Samuel Daniel
Verse
Books I-IV first published in London, 1595. Grosart, Vol. II. Edited by Laurence Michel (New Haven, 1958).
This MS described and printed in part in Cecil C. Seronsy,
Autograph correction in Book VI, stanza 82, last line.
Later in the library of John Buxton (1912-89), Reader in English Literature, Oxford University.
On p. 208, against Book VIII, stanza 18, stating Will
.
Bookplate of Samuel F. Barger.
So catalogued in a MS list of
Belonging to the Clifford family.
A MS copy of Part of the Civile Wars
is recorded as being among the evidences
of Lady Anne Clifford at Skipton Castle in T.D. Whitaker,
Copy of an early version of Book III, in a professional secretary hand, on nineteen quarto leaves. c.early 1600s.
Incorporating (ff. 40r-51v) a quarto verse miscellany compiled allegedly for the mendinge of his hand in wrighting
, when Idle and wanting Employment
, by Feargod Barbon of Daventry, Northamptonshire (? a relation of the Anabaptist politician Praisegod Barbon (1598-1679/80)).
In preliminary verses (f. 40r), Barbon records that This Booke [i.e. presumably the exemplar for his verse transcripts] was giuen me by A frende / To reade and overlooke
.
This MS discussed in Cecil Seronsy and Robert Krueger,
First published, together with
Autograph revision in the first stanza, line 5, and an autograph correction in the final stanza, line 1.
Later in the library of John Buxton (1912-89), Reader in English Literature, Oxford University.
28 Sonnets first published (untitled) in
Copy of 46 Sonnets to Delia, probably transcribed from the edition of 1595; imperfect. Early 17th century.
Grosart, I, 38. Sprague, p. 11.
Autograph correction in line 2.
Later in the library of John Buxton (1912-89), Reader in English Literature, Oxford University.
Grosart, I, 40-1. Sprague, p. 13.
Copy of lines 13-14, untitled and here beginning
Part B (ff. 16d-86v): A quarto miscellany of poems and letters, in several hands, compiled by William Elyott (a nephew of Sir Simonds D'Ewes). c.1640-55.
Part C (ff. 86 bis-120r): A quarto verse miscellany compiled by Thomas Axton, M.A. (b.1699/1700), of Trinity College, Cambridge. c.1718-22.
Part C sold at the Thomas Rawlinson sale in March 1733/4, lot 289.
Grosart, I, 42-3. Sprague, p. 15.
Autograph correction in line 1.
Later in the library of John Buxton (1912-89), Reader in English Literature, Oxford University.
This sonnet first published, in
Copy, with additional verses, in a musical setting.
Formerly at St Michael's College, Tenbury Wells.
A complete facsimile of this volume in
This MS recorded in John P. Cutts,
Grosart, I, 72-3. Sprague, p. 33, as Sonnet XLV.
Copy, headed S.D.
Inscribed (f. 1r) Joseph Hall
(not the bishop). Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who has entered in pseudo-17th-century secretary script copies of various ballads on ff. 39r-41r, 107v-79r, 181r-v, 227r-8v, 243r-6r, as well as adding foliation (1-284) before the more recent foliation (1-291, used below). Quaritch's sale catalogue of English Literature
(August-November 1884), item 22350, Collier's transcript of the MS made c.1860 being item 22352. Formerly Folger MS 2071.7.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Giles E. Dawson,
Copy, here beginning
Among the working papers and collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VII.
This MS recorded in David Laing,
See
Grosart, I, 259-60. Sprague, p. 36. Doughtie,
Copy of the first stanza, in a four-part musical setting by John Farmer.
Once owned by one Thomas Myriell.
Early 17th century.This MS collated in Doughtie, p. 572.
Copy, in John Farmer's musical setting.
Edited in George C. Williamson,
Once among the papers of the Clifford family.
Edited from this MS in Williamson.
First published in Grosart,
Copy, headed
Possibly compiled by one or more persons connected with the Inns of Court.
c.1600-1620s.Later in the library of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Probably owned afterwards by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Formerly Chetham's MS 8012.
The volume edited by Alexander B. Grosart as
Edited from this MS in Grosart. Collated in Pitcher,
Copy, in a secretary hand, with a correction, untitled, here beginning
Volume XVIB (Series II) of the papers of Sir John Coke (1563-1644), Secretary of State, and his family.
Purchased from the Marquess of Lothian, of Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, 14 July 1987.
Among the archives of the Isham family of Lamport Hall.
Copy, headed
Edited from this MS in Pitcher,
First published in Pitcher,
Copy of a verse epistle probably to Lucy, Countess of Bedford (1581-1627), composed c.1615, here comprising 118 lines but lacking the beginning (for which a space for about a dozen lines has been left) and a heading.
