slightly erratic italic hand, ff. 175r-279v in a neat formal italic hand (also responsible for the index on ff. 2r-11v), this miscellany constituting ff. 162r-279v of a single folio volume containing also Part I (
Formerly MS G. 2.21.
Cited in
This MS recorded in Chambers and in Brown.
Copy, headed AT
.
The contents, the latest of which (on pp. 203-7) can be dated to a marriage that took place in November 1656, reflect the taste of Interregnum Royalist sympathisers.
c.Late 1650s.Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 4001. Sotheby's, 29 June 1946, lot 164, to Myers. Then in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 445. Martin, p. 414. Patrick, p. 46.
Copy, untitled.
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
:
Copy, untitled.
Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to
Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) Anthony St John/ Ann: St John/ 1640 Bletso
: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) Oliver Beeesfor[d]
; and (f. 81v) John Watts
. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.
Cited in St John MS
:
Edited in part from this MS in Patrick. Collated in Martin.
Copy, subscribed Ro herrick
.
G. Broughtonon ff. 1r and after 44r, a reference to St John's College, Cambridge (in 1731) on f. 83v, 93 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century half black morocco. c.1630s [-1733].
G. Broughton
is possibly William (Gulielmus
) Broughton (b.1684/5), of Trinity College, Cambridge (one of whose Latin verse compilations was copied in 1704-6 by Richard Robinson in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS 0.6.1 (James 1497). Also the name Jo: Tweedy
is inscribed several times on f. 81r. Owned before 1841 by one W. Potter.
Cited in Tweedye MS
:
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Martin; edited in part in Patrick.
Copy, headed
Fols 1r-93v, 95r-100v in the hand of Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London (whose name is inscribed on a flyleaf: f. 1*); f. 94r-v in an unidentified hand, and ff. 101v-2r in that of Peter Calfe's son, Peter Calfe the Younger (d.1693).
c.1650-9.Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1r) Janu. 6. 1738/9
.
Cited in Calfe MS
:
Edited chiefly from this MS in Patrick; collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Inscribed (on p. [330]) Robert Lord his book Anno Domini
; (on [p. 335]) william Jacob his booke Amen
; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, Hugh Gibgans of the same
and John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]
. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.
A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.
First published, as
Copy, headed in the margin
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
:
This MS collated in Farmer.
Copy, headed Sr Simon Stewarde
.
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
:
This MS collated in Farmer.
Copy, headed Ro: Herrick
deleted and replaced by Sr Si: Steward
.
J. D.) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index). c.1630s.
Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.
Cited in Grey MS
:
Copy, headed Sr. Simmion Steward
.
Inscribed four times on a flyleaf Tobias Alston his booke
: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end.
Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.
Cited in Alston MS
:
Copy, headed Sr. Simon steward
.
Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to I Nicholas Burgh
occurring on ff. 165r, with the date 3d of June 1638
, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands.
Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Cited in Burghe MS
:
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, collated in Farmer.
Copy, headed
Including twenty poems by Randolph, plus ten of doubtful authorship (some here ascribed to T.R.
), in two hands (A: pp. 3-99; B: pp. 1, 99-129), with some scribbling and one heading in other hands on pp. 3, 98 and 133; a poem on p. 1 (beginning To ye] Incomparably vertuous Lady the Lady Harflette
: i.e. Afra (d.1664), wife of Sir Christopher Harflete of Canterbury.
Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
Cited in
This MS collated in Farmer.
Copy, headed
Inscribed (p. i) Ex dono B. R. ao J
.
This MS collated in Farmer.
Extracts, comprising twenty lines beginning at line 11 (here
Probably compiled principally by an Oxford University man.
c.1630s-40s.Names inscribed on rear flyleaf and paste-down Elizabeth hosman
and William Blois
.
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 481; recorded in Farmer.
Copy, headed Sir Simeon Steward
.
Compiled principally by one H. S.
, a Cambridge University man.
This MS volume edited in Diana Julia Rose,
This MS collated in Farmer.
Copy, headed Sr Simon Stewards
.
The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in Michell MS
:
This MS collated in Farmer.
Copy of an abridged version, headed
Compiled by Matthew Crosse, Oxford University bedell of law.
c.1630s.Copy, headed Sr Simeon Steward
.
G. Broughtonon ff. 1r and after 44r, a reference to St John's College, Cambridge (in 1731) on f. 83v, 93 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century half black morocco. c.1630s [-1733].
