William Shakespeare

Copy of part of lines 41-2, here beginning Of monarkes hands y^t letts not bounty fall, partly erased.

With a lengthy note by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

Extracts, in a mixed hand, comprising lines 365-71, 386-99, 419-20, untitled, here beginning Into y^e chamber wickedly he stalkes.

Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms, antiquary, his brother Oliver, and (in 1714) by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.

Later owned by Sir John Fenn (1739-94), antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 16-18 July 1866 (Fenn sale), lots 420-22.

Quotation from The Rape of Lucrece (line 1330: For sorrow ebbs being blown with wind of words).

Including, besides quotations from poems, references to other works by Spenser and Samuel Daniel.

Formerly preserved at Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire, seat of the Lee family, Viscounts Dillon.

This MS discussed in Stanley Wells, By the placing of his words, TLS, 26 September 2003, pp. 14-15.

Copy of lines 386-95, headed An imperfect coppy of Wil: Shackespeares, here beginning One of her hands one of her Cheeks lay vnder and followed by three other lines.

Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. In the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936.

This version appears in Sir John Suckling, Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646), pp. 29-30.

Copy of lines 869-82 and 897-924, in a cursive mixed hand, here beginning Vnruly blastes waite on the tender Springe, subscribed Finis q^d m^r Shakespeare.

Owned and possibly compiled by Richard Waferer, of Buckinghamshire (name on ff. 43r and 76v).

Also inscribed (f. ii) with names of Marth: Waferer and Walter Jesson.

This MS discussed in relation to a version of the poem printed in W.B., The Philosophers Banquet, 3rd edition (London, 1633) in Roland Mushat Frye, Shakespeare's Composition of Lucrece: New Evidence, SQ, 16 (1965), 289-96 (pp. 295-6); but a different view expressed in Hilton Kelliher's review in The Library.

Copy of lines 958-9, headed On time and here beginning It cheares y^e plowman w^th increasefull Crops.

Owned and probably compiled by John Abbott (b.1653/4), of St John's College, Oxford.

Copy of line 1086 and part of line 1087, here given as reuealing day through eyery Crany peepes and see; written among other scribbling on an initial leaf.

A complete facsimile of the volume, with transcriptions, in Burgoyne, Alnwick MS (1904).

Facsimile of this page also in William Shakespeare: A Documentary Volume, ed. Catherine Loomis, DLB, 263 (Detroit, 2002), p. 68.

Three pages of miscellaneous quotations from the Sonnets (including items ShW 7, ShW 22, ShW 23, and ShW 27), headed Shakespeare.

16°, 87 leaves (plus two paste-downs); miscellany, including portions of some 42 identifiable English poems by Crashaw, many of the lines here re-arranged in a garbled fashion; compiled by a Cambridge man, possibly a member of Christ's College; probably in a single hand throughout, with variations of style, written from both ends, about thirty pages in shorthand.

Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90) of Walton Hall, near Wakefield, botanist and book collector. Sotheby's 23 April 1891 (Hailstone sale), probably lot 439, to Dobell). Bertram Dobell's sale catalogue No. 103 (June 1902), item 373. Formerly Folger MS 267.1.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Hailstone MS: CrR Δ 6. Crashaw's work selectively collated (cited as Dobell) in Martin and discussed p. lxxxi. Facsimile of f. 22 in Dobell catalogue. The MS discussed by Dobell, in other connections, in Some Unpublished Epigrams by Thomas Fuller, The Athenaeum (27 April 1901), p. 532, and in An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet, The Athenaeum (2 August 1913), p. 112. Compare CrR Δ 8.

This MS analysed in Tucker Brooke, pp. 68-9. Facsimile of f. 22 in Bertram Dobell sale catalogue, June 1902.

Copy of a composite version made up of lines 5-14 of Sonnet 1, here beginning Thou Contracted to thine owne bright eys, together with lines 1-4 of Sonnet 2 and line 5 of Sonnet 54, headed Cruel.

16°, 87 leaves (plus two paste-downs); miscellany, including portions of some 42 identifiable English poems by Crashaw, many of the lines here re-arranged in a garbled fashion; compiled by a Cambridge man, possibly a member of Christ's College; probably in a single hand throughout, with variations of style, written from both ends, about thirty pages in shorthand.

Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90) of Walton Hall, near Wakefield, botanist and book collector. Sotheby's 23 April 1891 (Hailstone sale), probably lot 439, to Dobell). Bertram Dobell's sale catalogue No. 103 (June 1902), item 373. Formerly Folger MS 267.1.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Hailstone MS: CrR Δ 6. Crashaw's work selectively collated (cited as Dobell) in Martin and discussed p. lxxxi. Facsimile of f. 22 in Dobell catalogue. The MS discussed by Dobell, in other connections, in Some Unpublished Epigrams by Thomas Fuller, The Athenaeum (27 April 1901), p. 532, and in An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet, The Athenaeum (2 August 1913), p. 112. Compare CrR Δ 8.

Printed from this MS in Alden, p. 23; recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 66. Facsimile in Dobell sale catalogue, June 1902.

Copy, headed Spes Altera and here beginning When threescore winters shall besiege thy brow.

The table of contents (f. 155v) subscribed Margrett Bellasys, possibly the daughter of Thomas Belasyse (1577-1652), first Viscount Fauconberg of Henknowle. The front endpaper later inscribed The pieces which I have extracted for The Specimens are, Page 91, 211, 265: i.e. possibly by Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), editor of Specimens of the British Poets first published in 1809. Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Evans (Sotheby's), 29 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part VIII), lot 13.

Copy, headed Spes Altera, transcribed from ShW 10.

Transcribed from British Library Add. MS 25303 and perhaps associated likewise with the Inns of Court. Including 23 poems by Carew and three of doubtful authorship.

Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 13 May 1856 (Pickering sale), lot 258.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Pickering MS: CwT Δ 11.

This MS recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 66.

Copy, headed Spes altera.

Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship.

This MS largely transcribed in British Library, Add. MS 21433. The hand occurs also in British Library, Harley MS 3910, between ff. 112v and 120v, and is possibly associated with the Inns of Court.

Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) M^r John Bowyer; (f. 2r) Jeronomus ffox; and (f. 3r) William Ralph Baesh.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Colchester MS: CwT Δ 13.

This MS recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 66.

Copy, headed To one that would dy a maide and here beginning When to winters shall beseidge thy brow.

Inscribed (f. 1v, in a court hand) Daniell Leare his Booke, witnesse William Strode, and (f. 164r) M^r 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 (National Archives, Kew, SP 18/99/61). Daniel Leare's wife, Dorothy, was a member of the Hubert family with whom King was associated by virtue of the marriage of his sister Dorothy.

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 (StW Δ 1).

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 IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Leare MS: DnJ Δ 41, CwT Δ 15, CoR Δ 4, and StW Δ 10.

Discussed in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973), pp. 185-90; in her Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 189-90); and in her Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), passim, with facsimile examples of ff. 79-80 facing p. 87.

This MS recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 66.

Copy, headed To one that would die a Mayd.

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 Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

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 IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

Printed from this MS in C. C. Stopes, An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet, The Athenaeum (26 July 1913), p. 89, and in Alden, pp. 21-2; recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 66.

Copy, headed To one that would dye a Mayd.

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.

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 IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Dobell MS: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

Printed from this MS in Bertram Dobell, An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet, The Athenaeum (2 August 1913), p. 112, and in Alden, p. 22; recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67 (e).

Copy, headed Spes Altera A song.

Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett.

Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. Discussed in Arthur F. Marotti, Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources, SP 113 (2016), 850-78. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

This MS recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67. Edited and discussed in Mary Hobbs, Shakespeare's Sonnet II: A Sugred Sonnet?, N&Q, 224 (1979), 112-13.

Copy, headed Spes altera.

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 W. S. / A Lover to his Mistres.

Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the Thomas Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 48).

Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).

Edited from this MS in Harvey Wood, p. 180.

Copy, headed The Benefitt of Mariage and here beginning When forty yeares shall beseig thy browe.

Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew.

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 English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 194.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Carey MS: CwT Δ 34. Briefly discussed in Gary Taylor, Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 68 (1985), 210-46 (pp. 220-4). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 188, 191-2).

Copy, untitled, subscribed W. Shakspere.

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 IELM, II.i (1987), as the Nutting MS: CwT Δ 35. The list of poems, probably relating to another MS, is edited, with facsimiles, in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 198-9, 217-19).

This MS collated in H.T. Price, An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet, The Athenaeum (6 September 1913), p. 230, and edited in Alden, p. 22. Recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67.

Copy, headed To one y^t would dye a Mayd.

Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Morley MS: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the Killigrew MS (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).

Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.

Copy, headed To one that would die a maide.

Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship.

Formerly Box 22, item II.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Osborn MS II: StW Δ 30.

Facsimile of f. 54v in Laurence Witten, Contemporary Collectors XXIII: James Marshall Osborn, The Book Collector, 8 (Winter 1959), 383-96 (after p. 392).

Copy, headed In laudem Musice et opprobrium Contemptorij eiusdem, subscribed W: Shakespeare.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 190, to Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller.

Printed from this MS in Alden, pp. 33-4, and in The Shakespeare Allusion-Book (London, 1932), I, 211; recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67.

Copy, headed A sonnet.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Stephen Wellden and Abraham Bassano and (f. 98r) Elizabeth Weldon. Later owned by William John Thoms (1803-85), writer, antiquary and librarian. Sotheby's, 11 February 1887 (Thoms sale), lot 1092. Also owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.4.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Welden MS: DnJ Δ 49.

This MS collated in Tucker Brooke, p. 67.

16°, 87 leaves (plus two paste-downs); miscellany, including portions of some 42 identifiable English poems by Crashaw, many of the lines here re-arranged in a garbled fashion; compiled by a Cambridge man, possibly a member of Christ's College; probably in a single hand throughout, with variations of style, written from both ends, about thirty pages in shorthand.

Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90) of Walton Hall, near Wakefield, botanist and book collector. Sotheby's 23 April 1891 (Hailstone sale), probably lot 439, to Dobell). Bertram Dobell's sale catalogue No. 103 (June 1902), item 373. Formerly Folger MS 267.1.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Hailstone MS: CrR Δ 6. Crashaw's work selectively collated (cited as Dobell) in Martin and discussed p. lxxxi. Facsimile of f. 22 in Dobell catalogue. The MS discussed by Dobell, in other connections, in Some Unpublished Epigrams by Thomas Fuller, The Athenaeum (27 April 1901), p. 532, and in An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet, The Athenaeum (2 August 1913), p. 112. Compare CrR Δ 8.

This MS recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67.

Copy, untitled, here beginning Thus is thy cheeke the map of Days outworn.

16°, 87 leaves (plus two paste-downs); miscellany, including portions of some 42 identifiable English poems by Crashaw, many of the lines here re-arranged in a garbled fashion; compiled by a Cambridge man, possibly a member of Christ's College; probably in a single hand throughout, with variations of style, written from both ends, about thirty pages in shorthand.

Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90) of Walton Hall, near Wakefield, botanist and book collector. Sotheby's 23 April 1891 (Hailstone sale), probably lot 439, to Dobell). Bertram Dobell's sale catalogue No. 103 (June 1902), item 373. Formerly Folger MS 267.1.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Hailstone MS: CrR Δ 6. Crashaw's work selectively collated (cited as Dobell) in Martin and discussed p. lxxxi. Facsimile of f. 22 in Dobell catalogue. The MS discussed by Dobell, in other connections, in Some Unpublished Epigrams by Thomas Fuller, The Athenaeum (27 April 1901), p. 532, and in An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet, The Athenaeum (2 August 1913), p. 112. Compare CrR Δ 8.

This MS recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67.

Copy, headed A Sonnet.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Stephen Wellden and Abraham Bassano and (f. 98r) Elizabeth Weldon. Later owned by William John Thoms (1803-85), writer, antiquary and librarian. Sotheby's, 11 February 1887 (Thoms sale), lot 1092. Also owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.4.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Welden MS: DnJ Δ 49.

This MS recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67 (as his sonnet 75).

Copy, headed On his Mistris Beauty and here beginning When in the Annalls of all wastinge Time.

Possibly compiled by one W: H:: i.e. probably William Holgate (1618-46), of Queens' College, Cambridge, with late 17th-century additions apparently made by other members of the Holgate family, of Saffron Walden and Great Bardfield, Essex.

Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Holgate MS: DnJ Δ 58 and StW Δ 22. Briefly discussed in W.G.P., Verses by Francis Beaumont, TLS (15 September 1921), p. 596, and in E.K. Chambers, William Shakespeare, 2 vols (Oxford, 1930), II, 222-4. Also discussed, with facsimiles on pp. 68 and 70 of pp. 181 and 13, in Michael Roy Denbo, Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73. For facsimile pages see DnJ 2931 and ShW 25. Complete microfilm in the Essex Record Office (T/A 98).

Edited from this MS in Rollins, p. 260. Facsimiles in Autograph Letters & Manuscripts: Major Acquisitions of the Pierpont Morgan Library 1924-1974 (New York, 1974), Plate 12, and in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 33.

Copy, headed On his M^ris Beauty and here beginning When in the Annales of all-wasting time, with 18 additional lines.

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, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Bishop MS: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].

This MS recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67.

Copy, headed A Monument.

16°, 87 leaves (plus two paste-downs); miscellany, including portions of some 42 identifiable English poems by Crashaw, many of the lines here re-arranged in a garbled fashion; compiled by a Cambridge man, possibly a member of Christ's College; probably in a single hand throughout, with variations of style, written from both ends, about thirty pages in shorthand.

Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90) of Walton Hall, near Wakefield, botanist and book collector. Sotheby's 23 April 1891 (Hailstone sale), probably lot 439, to Dobell). Bertram Dobell's sale catalogue No. 103 (June 1902), item 373. Formerly Folger MS 267.1.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Hailstone MS: CrR Δ 6. Crashaw's work selectively collated (cited as Dobell) in Martin and discussed p. lxxxi. Facsimile of f. 22 in Dobell catalogue. The MS discussed by Dobell, in other connections, in Some Unpublished Epigrams by Thomas Fuller, The Athenaeum (27 April 1901), p. 532, and in An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet, The Athenaeum (2 August 1913), p. 112. Compare CrR Δ 8.

This MS collated in Alden, p. 252, and in Tucker Brooke, p. 67. Facsimile in Dobell sale catalogue, June 1902.

Copy, here beginning Selfe blinding error seazeth all those mindes, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

Owned (in 1659) and partly compiled by the composer John Gamble (d.1687), with some misnumbering.

Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.

A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 10 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in Charles W. Hughes, John Gamble's Commonplace Book, M&L, 26 (1945), 215-29.

Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in Willa McClung Evans, Lawes' Version of Shakespeare's Sonnet CXVI, PMLA, 51.i (1936), 120-2, and in Evans, Henry Lawes (New York & London, 1941), pp. 43-4. Facsimile in John H. Long, Shakespeare's Use of Music (Gainesville, Florida, 1961), p. 146.

Copy, in a non-professional hand, among other verses on both sides of a leaf, untitled and here beginning how oft when thow, deere deerist musick plaiest.

Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729). Some pages in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.

This MS edited and discussed in R.H.A. Robbins, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Shakespeare's Sonnet 128, N&Q, 212 (April 1967), 137-8. Facsimile in Bruce R. Smith, Shakespeare's Sonnets and the History of Sexuality: A Reception History, in A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Vol. IV, ed. Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard (Oxford, 2003), pp. 4-26 (p. 8).

Copy, untitled.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Joseph Hall (not the bishop). Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who has entered in pseudo-17th-century secretary script copies of various ballads on ff. 39r-41r, 107v-79r, 181r-v, 227r-8v, 243r-6r, as well as adding foliation (1-284) before the more recent foliation (1-291, used below). Quaritch's sale catalogue of English Literature (August-November 1884), item 22350, Collier's transcript of the MS made c.1860 being item 22352. Formerly Folger MS 2071.7.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Giles E. Dawson, John Payne Collier's Great Forgery, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26.

This MS recorded in Rollins, p. 354.

Copy of lines 17-18 (beginning Here come and sit, where never serpent hisses) in a four-line version headed Kessing: a song and beginning Come sweet sit heere where neuer serpent hisses.

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, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Bishop MS: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].

Copy of lines 799-804.

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.

On the verso of a quarto draft legal document relating to a payment by George Sloman of Hawkhurst, Kent, to Katherine Watts of Ticehurst, Sussex.

Sotheby's, 12 July 2005, lot 76, to Christopher Edwards.

This MS discussed by Stanley Wells in a letter to TLS, 19 November 2004, p. 17. Facsimile of the MS in Sotheby's sale catalogue, p. 60. Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 8820.

Copy of lines 131-2, here beginning Fayer flowers that are not gathered in there prime, inscribed in the MS.

Edited from this MS in The Shakespeare Allusion-Book (London, 1932), I, 216.

Copy of lines 229-40, here beginning fondlyng quoth she sinc I haue hemd the heere, in the cursive italic hand of Henry Colling.

