Sir Philip Sidney

Copy of sonnets 1-20, 105-8, and songs viii and xi, in a predominantly roman hand, f. 31r in another roman hand, untitled, here beginning Louing in [truth and faine] in verse my loue to shou.

Inscribed names (on front pastedown) John [?]roper and (f. 40r) ffraunces [?]ington of the [?]. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author (with a note by him on f. 39r). Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 240.

This MS (the Bright MS) described in Ringler, pp. 538-9.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Made by or for Sir Edward Dymoke (c.1559-1624), of Scrivelsby and Kyme, Lincolnshire (inscribed Ed Dymoke on f. 3r).

Later owned by William Drummond of Hawthornden, with his title-page (Astrophil and Stella Written by S^r Philip Sidney Knight, repeated on ff. 3v and blank 60r) and his record of presentation to Edinburgh College.

This MS collated in Ringler and described pp. 539-40. Facsimile of f. 10v (Sonnet 13) in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), Plate VIII facing p. 273.

Copy of sonnets 1-23, 26-7, 29-34, 36, 38-9, 41-4, 47-108 (in an irregular order), headed Sonnetts wrytten by S^r Phillipp Sydney Knight.

Compiled principally by William Briton (1564-1637), of Kelston, Somerset.

Once owned by members of the Harington family, including John Harington, MP (d.1654). Acquired by Quaritch in 1932 and in their centenary sale catalogue (1947), item 198. Booklabel of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 12 June 1980 (Houghton sale), lot 427.

This MS collated in Ringler and described pp. 540-2. Facsimile example in Christie's sale catalogue, 12 June 1980, Plate 33.

Extracts.

Volume X of the miscellaneous collections of Brian Twyne (1579?-1644).

Extracts.

This MS volume discussed in Katherine K. Gottschalk, Discoveries concerning British Library MS Harley 6910, MP, 77 (1979-80), 121-31.

Copy, in the hand of Sir John Harington, headed Sonnettes of S^r Phillip Sydneys [vppon deleted] to y^e Lady Ritch.

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 223, pp. 254-5. Collated in Ringler.

Copy of lines 13-14, untitled, in an idiosyncratic type of abbreviated writing, here beginning And streight therew^t like, derived from an early quarto edition.

Inscribed on the title-page by Rowland Woodward (1573-1637), friend of John Donne, with Woodward's motto De juegos el mejor es con la hoja. MS label The Earl of Westmorland 1856. Formerly Folger MS Add. 1216.

Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 8191.

Copy of parts of lines 3-4, untitled, in an idiosyncratic type of abbreviated writing, here beginning my ow wri lik bad sr shew my b~, derived from an early quarto edition.

Inscribed on the title-page by Rowland Woodward (1573-1637), friend of John Donne, with Woodward's motto De juegos el mejor es con la hoja. MS label The Earl of Westmorland 1856. Formerly Folger MS Add. 1216.

Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 8191.

Copy of lines 11-14, untitled, in an idiosyncratic type of abbreviated writing, here beginning Look at my h~ f n suc quintce but kno y I in, derived from an early quarto edition.

Inscribed on the title-page by Rowland Woodward (1573-1637), friend of John Donne, with Woodward's motto De juegos el mejor es con la hoja. MS label The Earl of Westmorland 1856. Formerly Folger MS Add. 1216.

Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 8191.

Copy of lines 5-9, 12-14, headed Laydie Rich: and here beginning Towardes Auroras courte a Nymph did dwell.

With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 473.

Copy of sonnet 75, concerning Edward IV, here introduced Of whome the Noble S^r Phillip Sydney in a pleasant Sonnet giues this testimonye, and here beginning Of all the King's that euer heer did raigne.

The treatise in the hands of Harington's servant Thomas Combe and of Harington's brother Francis.

Edited from this MS in H.R. Woudhuysen, Astrophel and Stella 75: A New Text, RES, NS 37 (1986), 388-92.

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

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).

Ringler, pp. 202-3. Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, Falstaff's Heauenlie Iewel: Incidental Music for The Merry Wives of Windsor, SQ, 11 (1960), 89-92. Recorded in Ringler, p. 480.

Copy of lines 9-12, 21-9, untitled, in an idiosyncratic type of abbreviated writing, here beginning hir tongu wak sti^l refu. giv frank nig no, derived from an early quarto edition.

Inscribed on the title-page by Rowland Woodward (1573-1637), friend of John Donne, with Woodward's motto De juegos el mejor es con la hoja. MS label The Earl of Westmorland 1856. Formerly Folger MS Add. 1216.

Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 8191.

Copy, headed A song, subscribed Finis. S. P. S..

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as The John Finett miscellany. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copies, largely of the incipit only, (i) with the full text, all in a musical setting by William Byrd, untitled.

Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.

Byrd's setting first published in his Psalmes, Sonets, & songs of sadnes and pietie (1588). These MSS recorded in Ringler, pp. 447, 566.

Copy of the incipit only, in a musical setting by William Byrd.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1882.

This MS recorded in Ringler, pp. 447, 566.

Copy of the Sixt song, untitled, here beginning O ye that heare this voice.

Owned in 1781 by the Rev. John Williams (1760-1826), of Llanrwst.

Copy of lines 1-36, 41-104, untitled, subscribed Finis S^r P. Sydneye.

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as The John Finett miscellany. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy.

This MS volume discussed in Katherine K. Gottschalk, Discoveries concerning British Library MS Harley 6910, MP, 77 (1979-80), 121-31.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy of lines 45-8, 53-66, untitled, in an idiosyncratic type of abbreviated writing, here beginning g^rt o g^rt but spe (al) fail me fear on to pa^s, derived from an early quarto edition.

Inscribed on the title-page by Rowland Woodward (1573-1637), friend of John Donne, with Woodward's motto De juegos el mejor es con la hoja. MS label The Earl of Westmorland 1856. Formerly Folger MS Add. 1216.

Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 8191.

Copy, untitled.

Compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, including George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon.

A complete transcription of this volume in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75 (New York, 1988).

This MS collated in Ringler. May, Stanford, pp. 168-70 (No. 237).

Copy of a version beginning I never laid me downe to rest, in a musical setting by Robert Taylor.

Complete facsimile in Jorgens, VI (1987).

This MS recorded in Ringler, pp. 486, 566.

Copy in the hand of Sir John Harington, subscribed S^r Phillip Syd: to the bewty of the worlde.

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 71, pp. 116-17. Collated in Ringler.

Copy of lines 1-20, 25-48, untitled, subscribed finis: Britton.

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as The John Finett miscellany. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy of the Tenth Song, in a secretary hand, words only, untitled here beginning O deare life, when shall it be.

Inscriptions including (f. 1v) Richard Shinton his booke Witnis Thomas ffowke; (f. 40r, in a court hand) Thomas Shinton of Woluerhamt; (f. 42v) Richard Shinton this Booke did owe. And John Congreue the Same doth know / 1633, Richard Congreve, Jane Hart is my name; and (f. 44v) Martha Congreve, and Elizabeth Congreve Writ this. Purchased from Thomas Rodd, bookseller, 13 April 1844.

Copies, largely of the incipit only, (i) with the full text, all in a musical setting by William Byrd, untitled.

Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.

Byrd's setting first published in his Songs of sundrie natures (1589). This MS recorded in Ringler, pp. 447, 566.

Copy of the incipit only, in a musical setting by William Byrd.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1882.

This MS recorded in Ringler, pp. 447, 566.

Copy of the song in an abridged and garbled version, untitled and here beginning Who is it that this Darcke nighte, 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, pp. 171-2.

Copy of sonnets 1-4, 6-24, 26-8, and 31 (in an irregular order), headed Certein lowse Sonnettes and songes.

Probably in three secretary hands: A, ff. 1r-183v, 197r to the bottom of f. 240v; B, ff. 184r-92v; C, ff. 193r-6v, bottom of f. 240v to 246r.

This MS collated in Ringler. Facsimile of f. 246r in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), Plate VI after p. 272.

Copy of sonnets 3-32, headed Dyuers and sondry Sonettes, here beginning The ffyer to see my wronges for anger burneth.

Inscribed (f. [ii^r]) Arthur trogmorton and Henry Clifford. Hodgson's, 13 December 1906, to Dobell. Later owned by William Augustus White (1843-1927), American banker and collector. Acquired in 1940.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy of sonnets 8 (lines 1, 4-10), 9 (lines 1-7), 10 (lines 1-4), 11 (lines 1-8), 12 (lines 7-9, 16), 15, 16, 17 (lines 11-12, 14-15, 17-20, 27-45, 48-52), 18 (lines 3-4, 13-14,), 19 (lines 3-4, 6), 21, 22 (lines 9-10, 62-3, 65-8), 23 (lines 16-20, 25-6, 29-32), 24 (lines 6-7, 12-13, 15-16, 22-7), 26 (lines 16-22, 27-33), 27, 30 (lines 4-6, 12-16, 23-6), 31, transcribed from a printed edition.

Among the working papers and collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VII.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 560.

Copy of sonnets 1-2, 13-25, 31, 32 (in an irregular order).

Among papers of Adam Ottley (1685-1752), Registrar of the diocese of St David's, Wales, and formerly in Pitchford Hall, Shropshire.

This MS discussed. with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, Poems by Sir Philip Sidney: The Ottley Manuscript, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 284-95. See also correspondence with Jean Robertson in The Library, 6th Ser. (June 1980) and (June 1981).

Copy.

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 176, p. 214. Collated in Ringler.

Copy.

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 67, pp. 111-12 (where the hand is mistakenly described as that of Sir John Harington). Collated in Ringler.

Copy, untitled, subscribed Finis S. P. S.

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as The John Finett miscellany. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy, untitled, subscribed q^d Ph. S.

Owned by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor.

Typed and MS notes relating to this volume made in the 1920s by Professor Hyder Edward Rollins (1889-1958) are in Harvard MS Eng 1613.

Copy, untitled, subscribed FINIS. S^r P. Sy.

Fols 11r-78r, largely in a single secretary hand, comprising a verse miscellany compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1585-90s.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy, untitled.

Compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, including George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon.

A complete transcription of this volume in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75 (New York, 1988).

This MS collated in Ringler. May, Stanford, pp. 80-1 (No. 107).

Copy of the incipit only.

This MS recorded in Ringler.

Copy, headed Non credo gia che piu infelice am'te.

Inscribed (f. 3r) Will. Walker of Chiswick in Middlesex bought this Booke among other Manuscripts of the Executor of S^r Edmonde Scorie Knight And now possesses it AD 1633. and (f. 239v) This Manuscript w^th many others were bought of M^r Busbie executor to Sr Edmonde Scorie Knight by Will. Walker Theol. Bac:. Later owned by Thomas Wagstaffe (1645-1712), nonjuror bishop, and by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy, untitled.

Inscribed (f. 3r) Will. Walker of Chiswick in Middlesex bought this Booke among other Manuscripts of the Executor of S^r Edmonde Scorie Knight And now possesses it AD 1633. and (f. 239v) This Manuscript w^th many others were bought of M^r Busbie executor to Sr Edmonde Scorie Knight by Will. Walker Theol. Bac:. Later owned by Thomas Wagstaffe (1645-1712), nonjuror bishop, and by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Autograph verses inscribed by Sidney.

Sotheby's, 11 June 1849 (Duke of Buckingham's intended sale), lot 769. Waller, Catalogue of a highly interesting and valuable collection of autograph letters [February 1859], item 139. Later owned by Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Raphael King, London, sale catalogue (January 1951).

Facsimile in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 14.

Copy, headed To the tune of Basciam vita mia.

Inscribed (f. 3r) Will. Walker of Chiswick in Middlesex bought this Booke among other Manuscripts of the Executor of S^r Edmonde Scorie Knight And now possesses it AD 1633. and (f. 239v) This Manuscript w^th many others were bought of M^r Busbie executor to Sr Edmonde Scorie Knight by Will. Walker Theol. Bac:. Later owned by Thomas Wagstaffe (1645-1712), nonjuror bishop, and by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy of four sonnets, headed These 4 Sonnets followinge wer made by S^r. P: Sidney when his Ladye hadd a payne [the small pox added in another hand] in her face and subscribed finis. S^r P: S:.

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as The John Finett miscellany. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy, untitled.

Scribbling (f. i^r-v) includes the names George Hay and Laurence Oliphant.

Copy, untitled, preceded by the original Latin headed Out of Catullus.

