Owen Felltham
Verse
A version first published, as
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 3d 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 Burghe MS
:
Copy, headed
Compiled in part (ff. 131v-66r) by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
c.1630s-40s.Copy, headed Owen Feltham
.
Including 22 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 13 poems by King, and 24 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and probably associated with Christ Church, Oxford.
c.1633.Inscribed names including (f. 93v, in court hand) ffrancis Baskeruile
: i.e. probably the Francis Baskerville who married Margaret Glanvill in 1635 and was in 1640 MP for Marlborough, Wiltshire. Other scribbling including (f. 1r) accounts referring to Wanborough, Wiltshire; (f. 9v) Elizabeth White
; (f. 54v) William Walrond his booke 1663
; (f. 92r) accounts dated 1658; and (f. 94r) John Wallrond
. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Recorded in Baskerville MS
:
Copy, headed
Inscribed (f. 4r) The following 11 Poems are transcrib'd from a small printed 12mo voll Cal[led]
Copy, after a false start, headed
Later notes and scribbling including the names John Nutting
(ff. 26r, 56r) and John M.
and John Susan
(rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.
Cited in Nutting MS
:
Copy, untitled.
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 (
Formerly MS G. 2.21.
Cited in
First published in
Copy of the three-stanza version, in a musical setting by John Wilson, headed
DR. / I.W, with silver clasps.
Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82).
c.1656.Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts,
This MS collated in Pebworth & Summers.
Copy.
Copy of the three-stanza version, untitled.
Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the Edward Smyth MS
(
Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.
This MS is the curious folio volume
lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by the late Lord Harborough
and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his
Cited in Skipwith MS
:
This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
Copy of the three-stanza version, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
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
This MS collated in Pebworth & Summers.
Copy of the three-stanza version, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
Compiled entirely by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.
Mid-late 17th century.Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.
Discussed in John P. Cutts,
This MS collated in Pebworth & Summers.
Copy, untitled.
Inscribed To my euer honored good Cosen Sr John Reresby Barronett these prsent
: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall.
Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.
Cited in Mexborough MS
:
Copy, untitled.
Including ten poems by Carew (and two of doubtful authorship) and 24 poems by Randolph.
c.1630s.Thomas Thorpe,
Cited in Rosenbach MS I
:
Pebworth & Summers, p. 14.
Copy.
Inscribed (p. i) Ex dono B. R. ao J
.
Pebworth & Summers, pp. 52-4.
Copy.
First published in
Copy, headed
Compiled in part (ff. 131v-66r) by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
c.1630s-40s.This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
Copy, headed Owen ffeltham
.
Transcribed from
Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 13 May 1856 (Pickering sale), lot 258.
Cited in Pickering MS
:
This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
Copy of lines 22-48, here beginning :Owen feltham:
, imperfect, lacking a heading and the first 21 lines.
Inscribed on a flyleaf (in a different hand) Charles Tyrrell Anno Domini 1643
.
Copy, headed
Inscribed To my euer honored good Cosen Sr John Reresby Barronett these prsent
: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall.
Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.
Cited in Mexborough MS
:
First published in Jean Robertson,
Copy, headed
Collected, and partly written, by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Betagraph of the watermark in f. 29 in Ted-Larry Pebworth,
Edited from this MS in Robertson and in Pebworth & Summers.
First published in Pebworth & Summers (1973), p. 76, among
Copy, headed ow: ffeltham
.
Compiled in part (ff. 131v-66r) by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
c.1630s-40s.Edited from this MS in Pebworth & Summers.
First published in
Copy, in double columns.
This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
First published in
Copy, untitled.
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
:
This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
Copy, untitled and here beginning
Inscribed (p. i) Ex dono B. R. ao J
.
This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
Copy, in Wilson's setting, untitled.
DR. / I.W, with silver clasps.
Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82).
c.1656.Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts,
This MS collated in Pebworth & Summers.
Copy, headed
Including twenty poems by Randolph, plus ten of doubtful authorship (some here ascribed to T.R.