Sotheby's, 14 December 1976, Lot 226.
Identified in 1978 by John Pitcher. Complete facsimile and edition in Pitcher,
First published in H. Sellers,
Copy of a four-line Latin commendatory poem by Daniel, in an italic hand.
Once owned by Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda
(see Ex dono Gul: Oldys / Isaac Hard
: i.e. given by William Oldys (1696-1761), Norroy King of Arms, antiquary, to Sir Isaac Heard (1730-1822), Clarenceux King of Arms (and with his bookplate). Then owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 98. Inscribed (ff. 1r-2r) by the Rev. Joseph Hunter (1783-1861), antiquary, on 13 September 1858.
Edited from this MS in Sellers.
First published in
Copy of an early version, headed
This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey,
A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 234, pp. 265-74.
First published in
Owned in 1978 by A. G. Thomas, London bookseller.
See
First published (in a 73-stanza version) in London, 1603. Grosart, I, 139-67.
Presented to King James at Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland, on or shortly after 23 April 1603. 1603.
This MS recorded in Grosart. Facsimile of part of f. 3v in Greg,
See
Reprinted in Grosart, I, 4-7.
Presented by Daniel in 1605 to the Bodleian Library.
Edited in Joseph Nicolson and Richard Burn,
Edited from this MS by all editors.
See
First published in Pitcher,
Copy of a 236-line verse epistle, composed c.1609-10.
Sotheby's, 14 December 1976, Lot 226.
Identified in 1978 by John Pitcher. Complete facsimile and edition in Pitcher,
First published in Pitcher,
Copy of a 96-line verse epistle probably to Sir Robert Carr (or Kerr), later first Earl of Ancrum (1578-1654), composed c. 1610.
Sotheby's, 14 December 1976, Lot 226.
Identified in 1978 by John Pitcher. Complete facsimile and edition in Pitcher,
First published in Pitcher,
Copy of a 152-line verse epistle to Lady Anne Harington (d.1620), mother of Lucy, Countess of Bedford, composed c.1614-15.
Sotheby's, 14 December 1976, Lot 226.
Identified in 1978 by John Pitcher. Complete facsimile and edition in Pitcher,
Facsimile of f. 7r also in
First published, with
The original title
From the papers of the North family.
Edited from this MS, with a complete facsimile in Arthur Freeman,
First published in
Copy, in a semi-calligraphic hand, on the first two pages of two once conjugate folio leaves, endorsed from Mr Daniel to the Bishop of Winchester
.
This MS recorded in Grosart.
A quatrain first published in T.D. Whitaker, The
Two quatrains possibly composed by Daniel, one beginning
Formerly among the Clifford family papers at Skipton Castle, Yorkshire.
The quatrain (
Prose
First published in Pitcher,
Copy of a 330-word address probably to Sir Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset (d.1645), beginning
Sotheby's, 14 December 1976, Lot 226.
Identified in 1978 by John Pitcher. Complete facsimile and edition in Pitcher,
First published (from a MS found in the Library of a Person of High Quality
) as
Copy, here ascribed to Sr: Walter Ral,=eigh Knight
, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe
.
In various professional hands, including the Feathery Scribe
.
Once owned Sir Robert Oxenbridge, MP (1595-1638) of Hurstbourne Priors, Hampshire; later by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury; and by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735), Bishop of St Asaph, ecclesiastical historian, scholar and book collector, who on 2 May 1729 lent it to Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary. It was once bought from John Jackson of Tottenham High Cross.
Described in Peter Beal,
This MS discussed in Gottfried. Beal,
Copy, in a rounded hand, ascribed to Sr Walter Raleigh Knight
, in a small folio booklet. First half 17th century.
Copy, in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), merchant and antiquary, headed
This MS discussed in Gottfried.
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as written by sr walter Raileigh Knight
.
In professional hands, including those of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), merchant and antiquary, and the Feathery Scribe
.
Later owned, and annotated, by Sir Simonds D'Ewes, BT, MP (1602-50), diarist and antiquary. A note (f. 432v) by Humfrey Wanley (1672-1726), scholar and librarian, records on 30 July 1714 that eight or nine years earlier Robert Harley lent this book to Queen Anne upon the account of divers Original Letters &c. written by the Royal Family
, which, on its return, Wanley extracted and inserted into a separate collection.
Briefly described in Peter Beal,
This MS discussed in Gottfried.
