First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R.
, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman
. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes
and superscribed R
; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS
; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961:
Copy, headed Vpon a gentlewoman wth. black hayre and eyes
.
An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index.
Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.
Inscribed on a flyleaf Elizabeth Lane hir booke
and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, Johannes Finch
. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Elizabeth Lane MS
:
Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman that thought hur selfe not fayre because hur hur [sic] heare and eyes weare blacke
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
A large folio composite verse miscellany, chiefly folio, partly quarto, 243 pages, in contemporary calf.
Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to I Nicholas Burgh
occurring on ff. 165r, with the date 3d of June 1638
, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands.
Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Burghe MS
:
Copy, headed on ye prayse of a black woman
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in five hands, one predominating on ff. 8v-130r, ii + 166 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.
Compiled in part (ff. 131v-66r) by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Copy, headed in the margin of a gentlewoman yt would not belieue she was faire because her haire & eyes were black
.
A folio verse miscellany, comprising nearly 250 poems, in five hands, vii + 135 leaves (with a modern index), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked), with remains of clasps.
Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller.
Inscribed on a flyleaf Peeter Daniell
and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names Thomas Gardinor
, James Leigh
and Pettrus Romell
. Owned in 1780 by one A. B.
when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Daniell MS
:
Copy, headed On a blackmaid
.
An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf.
Inscribed (f. 101v) Henry Lawson
(or just possibly Lamson
). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Lawson MS
:
Copy.
A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks).
Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode.
Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the English Poetry MS
:
Copy, headed Bi. ox. Rich. Corbett. on Mrs Poole ye Ld. of Shaunders Sister
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
A duodecimo notebook of verse and prose, comprising 131 interleaves in a printed exemplum of John Sansbury's Ilium in Italiam (Oxford, 1608), in contemporary calf (rebacked), blind-stamped S. S.
on the upper cover.
Owned in 1619, and probably compiled, by Simon Sloper (b.1596/7), of Magdalen Hall, Oxford.
Bought from Parker, of Oxford, 2 April 1889, by Percy Manning and bequeathed by him in 1917.
Copy, headed Dr Donne on Mrs Poole the lord Sandys his Sister On whome nature studied to make blackenesse a beauty
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, i + 141 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked).
Compiled, and composed, in part by John Polwhele, of Polwhele and Treworgan, Cornwall, and of Lincoln's Inn, who notes (fol. 141v rev.) Johes Polwheile Lincol ex dono chariss: amici Josephi Maynardi
.
Given to Jessie Glubb by a descendant of John Polwhele in 1843. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 97 (1947), item 185.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
An octavo miscellany of verse and university exercises, including twelve poems by Carew, in a single hand, compiled by Edward Natley, Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, 165 leaves (including many blanks), in calf (rebacked).
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 2592. Sotheby's, 10 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 960. Owned in 1896 by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Acquired in 1950 from H.F.B. Brett-Smith, Oxford literary scholar and editor.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Natley MS
:
Copy, headed Vppon a Ladye with black haire and eyes. Beata Poole
.
An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by the writer Robert Codrington (1602-65) of Magdalen College, Oxford, 360 pages (including stubs of extracted leaves on pp. 297-328 and blanks, plus index), in contemporary calf.
Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) Anno Dom: 1638
and The 30th of May. 1638
.
Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Codrington MS
:
Copy, headed Vppon a fayre Ladye whose hayre was cole black
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, including 37 poems by Donne, in several hands, written from both ends, 279 leaves (including numerous blanks, mostly in ff. 42r-140r), with stubs of extracted leaves, in contemporary calf.
Compiled in part by the Oxford printer Christopher Wase (1627-90), fellow of King's College, Cambridge.
Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Wase MS
:
Copy, headed Black eyd Mrs
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, 84 leaves, in contemporary calf.
Probably compiled principally by an Oxford University man.