G. Broughton
is possibly William (Gulielmus
) Broughton (b.1684/5), of Trinity College, Cambridge (one of whose Latin verse compilations was copied in 1704-6 by Richard Robinson in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS 0.6.1 (James 1497). Also the name Jo: Tweedy
is inscribed several times on f. 81r. Owned before 1841 by one W. Potter.
Cited in Tweedye MS
:
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 476-7; collated in Farmer.
Copy, headed
Including twenty poems by Carew, eleven poems by Crashaw on ff. 10-30 passim, and fifteen poems by Strode.
c.1630s.Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1834), item 728. Acquired from C. Booth, October 1857.
Cited in Thorpe MS
:
This MS collated in Farmer.
Copy, headed Sr Edmond Steward
.
Probably compiled by one H.S.
, a Cambridge man.
Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector, with his bookplate and inscription 1806 Purchased of Lansdown of Bristol
. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 192.
This MS collated in Farmer.
Copy, headed
To the righte honoble: the Lorde Thomas Darcy Viscount Colchester(c.1565-1640, Viscount Colchester from 1621 to 1626), 191 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship.
This MS largely transcribed in
Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) Mr John Bowyer
; (f. 2r) Jeronomus ffox
; and (f. 3r) William Ralph Baesh
.
Cited in Colchester MS
:
This MS collated in Farmer.
Copy, headed
Including principally autograph poems by Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax (1661-1715), but also (ff. 72v-7v) some poems apparently in a much earlier hand.
Later owned by John Lilly, bookseller. Sotheby's, 15-25 March 1871 (Lilly sale), lot 1366.
This MS collated in Farmer.
Copy, untitled.
Inscribed (f. 179r) This is Sr. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book
: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.
Copy, subscribed Ro: Herricke
.
Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed Jane Wheeler
and Tho: Oliver Busfield
. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11)
A Jo. Wheeler
signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).
Cited in Wheeler MS
:
Printed from this MS in Farmer.
Copy, headed
Formerly (before 1686) in the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. Possibly acquired by Charles Louis (1617-80), Elector Palatine, while at the English court of his uncle, Charles I, from 1635 to 1649.
This volume discovered, and announced in the
Copy, headed
Once belonging to the Newdegate family of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 572.
Copy, headed Sir Simion Steward
.
Owned in 1921 by George Neilson, then by Charles R. Cowie, and now in the John Cowie Collection.
Discussed in G. Neilson,
This MS recorded in Neilson,
Copy of part of the poem, headed
Copy, headed Sr Simion Steward
.
Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by Strode (and two poems of doubtful authorship).
c.1634.The initials M W
stamped on each cover: i.e. M[aidstone] and W[inchilsea]. Evidently compiled by or for Sir Thomas Finch, Viscount Maidstone and Earl of Winchilsea (who succeeded to the peerage in 1633 and died in 1634). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue
The MS came to Rosenbach with a printed exemplum of William Wishcart, M W
; it is inscribed Lord Winchilsea for Mr Locker 1634
; it bears the late 17th-century signatures of Stephen Locker and Alexander Campbell, and the bookplates of Captain William Locker (1731-1800) and Edward Hawke Locker (1777-1849).
Cited in Winchelsea MS
:
This MS collated in Farmer.
Copy, headed
Inscribed (on p. [330]) Robert Lord his book Anno Domini
; (on [p. 335]) william Jacob his booke Amen
; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, Hugh Gibgans of the same
and John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]
. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.
A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.
First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 436-9. Martin, pp. 407-9. Patrick, pp. 539-42.
Copy, headed
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
:
Copy, headed
Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to
Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) Anthony St John/ Ann: St John/ 1640 Bletso
: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) Oliver Beeesfor[d]
; and (f. 81v) John Watts
. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.
Cited in St John MS
:
Edited from this MS in Patrick. Collated in Martin.
Copy, headed finis Ro: Herr:
.
J. D.) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index). c.1630s.
Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.
Cited in Grey MS
:
Facsimile of p. 119 in L.F. Casson,
Copy, headed
Inscribed four times on a flyleaf Tobias Alston his booke
: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end.
Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.
Cited in Alston MS
:
Copy, headed
Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to I Nicholas Burgh
occurring on ff. 165r, with the date 3d of June 1638
, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands.
Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Cited in Burghe MS
:
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Martin; collated in Patrick.
First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 439-42. Martin, pp. 410-12. Patrick, pp. 543-5.
