Abraham Cowley

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

Copy of the two poems.

Including 15 poems (and a second copy of one poem) by Cowley and 15 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS II: PsK Δ 7.

Copy of the two poems, headed respectively Hope. Nichols Trin. Coll. and Answer. Crashaw. Pe. house Camb..

Compiled by Sir John Perceval, Bt (1629-65), probably while at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Volume CXCII of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family.

Copy of the two poems, headed respectively Upon Hope, subscribed Ab: Cowley (f. 80r-v), and The Answer, subscribed Rich: Crashaw (ff. 80v-1v).

Fols 1r-93v, 95r-100v in the hand of Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London (whose name is inscribed on a flyleaf: f. 1*); f. 94r-v in an unidentified hand, and ff. 101v-2r in that of Peter Calfe's son, Peter Calfe the Younger (d.1693).

Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1r) Janu. 6. 1738/9.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6917 with which it was once bound, as the Calfe MS: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4.

This MS collated in Martin.

Extracts from the two poems, comprising lines 51-8, 72, 76, 3-4, here beginning Faire Hop's our earlyer heaven hereby.

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

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

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

Copy of Cowley's poem only.

Inscribed at front and back with the name Edw: Rawstorne.

Copy, in a musical setting.

Copy, in a musical setting by Morelli.

Copy, in a musical setting by Pietro Reggio, untitled.

Inscribed (f. 1*^r) P. Fussell Winton, Liber Caroli Morgan e Coll Magd Dec^mo: 6^to Die 7^bris: Anno Domini 1682, and Vincent Novello [(1781-1861), music publisher] The gift of his kind friend W^m Patten.

Copy in a musical setting by Pietro Reggio, untitled.

A formal compilation, ff. 2r-44v in the hand of Henry Bowman (fl.1674-80), composer and copyist; ff. 44v-53v in a second hand; ff. 54r-65r in a third hand; with additions in one or more hands on ff. 99v-66v rev.

Booklabel of William Hayman Cummings, FSA (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Sotheby's, 17-24 May 1917 (Cummings sale), lot 487.

Copy, in a musical setting.

Copy, in a musical setting by Pietro Reggio transposed by Morelli.

Copy, headed Drinking. Out of M^r Cowley's Anacreontiques, on a pair of conjugate quarto leaves.

Among papers of the Earls de Grey, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire.

Copy, in a musical setting by Sylvanus Taylor.

Owned by, and the MS pages in the hand of, the Rev. John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.

Bookplate of Charles Barlow (fl.1720s-30s), of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Leo Liepmannssohn's sale catalogue 183 (1913), item 183 (possibly from MSS purchased in 1907 by James E. Matthew). Library stamp of the Königliche Bibliothek (now Preussische Staatsbibliothek), Berlin. Moved to Kraków in 1946.

Discussed, with various facsimile examples, in H. Diack Johnstone, Ayres and Arias: A Hitherto Unknown Seventeenth-Century English Songbook, Early Music History, 16 (1997), 167-201, and in Richard Charteris, A Newly Discovered Songbook in Poland with Works by Henry Lawes and his Contemporaries, EMS, 8 (2000), 225-79.

The lyrics edited from this MS in Charteris, p. 273.

Copy in a musical setting by Charles Coleman, headed A.2 voc: Translate: Anacrons Greek Ode.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Paris Conservatoire MS. Rés. 2489, MD, 23 (1969), 117-39 (pp. 130-1).

Copy, headed An Anacriontick Ode paraphrasticaly Englished by M^r A Cowley.

J. Salkeld, sale catalogue No. 222 (17 June 1885), item 273.

This MS recorded in Jean Loiseau, Abraham Cowley's Reputation in England (Paris, 1931), p. 27, n. 18.

Copy of a Latin version of Cowley's verses, headed Cowley's paraphrase on Anacreons poem of drinking, turn'd into Latin verse, beginning Jellas Epotal silibundis faucib Imbrem.

A flyleaf inscribed Tho: Hearne. Sept. 1^o. M: DCC: IX: i.e. Collected by 1709 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary.

Copy, headed A Song by A Cowley.

Including (f. 1r) an anagram on Frances Pawlett. Inscribed in red ink (f. 123v) Egigius Frampton hunc librum jure tenet non est mortale quod opto: 1659: i.e. by Giles Frampton, who is perhaps responsible for some of the later poems. Also inscribed [?]R. N. 1663. Some later notes in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.

This MS (erroneously cited as Rawl. Poet. MS. 4) recorded in Sparrow, p. 203.

Copy, in a musical setting by Charles Coleman, untitled and here beginning The parcht Earth drinkes the Raine.

Possibly compiled in part by one T. C.

Inscribed (f. 1v) R. Guise [of Abbey] Feb: 12. 1760. Purchased from Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, 17 June 1839.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 4 (New York & London, 1986).

Copy, headed Paraphras'd by A Cowley and here beginning The thirsty Earth drinkes up the rain.

Compiled by John Watson (d. c.1707), of Queens' College, Cambridge, vicar of Mildenhall, Suffolk.

Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex dono D^rs Barb: Rhodes ...M^ri Joan: Rhodes Decemb: 5 1667; Janawary y^e 2 day 1726; W^m faildham London to y^e Land of maderah & from thence to Jamaca. Purchased from Lilly, 13 July 1850.

Copy, in a musical setting by Roger Hill and Edward Lowe, superscribed This songe was giuen M^r Houghton, by M^r Caue: it was to bee sunge by a Single Base. Except y^e Chorus for two parts. I sett an vpper part to it the 27^th of Janu. 16[ ] and here beginning The thirsty Earth sucks up y^e rayne.

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

Arms of Eleanor Bursh on a seal affixed to f. 56r. Later owned and annotated in pencil by Thomas Oliphant (1799-1873), music editor and cataloguer.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 5 (New York & London, 1986).

Copy.

Presented by Mrs Jervis, 13 May 1876.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Bowman, untitled.

Compiled by the composer Henry Bowman, those songs set by himself listed by him on f. 93r.

Bookplate of Katherine Sedley (1657-1717), daughter of Sir Charles Sedley and later Countess of Dorchester, of Southfleet, Kent. Inscribed (f. 93r) John James. Purchased from J. Harvey, 13 July 1877.

Copy, headed fourth Song.

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

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

Copy, headed An Anacreontique in Drinking, by M^r Cowley.

Copy, untitled.

Second copy, also untitled.

Copy, headed A Health and here beginning The parch'd earth drinkes y^e raine.

Compiled by a royalist.

Inscribed (f. 1r) W^m Godolphin Serv^t to M^r Savile and Hen: Savile Serv^t: to M^r Godolphin.

Copy, untitled.

Inscribed by, and the MS most likely compiled by, the Rev. Henry Newcome (1650-1713), of St Edmund's Hall, Oxford, in 1669, rector at Middleton, Manchester.

A pencil note (f. [i^v]) refers to Original MSS otherwise from Hockwold Hall.

Copies, in a musical setting by Capt: Silas Taylor.

Leaves excised from these volumes are in the Folger, MS V.a.411 (five leaves) and (nine leaves) at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (Halliwell-Phillipps, Shakespearean scrapbooks).

A flyleaf in the Cantus Secundus part book inscribed Decemb. 30. 1674. Note that I Thomas Clifford bought this sett of Musick Books of Mr Richard Price's widow M^rs Dorothy Price for --7^s--6^d.

Copy, headed Drinking, subscribed Anacreon .31. Decemb^r. 1740, followed (f. 28v rev.) by an anonymous The Answer (beginning The thirsty Earth, wⁿ one would think).

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

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

Copy of an abbreviated version, untitled.

Compiled by members of the Deynes family and others.

Inscribed names of Charles Deynes, Grey Bryan (in pencil), and (in pencil) Alex Robertson, Invercargill, New Zealand. Purchased from P.J. and A.E. Dobell 30 November 1924.

Copy, headed A Song Apologetique for drinking and inscribed This I had from Jack Chaytor.

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

Copy, headed An Apologie for drinking, here beginning The fruitfull earth doth drink the rain and ascribed to Robert Wisedome in a verse miscellany appended to a MS volume of poems by John Donne.

A folio verse miscellany, including 15 poems by Donne, f. 162r-v in a rounded italic hand, ff. 164r-74v in a slightly erratic italic hand, ff. 175r-279v in a neat formal italic hand (also responsible for the index on ff. 2r-11v), this miscellany constituting ff. 162r-279v of a single folio volume containing also Part I (DnJ Δ 15), ii + 279 leaves in all (lacking one or more leaves at the end), in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked).

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dublin MS (II): DnJ Δ 61.

Copy, headed in the margin A songe of drincke, here beginning The Thirsty Earth drinckes in y^e Raine.

Compiled over a period (entries dated between 1621 and 1667) by members of the family of Sir Marmaduke Rawdon (1583-1646), merchant, shipowner and royalist soldier.

Inscribed (f. 278r) Mary Elliston october the 27 1763 and Mary Elliston Collchester. Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90), of Walton Hall, Wakefield, botanist and book collector.

Copy, here beginning The thirsty Earth drincks in the raine.

Later owned by the Rev. Guy Bryon, of Malden, Essex, and by Alex Robertson, of Inverscargill, New Zealand, who acquired it in 1924 from Dobell. Roy Davids's sale catalogue No.VI (1999), item 32.

Extract.

Inscribed name of William Cooke.

Copy, headed Age.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

Copy.

Partly in Scottish dialect, one poem by mr. W. Turner.

Copy, in a musical setting by Pietro Reggio.

Copy, headed Gold.

Copy, untitled, subscribed M^r Tho Head.

Copy, in a musical setting by Pietro Reggio, untitled.

Inscribed (f. 1*^r) P. Fussell Winton, Liber Caroli Morgan e Coll Magd Dec^mo: 6^to Die 7^bris: Anno Domini 1682, and Vincent Novello [(1781-1861), music publisher] The gift of his kind friend W^m Patten.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

This MS recorded in Purcell Society edition (1922).

Copy, untitled.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

Copy of Cowley's juvenile composition.

Edited from this MS in Sargeaunt.

Copy, headed Christ's passion. Taken out of a Greek ode written by m^r masters of new College in oxford, on two conjugate octavo leaves.