Owned and inscribed, with the date 2 December 1596, by Henry Colling (1565-1628), of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, who matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge, and was connected by marriage to the Hervey family of Ickworth. Other contemporary names relating to Bury inscribed (ff. 63v-4r) including William Penninge, George Dove, Henry Couelle, and Frances Frodge.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Hilton Kelliher, Unrecorded Extracts from Shakespeare, Sidney and Dyer, EMS, 2 (1990), 163-87.

Edited from this MS in Kelliher, p. 169, with a facsimile as Plate 1, p. 168.

Copy of the incipit only of lines 517-22, here A 1000 kisses winne my heart from mee, in a musical setting.

Compiled by one R: Cr. (Robert Creighton).

This MS discussed, with a facsimile, in David Greer, An Early Setting of Lines from Venus and Adonis, M&L, 45, No. 2 (April 1964), 126-9.

Copy of lines 517-22 (words only), untitled and here beginning A thousand kisses wynns my hearte from mee.

Inscribed (f. 3v), evidently by the compiler, Giles Earle his booke 1615 (with other notes dated 1610) and (f. 1v) Egidius Earle hunc librum possidet qui compactus fuit mense Septembris. 1626., f. 81r subscribed Anno Dni: 1623 / Mense Augusti: Finis.

Acquired from Joseph Lilly, bookseller, 17 May 1862.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).

Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, Venus and Adonis in an Early Seventeenth-Century Song-Book, N&Q, 208 (August 1963), 302-3, and see also David Greer, An Early Setting of Lines from Venus and Adonis, M&L, 45, No. 2 (April 1964), 126-9.

Copy of lines 529-34, headed Good Night to you and here beginning Now y^e Worlds comforter w^th weary gate.

Later in the libraries (with bookplates) of the book collector Richard Heber (1774-1833); of the bibliographer and antiquary Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833); of the biographer and literary editor Alexander Chalmers (1759-1834); and of the antiquary Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough (his sale by Charles Sharpe in Dublin, 1 November 1842, lot 577).

Copy of lines 529-34, headed Another [i.e. on Night] and here beginning Now the worlds comforter with weary gate.

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.

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 English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS II: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).

These lines published as a separate poem in Englands Parnassus (London, 1600).

Copy of lines 529-34, headed Goodnight to you and here beginning Now the worlds Comforter w^t weary gate.

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, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Bishop MS: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].

Copy of lines 17-18 (beginning Here, come and sit where never serpent hisses), 125-32, 161-8, 209-10, 215-16, 407-8, 229-40, 575-6, 755-6, 767-8, 809-10, 799-804, 833-4, 1007-8.

Inscribed (ff. 1r, 2r) Samuell Watts.

Among the papers of the Sanford family. Formerly DD/SF 3970.

Later in the libraries of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector, and James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

This item (first discovered by Halliwell-Phillipps) described, with facsimiles, in Edwin Eliott Willoughby, The Printing of the First Folio of Shakespeare (Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1932), and in Charlton Hinman, The Printing and Proof-Reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare, 2 vols (Oxford, 1963), I, 317-19 and facing p. 234.

Facsimiles also in S. Schoenbaum, Shakespeare The Globe & the World (Washington, DC, & London, 1979), p. 179, and in DLB, vol. 62, Elizabethan Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 330.

Extracts.

Copy, untitled, derived from the Second Folio (London, 1632).

This MS described in G. Blakemore Evans, The Douai Manuscript - Six Shakespearean Transcripts (1694-95), PQ, 41.1 (1962), 158-72.

Comments on the play.

Discussed, with extracts, in G. Blakemore Evans, A Seventeenth-Century Reader of Shakespeare, RES, 21 (1945), 271-9.

Quoted in Blakemore Evans, pp. 275-6.

Copy of the Pages' song, in a musical setting by Thomas Morley, untitled.

Inscribed (f. 31r) MAY 1639 and Williane Stirling. A long note (f. ii^r) in the hand of John Leyden (1775-1811), linguist and poet, dated 5 March 1800, recording his purchase of the MS in 1788 from the library of the Rev. Mr Cranstow, minister of Ancrum; his lending it to Alexander Campbell in 1795 and retrieving it in December 1799; and his now consigning it to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector.

A complete facsimile of this volume is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 11 (New York & London, 1987).

This setting first published in Thomas Morley, First Book of Ayres (London, 1600). Edited from this MS in Nelly Diem, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Schottischen Musik im XVII Jahrhundert (Zürich & Leipzig, 1919), p. 97. Discussed in Edmund H. Fellowes, It was a Lover and his Lass: Some Fresh Points of Criticism, MLR, 41 (1946), 202-6, and in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 496-7.

Copy, with stage directions in another hand, derived from the Second Folio (London, 1632).

This MS described in G. Blakemore Evans, The Douai Manuscript - Six Shakespearean Transcripts (1694-95), PQ, 41.1 (1962), 158-72.

Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. III (Charlottesville, VA, 1964).

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VIII (Charlottesville, VA, 1996).

Brief quotations, including Aegeon's lines beginning Yet this my comfort: when your words are done (I, i, 27-8).

Extracts.

Copy.

Loosely inserted bookplate of David Garrick (1717-79), actor. Sotheby's, 8 December 1983, lot 48 (unsold).

The verso of the leaf inscribed Elizabeth Rockett and Richard.

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting possibly by Robert Johnson.

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.

Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Probert MS: CwT Δ 4, HeR Δ 1. Discussed and analysed in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211. Also briefly discussed in George Thewlis, Some Notes on a Bodleian Manuscript, M&L, 22 (1941) 32-5, and in Willa McClung Evans, Shakespeare's Harke Harke ye Larke, PMLA, 60 (1945), 95-101 (with a facsimile of f. 78r). A facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 6 (New York & London, 1987).

Printed from this MS, with a facsimile, in Willa McClung Evans, Shakespeare's Harke harke ye larke, PMLA, 60. i (1945), 95-101; also discussed in George A. Thewlis, Some Notes on a Bodleian Manuscript, M&L, 22 (1941), 32-5, and printed in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 6.

Copy, transcribed from the Folio of 1664.

Extracts Out of y^e Tragedie of Hamlet y^e Prince of Denmark. by Will: Shakespeare, with comments on the play.

Entirely in the hand of the Rev. Abraham Wright (1611-90), of St John's College, Oxford, author.

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 ShW 71 and ShW 44.

These extracts and comments printed in James G. McManaway, Excerpta quaedam per A. W. adolescentem, Studies in Shakespeare, Bibliography and Theater (New York, 1969), 279-91 (pp. 286-9), and in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (pp. 257-8).

Facsimiles of f. 85r-v in Parnassus Biceps or Severall Choice Pieces of Poetry by Abraham Wright 1656, ed. Peter Beal (Scolar Press, 1990), pp. 190-3.

The text of Hamlet marked up for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.

Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. IV (Charlottesville, VA, 1966).

Sotheby's, 21 July 1983, lot 28, to Sall.

Facsimile of p. 265 in Sotheby's sale catalogue. Facsimile of both pages in the British Library, RP 2601.

Copy of the gravedigger's song, in Act V, scene i, here beginning In Youth when I did love, docketed Among Surreys sonnets fol. 72.

Copy of Hamlet's To be or not to be speech, headed Futurity.

Inscribed (p. 211) I ended this book Nov^r. 13^th 1723.

Copy of Hamlet's soliloquy To be or not to be, headed Out of Hamlet / Shakespear's.

Inscribed (f. 36r) M Lowthers Jun:, by a member of the Lowther family, Baronets and later Earls of Lonsdale.

Extract, headed The Scene in Hamlet Prince of Denmak. The Ghost & Hamlet, subscribed Andover 4^th. 9^th m^o. 1730.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Benj: Coles At Great Forster's. near Egham. In Surrey. owns this book MDCCXXXII and the miscellany evidently compiled by Coles. A similar inscription on f. 31r rev. dated 3^d. Jan^y 1740/1.

Inscribed (f. ii^v) purchased by R Brown, for a valuable consideration of Benjamin Coles Anno 1754. August 8^th. Later owned by James Langlands and, in 1965, by Mrs V.J. Dawson, of Southan, Gloucestershire.

Copy of Hamlet's To be or not to be speech, headed Futurity, subscribed Shak. Ham^t.

Inscribed (f. 3r) Ex Libris Hugonis Wormington S². C. D. Anno Dom 1715, and (f. 1r) Presented by The Marchioness De Crequy To Randle Jackson. With Jackson's bookplate.

Extracts, on both sides of one of four leaves now detached.