Copy, headed
Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled
Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny
[presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks
, Edward Randolphe
and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy
. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Cited in Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I)
:
This MS collated in Martin and in Patrick.
Copy, headed
Inscribed four times on a flyleaf Tobias Alston his booke
: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end.
Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.
Cited in Alston MS
:
Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to I Nicholas Burgh
occurring on ff. 165r, with the date 3d of June 1638
, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands.
Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Cited in Burghe MS
:
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, in Martin, and in Patrick.
Copy, here beginning
The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in Michell MS
:
This MS collated in Martin and in Patrick.
Copy, headed
Probably compiled by one H.S.
, a Cambridge man.
Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector, with his bookplate and inscription 1806 Purchased of Lansdown of Bristol
. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 192.
This MS collated in Martin and in Patrick.
First published in Richard Brome,
Among the papers of the Isham family of Lamport Hall.
See
First published in Norman Ault,
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Ramsay.
Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere.
c.1640s-60s.Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.
Cited in Probert MS
:
Edited from this MS in Ault, in Martin, and in Patrick.
First published in Martin (1956), pp. 422-3. Patrick, p. 556.
Copy, subscribed R: Herrick
.
Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled
Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny
[presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks
, Edward Randolphe
and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy
. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Cited in Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I)
:
Edited from this MS in Martin and in Patrick.
Copy.
Inscribed four times on a flyleaf Tobias Alston his booke
: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end.
Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.
Cited in Alston MS
:
First published, and attributed to Herrick, in Willa McClung Evans,
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller.
Mid-17th century.Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.
Recorded in Henry Lawes MS
:
Edited from this MS in Evans and in Martin. Facsimiles in Evans, p. 159, and in Pamela J. Willetts,
Copy, untitled.
Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.
Late 17th century.Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in Rawlinson MS I
:
First published in
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by John Wilson.
Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere.
c.1640s-60s.Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.
Cited in Probert MS
:
Edited from this MS in Martin.
Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
DR. / I.W, with silver clasps.
Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82).
c.1656.Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts,
This MS collated in Martin.
First published in Martin (1956), p. 442 (in his section
Copy, untitled.
Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to
Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) Anthony St John/ Ann: St John/ 1640 Bletso
: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) Oliver Beeesfor[d]
; and (f. 81v) John Watts
. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.
Cited in St John MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy.
Fols 1r-93v, 95r-100v in the hand of Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London (whose name is inscribed on a flyleaf: f. 1*); f. 94r-v in an unidentified hand, and ff. 101v-2r in that of Peter Calfe's son, Peter Calfe the Younger (d.1693).
c.1650-9.Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1r) Janu. 6. 1738/9
.
Cited in Calfe MS
:
Edited from this MS in Martin.
First published in Norman Ault,
Copy of an untitled three-stanza version, ascribed to Herrick, in a musical setting by Robert Ramsey.
Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere.
c.1640s-60s.Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.
Cited in Probert MS
:
Edited from this MS in Ault, in Martin, in Patrick and in Buchan, p. 102.
Copy of a three-stanza version, headed
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
:
This MS colalted in Margaret Crum,
Copy of the first stanza, in a musical setting by John Hilton.
This MS collated in John P. Cutts,
Copy of the first stanza.
Indexat the end, in contemporary vellum boards.
Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).
c.1636.Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire
(following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.
Cited in Chute MS
:
This MS text collated in Martin and in Patrick.
Copy of the first stanza, in a musical setting by John Hilton, untitled.
Puttick & Simpson's, 2 March 1866, lot 230.
A complete facsimile of this volume in
This MS collated in Martin and in Patrick.
Copy of an adapted version of Herrick's poem, headed
Maggs's sale catalogue No. 481 (1940?), item 1496.
Edited from this MS text in
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Ro: Herick
.
Among the papers of Robert Boyle (1627-91), natural philosopher.
First published in
Copy, subscribed Rob: Herricke
.
Indexat the end, in contemporary vellum boards.
Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).
c.1636.Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire
(following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.
Cited in Chute MS
:
Edited from this MS text in Martin and in Patrick.
First published in Martin (1956), p. 420. Patrick, pp. 68-9.
Copy, untitled.
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
:
Second copy, headed
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
:
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller.
Mid-17th century.Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.
Recorded in Henry Lawes MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, untitled and here beginning
Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled
Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny
[presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks
, Edward Randolphe
and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy
. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Cited in Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I)
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
A flyleaf inscribed [?] Johannes Philips
. Acquired from H. Stevens 11 December 1852.
