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Katherine Philips

1632–1664

Introduction

Autograph Manuscripts

Apart from her status as an early woman writer, Katherine Philips (née Fowler) — Orinda, as she poetically called herself, the matchless Orinda and Queen of Poets as contemporary eulogists called her — will probably remain of chief interest as a cultural phenomenon on account of the society of friendship she established, a society supported essentially by the select distribution of her poems in manuscript form. Katherine Philips is also among the rarer poets of her age to have left a substantial body of works in her own hand. Although known since 1905, the Tutin Manuscript in the National Library of Wales — Philips's autograph collection of over fifty-five of her poems made in the late 1650s (National Library of Wales, NLW MS 775 B) — has received relatively little attention until relatively recently; nor was its importance, or even precise identity, clearly established. Various other autograph compositions by her have also now come to light. The autograph presentation copy of her poem to the Duke of Ormonde was identified among Ormonde's papers by Hilton Kelliher in 1976 (*PsK 437). A few scraps of autograph juvenilia in verse and prose among the papers of her friend Anne Owen (Lucasia) were recorded in 1977 by Ronald Lockley, and more extensively discussed by Claudia Limbert in 1986 (*PsK 1, *PsK 218, *PsK 572). An autograph manuscript of Rosania to Lucasia on her Letters among the Harley Manuscripts in the British Library (*PsK 319) was recorded in 1979 by Catherine Mambretti in her unpublished dissertation and then independently found in 1991 by Elizabeth Hageman. Hageman has also discovered, among other things, an autograph manuscript of To the Right Honobl. Alice, Countess of Carberry, at her enriching Wales with her presence among the Ellesmere papers in the Huntington Library (*PsK 491), and, even more interestingly, an autograph manuscript at the University of Kentucky of A sea voyage from Tenby to Bristoll, 5 of September 1652 (*PsK 326) which proves once to have been part of the autograph Tutin Manuscript itself. Yet more autograph manuscripts have surfaced of To the Queen's majesty, Jan. 1. 1660/1 (*PsK 485.5) and of An ode upon retirement, made upon occasion of Mr. Cowley's on that subject (*PsK 218.5).

In addition, examples of Philips's handwriting can now be found in a manuscript copy of her play Pompey (*PsK 575), in three surviving autograph letters by her (*PsK 585-587), and in three or four printed and manuscript volumes which bear her ownership inscriptions (*PsK 589-591).

Nothing is known of the fate of Orinda's other private papers — which included, according to John Aubrey, a table-booke in which she copied verses in innes, or mottos in windowes; nor of the fate of those excellent discourses she writ on several subjects mentioned by the editor of the 1667 edition of her Poems, let alone the originals of her scores of other familiar letters, written, according to her editor, in her very fair hand, and perfect Orthography.

Letters

Of her no doubt prolific outpouring of letters to her friends, the texts of some 56 letters by her are known at present, all but seven written to her great friend and confidant Sir Charles Cottrell (or Cotterell, as the name was often spelled by others), Orinda's Poliarchus. What may well have been the principal correspondence of her life, written at the height of her accomplishments, is reflected in the collection Letters from Orinda to Poliarchus (London, 1705), which was published by Bernard Lintott three years after Cottrell's death. This publication contains texts of 48 letters from Philips to Cottrell written between 6 December 1661 and 17 May 1664 (see Thomas, II, 13-136, and for an informative account of Cottrell's life, II, 157-95). These letters include one dated 29 January 1663/4, a slightly different version of which had first been printed in the preface to her Poems (1667). The latter publication, which almost certainly represents the original text of the letter (see the conflated version of the two as set out in Thomas, II, 147-52), is evidence to suggest that, as was quite customary with published collections of letters in this period, the 1705 Poliarchus represents Orinda's letters in considerably edited versions. (For a discussion of this subject, where it is argued that the letters may well have been originally edited by Cottrell himself, see Thomas, II, 196-210). A later edition of Poliarchus (1729) incorporated one extra letter, dated 26 October [1663], which in fact is the only known original of any of Orinda's letters to Poliarchus (see *PsK 586).

Four further letters supposedly by Orinda, to the Honourable Berenice (almost certainly the Earl of Ancram's daughter, Lady Elizabeth Ker), written between 25 June [1658?] and probably no later than 1659 (although the last was allegedly written but a Month before Orinda died [i.e. c.May 1664]), were published, almost certainly also in edited versions, in Tom Brown's compilation Familiar Letters written by the … Earl of Rochester … with Letters written by … Thomas Otway, and Mrs. K. Philips (London, 1697), pp. 138-55 (see Thomas, II, 1-12).

Otherwise, two further original autograph letters by Orinda, to Dorothy Temple (née Osborn) and Sir Edward Dering (her Silvander) have come to light (*PsK 587, *PsK 585), as well as a copy of another by her to a Lady Fletcher, her Parthenia (PsK 588). All of these three letters are of considerable interest, not least the letter to Dorothy Temple, in which she discusses her play Pompey and the unauthorized publication of her poems, as well as making notable references to Davenant and Waller.

Six of Sir Edward Dering's own letters to Katherine Philips, dating from 5 September 1662 to February 1663[/4], are copied in Dering's autograph letterbook (Part I, Nos 1, 3, 4, 11, 12, and 28) now preserved at the University of Cincinnati (DA 447f. D4 A3 R.B. (It is Phillipps MS 14392)). This manuscript, which is cited in Thomas (passim), contains the only known trace of the other side of any part of Orinda's prolific correspondence. In several other of the ninety-six letters written in this letterbook Dering refers to Orinda as if familiar to his correspondents — most notably in a letter of 2 July 1664 (No. 37), to Lady Roscommon (Amestris), eloquently lamenting the effect upon him of Orinda's death. Another to Lady Roscommon on 26 September 1664 (No. 41), mentions his preservation of her letters to Orinda (and it looks as if Lady Roscommon had asked him to destroy them). Yet another, to Lady Dungannon (Lucasia), dated 7 February 1664[/5] (No. 47), pays a great tribute to Orinda's noble societie (see further below).

Manuscript Collections of Poems

Orinda's autograph remains are significantly supplemented by a few contemporary manuscript collections of her poems, as well as by some separate copies of single poems, transcribed largely (though not exclusively) within her immediate circle or else in the fashionable and courtly monde which impinged upon it. One such copy — of her very last poem, To his Grace Gilbert Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury (mistakenly dated in the 1667 edition July [rather than June] 10. 1664: PsK 431) — is, indeed, in a hand somewhat reminiscent of Philips's own formal script (as seen, for instance, in her presentation poem to Ormonde: *PsK 437) but with slightly more elaborate and accentuated calligraphic lettering than she used. Philips's letters abound with references to other manuscript copies of individual poems given to various people at Court and elsewhere — such as that of her elegy On the Death of the Queen of Bohemia seen by the Duchess of York (3 May 1662: Poliarchus, No. IX) and that of verses by her on the Queen (To the Queen's Majesty, on her late Sickness and Recovery) which, on 24 December 1663, she rebuked Cottrell for letting her send when he knew that Waller had written on the same subject (Poliarchus, No. XLII), not to mention all those other texts sent to Cottrell for correcting or amendment by him. In her revealing, not altogether ingenuous, letter of 29 January 1663/4 Philips herself writes of those fugitive Papers that have escap'd my hands, most of the originals of which she claims to have lost and which, she says, she would long since have liked to recover or else to have made a sacrifice of them all, since they were written only for my own amusement in a retir'd life (Preface, Poems, 1667: Thomas, II, 128-31, No. XLV). If the vast majority of such papers have long been consigned to oblivion, it is cause for satisfaction that at least a number — significantly swelled by discoveries made in recent years by Elizabeth Hageman and others — have survived to bear witness to this brief but active period of manuscript dissemination.

For convenient reference, the principal surviving manuscript collections of Katherine Philips's literary works (which are described more fully in the entries in CELM) may be listed as follows, with the delta numbers originally supplied in IELM:

  • National Library of Wales, NLW MS 775 B. (Tutin MS: *PsK Δ 1). Includes 55 poems by Philips.
  • National Library of Wales, NLW MS 776 B. (Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2). Includes 96 poems by Philips and her two plays.
  • Cardiff Central Library, MS 2.1073. (Cardiff MS: PsK Δ 3). Includes 14 poems by Philips.
  • University of Texas at Austin, HRC 151. (Dering MS: PsK Δ 4). Includes 74 poems by Philips.
  • Worcester College, Oxford, MS 58. (Clarke MS: PsK Δ 5). Includes 73 poems by Philips.
  • Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 65. (Rawlinson MS: PsK Δ 6). Includes 21 poems by Philips.
  • Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 90. (Rawlinson MS II: PsK Δ 7). Includes 15 poems by Philips.
  • Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 173. (Dunton MS: PsK Δ 8). Includes 11 poems by Philips.
  • Folger, MS V.b.231. (Folger MS: PsK Δ 9). Includes 122 poems by Philips and her two plays.
  • Yale, Osborn MS b 118. (Trevor MS: PsK Δ 10). Includes 18 poems by Philips.

In view of these sources, an editorial consideration for Orinda's collected poems is the order in which they should be arranged. It is generally accepted that the arrangement of her poems in the 1667 edition is essentially that made by her posthumous and anonymous editor. The propriety of this ordering has been questioned and an interesting rearrangement, which would enhance certain groupings and stress less stereotyped aspects of Philips's work, proposed by Ellen Moody (in Orinda, Rosania, Lucinda et aliae [sic]: Towards a New Edition of the Works of Katherine Philips, Philological Quarterly, 66 (1987), 324-54). Moody takes no note, however, of the arrangement of the poems offered in any of these manuscript collections, least of all the autograph collection by Katherine Philips herself (the Tutin Manuscript), which seems likely to be the principal original source of both the Dering and Clarke Manuscripts, as well as, ultimately for the 1664 edition. A tabulation showing the comparative ordering of the poems in most of the principal printed and manuscript sources is given in Thomas, I, 65-8.

Katherine Philips's Society

The exact nature of Katherine Philips's society of friends (apparently symbolized by two intermixed burning hearts) — as well as the period in which it flourished (it is questionably assumed by the editors of The Female Spectator, p. 155, that it had died out by 1661) — are subjects of continuing interpretation and conjecture. Still using their literary soubriquets, Sir Edward Dering nostalgically recalled some months after her death (in his letter to Lucasia on 7 February 1664[/5]) that Orinda conceived the most generous designe, that in my opinion ever entred into any breast, which was to unite all those of her acquaintance, which she found worthy, or desired to make so … into one societie, and by the bands of friendship to make an alliance more firme then what nature, our countrey or equall education can produce … (Dering's letterbook, at the University of Cincinnati, Part I, letter No. 47, quoted in Thomas, I, 11). Lucy Brashear, on the other hand, has argued (in The Forgotten Legacy of the Matchless Orinda, Anglo-Welsh Review, 65 (1979), 68-76) that Orinda's society was a disparate group of people Philips cultivated to a large extent as a sympathetic audience and as a means of gaining literary recognition, her professed horror of publication only a face-saving strategy. Elizabeth Hageman (1987, pp. 571-2) has likewise wondered whether the society was much more than a loose network of polite friends in view of the fact that, in his letter cited, Dering was in effect explaining the matter to Lucasia as if she did not know what the society was already (though his account might, of course, be construed as a formal recapitulation and tribute rather than explanation). The sense of isolation, almost desperation, which occasionally manifests itself in Orinda's letters to Cottrell — when she felt exiled from the great world at large — at once explains why literary communication was so important to her, but also, perhaps, why much of her society may have been a matter of her own imagination. It is, in any case, questionable how exclusive the society was, and a later caricature by Mrs Manley indicates that Philips rendered herself susceptible to ridicule by her willingness to send out large numbers of copies of her poems to all and sundry (see Thomas, I, 30). If the dramas, tensions and relationships implicit in the poems themselves are taken at face value, Philips's society would appear, for the most part, to have been analogous to a Royal Court, complete with changing favourites and renegades, with Orinda herself presiding firmly at the centre as the ruling sovereign.

Even the precise identity of the members of her society is not entirely clear. She commonly bestowed upon them pseudonyms or soubriquets taken from plays and romances. From references in poems and letters, at least some of them can be identified; others can be guessed at, while pseudonyms of yet other definite members of her circle remain unrecorded. For evidence of those identifications currently recognized, see discussions in Souers, passim; in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation, pp. v-viii; in Thomas, passim; in Patrick Thomas, Orinda, Vaughan, and Watkyns: Anglo-Welsh Literary Relationships during the Interregnum, Anglo-Welsh Review, 62 (1976), 96-102; in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, American Notes & Queries, 23 (1985), 100-2; in Lucy Brashear, The Matchless Orinda's Missing Sister: Mrs. C.P., Restoration, 10 (1986). 76-81; in Claudia A Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6, and Katherine Philips's Friend Regina Collyer, Restoration, 13 (1989), 62-7, and The Unison of Well-Tun'd Hearts: Katherine Philips' Friendships with Male Writers, English Language Notes, 19 (1991), 25-37 (the last somewhat speculative); and see also the list given in the notebook of Nicholas Crouch, M.D. (fl.1640-90) at Balliol College, Oxford (MS 336, f. 6v), printed in Thomas (I, 46).

A list of those pseudonyms used by Philips may be listed for convenient reference:

  • Amaranta = ?
  • Amestris = Frances Courtenay (née Boyle), Lady Roscommon (d.1673).
  • Antenor = James Philips (d.1674), Katherine Philips's husband [formerly identified as the elderly man who lived from 1594 to 1675, but this now seems unlikely].
  • Ardelia = ?
  • Argalus = ?
  • Artaban = ? [someone leaving Dublin for England c.October 1662].
  • Berenice = probably Lady Elizabeth Ker.
  • Calanthe = Lucasia = Anne Owen (née Lewis), afterwards Lady Dungannon (1633-92), second wife of Memnon.
  • Cassandra = Cecily Philips (Mrs John Lloyd), Katherine Philips's sister-in-law.
  • Celimena = Lady Elizabeth Boyle, afterwards Lady Thanet (1636/7-1725).
  • Charistus = John Owen (1633-55), first husband of Lucasia.
  • Cimena = Mary Carne.
  • Cratander = Sir John Berkenhead (1617-89).
  • Juliana = ?
  • Lucasia = Calanthe = Anne Owen (née Lewis), afterwards Lady Dungannon (1633-92), second wife of Memnon.
  • Memnon = Colonel Marcus Trevor (1618-70), Baron Trevor of Rose Trevor and first Viscount Dungannon, second husband of Lucasia.
  • Musidorus = ? James Tyrrell (1642-1718).
  • Orinda = Katherine Philips.
  • Palamon = Jeremy Taylor.
  • Palæmon or Palemon = Francis Finch (d.1660), of the Inner Temple.
  • Parthenia = ? just possibly Mary Harvey, Lady Dering (1629-1704), but also applied at one time to a Lady Fletcher.
  • Pastora = ?
  • Philaster = Colonel John Jeffries (d.1688) [not to be confused with J.J., J. Jones, Orinda's libeller].
  • Philoclea = Mallet Stedman (née Margaret Owen), later wife of Hector Philips, Katherine Philips's brother-in-law.
  • Polexander = ? just possibly Sir William Temple (1628-99).
  • Poliarchus = Sir Charles Cottrell (1615-1702).
  • Polycrite = Mary Butler (1646-1710), Lady Cavendish.
  • Regina = Regina Collyer, wife of John Collyer, merchant, servant and cozen of Orinda's father.
  • Rosania = Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu.
  • Silvander = Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84).
  • Thyrsis = possibly a soubriquet commonly applied to the composer Henry Lawes (1596-1662).
  • Valeria = Lady Anne Boyle, later Lady Hinchingbrooke, sister of Celimena.

Other members of Orinda's inner circle would certainly have included such friends as Anne Barlow. Moreover, her literary circle of correspondents, if not society, appears to have extended to figures such as Abraham Cowley, Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery, John Davies of Kidwelly, Thomas Flatman, Dorothy Temple (née Osborne), the mysterious Philo-Philippa, Sir Peter Pett, Dr Wedderburn, and even perhaps Henry Vaughan, Edmund Waller, John Dryden and Jeremy Taylor.

For all its lacunæ, hers is, nevertheless, one of the best documented centres of manuscript circulation in the seventeenth century. It was a literary community of sorts whose measure of cohesion depended upon such activity. Various of Philips's poems and letters infer the specialness of the very act of writing and sending copies of those poems to members of their coterie, and, on occasions, they lament the consequences of papers falling into the wrong hands. Particular scribes are sometimes specified (such as that so slow a Transcriber Artaban, who, before 11 December 1662, delivered a manuscript of two acts of Pompey to Cottrell, the rest of the Play being written in his hand), and their circle is even occasionally reminiscent of that of Henry King earlier in being a centre for the distribution of manuscript texts by others. She reports on 12 April 1662, for instance, having lost a Book in which she had copied two songs Cottrell gave her, and on 20 August 1662 mentions sending Cottrell some Translations from Virgil by Mr. Cowley (? his Sors Virgiliana). References are found elsewhere to her receiving, and sometimes passing on, manuscript texts of works by Lord Orrery, Jeremy Taylor, Francis Finch, Sir Roger L'Estrange, the Comtesse de la Suze and others, some of them sent to her by those authors or, in the case of Orrery's verses, copy'd by Philaster.

Print Publication of Philips's Verse

Ostensibly, at any rate, Philips's poems were written for limited and controlled circulation and not intended for publication. I never writ any line in my life with an intention to have it printed, she claimed. Her anonymous editor in 1667 supported her stance at face value, stressing how averse she was to be in print (Poems, preface), even though it may readily be suspected that publication was her secret ultimate aim, her only impediment being a sense of embarrassment over her literary status as a woman (the Duchess of Newcastle, for instance, had attracted considerable ridicule by publishing her works in 1653). In a letter of 29 January 1663/4 Philips accordingly expressed shock over the unauthorized publication by Richard Marriot two weeks earlier, on the 14th, of seventy-four of her poems, the text taken, she supposed, from one of those collections of her fugitive Papers which had escaped to wider circulation (for some infernal Spirits or other have catch'd those Rags of Paper, and what the careless blotted Writing kept them from understanding, they have supply'd by Conjecture, till they have at length put them into the Shape wherein you saw them, or else I know not which way 'tis possible for them to have been collected, and so abominably printed as I hear they are …). Although Cottrell and his friends did indeed manage to suppress the 1664 edition (see Thomas, I, 19-20) — not, however, before many of the books were privatley sold (Poems, 1667, preface) — it has been clear to later commentators that this edition is not as abominably corrupt — as full of falseness … very ridiculous and extravagant (Preface, Poems, 1667: Thomas, II, 128-31, No. XLV) — as (evidently from hearsay) Philips supposed. Its text cannot have been so far removed from her autograph versions (as preserved largely in the Tutin Manuscript), and, in short, it deserves equal consideration with the surviving manuscript collections noted above.

It is interesting here to note also Philips's reference in a letter of 15 April 1663 to another earlier unauthorized printing of one poem, when she speculates that without supervision her play Pompey will be as false printed as was my Copy of Verses to the Queen (Poliarchus, No. LXXVII). By this she possibly means her poem To the Queene on her arrivall at Portsmouth. May. 1662 (see PsK 478-481.8) which is now known to have been published in 1662 as a broadside. One other apparently unauthorized publication, Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663), included three poems by Philips (see further below). Otherwise the only poems by her known to have been published before 1664 are her verse tribute to William Cartwright (see PsK 140-5), published in 1651; her eulogy To the truly noble Mr Henry Lawes (see PsK 512-516), published in Lawes's Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (which was dedicated to Mary Harvey) in 1655; and one of her Lucasia poems, Friendship's Mysterys (see PsK 110-114), published in Henry Lawes's setting also in his collection of 1655.

The Canon

The canon of Philips's surviving works was largely established by the posthumous 1667 edition of her Poems, containing 121 poems and two plays. It has been traditionally assumed that her literary executor, responsible for this edition, was Sir Charles Cottrell (see, for instance, Souers, pp. 174-5, where Cottrell is taken to task for failing his friend by letting corrupt readings go through unchanged). While Cottrell may conceivably have had a hand in it, there is no evidence of his participation apart from the inclusion in the Preface of one of Orinda's letters to him (as noted above) and what might perhaps be construed as Philips's hint to Cottrell, on 29 January 1663/4, that a true Copy of her poems was needed to replace the 1664 piracy. (See also Thomas, II, 193, 208-10 for arguments against the likelihood of Cottrell's editorship.) Indeed the only other concrete indication we have of who might have undertaken such an edition lies in the address to Rosania (Mary Aubrey) in the Rosania Manuscript, where Polexander tries to persuade her that an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers (the textually variant and perhaps edited Rosania Manuscript itself, however, was not the basis for the 1667 edition). Whoever the eventual editor in 1667 was, he or she allegedly tried to make this Collection as full and as perfect as might be. Nevertheless, the editor admitted that there might well be other poems by Orinda which had escaped (though some of her Pieces may perhaps be lost, and others in hands that have not produc'd them; yet none that upon good grounds could be known to be hers, are left out).

In 1951 Elmen added to the canon, from the apparently unique text in the autograph Tutin Manuscript, her Epitaph on Mr John Lloyd of Kilrhewy in Penbrokeshire (*PsK 78), unaware, as it happens, that it had been published earlier, not only by Tutin in 1905 but also by J.R. Phillips in 1867. In 1977 Ronald Lockley was the first to draw attention to the autograph Orielton Manuscript containing three pieces of juvenilia by Philips (*PsK 1, *PsK 218, *PsK 572), works more fully explicated by Claudia Limbert in 1986. Some slight doubt is raised about the authorship of the first of these poems by the discovery that A marryd state was incorporated in a much longer anonymous poem, beginning Madam / I cannot but Congratulate, now found in at least seven manuscript volumes (Bodleian, MS Eng. misc. c. 292, f. 110r; Bodleian, MS Firth c. 15, pp. 335-7; Folger, MS W.a.135, ff. 72v-3v; Ohio State University, English Department Library, Spec. MS Eng. 15, pp. 216-18; University of Nottingham, Pw V 40, f. 242r-v, and University of Nottingham, Pw V 41, pp. 149-50; and Princeton, RTC01 No. 35, pp. 264-6). Although this longer poem may conceivably have been in part an adaptation of Philips's poem from some other text, it is equally possible that the shorter poem was itself an adaptation of the anonymous longer poem and may even have had an independent circulation, and — in a manner hardly unusual in this period — was simply copied out by the youthful Katherine Philips for her own purposes without her actually being the author. These texts are discussed, and edited, in Claudia A. Limbert and John H. O'Neill, Composite Authorship: Katherine Philips and an Antimarital Satire, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 87 (1993), 487-502.

Again, in 1977 the anthology The Female Spectator, edited by Mary R. Mahl and Helene Koon, included the poem To Rosania & Lucasia Articles of Friendship which is ascribed to Orinda in an apparently unique contemporary copy now in the Huntington (PsK 450). The fact that the manuscript lacks ostensible authority, coupled with its uncharacteristic sentiment and mood and poor quality, leads Thomas and Greer cautiously to relegate this poem to the category of Doubtful Poems (I, 254-6, 319). It might be added that poems were not readily ascribed to Orinda in contemporary sources without good reason. On the other hand, from comments in her poem To the truly noble Sir Ed: Dering (the worthy Silvander) on his dream, and navy (see Thomas I, 86-7, 332-4), it seems that Dering himself wrote at least one poem in the persona of Orinda. The sentiments of the doubtful poem, advocating open friendship between Rosania and Lucasia, bear interesting comparison with those extolling the perfections of that illustrious paire found in Dering's letter of 3 January 1662[/3] (University of Cincinnati, DA 447f. D4 A3 R.B., Part I, letter No. 4).