These leaves are detached from a commonplace book, the major part of which is Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. d. 3.

Among the papers of Richard Savage (1847-1924), antiquarian, Secretary and Librarian of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in 1884.

A facsimile of this MS portion is in the Bodleian, MS Facs. d. 155, ff. 150-3.

Edied from this MS in Savage, Shakespearean Extracts, pp. 51-80.

Extracts from Polonius's speech to Laertes (I, iii, 59-69, 75-8), headed Advice to a Young man, here beginning Give thy thought noe tongue, and subscribed Sh:.

Probably chiefly in the hand of Andrew Card, who inscribes f. 5r Ex libris Andreæ Card 1674.

Bookplate of Richard Cranmer [i.e. Richard Dixon (d.1828), of the manor of Mitcham, Surrey, who claimed descent from Archbishop Cranmer.

Copy of Hamlet's soliloquy To be, or not to be, that is the question (III, i, 56-88), in a musical setting by Morelli.

Edited from this MS in Macdonald Emslie, Pepys' Shakespeare Song, SQ, 6 (1955), 159-70.

Based on the Fifth Quarto of 1 Henry IV (1613) and a 1600 Quarto of 2 Henry IV., this play was probably written for a private theatrical performance, the dramatis personæ including members of the Dering family. The MS is largely in the secretary and italic hand of a mr Carington who was paid 4 shillings in February 1622/3 for the task, and bears Dering's autograph corrections and additions, as well as some rubrication.

Item 1035 in a sale catalogue.

Edited from this MS, with facsimile examples, in Shakespeare's Play of King Henry the Fourth Printed from a Contemporary Manuscript, ed. James Orchard Halliwell, Shakespeare Society (London, 1845). A complete facsimile edition, with transcription, as The History of King Henry the Fourth as revised by Sir Edward Dering, ed. George Walton Williams and G. Blakemore Evans (Charlottesville, 1974).

Collated in Henry IV, Part I, ed. Samuel Burdett Hemingway (Philadelphia & London, 1936), pp. 495-501, and in Henry IV, Part II, ed. Matthias A. Shaaber (Philadelphia & London, 1940), pp. 645-50. Discussed in G. Blakemore Evans, The Dering MS of Shakespeare's Henry IV and Sir Edward Dering, JEGP, 54 (1955), 498-503. Discussed, with a facsimile of the record of payment to Carington (Centre for Kentish Studies, U350 E4), in Laetitia Yeandle, The Dating of Sir Edward Dering's Copy of The History of King Henry the Fourth, Shakespeare Quarterly, 37 (1986), 224-6, where a possible candidate for Carington is suggested as Samuel Carington (d.1641), rector of Wootton, Kent. Discussed, as if a pre-publication and authorial MS, in John Baker, Found: Shakespeare's Manuscript of Henry IV, Elizabethan Review, 4/1 (Spring 1996), 14-46.

Other facsimile examples in Giles E. Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 39, and in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 87.

Cuttings from pages of a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), marked up as promptbooks for use by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.

A version of the unpublished anthology Hesperides or The Muses Garden, by John Evans, entered in the Stationers' Register on 16 August 1655 and subsequently advertised by Humphrey Moseley, c.1660, among works he purposed to print. Other portions of this MS are Folger MS V.a.75, Folger MS V.a.79 and Folger MS V.a.80, and another version of this compilation, in the same hand, is Folger MS V.b.93.

Formerly in the Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon.

Discussed in Gunnar Sorelius, An Unknown Shakespearian Commonplace Book, The Library, 5th Ser. 28 (1973), 294-308. See also Hao Tianhu, Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden and its Manuscript History, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/4 (December 2009), 372-404, with a facsimile example on p. 378 and a list of headings in the MS given on pp. 402-4.

Facsimile examples of this MS are also in The Works of William Shakespeare, ed. James O. Halliwell, 16 vols (London 1853-65), I, 395; II, facing p. 177; III, facing pp. 51, 133; IV, facing p. 184; V, facing p. 308; VI, facing p. 471; VII, facing p. 128.

Discussed in Gunnar Sorelius, The Smock Alley Prompt-Books of 1 and 2 Henry IV, Shakespeare Quarterly, 22 (1971), 111-28.

Copy of Prince Hal's speech beginning I know you all, and will awhile uphold (I, ii, 187-209), headed The Prince of Walles his speech. 165, written out as prose in an italic hand, on one side of a single quarto leaf, dated in the margin April 14 / Anno / Domi 1620.

Bought from J. Harvey, 9 February 1878.

Edited from this MS in The Shakespeare Allusion-Book (London, 1932), I, 336.

The extracts, possibly derived from jottings in a pocket book made during a performance rather than from the edited quarto of 1598, apparently arranged for intended inclusion under topic headings in a commonplace book.

Sotheby's, 18 December 1986, lot 14, with facsimile pages in the sale catalogue.

This MS discussed, with facsimiles, in Hilton Kelliher, Contemporary Manuscript Extracts from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I, EMS, 1 (1989), 144-81.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

Containing two pages of notes in the hand of James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, dated June 1866. Bookplate of Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821-95), poet, and book label of E. D. Church.

Recorded in Shattuck, p. 141, No. 1.

Extracts, untitled.

Lettered on the spine W. How's Common-placebook.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in the Warwick Castle Library.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VIII (Charlottesville, VA, 1996).

Extract, headed Greatnes.

Inscribed (p. 211) I ended this book Nov^r. 13^th 1723.

Copy, with stage directions in another hand, derived from the Second Folio (London, 1632).

This MS described in G. Blakemore Evans, The Douai Manuscript - Six Shakespearean Transcripts (1694-95), PQ, 41.1 (1962), 158-72.

The rest of the (probably marked up) text of Julius Caesar was destroyed by fire at the Shakespeare Memorial Library, Birmingham, in 1879.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

Shattuck, p. 172 (No. 1)

Copy of the play, transcribed from the Second Folio (London, 1632), possibly related to ShW 51; imperfect, lacking most of the last scene.

Sotheby's, 13 June 1870, lot 157, to James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector; thence, on 5 July 1870, to Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 3.4.

This MS described in G. Blakemore Evans, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar — A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript, JEGP, 41 (1942), 401-17.

Inscribed Alice Stevenson 1723; Thomas Willson [c.1775]; and 17. Nov. 1807. John Cranch [the painter, 1751-1821]. Also owned by Walter T. Spencer (d.1936), London bookseller.

This item discussed, with a facsimile, in Charlton Hinman, Mark III: New Light on the Proof-Reading for the First Folio of Shakespeare, SB, 3 (1950-1), 145-53.

Extract, from Act IV, scene vi, lines 10-21 (Edgar's Come on, Sir, here's the place...), headed Out of King Lear.

Inscribed (f. 36r) M Lowthers Jun:, by a member of the Lowther family, Baronets and later Earls of Lonsdale.

Pages 761-87 marked up for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VIII (Charlottesville, VA, 1996).

This item discussed with facsimiles, in James G. McManaway, Another Discovery of a Proof Sheet in Shakespeare's First Folio, Huntington Library Quarterly, 41 (1977-78), 19-26.

Extracts.

Copy of Longaville's couplet (I, i, 26-7), untitled and here beginning ffat paunches make lean pates, & dainty bitts.

Owned and probably compiled by John Abbott (b.1653/4), of St John's College, Oxford.

Copy of Longaville's couplet (I, i, 26-7), untitled.

Compiled in part by the Oxford printer Christopher Wase (1627-90), fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Wase MS: DnJ Δ 39.

Copy of Armado's couplet beginning The Fox, the Ape, and the Humble-bee (III, i, 84-5).

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode.

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 IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the English Poetry MS: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.

Copy of part of the first scene.

Loosely inserted bookplate of David Garrick (1717-79), actor. Sotheby's, 8 December 1983, lot 48 (unsold).

Copy, derived from the Second Folio (London, 1632).

This MS described in G. Blakemore Evans, The Douai Manuscript - Six Shakespearean Transcripts (1694-95), PQ, 41.1 (1962), 158-72.

Lacking p. 729, which is in Edinburgh University Library: see ShW 59.5.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. V (Charlottesville, VA, 1970).

The last page of a promptbook of Macbeth, marked up for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. The rest of the promptbook is ShW 59.2.

Extract from I, vii (Even-handed Justice / Returns the'Ingredients of our poison'd Chalice / To our own Lips.).

Bookplate of George Scott, of Woolston Hall, Essex. Sotheby's, 28 July 1964, lot 451.

Copy of two of the Duke's speeches (III, ii, 178-81, beginning No might nor greatness in mortality, and III, ii, 253-66, beginning He, who the sword of heaven will bear).

