Thomas Dekker

A quarto verse miscellany, 170 leaves, paginated 1-8 (Latin text in a small secretary hand), then pp. 1-162 (in one or possibly two largely italic hands; pp. 108-57 blanks; pp. 158-62 containing later notes), in modern red morocco gilt.

The pagination cited below relates to the second, main series of pagination.

A quarto verse miscellany, 170 leaves, paginated 1-8 (Latin text in a small secretary hand), then pp. 1-162 (in one or possibly two largely italic hands; pp. 108-57 blanks; pp. 158-62 containing later notes), in modern red morocco gilt.

The pagination cited below relates to the second, main series of pagination.

A quarto composite miscellany, in Latin and English, associated with Oxford University, iii + 68 leaves.

In three parts, the first (ff. 1-20) owned in 1669 and probably compiled by Francis Philips (b.1651) of Brasenose College, Oxford; the second (ff. 21-46), c.1663 or so; the third part (ff. 47 onwards) 19th-century.

A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, predominantly in a single hand (up to f. 34v), with additions in four subsequent hands (ff. 37-50v), 50 leaves, in vellum.

Compiled for the most part by a University of Oxford man, with (f. 1r-v) a list of contents.

Formerly cited as Corpus Christi College, MS E.i.33.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small neat predominantly secretary hand but for additions in a second hand on ff. 35v and 58r, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, 97 leaves (inclusing two blanks), in half-calf.

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).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Fulman MS: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.

A quarto verse miscellany, 171 leaves, with an index, imperfect at the beginning, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

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

An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by the writer Robert Codrington (1602-65) of Magdalen College, Oxford, 360 pages (including stubs of extracted leaves on pp. 297-328 and blanks, plus index), in contemporary calf.

Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) Anno Dom: 1638 and The 30^th of May. 1638.

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

A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, including 37 poems by Donne, in several hands, written from both ends, 279 leaves (including numerous blanks, mostly in ff. 42r-140r), with stubs of extracted leaves, in contemporary calf.

Compiled in part by the Oxford printer Christopher Wase (1627-90), fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Wase MS: DnJ Δ 39.

A quarto composite volume comprising three independent MSS bound together, i + 78 leaves.

The first MS a verse miscellany, in an italic hand, 29 leaves. c.1640.

A quarto verse miscellany, nearly all in a single mixed hand, 19 leaves, in a wrapper comprising a recycled vellum leaf bearing a rubricated (?)15th-century religious text in Latin.

An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Juvenilia Ludicra, in a single small mixed hand, 103 leaves, all now window mounted in a quarto volume, in 19th-century half morocco.

Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man.

A quarto composite volume of verse MSS, in several hands and paper sizes, 129 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms, antiquary, his brother Oliver, and (in 1714) by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.

A quarto volume of Divine and Morall Observations, in verse and prose, in a neat roman hand varying in style, with later additions at the end, 61 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black leather.

Inscribed by the compiler, on an elaborate title-page (f. 1r), Abygall Guilford her Booke 1672.

A small octavo verse miscellany, written from both ends, predominantly in a single hand in variant styles (ff. 1v-79v, 80r, 88v-96v, 119r-117r rev.), with additions in later hands (ff. 97r-104v, 116v-106r rev.), 164 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

Inscribed (f. 1v, in a court hand) Daniell Leare his Booke, witnesse William Strode, and (f. 164r) M^r 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 (National Archives, Kew, SP 18/99/61). Daniel Leare's wife, Dorothy, was a member of the Hubert family with whom King was associated by virtue of the marriage of his sister Dorothy.

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 (StW Δ 1).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Leare MS: DnJ Δ 41, CwT Δ 15, CoR Δ 4, and StW Δ 10.

Discussed in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973), pp. 185-90; in her Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 189-90); and in her Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), passim, with facsimile examples of ff. 79-80 facing p. 87.

A folio verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand associated with the playhouse and possibly inns of court (also responsible for ChG 12.5, HyT 5, and MiT 6), 97 leaves, with a first-line Index at the end, in contemporary vellum boards.

Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Chute MS: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, largely in one secretary hand, written from both ends, with indexes (ff. 2r-3r, 168r-v), 168 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

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.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning.

A duodecimo verse miscellany in several hands, written from both ends, 46 leaves, in contemporary calf.

A large folio miscellaneous compilation of verse and prose, chiefly in a single neat hand, written from both ends, 189 leaves, in contemporary vellum (rebound).

