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George Sandys

1578–1644

Introduction

George Sandys — poet, traveller and Virginia adventurer — has left remarkably few examples of his handwriting, least of all any authorial literary manuscripts, although a few of his works survive in contemporary scribal copies.

Letters

Counting two formal petitions by him, only eight of Sandys's letters are known to survive, the majority from when he was a member of the Council of State in Virginia. All are in secretarial hands and only two bear his signature or docketing. Five of them (SaG 40-43, SaG 45) are among the papers of Sir Nathaniel Rich (1585-1636), which subsequently passed into the muniments of successive Dukes of Manchester. They were recorded in HMC, 8th Report (1881), Part II, Appendix, pp. 39-41, and were for many years on deposit in the Public Record Office (Manchester Papers Nos 318-21, 326). They were in the sale of The American Papers of Sir Nathaniel Rich at Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 5 May 1970, lot 44, and are now at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Two other letters (*SaG 44, SaG 46) are among the Colonial State Papers in the National Archives, Kew, and one other (a petition) is among the Virginia Company papers in the Library of Congress (SaG 39).

Documents

Some early scribal documents involved in the Chancery Proceedings of Sandys versus William Gascoigne, William Norton, William Calverley and Cuthbert Pudsey in 1609 are also in the National Archives, Kew (C2/CHASI/G61/138; C/15/92: see Davis, pp. 37-9). So too are various legal conveyances involving Sandys between 1602 and 1608, none of them bearing his own handwriting (see especially CO26/21/258/44 Eliz./Easter 1602; C54/1815, 3 James I, Pt. 17; and C54/1886, 5 James I, Pt. 9). These have been discussed in Davis (esp. pp. 272-3).

From his later years there is Sandys's especially revealing Bill of Complaint in His Majesty's Court of Exchequer against the publisher William Stansby, together with Stansby's answer (dated 16 April 1635) and Sandys's replication (all scribal documents, in the National Archives, Kew, E112/215/831). These are quoted and discussed in Richard Beale Davis, George Sandys v. William Stansby: The 1632 Edition of Ovid's Metamorphosis, The Library, 5th Ser. 3 (1948-9), 193-212. For the Exchequer decree on the case (E125/20/136-7), see Richard Beale Davis, In Re George Sandys' Ovid, Studies in Bibliography, 8 (1956), 226-30. One other later document is a deposition signed by Sandys in 1638 (*SaG 47).

Otherwise a substantial series of relevant documents is of letters by the Commissioners, Council or General Assembly of Virginia, the signatories to which in 1621-5 included Sandys (as well as usually the Governor Sir Francis Wyatt). These are, however, preserved only in official scribal copies. Some of these are among the Colonial State Papers in the National Archives, Kew (which are generally summarized in Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, 1574-1600, ed. W. Noel Sainsbury (London, 1860)). A few others are in Sir Francis Wyatt's Register Book of Transactions in Virginia now among the Wyatt family papers in the British Library (Add. MS 62135, ff. 200r-44r). By far the greater number, however, are now also in the Library of Congress. The early Virginia papers there are preserved among the Presidential Papers of Thomas Jefferson (Series 8, Volumes 16-21) and may normally be viewed only on microfilm, one set of which is in the British Library (SPR Mic B4/3, reels 64 and 65).

For reference, these various scribal copies relating to Virginia are listed here, in chronological order, according to the citations given in Kingsbury. Although Sandys was Treasurer and member of the Council of State in Virginia in 1621-25, after which he returned to London never to return to Virginia, he continued to be reappointed to the Council and to be involved in commissions relating to Virginia until the 1640s.

The relevant Virginia papers are as follows:

  • Instructions to the Governor and Council of State in Virginia, 24 July 1621 (Library of Congress, MS Records of Virginia Company, III, pt. ii, pp. 11-14). Edited in Kingsbury, III, 468-82.
  • Letter by the Council in Virginia to the Virginia Company of London, January 1621/2 (Library of Congress, MS Records of Virginia Company, III, pt. ii, pp. 1-2a). Edited in Kingsbury, III, 581-8.
  • Letter by the Council in Virginia to the Virginia Company of London, 20 January 1622/3 (Library of Congress, MS Records of Virginia Company, III, pt. ii, pp. 4-5a). Edited in Kingsbury, IV, 9-17.
  • Letter by the Council in Virginia to the Virginia Company of London, 4 April 1623 (Library of Congress, MS Records of Virginia Company, III, pt. ii, pp. 6, 6a). Edited in Kingsbury, iv, 98-101.Another copy of the letter by the Council in Virginia to the Virginia Company of London, 4 April 1623 (National Archives, Kew, CO1/2, Part II/22).
  • Letter by the Council in Virginia to the Virginia Company of London, [after 4 April 1623] (Library of Congress, MS Records of Virginia Company, III, pt. ii, p. 7). Edited in Kingsbury, IV, 102-3.
  • Order by the Council in Virginia, 6 December 1623 (Library of Congress, MS Records of Virginia Company, III, pt. ii, p. 53). Edited in Kingsbury, IV, 441.
  • Order by the Council in Virginia, 8 December 1623 (Library of Congress, MS Records of Virginia Company, III, pt. ii, p. 53a). Edited in Kingsbury, IV, 441-2.
  • Letter by the Council in Virginia to Captain William Tucker, 26 December 1623 (Library of Congress, MS Records of Virginia Company, III, pt. ii, p. 53a). Edited in Kingsbury, IV, 444-5.
  • Commission by the Council in Virginia to Captain William Tucker, 31 December 1623 (Library of Congress, MS Records of Virginia Company, III, pt. ii, p. 53). Edited in Kingsbury, IV, 445-6.
  • Commission by the Council in Virginia to Captain William Tucker, 31 December 1623 (Library of Congress, MS Records of Virginia Company, III, pt. ii, p. 53a). Edited in Kingsbury, IV, 446.
  • Order by the Council in Virginia to Captain William Tucker, 9 January 1623/4 (Library of Congress, MS Records of Virginia Company, III, pt. ii, p. 53a). Edited in Kingsbury, IV, 447.
  • Letter by the Council and Assembly in Virginia to the King, [February 1623/4] (Library of Congress, MS Records of Virginia Company, III, pt. I, pp. 9-11). Recorded in Kingsbury, IV, 455.Another copy of the letter by the Council and Assembly in Virginia to the King, [February 1623/4] (National Archives, Kew, CO1/3, after f. 6).
  • Answer by the General Assembly of Virginia to the Declaration of Alderman Johnson, 20 February 1623[/4] (Library of Congress, MS Records of Virginia Company, III, pt. i, p. 4a). Recorded in Kingsbury, IV, 458.Another copy of the Answer by the General Assembly of Virginia to the Declaration of Alderman Johnson, 20 February 1623[/4]. (National Archives, Kew, CO1/3, after f. 6).
  • Letter by the Council and Assembly in Virginia to the Privy Council, 28 February 1623[/4] (National Archives, Kew, CO1/3/4). Recorded in Kingsbury, IV, 458.A scribal copy by Edward Sharples of the letter by the Council and Assembly in Virginia to the Privy Council, 28 February 1623[/4] (National Archives, Kew, CO1/3/5).
  • Reply by the General Assembly in Virginia to four propositions by the Commissioners to Virginia, 2 March 1623[/4] (National Archives, Kew, CO1/3/7). Recorded in Kingsbury, IV, 465. A scribal copy by Edward Sharples of the Reply by the General Assembly in Virginia to four propositions by the Commissioners to Virginia, 2 March 1623[/4] (National Archives, Kew, CO1/3/8).
  • Lawes & Orders concluded at a General Assembly…, 5 March 1623[/4] (Library of Congress, MS Records of Virginia Company, III, pt. I, pp. 8, 8a). Edited in Kingsbury, IV, 580-5.Another copy of Lawes & Orders concluded at a General Assembly…, 5 March 1623[/4] (National Archives, Kew, CO1/3/9).
  • Letter by the Council in Virginia to the Virginia Company of London, 17 April 1624 (Library of Congress, MS Records of Virginia Company, III, pt. i, p. 8a). Edited in Kingsbury, IV, 474-5.
  • Letter by the Council in Virginia to the Virginia Company of London, 12 May 1624 (Library of Congress, MS Records of Virginia Company, III, pt. i, p. 9). Edited in Kingsbury, IV, 9-17.
  • Letter by the Council in Virginia to the King, [? 15 June 1624] (National Archives, Kew, CO1/3/42). Recorded in Kingsbury, IV, 484.
  • Petition by the Council in Virginia to the King, 3 July 1624 (Library of Congress, MS Records of Virginia Company, III, pt. i, p. 5a). Recorded in Kingsbury, IV, 489.Another copy of the Petition by the Council in Virginia to the King, 3 July 1624 (National Archives, Kew, CO1/3/21).
  • 8.warrants sent to seuerall Plantacions, 12 July 1624 (British Library, Add. MS 62135, Part 2, f. 220v).
  • Letter by the Council in Virginia to the Virginia Company of London, 2 December 1624 (Library of Congress, MS Records of Virginia Company, III, pt. ii, p. 11a). Edited in Kingsbury, IV, 507-9.Another copy of the Letter by the Council in Virginia to the Virginia Company of London, 2 December 1624. (National Archives, Kew, CO1/3/30).
  • Petition by the Council in Virginia to the King in support of Sir George Yeardley, [c.1624?] (British Library, Add. MS 62135, Part 2, f. 217r-v).
  • Letter by the Council in Virginia to the Virginia Company of London, 10 January 1624[/5] (National Archives, Kew, CO1/3/34). Edited in Kingsbury, IV, 509-10.
  • Letter by the Council in Virginia to the Virginia Company of London, 4 February 1624[/5] (Library of Congress, MS Records of Virginia Company, III, pt. ii, p. 12). Edited in Kingsbury, IV, 517-18.Another copy of the letter by the Council in Virginia to the Virginia Company of London, 4 February 1624[/5] (National Archives, Kew, CO1/3/36).
  • Petition by the Council in Virginia to the House of Commons, 21 May 1625 (British Library, Add. MS 62135, Part 2, f. 218r-v).
  • Letter by the Council in Virginia to the Privy Council, 15 June 1625 (Library of Congress, MS Records of Virginia Company, III, pt. ii, pp. 14, 14a). Edited in Kingsbury, IV, 559-62.Another copy of the letter by the Council in Virginia to the Privy Council, 15 June 1625 (National Archives, Kew, CO1/3/41).
  • Letter by the Council in Virginia to the Commissioners for the Affairs of Virginia, 15 June 1625 (Library of Congress, MS Records of Virginia Company, III, pt. i, pp. 12a-13a). Edited in Kingsbury, IV, 562-7.
  • Petition by the Council in Virginia to the King, [24 May 1631] (National Archives, Kew, CO1/6/30).
  • The humble Remonstrance of diuerse of the principall Planters in Virginia…touching the contract proposed…for the Regulation of Tobacco, [c.1635-7] (National Archives, Kew, CO1/9/100).
  • Report of the Subcommittee for Foreign Plantations to the Privy Council, 15 July 1638 (National Archives, Kew, CO1/9/121). Summarized in VMHB, 10 (1902-3), 428.
  • Report of the Subcommittee for Foreign Plantations to the Privy Council, 27 July 1638 (National Archives, Kew, CO1/9/122). Summarized in VMHB, 11 (1903-4), 46-7.
  • Report of the Subcommittee for Foreign Plantations to the Privy Council, 2 April 1639 (National Archives, Kew CO1/10/12.I).
  • Report of the Subcommittee for Foreign Plantations to the Privy Council, 30 July 1639 (National Archives, Kew, CO1/10/31). Summarized in VMHB, 13 (1905-6), 375.
  • Report of the Subcommittee for Foreign Plantations to the Privy Council, 1 August 1639 (National Archives, Kew, CO1/10/30.I).

Presentation Volumes and Books from Sandys's Library

As is evident from information supplied in the course of Sandys's legal dispute with William Stansby, a large number of exempla of his Ovid's Metamorphosis (London, 1632) were presented to various people by the author, and it is possible that he was similarly generous with other of his publications. Few presentation exempla of Sandys's books have been recorded in more recent years, though such as are known — generally noted in Bowers & Davis (1950) — are given entries in CELM (SaG 48-52).