Comments on the play.

Discussed, with extracts, in G. Blakemore Evans, A Seventeenth-Century Reader of Shakespeare, RES, 21 (1945), 271-9.

Quoted in Blakemore Evans, p. 274.

Extract.

Inscribed (p. 211) I ended this book Nov^r. 13^th 1723.

Extracts.

Four leaves of this commonplace book are in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21.

Owned in 1615-16 by one Bassett and in the 1880s by Richard Savage. At the Neligan sale, 2 August 1888, lot 1098. Bought by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), and his sale 4 July 1889, lot 1257.

All the Shakespearian texts except Othello were edited from this MS in Richard Savage's Shakespearean Extracts (1887). The MS also edited in Juliet Mary Gowan, An Edition of Edward Pudsey's Commonplace Book (c.1600-1615) (unpublished M. Phil., University of London, 1967). It was then found that the miscellany lacked several of its original leaves, including extracts from six plays by Shakespeare. These leaves were rediscovered in 1977 among Savage's papers at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21, and the Othello extracts identified by Gowan. The MS also discussed in J. Rees, Shakespeare and Edward Pudsey's Booke, 1600, N&Q, 237 (September 1992), 330-1; in Juliet Gowan, One Man in His Time: The Notebook of Edward Pudsey, Bodleian Library Record, 22 (2009), 94–101; in Fred Schurink, Manuscript Commonplace Books, Literature, and Reading in Early Modern England, HLQ, 73/3 (2010), 453-69 (pp. 465-9), with a facsimile of f. 31r on p. 467; and in Tom Lockwood, At Mr Marston’s Request: Edward Pudsey and the Inns of Court, N&Q, 63 (September 2016), 450-3.

Printed from this MS in Savage, Shakespearean Extracts, pp. 1-6.

Extracts.

Recorded in Shattuck, p. 276, No. 1.

Copy of the song Tell me where is fancy bred in the casket scene (Act III, scene ii).

Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the Harley Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 64.

Extracts, untitled.

Lettered on the spine W. How's Common-placebook.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in the Warwick Castle Library.

Probably transcribed from a (?marked-up) exemplum of the Second Folio (1632), including Hugh Holland's poem on Shakespeare and a Dramatis Personae page.

Later acquired by Thomas Rodd from a Mr Proctor and in Rodd's sale catalogue of manuscripts for 1841, item 601. Owned in March 1842 by James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Subsequently sold by him to George Guy Greville, MP (1818-93), fourth Earl of Warwick, of Warwick Castle.

This MS described in James Orchard Halliwell, An Account of the Only Known Manuscript of Shakespeare's Plays (London, 1843). Discussed in G. Blakemore Evans, The Merry Wives of Windsor: The Folger Manuscript, in Shakespeare Text, Language, Criticism: Essays in Honour of Marvin Spevack, ed. Bernhard Fabian and Kurt Tetzeli von Rosador (Hildesheim, 1987), pp. 57-79.

Comments on the play.

Discussed, with extracts, in G. Blakemore Evans, A Seventeenth-Century Reader of Shakespeare, RES, 21 (1945), 271-9.

Quoted in Blakemore Evans, p. 274.

Recorded in Shattuck, p. 303, No. 1.

For a MS supplying the text for the missing leaves, see Folger MS V.b.240 (ShW 65).

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VIII (Charlottesville, VA, 1996).

For the rest of the promptbook (part of a Third Folio) see Folger PROMPT 3d Folio M.W. Smock Alley (ShW 64.8).

Recorded in Shattuck, p. 303 (No. 3).

Extracts.

Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. III (Charlottesville, VA, 1964).

Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VII (Charlottesville, VA, 1989).

Extracts.

Comments on the play.

Discussed, with extracts, in G. Blakemore Evans, A Seventeenth-Century Reader of Shakespeare, RES, 21 (1945), 271-9.

Quoted in Blakemore Evans, pp. 273-4.

Extracts.

These leaves are detached from a commonplace book, the major part of which is Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. d. 3.

Among the papers of Richard Savage (1847-1924), antiquarian, Secretary and Librarian of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in 1884.

A facsimile of this MS portion is in the Bodleian, MS Facs. d. 155, ff. 150-3.

Edited from this MS in Savage, Shakespearean Extracts, pp. 32-50.

Recorded in Shattuck, p. 333, No. 1.

Copy.

Loosely inserted bookplate of David Garrick (1717-79), actor. Sotheby's, 8 December 1983, lot 48 (unsold).

Copies of Balthazar's song, in a musical setting by Thomas Ford.

This version edited in John H. Long, Shakespeare's Use of Music, I, (Gainesville, Florida, 1955), 132-3.

Copy of Benedick's song.

The Braye LuteBook, formerly among the Cave family papers of Lord Braye at Stanford Hall, Rugby.

This MS discussed in James M. Osborn, Benedick's Song in Much Ado, The Times, 17 November 1958, p. 11.

Owned in 1902 by Maurice Jonas.

This item discussed, with facsimiles, in Charlton Hinman, A Proof-Sheet in the First Folio of Shakespeare, The Library, 4th Ser. 23 (1943), 101-7.

Extracts Out of y^e Tragedy of Othello by Shakespeare, with comments on the play.

Entirely in the hand of the Rev. Abraham Wright (1611-90), of St John's College, Oxford, author.

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 ShW 71 and ShW 44.

These extracts and comments edited in James G. McManaway, Excerpta quaedam per A.W. adolescentem, Studies in Shakespeare, Bibliography and Theater (New York, 1969), 279-91 (pp. 286-9), and in Arthur C. Kirsch, A Caroline Commentary on the Drama, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 257).

Facsimiles of ff. 83v-4v in Parnassus Biceps or Severall Choice Pieces of Poetry by Abraham Wright 1656, ed. Peter Beal (Scolar Press, 1990), pp. 184-9.

Extracts relating to marriage, transcribed from a printed source, added in a late 17th-century hand.

Possibly compiled by one W: H:: i.e. probably William Holgate (1618-46), of Queens' College, Cambridge, with late 17th-century additions apparently made by other members of the Holgate family, of Saffron Walden and Great Bardfield, Essex.

Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Holgate MS: DnJ Δ 58 and StW Δ 22. Briefly discussed in W.G.P., Verses by Francis Beaumont, TLS (15 September 1921), p. 596, and in E.K. Chambers, William Shakespeare, 2 vols (Oxford, 1930), II, 222-4. Also discussed, with facsimiles on pp. 68 and 70 of pp. 181 and 13, in Michael Roy Denbo, Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73. For facsimile pages see DnJ 2931 and ShW 25. Complete microfilm in the Essex Record Office (T/A 98).

Extracts, with comments on the play.

Discussed, with extracts, in G. Blakemore Evans, A Seventeenth-Century Reader of Shakespeare, RES, 21 (1945), 271-9.

Quoted in Blakemore Evans, pp. 274-5.

Page 788, the first page of Othello, a fragment of a promptbook used by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.

For the rest, see ShW 72.5.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

For the missing page 788, see ShW 72.4.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VI (Charlottesville, VA, 19??)

Inscribed name on the title-page of George Steevens (1736-1800), literary editor and scholar. Annotated in 1804 as Collated & Perfect by John Philip Kemble (1757-1823), actor.

Recorded in Shattuck, p. 354, No. 1.

Extracts, copied presumably after an early performance, untitled.

These leaves are detached from a commonplace book, the major part of which is Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. d. 3.

Among the papers of Richard Savage (1847-1924), antiquarian, Secretary and Librarian of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in 1884.

A facsimile of this MS portion is in the Bodleian, MS Facs. d. 155, ff. 150-3.

This MS discussed in Philip Howard, Purple passages from the early days of Othello, The Times (25 June 1977), p. 14, and quoted in Othello, ed. E.A.J. Honigmann, Arden Shakespeare (Walton-on-Thames, 1997), pp. 388-9.

Two quotations, headed Othello the Moore of Venice, comprising Iago's speech beginning O, sir, content you (I, i, 41-58), and the Duke of Brabantio's speech beginning When remedies are past, the griefs are ended (I, iii, 202-9), transcribed from the quarto edition of 1622.

Inscribed several times Henry Danby and the MS associated with a branch of the Danby family living near Kirkby Knowle outside Thirsk, North Yorkshire. Dawson's of Pall Mall, sale catalogue No. 200 (1969), item 19, with a facsimile example. Sotheby's, 29 October 1975, lot 150, to Kleinmann. Sotheby's, 27 September 1988, lot 146. Christie's, 29 November 1999, lot 237.