Scribbling (f. i^r-v) includes the names George Hay and Laurence Oliphant.

Copy, transcribed from the edition of 1598.

Compiled by John Lilliat (c.1550-c.1599).

This MS volume printed in full, with facsimile examples, in Liber Lilliati: Elizabethan Verse and Song (Bodleian MS Rawlinson Poetry 148), ed. Edward Doughtie (Newark, DE, 1985).

This MS recorded in Ringler, pp. 424, 558.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Vppon the Deuise of a seeled Doue W^th these of Petrarch….

Inscribed (inside front and rear covers) Robert Thornton and William Sherida / W^m Sheridan.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy, untitled, subscribed Finis S. P. S.

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as The John Finett miscellany. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy, untitled, subscribed FYNIS. SY.

Fols 11r-78r, largely in a single secretary hand, comprising a verse miscellany compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1585-90s.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy, untitled, subscribed S p. Sydney.

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.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy.

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as The John Finett miscellany. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy, subscribed FINIS. Syb.

Fols 11r-78r, largely in a single secretary hand, comprising a verse miscellany compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1585-90s.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

Inscribed (inside front and rear covers) Robert Thornton and William Sherida / W^m Sheridan.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy, in a second secretary hand, untitled.

Inscribed (f. 3r) Will. Walker of Chiswick in Middlesex bought this Booke among other Manuscripts of the Executor of S^r Edmonde Scorie Knight And now possesses it AD 1633. and (f. 239v) This Manuscript w^th many others were bought of M^r Busbie executor to Sr Edmonde Scorie Knight by Will. Walker Theol. Bac:. Later owned by Thomas Wagstaffe (1645-1712), nonjuror bishop, and by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy, untitled, subscribed Finis. M^r Nowell.

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as The John Finett miscellany. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy, headed loue fashyoned to 7: Wonders of Englande, subscribed finis: Incertus author.

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as The John Finett miscellany. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy, headed The Seven Wonders of England.

Scribbling (f. i^r-v) includes the names George Hay and Laurence Oliphant.

Copy, in a secretary hand.

Inscribed (inside front and rear covers) Robert Thornton and William Sherida / W^m Sheridan.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy, untitled.

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as The John Finett miscellany. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy of lines 1-32, in double columns, untitled and here beginning Whoso hath fancye pleased.

This MS volume discussed in Katherine K. Gottschalk, Discoveries concerning British Library MS Harley 6910, MP, 77 (1979-80), 121-31.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy.

Fols 11r-78r, largely in a single secretary hand, comprising a verse miscellany compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1585-90s.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed To the tune of Wyllielm Van Nassaw, &c..

Inscribed (inside front and rear covers) Robert Thornton and William Sherida / W^m Sheridan.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy of lines 27-34, untitled and here beginning Thus do I fall to ryse thus.

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as The John Finett miscellany. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy of a six-line paraphrase of lines 30-4, untitled and beginning Sweet I cannot be from you.

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.

Edited from this MS in Ringler, p. 431.

Copy.

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 192, pp. 239-40. Collated in Ringler.

Copy.

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 196, pp. 241-2. Collated in Ringler.

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on one side of a folio leaf, once folded as a letter, endorsed by Edward Bannister A Dyttye mad by S^r phillpe sydnye gevene me Att pvttenye In svrrye Decembris x^o Ann^o 1584, with the name (of the donor) S^r phillyppe Sydnye.

Compiled chiefly by members of the Caryll family.

Presented by Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, first Baronet, MP (1810-69).

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy, untitled, here beginning Ringe forth yo^r Belles, let morninge tunes be spred, subscribed FINIS q^d S^r. Ph. Syd.

Fols 11r-78r, largely in a single secretary hand, comprising a verse miscellany compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1585-90s.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy, untitled.

Compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, including George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon.

A complete transcription of this volume in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75 (New York, 1988).

This MS collated in Ringler. May, Stanford, pp. 79-80 (No. 106).

Copy, untitled.

Inscribed (f. 3r) Will. Walker of Chiswick in Middlesex bought this Booke among other Manuscripts of the Executor of S^r Edmonde Scorie Knight And now possesses it AD 1633. and (f. 239v) This Manuscript w^th many others were bought of M^r Busbie executor to Sr Edmonde Scorie Knight by Will. Walker Theol. Bac:. Later owned by Thomas Wagstaffe (1645-1712), nonjuror bishop, and by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy.

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.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 557.

Copy of lines 1-4 written in a later hand (probably that of a vicar).

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.

Copy, in Alice Thornton's hand, headed An inducement to Loue Heauen.

Inscribed on a flyfeaf Ex Libris Tho. Comber De Creech St. Michael in Comitatu Somerset 1789. 1800. The Contents of this Book are written by the hand of Mrs Alice Thornton, the Great Great Grandmother of me Thomas Comber 1789. Owned in 1875 by a descendant of Alice Thornton, the Rev. Henry George Wandesford Comber, MA, Rector of Oswaldkirk. Sotheby's, 21 July 1980, lot 63, unsold. Sotheby's, 29 June 1982, lot 17, to Quaritch, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue. Then owned by Paula Peyraud, New York State. Bloomsbury Auctions, New York, 6 May 2009, lot 464.

A microfilm of this MS is also in the British Library, RP 2346.

Presumably edited from this MS in Jackson, p. 178?

Copy, untitled, in an ungainly roman hand.

The volume owned and possibly partly compiled by Sir James Murray, of Tibbermure, or by someone in his household, dated at the end anno 1612 y^e 24 of Maij.

Inscriptions including Marie Moorray w^t my hand,Kathrin Morton with my hand, and Capitane James Lyell.

This MS collated in Ringler, p. 554. Facsimile of f. 71v in Sebastiaan Verweij, Ten Sonnets from Scotland: Text, Context and Coterie Writing in Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.5.30, EMS, 16 (2011), 141-169 (p. 141).

Copy, a name deleted and then Sir ffrancis Bacon written as a heading.

Probably compiled in Scotland by members of the Rutherford family.

Inscribed (f. 1r) M^r Gideon Rutherford and Jean Rutherford, and (ff. 11v-13v) including a poem on John Reutherfoord. Acquired in 1924 from Maggs Bros.

Briefly discussed in Marcia Allentuck, An Unpublished Commonplace Book of Scottish Interest in the Folger Shakespeare Library, SSL, 7, No. 4 (April 1970), 270-1.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 561.

Copy of lines 1-2, untitled and here beginning Her being was in he alone.

Compiled by members of the Cartwright family, of Aynho, Northamptonshire, including (ff. 4r-7v) verse by William Cartwright (1634-76).

Inscribed names including Will: Cartwright, Jo: Cartwright, and Katherin Cartwright. Myers, sale catalogue No. 291 (1933), item 120.

Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 493.

Copy of lines 1-2, here beginning Her being was in him a lone.

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

Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector.

Recorded in Ringler, p. 493.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 493.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 493.

Copy.

Formerly among the papers of the Aston family, of Tixall, Staffordshire.

Selectively edited (as his Fourth Division: Miscellaneous Poems) in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 207-324.

Edited from this MS, as On Argalus and Parthenia, Epitaph, in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), p. 276.

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy.

Entitled The Psalmes of Dauid translated into diuers & sundry kindes of verse, more rare, & excellent, for the method & varietie then euer yet hath bene don in English: begun by the noble & learned gent. S^r P: Sidney Kt., & finished by the R: honnorable the Countesse of Pembroke, his Sister, & by her dirrection & appointment.

Inscribed on the title-page W. Barkwith.

This MS described in Ringler, p. 548. Facsimile of the title-page in Rathmell, p. xxxiii.

Inscribed on f. 82v, after Psalm 87, But here all the leaues are torn off, to the 23 verse of the CII. Psalms, to be supplyd if possible from some other Copy, of w^ch ther is a fayre one in Trinity Colledg library in Cambridg, & of w^ch many years since I had y^e sight when I first began my Paraphrase Sam: Woodforde and, on f. 131v, after Psalm 130, But from this place to the end, my Copy is defective the leaves being torn off Ita tester Sam: Woodforde who for S^r philip Sedneys sake, & to preserue such a remaine of him undertook this tiresome task of transcribing, 1694/5.

Also inscribed by Woodford (f. ii^r) The Original Copy is by mee Given me by my brother M^r John Woodford who bought it among other broken books to putt up Coffee pouder as I rememb^r. Inscribed (f. 146r) T. W and Mary Woodforde.

Psalms 1-43 edited from this MS in Ringler and described pp. 547-8. Psalm 85 edited from this MS and discussed in Noel Kinnamon, A Variant of the Countess of Pembroke Psalm 85, Sidney Newsletter, 2/2 (1981), 9-12.

In the secretary hands of Harington's servant Thomas Combe and of Harington's brother Francis, with Harington's occasional autograph corrections and insertions largely in italic.

Covers stamped Bibliotheca Butleriana: i.e. the library of Samuel Butler (1774-1839), Bishop of Lichfield. Booklabel of Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary.

This MS described in Ringler, p. 550.

Sotheby's, 6 June 1793 (Dr Taylor's sale). Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector.

This MS described in Ringler, pp. 549-50.

Volume VII of the Harington Papers.

With additional notes by John Harington, MP (d.1654).

This MS collated in Ringler and described pp. 551-2.

Inscribed on the last page Haec meminisse juvat Apr. 23 163[ ].

Owned in 1820 by Henry Cotton (1789-1879), sub-librarian of the Bodleian Library; later by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, and by Sir Hugh Walpole (1884-1941). Christie's, 2 April 1940/8[?], lot 18, and 12 June 2000 (William Foyle sale, Part III), lot 312.

This MS discussed in Gavin Alexander, A New Manuscript of the Sidney Psalms: A Preliminary Report, Sidney Journal, 18/1 (Summer 2000), 43-56.

Inscribed (on front and rear pastedowns) W Corke[?] New Coll: Oxon and W Croke[?] Coll Nov. Oxon. 1762. Sold 2 January 1942 by Dobell.

The early owner T M possibly Thomas Moffett (1553-1604), poet and physician to the Countess of Pembroke, or perhaps Tobie Matthew (1544?-1628), Archbishop of York: see H.R. Woudhuysen, Astrophel and Stella 75: A New Text, RES, NS 37 (August 1986), 388-92. Later apparently in the library of Warwick Castle. Sotheby's, 24 November 1969, lot 135. Owned before 1976 by Mr John Goelet when it was on deposit at Harvard (*69M-142). Sotheby's, 21-22 July 1980, lot 574, to Colin Franklin.

Described in G.F. Waller, The Text and Manuscript Variants of the Countess of Pembroke's Psalms, RES, NS 26 (1975), 1-18. A facsimile example is in the Sotheby's 1980 sale catalogue. Two microfilms are in the British Library: RP 412 and RP 2051.

In a professional secretary hand, with three lines in black ink possibly added in a second hand after Psalm 23 on f. 17r.

Contemporary ownership of one Henry Platt.

This MS described in Cecil C. Seronsy, Another Huntington Manuscript of the Sidney Psalms, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 109-16.

This MS described in Ringler, p. 552.

Owned in 1789 by the poet William Hayley (1745-1820), and later by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector.

This MS described in Ringler, p. 552.

A formal copy of Psalms 1-150, in a calligraphic italic hand, untitled, with two dedicatory poems by his sister, Mary, Countess of Pembroke (PeM 1, PeM 2).

Formerly in the library of Walter Aston (1583-1639), Baron Aston of Forfar, of Tixall, Staffordshire, diplomat. Bequeathed by Dr Bent Juel-Jensen (1922-2006), Oxford physician and book collector.

Described by B.E. Juel-Jensen in Book Collector, 15 (Summer 1966), 156 (with a facsimile of two pages in Plate 3), and in Book Collector, 18 (Summer 1969), 222-3. Described in Ringler, pp. 550-1. (1988), I, 102-4 and 110-12. Discussed in Noel Kinnamon, The Sidney Psalms: The Penshurst and Tixall Manuscripts, EMS, 2 (1990), 139-61.

Inscribed (inside the front cover) Ex dono Roberti Wynn and (f. 1r) E libris Griffithii Roberto 1791.

Once owned by Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), courtier and natural philosopher.

This MS described in Ringler, p. 552.