Several books by other authors which were once in Sandys's library are also known (SaG 53-62). They can be recognized from his signature, motto (Habere eripitur habuisse nunquam), binding or other marks of ownership, and most also have an abbreviated title written in italic capitals near the top of the fore-edge. They are, for the most part, discussed in Richard Beale Davis, Volumes from George Sandys's Library Now in America, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 65 (1957), 450-7; in Edwin Wolf 2nd, Some Books of Early English Provenance in the Library Company of Philadelphia, The Book Collector, 9 (Autumn 1960), 275-84; and in M.A. Rogers, art. cit. in The Book Collector, 23 (1974), 361-70.

Manuscripts of Works by Sandys

Of those manuscript texts of works by Sandys recorded in CELM — for the most part copies of single poems in miscellanies or else in musical settings in song-books — those relating to two of Sandys's major writings are of particular interest. One, a manuscript of A Paraphrase upon Job (SaG 6) has at least an interesting provenance in that it was once in the library of the Duke of Sussex, sixth son of George III, although, now that it has come to light since its sale in 1845, there is no clear evidence that it was an authorial presentation copy to a monarch or ever came into a Royal library in Sandys's lifetime. The work itself is not otherwise known to have circulated in manuscript except for extracts.

On the other hand, Sandys's A Paraphrase upon the Song of Solomon did have a circulation in manuscript for some time before its first publication in 1641, possibly, as Professor Davis has conjectured, because Sandys was hesitant to include so sensual a poem in his Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (1638), a volume to be used in private devotionals and which, moreover, was intended to please the King. At present, ten contemporary scribal copies of this poem can be recorded (SaG 23-31), although more might well survive. Arthur Clifford, in Tixall Poetry (London, 1813), pp. 335-6, recorded his possession of a manuscript copy transcribed in the year 1638, while in 1872 Richard Hooper noted (I, xlvii) having seen a manuscript copy inserted on the fly leaves of the folio of 1638 in the possession of Mr. F.S. Ellis, the well-known bookseller of King-street, Covent Garden. Whether either of these manuscripts corresponds with any of those recorded in CELM is not clear.

A few extracts from various of Sandys's works, probably copied from printed texts, are found in miscellanies and notebooks of the 17th or early 18th centuries: see SaG 63-67. A copy of Sandys's Hymn to my Redeemer in the hand of William Drummond of Hawthornden is recorded in The Poetical Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. L.E. Kastner, 2 vols (Edinburgh & London, 1913), II, 374, and was printed earlier in Edward Phillips's edition of Drummond's poems (London, 1656), but is not known now unless somewhere among the fifteen volumes of the Hawthornden Manuscripts now in the National Library of Scotland (MSS 2053-2067).

Miscellaneous

Various miscellaneous papers relating to Sandys and of biographical relevance are recorded in Davis, passim. A small notebook of some sixty pages containing synopses of sermons between 1629 and 1632 which has been described as being in the minute autograph of Sandys was sold at Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1857, lot 1246, and is now in Edinburgh University Library (MS Dc. 8. 139). The association with Sandys evidently arises from an inscription at the top of the first page referring to the christening of Sr George Sands, his Son. Septr: 3. 1629. However, whichever member of the Sands or Sandys family this refers to, the manuscript is not in the hand of George Sandys the poet and would appear to have no direct association with him.

Notes on Sandys by William Oldys (1696-1761) are written in his exemplum of Gerard Langbaine, An Account of the English Dramatick Poets (Oxford, 1691), now in the British Library (C.28.g.1, pp. 436-8). Notes on Sandys by the Rev. Joseph Hunter (1783-1861) in his Chorus Vatum Anglicanorum (Volume III) are also in the British Library (Add. MS 24489, ff. 122v-3v). The papers of Professor Richard Beale Davis (1907-81) relating to his work on Sandys between 1934 and 1978 are now preserved at the University of Virginia (462-a). Papers of Alexander McElwain relating to Sandys are at Harvard (56M-167).

Abbreviations

Bowers & Davis
Fredson Bowers and Richard Beale Davis, George Sandys: A Bibliographical Catalogue of Edited Editions in England to 1700, Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 54 (1950), 159-81, 223-44, 280-6.
Davis
Richard Beale Davis, George Sandys Poet-Adventurer (London, 1955).
Davis, VMHB
Richard Beale Davis, Volumes from George Sandys's Library Now in America, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 65 (1957), 450-7.
Hooper
The Poetical Works of George Sandys, ed. the Rev. Richard Hooper, 2 vols (London, 1872).
Kingsbury
The Records of the Virginia Company of London, ed. Susan Myra Kingsbury, 4 vols (Washington, D.C., 1906-35).
Rogers
M.A. Rogers, Books from the Library of George Sandys, The Book Collector, 23 (Autumn 1974), 361-70.
Wolf
Edwin Wolf 2nd, Some Books of Early English Provenance in the Library Company of Philadelphia, The Book Collector, 9 (Autumn 1960), 275-84.

Verse

Deo Opt. Max ('O Thou who All-thinges hast of Nothing made')

First published with A Paraphrase upon the Psalms of David (London, 1636). Hooper, II, 403-6.

SaG 1

Copy, neatly written in two styles of hand, two pages in roman, two pages in italic.

On pp. 309[-12] in a printed exemplum of Sandys's A Relation of a Journey begun Anno Dom. 1610, 4th edition (London, 1637), a folio in modern cloth.

Mid-17th century

A tipped-in letter by Thomas Sandys, 13 March 1686. Inscribed inside the front cover J. L. Philips. 1807. Bookplate of John Snowden Henry.

Formerly Ott 3100. 5.4F*.

This item recorded in Bowers & Davis, p. 176.

Harvard, other MSS (fSTC 21730 (B))
A Dream ('As I one night in Bed, revolving lay')

First published in Richard Beale Davis, George Sandys and Two Uncollected Poems, HLQ, 12 (1948-9), 105-11 (pp. 109-11).

SaG 2

Copy, subscribed G.S..

Edited from this MS in Davis, loc. cit.

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.

c.1630s-40s

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: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.

Hymn to my redeemer ('Saviour of mankind, Man, Emanuel')

First published in A Relation of a Journey begun Anno Dom. 1610 (London, 1615), p. 167. Hooper, I, xxiv-xxv.

SaG 3

Copy, headed A meditation vpon the sight of our Saviours Tombe, subscribed G. S..