Sotheby's, 29 October 1975, lot 150, to Kleinmann. Sotheby's, 27 September 1988, lot 146 (unsold). Pickering and Chatto, sale catalogue No. 676, item 106. Christie's, 29 November 1999, lot 237.

Facsimiles of f. 81r in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 27 September 1988, lot 146, and Christie's sale catalogue, 29 November 1999, lot 237.

Copy of Iago's lines beginning She y^t was ever fair, & never proud (II, i, 148-58), transcribed from the Folio of 1664, headed Womens unknown Vertues and subscribed W.Sh. 795.

Copy of Desdemona's willow song, in a five-strophe version in a musical setting, untitled and here beginning The poore soule sate sighinge by a Sickamore tree, Singe willo willo willo.

Inscribed (f. 1v) John Shurlane His Booke, and (f. 24v rev.) This Book Do[ ] / Hugh ffloyd / Domn: 11, with dates 28 Nov. 1630 and 1633. Purchased from Thomas Rodd, bookseller, 13 April 1844.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).

Printed from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 1-2, 115-19, and in F.W. Sternfeld, Music in Shakespearean Tragedy (London, 1963), 39-44 (with facsimiles).

Several brief quotations, in a secretary hand, on a duodecimo-size slip of paper, once used as a bookmark.

In the hand of Thomas Bentley who owes this booke.

This MS recorded in Katherine Duncan-Jones, Ungentle Shakespeare (London, 2001), pp. 205, 302-3.

Extracts, untitled.

Lettered on the spine W. How's Common-placebook.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in the Warwick Castle Library.

Extracts, untitled.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Joseph Hall (not the bishop). Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who has entered in pseudo-17th-century secretary script copies of various ballads on ff. 39r-41r, 107v-79r, 181r-v, 227r-8v, 243r-6r, as well as adding foliation (1-284) before the more recent foliation (1-291, used below). Quaritch's sale catalogue of English Literature (August-November 1884), item 22350, Collier's transcript of the MS made c.1860 being item 22352. Formerly Folger MS 2071.7.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Giles E. Dawson, John Payne Collier's Great Forgery, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26.

Extracts, including II, iii, lines 332-7; III, ii, lines 37-8; and III, iii, line 166.

Including, besides quotations from poems, references to other works by Spenser and Samuel Daniel.

Formerly preserved at Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire, seat of the Lee family, Viscounts Dillon.

This MS discussed in Stanley Wells, By the placing of his words, TLS, 26 September 2003, pp. 14-15.

Extract, headed K. Richard 2^d in Prison.

Inscribed (p. 211) I ended this book Nov^r. 13^th 1723.

Extracts.

These leaves are detached from a commonplace book, the major part of which is Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. d. 3.

Among the papers of Richard Savage (1847-1924), antiquarian, Secretary and Librarian of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in 1884.

A facsimile of this MS portion is in the Bodleian, MS Facs. d. 155, ff. 150-3.

Edited from this MS in Savage, Shakespearean Extracts, pp. 23-7.

Several brief quotations, in a secretary hand, on a duodecimo-size slip of paper, once used as a bookmark.

Extracts.

Extracts.

These leaves are detached from a commonplace book, the major part of which is Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. d. 3.

Among the papers of Richard Savage (1847-1924), antiquarian, Secretary and Librarian of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in 1884.

A facsimile of this MS portion is in the Bodleian, MS Facs. d. 155, ff. 150-3.

Edited from this MS in Savage, Shakespearean Extracts, pp. 28-31.

Inscribed Thomas Polwhele [fl.c.1700]. Later owned by Alexander Smith Cochran (1874-1929), founder of the Elizabethan Club at Yale.

This item discussed, with facsimiles, in Charlton Hinman, The Proof-Reading of the First Folio Texts of Romeo and Juliet, SB, 6 (1954), 61-70.

Copy, untitled, with stage directions in another hand, derived from the Second Folio (London, 1632).

This MS described in G. Blakemore Evans, The Douai Manuscript - Six Shakespearean Transcripts (1694-95), PQ, 41.1 (1962), 158-72.

Extracts.

Four leaves of this commonplace book are in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21.

Owned in 1615-16 by one Bassett and in the 1880s by Richard Savage. At the Neligan sale, 2 August 1888, lot 1098. Bought by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), and his sale 4 July 1889, lot 1257.

All the Shakespearian texts except Othello were edited from this MS in Richard Savage's Shakespearean Extracts (1887). The MS also edited in Juliet Mary Gowan, An Edition of Edward Pudsey's Commonplace Book (c.1600-1615) (unpublished M. Phil., University of London, 1967). It was then found that the miscellany lacked several of its original leaves, including extracts from six plays by Shakespeare. These leaves were rediscovered in 1977 among Savage's papers at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21, and the Othello extracts identified by Gowan. The MS also discussed in J. Rees, Shakespeare and Edward Pudsey's Booke, 1600, N&Q, 237 (September 1992), 330-1; in Juliet Gowan, One Man in His Time: The Notebook of Edward Pudsey, Bodleian Library Record, 22 (2009), 94–101; in Fred Schurink, Manuscript Commonplace Books, Literature, and Reading in Early Modern England, HLQ, 73/3 (2010), 453-69 (pp. 465-9), with a facsimile of f. 31r on p. 467; and in Tom Lockwood, At Mr Marston’s Request: Edward Pudsey and the Inns of Court, N&Q, 63 (September 2016), 450-3.

Printed from this MS in Savage, Shakespearean Extracts, pp. 10-22. See also ShW 87.

Here Who euer heard a story of more woe / Then that of Juliet and her Romeo and ffor neuer was there story of more woe / Then that of Juliet and her Romeo, among other quotations inscribed in the italic hand of Richard Derham on the last page (verso of p. 45) of his printed exemplum of Nathaniel Shute, Corono Charitatis (London, 1626).

Inscribed Joh: Squire and W. W. Radford 1871. Later in the library of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Copy of the prologue and of additional lines and alterations.

Extract, headed in the margin In Juliett & Romeo, comprising a version of Romeo's speech in Act I, scene v, lines 44-51, here beginning Oh shee doth teach the torches to burne bright, and, with a stage diection taking her by y^e hand, lines lines 93-6, here beginning Yf I pfane w^th my unworthyest hand.

Later owned by Sir John Simeon, third Baronet, MP (1815-70); by Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-85), first Baron Houghton, author and politician, and by his son, Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Sotheby's, 22 July 1980, lot 585, to Quaritch.

Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Monckton Milnes MS: DnJ Δ 63. Briefly discussed in Sir John Simeon, Unpublished Poems of Donne, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3, and, with selected collations, in Grierson (II, cix et passim). A complete set of photographs of the MS is in the British Library, RP 2031.

Signed on the title-page by George Steevens (1736-1800), literary editor and scholar. Initials G. D. in gilt on the red leather cover.

Recorded in Shattuck, p. 411, No. 1.

Extracts.

These leaves are detached from a commonplace book, the major part of which is Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. d. 3.

Among the papers of Richard Savage (1847-1924), antiquarian, Secretary and Librarian of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in 1884.

A facsimile of this MS portion is in the Bodleian, MS Facs. d. 155, ff. 150-3.

This MS continues the text from ShW 86 as edited in Savage.

One scene on ff. 8r-9r in a hand generally known as Hand D identified as probably that of William Shakespeare.

The play edited from this MS by all editors. Reproduced in facsimile by John S. Farmer, Tudor Facsimile Texts (London, 1910).

Discussions of the various hands in the MS, generally with facsimile examples, include those in Greg's Malone Society edition; in Greg, Dramatic Documents, I, 224-5, and II, Plate 2; in R.C. Bald, The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore and its Problems, SS, 2 (1949), 44-65; in Peter W.M. Blayney, The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore Re-Examined, SP, 69 (1972), 167-91; in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 23; in Michael L. Hays, Shakespeare's Hand in Sir Thomas More: Some Aspects of the Paleographic Argument, SSt, 8 (1975), 241-53; in Paul Ramsey, Shakespeare and Sir Thomas More Revisited: or, A Mounty on the Trail, PBSA, 70 (1976), 333-46; in Giles E. Dawson, Theobald, table/babbled, and Sir Thomas More, TLS (22 April 1977), p. 484; in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 36; in Giles E. Dawson, Shakespeare's Handwriting, Shakespeare Survey, 42 (1990), 119-28; in Grace Ioppolo, Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood (London & New York, 2006), pp. 100-9; and elsewhere.

