Thomas Traherne

Autograph.

8°, 91 leaves (including three or four blank pages, a portion of f. 87 excised, plus 50 blanks at the end [ff. 91v-141v]; volume of autograph prose meditations and twelve poems by Thomas Traherne, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, in numbered sections, dedicated to an unnamed lady (the friend of my best friend); inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 3) Centuries of Meditation.

Lettered on the spine MSS. of Henry Vaughan Silurist; subsequently owned, apparently in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who reacquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 2. Edited from this MS (in part: most of the verse and some prose extracts) in Dobell (1903), and (in full) in Dobell (1908); in Margoliouth, I, 1-232; Ridler, pp. 165-372. Facsimile examples in Margoliouth, I, frontispiece; English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), p. 12; Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven, 1964), facing p. 68; and Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 55. Complete microfilm in the Library of Congress.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph.

Inscribed in another hand on f. i Why is this soe long detaind in a desk manuscript, y^t if printed would be a Light to y^e World, & a uniuersal Blessinge?

This MS identified by Jeremy Maule and announced in Denise Inge and Calum Macfarlane, Seeds of Eternity: A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS, 2 June 2000, p. 14. Discussed in Ross, I, xiv-xxii.

Autograph, with revisions.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [i^r]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow y^e whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

Autograph, with a revision, headed upon Abhorrence, on a small slip of paper.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with extensive revisions, headed upon Abilitie, on a small slip of paper.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with a revision.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with extensive revisions, arranged in three pars, numbered I, II (But can an Act extend so, as to be) and III (A Soul in Act, is all y^t ere can be).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers. Facsimile in Christie's sale catalogue, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74. See also Facsimile XVI above.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherene, heading altered from Misapprehension to Adam's Fall.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [i^r]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow y^e whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherene.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers. Facsimile in Christie's sale catalogue, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Autograph, with revisions and 24 lines in stanza 6 deleted.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions, the poem ruled across on five occasions as if to break it into sections, also the last 59 lines (beginning My God, my Advocat, my friend, my King), set out after a break and the heading III.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions, arranged in three parts, numbered I, II (The World was made, he gave us glorious Laws) and III (The World was made to be a Scene of Love).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with extensive revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with a few revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Century IV, meditation 60.

8°, 270 pages (in present imperfect state); volume of prose meditations (376) and poems (14) by Thomas Traherne, in numbered sections (centuries of meditations), in fair copy in the italic hand of an unidentified amanuensis, with occasional autograph passages and insertions by Traherne himself (notably in Century II, meditations 31 [whole meditation], 92, and 93; Century III, meditations 9, 13, 38 and 50); the volume very imperfect; originally comprising apparently 468 meditations, but now beginning with the end of meditation 81 through to most of meditation 95 and then the end of meditation 100 in the first century (pp. [45-61] [ff. 1-7]), followed by Select Meditatins [sic] The Second Century (pp. 61-98 [ff. 7-25v]) and Select Meditations The Third Century (pp. 99-176 [ff. 26-62v]), all three centuries with missing and mutilated portions, and then Select Meditations The fforth Century, meditations 1-68 only (pp., 177-220 [ff. 26-62v]); pp. 220 bis-8 blank; pp. 229-30 containing A Prayer for Ash Wednesday and pp. 231-2 A Meditation, both anonymous and added later in another, unidentified, cursive hand (also responsible for an addition on p. 166); pp. 233-45 blank; pp. 246-64 occupied by an untitled discussion of the nature of y^e soul addressed to an unnamed person, and pp. 266-70 by an untitled disquisition on Loue to God & man, both in the hand of the original amanuensis; the pages originally numbered [45] to 219 (some now missing), then continued up to 270 probably in the second unidentified hand.

There is no evidence that this MS is dedicated to a lady (Osborn misread Know ledg, in Century I, meditation 94, as know lady). See also TrT Δ 3 and further above.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Select Meditations, TrT Δ 8. Select passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20. Discussed in James M. Osborn, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (8 October 1964), p. 928; in Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven 1964), Appendix, pp. 207-11; and in Sharon Seelig, The Origins of Ecstasy: Traherne's Select Meditations, ELR, 9 (1979), 419-31. Edited in full, as Select Meditations, by Julia Smith (Manchester, 1997), with a facsimile page as frontispiece.