Names inscribed on rear flyleaf and paste-down Elizabeth hosman
and William Blois
.
Copy, headed On Mrs Beata Pool with blacke eyes
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 98 pages (plus some blanks), in reversed calf (rebacked).
Inscribed (f. ir) by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), the date 1741
added.
Copy, headed On Mris Poale my lord Shandowes sister who dispaired because of her blacke haire & eyes
.
An octavo verse miscellany compiled by an Oxford University man, i i + 37 leaves, in later half-calf.
Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
Copy, headed Vpon a faire gentlewoman haueing blacke haire / Mrs. P.
A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, 282 pages, in calf gilt.
Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 34 of the Hopkinson MSS.
Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 299.
Copy, untitled.
A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single neat largely italic hand, 155 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
The table of contents (f. 155v) subscribed Margrett Bellasys
, possibly the daughter of Thomas Belasyse (1577-1652), first Viscount Fauconberg of Henknowle. The front endpaper later inscribed The pieces which I have extracted for
: i.e. possibly by Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), editor of Specimens of the British Poets first published in 1809. Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Evans (Sotheby's), 29 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part VIII), lot 13.The Specimens
are, Page 91, 211, 265
Copy, headed On black hayre & eyes
, subscribed W: P:
.
Edited from this MS in Grierson.
A quarto composite volume of verse, in several hands (the 22 or 23 poems by Carew on ff. 2r-22r in a single hand), with later additions dated 1731-3 by one G. Broughton
on ff. 1r and after 44r, a reference to St John's College, Cambridge (in 1731) on f. 83v, 93 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century half black morocco.
G. Broughton
is possibly William (Gulielmus
) Broughton (b.1684/5), of Trinity College, Cambridge (one of whose Latin verse compilations was copied in 1704-6 by Richard Robinson in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS 0.6.1 (James 1497). Also the name Jo: Tweedy
is inscribed several times on f. 81r. Owned before 1841 by one W. Potter.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Tweedye MS
:
Copy, headed Black haire
, subscribed Ben Jonson
.
A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with some later additions and annotations, 188 leaves, in quarter-morocco.
Transcribed from
Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 13 May 1856 (Pickering sale), lot 258.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Pickering MS
:
Copy, headed In ye prayse of a blacke Ladye
.
An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 49 leaves, outer leaves imperfect, in modern calf gilt.
Including twenty poems by Carew, eleven poems by Crashaw on ff. 10-30 passim, and fifteen poems by Strode.
Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1834), item 728. Acquired from C. Booth, October 1857.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe MS
:
Copy, headed In the prayse of a blacke woeman
.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Krueger.
A folio composite volume of separate MSS of verse and some prose, in various secretary and italic hands, written over an extended period, with a table of contents (f. 3r-v), 186 leaves.
Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the Edward Smyth MS
(
Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.
This MS is the curious folio volume
lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by the late Lord Harborough
and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his History of Leicestershire, 4 vols (1795-1815), III, part i (1800), 367.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Skipwith MS
:
Copy, headed Upon a black Maid
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
An octavo volume of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive hands, 102 leaves (plus blanks), in half brown morocco on marbled boards.
Including principally autograph poems by Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax (1661-1715), but also (ff. 72v-7v) some poems apparently in a much earlier hand.
Later owned by John Lilly, bookseller. Sotheby's, 15-25 March 1871 (Lilly sale), lot 1366.
Copy, headed on Mris Poole wth blacke eyes
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
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 (
The volume includes 12 poems by Donne; 15 poems (plus a second copy of one and three of doubtful authorship) by Carew; 20 poems (plus two of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; and 84 poems (plus second copies of eight poems, four poems of doubtful authorship and some apocryphal poems) by Strode, the texts being closely related to, and in part probably transcribed from, the Corpus MS
of Strode's poems (
Inscribed also John Leare
(probably Daniel's younger brother); (f. 1r) Anthony Euans his booke
(who married Daniel Leare's niece Dorothy Leare in 1663); (f. 1v) Alexander Croke his Book 1773
; and (f. 164v) John Scott
(who matriculated at Christ Church in 1632). Rimell & Son, 9 November 1878.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Leare MS
:
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 duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning.
