Sir Thomas Wyatt

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, in a formal secretary hand, untitled.

Almost entirely compiled for John Harington of Stepney (c.1517-82), of Stepney, courtier and writer, but also used by his son Sir John Harington and including (ff. 69v-78r), in an unidentified hand, Edmund Campion's Virgilian Latin epic (beginning Sancta salutiferi nascentia semina verbi) which otherwise exists in a presentation MS in the hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe (Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall, MS 437).

Inscribed (ff. 29v and 82r) Ellina Harrington and (f. 29v) ffrancis Haryngton, two of Sir John's children. Inscribed (f. 3r) Liber Jacobi Tyrrell, 1663: i.e. by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), political theorist and historian, friend of John Locke. Owned in 1791 by the Rev. William Sayle, of Stowey, Somerset. Bearing annotations in red ink by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Bought in 1800 from Sayle by Thomas Park (1758/9-1834), antiquary and bibliographer, who sold it to Thomas Hill (1760-1840), London book collector. Subsequently owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1336. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1244. Phillips MS 9474. Sotheby's, 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 1206. Quaritch's sale catalogue, 1900, Part VII, item 5811. Acquired 15 October 1900.

Some pieces in this MS (notably works by John Harington the Elder) printed in the various editions of Nugae Antiquae and in Ruth Hughey, John Harington of Stepney: Tudor Gentleman, (Columbus, Ohio, 1971). The poem by Edmund Campion edited, with an English translation, in Gerard Kilroy, Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription (Aldershot, 2005), pp. 155-93.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Hughey, I, No. 97, p. 145.

Copy, headed A ridle of a gifte giuen by a ladie.

With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.

This MS collated in Hughey, II, 126.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy of lines 1-16, 21-8, including speech-prefixes.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 9), and in Harrier, pp. 147-8.

Copy of lines 1-8, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy (not in the same hand as WyT 8), untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated (and lines 17-20 edited) in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy of lines 1-12, in a musical setting by William Cornish, untitled and here beginning A robyn gentyl robyn.

Inscribed (ff. 129v-30r), among other scribbling, Vynsent Wydderden, Syr John Lede, and Dauey Jonys, all of Benenden, Kent, and Jane Reve of Mownfyld (i.e. Mountfield, Sussex). Bookplates of Thomas Fuller M.D. (inscribed Stephen Fuller of Hart Street Bloomsbury 1762) and of Archibald Montgomery, MP (1726-96), eleventh Earl of Eglinton, soldier. Purchased from Quaritch, 22 April 1882.

Edited from this MS in J.E. Stevens, Music and Poetry in the Early Tudor Court (London, 1961), p. 405, and in Muir & Thomson, p. 309. Discussed, with a facsimile, in Ivy L. Mumford, Musical Settings to the Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt, M&L, 37 (1956), 315-22. Edited and discussed in R.G. Siemens, New Evidence on Wyatt's A Robyn in British Library Additional MS 31,922, N&Q, 244 (June 1999), 189-91. Facsimile also in Foxwell, I, after p. 62. This text possibly the popular song which was the basis for Wyatt's version.

Copy of thie incipit only (here Joly Robyn), in a musical setting.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1882.

This MS discussed in Mumford, op. cit., p. 316, and in Mumford, Sir Thomas Wyatt's Songs: A Trio of Problems in Manuscript Sources, M&L, 39 (1958), 262-4. See WyT 10.

Copy, the second page heavily written over.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 183-5.

Copy.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 141, p. 170-2. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson. Facsimile in Baron, p. 92.

Copy.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier. pp. 182-3.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 138, p. 164-5. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, untitled, immediately following on from lines 1-8 of Mornyng my hart dothe sore opres (WyT 189).

Acquired from William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher, on 8 November 1851.

Discussed, with five pages of facsimiles, in Julia Boffey, London, British Library, Additional MS 18752: a Tudor hybrid book?, EMS, 15 (2009), 41-64, and in Scattered Verse in British Library, Additional MS 18752, EMS, 16 (2011) pp. 30-47 (pp. 31-2).