Copy, in a musical setting, headed Glee for 4 Voices/ The Poetry from Cowley/ R J Thoms 1780 Lambeth/ 1821 Revised.

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

Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, headed Song.

Booklabel of Io: Walter An^o 1650. An affixed label inscribed Jo: Walter: His Book Anno Domino 1680: i.e. John Walter, organist at Eton College (in 1681-1704) and possibly erstwhile chorister in the Chapel Royal (c.1674-7). Among the muniments of Chichester Cathedral.

This MS recorded in Wyn K. Ford, The Chapel Royal at the Restoration, MMR, 90 (1960), 99-106 (p. 100). For a discussion of this and other MSS in Walter's hand (with facsimile examples), see Bruce Wood, A Note on Two Cambridge Manuscripts and their Copyists, M&L, 56 (1975), 308-12.

This MS discussed in Wyn K. Ford, The Chapel Royal at the Restoration, MMR, 90 (1960), 99-106 (p. 100), and in Bruce Wood, A Note on Two Cambridge Manuscripts and their Copyists, M&L, 56 (1975), 308-12.

Copy, headed Christ's Passion by M^r Cowley from a Greek Ode of M^r Masters, in a quarto verse miscellany (occupying ff. 84r-117v).

Volume XVIII of papers of the families of Browne, Mariett and West, of the manor of Alscot, in Preston-on-Stour, Gloucestershire.

Portions once owned by Henry Jackson (1586-1662), Hooker's first editor; by Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary; by Thomas Coxeter (1689-1747); and probably by James West, FRS, FSA, MP (1703-72), politician and antiquary.

Copy.

Bookplate of Frederick Lewis Gay, of Brookline, Massachusetts, 1916.

Copies, in a musical setting by Henry Bowman, marked for three voices, Cantus primus, and three voices respectively, the Bassus continuo part (iii) with the incipit only, untitled.

Comprising (i) Bassus part, ix + 155 leaves, in modern vellum. (ii) Treble part, viii + 136 leaves, in contemporary vellum. (iii) Bassus continuo part, iv + 109 leaves (lacking ff. 39-44), in contemporary vellum.

Copy, in a musical setting by Captain Henry Cooke, untitled.

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

Arms of Eleanor Bursh on a seal affixed to f. 56r. Later owned and annotated in pencil by Thomas Oliphant (1799-1873), music editor and cataloguer.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 5 (New York & London, 1986).

Comprising: Book I, 576 lines, in the hand of an amanuensis, with corrections and a few insertions in Cowley's hand, on eight leaves; Book II, 617 lines, entirely in Cowley's hand, on nine leaves; and Book III, 647 lines, also entirely in Cowley's hand, on ten leaves.

Among the MSS of the Cowper family of Panshanger, Hertfordshire; evidently once belonging to Dame Sarah Cowper (1644-1720) and probably given to her by Martin Clifford (c.1624-77).

Edited from this MS in Pritchard's edition, with a facsimile of Book III, lines 65-92, as frontispiece. Also discussed in Pritchard, Editing, with facsimiles of Book I, lines 477-518, and Book III, lines 33-64. A facsimile of f. [6r] is also in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile Xa, after p. xxii.

Copy of Books I-III, in a rounded stylish hand, transcribed from CoA 40, inscribed in the margin By Abraham Cowley.

Compiled chiefly by Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706), possibly in part from texts supplied by Martin Clifford (c.1624-77), erstwhile secretary of the Duke of Buckingham and Master of the Charterhouse. Including (pp. [91-116]) 26 poems by Sir Charles Sedley as a single group (and copies of a poem of doubtful authorship on pp. [165] and [179]).

Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Cowper MS: SeC Δ 2. Discussed in Allan Pritchard, Editing from Manuscript: Cowley and the Cowper Papers, in Editing Poetry from Spenser to Dryden, ed. A.H. De Quehen (New York & London, 1981), pp. 47-76, esp. pp. 62-5, and in Harold Love, Two Rochester Manuscripts Circulated from the Charterhouse, The Library, 6th Ser. 16/3 (September 1994), 225-9.

This MS, copied c.1670, collated and described in Pritchard's edition, pp. 59-60, and in Pritchard, Editing, with a facsimile of Book I, lines 303-20.

Extracts, chiefly from Book I, here beginning How could a Warr so sad and Barbarous please, with a few lines from Books II and III.

Compiled almost entirely by Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706), and inscribed by her inside the front cover Sarah Cowper 1673. Possibly compiled in part from texts supplied by Martin Clifford (c.1624-77), erstwhile secretary of the Duke of Buckingham and Master of the Charterhouse.

Discussed in Harold Love, Two Rochester Manuscripts Circulated from the Charterhouse, The Library, 6th Ser. 16/3 (September 1994), 225-9.

This MS recorded in Pritchard's edition, p. 8.

Copy of Book I, lines 1-568, headed On the Civill Warr Suppos'd to be written by Abr: Cowly and that upon very good ground tho not in his Printed Workes.

Including nine poems in the Marvell canon (plus apocryphal poems); ff. 1-157 a single unit in variant styles of hand; ff. 158-62 in yet another hand on a smaller tipped-in quire of paper.

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

Cited in IELM, II.i (1993) as the Douce MS: MaA Δ 3. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

This MS collated and described in Pritchard's edition, pp. 61-3.

Copy of Book I, lines 1-568, a neat rounded hand, with a title-page Of the Civill War suppos'd to be written by Abr: Cowly and that vpon very good ground tho' not in his printed workes, on ten folio leaves. Late 17th century.

Volume XIII of the papers of the Aston and Norris families, of Cheshire and Lancashire.

This MS collated and described in Pritchard's edition, pp. 61-3.

Copy.

Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources.

A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at y^e Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley. A note on f. 1: Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves. Date at the end of the volume: 1718, and some notes on a flyleaf dated 1724.

The M^r. Corbet from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

Copy, in a 19th-century hand, ascribed to Ab: Cowley Esq^re.

Inscribed (f. [i^r]) William Han: 1644, probably by the academic compiler.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

Copy of a musical setting for this poem (without the text).

Once owned by James Pears. Bought at the Dr Samuel Arnold sale 24 May 1803 by W. Russell. Puttick & Simpson's, 22 December 1869, lot 613.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, inscribed M^r. Cowley's Complaint set by H P.

Notes (f. 2r) by a son of Dr Williams recording his purchase of the volume from the widdow of Simon Child, organist of New College, Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1v) Phil: Hayes 1757 and The Gift of M^rs Cave. Bookplates of the Rev. John Parker and Stephen Groombridge, FRS. Bought at Groombridge's sale by J. Smith of Deptford and presented by him in November 1832 to Vincent Novello (1781-1861), music publisher. Acquired by his bequest on 21 March 1887.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

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

Copy (words only), headed Song.

Booklabel of Io: Walter An^o 1650. An affixed label inscribed Jo: Walter: His Book Anno Domino 1680: i.e. John Walter, organist at Eton College (in 1681-1704) and possibly erstwhile chorister in the Chapel Royal (c.1674-7). Among the muniments of Chichester Cathedral.

This MS recorded in Wyn K. Ford, The Chapel Royal at the Restoration, MMR, 90 (1960), 99-106 (p. 100). For a discussion of this and other MSS in Walter's hand (with facsimile examples), see Bruce Wood, A Note on Two Cambridge Manuscripts and their Copyists, M&L, 56 (1975), 308-12.

This MS discussed in Wyn K. Ford, The Chapel Royal at the Restoration, MMR, 90 (1960), 99-106 (p. 100), and in Bruce Wood, A Note on Two Cambridge Manuscripts and their Copyists, M&L, 56 (1975), 308-12.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

This MS recorded in Purcell Society edition.

Copy, headed Silence.

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

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

Copy, headed On his Mistriss not Loving him by [Dryden deleted] Cowley.

Inscribed (f. [ii^r]), probably by the compiler, Ex Libris Georgij Wright [b.1685/6] S^ti Johannis Collegis Cantabrigiensis Alumni, Decimo quarto Junij. Annoq. Domini 1703.

Also inscribed (f.[ii^r]) M^rs Frances Wright 1708. A postal address on f. 95r (rev.) reads: Direct to Marg^tt Borrett att M^rs. Borretts In Kirkby=stephen Westmoorland p brough bag _ These.

Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Wright MS: WaE Δ 12.

Copy, subscribed A. Cowley.

The verse miscellany, including an Index (ff. 78v-9v), is compiled by John Holles (1595-1666), second Earl of Clare.

Discussed in Andrew McRae, Literature, Satire and the Early Stuart State (Cambridge, 2004), 42, and Thomas Cogswell, The Symptomes and Vapors of a Diseased Time: the Earl of Clare and Early Stuart Manuscript Culture, RES, NS 57 (2006), 310-336. The parliamentary proceedings published in Christopher Thompson, editor, The Holles Account of Proceedings in the House of Commons in 1624 (Orsett, Essex, 1985).

Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Waller.

Copy of stanzas 1-6, written in a neat italic hand to replace a lost leaf in the volume.

Inscribed inside the front cover G. David 1901 Nov. 23.

Copy.

Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources.

A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at y^e Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley. A note on f. 1: Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves. Date at the end of the volume: 1718, and some notes on a flyleaf dated 1724.

The M^r. Corbet from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

Copy, followed by Cowley's Latin version.

Volume CLXXVII of the Evelyn Papers.

Copy.

Including 24 poems by Abraham Cowley (pp. 1-40) and 18 poems by Katherine Philips (pp. 41-81) transcribed from a printed source.

Arms of the Trevor family and the initials I D stamped on the cover. Inscribed names of Francis Stephens (Liber Donum Francisci Stephens) and, later, of E.H. Baker (on the front pastedown). Later owned by Thomas Philip (1781-1859), Earl de Grey, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire. then in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872) manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 18637.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Trevor MS: PsK Δ 10.

Copy, headed The Country Mouse A Paraphrase upon Horace, 2^d Book: Sat: 6.

Copy.

Volume I with a title-page Scraps of Poetry On Winter, Its Opposites, & Concomitants: and many other agreeable Fragments all Collected Chiefly from borrowed Books Begun April 7^th: 1760. and finished May 20^th: 1760. By me Tho: Austen, Rochester.