In 1977 also Mambretti added to the canon a characteristic public poem, On The Coronation (PsK 245), found ascribed to Mrs Philips (sandwiched, moreover, between two other poems on the same occasion certainly by her) in a miscellany once owned by John Locke, a literary figure not himself known to have been a member of Philips's circle but who was certainly acquainted with persons who were (such as his friend James Tyrrell). At the same time Mambretti printed (as she thought, for the first time) To the Right Honourable, the Lady Mary Butler, at Her Marriage to the Lord Cavendish, which appears in the Rosania Manuscript (PsK 466). This poem had, as it happens, already been published in the miscellany Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663), where it is attributed to a Lady. The apparently unique surviving exemplum of this publication (printed by the King's Printer John Crooke for Samuel Dancer) — one not until recently known to Philips's editors — is in the Folger (C6681.5). The miscellany also includes Philips's The Irish Grey-hound (PsK 173-174.5) and An ode upon retirement, made upon occasion of Mr. Cowley's on that subject (PsK 218.5-224), as well as other poems relating to her, by Cowley and Lord Orrery, while yet other writers represented include Sir Peter Pett and Dr Henry Paman. The miscellany could very well derive from one or more manuscripts produced within her circle during the prolonged period when she was staying in Dublin. She herself refers to the publication, on 15 May 1663, as a Miscellaneous Collection of Poems, printed here; among which, to fill up the Number of his Sheets, and as a Foil to the others, the Printer has thought fit, tho' without my Consent or Privity, to publish two or three Poems of mine, that had been stolen from me, and she sent an exemplum of it to Cottrell (Poliarchus, No. XXX). Again, she may not have been entirely ingenuous here, since the inclusion of her poems in a miscellany clearly associated with the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland's court at Dublin Castle can only have been flattering.

In his unpublished dissertation in 1982 (and subsequently in his edition of 1990) Thomas was able to add to the canon three early poems by Philips which he discovered in the Cardiff Manuscript: namely, Juliana and Amaranta, a Dialogue (PsK 175), On Argalus his vindication to Rosania (PsK 225), and To Sir Amorous La Foole (PsK 456), verses which he was subsequently the first to publish in his 1988 booklet on Orinda.

Two poems ascribed to Domina Phillips agro Pembrokiae occur on a single folio leaf in a composite volume of chiefly printed ballads once owned by Sir Charles Firth (1857-1936), a collection now in the Bodleian (MS Firth b. 20, f. 140). They are Upon his Majesties most happy restauration to his Royall Throne in Brittaine (Awake Britannia, rouse thy selfe, and say) and Upon the Hollow Tree unto wch his Mitie escaped after the unfortunate Battell at Worcester (Haile aged Tree; Jove keepe thee from all harmes). Although included in Thomas's edition as Doubtful Poems (I, 256-7, poems 132-3), they were rejected by Mambretti in 1977 (pp. 450-1) on stylistic grounds. Mambretti's assumptions, at least in regard to the first of these two poems, were questioned, in an elaborate exposition of editorial theorising, by Gerald M. MacLean in What is a Restoration Poem? Editing a Discourse, Not an Author, Text, 3 (1987), 319-46 (pp. 331 et seq.). Had MacLean concentrated more on the evidence of the manuscript itself he might have found that Mambretti's rejection of Orinda's authorship can be supported. The ascription to Domina Phillips agro Pembrokiae might possibly be read as Mistress Philips of Pembrokeshire (although Orinda actually lived in the more northern county of Cardiganshire), but is much more likely to mean Lady Phillips, in which case the ascription would better fit Orinda's stepsister-in-law, Katherine, Lady Philipps: i.e. Katherine (or Catharine) Darcy (1640/1-1713), second wife of Sir Erasmus Philipps, Bt. (c.1623-97), of Picton, Pembrokeshire. It was she who, incidentally, was the K Philippes who wrote to Mrs Evelyn on 17 August 1700, a letter endorsed From my lady Philips, one which William Upcott later evidently believed to be by Orinda (British Library, Add. MS 78688, ff. 118r-19r). Yet other autograph letters by this Lady Philipps, signed K Philips, both addressed to her husband and endorsed from the Lady Cath: Philipps, are to be found among her family muniments in the National Library of Wales (Picton Castle 1491 and 1597). It is this Lady Philipps whom Lucy Brashear discusses in The Matchless Orinda's Missing Sister: Mrs. C.P., Restoration, 10 (1986), 76-81, although she is mistaken in identifying her as the dear Sister Mrs. C.P. (Cassandra) on whose marriage Orinda wrote an epithalamium (PsK 405-410), for, as Thomas has shown convincingly (I, 337-8), Cassandra can be identified as Orinda's sister-in-law Cecily (or Cicely) Philips, who married John Lloyd of Kilrhewy on 31 October 1653. (See also on this subject C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.) No other examples of poems written by Lady Philipps of Picton, Pembrokeshire, are known at present, although, from the evidence of her letters, she was obviously a literate woman. Of course, it is not inconceivable that the Firth Manuscript is a transcript of Lady Philipps's copy of two poems actually by Orinda — and it might even be suggested that the poems could be by Orinda's mother, Dame Katherine (d.1678), whose third husband was Sir Erasmus Philipps's father, Sir Richard Philipps (d.1648) — but the principle of the validity of the most economical explanation would appear to be applicable here.

One other poem possibly by Philips is now added to the canon, with all the usual caveats. A translation beginning In vain (Dear Thirsis) thou wouldst claime is clearly attributed to ye fam'd Orinda in one manuscript (PsK 160.5). Either it is another of Philips's various translations from French poems, which seems quite likely, or else the ascription is someone's guess precisely because of his or her familiarity with those translations.

Dramatic Works

Of the two plays written — or rather translated — by Orinda, one, Horace (PsK 573-574), remained unfinished; while the other, Pompey (PsK 575-584) — completed in Dublin allegedly at the urging of Lord Orrery after By some Accident or other my Scene of Pompey fell into his Hands (Poliarchus, No. XIV) — constituted the biggest literary success of her life. After its production in Dublin, probably on 10 February 1662/3, an edition of five hundred exempla was printed by 15 April, yet apparently even this number did not meet the demand. In addition, Philips herself was busily sending manuscript copies of Pompey to various of her friends, notwithstanding which much of her correspondence at this time was preoccupied with her attempts to control the distribution of manuscript texts of her play (There are, she writes, tho' much against my Will, more Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd; but the Dutchess of Ormond would not be refus'd one, and she and Philaster have permitted several Persons to take copies from theirs (Poliarchus, No. XIX)). She urgently wanted Cottrell's textual, and later proof, corrections so that she could correct all her own copies before leaving Dublin (ibid.). In particular she was worried about getting a proper copy made for the play's dedicatee, Anne Hyde, Duchess of York (1637-71). She wrote to Cottrell, for instance, on 11 December 1662, I am not a little troubled that Artaban has yet brought you but two Acts; for at this rate when is it likely to be presented to the Dutchess? … Had I suspected that he would have been so slow a Transcriber, I would have sent you an intire Copy from hence, well enough scribbled over for you to correct; and then you might have gotten it fairly written for her Highness (Poliarchus, No. XXI). She explained, For in spight of all I could do to prevent it, so many Copies are already abroad, that the particular Respect intended to the Dutchess, will be lost by a little Delay (Poliarchus, No. XX). At present, besides the texts in the Rosania and Folger Manuscripts, and independent copies of certain of the songs generally in musical settings, only one contemporary manuscript copy of Pompey (*PsK 575) bears witness to the fashionable flurry of manuscript distribution in the 1660s. This, however, is of no little interest in that it can be identified as bearing various corrections in Philips's own hand, most especially seven autograph lines by her at the end of Act III. A transcript, with variant readings, made probably before the actual performance of the play, this manuscript may well represent a prototype of the fair scribal copy which Orinda planned to present to the Duchess of York, but which she was frustrated in completing before Artaban left for England. This manuscript was itself marred and disqualified from serving that purpose because her scribe neglected to employ ink containing sufficient soot, so that the writing had, probably from the start, a rather faded look. Since Artaban is the only person known to have produced a complete copy of the play under Philips's own supervision (see Poliarchus, No. XVIII), he must be the leading candidate for the identification of the scribe of this manuscript, while what would seem to be Orinda's abortive attempt to correct the faded script by writing over it in darker ink may lend some connotation to her reference on 11 December 1662 to having an adequate complete copy well enough scribbled over.

In addition, manuscript copies of Roscommon's Prologue (The mighty Rivalls whose destructive rage) and Dering's Epilogue to Pompey (Pleasd, or displeasd, Censure as you think fit) were sent to Joseph Williamson by Sir Nicholas Armourer (as he promised in a letter of 9 May 1663: … to incurage Mr ogelby, & his comedyans I am this verie day Giueing a play to the kings whole Companie, the Prolouge & Epylouge shall come to you by the Next …). These manuscripts are now among the State Papers for Ireland in the National Archives, Kew (SP 63/313/382-383 and [the letter] 295). It is not known what happened to the copy of the complete play which Cottrell finally managed to present to the Duchess of York by 10 January 1662/3 (Poliarchus, No. XXIII); nor what happened to the printed exemplum he presented, by 22 May 1663, to Charles II (Poliarchus, No. XXXI), a volume no longer to be found in the Royal Library.

The text of Philips's other play, her unfinished Horace, in the Rosania Manuscript (PsK 573) is of no less interest in that it bears considerable differences from the text subsequently published in 1667. After being completed by Sir John Denham, the play is known to have been subsequently performed at Court (Evelyn records it in his Diary on 4 February 1667/8). It is to this occasion that two contemporary cast lists belong, both written in exempla of Philips's Poems (1667): one at Harvard (fEC65.P5397.667p), the other in Trinity College, Dublin (Old Library V. ee. 4, sig. Aaaav). The players included the Duchess of Monmouth, Lady Castlemaine, Henry Savile, and Mr Fenton. The Prologue to Horace, spoken by the Dutchess of Monmouth at Court (beginning When Honour flourish'd ere for price 'twas sold) was printed in Covent Garden Drollery (London, 1672) [ed. G. Thorn-Drury (London, 1928), pp. 80-1], and a manuscript copy also appears in the Trinity College volume (after p. 112) noted above. To the same occasion also belongs an Epilogue to the King (beginning Sr, at yor Feet, I willingly lay Downe). Two manuscript copies of this also appear in exempla of her Poems (1667): one in the Trinity College volume (after p. 112); the other in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Dyce catalogue No. 7416; Pressmark D. 23.A. 33 Folio).

An account of this court performance, with facsimiles of the cast lists, prologues and epilogues noted above, is given in Peter Beal's chapter The virtuous Mrs Philips and that whore Castlemaine: Orinda and her Apotheosis, 1664-1668' in In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 147-91 (pp. 179-91).

Coterie Remains

Apart from those items already mentioned, the literary remains of Philips's principal friends offer few materials directly relating to her. The library of Sir Charles Cottrell (Poliarchus) was dispersed at auction by Edmund Curll on 8 January 1710/11 (an exemplum of the catalogue, Bibliotheca Cotterelliana, is in the British Library, S.C.319(6)). Among the lots of some 1273 of Cottrell's books and manuscripts then offered, at least three of his own exempla of Philips's Poems were featured: namely, the 1667 edition among English Books in Folio (No. 78), and the 1669 edition among Folio English Works (No. 70) and English Books in Folio (No. 4: Cowley and Mrs. Phllips's Poems … 1669). The small handful of manuscripts offered in this sale included A Collection of Poems (No. 9 in Manuscripts in Quarto) and A Collection of Poems, Satires, Songs, &c. (No. 1 in Manuscripts in Octavo); but no details of contents are given. A substantial correspondence by Cottrell, as well as other members of his family, is present among the papers of Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716), which were offered at Sotheby's on 14 December 1989 (lot 63) and are now in the British Library (Add. MS 72516). These letters relate, however, to family matters of much later date and appear to contain no references to Philips or to literary matters. Other family papers of Sir Charles Cottrell are preserved by his descendant, C. Cottrell-Dormer, at Rousham, Oxfordshire, among them a later family transcript of The Virgin (PsK 552).

The library and papers of Philips's noble Silvander, Sir Edward Dering, were principally sold by auction at Puttick & Simpson's on 8 June 1858. Both they and such papers as remained in the hands of various scattered branches of the Dering family following the sale of Surrenden-Dering in 1928 are now widely dispersed. Notable repositories of Dering manuscripts include the Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone (various purchases and deposits); the British Library; the Parliamentary Archives; the Folger Shakespeare Library; the Huntington Library; Massachusetts Historical Society, and (at least until recently) the private collection of Philip H. Blake. Two of Dering's journals of the 1670s were sold at Sotheby's on 21 July 1992, lots 208-9, to Maggs. A few of Dering's journals have been edited in The Diaries and Papers of Sir Edward Dering Second Baronet 1644 to 1684, ed. Maurice F. Bond (London, 1976). Apart from the Dering Manuscript of Philips's poems at Texas, his letterbook at Cincinnati, and Philips's sole extant letter to him (*PsK 585), the most notable memento of Orinda among Dering's recorded papers would appear to be his touching autograph entry in one of his household books now in the British Library (Add. MS 70887, f. 10v): 1664: June 22: Wednesday: my very deare friend Mrs Katharine Phillips a woman of excelling worth & Vertues & of a prodigious wit, fruitfull in many incomparable poems, departed this life, to the uniuersall losse of this nation, at London of the small pox.

Miscellaneous

Souers records (p. 91) a note by John Pavin Phillips of Haverfordwest (The Matchless Orinda and her Descendants in N&Q, 2nd Ser. 11 (13 March 1858), 202-3) recording the existence of a family Bible in his possession once owned and annotated by Katherine Philips's daughter, Katherine, Mrs Lewis Wogan. (Thomas (I, 13) inadvertently mentions this Bible as if annotated by Orinda herself.) This Bible is also described in Francis Green, The Wogans of Boulston, Y Cymmrodor, 15 (1902), 97-149 (pp. 135-7). It has not been seen in more recent years.

Poems on, or relating to, Orinda by other writers, as well as possible imitations of her work, including a number of unpublished items, abound in both printed and manuscript sources, and bear clear witness to her reputation both before, and for years after, her death. Examples (not given entries here) range from laudatory tributes (by Cowley, for instance) to vitriolic attacks on her (such as John Taylor's truculent satire printed in Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 282-4, with facsimile examples on pp. 152-3). Any editorial attempt to bring all these texts together would result in a substantial compendium.

Another substantial undertaking would be to trace and record all extant exempla of seventeenth-century editions of Orinda's Poems, if not also her plays, that bear inscriptions by contemporary owners. This exercise too would throw light on her readership (principally women?), as well as on her reputation. It might also reveal interesting readers' annotations, including further supplied text for lacunæ.

John Aubrey's autograph brief life of Katherine Philips is in the Bodleian (MS Aubrey 8, ff. 38r-v, 40r) and is edited in his Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark, 2 vols (Oxford, 1898), II, 152-5. Some notes on Katherine Philips by the Rev. Joseph Hunter (1783-1861), in his Chorus Vatum Anglicanorum (Volume IV), are in the British Library (Add. MS 24490, ff. 228v-9r).

Abbreviations

Elmen
Paul Elmen, Some Manuscript Poems by the Matchless Orinda, Philological Quarterly, 30 (1951), 53-7.
Hageman (1987)
Elizabeth H. Hageman, Katherine Philips The Matchless Orinda in Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, ed. Katharina M. Wilson (Athens, Georgia, 1987), pp. 566-608.
Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993)
Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, New Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda, English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, 4 (1993), 174-219.
Kissing the Rod
Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Women's Verse, ed. Germaine Greer, Susan Hastings, Jeslyn Medoff and Melinda Sansone (London, 1988), pp. 186-203.
Mambretti (1977)
Catherine Cole Mambretti, Fugitive Papers: A New Orinda Poem and Problems in Her Canon, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 71 (1977), 443-52.
Mambretti (1979 dissertation)
Catherine Cole Mambretti, A Critical Edition of the Poetry of Katherine Philips (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1979).
Poliarchus
Letters from Orinda to Poliarchus (London, 1705).
Saintsbury
Minor Poets of the Caroline Period, Volume I, ed. George Saintsbury (Oxford, 1905 [reprinted 1968]), pp. 485-612.
Souers
Philip Webster Souers, The Matchless Orinda (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1931 [reprinted 1968]).
Thomas
The Collected Works of Katherine Philips The Matchless Orinda, 3 vols (Stump Cross, Essex): Volume I: The Poems, ed. Patrick Thomas, revised by Germaine Greer (1990). Volume II: The Letters, ed. Patrick Thomas, revised by Germaine Greer (1992). Volume III, The Translations, ed. Germaine Greer and R. Little (1993).
Thomas (1982)
Patrick H.B. Thomas, An Edition of the Poems and Letters of Katherine Philips, 1632-1664 (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, 3 vols, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1982).
Thomas (1988)
Patrick Thomas, Katherine Philips (Orinda) (Writers of Wales, University of Wales Press, 1988).
Tutin (1905)
Katherine Philips (Orinda), Selected Poems, ed. J.R. Tutin ([3rd edition]), The Orinda Booklets, Extra Series I (Hull, 1905).

Verse

'A marryd state affords but little ease'

First published (extracts) in Ronald Lockley, Orielton (London, 1977), pp. 19-20. Published (complete) in Claudia Limbert, Two Poems and a Prose Receipt: The Unpublished Juvenilia of Katherine Philips, ELR, 16 (1986), 383-90 (p. 390), reprinted in Women in the Renaissance, ed. Kirby Farrell, Elizabeth H. Hageman and Arthur F. Kinney (Amherst, 1988), pp. 179-86 (p. 186), and in Thomas, I, 254, poem 130.

This poem comprises lines 13-16, 43-4, 48-50, 59-62 of an anonymous 62-line poem beginning Madam / I cannot but Congratulate, which is edited and discussed in Claudia A. Limbert and John H. O'Neill, Composite Authorship: Katherine Philips and an Antimarital Satire, PBSA, 87 (1993), 487-502.

See Introduction.

*PsK 1
Autograph

Autograph piece of juvenilia, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Lockley (extracts) and, with a facsimile, in Limbert. Also edited in Thomas and in Kissing the Rod, pp. 188-9.

A single cropped folio leaf of verse, once folded as a letter or packet.

Among papers descended from the family of Anne Owen, Katherine Philips's friend Lucasia, of Orielton, Pembrokeshire.

c.1646-8

Complete facsimile in Germaine Greer, Editorial Conundra in the Texts of Katherine Philips, in Editing Women, ed. Ann M. Hutchison and Margaret Anne Doody (Toronto, 1998), pp. 79-100 (pp. 96-7).

National Library of Wales (Orielton Deeds and Documents, Box 24, unnumbered document f. 1v)
Against Love ('Hence, Cupid! with your cheating Toies')

First published in Poems (1667), p. 143. Saintsbury, pp. 587-8. Thomas, I, 214, poem 96.

PsK 2

Copy.

This MS recorded in Thomas.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

PsK 3

Copy.

This MS recorded in Thomas.

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.

Early 18th century

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: 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).

PsK 4

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 5

Copy.

This MS recorded in Thomas.

An octavo miscellany of largely moral or religious verse and prose, chiefly in a small stylish cursive hand, with additions in margins and borders in a second even smaller hand, 316 pages (plus four pages of religious notes), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

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

Late-17th century

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.

PsK 6

Copy, subscribed Mrs. K: P.

A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf.

c.1713

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.

Against Pleasure. set by Dr Coleman ('There's no such thing as pleasure here')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 135-7. Poems (1667), pp. 66-8. Saintsbury, pp. 546-7. Thomas, I, 137-8, poem 47.

*PsK 7
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), pp. 11-12, and in Thomas; discussed in Elmen.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 129, 131)
PsK 8

Copy, headed Of Humane Pleasure.

This MS collated in Thomas; discussed in Elmen.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 250-1)
PsK 9

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 10

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 80-1)
PsK 11

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

PsK 12

Copy, headed Against Pleasure.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto verse miscellany entitled A Collection of Verses Fancyes and Poems, Morrall and Devine, in a single hand, i + 180 leaves, (including index), in contemporary calf.

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

PsK 13

Copy, headed Against Pleasure. By Mrs. Phillips.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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.

Early 18th century

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: 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).

PsK 14

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 15

Copy, headed Against Pleasure.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo miscellany of largely moral or religious verse and prose, chiefly in a small stylish cursive hand, with additions in margins and borders in a second even smaller hand, 316 pages (plus four pages of religious notes), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

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

Late-17th century

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.

PsK 16

Copy, headed How slight, & trifling ye Pleasures of ye world, docketed Mrs Phillips. pag. 66. 67..

A quarto volume, in two hands.

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.

1626-96

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

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

St Paul's Cathedral (MS 52. D. 14 Part II, [unnumbered pages])
Amanti ch'in pianti &c. ('Lovers who in complaints your selves consume')

First published in Poems (1667), p. 184. Saintsbury, p. 604. Thomas, III, 93.

PsK 17

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B p. 105)
PsK 18

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

An Answer to another perswading a Lady to Marriage ('Forbear bold Youth, all's Heaven here')

First published in Poems (1667), p. 155. Saintsbury, p. 594. Hageman (1987), p. 600. Thomas, I, 227-8, poem 108.

PsK 19

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 20

Copy, untitled and here beginning Forbear, bold youth, all heavens hear, in a musical setting (attributed in a later hand to Henry Hall [? the Elder (1655?-1707]).

This MS discussed, with a facsimile, in Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993), pp. 206-9.

A folio song book, in a single hand, 95 pages (slightly misnumbered), in modern boards.

c.1720

Bookplate of William Hayman Cummings, FSA (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1602. Formerly Folger MS cs 1064.

PsK 21

Copy.

A small notebook (c.15.5 x 6.5 cm) compiled by Henry Fairfax, of Denton, Yorkshire, second son of Henry Fairfax (1631-88), fourth Baron Fairfax of Cameron.

c.1679-82

Later owned by the Rev. Joseph Hunter (1783-1861). In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 21466. Sotheby's, 24 June 1974, lot 2919.

Arion on a Dolphin to his Majestie in his passadge into England ('Whom doth this stately navy bring?')

First published, as Arion to a Dolphin, On his Majesty's passage into England, in Poems (1664), pp. 5-9. Poems (1667), pp. 3-5. Saintsbury, pp. 508-9. Thomas, I, 71-3, poem 3.

PsK 22

Copy, headed Arion on a Dolphin, beholding his Majesty in his Passage to England.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 291-4)
PsK 23

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 54-5)
PsK 24

Copy, headed Arion to a Dolphin to his Maty in his Passadge into England.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 67-9)
PsK 25

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 26

Copy, headed Tryon on a Dolphin or his Maiestyes passage to England, with corrections in another hand, subscribed in the main hand Mrs Phillips the author of these verses and docketed in the second hand Vpon his sacred Majesties Charles Charles ye 2d happy passage to England [on deleted] [Mris Phillipps deleted] May 29 1660 by Mris Phillips, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

A booklet of six folio leaves.

Late 17th century

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

Bedfordshire Record Office (L 31/340 No. 23)
PsK 27

Copy, headed Vppon his sacred Maiesties Charles the seconds happy passage to England May 29th 1960: by Mrs Phillips.

This MS collated in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation.

A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in several hands, 46 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1665

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), Earl de Grey, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 207 pp. 17-19)
Content, to my dearest Lucasia ('Content, the false world's best disguise')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 45-50. Poems (1667), pp. 22-5. Saintsbury, pp. 520-2. Thomas, I, 91-4, poem 18.