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, i + 284 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by Sir John Gibson (1606-65), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, Yorkshire, when he was a Royalist prisoner in Durham Castle. The name Penelope Gibson on f. 174r.

c.1653-60

Bookplate of William Ward Jackson.

SaG 4

Copy, headed vpon ye sight of our saviours sepulcher, subscribed G: Sandys: tran: pag: 167 lib 3°.

An octavo verse miscellany and notebook, in several italic hands, written from both ends, 64 unnumbered leaves, in contemporary calf.

Compiled chiefly by members of the Grosvenor family, of Downton, Radnorshire (now Shropshire).

c.1681-1732

Various inscriptions including Teverra Byrd, Teverra Grosvenor of Downton 1731, and Rich: Grosvenor his Book Given him p Mrs Teverra Grosvenor in the Year of Our Lord God Ano Dom 1730. Also including earlier notes, dated 1681, relating to persons excommunicated since J: Sayer came to Old Radnor.

A microfilm of this volume is in the National Library of Wales.

Cardiff Central Library (MS 1.142 f. [18r])
SaG 5

Copy, headed A hymne dictated to or Sauior christ at his sepulchre in Jerusalem ano. 1610. by Mr Geo: Sandys.

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).

c.1630s

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: DnJ Δ 60 and HeR Δ 6. Facsimile of p. 119r (HeR 355) in L.F. Casson, The Manuscripts of the Grey Collection in Cape Town, The Book Collector, 10 (Spring 1961), 147-55 (facing p. 153).

Ovid's Metamorphosis

Books I-IV first published in London, 1621. Complete in 1626.

SaG 5.4

Extracts.

A duodecimo Vade mecum or A Pocket-Book of verse, compiled by John Gibson the Younger (1630-1711), of Welburne, Yorkshire, 86 unnumbered leaves, in contemporary calf, with traces of clasps.

c.1666-78
Bodleian Library, other MSS (MSS Broxbourne R 359 f. [39v])
SaG 5.6

Extracts, Books X, 17-63, and VIII, 634-731.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, i + 284 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by Sir John Gibson (1606-65), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, Yorkshire, when he was a Royalist prisoner in Durham Castle. The name Penelope Gibson on f. 174r.

c.1653-60

Bookplate of William Ward Jackson.

A Paraphrase upon Ecclesiastes ('This Sermon the much-knowing Preacher made')
SaG 5.8

Extracts, Book XI, 31-74.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, i + 284 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by Sir John Gibson (1606-65), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, Yorkshire, when he was a Royalist prisoner in Durham Castle. The name Penelope Gibson on f. 174r.

c.1653-60

Bookplate of William Ward Jackson.

A Paraphrase upon Job ('In Hus, a land which near the sun's uprise')

First published in A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638). Hooper, I, 1-78.

SaG 6

Copy, in a professional hand, on 35 folio leaves.

c.1630s

Formerly in the Kensington Palace library of Augustus Frederick (1773-1843), Duke of Sussex, sixth son of George IIII. Sale of the Duke of Sussex's library, at Evans's (Sotheby's), 31 July 1844, lot 462, to Thorpe. Owned in 1845 by George Livermore, of Dann Hill, Cambridge, Mass. Livermore sale in Boston, 1894, lot 2095. Sold 27 December 1941 by Dobell. Formerly Uncat. MSS, Bible OT, Job, English, attrib. G. Sandys.

This MS described (as an original transcript) and extensively quoted in Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, Bibliotheca Susseriana. A Descriptive Catalogue...of the Manuscripts and Printed Books contained in The Library of His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex...in Kensington Palace, Volume I, Part 1 (London, 1827), item 1.

University of Illinois (Pre-1650 MS 0158)
SaG 7

Copy of Chapter X, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed An Anthem out of Job and beginning O I'm sick of life.

This MS recorded in Franklin B. Zimmerman, Henry Purcell: An Analytical Catalogue (London & New York, 1963), No. 140.

A folio music book.

End of 17th century
SaG 8

Copy of Chapter X in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

This MS recorded in Zimmerman.

A folio volume of vocal compositions largely by Henry Purcell, 126 leaves.

End of 17th century

Once owned by James Pears. Bought at the Dr Samuel Arnold sale 24 May 1803 by W. Russell. Puttick & Simpson's, 22 December 1869, lot 613.

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. c. 28 ff. 109v-11r)
SaG 9

Copy of Chapter X in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, transcribed from SaG 10.

This MS recorded in Zimmerman.

A large folio music book of works chiefly by Henry Purcell, v + 391 pages, in modern half-black morocco.

A number of items Transcrib'd from the Original Score 1680.

c.1700s

Bookplates of William Hawes, 1841, and Edmund T. Warren Horne.

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Tenbury 1175 pp. 302-5)
SaG 10

Copy of Chapter X, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, untitled.

This MS recorded in Zimmerman.

A large folio volume of autograph vocal and instrumental music by Henry Purcell (1659-95), with a title-page The Works of Hen, Purcell Anno Dom. 1680, ii + 72 leaves (plus numerous blanks, in 19th-century half red morocco.

c.1680

Thomas James sale, February 1826, item 187. Bookplates of the Rev. John Parker and of Edmund Thomas Warren Horne, publisher (whose collection of music books was sold on 3 July 1794). Also inscribed by Joseph Warren (1804-81), composer and music editor. Purchased on 27 July 1878 from Julian Marshall (1836-1903), music and print collector and writer.

SaG 11

Copy of Chapter X, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

This MS recorded in Zimmerman.

A folio music book.

Early 18th century
Christ Church, Oxford (MS Mus. 628 pp. 121-4)
SaG 12

Copy of Chapter XIV, beginning Ah! few, and full of sorrows, are the days, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

This MS recorded in Zimmerman, No. 130.

A folio volume of vocal compositions largely by Henry Purcell, 126 leaves.

End of 17th century

Once owned by James Pears. Bought at the Dr Samuel Arnold sale 24 May 1803 by W. Russell. Puttick & Simpson's, 22 December 1869, lot 613.

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. c. 28 f. 115v)
SaG 13

Copy of Chapter XIV in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, transcribed from SaG 14.

This MS recorded in Zimmerman.

A large folio music book of works chiefly by Henry Purcell, v + 391 pages, in modern half-black morocco.

A number of items Transcrib'd from the Original Score 1680.

c.1700s

Bookplates of William Hawes, 1841, and Edmund T. Warren Horne.

Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Tenbury 1175 pp. 297-301)
SaG 14

Copy of Chapter XIV, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, untitled.

This MS recorded in Zimmerman.

A large folio volume of autograph vocal and instrumental music by Henry Purcell (1659-95), with a title-page The Works of Hen, Purcell Anno Dom. 1680, ii + 72 leaves (plus numerous blanks, in 19th-century half red morocco.

c.1680

Thomas James sale, February 1826, item 187. Bookplates of the Rev. John Parker and of Edmund Thomas Warren Horne, publisher (whose collection of music books was sold on 3 July 1794). Also inscribed by Joseph Warren (1804-81), composer and music editor. Purchased on 27 July 1878 from Julian Marshall (1836-1903), music and print collector and writer.

SaG 15

Copy of Chapter XIV.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, i + 284 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by Sir John Gibson (1606-65), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, Yorkshire, when he was a Royalist prisoner in Durham Castle. The name Penelope Gibson on f. 174r.

c.1653-60

Bookplate of William Ward Jackson.

SaG 15.2

Copy of Chapters X and XIV, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

A book of vocal music by Henry Purcell.

18th century
Royal College of Music (MS 517 f. 12r, 18r)
SaG 15.5 18th-century

Copy of Chapters X and XIV, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

MS music book.

Royal College of Music (MS 999 f. 61v)
A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems

First published in London, 1637.

SaG 15.8

An exemplum of the printed edition, owned and annotated by James, Duke of York, later King James II, a folio in brown calf elaborately gilt with semé fleurs de lys.

1638

Inscribed on the title-page Livre de S. A. Rlle. Jacques. D. de Yorc. Inscribed names of Jos: Crowther and John Banks. Bookplate of Robert Hoe (1839-1909), New York businessman and book collector.

A Paraphrase upon the Psalms of David ('That man is truly bless'd who never strays')

First published in London, 1636. Hooper, I, 91-195; II, 195-310.

Some of Henry Lawes's musical settings published in A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638). Musical settings by Henry and William Lawes also published in Choice Psalmes Put into Musick for Three Voices (London, 1648).

SaG 16

Copy of 28 Psalms, in musical settings: namely, in an irregular sequence, Psalms 2, 5, 26, 31, 38, 54, 57, 60, 67, 120, 136, 142 set by Henry lawes (1596-1662); Psalms 6, 22, 42, 47, 63, 68, 92, 95, 98, 123, 125, 129, 130, 141, 149, 150 set by William Lawes (1602-45); the first stanza of Psalm 134 set by Edward Lowe.

An oblong quarto songbook, written from both ends, ii + 384 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Mid-late-17th century
Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. Sch. E. 451 pp. 26-72, 336)
SaG 17

Copy of fifteen Psalms, in musical settings by Henry Lawes: namely, Psalms 2, 5, 13, 26, 31, 38, 54, 60, 67, 71 [part iii], 102, 136, 142, and 120 [v. 5], in an irregular sequence.

Two music part books compiled by Thomas Smith (1614-1701) of The Queen's College, Oxford, later Bishop of Carlisle.

c.1637

Formerly Carlisle Cathedral, Dean & Chapter of Carlisle MSS, Box B1.

These MSS discussed in John P. Cutts, Bishop Smith's Part-Song Books in Carlisle Cathedral Library (American Institute of Musicology, 1972).

Cumbria Archives, Carlisle (D&C Music 1 Bassus, pp. 61-73)
SaG 18

Copy of the first stanza of Psalm 17, headed A devine song Out of Sandses translation sett for three ladys and beginning Lord lord grant my just request O heare my Crie, in a musical setting by William Davis.

A folio music book, comprising William Davis's autograph collection of his own musical compositions, i + 234 leaves (with inserted oblong quarto leaves ff. 10-11, 47-55), in half-red calf marbled boards.

Early 18th century
Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. c. 16 f. 98r-v)
SaG 19

Copy of Psalm 120 (v.5), here beginning Woe is mee, woe is mee, yt I from Israell, in Lawes's musical setting.

A large folio volume of autograph vocal music by Henry Lawes (1596-1662), ix + 184 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt.

Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller.

Mid-17th century

Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.

Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Henry Lawes MS: CwT Δ 16; HeR Δ 3; WaE Δ 11. Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Pamela J. Willetts, The Henry Lawes Manuscript (London, 1969). Facsimiles of ff. 42r, 78r, 80r, 84r, 111r and 169r in The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric C. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 59, 60, 62, 64, 66 and 117. Also discussed in Willa McClung Evans, Henry Lawes: Musician and Friend of Poets (New York and London, 1941), and elsewhere. A complete facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 3 (New York & London, 1986).

SaG 19.5

Extracts, including examples on pp. 49-50, 55-6, 64, and 79.

A quarto miscellany of extracts in verse and prose, in a single largely italic hand, 142 pages, in contemporary mottled calf gilt.

Compiled by Sir John Cotton, Bt (1621-1702).

Mid-17th century
SaG 20 1684

Copy of Psalm 128, beginning Happy hee who God obeyes, c.2 February 1683/4.

A quarto commonplace book, including family memoirs, compiled by Brian Fairfax (1633-1711) for the education of his children, c.125 pages, in contemporary calf.

c.1683-85

Bookplate of John Richards Jr, D.S.A. Sotheby's, 27 April 1870 (John Bruce sale), to Edward Hailstone (1818-90), antiquary, botanist and book collector, of Walton Hall, Wakefield. Bookplate of John Richards Jr, FSA. Sotheby's, 21 July 1988, lot 314, to Quaritch, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([B. Fairfax MS] item 28)
SaG 21

Copy of Psalm 137, beginning As on Euphrates shady banks I lay, in a musical setting by John Blow.

A tall folio songbook, in two or more cursive hands, written from both ends, with (f. iiir) an index, iv + 99 leaves (including indexes), in 19th-century half green morocco gilt on marbled boards.

A formal compilation, ff. 2r-44v in the hand of Henry Bowman (fl.1674-80), composer and copyist; ff. 44v-53v in a second hand; ff. 54r-65r in a third hand; with additions in one or more hands on ff. 99v-66v rev.

Late 17th century

Booklabel of William Hayman Cummings, FSA (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Sotheby's, 17-24 May 1917 (Cummings sale), lot 487.