Autograph, with a few revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with extensive revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions, headed A Sweet & Sacred Reflexion.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, after a deleted false start.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with a revision.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph, with a revision.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Century III, meditation 58.

8°, 270 pages (in present imperfect state); volume of prose meditations (376) and poems (14) by Thomas Traherne, in numbered sections (centuries of meditations), in fair copy in the italic hand of an unidentified amanuensis, with occasional autograph passages and insertions by Traherne himself (notably in Century II, meditations 31 [whole meditation], 92, and 93; Century III, meditations 9, 13, 38 and 50); the volume very imperfect; originally comprising apparently 468 meditations, but now beginning with the end of meditation 81 through to most of meditation 95 and then the end of meditation 100 in the first century (pp. [45-61] [ff. 1-7]), followed by Select Meditatins [sic] The Second Century (pp. 61-98 [ff. 7-25v]) and Select Meditations The Third Century (pp. 99-176 [ff. 26-62v]), all three centuries with missing and mutilated portions, and then Select Meditations The fforth Century, meditations 1-68 only (pp., 177-220 [ff. 26-62v]); pp. 220 bis-8 blank; pp. 229-30 containing A Prayer for Ash Wednesday and pp. 231-2 A Meditation, both anonymous and added later in another, unidentified, cursive hand (also responsible for an addition on p. 166); pp. 233-45 blank; pp. 246-64 occupied by an untitled discussion of the nature of y^e soul addressed to an unnamed person, and pp. 266-70 by an untitled disquisition on Loue to God & man, both in the hand of the original amanuensis; the pages originally numbered [45] to 219 (some now missing), then continued up to 270 probably in the second unidentified hand.

There is no evidence that this MS is dedicated to a lady (Osborn misread Know ledg, in Century I, meditation 94, as know lady). See also TrT Δ 3 and further above.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Select Meditations, TrT Δ 8. Select passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20. Discussed in James M. Osborn, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (8 October 1964), p. 928; in Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven 1964), Appendix, pp. 207-11; and in Sharon Seelig, The Origins of Ecstasy: Traherne's Select Meditations, ELR, 9 (1979), 419-31. Edited in full, as Select Meditations, by Julia Smith (Manchester, 1997), with a facsimile page as frontispiece.

Autograph, with a few revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Copy, imperfect, Century IV, meditation 68.

8°, 270 pages (in present imperfect state); volume of prose meditations (376) and poems (14) by Thomas Traherne, in numbered sections (centuries of meditations), in fair copy in the italic hand of an unidentified amanuensis, with occasional autograph passages and insertions by Traherne himself (notably in Century II, meditations 31 [whole meditation], 92, and 93; Century III, meditations 9, 13, 38 and 50); the volume very imperfect; originally comprising apparently 468 meditations, but now beginning with the end of meditation 81 through to most of meditation 95 and then the end of meditation 100 in the first century (pp. [45-61] [ff. 1-7]), followed by Select Meditatins [sic] The Second Century (pp. 61-98 [ff. 7-25v]) and Select Meditations The Third Century (pp. 99-176 [ff. 26-62v]), all three centuries with missing and mutilated portions, and then Select Meditations The fforth Century, meditations 1-68 only (pp., 177-220 [ff. 26-62v]); pp. 220 bis-8 blank; pp. 229-30 containing A Prayer for Ash Wednesday and pp. 231-2 A Meditation, both anonymous and added later in another, unidentified, cursive hand (also responsible for an addition on p. 166); pp. 233-45 blank; pp. 246-64 occupied by an untitled discussion of the nature of y^e soul addressed to an unnamed person, and pp. 266-70 by an untitled disquisition on Loue to God & man, both in the hand of the original amanuensis; the pages originally numbered [45] to 219 (some now missing), then continued up to 270 probably in the second unidentified hand.

There is no evidence that this MS is dedicated to a lady (Osborn misread Know ledg, in Century I, meditation 94, as know lady). See also TrT Δ 3 and further above.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Select Meditations, TrT Δ 8. Select passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20. Discussed in James M. Osborn, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (8 October 1964), p. 928; in Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven 1964), Appendix, pp. 207-11; and in Sharon Seelig, The Origins of Ecstasy: Traherne's Select Meditations, ELR, 9 (1979), 419-31. Edited in full, as Select Meditations, by Julia Smith (Manchester, 1997), with a facsimile page as frontispiece.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Copy of the first stanza in the hand of Philip Traherne, deleted.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

See TrT 63.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph, with a few revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with a revision.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth and in Ridler.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, following Right Apprehension (TrT 202) and headed II.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 57.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph, untitled but headed Upon those Pure and Virgin Apprehensions which I had in my Infancy, I made this Poem.