*PsK 28
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), pp. 22-4, and in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 83, 85, 87)
PsK 29

Copy, headed Content.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 322-5)
PsK 30

Copy, headed to Lucasia: of Content [Not to oblige Lucasia by my verses deleted].

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 36-7)
PsK 31

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 53-4)
PsK 32

Copy, headed Content, to my dearest Friend.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto verse miscellany entitled A Collection of Verses Fancyes and Poems, Morrall and Devine, in a single hand, i + 180 leaves, (including index), in contemporary calf.

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

PsK 33

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 34

Copy, headed Content, written sideways up the length of the page.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo miscellany of largely moral or religious verse and prose, chiefly in a small stylish cursive hand, with additions in margins and borders in a second even smaller hand, 316 pages (plus four pages of religious notes), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

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

Late-17th century

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.

PsK 35

Copy, subscribed ORINDA.

This MS collated in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation.

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) 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 (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).

c.1633 [-late 17th century]

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 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 Countrey life ('How sacred and how innocent')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 177-82. Poems (1667), pp. 88-91. Saintsbury, pp. 588. Thomas, I, 159-62, poem 61. Anonymous musical setting published in The Banquet of Musick (London, 1691).

PsK 36

Copy, the poem dated 1650.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 267-70)
PsK 37

Copy, headed On the Country life.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably several hands over a period, one predominating, 31 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf.

Including (ff. 3v-12r), in a single hand, fourteen poems, headed Verses of Madam Orindas and most subscribed Orinda, in relatively early versions, none dating later than 1650-51, subscribed (f. 12v) thus Farr Madam Orinda.

c.1651-86

Owned, in 1927 by Percy Dobell, and item 14 in one of his sale catalogues of poetical manuscripts.

Recorded in IELM as the Cardiff MS: PsK Δ 3. Recorded, collated and the text of three otherwise unknown poems by Philips printed in Thomas (1990); these three poems also edited in Thomas (1988), pp. 54-7. A complete microfilm of the MS is in the National Library of Wales.

Cardiff Central Library (MS 2.1073 ff. 9r-10v)
PsK 38

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 39

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 24-5)
PsK 40

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

PsK 41

Copy, headed In praise of a Countrye Life.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto verse miscellany entitled A Collection of Verses Fancyes and Poems, Morrall and Devine, in a single hand, i + 180 leaves, (including index), in contemporary calf.

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

PsK 42

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 43

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo miscellany of largely moral or religious verse and prose, chiefly in a small stylish cursive hand, with additions in margins and borders in a second even smaller hand, 316 pages (plus four pages of religious notes), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

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

Late-17th century

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.

PsK 44

Copy, subscribed this pen'd by the most deservedly Admired Mrs Katherine philips the Matchles ORINDA.

This MS collated in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation.

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) 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 (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).

c.1633 [-late 17th century]

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 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.

PsK 45

Copy of a completely recast twelve-line version, headed Song and beginning O how blest and how inocent (with music possibly belonging to this song on f. 58r).

This MS recorded in Thomas, pp. 363-4; discussed, with facsimiles, in Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

A duodecimo notebook apparently found in the D[uke] of Monmouths pocket when he was taken [after the Battle of Sedgemoor] and is most of his owne hand writing.

c.1683-5
The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 1527 f. 56v)
PsK 45.5

Copy, transcribed from a printed source.

A set of three quarto verse miscellanies, largely in a single cursive hand, all transcribed from printed books, 276 + 340 + c.350 pages, in contemporary vellum boards.

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 7th: 1760. and finished May 20th: 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 Novembr. 1767.

1760-7

Donated by Edgar Huidekoper Wells (class of 1897).

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 611 Vol. I, pp. 162-5)
PsK 46 Late 17th century

Copy, untitled, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

A disbound collection of chiefly verse MSS, in several hands, largely folio.

Once belonging to the Newdegate family of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 572.

PsK 47

Copy, in double columns, on one side of a single folio leaf of verse.

Late 17th century

This MS collated in Thomas.

PsK 48

Copy of lines 1-4, 29-32, headed In Praise of ye: Country.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in a largely secretary hand, 222 pages, in calf.

c.1705
Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS c 189 p. 27)
Death ('How weak a Star doth rule mankind')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 232-4. Poems (1667), pp. 119-20. Saintsbury, p. 574. Thomas, I, 190-1, poem 75.

*PsK 49
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 208, 206 (ff. 8, 9 rev.))
PsK 50

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 394-5)
PsK 51

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 52

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

PsK 53

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

PsK 54

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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.

Early 18th century

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: 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).

PsK 55

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 56

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo miscellany of largely moral or religious verse and prose, chiefly in a small stylish cursive hand, with additions in margins and borders in a second even smaller hand, 316 pages (plus four pages of religious notes), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

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

Late-17th century

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.

PsK 57

Copy.

A miscellany compiled by Benjamin Brown (1664-1748), of Troutbeck, High Constable of Kendal Ward.

Late 17th century
Cumbria Record Office, Kendal (WD/TE/Box 16/8 [unspecified page numbers])
A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda ('Say, my Orinda, why so sad?')

First published, as A Dialogue of Absence 'twixt Lucasia and Orinda. Set by Mr. Hen. Lawes, in Poems (1664), pp. 50-2. Poems (1667), pp. 25-6. Saintsbury, p. 522. Hageman (1987), pp. 589-90. Thomas, I, 94-5, poem 19.

PsK 58

Copy, headed A Dialogue of Absence betwixt Lucasia & Orinda. set by mr. Lawes.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 325-6)
PsK 59

Copy, headed Set by Mr H: Lawes / A Dialogue between Lucasia & Orinda.

Edited from this MS in Thomas; collated in Hageman.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 60

Copy, headed A Dialogue of Absence 'twixt Lucasia & Orinda set by Mr H: Lawes.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

PsK 61

Copy, headed A Dialogue of Absence 'twixt Lucasia and Orinda, Set by Mr. Hen. Lawes.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

A Dialogue Betwixt Lucasia & Rosania, Imitating that of Gentle Thirsis ('My Lucasia, leave the Mountain tops')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 126-7. Saintsbury, pp. 577-8. Thomas, I, 197-8, poem 80.

PsK 62

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 282-3)
PsK 63

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 63.5

Copy, in a roman hand, incomplete.

A duodecimo miscellany of verse, prose and astronomical drawings, in several hands, written from both ends, 89 leaves (including 27 blanks), in contemporary leather.

Associated with Oxford University.

c.1695

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 10580. Formerly Princeton MS 3584.614.

Princeton (CO199 No. 241 f. 73v rev.)
PsK 63.8

MS copy, lacking the last four lines.

An exemplum of the printed edition of Katherine Philips's Poems (London, 1664), with MS additions in an unidentified cursive hand, including additional titles in The Table for pages 243-7 which are not present in the volume.

Late 17th century

Inscribed John ffreeman on the title-page.

Princeton (RHT 17th-463 p. 240)
A Dialogue of Absence 'twixt Lucasia and Orinda. Set by Mr. Hen. Lawes ('Say, my Orinda, why so sad?')

See PsK 58-61.

A Dialogue of Friendship multiplyed ('Will you unto one single sense')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 143-4. Saintsbury, p. 588. Thomas, I, 215-16, poem 97.

PsK 64

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

Engraved on Mr. John Collyer's Tombstone at Beddington ('Here what remaines of him does ly')

First published, with the place in the title given as Bedlington, in Poems (1664), p. 157. Poems (1667), p. 77. Saintsbury, p. 552. Thomas, I, 149, poem 55.

*PsK 65
Autograph

Autograph, the name in the title here given as Beddington.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B p. 5)
PsK 66

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B p. 354)
PsK 67

Copy, headed On Mr John Collier Engraued on his Tombstone at Beddington.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably several hands over a period, one predominating, 31 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf.

Including (ff. 3v-12r), in a single hand, fourteen poems, headed Verses of Madam Orindas and most subscribed Orinda, in relatively early versions, none dating later than 1650-51, subscribed (f. 12v) thus Farr Madam Orinda.

c.1651-86

Owned, in 1927 by Percy Dobell, and item 14 in one of his sale catalogues of poetical manuscripts.

Recorded in IELM as the Cardiff MS: PsK Δ 3. Recorded, collated and the text of three otherwise unknown poems by Philips printed in Thomas (1990); these three poems also edited in Thomas (1988), pp. 54-7. A complete microfilm of the MS is in the National Library of Wales.

Cardiff Central Library (MS 2.1073 f. 8v)
PsK 68

Copy, the name in the title here given as Beddington.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 69

Copy, headed Engraven on Mr Jno Collires Tombestone at Bedington.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

PsK 70

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

The Enquiry ('If we no old historian's name')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 162-5. Poems (1667), pp. 80-1. Saintsbury, pp. 553-4. Thomas, I, 151-3, poem 58.

PsK 71

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 259-61)
PsK 72

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 50-1)
PsK 73

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 64-5)
PsK 74

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

Epitaph. On Hector Phillips at St Sith's Church ('What on Earth deserves our Trust?')

First published, as Epitaph. On her Son H.P. at St. Syth's Church where her body also lies Interred, in Poems (1667), p. 134. Saintsbury, p. 582. Hageman (1987), pp. 598-9. Thomas, I, 205, poem 88.

PsK 75

Copy, headed EPITAPH ON HECTOR PHILLIPS. at St. Sith's Church.

Edited from this MS in Thomas; also in Kissing the Rod, pp. 195-6; collated in Hageman.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B p. 344)
PsK 76

Copy, headed His Epitaph.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

PsK 77

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

Epitaph on Mr John Lloyd of Kilrhewy in Penbrokeshire (who dy'd July the 11th 1657), inscrib'd on his Monument in Kilgarron (in the person of his wife) ('Preserve, thou sad and sole Trustee')

First published in John Roland Phillips, History of Cilgerran (London, 1867), p. 65. Tutin (1905), pp. 31-2. Hageman (1987), pp. 591-2. Thomas, I, 248-9, poem 123.

The monument containing this epitaph survives in Cilgerran Church, Dyfed. A photograph of it appears in Elizabeth H. Hageman, Making a Good Impression: Early Texts of Poems and Letters by Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, South Central Review, 11 (Summer 1994), 39-65 (p. 45).

*PsK 78
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), in Elmen, in Hageman, and in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 131, 133)
Epitaph. On my honour'd Mother in Law: Mrs Phillips of Portheynon in Cardiganshire, who dy'd. Jan: 1st. A°: 1662/3 ('Reader, stay, it is but Just')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 128-9. Saintsbury, pp. 578-9. Thomas, I, 198-9, poem 82.

PsK 79

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 335-6)
PsK 80

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

Epitaph on my truly honoured Publius Scipio ('To the officious Marble we commit')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 156-7. Saintsbury, p. 595. Thomas, I, 229-30, poem 110.

PsK 81

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

A Farwell to Rosania ('My Dear Rosania, sometimes be so kind')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 130. Saintsbury, p. 559. Thomas, I, 201, poem 84.

PsK 82

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B p. 340)
PsK 83

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 83.5

MS copy.

An exemplum of the printed edition of Katherine Philips's Poems (London, 1664), with MS additions in an unidentified cursive hand, including additional titles in The Table for pages 243-7 which are not present in the volume.

Late 17th century

Inscribed John ffreeman on the title-page.

Princeton (RHT 17th-463 p. 237)
PsK 84

Copy, here beginning My dear Rosania sometimes to be kind.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in a largely secretary hand, 222 pages, in calf.

c.1705
Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS c 189 p. 27)
For Regina ('Triumphant Queen of scorne, how ill doth sit')

First published, as To Regina Collier, on her Cruelty to Philaster, in Poems (1664), pp. 112-13. Poems (1667), p. 55. Saintsbury, pp. 539-40. Hageman (1987), p. 594. Thomas, I, 125, poem 39.

PsK 85

Copy, headed To Regina Collier on her Cruelty to Philaster.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 354-5)
PsK 86

Copy, headed For the Queene of Hearts.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably several hands over a period, one predominating, 31 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf.

Including (ff. 3v-12r), in a single hand, fourteen poems, headed Verses of Madam Orindas and most subscribed Orinda, in relatively early versions, none dating later than 1650-51, subscribed (f. 12v) thus Farr Madam Orinda.

c.1651-86

Owned, in 1927 by Percy Dobell, and item 14 in one of his sale catalogues of poetical manuscripts.

Recorded in IELM as the Cardiff MS: PsK Δ 3. Recorded, collated and the text of three otherwise unknown poems by Philips printed in Thomas (1990); these three poems also edited in Thomas (1988), pp. 54-7. A complete microfilm of the MS is in the National Library of Wales.

Cardiff Central Library (MS 2.1073 f. 3v)
PsK 87

Copy, headed For Regina.

Edited from this MS in Thomas and in Hageman.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 88

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 38-9)
PsK 89

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

A Fragment Mr Corneille upon ye Imitation of Jesus=Christ: Lib. 3. Cap 2. Englished

See PsK 522.

A Friend ('Love, nature's plot, this great Creation's soule')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 189-95. Poems (1667), pp. 94-7. Saintsbury, pp. 561-3. Thomas, I, 165-8, poem 64.

*PsK 90
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), pp. 7-10, and in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 164, 162, 160, 158 (ff. 30, 31, 32, 33 rev.))
PsK 91

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 331-4)
PsK 92

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 83-5)
PsK 93

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 15-17)
PsK 94

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto verse miscellany entitled A Collection of Verses Fancyes and Poems, Morrall and Devine, in a single hand, i + 180 leaves, (including index), in contemporary calf.

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

PsK 95

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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.

Early 18th century

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: 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).

PsK 96

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 97

Copy of stanzas 2, 6, 7, 9, 11-15, headed On Friendship, here beginning Friendship's an Abstract of yt nobler Flame, and docketed Mrs Philips Pag: ye 94, & 95. 96. 97 in her Poem see more at large.

A quarto volume, in two hands.

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.

1626-96

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

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

St Paul's Cathedral (MS 52. D. 14 Part II, [unnumbered pages])
Friendship ('Let the dull brutish world that know not love')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 158-61. Poems (1667), pp. 78-9. Saintsbury, pp. 552-3. Thomas, I, 150-1, poem 57.

*PsK 98
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 130, 128, 126 (ff. 47, 48, 49 rev.))
PsK 99

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 367-8)
PsK 100

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 96-7)
PsK 101

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 27-8)
PsK 102

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto verse miscellany entitled A Collection of Verses Fancyes and Poems, Morrall and Devine, in a single hand, i + 180 leaves, (including index), in contemporary calf.

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

PsK 103

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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.

Early 18th century

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: 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).

PsK 104

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

Friendship in Emblem, or the Seale, to my dearest Lucasia ('The hearts thus intermixed speak')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 70-5. Poems (1667), pp. 36-9. Saintsbury, p. 529. Thomas, I, 106-8, poem 29.

*PsK 105
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), pp. 19-21, and in Thomas. For a facsimile of p. 101, see Facsimile VII above.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 101, 103, 105, 100)
PsK 106

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 362-4)
PsK 107

Copy, headed To my dearest Lucasia, friendship in emblem or the seale.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 44-5)
PsK 108

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 60-1)
PsK 109

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

Friendship's Mysterys, to my dearest Lucasia. (set by Mr. H. Lawes.) ('Come, my Lucasia, since we see')

First published in Henry Lawes, The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). Poems (1664), pp. 43-5. Poems (1667), pp. 21-2. Saintsbury, p. 520. Hageman (1987), pp. 588-9. Thomas, I, 90-1, poem 17.

*PsK 110
Autograph

Autograph, headed Friendships Mysterys to my dearest Lucasia. (set by Mr H. Lawes.).

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), pp. 17-18, and in Thomas; also in Kissing the Rod, pp. 193-4; collated in Hageman.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 79, 81)
PsK 111

Copy, headed Friendships mystery set by mr. Lawes.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 321-2)
PsK 112

Copy, headed Freindships mystery to my Dearest Lucasia: set by Mr. H Lawes.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 113

Copy, headed Freindships Mistery To my dearest Lucasia (set my Mr Henry Laws).

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 52-3)
PsK 114

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

God ('Eternal reason! glorious majestie!')

First published, untitled (but with quotation from Henry More), in Poems (1664), pp. 137-42. Poems (1667), pp. 68-9, as A Prayer. Saintsbury, pp. 547-8. Thomas, I, 138-41, poem 48.

*PsK 115
Autograph

Autograph, headed Out of Mr. More's [ ] and with preliminary verses (Cupid's Conflict) by Henry More, imperfect.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 222, 220-19 (ff. 1, 2r-v rev.))
PsK 116

Copy, headed Out of Mr. More's Cop. Conf. and with preliminary verses by Henry More (Cupid's Conflict).

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 382-5)
PsK 117

Copy, headed God and with preliminary verses by Henry More (Cupid's Conflict), headed Extract of Mr Mores Cap: Conf:.

This MS collated, and edited in part, in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 103-5)
PsK 118

Copy, headed Out of Mr Mores cap: Const and with preliminary verses by Henry More (Cupid's Conflict).

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 81-3)
PsK 119

Copy, headed A Prayer and without the quotation from More.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

PsK 120

Copy, headed A Prayer and without the quotation from More.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 120.5

Copy, headed A Prayer and without the quotation from More, inscribed in the margin Mrs Phillips.

A folio miscellany of verse and prose, compiled by Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706), begun in 1690 and resumed in 1698, dedicated to her son William's wife Judith, 369 leaves erratically foliated and paginated, in contemporary calf.

c.1690-1700s
Hertfordshire Record Office (DE/P F43 pp. 623-4)
Happyness ('Nature courts happiness, although it be')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 228-31. Poems (1667), pp. 118-19. Saintsbury, pp. 573-4. Thomas, I, 188-90, poem 74.

*PsK 121
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 212, 210 (ff. 6, 7 rev.))
PsK 122

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 392-4)
PsK 123

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 66-7)
PsK 124

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 4-5)
PsK 125

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

PsK 126

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto verse miscellany entitled A Collection of Verses Fancyes and Poems, Morrall and Devine, in a single hand, i + 180 leaves, (including index), in contemporary calf.

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

PsK 127

Copy.

This MS collated in Dunton.

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.

Early 18th century

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: 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).

PsK 128

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 129

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo miscellany of largely moral or religious verse and prose, chiefly in a small stylish cursive hand, with additions in margins and borders in a second even smaller hand, 316 pages (plus four pages of religious notes), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

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

Late-17th century

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 118 pp. 68-70)
PsK 130

Copy, headed on Happinesse.

A quarto miscellany entitled Poems, tracts & memoirs Collected by J Rolf beginning Anno 1700, in several neat hands, written over a period from both ends, 195 pages, with a tipped-in index, in contemporary green vellum.

c.1700-5 [with additions to 1777]

Inscribed inside the front cover N.H.W. Tytheridge, St James's Square, Notting Hill, W. Bookplate of G. Davies. Bequeathed by Susan Greene Dexter.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 606 pp. 18-20 rev.)
PsK 131

Copy, subscribed Mrs. P:.

A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf.

c.1713

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.

In memory of F.P. who dyed at Acton 24 May.1660 — 13th of her age ('If I could ever write a lasting verse')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 75-80. Poems (1667), pp. 39-42. Saintsbury, pp. 530-1. Thomas, I, 109-11, poem 30.

PsK 132

Copy, headed In memory of my Deare F:P: who dy'd ye. 24°. of May.1660; at :12: yeares & a half old.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 306-9)
PsK 133

Copy, headed In memory of F:P: who dyed at Acton 24 May. 1660 —— 13th of her age.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 60-2)
PsK 134

Copy, headed In memory of FP who dyed at Acton ye 24 May 1660 at 12 & ½ of age.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 75-7)
PsK 135

Copy, headed In Memory of F.P. who died at Acton Aged 12 & ½ 24 Mars — 60.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

PsK 136

Copy of a version comprising lines 1-4 and four additional lines followed by lines 85-90, headed (Upon a dear Friend dead:).

This MS collated in Thomas and the four additional lines edited, I, 276.

A quarto verse miscellany entitled A Collection of Verses Fancyes and Poems, Morrall and Devine, in a single hand, i + 180 leaves, (including index), in contemporary calf.

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

PsK 137

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 138

Copy of a six-line version of the first ten lines, headed On Mary Morris 1695 aged 3 Quartrs and 9 days.

A folio volume comprising a collection of epitaphs, in a single neat italic hand, entitled Delectus Epitaphiorum Anglo-Latinorum Tam Veterum quam Recentiu, 74 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1664-1705

Pencil inscription on front pastedown: Charles A. Cole[?] June 26 '64. The rear cover stamped R. S. 1705.

PsK 139

Copy of a six-line version of the first ten lines, headed On Mary Morris 1695 aged 3 Quarrs of a Year & nine days.

This MS recorded in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation, p. 45.

A folio miscellany entitled Epitaphs Collected 1694, 42 pages.

c.1695
Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS fb 143 p. 24)
In Memory of Mr Cartwright ('Stay, prince of Fancy, stay, we are not fit')

First published, as To the Memory of the most Ingenious and Vertuous Gentleman Mr. Wil: Cartwright, my much valued Friend, in William Cartwright, Comedies, Tragi-Comedies with other Poems (London, 1651). Poems (1664), pp. 145-6. Poems (1667), p. 71. Saintsbury, p. 549. Thomas, I, 143, poem 51.

*PsK 140
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B p. 7)
PsK 141

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B p. 351)
PsK 142

Copy, headed In Memory of Mr Cartwright at the Edition of his Poems.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably several hands over a period, one predominating, 31 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf.

Including (ff. 3v-12r), in a single hand, fourteen poems, headed Verses of Madam Orindas and most subscribed Orinda, in relatively early versions, none dating later than 1650-51, subscribed (f. 12v) thus Farr Madam Orinda.

c.1651-86

Owned, in 1927 by Percy Dobell, and item 14 in one of his sale catalogues of poetical manuscripts.

Recorded in IELM as the Cardiff MS: PsK Δ 3. Recorded, collated and the text of three otherwise unknown poems by Philips printed in Thomas (1990); these three poems also edited in Thomas (1988), pp. 54-7. A complete microfilm of the MS is in the National Library of Wales.

Cardiff Central Library (MS 2.1073 f. 5v)
PsK 143

Copy, headed In Memory of Mr Willm Cartwright.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 144

Copy, headed In memory of Mr Cartwright.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 29-30)
PsK 145

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

In Memory of Mrs. E. Hering ('As some choice Plant, cherish'd by sun and aire')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 206-9. Poems (1667), pp. 104-6. Saintsbury, pp. 565-6. Thomas, I, 175-6, poem 67.

*PsK 146
Autograph

Autograph, headed In memory of Mrs. E. H[ering in different ink].

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 172, 170 (ff. 26, 27 rev.))
PsK 147

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 378-9)
PsK 148

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 80-1)
PsK 149

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 13-14)
PsK 150

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

In memory of that excellent person Mrs. Mary Lloyd of Bodidrist in Denbighshire, who dy'd the 13th of November 1656, soon after she came thither from Pembrokeshire ('I cannot hold, for though to write be rude')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 81-7. Poems (1667), pp. 42-4. Saintsbury, pp. 531-3. Thomas, I, 111-14, poem 31.

*PsK 151
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 119, 121, 123, 125)
PsK 152

Copy, headed In memory of yt: Excellt: Person. Mrs. Floyd, of Bodidrist, in Denbighshire.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 270-3)
PsK 152.5 Early 19th-century

Copy.

Cited in Thomas, I, 50 and 277, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation, pp. 50-1.

A collection of genealogies.