Associated with the Freville family and probably assembled by Gilbert Frevile, of Bishop Middleham, Co. Durham, whose name appears on the cover with the date 1591. A pen-and-ink ornamental drawing at the end inscribed Finis quoth G. W.

An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves.

Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from Westminster Abbey, MS 41.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

An octavo notebook of extracts in verse and prose, in a small untidy hand, written from both ends, 42 leaves (plus three blanks), badly worn, remains of boards and green ties.

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in one female roman hand, written from both ends, 174 pages, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by members of Sir Thomas Browne's family, chiefly his daughter Elizabeth Lyttelton (b. c.1648), containing various works in verse and prose including copies of a passage by Sir Thomas on consumptions (p. 43), a list of books which he had Elizabeth read out to him (pp. 44-5), copies of notes by him (pp. 77-76 rev.), his poem Upon a Tempest at Sea (pp. 94-93 rev.) and verses beginning the Almond flourisheth ye Birch trees flowe (p. 72); some of the verses in other hands including poems by Donne, Corbett, Wotton, Cartwright, William Browne, Ralegh, Katherine Phillips and others.

This MS volume described in [Geoffrey Keynes], A Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne, TLS (4 September 1919), p. 420. Discussed in Victoria E. Burke, Contexts for Women's Manuscript Miscellanies: The Case of Elizabeth Lyttelton and Sir Thomas Browne, Yearbook of English Studies, 33 (2003), 316-28. Edited selectively by Geoffrey Keynes as The Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttelton, Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne (Cambridge, 1919). The passages by Browne also edited in Keynes, I, 120-1, and III, 236-7, 331-2.

An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152.

Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe-Halliwell MS: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

A quarto verse miscellany (originally in two separate volumes), including eleven poems by Donne, chiefly in two hands, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 98 leaves, one of the original vellum covers now incorporated in modern red morocco.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Welden MS: DnJ Δ 49.

A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, 210 pages, comprising 38 unnumbered pages and 172 numbered pages (plus four blank leaves), perhaps largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with additions in four other hands on the unnumbered pages and pp. 167-71, including the scribbled title Divers Sonnets & Poems compiled by certaine gentil Clarks and Ryme-Wrightes, probably associated with Oxford University and the Inns of Court, in contemporary vellum.

Including 14 poems by Strode (and a second copy of one poem).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Cotton MS: StW Δ 20.

An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt.

A quarto verse miscellany, with later accounts on the last page dated June 1658, 1* + 238 pages (including stubs of extracted pages 191-6, plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked).

Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

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

A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single mixed hand, with additions in other hands, associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 315 pages (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt.

Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. Discussed in Arthur F. Marotti, Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources, SP 113 (2016), 850-78. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

A small quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single, minute non-professional italic hand, probably someone associated with Oxford University, comprising 180 pages now all separated and mounted, interleaved, in 19th-century calf.

A small quarto verse miscellany, comprising approximately 80 poems, including eleven poems by Donne, 21 poems by Strode, and one poem of doubtful authorship, in several hands, one small neat hand predominating (ff. 1r-34r), with later receipts for 1658-62 at the end, 161 leaves (including numerous blanks).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Hyde MS: DnJ Δ 52, StW Δ 15. Discussed in Geoffrey Keynes, A Footnote to Donne, The Book Collector, 22 (Summer 1973), 165-8, with a facsimile of the page with Hyde's signature (which does not correspond to the main handwriting). Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 1863.

A folio verse miscellany, including 26 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Thomas Carew and poems by Henry King, in several hands, 92 leaves, plus an inserted gathering of eleven leaves after f. 82v (ff. [82a-82k]), but including stubs of some extracted leaves (ff. 74-8, 94-5), in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed To my euer honored good Cosen S^r John Reresby Barronett these p^rsent: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Mexborough MS: CwT Δ 29.

An oblong octavo composite volume, comprising two independent verse miscellanies, Part I, in Latin and English, largely in a neat secretary hand, paginated 1-22, Part II, in English and Welsh, in several hands, one neat secretary hand predominating, paginated 1-266, the two parts bound together in modern quarter red morocco.

A small quarto verse anthology, in a single minute hand (but for p. 206), arranged under genre headings (Epitaphs, Satyricall, Love Sonnets, etc.), probably associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 382 pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.

Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the Thomas Smyth MS (DnJ Δ 48).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Welbeck MS: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).