Copy of the first half of the work only, in a professional secretary hand, with an engrossed title-page
In professional hands, including those of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, the Feathery Scribe
, Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Bt, MP (1602-50), diarist and antiquary, and Sir William Dugdale (1605-86), antiquary and herald.
Briefly described in Peter Beal,
This MS discussed in Gottfried.
Copy, in the hand of the Feathery Scribe
, as Written by Sr: Walter Raleigh, Knighte:
.
Feathery Scribe, 334 leaves, plus an index in an italic hand (f. 375r), in modern half vellum on marbled boards.
Sotheby's, 4 July 1955 (André de Coppet sale), lot 950, to Maggs. Formerly Folger MS Add. 35.
Briefly described in Peter Beal,
Beal,
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with an added title-page (f. 280r) in an italic hand with title subscribed in another hand Anonimus
.
Copy, as Written by Sr. Walter Raileighe Knight
.
Sotheby's, 15 March 1895, lot 207. In the library of Herbert Somerton Foxwell (1849-1936), economist and bibliographer.
Copy, headed
Arms of Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), natural philosopher and courtier, stamped in gilt on both covers.
First part first published in London, 1612. First published complete in London, [1618?]. Grosart, IV, 69-299. V, 1-291.
Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed
Compiled by, and partly in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.
c.1620s.Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.
Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed
Assembled by, and partly in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.
Notes and extracts, relating to the reign of Edward III.
Extracts.
Extracts, including entries on pp. 27, 340a, 355, and 540.
A modern pencil note on a flyleaf claims to identify the compiler as one Raworth
.
Copy, in a small italic hand.
Inscribed names of Elizabeth and Thomas Kent.
Extracts.
Compiled in part by Richard Symonds (1617-after 1692?), antiquary and genealogist, of Black Notley, Essex.
Late 17th-early 18th century.Later owned by Evelyn Philip Shirley (1812-82), of Ettington Hall, Warwickshire. Later in the library of W.A. Foyle (1885-1963), bookseller, of Beeleigh Abbey, Essex. Christie's, 12 July 2000 (Foyle sale, Part III), lot 328.
Recorded in Jan Moore, p. 69. A facsimile example of the proof corrections is in Hofman & Freeman's sale catalogue No. 36 (April 1973), item 31.
Extracts, headed
Extracts, headed
Extracts, headed
Extracts from John Trussell's continuation
(published 1636), headed
Compiled by one William Bright, entitled
Inscribed also inside the lower cover Will: Bright Novemb 12th pretiu 8d 1645
.
Extensive extracts or synopsis, headed
Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 312.
This
Extracts, headed
Copy of
Probably a working copy of part of the hereafter too bee printed
, but which remained unpublished.
The first item (ff. 2r-21v), Asser's M Patterson
and Lumley
: i.e. John, first Baron Lumley (c.1533-1609), collector. The volume later belonging to the Carr (or Ker) family, Marquesses of Lothian, at Newbattle Abbey.
Extracts from this MS (The Kerr Manuscript
), with facsimile examples, in Pitcher,
First published in London, [1603]. Grosart, IV, 29-67. Sprague, pp. 125-58.
Autograph corrections on sigs. G4r (line 20) and H1r (line 20).
Later in the library of John Buxton (1912-89), Reader in English Literature, Oxford University.
First published (and attributed to Sir John Harington) in
J.H.S. Pigott, sale catalogue, 8 October 1849, lot 1985.
This MS probably that catalogued as Books in the Closset in the Passage Room next the Pantry in Skipton Castle 28th Augst 1739
(a list now Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Leeds, DD 121/111). The MS was still at Skipton Castle when a transcript was made by William Ford (see
Briefly described in Sellers and also in a review [? by G.C. Moore Smith] of McClure in
Faithfully copied from the Original Manuscript in Skipton Castle by W. Ford [William Ford (1771-1832)], Manchester, entitled (f. 1r)
Upon a blank leaf, prefixed, was written, on 65 quarto leaves, in modern half black morocco. Early 19th century.For the Countesse Dowager of Comberland, presented by Samuel Daniell
Wills & Sotheran's sale catalogue No. 155 (25 February 1860), item 673. Acquired from J. Harvey, 11 November 1876.
Edited from this MS in McClure.
First published in London, 1585. Grosart, IV, 1-27, and V, 297-304 (extracts).
Extract from Daniel's translation of Giovio's
Four leaves of this commonplace book are in the
Owned in 1615-16 by one Bassett
and in the 1880s by Richard Savage. At the Neligan sale, 2 August 1888, lot 1098. Bought by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), and his sale 4 July 1889, lot 1257.