Early 19th century
National Library of Wales (NLW MS 1585 f. 196r-v)
PsK 153

Copy, headed In memory of the excellent Mrs. Mary Lloyd of Denbighshire. who dyed 13 Nouember 1656.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 98-100)
PsK 154

Copy, the place name in the title given as Bodidscist.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 77-9)
PsK 155

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

In memory of the most Justly honour'd Mrs Owen of Orielton ('As when the ancient world by reason Liv'd')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 185-8. Poems (1667), pp. 92-4. Saintsbury, pp. 559-61. Thomas, I, 163-5, poem 63.

*PsK 156
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 136, 134, 132 (ff. 44, 45, 46 rev.))
PsK 157

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 375-7)
PsK 158

Copy, headed In memory of Mrs Own of Orielton.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 94-5)
PsK 159

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 26-7)
PsK 160

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

'In vain (Dear Thirsis) thou wouldst claime'

A translation of a French six-line epigram. Unpublished.

PsK 160.5

Copy, in a cursive italic hand, headed Translated by ye famd Orinda, following a copy of the original French Epigramme beginning Tu me contestes vainement, on the first of ten unbound quarto pages of French, English and Latin verse.

Late 17th century
Injuria amici ('Lovely apostate! what was my offence?')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 109-12. Poems (1667), pp. 53-5. Saintsbury, pp. 538-9. Thomas, I, 123-5, poem 38.

*PsK 161
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 33, 35)
PsK 162

Copy, headed Inconstancy in Friendship.

This MS collated in Thomas; discussed in Elmen.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 318-19)
PsK 163

Copy, headed Iniuria amicitias.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 15-16)
PsK 164

Copy, headed Injuria Amicitias.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 37-8)
PsK 165

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 165.2

Copy of the first four lines, a false start, the rest of the page left blank.

A small octavo notebook, in English and Latin, in several hands, 140 leaves, in half-calf.

Compiled, at least in part, by George Sacheverell (d.1715), including letters by him to women, begun when he was resident at Oriel College, Oxford, in August 1651.

c.1651-66

Other inscriptions include W Hippisley his Book, Lucey Hippisley, Frank Hippisley 1662, George Pudsey, Herbert Pudsey, Robert Pudsey, Sarah Chapman, G. Chapman, and Hob Knowle 1662 / 1663.

PsK 165.3

Copy of lines 1-15, untitled.

A small octavo notebook, in English and Latin, in several hands, 140 leaves, in half-calf.

Compiled, at least in part, by George Sacheverell (d.1715), including letters by him to women, begun when he was resident at Oriel College, Oxford, in August 1651.

c.1651-66

Other inscriptions include W Hippisley his Book, Lucey Hippisley, Frank Hippisley 1662, George Pudsey, Herbert Pudsey, Robert Pudsey, Sarah Chapman, G. Chapman, and Hob Knowle 1662 / 1663.

PsK 165.5

Copy of lines 1-24, headed To a Mrs whom I had long ador'd upon her favouring my rival in my presence.

A small octavo notebook, in English and Latin, in several hands, 140 leaves, in half-calf.

Compiled, at least in part, by George Sacheverell (d.1715), including letters by him to women, begun when he was resident at Oriel College, Oxford, in August 1651.

c.1651-66

Other inscriptions include W Hippisley his Book, Lucey Hippisley, Frank Hippisley 1662, George Pudsey, Herbert Pudsey, Robert Pudsey, Sarah Chapman, G. Chapman, and Hob Knowle 1662 / 1663.

PsK 165.8

Copy of a 22-line version.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single cursive hand, 30 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half-calf.

Compiled by a royalist.

Mid-late 17th century

Inscribed (f. 1r) Wm Godolphin Servt to Mr Savile and Hen: Savile Servt: to Mr Godolphin.

Invitation to the Countrey ('Be kind, my deare Rosania, though 'tis true')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 203-6. Poems (1667), pp. 103-4. Saintsbury, pp. 564-5. Thomas, I, 173-5, poem 66.

*PsK 166
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), pp. 12-13, and in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 176, 174 (ff. 24, 25 rev.))
PsK 167

Copy, headed Inuitation of Rosania to Wales.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 252-3)
PsK 167.5

Copy of lines 39-40, untitled, here beginning Kings may be Slaves by theire own Passions hurl'd, subscribed Orinda 104, transcribed from the folio edition of 1667.

An oblong duodecimo verse miscellany, perhaps largely in one hand, with later additions by others, generally written across the page with the spine turned upwards, 136 leaves, with (f. 2r-v) a table of contents, in half green morocco.

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

c.1668-1713

Inscribed (f. 2r) Several Divine poems out of a Mss. of Mr. 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.

PsK 168

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 78-9)
PsK 169

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 12-13)
PsK 170

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 171

Copy of a version of lines 11-50, here beginning A safe Retirement from ye noise of towns.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo miscellany of largely moral or religious verse and prose, chiefly in a small stylish cursive hand, with additions in margins and borders in a second even smaller hand, 316 pages (plus four pages of religious notes), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

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

Late-17th century

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.

PsK 172

Copy, complete.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo miscellany of largely moral or religious verse and prose, chiefly in a small stylish cursive hand, with additions in margins and borders in a second even smaller hand, 316 pages (plus four pages of religious notes), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

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

Late-17th century

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 118 pp. 78-80)
The Irish Greyhound ('Behold this Creature's Form and state')

First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663), p. 54 [apparently unique extant exemplar Folger, C6681.5]. Poems (1667), p. 125. Saintsbury, p. 577. Thomas, I, 195-6, poem 78.

PsK 173

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 289-90)
PsK 174

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 174.5

The title only, the rest of the page left blank.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

Juliana and Amaranta, a Dialogue ('Why Amaranta still thus poore and vaine?')

First published in Thomas (1988), pp. 56-7. Thomas (1990), I, 252-3, poem 127.

PsK 175

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably several hands over a period, one predominating, 31 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf.

Including (ff. 3v-12r), in a single hand, fourteen poems, headed Verses of Madam Orindas and most subscribed Orinda, in relatively early versions, none dating later than 1650-51, subscribed (f. 12v) thus Farr Madam Orinda.

c.1651-86

Owned, in 1927 by Percy Dobell, and item 14 in one of his sale catalogues of poetical manuscripts.

Recorded in IELM as the Cardiff MS: PsK Δ 3. Recorded, collated and the text of three otherwise unknown poems by Philips printed in Thomas (1990); these three poems also edited in Thomas (1988), pp. 54-7. A complete microfilm of the MS is in the National Library of Wales.

Cardiff Central Library (MS 2.1073 ff. 4v-5r)
La Grandeur d'esprit ('A chosen privacy, a cheap content')

First published, as La Grandeur d'esprit, in Poems (1664), pp. 171-6. in Poems (1667), pp. 86-8, as A Resvery. Saintsbury, pp. 556-8. Thomas, I, 157-9, poem 60.

*PsK 176
Autograph

Autograph, headed La Grandeur d'esprit, imperfect, lacking the last fourteen lines.

Edited chiefly from this MS (lines 1-82) in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 142, 140, 138 (ff. 41, 42, 43 rev.))
PsK 177

Copy, headed A Resuery. 1653, with the second heading La Grandeur d'esprit added in the margin.

This MS collated in Thomas; discussed in Elmen.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 247-50)
PsK 178

Copy, headed La Grandeur d'esprit.

This MS collated, and in part (lines 83-96) edited, in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 90-2)
PsK 179

Copy, headed La Grandeur d'esprit.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 22-3)
PsK 180

Copy, headed A Resvery. K.P.O..

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

PsK 181

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto verse miscellany entitled A Collection of Verses Fancyes and Poems, Morrall and Devine, in a single hand, i + 180 leaves, (including index), in contemporary calf.

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

PsK 182

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 183

Copy, headed A Recovery.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo miscellany of largely moral or religious verse and prose, chiefly in a small stylish cursive hand, with additions in margins and borders in a second even smaller hand, 316 pages (plus four pages of religious notes), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

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

Late-17th century

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.

PsK 184

Copy, headed La grandeur d'esprit, subscribed Mrs. P:.

A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf.

c.1713

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.

La Solitude de St. Amant. Englished ('O! Solitude my sweetest choice')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 170-83. Saintsbury, pp. 601-4. Thomas, III, 94-102.

A musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Comes Amoris…The First Book (London, 1687), p. 18. The Theater of Music…The Fourth and Last Book (London, 1687), p. 57. The Works of Henry Purcell, XXV, ed. Arthur Somervell (London, 1928), pp. 137-40; revised edition, ed. Margaret Laurie (1985), pp. 75-9.

PsK 185

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 107-16)
PsK 186

Copy of a twelve-line version (as incorporated in Purcell's song-version), headed On Solitude.

A quarto verse miscellany entitled A Collection of Verses Fancyes and Poems, Morrall and Devine, in a single hand, i + 180 leaves, (including index), in contemporary calf.

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

PsK 187

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 187.5

Copy, transcribed from a Volume of curious Manuscripts that were formerly in the possession of Mr. Hamilton, Junr. of whom they were purchased by the Editor.

MS prepared by Vincent Novello (1781-1861) for his edition of Henry Purcell's works.

Early-mid 19th century
PsK 188

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

This MS recorded in Franklin B. Zimmerman, Henry Purcell: An Analytical Catalogue (London & New York, 1963), No. 406.

A tall folio book of chiefly vocal music, the lyrics in a cursive italic hand, with (ff. 91r-2r) a later index, 92 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt within modern half red morocco.

c.1700s

Putttick & Simpson's, 25 August 1857, lot 269.

PsK 189

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed The Ground & song To O! Solitude.

This MS recorded in Zimmerman.

A narrow oblong duodecimo music book, probably in a single cursive hand, with (ff. 2r-v, 98r-97r rev.)a table of contents, written from both ends, i + 98 leaves, in modern red morocco.

c.1682-90

Bookplate of Ralph Sympsun Esqr. Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 29397 ff. 50r-48v rev.)
PsK 190

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

This MS recorded in Zimmerman.

A large folio music book, almost entirely in a single rounded hand, 146 leaves, in 19th-century half red morocco.

c.1700

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 Mrs 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.

PsK 191

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

This MS recorded in Zimmerman.

A large folio book of mainly instrumental music, text almost entirely in a single cursive hand (ff. 70v-2r in an italic hand), 73 leaves, in 19th-century half red morocco.

c.1700

Inscribed (f. 1v) by Vincent Novello (1781-1861), music publisher, March 28. 1829. purchased of Mr Hamilton Junr. Acquired by Novello's bequest 21 March 1887.

PsK 192

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

This MS recorded in Zimmerman.

A folio music book, in probably a single hand, 125 leaves, in contemporary brown blind-stamped calf within modern half red morocco gilt.

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

c.1694-7

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

PsK 193

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed Oh! Solitude &c. Mr Purcell.

This MS recorded in John P. Cutts, An Unpublished Purcell Setting, M&L, 38 (1957), 1-13 and see also p. 207; recorded in Zimmerman.

A tall folio songbook, largely in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, i + 133 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary reversed calf.

The cover inscribed The Song-Book [of Mr. Montriot added in another hand].

c.1711

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

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Add. MS 63626 ff. 125-123v rev.)
PsK 194

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

Edited from this MS in Purcell Society edition; recorded in Zimmerman.

Purcell's predominantly autograph folio Score Booke Containing Severall Anthems wth. Sy[m]phonies.

c.1690
The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (R.M. 20. h. 8 ff. 174r-173v rev.)
PsK 195

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

This MS recorded in Zimmerman.

A folio MS music book.

c.1728
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (MU MS 120 [unspecified pages])
PsK 196

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed A song on a Ground, The Words by Madam Phillips.

This MS recorded in Zimmerman, No. 406; also in Claudia A. Limbert, The Unison of Well-Tun'd Hearts: Katherine Philips' Friendships with Male Writers, ELN, 19 (1991), 25-37 (p. 35).

A folio songbook, largely in one hand, written from both ends, vi + 241 pages including blanks(Part I: pp. 1-207; Part II: pp. 1-34), in contemporary panelled calf gilt (rebacked).

Early 18th century

Inscribed (Part I, p. [iii]) Liber Georgij Forman Anno Domini April 8th 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.

The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series (MS V.b.197 Part I, pp. 110-11)
PsK 197

Copy, in a large rounded hand, untitled, on five pages of three unbound folio leaves.

Late 17th century
Harvard, other MSS (bMS Eng 834 (36))
PsK 197.5

Copy of sixteen lines, headed Solitude.

A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, predominantly in a single non-professional hand, iv + 214 pages, in contemporary calf.

Inscribed (p. 211) I ended this book Novr. 13th 1723.

c.1723
L'accord du bien ('Order, by which all things were made')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 195-203. Poems (1667), pp. 98-103. Saintsbury, pp. 563-4. Thomas, I, 169-73, poem 65.

*PsK 198
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 188, 186, 184, 182, 180, 178 (ff. 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 rev.))
PsK 199

This MS collated in Thomas; discussed in Elmen.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 385-9)
PsK 199.5

Copy of lines 97-100, untitled, here beginning Rightly to rule one's self must be, subscribed Orinda Fol. p. 201, transcribed from the folio edition of 1667 (p. 102).

An oblong duodecimo verse miscellany, perhaps largely in one hand, with later additions by others, generally written across the page with the spine turned upwards, 136 leaves, with (f. 2r-v) a table of contents, in half green morocco.

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

c.1668-1713

Inscribed (f. 2r) Several Divine poems out of a Mss. of Mr. 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.

PsK 200

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 75-7)
PsK 201

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 10-12)
PsK 202

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

PsK 203

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 204

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo miscellany of largely moral or religious verse and prose, chiefly in a small stylish cursive hand, with additions in margins and borders in a second even smaller hand, 316 pages (plus four pages of religious notes), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

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

Late-17th century

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 118 pp. 47-52)
L'amitié: To Mrs. M. Awbrey. 6t Aprill 1651 ('Soule of my soule! my Joy, my crown, my friend!')

First published in Poems (1664), p. 144. Poems (1667), pp. 70-1. Saintsbury, pp. 548-9. Thomas, I, 142, poem 50.

*PsK 205
Autograph

Autograph, headed 6t. Aprill 1651. L'amitié: To Mrs M. Awbrey.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), p. 25, and in Thomas; also in Kissing the Rod, pp. 189-90.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B p. 15)
PsK 206

Copy, headed To Rosania L'amitié 1651.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B p. 313 bis)
PsK 207

Copy, headed April 1651 L'amitié. To Mrs Mary Awbrey.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 208

Copy, headed L'Amitié To Mrs Mary Awbery.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

PsK 209

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

Lucasia ('Not to obleige Lucasia by my voice')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 64-8. Poems (1667), pp. 34-5. Saintsbury, pp. 527-8. Thomas, I, 103-5, poem 27.

*PsK 210
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 73, 75, 77)
PsK 211

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 278-80)
PsK 212

Copy, headed Lucasia.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 32-3)
PsK 213

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 50-2)
PsK 214

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 214.5

Copy, untitled, with the name Syndænia throughout in place of Lucasia.

This MS recorded in Sant & Brown. Also discussed in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 132-5).

A quarto notebook in Latin and English, in a single neat hand, written from both ends, 35 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

Compiled by Nicholas Crouch (c.1618-90), bursar of Balliol College and notary.

Late 17th century
Balliol College, Oxford (MS 336 ff. 7v-8v)
Lucasia and Orinda parting with Pastora and Phillis at Ipswich ('In your converse we best can read')

First published in Poems (1667), p. 156. Saintsbury, pp. 594-5. Thomas, I, 228, poem 109.

PsK 215

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

Lucasia, Rosania, and Orinda parting at a Fountain. July 1663. ('Here, here are our enjoyments done')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 129-30. Saintsbury, p. 579. Thomas, I, 200-1, poem 83.

PsK 216

Edited from this MS in Thomas; also in Kissing the Rod, pp. 202-3.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 337-8)
PsK 217

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

'Madam / I cannot but Congratulate'

See PsK 1 and Introduction.

'Mad: I doe not these few Lines indite'

First published in Patricia M. Sant and James N. Brown, Two Unpublished Poems by Katherine Philips, ELR, 24, No. 1 (Winter 1994), 211-28 (pp. 227-8).

PsK 217.5

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Sant & Brown. Facsimile in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (p. 134).

A quarto notebook in Latin and English, in a single neat hand, written from both ends, 35 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

Compiled by Nicholas Crouch (c.1618-90), bursar of Balliol College and notary.

Late 17th century
Balliol College, Oxford (MS 336 f. 9r-v)
Mr. Francis Finch, the Excellent Palaemon ('This is confest Presumption, for had I')

See PsK 238-243.

'No blooming youth shall ever make me err'

First published (extracts) in Ronald Lockley, Orielton (London, 1977), pp. 19-20. Published (complete) in Claudia Limbert, Two Poems and a Prose Receipt: The Unpublished Juvenilia of Katherine Philips, ELR, 16 (1986), 383-90 (pp. 389-90), reprinted in Women in the Renaissance, ed. Kirby Farrell, Elizabeth H. Hageman and Arthur F. Kinney (Amherst, 1988), 179-86 (pp. 185-6), and in Thomas I, 253-4, poem 129, among Juvenilia.

*PsK 218
Autograph

Autograph piece of juvenilia, untitled, subscribed Humbly Dedicated too Mrs Anne Barlow/C. Fowler.

Edited from this MS in Lockley (extracts) and, with a facsimile, in Limbert. Also edited in Thomas and in Kissing the Rod, p. 188.

A single cropped folio leaf of verse, once folded as a letter or packet.

Among papers descended from the family of Anne Owen, Katherine Philips's friend Lucasia, of Orielton, Pembrokeshire.

c.1646-8

Complete facsimile in Germaine Greer, Editorial Conundra in the Texts of Katherine Philips, in Editing Women, ed. Ann M. Hutchison and Margaret Anne Doody (Toronto, 1998), pp. 79-100 (pp. 96-7).

National Library of Wales (Orielton Deeds and Documents, Box 24, unnumbered document f. 1r)
An ode upon retirement, made upon occasion of Mr. Cowley's on that subject ('No, no, unfaithfull World, thou hast')

First published, as Ode. On Retirement, in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663), pp. 45-8 [apparently unique extant exemplum Folger C6681.5]. as Upon Mr. Abraham Cowley's Retirement. Ode in Poems (1664), pp. 237-42. Poems (1667), pp. 122-4. Saintsbury, pp. 575-7. Thomas, I, 193-5, poem 77.

*PsK 218.5
Autograph

Autograph, untitled, on three pages of a pair of quarto conjugate leaves.

Facsimile of f. 70r in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 75.

A collection of unbound verse manuscripts, in various hands and paper sizes (chiefly folio), 142 leaves.

Partly compiled by Sir Richard Browne and his father Christopher Browne (1577-1646), of Saye's Court, Deptford.

Volume LXVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Acquired March 1995.

PsK 219

Copy, headed Ode upon Retirement.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 311-12 bis)
PsK 219.5

Copy of lines 43-46, here beginning At length this secret I have learn'd, inscribed at the side Orinda fol: 123 / 'tis o Cowleys Retiremt, transcribed from the folio edition of 1667.

An oblong duodecimo verse miscellany, perhaps largely in one hand, with later additions by others, generally written across the page with the spine turned upwards, 136 leaves, with (f. 2r-v) a table of contents, in half green morocco.

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

c.1668-1713

Inscribed (f. 2r) Several Divine poems out of a Mss. of Mr. 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.

PsK 220

Copy, headed An ode upon retirement made upon occasion of Mr Cowleys on that subject.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 118-20)
PsK 221

Copy, headed Upon Mr Abraham Cowleys retirement, Ode.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

PsK 222

Copy, omitting the last eight lines and headed Retirement.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto verse miscellany entitled A Collection of Verses Fancyes and Poems, Morrall and Devine, in a single hand, i + 180 leaves, (including index), in contemporary calf.

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

PsK 223

Copy, headed Vpon Mr. Abraham Cowley's retirement. Ode.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 224

Copy.

Edited from this MS, as Upon Mr Abraham Cowley's Retirement. Ode, in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 234-8.

A miscellaneous collection of MS verse, totally unconnected with each other, and written on backs of letters, or other scraps of paper.

17th century

Formerly among the papers of the Aston family, of Tixall, Staffordshire.

Selectively edited (as his Fourth Division: Miscellaneous Poems) in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 207-324.

Untraced Tixal MSS (Tixall MS 4 [unspecified item number])
On Argalus his vindication to Rosania ('What Power is there in the conquering Eyes')

First published in Thomas (1988), p. 56. Thomas (1990), I, 253, poem 128.

PsK 225

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably several hands over a period, one predominating, 31 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf.

Including (ff. 3v-12r), in a single hand, fourteen poems, headed Verses of Madam Orindas and most subscribed Orinda, in relatively early versions, none dating later than 1650-51, subscribed (f. 12v) thus Farr Madam Orinda.

c.1651-86

Owned, in 1927 by Percy Dobell, and item 14 in one of his sale catalogues of poetical manuscripts.

Recorded in IELM as the Cardiff MS: PsK Δ 3. Recorded, collated and the text of three otherwise unknown poems by Philips printed in Thomas (1990); these three poems also edited in Thomas (1988), pp. 54-7. A complete microfilm of the MS is in the National Library of Wales.

Cardiff Central Library (MS 2.1073 f. 8v)
On Controversies in Religion ('Religion, which true policy befriends')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 120-4. Poems (1667), pp. 59-61. Saintsbury, pp. 542-3. Thomas, I, 130-2, poem 44.

*PsK 226
Autograph

Autograph, imperfect.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 218, 216, 214 (ff. 3, 4, 5 rev.))
PsK 227

This MS collated in Thomas; discussed in Elmen.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 380-2)
PsK 228

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 83-4)
PsK 229

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

PsK 230

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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.

Early 18th century

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: 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).

PsK 231

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

On Little Regina Collyer, on the same tombstone ('Vertue's blossom, beauty's bud')

First published in Poems (1664), p. 158. Poems (1667), p. 78. Saintsbury, p. 552. Thomas, I, 149, poem 56.

*PsK 232
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B p. 7)
PsK 233

Copy, headed On Little Regina Collier, on ye. same Tomb:stone.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B p. 354)
PsK 234

Copy, headed On the Death of little Regina Collier.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably several hands over a period, one predominating, 31 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf.

Including (ff. 3v-12r), in a single hand, fourteen poems, headed Verses of Madam Orindas and most subscribed Orinda, in relatively early versions, none dating later than 1650-51, subscribed (f. 12v) thus Farr Madam Orinda.

c.1651-86

Owned, in 1927 by Percy Dobell, and item 14 in one of his sale catalogues of poetical manuscripts.

Recorded in IELM as the Cardiff MS: PsK Δ 3. Recorded, collated and the text of three otherwise unknown poems by Philips printed in Thomas (1990); these three poems also edited in Thomas (1988), pp. 54-7. A complete microfilm of the MS is in the National Library of Wales.

Cardiff Central Library (MS 2.1073 f. 8r)
PsK 235

Copy, headed on little regina Collier.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 236

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

PsK 237

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

On Mr Francis Finch (the excellent Palemon) ('This is confest presumption. for had I')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 146-50. Poems (1667), pp. 72-3. Saintsbury, pp. 549-50. Thomas, I, 143-5, poem 52.

*PsK 238
Autograph

Autograph, headed On Mr Francis Finch (the excellent Palemon).

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 9, 11, 13)
PsK 239

Copy, headed The Excellent Palaemon.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 351-3)
PsK 240

Copy, headed On the excellent Paloemon.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 4-5)
PsK 241

Copy, headed On Mr ffrancis ffinch the Exelent Palaemon.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 30-1)
PsK 242

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 243

Copy, headed In nobilem Palæmonem.