Cited in John Philips MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the Edward Smyth MS
(
Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.
This MS is the curious folio volume
lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by the late Lord Harborough
and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his
Cited in Skipwith MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Inscribed (f. 1v, in a court hand) Daniell Leare his Booke
, witnesse William Strode
, and (f. 164r) Mr Daniell Leare eius Liber
: i.e. compiled chiefly by Daniel Leare, a distant cousin of the poet William Strode, probably at Christ Church, Oxford, before he entered the Middle Temple in 1633.
This suggestion, by Mary Hobbs, is supported by entries in the Caution Book of 1625-41 at Christ Church, where Strode is found (p. 22) paying £10 as college security for Leare and where Leare signs (p. 23) on this sum's repayment by Dr Fell on 13 May 1633. Forey suggests (p. lxxix) that he was the Daniell Leare of St Andrews, Holburne, whose will was proved in 1652; but it is more likely that he was the Daniel Leare to whom Henry King, Dean of Rochester, leased property at Chatham on 19 July 1655 (
The volume includes 12 poems by Donne; 15 poems (plus a second copy of one and three of doubtful authorship) by Carew; 20 poems (plus two of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; and 84 poems (plus second copies of eight poems, four poems of doubtful authorship and some apocryphal poems) by Strode, the texts being closely related to, and in part probably transcribed from, the Corpus MS
of Strode's poems (
Inscribed also John Leare
(probably Daniel's younger brother); (f. 1r) Anthony Euans his booke
(who married Daniel Leare's niece Dorothy Leare in 1663); (f. 1v) Alexander Croke his Book 1773
; and (f. 164v) John Scott
(who matriculated at Christ Church in 1632). Rimell & Son, 9 November 1878.
Cited in Leare MS
:
Discussed in Mary Hobbs,
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, subscribed Rob: Herricke
.
Indexat the end, in contemporary vellum boards.
Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).
c.1636.Inscribed (on the front paste-down) My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire
(following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.
Cited in Chute MS
:
Edited from this MS text in Martin and in Patrick.
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, untitled.
Puttick & Simpson's, 2 March 1866, lot 230.
A complete facsimile of this volume in
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Inscribed (f. 179r) This is Sr. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book
: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Including 22 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 13 poems by King, and 24 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and probably associated with Christ Church, Oxford.
c.1633.Inscribed names including (f. 93v, in court hand) ffrancis Baskeruile
: i.e. probably the Francis Baskerville who married Margaret Glanvill in 1635 and was in 1640 MP for Marlborough, Wiltshire. Other scribbling including (f. 1r) accounts referring to Wanborough, Wiltshire; (f. 9v) Elizabeth White
; (f. 54v) William Walrond his booke 1663
; (f. 92r) accounts dated 1658; and (f. 94r) John Wallrond
. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Recorded in Baskerville MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, untitled.
Compiled by University or Inns of Court men.
The extracted fols 7, 8 and 54 are now
Inscribed (f. [104v] Thomas White His Book May ye 20 Anno Domine 1691
. Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in his library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.21.
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, untitled.
Compiled by University or Inns of Court men.
The extracted fols 7, 8 and 54 are now
Inscribed (f. [104v] Thomas White His Book May ye 20 Anno Domine 1691
. Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in his library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.21.
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Including 12 poems by Carew.
c.1650s.Inscribed Richard Archard his booke Amen 1650
; Richard Archard his penn Amen 1657
; to Mr Satars[?] towads the Casting of ye lead 1657
; Tho: Wise
; John Smith of halmortaine and I…went to Thornebury
; and Edward Watt
. Bookplate of William Harris Arnold.
Cited in Archard MS
:
Copy, headed
Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.
c.1630s.Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.
Cited in Halliwell MS
:
This MS recorded in Martin.
Copy, headed
Inscribed To my euer honored good Cosen Sr John Reresby Barronett these prsent
: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall.
Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.
Cited in Mexborough MS
:
Copy, untitled.
Including ten poems by Carew (and two of doubtful authorship) and 24 poems by Randolph.
c.1630s.Thomas Thorpe,
Cited in Rosenbach MS I
:
This MS (erroneously cited as MS 239/22
) collated in Patrick.
Second copy, headed
Including ten poems by Carew (and two of doubtful authorship) and 24 poems by Randolph.
c.1630s.Thomas Thorpe,
Cited in Rosenbach MS I
:
This MS (erroneously cited as MS 239/22
) collated in Patrick.