All the Shakespearian texts except Edward Pudsey's Booke
, 1600One Man in His Time
: The Notebook of Edward PudseyAt Mr Marston’s Request
: Edward Pudsey and the Inns of Court
Dramatic Works
First published in London, 1594. Grosart, III, 1-94.
Autograph corrections in Act I, line 9, and Act V, scene ii, line 17.
Later in the library of John Buxton (1912-89), Reader in English Literature, Oxford University.
First published in London, 1615. Grosart, III, 325-98.
Speakers(f. 1v) in another cursive hand, with Daniel's signed autograph presentation inscription (f. 2r), songs (ff. 9r-v, 24r), and possibly corrections, 35 quarto leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum boards gilt.
Presented to Jean (or Jane) Drummond on the occasion of her marriage to Robert Ker (1570?-1650), later first Earl of Roxburgh, in February 1613/14.
Later given to William Drummond of Hawthornden, who presented it to Edinburgh College (his booklabel and inscription, f. 1r).
This MS recorded in Grosart, IV, lv-lvii; described and the additions printed in W.W. Greg,
Facsimile pages in Greg,
Grosart, III, 349-50.
Copy of the song of the first Chorus, headed
Inscribed (f. 101v) Henry Lawson
(or just possibly Lamson
). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.
Cited in Lawson MS
:
Copy, headed
Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.
c.1634.The initials T. C.
stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue
Cited in Rosenbach MS II
:
Grosart, III, 378.
Copy of the rural marriage song in a musical setting.
Formerly at St Michael's College, Tenbury Wells.
A complete facsimile of this volume in
Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts,
Copy of a 33-line version, headed
Inscribed (f. 1v, in a court hand) Daniell Leare his Booke
, witnesse William Strode
, and (f. 164r) Mr Daniell Leare eius Liber
: i.e. compiled chiefly by Daniel Leare, a distant cousin of the poet William Strode, probably at Christ Church, Oxford, before he entered the Middle Temple in 1633.
This suggestion, by Mary Hobbs, is supported by entries in the Caution Book of 1625-41 at Christ Church, where Strode is found (p. 22) paying £10 as college security for Leare and where Leare signs (p. 23) on this sum's repayment by Dr Fell on 13 May 1633. Forey suggests (p. lxxix) that he was the Daniell Leare of St Andrews, Holburne, whose will was proved in 1652; but it is more likely that he was the Daniel Leare to whom Henry King, Dean of Rochester, leased property at Chatham on 19 July 1655 (
The volume includes 12 poems by Donne; 15 poems (plus a second copy of one and three of doubtful authorship) by Carew; 20 poems (plus two of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; and 84 poems (plus second copies of eight poems, four poems of doubtful authorship and some apocryphal poems) by Strode, the texts being closely related to, and in part probably transcribed from, the Corpus MS
of Strode's poems (
Inscribed also John Leare
(probably Daniel's younger brother); (f. 1r) Anthony Euans his booke
(who married Daniel Leare's niece Dorothy Leare in 1663); (f. 1v) Alexander Croke his Book 1773
; and (f. 164v) John Scott
(who matriculated at Christ Church in 1632). Rimell & Son, 9 November 1878.
Cited in Leare MS
:
Discussed in Mary Hobbs,
First published in London, 1605. Edited by Laurence Michel (New Haven, 1949).
Extract, comprising a version of lines 150-1, 154-5, headed
Entitled
Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849). Rodd's sale catalogue, February 1850, item 764.
Cited in
For other Rawdon miscellanies, see
A brief extract, under the subject heading
First published in London, 1610. Grosart, III, 301-23. Stephen Orgel and Roy Strong,
Drummond includes this work in his list of bookes red anno 1609 be me
(National Library of Scotland, MS 2059, f. 361r).
Extracts, comprising various phrases and the two songs
Among the working papers and collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VII.
Letters
Edited in Mark Eccles,
Autograph letter signed by Daniel, to Sir Francis Walsingham, 20 May 1586.
1586.Edited in Mark Eccles,
Probably once bound in a printed exemplum of Daniel's
A photocopy of the letter is in the Huntington (EL 139). First printed in Francis Henry Egerton,
Edited in Sellers, p. 51.
Edited in Sellers, pp. 51-2. Facsimiles in Grosart (large paper issue), I, facing p. xxii, and in Greg,
Edited in the Rev. Canon Jackson,
Edited in the Rev. Canon Jackson,
Copy, in a modern hand, of a letter by Daniel to Margaret, Dowager Countess of Cumberland, [late] February 1615/16.
Possibly made from a volume of transcripts of letters belonging to descendants of the Clifford family.
Edited from this MS in Pitcher,
Documents
Autograph signature, 17 November 1581.
The text edited in Sellers, p. 54.