Volume II, written from both ends, some pages in a second hand, dated 1765.

Volume III, written from both ends, entitled An Abstract of curious, odd, & comical Passages from old Plays as they came casually to hand, Begun Novemb^r. 1767.

Donated by Edgar Huidekoper Wells (class of 1897).

Copy.

Copy, ascribed to M^r Cowley.

With a title-page: Poems on Various Subjects Extracted cheifly from the Works of Some of the Most Celebrated Poets Scribendo Disces MDCCXLVII.

Copy, apparently transcribed from a printed source.

Extracts.

Belonging to the family and descendants of Sir William Temple, Bt (1628-99), diplomat and author.

Sotheby's, 13 December 1994, lot 43, to Figgis Rare Books.

Copy, subscribed by A. Cowley.

Ownership inscriptions (pp. [i] and [662]), dated 1672, by John Digby, of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Other inscribed names including (p. 662) Thomas Digby, Edward Digby, Robert Debnam, and (p. [640]) Josh: Churchill 1694.

Copy, in a musical settong by John Blow.

A formal compilation, ff. 2r-44v in the hand of Henry Bowman (fl.1674-80), composer and copyist; ff. 44v-53v in a second hand; ff. 54r-65r in a third hand; with additions in one or more hands on ff. 99v-66v rev.

Booklabel of William Hayman Cummings, FSA (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Sotheby's, 17-24 May 1917 (Cummings sale), lot 487.

Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, headed Song.

Inscribed (f. 1*^r) P. Fussell Winton, Liber Caroli Morgan e Coll Magd Dec^mo: 6^to Die 7^bris: Anno Domini 1682, and Vincent Novello [(1781-1861), music publisher] The gift of his kind friend W^m Patten.

Copy in a musical setting by John Blow, with a pencil note The words of this air are the beautiful ode in Cowley's Davideis Book 3 which David sings under the window of his Mistress Michol.

Owned and probably compiled by one John Channing, whose label IOHN CHANNING 1694 was on the original spine.

Inscribed in pencil (f. 1r) Alex Tytler 1779. Label on a flyleaf of Alfred Moffat. Edinburgh. 1896.

Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow.

Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.

Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by the compiler, Charles Campelman his book June y^e 9. 1681 (God give him grace 1682 added in another hand).

Sotheby's, 20 January 1854, lot 1138.

Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.

Compiled by John Walter, organist of Eton College (in 1681-1705) and possibly erstwhile chorister in the Chapel Royal (c.1674-7).

Inscribed (last page, inverted) M^r Dolbins book Anno domini 1681/2 and (on the penultimate page) M^r Dolben^s Booke and M^r James Hart. Bookplate of Robert Smith and (f. 1r) a note signed by him dated 4 June 1813.

This volume discussed in Bruce Wood, A Note on Two Cambridge Manuscripts and their Copyists, M&L, 56 (1975), 308-12.

Copy, in a musical setting by Pietro Reggio, untitled.

Inscribed (f. 1*^r) P. Fussell Winton, Liber Caroli Morgan e Coll Magd Dec^mo: 6^to Die 7^bris: Anno Domini 1682, and Vincent Novello [(1781-1861), music publisher] The gift of his kind friend W^m Patten.

Copies, in a musical setting by Pietro Reggio, both marked for Basso Continuo, untitled.

Comprising (i) Bassus part, ix + 155 leaves, in modern vellum. (ii) Treble part, viii + 136 leaves, in contemporary vellum. (iii) Bassus continuo part, iv + 109 leaves (lacking ff. 39-44), in contemporary vellum.

Copy, beginning at stanza 5, here beginning Thou first perhapps who didst the fault commit, in the middle of a prose Longwinded Epistle...sent by a faire Lady from the Feather Tavern in Clarkenwell to exercise a wild fancy.

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

Copy, headed 30 Song.

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

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

Copy.

Copy of the last twelve lines, beginning It grieves me when I see what Fate.

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

Copy, headed On the death of Jo. Littleton Esq^r who was drowned leapinge into y^e water to saue his Brother. 1636.

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

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

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Bowman, untitled.

Compiled by the composer Henry Bowman, those songs set by himself listed by him on f. 93r.

Bookplate of Katherine Sedley (1657-1717), daughter of Sir Charles Sedley and later Countess of Dorchester, of Southfleet, Kent. Inscribed (f. 93r) John James. Purchased from J. Harvey, 13 July 1877.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

Once in the library of R. Wagener, at Marlburg.

Copy, in a musical setting ascribed to Mr Henry Hall.

Owned in 1732 by Richard Goodson, of Christ Church, Oxford.

Copy.

Among the papers of the Trevor Wingfield family and possibly deriving from the papers of the Boteler family of Biddenham.

Copy on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves. Mid-17th century.

Copy, headed Epilogue…to the Game at Cheese by Pooley.

Including nine poems in the Marvell canon (plus apocryphal poems); ff. 1-157 a single unit in variant styles of hand; ff. 158-62 in yet another hand on a smaller tipped-in quire of paper.

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

Cited in IELM, II.i (1993) as the Douce MS: MaA Δ 3. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

This MS recorded in G.C. Moore Smith, College Plays Performed in the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, 1923), p. 90.

Copy.

Scribbling on f. ii^r including ffor m^r William Rabey in New=market..., ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at m^r Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk], ffor m^r John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge; notes on f. iii^v-iv^r, one Recd 22 July 1669, subscribed John Cooke and including, on f. vi^r, ffor m^r John Cocke at his howse neere the white harte in Thetford.... Later owned, in the 1730s, by Charles Barlow, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (his bookplate f. ii^v).

This MS recorded in Moore Smith.

Copy.

Copy.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 34 of the Hopkinson MSS.

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

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 299.

Copy on the first of the remains of two conjugate folio leaves.

Collected by John Payne Collier (1789-1883).

Sotheby's, 16-28 November 1885 (Ellis sale).

Copy, unascribed.

Compiled principally by Henry George, while a student at Christ's College, Cambridge.

Inscribed (f. 1*^v) Meliora Spero dum Spiro / Henricus George / nec ut mortale / quod opto.

Copy, subscribed Cowley:.

Fols 1r-93v, 95r-100v in the hand of Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London (whose name is inscribed on a flyleaf: f. 1*); f. 94r-v in an unidentified hand, and ff. 101v-2r in that of Peter Calfe's son, Peter Calfe the Younger (d.1693).

Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1r) Janu. 6. 1738/9.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6917 with which it was once bound, as the Calfe MS: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4.

Copy, headed Epil:, on the third page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

Copy, subscribed Cowley. Author.

Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

Inscribed Jane Wheeler and Tho: Oliver Busfield. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) To y^e two partners of my heart M^r John Wheeler, and M^r Symon Tue. Item 96 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 2071.6.

A Jo. Wheeler signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wheeler MS: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.

Copy.

Formerly (before 1686) in the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. Possibly acquired by Charles Louis (1617-80), Elector Palatine, while at the English court of his uncle, Charles I, from 1635 to 1649.

This volume discovered, and announced in the TLS, 23 July 2010, pp. 14-15, by June Schlueter and Paul Schlueter.

Copy, headed Epilogue.

Among the papers of the Isham family of Lamport Hall

Copy, on the second page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1642.

The letters chiefly to Anne Sadleir, of Standon, some to her husband.

Donated by Anne Sadleir in 1669.

This MS collated in Wiley.

Copy on the second page of a single quarto leaf.

Assembled by Col. Cyril Hackett Wilkinson (1888-1960), Vice Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, literary scholar. Sotheby's, 26 June 1961, lot 212. At Yale formerly Osborn Box 89. No. 7.

a microfilm of this MS is in the British Library, M/625.

Copy of stanzas 1 and 2, untitled.

Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to I Nicholas Burgh occurring on ff. 165r, with the date 3^d of June 1638, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands.

Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Burghe MS: CwT Δ 1.

Copy, headed Epitaphium in 2 amatores decessd, written inside a flyleaf.

Inscribed on first and last pages James Hamilton and Lyonell Gwillims [i.e. Lionel Williams], his booke, 1636.

Copy, headed Raptus Eliæ. 2. Reg. 2 and beginning at stanza 7 (The mighty Eliah mounted up on high), subscribed A. Cowley. Pindar. Odes. p. 42.

Compiled (and ff. 2-39 written) by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop Canterbury; the rest in other hands.

Copy, as By M^r Abraham Cowley, here beginning Heare Mortalitie, & things below.

Bookplate of Frederick Lewis Gay, of Brookline, Massachusetts, 1916.

Copy.

Inscribed at front and back with the name Edw: Rawstorne.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Bowman, untitled.

Compiled by the composer Henry Bowman, those songs set by himself listed by him on f. 93r.

Bookplate of Katherine Sedley (1657-1717), daughter of Sir Charles Sedley and later Countess of Dorchester, of Southfleet, Kent. Inscribed (f. 93r) John James. Purchased from J. Harvey, 13 July 1877.

Copy, untitled, subscribed 17^th. Jan^ry. 1740/1 B Coles.

Compiled, and partly composed, by Benjamin Coles, of Great Forster's, near Egham, Surrey.

Inscribed (f. 74v) Ja^s. Foster Trusley / Derbyshire / Jo^s: Foster / Thulston / Derbyshire 1787.

Copy, untitled.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

Copy, untitled, subscribed A: Cowley.

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

Copy, untitled.

Among the papers of the Waller family.

Copy, in a musical setting, as a canon for three voices, untitled.

Comprising (i) Bassus part, ix + 155 leaves, in modern vellum. (ii) Treble part, viii + 136 leaves, in contemporary vellum. (iii) Bassus continuo part, iv + 109 leaves (lacking ff. 39-44), in contemporary vellum.

Copy. Mid-late 18th century.

Compiled over a period by members of the Bridgen family, of Bridgnorth, Shropshire, including materials relating to Richard Mapletoft (1725-1801).

Inscribed (f. 1v) E Coll. Univ. Anno Dom. 1708, possibly by William Bridgen (d.1738), of University College, Oxford. Purchased from E. C. Shacland, 17 July 1895.

This MS recorded in Jean Loiseau, Abraham Cowley's Reputation in England (Paris, 1931), p. 27, n. 18.

Copy, in a musical setting by Pietro Reggio.