8°, 91 leaves (including three or four blank pages, a portion of f. 87 excised, plus 50 blanks at the end [ff. 91v-141v]; volume of autograph prose meditations and twelve poems by Thomas Traherne, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, in numbered sections, dedicated to an unnamed lady (the friend of my best friend); inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 3) Centuries of Meditation.

Lettered on the spine MSS. of Henry Vaughan Silurist; subsequently owned, apparently in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who reacquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 2. Edited from this MS (in part: most of the verse and some prose extracts) in Dobell (1903), and (in full) in Dobell (1908); in Margoliouth, I, 1-232; Ridler, pp. 165-372. Facsimile examples in Margoliouth, I, frontispiece; English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), p. 12; Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven, 1964), facing p. 68; and Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 55. Complete microfilm in the Library of Congress.

Edited from this MS in Dobell (1908), pp. 159-60; in Margoliouth, I, 112-13; and in Ridler, pp. 264-6.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 37, 39, 41.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions, headed A Poetical Reflexion.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with a revision.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, arranged in three parts, numbered I, II (Nor must I thee O Christ my L^d forget) and III (O yⁿ send down thy Spirit unto me).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with a revision.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with a few revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with a few revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with a revision.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Partly autograph, with revisions, the first six lines in Traherne's hand, the rest in that of an amanuensis, arranged in two parts, numbered I and II (Breath after him my Soul, take leav to soar).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Autograph, with revisions, arranged in two parts, numbered I and II (Nor have we done as yet for Atoms shew).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with a few revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with a revision.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph, with a revision.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with a few revisions, arranged in two parts, numbered I and II (If this, my God, be Natures foul Diseas).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions, arranged in two parts, numbered I and II (Light is y^e Promise, tis but Light to see).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with a revision.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with a revision.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with a few revisions.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph, deleted.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph, with revisions.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph translation of the hymn Veni Creator Spiritus.

8°, 114 leaves (plus 29 blanks [ff. 114-42]); volume of autograph prose meditations and poems composed by Thomas Traherne and others, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, on nineteen occasions of the Church calendar from Easter to All Saints' Day (representing probably half of the meditations for a complete Church year); including (f. 112v) Traherne's autograph copy of George Herbert's To all Angels and Saints (see HrG 265); with additions intermittently throughout the MS (notably passages on ff. 15, 16, 17, 79, 113) in another, unidentified, cursive hand in darker ink, and with some additions on f. 24v only in the hand of Philip Traherne (written before his departure for Smyrna c.September 1670).

Later owned by Alexander Grosart (1827-99) and acquired in the Grosart sale at Sotheby's, 11 December 1899, probably in one of the lots of miscellaneous theological MSS (Nos. 385, 443, 446, 463 or 464), by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914); [ante September 1870].

Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 3. The three sets of verse on ff. 13v-14, 30, 84v edited from this MS in Dobell (1903). Edited in full in Ross, Vol IV, pp. 7-311, with facsimiles of ff. 31r and 24v on pp., 3-4. Facsimile example in Dobell (1903), frontispiece. Discussed, and the contents listed, in Margoliuth, I, xvii-xx (where the MS is tentatively dated 1673); in Ridler, pp. 155-7; and in Carol L. Marks, Traherne's Church Year-Book, PBSA, 60 (1966), 31-72.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph.

8°, 91 leaves (including three or four blank pages, a portion of f. 87 excised, plus 50 blanks at the end [ff. 91v-141v]; volume of autograph prose meditations and twelve poems by Thomas Traherne, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, in numbered sections, dedicated to an unnamed lady (the friend of my best friend); inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 3) Centuries of Meditation.

Lettered on the spine MSS. of Henry Vaughan Silurist; subsequently owned, apparently in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who reacquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 2. Edited from this MS (in part: most of the verse and some prose extracts) in Dobell (1903), and (in full) in Dobell (1908); in Margoliouth, I, 1-232; Ridler, pp. 165-372. Facsimile examples in Margoliouth, I, frontispiece; English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), p. 12; Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven, 1964), facing p. 68; and Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 55. Complete microfilm in the Library of Congress.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph.