This MS collated in Thomas, where it is suggested (I, 46) that Crouch's source was probably Francis Finch (Palaemon), who was for a time a gentleman commoner of Balliol. Also collated in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation and recorded in Sant & Brown.

A quarto notebook in Latin and English, in a single neat hand, written from both ends, 35 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

Compiled by Nicholas Crouch (c.1618-90), bursar of Balliol College and notary.

Late 17th century
Balliol College, Oxford (MS 336 ff. 10v-11r)
On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship ('Great Soul of Friendship, wither art thou fled?')

First published in Poems (1667), p. 106. Saintsbury, pp. 566-7. Thomas, I, 176-7, poem 68. Kissing the Rod, pp. 194-5.

PsK 244

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

On the Coronation ('Hee comes. whose browe though for a crowne soe fit')

First published in Mambretti (1977), p. 450. Thomas, I, 249-50, poem 124.

PsK 245

Copy, subscribed Mrs. Philips.

Edited from this MS in Mambretti and in Thomas.

A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, compiled in part by John Locke (1632-1704), philosopher, and also in part by Thomas Barlow and Sylvester Brownover, xxviii + 358 pages (pp. 224-358 blank), in calf.

Late 17th century
Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Locke e. 17 pp. 94-6)
On the death of my first and dearest childe, Hector Philipps, borne the 23d of Aprill, and dy'd the 2d of May 1655, set by Mr Lawes ('Twice Forty moneths in wedlock I did stay')

First published, as Orinda upon little Hector Philips, in Poems (1667), pp. 148-9. Saintsbury, pp. 590-1. Hageman (1987), p. 599. Thomas, I, 220, poem 101.

*PsK 246
Autograph

Autograph of the first two stanzas, with blanks left for stanzas 3 and 4, headed on ye death of my first & dearest child, Hector Philipps borne ye 23d of Aprill & dy'd the 2d of May 1655. set by Mr Lawes.

Edited from this MS (first two stanzas) in Thomas; also in Kissing the Rod, pp. 196-7; collated in Hageman.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B p. 111)
PsK 247

Copy of the first two stanzas, headed Orinda upon little Hector Philips.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

PsK 248

Copy, headed Orinda upon little Hector Philips.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 248.5

Copy, headed Mis Phillipps Elegie On The Death of her sonn and here beginning Twice forty month of wedlock I did stay.

A folio formal verse miscellany, in a single rounded hand, 259 pages (plus a three-page index), in modern boards.

The contents, the latest of which (on pp. 203-7) can be dated to a marriage that took place in November 1656, reflect the taste of Interregnum Royalist sympathisers.

c.Late 1650s

Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 4001. Sotheby's, 29 June 1946, lot 164, to Myers. Then in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

University College London (MS Ogden 42 p. 215)
PsK 249 c.1665

Copy of the first stanza in a musical setting, headed on the Death of an Infant and subscribed Hen: Lawes.

This MS recorded (without identification of the poem) in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Paris Conservatoire MS. Rés. 2489, MD, 23 (1969), 117-39 (p. 126). Identified and discussed, with a facsimile, in Joan S. Applegate, Katherine Philips's Orinda upon Little Hector: An Unrecorded Musical Setting by Henry Lawes, EMS, 4 (1993), 272-80. Facsimile also in Elizabeth H. Hageman, Making a Good Impression: Early Texts of Poems and Letters by Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, South Central Review, 11 (Summer 1994), 39-65 (p. 46).

Portion of a folio songbook compiled by John Playford (1623-86?).

c.1660
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Département de la Musique (MS Conservatoire Rés. 2489 p. 273)
On the Death of my Lord Rich, Only Son to the Earle of Warwick, who dy'd of the Small Pox. 1664 ('Have not so many precious lives of late')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 135-6. Saintsbury, pp. 582-3. Thomas, I, 206-7, poem 89.

PsK 250

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 345-6)
PsK 251

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

On the death of the Duke of Gloucester ('Great Gloucester's dead, and yet in this we must')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 18-22. Poems (1667), pp. 9-11. Saintsbury, pp. 512-13. Thomas, I, 78-9, poem 8.

PsK 252

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 294-6)
PsK 253

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 58-9)
PsK 254

Copy, headed On ye death of ye Illustrious Duke of Gloucester.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 70-1)
PsK 255

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

On the death of the Queen of Bohemia ('Although the most do with officious heat')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 24-7. Poems (1667), pp. 12-13. Saintsbury, pp. 514-15. Thomas, I, 81-2, poem 10.

PsK 256

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 302-3)
PsK 257

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Thomas; also in Kissing the Rod, pp. 198-9.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 64-5)
PsK 258

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

PsK 259

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 260

Copy, added at the end.

This MS collated in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation.

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly in French, in at least two hands, one on f. 3r dated 1662. /Jan. 9th, in quarter calf on marbled boards.

According to a note in another hand on a tipped-in slip of paper (f. 44r) and dated [16]83 the volume was compiled by one Du Prat for Mademoiselle Hardy.

c.1662/3-1683

This volume discussed, with a facsimile of the note on f. 44r, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 139-44) and the contents listed on pp. 161-4.

On the death of the truly honourable Sir Walter Lloid Knight ('At Obsequies where so much grief is due')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 152-3. Saintsbury, pp. 592-3. Thomas, I, 224-5, poem 105.

PsK 261

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

On the faire weather at the Coronacon ('So clear a season, and so snatch'd from storms')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 9-10. Poems (1667), p. 5. Saintsbury, p. 509. Hageman (1987), p. 585. Thomas, I, 73, poem 4.

PsK 262

Copy, headed On ye Fayre weather at ye Coronation.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B p. 300)
PsK 263

Copy, headed On the faire weather at the Coronacon.

Edited from this MS in Thomas; collated in Hageman.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 264

Copy, headed On ye faire weather just at Coronation.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 71-2)
PsK 265

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 266

Copy, headed The faire weather at the Coronation betwixt 2 great stormes which preceded and followed it, subscribed Mrs Philips.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, compiled in part by John Locke (1632-1704), philosopher, and also in part by Thomas Barlow and Sylvester Brownover, xxviii + 358 pages (pp. 224-358 blank), in calf.

Late 17th century
Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Locke e. 17 pp. 93-4)
PsK 266.5

Copy.

A small octavo notebook, in English and Latin, in several hands, 140 leaves, in half-calf.

Compiled, at least in part, by George Sacheverell (d.1715), including letters by him to women, begun when he was resident at Oriel College, Oxford, in August 1651.

c.1651-66

Other inscriptions include W Hippisley his Book, Lucey Hippisley, Frank Hippisley 1662, George Pudsey, Herbert Pudsey, Robert Pudsey, Sarah Chapman, G. Chapman, and Hob Knowle 1662 / 1663.

PsK 267 Late 17th century

Copy, originally untitled, the heading Vpon the Kings coming in. 1660 added in another hand, on the third page of two conjugate folio leaves.

A disbound collection of chiefly verse MSS, in several hands, largely folio.

Once belonging to the Newdegate family of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 572.

PsK 267.5

The text for line 12, printed as a row of asterisks, added in MS (possibly from the 1667 edition of the Poems).

An exemplum of the printed edition of Katherine Philips's Poems (London, 1664), with MS additions in an unidentified cursive hand, including additional titles in The Table for pages 243-7 which are not present in the volume.

Late 17th century

Inscribed John ffreeman on the title-page.

Princeton (RHT 17th-463 p. 10)
On the 1. January 1657 ('Th' Eternal Centre of my life and me')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 141-2. Saintsbury, p. 587. Thomas, I, 213, poem 94.

PsK 268

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 269

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo miscellany of largely moral or religious verse and prose, chiefly in a small stylish cursive hand, with additions in margins and borders in a second even smaller hand, 316 pages (plus four pages of religious notes), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

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

Late-17th century

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.

On the little Regina Collier, on the same Tomb-stone ('Vertue's Blossom, Beauty's Bud')

See PsK 232-237.

On the numerous accesse of the English to waite upon the King in Holland ('Hasten (great prince) unto thy British Isles')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 3-4. Poems (1667), p. 2. Saintsbury, pp. 507-8. Thomas, I, 70-1, poem 2.

PsK 270

Copy, headed On the numerous resort of ye English to wait upon his Majesty in Flanders.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 290-1)
PsK 271

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Thomas; also in Kissing the Rod, pp. 197-8.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 272

Copy, headed On the Numerous Accesse of the English to wait upon the King in fflanders.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

PsK 273

Copy, headed On the numerous Access of the English to wait upon the King in Flanders..

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 274

Copy, in an accomplished hand, headed Vpon ye Numerous accesse of ye English Gentry to his Matie, in Flanders on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, ascribed to Mrs, K. P.. Late 17th century.

This MS collated in Thomas and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation.

A folio composite volume of verse and academic plays, in English and Latin, in various hands, 493 leaves, now in two volumes, foliated 1-250 and 251-493 respectively.

Partly compiled by Archbishop Sancroft.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 306 Vol. II, f. 367r)
PsK 274.5

Copy, headed On ye Numerous Accesse of ye English to waite upon ye King in Flanders.

A small octavo notebook, in English and Latin, in several hands, 140 leaves, in half-calf.

Compiled, at least in part, by George Sacheverell (d.1715), including letters by him to women, begun when he was resident at Oriel College, Oxford, in August 1651.

c.1651-66

Other inscriptions include W Hippisley his Book, Lucey Hippisley, Frank Hippisley 1662, George Pudsey, Herbert Pudsey, Robert Pudsey, Sarah Chapman, G. Chapman, and Hob Knowle 1662 / 1663.

On the 3d September 1651 ('As when the Glorious Magazine of Light')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 27-9. Poems (1667), pp. 13-14. Saintsbury, p. 515. Hageman (1987), pp. 585-6. Thomas, I, 82-3, poem 11.

*PsK 275
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas; collated in Hageman.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 168, 166 (ff. 28, 29 rev.))
PsK 275.8

Copy, headed On the numerous access of the English to waite vpon his Mats in Flanders and ascribed to Katherin Philips.

A folio volume, with a few manuscript poems entered, probably by an Oxford University man, on the first ten pages, all the rest blanks, in a vellum wrapper.

c.1670s

Among archives of the Harcourt family, of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire.

Private owners in the UK (Harcourt MS f. [1r])
PsK 276

Copy, headed On the 3 of September.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 364-5)
PsK 277

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 278

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

PsK 279

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 280

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo miscellany of largely moral or religious verse and prose, chiefly in a small stylish cursive hand, with additions in margins and borders in a second even smaller hand, 316 pages (plus four pages of religious notes), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

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

Late-17th century

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.

PsK 280.5

Copy of a version headed On ye 29 of January 1648 [i.e. on the execution of Charles I, 29 January 1648/9].

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single cursive hand, 30 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half-calf.

Compiled by a royalist.

Mid-late 17th century

Inscribed (f. 1r) Wm Godolphin Servt to Mr Savile and Hen: Savile Servt: to Mr Godolphin.

On the Welch Language ('If honour to an ancient name be due')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 131-2. Saintsbury, pp. 580-1. Thomas, I, 202-3, poem 86.

PsK 281

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 340-2)
PsK 282

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

PsK 282.5

Copy, in a neat hand, as Wrote by Mrs Catherine Philips of Porth Einion near Cardigan town, on a single quarto leaf.

Recorded in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation, pp. 47-8.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, correspondence, and verse, in Welsh and English, in various hands and paper sizes, 241 leaves.

Mid 18th-century

Assembled and partly written by Lewis Morris (1701-65), poet, scholar and cartographer. Donated by the Governors of the Welsh School, 1844.

PsK 283

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 284

Copy, headed On ye British Language by K. Phil:ps.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo miscellany of largely moral or religious verse and prose, chiefly in a small stylish cursive hand, with additions in margins and borders in a second even smaller hand, 316 pages (plus four pages of religious notes), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

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

Late-17th century

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.

Orinda to Lucasia ('Observe the weary birds e're night be done')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 153-4. Saintsbury, pp. 593-4. Thomas, I, 226, poem 106.

PsK 285

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 286

Copy, headed On a Friend's Absence.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo miscellany of largely moral or religious verse and prose, chiefly in a small stylish cursive hand, with additions in margins and borders in a second even smaller hand, 316 pages (plus four pages of religious notes), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

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

Late-17th century

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.

Orinda to Lucasia parting, October 1661. at London ('Adieu, dear Object of my Love's excess')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 139-41. Saintsbury, pp. 585-7. Thomas, I, 211-13, poem 93.

PsK 287

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

Orinda upon little Hector Philips ('Twice forty months of Wedlock I did stay')

See PsK 246-249.

Parting with a Friend ('Whoever thinks that Joyes below')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 159-61. Saintsbury, pp. 596-7. Thomas, I, 231-3, poem 112.

PsK 288

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

Parting with Lucasia 13th Janury 1657/8 A song ('Well! we will doe that rigid thing')

First published, with the date Jan 13. 1657, in Poems (1664), pp. 133-5. Poems (1667), pp. 65-6. Saintsbury, p. 546. Hageman (1987), pp. 595-6. Thomas, I, 136-7, poem 46.

*PsK 289
Autograph

Autograph, headed Parting with Lucasia 13th Jann 1657/8 A song.

Edited from this MS in Thomas; collated in Hageman.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 125, 127)
PsK 290

Copy, headed A Parting with Lucasia.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 246-7)
PsK 291

Copy, headed Parting wt Lucasia. 13 January 1657./1658..

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 292

Copy, headed Parting with Lucasia 13 January 1657 A Song.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 79-80)
PsK 293

Copy, headed Parting with Lucasia, A Song.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

A Pastoral of Mons. de Scudery's in the first volume of Almahide, Englished ('Slothful deceiver, come away')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 184-96. Saintsbury, pp. 604-9. Thomas, III, 102-16.

PsK 294

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 117-35)
PsK 295

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

Philoclea's parting. Mrs M. Stedman. Feb: 25. 1650 ('Kinder then a condemned man's reprieve')

First published, with the date Feb. 25. 1650, in Poems (1664), p. 114. Poems (1667), p. 56. Saintsbury, p. 540. Thomas, I, 126, poem 41.

*PsK 296
Autograph

Autograph, headed Phioclea's parting/ Mrs M. Stedman. ffeb: 25. 1650.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B p. 37)
PsK 297

Copy, headed Philoclea's parting; Feb: 25. 1650.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B p. 356)
PsK 298

Copy, headed To my Deare Philoclea on her Parting.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably several hands over a period, one predominating, 31 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf.

Including (ff. 3v-12r), in a single hand, fourteen poems, headed Verses of Madam Orindas and most subscribed Orinda, in relatively early versions, none dating later than 1650-51, subscribed (f. 12v) thus Farr Madam Orinda.

c.1651-86

Owned, in 1927 by Percy Dobell, and item 14 in one of his sale catalogues of poetical manuscripts.

Recorded in IELM as the Cardiff MS: PsK Δ 3. Recorded, collated and the text of three otherwise unknown poems by Philips printed in Thomas (1990); these three poems also edited in Thomas (1988), pp. 54-7. A complete microfilm of the MS is in the National Library of Wales.

Cardiff Central Library (MS 2.1073 f. 12v)
PsK 299

Copy, headed 25 Febr: 1660. Philoclea parting.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 300

Copy, headed philocleas parting ffebr: 25 1650.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

PsK 301

Copy, headed Philoclea parting.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

A Prayer ('Eternal Reason, Glorious Majesty')

See PsK 115-120.

The Princess royall's Returne into England ('Welcome sure pledge of reconciled powers')

First published, as Upon the Princess Royal her Return into England, in Poems (1664), pp. 16-18. Poems (1667), pp. 8-9. Saintsbury, pp. 511-12. Thomas, I, 77-8, poem 7.

PsK 302

Copy, headed To the Princess Royall At her returne into England.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 296-7)
PsK 303

Copy, headed The Prinesse [sic] royall's Returne into England.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 304

Copy, headed The Princesse Royall her Returne into Englande.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 69-70)
PsK 305

Copy, headed Vpon the Princess Royal her Return into England.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 306

Copy, in an accomplished hand, headed Vpon ye Comeing of ye Princesse Royal Into England, ascribed to Mrs K. P., on the third page of two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.

This MS collated in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation.

A folio composite volume of verse and academic plays, in English and Latin, in various hands, 493 leaves, now in two volumes, foliated 1-250 and 251-493 respectively.

Partly compiled by Archbishop Sancroft.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 306 Vol. II, f. 368r)
A Resvery ('A chosen Privacy, a cheap Content')

See PsK 176-184.

A Retir'd friendship, to Ardelia. 23d Augo 1651 ('Come, my Ardelia, to this bowre')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 56-9. Poems (1667), pp. 28-9. Saintsbury, p. 524. Hageman (1987), pp. 592-3. Thomas, I, 97-8, poem 22.

*PsK 307
Autograph

Autograph, the poem here dated 23d. Aug°. 1651.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), pp. 27-8, and in Thomas; collated in Hageman.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 59, 61)
PsK 308

Copy, the poem here dated 1651.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman; discussed in Elmen.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 316-17)
PsK 309

Copy, headed A retired friendship to Ardelia, the poem here dated 23 Aug. 1651.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 310

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 46-7)
PsK 311

Copy, headed A retir'd freinship. to a friende and here beginning Come, my deare friende, into this Bower.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto verse miscellany entitled A Collection of Verses Fancyes and Poems, Morrall and Devine, in a single hand, i + 180 leaves, (including index), in contemporary calf.

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

PsK 312

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 313

Copy of a completely recast eighteen-line version, headed Song and beginning With joie we do leave thee, together with some music.

Edited from this MS in Charles Chenevix Trench, The Western Rising (London, 1969), pp. 83-4. Edited from this MS, and discussed, with facsimiles, in Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993), pp. 209-14.

A duodecimo notebook apparently found in the D[uke] of Monmouths pocket when he was taken [after the Battle of Sedgemoor] and is most of his owne hand writing.

c.1683-5
The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 1527 ff. 56r-v)
Rosania shaddow'd whilest Mrs M. Awbrey. 19. Septemb. 1651 ('If any could my dear Rosania hate')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 94-9. Poems (1667), pp. 48-50. Saintsbury, pp. 535-7. Thomas, I, 117-20, poem 34.

*PsK 314
Autograph

Autograph, the poem here initially dated 15 Septemb. 1651.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 19, 21, 23)
PsK 315

Copy, headed Rosania shaddowed.

This MS collated in Thomas. Facsimile of p. 274 in Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 173.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 274-6)
PsK 316

Copy, headed 15 Sept. 1651 Rosania shadowed.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 9-11)
PsK 317

Copy, headed Rosania shaddowed whilest Mrs M Awbery.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 33-5)
PsK 318

Copy, headed Rosania shadowed whilest Mrs. Mary Awbrey.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 318.5

Copy, headed To Parthenia and here beginning If any could my deare Parthenia hate.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single cursive hand, 30 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half-calf.

Compiled by a royalist.

Mid-late 17th century

Inscribed (f. 1r) Wm Godolphin Servt to Mr Savile and Hen: Savile Servt: to Mr Godolphin.

PsK 318.8

Copy, headed Orinda, To Parthenia A shaddow of Rosania and subscribed Ka. Ph:.

A folio formal verse miscellany, in a single rounded hand, 259 pages (plus a three-page index), in modern boards.

The contents, the latest of which (on pp. 203-7) can be dated to a marriage that took place in November 1656, reflect the taste of Interregnum Royalist sympathisers.

c.Late 1650s

Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 4001. Sotheby's, 29 June 1946, lot 164, to Myers. Then in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

University College London (MS Ogden 42 pp. 217-20)
Rosania to Lucasia on her Letters ('Ah! strike outright, or else forbear')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 144-5. Saintsbury, pp. 588-9. Thomas, I, 216-17, poem 98.

*PsK 319 Mid-late 17th century
Autograph

Autograph fair copy, headed Rosania to Lucasia on some letters, on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.

This MS identified and collated in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Independently identified in 1991 by Elizabeth Hageman. Discussed, with a facsimile, in Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993), pp. 181, 184-5.

A large folio guardbook of chiefly verse MSS, in Latin, English and Greek, in various hands, at least some relating to Cambridge University, 408 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

PsK 320

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

Rosania's privage marriage ('It was a wise and kind design of fagte')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 106-8. Poems (1667), pp. 52-3. Saintsbury, p. 538. Thomas, I, 122-3, poem 37.

*PsK 321
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 25, 27)
PsK 322

Copy in a second hand.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 358-9)
PsK 323

Copy, headed Rosanias private marriage.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 324

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 35-6)
PsK 325

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

A sea voyage from tenby to Bristoll, 5 of September 1652. Sent to Lucasia 8th September 1652 ('Hoise up the saile, cry'd they who understand')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 39-42. Poems (1667), pp. 19-21. Saintsbury, pp. 519-20. Thomas, I, 88-90, poem 16.

*PsK 326
Autograph

Autograph, headed A Sea=Voyage from Tenby to Bristoll begun the 5th. Sept: 1652 sent fro Bristoll to Lucasia ye 8th Sept:—, on the rectos of two detached quarto leaves.

Originally part of the Tutin MS (National Library of Wales, NLW MS 775 B), where the leaves were once between the present pages 88 and 89.

c.late 1650s

Identified and discussed, with a complete facsimile, in Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993), pp. 175-8.

PsK 327

Copy, headed A Sea Voyage from Tenby to Bristol. 1651.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 323-5)
PsK 328

Copy, headed A sea voyage from Tenby to Bristoll 5 of September 1652.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 38-9)
PsK 329

Copy, headed A Sea Voyage from Tenby to Bristoll begun ye 5th of Sept 1652 sent from Bristoll to Lucasia the 8th of Sept 1652.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 55-6)
PsK 330

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

Set by Mr. H. Lawes/ A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda ('Say, my Orinda, why so sad?')

See PsK 58-61.

6t Aprill 1651 L'amitié: To Mrs M. Awbrey ('Soule of my soule! my Joy, my crown, my friend!')

See PsK 205-209.

Song ('Ascend a throne, great Queen! to you')

See PsK 584.

Song ('From lasting and unclouded Day')

See PsK 578-580.

Song ('Proud monuments of royal Dust!')

See PsK 581-583.

Song to the Tune of Adieu Phillis (''Tis true, our Life is but a long disease')

See PsK 432-436.

Song, to the tune of, Sommes nous pas trop heureux ('How prodigious is my Fate')

First published in Poems (1667), p. 126. Saintsbury, p. 577. Thomas, I, 196-7, poem 79.

PsK 331

Edited from this MS in Thomas and in Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993), p. 202.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B p. 312 bis)
PsK 332

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993), p. 202.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

PsK 333

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 334

Copy, headed Song.

This MS collated in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Edited from this MS in Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993), p. 202.

A quarto verse miscellany, including (ff. 113r-15r) copies of, or brief extracts from, 30 poems by Donne (plus two apocryphal poems), in a single hand, transcribed from the 1635 or 1639 edition of Donne's Poems, headed Donnes quaintest conceits in several hands, 156 leaves (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt.

Late 17th century

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.

PsK 334.5

Copy of the heading (Song) and first line only, the rest of the page left blank.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 335

Copy on a single folded folio leaf.

Copy, the first line in the hand of Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716), the rest in an unidentified cursive hand, untitled, on a single folded folio leaf containing on the verso some accounts in Trumbull's hand for the years 1659-60.

1659-60

From the papers of the Trumbull family of Easthampstead Park, Berkshire.

Edited from this MS and briefly discussed, with a facsimile, in Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993), pp. 200-2.

Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn Poetry Box XIII/41)
The Soule ('How vaine a thing is man, whose noblest part')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 222-8. Poems (1667), pp. 114-17. Saintsbury, pp. 571-3. Thomas, I, 185-8, poem 73.

*PsK 336
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 196, 194, 192, 190 (ff. 14, 15, 16, 17 rev.))
PsK 337

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 257-9)
PsK 337.5

Copy of a version of lines 79-80, headed Mrs Kath. Phillips her Verses on the Soul. / the 2 last lines thus Paraphras'd, ye lines are these, and here beginning who yeild to all yt does their Souls convince.

An octavo verse miscellany, chiefly translations from Welsh, in a single neat italic hand, 49 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco elaborately gilt.

Late 17th century

From the library of the Ormsby Gore family, Barons Harlech, of Brogyntyn (or Porkington), Oswestry, Shropshire.

National Library of Wales (Brogyntyn MS I. 28 p. 34)
PsK 338

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 72-4)
PsK 339

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 8-9)
PsK 340

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

PsK 341

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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.

Early 18th century

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: 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).

PsK 341.5

Copy of lines 77-8, untitled, here beginning He that comands himself is more a Prince, subscribed Orinda p. 117, transcribed from the folio edition of 1667.

An oblong duodecimo verse miscellany, perhaps largely in one hand, with later additions by others, generally written across the page with the spine turned upwards, 136 leaves, with (f. 2r-v) a table of contents, in half green morocco.

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

c.1668-1713

Inscribed (f. 2r) Several Divine poems out of a Mss. of Mr. 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.

PsK 342

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 343

Copy, subscribed Mrs. K: P.

A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf.

c.1713

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.

Submission (''Tis so. and humbly I my will resign')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 209-13. Poems (1667), pp. 108-10. Saintsbury, pp. 567-9. Thomas, I, 178-81, poem 70.

*PsK 344
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 156, 154, 152 (ff. 34, 35, 36 rev.))
PsK 345

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 389-92)
PsK 346

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 86-7)
PsK 347

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 18-19)
PsK 348

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

PsK 349

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto verse miscellany entitled A Collection of Verses Fancyes and Poems, Morrall and Devine, in a single hand, i + 180 leaves, (including index), in contemporary calf.

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

PsK 350

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 351

Copy, headed Out of Mrs Phillip's her Poems / On Submission and beginning at line 5 (here As in ye great Creation of this All).

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo miscellany of largely moral or religious verse and prose, chiefly in a small stylish cursive hand, with additions in margins and borders in a second even smaller hand, 316 pages (plus four pages of religious notes), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

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

Late-17th century

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149 (Osborn MS b 118 pp. 59-61)
Syndænia ('Soe to be good, that all men shall confesse')

First published in Patricia M. Sant and James N. Brown, Two Unpublished Poems by Katherine Philips, ELR, 24, No. 1 (Winter 1994), 211-28 (p. 226).

PsK 351.5

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Sant & Brown. Discussed. with a facsimile, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 132-5).

A quarto notebook in Latin and English, in a single neat hand, written from both ends, 35 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

Compiled by Nicholas Crouch (c.1618-90), bursar of Balliol College and notary.

Late 17th century
Balliol College, Oxford (MS 336 f. 7r)
Tendres desers out of a French prose ('Go soft desires, Love's gentle Progeny')

First published in Poems (1667), p. 184. Saintsbury, p. 604. Thomas, III, 92.

PsK 352

Copy, headed Tendres desirs.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B p. 105)
PsK 353

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 353.5

MS copy.

An exemplum of the printed edition of Katherine Philips's Poems (London, 1664), with MS additions in an unidentified cursive hand, including additional titles in The Table for pages 243-7 which are not present in the volume.

Late 17th century

Inscribed John ffreeman on the title-page.

Princeton (RHT 17th-463 p. 237)
PsK 354

Copy, headed A Lover.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in a largely secretary hand, 222 pages, in calf.

c.1705
Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS c 189 p. 29)
To Antenor, on a paper of mine wch J. Jones threatens to publish to his prejudice ('Must then my crimes become thy scandall too?')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 91-2. Poems (1667), p. 47. Saintsbury, p. 535. Thomas, I, 116-17, poem 33.

PsK 355

Copy, headed To Antenor On a paper of mine, wch: an unworthy Aduersr:y of his, threatned to publish, to pregiudice him, in Cromwels time and here beginning Must then my folly's, be thy scandall too?.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B p. 265)
PsK 356

Copy, headed To Antenor on a paper of mine yt I. Jones threatened to publish to his preiudice.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 357

Copy, headed To Antenor on a paper of mine wch J: Jones threatens to publish to prjudice him.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 40-1)
PsK 358

Copy, headed To Antenor, on a Paper of mine which J.J. threatens to publish to prejudice him.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To Celimena ('Forbear, fond heart (say I) torment no more')

First published in Poems (1667), p. 154. Saintsbury, p. 594. Thomas, I, 227, poem 107.

PsK 359

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To her royall highnesse, the Dutchesse of Yorke, on her command to send her some things I had wrote ('To you, whose dignitie strikes us with awe')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 22-4. Poems (1667), pp. 11-12. Saintsbury, pp. 513-14. Thomas, I, 80, poem 9.

PsK 360

Copy, headed To her Royall Highness ye Dutchess of York, with some papers of mine which she comanded.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 301-2)
PsK 361

Copy, headed To her royall highnesse the Dutchesse of York, on her com and to send her some things I had wrote.

Edited from this MS in Thomas; also in Kissing the Rod, pp. 201-2.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 362

Copy, headed To her Highnes the Dutches of Yorke on her Comanding me to send her some things that I had written.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

PsK 363

Copy, headed To Her Royall Highness the Dutchess of York, on her commanding me to send her some things that I had written.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 364

Copy, headed To her Royall Highness the Dutchess of York who commanded mee to send her what I had writen, subscribed Mrs Philips.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, compiled in part by John Locke (1632-1704), philosopher, and also in part by Thomas Barlow and Sylvester Brownover, xxviii + 358 pages (pp. 224-358 blank), in calf.

Late 17th century
Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Locke e. 17 pp. 96-7)
PsK 365

Copy, headed To Her Royall Highnes ye Dutches of york. Who commanded Mrs. Philips to send her what vses she had written, here beginning Madam / To you whose dignity strikes us with aw, added at the end.

This MS collated in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Facsimile of f. 69r in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (p. 142).

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly in French, in at least two hands, one on f. 3r dated 1662. /Jan. 9th, in quarter calf on marbled boards.

According to a note in another hand on a tipped-in slip of paper (f. 44r) and dated [16]83 the volume was compiled by one Du Prat for Mademoiselle Hardy.

c.1662/3-1683

This volume discussed, with a facsimile of the note on f. 44r, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 139-44) and the contents listed on pp. 161-4.

To his Grace Gilbert Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, July 10. 1664 ('That private shade, wherein my Muse was bred')

See PsK 429-31.

To J.J. esq: upon his melancholly for Regina ('Give over now thy teares, thou vain')

First published, as To Philaster, on his Melancholy for Regina, in Poems (1664), p. 113. Poems (1667), p. 55. Saintsbury, p. 540. Hageman (1987), p. 595. Thomas, I, 126, poem 40.

*PsK 366
Autograph

Autograph, headed To J.J. Esqr: upon his melancholly for Regina.

Edited from this MS in Thomas; collated in Hageman.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B p. 37)
PsK 367

Copy, headed To Philaster, on his Melancholy for Regina.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B p. 355)
PsK 368

Copy, headed Orinda to Philaster.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably several hands over a period, one predominating, 31 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf.

Including (ff. 3v-12r), in a single hand, fourteen poems, headed Verses of Madam Orindas and most subscribed Orinda, in relatively early versions, none dating later than 1650-51, subscribed (f. 12v) thus Farr Madam Orinda.

c.1651-86

Owned, in 1927 by Percy Dobell, and item 14 in one of his sale catalogues of poetical manuscripts.

Recorded in IELM as the Cardiff MS: PsK Δ 3. Recorded, collated and the text of three otherwise unknown poems by Philips printed in Thomas (1990); these three poems also edited in Thomas (1988), pp. 54-7. A complete microfilm of the MS is in the National Library of Wales.

Cardiff Central Library (MS 2.1073 f. 5r)
PsK 369

Copy, headed To Philaster on his melancholy for Regina.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 370

Copy, headed To Philaster on his Melancholy for Regina.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

PsK 371

Copy, headed To Philaster on his Melancholy for Regina.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To Mr. Henry Lawes ('Nature, which is the vast Creation's Soul')

See PsK 512-516.

To Mr. Henry Vaughan, Silurist, on his Poems ('Had I ador'd the multitude, and thence')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 54-6. Poems (1667), pp. 27-8. Saintsbury, p. 523. Thomas, I, 96-7, poem 21.

*PsK 372
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas. Facsimile of p. 55 in Katherine Philips The Matchless Orinda Selected Poems, ed. J.R. Tutin (Cottingham near Hull, [1904]), frontispiece.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 55, 57)
PsK 373

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 372-3)
PsK 374

Copy, headed To Mr Henry Vaughan Silurist.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 375

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 45-6)
PsK 376

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To Mr. J.B. the noble Cratander, upon a composition of his, which he was not willing to own publiquely ('As when some Injur'd Prince assumes disguise')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 62-4. Poems (1667), pp. 31-2. Saintsbury, pp. 525-6. Thomas, I, 100-1, poem 24.

*PsK 377
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 69, 71)
PsK 378

Copy, headed To ye. noble Cratander Upon a Composition of his, wch. he was not willing to own publikly.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 356-8)
PsK 379

Copy, headed To Cratander, upon a composicon of his he was not willing to owne publiquely.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 380

Copy, headed To Mr John Berkenhead (the Noble Cratander) Vpon a Composicon of his wch he was not willing to own publiquely.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 49-50)
PsK 381

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To Mr. Sam Cooper, having taken Lucasia's Picture given December 14. 1660 ('If noble things can noble thoughts infuse')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 158-9. Saintsbury, p. 596. Thomas, I, 230-1, poem 111.

PsK 382

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To Mrs. M.A. upon absence (set by Mr Henry Law's) 12. Decemb 1650 (''Tis now since I began to dy')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 142-4. Poems (1667), pp. 69-70. Saintsbury, p. 548. Thomas, I, 141-2, poem 49.

*PsK 383
Autograph

Autograph, headed To Mrs M.A. upon absence. (set by Mr Henry Laws) 12. Decemb 1650.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), p. 26, and in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B p. 17)
PsK 384

Copy, headed To Rosania on dispaire of seeing her.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably several hands over a period, one predominating, 31 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf.

Including (ff. 3v-12r), in a single hand, fourteen poems, headed Verses of Madam Orindas and most subscribed Orinda, in relatively early versions, none dating later than 1650-51, subscribed (f. 12v) thus Farr Madam Orinda.

c.1651-86

Owned, in 1927 by Percy Dobell, and item 14 in one of his sale catalogues of poetical manuscripts.

Recorded in IELM as the Cardiff MS: PsK Δ 3. Recorded, collated and the text of three otherwise unknown poems by Philips printed in Thomas (1990); these three poems also edited in Thomas (1988), pp. 54-7. A complete microfilm of the MS is in the National Library of Wales.

Cardiff Central Library (MS 2.1073 f. 6r-v)
PsK 385

Copy, headed 12. decbr. 1650 To Mrs Mary Awbrey. upon absence: set by Mr Henry Lawes.

This MS collated in Thomas. Facsimile in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 29 June 1965, lot 223.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 386

Copy, headed To Mrs M: A: vpon absence Set by Mr Hen: Lawes.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

PsK 387

Copy, headed To Mris. M.A. upon Absence.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To Mrs. Mary Awbrey ('Soul of my Soul, my joy, my crown, my Friend')

See PsK 205-209.

To Mrs. Mary Awbrey at parting ('I have examin'd, and do find')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 150-4. Poems (1667), pp. 74-6. Saintsbury, pp. 550-1. Thomas, I, 145-7, poem 53.

PsK 388

Copy, headed To Rosania At parting. 1650.

This MS collated in Thomas; discussed in Elmen.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 314-16)
PsK 389

Copy, headed Parting From Rosania.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably several hands over a period, one predominating, 31 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf.

Including (ff. 3v-12r), in a single hand, fourteen poems, headed Verses of Madam Orindas and most subscribed Orinda, in relatively early versions, none dating later than 1650-51, subscribed (f. 12v) thus Farr Madam Orinda.

c.1651-86

Owned, in 1927 by Percy Dobell, and item 14 in one of his sale catalogues of poetical manuscripts.

Recorded in IELM as the Cardiff MS: PsK Δ 3. Recorded, collated and the text of three otherwise unknown poems by Philips printed in Thomas (1990); these three poems also edited in Thomas (1988), pp. 54-7. A complete microfilm of the MS is in the National Library of Wales.

Cardiff Central Library (MS 2.1073 ff. 6v-8r)
PsK 390

Copy, headed To Mrs Mary Awbrey at parting.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 7-8)
PsK 391

Copy, headed To Mrs M: A: at Parting.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 32-3)
PsK 392

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To Mrs M. Karne, when J. Jeffreys Esqre courted her ('As some great Conquerour, who knows no bounds')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 59-61. Poems (1667), pp. 30-1. Saintsbury, pp. 524-5. Thomas, I, 99-100, poem 23.

*PsK 393
Autograph

Autograph, headed To Mrs M. Karne when J. Jeffreys Esqr Courted her.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 51, 53)
PsK 394

Copy, headed To Cimena when Philaster courted her.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 276-7)
PsK 395

Copy, headed To Mrs M.C: courted by Philaster.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 396

Copy, headed To Mrs Mary Carne when Phlaster Courted her.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 44-5)
PsK 397

Copy, headed To Mrs. Mary Carne, when Philaster courted her.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To Mrs Wogan, my honour'd friend, on the Death of her husband ('Dry up your teares, there's ennow shed by you')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 182-4. Poems (1667), pp. 91-2. Saintsbury, p. 559. Thomas, I, 162-3, poem 62.

*PsK 398
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 146, 144 (ff. 39, 40 rev.))
PsK 399

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 374-5)
PsK 400

Copy, headed To Mrs Wogan on ye death of her husband.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 89-90)
PsK 401

Copy, headed To Mrs Wogan my hould freind on the death of her husband.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 20-1)
PsK 402

Copy, headed To Mrs. Wogan on the Death of her Husband. a Good man. By Mrs. Phillips.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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.

Early 18th century

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: 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).

PsK 403

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To my Antenor, March 16. 1661/2 ('My dear Antenor, now give o're')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 145-6. Saintsbury, p. 589. Kissing the Rod, pp. 200-1. Thomas, I, 217-18, poem 99.

PsK 404

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 404.5

Copy, in a roman hand, untitled.

A duodecimo miscellany of verse, prose and astronomical drawings, in several hands, written from both ends, 89 leaves (including 27 blanks), in contemporary leather.

Associated with Oxford University.

c.1695

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 10580. Formerly Princeton MS 3584.614.

Princeton (CO199 No. 241 f. 75v-r rev.)
To my dear Sister Mrs. C.P. on her nuptialls ('We will not like those men our offerings pay')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 52-4. Poems (1667), pp. 26-7. Saintsbury, pp. 522-3. Hageman (1987), p. 590-1. Thomas, I, 95-6, poem 20.

*PsK 405
Autograph

Autograph, headed To my deare Sister Mrs. C: P. on her nuptialls and here beginning We will not like those men yt offerings pay.

Edited from this MS in Thomas; collated in Hageman.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B p. 89)
PsK 406

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 371-2)
PsK 407

Copy, headed To Mrs C.P. on her nuptialls.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 408

Copy, headed To my deare Sistr Mrs CP on her Nuptiall.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

PsK 409

Copy, headed To my dear Sister Mrs. C.P. on her Marriage.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 409.8

The text for line 6, printed as a row of asterisks, added in MS (possibly from the 1667 edition of the Poems).

An exemplum of the printed edition of Katherine Philips's Poems (London, 1664), with MS additions in an unidentified cursive hand, including additional titles in The Table for pages 243-7 which are not present in the volume.

Late 17th century

Inscribed John ffreeman on the title-page.

Princeton (RHT 17th-463 p. 52)
PsK 410

Copy, headed Orinda on her Sisters Nuptial.

A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf.

c.1713

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.

To my dearest Antenor on his parting ('Though it be Just to grieve when I must part')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 155-7. Poems (1667), pp. 76-7. Saintsbury, pp. 551-2. Hageman (1987), pp. 596-7. Thomas, I, 148-9, poem 54.

*PsK 411
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas; collated in Hageman.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 3, 5)
PsK 412

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 263-5)
PsK 413

Copy, headed To Antenor parting.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 414

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 28-9)
PsK 415

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To my dearest friend, her greatest loss, which she suffer'd the 27th. Decemb: 1655 ('As when two sister rivelets, who crept')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 137-9. Saintsbury, pp. 584-5. Thomas, I, 208-10, poem 92.

PsK 416

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To my dearest Friend, upon her shunning Grandeur ('Shine out, rich Soul! to greatness be')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 161-3. Saintsbury, pp. 597-8. Thomas, I, 233-5, poem 113.

PsK 417

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To my excellent Lucasia, on our friendship. 17th. July 1651 ('I did not live untill this time')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 104-5. Poems (1667), pp. 51-2. Saintsbury, p. 537. Hageman (1987), pp. 593-4. Thomas, I, 121-2, poem 36 (dating the poem 1651).

*PsK 418
Autograph

Autograph, the poem here dated 17th July 1653.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), pp. 16-17, and in Thomas; collated in Hageman.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B p. 49)
PsK 419

Copy, headed To my Excellent Lucasia On our mutuall friendship promis'd 17. July 1651.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B p. 320)
PsK 420

Copy, headed 17 July 1652 To the excellent Lucasia on our Friendship.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 421

Copy, the poem here dated 17 July 1651.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

PsK 422

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To my Lady Ann Boyle's saying I look'd angrily upon her ('Ador'd Valeria, and can you conclude')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 130-1. Saintsbury, pp. 579-80. Thomas, I, 201-2, poem 85.

PsK 423

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B p. 339)
PsK 424

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 424.5

MS copy.

An exemplum of the printed edition of Katherine Philips's Poems (London, 1664), with MS additions in an unidentified cursive hand, including additional titles in The Table for pages 243-7 which are not present in the volume.

Late 17th century

Inscribed John ffreeman on the title-page.

Princeton (RHT 17th-463 p. 238)
To my Lady Elizabeth Boyle, Singing — Since affairs of the State &ca. ('Subduing Fayre! what will you win')

First published in Poems (1667), p. 107. Saintsbury, p. 567. Thomas, I, 177-8, poem 69.

PsK 425

Copy, headed To my Lady Elizabeth Boyle, singing — Since affairs of ye State & I.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 283-4)
PsK 426

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To my Lady M. Cavendish, chosing the name of Policrite ('That Nature in your frame has taken care')

First published in Poems (1667), p. 142. Saintsbury, p. 587. Thomas, I, 213-14, poem 95.

PsK 427

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To my Lord and Lady Dungannon on their Marriage 11. May 1662 ('To you, who, in your selves, do comprehend')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 165-6. Saintsbury, pp. 599-600. Thomas, I, 237-9, poem 115.

PsK 428

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To my Lord Arch:Bishop of Canterbury his Grace 1664 ('That private shade, wherein my Muse was bred')

First published, as To his Grace Gilbert Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, July 10. 1664, in Poems (1667), pp. 166-8. Saintsbury, pp. 600-1. Thomas, I, 239-40, poem 116.

PsK 429

Copy, headed To my Lord Arch:Bishop of Canterbury his Grace 1664.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 347-9)
PsK 430

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 430.5 Late 17th century

Copy, headed To my L of Canterburies Grace, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

An unbound bundle of verse MSS, in various hands.

Late 17th century

Among archives of the Copped (or Copt) Hall estate, chiefly relating to the Conyers family.

Essex Record Office, Chelmsford (D/DW Z3 [unnumbered item])
PsK 431

Copy, in a professional hand, headed To my Lord Bishop of Canterbury his Grace, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, docketed Entered, and endorsed Mrs Philips her Verses to my Lord of Canterbury1664.

Miscellaneous papers.

Late 17th century

Descended from the family of William, Earl of Craven (1606-97).

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Craven MSS] [unnumbered item])
To my Lord Biron's tune of — Adieu Phillis ('Tis true, our life is but a long disease')

First published, as Song to the Tune of Adieu Phillis, in Poems (1667), p. 127. Saintsbury, p. 578. Thomas, I, 198, poem 81.

PsK 432

Copy, headed To my Lord Birons tune of — Adieu Phillis.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B p. 240)
PsK 433

Copy, headed Song to the tune of Adieu Phillis.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

PsK 434

Copy, headed The Trouble.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto verse miscellany entitled A Collection of Verses Fancyes and Poems, Morrall and Devine, in a single hand, i + 180 leaves, (including index), in contemporary calf.

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

PsK 435

Copy, headed Song to the tune of Adieu Phillis.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 436

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo miscellany of largely moral or religious verse and prose, chiefly in a small stylish cursive hand, with additions in margins and borders in a second even smaller hand, 316 pages (plus four pages of religious notes), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

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

Late-17th century

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.

To my Lord Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, on the discovery of the late Plot ('Though you (Great Sir) be Heaven's immediate Care')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 150-1. Saintsbury, pp. 591-2. Thomas, I, 222-3, poem 103.

*PsK 437 1663
Autograph

Autograph presentation fair copy, headed To my Lord Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland on the discovery of the late Plot and endorsed by Ormonde, Verses Mrs Phillipps /10 July 1663/ Ld Dunganon, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves.

Formerly among MS poems presented to, or owned by, James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Formerly British Library, Loan MS 37/6, p. 127. Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 275, to Quaritch.

Edited from this MS in Thomas. Recorded in HMC, 14th Report, Appendix, Part VII, Ormonde I (1895), p. 114. Identified as autograph, with a facsimile example, in Hilton Kelliher, Cowley and Orinda. Autograph Fair Copies, BLJ, 2 (1976), 102-8 (p. 107). Facsimiles of the first page and the endorsement in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

A guardbook of MSS, in various hands.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 21702 E ff. 158r-9v)
PsK 438

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To my Lucasia ('Let dull Philosophers enquire no more')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 118-20. Poems (1667), pp. 58-9. Saintsbury, p. 541. Thomas, I, 128-9, poem 43.

*PsK 439
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 107-8)
PsK 440

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 365-6)
PsK 441

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 442

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 61-2)
PsK 443

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To my Lucasia, in defence of declared friendship ('O! my Lucasia, let us speak our Love')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 165-71. Poems (1667), pp. 82-5. Saintsbury, pp. 554-6. Thomas, I, 153-6, poem 59.

*PsK 444
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 110, 108, 106, 104, 102 (ff. 57, 58, 59, 60, 61 rev.))
PsK 445

Copy, headed To Lucasia In defence of declaring friendship.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 327-30)
PsK 446

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 47-9)
PsK 447

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 62-4)
PsK 448

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To Pastora being with her Friend ('While you the double joy obtain')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 163-5. Saintsbury, p. 598. Thomas, I, 235-7, poem 114.

PsK 449

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To Philaster, on his Melancholy for Regina ('Give over now thy tears, thou vain')

See PsK 366-371.

To Regina Collier, on her cruelty to Philaster ('Triumphant Queen of scorn! how ill doth sit')

See PsK 85-89.

To Rosania & Lucasia Articles of Friendship ('The Soules which vertu hath made fitt')

First published in The Female Spectator: English Women Writers before 1800, ed. Mary R. Mahl and Helene Koon (Bloomington & London, 1977), pp. 157-9. Thomas, I, 254-6, poem 131, among Doubtful Poems.