A formal compilation, ff. 2r-44v in the hand of Henry Bowman (fl.1674-80), composer and copyist; ff. 44v-53v in a second hand; ff. 54r-65r in a third hand; with additions in one or more hands on ff. 99v-66v rev.

Booklabel of William Hayman Cummings, FSA (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Sotheby's, 17-24 May 1917 (Cummings sale), lot 487.

Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed The Garden, subscribed Abraham Cowley.

Inscribed Charles Crompton / Non magna / loquimur, / sed virimus / 1667, whose large rounded hand is probably responsible for a number of headings in the volume.

Owned c.1872, by Sir Charles Bunbury, Bt, of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Bookplate of Henry Edward Bunbury. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (October 1896), item 53. Item 348 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly MS Add. 650.

This volume recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 241. Recorded, as of unknown whereabouts, in Clark, II, 965.

Copy in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

Bookplate of Ralph Sympsun Esq^r. Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.

This MS recorded in Purcell Society edition (1928).

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, untitled.

Inscribed (f. 1*^r) P. Fussell Winton, Liber Caroli Morgan e Coll Magd Dec^mo: 6^to Die 7^bris: Anno Domini 1682, and Vincent Novello [(1781-1861), music publisher] The gift of his kind friend W^m Patten.

This MS recorded in Purcell Society edition.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed A Song upon A Ground.

Inscribed (Part I, p. [iii]) Liber Georgij Forman Anno Domini April 8^th 1721; John Ladds Book October the 9 in the year of our Lord 1764; and (Part II, p. 2) Liber Georgij Forman Anno Domini 1717 November Undecimo Die; Thomas Lea Southgate, Gipsy Hill, Kent; and Johannes Gilbert A. M. Coll. Christ. Cantab. Puttick & Simpson's, 1890. Formerly Folger MS 1634.4.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed A Song upon a Ground: Made 1680.

Booklabel of Io: Walter An^o 1650. An affixed label inscribed Jo: Walter: His Book Anno Domino 1680: i.e. John Walter, organist at Eton College (in 1681-1704) and possibly erstwhile chorister in the Chapel Royal (c.1674-7). Among the muniments of Chichester Cathedral.

This MS recorded in Wyn K. Ford, The Chapel Royal at the Restoration, MMR, 90 (1960), 99-106 (p. 100). For a discussion of this and other MSS in Walter's hand (with facsimile examples), see Bruce Wood, A Note on Two Cambridge Manuscripts and their Copyists, M&L, 56 (1975), 308-12.

This MS discussed in Wyn K. Ford, The Chapel Royal at the Restoration, MMR, 90 (1960), 99-106 (p. 100), and in Bruce Wood, A Note on Two Cambridge Manuscripts and their Copyists, M&L, 56 (1975), 308-12.

Copy.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, untitled.

Bequeathed by William Henry Husk, 10 November 1887.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

Copy, untitled, subscribed A: C:.

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

On an end-paper in a printed exemplum of Cowley's Works (London, 1668).

Edited from this MS by Bald.

Copy, headed A song.

Including (f. 1r) an anagram on Frances Pawlett. Inscribed in red ink (f. 123v) Egigius Frampton hunc librum jure tenet non est mortale quod opto: 1659: i.e. by Giles Frampton, who is perhaps responsible for some of the later poems. Also inscribed [?]R. N. 1663. Some later notes in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.

Extract.

Compiled by Robert Fleming. 8°, 82 leaves; verse miscellany, including portions of 17 poems by Cowley (on inside of front cover and ff. 2, 4-5v, 30, 47v-50, 66v); compiled by Robert Fleming (probably a Scotsman), who explains on f. 30v: In this Manuscript, there is a confused casting together of several Miscellaneous things. Yet there is something here to denott many or most of the year sof my youth. Viz. these years; A°. 1670, 1673,1674, 1675, 1676, 1678, 1679, 1680, 1681, 1682, 1683, 1684, 1685. So that from the 9 year of my age, which is A° 1670 (for I was born May 16, A° 1661) until my 24 year, no year is undistinguished, but two years.

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Copy.

Bookplate of Frederick Lewis Gay, of Brookline, Massachusetts, 1916.

Copy.

Including 24 poems by Abraham Cowley (pp. 1-40) and 18 poems by Katherine Philips (pp. 41-81) transcribed from a printed source.

Arms of the Trevor family and the initials I D stamped on the cover. Inscribed names of Francis Stephens (Liber Donum Francisci Stephens) and, later, of E.H. Baker (on the front pastedown). Later owned by Thomas Philip (1781-1859), Earl de Grey, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire. then in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872) manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 18637.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Trevor MS: PsK Δ 10.

Copy.

Copy, in a musical setting, headed The Concealment by M^r Cowley.

Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by the compiler, Charles Campelman his book June y^e 9. 1681 (God give him grace 1682 added in another hand).

Sotheby's, 20 January 1854, lot 1138.

Copy, beginning at line 7, here Men without love have often so cunning grown.

Copy, untitled.

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

Copy, the poem ascribed to A.C:.

In a single neat rounded hand, largely written lengthways in oblong form.

Name inscribed inside the lower cover John Spearling. Sotheby's, 20 February 1967, lot 185.

Microfilm in the British Library, RP 86.

Copy.

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

Copy, untitled.

Among the papers of the Waller family.

Copy, ascribed to M^r Cowley.

With a title-page: Poems on Various Subjects Extracted cheifly from the Works of Some of the Most Celebrated Poets Scribendo Disces MDCCXLVII.

Copy of lines 13-16, here beginning Is there a man yee gods whome I doe hate. In the hand of John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, quoted in a letter by him to his wife, on the first page of a quarto leaf, the address and impressions in red wax of his seal on the verso.

Inscribed by Wanley with date of acquisition 27 August, 1724.

Edited from this MS in David M. Vieth, Rochester and Cowley, TLS (12 October 1951), p. 645, and in The Letters of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Jeremy Treglown (Oxford, 1980), p. 242.

Copy, untitled.

Among the papers of the Waller family.

Copy.

Copy, headed M^r Cowley's Translation of Vitam quae faciunt lecturem, transcribed from a printed source.

Compiled by John Gibson (1630-1711), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, North Yorkshire, and in his minute hand throughout.

Inscribed (f. [ii^r]) Joseph King / Lewes Sussex / Sept 30 1834 to Mr S.B. Williams.

Formerly Broxbourne R 359.

Copy.

In a single neat rounded hand, largely written lengthways in oblong form.

Name inscribed inside the lower cover John Spearling. Sotheby's, 20 February 1967, lot 185.

Microfilm in the British Library, RP 86.

Copy, subscribed A: C:.

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

Copy.

Copy.

Copy, headed Mr. Abraham Cowley on his Motto: Tantavida est via...

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

This MS recorded in Purcell Society edition.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed The words by M^r Cowley.

Inscribed (Part I, p. [iii]) Liber Georgij Forman Anno Domini April 8^th 1721; John Ladds Book October the 9 in the year of our Lord 1764; and (Part II, p. 2) Liber Georgij Forman Anno Domini 1717 November Undecimo Die; Thomas Lea Southgate, Gipsy Hill, Kent; and Johannes Gilbert A. M. Coll. Christ. Cantab. Puttick & Simpson's, 1890. Formerly Folger MS 1634.4.

Copy.

Copy, a heading deleted.

Compiled by Robert Fleming. 8°, 82 leaves; verse miscellany, including portions of 17 poems by Cowley (on inside of front cover and ff. 2, 4-5v, 30, 47v-50, 66v); compiled by Robert Fleming (probably a Scotsman), who explains on f. 30v: In this Manuscript, there is a confused casting together of several Miscellaneous things. Yet there is something here to denott many or most of the year sof my youth. Viz. these years; A°. 1670, 1673,1674, 1675, 1676, 1678, 1679, 1680, 1681, 1682, 1683, 1684, 1685. So that from the 9 year of my age, which is A° 1670 (for I was born May 16, A° 1661) until my 24 year, no year is undistinguished, but two years.

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Copy.

Compiled by Robert Fleming. 8°, 82 leaves; verse miscellany, including portions of 17 poems by Cowley (on inside of front cover and ff. 2, 4-5v, 30, 47v-50, 66v); compiled by Robert Fleming (probably a Scotsman), who explains on f. 30v: In this Manuscript, there is a confused casting together of several Miscellaneous things. Yet there is something here to denott many or most of the year sof my youth. Viz. these years; A°. 1670, 1673,1674, 1675, 1676, 1678, 1679, 1680, 1681, 1682, 1683, 1684, 1685. So that from the 9 year of my age, which is A° 1670 (for I was born May 16, A° 1661) until my 24 year, no year is undistinguished, but two years.

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Copy, headed Sonnets, 130. on man's life.

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

Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, headed Acme and Septimus and here beginning As on Septimus panting breast.

Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled and here beginning As on Septimus panting breast.

Compiled by John Walter, organist of Eton College (in 1681-1705) and possibly erstwhile chorister in the Chapel Royal (c.1674-7).

Inscribed (last page, inverted) M^r Dolbins book Anno domini 1681/2 and (on the penultimate page) M^r Dolben^s Booke and M^r James Hart. Bookplate of Robert Smith and (f. 1r) a note signed by him dated 4 June 1813.

This volume discussed in Bruce Wood, A Note on Two Cambridge Manuscripts and their Copyists, M&L, 56 (1975), 308-12.

Copy in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled and here beginning As on Septimus panting breast.

Bookplate of Ralph Sympsun Esq^r. Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

Bookplate of Ralph Sympsun Esq^r. Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.

Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.

Bequeathed by William Henry Husk, 10 November 1887.

Facsimiles and facsimile examples of this MS in the Scolar Press facsimile edition of the 1656 Poems (Menston, 1971); in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 51; and in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate XXVII(c).

Copy of lines 1-5, headed A Pindarique Ode/M^r Cowley's booke/Humbly presenting itselfe to y^e U^ty Library att Oxford.

Compiled by a royalist.

Inscribed (f. 1r) W^m Godolphin Serv^t to M^r Savile and Hen: Savile Serv^t: to M^r Godolphin.