Facsimiles of f. 9r also in English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), No. 6; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 11, p. 23; in Elizabethan Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers, DLB, 62 (Detroit, 1987), p. 407; in William Shakespeare: A Documentary Volume, ed. Catherine Loomis, DLB, 263 (Detroit, 2002), p. 33; in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 55; and elsewhere.

MS annotations.

Extracts.

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

Copy of the song in a musical setting.

Acquired from Julian Marshall (1836-1903), music and print collector and writer, 1880-81.

Copy of Ariel's song, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson).

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

A complete facsimile of these pages is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 8 (New York & London, 1987).

Johnson's setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659). Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 24. Discussed in Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94.

Copy in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson).

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Bookplate of Povert Henley.

Copy, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson, untitled.

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer (his signature f. 2v).

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 English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 5 (New York & London, 1986).

Copy of the song, under a general heading songes [out of added] Shakespeare / The Tempest.

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 recorded in The Shakespeare Allusion-Book (London, 1932), I, 425-6.

Copies in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson).

Compiled by John Playford (1623-86?), being leaves detached from four of his MS autograph music part books, which are now at the University of Glasgow (MS Euing R.d.58-61) and (nine leaves) at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (Halliwell-Phillipps, Shakespearean scrapbooks).

Bookplate of William Harrison, F.S.H. Booklabel of William Hayman Cummings, FSA (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Owned (and detached) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Formerly Folger MS 747.

This MS recorded in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 129, 131.

Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Henry V and Twelfth Night.

Copy (words only).

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, Drexel Manuscript 4041, Musica Disciplina, 18 (1964), 151-202. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 9 (New York & London, 1987).

This MS recorded in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 131-2.

Copies in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson), untitled.

Principally in a single hand, a second hand responsible for 4/b, ff. 17v-24v, and for 4/c, ff. 5r-12v; the collection largely copies of vocal trios that would appear in John Wilson's Cheereful Ayres (Oxford, 1660).

In a collection of MS music books associated with the Filmer family, baronets, of Kent, members of whom included the political philosopher Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653), his brother Edward (d.1650, compiler of French Court Aires, 1628) and son Sir Edward (d.1668), and the playwright Edward Filmer (fl.1700).

Copy of Stephano's song, headed Ibid.

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 recorded in The Shakespeare Allusion-Book (London, 1932), I, 425-6.

Copy of Caliban's song, headed Ib.

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 recorded in The Shakespeare Allusion-Book (London, 1932), I, 425-6.

Copy of the song sung by Juno and Ceres, headed Ibid.

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 recorded in The Shakespeare Allusion-Book (London, 1932), I, 425-6.

Copy of Ariel's song, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson), the inserted second page (the verso blank) containing three additional stanzas and docketed by Lowe this I had of Madam Trumball at Chalfont: 27 sept. 1676 and thes supposd to bee made by M^r Smith Secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

A complete facsimile of these pages is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 8 (New York & London, 1987).

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited 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.

Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Probert MS: CwT Δ 4, HeR Δ 1. Discussed and analysed in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211. Also briefly discussed in George Thewlis, Some Notes on a Bodleian Manuscript, M&L, 22 (1941) 32-5, and in Willa McClung Evans, Shakespeare's Harke Harke ye Larke, PMLA, 60 (1945), 95-101 (with a facsimile of f. 78r). A facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 6 (New York & London, 1987).

This MS reproduced in John H. Long, Shakespeare's Use of Music, II (Gainesville, 1961), 147; collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 132-3.

Copy in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson).

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Bookplate of Povert Henley.

Copy, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson), untitled.

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer (his signature f. 2v).

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 English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 5 (New York & London, 1986).

Copy of the song, headed Ibid.

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 recorded in The Shakespeare Allusion-Book (London, 1932), I, 425-6.

Copy.

Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the Harley Rawlinson MS: DnJ Δ 64.

Copies in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson).

Compiled by John Playford (1623-86?), being leaves detached from four of his MS autograph music part books, which are now at the University of Glasgow (MS Euing R.d.58-61) and (nine leaves) at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (Halliwell-Phillipps, Shakespearean scrapbooks).

Bookplate of William Harrison, F.S.H. Booklabel of William Hayman Cummings, FSA (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Owned (and detached) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Formerly Folger MS 747.

This MS recorded in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 129, 131.

Copy, in a musical setting by Pelham Humphrey.

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, untitled.

Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume.

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r 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, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

Copies in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson), untitled.

Principally in a single hand, a second hand responsible for 4/b, ff. 17v-24v, and for 4/c, ff. 5r-12v; the collection largely copies of vocal trios that would appear in John Wilson's Cheereful Ayres (Oxford, 1660).

In a collection of MS music books associated with the Filmer family, baronets, of Kent, members of whom included the political philosopher Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653), his brother Edward (d.1650, compiler of French Court Aires, 1628) and son Sir Edward (d.1668), and the playwright Edward Filmer (fl.1700).

Drawing of a scene and the text of speeches by Tamora, Titus and Aaron (I, i, 104-20; V, i, 125-44; I, i, 121, 125), on a single leaf, signed Henricus Peacham and endorsed in another hand Henrye Peachams Hande 1595; the text possibly not in the same hand as the drawing but perhaps copied later from the First Folio (1623).

This MS discussed in E. K. Chambers, The First Illustration to Shakespeare, The Library, 4th Ser. 5 (1924-5), 326-30, and in John Dover Wilson, Titus Andronicus on the Stage in 1595, SS, 1 (1948), 17-22. Other discussions include G. Harold Metz, Titus Andronicus: A Watermark in the Longleat Manuscript, Shakespeare Quarterly, 36/4 Winter 1985), 450-3; René Breier, The Longleat Manuscript: Tamora's Great Belly, ELN, 35/3 (March 1998), 20-2; Herbert Berry, The Date on the Peacham Manuscript, Shakespeare Bulletin, 17/2 (Spring 1999), 5-6; and Richard Levin, The Longleat Manuscript and Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare Quarterly, 53/3 (Fall 2002), 323-40.

Facsimiles also in Chambers; in W. Moelwyn Merchant, Shakespeare and the Artist (London, 1959), facing p. 16; in S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life (Oxford, 1975), p. 122; in DLB, vol. 62, Elizabethan Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 302; in William Shakespeare: A Documentary Volume, ed. Catherine Loomis, DLB, 263 (Detroit, 2002), p. 43; and elsewere.

Extracts.

Four leaves of this commonplace book are in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21.

Owned in 1615-16 by one Bassett and in the 1880s by Richard Savage. At the Neligan sale, 2 August 1888, lot 1098. Bought by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), and his sale 4 July 1889, lot 1257.

All the Shakespearian texts except Othello were edited from this MS in Richard Savage's Shakespearean Extracts (1887). The MS also edited in Juliet Mary Gowan, An Edition of Edward Pudsey's Commonplace Book (c.1600-1615) (unpublished M. Phil., University of London, 1967). It was then found that the miscellany lacked several of its original leaves, including extracts from six plays by Shakespeare. These leaves were rediscovered in 1977 among Savage's papers at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21, and the Othello extracts identified by Gowan. The MS also discussed in J. Rees, Shakespeare and Edward Pudsey's Booke, 1600, N&Q, 237 (September 1992), 330-1; in Juliet Gowan, One Man in His Time: The Notebook of Edward Pudsey, Bodleian Library Record, 22 (2009), 94–101; in Fred Schurink, Manuscript Commonplace Books, Literature, and Reading in Early Modern England, HLQ, 73/3 (2010), 453-69 (pp. 465-9), with a facsimile of f. 31r on p. 467; and in Tom Lockwood, At Mr Marston’s Request: Edward Pudsey and the Inns of Court, N&Q, 63 (September 2016), 450-3.

Printed from this MS in Savage, Shakespearean Extracts, pp. 8-9.

Copy, untitled, with stage directions in another hand, derived from the Second Folio (London, 1632).

This MS described in G. Blakemore Evans, The Douai Manuscript - Six Shakespearean Transcripts (1694-95), PQ, 41.1 (1962), 158-72.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, and in the Warwick Castle Library.

Shattuck, p. 469 (No. 1).

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VIII (Charlottesville, VA, 1996).

Extracts.

Compiled in part by the Oxford printer Christopher Wase (1627-90), fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Wase MS: DnJ Δ 39.

Extracts.

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

Inscribed inside the front cover Ro Carre of Ferniehurst (1669), later fourth Lord Jedburgh. Initials L. A. K. stamped on the cover possibly denoting his wife, Lady Ann Ker.

Copy of the song, in a musical setting, headed Glee for five Voices/ 1788.

Bookplate of Julian Marshall (1836-1903), music and print collector and writer.

Copy of the Clown's song, in a musical setting.