Copy.
A duodecimo verse miscellany in several hands, written from both ends, 46 leaves, in contemporary calf.
Inscribed names (on front paste-down and f. 1r) of Fra: Norreys
(? Sir Francis Norris (1609-69)) and Hen. Balle
. Purchased from J. Harvey 8 December 1877.
Copy, headed Vpon blacke haire
, subscribed Ben Johnson
.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Krueger.
A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single professional hand, with later additions on ff. 58v-62v in three or four other hands, 65 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.
Compiled by one Thomas Crosse, whose name appears (f. 1*) in An Acrosticke upon my name
, as well as subscribed (Tho: Cro:)
to a poem on ff. 23v-4r.
NOT HERE. wrong ref???
This MS recorded in Krueger.
A quarto verse miscellany, including 33 poems by Thomas Carew and sixteen by Henry King, in a single small hand, with (ff. 1r-2v) an alphabetical Index, 105 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.
Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London.
Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Cited in IELM II.i-ii (1987-93), together with Calfe MS
:
Copy, headed To his Mris in despaire because her eyes and haire were blacke
, subscribed Walton Pwle
.
An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt.
Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v.
Inscribed on f. 111v rev. Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt
. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Harley MS
:
Copy, headed On a blacke Gentlewoman
and subscribed W:P
.
This MS collated in Grierson.
A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts, poems and other papers, in various hands, 329 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
Fols 1r-82r comprise a separate collection of verse and some prose, possibly in a single predominantly secretary hand with some variants of style, the first leaf (f. 1) inscribed in another hand Poems by Wm: Browne of the Inner-Temple Gent &c / 1650
, this possibly applying to the poems up to f. 62v, which is subscribed ffinis W Browne
.
This volume comprising Parts 1-3, 5, 8-13, of what was formerly a single composite volume but is now bound in three volumes.
Inscribed (f. 280v) Philip Butler his book
.
Copy, headed On a black wench
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in Latin and English, one cursive hand predominating, 69 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black crushed morocco.
Inscribed (f. 62r) Nathaniel Heighmore
: i.e. presumably Nathaniel Highmore (1613-85), chemical physician and anatomist; John Sacheverell his hand and pen Amen
; and John Sacheverell the Author of this...
.
Copy, headed In praise of black hare & eyes
, subscribed in another hand Mr Walton Poole
.
A quarto verse miscellany, written in two styles of hand (A: ff. 2r, after first six lines, to 64v; B: ff. 2r, first six lines, 64v-91v, 92v-4r), possibly both in the same hand, with an Index (ff. 93r-4r), 94 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
Including 22 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 13 poems by King, and 24 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and probably associated with Christ Church, Oxford.
Inscribed names including (f. 93v, in court hand) ffrancis Baskeruile
: i.e. probably the Francis Baskerville who married Margaret Glanvill in 1635 and was in 1640 MP for Marlborough, Wiltshire. Other scribbling including (f. 1r) accounts referring to Wanborough, Wiltshire; (f. 9v) Elizabeth White
; (f. 54v) William Walrond his booke 1663
; (f. 92r) accounts dated 1658; and (f. 94r) John Wallrond
. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Baskerville MS
:
Copy.
An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves.
Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Apparently transcribed in part from
Inscribed (f. 1r) by one I A
of Christ Church, Oxford, and also Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison
. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Killigrew MS
:
Copy, headed Vppon a fayre Complexion a blacke hayre & a blacke eye
.
A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637.
Including 91 poems and some prose works by John Donne and fourteen poems by Thomas Carew.