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Egerton MS 2960 ff. 85v-83v rev.)
SaG 22

Copy of Psalm 148, here beginning Ye who dwell above the skies, in a 19th-century hand.

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, predominantly in a single hand, with 19th-century additions (pp. 195 onwards, at least partly from earlier MS sources), 279 pages, in contemporary calf.

c.1644 (and later)

Inscribed (f. [ir]) William Han: 1644, probably by the academic compiler.

A Paraphrase upon the Song of Solomon ('Join thy life-breathing lips to mine')

First published in London, 1641. Hooper, II, 335-56. Dedicatory verses To the Queen first published in A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1676). Hooper, II, 338.

SaG 23

Copy, iii + fifteen quarto leaves, with a title-page, f. 1r originally paginated 241.

Copy, initially entitled Mr: George Sands on the Canticles and then headed The Songe of Salomon.

c.1637-43

This MS discussed in Richard Beale Davis, Sandys's Song of Solomon: Its Manuscript Versions and Their Circulation, PBSA, 50 (1956), 328-41 (p. 332).

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS e. Mus. 201)
SaG 24

Copy, heavily dust-stained.

This MS discussed in Davis, loc. cit., p. 333 et seq.

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

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

SaG 25 c.1630s

Copy, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with dedicatory verses To ye Queene (beginning Chast Nymph; you who extracted are) and (on f. 127v) nine lines of Ye Jugdmnt of Sidney Godolphin On ye former worke not Edited (beginning Not in yt ardent course as where he woes), on seven folio leaves.

This MS recorded in Hooper, I, xlvi-xlvii. Discussed in Davis, loc. cit., p. 333 et seq.

A folio volume of largely parliamentary and state tracts, predominantly in three secretary hands, 137 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

c.1637-43

Owned in 1643 by one Charles Cheyney.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 489 ff. 121r-7r)
SaG 26

Copy, in a professional hand, on nine folio leaves (ff. 377r-85r), with dedicatory verses To the queen (beginning Chast Nimphe yow whoe extracted are) in another hand on a separate preliminary leaf (f. 376v). Mid-17th century.

This MS discussed in Davis, loc. cit., p. 333 et seq.

A large folio guard-book of miscellaneous MSS, in various hands, 434 leaves.

Collected, and partly written, by Lieutenant Gideon Bonnivert (fl.1670s-90s), French Huguenot soldier and author, of Oxnead Hall, Norfolk.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1009 ff. 376v-85r)
SaG 27

Copy, in at least two hands, headed A Paraphrase Vpon The Song of Solomon By George Sandys Anno 1637, on eight folio leaves, bound with a printed exemplum of A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638).

c.1637-43

This MS discussed in Davis, loc. cit., pp. 334-5 et seq.

University of Cincinnati (PR 2338. A68 1638)
SaG 28

Copy on six folio leaves bound with a printed exemplum of A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638).

c.1637-43

This MS recorded in Davis (1955), pp. 250, 289.

SaG 29

Copy of an apparently early version, in a neat predominantly italic hand, headed A Paraphrase upon Salomons song. Dedicated to the Queene. But not sufferd to be printed, on six folio leaves, bound with a printed exemplum of A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638), in modern quarter calf on marbled boards.

c.1637-43

Cropped inscription (sig. A1r) Jones. Bookplate of William Thomas Smedley (1851-1934), Baconian.

This MS discussed in Davis, loc. cit., pp. 335-6, 338-40.

SaG 29.5

Copy, in a professional hand, on ten quarto leaves.

c.1630s-40s

Inscribed (twice) on the last blank page James Halsteede. Sold 27 December 1941 by Dobell.

University of Illinois (Uncat. MSS, Bible OT. Song of Solomon, English. Paraphrase by George Sandys)
SaG 30

Copy, with (after p. 55 of first section) dedicatory verses To the Queene of Bohemia (beginning Crownes are the sport of Fortune; but the Throne) and To his Grace [William Laud, Archbishop] of Canterbury (beginning Great Primate, you who at his Altar stand), in a professional hand, on 23 folio pages bound-up in a printed exemplum of A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638).

Presented by the author to the Earl of Arundel (Arundel's inscription on the title-page Ex Dono Authoris).

c.1637-43

Owned, in 1732 by one David Hall.

This MS discussed in Davis, loc. cit., pp. 333-4 et seq. To the Queene of Bohemia first published in at least one exemplum [Folger, STC 21725b [Harmsworth] of A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638): see Richard Beale Davis, George Sandys and Two Uncollected Poems, HLQ, 12 (1948-9), 105-11. To the Queene of Bohemia Edited from this MS — as also, for the first time, To his Grace of Canterbury — in Richard Beale Davis, Two New Manuscript Items for a George Sandys Bibliography, PBSA, 37 (1943), 215-22 (pp. 220-11).

SaG 31

Copy, in a professional hand, with corrections in a later hand, headed A Paraphrase Vpon The Song of Solomon By George Sandys Anno 1637, on nine folio leaves bound with a printed exemplum of A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638).

c.1637-43

Owned, in 1755, by the Aldersey family, of Aldersey, Cheshire. Owned (1959) by Karl E. Schmutzler.

This MS discussed in Karl E. Schmutzler, Another Manuscript Version of Sandys's Song of Solomon, PBSA, 53 (1959), 71-4.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Schmutzler MS])
A Paraphrase upon the Songs Collected out of the Old and New Testaments ('The praise of our triumphant King')

First published with A Paraphrase upon the Psalms of David (London, 1636). Hooper, II, 373-402.

SaG 32

Copy of the first stanza of Isaiah XXXVIII, beginning In the substraction of my yeares, in a musical setting by William Lawes.

An oblong quarto songbook, written from both ends, ii + 384 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer.

Mid-late-17th century
Bodleian Library, Music MSS (MS Mus. Sch. E. 451 p. 66)
SaG 33

Copy of Isaiah XXXVIII.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, i + 284 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Compiled by Sir John Gibson (1606-65), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, Yorkshire, when he was a Royalist prisoner in Durham Castle. The name Penelope Gibson on f. 174r.

c.1653-60

Bookplate of William Ward Jackson.

SaG 34

Copy of the first four stanzas of Isaiah XXXVIII, beginning In the Subtraction of my yeares, in a musical setting, untitled.