Copy, headed
Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew.
c.1638-42.Inscriptions including Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus
[viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], Thomas Arding
, Thomas Arden
, William Harrington
, Thomas John
, John Anthehope
and Clement Poxall
. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue
Cited in Carey MS
:
This MS collated in Patrick.
Copy, untitled.
Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.
Cited in Morley MS
: Killigrew MS
(
Facsimile of f. 49r in
Copy, headed
In the hands of two amanuenses associated with King: i.e. Scribe A (c.1636), pp. 1-214, that of Thomas Manne's imitator
using two styles (a: pp. 1-62, 64-6, 133-4, 147-215; and b, the earlier: pp. 63, 67-132, 135-45); and Scribe B (c.1641): pp. 217-47, that of the scribe responsible for the Phillipps MS (
The flyleaf inscribed Ex dono Eugenii Stoughton Die Octobrii 23 Anno-1738-Domini
: i.e. owned before 1738 by the Stoughton family, of St John's House, Warwick.
Cited in Stoughton MS
:
Copy, headed
Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship.
c.1630s.Formerly Box 22, item II.
Cited in Osborn MS II
:
First published in Delattre (1912), 519-21. Martin, pp. 417-18. Patrick, pp. 547-8.
Copy, headed in the margin
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
:
Second copy, headed
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
:
Copy, headed
Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to
Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) Anthony St John/ Ann: St John/ 1640 Bletso
: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) Oliver Beeesfor[d]
; and (f. 81v) John Watts
. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.
Cited in St John MS
:
Edited in part from this MS in Patrick. Collated in Martin.
Copy, headed finis Ro: Herrick
.
J. D.) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index). c.1630s.
Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.
Cited in Grey MS
:
Copy, in double columns.
Inscribed four times on a flyleaf Tobias Alston his booke
: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end.
Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.
Cited in Alston MS
:
Facsimile of p. 7 in Sotheby's sale catalogue (hardback), 27 June 1972, lot 309, facing p. 55.
Copy.
The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in Michell MS
:
Edited from this MS in Delattre and in Martin; edited in part from this MS in Patrick.
Copy, headed
Probably compiled by a member of New College, Oxford.
c.1630s.Some tipped-in notes by Richard Rawlinson.
Copy, headed
Inscribed (f. 1v, in a court hand) Daniell Leare his Booke
, witnesse William Strode
, and (f. 164r) Mr Daniell Leare eius Liber
: i.e. compiled chiefly by Daniel Leare, a distant cousin of the poet William Strode, probably at Christ Church, Oxford, before he entered the Middle Temple in 1633.
This suggestion, by Mary Hobbs, is supported by entries in the Caution Book of 1625-41 at Christ Church, where Strode is found (p. 22) paying £10 as college security for Leare and where Leare signs (p. 23) on this sum's repayment by Dr Fell on 13 May 1633. Forey suggests (p. lxxix) that he was the Daniell Leare of St Andrews, Holburne, whose will was proved in 1652; but it is more likely that he was the Daniel Leare to whom Henry King, Dean of Rochester, leased property at Chatham on 19 July 1655 (
The volume includes 12 poems by Donne; 15 poems (plus a second copy of one and three of doubtful authorship) by Carew; 20 poems (plus two of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; and 84 poems (plus second copies of eight poems, four poems of doubtful authorship and some apocryphal poems) by Strode, the texts being closely related to, and in part probably transcribed from, the Corpus MS
of Strode's poems (
Inscribed also John Leare
(probably Daniel's younger brother); (f. 1r) Anthony Euans his booke
(who married Daniel Leare's niece Dorothy Leare in 1663); (f. 1v) Alexander Croke his Book 1773
; and (f. 164v) John Scott
(who matriculated at Christ Church in 1632). Rimell & Son, 9 November 1878.
Cited in Leare MS
:
Discussed in Mary Hobbs,
Edited in part from this MS in Patrick; collated in Martin.
Copy, headed Rog: Hericke
.
Including 22 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 13 poems by King, and 24 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and probably associated with Christ Church, Oxford.
c.1633.Inscribed names including (f. 93v, in court hand) ffrancis Baskeruile
: i.e. probably the Francis Baskerville who married Margaret Glanvill in 1635 and was in 1640 MP for Marlborough, Wiltshire. Other scribbling including (f. 1r) accounts referring to Wanborough, Wiltshire; (f. 9v) Elizabeth White
; (f. 54v) William Walrond his booke 1663
; (f. 92r) accounts dated 1658; and (f. 94r) John Wallrond
. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Recorded in Baskerville MS
:
Edited in part from this MS in Patrick; collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from
Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A
of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison
. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Cited in Killigrew MS
:
This MS collated in Martin.