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, with autograph revisions and with alterations in another hand.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 138. Facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 44.

Copy.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 103, p. 147. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, untiitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, with later alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 102-3.

Copy of lines 13-30, untitled and here beginning O cruell causer of vndeserrved chaunge.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 185-8.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy of a 42-line version, in the hand of John Brereton.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 199-200. Facsimiles of f. 65r in Powell, HLQ (2004), p. 273.

Copy of a 28-line version (not in the same hand as WyT 34), later deleted.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Harrier, pp. 194-5. Collated in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, untitled, subscribed fynys q^d Wiat.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson. Facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 272.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy of lines 3-37, untitled and here beginning Evyn as yo lyst my wyll ys bent.

Acquired from William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher, on 8 November 1851.

Discussed, with five pages of facsimiles, in Julia Boffey, London, British Library, Additional MS 18752: a Tudor hybrid book?, EMS, 15 (2009), 41-64, and in Scattered Verse in British Library, Additional MS 18752, EMS, 16 (2011) pp. 30-47 (pp. 31-2).

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy of lines 1-41, with autograph corrections (line 30 inserted).

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 142-3.

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffynys q^d Wyatt.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated (and lines 42-8 edited) in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

This MS collated (and lines 42-8 edited) in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, written over by later hands.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 125.

Copy.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 113, p. 153. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, with later alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 97. Facsimiles in Foxwell, I, after p. 2, and in Powell, p. 18.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, with an alteration in another hand (that responsible for the Aunswer to WyT 183).

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 123.

Copy.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 110, p. 152. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy of the incipit in a musical setting for the lute.

Scribbled name (f. 22r) Sarah Scalther[?]. Sotheby's, 14 July 1887, lot 481. Formerly Folger MS 448.16.

Edited from this MS and discussed in Ivy L. Mumford, Musical Settings to the Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt, M&L, 37 (1956), 315-22, and in John H. Long, Blame not Wyatt's Lute, RN, 7 (1954), 127-30 (and see also Vol. 8 (1955), 12-14).

Copy of the incipit in a musical setting.

Owned and probably compiled by John Ridout (1608-post 1665).

Phillipps MS, [unnumbered?]. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971. Gift of John M. Ward, 1985.

Described in John Ward, Sprightly and Cheerful Musick: Notes on the Cittern, Gittern and Guitar in 16th- and 17th-Century England, Lute Society Journal, 21 (1979-81), 183-95. A microfilm of the MS is in the British Library, RP 678.

Copy, with later alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald; imperfect, lacking the beginning; c. 1537-8.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 103-4.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 99-100.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 166.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this collated in Muir & Thomson.

Autograph fair copy, with revisions.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 173.

Copy of an early version, untitled, here beginning Cruell desire my m^r & my foo.

& my foo.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy of lines 1-7, untitled, here beginning Dryven bye desire I dede this dede.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

Copy (31 lines).

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, untitled.

Acquired from William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher, on 8 November 1851.

Discussed, with five pages of facsimiles, in Julia Boffey, London, British Library, Additional MS 18752: a Tudor hybrid book?, EMS, 15 (2009), 41-64, and in Scattered Verse in British Library, Additional MS 18752, EMS, 16 (2011) pp. 30-47 (pp. 31-2).

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson. Edited in Daalder, p. 62.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, written over by later hands.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 112.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 102, p. 147. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 126.

Copy.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 114, pp. 153-4. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, headed The answere.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 114.

Copy, untitled, here beginning Nowe farewell love and thye lawes forever.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 106, p. 150. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, written over by later hands.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 113.

Copy.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 115-16.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Autograph copy, with extensive revisions.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 203-4. Facsimile of f. 66r in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 46.

Copy, here beginning As from theys hilles that a spryng doth fall.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Autograph.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 213.

Copy, with an alteration in another hand (that responsible for the Aunswer to WyT 183).