A square-shaped folio songbook, largely in a single rounded secretary hand, with (ff. 1r-v, 69r-v) a table of contents, i + 69 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

Mid-17th century

Puttick & Simpson's, 2 March 1866, lot 230.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 2 (New York & London, 1986).

The British Library, Music Books and Manuscripts (Egerton MS 2013 ff. 49v-50r)
SaG 35

Copy of the first stanza of David's lamentation for Saul and Jonathan (II Samuel I, beginning Thy beauty, Israel, is fled), in Lawes's musical setting.

A large folio volume of autograph vocal music by Henry Lawes (1596-1662), ix + 184 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt.

Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller.

Mid-17th century

Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.

Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Henry Lawes MS: CwT Δ 16; HeR Δ 3; WaE Δ 11. Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Pamela J. Willetts, The Henry Lawes Manuscript (London, 1969). Facsimiles of ff. 42r, 78r, 80r, 84r, 111r and 169r in The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric C. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 59, 60, 62, 64, 66 and 117. Also discussed in Willa McClung Evans, Henry Lawes: Musician and Friend of Poets (New York and London, 1941), and elsewhere. A complete facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 3 (New York & London, 1986).

To his Grace of Canterbury ('Great Primate, you who at his Altar stand')

See SaG 30.

To ye Queene ('Chast Nymph, you who extracted are')

See SaG 25-26.

To the Queene of Bohemia ('Crownes are the sport of Fortune. but the Throne')

See SaG 30.

Prose

A Relation of a Journey begun Anno Dom. 1610

First published in London, 1615.

SaG 36

Extracts.

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

Compiled by members of the Cartwright family, of Aynho, Northamptonshire, including (ff. 4r-7v) verse by William Cartwright (1634-76).

Mid-17th century

Inscribed names including Will: Cartwright, Jo: Cartwright, and Katherin Cartwright. Myers, sale catalogue No. 291 (1933), item 120.

Bodleian Library, Don. MSS (MS Don. e. 6 ff. 25r-7r)
SaG 37

Extracts.

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.

Mid-17th century

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: DnJ Δ 39.

Letters

Letter(s)
SaG 39

Petition by Sandys to the Governor and Council in Virginia, 2 November 1622.

1622

Edited in Kingsbury, III, 699.

Library of Congress (MS Records of Virginia Company III, pt. ii, p. 58)
*SaG 40
Autograph

A scribal copy of a letter by Sandys, to John Ferrar, Deputy Treasurer of the Virginia Company, with an autograph twelve-word docket by Sandys, [5 March 1622/3].

1623

Edited in Kingsbury, IV, 22-6. Reprinted in Davis, pp. 132-7. Facsimile of Sandys's docket in the Parke-Bernet sale catalogue.

University of Virginia (Rich Collection, No. 202 [unnumbered item])
SaG 41

Scribal copy of a letter by Sandys, to Samuel Wrote, with marginal annotations by Sir Nathaniel Rich, 28 March 1623.

1623

Edited in Kingsbury, IV, 64-8. Reprinted in Davis, pp. 138-43.

University of Virginia (Rich Collection, No. 9202 [unnumbered item])
SaG 42

A scribal copy of a letter by Sandys, to his brother Sir Miles Sandys, with marginal annotations by Sir Nathaniel Rich, 30 March 1623.

1623

Edited in Kingsbury, IV, 70-2. Reprinted in Davis, pp. 144-6.

University of Virginia (Rich Collection, No. 9202 [unnumbered item])
SaG 43

A scribal copy of a letter by Sandys, to his brother Sir Miles Sandys, with marginal annotations by Sir Nathaniel Rich, 30 March 1623.

1623

Edited in Kingsbury, IV, 73-5. Reprinted in Davis, pp. 147-9. Facsimile example in Kingsbury, IV, facing p. 251.

University of Virginia (Rich Collection, No. 9202 [unnumbered item])
*SaG 44
Autograph

Letter by Sandys, in a secretary's hand and signed by Sandys, to John Ferrar, 8 April 1623.

1623

Edited in Kingsbury, IV, 106-10. Reprinted in Davis, pp. 150-7.

National Archives, Kew (CO1/2, Part II/27)
SaG 44.5

A copy by Mandeville of Sandys's letter to John Ferrar, 8 April 1623, sent to Secretary Conway.

1623
National Archives, Kew (CO1/2, Part II/35.II)
SaG 45

A scribal copy of a letter by Sandys, to John Ferrar, docketed by Sir Nathaniel Rich, 11 April 1623.

1623

Edited in Kingsbury, IV, 110-11. Reprinted in Davis, pp. 157-8.

University of Virginia (Rich Collection, No. 9202 [unnumbered item])
SaG 46

A petition by Sandys, to the King, entirely in the hand of a scribe, [1631].

1631

Summarized in VMHB, 8 (1900-1), 43.

Documents

Document(s)
*SaG 47
Autograph

A deposition by Sandys in the case of Dawber versus Clayborne, written in a secretarial hand and signed by Sandys at the foot of both broadsheets, 22 June 1638.

1638
National Archives, Kew (C 24/629/Part2/32)

Presentation Volumes of Works by Sandys

Ovid's Metamorphosis (London, 1632)
SaG 48

A printed exemplum bearing the contemporary inscription Ex dono Georgij Sandys Armigeri / Translation. A° Domini 1636.

1636
SaG 49

A printed exemplum owned by, and probably presented to, Charles I when Prince of Wales, with the Feather and Motto Ich Dien, on the sides.

c.1632

Sotheby's, 16 May 1912, lot 310, to Maggs.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Sandys/Ovid volume])
A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638)

See WaE 901.

SaG 51

A printed exemplum, bearing the royal arms and coronet of the Prince of Wales, later Charles I, and possibly the dedication exemplum.

c.1638

Recorded in Bowers & Davis (pp. 240-1).

SaG 52

A printed exemplum presented to Gilbert Watts, whose has inscribed the title-page G. Watts. Ruit Hora. Ex dono Auctoris. and whose arms are on the calf binding.

c.1638

Also inscribed on the title-page and flyleaf by W. Bishope and by Pen. Thomas and G. Wingfield, of Magdalen College, Oxford. Later in the Britwell Court Library, at Burnham, Buckinghamshire, founded by William Henry Miller, MP (1789-1848) and maintained by Samuel Christie Miller, MP (1810-89). Sotheby's, 26 March 1925 (Christie-Miller sale), lot 544, to Rosenbach, with the binding illustrated in the sale catalogue. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue [No. 45] (1941), item 648.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Sandys/Paraphrase volume])

Books from Sandys's Library

Horatius Flavius, Quintus. Poemata, ed. John Bond (London, 1606)
*SaG 53
Autograph

A printed exemplum with Sandys's autograph motto and signature on the title-page, the binding bearing royal arms.