), in two hands (A: pp. 3-99; B: pp. 1, 99-129), with some scribbling and one heading in other hands on pp. 3, 98 and 133; a poem on p. 1 (beginning To ye] Incomparably vertuous Lady the Lady Harflette
: i.e. Afra (d.1664), wife of Sir Christopher Harflete of Canterbury.
Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
Cited in
This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
Copy, untitled.
Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the Edward Smyth MS
(
Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.
This MS is the curious folio volume
lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by the late Lord Harborough
and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his
Cited in Skipwith MS
:
This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
Copy, headed
Inscribed by the compiler (f. 133v) Anthony Scattergood His booke
: i.e. Anthony Scattergood (1611-87), theologian, of Trinity College, Cambridge. Volume XXXII of the Scattergood papers.
Also inscribed (f. 130v) Elisabeth Scattergood her Booke 1667/8
. Booklabel of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector.
This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
Copy.
Inscribed (f. 179r) This is Sr. 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, headed
Bookplate of John Pinkerton (1758-1826), historian and poet. Sotheby's, April 1812 (Pinkerton sale), lot 593, to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1104, to Thomas Thorpe. His catalogue, 1836, bought by Laing.
Copy, untitled.
Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to
Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) Anthony St John/ Ann: St John/ 1640 Bletso
: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) Oliver Beeesfor[d]
; and (f. 81v) John Watts
. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.
Cited in St John MS
:
Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand, subscribed H A
[i.e. Herbert Aston].
Compiled principally by Constance Fowler (d.1664), daughter of the diplomat Walter Aston, Baron Aston of Forfar (1584-1639), of Tixall and Colton, Staffordshire, her roman hand responsible for ff. 6r, 8r-15v, 24v-34v, 46v-52v, 136r-9r, 143v-59r, and 182v-95v. The second, predominantly secretary hand, responsible for fourteen poems on ff. 7r-v, 16r-24r, and 35r-46r, is that of Constance's sister Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68). The third hand, on ff. 196r-200v, is that of Constance's brother-in-law Sir William Pershall.
c.1635-50s.William H. Robinson, sale catalogue (1925), item 472.
This volume discussed, with a complete first-line index and a facsimile of f. 25r, in Jenijoy La Belle,
Aldrich-Watson, p. 147.
Copy, headed
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
Copy, headed
A book of Verses / Seria mixta Jocis, c.260 pages, in calf blind-stamped
V/I F 1667.
References to Westminster Drollerie
(which was not published until 1671) added on pp. 1 and 242.
Inscribed on the title-page Frendraught Legi
: i.e. by James Crichton (d.1674/5), second Viscount Frendraught. Bookplate of Thomas Fraser Duff (1830-77), of Woodcote, Oxfordshire. Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 9 April 1987, lot 272 (with a facsimile of p. 131 in the sale catalogue), sold to Quaritch.
Copy, untitled.
Including ten poems by Carew (and two of doubtful authorship) and 24 poems by Randolph.
c.1630s.Thomas Thorpe,
Cited in Rosenbach MS I
:
First published in
Copy, in double columns.
A sixteen-line version first published in
Copy, untitled.
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
:
Copy of the song, the First Part
(lines 1-16), followed by a Second Part
(15 lines beginning
DR. / I.W, with silver clasps.
Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82).
c.1656.Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts,
This MS discussed, and the Second Part
attributed to Felltham, in John P. Cutts,
Copy, in double columns.
Copy of both parts of the song, in a setting by John Wilson.
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
This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
Copy of both parts of the song, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer (his signature f. 2v).
c.1654-70s.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
This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
Copy, untitled.
Including ten poems by Carew (and two of doubtful authorship) and 24 poems by Randolph.
c.1630s.Thomas Thorpe,
Cited in Rosenbach MS I
:
A six-line extract, No. 5 in a series of 45 extracts (on ff. 25v-9r)
Inscribed inside the front cover F. C. Wellstood / Oxford
. Inscribed (f. 35r) W. C. 1789
.
First published in
Copy, headed
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 3d 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 Burghe MS
:
Edited from this MS in
Copy, headed per Owen Feltham
.
