First published in Poems, by J. C., With Additions (1651), the edition with yet more additions. Morris & Withington, pp. 54-6.
Copy, headed Against Platonick Loue -- or LDD Desire
.
A quarto composite volume of four MSS, in English and Latin, iii + 187 leaves, in vellum boards.
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.
Copy, headed The Platonique Louer
, subscribed Cleveland.
A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in two or more cursive hands, written from both ends, iv + 278 pages, in contemporary calf.
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.
A folio verse miscellany, entitled The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts
, in a single hand, 189 leaves.
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 ye 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 Mr. 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
:
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, headed The Antiplatonick
.
A quarto miscellany of Latin academic exercises and verses relating principally to Oxford University, in several hands, ii + 136 leaves, imperfect, in later half-calf.
Compiled principally by George Stradling (d.1688), Dean of Christ Church.
Acquired from John A. Murphy, bookseller, Aberystwyth, 1885.
Copy, subscribed J: Cleue
.
A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands, including eight poems by Randolph (one twice), 102 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.
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 Calfe MS
:
Copy, in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.
A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in various professional hands, 138 leaves, in red mottled leather gilt.
Bookplate (as Shelburne
) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.
Copy.
A sextodecimo pocket miscellany, ff. 3r-53r in a single hand, other hands and scribbling on ff. 1r-2r, 54v, 87v-90v, 90 leaves in all (including blanks ff. 55r-87r), in contemporary calf, with remains of clasps.
Including 12 poems by Carew.
Inscribed Richard Archard his booke Amen 1650
; Richard Archard his penn Amen 1657
; to Mr Satars[?] towads the Casting of ye lead 1657
; Tho: Wise
; John Smith of halmortaine and I…went to Thornebury
; and Edward Watt
. Bookplate of William Harris Arnold.
Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Archard MS
:
Copy, on three pages in a ten-page section headed Verses on severall occurrenses 1649
in the middle of the volume.
A small octavo commonplace book, in various hands, over a period from c.1649 to1815, unpaginated and imperfect, in contemporary calf.
Including 64 pages with descriptions of dance steps, fifteen pages of verse, and a number of pages of miscellaneous, household and legal memoranda.
Inscribed names passim including Richard Pattricke
, Richard Lewis 1654
,
Copy, in an italic hand.
A quarto verse miscellany, in possibly several hands, written from both ends, paginated 1-205, then from the reverse end 206-58 (plus blanks to 271), in old reversed calf (rebacked).
Later owned by Lucy Hutchinson's nephew Julius Hutchinson (1678-1738).
This MS is described in the online Perdita Project.