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 119.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson and in Hughey, I, No. 312, p. 356.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, with autograph corrections.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 152.

Copy, untitled, here beginning I am not ded altho I had a fall (agreeing with the uncorrected state of the poem in WyT 108).

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, in a formal secretary hand, untitled, here beginning I am not dead although I had a fall.

Almost entirely compiled for John Harington of Stepney (c.1517-82), of Stepney, courtier and writer, but also used by his son Sir John Harington and including (ff. 69v-78r), in an unidentified hand, Edmund Campion's Virgilian Latin epic (beginning Sancta salutiferi nascentia semina verbi) which otherwise exists in a presentation MS in the hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe (Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall, MS 437).

Inscribed (ff. 29v and 82r) Ellina Harrington and (f. 29v) ffrancis Haryngton, two of Sir John's children. Inscribed (f. 3r) Liber Jacobi Tyrrell, 1663: i.e. by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), political theorist and historian, friend of John Locke. Owned in 1791 by the Rev. William Sayle, of Stowey, Somerset. Bearing annotations in red ink by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Bought in 1800 from Sayle by Thomas Park (1758/9-1834), antiquary and bibliographer, who sold it to Thomas Hill (1760-1840), London book collector. Subsequently owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1336. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1244. Phillips MS 9474. Sotheby's, 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 1206. Quaritch's sale catalogue, 1900, Part VII, item 5811. Acquired 15 October 1900.

Some pieces in this MS (notably works by John Harington the Elder) printed in the various editions of Nugae Antiquae and in Ruth Hughey, John Harington of Stepney: Tudor Gentleman, (Columbus, Ohio, 1971). The poem by Edmund Campion edited, with an English translation, in Gerard Kilroy, Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription (Aldershot, 2005), pp. 155-93.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, heavily written over by later hands.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 117.

Copy.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 165.

Copy of lines 25-35, untitled and beginning Yf I had suffered this to you vnware, subscribed ffynys q^d Wyatt.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy of lines 1-4 in a musical setting.

This MS discussed, with a facsimile, in Ivy L. Mumford, Musical Settings to the Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt, M&L (1956), 315-22.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, heavily written over by later hands.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 127.

Copy.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 116, p. 154. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy of lines 1-34, 47-52, 59-62, in double columns, in the hand of Margaret Douglas, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 119).

Copy of lines 1-22, 29-62, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 118).

Copy of lines 1-7, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated and lines 1-18 edited in Muir & Thomson.

Copy of lines 9-40, here beginning I doo not rejoyse nor yet complayne.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 121).

Edited from this MS in Richard Leighton Greene, Wyatt's I am as I am in Carol-Form, RES, NS 15 (1964), 175-80; reprinted in Muir & Thomson, pp. 399-400.

Copy of an untitled version.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to M^r William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Edited from this MS in The Bannatyne Manuscript, ed. J. Barclay Murdoch, Hunterian Club (Glasgow, 1896), III, 731-2; in The Bannatyne Manuscript, ed. W. Tod Ritchie, STS NS 26 (Edinburgh & London, 1930), pp. 2-3; and in H.A. Mason I am as I am, RES, NS 23 (1972), 304-8.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, headed Petrarke in another hand (that responsible for the Aunswer to WyT 183).

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 123-4.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, in a formal secretary hand, headed Pace non trovo.

Almost entirely compiled for John Harington of Stepney (c.1517-82), of Stepney, courtier and writer, but also used by his son Sir John Harington and including (ff. 69v-78r), in an unidentified hand, Edmund Campion's Virgilian Latin epic (beginning Sancta salutiferi nascentia semina verbi) which otherwise exists in a presentation MS in the hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe (Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall, MS 437).