Edited from this MS in Rathmell. Collated in Ringler and described pp. 546-7. Facsimile of Psalm 117 in John Buxton, Sir Philip Sidney and the English Renaissance, revised edition (London, 1964), after p. 156. Discussed, with facsimile examples of ff. 45v, 54v, 118r, and 135r, in Noel Kinnamon, The Sidney Psalms: The Penshurst and Tixall Manuscripts, EMS, 2 (1990), 139-61.

This MS described in Ringler, p. 549.

This MS described in Ringler, p. 549.

Subscribed (p. 302) I haue perused this Metaphrase of the Psalmes by that Worthy, whose happy meditations may yield others content, and, a precedent worthy imitation, Which I desire may be published in Print. John Langley. Donated in 1664 by W. Lynnet, STB, Fellow, whose name is stamped in gilt on the front cover.

This MS described in Ringler, p. 549.

Once owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and by his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician (whose library was sold in 1759).

This MS described in Ringler, pp. 548-9.

Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725). Ballard, 4 March 1733/4, lot 139, to Calamy.

Later owned by James Boswell the younger (1778-1822), barrister and literary scholar, whose library incorporated some materials owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector. Sotheby's, 24 May 1825, lot 3190.

Copy of Psalms 51, 104 and 137, in a neat secretary hand.

Transcribed from the Yelverton papers chiefly belonging to Sir Christopher Yelverton (1535?-1612), Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), and their family.

Owned in 1679 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.

The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke (1988), Vol. II, pp. 49-51, 158-62, 231-2.

Copy of one or two Psalms, in musical settings.

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).

Copy of Psalms 51, 104 and 137, in an italic hand, headed Psalmes translated by the Countesse of Pembrooke, on three folio leaves.

A copy of verses sent by Sir John Harington to Lucy, Countess of Bedford, on 29 December 1600, his letter (copy on f. 303v) declaring I have sent yow heere the devine, and trulie devine translation of three of Davids psalmes, donne by that Excellent Countesse, and in Poesie the mirroir of our Age.

This MS discussed in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke, II, 316. See also SiP 74, SiP 76 and SiP 88.8.

Copy of Psalm 137, headed Psalm y^e 137^th done by S^r Philip Sidney Kn^t, here beginning Nigh seated where y^e River flows.

Copy of Psalms 51, 69, 104, 112, and 137,translated by the Countess of Pembroke.

Owned by Sir John's descendants Henry Harington (1686-1769) and Dr Henry Harington (1727-1816).

These manuscripts edited in Nugae Antiquae (first published in two volumes, London, 1769); various editions, expanded to 2 vols, ed. Henry Harington [and Thomas Park], London, 1804.

Edited from this MS in Nugae Antiquae (1769), II, 57-69; (1804), II, 407-10.

Copy of Psalms 100 and 101, docketed in the margin By S^r. Philip Sidney, the second with a sidenote by Ussher: I delivered a copy of this to the King at Cardiffe, August 4, 1645, having preached there unto him, the day before.

Originally used as a commonplace book by T. Metcalf in 1598 (up to f. 63v), and then by James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh.

Copy, untitled, subscribed Finis S. P. S..

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as The John Finett miscellany. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

Edited from this MS in Ringler, pp. 344-5.

Copy.

Fols 11r-78r, largely in a single secretary hand, comprising a verse miscellany compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1585-90s.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Copy, as S^r Ph: Sydneys Sonnet.

Copy, as by S^r P. S.

Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VIII.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Drummond Miscellany: DnJ Δ 66. Some extracts from this MS edited in Laing (1831), pp. 78-82. Drummond's Catalogue of Comedies (ff. 122-3). Recorded in MacDonald, Library of Drummond, pp. 231-2.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 518 (with one folio incorrectly cited as f. 9v).

Copy, headed In one of the Pictures of S Philip Sidney are these verses, viz.

Copy, subscribed P. Sidney.

Fols 11r-78r, largely in a single secretary hand, comprising a verse miscellany compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1585-90s.

Edited from this MS in Wagner and in Ringler.

Copy.

Among papers of Adam Ottley (1685-1752), Registrar of the diocese of St David's, Wales, and formerly in Pitchford Hall, Shropshire.

This MS discussed. with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, Poems by Sir Philip Sidney: The Ottley Manuscript, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 284-95. See also correspondence with Jean Robertson in The Library, 6th Ser. (June 1980) and (June 1981).

Edited from this MS in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), pp. 413-14.

Copy, subscribed FINIS. S^r P Sy.

Fols 11r-78r, largely in a single secretary hand, comprising a verse miscellany compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1585-90s.

Edited from this MS in Wagner and in Ringler.

Copy, as by S^r P. S.

Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VIII.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Drummond Miscellany: DnJ Δ 66. Some extracts from this MS edited in Laing (1831), pp. 78-82. Drummond's Catalogue of Comedies (ff. 122-3). Recorded in MacDonald, Library of Drummond, pp. 231-2.

Copy.

Among papers of Adam Ottley (1685-1752), Registrar of the diocese of St David's, Wales, and formerly in Pitchford Hall, Shropshire.

This MS discussed. with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, Poems by Sir Philip Sidney: The Ottley Manuscript, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 284-95. See also correspondence with Jean Robertson in The Library, 6th Ser. (June 1980) and (June 1981).

Edited from this MS in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), p. 414.

Copy.

Among papers of Adam Ottley (1685-1752), Registrar of the diocese of St David's, Wales, and formerly in Pitchford Hall, Shropshire.

This MS discussed. with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, Poems by Sir Philip Sidney: The Ottley Manuscript, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 284-95. See also correspondence with Jean Robertson in The Library, 6th Ser. (June 1980) and (June 1981).

Edited from this MS in Beal (1978) and in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), p. 415.

Copy of the complete text, untitled but beginning The ffirst booke or Acte of the countes of pembrookes Arcadia.

Probably in three secretary hands: A, ff. 1r-183v, 197r to the bottom of f. 240v; B, ff. 184r-92v; C, ff. 193r-6v, bottom of f. 240v to 246r.

This MS collated in Robertson and the poems collated in Ringler. Described in Ringler, p. 529.

Inscribed inside the front cover Edward Thelwall, Anne Thelwalls brother, and Sidnay Tholwall.

This MS collated in Robertson and the poems collated in Ringler. Described in Ringler, p. 525.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's (Evans), 10 February 1836 (Heber Sale, Part XI), lot 1433. Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1171. In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9610. Sotheby's, 15 June 1908 (Phillipps sale), lot 677. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 228 (March 1914), item 108. Acquired 25 July 1914.

This MS collated in Robertson and the poems collated in Ringler. Described in Ringler, pp. 526-7. The identification of Harington's hand established in P.J. Croft, Sir John Harington's Manuscript of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, in Stephen Parks and P.J. Croft, Literary Autographs (Los Angeles, 1983), pp. 37-75, with facsimiles of ff. 85r, 87r, 126r, as Plates 4, 2, and 3.

Inscribed (f. i^r) Tho: Martin: i.e. Thomas Martin (1697-1771), antiquary and collector. Martin sale, 1772, lot 270, and 1773, lot 4543. Later inscribed (f. ii^r) I bought this Book out of the Collection of the Late Antiquary M^r Martin of Palsgrave Suffolk / Charles Brietzcke 18^th May 1774: i.e. Charles Brietzcke (fl.1756-95), Deputy Clerk of the Signet. Donated by Miss Mary E. Davies, of Wedderburn House, Hampstead, on 18 May 1925.

This MS (the Davies MS) collated in Robertson and the poems collated in Ringler. Described in Ringler, p. 526.

Inscribed on the original cover Swr Henry Lee delivered being champean to the qwen delivered to my lord cwmberland by willeam Simons: i.e. delivered to George Clifford (1558-1605), third Earl of Cumberland, courtier and privateer, and then owned by Sir Henry Lee (1530-1610), of Ditchley, Oxfordshire, the Queen's Champion. Presented by Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon (1844-1932), seventeenth Viscount Dillon, CH, antiquary.

This MS (the Lee MS) collated in Robertson and the poems collated in Ringler. Described in Ringler, pp. 527-8.

Copy of the complete text, in the professional secretary hand of Richard Robinson (1554/5-1603), scribe and translator, lacking a title-page, the first heading: The first Booke or Acte of the Countess of Pembrookes Arcadia.

Inscribed (f. [ii^r]) Arthur trogmorton and Henry Clifford. Hodgson's, 13 December 1906, to Dobell. Later owned by William Augustus White (1843-1927), American banker and collector. Acquired in 1940.

Edited from this MS in Feuillerat. Collated in Robertson and the poems collated in Ringler. Described in Ringler, p. 527, and in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), p. 400, with a facsimile of f. 2r in Plate V after p. 272. A facsimile of f. 2r also in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 122.

Copy of the complete Arcadia, untitled, imperfect.

Formerly in the library of the Tollemache family, at Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, and probably once owned by Sir Lionel Tollemache, first Baronet (1562-1612?), whose initials (S L T) are stamped in blind on the cover.

Sotheby's, 6 June 1961, lot 21. Booklabel of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 12 June 1980 (Houghton sale), lot 426.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 61.

This MS collated in Robertson and described p. xlii. Described in Ringler, pp. x-xii. Facsimile of f. 61r in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 6 June 1961, lot 21, and of f. 2r in Christie's sale catalogue, 12 June 1980, Plate 32.

Once owned by Robert Walker, Treasurer to Sir Henry Sidney from 1575 to c.1581. Later owned by Bertram Ashburnham (1797-1874), fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and then in 1878 by Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928), newspaper proprietor and manuscript collector. Sotheby's, 1 May 1899, lot 16.

This MS (the Ashburnham MS) collated in Robertson and the poems collated in Ringler; described in Ringler, p. 528. Facsimiles of ff. 116v and 154r in DLB, vol. 167, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Third Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1996), pp. 204-5.

Copy of 24 of the poems (Nos. 2, 3, 11, 12, 13, [Lines 116-21, 123, 125, 129, 131-2, 136-7, 141], 14-22, 27, 28 [lines 37-48], 31, 33-5, 38, 60, 62, 77, in an irregular order) and also the Nota on rules of verse (here beginning Rules in mesured verses in English w^ch I observe).

Among papers of Adam Ottley (1685-1752), Registrar of the diocese of St David's, Wales, and formerly in Pitchford Hall, Shropshire.

This MS discussed. with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, Poems by Sir Philip Sidney: The Ottley Manuscript, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 284-95. See also correspondence with Jean Robertson in The Library, 6th Ser. (June 1980) and (June 1981).

The Nota edited (from SiP 102) in Ringler, p. 391, and in Robertson, pp. 80-1. Facsimile of f. 6v, including the Nota on rules of verse, in Beal (1978), Plates I and II.

The name Thomas Savoy attached (f. i^r) to a later copy of a letter by Charles I, dated July 1636.

This MS collated in Robertson and the poems collated in Ringler. Described in Ringler, pp. 525-6.

Copy of the complete text, with some corrections in a later hand.

Inscribed (f. 3r) Will. Walker of Chiswick in Middlesex bought this Booke among other Manuscripts of the Executor of S^r Edmonde Scorie Knight And now possesses it AD 1633. and (f. 239v) This Manuscript w^th many others were bought of M^r Busbie executor to Sr Edmonde Scorie Knight by Will. Walker Theol. Bac:. Later owned by Thomas Wagstaffe (1645-1712), nonjuror bishop, and by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary.

Edited from this MS in Robertson. The poems collated in Ringler. Described in Ringler, pp. 528-9.

Containing the text of poems OA 18 (here The seauenth songe: beginning Yee lovinge Pouers enclosed in statelye shryne) and OA 19, lines 1, 8-12, 11 (here The Eighte songe beginning My wordes in hoope to blase my stedfast mynde, with related prose, written in the accomplished secretary hand of John Paxton, steward of the Huddleston estate, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves (c.355 x 230mm.), probably discarded because of a mistake in copying (eyeskip) and later used to reinforce the lower cover of a vellum-bound manuscript terrier relating to manors of Sir Edmund Huddleston dated 10 May 1580.

Possibly written for Sir Edmund Huddleston (c.1536-1606), of Sawston Hall, a prominent member of a Catholic family.

This MS, discovered by Steven W. May, discussed, with a facsimile, in H.R. Woudhuysen, A New Manuscript Fragment of Sidney's Old Arcadia: The Huddleston Manuscript, EMS, 11: Manuscripts and their Makers in the English Renaissance (2002), 52-69. The prose text corresponds to Robertson's edition of Old Arcadia, p. 109, lines 27-9, and p. 110, lines 13-28. The poems are in Ringler, pp. 40-1.