PsK 450

Copy, ascribed to Orinda, in double columns on a single quarto leaf.

Edited from this MS in Mahl & Koon and in Thomas; also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation and in Kissing the Rod, pp. 157-9.

Scrapbook of MS verse.

Late 17th century

Bought by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833) from an old Catholic family named Hawkins seated at Boughton, near Canterbury, Kent. Later Phillipps MS 8923.

To Rosania (now Mrs Mountague) being with her, 25th September. 1652 ('As men that are with visions grac'd')

First published, with the date Septemb. 25. 1652, in Poems (1664), pp. 115-18. Poems (1667), pp. 56-8. Saintsbury, pp. 540-1. Thomas, I, 127-8, poem 42.

*PsK 451
Autograph

Autograph, the poem here dated 25th September. 1652.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 29, 31)
PsK 452

Copy, headed To Rosania Decr. 25. 1652.

This MS collated in Thomas; discussed in Elmen.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 238-9)
PsK 453

Copy, headed 25 Sept: 1662 To Rosania.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 454

Copy, the poem here dated 25 Sept 1652.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 36-7)
PsK 455

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 455.5

Copy, headed To a Lady upon ye short injoyment of her company

A small octavo notebook, in English and Latin, in several hands, 140 leaves, in half-calf.

Compiled, at least in part, by George Sacheverell (d.1715), including letters by him to women, begun when he was resident at Oriel College, Oxford, in August 1651.

c.1651-66

Other inscriptions include W Hippisley his Book, Lucey Hippisley, Frank Hippisley 1662, George Pudsey, Herbert Pudsey, Robert Pudsey, Sarah Chapman, G. Chapman, and Hob Knowle 1662 / 1663.

To Sir Amorous La Foole ('Bless us, here's a doe indeed!')

First published in Thomas (1988), p. 55. Thomas (1990), I, 251-2, poem 126.

PsK 456

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably several hands over a period, one predominating, 31 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf.

Including (ff. 3v-12r), in a single hand, fourteen poems, headed Verses of Madam Orindas and most subscribed Orinda, in relatively early versions, none dating later than 1650-51, subscribed (f. 12v) thus Farr Madam Orinda.

c.1651-86

Owned, in 1927 by Percy Dobell, and item 14 in one of his sale catalogues of poetical manuscripts.

Recorded in IELM as the Cardiff MS: PsK Δ 3. Recorded, collated and the text of three otherwise unknown poems by Philips printed in Thomas (1990); these three poems also edited in Thomas (1988), pp. 54-7. A complete microfilm of the MS is in the National Library of Wales.

Cardiff Central Library (MS 2.1073 f. 4r)
To Sir Edward Deering (the noble Silvander) on his Dream and Navy, personating Orinda's preferring Rosania before Solomon's Traffick to Ophir ('Sir, To be noble, when 'twas voted down')

See PsK 517-521.

To the Countess of Roscommon, with a Copy of Pompey ('Great Pompey's Fame from Egypt made escape')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 151-2. Saintsbury, p. 592. Thomas, I, 223-4, poem 104.

PsK 457

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To the Countess of Thanet, upon her Marriage ('Since you who Credit to all wonders bring')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 132-4. Saintsbury, pp. 581-2. Thomas, I, 203-5, poem 87.

PsK 458

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 342-4)
PsK 459

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To the excellent Mrs. A.O. upon her receiving the name of Lucasia, and adoption into our society 29 Decemb 1651 ('We are compleat. and faith hath now')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 102-3. Poems (1667), pp. 32-3. Saintsbury, p. 526. Thomas, I, 101-2, poem 25.

*PsK 460
Autograph

Autograph, headed To the excellent Mrs. A.O. upon her receiving the name of Lucasia, and adoption into our society [29 Decemb 1651 added by the same hand in different ink].

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), pp. 15-16, and in Thomas; also in Kissing the Rod, pp. 101-2.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B p. 41)
PsK 461

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B p. 361)
PsK 462

Copy, headed 29 December 1651 To the excellent Lucasia on her taking that name & adoption into our societie.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 463

Copy, the date in the title here given as 23 Decem: 1651.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 41-2)
PsK 464

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To the Honoured Lady E.C. ('I do not write to you that men may know')

See PsK 498-501.

To the Lady E. Boyl ('Ah lovely Celimena! why')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 149-50. Saintsbury, p. 591. Thomas, I, 221-3, poem 102.

PsK 465

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To the Lady Mary Butler at her marriage with the Lord Cavendish, Octobr. 1662 ('At such a time as this, when all conclude')

First published, as To the Right Honourable, the Lady Mary Butler, at Her Marriage to the Lord Cavendish and as by a Lady, in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663) [apparently unique extant exemplar Folger, C6681.5], pp. 51-2. Thomas, I, 250-1, poem 125.

PsK 466

Copy, headed To ye Rt: Honble: ye. Lady Mary Boteler on her marriage to my Lord Cauendish Octr. 1662.

Edited from this MS in Mambretti (1977), pp. 447-8; collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 309-10)
PsK 467

Copy, headed To the Lady Mary Butler at her marriage wt ye Lord Cauendish octobr. 1662.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 116-17)
To the noble Palaemon on his incomparable discourse of Friendship ('We had been still undone, wrapt in disguise')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 29-31. Poems (1667), pp. 14-15. Saintsbury, pp. 515-16. Hageman (1987), pp. 586-7. Thomas, I, 83-4, poem 12.

*PsK 468
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), pp. 14-15, and in Thomas; collated in Hageman.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 95, 97)
PsK 468.5

The text for line 26, printed as a row of asterisks, added in MS (possibly from the 1667 edition of the Poems).

An exemplum of the printed edition of Katherine Philips's Poems (London, 1664), with MS additions in an unidentified cursive hand, including additional titles in The Table for pages 243-7 which are not present in the volume.

Late 17th century

Inscribed John ffreeman on the title-page.

Princeton (RHT 17th-463 p. 30)
PsK 468.8

Exemplum of the printed edition of Poems (1664), in which, on p. 30, the row of asterisks after line 26 has been neatly filled by a reader as Thy Chains would be but like embracing Arms.

Late 17th century

Facsimile in Elizabeth H. Hageman, Making a Good Impression: Early Texts of Poems and Letters by Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, South Central Review, 11 (Summer 1994), 39-65 (p. 56).

Smith College ([no shelfmark])
PsK 469

Copy, headed To Palaemon on his discourse of friendship.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 280-2)
PsK 470

Copy, headed To the incomparable Palaemon on his noble discourse of friendship.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 471

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 58-9)
PsK 472

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To the Queen of inconstancie, Regina, in Antwerp ('Unworthy, since thou hast decreed')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 100-1. Poems (1667), pp. 50-1. Saintsbury, p. 537. Thomas, I, 120-1, poem 35.

PsK 473

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B p. 232)
PsK 474

Copy, headed For the Queen of Inconstancy in Antwerp.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably several hands over a period, one predominating, 31 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf.

Including (ff. 3v-12r), in a single hand, fourteen poems, headed Verses of Madam Orindas and most subscribed Orinda, in relatively early versions, none dating later than 1650-51, subscribed (f. 12v) thus Farr Madam Orinda.

c.1651-86

Owned, in 1927 by Percy Dobell, and item 14 in one of his sale catalogues of poetical manuscripts.

Recorded in IELM as the Cardiff MS: PsK Δ 3. Recorded, collated and the text of three otherwise unknown poems by Philips printed in Thomas (1990); these three poems also edited in Thomas (1988), pp. 54-7. A complete microfilm of the MS is in the National Library of Wales.

Cardiff Central Library (MS 2.1073 ff. 11v-12r)
PsK 475

Copy, headed To the Queen of inconstancie Regina in Antwerp.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 476

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 39-40)
PsK 477

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To the Queen on her arrivall at Portsmouth. May. 1662 ('Now that the seas and winds so kind are growne')

First published as a broadside (London, 1662). Poems (1664), pp. 10-13. Poems (1667), pp. 5-7. Saintsbury, pp. 509-10. Thomas, I, 74-5, poem 5.

Two known exempla of the broadside at Harvard (*pEB65 A100 662t) and at Worcester College, Oxford. Discussed, with a facsimile of the Harvard exemplum, in Elizabeth H. Hageman, The false printed Broadside of Katherine Philips's To the Queens Majesty on her Happy Arrival, The Library, 6th Ser. 17/4 (December 1995), 321-6. The Worcester College exemplum is illustrated in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), p. 158.

PsK 478

Copy, here dated May. 1662 and beginning Now that ye winds & seas so kind are grown.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 304-5)
PsK 479

Copy, headed To the Queen on her arriuall at Portsmouth May. 1662.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 112-13)
PsK 480

Copy, the date in the title given as May 1662.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 74-5)
PsK 481

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 481.5

Copy, headed To the Queen's Maiesty on her happy arriuall, on a single folio leaf.

Late 17th century
PsK 481.8

Copy of 28 lines, headed To ye Queens Majesty on her arrival at Portsmouth, May. 14. 1662.

A small octavo notebook, in English and Latin, in several hands, 140 leaves, in half-calf.

Compiled, at least in part, by George Sacheverell (d.1715), including letters by him to women, begun when he was resident at Oriel College, Oxford, in August 1651.

c.1651-66

Other inscriptions include W Hippisley his Book, Lucey Hippisley, Frank Hippisley 1662, George Pudsey, Herbert Pudsey, Robert Pudsey, Sarah Chapman, G. Chapman, and Hob Knowle 1662 / 1663.

To the Queen-mother's Majesty, Jan. 1. 1660/1 ('You justly may forsake a Land which you')

See PsK 482-485.

To the Queen's majesty, Jan. 1. 1660/1 ('You justly may forsake a land which you')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 13-16. Poems (1667), pp. 7-8. Saintsbury, pp. 510-11. Thomas, I, 75-7, poem 6.

PsK 482

Copy, headed To ye Queen-Mother At her leauing England Janry. 1st. 1660/1.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 298-9)
PsK 483

Copy, headed To the Queenes maiestie Jan 1. 1660/61.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 484

Copy, headed To the Queen mothrs Maty Jan: 1st. 1660/61.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 66-7)
PsK 485

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

*PsK 485.5
Autograph

Autograph, headed To ye Queens Majesty, on both sides of a single quarto leaf, once folded as a letter.

A collection of unbound verse manuscripts, in various hands and paper sizes (chiefly folio), 142 leaves.

Partly compiled by Sir Richard Browne and his father Christopher Browne (1577-1646), of Saye's Court, Deptford.

Volume LXVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Acquired March 1995.

To the Queen's Majesty, on her late Sickness and Recovery ('The publick Gladness that's to us restor'd')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 234-6. Poems (1667), pp. 121-2. Saintsbury, pp. 574-5. Thomas, I, 191-2, poem 76.

PsK 486

Copy, here beginning The publicke gladness is to us restor'd.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 285-6)
PsK 487

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 488

Copy, headed To the Queen's Majesty, in her Late Sicknesse and here beginning The publiq joy wch is to vs restor'd.

A quarto verse miscellany, including (ff. 113r-15r) copies of, or brief extracts from, 30 poems by Donne (plus two apocryphal poems), in a single hand, transcribed from the 1635 or 1639 edition of Donne's Poems, headed Donnes quaintest conceits in several hands, 156 leaves (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt.

Late 17th century

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.

PsK 488.5

Copy.

A small octavo notebook, in English and Latin, in several hands, 140 leaves, in half-calf.

Compiled, at least in part, by George Sacheverell (d.1715), including letters by him to women, begun when he was resident at Oriel College, Oxford, in August 1651.

c.1651-66

Other inscriptions include W Hippisley his Book, Lucey Hippisley, Frank Hippisley 1662, George Pudsey, Herbert Pudsey, Robert Pudsey, Sarah Chapman, G. Chapman, and Hob Knowle 1662 / 1663.

PsK 489

Copy, subscribed Kath: Philips, on the first page of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed On the Queens Recovery by Ms Philips.

Late 17th century

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

To the Right Honobl. Alice, Countess of Carberry, at her enriching Wales with her presence ('Madam, / As when the first day dawn'd, man's greedy ey')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 31-3. Poems (1667), pp. 16-17. Saintsbury, pp. 516-17. Thomas, I, 84-5, poem 13.

*PsK 490
Autograph

Autograph of the first two stanzas only, headed To the Right Honoble: Alice Countess of Carberry, on her enriching wales with her presence, imperfect, the rest of the poem torn out.

The first two stanzas edited from this MS in Thomas. Facsimile in Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993), p. 179.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B p. 67)
*PsK 491
Autograph

Autograph fair copy, headed On the Right honoble: Alice Countess of Carberry's enriching Wales with her presence, on both sides of a single quarto leaf.

Autograph fair copy, headed On the Right honoble: Alice Countess of Carberry's enriching Wales with her presence, on both sides of a single quarto leaf.

c.1652

Among papers of the Egerton family, Earls of Bridgewater (Alice, Countess of Carbery, being daughter of John Egerton, first Earl of Bridgewater).

This MS identified and discussed, with a facsimile, in Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993), pp. 180-3. Facsimile of both pages also in Elizabeth H. Hageman, Making a Good Impression: Early Texts of Poems and Letters by Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, South Central Review, 11 (Summer 1994), 39-65 (pp 41-2).

PsK 492

Copy, headed To ye. Rt. Hble: Alce Counts of Carbury, on her enriching Wales wth: her Presence.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 369-70)
PsK 493

Copy, headed To the right honourable Alice Countesse of Carbery, on her enriching wales at her presence.

This MS collated and the third stanza edited in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 494

Copy, headed To the Right Honorable Alice Countesse of Carbury on her enriching Wales with her prsence.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

PsK 495

Copy, headed To the Right Honourable Alice Countess of Carbury, at her coming into Wales.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 496

Copy, headed To Alicia Count: of Carbery Coming into Wales.

This MS collated in Thomas, where it is suggested (I, 46) that Crouch's source was probably Francis Finch (Palaemon), who was for a time a gentleman commoner of Balliol. Recorded in Sant & Brown.

A quarto notebook in Latin and English, in a single neat hand, written from both ends, 35 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

Compiled by Nicholas Crouch (c.1618-90), bursar of Balliol College and notary.

Late 17th century
Balliol College, Oxford (MS 336 f. 10r)
To the Right Honourable the Countess of Cork ('Madam, / As some untimely Flower, whose bashful head')

First published in Pompey (London, 1667). Thomas, I, 241-2, poem 117.

PsK 497

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To the Rt Hono: the Lady E.C. ('Madam / I do not write to you that men may know')

First published, as To the Honoured Lady E.C., in Poems (1664), pp. 124-33. Poems (1667), pp. 61-5. Saintsbury, pp. 543-6. Thomas, I, 132-6, poem 45.

PsK 498

Copy, headed To my Lady Elizabeth Carre.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 241-5)
PsK 499

Copy, headed on the right honble the Lady E.C..

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 108-11)
PsK 500

Copy, headed On ye Honble Lady E:C:, followed (p. 88) by a poem Written vpon this last Copy by Mr Jff (beginning Madam ye praises of yor freind shall live).

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 85-8)
PsK 501

Copy, headed To the Honoured Lady E.C..

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To the Right Honourable, the Lady Mary Butler, at Her Marriage to the Lord Cavendish ('At such time as this when all conclude')

See PsK 466-467.

To (the truly competent Judge of Honour) Lucasia, upon a scandalous libell made by J. Jones ('Honour, which differs man from man much more')

First published, with J. Jones in the title, in Poems (1664), pp. 87-91. With J.J. in the title, in Poems (1667), pp. 45-6. Saintsbury, pp. 533-5. Thomas, I, 114-16, poem 32.

*PsK 502
Autograph

Autograph, the name in the title here given as J. Jones.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 43, 45, 47)
PsK 503

Copy, headed To Lucasia On a libellous Pasquill written on me, by yt. Person who had so much disoblig'd Antenor, (& it is mention'd in a coppy in this book, beginning this, Must then my folly's &c).

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 235-7)
PsK 504

Copy, the name in the title here given as J. Jones.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 22-3)
PsK 505

Copy, the name in the title here given as J. Jones.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 42-3)
PsK 506

Copy, the name in the title here given as J. J..

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To the truly noble, and obleiging Mrs: Anne Owen (on my first approaches) ('As in a triumph conquerours admit')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 93-4. Poems (1667), pp. 33-4. Saintsbury, pp. 526-7. Thomas, I, 102-3, poem 26.

*PsK 507
Autograph

Autograph, headed To the truly noble, and obleiging Mrs. Anne Owen. (on my first approaches).

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B p. 39)
PsK 508

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B p. 360)
PsK 509

Copy, headed To the truly noble Lucasia: on my first approach.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 510

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

PsK 511

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To the truly noble Mr Henry Lawes ('Nature, which is the vast creation's soule')

First published, as To the much honoured Mr. Henry Lawes, On his Excellent Compositions in Musick, in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). As To Mr. Henry Lawes in Poems (1664), pp. 37-9. Poems (1667), pp. 18-19. Saintsbury, pp. 518-19. Hageman (1987), pp. 587-8. Thomas, I, 87-8, poem 15.

*PsK 512
Autograph

Autograph, headed To the truly noble Mr Henry Lawes.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), pp. 30-1, and in Thomas; collated in Hageman.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 91, 93, 90)
PsK 513

Copy, headed To ye. truly noble. Mr. Henry Lawes.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 370-1)
PsK 514

Copy, headed To Mr Henry Lawes.

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 515

Copy, headed To ye truly Noble Mr Hen: Lawes.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 57-8)
PsK 516

Copy, headed To Mr. Henry Lawes.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

To the truly noble Sir Ed: Dering (the worthy Silvander) on his dream, and navy ('Sir, to be noble, when 'twas voted down')

First published, as To Sir Edward Deering (the noble Silvander) on his Dream and Navy, personating Orinda's preferring Rosania before Solomon's Traffick to Ophir, in Poems (1664), pp. 34-6. Poems (1667), pp. 17-18. Saintsbury, pp. 517-18. Thomas, I, 86-7, poem 14.

*PsK 517
Autograph

Autograph, without the preamble, headed To the truly noble Sr Ed: Dering (ye worthy Silvander,) on his dream, & navy.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), pp. 28-9, and in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 63, 65)
PsK 518

Copy, with the preamble, headed To Sr Edward Dering ye. Noble Silvander who dream'd yt. I thus prefer'd Rosania's friendship before Salomons traffick to Ophir. 1651.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 287-8)
PsK 519

Copy, with the preamble, headed To the noble Silvander on his dreame and navy, personating Orinda preferring Rosania before Salomons traffique to Orphir in these verses.

This MS collated (and the Dering quotation edited from it) in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 28-9)
PsK 520

Copy, with the preamble, headed To Sr Edwd Deering (ye Noble Silvandr) on his dreame of Navy personating Orindae's prserving Rosania before Solomons Trafique to Ophir.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 47-8)
PsK 521

Copy, with the preamble, headed To Sir Edward Deering (the noble Silvander) on his Dream and Navy, personating Orinda's preferring Rosania before Solomons Traffick to Ophir.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

Translation of Thomas a Kempis into Verse, out of Mons. Corneille's lib. 3. Cap. 2. Englished ('Speak, Gracious Lord, thy servant hears')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 196-8. Saintsbury, pp. 609-10. Thomas, III, 116-18.

PsK 522

Copy, headed A Fragment. Mr: Corneille upon ye. Imitation of Jesus-Christ: Lib: 3: Capt: 2d. Englished.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 135-7)
PsK 523

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

A Triton to Lucasia going to Sea, shortly after the Queen's arrival ('My Master Neptune took such pains of late')

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 146-8. Saintsbury, pp. 589-90. Thomas, I, 218-19, poem 100.

PsK 524

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

2 Corinth. 5. 19. v. God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself. 8to Aprilis 1653 ('When God, contracted to humanity')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 214-16. Poems (1667), pp. 110-11. Saintsbury, p. 569. Thomas, I, 181-2, poem 71.

*PsK 525
Autograph

Autograph, the poem here dated 8to. Aprilis 1653.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 150, 148 (ff. 37, 38 rev.))
PsK 526

Copy, headed Good Friday God was in christ reconciling ye World to himself 2. Cor: 5 & 19th.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 262-3)
PsK 527

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 88-9)
PsK 528

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 19-20)
PsK 529

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto verse miscellany entitled A Collection of Verses Fancyes and Poems, Morrall and Devine, in a single hand, i + 180 leaves, (including index), in contemporary calf.

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

PsK 530

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 531

Copy, headed 2 Cor: 5. 19.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo miscellany of largely moral or religious verse and prose, chiefly in a small stylish cursive hand, with additions in margins and borders in a second even smaller hand, 316 pages (plus four pages of religious notes), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

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

Late-17th century

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.

Upon Mr. Abraham Cowley's Retirement. Ode ('No, no, unfaithful World, thou hast')

See PsK 219-224.

Upon the double murther of K. Charles, in answer to a libellous rime made by V.P. ('I thinke not on the state, nor am concern'd')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 1-3. Poems (1667), pp. 1-2. Saintsbury, p. 507. Hageman (1987), pp. 584-5. Thomas, I, 69-70, poem 1.

PsK 532

Copy, headed On ye double murther of ye King. (In answer to a libellous paper written by V: Powell, at my house) These verses were those mention'd in ye. precedent coppy [see PsK 355]..

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 266-7)
PsK 533

Copy, headed Vpon the double Murther of Charles the First In answeare to a libellous Copy of rimes made by .V.P..

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably several hands over a period, one predominating, 31 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf.

Including (ff. 3v-12r), in a single hand, fourteen poems, headed Verses of Madam Orindas and most subscribed Orinda, in relatively early versions, none dating later than 1650-51, subscribed (f. 12v) thus Farr Madam Orinda.

c.1651-86

Owned, in 1927 by Percy Dobell, and item 14 in one of his sale catalogues of poetical manuscripts.

Recorded in IELM as the Cardiff MS: PsK Δ 3. Recorded, collated and the text of three otherwise unknown poems by Philips printed in Thomas (1990); these three poems also edited in Thomas (1988), pp. 54-7. A complete microfilm of the MS is in the National Library of Wales.

Cardiff Central Library (MS 2.1073 f. 11r-v)
PsK 534

Copy, headed Vpon the double murther of K Charles in answer to a libellous rime made by V.P:.

Edited from this MS in Thomas; collated in Hageman.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 535

Copy, headed Vpon ye double Murther of K: Ch: in answeare to a libellous Coppy of Rhimes made by Vavasor Powell.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 48-9)
PsK 536

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

Upon the engraving. K:P: on a Tree in the short walke at Barn=Elms ('Alass! how barbarous are we')

First published, as Upon the graving of her Name upon a Tree in Barnelmes Walks, in Poems (1667), p. 137. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 208, poem 91. Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in The Works of Henry Purcell, XXII, ed. W. Barclay Squire and J.A. Fuller-Maitland (London, 1922), pp. 153-4.

PsK 537

Copy, headed Upon ye. engraving: K: P: on a Tree in ye. short walke at Barn=Elms.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B p. 350)
PsK 538

Copy, headed Vpon the graving of her Name upon a Tree in Barnelmes Walks.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 539

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed A song.

This MS recorded in Franklin B. Zimmerman, Henry Purcell: An Analytical Catalogue (London & New York, 1963), No. 482.

A folio music book.

End of 17th century
PsK 540

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

This MS recorded in Zimmerman; also in Mabretti's 1979 dissertation.

A folio volume of vocal music, probably in a single cursive hand, 190 leaves, in remains of vellum boards within modern half red morocco.

c.1682

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

PsK 541

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

Folio music book.