Among the collections of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (1776-1839), first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham, largely derived from the collection of the antiquary Thomas Astle (1735-1803), which in turn chiefly derived from Astle's father-in-law, the Essex historian Philip Morant (1700-70) (see
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as Stowe MS II
: Stowe MS
:
Copy, headed In defence of black hayre
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small neat predominantly secretary hand but for additions in a second hand on ff. 35v and 58r, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, 97 leaves (inclusing two blanks), in half-calf.
Including 14 poems by Carew (and a second copy of one poem), eight poems (plus 3 of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, and 28 poems by Strode (plus a second copy of one and two of doubtful authorship).
Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Fulman MS
:
Copy, headed (slightly cropped) Vpon a virtuous ...ous gentlewoman in the Defence of her blacke haire & eyes
.
A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single cursive secretary hand, with a later title-page supplied in 1832, x + 116 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century black leather elaborately gilt.
Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by the compiler, Richardus Jackson 1623
and Richard Jackson his booke
, who is described in a later pencil note as perhaps the brachygrapher. On ff. 113v-16r, in a later hand, is a Catalogue of ye Books lately belonging to ye. Rev. Mr Jackson Rectr of Tatham
.
Also inscribed (f. 1r) John Pecke
. Sold by Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, in 1831-2. Among collections of James Orchard Halliwell (from 1872 Halliwell-Phillipps) (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bought by him in 1871 from Sotheran's, London.
A 247-page transcript of this volume made c.1830 is in the Folger Shakespeare Library, MS M.b.26.
Copy, headed To Mistris Beata Poole in defence of her blacke hayre
.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS K).
A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat italic hand, with rubrication, 144 pages (plus later index).
Including twelve poems by Carew, nine poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph and nineteen (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the miscellany associated with Oxford University and possibly related to
Inscribed inside the front cover by a later owner: April 1853 Read to Lit[erary] & Philosophical] Soc[iet]y of L[iver]pool
. Acquired in 1940 by Edwin Wolf II (1911-91), Philadelphia librarian.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wolf MS
:
Copy, headed On A blacke Gentlewoman
subscribed Posuit Walton Poole
.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS U).
An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as
Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship.
Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Thorpe-Halliwell MS
:
Copy, headed A comendation of blacke haire in a Gentlewoman
.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS V).
A quarto verse miscellany, arranged (Part I) as an anthology, under genre headings, the reverse end (Part II) largely occupied by a later series of Latin verses, epistles, and other exercises, 168 leaves, in old calf (rebacked).
Part I probably in several hands, the predominant italic hand that also responsible for the Welbeck MS
:
Part I inscribed (f. 1r) John Smyth his Book 1640
, Charles Smyth 1674
, Hugh Smyth 1676
; (f. 23v) J Smyth 1677 / 1676
. Part II inscribed several times Thomas Smith
, on f. 19r also Die: Maij 12o Ano 1659
, with a reference on f. 58v to Balliol College, Oxford, 1659/60. Later inscribed (f. [ir]) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), who records buying this very curious and interesting MS. of Messrs Boone
. Afterwards in the library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1. 28.
Cited in IELM, I.i, as the Thomas Smyth MS
:
Copy, headed On a blacke maide & her haire
.
A sextodecimo pocket miscellany, ff. 3r-53r in a single hand, other hands and scribbling on ff. 1r-2r, 54v, 87v-90v, 90 leaves in all (including blanks ff. 55r-87r), in contemporary calf, with remains of clasps.
Including 12 poems by Carew.
Inscribed Richard Archard his booke Amen 1650
; Richard Archard his penn Amen 1657
; to Mr Satars[?] towads the Casting of ye lead 1657
; Tho: Wise
; John Smith of halmortaine and I…went to Thornebury
; and Edward Watt
. Bookplate of William Harris Arnold.
Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Archard MS
:
Copy, headed Vpon a Gentlewoeman whose eyes & hayre were black
.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS b).
A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf.
Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan
: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington.