Later owned by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector. Baker & Leigh (Sotheby's), 28 April 1773, lot 4744.

Thomas Thorpe's Catalogue of manuscripts upon papyrus, vellum and paper, 1843, item 582, and in his subsequent sale catalogues until 1850.

Copy of the prose text (incomplete) and 17 of the poems (Nos. 2-5, 8 [beginning only], 14-17, 20-2, 25, 26 [lines 1-4], 30 [lines 5-37], 62 [lines 1-8], 74 [lines 1-6]), in the same probably professional italic hand as SiP 176, with an engrossed incipit, some decoration, and occasional spaces left in the text presumably for words unclear in the scribe's exemplar, on 210 folio leaves, lacking title, dated (f. 1r) 1584.

This MS collated in Robertson and the poems collated in Ringler; described in Ringler, pp. 529-31. Facsimile of f. 75r in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), Plate VII after p. 272.

Substantial prose extracts from Books I-V and 19 of the poems (Nos. 3, 8, 9 [lines 121-37]. 10 [lines 67-85, 89-96], 21, 25, 27, 40, 41, 43, 46, 52, 54, 59, 60, 65, 69, 72 [lines 1-20], 75 [lines 79-93], in an irregular order), untitled, transcribed from a printed edition.

Among the working papers and collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VII.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 560.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 531.

Prose extracts and parts of lines 1-6 of poem No. 77, transcribed from a printed source; variously headed S^r Phillip Sidney's discourse: vpo Atheism (beginning Cecropia to Pamela. devotion is indeed y^r best bond... and ending ...& shalt onely greiue him to haue beene a Creator in thy destruction. Arcadia. fol: 129. 130); S^r P. Sidney of selfe murther (f. 20v); S^r P. Sidney of Death (f. 21r-v); A Sonet of Death. by. S^r. P.S., beginning Since nature's work's bee good (f. 22r, largely torn away); S^r P. Sidneys discourse of Princes Conspireinge in another Princes land (ff. 22v-3r, imperfect); S^r. P. Sidney, of Dauids. Psal. (f. 23v); and S^r P. Sidney of Learninge (f. 24r).

Later scribbling (f. 15r) including names Joseph England, Tho Denton and Joseph Dixon.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 554.

Prose extracts, headed Out of the Arcadia and beginning Let vs thinke w^th consderacon, & cosider w^th acknowleginge....

Facsimile of f. 85v in Fred Schurink, Lives and Letters: Three Early Seventeenth-Century Manuscripts with Extracts from Sidney's Arcadia, EMS, 16 (2011), 170-96 (p. 175).

Prose extracts with three of the poems (Nos. 17, 20 and 62 [lines 35-6, 95-6, 125-6, 123-4, 73-6, 65-6, 37-8, 21-2]), transcribed from a printed edition.

Including (on ff. 17-27, rectos only) portions of 17 English poems by Crashaw.

Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753).

Recorded in IELM as Sloane MS: CrR Δ 5. Crashaw's work collated in Martin (cited as S) and discussed p. lxxix.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 557.

Verse and prose extracts, including lines from poems No. 2, 4, 6, 14, 19 and 51, transcribed for writing practice by Lady Katherine Manners (1603?-49), who became wife of the first Duke of Buckingham, in a small booklet, the name William Ellis inscribed (f. 45v).

In collections of the Manners family, Dukes of Rutland.

Recorded (erroneously as Volume XXIV) in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix V, Rutland II (1889), pp. 316-31.

This MS discussed in Josephine A. Roberts, Extracts from Arcadia in the Manuscript Notebook of Lady Katherine Manners, N&Q, 226 (1981), 35-6.

Copy, in the italic hand of John Evelyn Jr, on both sides of a folio leaf.

Vol. CCLXXXIX of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 253.

A series of references to Arcadia under headings (Defensio, Expurgatio, Narratoria, Disputatoria, Gratulatoria, etc.), on pages including ff. 5v, 7r, 10r, 11r, 15v, 16r, 18r, 23r, 25r, 26r, and 31r-2r.

Formerly MS Add. 774.

Discussed in Fred Schurink, Manuscript Commonplace Books, Literature, and Reading in Early Modern England, HLQ, 73/3 (2010), 453-69 (p. 460 et seq.), with a facsimile of f. 6r on p. 464.

Copy, headed Another, transcribed from the edition of 1593.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Anthonie Babingtonn of warrington, with the date 1596, and Roger Wright me possidett ex dono Henerici fratrie Meo. Later owned and annotated by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Signature and bookplate of F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), lot 50. Purchased from Jarvis & Son, 15 June 1891.

Identified in Ringler, PQ (1975), as the Quarto MS from which Percy derived the texts of three poems by Breton edited in his Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765). Substantial extracts from it edited in Grosart's edition of Breton (1879). Also briefly discussed in P.M. Buck, Jr, Add MS. 34064 and Spenser's Ruins of Time and Mother Hubberd's Tale, MLN, 22 (1907), 41-6, and in Robertson's edition of Breton, pp. liv-lv.

Typed and MS notes relating to this volume made in the 1920s by Professor Hyder Edward Rollins (1889-1958) are in Harvard MS Eng 1613.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 555, and in Robertson, p. 423.

Copy, in the play Loves Changelinges change.

From the library of Lord Charlemont.

Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, More Manuscript Versions of Poems by Sidney, ELN, 9 (1971-2), 3-12 (pp. 4-5).

Copy, untitled.

Compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, including George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon.

A complete transcription of this volume in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75 (New York, 1988).

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson. May, Stanford, p. 127 (No. 200).

Copy, headed Mopsa, transcribed from a printed source.

Probably compiled principally by an Oxford University man.

Names inscribed on rear flyleaf and paste-down Elizabeth hosman and William Blois.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 558, and in Robertson, p. 424.

Copy, untitled.

Inscribed by the compiler, on an elaborate title-page (f. 1r), Abygall Guilford her Booke 1672.

Inscribed (top of f. 1r) This Book was I conclude my Grandmother Hoopers before her Marriage. Acquired from the Rev. H. Hooper, 9 December 1874.

Copy, untitled.

This MS volume discussed in Katherine K. Gottschalk, Discoveries concerning British Library MS Harley 6910, MP, 77 (1979-80), 121-31.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Copy, untitled, subscribed S^r Phyll Sydn.

Fols 11r-78r, largely in a single secretary hand, comprising a verse miscellany compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1585-90s.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Copy, untitled.

Compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, including George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon.

A complete transcription of this volume in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75 (New York, 1988).

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson. May, Stanford, p. 124 (No. 196).

Copy, headed The Praises of Mopsa daughter to Dametas.

Scribbling (f. i^r-v) includes the names George Hay and Laurence Oliphant.

Copy of Book I, No. 3, lines 13-14 (beginning As for those parts unknowne, which hidden sure are best).

Copy of an abridged version beginning These weedes will beecome my mind, in the play Loves Changelinges change.

From the library of Lord Charlemont.

Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, More Manuscript Versions of Poems by Sidney, ELN, 9 (1971-2), 3-12 (p. 5).

Extracts, headed S^r Philip Sidney and dated 1646.

Compiled by one William Bright, entitled ffragmenta hic omnigena è varijs excerpta authoribus ad priuatum existunt vsum WB ex anno 1644.

Inscribed also inside the lower cover Will: Bright Novemb 12^th pretiu 8^d 1645.

Copy of the first stanza, in a musical setting.

With a title-page Ane buck off roundells...Collected and notted by dauid meluill. 1612, the compiler David Melvill, of Aberdeen, being the brother of James Melvill (1556-1614), Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages.

The binding bearing the name of Robert Ogilvie in gilt. Later owned by Lord Ashburnham. Recorded in 1916 as owned by Michael Tomkinson, of Franche Hall, Kidderminster. Recorded in 1958 as being somewhere in Australia.

This MS edited as The Melvill Book of Roundels, ed. Granville Bantock and H. Orsmond Anderton (Roxburghe Club, London, 1916).

Edited from this MS in the 1916 edition, No. 68, pp. 27, 139-41. Discussed in John P. Cutts, Dametas' Song in Sidney's Arcadia, RN, 11 (1958), 183-8. Recorded in Ringler, p. 567, and in Robertson, p. 427.

Copy, headed Dametas song.

Scribbling (f. i^r-v) includes the names George Hay and Laurence Oliphant.

Copy, headed demetrius on dorus, in S^r: Philp sidneys Arc^a, 1671.

Sotheby's, 20 July 1989, lot 36.

Copy of the incipit, in a musical setting, untitled.

One of the part books of the St Andrews Psalter.

Copy of a two-stanza version beginning wee loue and are beelovd againe, in the play Loves Changelinges change.

From the library of Lord Charlemont.

Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, More Manuscript Versions of Poems by Sidney, ELN, 9 (1971-2), 3-12 (pp. 5-6).

Copy of lines 152-6, untitled and here beginning My earthy moulde doth melt in watry teares.

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as The John Finett miscellany. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Copy of lines 113-39, 141-4, 146-54, here beginning When I behoulde the trees in the earthes fayre lyuerye clothed.

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as The John Finett miscellany. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Copy, headed Another, transcribed from the edition of 1593.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Anthonie Babingtonn of warrington, with the date 1596, and Roger Wright me possidett ex dono Henerici fratrie Meo. Later owned and annotated by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Signature and bookplate of F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), lot 50. Purchased from Jarvis & Son, 15 June 1891.

Identified in Ringler, PQ (1975), as the Quarto MS from which Percy derived the texts of three poems by Breton edited in his Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765). Substantial extracts from it edited in Grosart's edition of Breton (1879). Also briefly discussed in P.M. Buck, Jr, Add MS. 34064 and Spenser's Ruins of Time and Mother Hubberd's Tale, MLN, 22 (1907), 41-6, and in Robertson's edition of Breton, pp. liv-lv.

Typed and MS notes relating to this volume made in the 1920s by Professor Hyder Edward Rollins (1889-1958) are in Harvard MS Eng 1613.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 555, and in Robertson, p. 437.

Copy, headed Ould age.

With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.

This MS recorded in Ringler, pp. 558-9, and in Robertson, p. 437.

Copy, headed An old man fallen in love with a yonge maiden.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Anthonie Babingtonn of warrington, with the date 1596, and Roger Wright me possidett ex dono Henerici fratrie Meo. Later owned and annotated by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Signature and bookplate of F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), lot 50. Purchased from Jarvis & Son, 15 June 1891.

Identified in Ringler, PQ (1975), as the Quarto MS from which Percy derived the texts of three poems by Breton edited in his Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765). Substantial extracts from it edited in Grosart's edition of Breton (1879). Also briefly discussed in P.M. Buck, Jr, Add MS. 34064 and Spenser's Ruins of Time and Mother Hubberd's Tale, MLN, 22 (1907), 41-6, and in Robertson's edition of Breton, pp. liv-lv.

Typed and MS notes relating to this volume made in the 1920s by Professor Hyder Edward Rollins (1889-1958) are in Harvard MS Eng 1613.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 555, and in Robertson, p. 437.

Copy of lines 1-8, 13-14.

This MS volume discussed in Katherine K. Gottschalk, Discoveries concerning British Library MS Harley 6910, MP, 77 (1979-80), 121-31.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Copy, headed An old man a suitor and here beginning Why should old age disgrace my high desire, inscribed An old paper of my Coz. Burrows.

Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89). Bookplate of James W. Ellsworth.

Copy.

Inscribed (f. 101v) Henry Lawson (or just possibly Lamson). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

Ringler, p. 39; Robertson, p. 99.

Copy, headed Another, transcribed from the edition of 1593.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Anthonie Babingtonn of warrington, with the date 1596, and Roger Wright me possidett ex dono Henerici fratrie Meo. Later owned and annotated by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Signature and bookplate of F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), lot 50. Purchased from Jarvis & Son, 15 June 1891.

Identified in Ringler, PQ (1975), as the Quarto MS from which Percy derived the texts of three poems by Breton edited in his Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765). Substantial extracts from it edited in Grosart's edition of Breton (1879). Also briefly discussed in P.M. Buck, Jr, Add MS. 34064 and Spenser's Ruins of Time and Mother Hubberd's Tale, MLN, 22 (1907), 41-6, and in Robertson's edition of Breton, pp. liv-lv.