Copy, headed A Pindarick ode the booke humbley presenting it selfe to the vniuersity Library at oxford and subscribed By. Ab: Cowley writt in y^e beginning of y^e booke he gaue to Bodley's Library.

Compiled chiefly by members of the Grosvenor family, of Downton, Radnorshire (now Shropshire).

Various inscriptions including Teverra Byrd, Teverra Grosvenor of Downton 1731, and Rich: Grosvenor his Book Given him p M^rs Teverra Grosvenor in the Year of Our Lord God Ano Dom 1730. Also including earlier notes, dated 1681, relating to persons excommunicated since J: Sayer came to Old Radnor.

A microfilm of this volume is in the National Library of Wales.

Copy, in a musical setting by Pelham Humfrey, headed Song.

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

Arms of Eleanor Bursh on a seal affixed to f. 56r. Later owned and annotated in pencil by Thomas Oliphant (1799-1873), music editor and cataloguer.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 5 (New York & London, 1986).

Copy.

Copy of lines 54-64, in a letter by Beale to John Evelyn, 11 September 1667.

Evelyn Papers Vol. CXLV.

Copy, on rectos only, subscribed Abr. Cowley.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 189.

Copy of Cowley's juvenile composition.

Copy.

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

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

Copy, headed Ode Vpon Orindas Poems, subscribed Abraham Cowley.

Compiled principally by one H. S., a Cambridge University man.

This MS volume edited in Diana Julia Rose, MS Rawlinson Poetical 147: An Annotated Volume of Seventeenth-Century Cambridge Verse (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leicester, 1992), of which a copy is in Cambridge University Library, Manuscript Department, A8f.

Copy, headed Upon M^rs: K: Phillips her Poems.

An exact transcript of the 1669 edition of Philips's Poems (including all 122 poems by her, her two plays, and the preliminary commendatory poems by others), here preceded by twenty lines of verse headed Cassandra preferr'd to Orinda and beginning Let Cowley and the Rest theire fancy try, a complimentary poem indicating possible presentation of this MS to Cassandra [? the widowed Cecily Philips].

Colbeck, Radford & Co., The Ingatherer, No. 25 (August 1932), item 244, and No. 28 (December 1932). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 323. Formerly Folger MS 440314.1.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Folger MS: PsK Δ 9.

Copy, headed To the most Exelently Accomplist M^rs Katherine Phillips vpon her Poems, subscribed Abraham Cowley, preceding a collection of poems by Katherine Philips.

The later additions partly compiled by George Clarke (1661-1736), politician and virtuoso (whose bookplate is inside the cover and whose family coat of arms is on f. [iv]), son of Sir William Clarke (1623?-66), Secretary of War to the Commonwealth and Charles II.

Inside the front cover inscribed E[?] Barrow, evidently a member of the family of Samuel Barrow (1625-82), Royal Physician and friend of John Milton, Barrow being the second husband of Sir William Clarke's widow, Dorothy (d.1695). Formerly MSS 6. 13.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Clarke MS: PsK Δ 5. See also Elizabeth H. Hageman, Treacherous Accidents, and the Abominable Printing of Katherine Philips's 1664 Poems, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004), pp. 85-95.

Two extracts from the poem.

Formerly among poems presented to, or owned by, James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Formerly Loan MS 37/6, pp. 145-7. Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 270.

Edited from this MS, with a facsimile example, in Hilton Kelliher, Cowley and Orinda. Autograph Fair Copies, BLJ, 2 (1976), 102-8. Facsimile of the first page in Sotheby's sale catalogue. Also recorded in HMC, 14th Report, Appendix VII, Ormonde I (1895), p. 115.

Copy, beginning at line 17 (here Still ye old heathen gods in numbers dwell),

Copy, in a rounded italic hand, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

Assembled and indexed by Thomas Price (d.1704), a Roman Catholic, of Llanfyllin, Powys.

Later owned by one Prue Haerley and by one Henry Parry. Sotheby's, 20 June 1928, lot 539, to Pickering. Pickering and Chatto's sale catalogue No. 651 (1983).

Copy of line 25 onwards, beginning He was my Friend, y^e truest Friend on Earth, subscribed Cowley.

Volume I with a title-page Scraps of Poetry On Winter, Its Opposites, & Concomitants: and many other agreeable Fragments all Collected Chiefly from borrowed Books Begun April 7^th: 1760. and finished May 20^th: 1760. By me Tho: Austen, Rochester.

Volume II, written from both ends, some pages in a second hand, dated 1765.

Volume III, written from both ends, entitled An Abstract of curious, odd, & comical Passages from old Plays as they came casually to hand, Begun Novemb^r. 1767.

Donated by Edgar Huidekoper Wells (class of 1897).

Copy.

Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College.

A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his brother Ed: Weston, 3 May 1714. The name John Saunders inscribed on the final leaf.

Copy on both sides of two conjugate folio leaves. Mid-late 17th century.

Partly compiled by Archbishop Sancroft.

This MS recorded in Sparrow, p. 203.

Adapted extracts.

Entirely in the hand of Robert Overton (1608/9-1678/9), parliamentarian army officer, whose signature appears on a flyleaf. Prepared as a memorial and tribute to his wife, Ann Gardiner (d.1665), and written when in prison, either on Jersey or in the Tower of London.

Inscribed inside the front cover Sam^l Atkins Wykeham and inside the rear cover 17 Feby 1879. Purchased this Book of Prescot Bookseller. Upper Arcade. Bristol...Edw^d G. Doggett.

This volume discussed extensively, with facsimile examples (of pp. 85-6, 151-2, 162, 166, 190-2), in David Norbrook, This blushinge tribute of a borrowed muse: Robert Overton and his Overturning of the Poetic Canon, EMS, 4 (1993), 220-66.

Copy.

An exact transcript of the 1669 edition of Philips's Poems (including all 122 poems by her, her two plays, and the preliminary commendatory poems by others), here preceded by twenty lines of verse headed Cassandra preferr'd to Orinda and beginning Let Cowley and the Rest theire fancy try, a complimentary poem indicating possible presentation of this MS to Cassandra [? the widowed Cecily Philips].

Colbeck, Radford & Co., The Ingatherer, No. 25 (August 1932), item 244, and No. 28 (December 1932). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 323. Formerly Folger MS 440314.1.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Folger MS: PsK Δ 9.

Copy, headed The Speech of her Maiety the Queen Mothers Palace upon the Reparation & Enlargement of it by her Majesty and subscribed By M^r Cowley Supposed Edited in his workes - after his Latin Davideid. p. 26.

This MS is a companion volume to British Library, Add. MS 69823, and in the same hand. Folios 1-45 contain academic speeches of 1651-63, chiefly in Latin, relating to both Oxford and Cambridge (but chiefly Christ Church, Oxford), and ff. 46-95 verses written sideways across the length of the pages. Some poems are docketed later c.1686 Mihi - Edited [i.e. presumably that the owner has the Edited version].

Inscribed on first page M^r Mathews, the Bbinder D: Frown[?]. Mar. 16. 67. 0.0.6.7 [i.e. ? the bookseller Thomas Mathews (fl.1650s-60s)]. Also (on f. 95v): Charles Trumbull [D.D. (c.1646-1724), chaplain to Bishop Sancroft], Ralphe Trumbull [(c.1640-1708), both brothers of the lawyer and government official Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716)]; and Sandys. Later note on upper endpaper that this MS was No. CCVIII of Dr Adam Clarke's MSS and was purchased 29 May 1838 from Baynes.

This MS recorded in Jean Loiseau, Abraham Cowley's Reputation in England (Paris, 1931), p. 26, n. 17.

Copy, the poem ascribed to A Cowley.

In a single neat rounded hand, largely written lengthways in oblong form.

Name inscribed inside the lower cover John Spearling. Sotheby's, 20 February 1967, lot 185.

Microfilm in the British Library, RP 86.

Copy, transcribed from a printed source by William (later Archbishop) Sancroft (1617-93).

Compiled (and ff. 2-39 written) by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop Canterbury; the rest in other hands.

Copy.

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

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

Copy, headed A Prologue & Epilogue to a play acted before the Prince at Trinity Colledge in Cambridge 19^th Martii 1641.

Formerly (before 1686) in the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. Possibly acquired by Charles Louis (1617-80), Elector Palatine, while at the English court of his uncle, Charles I, from 1635 to 1649.

This volume discovered, and announced in the TLS, 23 July 2010, pp. 14-15, by June Schlueter and Paul Schlueter.

Copy.

Among the papers of the Trevor Wingfield family and possibly deriving from the papers of the Boteler family of Biddenham.

Copy on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves. Mid-17th century.

Copy, headed The Prologue and Epilogue in a Comedy made by ye Poet Aquila p^rsented att ye Entertainm^t of the Princes Highnss by the Schollars of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge March 1641, with the marginal note Pooly.

Including nine poems in the Marvell canon (plus apocryphal poems); ff. 1-157 a single unit in variant styles of hand; ff. 158-62 in yet another hand on a smaller tipped-in quire of paper.

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

Cited in IELM, II.i (1993) as the Douce MS: MaA Δ 3. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

This MS recorded in G.C. Moore Smith, College Plays Performed in the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, 1923), p. 90.

Copy, headed The poets peticon.

Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College.

A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his brother Ed: Weston, 3 May 1714. The name John Saunders inscribed on the final leaf.

Copy.

Scribbling on f. ii^r including ffor m^r William Rabey in New=market..., ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at m^r Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk], ffor m^r John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge; notes on f. iii^v-iv^r, one Recd 22 July 1669, subscribed John Cooke and including, on f. vi^r, ffor m^r John Cocke at his howse neere the white harte in Thetford.... Later owned, in the 1730s, by Charles Barlow, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (his bookplate f. ii^v).

This MS recorded in Moore Smith.

Copy, headed Prologue to the Prince.

Copy, headed Prologue before the play acted at Camebridge to his ma^tie and the Prince march 1641.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 34 of the Hopkinson MSS.

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

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 299.

Copy on the first page of the remains of two conjugate folio leaves.

Collected by John Payne Collier (1789-1883).

Sotheby's, 16-28 November 1885 (Ellis sale).

This MS (erroneously cited as Egerton 2326) recorded in Wiley.

Copy, headed Prologue by A:C: March 22^th before Prince Charles.