Early 18th century

Once owned by one Richard Goodson.

Christ Church, Oxford (MS Mus. 23 ff. 10v-11r)
PsK 542

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

This MS recorded in Zimmerman.

A folio MS music book.

c.1680
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (MU MS 118 pp. 36-7)
PsK 543

Copy, headed Upon graving a Name on a Tree.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in a largely secretary hand, 222 pages, in calf.

c.1705
Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS c 189 p. 29)
Upon the Hollow Tree unto which his Majestie escaped after the unfortunate Battell at Worcester ('Haile aged Tree! Jove keepe thee from all harmes')

Thomas, I, 257, poem 133, among Doubtful Poems.

Upon the Princess Royal her Return into England ('Welcome sure Pledge of reconciled Powers')

See PsK 302-306.

The Virgin ('The things that make a Virgin please')

First published in Poems (1667), p. 136. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 207-8, poem 90.

PsK 544

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 349-50)
PsK 545

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

PsK 546

Copy, headed The Pleasing Virgin. by Mrs. Phillips

This MS collated in Thomas.

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.

Early 18th century

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: 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).

PsK 547

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 548

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo miscellany of largely moral or religious verse and prose, chiefly in a small stylish cursive hand, with additions in margins and borders in a second even smaller hand, 316 pages (plus four pages of religious notes), in contemporary red morocco gilt.

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

Late-17th century

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.

PsK 549

Copy, headed A Virgin.

This MS collated in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation.

An octavo miscellany, 116 leaves.

Compiled by William Edmundson, D.D. (1672/3-1736), fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.

Early 18th century
PsK 550

Copy, as by Mrs Philips, in a quarto verse miscellany (occupying ff. 84r-117v). Early 18th century.

A tall folio composite volume of verse and some prose, chiefly translations from Latin, in various hands and paper sizes, 133 leaves, mounted on guards, in half red morocco.

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.

PsK 550.5

Copy, untitled.

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single possibly female hand, 36 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Mid-18th century

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

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 971 f. 16r)
PsK 551

Copy, untitled.

This MS text printed in Keynes, The Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttleton, p. 26.

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.

Late 17th century

Inscriptions (p. 1) Mary Browne (who d.1676) and James Dodsley and (p. 174) Mar. 11th 1713/4 The gift of Mrs Lyttelton to Edward Tenison. Percy Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1240. Bookplate of the Royal College of Medicine, London. Owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (Bibliotheca Bibliographici, No. 1301).

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.

PsK 552

Copy, apparently in the hand of Sir Clement Cottrell (1686-1758), superscribed Mrs Philips call'd Orinda wrote this, on a small folio leaf tipped-in a printed exemplum of Katherine Philips, Poems (London, 1676).

Early-mid-18th century

This MS recorded in Thomas, II, 163.

C. Cottrell-Dormer, Rousham ([no shelfmark])
PsK 553

Copy, headed A pure Dresse for a Virgin and here beginning The things that make a woman please.

A miscellany compiled by Benjamin Brown (1664-1748), of Troutbeck, High Constable of Kendal Ward.

Late 17th century
Cumbria Record Office, Kendal (WD/TE/Box 16/8 [unspecified page numbers])
PsK 553.5

A large octavo miscellany of verse and prose, the greater part in a single probably female hand, with additions into the 19th century, 111 leaves (including blanks), in quarter-calf on marbled boards.

Inscribed (f. 111v) with the name Sarah Bignell, possibly the principal compiler.

c.1750-70 [plus later additions]

Bookplate of The Pacific Union Club, San Francisco.

PsK 554

Copy, in a neat roman hand, on one side of a single small quarto leaf.

Late 17th-early 18th century
PsK 555

Copy, in a roman hand.

A duodecimo miscellany of verse, prose and astronomical drawings, in several hands, written from both ends, 89 leaves (including 27 blanks), in contemporary leather.

Associated with Oxford University.

c.1695

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 10580. Formerly Princeton MS 3584.614.

Princeton (CO199 No. 241 ff. 75r-74v rev.)
PsK 555.5

MS copy.

An exemplum of the printed edition of Katherine Philips's Poems (London, 1664), with MS additions in an unidentified cursive hand, including additional titles in The Table for pages 243-7 which are not present in the volume.

Late 17th century

Inscribed John ffreeman on the title-page.

Princeton (RHT 17th-463 p. 239)
PsK 556

Copy, subscribed Mrs K. P.

A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf.

c.1713

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.

Wiston=Vault ('And why this Vault and Tomb? alike we must')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 68-70. Poems (1667), p. 36. Saintsbury, p. 528. Thomas, I, 105-6, poem 28.

*PsK 557
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B p. 99)
PsK 558

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 326-7)
PsK 559

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

PsK 560

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

PsK 561

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

PsK 562

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

The World ('Wee falsly think it due unto our friends')

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 217-22. Poems (1667), pp. 111-13. Saintsbury, pp. 569-71. Thomas, I, 182-5, poem 72.

*PsK 563
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials K.P.

Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125).

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (Say, my Orinda, why so sad?): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

c. late 1650s

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Tutin MS: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 775 B pp. 204, 202, 200, 198 (ff. 10, 12, 13 rev.))
PsK 564

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 254-7)
PsK 565

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A folio volume of 74 poems by Katherine Philips (not in chronological order, but relating in large part to PsK Δ 1), the latest poem dated October 1662 (p. 116), written throughout in the hand of her friend (the noble Silvander) Sir Edward Dering, second Baronet (1625-84), two further poems (on pp. 114-15) represented by titles only, iv + 120 pages (plus stubs of a few excised pages), in contemporary vellum.

Thomas conjectures that this MS may have been transcribed by Dering from Katherine Philips's autograph texts at some time during her stay in Dublin, between July 1662 and July 1663, when Dering was there as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland.

c.1662-3

Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1858 (Dering sale), lot 1654, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 14937. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 223, to El Dieff. Formerly Pre-1700 MS 151.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dering MS: PsK Δ 4. A complete microfilm is in the British Library (M/769 (4)). Facsimile of p. 6 in the 1965 sale catalogue (see PsK 385). For the significance of Dering in Philips's circle, see Souers, pp. 67-71 et passim.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 151 pp. 69-71)
PsK 566

Copy.

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, A S in a gilt lozenge on each cover.

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.

c.1662[-1730s]

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.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 58 pp. 6-7)
PsK 567

Copy of lines 45-96, here beginning Our thoughts though nothing can be more our own, imperfect, the first 44 lines torn out.

This MS collated in Thomas.

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.

Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source.

Late 17th century

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as Rawlinson MS I: PsK Δ 6.

PsK 568

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A quarto verse miscellany entitled A Collection of Verses Fancyes and Poems, Morrall and Devine, in a single hand, i + 180 leaves, (including index), in contemporary calf.

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

PsK 569

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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.

Early 18th century

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: 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).

PsK 570

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 571

Copy.

A quarto miscellany entitled Poems, tracts & memoirs Collected by J Rolf beginning Anno 1700, in several neat hands, written over a period from both ends, 195 pages, with a tipped-in index, in contemporary green vellum.

c.1700-5 [with additions to 1777]

Inscribed inside the front cover N.H.W. Tytheridge, St James's Square, Notting Hill, W. Bookplate of G. Davies. Bequeathed by Susan Greene Dexter.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 606 p. 21 rev.)
PsK 571.5

Copy of lines 7-12, 15-16, 21-2, 27-30, 33-4, 45-56, 59-62, 65-6, and 69-70, incorporated (as lines 25-60) in a poem made up of extracts from several writers' verses.

Edited from this MS in Hammond's EMS article.

An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Poems & Verses on Several Occasions, MDCCXXVI, in a mainly single hand, 66 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary green vellum boards.

1726-c.1768

The title-page inscribed Anna. Rogers. Junr: 1768.

Discussed in Paul Hammond, Some Eighteenth-Century Texts and Adaptations of Rochester in Leeds MS Lt 110, EMS 18 (2013), 173-179.

Prose

A receipt to cure a Love sick Person who cant obtain the Party desired

First published in Ronald Lockley, Orielton (London, 1977), pp. 19-20. Claudia Limbert, Two Poems and a Prose Receipt: The Unpublished Juvenilia of Katherine Philips, ELR, 16 (1986), 383-90 (p. 390); reprinted in Women in the Renaissance, ed. Kirby Farrell, Elizabeth H. Hageman and Arthur F. Kinney (Amherst, 1988), 179-86 (p. 186).

*PsK 572
Autograph

Autograph piece of juvenilia.

Edited from this MS in Lockley and, with a facsimile, in Limbert.

A single cropped folio leaf of verse, once folded as a letter or packet.

Among papers descended from the family of Anne Owen, Katherine Philips's friend Lucasia, of Orielton, Pembrokeshire.

c.1646-8

Complete facsimile in Germaine Greer, Editorial Conundra in the Texts of Katherine Philips, in Editing Women, ed. Ann M. Hutchison and Margaret Anne Doody (Toronto, 1998), pp. 79-100 (pp. 96-7).

National Library of Wales (Orielton Deeds and Documents, Box 24, unnumbered document f. 1v)

Dramatic Works

Horace. A Tragedy. Translated from Monsieur Corneille

Translated from Pierre Corneille's Horace. Tragédie (Paris, 1641). First published (unfinished) with Poems (London, 1667). Sir John Denham's translation of the end of the Fourth Act and the Fifth Act added in Poems (London, 1669). Thomas, III, 119-81 (Philips's text), 247-59 (Denham's text).

PsK 573

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 139-204)
PsK 574

Copy.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

Pompey. A Tragedy

Translated from Pierre Corneille's La Mort de Pompée. Tragédie (Paris, 1644). First published in Dublin, 1663. London, 1663. Poems (1667). Thomas, III, 1-91.

See also Introduction.

*PsK 575
Autograph

Copy of the complete play (ff. 2r-35v), untitled, with the songs added at the end (ff. 36r-9r), 41 quarto leaves, in modern cloth, formerly bound in a composite volume.

Written in faint ink in a professional hand, with a few intermittent autograph corrections by Katherine Philips, seven lines in her hand at the end of Act III (f. 38r), and the first page and a half of the text (f. 2r-v), as well as occasional other words (such as on ff. 5v-6r), overwritten in darker ink possibly by her in an abortive attempt to reinforce the copy; the Prologue by Roscommon (f. 1r-v) and Epilogue by Dering (f. 41r) in another professional hand on a different stock of paper but also bearing Philips's autograph annotations (E: Roscommon and Sr. Ed: Deering respectively).

c.1662-3

This MS discussed, with a facsimile of f. 38r, in Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993), pp. 187-94. Facsimile of f. 38r also in Germaine Greer, Editorial Conundra in the Texts of Katherine Philips, in Editing Women, ed. Ann M. Hutchison and Margaret Anne Doody (Toronto, 1998), pp. 79-100 (p. 83).

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 21867 B)
PsK 576

Copy, with a title-page (p. 11), dramatis personæ (p. 14), Prologue by Roscommon (pp. 15-16), and Epilogue by Dering (pp. 103-4).

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped.

With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed Polexr: [i.e. Polexander], dedicated To the Excellent Rosania [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (these clear streams) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance To appear in Print, but adding, I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers.

The volume — which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler — appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

c.1664

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Rosania MS: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name Polexr: is misread as Pole:r and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, Mrs. C.P., and Polexr:, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle To the Excellent Rosania, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

National Library of Wales (NLW MS 776 B pp. 11-104)
PsK 577

Copy, complete with title-page, preliminaries, Dramatis Personae, Prologue and Epilogue.

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

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].

c.1670

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.

PsK 577.2

Extracts.

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in a largely secretary hand, 222 pages, in calf.

c.1705
Yale, Osborn, others (Osborn MS c 189 pp. 18-19, 24-5)
Pompey. A Tragedy, Act II, scene iv. Song ('See how Victorious Cæsar's Pride')

Song sung by two Egyptian priests. Thomas, III, 40-1.

PsK 577.3

Copy of the last two stanzas (lines 21-8), headed By Mrs. Katherine Philipps and here beginning If Justice be a thing divine, followed by Hall's Answer recasting her lines, beginning Bright Justice is a thing divine.

This MS recorded in Thoma, I, 315.

A large folio volume of poems attributed to Henry Hall (1656?-1707), largely in a probably professional hand, 113 leaves, in contemporary quarter-vellum marbled boards.

c.1710-20?
PsK 577.5

Copy of the last two stanzas (lines 21-8), headed Justice and here beginning If Justice be a thing divine, followed by Hall's answer, recasting Philips's lines, beginning Bright Justice is a thing divine.

An octavo manuscript of poems by Henry Hall (1656?-1707), in a single hand, ii + 16 leaves, bound at the end of a composite volume containing otherwise thirteen printed items dated 1709-1713.

With a title-page (f. ir): The Remains of Mr Henry Hall late organist of Hereford.

Early 18th century

Inscribed names (f. ir) of Rich: Witherstone, Susanna Witherston, and Geo Prosser 1768.

PsK 577.8 Late 17th-early 18th century

Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed Extract of a Scene in Corneile's Pompey Act 3 Scene 4th Enter Caesar, and Cornelia (Being his Prisoner) &c., comprising the whole scene from line 5 to line 93 (here beginning Cæsar! that enuious Fate which I can braue), on two conjugate folio leaves.

A collection of unbound verse manuscripts, in various hands and paper sizes (chiefly folio), 142 leaves.

Partly compiled by Sir Richard Browne and his father Christopher Browne (1577-1646), of Saye's Court, Deptford.

Volume LXVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Acquired March 1995.

Pompey. A Tragedy, Act III, scene iv. Song ('From lasting and unclouded Day')

A recitative air sung by Pompey's ghost. Saintsbury, pp. 611-12. Thomas, I, 244-5, poem 120. Thomas, III, 55-6. This song originally set to music by Dr Peter Pett (1630-99).

PsK 578

Copy of the song by Pompey's ghost, in a musical setting by John Banister, untitled.

This MS recorded in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation.

A folio volume of vocal music, probably in a single cursive hand, 190 leaves, in remains of vellum boards within modern half red morocco.

c.1682

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

PsK 578.5

Copy, headed A Song -- In the tragedy of Pompey -- By Mrs. Cat. Phillips / pompey's Ghost sings to Cornelia asleep.

Recorded in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation, p. 48.

A folio miscellany of chiefly verse, in a single hand, entitled The Famous Miscellany, 248 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.

Compiled by Ashley Cowper, Clerk of the Parliaments (signed, f. 1v, Ashley Cowper 1747).

c.1747
PsK 578.8

Copy of the song, with corrections in another hand.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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

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

Early 18th century
PsK 579

Copy of the song by Pompey's ghost, headed Pompey's Ghost to Camilla [Cornelia added in a different ink], in a musical setting here ascribed to Mr [John] Banister (c.1625-79).

This MS discussed in Curtis A. Price, The Songs for Katherine Philips' Pompey (1663), TN, 33 (1979), 61-6.

An oblong quarto songbook.

Late 17th century

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

Christ Church, Oxford (MS Mus. 350 pp. 93-7)
PsK 579.5

Copy of most of the the song, untitled.

A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, predominantly in a single non-professional hand, iv + 214 pages, in contemporary calf.

Inscribed (p. 211) I ended this book Novr. 13th 1723.

c.1723
PsK 580

Copy of the song by Pompey's ghost.

Edited from this MS, as Pompey's Ghost, in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 164-6.

A folio verse miscellany, in vellum.

Late 17th century?

Inscribed on the front cover William Turner his booke, 1662 and, on the rear paste-down Catherine Gage's Booke: i.e. Catherine Gage, Lady Aston (d.1720). Formerly among the papers of the Aston family, of Tixall, Staffordshire.

Poems selectively edited from this MS (as his Third Division: Poems Collected by the Right Honourable Lady Aston) in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 107-205.

Untraced Tixal MSS (Tixall MS 3 [unspecified page numbers])
Pompey. A Tragedy, Act IV, scene v. Song ('Proud Monuments of Royal Dust')

Saintsbury, p. 612. Thomas, I, 245-6, poem 121. Thomas, III, pp. 72-3. This song originally set to music by Le Grand a Frenchman.

PsK 581

Copy of the song, in an anonymous musical setting.

This MS briefly discussed, with facsimiles, in Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993), pp. 196-7.

An oblong quarto music book, 39 leaves.

Used apparently from 1673 by one Elizabeth Henthorne, who Aprell the 9: 1700: began to learn the flute.

c.1670s-80s
Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. Sch. G. 640 ff. 31v-30v rev.)
PsK 582

Copy of the song, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS discussed in Price, loc. cit.

An oblong quarto songbook.

Late 17th century

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

Christ Church, Oxford (MS Mus. 350 pp. 98-9)
PsK 583

Copy of three stanzas of the song, written on a leaf at the end.of a parliamentary journal for 1628, c.460 pages in all, in contemporary vellum.

Late 17th century

From the library of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office, Trumbull Add 50. Sotheby's, 14 December 1989, lot 230, to Blackwood.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Trumbull Add MS 50])
Pompey. A Tragedy, Act V, scene v. Song ('Ascend a Throne, Great Queen! to you')

Song sung by two Egyptian Priests. Saintsbury, p. 612. Thomas, I, 247-8, poem 122. Thomas, III, pp. 88-9.

PsK 584

Copy of the song, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS discussed in Price, loc. cit.

An oblong quarto songbook.

Late 17th century

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

Christ Church, Oxford (MS Mus. 350 pp. 100-1)

Letters

Letter(s)
*PsK 585
Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Philips (Orinda), to Sir Edward Dering, 15 December [no year].

c.1648-52?

Among the Dering family papers.

Edited, with a facsimile, in Peter Beal, Orinda to Silvander: A New Letter by Katherine Philips, EMS, 4 (1993), 281-6.

*PsK 586
Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Philips (Orinda), to Sir Charles Cottrell, 26 October [1663].

1663

Edited from this letter in Thomas, II, 110-15 (Letter XXXIXa). Edited earlier in Letters from Orinda to Poliarchus (London, 1729), Letter XXXIX, and, quoted from the manuscript, in Elijah Fenton's edition of The Works of Edmund Waller (London, 1729), pp. lxxxviii-lxxxix.

C. Cottrell-Dormer, Rousham ([no shelfmark])
*PsK 587
Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Philips (Orinda), to Dorothy Temple (née Osborne), 22 January 1663/4.

1664

Later owned (in 1911) by Julia Longe and (in 1931) by the Rev. John Charles Longe of Spixworth, Norfolk. Sotheby's, 3 August 1934, lot 1067, to Robinson. Robinson's sale catalogue of Rare Books and Manuscripts No. 53 (1935), item 80. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 646 (1937), item 525.

Edited in Martha, Lady Gifford: Her Life and Correspondence, ed. Julia G. Longe (London, 1911), pp. 38-42. Thomas, II, 137-42, Letters III. Facsimiles of the first page in Souers, after p. 220 and of the complete letter in Elizabeth H. Hageman, Making a Good Impression: Early Texts of Poems and Letters by Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, South Central Review, 11 (Summer 1994), 39-65 (pp. 51-2).

PsK 588 c.Early 1650s?

Copy of a letter by Philips (Orinda), to Lady Fletcher (the noble Parthenia), undated.

Edited and discussed in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (Oxford, 1998), pp. 148, 281.

A folio formal verse miscellany, in a single rounded hand, 259 pages (plus a three-page index), in modern boards.

The contents, the latest of which (on pp. 203-7) can be dated to a marriage that took place in November 1656, reflect the taste of Interregnum Royalist sympathisers.

c.Late 1650s

Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 4001. Sotheby's, 29 June 1946, lot 164, to Myers. Then in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

University College London (MS Ogden 42 p. 221)

Books and Manuscripts Inscribed by Katherine Philips

Chillingworth, William. The Religion of Protestants, a Safe Way to Salvation (Oxford, 1638)
*PsK 589
Autograph

A printed exemplum allegedly bearing the inscription on the verso of the title-page Kath: Philips Gift of Mrs. E, Lloyd of Trevagh.

Mid-17th century

The Bristol bookseller Kerslake's sale catalogue of May 1859, item 471.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Orinda volume])
Florio, John. Giardino di recreatione
*PsK 589.5
Autograph

Inscribed Katharine Philips, another page containing later notes about her by Phineas Fowke, M.D.:This book I suppose was presented by ye Author to ye famous Orinda [hardly likely since Florio died in 1626 before she was born], being found among her bookes of Italian & ffrench in wch she was admirably skilled, & was prsented me by her most deserveing Sister in law, Mris M. Philips. at Cardigan. A.D. 83.

It is not clear how this volume came into Katherine Philips's hands, but it is a reminder of her knowledge of Italian (to her improvements in which in 1662-3 her letters refer repeatedly, while at least one of her songs — Amanti ch'in pianti &c. — is translated from that language). Moreover, (as Claudia Limbert has shown in Restoration, 13 (1989), 62-7) Philips's close friend Regina Collyer (whose mother's name was Anna Semiliano) was Italian.

This volume recorded in both Souers and Thomas. Facsimile of the inscribed pages in Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993), p. 187.

Autograph MS of John Florio's Giardino di recreatione, including related poems in Italian and Latin by Florio and others in different hands, one (f. 12v) in the hand of the playwright Matthew Gwinne (1558-1627), and (ff. 6r-10r) Florio's dedication to Sir Edward Dyer dated 12 November 1582, 145 octavo leaves, in modern half blue morocco.

1582

Once owned by Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda (see PsK 589.5) from whom the MS passed to her sister-in-law M. Philips, who presented it to Phineas Fowke (1639-1710), physician. Inscribed (f. 3r) 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.

Greville, Sir Fulke. Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633)
*PsK 590
Autograph

A printed exemplum inscribed by Philips on the title-page Katharine Philips her book.

1633

Also inscribed on a flyleaf Katherine Philipps Orindina Bella and Cat: Thorowgood Her Book ano 1688.

Facsimile of the title-page in Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993), p. 186.

Suckling, Sir John. Fragmenta Aurea (2nd edition, London, 1648)
*PsK 591
Autograph

A printed exemplum bearing Philips's inscription on a flyleaf (beneath the name Eliza: Pitt:) Katharine Phillips: her book.

c.1648
Harvard, other MSS (*EC.Sul 85. 646fba)

Miscellaneous Extracts from Philips's works

Extracts
PsK 592

Extracts.

Discussed in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 135-6).

An oblong duodecimo verse miscellany, perhaps largely in one hand, with later additions by others, generally written across the page with the spine turned upwards, 136 leaves, with (f. 2r-v) a table of contents, in half green morocco.

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

c.1668-1713

Inscribed (f. 2r) Several Divine poems out of a Mss. of Mr. 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.

PsK 593

Adapted extracts from various poems by Philips, including verses on pp. 173-6, 178-200, 202, 210, 212-14, 234-5, 238, 240-2, 245, 247-8, 250-1, 253, 255-62, and 265.

Facsimiles of pp. 190-2 in Norbrook, pp. 241-3 (Plates 7-9).

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a single italic hand, entitled Gospell Obseruations & Religius manifestations, 370 pages, in contemporary calf.

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.

c.1671/2

Inscribed inside the front cover Saml Atkins Wykeham and inside the rear cover 17 Feby 1879. Purchased this Book of Prescot Bookseller. Upper Arcade. Bristol...Edwd 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.

Princeton (CO199 No. 812 passim)
PsK 594

Extracts from poems.

A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf.

c.1713

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.

PsK 595 Late 17th century

Extracts from works by Katherine Philips.

An unbound collection of unbound manuscripts of verse and other writings, in various hands and paper sizes, upwards of 100 items.

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.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Temple MSS] [unnumbered item])

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