Copy, headed
Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.
c.1634.The initials T. C.
stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue
Cited in Rosenbach MS II
:
This MS collated in Patrick.
Copy, headed
Compiled by members of the Griffith family, of Llanddyfnan, the verse probably entered by one or more of the various members of that family who studied in this period at the University of Oxford.
Mid-17th century.Cited in Griffith MS
:
Copy, headed
Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship.
c.1630s.Formerly Box 22, item II.
Cited in Osborn MS II
:
First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 446-7. Martin, p. 414. Patrick, p. 552.
Copy, subscribed R. Herrick:
.
Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London.
c.1641-9.Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Cited in Calfe MS
:
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, in Martin, and in Patrick.
Copy, subscribed Ro Herrick
.
Part I, including some Welsh, comprises sixteen leaves, all (but for f. 15r-v) in the cursive hand of William Jordan, schoolmaster of Denbigh or Caernarvon, whose name (Gulielmus Jordan
) is inscribed, the dates 1680-83 occurring.
Part II comprises 60 leaves, ff. 1-50v in a neat italic hand, ff. 51r-60r in several other cursive hands.
c.1674-84.The vellum wrapper on Part II bears notes on a debt by William Jordan in 1674 relating to Evan Thomas
and Mr Richard Wilkinsn in pepper street
. Formerly Folger MS 1669.2.
This MS recorded in Martin.
Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand, untitled.
Compiled principally by Constance Fowler (d.1664), daughter of the diplomat Walter Aston, Baron Aston of Forfar (1584-1639), of Tixall and Colton, Staffordshire, her roman hand responsible for ff. 6r, 8r-15v, 24v-34v, 46v-52v, 136r-9r, 143v-59r, and 182v-95v. The second, predominantly secretary hand, responsible for fourteen poems on ff. 7r-v, 16r-24r, and 35r-46r, is that of Constance's sister Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68). The third hand, on ff. 196r-200v, is that of Constance's brother-in-law Sir William Pershall.
c.1635-50s.William H. Robinson, sale catalogue (1925), item 472.
This volume discussed, with a complete first-line index and a facsimile of f. 25r, in Jenijoy La Belle,
Aldrich-Watson, p. 16. This MS collated in Martin, p. 494. Discussed in Jenijoy La Belle,
Letters
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, subscribed by Robert's older brother Thomas, acknowledging receipt of £15 from Sir William on 1 October 1613, [September 1613].
For other letters from this series, see
Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.
Martin, pp. 445-53. Facsimile examples also in Grosart (frontispiece); in Hazlitt, p. ix; in John Nicols,
Martin, p. 445. Sotheby's (i).
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, from St John's College, Cambridge.
For other letters from this series, see
Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.
Martin, pp. 445-53. Facsimile examples also in Grosart (frontispiece); in Hazlitt, p. ix; in John Nicols,
Martin, pp. 445-6. Sotheby's (ii), with a facsimile in the sale catalogue, p. 16.
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, from St John's College, Cambridge.
For other letters from this series, see
Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.
Martin, pp. 445-53. Facsimile examples also in Grosart (frontispiece); in Hazlitt, p. ix; in John Nicols,
Martin, pp. 446-7. Sotheby's (iii).
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle.
For other letters from this series, see
Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.
Martin, pp. 445-53. Facsimile examples also in Grosart (frontispiece); in Hazlitt, p. ix; in John Nicols,
Martin, p. 447. Sotheby's (iv), with a facsimile of Herrick's signature and subscription by Robert Martine acknowledging receipt from Sir William of £10.
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle [end of 1616 or beginning of 1616/7].
For other letters from this series, see
Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.
Martin, pp. 445-53. Facsimile examples also in Grosart (frontispiece); in Hazlitt, p. ix; in John Nicols,
Martin, pp. 447-8. Sotheby's (v), with facsimiles in the sale catalogue, p. 18 and cover. Facsimiles also in
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, [early 1616/7].
For other letters from this series, see
Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.
Martin, pp. 445-53. Facsimile examples also in Grosart (frontispiece); in Hazlitt, p. ix; in John Nicols,
Martin, p. 448. Sotheby's (vii).
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, [March-April 1617].
For other letters from this series, see
Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.