Typed and MS notes relating to this volume made in the 1920s by Professor Hyder Edward Rollins (1889-1958) are in Harvard MS Eng 1613.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 555, and in Robertson, p. 437.

Copy, untitled, subscribed T.S[?].

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 Ringler, p. 561, and in Robertson, p. 438.

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

Inscribed (inside front and rear covers) Robert Thornton and William Sherida / W^m Sheridan.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Copy, untitled.

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as The John Finett miscellany. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Copy, transcribed from the edition of 1598.

Compiled by John Lilliat (c.1550-c.1599).

This MS volume printed in full, with facsimile examples, in Liber Lilliati: Elizabethan Verse and Song (Bodleian MS Rawlinson Poetry 148), ed. Edward Doughtie (Newark, DE, 1985).

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 558, and in Robertson, p. 440.

Copy, headed Another, transcribed from the edition of 1593.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Anthonie Babingtonn of warrington, with the date 1596, and Roger Wright me possidett ex dono Henerici fratrie Meo. Later owned and annotated by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Signature and bookplate of F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), lot 50. Purchased from Jarvis & Son, 15 June 1891.

Identified in Ringler, PQ (1975), as the Quarto MS from which Percy derived the texts of three poems by Breton edited in his Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765). Substantial extracts from it edited in Grosart's edition of Breton (1879). Also briefly discussed in P.M. Buck, Jr, Add MS. 34064 and Spenser's Ruins of Time and Mother Hubberd's Tale, MLN, 22 (1907), 41-6, and in Robertson's edition of Breton, pp. liv-lv.

Typed and MS notes relating to this volume made in the 1920s by Professor Hyder Edward Rollins (1889-1958) are in Harvard MS Eng 1613.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 555, and in Robertson, p. 440.

Copy, untitled.

Including 14 poems by Donne, six poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, ten poems by Habington and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph. Owned and possibly compiled by Arthur Capell (1631-83), second Earl of Essex, whose name is inscribed in red ink (1*), in a similar roman hand to that on ff. 1r-19r. He married (1653) Elizabeth Percy (1636-1718), daughter of Algernon, tenth Earl of Northumberland; she was therefore the great niece of Habington's mother-in-law, Eleanor Percy, sister of the ninth Earl of Northumberland.

Later among the collections of Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son, Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II, i-ii (1987-93), as the Capell MS: DnJ Δ 43, CwT Δ 17, and RnT Δ 3. Discussed in Geoffrey Tillotson, The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 556, and in Robertson, p. 440.

Copy, untitled.

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as The John Finett miscellany. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Copy, headed The Scyrmish betwixt Reasons and Passion, transcribed from the edition of 1593.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Anthonie Babingtonn of warrington, with the date 1596, and Roger Wright me possidett ex dono Henerici fratrie Meo. Later owned and annotated by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Signature and bookplate of F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), lot 50. Purchased from Jarvis & Son, 15 June 1891.

Identified in Ringler, PQ (1975), as the Quarto MS from which Percy derived the texts of three poems by Breton edited in his Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765). Substantial extracts from it edited in Grosart's edition of Breton (1879). Also briefly discussed in P.M. Buck, Jr, Add MS. 34064 and Spenser's Ruins of Time and Mother Hubberd's Tale, MLN, 22 (1907), 41-6, and in Robertson's edition of Breton, pp. liv-lv.

Typed and MS notes relating to this volume made in the 1920s by Professor Hyder Edward Rollins (1889-1958) are in Harvard MS Eng 1613.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 555, and in Robertson, p. 443.

Copy, with deleted heading Carmen phalemia.

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as The John Finett miscellany. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Copy of lines 1-2 as the first two lines of a song (here first stanza only) by John Dowland, untitled and with sidenote M^r: Jn^o: Dowland.

Compiled by John Ramsay (b.1578), of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and the Middle Temple.

Name (inscribed several times) of Thomas Russell. Given in 1724 by Robert Cook of Bokenham to Francis Blomefield (1705-52), Norfolk topographer, and with Blomefield's bookplate, 1736. Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.

This MS recorded in Robertson, p. 447.

Copy of lines 1-2 in the song version of John Dowland (first stanza only) (see SiP 138), in Lawes's musical setting.

Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller.

Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.

Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Henry Lawes MS: CwT Δ 16; HeR Δ 3; WaE Δ 11. Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Pamela J. Willetts, The Henry Lawes Manuscript (London, 1969). Facsimiles of ff. 42r, 78r, 80r, 84r, 111r and 169r in The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric C. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 59, 60, 62, 64, 66 and 117. Also discussed in Willa McClung Evans, Henry Lawes: Musician and Friend of Poets (New York and London, 1941), and elsewhere. A complete facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 3 (New York & London, 1986).

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 566, and in Robertson, p. 447. Facsimiles in Willa McClung Evans, Henry Lawes (New York & London, 1941), p. 20, and in Pamela J. Willetts, The Henry Lawes Manuscript (London, 1969), plate XIII.

Copy, untitled.

Compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, including George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon.

A complete transcription of this volume in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75 (New York, 1988).

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson. May, Stanford, p. 119 (No. 194).

Copy.

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as The John Finett miscellany. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Copy, untitled.

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as The John Finett miscellany. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, including George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon.

A complete transcription of this volume in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75 (New York, 1988).

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson. May, Stanford, p. 77 (No. 101).

Copy of lines 1-8.

Compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, including George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon.

A complete transcription of this volume in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75 (New York, 1988).

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson. May, Stanford, p. 78 (No. 102)

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

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).

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 566, and in Robertson, p. 452.

Copy, untitled.

Fols 11r-78r, largely in a single secretary hand, comprising a verse miscellany compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1585-90s.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Copy, headed The answere to y^e former verses, transcribed from the edition of 1593.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Anthonie Babingtonn of warrington, with the date 1596, and Roger Wright me possidett ex dono Henerici fratrie Meo. Later owned and annotated by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Signature and bookplate of F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), lot 50. Purchased from Jarvis & Son, 15 June 1891.

Identified in Ringler, PQ (1975), as the Quarto MS from which Percy derived the texts of three poems by Breton edited in his Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765). Substantial extracts from it edited in Grosart's edition of Breton (1879). Also briefly discussed in P.M. Buck, Jr, Add MS. 34064 and Spenser's Ruins of Time and Mother Hubberd's Tale, MLN, 22 (1907), 41-6, and in Robertson's edition of Breton, pp. liv-lv.

Typed and MS notes relating to this volume made in the 1920s by Professor Hyder Edward Rollins (1889-1958) are in Harvard MS Eng 1613.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 555, and in Robertson, p. 453.

Compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, including George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon.

A complete transcription of this volume in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75 (New York, 1988).

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson. May, Stanford, p. 78 (No. 103).

Copy.

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 191, p. 239. Collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Copy, untitled, subscribed Finis S. P. S.

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as The John Finett miscellany. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Copy, subscribed FINIS. Sy.

Fols 11r-78r, largely in a single secretary hand, comprising a verse miscellany compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1585-90s.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Copy, untitled.

Compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, including George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon.

A complete transcription of this volume in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75 (New York, 1988).

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson. May, Stanford, pp. 75-6 (No. 96)

Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.

Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller.

Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.

Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Henry Lawes MS: CwT Δ 16; HeR Δ 3; WaE Δ 11. Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Pamela J. Willetts, The Henry Lawes Manuscript (London, 1969). Facsimiles of ff. 42r, 78r, 80r, 84r, 111r and 169r in The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric C. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 59, 60, 62, 64, 66 and 117. Also discussed in Willa McClung Evans, Henry Lawes: Musician and Friend of Poets (New York and London, 1941), and elsewhere. A complete facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 3 (New York & London, 1986).

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 566, and in Robertson, p. 455.

Copy.

Fols 11r-78r, largely in a single secretary hand, comprising a verse miscellany compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1585-90s.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Copy, headed In comendation of a beautifull lady.

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).

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 IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Fulman MS: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 559, and in Robertson, p. 459.

Copy, headed Another, transcribed from the edition of 1593.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Anthonie Babingtonn of warrington, with the date 1596, and Roger Wright me possidett ex dono Henerici fratrie Meo. Later owned and annotated by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Signature and bookplate of F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), lot 50. Purchased from Jarvis & Son, 15 June 1891.

Identified in Ringler, PQ (1975), as the Quarto MS from which Percy derived the texts of three poems by Breton edited in his Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765). Substantial extracts from it edited in Grosart's edition of Breton (1879). Also briefly discussed in P.M. Buck, Jr, Add MS. 34064 and Spenser's Ruins of Time and Mother Hubberd's Tale, MLN, 22 (1907), 41-6, and in Robertson's edition of Breton, pp. liv-lv.

Typed and MS notes relating to this volume made in the 1920s by Professor Hyder Edward Rollins (1889-1958) are in Harvard MS Eng 1613.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 555, and in Robertson, p. 459.

Copy, untitled.

Compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, including George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon.

A complete transcription of this volume in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75 (New York, 1988).

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson. May, Stanford, pp. 77 (No. 100), pp. 119-23 (No. 195).

Copy, headed In prayse of bewty, transcribed from a printed source.

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 Ringler, p. 560, and in Robertson, p. 459.

Copy, in a small predominantly italic hand, untitled.

Inscribed names (f. 318v) Samuel Brett and (f. 342v) John Stewart. Presented in 1965 by James Thin, Edinburgh bookseller.

Copy of lines 1-4, in a mixed hand, untitled. c.1630s.

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.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 555, and in Robertson, p. 459.

Copy of a version of lines 75-6, headed On a Mayden and here beginning A prettie seale of virgine wax, in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 136r-45v).

Collected, and partly written, by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

Betagraph of the watermark in f. 29 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 239).

Copy of a version of lines 75-6, headed A maiden and here beginning Aprills Seals of virgin wax.

Inscribed (f. 101v) Henry Lawson (or just possibly Lamson). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

Copy of Book 3, No. 62, lines 83-6 (beginning In that sweete seate the Boy doth sport).

Copy of lines 75-6, headed A Mayden and here beginning A pretty seale of Virgin wax.

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 143-6, beginning The inke immortall fame dooth lende.

Inscribed names (on front paste-down and f. 1r) of Fra: Norreys (? Sir Francis Norris (1609-69)) and Hen. Balle. Purchased from J. Harvey 8 December 1877.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Copy.

This MS volume discussed in Katherine K. Gottschalk, Discoveries concerning British Library MS Harley 6910, MP, 77 (1979-80), 121-31.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Copy.

References to Westminster Drollerie (which was not published until 1671) added on pp. 1 and 242.

Inscribed on the title-page Frendraught Legi: i.e. by James Crichton (d.1674/5), second Viscount Frendraught. Bookplate of Thomas Fraser Duff (1830-77), of Woodcote, Oxfordshire. Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 9 April 1987, lot 272 (with a facsimile of p. 131 in the sale catalogue), sold to Quaritch.

Copy, transcribed from the edition of 1598.

Compiled by John Lilliat (c.1550-c.1599).

This MS volume printed in full, with facsimile examples, in Liber Lilliati: Elizabethan Verse and Song (Bodleian MS Rawlinson Poetry 148), ed. Edward Doughtie (Newark, DE, 1985).

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 558, and in Robertson, p. 466.

Copy, headed Strephon Sklayne, subscribed Finis S P. S.

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as The John Finett miscellany. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Copy.

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 229, pp. 258-61. Collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Copy of a version headed S^r Phil: Sidney Lib. 3: 133p. and beginning Vnto a Caitiff wretch who misery well nigh has ended.

Inscribed name (f. 2r) Peter Save (who was also responsible for University of Illinois, 821.08/C737/17—). Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90), of Walton Hall, Wakefield, botanist and book collector. Bequeathed in 1894 by Samuel Sandars, of Kensington.

Copy, in Alice Thornton's hand, headed Against the feares of Death.

Inscribed on a flyfeaf Ex Libris Tho. Comber De Creech St. Michael in Comitatu Somerset 1789. 1800. The Contents of this Book are written by the hand of Mrs Alice Thornton, the Great Great Grandmother of me Thomas Comber 1789. Owned in 1875 by a descendant of Alice Thornton, the Rev. Henry George Wandesford Comber, MA, Rector of Oswaldkirk. Sotheby's, 21 July 1980, lot 63, unsold. Sotheby's, 29 June 1982, lot 17, to Quaritch, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue. Then owned by Paula Peyraud, New York State. Bloomsbury Auctions, New York, 6 May 2009, lot 464.