Inscribed (ff. 29v and 82r) Ellina Harrington and (f. 29v) ffrancis Haryngton, two of Sir John's children. Inscribed (f. 3r) Liber Jacobi Tyrrell, 1663: i.e. by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), political theorist and historian, friend of John Locke. Owned in 1791 by the Rev. William Sayle, of Stowey, Somerset. Bearing annotations in red ink by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Bought in 1800 from Sayle by Thomas Park (1758/9-1834), antiquary and bibliographer, who sold it to Thomas Hill (1760-1840), London book collector. Subsequently owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1336. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1244. Phillips MS 9474. Sotheby's, 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 1206. Quaritch's sale catalogue, 1900, Part VII, item 5811. Acquired 15 October 1900.

Some pieces in this MS (notably works by John Harington the Elder) printed in the various editions of Nugae Antiquae and in Ruth Hughey, John Harington of Stepney: Tudor Gentleman, (Columbus, Ohio, 1971). The poem by Edmund Campion edited, with an English translation, in Gerard Kilroy, Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription (Aldershot, 2005), pp. 155-93.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy of the incipit possibly of a version of this poem (here No peace I find and foes I cannot face), in a musical setting.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1882.

This MS discussed in Ivy L. Mumford, Musical Settings to the Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt, M&L, 37 (1956), 315-22 (p. 321), and in Mumford, Sir Thomas Wyatt's Songs: A Trio of Problems in Manuscript Sources, M&L, 39 (1958), 262-4 (where it was argued that this song may not be the same as Wyatt's poem). Recorded in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, with an alteration in an italic hand (that responsible for WyT 372).

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 160-1.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 194. Edited and discussed in Joost Daalder, Wyatt's I Lead a Life Unpleasant: Text and Interpretation, N&Q, 233 (March 1988), 29-33.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, with a facsimile facing p. 196.

Copy, added to the MS in a court hand.

Edited from this MS in Rossell Hope Robbins, Secular Lyrics of the XIVth and XVth Centuries (Oxford, 1952), p. 14. Recorded in Muir & Thomson, p. 400.

A rough version, written along the margins.

This MS collated in Robbins, p. 14.

Copy in the hand of Margaret Douglas, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, in a formal secretary hand, untitled.

Almost entirely compiled for John Harington of Stepney (c.1517-82), of Stepney, courtier and writer, but also used by his son Sir John Harington and including (ff. 69v-78r), in an unidentified hand, Edmund Campion's Virgilian Latin epic (beginning Sancta salutiferi nascentia semina verbi) which otherwise exists in a presentation MS in the hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe (Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall, MS 437).

Inscribed (ff. 29v and 82r) Ellina Harrington and (f. 29v) ffrancis Haryngton, two of Sir John's children. Inscribed (f. 3r) Liber Jacobi Tyrrell, 1663: i.e. by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), political theorist and historian, friend of John Locke. Owned in 1791 by the Rev. William Sayle, of Stowey, Somerset. Bearing annotations in red ink by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Bought in 1800 from Sayle by Thomas Park (1758/9-1834), antiquary and bibliographer, who sold it to Thomas Hill (1760-1840), London book collector. Subsequently owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1336. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1244. Phillips MS 9474. Sotheby's, 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 1206. Quaritch's sale catalogue, 1900, Part VII, item 5811. Acquired 15 October 1900.

Some pieces in this MS (notably works by John Harington the Elder) printed in the various editions of Nugae Antiquae and in Ruth Hughey, John Harington of Stepney: Tudor Gentleman, (Columbus, Ohio, 1971). The poem by Edmund Campion edited, with an English translation, in Gerard Kilroy, Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription (Aldershot, 2005), pp. 155-93.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, p. 242.

Copy of lines 1-8, 13-24.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 142).

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, headed A balad of witt.

This MS collated (and lines 9-12 edited) in Muir & Thomson.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 158-9.

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy of lines 1-4.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

This MS recorded in Harrier.

Copy.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 136-7.

Copy of lines 1-12, 17-26, 17-36, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy of lines 9-36, here beginning ffansye dothe know how.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 130, p. 159. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, in the hand of John Brereton, with autograph corrections.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 204-5. Facsimile in Henry VIII Man and Monarch, ed. Susan Doran (British Library, London, 2009), p. 179.