Martin, pp. 445-53. Facsimile examples also in Grosart (frontispiece); in Hazlitt, p. ix; in John Nicols,
Martin, p. 449. Sotheby's (vii), with a facsimile of Herrick's signature and the subscription by Anthony Uphill acknowledging receipt from Sir William of £10 on 11 April 1617.
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle.
For other letters from this series, see
Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.
Martin, pp. 445-53. Facsimile examples also in Grosart (frontispiece); in Hazlitt, p. ix; in John Nicols,
Martin, p. 449. Sotheby's (viii).
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle.
For other letters from this series, see
Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.
Martin, pp. 445-53. Facsimile examples also in Grosart (frontispiece); in Hazlitt, p. ix; in John Nicols,
Martin, p. 450. Sotheby's (ix), with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue, p. 21.
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle.
For other letters from this series, see
Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.
Martin, pp. 445-53. Facsimile examples also in Grosart (frontispiece); in Hazlitt, p. ix; in John Nicols,
Martin, p. 450. Sotheby's (x).
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, from St John's College, Cambridge.
For other letters from this series, see
Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.
Martin, pp. 445-53. Facsimile examples also in Grosart (frontispiece); in Hazlitt, p. ix; in John Nicols,
Martin, 451. Sotheby's (xi).
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, 11 October [no year].
For other letters from this series, see
Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.
Martin, pp. 445-53. Facsimile examples also in Grosart (frontispiece); in Hazlitt, p. ix; in John Nicols,
Martin, p. 451. Sotheby's (xii), with a facsimile in the sale catalogue, p. 22. Facsimile also in
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle.
For other letters from this series, see
Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.
Martin, pp. 445-53. Facsimile examples also in Grosart (frontispiece); in Hazlitt, p. ix; in John Nicols,
Martin, p. 452. Sotheby's (xiii).
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, from Trinity hall, Cambridge, [c.1616].
For other letters from this series, see
Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.
Martin, pp. 445-53. Facsimile examples also in Grosart (frontispiece); in Hazlitt, p. ix; in John Nicols,
Martin, pp. 452-3. Sotheby's (xiv), with a facsimile of Herrick's signed subscription in the sale catalogue, p. 23.
Given by a proprietor of Beaumanor early in the 19th century to Lady Sitwell of Rempstone, Derbyshire, and afterwards owned by her grandson, Canon Egerton Leigh. Later in the collection of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American business man and collector. Christie's 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 256, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue, Plate 37.
Martin, p. 452 (No. XIIA), and Moorman, pp. 37-8. A facsimile is also in
Alleged by Nichols to be from the collection of Miss Anne Nichols.
A facsimile in John Gough Nichols,
Documents
The sixteen-year-old poet's indenture of apprenticeship to his uncle, on vellum, bearing the poet's earliest known signature (Robert Hericke
), 25 September 1607.
Including papers signed by his father, Nicholas (d.1592), and his uncle and guardian, Sir William Herrick (1562-1653).
Edited in F.W. Moorman,
Robert Hearick) and the account then cancelled by his uncle with two pen strokes, 19 March 1612/13. 1613.
Among papers of the Herrick family.
Facsimile in Hofmann & Freeman's sale catalogue No. 25 (1968), item 27.
A statement in Latin, in a professional secretary hand, signed by Herrick (Robert Hearicke
), acknowledging receipt of money from his uncle, 19 March 1612/13.
Formerly Corporation of London Records Office, Journal 29.
A negative microfiche of this document also in London Metropolitan Archives, COL/AC/19/188. Discussed in Mark Eccles,
A statement in Latin, in a professional secretary hand, signed by Herrick (Robert Hearick
), acknowledging receipt of money from his uncle, 19 March 1612/13; together with similar or related statements signed by his brothers Thomas Heyrick
, Nicholas Hericke
, and William Hericke
, and by his sister Mercie Hericke
, 19 March 1612/13.
Formerly Corporation of London Records Office, Letter Book AB.
A negative microfiche of this document is also in London Metropolitan Archives, COL/AC/19/187. Discussed in Mark Eccles,
Herrick's autograph signature (as Robertus Heareck
or Hearick
, the dot on the i perhaps being accidentally extended) under the heading Aula Trinitatis
for 1616.
Herrick's autograph signature (as Robert Hearick
) under the heading Aula Trinitatis
, also in his hand, for 1620.
Herrick's signature (Robert Hearick
). The signature appears under a similar heading to the poet's previous entry (which in this instance is in Herrick's hand). [1620].