A microfilm of this MS is also in the British Library, RP 2346.

Presumably edited from this MS in Jackson, p. 177.

Copy, headed Verses ag^t feare of Death: made by Sir ph: sidney, transcribed from a priited source.

Associated with the Freville family and probably assembled by Gilbert Frevile, of Bishop Middleham, Co. Durham, whose name appears on the cover with the date 1591. A pen-and-ink ornamental drawing at the end inscribed Finis quoth G. W.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 556, and in Robertson, p. 480.

Copy of a French translation of at least Book II, by Jean Loiseau de Tourva, with two prefixed dedications.

Edited from this MS in Albert W. Osborn, Sir Philip Sidney en France (Paris, 1932), Appendice, pp. i-xlii.

Copy of an anonymous dramatic adaptation of Arcadia, entitled Loves Changelinges change.

From the library of Lord Charlemont.

The complete play has been edited by Felicina Rota in L'Arcadia di Sidney e il teatro (Bari, 1966) and by John P. Cutts (Fennimore, 1974).

Later owned by John Buxton.

Privately edited at the New Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1961, and reedited in Historical Essays 1600-1750 Presented to David Ogg (London, 1963), pp. 60-77.

The first part entitled S^r Philip Sydneys exact Characters wherein hee is both painter & poet; the owtward Character poynting at the painter, the inward description at the poet; the second entitled A Clavis opening ye names and referring to the Characters.

Later owned by John Buxton.

Discussed by John Buxton in Sidney and Theophrastus, ELR, 2 (1972), 79-82.

Variously owned or inscribed by Elizabeth Holt, of Warwickshire; John Bryars, rector of Diss, Norfolk; Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector; Ann Bridge (1755); Martin Joseph Routh (1755-1854); Captain Kenelm Somerville, R.N.; Noel Digby, of Magdalen College, Oxford, rector of Brinton; given by him to J. Wight, 22 March 1830; and Lady Biddulph. Sotheby's, 22 June 1953, to Dobell.

Copy, in a secretary hand, docketed in another hand (f. 51r) Belgia 1577 May.

Edited from this MS and attributed to Sidney in Osborn, Young Philip Sidney, pp. 482-90. Also discussed by Osborn in TLS (30 April 1970), pp. 487-8.

The text corrected from this MS in Osborn.

Edited from this MS in Lettenhove; the text corrected from this MS in Osborn.

Mounted with other separate state documents in a double-folio album, gilt-edged, in red morocco gilt.

Inscribed found in y^e evidence Room at Penshurst and, in the hand of Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe (1780-1855), sixth Viscount Strangford and first Baron Penshurst, Bought of Thomas Thorpe 1837. Owned in 1927 by Mrs P. M. Russell, granddaughter of Lord Penshurst. Sotheby's, 30 May 1927, lot 532, to Quaritch. Sotheby's, 10 May 1828, lot 21, to Triphook. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 436 (1930), item 1647, with a facsimile example. Quaritch's sale catalogue in 1948, item 14. Acquired by the Morgan Library in 1953.

Edited from this MS in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten. Facsimile pages in Ringler, facing p. lxiii; in The Pierpont Morgan Library: A Review of Acquisitions 1949-1968 (New York, 1969), plate 31; in Autograph Letters & Manuscripts: Major Acquisitions of the Pierpont Morgan Library 1924-1974 (New York, 1974), Plate 8; in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 20; in DLB, vol. 167, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Third Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1996), p. 199; and in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 114.

Copy, evidently transcribed from SiP 172, untitled, headed in another hand Apologie par le feu renome Cheualeir Ph. Sidney po le Cote de Leycester so oncle 1582.

This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 333-4, and in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten. Facsimile of f. 111r in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 118.

Among papers of the Sidney family, Viscounts De L'Isle, of Penshurst Place, Ashford, Kent.

Edited from this MS in Feuillerat. Collated in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten.

Later owned by Robert Sidney (1563-1626), with some corrections on the last leaf in his hand.

Edited from this MS in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 73-121. Collated in Feuillerat, III, 317-25.

A microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic. S82).

Also once owned by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector; by John Ives, FRS (1751-76), antiquary and Suffolk Herald-Extraordinary; by John Thane (1747?-1818), bookdealer; and by John Borthwick (1788-1845), thirteenth Earl of Crookston. Sold by Major Borthwick at Sotheby's, 3 June 1946, lot 195, to Quaritch.

Edited from this MS, with a facsimile of the first page, in The Norwich Sidney Manuscript: The Apology for Poetry, ed. Mary R. Mahl (Northridge, California, 1969). Discussed by Mary Mahl in TLS (21 December 1967), p. 1245; in The Norwich Sidney Manuscript: Adventures of a Literary Detective, Coranto, 8 (1972), 18-32, and in Sir Philip Sidney's Scribe: The New Arcadia and the Apology for Poetry, ELN, 10 (1972-3), 90-1. Collated in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten.

Edited by Dwight O. Chambers as Deffensa de Poesia: A Spanish Version (n.p., 1968), and by Benito Brancaforte as Deffensa de la Poesia: A 17th Century Anonymous Spanish translation of Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesie (Chapel Hill, 1977).

Extracts, headed In y^e Defence of Poetry.

Compiled by one William Bright, entitled ffragmenta hic omnigena è varijs excerpta authoribus ad priuatum existunt vsum WB ex anno 1644.

Inscribed also inside the lower cover Will: Bright Novemb 12^th pretiu 8^d 1645.

Extracts.

Volume X of the miscellaneous collections of Brian Twyne (1579?-1644).

Facsimile of f. 116v in Fred Schurink, Lives and Letters: Three Early Seventeenth-Century Manuscripts with Extracts from Sidney's Arcadia, EMS, 16 (2011), 170-96 (p. 182).

Extracts.

Formerly MS Add. 774.

Discussed in Fred Schurink, Manuscript Commonplace Books, Literature, and Reading in Early Modern England, HLQ, 73/3 (2010), 453-69 (p. 460 et seq.), with a facsimile of f. 6r on p. 464.

Extracts, headed Apolog: of Poetry. s^r P.S..

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.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 557.

Extracts, headed Defence of Poesie by S^r. Phil Sydney.

Owned by William Drake (1606-69) of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

Autograph, untitled, imperfect, lacking the ending. [1577].

Edited from this MS in Feuillerat and in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten. Facsimile of f. 564r in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 115.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed in a partly court hand A letter written by S^r Phillippe Sidney to his brother Robert Sidney (now Lord Lisle) showing what Course was fittest for him to hold in his Trauaile.

Copy, headed A Lre wrytten by Sir Phillipp Sidnye, to his Brother Robte Sidnye (now Lord Lyle) shewinge what Course was ffitt ffor him to hould in his Travells.

Bookplate of John Moore (1646-1714), Bishop of Ely.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 216-17 (No. 6).

Copy, headed S^r Phillip Sidney to his Brother beyond y^e seas.

Inscribed (p. i), probably in the late 17th century, John Peck His Book.

Copy, headed A lre of S^r philip Sidney to his brother Robert aboute travell.

Inscribed on the rear cover Robert Wingfield his Booke witnes Barbary Wingfield. Among the Tabley House MSS and once owned by Sir Peter Leycester (1614-78), antiquary.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, pp. 47-8.

Copy.

Compiled over a period, and partly written, by Sir Stephen Powle (c.1553-1630), Clerk of the Crown.

Copy, headed S^r Phillip Sidney to his Brother being beyond the Seas.

Owned in the 17th century by William Goswell, his friend James Bedford, and Gerard Langbaine [? Gerard Langbaine (1608/9-58), head of Queen's College, Oxford]. Also inscribed (f. 376) Amy Wigmore.

Copy, in Birch's hand, headed A Letter written by S^r Philip Sidney to a Brother of his touching the Direction of his Travell: temper'd with an Edition of it printed in Profitable Instructions &c. London 1633.

Volume I of the collection of state letters etc. by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

Copy, headed S^r. Philip Sidney to his Brother, under a general heading Three lres concerninge Travaile & Travailors.

Mainly in three hands, with later additions in c.1683-99.

Inscribed names including Anthony, Thomas and John Marshall, Jonas Ramsden, Jenkinson, Thomas Maleverer, and Lawson. Owned c.1670s-90s by the family of Sir Thomas Seyliard, third Baronet (d.1701), of Delawarre, Kent. Later note: Bought this Manuscript at Montague's Book warehouse near Queen Street Lincoln's Inn Fields Tuesday Feb: 12 1739. Later armorial bookplate apparently of the Appleyard family of either Yorkshire or Norfolk. Phillips, 20 March 1998, lot 467, to Quaritch.

Copy.

In various professional hands, including those of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, and the Feathery Scribe.

Later owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary. Then by Robert Harley.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 239-41 (No. 53).

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Sr Phillip Sydney his lre to S^r Robert Sydney touching his Travell.

Inscribed (f. 1r) E libris Abr. Pry[son?] D. J. e. e. 1690.

Copy.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 203-4.

Copy, headed A letter written by S^r Phillip Sidney to his brother Robt Sidney (now Lord Lisle) shewing what course was fittest for him to hold in his travailes, the first of Three Letters conserning one subiect...All giueing directions to their said frinds how to make the best of their Travailles.

Compiled by a University of Cambridge man.

Inscribed at the end Josephus Diggins me possedit: i.e. by Joseph Diggins, of Clare Hall, Cambridge (matric. 1607, d.1658). Christie's, 5 December 1973, lot 84, to Hofmann & Freeman.

Copy, headed S^r Phillippe Sidney to his brother being beyond the Seas.

Among the papers of the Fuller family of Brightling Park. Possibly once owned by Ambrose Trayton of Lewes, Esquire of the Body to James I and Charles I.

Copy, headed A letter written by S^r Phillip Sidney to his brother Robert Sidney (now Lord Lisle) shewing what cours was fit for him to hold in his travails.

This MS recorded in BC, 15 (Summer 1966), p. 156.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A Letter written by S^r Phillip Sidney to a brother of his touchinge the direction of his travell.

Mostyn MS 139 (Old Catalogue MS 53), from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Hollywell, Flintshire, and maintained by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) and his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). Sotheby's, 13 July 1920, lot 72, to Sumner.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 352.

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed A letter Written by S^r Phillipe Sidney to his Brother Robert Sidney (now lo Lissle) shewing what course was fitt for him to hould in his trauels.

Copy, in the secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, the flourished italic heading (possibly in another hand) A Leetter written by Sir Phillipp Sidney to a brother of his touching the direction of his Trauaile, the final subscription Your assured louing brother Phillipp Sidney possibly also in another hand.

Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark E. 1. 10.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 224-5 (No. 20).

Copy, headed A letter written by S^r Phillip Sidney to a brother of his touching the direction of his Trauaile.

Sotheby's, 15 March 1895, lot 207. In the library of Herbert Somerton Foxwell (1849-1936), economist and bibliographer.

Copy, headed A Letter written by S^r. Phillip Sydney to his brother Robert Sydney (now Lord Lisle) shewing which Course was fitt for him to hould in Traueiles.

Bookplate of George Folliott.

Copy of the letter to his brother beinge beyond the Seas.

Bought in the Fenn sale 1866 (243). Formerly part of Phillipps MS 29759. Sotheby's, 14 June 1971, lot 1492, to Dobell.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed in a later hand Reasons offered ag^t Queen Elizabeths marriage w^th y^e Duke of Anjoy, Alanson; in a letter to her, on fourteen quarto pages. Early 17th century.

Transcribed from the Yelverton papers chiefly belonging to Sir Christopher Yelverton (1535?-1612), Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), and their family.

Owned in 1679 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, 274, No. 1.

Copy, untitled, imperfect.

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

This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 2.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled and incomplete (a leaf skipped between pp. 1030 and 1031), under the classification Aduise.

Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist and book collector. Sotheby's, 14 December 1976, lot 47, to Hofmann & Freeman. Then owned by Peter Beal, London. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 88, with a facsimile example.

A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, RP 2102.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 31.

Copy in a secretary hand, headed A discours of Syr Ph.S. to y^e Q. M^ty touching hir mariage w^th Mons^r, on thirteen folio pages, docketed in a different hand Discours de Syr P.S. Sur le mariage de la R^e. Elizab. auec Monsieur.

Edited from this MS in Feuillerat. Collated in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 275 (No. 3), with a facsimile of f. 89r on p. 117.

