Jasper Mayne
Verse
Copy, here ascribed to Henry King.
Indexes, in contemporary vellum.
Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College.
c.1634-43. A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his brother Ed: Weston
, 3 May 1714. The name John Saunders
inscribed on the final leaf.
Copy, here ascribed to Jasper Mayne.
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
:
Copy, subscribed Jasper Maine
.
Compiled by an Oxford University man.
End of 17th century.Sold by J.W. Jarvis & Sons, 5 December 1888.
Copy, subscribed Jasper Maine
.
Compiled by an Oxford University man.
End of 17th century.Sold by J.W. Jarvis & Sons, 5 December 1888.
First published in John Donne,
Copy, subscribed in another hand Jasper Mayne
.
Indexes, in contemporary vellum.
Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College.
c.1634-43. A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his brother Ed: Weston
, 3 May 1714. The name John Saunders
inscribed on the final leaf.
Copy of lines 71-2, written lengthways down the outer margin, untitled, here beginning
Compiled by Sir Samuel Tuke, first Baronet (c.1615-74), royalist army officer and playwright, cousin and friend of John Evelyn.
c.1656.Volume CCLVI of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford, as Evelyn MS 254. Purchased March 1995.
Recorded (as the Tuke MS
) in Peter Beal,
Copy.
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
:
Copy, headed Jasper Mayne
.
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).
Adapted extracts.
Entirely in the hand of Robert Overton (1608/9-1678/9), parliamentarian army officer, whose signature appears on a flyleaf. Prepared as a memorial and tribute to his wife, Ann Gardiner (d.1665), and written when in prison, either on Jersey or in the Tower of London.
c.1671/2.Inscribed inside the front cover Saml Atkins Wykeham
and inside the rear cover 17 Feby 1879. Purchased this Book of Prescot Bookseller. Upper Arcade. Bristol...Edwd G. Doggett
.
This volume discussed extensively, with facsimile examples (of pp. 85-6, 151-2, 162, 166, 190-2), in David Norbrook, This blushinge tribute of a borrowed muse
: Robert Overton and his Overturning of the Poetic Canon
Unpublished?
Copy.
Owned before 1959 by the Lingard-Guthrie family.
Copy, ascribed to Jasper Mayne.
Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode.
c.1630s-40s.Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.
Cited in English Poetry MS
:
Copy, headed
Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) Anno D
and The 30th of May. 1638
.
Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.
Cited in Codrington MS
:
Copy, headed J: M:
.
Inscribed (f. ir) by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), the date 1741
added.
Copy, headed
Compiled in part by Brian Fairfax (1633-1711), scholar and courtier.
Mid-late 17th century.Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 117. Item 667 in an unidentified sale catalogue.
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
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,
Copy, headed Jasper Mayne
.
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
:
Copy, headed J M
.
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.
Copy, headed Jasper Maine
.
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, in Fulman's hand, headed
Compiled and largely written by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.
Mid-17th century.Copy, headed
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
:
Mine eyes...
Copy, headed J.M.
Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan
: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington.
Also inscribed Mary Helerd
. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2.
Copy, headed Jasp: Maine
.
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
:
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
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
:
Copy, headed Jasper Maine
.
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.
Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship.
c.1630s.Formerly Box 22, item II.
Cited in Osborn MS II
:
Copy.
Compiled by an Oxford University man.
End of 17th century.Sold by J.W. Jarvis & Sons, 5 December 1888.
Copy, subscrubed J Mayn
.
Bookplate of Arthur Ashpitel, FSA, and bequeathed by him 1869.
Copy, in a neat italic hand, subscribed Jasper Mayne
.
Compiled by, and partly in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.
c.1639.Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.
Copy.
Compiled, over a period, principally by Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), Chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford, and Henry King's amanuensis, including (ff. 7r-61r) 24 poems by King in Manne's formal hand, written c.1625-30s; ff. 61v-72v, 73r-99v, 100r-101v written in a variant style of Manne's hand, c.1630s; and (ff. 72v, 99v, 102r-14v, 190v-169r rev.) additions in six other hands, c.1630s-44, with (ff. 75r, 76r, and 76v) three poems to which the subscription R. Dorset
is added in the hand of King himself.
Inscribed (f. 190v rev.) Ann Littleton
. Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue, [June 1848], p. 31. Sotheby's, 4 Februry 1850 (Rodd sale), lot 500, to James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Afterward owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 June 1873 (Corser sale), lot 325, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Later owned by the bookdealer Philip Robinson. Sotheby's, 26 June 1974, lot 3013, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.
Cited in Thomas Manne MS
:
Dramatic Works
Extracts.
Entirely in the hand of the Rev. Abraham Wright (1611-90), of St John's College, Oxford, author.
c.1640.Inscribed (f. 1r) Ja: Wright
(Abraham's son) and later of Taylor, Brighton
. Bookplate of William Bromley, of Baginton, Warwickshire, 1703. Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 220.
For facsimile examples, see
Documents
Mayne's signature.
Mayne's signatures.
Mayne's signature.
Mayne's signature.
Mayne's signature(s).
Mayne's signatures.
Mayne's signatures.
Extracts from Works by Mayne
Extracts.
Inscribed inside the front cover F. C. Wellstood / Oxford
. Inscribed (f. 35r) W. C. 1789
.