Deane(viz. Dean Prior) in Devon, entirely in professional hand, undated but with a modern pencil inscription
15 Mar 1628/9and
Sept 1630?. 1629-30.
Edited in Delattre, pp. 514-15, and in Martin, p. xiv. Erroneously described as autograph in Moorman, p. 88.
The last ten lines of this page written in a hand similar to Herrick's.
Containing entries over these years by a large number of different parish clerks and, possibly, rectors, seven pages recording baptisms, burials and marriages between 25 March 1630 and September 1636 bearing some resemblance to Herrick's hand.
1630-6.A few extracts edited in Delattre, pp. 516-17. A complete microfilm is in the Devon Record Office at Exeter.
This whole page, some 51 lines, written in a hand similar to Herrick's.
Containing entries over these years by a large number of different parish clerks and, possibly, rectors, seven pages recording baptisms, burials and marriages between 25 March 1630 and September 1636 bearing some resemblance to Herrick's hand.
1630-6.A few extracts edited in Delattre, pp. 516-17. A complete microfilm is in the Devon Record Office at Exeter.
The first 29 lines written in a hand similar to Herrick's.
Containing entries over these years by a large number of different parish clerks and, possibly, rectors, seven pages recording baptisms, burials and marriages between 25 March 1630 and September 1636 bearing some resemblance to Herrick's hand.
1630-6.A few extracts edited in Delattre, pp. 516-17. A complete microfilm is in the Devon Record Office at Exeter.
The last seventeen lines and a name inserted in line 29 written in a hand similar to Herrick's.
Containing entries over these years by a large number of different parish clerks and, possibly, rectors, seven pages recording baptisms, burials and marriages between 25 March 1630 and September 1636 bearing some resemblance to Herrick's hand.
1630-6.A few extracts edited in Delattre, pp. 516-17. A complete microfilm is in the Devon Record Office at Exeter.
The whole page but for the last four lines, some 42 lines in all, written in a hand similar to Herrick's.
Containing entries over these years by a large number of different parish clerks and, possibly, rectors, seven pages recording baptisms, burials and marriages between 25 March 1630 and September 1636 bearing some resemblance to Herrick's hand.
1630-6.A few extracts edited in Delattre, pp. 516-17. A complete microfilm is in the Devon Record Office at Exeter.
Line 22 onwards, some 26 lines, written in a hand similar to Herrick's.
Containing entries over these years by a large number of different parish clerks and, possibly, rectors, seven pages recording baptisms, burials and marriages between 25 March 1630 and September 1636 bearing some resemblance to Herrick's hand.
1630-6.A few extracts edited in Delattre, pp. 516-17. A complete microfilm is in the Devon Record Office at Exeter.
The first two lines written in a hand similar to Herrick's.
Containing entries over these years by a large number of different parish clerks and, possibly, rectors, seven pages recording baptisms, burials and marriages between 25 March 1630 and September 1636 bearing some resemblance to Herrick's hand.
1630-6.A few extracts edited in Delattre, pp. 516-17. A complete microfilm is in the Devon Record Office at Exeter.
Robert Herrick), 23 June 1660.
In a guardbook of petitions to Parliament.
1660.Formerly House of Lords Record Office, Main Papers, H.L., 23 June 1660.
Edited in Delattre, pp. 515-16 and in Martin, pp. xvi-xvii.
Robertus Herrick) appearing as the first of six in support of the testament, 12 October 1661. 1661.
The signature of Robert Herrick Rector of Deane Prior
on a leaf in the middle of twenty-five signatures by clerics and academics (eighth in the right-hand column), 31 August 1662.
Robert Herrick Minister), on a leaf in the Bishop's Transcripts for 1613-1811 relating to Dean Prior, the leaf, probably written shortly after 20 April 1663, containing
The names of those which haue beene buried since the first day of Aprill one thousand sixhundred sixtie and Two, counter-signed by Herrick's churchwardens Thomas Mudge and Samuel Hore. 1663.
Miscellaneous Extracts from Herrick's Poems
This is the longest known extant version of the unpublished anthology
Formerly MS 469.2.
This MS identified in master draft
, with a facsimile of p. 7 on p. 381, in Hao Tianhu, Catalogue A
on pp. 385-94).
Extract, a couplet by Rob Herrick
.
Owned by Henry Bracegirdle, of Merton College, Oxford, and in 1674 by one Hugh Massey.