Copy in a single secretary hand, headed S^r Phillip Sidney to hir Ma^tie, on seven closely-written folio pages, endorsed on f. 4v S^r Phillip Sidney to Quee Elizabeth Concning her Marriage w^th Mounser. End of 16th-early 17th century.

Assembled by the astrologer and antiquary Elias Ashmole (1617-92).

This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 37. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 4.

Copy, in a single predominantly secretary hand, originally untitled, with a title-page (f. 1r) added in a different hand: A Letter to Queen Elizabeth diswading her from marrying w^th. Monsieur written in the yeare 1581.

Early notes and accounts (f. 160r) refer to Chancery Lane, Bishops Court, and Whites Alley. The volume was once owned by William Herbert (1711-95), bibliographer and print seller. Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.

This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq., and in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 275, No. 5.

Copy in a single bold hand, headed A Letter written by S^r Phillip Sydny: unto Q ELIZabeth toutching her mariage with Mounseiur, on fifteen pages.

Later Phillipps MS 11931. Bookplate of one Robert Steele, Wandsworth Common. Sotheby's, 5 June 1899, lot 505. P.J. and A.E. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 73 (1928), item 455.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 6.

Text of a freely adapted paraphrase of the Letter, headed The effect of a Discourse directed and delivered to Queen Elisabeth about her Mariage with Monsieur: A^o. 158i: by S^r Philip Sidney and ending ...At your Majestys fete: Philip Sidney, on seven pages, subscribed Script: Decembr. 7. i618.

This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 7.

An abridgement of John Stubbs's Gaping Gulf (1679), the book which partly prompted Sidney's Letter, in on ff. 15v-17v, subscribed Script. i619. Mens: Martij .19.

Copy of the first 63 words only, untitled, the rest of the page left blank.

An anonymous reader has dated f. 58r Septemb^r 1⁰. 93 / ffebr: 30. [1]700/1.

Copy, headed The Coppie of a letter written to Queene Elizabeth when the Duke of Alanson was a suitor to her.

The text follows (on ff. 35r-54r) a copy of Sir Thomas Smith's discourse concerning the conveniencie of mariage of Queene Elizabeth...by waye of dialogue.

The lower vellum cover inscribed Book of noates collected out of M^r Traffords Sermons & others.

Copy, headed To Queene Elizabeth about the mariage with monsieur the Duke of Aniou, with the subscription when God long p^rserve your ma^ties most dutifull and humble subiect & seruant / Ignot.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 18 of the Hopkinson MSS.

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 296-7.

This MS recorded (but not seen) in Feuillerat, III, 326. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 8.

Copy in a single neat secretary hand, untitled, on five pages (f. 33r-v misbound in reverse order), in a section under the subject heading Advise.

Bookplate of Richard Towneley, of Townely Hall, near Burnley, Lancashire, dated 1702. Sotheby's, 27-28 June 1883 (Towneley sale), lot 170, to Quaritch. Quaritch's sale catalogue of English Literature (August-November 1884), item 22349. Presented by William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst (1835-1908), first Baron Amherst of Hackney, 13 April 1887.

This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 325 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 37. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 9.

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 276 (No. 10), with a facsimile of f. 100r on p. 123.

Copy in a professional secretary hand, headed The copie of a Lre written to the Queen by M^r P.S., this heading later extended in Beale's hand after wards called S^r Philipp Sidney, conc^rning the mareage w^th Mons^r d'Aniou, on twelve folio pages.

Collected and annotated by Robert Beale (1541-1601), Clerk of the Privy Council. Including (ff. 152r-95v) a printed exemplum of Stubbs's banned tract A Gaping Gulf (1579).

Yelverton MS 31, among Beale's papers descending to Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 41.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 276 (No. 11), with a facsimile of f. 230r on p. 120.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A letter Written to Queene Elizabeath against the Match w^th: Monseieur, on fourteen folio pages, part of a single unit (ff. 215r-50v) of papers dating up to 1623. c. 1623-30s.

Yelverton MS 49, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

This MS cited in H.R. Woudhuysen, A crux in the text of Sidney's A Letter to Queen Elizabeth, N&Q, 229 (June 1984), 172-3. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 12.

Copy in the hand of the merchant and antiquary Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), on thirteen folio pages (part of a single section: ff. 17r-32v), imperfect.

This MS cited in H.R. Woudhuysen, A crux in the text of Sidney's A Letter to Queen Elizabeth, N&Q, 229 (June 1984), 172-3. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 13, with facsimile example Plate 71.

Copy, partly in the hand of the Feathery Scribe (on ff. 270r, 273r-82v), partly in another professional secretary hand (on ff. 271r-2v, the same hand as SiP 202 and SiP 209), with a few marginal marks by a reader.

In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Inscribed by him on f. [i^v] F Hargrave A gift to me this day from my friend George Hardinge Esquire [(1743-1816), judge and writer]. F. H. 16. July 1789.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 232-3 (No. 41).

This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 325 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A Letter written by S^r: Phillipp Sidney vnto Queene Elizabeth touching hir Marriage w^th Mounseir.

In various professional hands, including those of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, and the Feathery Scribe.

Later owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary. Then by Robert Harley.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 239-41 (No. 53).

This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 325 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 277 (No. 15).

Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, with a title-page The Coppye off a Letter wrytten by S^r: Phillipp Sidnye To Queene Elizabeth, Touchinge hir Marryage w^th Mounsieur: &c.

In various professional hands, including that of the Feathery Scribe.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 242-4 (No. 57).

Edited from this MS in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten. Collated in Feuillerat, III, 325 et seq. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 243 (No. 57.4) and p. 277 (No. 16), with facsimiles of ff. 54v-5r on pp. 140-1.

Fragment of a copy of the letter, in two or three cursive secretary hands, or possibly one which progressively degenerates, here beginning of Spaines Dowter some tymes yo^r. Ma^tie. are evident testimonie of a light minde..., on two large folio leaves. Early 17th century.

A later note in the gutter of f. 199r: Bought of H.W., and similar inscriptions on ff. 12r and 13v (1581).

This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 325 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 17.

A précis of the letter in a single cursive secretary hand, originally untitled, here beginning To arme an excuse w^th reasons were to acknowledg y^t I did willinglie amisse..., on six folio pages, with blank wrappers (ff. 53r, 61v), docketed in another contemporary hand (f. 53r) 1579. Notes out of m^r Phillip Sidneys lre to y^e Q. towching hir mariage w^th. Monsieur; other inscriptions including 1579 / Bundle XII / Varia (and scribbling in cipher on f. 53r in the same hand as the inscription on f. 63v: An^o. 1579 IV. LXXV. Articles propounded in behalf of y^e Duke of Anjoy concerning marryinge w^th y^e Queen).

Comprising papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

This MS recorded in Feuillerat, III, 325. Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 277 (No. 18), with a facsimile of f. 54r on p. 126.

This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 325 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 245 (No. 64), and p. 277 (No. 19).

Copy, on six folio leaves in a 38-leaf section (including PtG 4.5) in the same professional secretary hand, untitled, with a prayer added as a coda after the Finis (f. 6v): God saue our gracious Queen Elizabeth; and so indue her w^th his grace, and touch her heart w^th the spirit of wisedome, that herein shee erre not, but maie doe onlie that, y^t maie make most for his glorie, best for her owne solace & comfort, and the good & quiet of our Land. Amen.

This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 20.

Copy of the first twenty lines and then a series of condensed extracts from various parts of the Letter including the last few lines, in a cursive secretary hand, headed S^r Phillip Sydney to her Ma^tie: concerninge her Marriage w^th Mounsieur, on two pages.

Inscribed on the rear cover Robert Wingfield his Booke witnes Barbary Wingfield. Among the Tabley House MSS and once owned by Sir Peter Leycester (1614-78), antiquary.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, pp. 47-8.

This MS recorded (but not seen) in Feuillerat, III, 326. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 21.

Copy, in a professional, predominantly secretary hand, headed S^r Phillip Sidney his letter or Treatise to her Ma^tie against Monsieurs Mariage, with the salutation (Most ffeared & beloved, most sweete & Gratious Soveraigne) superscribed and centred.

Once owned by Henry Powle (1630-92), Master of the Rolls, whose library and MS collection were assembled with the help of John Bagford (1650-1716). Bookplate of Francis North (1704-90), first Earl of Guilford, of Wroxton Abbey. Acquired by Henry Clay Folger (1857-1930) from the Arthur H. Clark Company, Cleveland (from their London warehouse) in August 1924. Formerly Folger MS 1291.3.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 22.

Partly in the hand of the Feathery Scribe (the title-page and end of f. 17v to f. 18r), the rest in another professional hand (the same as SiP 193 and SiP 209), who is perhaps also responsible for some deletions and corrections.

Acquired in 1923 by Henry Clay Folger (1857-1930) from E. Williams, of Hove, Sussex. Formerly Folger MS 1132.2.

This MS recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 267 (No. 110) and p. 278 (No. 23), with a facsimile example of f. 3r on p. 124.

Copy, headed S^r: Philip Sydne.

Phillipps MS 10665.

This MS recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 24.

Copy in a professional secretary hand, headed A Coppie of A Letter written by S^r Phillipp Sydney vnto Queene Eliz: toucheing hir Marriage with Monsier and with an extended valediction subscribed Phillipp Sydney, on eighteen pages.

This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 25.

Headed (with side-note) S^r Philippe Sydneys Letter to the Q: concearning her mariage w^th Mounsier, and the salutation (Most feared & beloued sweete, and gracious Souereigne) set apart and slightly engrossed, on twelve folio pages, in contemporary limp vellum.

Formerly bound with three other tracts dating up to 1626. William H. Robinson's sale catalogue No. 72 (1940), item 147. Sold by Seven Gables Bookshop at Sotheby's, 10 April 1962, lot 467.

This MS recorded in The Book Collector, 15 (Summer 1966), 156, and in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 26 (pp. 278-9).

Copy, in a cursive professional hand, the text set out with exceptional clarity, headed A Letter written by S^r. Philip Sidney to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Mons^r. Duke of Aniow and with the salutation (Most feared and beloved, Most sweet and gratious Soveraigne) set out and centred, 31 folio pages.

Mostyn MS 177: from the library of the Mostyn family, of Mostyn Hall, Flintshire, and Gloddaeth, Denbighshire, whose notable book and manuscript collectors included Sir Thomas Mostyn (1651-1700?) and his grandson Sir Thomas Mostyn, fourth Baronet (1704-58).

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 355.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 27.

Copy, in a professional mixed hand, the order of some passages rearranged and the text occasionally abridged or slightly paraphrased, headed S^r: P: Sidnes ltre to the Queene agains^t the match with Mouncieur:, the salutation (Most feared & beloved most sweet & gratious Queene) isolated and set out into the margin, subscribed at the end S^r: P: Sidney, on eleven folio pages.

Once belonging to the Sotheby family of London and Ecton Hall, Northamptonshire.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 28.

Copy, in a single mixed hand, the order of some passages rearranged and the text occasionally abridged or slightly paraphrased, headed S^r Phillip Sydney to her Ma^tie Concerning Mounseur:.

A folio composite volume of state letters, tracts, and verse, collected by, and mostly in the hand of, William Parkhurst (fl.1604-67), Sir Henry Wotton's secretary in Venice and later Master of the Mint, including various works in verse and prose attributed to Donne, chiefly in a scribal hand, partly in Parkhurst's hand, 373 leaves (including blanks), in old calf.

Among the papers of the Finch family of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland. Mistakenly reported by Grierson and Logan Pearsall Smith to have been destroyed in a fire at Burley c.1908.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Burley MS: DnJ Δ 53. Recorded in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 516. A complete microfilm of the MS is at the University of Sheffield, Microfilm 737.

A neat transcript of parts of the Burley MS (including principally poems on ff. 255r-v, 278v, [279r]-288v, 342v-3r, 294r-300r, 301r-8v), made before 1908, on 35 leaves, is in the Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 80.

This MS recorded (but not seen) in Feuillerat, III, 326. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 29.

Copy, the title-page and ff. 238r-43v in the secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, ff. 231r-7v in another professional cursive secretary hand, entitled The: Coppye: Off a Letter written by S^r. Phillipp Sednye, to Queene Elizabeth Touchinge hir Marryage w^th Mounsieur.

In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 10464. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 250-1 (No. 78).

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 251 (No. 78.7) and p. 279 (No. 30).