Also inscribed Mary Helerd
. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2.
Copy, headed W: P: on Mris Poole
.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS W).
A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf.
Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Dobell MS
:
Copy, headed On a black Mrs
.
A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford and afterwards with the Inns of Court, 73 leaves (plus a few blanks and a modern index).
Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9510. (Phillipps sale, lot 1015.) Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 342. Formerly MS 4201. 27. 1.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dobell MS II
:
Copy, headed Vppon a gentlewoman with black hayre, and eyes
.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS S).
A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, 210 pages, comprising 38 unnumbered pages and 172 numbered pages (plus four blank leaves), perhaps largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with additions in four other hands on the unnumbered pages and pp. 167-71, including the scribbled title Divers Sonnets & Poems compiled by certaine gentil Clarks and Ryme-Wrightes, probably associated with Oxford University and the Inns of Court, in contemporary vellum.
Including 14 poems by Strode (and a second copy of one poem).
Inscribed (front pastedown) Wakelin EeK Hering / Blows of Whitsor
, and (rear pastedown) R. J. Cotton
. Formerly Folger MS 2073.4.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Cotton MS:
Copy, headed One writing to his Mrs whose eyse and hare was Blacke
.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS a).
A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in probably several neat secretary and italic hands, 194 pages.
Compiled, probably at least in part, by George Turner Scoolmaster
, as his name is inscribed at the end, a couplet on p. 179 reading Hic liber me pertinet and beare yt well in minde / Per me Georgium Turner so curteous and kinde
. Possible contributors are members of the Bancrofte family, whom he might perhaps have tutored.
Various inscribed names (sometimes more than once): Anne Bancrofte
, and Mary Bancrofte
. Also, under 1624
, a list of names with perhaps birthdates: Mary Bancrofte Ap. 28. 1611
, Rich Bancrofte May 2. 1608
, Elis Bancrofte Apr 27. 1614
, and John Bancrofte Ap 30 1616
. A legal document in the volume, dated 4 November 1645, relates to Willesden, Kilburn and Hampstead.
Formerly Folger MS 1027.2, this MS has been missing since 1991. It can be seen only on microfilm (Film Fo 4376.8).
Copy, headed In ye comendation of Black Gentlewoeman
, annotated in another hand Mrs Beata Poole
.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS T).
An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt.
Formerly MS 2073.3.
Copy, headed On the comendation of a black gentlewoman
.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS Z).
A quarto verse miscellany, with later accounts on the last page dated June 1658, 1* + 238 pages (including stubs of extracted pages 191-6, plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked).
Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.
Inscribed Jane Wheeler
and Tho: Oliver Busfield
. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) To ye two partners of my heart Mr John Wheeler, and Mr Symon Tue. Item 96 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 2071.6.
A Jo. Wheeler
signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wheeler MS
:
Copy, headed Dr Co. vppon his love: Mrs Poole ye Ld Shandoys sister
.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS X).
A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single mixed hand, with additions in other hands, associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 315 pages (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt.
Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett.
Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the Curteis MS
:
Copy, headed On Mrs Poole: whose haire and eyes were black
, subscribed Walton poole
.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS Y).
A large folio verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford University, 34 leaves, in modern half-morocco marbled boards.
Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King.
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Halliwell MS
:
Copy, headed Commendations of blacke hayre, & eyes in a verie faire Gentlewoman
, imperfect.
A fragment of an octavo notebook, including verses, in a single rounded hand, nine leaves.
A loose paper wrapper is later inscribed Verses writ in old Mr James Harris's hand
: i.e. James Harris (1605-79), of Salisbury, lawyer.
Among papers of the Harris (Malmesbury) family.
Copy, untitled.
An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in two very small hands (A: ff. 1r-44v; B: ff. 44v-87v), with further verse and prose pieces in other hands on ff. 88r-121r, written from both ends, associated with Oxford, possibly New College, and probably afterwards with the Inns of Court, 155 leaves (including 33 blanks), in modern black morocco elaborately gilt.