Copy.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 124, p. 157. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Autograph fair copy, with revisions.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 180-1.

Copy, imperfect, most of the leaf torn away.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 162-3.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 121-2.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 119-20.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy of lines 1-13 (not in the same hand as WyT 158), untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS recorded (but not collated) in Muir & Thomson (p. 202).

Autograph, with extensive revisions.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 250-2.

Copy.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 140, p. 168-70. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, pp. 243-4.

Copy, with geometrical diagrams drawn over it by later hands.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 128.

Copy.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 117, pp. 154-5. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy of a sequence of three poems, with an autograph alteration.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 190-4 (edited as separate poems).

Copy, partly in Mantell's hand.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier. Facsimile of f. 118r in Baron, p. 97.

Copy of stanzas 1-5.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 171).

Copy, here beginning Longer to prove ye, what may it availe me.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 244, p. 282. Collated (and stanzas 6-7 edited) in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, with an alteration in another hand (that responsible for the Aunswer to WyT 183).

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 126-7.

Copy.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 115, p. 154. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, in a formal secretary hand, untitled.

Almost entirely compiled for John Harington of Stepney (c.1517-82), of Stepney, courtier and writer, but also used by his son Sir John Harington and including (ff. 69v-78r), in an unidentified hand, Edmund Campion's Virgilian Latin epic (beginning Sancta salutiferi nascentia semina verbi) which otherwise exists in a presentation MS in the hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe (Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall, MS 437).

Inscribed (ff. 29v and 82r) Ellina Harrington and (f. 29v) ffrancis Haryngton, two of Sir John's children. Inscribed (f. 3r) Liber Jacobi Tyrrell, 1663: i.e. by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), political theorist and historian, friend of John Locke. Owned in 1791 by the Rev. William Sayle, of Stowey, Somerset. Bearing annotations in red ink by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Bought in 1800 from Sayle by Thomas Park (1758/9-1834), antiquary and bibliographer, who sold it to Thomas Hill (1760-1840), London book collector. Subsequently owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1336. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1244. Phillips MS 9474. Sotheby's, 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 1206. Quaritch's sale catalogue, 1900, Part VII, item 5811. Acquired 15 October 1900.

Some pieces in this MS (notably works by John Harington the Elder) printed in the various editions of Nugae Antiquae and in Ruth Hughey, John Harington of Stepney: Tudor Gentleman, (Columbus, Ohio, 1971). The poem by Edmund Campion edited, with an English translation, in Gerard Kilroy, Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription (Aldershot, 2005), pp. 155-93.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, p. 241.

Copy, imperfect, most of the leaf torn away.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 161-2.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated (and edited in part) in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, headed T. Wyat of Loue.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 128-9. The text followed by a 12-line Aunswer in a later hand responsible for alterations to eleven other poems in this MS (this Aunswer edited in Muir & Thomson, p. 298, and in Harrier, p. 129). Facsimile in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119 (p. 105).

Copy, here beginning Mestres what nedis many wordis.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier. The text followed by a 12-line Aunswer in the same hand (see WyT 183).

Copy, with an alteration in another hand (that responsible for the Aunswer to WyT 183).

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 143-4.

Copy, in double columns, untitled, subscribed ffynys q^d Wyatt.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, headed Verses by Sir Thomas Wyatt.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Nugae Antiquae, [ed. Henry Harington], 2 vols (London, 1769), II, 250-1.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy of lines 1-8, untitled.

Acquired from William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher, on 8 November 1851.

Discussed, with five pages of facsimiles, in Julia Boffey, London, British Library, Additional MS 18752: a Tudor hybrid book?, EMS, 15 (2009), 41-64, and in Scattered Verse in British Library, Additional MS 18752, EMS, 16 (2011) pp. 30-47 (pp. 31-2).

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson. See also WyT 21.

Copy, here beginning Morenyng my hart doithe sore opress, in a musical setting.