Copy, in two hands, Alexander Dicsone's secretary hand responsible for the heading and first page and a half (ff. 104v-5r), another cursive secretary hand for the remainder.

Scribbled inscriptions including the names Archibald Delawar, Archibald Dewer, John Bourchier, Nicolas Barklay, and Symson. Among the collections of Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary. Acquired in 1698.

This MS discussed in Beal, Sidney's Letter, with facsimiles of ff. 104v-5r on pp. 4-5.

Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, headed A Lre written by Sir: Phillipp: Sidney vnto Queene Elizabeth Touchinge hir Marryage w^th Mouns^r.

From the papers of the Cartwright family of Aynho. Formerly an unnumbered MS in C(A) Box 56, in the Northamptonshire Record Office.

Formerly Sidney Papers B among the Sidney family archives of the Viscount De L'Isle, Penshurst Place, Kent.

Edited from this MS in Arthur Collins, Letters and Memorials of State, 2 vols (London, 1746), I, 287-92. Recorded (but not seen) in Feuillerat, III, 326, and in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 32.

Copy, in the secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, with a title-page The Coppye: Off a Lre wrytten by S^r: phillipp. Sidnye, to Queene Elizabeth, Touchinge the Marryage, w^th Mounsieur, &c.

Among the papers of the Acland Hood family, of Fairfield, Stogursey.

Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 350. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 261 (No. 105), with facsimile examples on pp. 144-5.

This MS recorded (but not seen) in Feuillerat, III, 326. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 261 (No. 105.1) and p. 280 (No. 33), No. 33, with facsimiles of ff. 51v-2r on pp. 144-5.

Copy, in the secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, with a title-page The: Coppye: Off: a; Letter: wrytten by S^r: Phillipp Sidnye to Queene Elizabeth. Touchinge her Marryage, w^th Mownsieur &tc., inscribed AA May. 7. 1641 (or 1691) and N. 52.

Purchased in December 1806 from Mr Mercier. Old pressmark E. 3. 25.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 222 (No. 17).

This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 222 (No. 17) and p. 280 (No. 34), with a facsimile of f. 10v on p. 138.

Copy, ff. 38r-45r in the secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, as well as his title-page (f. 33r) The Coppye Off a Lre written by S^r: Phillipp: Sidnye to Queene Elizabeth, touching hir Marryage w^th: Mounsieur, ff. 34r-7v in another professional secretary hand.

Once owned by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark G. 4.10.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 223 (No. 18).

This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 223 (No. 18.1) and p. 280 (No. 35), with facsimiles of ff. 33r and 45r on pp. 133 and 137.

Copy, in the secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, the flourished italic heading (possibly in another hand) A Letter Written by Sir Phillipp Sidney vnto Queene Elizabeth touching her marriage with Monsuer.

Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark E. 1. 10.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 224-5 (No. 20).

This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 224 (No. 20.1) and p. 280 (No. 36).

Copy, in a very neat old Court Hand, headed A Letter written by Sir Phillip Sidney unto Queene Elizabeth touchinge hir Marriage with Mounseer, nineteen folio pages.

Formerly Mostyn MS 261, from the library of Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, seat of Sir Thomas Mostyn, second Baronet (c.1651-1700?) and of Sir Roger Mostyn, third Baronet (1675-1739). Sotheby's, 13 July 1920, lot 35, to Maggs. Maggs's sale catalogues Nos 423 (1922), item 1127, and No. 550 (1931), item 987.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 361.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 37.

Copy, apparently headed The Copy of a Letter written by Sir Philip Sidney to our late famous Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur.

Owned by Thomas Brotherton of Hey, Lancashire.

Recorded by Edward Bernard in Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ [ed. Humphrey Wanley] (Oxford, 1697).

Recorded as No. 39 in the MS catalogue of papers found in Starkey's study presumably after his death (Huntington, EL 8175): see Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 271.

Copy, untitled.

Formerly in the library of the Tollemache family, at Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, and probably once owned by Sir Lionel Tollemache, first Baronet (1562-1612?), whose initials (S L T) are stamped in blind on the cover.

Sotheby's, 6 June 1961, lot 21. Booklabel of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 12 June 1980 (Houghton sale), lot 426.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 61.

Edited from this MS in Robert Kimbrough and Philip Murphy, The Helmingham Hall Manuscript of Sidney's The Lady of May: A Commentary and Transcription, RD, NS 1 (1968), 103-19; collated in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten; recorded in Ringler, pp. x-xii.

Substantial extracts, transcribed from a printed source.

Among the working papers and collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VII.

This MS recorded in Ringler, pp. 361, 560 and in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 20.

Extracts from one of Rhombus's speeches.

Volume X of the miscellaneous collections of Brian Twyne (1579?-1644).

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 361, and in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 20.

Extracts, headed S^r. P. Sydnie. The speech of Rombus a School-master, beginning Now the thunder thumping Jove..., transcribed from a printed source.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Lent Cour: J Gooche Jan: 15 1672/3.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 361, and in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 20.

Extracts.

Compiled by one William Bright, entitled ffragmenta hic omnigena è varijs excerpta authoribus ad priuatum existunt vsum WB ex anno 1644.

Inscribed also inside the lower cover Will: Bright Novemb 12^th pretiu 8^d 1645.

These inscriptions are reproduced in facsimile and discussed in Jean Robertson, Sidney and Bandello, The Library, 5th Ser. 21 (1966), 326-8.

A printed exemplum owned and annotated by Sidney.

Sotheby's, 11 June 1849 (Duke of Buckingham's intended sale), lot 769. Waller, Catalogue of a highly interesting and valuable collection of autograph letters [February 1859], item 139. Later owned by Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Raphael King, London, sale catalogue (January 1951).

Inscription on a flyleaf, dated 30 March 1837, by Charles Marriott (1811-58), Sub-dean of Oriel College, Oxford. According to W.C. Hazlitt's annotated A Roll of Honour (1908, in the British Library) this volume appeared at a public sale of the library of Beaumont of Whitley, near Huddersfield, in 1906.

Discussed in William L. Godshalk, A Sidney Autograph, Book Collector, 13 (Spring 1964), 65. A facsimile of the inscription is in Hazlitt, p. 214.

Sidney's autograph inscription Philippus Sideneus generosus Angliæ scripsit Argentorati 1573 and his motto Quo me fata vocant.

Recorded in George Gömöri, Inscriptions by Philip and Robert Sidney in Alba Amicorum, N&Q, 50 (September 2004), 240-2.

A printed exemplum inscribed Thomae Martialis et amicorum Salopiae ex Libris Thomae Astoni Ludimagistri Philippi Sidnei.

Once owned by Thomas Ashton (d.1578), who was Sidney's headmaster at Shrewsbury School.

Discussed in J.P. Thorne, A Ramistical Commentary on Sidney's An Apologie for Poetrie, MP, 54 (1957), 158-64. Edited from this MS, with a translation, by John Webster, as William Temple's Analysis of Sir Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry (Binghamton, NY, 1984).

Copy.

Afterwards owned by other members of the Champernowne family, by Sir Edward Seymour, Bart. (?the third Baronet, 1610-85). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1030. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) (MS 9568). Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 749. Bookplate of C.S. Harris and bequeathed by him 1916.

Cited in IELM, I.i (190), as the Phillipps MS: DnJ Δ 20.

Edited from this MS in Roberts.

Copy.

Afterwards owned by other members of the Champernowne family, by Sir Edward Seymour, Bart. (?the third Baronet, 1610-85). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1030. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) (MS 9568). Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 749. Bookplate of C.S. Harris and bequeathed by him 1916.

Cited in IELM, I.i (190), as the Phillipps MS: DnJ Δ 20.

Edited from this MS, and discussed, in Roberts.

Copy.

Edited principally from this MS in Duncan Jones and Van Dorsten.

Copy, on ten pages.

Formerly in the library of the Harvey family, of Ickwell Bury, Bedfordshire, and of Finningley Park, Yorkshire. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 536 (1930), item 2129. Then owned by André de Coppet (1892-1953), New York financial broker. Sotheby's, 4 July 1955 (de Coppet sale), lot 888, to Quaritch.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 62, and in The Book Collector, 15 (Summer 1966), p. 156.

Recorded in Duncan-Jones and Van Dorsten. Edited from this MS in a private edition printed in the New Bodleian, 1959.

Possibly in Moffett's hand, or prepared under his supervision, as a new-year's gift to his patron William Herbert.

Edited from this MS, with English translations, by Virgil B. Heltzel and Hoyt H. Hudson (Santa Monica, 1940).

Edited in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 147-52.

A series of extracts, marked S^r Ph. Sidn.

Extracts chiefly from Arcadia.

This MS probably given to Viscount Preston by Daniel Skinner, his former schoolfellow at Westminster School; Milton's Commonplace Book (MnJ 66), together with the letter addressed to him by Henry Lawes (MnJ 10), were discovered by Alfred J. Horwood in 1874 among the papers of the Graham family at Netherby Hall, Longtown, Cumberland, and recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 320. The state papers of Viscount Preston, among whose muniments Milton's commonplace book (with related material) was found, were sold at Sotheby's on 10 July 1986, lot 303, and are now in the British Library (Add. MSS 63752-63781).

Extracts from verse by Sidney, including Astrophil and Stella (Songs VII and VIII) and Arcadia (Books II and III), and references to A Defence of Poetry.

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.

For Scott's edited exemplum of The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (London, 1598) in Cambridge University Library, Syn. 4.59.12, see Hannah Leah Crummé, William Scott's Copy of Sidney, N&Q, 254 (December 2009), 553-4.

Extracts from different works.

Probably compiled by Thomas Frewen (1630-1702) of Brickwall.

Extracts from Arcadia.

Note stating this MS was lent to Sidney Lee (1859-1926), literary scholar, by James Lee.

Extracts from various works.

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).

A prose extract from Arcadia, in a secretary hand, headed in praier taken out of S^r P. Sdes: A., beginning O all seeing light & eternall life....

Compiled over a period, at least in part, by various members of the Lloyd family of Llwydiarth.

Inscriptions including (f. 3r) Mounta: Lloyd 1671 and (f. 49r) David W^ms. his Book beeing M^rs Anne Lloyds Guift, and with other references to David Lloyd, Elizabeth Lluyd, Robert Lluyd, Jane Lloyd, and Hugh Lloyd. Probably Quaritch's sale Catalogue of English Literature (August-November 1884), item 22351. Formerly Sotheby MS B. 2.

Approximately 72 extracts from Arcadia.

Donated in December 1894 by Laura H. and Mary Carpenter, of Wakefield, Rhode Island.

This volume edited as John Saffin his Book (1665-1708), ed. Caroline Hazard (New York, 1928).

Edited in Hazard, passim. Discussed in Jessie A. Coffee, Arcadia to America: Sir Philip Sidney and John Saffin, American Literature, 45 (1973-4), 100-4.

Various extracts, including entries on ff. 28r, 37v, 45r, and 53r.

Inscribed (five times) Roger Boyle: i.e. Roger Boyle (1617/18?-87), Scholar of Trinity College Dublin (1638, Fellow 1646), later Bishop of Down and Connor and of Clogher. Inscribed also Daniell Clay (deleted) and again with the date 1640 August 26: i.e. probably Daniel Clay, student of Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1637. Old pressmark G. 2.12.

Extracts, headed Deuine & morall sentences taken out of S^r. Phillip Sedneys Arcadia, dated at the end 16. finis. 2i. / Aug. 24.

The front pastedown inscribed Thomas Hugh Markham From his Mother. Sep^r 11^th. 1846 and, in pencil, Darker Esq^r. Gayton.

Facsimile of f. p. 57 in Fred Schurink, Lives and Letters: Three Early Seventeenth-Century Manuscripts with Extracts from Sidney's Arcadia, EMS, 16 (2011), 170-96 (p. 187).

Further extracts, headed respectively A description of an excellent woman, for mind & body. Out of Arcadia and The excellency of marriage taken out of Arcadia; which I cannot now so well aproue of, when as I do look on my [wife deleted].

The front pastedown inscribed Thomas Hugh Markham From his Mother. Sep^r 11^th. 1846 and, in pencil, Darker Esq^r. Gayton.

Facsimile of f. p. 211 in Fred Schurink, Lives and Letters: Three Early Seventeenth-Century Manuscripts with Extracts from Sidney's Arcadia, EMS, 16 (2011), 170-96 (p. 190).