Among the papers of the Jervoise family, of Herriard Park, and probably owned by Sir Thomas Jervoise (1588-1654).

Edited from this MS in Charles Murray Willis, Shakespeare and George Puttenham's Arte of English Poesie (St Leonards-on-Sea, 2003), pp. 250-3, with a two-page facsimile.

Copy of the song, in a musical setting.

One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

Edited from this MS in J. Stafford Smith, Musica Antiqua (London, 1812), II, 204-5.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VIII (Charlottesville, VA, 1996).

Copy of Autolycus's song in a musical setting.

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Bookplate of Povert Henley.

This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).

Copy in a musical setting (? by John Wilson), untitled.

Owned (and extracted) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of Warwick Castle Library.

Copy of the song sung by Autolycus, Dorcas and Mopsa, with a second verse, in a musical setting possibly by Robert Johnson.

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, Drexel Manuscript 4041, Musica Disciplina, 18 (1964), 151-202. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 9 (New York & London, 1987).

Edited from this MS in J.P. Cutts, An Unpublished Contemporary Setting of a Shakespeare Song, SS, 9 (1956), 86-9, and in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 19.

Copy, in a musical setting possibly by Robert Johnson.

The original cover inscribed Ann Twice her booke. Inscribed on the first page My Cosen Twice Leftte this Booke with me...which is to be returne to her AGhaine.... Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.

A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 11 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, Songs Vnto the Violl and Lute—Drexel Ms. 4175, Musica Disciplina, 16 (1962), 73-92.

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 17-18. Facsimile in John H. Long, Shakespeare's Use of Music, II (Gainesville, 1961), 138-9.

Music only for Autolycus's song.

Copy of Autolycus's song, undated.

Inscribed (in another hand) on the front pastedown Thomas Boydell. Formerly Folger MS 4108.

Extracts from various plays.

A version of the unpublished anthology Hesperides or The Muses Garden, by John Evans, entered in the Stationers' Register on 16 August 1655 and subsequently advertised by Humphrey Moseley, c.1660, among works he purposed to print. Other portions of this MS are Folger MS V.a.75, Folger MS V.a.79 and Folger MS V.a.80, and another version of this compilation, in the same hand, is Folger MS V.b.93.

Formerly in the Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon.

Discussed in Gunnar Sorelius, An Unknown Shakespearian Commonplace Book, The Library, 5th Ser. 28 (1973), 294-308. See also Hao Tianhu, Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden and its Manuscript History, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/4 (December 2009), 372-404, with a facsimile example on p. 378 and a list of headings in the MS given on pp. 402-4.

Facsimile examples of this MS are also in The Works of William Shakespeare, ed. James O. Halliwell, 16 vols (London 1853-65), I, 395; II, facing p. 177; III, facing pp. 51, 133; IV, facing p. 184; V, facing p. 308; VI, facing p. 471; VII, facing p. 128.

A facsimile of a quotation from Henry V in Tianhu, p. 378.

Comprising two pages of extracts under A subject headings, followed by six pages of A Catalogue of the Bookes from whence these Collections were extracted, including titles of works by Shakespeare, Bacon, and many others, this being a fragment of the large anthology of dramatic extracts by John Evans dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, other portions of which are Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger MS V.a.79, and Folger MS V.a.80, with another version of the whole anthology in Folger MS V.b.93.

Bookplate of the Shakespeare Library at Warwick Castle.

This, Folger MS V.a.78, and Folger MS V.a.80 are recorded as Nos. 133, 173, and 313 in James O. Halliwell, A Brief Hand-list of Books, Manuscripts, etc. illustrative of the Life and Writings of Shakespeare; collected between the years 1842 and 1859 (London, 1859).

Discussed in Hao Tianhu, Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden and its Manuscript History, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/4 (December 2009), 372-404, the full catalogue printed as Catalogue H on pp. 395-402.

Numerous extracts.

This is the longest known extant version of the unpublished anthology Hesperides or The Muses Garden, by John Evans, entered in the Stationers' Register on 16 August 1655 and subsequently advertised c.1660, among works he purposed to print, by Humphrey Moseley. Another version of this work, in the same hand, dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), is now distributed between Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger, MS V.a.75, Folger, MS V.a.79, and Folger, MS V.a.80.

Formerly MS 469.2.

This MS identified in IELM, II.i (1980), p. 450. Discussed, as the master draft, with a facsimile of p. 7 on p. 381, in Hao Tianhu, Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden and its Manuscript History, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/4 (December 2009), 372-404 (the full index printed as Catalogue A on pp. 385-94).

Quotations from Shakespeare (including Henry VI, King Lear, and A Midsummer Night's Dream).

Brief quotations from Shakespeare (including All's Well that Ends Well, Henry IV, King John and Troilus and Cressida).

Allusions to Shakespeare, and quotations from various of his works, including Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, and Richard III, in a contemporary copy of the academic plays The Pilgrimage to Parnassus and The First Part of The Returne from Parnassus, in a non-professional secretary hand.

Assembled by Thomas Hearne (178-1735), antiquary, who has inscribed a slip attached to the front pastedown Tho: Hearne Junij 21^o. 1709.

This MS printed in facsimile in the Old English Drama Students' Facsimile series, 1912. The two plays were first edited by W.D. Macray in 1886. For the third part of the trilogy, see Folger, MS V.a.355. Edited from the MSS and printed sources by J.B. Leishman in The Three Parnassus Plays (1598-1601) (London, 1949).

A serious of extracts from some 37 plays.

The cuttings including extracts from All's Well that Ends Well, As You Like It, Loves Labours Lost, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, and Two Gentlemen of Verona.

A fragment of the large anthology of dramatic extracts by John Evans dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, other portions of which are Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger MS V.a.75, and Folger MS V.a.80, with another version of the whole anthology in Folger MS V.b.93.

Bookplate of the Shakespeare Library at Warwick Castle.

The cuttings including extracts from All's Well that Ends Well, A Comedy of Errors, Measure for Measure, The Tempest, and A Winter's Tale.

A fragment of the large anthology of dramatic extracts by John Evans dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, other portions of which are Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger MS V.a.75, and Folger MS V.a.79, with another version of the whole anthology in Folger MS V.b.93.

Bookplate of the Shakespeare Library at Warwick Castle.

This, Folger MS V.a.75, and Folger MS V.a.78 are recorded as Nos. 133, 173, and 313 in James O. Halliwell, A Brief Hand-list of Books, Manuscripts, etc. illustrative of the Life and Writings of Shakespeare; collected between the years 1842 and 1859 (London, 1859).

Copy.

Inscribed (on an affixed slip of paper) Anne Cornwaleys her booke [i.e. probably Anne Cornwallis (d.1635), who on 30 November 1610 became Countess of Argyll]; (p. 34) E^d Philips his Book 1740; Robert Thomas not his Book 1740; (p. [xvi]); Sam: Lysons [i.e. Samuel Lysons (1763-1819), antiquary]. Afterwards owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Bright sale, Part II (18 June 1844), to Thorpe. Then owned by Dr Thomas Russell and his son the Rev. John Fuller Russell (1813-84), ecclesiastical historian (who has signed the MS John F. Russell on p.[i]); by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, and then in the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.112.

Discussed in William H. Bond, The Cornwallis-Lysons Manuscript and the Poems of John Bentley, Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), pp. 683-93, and in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57.

Numerous extracts from Shakespeare's plays, including apocrypha.

Inscribed W. Harte 1726: i.e. by Walter Harte (1709-41), compiler of the MS, which also has his bookplate.

Twenty-five other documents relating to the case, many mentioning Shakespeare, are REQ 4/1/3.

Facsimile in S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life (New York, 1975), p. 212.

Formerly in the Guildhall Library.

Unfolding facsimile in S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life (New York, 1975), pp. 221-2. Facsimiles also in William Shakespeare: A Documentary Volume, ed. Catherine Loomis, DLB, 263 (Detroit, 2002), p. 220; and elsewhere.

Unfolding facsimile in S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life (New York, 1975), pp. 225-6. Facsimile also in William Shakespeare: A Documentary Volume, ed. Catherine Loomis, DLB, 263 (Detroit, 2002), p. 218. Discussed in R.C. Bald, The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore and its problems, Shakespeare Survey, 2 (1949), 44-65; and elsewhere.

Facsimiles in S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life (New York, 1975), pp. 243-5; in William Shakespeare: A Documentary Volume, ed. Catherine Loomis, DLB, 263 (Detroit, 2002), pp. 245-7; and elsewhere.

Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1027, English Poetry before 1701 (1982), item 192, with a facsimile opening facing p. 64.