This MS recorded (but not collated) in Muir & Thomson, p. 405.

Copy in two hands, including John Brereton.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 197-8. Facsimiles of f. 64r in Powell, HLQ (2004), p. 272.

Copy.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 125.

Copy, with alterations in another hand.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 112, pp. 152-3. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, written over by later hands.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 115.

Copy, begun by an amanuensis and corrected and completed by Margaret Douglas (omitting lines 10-11), untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, omitting line 10, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, in a secretary hand, with other verses, on a folio leaf of vellum (inverted), deleted and faded.

Owned and perhaps partly compiled by Sir James Ware (1594-1666), antiquary and historian, and including (ff. 131r-7r) forgeries by his son Robert.

Subsequently owned by Henry Hyde (1638-1709), second Earl of Clarendon, politician (constituting Clarendon MSS Vol. 55). Signature, dated 1746/7, and bookplate of Jeremiah Milles (1714-84), Dean of Exeter, antiquary (Milles Collection Vol. XLIV).

Copy.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 107, pp. 150-1. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 153-4.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 134, pp. 161-2. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, with a correction in an italic hand (that responsible for WyT 372).

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 157-8.

Copy, untitled, subscribed fynys q^d Wyatt.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 174-7.

Copy of lines 1-18, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 142, pp. 172-5. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy of lines 1-4 in the hand of Margaret Douglas, untitled, with a smudged copy of lines 1-2 in another hand on f. 66r.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy of lines 22-147, beginning O small hony, much aloes & gall, with later alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald, heavily written over by later hands.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 214), and in Harrier, pp. 105-8.

Copy of lines 1-79; imperfect, lacking the ending.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 144, pp. 176-8. Collated and lines 1-21 edited in Muir & Thomson. Lines 22-79 collated in Harrier.

Copy of lines 52-103, beginning Praise him for counceill that is droncke of ale; imperfect.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 216), and in Harrier, pp. 167-8.

Copy of lines 1-27, 31-103, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated and lines 1-27, 31-52 edited in Muir & Thomson. Collated in Harrier.

Copy of lines 1-17, 20-8, 32-103, with corrections in another hand.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 104, p. 147-9. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy of lines 1-17, 20-8, 32-103, in an italic hand, untitled.

Almost entirely compiled for John Harington of Stepney (c.1517-82), of Stepney, courtier and writer, but also used by his son Sir John Harington and including (ff. 69v-78r), in an unidentified hand, Edmund Campion's Virgilian Latin epic (beginning Sancta salutiferi nascentia semina verbi) which otherwise exists in a presentation MS in the hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe (Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall, MS 437).

Inscribed (ff. 29v and 82r) Ellina Harrington and (f. 29v) ffrancis Haryngton, two of Sir John's children. Inscribed (f. 3r) Liber Jacobi Tyrrell, 1663: i.e. by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), political theorist and historian, friend of John Locke. Owned in 1791 by the Rev. William Sayle, of Stowey, Somerset. Bearing annotations in red ink by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Bought in 1800 from Sayle by Thomas Park (1758/9-1834), antiquary and bibliographer, who sold it to Thomas Hill (1760-1840), London book collector. Subsequently owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1336. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1244. Phillips MS 9474. Sotheby's, 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 1206. Quaritch's sale catalogue, 1900, Part VII, item 5811. Acquired 15 October 1900.

Some pieces in this MS (notably works by John Harington the Elder) printed in the various editions of Nugae Antiquae and in Ruth Hughey, John Harington of Stepney: Tudor Gentleman, (Columbus, Ohio, 1971). The poem by Edmund Campion edited, with an English translation, in Gerard Kilroy, Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription (Aldershot, 2005), pp. 155-93.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, immediately following on from Venemus thornes that ar so sharp and kene (WyT 370), subscribed finis T Wyet.

Once owned by one W. Kytton.