Inscribed (f. 179r) This is S^r. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.

This MS collated in Wiley; recorded in Moore Smith.

Copy, headed The Prologue at Trin: Coll: 1641, unascribed.

Compiled principally by Henry George, while a student at Christ's College, Cambridge.

Inscribed (f. 1*^v) Meliora Spero dum Spiro / Henricus George / nec ut mortale / quod opto.

Copy, headed The prologue: at the entertainement of Prince Charles In Cambridge.

Fols 1r-93v, 95r-100v in the hand of Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London (whose name is inscribed on a flyleaf: f. 1*); f. 94r-v in an unidentified hand, and ff. 101v-2r in that of Peter Calfe's son, Peter Calfe the Younger (d.1693).

Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1r) Janu. 6. 1738/9.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6917 with which it was once bound, as the Calfe MS: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4.

This MS recorded in Moore Smith.

Copy, headed Prol: coram principe, on the third page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

Copy, headed The prologue to y^e late play acted before the Prince Charles at cambridge. 1641.

Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

Inscribed Jane Wheeler and Tho: Oliver Busfield. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) To y^e two partners of my heart M^r John Wheeler, and M^r Symon Tue. Item 96 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 2071.6.

A Jo. Wheeler signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wheeler MS: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.

Facsimile in Jean F. Preston and Laetitia Yeandle, English Handwriting 1400-1650: An Introductory Manual (Binghamton, NY, 1992), No. 31, p. 99.

Copy, headed Prologue.

Among the papers of the Isham family of Lamport Hall

Copy, headed The Prologue & Epilogue to the Comedy acted before the Prince in Trinitye Colledge spoken by the Author S^r Cowley. March: 1642, on the second page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

The letters chiefly to Anne Sadleir, of Standon, some to her husband.

Donated by Anne Sadleir in 1669.

This MS collated in Wiley.

Copy, headed The Prologue and Epilogue to y^e Game at Chesse by Pooley, on both pages of a single quarto leaf.

Assembled by Col. Cyril Hackett Wilkinson (1888-1960), Vice Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, literary scholar. Sotheby's, 26 June 1961, lot 212. At Yale formerly Osborn Box 89. No. 7.

a microfilm of this MS is in the British Library, M/625.

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

Copy of lines 23-48, here beginning Yet when ye Divill comes up disguisd she cries, imperfect, lacking the beginning.

Copy of stanza 2, lines 1-2, here beginning Begin y^e Song and strike the living Lyre, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

Copy of lines 1-24, imperfect, lacking the rest.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, in an unidentified hand.

This MS recorded in Purcell Society edition.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed The Rich Rival. Words out of Cowley.

Inscribed (Part I, p. [iii]) Liber Georgij Forman Anno Domini April 8^th 1721; John Ladds Book October the 9 in the year of our Lord 1764; and (Part II, p. 2) Liber Georgij Forman Anno Domini 1717 November Undecimo Die; Thomas Lea Southgate, Gipsy Hill, Kent; and Johannes Gilbert A. M. Coll. Christ. Cantab. Puttick & Simpson's, 1890. Formerly Folger MS 1634.4.

Copy, headed The Puritans Lecture and here beginning I have beene (S^r) where soe many Puritans dwell.

Inscribed (f. 179r) This is S^r. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.

Copy of a slightly abbreviated version, headed A Satyr on y^e Hipocracy of Dissent^rs by A. Cowley and here beginning I have bin S^r where so many Puritans dwell.

Sotheby's, 21-22 April 1958, lot 397, to Seven Gables bookshop. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 3.

A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, M/546.

Copy, headed A Satyr made by M^r Abraham Cowley and here beginning I have been S^r where so many Puritan's dwell.

Probably compiled by an Anglican cleric (or student before taking orders) associated with Cambridge University.

Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 5.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Cambridge Miscellany MS: RoJ Δ 13.

Copy, headed A Puritan Lecture discribed by M^r. Abraham Cowley and here beginning Ive ben where So many Puritans dwell, on three folio leaves.

Sotheby's, 14 March 1961, lot 573. Formerly at Yale Box 89, No. 3.

Microfilm in the British Library, M/608.

Copy.

Including nine poems in the Marvell canon (plus apocryphal poems); ff. 1-157 a single unit in variant styles of hand; ff. 158-62 in yet another hand on a smaller tipped-in quire of paper.

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

Cited in IELM, II.i (1993) as the Douce MS: MaA Δ 3. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

This MS collated in Sparrow.

Copy, subscribed supposed by Abr. Cowley.

Compiled by an Oxford University man.

Sold by J.W. Jarvis & Sons, 5 December 1888.

This MS collated in Sparrow.

Copy, headed The puritan Papist or y^e popish puritan alias y^e Papist & y^e Puritans satyre, on two conjugate long ledger-size leaves, imperfect, lacking the last 54 lines.

With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.

Copy, here ascribed to Cowley.

This MS collated in Waller, II, 490, and in Sparrow.

Among the papers of the Egerton family, Earls of Bridgewater.

Copy, headed A Parralell of a Puritane, & a Papist, here beginning Two rude waves by stormes togeather blowne and ascribed to Cowley.

The upper cover stamped in gilt with the crest of Edward Conway (1594-1655), second Viscount Conway and second Viscount Killultagh, politician and book collector.

Copy, headed A Satyr The Puritan Papist, subscribed Abr: Cowley.

Copy, headed A Satyr showing the difference yet coherence Betwixt the Tenents and actions of the Papists and Puritans.

Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Bell-White MS, CwT Δ 30. Described, with facsimiles of ff. 30r and 56v, in T.G.S. Cain, The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70.

This MS recorded in Perkin, p. 29.

Copy, headed A Satyre. The Puritan Papist and here ascribed to Cowley.

Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1284. Afterwards owned by John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.

This MS collated in Sparrow.

Copy, headed The Puritan & y^e Papist / A Satyre, in a MS pamphlet comprising four pairs of quarto conjugate leaves, dated on the first page May. 20^th. 1643 / A.C.

Assembled by John Sparrow (1906-92).

This MS briefly discussed by Sparrow in Anglia, 58 (p. 102).

Copy of the last fourteen lines of the 9th canto, beginning Art lives on Nature's Alms is weak and poor.

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

Copy, headed Of Obscurity.

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

Copy, subscribed A: C:.

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

Copy, headed The paraphrase by Abraham Cowley.

In non-professional hands, the miscellany entitled A Collection of Witt and Learning…consisting of verses, poems, songs, sonnetts, Ballads, Lampoons, Libells, Dialouges...from the year 1600, to this present year: 1677.

Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.

Copy of Cowley's juvenile composition.

Copy.

Formerly Phillipps MS 10984. Sotheby's, 5 June 1899, lot 995. Then owned by F.W. Cock. Sotheby's, 8 May 1944 (Cock sale), lot 235. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue 97 (1947), item 179.

Copy, following Virgil's Latin, then headed Thus English'd by M^r Cowly.

Including eight poems in the Marvell canon and his mock-speech by the King (plus apocryphal poems).

Inscribed (f. 1r) Sam^ll. Danvers. 1664; and (f. 164v) F Danvers, Samuel Danvers his book, and W D'anvers: i.e. probably the family of Sir Samuel Danvers, Bt. (d.1683) of Culworth, Northamptonshire (though not in his hand).

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Danvers MS: MaA Δ 5. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

Copy, in the hand of John Aubrey, headed Virg. Æneid. lib. 4., on one side of a small octavo-size leaf, subscribed Translated, for K. Ch: II. by m^r Abraham Cowley.

Once owned by White Kennett (1660-1728), Bishop of Peterborough, historian.

Edited from this MS (inaccurately) in Anecdotes and Traditions, ed. William J. Thomas, Camden Society 5 (London, 1839), pp. 108-9.

Copy.

Owned by Henry Bracegirdle, of Merton College, Oxford, and in 1674 by one Hugh Massey.

Copy of a version, headed K. Charles I at Oxford being at a sport called Sortes Virgilianae drew for his lot some part of the 4th Eneid about vers 615 and had six verses translated, followed by the original Latin.

Bought from P.J. and A.E. Dobell, in 1922, by Reginald L. Hine (1883-1949), solicitor, of Hitchin, Hertfordshire.

Copy, headed Virgil Lib 4. bis. 620. Englished by M^r Cowles at Oxford when the King was there in the time of the Warr.

Part I, ff. 1r-110v (poems dated 1667-83); Part II, ff. 111r-99r, on larger paper (poems dated 1680-7).

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Advocates MS: MaA Δ 8. Works by Marvell recorded and some poems collated in POAS, I.

Copy, headed English'd at y^e late Kings Comand at Oxford, by M^r Ab. Cowley; he not knowing it was y^e Kings Sors Virginiana.

Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1284. Afterwards owned by John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.

Edited from this MS in Sparrow.

Copy, dated 29 January 1677/8.

Owned in 1847 by George Percy Elliott (1800-74). Sotheby's, 20 July 1988, lot 262, to Morton, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.

Edited in Diary of Dr. Edward Lake, ed. G.P. Elliott, Camden Miscellany I, Camden Society 39 (London, 1847).

Eliott, pp. 25-6.

Copy in a musical setting by Pietro Reggio in a MS songbook partly compiled by Giovanni Felice Sances (c.1600-79), Kapellmeister to the Emperor Leopold I, and by the composer Henry Bowman.

A formal compilation, ff. 2r-44v in the hand of Henry Bowman (fl.1674-80), composer and copyist; ff. 44v-53v in a second hand; ff. 54r-65r in a third hand; with additions in one or more hands on ff. 99v-66v rev.

Booklabel of William Hayman Cummings, FSA (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Sotheby's, 17-24 May 1917 (Cummings sale), lot 487.

Copy, in a musical setting.

Copy, untitled.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

Copy, subscribed A. Cowley. Poëm. p. 48^&.

Compiled (and ff. 2-39 written) by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop Canterbury; the rest in other hands.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed Isaiah: cap. 34. by M^r Cowley.

The cover inscribed The Song-Book [of M^r. Montriot added in another hand].

Formerly among Lord Leigh's muniments at Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire. Christie's, 16 October 1985, lot 139.

Later owned by William Hayman Cummings (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Sotheby's, 17-24 May 1917 (Cummings sale). lot 168.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed The Thraldom. The words by M^r Cowley.