Inscribed in another hand on f. i Why is this soe long detaind in a desk manuscript, y^t if printed would be a Light to y^e World, & a uniuersal Blessinge?

This MS identified by Jeremy Maule and announced in Denise Inge and Calum Macfarlane, Seeds of Eternity: A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS, 2 June 2000, p. 14. Discussed in Ross, I, xiv-xxii.

Autograph.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph, the title altered in Philip Traherne's hand to The Choice.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed The Choice and here beginning When first eternity stoopt down to Nought.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 71-4.

Autograph, with revisions.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Century I, meditation 90.

8°, 270 pages (in present imperfect state); volume of prose meditations (376) and poems (14) by Thomas Traherne, in numbered sections (centuries of meditations), in fair copy in the italic hand of an unidentified amanuensis, with occasional autograph passages and insertions by Traherne himself (notably in Century II, meditations 31 [whole meditation], 92, and 93; Century III, meditations 9, 13, 38 and 50); the volume very imperfect; originally comprising apparently 468 meditations, but now beginning with the end of meditation 81 through to most of meditation 95 and then the end of meditation 100 in the first century (pp. [45-61] [ff. 1-7]), followed by Select Meditatins [sic] The Second Century (pp. 61-98 [ff. 7-25v]) and Select Meditations The Third Century (pp. 99-176 [ff. 26-62v]), all three centuries with missing and mutilated portions, and then Select Meditations The fforth Century, meditations 1-68 only (pp., 177-220 [ff. 26-62v]); pp. 220 bis-8 blank; pp. 229-30 containing A Prayer for Ash Wednesday and pp. 231-2 A Meditation, both anonymous and added later in another, unidentified, cursive hand (also responsible for an addition on p. 166); pp. 233-45 blank; pp. 246-64 occupied by an untitled discussion of the nature of y^e soul addressed to an unnamed person, and pp. 266-70 by an untitled disquisition on Loue to God & man, both in the hand of the original amanuensis; the pages originally numbered [45] to 219 (some now missing), then continued up to 270 probably in the second unidentified hand.

There is no evidence that this MS is dedicated to a lady (Osborn misread Know ledg, in Century I, meditation 94, as know lady). See also TrT Δ 3 and further above.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Select Meditations, TrT Δ 8. Select passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20. Discussed in James M. Osborn, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (8 October 1964), p. 928; in Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven 1964), Appendix, pp. 207-11; and in Sharon Seelig, The Origins of Ecstasy: Traherne's Select Meditations, ELR, 9 (1979), 419-31. Edited in full, as Select Meditations, by Julia Smith (Manchester, 1997), with a facsimile page as frontispiece.

Autograph, with deletions and revisions.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed Dumness and here beginning Sure Man was born to meditat on things.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 41, 43, 45.

Autograph.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed Eas and here beginning How easily doth Nature teach the Soul!

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 65, 67.

Autograph, with revisions.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 13, 15.

Autograph, with revisions.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [i^r]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow y^e whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

Autograph, with revisions.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [i^r]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow y^e whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

Autograph, with alterations in Philip Traherne's hand and annotated [The Return deleted] p. 2 The Evidence p. 3.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed The Enquiry.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 83, 85.

Autograph.

Largely autograph, with a few pages at the beginning in the hand of Philip Traherne, who inscribed it (p. iii) Philip Traherne is the true owner of this booke Amen Ano Domi 1655, used some pages for neat examples of his penmanship as a child and, in later years (after 1689), copied on pp. 237-40 an extract from Thomas Burnet's Telluris Theoria Sacra.

Scribbling at the ends of the volume including names of Thomas and Philip Traherne, Holway and Warmeston. Later owned on 30 April 1841 by Rashleigh Duke of Salisbury: i.e.[son of Edward Duke (1779-1852), Wiltshire antiquary. Hodgson's, 13 December 1935, lot 137, to P.J. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Early Notebook: TrT Δ 4. Twelve poems edited from this MS, and attributed to Thomas Traherne, in Margoliouth, II, 204-11. The remainder of the MS unpublished. Six of the poems edited in Ridler, pp. 159-63; the incomplete Epitaphium of uncertain authorship (TrT 138) omitted by her, and the other five poems rejected outright (i.e. What e're I have from God alone I have, Oh how injurious is this wall of sin, As fragrant Mirrhe within the bosom hid, and To bee a Monarch is a glorious thing, all by Francis Quarles, and a Serious and a Curious night-Meditation, by William Austin). Discussed in Anne Ridler, Traherne: Some Wrong Attributions, RES, NS 18 (1967), 48-9, and in Carol L. Marks, Traherne's Early Studies, PBSA, 62 (1968), 511-36. Facsimile of p. 209 in Margoliouth, II, frontispiece.