1606
Royal College of Physicians (871-1 (d) 14878)
Lemnius, Levinus. De miraculis occultis naturae (Frankfurt, 1611)
*SaG 54
Autograph

A printed exemplum, with Sandys's autograph motto and signature on the title-page and his arms on the binding.

Early-mid-17th century

Recorded in Davis, p. 454, with illustrations of the binding and title-page after p. 450; in Wolf, p. 279; and in Rogers, p. 369. Illustrations of the title-page and binding also in Quarter of a Millennium: The Library Company of Philadelphia 1731-1981, ed. Edwin Wolf 2nd and Marie Elena Korey (Philadelphia, 1981), p. 165.

The Library Company of Philadelphia (Sev Lemn Log 9288.D)
Lucan. Pharsalia (Basle, [1574])
*SaG 55
Autograph

A printed exemplum with Sandys's autograph motto and signature on the title-page and his arms on the binding, the text also with readers' markings some of which might conceivably be by Sandys.

Early-mid-17th century

Owned in 1957 by the late Professor Richard Beale Davis, of the University of Tennessee.

Recorded in Davis, pp. 455-6, and in Rogers, pp. 369-70.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Sandys/Lucan volume])
Petronius. Satyricon: cum notis & observationibus variorum (Leiden, 1596)
*SaG 56
Autograph

A printed exemplum with Sandys's autograph motto and signature on the title-page.

Early-mid-17th century

Donated in 1896 by Eugene Davenport Alexander.

Recorded in Rogers, p. 370.

Yale (Ih. Sa57. Zz 596)
Platina, Bartholomaeus. Historia…de vitis Pontificum Romanorum (Cologne, 1574)
*SaG 57
Autograph

A printed exemplum with Sandys's autograph motto and signature on the title-page.

Early-mid 17th century

Recorded in Davis, pp. 454-5; in Wolf, p. 279; and in Rogers, p. 370.

Plato. Opera omnia quae exstant. Marsilio Ficino interprete (Lyons, 1590)
*SaG 58
Autograph

A printed exemplum with Sandys's autograph motto and signature on the title-page.

Early 17th century

Later in the library of Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753), Bishop of Cloyne.

Recorded in Rogers, p. 370.

Yale (1742 Library. 3.2.3)
Pliny the Elder. The Historie of the World, Commonly called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus, trans. Philemon Holland (London, 1601)
SaG 59

A printed exemplum with Sandys's arms on the binding, the corner of the title-page which probably once bore his autograph inscription now torn away.

Early 17th century

Recorded in Davis, p. 456, and in Rogers, p. 370.

Poetae tres elegantissimi (Paris, 1582)

Containing works by Michael Marullus, Hieronymus Angerianus, and Joannes Secundus.

*SaG 60
Autograph

A printed exemplum with Sandys's autograph motto and signature on the title-page.

Early 17th century

Recorded in Rogers, p. 370, with illustrations of the title-page and fore-edge (Plates B and C).

Sandys, George. A Relation of a Journey begun Anno Dom. 1610 (London, 1621)
SaG 61

Apparently Sandys's own exemplum, bearing his arms on the binding.

1621

Recorded in M. A. Rogers, Books from the Library of George Sandys, BC, 23 (Autumn 1974), 361-70 (p. 370), where the binding is illustrated (Plate A).

Bodleian Library, other MSS (K. 5. 12. Art)
Voragine, Jacobus de. Legendario delle vite de' Santi (Venice, 1607)
*SaG 62
Autograph

A printed exemplum with Sandys's autograph motto and signature on the title-page and his arms on the binding.

Early 17th century

Recorded in Davis pp. 456-7, and in Rogers, p. 369. Illustration of the book-stamp in Cyril Davenport, English Heraldic Book-Stamps (London, 1909), p. 333.

Extracts from Works by Sandys

Extracts
SaG 63

Extracts, principally from the Penitential Hymns, Job's Curse Paraphrases upon Job, upon the Psalms of David, and upon Ecclesiastes.

A folio volume of collections compiled by Dr Basil Kennett (1674-1715), antiquary and translator.

Volume VI of the Kennett Papers.

c.1700
The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 929 ff. 52r-67v passim)
SaG 64

Extracts from various works.

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

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

c.1656-66

Formerly MS 469.2.

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

SaG 65

Extracts, from Sandys's translations of Homer, Virgil, Ovid etc.

A large quarto miscellany of verse extracts, comprising 182 entries, in a single cursive hand varying in style, 115 unnumbered leaves (plus 26 blanks), in contemporary calf.

Entitled (f. [1r]) A Collection of Miscellany Poems from the Greatest Poets, both Ancient and Modern That i have Read, & here place for my own entertainment, to diuert Malincolly Thoughts, & to assist My Memory, That was neuer Good at no Time:.

Late-17th century

From the library at Newburgh Priory, Yorkshire.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 631 Nos 1-69)
SaG 66

A printed exemplum of Lucretius, De rerum natura (Amsterdam, 1620), owned and annotated by Ben Jonson, including his extracts from Sandy's translations of Ovid and Lucretius, on the title-page, on p. 169 and on the rear pastedown.

c.1620s
Harvard, other MSS (*EC.J7382. Zz620f)
SaG 67

Extracts.

A folio commonplace book, in English, Latin and Italian, in several hands, arranged under headings in double columns, 558 pages, in half-morocco.

Compiled in part by Richard Symonds (1617-after 1692?), antiquary and genealogist, of Black Notley, Essex.

Late 17th-early 18th century

Later owned by Evelyn Philip Shirley (1812-82), of Ettington Hall, Warwickshire. Later in the library of W.A. Foyle (1885-1963), bookseller, of Beeleigh Abbey, Essex. Christie's, 12 July 2000 (Foyle sale, Part III), lot 328.

Untraced, miscellaneous ([Symonds commonplace book] [unspecified page numbers])

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