Inscribed (Part I, p. [iii]) Liber Georgij Forman Anno Domini April 8^th 1721; John Ladds Book October the 9 in the year of our Lord 1764; and (Part II, p. 2) Liber Georgij Forman Anno Domini 1717 November Undecimo Die; Thomas Lea Southgate, Gipsy Hill, Kent; and Johannes Gilbert A. M. Coll. Christ. Cantab. Puttick & Simpson's, 1890. Formerly Folger MS 1634.4.

Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.

Inscribed (f. 1*^r) P. Fussell Winton, Liber Caroli Morgan e Coll Magd Dec^mo: 6^to Die 7^bris: Anno Domini 1682, and Vincent Novello [(1781-1861), music publisher] The gift of his kind friend W^m Patten.

Copy, subscribed Abrah: Cowly.

Compiled by a royalist.

Inscribed (f. 1r) W^m Godolphin Serv^t to M^r Savile and Hen: Savile Serv^t: to M^r Godolphin.

Copy, in a flourished italic hand, headed A Song and subscribed Abrah. Cowley.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 189.

Copy, in an unidentified hand, headed A terse poem on lord Strafford.

Copy.

Formerly (before 1686) in the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. Possibly acquired by Charles Louis (1617-80), Elector Palatine, while at the English court of his uncle, Charles I, from 1635 to 1649.

This volume discovered, and announced in the TLS, 23 July 2010, pp. 14-15, by June Schlueter and Paul Schlueter.

Copy, headed A Pindarick Ode, to the Duke of Buckingham, here beginning Beauty, and strength, and witt, together came and inscribed in the margin M C [i.e. probably Martin Clifford (c.1624-77), Master of the Charterhouse and erstwhile secretary to the Duke of Buckingham].

Compiled almost entirely by Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706), and inscribed by her inside the front cover Sarah Cowper 1673. Possibly compiled in part from texts supplied by Martin Clifford (c.1624-77), erstwhile secretary of the Duke of Buckingham and Master of the Charterhouse.

Discussed in Harold Love, Two Rochester Manuscripts Circulated from the Charterhouse, The Library, 6th Ser. 16/3 (September 1994), 225-9.

This MS recorded in Pritchard, Editing, p. 61. Discussed and collated in his edition of The Civil War (Toronto, 1973), pp. 186-9.

Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, headed Great Janus = A birth days Song May the 29: 16.

Bequeathed by William Henry Husk, 10 November 1887.

Owned in 1689 by one Quil Domlin and later by one William Fogg. Christie's, South Kensington, 19 November 1993, lot 234A.

Copy, subscribed A: C:.

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

Copy.

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

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

Copy of stanzas 9-11, beginning This only grant me, that my means may lie, untitled, subscribed Cowley, on a single quarto leaf once folded as a letter or packet.

Volume CCCLIV of the Evelyn Papers.

Copy of stanza 9, eight lines here beginning This only grant me.

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

Copy of stanzasa 9-11, headed Some Verses of his made at 13 yrs of Age and here beginning This only grant me, y^t my meats may lie.

Copy, in a musical setting by William Turner (1651-1740), headed Song.

Compiled by John Walter, organist of Eton College (in 1681-1705) and possibly erstwhile chorister in the Chapel Royal (c.1674-7).

Inscribed (last page, inverted) M^r Dolbins book Anno domini 1681/2 and (on the penultimate page) M^r Dolben^s Booke and M^r James Hart. Bookplate of Robert Smith and (f. 1r) a note signed by him dated 4 June 1813.

This volume discussed in Bruce Wood, A Note on Two Cambridge Manuscripts and their Copyists, M&L, 56 (1975), 308-12.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, untitled.

Bequeathed by William Henry Husk, 10 November 1887.

This MS recorded in Purcell Society edition (1922).

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, untitled.

This MS recorded in Purcell Society edition.

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

Copy, untitled.

Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items.

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

Copy.

Including ten poems by Cowley (on ff. 113r-v, 124r-9v).

Inscribed (f. 2r) Several Divine poems out of a Mss. of M^r. Hanserd Knolly's (thô [I suppose deleted] not of his composing); (f. 36r) Finis Manuscript, H. K.; (f. 1r and elsewhere) H Packwood Anno 1668 and George Gaynor, 1681. Item 988 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Purchased on 12 February 1876 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.

Copy, headed The well wish of A: C: to his Soueraigne King Charles.

The upper cover stamped in gilt with the crest of Edward Conway (1594-1655), second Viscount Conway and second Viscount Killultagh, politician and book collector.

Copy.

Copy.

Formerly owned by John Sparrow (1906-92). Christie's, 21 October 1992 (Sparrow sale), in lot 239 (unidentified, among 7 others), to Quaritch.

Edited from this MS in Sparrow, loc. cit. Photocopies in British Library, RP 5278.

Copy, untitled and here ascribed to A.C..

A label on the cover: D^r. Lynnet's Common Place Book: i.e. compiled by Dr William Lynnet (1622/3-1700), of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Inscribed Ri. Walker 1758. some years agoe M^r. Brigg bought this Common place book in Smithfield, and gave it to RW. Inscriptions dated 1792 by Thomas Bousefield (or possibly James Simpson), wheelwright of Kendal. Purchased from J.W. Jarvis & Son, 30 January 1891.

Second, variant version, untitled, original heading with ascription to William Spratt deleted.

A label on the cover: D^r. Lynnet's Common Place Book: i.e. compiled by Dr William Lynnet (1622/3-1700), of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Inscribed Ri. Walker 1758. some years agoe M^r. Brigg bought this Common place book in Smithfield, and gave it to RW. Inscriptions dated 1792 by Thomas Bousefield (or possibly James Simpson), wheelwright of Kendal. Purchased from J.W. Jarvis & Son, 30 January 1891.

Formerly in the Donald and Mary Hyde (Lady Eccles) Collection.

The text corrected from this MS in The Miscellaneous Writings of John Evelyn, ed. William Upcott (London, 1825), p. 435. Facsimile of the wrapping leaves, the letter and the first two stanzas of the poem in The R.B. Adam Library (London & New York, 1929), III, after p. 73. Facsimile of the first two stanzas of the poem in Charles John Smith, Historical and Literary Curiosities (London, 1847), No. 49, reproduced in Nethercot, facing p. 231.

Copy of Bellula's song, untitled, in a musical setting by William Webb.

Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere.

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

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

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 203).

Copy, in a musical setting.

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

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

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

Cowley's autograph notebook of information about numerous specified herbs and their medicinal properties, in Latin and English, the first page of text headed Facultates Medicam, on 86 sextodecimo leaves, the name Abraham Cowley written in another hand on f. 86v, in modern binding lettered on spine Tract on Simples.

Notes (on ff. I and i) in the hand of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753). Formerly owned by Francis Bernard (1628-98), apothecary and physician.

Facsimile of ff. 53v-54r in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile Xb, after p. xxii.

Pickering & Chatto's A Catalogue of Old and Rare Books (c.1910?), item 628.

Bookplates of Thomas Sprat (1635-1713) and James Veitch (d.1793), Lord Eliock. Later owned by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 July 1887 (Crossley sale). J.E. Cornish's sale catalogue [1890], item 407, sold to Quaritch.

Edited in Secret Writing in the Public Records, Henry VIII-George II, ed. Sheila R. Richards (London, 1974), No. 70.

Autograph letter signed, (partly in cipher), [to John, Lord Colepeper]., from Paris, 20 April 1646.

Edited in Nethercot, p. 114.

Autograph letter signed, partly in cipher, [to John, Lord Colepeper], from Paris, 17 January 1646.

Autograph letter signed, partly in cipher, [to John, Lord Colepeper], from Paris, 9 February 1646.

Autograph letter signed, (partly in cipher), [to John, Lord Colepepper], from Paris, 10 February 1646.

Autograph letter signed, [to ? Henry Bennet], from Paris, 8 January 1648.

Edited in Grosart, II, 352-3. Facsimile examples in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XXVII (a-b).

Autograph letter signed, [to ? Sir Henry Verney], from Paris, 4/14 April 1649.

Microfilm in British Library M/636/9. Edited in Jean Loiseau, Abraham Cowley, sa vie, son oeuvre (Paris, 1931), p. 91.

Sotheby's, 26 July 1938, lot 425, to Maggs.

Sotheby's, 13 April 1905, lot 48, to Sabin.

Sotheby's, 13 April 1905, lot 108, to Sabin.

Sotheby's, 13 April 1905, lot 119, to Sabin.

Sotheby's, 25 July 1938, lot 425, to Maggs.

Sotheby's, 2 April 1973, lot 231, to A.R. Heath, with a facsimile example of the subscription in the sale catalogue. Sotheby's, 18 December 1986, lot 3, to Quaritch, also with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.

Photocopy in the British Library, RP 3513.

Facsimile in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 48.

Sotheby's, 25 July 1938, lot 425, to Maggs.

Sotheby's, 25 July 1938, lot 425, to Maggs.

Sotheby's, 13 April 1905, lot 71, to Lindsay.

Sotheby's, 13 April 1905, lot 77, to Maggs.

Sotheby's, 18 December 1905, lot 242, to Wadmore.

Sotheby's, 25 July 1938, lot 425, to Maggs.

Maggs's sale catalogue No. 451 (1924), item 726, with a facsimile (Plate IV).

Edited from a facsimile in H.P. Vincent, Three Unpublished Letters of Abraham Cowley, MLN, 54 (1939), 454-8 (pp. 456-7).

Autograph letter signed, [to Sir Robert Long], from Paris, 13 March 1650.

Edited in J. Simmons, An Unpublished Letter from Abraham Cowley, MLN, 57 (1942), 194-5.

Photocopy and microfilm in the British Library, RP 266 and RP 267.

Autograph letter signed by Cowley, [to James Butler, Marquess of Ormonde], from Paris, 26 December 1659.

Edited in C.H. Firth, Abraham Cowley at the Restoration, The Academy, 44, No. 1118 (7 October 1893), 296.

Autograph letter signed by Cowley, [to ? Martin Clifford], from London, 23 April [1660].

Edited in Allan Pritchard, Six Letters by Cowley, RES, NS 18 (1967), 253-63 (p. 258).