Edited from this MS in Margoliouth.

Autograph, with a revision and initialled T.T..

Largely autograph, with a few pages at the beginning in the hand of Philip Traherne, who inscribed it (p. iii) Philip Traherne is the true owner of this booke Amen Ano Domi 1655, used some pages for neat examples of his penmanship as a child and, in later years (after 1689), copied on pp. 237-40 an extract from Thomas Burnet's Telluris Theoria Sacra.

Scribbling at the ends of the volume including names of Thomas and Philip Traherne, Holway and Warmeston. Later owned on 30 April 1841 by Rashleigh Duke of Salisbury: i.e.[son of Edward Duke (1779-1852), Wiltshire antiquary. Hodgson's, 13 December 1935, lot 137, to P.J. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Early Notebook: TrT Δ 4. Twelve poems edited from this MS, and attributed to Thomas Traherne, in Margoliouth, II, 204-11. The remainder of the MS unpublished. Six of the poems edited in Ridler, pp. 159-63; the incomplete Epitaphium of uncertain authorship (TrT 138) omitted by her, and the other five poems rejected outright (i.e. What e're I have from God alone I have, Oh how injurious is this wall of sin, As fragrant Mirrhe within the bosom hid, and To bee a Monarch is a glorious thing, all by Francis Quarles, and a Serious and a Curious night-Meditation, by William Austin). Discussed in Anne Ridler, Traherne: Some Wrong Attributions, RES, NS 18 (1967), 48-9, and in Carol L. Marks, Traherne's Early Studies, PBSA, 62 (1968), 511-36. Facsimile of p. 209 in Margoliouth, II, frontispiece.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph, with revisions, with other alterations in Philip Traherne's hand, stanza 3 deleted.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning But shall my Soul no Wealth possess?.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 79, 81, 83.

Autograph.

8°, 91 leaves (including three or four blank pages, a portion of f. 87 excised, plus 50 blanks at the end [ff. 91v-141v]; volume of autograph prose meditations and twelve poems by Thomas Traherne, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, in numbered sections, dedicated to an unnamed lady (the friend of my best friend); inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 3) Centuries of Meditation.

Lettered on the spine MSS. of Henry Vaughan Silurist; subsequently owned, apparently in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who reacquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 2. Edited from this MS (in part: most of the verse and some prose extracts) in Dobell (1903), and (in full) in Dobell (1908); in Margoliouth, I, 1-232; Ridler, pp. 165-372. Facsimile examples in Margoliouth, I, frontispiece; English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), p. 12; Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven, 1964), facing p. 68; and Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 55. Complete microfilm in the Library of Congress.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Century IV, meditation 65.

8°, 270 pages (in present imperfect state); volume of prose meditations (376) and poems (14) by Thomas Traherne, in numbered sections (centuries of meditations), in fair copy in the italic hand of an unidentified amanuensis, with occasional autograph passages and insertions by Traherne himself (notably in Century II, meditations 31 [whole meditation], 92, and 93; Century III, meditations 9, 13, 38 and 50); the volume very imperfect; originally comprising apparently 468 meditations, but now beginning with the end of meditation 81 through to most of meditation 95 and then the end of meditation 100 in the first century (pp. [45-61] [ff. 1-7]), followed by Select Meditatins [sic] The Second Century (pp. 61-98 [ff. 7-25v]) and Select Meditations The Third Century (pp. 99-176 [ff. 26-62v]), all three centuries with missing and mutilated portions, and then Select Meditations The fforth Century, meditations 1-68 only (pp., 177-220 [ff. 26-62v]); pp. 220 bis-8 blank; pp. 229-30 containing A Prayer for Ash Wednesday and pp. 231-2 A Meditation, both anonymous and added later in another, unidentified, cursive hand (also responsible for an addition on p. 166); pp. 233-45 blank; pp. 246-64 occupied by an untitled discussion of the nature of y^e soul addressed to an unnamed person, and pp. 266-70 by an untitled disquisition on Loue to God & man, both in the hand of the original amanuensis; the pages originally numbered [45] to 219 (some now missing), then continued up to 270 probably in the second unidentified hand.

There is no evidence that this MS is dedicated to a lady (Osborn misread Know ledg, in Century I, meditation 94, as know lady). See also TrT Δ 3 and further above.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Select Meditations, TrT Δ 8. Select passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20. Discussed in James M. Osborn, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (8 October 1964), p. 928; in Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven 1964), Appendix, pp. 207-11; and in Sharon Seelig, The Origins of Ecstasy: Traherne's Select Meditations, ELR, 9 (1979), 419-31. Edited in full, as Select Meditations, by Julia Smith (Manchester, 1997), with a facsimile page as frontispiece.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph.

Inscribed in another hand on f. i Why is this soe long detaind in a desk manuscript, y^t if printed would be a Light to y^e World, & a uniuersal Blessinge?

This MS identified by Jeremy Maule and announced in Denise Inge and Calum Macfarlane, Seeds of Eternity: A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS, 2 June 2000, p. 14. Discussed in Ross, I, xiv-xxii.

Autograph.

Inscribed in another hand on f. i Why is this soe long detaind in a desk manuscript, y^t if printed would be a Light to y^e World, & a uniuersal Blessinge?

This MS identified by Jeremy Maule and announced in Denise Inge and Calum Macfarlane, Seeds of Eternity: A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS, 2 June 2000, p. 14. Discussed in Ross, I, xiv-xxii.

Autograph, headed Fulnesse.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed Fulness.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 59, 61.

Autograph, with extensive revisions, including a deleted stanza.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions, annotated in Philip Traherne's hand & p. 143.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph.

Inscribed in another hand on f. i Why is this soe long detaind in a desk manuscript, y^t if printed would be a Light to y^e World, & a uniuersal Blessinge?

This MS identified by Jeremy Maule and announced in Denise Inge and Calum Macfarlane, Seeds of Eternity: A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS, 2 June 2000, p. 14. Discussed in Ross, I, xiv-xxii.

Century III, meditation 6.

8°, 270 pages (in present imperfect state); volume of prose meditations (376) and poems (14) by Thomas Traherne, in numbered sections (centuries of meditations), in fair copy in the italic hand of an unidentified amanuensis, with occasional autograph passages and insertions by Traherne himself (notably in Century II, meditations 31 [whole meditation], 92, and 93; Century III, meditations 9, 13, 38 and 50); the volume very imperfect; originally comprising apparently 468 meditations, but now beginning with the end of meditation 81 through to most of meditation 95 and then the end of meditation 100 in the first century (pp. [45-61] [ff. 1-7]), followed by Select Meditatins [sic] The Second Century (pp. 61-98 [ff. 7-25v]) and Select Meditations The Third Century (pp. 99-176 [ff. 26-62v]), all three centuries with missing and mutilated portions, and then Select Meditations The fforth Century, meditations 1-68 only (pp., 177-220 [ff. 26-62v]); pp. 220 bis-8 blank; pp. 229-30 containing A Prayer for Ash Wednesday and pp. 231-2 A Meditation, both anonymous and added later in another, unidentified, cursive hand (also responsible for an addition on p. 166); pp. 233-45 blank; pp. 246-64 occupied by an untitled discussion of the nature of y^e soul addressed to an unnamed person, and pp. 266-70 by an untitled disquisition on Loue to God & man, both in the hand of the original amanuensis; the pages originally numbered [45] to 219 (some now missing), then continued up to 270 probably in the second unidentified hand.

There is no evidence that this MS is dedicated to a lady (Osborn misread Know ledg, in Century I, meditation 94, as know lady). See also TrT Δ 3 and further above.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Select Meditations, TrT Δ 8. Select passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20. Discussed in James M. Osborn, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (8 October 1964), p. 928; in Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven 1964), Appendix, pp. 207-11; and in Sharon Seelig, The Origins of Ecstasy: Traherne's Select Meditations, ELR, 9 (1979), 419-31. Edited in full, as Select Meditations, by Julia Smith (Manchester, 1997), with a facsimile page as frontispiece.

Autograph.

8°, 91 leaves (including three or four blank pages, a portion of f. 87 excised, plus 50 blanks at the end [ff. 91v-141v]; volume of autograph prose meditations and twelve poems by Thomas Traherne, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, in numbered sections, dedicated to an unnamed lady (the friend of my best friend); inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 3) Centuries of Meditation.

Lettered on the spine MSS. of Henry Vaughan Silurist; subsequently owned, apparently in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who reacquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 2. Edited from this MS (in part: most of the verse and some prose extracts) in Dobell (1903), and (in full) in Dobell (1908); in Margoliouth, I, 1-232; Ridler, pp. 165-372. Facsimile examples in Margoliouth, I, frontispiece; English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), p. 12; Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven, 1964), facing p. 68; and Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 55. Complete microfilm in the Library of Congress.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph.

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Rep^rsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Autograph, with revisions.

8°, 114 leaves (plus 29 blanks [ff. 114-42]); volume of autograph prose meditations and poems composed by Thomas Traherne and others, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, on nineteen occasions of the Church calendar from Easter to All Saints' Day (representing probably half of the meditations for a complete Church year); including (f. 112v) Traherne's autograph copy of George Herbert's To all Angels and Saints (see HrG 265); with additions intermittently throughout the MS (notably passages on ff. 15, 16, 17, 79, 113) in another, unidentified, cursive hand in darker ink, and with some additions on f. 24v only in the hand of Philip Traherne (written before his departure for Smyrna c.September 1670).

Later owned by Alexander Grosart (1827-99) and acquired in the Grosart sale at Sotheby's, 11 December 1899, probably in one of the lots of miscellaneous theological MSS (Nos. 385, 443, 446, 463 or 464), by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914); [ante September 1870].

Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 3. The three sets of verse on ff. 13v-14, 30, 84v edited from this MS in Dobell (1903). Edited in full in Ross, Vol IV, pp. 7-311, with facsimiles of ff. 31r and 24v on pp., 3-4. Facsimile example in Dobell (1903), frontispiece. Discussed, and the contents listed, in Margoliuth, I, xvii-xx (where the MS is tentatively dated 1673); in Ridler, pp. 155-7; and in Carol L. Marks, Traherne's Church Year-Book, PBSA, 60 (1966), 31-72.

Edited from this MS by editors. Facsimile in Dobell (1903), frontispiece.

Century I, meditation 89.

8°, 270 pages (in present imperfect state); volume of prose meditations (376) and poems (14) by Thomas Traherne, in numbered sections (centuries of meditations), in fair copy in the italic hand of an unidentified amanuensis, with occasional autograph passages and insertions by Traherne himself (notably in Century II, meditations 31 [whole meditation], 92, and 93; Century III, meditations 9, 13, 38 and 50); the volume very imperfect; originally comprising apparently 468 meditations, but now beginning with the end of meditation 81 through to most of meditation 95 and then the end of meditation 100 in the first century (pp. [45-61] [ff. 1-7]), followed by Select Meditatins [sic] The Second Century (pp. 61-98 [ff. 7-25v]) and Select Meditations The Third Century (pp. 99-176 [ff. 26-62v]), all three centuries with missing and mutilated portions, and then Select Meditations The fforth Century, meditations 1-68 only (pp., 177-220 [ff. 26-62v]); pp. 220 bis-8 blank; pp. 229-30 containing A Prayer for Ash Wednesday and pp. 231-2 A Meditation, both anonymous and added later in another, unidentified, cursive hand (also responsible for an addition on p. 166); pp. 233-45 blank; pp. 246-64 occupied by an untitled discussion of the nature of y^e soul addressed to an unnamed person, and pp. 266-70 by an untitled disquisition on Loue to God & man, both in the hand of the original amanuensis; the pages originally numbered [45] to 219 (some now missing), then continued up to 270 probably in the second unidentified hand.

There is no evidence that this MS is dedicated to a lady (Osborn misread Know ledg, in Century I, meditation 94, as know lady). See also TrT Δ 3 and further above.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Select Meditations, TrT Δ 8. Select passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20. Discussed in James M. Osborn, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (8 October 1964), p. 928; in Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven 1964), Appendix, pp. 207-11; and in Sharon Seelig, The Origins of Ecstasy: Traherne's Select Meditations, ELR, 9 (1979), 419-31. Edited in full, as Select Meditations, by Julia Smith (Manchester, 1997), with a facsimile page as frontispiece.

Autograph translation from Cato, headed Si Deus est Animus sit pura Mente Colendus.

8°, 91 leaves (including three or four blank pages, a portion of f. 87 excised, plus 50 blanks at the end [ff. 91v-141v]; volume of autograph prose meditations and twelve poems by Thomas Traherne, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, in numbered sections, dedicated to an unnamed lady (the friend of my best friend); inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 3) Centuries of Meditation.

Lettered on the spine MSS. of Henry Vaughan Silurist; subsequently owned, apparently in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who reacquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 2. Edited from this MS (in part: most of the verse and some prose extracts) in Dobell (1903), and (in full) in Dobell (1908); in Margoliouth, I, 1-232; Ridler, pp. 165-372. Facsimile examples in Margoliouth, I, frontispiece; English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), p. 12; Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven, 1964), facing p. 68; and Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 55. Complete microfilm in the Library of Congress.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, deleted.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph, with revisions, stanza 8 deleted, annotated in Philip Traherne's hand [Childhood deleted] p. 120 & p. 9. News p. 133.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning Tis more to recollect than make; the one.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 31, 33, 35, 37.

Autograph, with revisions.

8°, 91 leaves (including three or four blank pages, a portion of f. 87 excised, plus 50 blanks at the end [ff. 91v-141v]; volume of autograph prose meditations and twelve poems by Thomas Traherne, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, in numbered sections, dedicated to an unnamed lady (the friend of my best friend); inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 3) Centuries of Meditation.

Lettered on the spine MSS. of Henry Vaughan Silurist; subsequently owned, apparently in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who reacquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 2. Edited from this MS (in part: most of the verse and some prose extracts) in Dobell (1903), and (in full) in Dobell (1908); in Margoliouth, I, 1-232; Ridler, pp. 165-372. Facsimile examples in Margoliouth, I, frontispiece; English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), p. 12; Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven, 1964), facing p. 68; and Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 55. Complete microfilm in the Library of Congress.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph, initialled T.T..

Largely autograph, with a few pages at the beginning in the hand of Philip Traherne, who inscribed it (p. iii) Philip Traherne is the true owner of this booke Amen Ano Domi 1655, used some pages for neat examples of his penmanship as a child and, in later years (after 1689), copied on pp. 237-40 an extract from Thomas Burnet's Telluris Theoria Sacra.

Scribbling at the ends of the volume including names of Thomas and Philip Traherne, Holway and Warmeston. Later owned on 30 April 1841 by Rashleigh Duke of Salisbury: i.e.[son of Edward Duke (1779-1852), Wiltshire antiquary. Hodgson's, 13 December 1935, lot 137, to P.J. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Early Notebook: TrT Δ 4. Twelve poems edited from this MS, and attributed to Thomas Traherne, in Margoliouth, II, 204-11. The remainder of the MS unpublished. Six of the poems edited in Ridler, pp. 159-63; the incomplete Epitaphium of uncertain authorship (TrT 138) omitted by her, and the other five poems rejected outright (i.e. What e're I have from God alone I have, Oh how injurious is this wall of sin, As fragrant Mirrhe within the bosom hid, and To bee a Monarch is a glorious thing, all by Francis Quarles, and a Serious and a Curious night-Meditation, by William Austin). Discussed in Anne Ridler, Traherne: Some Wrong Attributions, RES, NS 18 (1967), 48-9, and in Carol L. Marks, Traherne's Early Studies, PBSA, 62 (1968), 511-36. Facsimile of p. 209 in Margoliouth, II, frontispiece.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph, with revisions.

8°, 91 leaves (including three or four blank pages, a portion of f. 87 excised, plus 50 blanks at the end [ff. 91v-141v]; volume of autograph prose meditations and twelve poems by Thomas Traherne, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, in numbered sections, dedicated to an unnamed lady (the friend of my best friend); inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 3) Centuries of Meditation.

Lettered on the spine MSS. of Henry Vaughan Silurist; subsequently owned, apparently in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who reacquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 2. Edited from this MS (in part: most of the verse and some prose extracts) in Dobell (1903), and (in full) in Dobell (1908); in Margoliouth, I, 1-232; Ridler, pp. 165-372. Facsimile examples in Margoliouth, I, frontispiece; English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), p. 12; Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven, 1964), facing p. 68; and Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 55. Complete microfilm in the Library of Congress.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph, with revisions, here beginning But that which most I wonder at, which most.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 15, 17, 19.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph, probably unfinished.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [i^r]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow y^e whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

Autograph, with revisions, the heading altered from The Vision.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).