Inscribed (f. iiir) by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector, Bought at the sale of Mr. [Jonathan] Boucher's Library in April 1806, for £2. 12. 6. E Malone
.
This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers. Edited from this MS in the online Early Stuart Libels.
Copy.
1642, with remains of clasps.
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.
Mid-late 17th century.Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
Cited in
This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
Copy.
Including 14 poems by Carew (and a second copy of one poem), eight poems (plus 3 of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, and 28 poems by Strode (plus a second copy of one and two of doubtful authorship).
c.late 1630s.Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.
Cited in Fulman MS
:
Copy, headed
Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan
: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington.
Also inscribed Mary Helerd
. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2.
Copy, headed
Inscribed To my euer honored good Cosen Sr John Reresby Barronett these prsent
: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall.
Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.
Cited in Mexborough MS
:
Copy, headed
First published in Norman Ault (ed.),
Copy in Wilson's setting, untitled.
DR. / I.W, with silver clasps.
Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82).
c.1656.Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts,
Edited from this MS in Ault, in Cutts, and in Pebworth & Summers.
First published in
Copy, in double columns.
First published in
Copy in Wilson's setting, untitled.
DR. / I.W, with silver clasps.
Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82).
c.1656.Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts,
This MS collated in Pebworth & Summers.
Copy, headed Mr Reynalds:
.
Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London.
c.1641-9.Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Cited in Calfe MS
:
This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
Copy, headed
Including 22 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 13 poems by King, and 24 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and probably associated with Christ Church, Oxford.
c.1633.Inscribed names including (f. 93v, in court hand) ffrancis Baskeruile
: i.e. probably the Francis Baskerville who married Margaret Glanvill in 1635 and was in 1640 MP for Marlborough, Wiltshire. Other scribbling including (f. 1r) accounts referring to Wanborough, Wiltshire; (f. 9v) Elizabeth White
; (f. 54v) William Walrond his booke 1663
; (f. 92r) accounts dated 1658; and (f. 94r) John Wallrond
. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Recorded in Baskerville MS
:
This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
First published, in a musical setting by John Wilson, in his
Copy.
Inscribed (p. i) Ex dono B. R. ao J
.
Copy, in Wilson's musical setting, untitled.
DR. / I.W, with silver clasps.
Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82).
c.1656.Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts,
This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
Compiled entirely by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.
Mid-late 17th century.Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.
Discussed in John P. Cutts,
This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
Fitst published in
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
c.1630s-40s.Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in Daniell MS
:
Copy, docketed
Copy, untitled, here beginning
Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the Edward Smyth MS
(
Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.
This MS is the curious folio volume
lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by the late Lord Harborough
and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his
Cited in Skipwith MS
:
This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
Copy, headed
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).
c.1650-9.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 Calfe MS
:
This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
Copy, headed John Done
.
Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by Strode (and two poems of doubtful authorship).
c.1634.The initials M W
stamped on each cover: i.e. M[aidstone] and W[inchilsea]. Evidently compiled by or for Sir Thomas Finch, Viscount Maidstone and Earl of Winchilsea (who succeeded to the peerage in 1633 and died in 1634). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue
The MS came to Rosenbach with a printed exemplum of William Wishcart, M W
; it is inscribed Lord Winchilsea for Mr Locker 1634
; it bears the late 17th-century signatures of Stephen Locker and Alexander Campbell, and the bookplates of Captain William Locker (1731-1800) and Edward Hawke Locker (1777-1849).
Cited in Winchelsea MS
:
Copy, untitled.
Formerly Chest II, No. 21.
Copy, ascribed to T. R.
Including twenty poems by Randolph, plus ten of doubtful authorship (some here ascribed to T.R.
), in two hands (A: pp. 3-99; B: pp. 1, 99-129), with some scribbling and one heading in other hands on pp. 3, 98 and 133; a poem on p. 1 (beginning To ye] Incomparably vertuous Lady the Lady Harflette
: i.e. Afra (d.1664), wife of Sir Christopher Harflete of Canterbury.
Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
Cited in
First published in
Copy, headed T. R.
.
Including twenty poems by Randolph, plus ten of doubtful authorship (some here ascribed to T.R.
), in two hands (A: pp. 3-99; B: pp. 1, 99-129), with some scribbling and one heading in other hands on pp. 3, 98 and 133; a poem on p. 1 (beginning To ye] Incomparably vertuous Lady the Lady Harflette
: i.e. Afra (d.1664), wife of Sir Christopher Harflete of Canterbury.
Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
Cited in
This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
First published in
Copy, following the poem
First published, in a six-stanza version headed
Copy of stanzas 1-4, 7-12, headed
Including 15 poems (and a second copy of one poem) by Cowley and 15 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.
Early 18th century.Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in Rawlinson MS II
:
This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
First published in
Copy in Wilson's setting, untitled.
DR. / I.W, with silver clasps.
Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82).
c.1656.Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts,
This MS collated in Pembroke & Summers.
Copy, in double columns.
Prose
First published as
Copy, based on the edition of 1652 with additions, written as part of Fraser's description of Holland, where he travelled in 1659.
The
Probably owned (before 1905) by Miss H.M. Paterson, of Birkwood, Banchory, a descendant of Fraser.
This MS discussed in Van Strien.
Copy, in a non-professional secretary hand, headed
Entitled (on an oblong octavo vellum strip attached to f. iir)
Compiled by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary.
This MS discussed in Van Strien.
Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, headed J.S.
.
This MS discussed in Van Strien, with a facsimile of f. 8v on p. 156.
Copy in the hand of William Sancroft, headed
Compiled in part by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Copy, headed No. 35
.
Owned until 10 May 1851 by the Fielding family, Earls of Denbigh and Desmond, of Newnham Paddex, Warwickshire. Possibly the MS containing Felltham's
This MS discussed in Van Strien.
Copy, headed
In a single calligraphic hand, employing various scripts, a scribe identified or associated with one Henry Feilde.
c.1640s.Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 140.
This MS discussed in Van Strien.
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed 2
, imperfect, lacking one leaf.
Inscribed in another hand as given by The Rev.rd Mr. Jo: Hall's
(d.1707, prebendary of St Paul's) as a gift to Ra: Thoresby
(1658-1725, Yorkshire antiquary and Topographer).
This MS discussed in Van Strien.
Copy of the beginning only, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed
Owned, and annotated, by Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Bt (1602-50), diarist and antiquary.
This MS discussed in Van Strien.
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed
In various professional hands, including that of the Feathery Scribe
.
Inscribed by Wanley (f. 1r and elsewhere) with date of accession into the Harley library 16 October 1725
. In the Harley Library, formed by the politician and book collector Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford; the volume docketed 16 October 1725, a year after the library was moved from Brampton Bryan to London.
Briefly described in Peter Beal,
This MS discussed in Van Strien.
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed
This MS discussed in Van Strien.
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed
This MS discussed in Van Strien.
Copy, in a mixed hand, headed
This MS discussed in Van Strien.
Copy, with a title-page I.S. Roterdam
.
The principal scribe associated with Henry Feilde.
c.1660s.This MS discussed in Van Strien, with a facsimile of f. 83r on p. 152.
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed
In various professional hands, including that of the Feathery Scribe
.
Briefly described in Peter Beal,
This MS recorded in Van Strien.
Copy, headed
Fols 1r-82r comprise a separate collection of verse and some prose, possibly in a single predominantly secretary hand with some variants of style, the first leaf (f. 1) inscribed in another hand ffinis W Browne
.
This volume comprising Parts 1-3, 5, 8-13, of what was formerly a single composite volume but is now bound in three volumes.
c.1637-50.Inscribed (f. 280v) Philip Butler his book
.
This MS discussed in Van Strien.
Copy of the first half of the work, incomplete, originally paginated 1-12.
This MS discussed in Van Strien.
This MS discussed in Van Strien.
Copy.
Feathery Scribe, 214 leaves. c.1630.
Briefly described in Peter Beal,
This MS discussed in Van Strien.
Copy, headed
Bridgewater Library. Sold at Sotheby's, 19 March 1951, lot 174. Owned in 1957 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes.
Described in Geoffrey Keynes,
This MS discussed in Van Strien.
HarGrimston[i.e. Sir Harbottle Grimston, second Baronet (1603-85), lawyer and parliamentarian], 23 small quarto leaves (plus numerous blanks), in limp vellum with ties, later inscribed on the cover
Among papers of the Grimston family, Earls of Verulam, of Gorhambury, Hertfordshire.
This MS discussed in Van Strien, with a facsimile of f. [16r] on p. 136.
Harb Grimeston[i.e. Sir Harbottle Grimston, first Baronet (d.1648)], on i + eight small quarto leaves, in a vellum wrapper (a recycled indenture). c.1625-9.
Edited from this MS in HMC, Verulam (1906), pp. 221-9. Discussed in Van Strien, with a facsimile of f. [5v] on p. 150.
Headed 5
in the hand of the Earl of Bridgewater, twelve folio leaves (plus one blank), disbound.
Edited from this MS by Albert Peel in
Feathery Scribe, with a title-page
This was written by mr. Jo: Selden to Mr Farnaby the Eminent schoolmar, 24 folio leaves, numbered
2., disbound. c.1625-30s.
Apparently owned in 1922 by E. Williams, of Hove, Sussex.
This MS discussed in Van Kies, with a facsimile of f. 2r on p. 146. Briefly described in Peter Beal,
Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, with copious corrections and additions, headed (after the introductory letter)
This MS discussed in Van Strien, with a facsimile of f. 82r on p. 143.
Copy, in a professional mixed hand, headed
Bookplate of the Carr (or Ker) family, Marquesses of Lothian.
This MS discussed in Van Strien.
This MS discussed in Van Strien, with a facsimile of f. 6v on p. 155.
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed (after the preliminary letter)
1619.
Signed (p. 12 and elsewhere) by Mildmay Fane (1602-66), second Earl of Westmorland, politician and writer.
c.1618-32.This MS discussed in Van Strien.
Copy.
Mostyn MS 177: from the library of the Mostyn family, of Mostyn Hall, Flintshire, and Gloddaeth, Denbighshire, whose notable book and manuscript collectors included Sir Thomas Mostyn (1651-1700?) and his grandson Sir Thomas Mostyn, fourth Baronet (1704-58).
Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 355.
This MS discussed in Van Strien.
Sold by Dobell in 1952.
This MS discussed in Van Strien.
Copy.
Grosvenor MS 36. Eaton Hall bookplate Case XXI no. 25.
Sotheby's, 20 February 1967, lot 266. Hofmann and Freeman's sale catalogue, 21 January 1968, item 1, vol. II.
Extracts, inscribed
Sotheby's, 13 July 1855, lot 1364.
Various extracts.
Compiled by Henry Sturmy, who in November 1686 was bound apprentice to the London bookseller Richard Hunt.
c.1696.Inscribed (inside front cover) Susanna Hayward her Booke
.
Various extracts.
Compiled by Henry Sturmy, who in November 1686 was bound apprentice to the London bookseller Ricard Hunt, and inscribed (f. 31r) Intended for my own meaditations
.
Bookplate of Charles Lilburn. Sotheby's, 28 May 1986, lot 198.
Extracts, headed
Compiled by one William Bright, entitled
Inscribed also inside the lower cover Will: Bright Novemb 12th pretiu 8d 1645
.
Extracts.
This is the longest known extant version of the unpublished anthology
Formerly MS 469.2.
This MS identified in master draft
, with a facsimile of p. 7 on p. 381, in Hao Tianhu, Catalogue A
on pp. 385-94).
Extracts, headed
Inscribed, evidently by the compiler, Henry Harpur An: Do: 1674
.
Letters
Billing Brien, dated 8 May 1639, 11 April 1641, 4 May 1641, 2 June 1641, 6 June 1641, 23 June 1641, 6 July 1641, and 13 July 1641, a ninth letter by Fwlltham to Henry O'Brien (c.1620-91), seventh Earl of Thomond, dated 28 March 1657. 1639-57.
These letters discussed, with extracts, in Kees van Strien,