Including 23 poems by Strode (and second copies of two poems) and one poem of doubtful authorship.
Including (ff. 98r-100r) a letter by one Pet[er] Wood
. Inscribed (ff. 90r-1r), Thease verses I borroed to write out of John Sherly [d. 1666] a booke seller in litle Brittaine, 28th of March 1633
. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9235. Sotheby's, 21 February 1938, lot 243.
Cited in IELM II.ii (1993), as the Wood MS
:
Copy, untitled.
An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in two very small hands (A: ff. 1r-44v; B: ff. 44v-87v), with further verse and prose pieces in other hands on ff. 88r-121r, written from both ends, associated with Oxford, possibly New College, and probably afterwards with the Inns of Court, 155 leaves (including 33 blanks), in modern black morocco elaborately gilt.
Including 23 poems by Strode (and second copies of two poems) and one poem of doubtful authorship.
Including (ff. 98r-100r) a letter by one Pet[er] Wood
. Inscribed (ff. 90r-1r), Thease verses I borroed to write out of John Sherly [d. 1666] a booke seller in litle Brittaine, 28th of March 1633
. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9235. Sotheby's, 21 February 1938, lot 243.
Cited in IELM II.ii (1993), as the Wood MS
:
Copy, headed Vpon Mrs Poole my Ld. Shandowes Sister who despaird because of her black haire & Eyes
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
A small quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single, minute non-professional italic hand, probably someone associated with Oxford University, comprising 180 pages now all separated and mounted, interleaved, in 19th-century calf.
Later in the libraries (with bookplates) of the book collector Richard Heber (1774-1833); of the bibliographer and antiquary Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833); of the biographer and literary editor Alexander Chalmers (1759-1834); and of the antiquary Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough (his sale by Charles Sharpe in Dublin, 1 November 1842, lot 577).
Copy, untitled, with five lines partly inked over.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
A folio verse miscellany, 206 pages (plus blanks), rebound in 1832 (by Charles Lewis) with an independent miscellany (
Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled L.C. [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637.
Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names Edw Denny
[presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], Charles Cocks
, Edward Randolphe
and (on p. 162) Thomas Cassy
. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (I)
:
Copy, headed Verses in prayse of a black wench
.
A folio verse miscellany, comprising 162 poems in English, in a single hand, 273 pages, in brown morocco gilt.
Formerly (before 1686) in the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. Possibly acquired by Charles Louis (1617-80), Elector Palatine, while at the English court of his uncle, Charles I, from 1635 to 1649.
This volume discovered, and announced in the TLS, 23 July 2010, pp. 14-15, by June Schlueter and Paul Schlueter.
Copy, headed In prayes of black eyes
.
A folio verse miscellany, including 26 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Thomas Carew and poems by Henry King, in several hands, 92 leaves, plus an inserted gathering of eleven leaves after f. 82v (ff. [82a-82k]), but including stubs of some extracted leaves (ff. 74-8, 94-5), in contemporary vellum.
Inscribed To my euer honored good Cosen Sr John Reresby Barronett these prsent
: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall.
Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Mexborough MS
:
Copy, untitled.
A small quarto verse miscellany, including some thirty poems by Donne, in several hands, associated with the Inns of Court, with a 19th-century title-page, A Collection of Original Poetry, written about the time of Ben: Johnson, qui ob. 1637
and erroneously annotated Chiefly in the Autograph of Dr. Donne Dean of St. Paul's.67 pages (plus index).
Later owned by Sir John Simeon, third Baronet, MP (1815-70); by Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-85), first Baron Houghton, author and politician, and by his son, Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Sotheby's, 22 July 1980, lot 585, to Quaritch.
Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Monckton Milnes MS
:
Copy, headed Vppon black hayre and eyes
, unascribed.