This MS collated in F.D. Hoeniger, A Wyatt Manuscript, N&Q, 202 (March 1957), 103-4 and in Harrier; recorded in Muir & Thomson, p. 350.

Copy, with autograph corrections.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 160.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, subscribed S^r T. W.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy of lines 1-36, 43-8, subscribed To Smithe of Camden.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 6, p. 82. Collated in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 189-90.

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, inscribed T. W.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Autograph, fair copy, with one revision.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 181.

Autograph, with revisions.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 211. Facsimiles in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 9, and in DLB, vol. 132, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. First Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1993), p. 351.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 156.

Copy of lines 1-8.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, headed By Sir Thomas Wyatt.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Nugae Antiquae, [ed. Henry Harington], 2 vols (London, 1769), II, 254-5.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, with an alteration in an italic hand (that responsible for WyT 372).

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 133-4.

Copy, untitled, subscribed fynys q^d Wyatt.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 131, p. 159-60. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, with the third stanza placed first and here beginning Patiens off all my blame.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 134-5.

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy of lines 1-8; imperfect.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 132, p. 160. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, immediately following on from Patiens off all my blame (see WyT 244).

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Autograph of Wyatt's seven Penitential Psalms and their prologues, with extensive revisions; imperfect, lacking lines 100-51 (lines 26-80 in Psalm 6).

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, with a facsimile of one page facing p. 100, and in Harrier, pp. 214-49.

Copy of the seven Penitential Psalms and their prologues.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, Nos 154-67, pp. 186-206. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Inscrined name (f. 1v) of Marie Brograue.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson (with a facsimile of two pages facing p. 116), and in Harrier.

Copy, untitled.

Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton.

Inscribed (f. 1r) mary shelton and with part of the name of Mary Howard. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.

Generally cited as the Devonshire MS. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492), MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.

Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.

Cited by editors as the Blage MS. First described by Kenneth Muir (An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, The Blage Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.

Copy, in a formal secretary hand, untitled.

Almost entirely compiled for John Harington of Stepney (c.1517-82), of Stepney, courtier and writer, but also used by his son Sir John Harington and including (ff. 69v-78r), in an unidentified hand, Edmund Campion's Virgilian Latin epic (beginning Sancta salutiferi nascentia semina verbi) which otherwise exists in a presentation MS in the hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe (Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall, MS 437).

Inscribed (ff. 29v and 82r) Ellina Harrington and (f. 29v) ffrancis Haryngton, two of Sir John's children. Inscribed (f. 3r) Liber Jacobi Tyrrell, 1663: i.e. by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), political theorist and historian, friend of John Locke. Owned in 1791 by the Rev. William Sayle, of Stowey, Somerset. Bearing annotations in red ink by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Bought in 1800 from Sayle by Thomas Park (1758/9-1834), antiquary and bibliographer, who sold it to Thomas Hill (1760-1840), London book collector. Subsequently owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1336. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1244. Phillips MS 9474. Sotheby's, 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 1206. Quaritch's sale catalogue, 1900, Part VII, item 5811. Acquired 15 October 1900.

Some pieces in this MS (notably works by John Harington the Elder) printed in the various editions of Nugae Antiquae and in Ruth Hughey, John Harington of Stepney: Tudor Gentleman, (Columbus, Ohio, 1971). The poem by Edmund Campion edited, with an English translation, in Gerard Kilroy, Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription (Aldershot, 2005), pp. 155-93.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, p. 241.

Copy.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 181-2.

Copy.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 137, p. 164. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

Autograph unfinished draft, heavily written over by later hands.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 204. Facsimile of f. 66r in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 46.

Copy of lines 1-36, in the hand of John Brereton, with an autograph addition.

In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand predominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r.

Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.

Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the Egerton MS. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 261), and in Harrier, pp. 201-2. Facsimiles of f. 65v in Powell, HLQ (2004), p. 274.

Copy of lines 1-69, 72-112.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 168, pp. 206-8. Collated (and Edited in part) in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier, pp. 202-3.

Copy.

Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions.