Lady Mary Wroth

Autograph fair copy of early versions of the sequence, with occasional revisions, comprising 102 of the 103 poems subsequently printed in 1621 (omitting Roberts's [P4], Forbeare darke night, my joyes now budd againe), together with six additional poems in the sequence not printed then; headed $ Pamphilia to Amphilanthus $.

Later owned by Isaac Reed (1742-1807), literary editor and book collector; by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector (Phillipps MS 9283).

Edited from this MS in Roberts, Poems, pp. 85-142, with a facsimile of f. 43r on p. 78. Facsimile of f. 43r also in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 299. 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. 125. Discussed, with reference to the use of $-fermés, in Heather Dubrow, And Thus Leave Off: Reevaluating Mary Wroth's Folger Manuscript, V.a.104, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 22 (2003), 273-91; in Susan Lauffer O' Hara, Reading the Stage Rubrics of Mary Wroth's Folger Manuscript of Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, IV, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2006), pp. 265-77; and, comparing the MS with the 1621 edition, in Ilona Bell, Mary Wroth's Revisions: Art or Cover-Up?, The Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies Newsletter, Spring 2008, pp. 13-16.

Copy, in a musical setting.

Compiled by Robert Taitt, schoolmaster and precenter in the Church of Lauder, Berwickshire.

Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist and book collector. Formerly T 135Z. B724 1677-89 Bound.

Discussed in Walter H. Rubsamen, Scottish and English Music in the Renaissance in a Newly-Discovered Manuscript, Festschrift Heinrich Besseler (Leipzig, 1961), 259-84.

Copy of the shortened version of the song, untitled.

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

Inscribed (f. [ir]) S^r Robert Killigrew / 1702. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.

Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

Copy, headed To thy Lady Mary wroth for writeing the Countes of montgomerie Vrania, subscribed by the L. D.

Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled L.C. [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637.

Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks, Edward Randolphe and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I): DnJ Δ 25, CwT Δ 28, CoR Δ 10, and HeR Δ 5. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Discussed in C.M. Armitage, Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on The Funerall, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707. A facsimile of part of p. 63 in Marcy L. North, Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 101).

Edited from this MS in Roberts, N&Q, 222 (1977), 534.

Copy of an early version, apparently in the hand of George Garrard, headed Penshurst Mount.

Including eleven poems by John Donne, three of them (ff. 10r-14v, 55r, 76r-7r) in the italic hand of his friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627); ff. 95r-8r in the same hand as the Leconfield MS (DnJ Δ 5) and constituting part of what was probably a quarto MS book of Donne's satires; f. 132r-v constituting a set of six verse epistles by Donne, the text related to the Westmoreland MS (DnJ Δ 19).

From the Conway Papers belonging chiefly to Sir Edward Conway, Baron Conway of Ragley, later Viscount Killultagh and Viscount Conway of Conway Castle (c.1564-1631), and to his son, Edward, second Viscount Conway (1594-1655). Later owned by John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), politician and writer, and presented 10 January 1860.

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the Conway MS: DnJ Δ 40. Cited as A23 by editors. Facsimile of f. 62r in Michael Roy Denbo, Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73 (p. 71).

This MS recorded in Roberts, Poems, p. 153.

Autograph fair copy of early versions of nine of the poems subsequently printed in the 1621 Urania.

Later owned by Isaac Reed (1742-1807), literary editor and book collector; by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector (Phillipps MS 9283).

Edited from this MS in Roberts, Poems (U12-14, U17-18, U24, U32, U34, and U52, on pp. 154-9, 163-4, 170-2, 183-92).

The MS conclusion edited in Renée Pigeon, Manuscript Notations in an Unrecorded Copy of Lady Mary Wroth's The Countess of Mountgomeries Urania (1621), N&Q, 236 (March 1991), 81-2.

Later owned by Hugh McDonald (his inscriptions (Dublin, 12 May 1784 and 1783); by Fitz Edward Hall (DCL at Oxford 1860); and by W.B. Chorley. Sold in 1948 by the bookseller Howard C. Howe, Waukegan, Illinois.

These authorial alterations are discussed and all incorporated in Josephine Roberts's edition, where a facsimile of sig. 3Y1^r-v appears on p. cxvii.

Inscribed names of Mary Plumbley 1663 and R. de Milles. Acquired in 1933 from Stevens and Brown Ltd, London.

The MS conclusion edited in Renée Pigeon, Manuscript Notations in an Unrecorded Copy of Lady Mary Wroth's The Countess of Mountgomeries Urania (1621), N&Q, 236 (March 1991), 81-2. Discussed, with facsimiles, in Susan Light, Reading Romances: The Handwritten Ending of Mary Wroth's Urania in the UCLA Library Copy, Sidney Newsletter & Journal, 14/1 (Summer 1996), 66-72.

Autograph manuscript, closely written in her italic hand with frequent revisions, comprising two books in two folio volumes, the first untitled but with the colophon heer ends the first booke, of the secound part of the Countess of Mountgomeries Vrania, the second volume headed The secound booke of the secound part of the Countess of Montgomerys Vrania, the pages numbered by Wroth according to bifolium (so each of her foll numbers represents four pages), the first volume 67 leaves (plus blanks), the second volume 62 leaves (plus blanks), both in later half-calf marbled boards.

Inscribed inside the front cover of Vol. I Charles Morgan.

Edited from this MS in Roberts's edition, with facsimiles of Vol. I, ff. 1r, 15r, 35r, and Vol. II, ff. 1r, 22r, and 62r, after p. xliv. Facsimile of Vol. I, f. 1r also in Roberts, Poems, p. 81, and facsimile examples in Carolyn Ruth Swift, Feminine Identity in Lady Mary Wroth's Romance Urania, in Women in the Renaissance, ed. Kirby Farrell, Elizabeth H. Hageman, and Arthur F. Kinney (Amherst, 1988), 154-174 (pp. 156-7).

Probably copied from the Huntington MS (WrM 14).

A complete facsimile of this MS, with transcription, in Brennan's edition. Illustration of the cover in Josephine A. Roberts, Deciphering Women's Pastoral: Coded Language in Wroth's Loves's Victory, in Representing Women in Renaissance England, ed. Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth (Columbia & London, 1997), pp. 163-74 (p. 166).

A working MS in alternating formal and cursive styles of hand and differing shades of ink, entitled Loues victorie, with numerous autograph deletions, revisions and additions, incomplete and imperfect, lacking various lines including the opening of Act I and the last part of Act V.

Probably the original MS. in the possession of Sir E. Dering, Bart. 4to recorded by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) in 1853. Quaritch's sale catalogue, December 1899, item 1116. Owned in 1901 by William Augustus White (1843-1927), American banker and collector. Purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia bookseller and scholar, 6 September 1923.

Extracts (538 lines) were edited by Halliwell possibly from a (now lost) transcript of this MS made by his wife in 1845, and this later transcript may be the MS 102 recorded as being once in the Plymouth Proprietory Library. Differing arguments for provenance are presented in Josephine A. Roberts, The Huntington Manuscript of Lady Mary Wroth's Play, Love's Victorie, HLQ, 46 (1983), 156-74; in Brennan's edition, pp. 17-20; and in two articles by Arthur Freeman: a review of Brennan's edition in The Library, 6th Ser. 13 (1991), 168-73, and Love's Victory: A Supplementary Note, The Library, 6th Ser. 19 (1997), 252-4.

The MS is discussed also in Josephine Roberts, The Huntington Manuscript of Lady Mary Wroth's Play, Loves Victorie, HLQ, 46 (1983), 156-74, and the songs edited from this MS in Roberts, Poems, pp. 210-15.

Facsimile examples of ff. 1r and 5r in Roberts, HLQ, 46, pp. 157 and 160; in Roberts, Poems, pp. 79-80; Facsimile of f. 43r also in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), pp. 305-6; of f. 1r in Margaret Anne McLaren, An Unknown Continent: Lady Mary Wroth's Forgotten Pastoral Drama, Loves Victorie, in The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print & Counterbalancing the Canon, ed. Anne M. Haselkorn and Betty S. Travitsky (Amherst, MA, 1990), pp. 276-94 (p. 277); and facsimiles, with transcriptions, of ff. 1r and 20v in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 422-5.

Edited in Roberts, Poems, pp. 233-4 (No. I).

Edited, with facsimiles, in Margaret J. Arnold's articles Editing a Recent Mary Wroth Letter, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 103-14, and An Unpublished Letter of Mary Wroth, ELR, 35/3 (Autumn 2005), 454-8.

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

Edited in Roberts, Poems, pp. 234-5 (No. II).

Edited in Roberts, Poems, p. 235 (No. III).

Edited in Roberts, Poems, pp. 235-6 (No. IV).

Autograph letter signed by Wroth, to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, 15 December 1621.

Collected by the Hon. George Matthew Fortescue.

Edited in Roberts, Poems, p. 236 (No. V), with a complete facsimile on p. 77. Facsimile examples also in Josephine A. Roberts, The Huntington Manuscript of Lady Mary Wroth's Play, Love's Victorie, HLQ, 46 (1983), 156-74 (pp. 157, 159).

Edited in Roberts, Poems, p. 237 (No. VI).

This MS recorded in Roberts, Poems, p. 237.

This MS recorded in Roberts, Poems, p. 240.

Edited from this MS in Roberts, Poems, pp. 238-9.

This MS recorded in Roberts, Poems, p. 238.

This MS recorded in Roberts, Poems, p. 238.

With a copy of a letter apparently by Denny to Wroth.

Among papers of the Feilding family, Earls of Denbigh, of Pailton House, Warwickshire.

Edited in Roberts, Poems, pp. 240-1 (No. VIII).

Edited from this MS in Roberts, Poems, pp. 240-1 (No. IX).

Among papers of the Feilding family, Earls of Denbigh, of Pailton House, Warwickshire.

Edited in Roberts, Poems, p. 242 (No. X).

This MS recorded in Roberts, Poems, p. 241.

This MS recorded in Roberts, Poems, p. 241.

Autograph letter signed by Wroth, to Sir Edward Conway, from Loughton, 7 March [1622/3].

Edited in Roberts, Poems, pp. 242-3 (No. XI). Facsimile example also in Josephine A. Roberts, The Huntington Manuscript of Lady Mary Wroth's Play, Love's Victorie, HLQ, 46 (1983), 156-74 (p. 158).

Edited in Roberts, Poems, pp. 243-4 (No. XII).

Edited in Roberts, Poems, p. 244.

An autograph letter signed by Sir George Manners, to Lady Mary Wroth, asking to read her manuscript of [Part two of] Urania, 31 May 1640.

Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Part IV, Rutland, Vol. I (1888), p. 520. Edited in Roberts, Poems, pp. 244-5.

Copy.

Probably compiled by one H.S., a Cambridge man.

Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector, with his bookplate and inscription 1806 Purchased of Lansdown of Bristol. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 192.

Edited from this MS in Roberts, N&Q, 222 (1977), 533-4.

Copy.

Inscribed four times on a flyleaf Tobias Alston his booke: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end.

Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Alston MS: HeR Δ 7. A complete set of photocopies of the MS is in the British Library, RP 772. Facsimile of pp. 6-7 in Sotheby's sale catalogue (see HeR 176, HeR 405) where the MS is described at some length. See also letters by Peter Beal and Donald W. Foster in TLS (24 January 1986), pp. 87-8.