Autograph letter signed by Cowley, [to ? George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham], from Whitehall, 3 October 1660.

Edited in Allan Pritchard, Six Letters by Cowley, RES, NS 18 (1967), 259-60.

Autograph letter signed, [to James Butler, Marquess of Ormonde], from Paris, 2 March 1660.

Edited in C.H. Firth, Abraham Cowley at the Restoration, The Academy, 44, No. 1118 (7 October 1893), 296.

Autograph letter signed by Cowley, [to ? Martin Clifford], 18 October 1661.

Edited in Allan Pritchard, Six Letters by Cowley, RES, NS 18 (1967), 260-1.

Autograph letter signed by Cowley, [to ? Martin Clifford], from Barn Elms, 8 October [1662?].

Edited in Allan Pritchard, Six Letters by Cowley, RES, NS 18 (1967), 261-2.

Sotheby's, 18 November 1929, lot 146, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue.

Edited in Gentleman's Magazine, 57.ii (October 1787), 847. Reprinted in Grosart, I, xxxiv, and in Nethercot, p. 224.

Autograph letter signed, to John Evelyn, from Barn Elms, [29 March 1663].

Edited in Isaac D'Israeli, Calamities of Authors, 2 vols (London, 1812), I. 83-4. Reprinted in Nethercot, p. 237. Facsimiles in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 73, and in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XXVII(d).

Sotheby's, 9 July 1832, lot 64, to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's 10 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 287. Thorpe, Catalogue of Autograph Letters, 1836, item 250. Puttick & Simpson, 3 June 1878, lot 81. Sotheran's sale catalogue No. 12 (1899), item 51.

Edited in H.P. Vincent, Three Unpublished Letters of Abraham Cowley, MLN, 54 (1939), 454-8 (pp. 457-8).

Autograph letter signed by Cowley, [to ? Martin Clifford], Chertsey, 10 June 1666.

Edited in Allan Pritchard, Six Letters by Cowley, RES, NS 18 (1967), 262.

Sotheby's, 4 May 1910. Sotheby's, 23 April 1923, lot 189, to Blunt. Sale catalogue of John Pearson, 500 Important Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters, Vol. I (A-H) [c.1930?], item 136, with a facsimile in the catalogue.

Autograph letter signed by Cowley, [to ? Martin Clifford], Chertsey, 17 December 1666.

Edited in Allan Pritchard, Six Letters by Cowley, RES, NS 18 (1967), 262-3.

Later owned by Robert Borthwick Adam (1863-1940), American book collector. Thence to the collection of Donald and Mary Hyde (Lady Eccles), L.6.68.

Edited in Memoirs illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, ed. William Bray, 2 vols (London, 1818), II, 229. Reprinted in Grosart, I, lxxvii-lxxviii.

Instructions for M^r. Denham, entirely in Cowley's hand and signed by Queen Henrietta Maria, 10 May 1649.

Edited in Hilton Kelliher, John Denham: New Letters and Documents, BLJ, 12 (1986), 1-20 (pp. 18-19).

Sotheby's, 22 June 1976, lot 105. A photocopy is in the British Library (RP 780).

Cowley's will of 18 September 1665, mentioned above and is preserved in the poet's original autograph in the Public Record Office (PROB 10/1000 (proved 31 August 1667)), as well as in a registered copy (PROB 11/324/104 [an annotated transcript can also be found in the Bodleian, MS Eng. hist. e. 1, ff. 8-11v]).

Edited in Nethercot, pp. 296-7.

An annotated transcript of Cowley's last will and testament drawn up 18 September 1665.

Collier sale, 7 August 1884, lot 117.

4°, 205 leaves; large collection of Cowley's poems, entitled (f. 2v) The most Ingenious & famous Abraham Cowley's Poem's [In Manuscript added in different ink]; predominantly in three hands (A: ff. 3-90, 103-15v, 142-205v; B: ff. 91-102v; C: ff. 116-41), with additions in other hands on ff. 2v and 202v.

f. 59v the childish scribbling Edward Edisbury his my name; also John Owen. Later owned (before 15 December 1873) by W. C. Hazlitt (1834-1913)

Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

Compiled over a period, probably by the same person, at one of the English (? Benedictine) colleges in Douai, a later addition (p. 292) dated 1723.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Douai MS: WaE Δ 8.

Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

Owned in 1812 by Miss Elizabeth Mansel. Given to Henry Gough, of Redhill, who presented it to the Bodleian in December 1884.

Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

Extracts from poems by Cowley.

Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

Compiled by Colonel Gabriel Lepipre, being the 4^th Vol. of his compilations.

Donated in 1938 by F.F. Madan.

Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

Copies of, or extracts from, 27 poems by Cowley.

Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources.

A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at y^e Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley. A note on f. 1: Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves. Date at the end of the volume: 1718, and some notes on a flyleaf dated 1724.

The M^r. Corbet from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

Extracts from works by Cowley, including Davideis.

Compiled (and ff. 2-39 written) by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop Canterbury; the rest in other hands.

Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

Extracts, headed Out of M^r Cowleys works.

Collected and largely copied by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

Extracts from works by Cowley.

Including items once owned by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer. Collected by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.

Presumably from item 47 among the folio MSS recorded in Thoresby's Ducatus Leodiensis, 2nd edition (Leeds, 1816), Appendix, p. 77.

Copy of portions of 12 poems by Cowley, as well as a copy of Spratt's Life of Cowley on ff. 77v-109v (versos only).

Another title-page (f. 110r): English Verse Turned into ffrench Verse, for my owne improvement in the ffrench Tongue. The English Verse is cheifely M^r: Cowley's. Done by me Ol. Salusbury.

Signed Ol. Salusbury also on f. 1r. A copy of the will of Edward Ward, 20 June 1731, added on f. 133. Cochran's catalogue for 1837, item 511. Evans's (Sotheby's), 27 July 1838, lot 1348.

A Latin version of verses from The Mistresse.

Extracts from works by Cowley.

Presented by Mrs Jervis, 13 May 1876.

Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

Letter by Cowley.

Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

Compiled over a period by members of the Bridgen family, of Bridgnorth, Shropshire, including materials relating to Richard Mapletoft (1725-1801).

Inscribed (f. 1v) E Coll. Univ. Anno Dom. 1708, possibly by William Bridgen (d.1738), of University College, Oxford. Purchased from E. C. Shacland, 17 July 1895.

Extracts.

The cover inscribed The Song-Book [of M^r. Montriot added in another hand].

Formerly among Lord Leigh's muniments at Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire. Christie's, 16 October 1985, lot 139.

Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

Inscribed (f. [ii^r]), probably by the compiler, Ex Libris Georgij Wright [b.1685/6] S^ti Johannis Collegis Cantabrigiensis Alumni, Decimo quarto Junij. Annoq. Domini 1703.

Also inscribed (f.[ii^r]) M^rs Frances Wright 1708. A postal address on f. 95r (rev.) reads: Direct to Marg^tt Borrett att M^rs. Borretts In Kirkby=stephen Westmoorland p brough bag _ These.

Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Wright MS: WaE Δ 12.

Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

Inscribed Margaret Cordell April the 3^d 1682 and Domenico Marcura.

Discussed in Suzanne Gossett, Ex Cowleo Cowleo Digna, The Venerabile, 25, No. 4 (1973), 251-6.

Copies or extracts from poems by Cowley, in musical settings.

Extracts, in double columns, headed M^r Abraham Cowley in y^e like manner return'd from business, as his poems tells us.

Phillipps MS 9616 (vol. 2).

Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

Compiled by Sir Francis Fane (c.1612-80), of Fulbeck Hall, Northamptonshire, with his signed dedications to his son Henry (ff. 2r-v, 130r) dated respectively 1 January 1655 and 20^th. of Aug^t: 1663.

Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

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

Extracts from works by Cowley

Inscribed (Part I, p. [iii]) Liber Georgij Forman Anno Domini April 8^th 1721; John Ladds Book October the 9 in the year of our Lord 1764; and (Part II, p. 2) Liber Georgij Forman Anno Domini 1717 November Undecimo Die; Thomas Lea Southgate, Gipsy Hill, Kent; and Johannes Gilbert A. M. Coll. Christ. Cantab. Puttick & Simpson's, 1890. Formerly Folger MS 1634.4.

Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

Inscribed (f. 207v) James Dyson and James Thompson.

Extracts, headed These Verses Taken out of The works of M^r Abraham Cowley.

Entitled (f. [1r]) A Collection of Miscellany Poems from the Greatest Poets, both Ancient and Modern That i have Read, & here place for my own entertainment, to diuert Malincolly Thoughts, & to assist My Memory, That was neuer Good at no Time:.

From the library at Newburgh Priory, Yorkshire.

Extracts, transcribed principally from the 1669 edition of The Works, some Ex Libr.Manuscript.

Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

Extract from The Mistresse.

In a family library at Bath before 1924. Sotheby's, 23 July 1987, lot 11, to Quaritch.

Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

Extracts from Cowley's works.

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

Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

Inscribed by Fane on f. 1r Aug: 24: 1629 / Franciscus Fane and, later, as a bequest to his three grandsons to be read by them when aged 21, dated from Fulbeck, 5 May 1672.

Sold by Maggs, 29 May 1930.

Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

274 leaves, unnumbered.

Comprising:

[Part I, ff. 12r-168r], five sermons, the first four by Donne, in the hand of Knightley Chetwode, son of Richard Chetwode, of Chetwode, Buckinghamshire, and Oakley, Staffordshire. 1625/6.

[Part II, ff. 1r-78r rev.], a verse miscellany, produced when the original blank pages were later filled from the reverse end, probably by one Katherine Butler. 1696.

The volume inscribed as having been given to Katherine Butler by her father in May 1693.

Described in Potter & Simpson, I, 41-2.

Various extracts and copies, notably on pp. 2, 4, 44, 47-9, 196, 206, 222, 225-6, 229, 242, 253, 264, 270, 273-5, 280, 282, 286, 350-4.

Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

Assembled by the traveller Lorenzo Magalotti (1637-1712).

Sotheby's, 19 July 1966, lot 518.

Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

Formerly Osborn MS. Chest II, Number 4.

Extracts.

Sotheby's, April 1963, lot 494.