A quarto miscellany of epitaphs and poems, in several hands, the main collection of verse (ff. 46-147) in a single hand and including 54 poems by Donne (all subscribed J. D.
) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index).
Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Grey MS
:
Copy, headed On black haire and eyes
.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
A quarto formal verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand, 83 pages, in modern quarter-calf.
Copy, headed On the Black Ladie
.
A quarto volume of poems, including 72 by Donne, arranged under genres, probably in two hands, poems by Corbett and others at the reverse end, 160 pages (not numbered consecutively, plus blanks).
Owned, and possibly compiled, by John Cave, of Lincoln College, Oxford (M.A. 28 January 1618/19; d.1657). The first page of text is a poem Vpon Mr Donn's Satires subscribed Io. Ca. Jun. 3. 1620. If John Cave was a member of the Cave family of Stanford, Northamptonshire, he would have been related (by marriage) to the Skipwith family.
Also inscribed with names of Elizabeth Park [or Parker], John Nedham, and William Adams. Later owned by the Rev. T.R. O' Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector; by Charles Elkin Matthews (1851-19210, bookseller; and by Richard Jennings. Sotheby's, 28 April 1952 (Jennings sale), lot 12.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the John Cave MS
,
Copy, untitled, subscribed D: C: on a blacke Gentlewoman
.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS L). Also recorded in Krueger.
A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index).
Possibly compiled by one W: H:
: i.e. probably William Holgate (1618-46), of Queens' College, Cambridge, with late 17th-century additions apparently made by other members of the Holgate family, of Saffron Walden and Great Bardfield, Essex.
Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Holgate MS:
Copy, headed On a Gentw: wth black eyes & haire
.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS I).
A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in probably two or more secretary hands, 108 pages, in half brown morocco.
Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89). Bookplate of James W. Ellsworth.
Copy, headed In praise of a black wench
.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS J).
A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in probably two or more secretary hands, 108 pages, in half brown morocco.
Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89). Bookplate of James W. Ellsworth.
Copy, headed Vppon a faire gentlewoman haueinge Blacke haire
, inscribed at the side in another hand Poole
.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS E).
An octavo verse miscellany, written over a period in three hands (A, in alternating secretary and italic, written c.1638: ff. 1-59v; B, written c.1645: ff. 60r-9r; C, written c.1649, ff. 69v-70r), 70 leaves, in old calf.
Including thirteen poems by Strode and three of doubtful authorship.
Later sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9569. Bookplate of 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 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 193.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS I
:
Copy, headed On Mris Poole by Dr Corbett
.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS B).
An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf.
Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode.
The initials T. C.
stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Rosenbach MS II
:
Copy, headed On Mrs Poole my L. Shandoyes sister who dispayred because of her black hayre and eyes
.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS F).
A quarto verse miscellany, including fifteen poems by Donne, with a title-page Miscellanies Or A Collection of Diuers Witty and pleasant Epigrams, Adages, poems Epitaphes &c for the recreation of ye ouertravelled sences: 1630 Robert Bishop
, in a single mixed hand, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 306 pages, in old calf.
Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Bishop MS
:
Copy, headed On Mrs. Poole who dispair'd because of her blacke haire & Eyes
.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS A).
An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather.
Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew.
Inscriptions including Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus
[viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], Thomas Arding
, Thomas Arden
, William Harrington
, Thomas John
, John Anthehope
and Clement Poxall
. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 194.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Carey MS
:
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS C).
An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, 89 leaves, in old calf gilt.
Partly compiled (pp. 75-99) by one Robert Berkeley, who has inscribed the first page Rob Berkeley his booke Ano. 1640
.
Formerly owned by Henry Huth (1815-78). Formerly Rosenbach 195.
Copy, headed To Mrs Beate Poole daughter to ye L. Chaundois in defence of her black haire
.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS G).