A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index).

Possibly compiled by one W: H:: i.e. probably William Holgate (1618-46), of Queens' College, Cambridge, with late 17th-century additions apparently made by other members of the Holgate family, of Saffron Walden and Great Bardfield, Essex.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Holgate MS: DnJ Δ 58 and StW Δ 22. Briefly discussed in W.G.P., Verses by Francis Beaumont, TLS (15 September 1921), p. 596, and in E.K. Chambers, William Shakespeare, 2 vols (Oxford, 1930), II, 222-4. Also discussed, with facsimiles on pp. 68 and 70 of pp. 181 and 13, in Michael Roy Denbo, Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73. For facsimile pages see DnJ 2931 and ShW 25. Complete microfilm in the Essex Record Office (T/A 98).

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in probably two or more secretary hands, 108 pages, in half brown morocco.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf.

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.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS II: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).

A small quarto miscellany of anecdotes, aphorisms, verses, etc., in two hands, compiled by Sir Francis Fane (c.1612-80), 193 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, compiled principally in the secretary hand of a University of Oxford man, with additions in one or more other hands, 150 pages, imperfect, disbound.

A quarto commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts, largely in one small hand, with a few additions in three other hands, 257 pages, in contemporary vellum.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a neat probably female hand, 76 pages (including blanks) plus twelve tipped-in letters etc., in contemporary calf gilt.

A small quarto verse miscellany, including some thirty poems by Donne, in several hands, associated with the Inns of Court, with a 19th-century title-page, A Collection of Original Poetry, written about the time of Ben: Johnson, qui ob. 1637 and erroneously annotated Chiefly in the Autograph of D^r. Donne Dean of S^t. Paul's.67 pages (plus index).

Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Monckton Milnes MS: DnJ Δ 63. Briefly discussed in Sir John Simeon, Unpublished Poems of Donne, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3, and, with selected collations, in Grierson (II, cix et passim). A complete set of photographs of the MS is in the British Library, RP 2031.

A large folio miscellaneous compilation of verse and prose, chiefly in a single neat hand, written from both ends, 189 leaves, in contemporary vellum (rebound).

Associated with the Freville family and probably assembled by Gilbert Frevile, of Bishop Middleham, Co. Durham, whose name appears on the cover with the date 1591. A pen-and-ink ornamental drawing at the end inscribed Finis quoth G. W.

A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, including 37 poems by Donne, in several hands, written from both ends, 279 leaves (including numerous blanks, mostly in ff. 42r-140r), with stubs of extracted leaves, in contemporary calf.

Compiled in part by the Oxford printer Christopher Wase (1627-90), fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Wase MS: DnJ Δ 39.

A large folio miscellaneous compilation of verse and prose, chiefly in a single neat hand, written from both ends, 189 leaves, in contemporary vellum (rebound).

Associated with the Freville family and probably assembled by Gilbert Frevile, of Bishop Middleham, Co. Durham, whose name appears on the cover with the date 1591. A pen-and-ink ornamental drawing at the end inscribed Finis quoth G. W.

A duodecimo miscellany of verse and jests, in a minute hand, compiled by a Cambridge man, 59 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

A folio composite miscellany of verse and prose, compiled entirely by William Drummond, 403 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt.

A portion of a commonplace book, largely in a single cursive secretary hand, compiled by Edward Pudsey (1573-1613), comprising four quarto leaves.

These leaves are detached from a commonplace book, the major part of which is Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. d. 3.

A facsimile of this MS portion is in the Bodleian, MS Facs. d. 155, ff. 150-3.

The greater part of a quarto commonplace book of extracts, compiled by Edward Pudsey (1573-1613), iii + 104 leaves, in 19th-century green morocco gilt.

Four leaves of this commonplace book are in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21.

All the Shakespearian texts except Othello were edited from this MS in Richard Savage's Shakespearean Extracts (1887). The MS also edited in Juliet Mary Gowan, An Edition of Edward Pudsey's Commonplace Book (c.1600-1615) (unpublished M. Phil., University of London, 1967). It was then found that the miscellany lacked several of its original leaves, including extracts from six plays by Shakespeare. These leaves were rediscovered in 1977 among Savage's papers at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21, and the Othello extracts identified by Gowan. The MS also discussed in J. Rees, Shakespeare and Edward Pudsey's Booke, 1600, N&Q, 237 (September 1992), 330-1; in Juliet Gowan, One Man in His Time: The Notebook of Edward Pudsey, Bodleian Library Record, 22 (2009), 94–101; in Fred Schurink, Manuscript Commonplace Books, Literature, and Reading in Early Modern England, HLQ, 73/3 (2010), 453-69 (pp. 465-9), with a facsimile of f. 31r on p. 467; and in Tom Lockwood, At Mr Marston’s Request: Edward Pudsey and the Inns of Court, N&Q, 63 (September 2016), 450-3.

A quarto miscellany of chiefly amatory verse, in several hands, i + 132 leaves.

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

The greater part of a quarto commonplace book of extracts, compiled by Edward Pudsey (1573-1613), iii + 104 leaves, in 19th-century green morocco gilt.

Four leaves of this commonplace book are in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21.

All the Shakespearian texts except Othello were edited from this MS in Richard Savage's Shakespearean Extracts (1887). The MS also edited in Juliet Mary Gowan, An Edition of Edward Pudsey's Commonplace Book (c.1600-1615) (unpublished M. Phil., University of London, 1967). It was then found that the miscellany lacked several of its original leaves, including extracts from six plays by Shakespeare. These leaves were rediscovered in 1977 among Savage's papers at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21, and the Othello extracts identified by Gowan. The MS also discussed in J. Rees, Shakespeare and Edward Pudsey's Booke, 1600, N&Q, 237 (September 1992), 330-1; in Juliet Gowan, One Man in His Time: The Notebook of Edward Pudsey, Bodleian Library Record, 22 (2009), 94–101; in Fred Schurink, Manuscript Commonplace Books, Literature, and Reading in Early Modern England, HLQ, 73/3 (2010), 453-69 (pp. 465-9), with a facsimile of f. 31r on p. 467; and in Tom Lockwood, At Mr Marston’s Request: Edward Pudsey and the Inns of Court, N&Q, 63 (September 2016), 450-3.

Eight pages (sigs L4^r-M3^v) supplied in MS, in a secretary hand, at the end of an imperfect exemplum of the first edition (1602).

A folio composite MS, thirteen remaining leaves, originally bound with Harley MS 7367, in a vellum wrapper (recycled from a 15th-century Latin breviary) inscribed The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore, now disbound, comprising a play largely in the hand of Anthony Munday (1560-1633), playwright, with additions and contributions in five other hands.

The play edited from this MS by all editors. Reproduced in facsimile by John S. Farmer, Tudor Facsimile Texts (London, 1910).

Discussions of the various hands in the MS, generally with facsimile examples, include those in Greg's Malone Society edition; in Greg, Dramatic Documents, I, 224-5, and II, Plate 2; in R.C. Bald, The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore and its Problems, SS, 2 (1949), 44-65; in Peter W.M. Blayney, The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore Re-Examined, SP, 69 (1972), 167-91; in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 23; in Michael L. Hays, Shakespeare's Hand in Sir Thomas More: Some Aspects of the Paleographic Argument, SSt, 8 (1975), 241-53; in Paul Ramsey, Shakespeare and Sir Thomas More Revisited: or, A Mounty on the Trail, PBSA, 70 (1976), 333-46; in Giles E. Dawson, Theobald, table/babbled, and Sir Thomas More, TLS (22 April 1977), p. 484; in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 36; in Giles E. Dawson, Shakespeare's Handwriting, Shakespeare Survey, 42 (1990), 119-28; in Grace Ioppolo, Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood (London & New York, 2006), pp. 100-9; and elsewhere.

Facsimiles of f. 9r also in English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), No. 6; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 11, p. 23; in Elizabethan Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers, DLB, 62 (Detroit, 1987), p. 407; in William Shakespeare: A Documentary Volume, ed. Catherine Loomis, DLB, 263 (Detroit, 2002), p. 33; in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 55; and elsewhere.

Four playhouse plots.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with dramatis personæ and stage directions in italic, 22 folio leaves, imperfect, partly chewed by rodents, in modern half red morocco.

Including prompter's cues (bee redy Volemar, etc.) and cuts, prepared for use by a London theatrical company, perhaps for Lady Elizabeth's men at the Phoenix or Cockpit in Drury Lane. The hand is that also responsible for Massinger's Parliament of Love (MsP 3).

This MS discussed in Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, III, 267-8, and in Greg, Dramatic Documents, II, 279-82.

Facsimile pages in Malone Society edition; in Bowers, IV, facing p. 303; and in Elizabethan Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers, DLB 62 (Detroit, 1987), p. 66.

A folio composite miscellany of verse and prose, compiled entirely by William Drummond, 403 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt.

An octavo commonplace book of extracts from various authors, some under headings, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, written from both ends, iv + 558 pages (the majority blank), in contemporary vellum.

A collection of papers of the actor Edward Alleyn (1566-1626).

A collection of papers of the actor Edward Alleyn (1566-1626).

A slip cut from a leaf in the Diary of Philip Henslowe (c.1555-1616), theatre financier.

Facsimiles in Joseph Quincy Adams, Another Fragment from Henslowe's Diary, The Library, 4th Ser. 20 (1939-40), 154-8; in W.W. Greg, Fragments from Henslowe's Diary, Collections: Volume IV, Malone Society (Oxford, 1956), pp. 31-2; in James G. McManaway, The Authorship of Shakespeare, Studies in Shakespeare, Bibliography and Theater (New York, 1969), pp. 175-210 (p. 208); in The Henslowe Papers, ed. R.A. Foakes (London, 1977); and in Cummings, p. 193.

A slip cut from a leaf in the Diary of Philip Henslowe (c.1555-1616), theatre financier.

Facsimiles in Joseph Quincy Adams, Another Fragment from Henslowe's Diary, The Library, 4th Ser. 20 (1939-40), 154-8; in W.W. Greg, Fragments from Henslowe's Diary, Collections: Volume IV, Malone Society (Oxford, 1956), pp. 31-2; in James G. McManaway, The Authorship of Shakespeare, Studies in Shakespeare, Bibliography and Theater (New York, 1969), pp. 175-210 (p. 208); in The Henslowe Papers, ed. R.A. Foakes (London, 1977); and in Cummings, p. 193.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 97 leaves.

The folio diary and account book of Philip Henslowe (c.1555-1616), theatre financier, 238 leaves.

A fragment of Henslowe's Diary, containing Dekker's autograph receipt for 18 January 1599/1600.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 291. Facsimiles in W. W. Greg, A Fragment from Henslowe's Diary, The Library, 4th Ser. 19 (1938-9), 180-4, and in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

Dekker's autograph signature, apparently cut from his entry for 5 May 1602 in the Diary of Philip Henslowe, pasted in a printed volume of his plays.

Two Latin recognizances binding Dekker to keep the peace in 1608-9.

Discussed in E. D. Pendry, Thomas Dekker in the Magistrates' Court, ELR, 3 (1973), 53-9.

Dekker's autograph answer to the Attorney General's bill of information, corrected by his lawyer Nathaniel Finch and sworn 3 February 1624/5.

Discussed, with a facsimile, in Charles Sisson, Keep the Widow Waking A Lost Play by Dekker, The Library, 4th Ser. 8 (1927-8), 39-57, 233-59.

A professional copy of Dekker's deposition on 24 March 1625/6 signed by him.

Discussed, with a facsimile, in Charles Sisson, Keep the Widow Waking A Lost Play by Dekker, The Library, 4th Ser. 8 (1927-8), 39-57, 233-59.

A document signed by Dekker, being a court order relating to the pageant, London's tempe, which he wrote for the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers in 1629.

Edited, with a facsimile of the signature, in John Nicholl, Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Ironmoners (London, 1851), pp. 222-3. The text is reprinted from this publication in Jones-Davies, p. 69.

A large untitled folio anthology of quotations chiefly from Elizabethan and Stuart plays, alphabetically arranged under subject headings, in a single mixed hand, in double columns, 900 pages (lacking pp. 1-4, 379-80, 667-8, 715-20 and 785-8), including (pp. 893-7) an alphabetical index of some 351 titles of plays, in modern boards.

This is the longest known extant version of the unpublished anthology Hesperides or The Muses Garden, by John Evans, entered in the Stationers' Register on 16 August 1655 and subsequently advertised c.1660, among works he purposed to print, by Humphrey Moseley. Another version of this work, in the same hand, dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), is now distributed between Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger, MS V.a.75, Folger, MS V.a.79, and Folger, MS V.a.80.

This MS identified in IELM, II.i (1980), p. 450. Discussed, as the master draft, with a facsimile of p. 7 on p. 381, in Hao Tianhu, Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden and its Manuscript History, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/4 (December 2009), 372-404 (the full index printed as Catalogue A on pp. 385-94).