A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands (A: pp. 1-56; B: pp. 57-60, 75-122; C: pp. 61-74, 125-7), 127 pages, in contemporary limp vellum.
Including 23 poems (and a second copy of one) by Randolph.
Mostyn MS 196: from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, the MS possibly acquired by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) or by his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 191.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Mostyn MS
:
Copy, headed On A Blacke Mres
.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS H).
A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands (A: pp. 1-56; B: pp. 57-60, 75-122; C: pp. 61-74, 125-7), 127 pages, in contemporary limp vellum.
Including 23 poems (and a second copy of one) by Randolph.
Mostyn MS 196: from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, the MS possibly acquired by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) or by his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 191.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Mostyn MS
:
Copy, headed In Comendation of black-eyes
and subscribed Wallton Poole
.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS D).
An oblong quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat hand, written with the volume tilted with the spine to the top, 167 pages (plus blanks), in elaborately tooled green morocco gilt.
Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by Strode (and two poems of doubtful authorship).
The initials M W
stamped on each cover: i.e. M[aidstone] and W[inchilsea]. Evidently compiled by or for Sir Thomas Finch, Viscount Maidstone and Earl of Winchilsea (who succeeded to the peerage in 1633 and died in 1634). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 190.
The MS came to Rosenbach with a printed exemplum of William Wishcart, An Exposition of the Lord's Prayer (London, 1633), and the two clearly share the same provenance. The printed volume is similarly bound, with the initials M W
; it is inscribed Lord Winchilsea for Mr Locker 1634
; it bears the late 17th-century signatures of Stephen Locker and Alexander Campbell, and the bookplates of Captain William Locker (1731-1800) and Edward Hawke Locker (1777-1849).
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Winchelsea MS
:
Copy, headed On a Lady whom I will not name / Because you shall not know whom to blame
, subscribed Walton Poole
.
This MS collated in Grierson.
A folio verse miscellany, including 15 poems by Donne, f. 162r-v in a rounded italic hand, ff. 164r-74v in a slightly erratic italic hand, ff. 175r-279v in a neat formal italic hand (also responsible for the index on ff. 2r-11v), this miscellany constituting ff. 162r-279v of a single folio volume containing also Part I (
Formerly MS G. 2.21.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dublin MS (II):
Copy, headed Upon a vertuous beautifull gentlewoman on the defence of black hayr and eyes
.
A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Carew and one of doubtful authorship, in a single neat non-professional hand, 72 leaves (plus a later index).
Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Bell-White MS,
Copy, headed Walton Poole. / A comendation of black haire in a Gentlewoman
.
A small quarto verse anthology, in a single minute hand (but for p. 206), arranged under genre headings (Epitaphs
, Satyricall
, Love Sonnets
, etc.), probably associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 382 pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt.
Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the Thomas Smyth MS
(
Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the Welbeck MS
:
Copy, headed In Pvella negram
.
An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves.
Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Morley MS
: Killigrew MS
(
Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.
Copy.
A folio notebook of verse and prose, predominantly in one hand, written from both ends, 45 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
Compiled by John Clavell (1601-43), writer and highwayman.
Among papers of the Troyte-Bullock and Chafyn Grove families, of Zeals House, Mere.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in John Pafford, John Clavell 1601-43 Highwayman, Author, Lawyer, Doctor (Oxford, 1993).
Copy, headed On Mris Poole
.
A duodecimo verse miscellany, compiled principally in the secretary hand of a University of Oxford man, with additions in one or more other hands, 150 pages, imperfect, disbound.
Copy, headed On a gentlewoman with black eyes
.
A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt.
Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode.
Scribbling on the first page including the words Peyton Chester…
.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Osborn MS I
:
Copy.
A sextodecimo verse miscellany, written from both ends in several hands (two principal ones on ff. 6r-40r, 41r et seq. respectively), 102 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf, with remains of metal clasps.
Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship.
Formerly Box 22, item II.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Osborn MS II
: