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Thomas Traherne

1637?–1674

Introduction

For a variety of reasons Thomas Traherne is one of the most interesting British authors represented in the present catalogue. Not only is his work known by what, in the seventeenth century, is an almost unprecedented number of original, chiefly autograph, manuscripts, but the circumstances in which those previously unpublished manuscripts have come to light since the 1890s constitute what is often described as one of the romances of English literature. At the same time, the role in which Traherne was introduced to the world by his first editors has virtually defined his literary persona ever since, a situation which more recent, and no less significant, manuscript discoveries are still in the process of rectifying.

The Traherne Manuscripts

In so far as he was known at all before the twentieth century, Thomas Traherne was author of the elaborate anti-Catholic polemic Roman Forgeries (London, 1673) and of the posthumously published Christian Ethicks (London, 1675), both prose works, the second also containing a few poems. As is well known, Traherne leapt to relative fame only with the subsequently proclaimed discovery in 1896-7 of the unascribed Dobell Folio and Centuries of Meditation by William T. Brooke, whence they came into the possession of the indefatigable literary scholar Alexander Grosart (who supported Brooke's not unreasonable suggestion that they were written by Henry Vaughan). They were then acquired (via the Farringdon Road bookseller Charles Higham, who purchased the bulk of Grosart's library) by the bookseller and publisher Bertram Dobell, whose detective work established their true authorship (see notably his account in his 1903 edition, pp. lxxxiv-xc). It is one of the legends of bookselling that Brooke discovered the two manuscripts in London on a street-barrow in the Farringdon Road. In fact, as Hilton Kelliher discovered from an account written by Brooke c.October 1910, and now in the Bodleian (MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 54r-8r), Brooke coincidentally picked up the two manuscripts on different occasions in April 1897 in two different places: one of them (it is not clear which) in the Farringdon Road, the other in Whitechapel. The circumstances of discovery, whatever their precise details, become only more astonishing with the realization, also brought to light by Kelliher, that at least one of them had passed through London auction rooms half a century earlier and already once been owned by Grosart himself (who also, coincidentally and unwittingly, owned yet another Traherne manuscript: the Church's Year-Book).

Following Dobell's discoveries, yet other Traherne manuscripts came to light. Besides identifying as Traherne's the anonymous and posthumously published A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God (London, 1699), Dobell himself acquired the Church's Year-Book at the Grosart sale in 1899, and his son, decades later in 1935, the Early Notebook, both of which are now in the Bodleian along with his first two discoveries. The early 1900s also saw the identification of two Traherne manuscripts among the Burney Manuscripts in the British Library: namely, the Poems of Felicity, entirely in the hand of Thomas Traherne's brother, Philip, which was identified by H.I. Bell, and the Ficino Notebook, which Bell also recorded without at first realizing that it too belonged to the poet (he interpreted the inscription Ex libris Tho Traherne as being by Philip Traherne's son Thomas).

The serendipitous nature of all this is compounded by the circumstances of the most recent major discoveries. The autograph Commentaries of Heaven was rescued c.1967 from a burning rubbish tip outside Manchester when already partly scorched. Following its identification as Traherne's in 1981, and subsequent sale in New York in 1984, it came to light that in 1844 and 1854 the manuscript had passed through the same London salerooms as the Dobell Folio.

Obfuscation about provenance and true identity also bedevilled the discovery of Select Meditations. When offered for sale as an anonymous devotional manuscript by a Birmingham bookseller in 1964, John Hayward drew it to the attention of James M. Osborn, who recognized its authorship and acquired it for his collection now at Yale. Osborn was in no doubt that the manuscript (which survives in a very mutilated state) was the work of Traherne. He also assumed that it was written in Traherne's own hand. (See James M. Osborn, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (8 October 1964), p. 928). Plans for publication by Louis L. Martz were subsequently staggered, however, when the late P.J. Croft (after seeing photocopies of two pages of the manuscript and later scanning a microfilm) privately advised Oxford University Press that, in his opinion, the manuscript was not in Traherne's own hand and therefore could not with certainty be ascribed to him. This led to the somewhat misleading report by Douglas Chambers in the correspondence columns of the TLS (26 March 1982), p. 355, that there are now severe doubts about the genuineness of this MS, a report confuted by Louis L. Martz in the TLS (23 April 1982), p. 463. In fact, as Julia Smith has been able to show conclusively, not only is the Select Meditations demonstrably a work by Thomas Traherne (even containing one poem published in his Christian Ethicks: see TrT 38), but the manuscript was personally supervised by him. The predominant hand is not his, but that of an otherwise unknown amanuensis (who occasionally omits words he could not read in his copy-text and makes the kind of errors associated with a scribe rather than the author). Nevertheless, close scrutiny reveals that there are times when Traherne himself takes the pen, adding a whole eight-line meditation at one point, and several lines on at least three other occasions, as well as inserting a few other words. The identity of this interpolating hand is not in question: it is absolutely consistent with Traherne's hand as seen in the other recorded manuscripts, even down to such characteristic forms as his peculiar ampersand and capital A.

Yet more discoveries were made in the late 1990s. In 1997 Laetitia Yeandle recognized Traherne's hand, and literary style, in a devotional manuscript entitled The Ceremonial Law, which had been in the Folger Shakespeare Library for decades. Then three years later a similar discovery was made by Jeremy Maule, who recognized as Traherne's a volume of devotional works in Lambeth Palace Library. It would be no surprise if yet more Traherne manuscripts surfaced in due course.

For convenient reference, the major Traherne manuscripts, which are described more fully in the entries in CELM, are listed here (with the delta numbers originally supplied in IELM, II.i):

  • Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 42. (Dobell Folio: *TrT Δ 1).
  • Bodleian, MS Eng. th. e. 50. (Centuries of Meditation: *TrT Δ 2).
  • Bodleian, MS Eng. th. e. 51. (Church's Year-Book: *TrT Δ 3).
  • Bodleian, MS Lat. misc. f. 45. (Early Notebook: *TrT Δ 4).
  • British Library, Add. MS 63054. (Commentaries of Heaven: *TrT Δ 5).
  • British Library, Burney MS 126. (Ficino Notebook: *TrT Δ 6).
  • British Library, Burney MS 392. (Poems of Felicity: TrT Δ 7).
  • Yale, Osborn MS b 308. (Select Meditations: *TrT Δ 8).
  • Folger, MS V.a.70. (The Ceremonial Law). Lambeth Palace Library, MS 1360. (Lambeth MS).

The Editing of Traherne's Works

Dobell's first edition of Traherne, Poetical Works, Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts (London, 1903), based on the Dobell Folio and the Centuries of Meditation, established Traherne first and foremost as a poet, and it is as a poet that Traherne is generally known to this day. Although Dobell subsequently edited the Centuries of Meditation in its entirety (1908) — and honourable mention must also be made of H.I. Bell's complete edition of the Poems of Felicity in 1910, which yet further reinforced Traherne's status as a poet — Dobell effectively encouraged editors to treat Traherne manuscripts as virtually rough source material for the quarrying of poems — as if they were self-contained gems almost accidentally embedded in baser matter — to the neglect of the prose in which they occur. A manifestation of this tendency is D.D.C. Chambers's edition of the poems in Commentaries of Heaven in 1989. A useful and conscientious interim publication, it is not without its irony, considering how relatively facile most of the verse in this particular manuscript is and how much more distinguished the great mass of the prose is. Even the generous selection of prose from Centuries of Meditations in the Penguin edition of Traherne's Select Poems and Prose, ed. Alan Bradford (London, 1991) [pp. 185-315], is incorporated ostensibly but to amplify the context of the poems (p. xv).

Traherne is, in fact, one of the classic authors whose texts should be edited according to manuscript, rather than according to individual work as traditionally defined by editors. This point holds granted the distinction there is between carefully arranged collections of Traherne's work and more miscellaneous notebooks, and even granted the duplication of a relatively few poems (or versions thereof) in more than one manuscript. Bertram Dobell himself chose to point out in 1903 (pp lxxiii-lxxiv) that there is a picturesqueness, a beauty, and a life about the manuscripts which is lost in the cold regularity of type. The manuscript is the work; other assumptions are but modern editorial interpretations. This point has had some acceptance: witness Ross's edition and Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi's article Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, Review of English Studies, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82.

For convenient reference the present Catalogue bows to traditional editorial practice by including entries, under Verse, for each individual poem found in the manuscripts and edited variously in Dobell, Bell, Margoliouth, Ridler, Chambers, and Ross. It should be noted that it is not always certain exactly what constitutes an individual poem, in cases where there are different parts numbered I, II or III. Editors have not agreed, for instance, whether Bells is or is not two separate poems (TrT 110), while Chambers has commented: Both Affairs and Affections, for example, have poems in which the parts are different or separate but obviously connected. In some cases, as in Ages and Attendance, it is quite obvious, either from the prosody or the theme, that the poems are separate entities. Alan Bradford, for his part, observes in his Penguin edition (p. xvi): As long as the poems in each set are printed together, it makes little practical difference whether we regard them as two-part poems, as separate poems that happen to have the same title, or even as innovative double poems. Although these are problems of editors' own making, cross-referencing is supplied in CELM when necessary for the sake of clarity.

The Canon

The canon of Traherne's verse itself presents no difficulties with the possible exception of the entries in his miscellaneous Early Notebook. Margoliouth (II, 204-11) edited twelve sets of verse from this manuscript, five of them bearing the distinguishing and evidently proprietary initials T. T., and attributed them to Traherne. Anne Ridler (in Traherne: Some Wrong Attributions, Review of English Studies, NS 18 (1967), 48-9) pointed out that five of the poems not bearing Traherne's initials (including, incidentally, the one Maroliouth illustrated in facsimile as frontispiece to his Volume II) were actually extracts from poems by Francis Quarles and William Austin. One of the remaining poems lacking initials, Yee that Towers so much prize (*TrT 233), a translation from Seneca, bears revisions suggesting that it is Traherne's original working draft, leaving as uncertain only an incomplete or unfinished Epitaphium (*TrT 138), which Ridler decided to omit from her edition.

These are not the only poems copied into the Early Notebook, a manuscript which was clearly used by both Thomas and his brother Philip. On page 201 Thomas Traherne has copied, for instance, Strode's well-known lyric I saw fair Chloris walke alone (StW 778), with, on the facing page (p. 200), a Latin version of it, Aspexi vacua spatiantem Clhoria arena. It would be entirely in the nature of notebooks of this kind if someone else's poem were copied precisely so that the compiler could add his own Latin translation (compare, for instance, Strode's copies of poems by Corbett together with his own translations in his autograph notebook). What may be a similar instance occurs on pages 202-3, where, as noted above, anonymous verses beginning Lett whose will in Icie state are faced by a Latin version beginning Stet quicunq[ue] volet poteris, both in Thomas Traherne's hand.

One other possible addition to the canon, an apparently unpublished Latin elegy on the death of Edward Gale, of King's College, Cambridge, ascribed to T. Traheron, is given an entry here (*TrT 233.5), but its authorship is open to investigation.

Prose

As for Traherne's prose, it is not entirely clear whether any of the miscellaneous other extracts and translations in the Early Notebook are actually of his authorship. The likelihood is that they are works by others, gathered by Traherne or his brother for their own interest in the usual manner of a commonplace book. Editors have also had to decide whether the few devotional items appended to the Select Meditations are by Traherne. The likelihood seems to be that they are, except perhaps for A Prayer for Ash Wednesday and A Meditation, which are added on pages 229-32 in the unidentified cursive hand. A number of substantial prose works in the Lambeth MS, evidently by Traherne, have accordingly been added to the canon in Ross (TrT 234-236, TrT 237-238).

Letters and Documents

With one brief exception (*TrT 246), no letters by Traherne are known to survive. However, further examples of his handwriting — which, among other things, confirm the identification of those autograph manuscripts noted above — are to be found among the records of the parish of Credenhill (within the Deanery of Weobley), near Hereford, to which Traherne was appointed rector in 1657 (although he does not appear to have taken up residency until after 1661). These records are now all preserved in the Herefordshire Record Office. A few of the relevant items are discussed in Margoliouth, I, xxv, and — purporting to correct this account — in Lynn Sauls, Traherne's Hand in the Credenhill Records, The Library, 5th Ser. 24 (1969), 50. Further relevant items have come to light since 1969 through the diligent searches of Elizabeth Bladon and Susan Hubbard.

Those Credenhill parish documents which appear to bear Traherne's hand are duly given entries in CELM (*TrT 239-250).

By way of a caveat, it should be noted that one of Traherne's churchwardens, George Gwillim, had a hand remarkably similar to Traherne's, so that it might seriously be considered whether the Bishops Transcripts for 1662, 1663 and 1664 (*TrT 240-242) might not be written by Gwillim on Traherne's behalf. Nevertheless, the balance of probability (given the presence of such distinctive features as Traherne's majuscule A and T and his ye forms) is that these are in Traherne's hand. There is no difficulty in distinguishing his hand from those of his other churchwardens (such as William Browne, Thomas Hill, William Payne and James Browne) in subsequent records. Traherne's shaky signature (Tho Trahern Rector) on the Bishops Transcript for 1667, prepared on 14 April 1668, has all the appearance of being drawn in imitation of Traherne's signature on his behalf (and with uncharacteristic spelling), while the name Tho Treherne on the Bishops Transcript for 1666 is evidently in the hand of the churchwarden William Browne. The surviving Bishops Transcripts for other years up to 1674, as well as the relevant pages in the extant Parish Register for 1671-1753, are written entirely by churchwardens.

One other example of Traherne's autograph signature is currently known. On 19 February 1673/4 he signed as witness (Tho. Traherne) the will of his patron, Sir Orlando Bridgeman (1606?-74), former Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, whose chaplain Traherne had become and to whom Roman Forgeries (1673) is dedicated (see *TrT 251).

Traherne's own will, bequeathing, among other things, All my books…to my brother Phillip, was nuncupative and survives as a posthumous memorandum (TrT 252-253).

Miscellaneous

Some miscellaneous documentation relating to Traherne is of biographical interest. Margoliouth (I, xxiii-xxxii) records various other Materials for Traherne's Biography, chiefly in academic and ecclesiastical sources, to which may be added information (including references to unpublished theses on Traherne) supplied in Richard Jordan, Thomas Traherne: Notes on His Biography, N&Q, 225 (August 1980), 341-5. In addition, a Weobley Deanery Citation of 21 January 166[8]/9 includes the name of Thomas Traherne among those called to court (Herefordshire Record Office, Registrars Files 1669/208). Furthermore, in a minute [of 12 February 1670/1 or 1671/2], listing The names of those ministers in Weobly deanery that have not made their collections to ye briefes for ye redemption of captives in Turkey (a cause perhaps not especially close to the hearts of the good people of Herefordshire, though of some possible interest to Traherne because of his brother's connection with that country), Tho: Trehearne Rect: of Credenhill is named among those who have not paid (Herefordshire Record Office, Registrars Files 1671/7). Important new information clarifying the Traherne family's relationship with the devotional writer Susanna Hopton (née Harvey, 1627-1709) has also been presented in Julia J. Smith, Susanna Hopton: A Biographical Account, N&Q, 236 (June 1991), 165-72.

Other relevant documentation concerns Thomas's younger brother, Philip Traherne (1640-1723), who, from 1664 onwards, appears to have spelled his name Traheron. He served in the 1670s as chaplain to the Levant Company, and in 1670 married Susanna Hopton's niece, Susanna Blount. Philip, whose hand occurs in no fewer than four of the surviving Traherne manuscripts (the Dobell Folio, Church's Year-Book, Early Notebook, and Poems of Felicity), took pains over the preservation of at least some of his brother's works, and he took steps to prepare them for publication (see the first and last of these manuscripts, especially the latter, which was copied out and editorially prepared entirely by Philip). The task of distinguishing between Thomas's original work and Philip's editorial revisions and emendations has, indeed, been one of the principal problems facing his modern editors (Alan Bradford, in his Penguin edition, p. xiii, has even gone so far as to define the editor's task in treating texts handled by Philip Traherne as largely a matter of damage control).

Various other surviving letters and documents bear witness to Philip's handwriting, including autograph letters by him in the Bodleian (MSS Tanner 28, f. 311r; Tanner 129, ff. 55r, 73r [to William Sancroft, 14 January 1680/1, 7 June 1681, 29 December 1688]), and the British Library (Add. MS 22910, ff. 519r, 524r-5r [to John Covell, 3 May and 25 July 1701, the latter reproduced in facsimile in Bell, after p. xxxii], and Harley MS 3784, f. 179r [to William Sancroft, 23 May 1664]). The British Library also possesses (as Burney MS 24) Philip's rough copy of the collation he made of the Codex Ephesinus (a twelfth-century manuscript of the Greek Gospels which Philip brought back from Smyrna in 1675) with the Oxford Greek Testament. This retained copy was presumably acquired later by Charles Burney at the same time as the Ficino Notebook and Poems of Felicity. The Codex Ephesinus itself, together with Philip's fair copy of his collation, was presented by him on 4 March 1679/80 to Lambeth Palace, where it still remains (MSS 528, 528b).

Further records of Philip and his family, including autograph subscriptions by him, in the British Library, National Archives, Kew, Guildhall Library, Herefordshire Record Office, and Dorset History Centre are discussed in Julia Smith's important article Thomas and Philip Traherne, N&Q, 231 (March 1986), 25-30, which, incidentally, throws light on the provenance of some of the Traherne manuscripts noted above. This article supplements the notable accounts of Philip Traherne given in Bell, pp. ix-xx, and in Margoliouth, I, xxxiii-xxxiv, as well as in Jordan, loc. cit.

Philip Traherne's own exemplum of his brother's printed Roman Forgeries (London, 1673), bearing on the flyleaf the inscription (probably in another hand) Phillip Traheron BD 1723 and in the main text various annotations in Philip's hand, is now in the Pierpont Morgan Library (65058).

Papers of Bertram Dobell, relating in part to his Traherne discoveries, are now preserved in the Bodleian, as mentioned above. They include (MS Dobell d. 11) the draft of his introduction to his edition of Traherne (1903).

Abbreviations

Bell
Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910).
Chambers
Thomas Traherne, Commentaries of Heaven: The Poems, ed. D.D.C. Chambers (Salzburg, 1989).
Dobell (1903)
Thomas Traherne, Poetical Works, Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts, ed. Bertram Dobell (London, 1903).
Dobell (1908)
Centuries of Meditation by Thomas Traherne (1636?-1674) Now First Printed from the Author's Manuscript, ed. Bertram Dobell (London, 1908).
Margoliouth
Thomas Traherne, Centuries, Poems and Thanksgivings, ed. H.M. Margoliouth, 2 vols (Oxford, 1958).
Ridler
Thomas Traherne, Poems, Centuries and Three Thanksgivings, ed. Anne Ridler (London, 1966).
Ross
The Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Jan Ross, 3 vols [of 9 eventually] (Cambridge, 2005-9).

Verse

'A life of Sabbaths here beneath!'

First published, as [The Triumph], in Dobell (1903), pp. 125-6. Dobell (1908), pp. 195-6. Margoliouth, I, 138-9. Ridler, p. 288.

*TrT 1
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Volume of autograph prose. Centuries of Meditation.

8°, 91 leaves (including three or four blank pages, a portion of f. 87 excised, plus 50 blanks at the end [ff. 91v-141v]; volume of autograph prose meditations and twelve poems by Thomas Traherne, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, in numbered sections, dedicated to an unnamed lady (the friend of my best friend); inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 3) Centuries of Meditation.

Lettered on the spine MSS. of Henry Vaughan Silurist; subsequently owned, apparently in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who reacquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 2. Edited from this MS (in part: most of the verse and some prose extracts) in Dobell (1903), and (in full) in Dobell (1908); in Margoliouth, I, 1-232; Ridler, pp. 165-372. Facsimile examples in Margoliouth, I, frontispiece; English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), p. 12; Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven, 1964), facing p. 68; and Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 55. Complete microfilm in the Library of Congress.

Bodleian Library, Eng. th. MSS (MS Eng. th. e. 50 f. 56)
'A Wise Man will apply his Mind'

Untitled poem of fifteen octaves, at the end of Chapter XXVII of The Kingdom of God. First published

*TrT 1.5
Autograph

Autograph.

A quarto volume of four works by Thomas Traherne, in several hands, partly autograph, 473 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed in another hand on f. i Why is this soe long detaind in a desk manuscript, yt if printed would be a Light to ye World, & a uniuersal Blessinge?

c.1660s-70

This MS identified by Jeremy Maule and announced in Denise Inge and Calum Macfarlane, Seeds of Eternity: A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS, 2 June 2000, p. 14. Discussed in Ross, I, xiv-xxii.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 1360 ff. 274r-6r)
Abels Lamb ('How early do I see a Sacrifice')
*TrT 1.8
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Autograph MS, with deletions and revisions, of Thomas Traherne's The Ceremonial Law.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [ir]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow ye whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

c.1670

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

Abhorrence ('Is then Abhorrence so sublime a Treasure')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 1. Ross, II, 14.

*TrT 2
Autograph

Autograph, with a revision, headed upon Abhorrence, on a small slip of paper.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Abilitie ('In wt fair Splendor wouldst thou chuse to see')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 2. Ross, II, 21.

*TrT 3
Autograph

Autograph, with extensive revisions, headed upon Abilitie, on a small slip of paper.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Abridgement ('His Nature is my sole & whole Delight')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 4. Ross, II, 38.

*TrT 4
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Abstinence ('If Abstinence becom it self a Way')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 6. Ross, II, 52.

*TrT 5
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Abundance ('King Solomons Delights are mean & poor')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 7. Ross, II, 63.

*TrT 6
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Abuse ('Will it not melt my Bowels to a flood')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 8. Ross, II, 75-6.

*TrT 7
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Acceptance ('Acceptance too! doth yt Display a Beam')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 9. Ross, II, 84.

*TrT 8
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Acceptance ('To be Accepted, & receivd to Bliss!')

First published, as [Accepted], in Chambers (1989), No. 10. Ross, II, 95-6.

*TrT 9
Autograph

Autograph, with a revision.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Accepted ('To be Accepted, and receivd to Bliss')

See TrT 9.

Accesse ('Lord! Am I so Divine! And is ye Way')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 11. Ross, II, 108.

*TrT 10
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Accident ('An Accident! is yt a Glorious Being?')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 12. Ross, II, 121-3.

*TrT 11
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Account ('His Image! Lord what Hopes! So Great a King')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 13. Ross, II, 132.

*TrT 12
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Accuratness ('Gird up thy Loyns O my Soul, & be')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 14. Ross, II, 138.

*TrT 13
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Accusation ('Is Accusation then a Part of Bliss!')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 15. Ross, II, 152-3.

*TrT 14
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Acknowledgement ('Foundations are unseen, & roughly laid')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 16. Ross, II, 162.

*TrT 15
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Acquaintance ('O Rapture! May a Man Acquainted be')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 17. Ross, II, 169.

*TrT 16
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Act ('An Act! wt is an Act? An Act Acted')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 18. Ross, II, 185-7.

*TrT 17
Autograph

Autograph, with extensive revisions, arranged in three pars, numbered I, II (But can an Act extend so, as to be) and III (A Soul in Act, is all yt ere can be).

Edited from this MS in Chambers. Facsimile in Christie's sale catalogue, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74. See also Facsimile XVI above.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Action ('Fair Leavs so pleasant in Eternity')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 19. Ross, II, 195-6.

*TrT 18
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Activity [I] ('As hungry men lov feasts, as Greedy Gold')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 20. Ross, II, 201-2.

*TrT 19
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Activity [II] ('Good God! What Bright & Active fire comes down')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 21. Ross, II, 206-7.

*TrT 20
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Acuteness ('The Soul its Endless Bredth & Depth & Height & Length')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 22. Ross, II, 213.

*TrT 21
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Ad Perennis Vitae Fontem

See TrT 224.

Adam ('God made Man upright at the first')

First published, as Adam's Fall, in Bell (1910), pp. 23-4. Margoliouth, II, 91-2. Ridler, pp. 82-3.

TrT 22

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherene, heading altered from Misapprehension to Adam's Fall.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 23-4)
Adam [I] ('There was a Man two Children had most dear')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 23. Ross, II, 220-1.

*TrT 23
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Adam [II] ('Amazing Sight! A Pile of Dust appeard')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 24. Ross, II, 225-6.

*TrT 24
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Adam's Fall ('God made Man upright at the first')

See TrT 22.

Adams Fall ('The King of Glory, who on High')
*TrT 24.5
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Autograph MS, with deletions and revisions, of Thomas Traherne's The Ceremonial Law.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [ir]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow ye whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

c.1670

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

Admiration ('Can Human Shape so taking be')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 67-9. Margoliouth, II, 122-3. Ridler, pp. 111-12.

TrT 25

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherene.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 67-9)
Admiration ('What can I further, or wt more Desire')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 26. Ross, II, 242-3.

*TrT 26
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Chambers. Facsimile in Christie's sale catalogue, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Adoration ('A Sacrifice! Wt Sacrifice O Lord')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 27. Ross, II, 250-4.

*TrT 27
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions and 24 lines in stanza 6 deleted.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Adultery ('Hide thou mine Eys O Ld from Vanitie!')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 28. Ross, II, 259-60.

*TrT 28
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Advocate ('O God my God, remember on ye Tree')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 29. Ross, II, 262-6.

*TrT 29
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions, the poem ruled across on five occasions as if to break it into sections, also the last 59 lines (beginning My God, my Advocat, my friend, my King), set out after a break and the heading III.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Advocate III ('My God, my Advocat, my friend, my King')

See TrT 29.

Affairs ('The Weighty Affairs')

First published in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Chambers (1989), No. 30. Ross, II, 271-3.

*TrT 30
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Affection ('Affections are ye Wings & nimble feet')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 31. Ross, II, 293-4, 296-8.

*TrT 31
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions, arranged in three parts, numbered I, II (The World was made, he gave us glorious Laws) and III (The World was made to be a Scene of Love).

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Affinity ('Wt Words are worthy to depicture thee')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 32. Ross, II, 301-3.

*TrT 32
Autograph

Autograph, with extensive revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Affliction ('Tremble at nothing els but Sin, my Soul')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 33. Ross, II, 308-9.

*TrT 33
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Ages [I] ('Things great & Marvellous are said of thee')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 34. Ross, II, 333-4.

*TrT 34
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Ages [II] ('An Island is a Spot, a Continent')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 35. Ross, II, 350-3.

*TrT 35
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Air ('Poets are wont in overflowing Strains')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 36. Ross, II, 361.

*TrT 36
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

All in one ('Lord to be silent unto thee is all')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 45. Ross, III. 17.

*TrT 37
Autograph

Autograph, with a few revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

'All Musick, Sawces, Feasts, Delights and Pleasures'

First published in Christian Ethicks (London, 1675). Margoliouth II, 186.

TrT 38

Century IV, meditation 60.

8°, 270 pages (in present imperfect state); volume of prose meditations (376) and poems (14) by Thomas Traherne, in numbered sections (centuries of meditations), in fair copy in the italic hand of an unidentified amanuensis, with occasional autograph passages and insertions by Traherne himself (notably in Century II, meditations 31 [whole meditation], 92, and 93; Century III, meditations 9, 13, 38 and 50); the volume very imperfect; originally comprising apparently 468 meditations, but now beginning with the end of meditation 81 through to most of meditation 95 and then the end of meditation 100 in the first century (pp. [45-61] [ff. 1-7]), followed by Select Meditatins [sic] The Second Century (pp. 61-98 [ff. 7-25v]) and Select Meditations The Third Century (pp. 99-176 [ff. 26-62v]), all three centuries with missing and mutilated portions, and then Select Meditations The fforth Century, meditations 1-68 only (pp., 177-220 [ff. 26-62v]); pp. 220 bis-8 blank; pp. 229-30 containing A Prayer for Ash Wednesday and pp. 231-2 A Meditation, both anonymous and added later in another, unidentified, cursive hand (also responsible for an addition on p. 166); pp. 233-45 blank; pp. 246-64 occupied by an untitled discussion of the nature of ye soul addressed to an unnamed person, and pp. 266-70 by an untitled disquisition on Loue to God & man, both in the hand of the original amanuensis; the pages originally numbered [45] to 219 (some now missing), then continued up to 270 probably in the second unidentified hand.

There is no evidence that this MS is dedicated to a lady (Osborn misread Know ledg, in Century I, meditation 94, as know lady). See also TrT Δ 3 and further above.

c.1660-5

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Select Meditations, TrT Δ 8. Select passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20. Discussed in James M. Osborn, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (8 October 1964), p. 928; in Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven 1964), Appendix, pp. 207-11; and in Sharon Seelig, The Origins of Ecstasy: Traherne's Select Meditations, ELR, 9 (1979), 419-31. Edited in full, as Select Meditations, by Julia Smith (Manchester, 1997), with a facsimile page as frontispiece.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 308 p. 213 [f. 81])
Al-sufficient ('The floods ye Brooks ye Streams of Winy & Oyl')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 44. Ross, III. 9-10.

*TrT 39
Autograph

Autograph, with a few revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

All Things ('Heaven! Lord is not yt an Endless Sphere')

First published (in full) in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), UTQ, 53 (1983), 1-35 (pp. 28-9). Chambers (1989), No. 42. Ross, III. 413-14.

*TrT 40
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Allurement ('Awake my Soul, & soar upon ye Wing')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 37. Ross, II, 367-70.

*TrT 41
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Almes ('Almes seen in clear divine & Heavenly light')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 38. Ross, II, 379-80.

*TrT 42
Autograph

Autograph, with extensive revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Almighty [I] ('How Great Almighty Power is to me!')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 39. Ross, II, 390-1.

*TrT 43
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions, headed A Sweet & Sacred Reflexion.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Almighty [II] ('The Best of Fountains & ye Best of Ends')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 40. Ross, II, 403-4.

*TrT 44
Autograph

Autograph, after a deleted false start.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Almighty [III] ('Almighty Power in its Greatness, is')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 41. Ross, II, 406.

*TrT 45
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Alone ('Lov! O thou Monster of Delights!')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 43. Ross, II, 423-4.

*TrT 46
Autograph

Autograph, with a revision.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Ambassadors ('God out of Zion shineth in Compleat')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 46. Ross, III, 31-2.

*TrT 47
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Ambition ('Man is Ambitious yt he might Delight')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 47. Ross, III, 45-6.

*TrT 48
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Amendment ('A Toad transformed to ye Whitest Dove')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 48. Ross, III, 54.

*TrT 49
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Amendment ('That all things should be mine')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 74-6. Margoliouth, II, 155-6. Ridler, p. 48.

*TrT 50
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS by editors.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 ff. 10v-11r)
Amisse ('A Man wld think yt nothing was Amiss')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 49. Ross, III, 56.

*TrT 51
Autograph

Autograph, with a revision.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Ancestor ('John Baptist was Prcursor to our Lord')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 50. Ross, III, 58-9.

*TrT 52
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

'And now my Soul Enjoy thy Rest'

Unpublished.

TrT 53

Century III, meditation 58.

8°, 270 pages (in present imperfect state); volume of prose meditations (376) and poems (14) by Thomas Traherne, in numbered sections (centuries of meditations), in fair copy in the italic hand of an unidentified amanuensis, with occasional autograph passages and insertions by Traherne himself (notably in Century II, meditations 31 [whole meditation], 92, and 93; Century III, meditations 9, 13, 38 and 50); the volume very imperfect; originally comprising apparently 468 meditations, but now beginning with the end of meditation 81 through to most of meditation 95 and then the end of meditation 100 in the first century (pp. [45-61] [ff. 1-7]), followed by Select Meditatins [sic] The Second Century (pp. 61-98 [ff. 7-25v]) and Select Meditations The Third Century (pp. 99-176 [ff. 26-62v]), all three centuries with missing and mutilated portions, and then Select Meditations The fforth Century, meditations 1-68 only (pp., 177-220 [ff. 26-62v]); pp. 220 bis-8 blank; pp. 229-30 containing A Prayer for Ash Wednesday and pp. 231-2 A Meditation, both anonymous and added later in another, unidentified, cursive hand (also responsible for an addition on p. 166); pp. 233-45 blank; pp. 246-64 occupied by an untitled discussion of the nature of ye soul addressed to an unnamed person, and pp. 266-70 by an untitled disquisition on Loue to God & man, both in the hand of the original amanuensis; the pages originally numbered [45] to 219 (some now missing), then continued up to 270 probably in the second unidentified hand.

There is no evidence that this MS is dedicated to a lady (Osborn misread Know ledg, in Century I, meditation 94, as know lady). See also TrT Δ 3 and further above.

c.1660-5

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Select Meditations, TrT Δ 8. Select passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20. Discussed in James M. Osborn, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (8 October 1964), p. 928; in Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven 1964), Appendix, pp. 207-11; and in Sharon Seelig, The Origins of Ecstasy: Traherne's Select Meditations, ELR, 9 (1979), 419-31. Edited in full, as Select Meditations, by Julia Smith (Manchester, 1997), with a facsimile page as frontispiece.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 308 pp. 145-6 [f. 47r-v])
Angel ('Such is ye Nature wch abov we see')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 51. Ross, III, 79-81.

*TrT 54
Autograph

Autograph, with a few revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Anger ('Lord, is thy favor gone for evermore?')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 52. Ross, III, 91.

*TrT 55
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Annointed ('And am I Ld Annointed! Is thy Lov')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 53. Ross, III, 92.

*TrT 56
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Another ('He seeks for ours as we do seek for his')

See TrT 196.

Another ('Humility! O Radiant Queen')

Unpublished.

TrT 57

Copy, imperfect, Century IV, meditation 68.

8°, 270 pages (in present imperfect state); volume of prose meditations (376) and poems (14) by Thomas Traherne, in numbered sections (centuries of meditations), in fair copy in the italic hand of an unidentified amanuensis, with occasional autograph passages and insertions by Traherne himself (notably in Century II, meditations 31 [whole meditation], 92, and 93; Century III, meditations 9, 13, 38 and 50); the volume very imperfect; originally comprising apparently 468 meditations, but now beginning with the end of meditation 81 through to most of meditation 95 and then the end of meditation 100 in the first century (pp. [45-61] [ff. 1-7]), followed by Select Meditatins [sic] The Second Century (pp. 61-98 [ff. 7-25v]) and Select Meditations The Third Century (pp. 99-176 [ff. 26-62v]), all three centuries with missing and mutilated portions, and then Select Meditations The fforth Century, meditations 1-68 only (pp., 177-220 [ff. 26-62v]); pp. 220 bis-8 blank; pp. 229-30 containing A Prayer for Ash Wednesday and pp. 231-2 A Meditation, both anonymous and added later in another, unidentified, cursive hand (also responsible for an addition on p. 166); pp. 233-45 blank; pp. 246-64 occupied by an untitled discussion of the nature of ye soul addressed to an unnamed person, and pp. 266-70 by an untitled disquisition on Loue to God & man, both in the hand of the original amanuensis; the pages originally numbered [45] to 219 (some now missing), then continued up to 270 probably in the second unidentified hand.

There is no evidence that this MS is dedicated to a lady (Osborn misread Know ledg, in Century I, meditation 94, as know lady). See also TrT Δ 3 and further above.

c.1660-5

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Select Meditations, TrT Δ 8. Select passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20. Discussed in James M. Osborn, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (8 October 1964), p. 928; in Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven 1964), Appendix, pp. 207-11; and in Sharon Seelig, The Origins of Ecstasy: Traherne's Select Meditations, ELR, 9 (1979), 419-31. Edited in full, as Select Meditations, by Julia Smith (Manchester, 1997), with a facsimile page as frontispiece.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 308 p. 220 [f. 84v])
Ant ('Bright Apprhensions & Angelical')

First published in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), UTQ, 53 (1983), 1-35 (pp. 18-19). Chambers (1989), No. 54. Ross, III, 95.

*TrT 58
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Antichrist ('And is it possible for Musick here')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 55. Ross, III, 113.

*TrT 59
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

The Anticipation ('My Contemplation Dazles in the End')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 81-6. Margoliouth, II, 159-63. Ridler, pp. 52-6.

*TrT 60
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS by editors.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 ff. 11v-12r)
Antiquitie ('Awake, awake O soul, & put on Strength')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 56. Ross, III, 122-3.

*TrT 61
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

The Apostacy ('One Star')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 29-31. Margoliouth, II, 95-7. Ridler, pp. 86-8.

Part of this poem is related to Blisse (TrT 112).

TrT 62

Copy of the first stanza in the hand of Philip Traherne, deleted.

See TrT 63.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 p. 24)
TrT 63

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 29-31)
Apostasie ('Ld is it possible to fall from thee')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 57. Ross, III, 126-7.

*TrT 64
Autograph

Autograph, with a few revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Apostle ('A Friend is by his Messengers wth me')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 58. Ross, III, 132.

*TrT 65
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Apparel ('The fertile Earth did willing Grain produce')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 59. Ross, III, 136.

*TrT 66
Autograph

Autograph, with a revision.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Appearance ('He yt to Angels shews himself in Glory')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 60. Ross, III, 140.

*TrT 67
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Appetite ('Shall I to yt wch first was given to me')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 61. Ross, III, 157-8.

*TrT 68
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Application ('I Lord Apply my Soul unto thy Mind')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 62. Ross, III, 167-8.

*TrT 69
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

The Apprehension ('If this I did not evry moment see')

First published in Dobell (1903), p. 46. Bell, p. 88, as Right Apprehension II. Margoliouth, II, 56. Ridler, p. 31 (as Evidently a fragment of a discarded longer poem, which T[raherne] placed here as a kind of postscript to My Spirit [TrT 176-7]).

*TrT 70
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth and in Ridler.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 f. 8r)
TrT 71

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, following Right Apprehension (TrT 202) and headed II.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 57.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 p. 88)
Apprehension ('Thou Quintessential Joy, or Melted Gem!')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 63. Ross, III, 181-2.

*TrT 72
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

The Approach ('That Childish Thoughts such Joys inspire')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 30-2. Margoliouth, II, 36, 38, 40. Ridler, pp. 21-2.

*TrT 73
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS by editors.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 f. 6r)
*TrT 74
Autograph

Autograph, untitled but headed Upon those Pure and Virgin Apprehensions which I had in my Infancy, I made this Poem.

Edited from this MS in Dobell (1908), pp. 159-60; in Margoliouth, I, 112-13; and in Ridler, pp. 264-6.

Volume of autograph prose. Centuries of Meditation.

8°, 91 leaves (including three or four blank pages, a portion of f. 87 excised, plus 50 blanks at the end [ff. 91v-141v]; volume of autograph prose meditations and twelve poems by Thomas Traherne, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, in numbered sections, dedicated to an unnamed lady (the friend of my best friend); inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 3) Centuries of Meditation.

Lettered on the spine MSS. of Henry Vaughan Silurist; subsequently owned, apparently in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who reacquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 2. Edited from this MS (in part: most of the verse and some prose extracts) in Dobell (1903), and (in full) in Dobell (1908); in Margoliouth, I, 1-232; Ridler, pp. 165-372. Facsimile examples in Margoliouth, I, frontispiece; English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), p. 12; Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven, 1964), facing p. 68; and Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 55. Complete microfilm in the Library of Congress.

Bodleian Library, Eng. th. MSS (MS Eng. th. e. 50 f. 47r-v)
TrT 75

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 37, 39, 41.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 69-70)
Approbation ('When Thou O Lord Approvedst any Man')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 64. Ross, III, 187.

*TrT 76
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Aristotles Philosophie ('Philosophie! The Pagan makes me start!')

First published in Christie's sale catalogue, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74. Chambers (1989), No. 65. Ross, III, 204-7.

*TrT 77
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions, headed A Poetical Reflexion.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Arithmetick ('Arithmetick is a Diviner Queen')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 66. Ross, III, 211.

*TrT 78
Autograph

Autograph, with a revision.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Armour ('A Spectacle to Angels & to Men!')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 67. Ross, III, 217-18.

*TrT 79
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Art ('They say, there is an Art not to be sold')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 68. Ross, III, 221-2.

*TrT 80
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Article ('An Article. yt is a certain Point')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 69. Ross, III, 234-5.

*TrT 81
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

'As fragrant Mirrhe within the bosom hid!'
Ascension ('Thy Ways O Ld are just & true to thee')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 70. Ross, III, 247-9.

*TrT 82
Autograph

Autograph, arranged in three parts, numbered I, II (Nor must I thee O Christ my Ld forget) and III (O yn send down thy Spirit unto me).

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Aspect ('To see ye Stars in all their Glory shine')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 71. Ross, III, 253-4.

*TrT 83
Autograph

Autograph, with a revision.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Aspiration ('After ye Best of things my Soul aspire')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 72. Ross, III, 258-9.

*TrT 84
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

[Aspiration] ('Unto the Spring of Purest Life')

See TrT 224.

Assimilation ('An Eagle in ye Eg, a Little Bee')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 73. Ross, III, 265-6.

*TrT 85
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Assistance ('My God is fixt in his Eternal Sphere')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 74. Ross, III, 274-6.

*TrT 86
Autograph

Autograph, with a few revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Assumption ('My flesh now seated in ye Throne of Glory!')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 75. Ross, III, 290-1.

*TrT 87
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Assurance ('Ambitious people ye aspire to Thrones')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 76. Ross, III, 302-3.

*TrT 88
Autograph

Autograph, with a few revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Astrologie ('O God my God, my Life, my Joy, my Pleasure')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 77. Ross, III, 315.

*TrT 89
Autograph

Autograph, with a revision.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Astronomie ('Awake my Muse, & leav ye Narrow Cell')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 78. Ross, III, 321-3.

*TrT 90
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Atheist ('God is Invisible, & yt's ye Cause')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 79. Ross, III, 329-32.

*TrT 91
Autograph

Partly autograph, with revisions, the first six lines in Traherne's hand, the rest in that of an amanuensis, arranged in two parts, numbered I and II (Breath after him my Soul, take leav to soar).

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Atom ('For he that lodgeth his whole Deitie')

Ross, III, 339.

*TrT 91.5
Autograph

Autograph.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Atom ('As Earthly Vapors by Celestial fire')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 80. Ross, III, 352-63.

*TrT 92
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions, arranged in two parts, numbered I and II (Nor have we done as yet for Atoms shew).

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Atonement ('Atonemt Ld! And is there such a Thing!')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 81. Ross, III, 374-5.

*TrT 93
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Attainment ('Attainmt Lord! And is there such a Creature!')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 82. Ross, III, 384.

*TrT 94
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Attendance [I] ('O Sweet, Eternal, free & Glorious Choise!')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 83. Ross, III, 392-3.

*TrT 95
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Attendance [II] ('If evry holy Soul abov be found')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 84. Ross, III, 393-4.

*TrT 96
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Attention ('Lord whither shld I go but unto Thee?')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 85. Ross, III, 397-8.

*TrT 97
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Attribute ('O great & never comprhended Lord!')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 86. Ross, III, 404-5.

*TrT 98
Autograph

Autograph, with a few revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Author ('The Author of ye World implies')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 88. Ross, III, 419.

*TrT 99
Autograph

Autograph, with a revision.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

The Author to the Critical Peruser ('The naked Truth in many faces shewn')

First published in Bell (1910), sig. B3-B4r. Margoliouth, II, 2-3. Ridler, pp. 3-4.

TrT 100

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 3-4)
Authoritie ('Arme me O Ld wth all Authoritie')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 89. Ross, III, 432.

*TrT 101
Autograph

Autograph, with a revision.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Avarice ('Hydropick Nature thirsteth after all')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 87. Ross, III, 411-16.

*TrT 102
Autograph

Autograph, with a few revisions, arranged in two parts, numbered I and II (If this, my God, be Natures foul Diseas).

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Awake ('And O yt I at last cld thus awake')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 90. Ross, III, 434-6.

*TrT 103
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions, arranged in two parts, numbered I and II (Light is ye Promise, tis but Light to see).

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Babe ('Give me ye Light & ye Simplicitie')

First published in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), UTQ, 53 (1983), 1-35 (p. 21). Chambers (1989), No. 91. Ross, III, 439.

*TrT 104
Autograph

Autograph, with a revision.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Babel ('A Spiritual Stroak upon ye Tongue')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 92. Ross, III, 441-3.

*TrT 105
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Backsliding ('Come Holy Ghost, Eternal God inspire')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 93. Ross, III, 446. This poem is related to TrT 118.

*TrT 106
Autograph

Autograph, with a revision.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Balme ('Balme made for Wounds! It is a Nectar sure')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 94. Ross, III, 448.

*TrT 107
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Barrenness ('Shall I my God be void of Fruit')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 96. Ross, III, 458-9.

*TrT 108
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Baseness ('Thy Life & Kingdom are so Pure & Bright')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 97. Ross, III, 464-5.

*TrT 109
Autograph

Autograph, with a few revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Bells ('Hark!, hark, my Soul! the Bells do ring')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 52-5. Margoliouth, II, 113-16. Ridler, pp. 103-5. First published as two poems, Bells I (Hark! hark, my Soul! the Bells do ring) and Bells II (From Clay, & Mire, & Dirt, my Soul).

TrT 110

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 52-5)
Bells II ('From Clay, & Mire, & Dirt, my Soul')

See TrT 110.

The Bible ('That! That! There I was told')

First published in Bell (1910), p. 43. Margoliouth, II, 106. Ridler, p. 96.

TrT 111

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 p. 43)
Blisse ('All Blisse')

First published in Dobell (1903), p. 154. Margoliouth, II, 171-2. Ridler, p. 64. This poem is closely related to stanzas 5 and 6 of The Apostacy (TrT 62-3).

*TrT 112
Autograph

Autograph, deleted.

Edited from this MS by editors.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 f. 13v)
The Ceremonial Law / The Introduction ('Two thousand yeeres before my Savior came')

See TrT 236.5.

The Choice ('When first Eternity Stooped down to Nought')

See TrT 122-123.

Christendom ('When first mine Infant-Ear')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 43-7. Margoliouth, II, 106-10. Ridler, pp. 97-100.

TrT 113

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 43-52)
Churches I ('Those stately Structures which on Earth I view')

First published in Bell (1910), p. 56. Margoliouth, II, 116. Ridler, pp. 105-6.

TrT 114

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 p. 56)
Churches II ('Were there but one alone')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 57-8. Margoliouth, II, 116-18. Ridler, pp. 106-7.

TrT 115

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 57-8)
The Circulation ('As fair Ideas from the Skie')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 70-3. Margoliouth, II, 152. Ridler, pp. 45-7.

*TrT 116
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS by editors.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 f. 10r-v)
The City ('What Structures here among God's Works appear?')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 121-4. Margoliouth, II, 142-5. Ridler, pp. 130-2.

TrT 117

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 121-4)
'Com Holy Ghost Eternal God!'

First published, as [Supplication], in Dobell (1903), p. 138. Margoliouth, II, 202. Ridler, pp. 157-8.

See also TrT 106.

*TrT 118
Autograph

Autograph translation of the hymn Veni Creator Spiritus.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Thomas Traherne's MS Meditations and Devotions on the festivals of the Church: Church Year-Book.

8°, 114 leaves (plus 29 blanks [ff. 114-42]); volume of autograph prose meditations and poems composed by Thomas Traherne and others, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, on nineteen occasions of the Church calendar from Easter to All Saints' Day (representing probably half of the meditations for a complete Church year); including (f. 112v) Traherne's autograph copy of George Herbert's To all Angels and Saints (see HrG 265); with additions intermittently throughout the MS (notably passages on ff. 15, 16, 17, 79, 113) in another, unidentified, cursive hand in darker ink, and with some additions on f. 24v only in the hand of Philip Traherne (written before his departure for Smyrna c.September 1670).

c.1660-74

Later owned by Alexander Grosart (1827-99) and acquired in the Grosart sale at Sotheby's, 11 December 1899, probably in one of the lots of miscellaneous theological MSS (Nos. 385, 443, 446, 463 or 464), by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914); [ante September 1870].

Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 3. The three sets of verse on ff. 13v-14, 30, 84v edited from this MS in Dobell (1903). Edited in full in Ross, Vol IV, pp. 7-311, with facsimiles of ff. 31r and 24v on pp., 3-4. Facsimile example in Dobell (1903), frontispiece. Discussed, and the contents listed, in Margoliuth, I, xvii-xx (where the MS is tentatively dated 1673); in Ridler, pp. 155-7; and in Carol L. Marks, Traherne's Church Year-Book, PBSA, 60 (1966), 31-72.

Bodleian Library, Eng. th. MSS (MS Eng. th. e. 51 f. 30)
Consummation ('The Thoughts of Men appear')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 126-8. Margoliouth, II, 147-8. Ridler, pp. 134-6.

TrT 119

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 126-8)
'Could but the Crow in lonely Silence Eat'

First published in Dobell (1908), p. 248. Margoliouth, I, 175. Ridler, p. 322.

*TrT 120
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Volume of autograph prose. Centuries of Meditation.

8°, 91 leaves (including three or four blank pages, a portion of f. 87 excised, plus 50 blanks at the end [ff. 91v-141v]; volume of autograph prose meditations and twelve poems by Thomas Traherne, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, in numbered sections, dedicated to an unnamed lady (the friend of my best friend); inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 3) Centuries of Meditation.

Lettered on the spine MSS. of Henry Vaughan Silurist; subsequently owned, apparently in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who reacquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 2. Edited from this MS (in part: most of the verse and some prose extracts) in Dobell (1903), and (in full) in Dobell (1908); in Margoliouth, I, 1-232; Ridler, pp. 165-372. Facsimile examples in Margoliouth, I, frontispiece; English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), p. 12; Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven, 1964), facing p. 68; and Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 55. Complete microfilm in the Library of Congress.

Bodleian Library, Eng. th. MSS (MS Eng. th. e. 50 f. 69)
'Could they, my Soul, unless they him did pleas?'

Untitled poem of sixteen lines at the end of Chapter XXXIII of The Kingdom of God. Ross, p. 444.

*TrT 120.5
Autograph

Autograph.

A quarto volume of four works by Thomas Traherne, in several hands, partly autograph, 473 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed in another hand on f. i Why is this soe long detaind in a desk manuscript, yt if printed would be a Light to ye World, & a uniuersal Blessinge?

c.1660s-70

This MS identified by Jeremy Maule and announced in Denise Inge and Calum Macfarlane, Seeds of Eternity: A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS, 2 June 2000, p. 14. Discussed in Ross, I, xiv-xxii.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 1360 ff. 313v-14r)
The Demonstration ('The Highest Things are Easiest to be shewn')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 77-80. Margoliouth, II, 156-9. Ridler, pp. 49-52.

*TrT 121
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS by editors.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 f. 11r-v)
The Designe ('When first Eternity Stooped down to Nought')

First published, as The Choice, in Dobell (1903), pp. 57-9. Margoliouth, II, 70-1. Ridler, pp. 37-9.

See also TrT 213.

*TrT 122
Autograph

Autograph, the title altered in Philip Traherne's hand to The Choice.

Edited from this MS by editors.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 f. 9ar-v)
TrT 123

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed The Choice and here beginning When first eternity stoopt down to Nought.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 71-4.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 92-4)
Desire ('For giving me Desire')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 108-10. Margoliouth, II, 177-9. Ridler, pp. 70-1.

*TrT 124
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS by editors.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 ff. 14v-15r)
The Desolatness of Absence ('That Man is Poor & Desolat whose Lov')

Ross, II, 45.

*TrT 125
Autograph

Autograph.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

The Dialogue ('Why dost thou tell me that the fields are mine?')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 113-14. Margoliouth, II, 136-7. Ridler, pp. 124-5.

TrT 126

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 113-14)
Dissatisfaction ('In Cloaths confin'd, my weary Mind')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 39-42. Margoliouth, II, 103-6. Ridler, pp. 93-6.

TrT 127

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 39-42)
Dreams ('Tis strange! I saw the Skies')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 114-16. Margoliouth, II, 138-9. Ridler, pp. 126-7.

TrT 128

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 114-16)
'Drie Barren Arguments whereby we strive'

Unpublished.

TrT 129

Century I, meditation 90.

8°, 270 pages (in present imperfect state); volume of prose meditations (376) and poems (14) by Thomas Traherne, in numbered sections (centuries of meditations), in fair copy in the italic hand of an unidentified amanuensis, with occasional autograph passages and insertions by Traherne himself (notably in Century II, meditations 31 [whole meditation], 92, and 93; Century III, meditations 9, 13, 38 and 50); the volume very imperfect; originally comprising apparently 468 meditations, but now beginning with the end of meditation 81 through to most of meditation 95 and then the end of meditation 100 in the first century (pp. [45-61] [ff. 1-7]), followed by Select Meditatins [sic] The Second Century (pp. 61-98 [ff. 7-25v]) and Select Meditations The Third Century (pp. 99-176 [ff. 26-62v]), all three centuries with missing and mutilated portions, and then Select Meditations The fforth Century, meditations 1-68 only (pp., 177-220 [ff. 26-62v]); pp. 220 bis-8 blank; pp. 229-30 containing A Prayer for Ash Wednesday and pp. 231-2 A Meditation, both anonymous and added later in another, unidentified, cursive hand (also responsible for an addition on p. 166); pp. 233-45 blank; pp. 246-64 occupied by an untitled discussion of the nature of ye soul addressed to an unnamed person, and pp. 266-70 by an untitled disquisition on Loue to God & man, both in the hand of the original amanuensis; the pages originally numbered [45] to 219 (some now missing), then continued up to 270 probably in the second unidentified hand.

There is no evidence that this MS is dedicated to a lady (Osborn misread Know ledg, in Century I, meditation 94, as know lady). See also TrT Δ 3 and further above.

c.1660-5

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Select Meditations, TrT Δ 8. Select passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20. Discussed in James M. Osborn, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (8 October 1964), p. 928; in Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven 1964), Appendix, pp. 207-11; and in Sharon Seelig, The Origins of Ecstasy: Traherne's Select Meditations, ELR, 9 (1979), 419-31. Edited in full, as Select Meditations, by Julia Smith (Manchester, 1997), with a facsimile page as frontispiece.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 308 pp. 51-3 [ff. 4-5])
Dumnesse ('Sure Man was born to Meditat on Things')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 33-6. Margoliouth, II, 40, 42, 44. Ridler, pp. 22-4.

*TrT 130
Autograph

Autograph, with deletions and revisions.

Edited from this MS by editors.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 f. 6r-v)
TrT 131

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed Dumness and here beginning Sure Man was born to meditat on things.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 41, 43, 45.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 75-7)
Ease ('How easily doth Nature teach the Soul')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 53-4. Margoliouth, II, 64, 66. Ridler, pp. 35-6.

*TrT 132
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS by editors.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 f. 8v)
TrT 133

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed Eas and here beginning How easily doth Nature teach the Soul!

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 65, 67.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 74-5)
Eden ('A learned and a Happy Ignorance')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 8-10. Margoliouth, II, 12, 14. Ridler, pp. 8-10.

*TrT 134
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS by editors.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 ff. 3v-4r)
TrT 135

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 13, 15.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 5-7)
Elim ('Hail Sacred Place! Thou fair & living Tower')
*TrT 135.5
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Autograph MS, with deletions and revisions, of Thomas Traherne's The Ceremonial Law.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [ir]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow ye whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

c.1670

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

Elim II ('This Sacred Plot of Beauties & Delights')
*TrT 135.8
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Autograph MS, with deletions and revisions, of Thomas Traherne's The Ceremonial Law.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [ir]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow ye whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

c.1670

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

The Enquirie ('Men may delighted be with Springs')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 67-9. Margoliouth, II, 82, 84. Ridler, pp. 44-5.

*TrT 136
Autograph

Autograph, with alterations in Philip Traherne's hand and annotated [The Return deleted] p. 2 The Evidence p. 3.

Edited from this MS by editors.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 ff. 9bv-10r)
TrT 137

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed The Enquiry.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 83, 85.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 100-1)
Epitaphium ('His situs est Haeres Mundi, Mundanus Amator')

First published in Margoliouth (1958), II, 205-6. Incomplete and unsigned, thus of uncertain authorship: see Anne Ridler, Traherne: Some Wrong Attributions, RES, NS 18 (1967) 48-9.

*TrT 138
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Margoliouth.

Autograph octavo notebook by Thomas Traherne, in prose and verse, in English and Latin, written during and after his university days, 388 pages (mostly blank after p. 240), in contemporary calf, with remains of metal clasps.

Largely autograph, with a few pages at the beginning in the hand of Philip Traherne, who inscribed it (p. iii) Philip Traherne is the true owner of this booke Amen Ano Domi 1655, used some pages for neat examples of his penmanship as a child and, in later years (after 1689), copied on pp. 237-40 an extract from Thomas Burnet's Telluris Theoria Sacra.

c.1655-early 1660s

Scribbling at the ends of the volume including names of Thomas and Philip Traherne, Holway and Warmeston. Later owned on 30 April 1841 by Rashleigh Duke of Salisbury: i.e.[son of Edward Duke (1779-1852), Wiltshire antiquary. Hodgson's, 13 December 1935, lot 137, to P.J. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Early Notebook: TrT Δ 4. Twelve poems edited from this MS, and attributed to Thomas Traherne, in Margoliouth, II, 204-11. The remainder of the MS unpublished. Six of the poems edited in Ridler, pp. 159-63; the incomplete Epitaphium of uncertain authorship (TrT 138) omitted by her, and the other five poems rejected outright (i.e. What e're I have from God alone I have, Oh how injurious is this wall of sin, As fragrant Mirrhe within the bosom hid, and To bee a Monarch is a glorious thing, all by Francis Quarles, and a Serious and a Curious night-Meditation, by William Austin). Discussed in Anne Ridler, Traherne: Some Wrong Attributions, RES, NS 18 (1967), 48-9, and in Carol L. Marks, Traherne's Early Studies, PBSA, 62 (1968), 511-36. Facsimile of p. 209 in Margoliouth, II, frontispiece.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Lat. misc. f. 45 p. 197)
Epitaphium Annae Cholmeley sacrum ('Though stone I am, yet must I weep')

First published in Margoliouth (1958), II, 207. Ridler, p. 166.

*TrT 139
Autograph

Autograph, with a revision and initialled T.T..

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph octavo notebook by Thomas Traherne, in prose and verse, in English and Latin, written during and after his university days, 388 pages (mostly blank after p. 240), in contemporary calf, with remains of metal clasps.

Largely autograph, with a few pages at the beginning in the hand of Philip Traherne, who inscribed it (p. iii) Philip Traherne is the true owner of this booke Amen Ano Domi 1655, used some pages for neat examples of his penmanship as a child and, in later years (after 1689), copied on pp. 237-40 an extract from Thomas Burnet's Telluris Theoria Sacra.

c.1655-early 1660s

Scribbling at the ends of the volume including names of Thomas and Philip Traherne, Holway and Warmeston. Later owned on 30 April 1841 by Rashleigh Duke of Salisbury: i.e.[son of Edward Duke (1779-1852), Wiltshire antiquary. Hodgson's, 13 December 1935, lot 137, to P.J. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Early Notebook: TrT Δ 4. Twelve poems edited from this MS, and attributed to Thomas Traherne, in Margoliouth, II, 204-11. The remainder of the MS unpublished. Six of the poems edited in Ridler, pp. 159-63; the incomplete Epitaphium of uncertain authorship (TrT 138) omitted by her, and the other five poems rejected outright (i.e. What e're I have from God alone I have, Oh how injurious is this wall of sin, As fragrant Mirrhe within the bosom hid, and To bee a Monarch is a glorious thing, all by Francis Quarles, and a Serious and a Curious night-Meditation, by William Austin). Discussed in Anne Ridler, Traherne: Some Wrong Attributions, RES, NS 18 (1967), 48-9, and in Carol L. Marks, Traherne's Early Studies, PBSA, 62 (1968), 511-36. Facsimile of p. 209 in Margoliouth, II, frontispiece.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Lat. misc. f. 45 p. 205)
The Estate ('But shall my Soul to Wealth possess')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 63-6. Bell, pp. 97-8. Margoliouth, II, 78, 80, 82. Ridler, pp. 42-3.

*TrT 140
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions, with other alterations in Philip Traherne's hand, stanza 3 deleted.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 ff. 9av-9bv)
TrT 141

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning But shall my Soul no Wealth possess?.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 79, 81, 83.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 97-8)
'Even as the Sea within a finit Shore'

First published in Dobell (1908), p. 86. Margoliouth, I, 61. Ridler, p. 219. These two lines are related to lines 7-8 of His Power Bounded, Greater is in Might (TrT 151).

*TrT 142
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Volume of autograph prose. Centuries of Meditation.

8°, 91 leaves (including three or four blank pages, a portion of f. 87 excised, plus 50 blanks at the end [ff. 91v-141v]; volume of autograph prose meditations and twelve poems by Thomas Traherne, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, in numbered sections, dedicated to an unnamed lady (the friend of my best friend); inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 3) Centuries of Meditation.

Lettered on the spine MSS. of Henry Vaughan Silurist; subsequently owned, apparently in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who reacquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 2. Edited from this MS (in part: most of the verse and some prose extracts) in Dobell (1903), and (in full) in Dobell (1908); in Margoliouth, I, 1-232; Ridler, pp. 165-372. Facsimile examples in Margoliouth, I, frontispiece; English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), p. 12; Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven, 1964), facing p. 68; and Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 55. Complete microfilm in the Library of Congress.

Bodleian Library, Eng. th. MSS (MS Eng. th. e. 50 f. 27v)
The Evidence ('His Word confirms the Sale')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 99-100. Margoliouth, II, 126-7. Ridler, pp. 115-16.

TrT 143

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 99-100)
'ffarewell ye Rarities!'

Unpublished.

TrT 144

Century IV, meditation 65.

8°, 270 pages (in present imperfect state); volume of prose meditations (376) and poems (14) by Thomas Traherne, in numbered sections (centuries of meditations), in fair copy in the italic hand of an unidentified amanuensis, with occasional autograph passages and insertions by Traherne himself (notably in Century II, meditations 31 [whole meditation], 92, and 93; Century III, meditations 9, 13, 38 and 50); the volume very imperfect; originally comprising apparently 468 meditations, but now beginning with the end of meditation 81 through to most of meditation 95 and then the end of meditation 100 in the first century (pp. [45-61] [ff. 1-7]), followed by Select Meditatins [sic] The Second Century (pp. 61-98 [ff. 7-25v]) and Select Meditations The Third Century (pp. 99-176 [ff. 26-62v]), all three centuries with missing and mutilated portions, and then Select Meditations The fforth Century, meditations 1-68 only (pp., 177-220 [ff. 26-62v]); pp. 220 bis-8 blank; pp. 229-30 containing A Prayer for Ash Wednesday and pp. 231-2 A Meditation, both anonymous and added later in another, unidentified, cursive hand (also responsible for an addition on p. 166); pp. 233-45 blank; pp. 246-64 occupied by an untitled discussion of the nature of ye soul addressed to an unnamed person, and pp. 266-70 by an untitled disquisition on Loue to God & man, both in the hand of the original amanuensis; the pages originally numbered [45] to 219 (some now missing), then continued up to 270 probably in the second unidentified hand.

There is no evidence that this MS is dedicated to a lady (Osborn misread Know ledg, in Century I, meditation 94, as know lady). See also TrT Δ 3 and further above.

c.1660-5

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Select Meditations, TrT Δ 8. Select passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20. Discussed in James M. Osborn, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (8 October 1964), p. 928; in Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven 1964), Appendix, pp. 207-11; and in Sharon Seelig, The Origins of Ecstasy: Traherne's Select Meditations, ELR, 9 (1979), 419-31. Edited in full, as Select Meditations, by Julia Smith (Manchester, 1997), with a facsimile page as frontispiece.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 308 p. 216 [f. 82v])
Felicity ('Prompted to seek my Bliss abov the Skies')

First published in Bell (1910), p. 22. Margoliouth, II, 90. Ridler, p. 81.

TrT 145

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 p. 22)
[Finite yet Infinite] ('His Power Bounded, Greater is in Might')

See TrT 151.

'ffor Man to Act as if his soul did see'

Untitled poem comprising fifteen lines, followed by Again he saith and another fourteen lines (beginning The Angels who are faithfull while they view), towards the end (chapter XLII) of The Kingdom of God. First published

*TrT 145.5
Autograph

Autograph.

A quarto volume of four works by Thomas Traherne, in several hands, partly autograph, 473 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed in another hand on f. i Why is this soe long detaind in a desk manuscript, yt if printed would be a Light to ye World, & a uniuersal Blessinge?

c.1660s-70

This MS identified by Jeremy Maule and announced in Denise Inge and Calum Macfarlane, Seeds of Eternity: A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS, 2 June 2000, p. 14. Discussed in Ross, I, xiv-xxii.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 1360 f. 364r-v)
'--ffor to Augment ye Wonder'

Untitled poem of five sestains, in the middle of Chapter XXVIII of The Kingdom of God. First published

*TrT 145.8
Autograph

Autograph.

A quarto volume of four works by Thomas Traherne, in several hands, partly autograph, 473 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed in another hand on f. i Why is this soe long detaind in a desk manuscript, yt if printed would be a Light to ye World, & a uniuersal Blessinge?

c.1660s-70

This MS identified by Jeremy Maule and announced in Denise Inge and Calum Macfarlane, Seeds of Eternity: A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS, 2 June 2000, p. 14. Discussed in Ross, I, xiv-xxii.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 1360 ff. 282v-3r)
Fullnesse ('That Light, that Sight, that Thought')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 47-8. Margoliouth, II, 58, 60. Ridler, pp. 31-2.

*TrT 146
Autograph

Autograph, headed Fulnesse.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 f. 8r)
TrT 147

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed Fulness.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 59, 61.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 89-90)
The Glory of Baptism ('Baptizd! And made a Son of God! An Heir')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 95.

*TrT 148
Autograph

Autograph, with extensive revisions, including a deleted stanza.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

[The Glory of Israel] ('In Salem dwelt a Glorious King')

See TrT 162.

Goodnesse ('The Bliss of other Men is my Delight')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 115-18. Margoliouth, II, 182-4. Ridler, pp. 75-7.

*TrT 149
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions, annotated in Philip Traherne's hand & p. 143.

Edited from this MS by editors.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 ff. 15v-16r)
'The Great Creator and the King'

Untitled poem of ten lines in the middle of Chapter XXXIX of The Kingdom of God. Ross, p. 477.

*TrT 149.5
Autograph

Autograph.

A quarto volume of four works by Thomas Traherne, in several hands, partly autograph, 473 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed in another hand on f. i Why is this soe long detaind in a desk manuscript, yt if printed would be a Light to ye World, & a uniuersal Blessinge?

c.1660s-70

This MS identified by Jeremy Maule and announced in Denise Inge and Calum Macfarlane, Seeds of Eternity: A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS, 2 June 2000, p. 14. Discussed in Ross, I, xiv-xxii.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 1360 f. 343v)
'He Apprehends it not with any Pleasure'

Unpublished.

TrT 150

Century III, meditation 6.

8°, 270 pages (in present imperfect state); volume of prose meditations (376) and poems (14) by Thomas Traherne, in numbered sections (centuries of meditations), in fair copy in the italic hand of an unidentified amanuensis, with occasional autograph passages and insertions by Traherne himself (notably in Century II, meditations 31 [whole meditation], 92, and 93; Century III, meditations 9, 13, 38 and 50); the volume very imperfect; originally comprising apparently 468 meditations, but now beginning with the end of meditation 81 through to most of meditation 95 and then the end of meditation 100 in the first century (pp. [45-61] [ff. 1-7]), followed by Select Meditatins [sic] The Second Century (pp. 61-98 [ff. 7-25v]) and Select Meditations The Third Century (pp. 99-176 [ff. 26-62v]), all three centuries with missing and mutilated portions, and then Select Meditations The fforth Century, meditations 1-68 only (pp., 177-220 [ff. 26-62v]); pp. 220 bis-8 blank; pp. 229-30 containing A Prayer for Ash Wednesday and pp. 231-2 A Meditation, both anonymous and added later in another, unidentified, cursive hand (also responsible for an addition on p. 166); pp. 233-45 blank; pp. 246-64 occupied by an untitled discussion of the nature of ye soul addressed to an unnamed person, and pp. 266-70 by an untitled disquisition on Loue to God & man, both in the hand of the original amanuensis; the pages originally numbered [45] to 219 (some now missing), then continued up to 270 probably in the second unidentified hand.

There is no evidence that this MS is dedicated to a lady (Osborn misread Know ledg, in Century I, meditation 94, as know lady). See also TrT Δ 3 and further above.

c.1660-5

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Select Meditations, TrT Δ 8. Select passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20. Discussed in James M. Osborn, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (8 October 1964), p. 928; in Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven 1964), Appendix, pp. 207-11; and in Sharon Seelig, The Origins of Ecstasy: Traherne's Select Meditations, ELR, 9 (1979), 419-31. Edited in full, as Select Meditations, by Julia Smith (Manchester, 1997), with a facsimile page as frontispiece.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 308 p. 101 [f. 27])
'His Power Bounded, Greater is in Might'

First published, as [Finite yet Infinite] in Dobell (1903), p. 121. Dobell (1908), p. 173-4. Margoliouth, I, 122-3. Ridler, p. 274.

See also TrT 142.

*TrT 151
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Volume of autograph prose. Centuries of Meditation.

8°, 91 leaves (including three or four blank pages, a portion of f. 87 excised, plus 50 blanks at the end [ff. 91v-141v]; volume of autograph prose meditations and twelve poems by Thomas Traherne, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, in numbered sections, dedicated to an unnamed lady (the friend of my best friend); inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 3) Centuries of Meditation.

Lettered on the spine MSS. of Henry Vaughan Silurist; subsequently owned, apparently in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who reacquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 2. Edited from this MS (in part: most of the verse and some prose extracts) in Dobell (1903), and (in full) in Dobell (1908); in Margoliouth, I, 1-232; Ridler, pp. 165-372. Facsimile examples in Margoliouth, I, frontispiece; English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), p. 12; Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven, 1964), facing p. 68; and Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 55. Complete microfilm in the Library of Congress.

Bodleian Library, Eng. th. MSS (MS Eng. th. e. 50 f. 51)
Hosanna ('No more shall Walls, no more shall Walls confine')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 129-31. Margoliouth, II, 149-51. Ridler, pp. 136-8.

TrT 152

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 129-31)
Human Abilitie ('What other Treasure can be more our Joy')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 3.

*TrT 153
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

'Humility! O Radiant Queen'

See TrT 57.

An Hymne upon St Bartholomews Day ('What Powerfull Spirit livs within')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 139-40. Margoliouth, II, 202-3. Ridler, pp. 157-8.

*TrT 154
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS by editors. Facsimile in Dobell (1903), frontispiece.

Thomas Traherne's MS Meditations and Devotions on the festivals of the Church: Church Year-Book.

8°, 114 leaves (plus 29 blanks [ff. 114-42]); volume of autograph prose meditations and poems composed by Thomas Traherne and others, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, on nineteen occasions of the Church calendar from Easter to All Saints' Day (representing probably half of the meditations for a complete Church year); including (f. 112v) Traherne's autograph copy of George Herbert's To all Angels and Saints (see HrG 265); with additions intermittently throughout the MS (notably passages on ff. 15, 16, 17, 79, 113) in another, unidentified, cursive hand in darker ink, and with some additions on f. 24v only in the hand of Philip Traherne (written before his departure for Smyrna c.September 1670).

c.1660-74

Later owned by Alexander Grosart (1827-99) and acquired in the Grosart sale at Sotheby's, 11 December 1899, probably in one of the lots of miscellaneous theological MSS (Nos. 385, 443, 446, 463 or 464), by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914); [ante September 1870].

Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 3. The three sets of verse on ff. 13v-14, 30, 84v edited from this MS in Dobell (1903). Edited in full in Ross, Vol IV, pp. 7-311, with facsimiles of ff. 31r and 24v on pp., 3-4. Facsimile example in Dobell (1903), frontispiece. Discussed, and the contents listed, in Margoliuth, I, xvii-xx (where the MS is tentatively dated 1673); in Ridler, pp. 155-7; and in Carol L. Marks, Traherne's Church Year-Book, PBSA, 60 (1966), 31-72.

Bodleian Library, Eng. th. MSS (MS Eng. th. e. 51 f. 84v)
'If after all Endeavors made'

First published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20 (p. 18).

TrT 155

Century I, meditation 89.

8°, 270 pages (in present imperfect state); volume of prose meditations (376) and poems (14) by Thomas Traherne, in numbered sections (centuries of meditations), in fair copy in the italic hand of an unidentified amanuensis, with occasional autograph passages and insertions by Traherne himself (notably in Century II, meditations 31 [whole meditation], 92, and 93; Century III, meditations 9, 13, 38 and 50); the volume very imperfect; originally comprising apparently 468 meditations, but now beginning with the end of meditation 81 through to most of meditation 95 and then the end of meditation 100 in the first century (pp. [45-61] [ff. 1-7]), followed by Select Meditatins [sic] The Second Century (pp. 61-98 [ff. 7-25v]) and Select Meditations The Third Century (pp. 99-176 [ff. 26-62v]), all three centuries with missing and mutilated portions, and then Select Meditations The fforth Century, meditations 1-68 only (pp., 177-220 [ff. 26-62v]); pp. 220 bis-8 blank; pp. 229-30 containing A Prayer for Ash Wednesday and pp. 231-2 A Meditation, both anonymous and added later in another, unidentified, cursive hand (also responsible for an addition on p. 166); pp. 233-45 blank; pp. 246-64 occupied by an untitled discussion of the nature of ye soul addressed to an unnamed person, and pp. 266-70 by an untitled disquisition on Loue to God & man, both in the hand of the original amanuensis; the pages originally numbered [45] to 219 (some now missing), then continued up to 270 probably in the second unidentified hand.

There is no evidence that this MS is dedicated to a lady (Osborn misread Know ledg, in Century I, meditation 94, as know lady). See also TrT Δ 3 and further above.

c.1660-5

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Select Meditations, TrT Δ 8. Select passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20. Discussed in James M. Osborn, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (8 October 1964), p. 928; in Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven 1964), Appendix, pp. 207-11; and in Sharon Seelig, The Origins of Ecstasy: Traherne's Select Meditations, ELR, 9 (1979), 419-31. Edited in full, as Select Meditations, by Julia Smith (Manchester, 1997), with a facsimile page as frontispiece.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 308 p. 51 [f. 4])
'If God as verses say a Spirit be'

First published in Dobell (1908), p. 140. Margoliouth, I, 99. Ridler, p. 253.

*TrT 156
Autograph

Autograph translation from Cato, headed Si Deus est Animus sit pura Mente Colendus.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Volume of autograph prose. Centuries of Meditation.

8°, 91 leaves (including three or four blank pages, a portion of f. 87 excised, plus 50 blanks at the end [ff. 91v-141v]; volume of autograph prose meditations and twelve poems by Thomas Traherne, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, in numbered sections, dedicated to an unnamed lady (the friend of my best friend); inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 3) Centuries of Meditation.

Lettered on the spine MSS. of Henry Vaughan Silurist; subsequently owned, apparently in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who reacquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 2. Edited from this MS (in part: most of the verse and some prose extracts) in Dobell (1903), and (in full) in Dobell (1908); in Margoliouth, I, 1-232; Ridler, pp. 165-372. Facsimile examples in Margoliouth, I, frontispiece; English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), p. 12; Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven, 1964), facing p. 68; and Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 55. Complete microfilm in the Library of Congress.

Bodleian Library, Eng. th. MSS (MS Eng. th. e. 50 f. 42v)
The Image ('If I be like my God, my King')

First published in Bell (1910), p. 146. Margoliouth, II, 126. Ridler, p. 115.

TrT 157

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, deleted.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 p. 96)
The improvment (''Tis more to recollect, then make. The one')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 25-9. Bell, pp. 61-4. Margoliouth, II, 30, 32, 34, 36. Ridler, pp. 18-20.

*TrT 158
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions, stanza 8 deleted, annotated in Philip Traherne's hand [Childhood deleted] p. 120 & p. 9. News p. 133.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 ff. 5v-6r)
TrT 159

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning Tis more to recollect than make; the one.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 31, 33, 35, 37.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 61-4)
'In Making Bodies Lov could not Express'

First published, as [The Soul's Glory], in Dobell (1903), pp. 119-20. Dobell (1908), pp. 171-2. Margoliouth, I, 121. Ridler, pp. 272-3.

*TrT 160
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Volume of autograph prose. Centuries of Meditation.

8°, 91 leaves (including three or four blank pages, a portion of f. 87 excised, plus 50 blanks at the end [ff. 91v-141v]; volume of autograph prose meditations and twelve poems by Thomas Traherne, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, in numbered sections, dedicated to an unnamed lady (the friend of my best friend); inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 3) Centuries of Meditation.

Lettered on the spine MSS. of Henry Vaughan Silurist; subsequently owned, apparently in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who reacquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 2. Edited from this MS (in part: most of the verse and some prose extracts) in Dobell (1903), and (in full) in Dobell (1908); in Margoliouth, I, 1-232; Ridler, pp. 165-372. Facsimile examples in Margoliouth, I, frontispiece; English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), p. 12; Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven, 1964), facing p. 68; and Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 55. Complete microfilm in the Library of Congress.

Bodleian Library, Eng. th. MSS (MS Eng. th. e. 50 f. 50v)
In Obitum viri optimi J:C. Eirenarchae ('Heer lied pure and precious Dust')

First published in Margoliouth (1958), II, 210-11. Ridler, pp. 162-3.

*TrT 161
Autograph

Autograph, initialled T.T..

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph octavo notebook by Thomas Traherne, in prose and verse, in English and Latin, written during and after his university days, 388 pages (mostly blank after p. 240), in contemporary calf, with remains of metal clasps.

Largely autograph, with a few pages at the beginning in the hand of Philip Traherne, who inscribed it (p. iii) Philip Traherne is the true owner of this booke Amen Ano Domi 1655, used some pages for neat examples of his penmanship as a child and, in later years (after 1689), copied on pp. 237-40 an extract from Thomas Burnet's Telluris Theoria Sacra.

c.1655-early 1660s

Scribbling at the ends of the volume including names of Thomas and Philip Traherne, Holway and Warmeston. Later owned on 30 April 1841 by Rashleigh Duke of Salisbury: i.e.[son of Edward Duke (1779-1852), Wiltshire antiquary. Hodgson's, 13 December 1935, lot 137, to P.J. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Early Notebook: TrT Δ 4. Twelve poems edited from this MS, and attributed to Thomas Traherne, in Margoliouth, II, 204-11. The remainder of the MS unpublished. Six of the poems edited in Ridler, pp. 159-63; the incomplete Epitaphium of uncertain authorship (TrT 138) omitted by her, and the other five poems rejected outright (i.e. What e're I have from God alone I have, Oh how injurious is this wall of sin, As fragrant Mirrhe within the bosom hid, and To bee a Monarch is a glorious thing, all by Francis Quarles, and a Serious and a Curious night-Meditation, by William Austin). Discussed in Anne Ridler, Traherne: Some Wrong Attributions, RES, NS 18 (1967), 48-9, and in Carol L. Marks, Traherne's Early Studies, PBSA, 62 (1968), 511-36. Facsimile of p. 209 in Margoliouth, II, frontispiece.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Lat. misc. f. 45 p. 211)
'In Salem dwelt a Glorious King'

First published, as [The Glory of Israel], in Dobell (1903), pp. 130-3. Dobell (1908), pp. 212-15. Margoliouth, I, 150-3. Ridler, pp. 299-301.

*TrT 162
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Volume of autograph prose. Centuries of Meditation.

8°, 91 leaves (including three or four blank pages, a portion of f. 87 excised, plus 50 blanks at the end [ff. 91v-141v]; volume of autograph prose meditations and twelve poems by Thomas Traherne, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, in numbered sections, dedicated to an unnamed lady (the friend of my best friend); inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 3) Centuries of Meditation.

Lettered on the spine MSS. of Henry Vaughan Silurist; subsequently owned, apparently in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who reacquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 2. Edited from this MS (in part: most of the verse and some prose extracts) in Dobell (1903), and (in full) in Dobell (1908); in Margoliouth, I, 1-232; Ridler, pp. 165-372. Facsimile examples in Margoliouth, I, frontispiece; English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), p. 12; Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven, 1964), facing p. 68; and Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 55. Complete microfilm in the Library of Congress.

Bodleian Library, Eng. th. MSS (MS Eng. th. e. 50 ff. 60-1)
An Infant-Ey ('A simple Light from all Contagion free')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 10-12. Margoliouth, II, 86-7. Ridler, pp. 77-8.

TrT 163

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 10-12)
The Inference I ('Well-guided Thoughts within possess')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 117-19. Margoliouth, II, 139-41. Ridler, pp. 127-9.

TrT 164

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 117-19)
The Inference II ('David a Temple in his Mind conceiv'd')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 119-20. Margoliouth, II, 141-2. Ridler, pp. 129-30.

TrT 165

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 119-20)
[The Influx] ('Ye hidden Nectars, which my God doth drink')

See TrT 232.

Innocence ('But that which most I Wonder at, which most')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 11-13. Bell, pp. 7-10. Margoliouth, II, 14, 16, 18. Ridler, pp. 10-11.

*TrT 166
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions, here beginning But that which most I wonder at, which most.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 f. 4r)
TrT 167

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 15, 17, 19.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 7-10)
Insatiableness I ('No Walls confine! Can nothing hold my Mind?')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 124-5. Margoliouth, II, 145-6. Ridler, p. 133.

TrT 168

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 124-5)
Insatiableness II ('This busy, vast, enquiring Soul!')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 125-6. Margoliouth, II, 146-7. Ridler, p. 134.

TrT 169

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 125-6)
The Inside ('When God had spoke to ye ruder Croud')

An unfinished poem of eleven lines.

*TrT 169.5
Autograph

Autograph, probably unfinished.

Autograph MS, with deletions and revisions, of Thomas Traherne's The Ceremonial Law.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [ir]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow ye whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

c.1670

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

The Instruction ('Spue out thy filth, thy flesh abjure')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 18-19. Bell, pp. 15-16. Margoliouth, II, 24. Ridler, pp. 14-15.

*TrT 170
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions, the heading altered from The Vision.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 f. 4v)
TrT 171

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning Spew out thy Filth, thy Flesh abjure.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 25.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 15-16)
'Invisibles are not Diminishd by'

Untitled poem of 102 lines at the end of Chapter XXII in The Kingdom of God. Ross, pp. 373-5.

*TrT 171.5
Autograph

Autograph.

A quarto volume of four works by Thomas Traherne, in several hands, partly autograph, 473 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed in another hand on f. i Why is this soe long detaind in a desk manuscript, yt if printed would be a Light to ye World, & a uniuersal Blessinge?

c.1660s-70

This MS identified by Jeremy Maule and announced in Denise Inge and Calum Macfarlane, Seeds of Eternity: A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS, 2 June 2000, p. 14. Discussed in Ross, I, xiv-xxii.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 1360 ff. 245r-7r)
Israel and Egypt ('One Lamb ye Shepherd out of many takes')
*TrT 171.8
Autograph

Autograph.

Autograph MS, with deletions and revisions, of Thomas Traherne's The Ceremonial Law.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [ir]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow ye whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

c.1670

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

'Lett whose will in Icie state'
Love ('O Nectar! O Delicious Stream!')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 94-5. Margoliouth, II, 167-8. Ridler, pp. 60-1.

*TrT 172
Autograph

Autograph, annotated in Philip Traherne's hand Insatiableness p. 133.138.

Edited from this MS by editors.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 f. 13r)
Manna ('The Staff of Life is gone, & nothing here')
*TrT 172.2
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Autograph MS, with deletions and revisions, of Thomas Traherne's The Ceremonial Law.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [ir]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow ye whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

c.1670

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

Manna II ('As in ye deepest Wells we better see')
*TrT 172.4
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Autograph MS, with deletions and revisions, of Thomas Traherne's The Ceremonial Law.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [ir]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow ye whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

c.1670

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

Manna III ('The Ordinance about ye Manna is')
*TrT 172.6
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Autograph MS, with deletions and revisions, of Thomas Traherne's The Ceremonial Law.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [ir]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow ye whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

c.1670

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

Manna IV ('But there's a Deeper Mystery yn this')
*TrT 172.8
Autograph

Autograph.

Autograph MS, with deletions and revisions, of Thomas Traherne's The Ceremonial Law.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [ir]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow ye whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

c.1670

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

Memento mori ('Beneath that Stone, lies buried One')

First published in Margoliouth (1958), II, 208. Ridler, pp. 161-2.

*TrT 173
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions and initialled T.T..

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph octavo notebook by Thomas Traherne, in prose and verse, in English and Latin, written during and after his university days, 388 pages (mostly blank after p. 240), in contemporary calf, with remains of metal clasps.

Largely autograph, with a few pages at the beginning in the hand of Philip Traherne, who inscribed it (p. iii) Philip Traherne is the true owner of this booke Amen Ano Domi 1655, used some pages for neat examples of his penmanship as a child and, in later years (after 1689), copied on pp. 237-40 an extract from Thomas Burnet's Telluris Theoria Sacra.

c.1655-early 1660s

Scribbling at the ends of the volume including names of Thomas and Philip Traherne, Holway and Warmeston. Later owned on 30 April 1841 by Rashleigh Duke of Salisbury: i.e.[son of Edward Duke (1779-1852), Wiltshire antiquary. Hodgson's, 13 December 1935, lot 137, to P.J. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Early Notebook: TrT Δ 4. Twelve poems edited from this MS, and attributed to Thomas Traherne, in Margoliouth, II, 204-11. The remainder of the MS unpublished. Six of the poems edited in Ridler, pp. 159-63; the incomplete Epitaphium of uncertain authorship (TrT 138) omitted by her, and the other five poems rejected outright (i.e. What e're I have from God alone I have, Oh how injurious is this wall of sin, As fragrant Mirrhe within the bosom hid, and To bee a Monarch is a glorious thing, all by Francis Quarles, and a Serious and a Curious night-Meditation, by William Austin). Discussed in Anne Ridler, Traherne: Some Wrong Attributions, RES, NS 18 (1967), 48-9, and in Carol L. Marks, Traherne's Early Studies, PBSA, 62 (1968), 511-36. Facsimile of p. 209 in Margoliouth, II, frontispiece.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Lat. misc. f. 45 p. 207)
Misapprehension ('Men are not wise in their Tru Interest')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 59-61. Margoliouth, II, 118-20. Ridler, pp. 107-9.

TrT 174

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS, with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece, in Bell.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 59-61)
Moses Call ('Shall I not serv & lov ye Dietie')
*TrT 174.2
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Autograph MS, with deletions and revisions, of Thomas Traherne's The Ceremonial Law.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [ir]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow ye whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

c.1670

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

Moses face ('Instructed after forty days he came')
*TrT 174.4
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Autograph MS, with deletions and revisions, of Thomas Traherne's The Ceremonial Law.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [ir]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow ye whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

c.1670

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

Moses in ye Mount ('When God had thunderd these 10. Words aloud')
*TrT 174.5
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Autograph MS, with deletions and revisions, of Thomas Traherne's The Ceremonial Law.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [ir]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow ye whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

c.1670

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

Moses Rod (''Tis strange to see how fitly things conspire')
*TrT 174.6
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Autograph MS, with deletions and revisions, of Thomas Traherne's The Ceremonial Law.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [ir]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow ye whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

c.1670

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

Mount Sinai ('Long time ye World had been wthout a Law')
*TrT 174.8
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Autograph MS, with deletions and revisions, of Thomas Traherne's The Ceremonial Law.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [ir]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow ye whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

c.1670

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

'My God, my Advocat, my friend, my King'

See TrT 29.

'My Growth is strange! at First, I onely knew'

Unpublished.

TrT 175

Century III, meditation 99.

8°, 270 pages (in present imperfect state); volume of prose meditations (376) and poems (14) by Thomas Traherne, in numbered sections (centuries of meditations), in fair copy in the italic hand of an unidentified amanuensis, with occasional autograph passages and insertions by Traherne himself (notably in Century II, meditations 31 [whole meditation], 92, and 93; Century III, meditations 9, 13, 38 and 50); the volume very imperfect; originally comprising apparently 468 meditations, but now beginning with the end of meditation 81 through to most of meditation 95 and then the end of meditation 100 in the first century (pp. [45-61] [ff. 1-7]), followed by Select Meditatins [sic] The Second Century (pp. 61-98 [ff. 7-25v]) and Select Meditations The Third Century (pp. 99-176 [ff. 26-62v]), all three centuries with missing and mutilated portions, and then Select Meditations The fforth Century, meditations 1-68 only (pp., 177-220 [ff. 26-62v]); pp. 220 bis-8 blank; pp. 229-30 containing A Prayer for Ash Wednesday and pp. 231-2 A Meditation, both anonymous and added later in another, unidentified, cursive hand (also responsible for an addition on p. 166); pp. 233-45 blank; pp. 246-64 occupied by an untitled discussion of the nature of ye soul addressed to an unnamed person, and pp. 266-70 by an untitled disquisition on Loue to God & man, both in the hand of the original amanuensis; the pages originally numbered [45] to 219 (some now missing), then continued up to 270 probably in the second unidentified hand.

There is no evidence that this MS is dedicated to a lady (Osborn misread Know ledg, in Century I, meditation 94, as know lady). See also TrT Δ 3 and further above.

c.1660-5

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Select Meditations, TrT Δ 8. Select passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20. Discussed in James M. Osborn, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (8 October 1964), p. 928; in Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven 1964), Appendix, pp. 207-11; and in Sharon Seelig, The Origins of Ecstasy: Traherne's Select Meditations, ELR, 9 (1979), 419-31. Edited in full, as Select Meditations, by Julia Smith (Manchester, 1997), with a facsimile page as frontispiece.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 308 pp. 174-5 [ff. 61v-2])
My Spirit ('My Naked Simple Life was I')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 41-5. Bell (1910), pp. 78-82. Margoliouth, II, 50, 52, 54, 56. Ridler, pp. 27-30.

See also TrT 70-1.

*TrT 176
Autograph

Autograph, revised.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 f. 7r-v)
TrT 177

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning My naked simple Life was I.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 51, 53, 55, 57.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 78-82)
Nature ('That custom is a Second Nature, we')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 49-52. Bell, pp. 71-3. Margoliouth, II, 60, 62, 64. Ridler, pp. 32-4.

*TrT 178
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions, annotated in Philip Traherne's hand The Inheritance p. 113.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 f. 8r-v)
TrT 179

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning That Custom is a Second Nature, we.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 61, 63, 65.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 71-3)
News ('News from a forein Country came')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 20-1. Margoliouth, II, 88-9. Ridler, pp. 79-81.

This poem is a variant version of TrT 187.

TrT 180

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 20-1)
'No Tongue can Tell wt Treasure[s] are in Store'

Unpublished.

TrT 181

Century III, meditation 27.

8°, 270 pages (in present imperfect state); volume of prose meditations (376) and poems (14) by Thomas Traherne, in numbered sections (centuries of meditations), in fair copy in the italic hand of an unidentified amanuensis, with occasional autograph passages and insertions by Traherne himself (notably in Century II, meditations 31 [whole meditation], 92, and 93; Century III, meditations 9, 13, 38 and 50); the volume very imperfect; originally comprising apparently 468 meditations, but now beginning with the end of meditation 81 through to most of meditation 95 and then the end of meditation 100 in the first century (pp. [45-61] [ff. 1-7]), followed by Select Meditatins [sic] The Second Century (pp. 61-98 [ff. 7-25v]) and Select Meditations The Third Century (pp. 99-176 [ff. 26-62v]), all three centuries with missing and mutilated portions, and then Select Meditations The fforth Century, meditations 1-68 only (pp., 177-220 [ff. 26-62v]); pp. 220 bis-8 blank; pp. 229-30 containing A Prayer for Ash Wednesday and pp. 231-2 A Meditation, both anonymous and added later in another, unidentified, cursive hand (also responsible for an addition on p. 166); pp. 233-45 blank; pp. 246-64 occupied by an untitled discussion of the nature of ye soul addressed to an unnamed person, and pp. 266-70 by an untitled disquisition on Loue to God & man, both in the hand of the original amanuensis; the pages originally numbered [45] to 219 (some now missing), then continued up to 270 probably in the second unidentified hand.

There is no evidence that this MS is dedicated to a lady (Osborn misread Know ledg, in Century I, meditation 94, as know lady). See also TrT Δ 3 and further above.

c.1660-5

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Select Meditations, TrT Δ 8. Select passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20. Discussed in James M. Osborn, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (8 October 1964), p. 928; in Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven 1964), Appendix, pp. 207-11; and in Sharon Seelig, The Origins of Ecstasy: Traherne's Select Meditations, ELR, 9 (1979), 419-31. Edited in full, as Select Meditations, by Julia Smith (Manchester, 1997), with a facsimile page as frontispiece.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 308 p. 118 [f. 35v])
Noahs Rainbow ('from Earth we offer up a Sacrifice')
*TrT 181.5
Autograph

Autograph.

Autograph MS, with deletions and revisions, of Thomas Traherne's The Ceremonial Law.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [ir]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow ye whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

c.1670

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

'Nor haue I any leasure'

Unpublished.

TrT 182

Century I, meditation 92.

8°, 270 pages (in present imperfect state); volume of prose meditations (376) and poems (14) by Thomas Traherne, in numbered sections (centuries of meditations), in fair copy in the italic hand of an unidentified amanuensis, with occasional autograph passages and insertions by Traherne himself (notably in Century II, meditations 31 [whole meditation], 92, and 93; Century III, meditations 9, 13, 38 and 50); the volume very imperfect; originally comprising apparently 468 meditations, but now beginning with the end of meditation 81 through to most of meditation 95 and then the end of meditation 100 in the first century (pp. [45-61] [ff. 1-7]), followed by Select Meditatins [sic] The Second Century (pp. 61-98 [ff. 7-25v]) and Select Meditations The Third Century (pp. 99-176 [ff. 26-62v]), all three centuries with missing and mutilated portions, and then Select Meditations The fforth Century, meditations 1-68 only (pp., 177-220 [ff. 26-62v]); pp. 220 bis-8 blank; pp. 229-30 containing A Prayer for Ash Wednesday and pp. 231-2 A Meditation, both anonymous and added later in another, unidentified, cursive hand (also responsible for an addition on p. 166); pp. 233-45 blank; pp. 246-64 occupied by an untitled discussion of the nature of ye soul addressed to an unnamed person, and pp. 266-70 by an untitled disquisition on Loue to God & man, both in the hand of the original amanuensis; the pages originally numbered [45] to 219 (some now missing), then continued up to 270 probably in the second unidentified hand.

There is no evidence that this MS is dedicated to a lady (Osborn misread Know ledg, in Century I, meditation 94, as know lady). See also TrT Δ 3 and further above.

c.1660-5

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Select Meditations, TrT Δ 8. Select passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20. Discussed in James M. Osborn, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (8 October 1964), p. 928; in Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven 1964), Appendix, pp. 207-11; and in Sharon Seelig, The Origins of Ecstasy: Traherne's Select Meditations, ELR, 9 (1979), 419-31. Edited in full, as Select Meditations, by Julia Smith (Manchester, 1997), with a facsimile page as frontispiece.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 308 p. 54 [f. 5v])
'O Sing, o Soar, o faint, o pant & Breath!'

Unpublished.

TrT 183

Century IV, meditation 15.

8°, 270 pages (in present imperfect state); volume of prose meditations (376) and poems (14) by Thomas Traherne, in numbered sections (centuries of meditations), in fair copy in the italic hand of an unidentified amanuensis, with occasional autograph passages and insertions by Traherne himself (notably in Century II, meditations 31 [whole meditation], 92, and 93; Century III, meditations 9, 13, 38 and 50); the volume very imperfect; originally comprising apparently 468 meditations, but now beginning with the end of meditation 81 through to most of meditation 95 and then the end of meditation 100 in the first century (pp. [45-61] [ff. 1-7]), followed by Select Meditatins [sic] The Second Century (pp. 61-98 [ff. 7-25v]) and Select Meditations The Third Century (pp. 99-176 [ff. 26-62v]), all three centuries with missing and mutilated portions, and then Select Meditations The fforth Century, meditations 1-68 only (pp., 177-220 [ff. 26-62v]); pp. 220 bis-8 blank; pp. 229-30 containing A Prayer for Ash Wednesday and pp. 231-2 A Meditation, both anonymous and added later in another, unidentified, cursive hand (also responsible for an addition on p. 166); pp. 233-45 blank; pp. 246-64 occupied by an untitled discussion of the nature of ye soul addressed to an unnamed person, and pp. 266-70 by an untitled disquisition on Loue to God & man, both in the hand of the original amanuensis; the pages originally numbered [45] to 219 (some now missing), then continued up to 270 probably in the second unidentified hand.

There is no evidence that this MS is dedicated to a lady (Osborn misread Know ledg, in Century I, meditation 94, as know lady). See also TrT Δ 3 and further above.

c.1660-5

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Select Meditations, TrT Δ 8. Select passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20. Discussed in James M. Osborn, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (8 October 1964), p. 928; in Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven 1964), Appendix, pp. 207-11; and in Sharon Seelig, The Origins of Ecstasy: Traherne's Select Meditations, ELR, 9 (1979), 419-31. Edited in full, as Select Meditations, by Julia Smith (Manchester, 1997), with a facsimile page as frontispiece.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 308 p. 187 [f. 68])
The Odour ('These Hands are Jewels to the Ey')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 64-7. Margoliouth, II, 120-2. Ridler, pp. 109-11.

TrT 184

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 64-7)
Of Israels coming out of Egypt ('By Mighty seas Divided here I seem')
*TrT 184.5
Autograph

Autograph.

Autograph MS, with deletions and revisions, of Thomas Traherne's The Ceremonial Law.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [ir]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow ye whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

c.1670

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

On Christmas-Day ('Shall Dumpish Melancholy spoil my Joys')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 48-52. Margoliouth, II, 110-13. Ridler, pp. 100-3.

TrT 185

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 48-52)
On Leaping over the Moon ('I saw new Worlds beneath the Water ly')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 104-7. Margoliouth, II, 130-2. Ridler, pp. 118-20.

See also TrT 223.

TrT 186

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 104-7)
On News ('News from a forrein Country came')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 122-4. Dobell (1908), pp. 177-9. Margoliouth, I, 125-7. Ridler, pp. 276-8. This poem is a variant version of TrT 180.

*TrT 187
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS by editors. Facsimiles in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 55 (as two separate pages complete with prose), and in English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), p. 12 (verse only rearranged as a single page).

Volume of autograph prose. Centuries of Meditation.

8°, 91 leaves (including three or four blank pages, a portion of f. 87 excised, plus 50 blanks at the end [ff. 91v-141v]; volume of autograph prose meditations and twelve poems by Thomas Traherne, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, in numbered sections, dedicated to an unnamed lady (the friend of my best friend); inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 3) Centuries of Meditation.

Lettered on the spine MSS. of Henry Vaughan Silurist; subsequently owned, apparently in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who reacquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 2. Edited from this MS (in part: most of the verse and some prose extracts) in Dobell (1903), and (in full) in Dobell (1908); in Margoliouth, I, 1-232; Ridler, pp. 165-372. Facsimile examples in Margoliouth, I, frontispiece; English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), p. 12; Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven, 1964), facing p. 68; and Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 55. Complete microfilm in the Library of Congress.

Bodleian Library, Eng. th. MSS (MS Eng. th. e. 50 f. 52r-v)
On the Bible ('When Thou dost take')

First published in Margoliouth (1958), II, 205. Ridler, p. 159.

*TrT 188
Autograph

Autograph, initialled T.T..

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph octavo notebook by Thomas Traherne, in prose and verse, in English and Latin, written during and after his university days, 388 pages (mostly blank after p. 240), in contemporary calf, with remains of metal clasps.

Largely autograph, with a few pages at the beginning in the hand of Philip Traherne, who inscribed it (p. iii) Philip Traherne is the true owner of this booke Amen Ano Domi 1655, used some pages for neat examples of his penmanship as a child and, in later years (after 1689), copied on pp. 237-40 an extract from Thomas Burnet's Telluris Theoria Sacra.

c.1655-early 1660s

Scribbling at the ends of the volume including names of Thomas and Philip Traherne, Holway and Warmeston. Later owned on 30 April 1841 by Rashleigh Duke of Salisbury: i.e.[son of Edward Duke (1779-1852), Wiltshire antiquary. Hodgson's, 13 December 1935, lot 137, to P.J. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Early Notebook: TrT Δ 4. Twelve poems edited from this MS, and attributed to Thomas Traherne, in Margoliouth, II, 204-11. The remainder of the MS unpublished. Six of the poems edited in Ridler, pp. 159-63; the incomplete Epitaphium of uncertain authorship (TrT 138) omitted by her, and the other five poems rejected outright (i.e. What e're I have from God alone I have, Oh how injurious is this wall of sin, As fragrant Mirrhe within the bosom hid, and To bee a Monarch is a glorious thing, all by Francis Quarles, and a Serious and a Curious night-Meditation, by William Austin). Discussed in Anne Ridler, Traherne: Some Wrong Attributions, RES, NS 18 (1967), 48-9, and in Carol L. Marks, Traherne's Early Studies, PBSA, 62 (1968), 511-36. Facsimile of p. 209 in Margoliouth, II, frontispiece.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Lat. misc. f. 45 p. 191)
The Only Ill ('Sin!')

See TrT 211.

The Paschal Lamb ('The Lamb each Famelie doth take alone')
*TrT 188.5
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Autograph MS, with deletions and revisions, of Thomas Traherne's The Ceremonial Law.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [ir]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow ye whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

c.1670

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

The Person ('Ye Sacred Lims')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 60-2. Bell (1910), pp. 94-6. Margoliouth, II, 74, 76, 78. Ridler, pp. 40-1.

*TrT 189
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 f. 9av)
TrT 190

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning Ye sacred Limbs.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 75, 77, 79.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 94-6)
A Poetical Reflexion ('Philosophie! The Pagan makes me start!')

See TrT 77.

Poverty ('As in the House I sate')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 37-8. Margoliouth, II, 101-3. Ridler, pp. 92-3.

TrT 191

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 37-8)
The Preparative ('My Body being Dead, my Lims unknown')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 14-17. Bell, pp. 13-15. Margoliouth, II, 20, 22, 24. Ridler, pp. 12-14.

*TrT 192
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions, the heading altered from The Vision.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 f. 4r-v)
TrT 193

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed The Praeparative and here beginning My Body being dead, my Limbs unknown.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 21, 23, 25.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 13-15)
'Pure Bodies, or Pure Spirits we with ease'

Untitled poem of 40 lines in the middle of Chapter XL of The Kingdom of God. Ross, pp. 484-5.

*TrT 193.5
Autograph

Autograph.

A quarto volume of four works by Thomas Traherne, in several hands, partly autograph, 473 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed in another hand on f. i Why is this soe long detaind in a desk manuscript, yt if printed would be a Light to ye World, & a uniuersal Blessinge?

c.1660s-70

This MS identified by Jeremy Maule and announced in Denise Inge and Calum Macfarlane, Seeds of Eternity: A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS, 2 June 2000, p. 14. Discussed in Ross, I, xiv-xxii.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 1360 ff. 349v-50r)
The Rapture ('Sweet Infancy!')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 23-4. Bell, p. 19. Margoliouth, II, 30. Ridler, p. 17.

*TrT 194
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 f. 5r-v)
TrT 195

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 31.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 p. 19)
Recovery ('He seeks for ours as we do seek for his')

First published, as Another, in Dobell (1903), pp. 91-3. Margoliouth, II, 165-7. Ridler, pp. 58-60, as Another.

*TrT 196
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions, with one alteration in Philip Traherne's hand.

Edited from this MS by editors.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 ff. 12v-13r)
The Recovery ('Sin! wilt Thou vanquish me!')

First published in Dobell (1903), p. 129. Dobell (1908), p. 198. Margoliouth, I, 140. Ridler, p. 290.

*TrT 197
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Volume of autograph prose. Centuries of Meditation.

8°, 91 leaves (including three or four blank pages, a portion of f. 87 excised, plus 50 blanks at the end [ff. 91v-141v]; volume of autograph prose meditations and twelve poems by Thomas Traherne, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, in numbered sections, dedicated to an unnamed lady (the friend of my best friend); inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 3) Centuries of Meditation.

Lettered on the spine MSS. of Henry Vaughan Silurist; subsequently owned, apparently in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who reacquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 2. Edited from this MS (in part: most of the verse and some prose extracts) in Dobell (1903), and (in full) in Dobell (1908); in Margoliouth, I, 1-232; Ridler, pp. 165-372. Facsimile examples in Margoliouth, I, frontispiece; English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), p. 12; Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven, 1964), facing p. 68; and Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 55. Complete microfilm in the Library of Congress.

Bodleian Library, Eng. th. MSS (MS Eng. th. e. 50 ff. 56v-7)
The Recovery ('To see us but receiv, is such a Sight')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 87-90. Margoliouth, II, 163-5. Ridler, pp. 56-8.

*TrT 198
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS by editors.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 f. 12r-v)
A Reflexion ('That we no fiction make, but see ye Thing')
*TrT 198.5
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Autograph MS, with deletions and revisions, of Thomas Traherne's The Ceremonial Law.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [ir]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow ye whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

c.1670

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

The Return ('To Infancy, O Lord, again I com')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 12-13. Margoliouth, II, 87-8. Ridler, p. 79.

TrT 199

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 12-13)
The Review I ('Did I grow, or did I stay?')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 131-2. Margoliouth, II, 151. Ridler, pp. 138-9.

TrT 200

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 131-2)
The Review II ('My Child-hood is a Sphere')

First published in Bell (1910), p. 133. Margoliouth, II, 152. Ridler, p. 139.

TrT 201

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 p. 133)
Right Apprehension ('Giv but to things their tru Esteem')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 85-8. Margoliouth, II, 123-6. Ridler, pp. 112-14.

TrT 202

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 85-8)
Right Apprehension II ('If this I did not evry moment see')

See TrT 70-71.

'Rise noble soule and come away'

First published in Margoliouth (1958), II, 206-7. Ridler, p. 159.

*TrT 203
Autograph

Autograph, initialled T.T. and deleted.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph octavo notebook by Thomas Traherne, in prose and verse, in English and Latin, written during and after his university days, 388 pages (mostly blank after p. 240), in contemporary calf, with remains of metal clasps.

Largely autograph, with a few pages at the beginning in the hand of Philip Traherne, who inscribed it (p. iii) Philip Traherne is the true owner of this booke Amen Ano Domi 1655, used some pages for neat examples of his penmanship as a child and, in later years (after 1689), copied on pp. 237-40 an extract from Thomas Burnet's Telluris Theoria Sacra.

c.1655-early 1660s

Scribbling at the ends of the volume including names of Thomas and Philip Traherne, Holway and Warmeston. Later owned on 30 April 1841 by Rashleigh Duke of Salisbury: i.e.[son of Edward Duke (1779-1852), Wiltshire antiquary. Hodgson's, 13 December 1935, lot 137, to P.J. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Early Notebook: TrT Δ 4. Twelve poems edited from this MS, and attributed to Thomas Traherne, in Margoliouth, II, 204-11. The remainder of the MS unpublished. Six of the poems edited in Ridler, pp. 159-63; the incomplete Epitaphium of uncertain authorship (TrT 138) omitted by her, and the other five poems rejected outright (i.e. What e're I have from God alone I have, Oh how injurious is this wall of sin, As fragrant Mirrhe within the bosom hid, and To bee a Monarch is a glorious thing, all by Francis Quarles, and a Serious and a Curious night-Meditation, by William Austin). Discussed in Anne Ridler, Traherne: Some Wrong Attributions, RES, NS 18 (1967), 48-9, and in Carol L. Marks, Traherne's Early Studies, PBSA, 62 (1968), 511-36. Facsimile of p. 209 in Margoliouth, II, frontispiece.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Lat. misc. f. 45 pp. 199, 198)
The Rock ('But there's a Deeper Mystery yn this')

See TrT 172.8.

'The Rock was Christ: from whence yt Water flows'
*TrT 203.5
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Autograph MS, with deletions and revisions, of Thomas Traherne's The Ceremonial Law.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [ir]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow ye whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

c.1670

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

The Salutation ('These little Limmes')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 1-3. Bell, pp. 1-2. Margoliouth, II, 4, 6. Ridler, pp. 5-6.

*TrT 204
Autograph

Autograph, stanza 6 deleted.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 f. 2r)
TrT 205

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning These little Limbs.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 5, 7.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 1-2)
The Second Adam ('A Second Adam, Greater then ye first!')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 25. Ross, III, 234-5.

*TrT 206
Autograph

Autograph, with a revision.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

Shadows in the Water ('In unexperienc'd Infancy')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 101-4. Margoliouth, II, 127-30. Ridler, pp. 116-18.

TrT 207

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 101-4)
Sight ('Mine Infant-Ey')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 108-10. Margoliouth, II, 132-4. Ridler, pp. 121-3.

TrT 208

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 108-10)
Silence ('A quiet Silent Person may possess')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 37-40. Bell, pp. 82-5. Margoliouth, II, 44, 46, 48, 50. Ridler, pp. 25-7.

*TrT 209
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 ff. 6v-7r)
TrT 210

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning A quiet silent Person may possess.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 45, 47, 49, 51.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 82-5)
'Sin!'

First published, as [The Only Ill], in Dobell (1903), pp. 127-8. Dobell (1908), pp. 197-8. Margoliouth, I, 139-40. Ridler, pp. 289-90.

*TrT 211
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Volume of autograph prose. Centuries of Meditation.

8°, 91 leaves (including three or four blank pages, a portion of f. 87 excised, plus 50 blanks at the end [ff. 91v-141v]; volume of autograph prose meditations and twelve poems by Thomas Traherne, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, in numbered sections, dedicated to an unnamed lady (the friend of my best friend); inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 3) Centuries of Meditation.

Lettered on the spine MSS. of Henry Vaughan Silurist; subsequently owned, apparently in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who reacquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 2. Edited from this MS (in part: most of the verse and some prose extracts) in Dobell (1903), and (in full) in Dobell (1908); in Margoliouth, I, 1-232; Ridler, pp. 165-372. Facsimile examples in Margoliouth, I, frontispiece; English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), p. 12; Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven, 1964), facing p. 68; and Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 55. Complete microfilm in the Library of Congress.

Bodleian Library, Eng. th. MSS (MS Eng. th. e. 50 f. 56v)
Solitude ('How desolate!')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 32-6. Margoliouth, II, 98-101. Ridler, pp. 88-91.

TrT 212

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 32-6)
[The Soul's Glory] ('In Making Bodies Lov could not Express')

See TrT 160.

Speed ('The Liquid Pearl in Springs')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 55-6. Bell, pp. 90-1. Margoliouth, II, 68, 70. Ridler, pp. 36-7.

*TrT 213
Autograph

Autograph, with alterations in Philip Traherne's hand and the heading changed from The Designe.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 f. 9a)
TrT 214

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning The liquid Pearl in Springs.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 69, 71.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 90-1)
Spiritual Absence ('Is not ye Greatest Death yt ere can be')

First published in Chambers (1989), No. 5. Ross, II, 47.

See also TrT 125.

*TrT 215
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).

A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose.

c.1670s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Commentaries of Heaven MS: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript), University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.

Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, The New Traherne Manuscript: Commentaries of Heaven, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.

The Stone ('When Bloody Amalock an Inroad made')
*TrT 215.5
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Autograph MS, with deletions and revisions, of Thomas Traherne's The Ceremonial Law.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [ir]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow ye whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

c.1670

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

Supplication ('Come Holy Ghost, Eternal God inspire')

See TrT 118.

A Sweet & Sacred Reflexion ('How Great Almighty Power is to me!')

See TrT 43.

'The Living waters yt revive'

Unpublished.

TrT 216

Century IV, meditation 68.

8°, 270 pages (in present imperfect state); volume of prose meditations (376) and poems (14) by Thomas Traherne, in numbered sections (centuries of meditations), in fair copy in the italic hand of an unidentified amanuensis, with occasional autograph passages and insertions by Traherne himself (notably in Century II, meditations 31 [whole meditation], 92, and 93; Century III, meditations 9, 13, 38 and 50); the volume very imperfect; originally comprising apparently 468 meditations, but now beginning with the end of meditation 81 through to most of meditation 95 and then the end of meditation 100 in the first century (pp. [45-61] [ff. 1-7]), followed by Select Meditatins [sic] The Second Century (pp. 61-98 [ff. 7-25v]) and Select Meditations The Third Century (pp. 99-176 [ff. 26-62v]), all three centuries with missing and mutilated portions, and then Select Meditations The fforth Century, meditations 1-68 only (pp., 177-220 [ff. 26-62v]); pp. 220 bis-8 blank; pp. 229-30 containing A Prayer for Ash Wednesday and pp. 231-2 A Meditation, both anonymous and added later in another, unidentified, cursive hand (also responsible for an addition on p. 166); pp. 233-45 blank; pp. 246-64 occupied by an untitled discussion of the nature of ye soul addressed to an unnamed person, and pp. 266-70 by an untitled disquisition on Loue to God & man, both in the hand of the original amanuensis; the pages originally numbered [45] to 219 (some now missing), then continued up to 270 probably in the second unidentified hand.

There is no evidence that this MS is dedicated to a lady (Osborn misread Know ledg, in Century I, meditation 94, as know lady). See also TrT Δ 3 and further above.

c.1660-5

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Select Meditations, TrT Δ 8. Select passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20. Discussed in James M. Osborn, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (8 October 1964), p. 928; in Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven 1964), Appendix, pp. 207-11; and in Sharon Seelig, The Origins of Ecstasy: Traherne's Select Meditations, ELR, 9 (1979), 419-31. Edited in full, as Select Meditations, by Julia Smith (Manchester, 1997), with a facsimile page as frontispiece.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 308 pp. 219-20 [ff. 84r-v])
The 10. Comandmts ('The moral Law a Gospel did implie')

Unpublished?

*TrT 216.5
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Autograph MS, with deletions and revisions, of Thomas Traherne's The Ceremonial Law.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [ir]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow ye whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

c.1670

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

'This book unto the friend of my best friend'

First published in Dobell (1908), p. 2. Margoliouth, I, 2. Ridler, p. 166.

*TrT 217
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Volume of autograph prose. Centuries of Meditation.

8°, 91 leaves (including three or four blank pages, a portion of f. 87 excised, plus 50 blanks at the end [ff. 91v-141v]; volume of autograph prose meditations and twelve poems by Thomas Traherne, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, in numbered sections, dedicated to an unnamed lady (the friend of my best friend); inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 3) Centuries of Meditation.

Lettered on the spine MSS. of Henry Vaughan Silurist; subsequently owned, apparently in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who reacquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 2. Edited from this MS (in part: most of the verse and some prose extracts) in Dobell (1903), and (in full) in Dobell (1908); in Margoliouth, I, 1-232; Ridler, pp. 165-372. Facsimile examples in Margoliouth, I, frontispiece; English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), p. 12; Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven, 1964), facing p. 68; and Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 55. Complete microfilm in the Library of Congress.

Bodleian Library, Eng. th. MSS (MS Eng. th. e. 50 f. 2)
Thoughts I ('Ye brisk Divine & Living Things')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 96-9. Margoliouth, II, 169-72. Ridler, pp. 61-4.

*TrT 218
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS by editors.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 f. 13r-v)
Thoughts II ('A Delicate and Tender Thought')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 100-2. Margoliouth, II, 172-3. Ridler, pp. 65-6.

*TrT 219
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS by editors.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 ff. 13v-14r)
Thoughts III ('Thoughts are the Angels which we send abroad')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 105-7. Margoliouth, II, 175-7. Ridler, pp. 67-9.

*TrT 220
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS by editors.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 f. 14v)
Thoughts IV ('Thoughts are the Wings on which the Soul doth flie')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 111-14. Margoliouth, II, 179-82. Ridler, pp. 72-4.

*TrT 221
Autograph

Autograph, untitled but headed In thy Presence there is fulness..., headed in Philip Traherne's hand —IV.

Edited from this MS by editors.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 f. 15r-v)
Thy Turtle Doues O Lord to Dragons turn!

Unpublished.

TrT 222

Century II, meditation 17.

8°, 270 pages (in present imperfect state); volume of prose meditations (376) and poems (14) by Thomas Traherne, in numbered sections (centuries of meditations), in fair copy in the italic hand of an unidentified amanuensis, with occasional autograph passages and insertions by Traherne himself (notably in Century II, meditations 31 [whole meditation], 92, and 93; Century III, meditations 9, 13, 38 and 50); the volume very imperfect; originally comprising apparently 468 meditations, but now beginning with the end of meditation 81 through to most of meditation 95 and then the end of meditation 100 in the first century (pp. [45-61] [ff. 1-7]), followed by Select Meditatins [sic] The Second Century (pp. 61-98 [ff. 7-25v]) and Select Meditations The Third Century (pp. 99-176 [ff. 26-62v]), all three centuries with missing and mutilated portions, and then Select Meditations The fforth Century, meditations 1-68 only (pp., 177-220 [ff. 26-62v]); pp. 220 bis-8 blank; pp. 229-30 containing A Prayer for Ash Wednesday and pp. 231-2 A Meditation, both anonymous and added later in another, unidentified, cursive hand (also responsible for an addition on p. 166); pp. 233-45 blank; pp. 246-64 occupied by an untitled discussion of the nature of ye soul addressed to an unnamed person, and pp. 266-70 by an untitled disquisition on Loue to God & man, both in the hand of the original amanuensis; the pages originally numbered [45] to 219 (some now missing), then continued up to 270 probably in the second unidentified hand.

There is no evidence that this MS is dedicated to a lady (Osborn misread Know ledg, in Century I, meditation 94, as know lady). See also TrT Δ 3 and further above.

c.1660-5

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Select Meditations, TrT Δ 8. Select passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20. Discussed in James M. Osborn, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (8 October 1964), p. 928; in Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven 1964), Appendix, pp. 207-11; and in Sharon Seelig, The Origins of Ecstasy: Traherne's Select Meditations, ELR, 9 (1979), 419-31. Edited in full, as Select Meditations, by Julia Smith (Manchester, 1997), with a facsimile page as frontispiece.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 308 pp. 64-6 [ff. 8v-9v])
''Tis use alone'

Untitled poem of six lines near the end of Chapter XXXI of The Kingdom of God. Ross, p. 431.

*TrT 222.5
Autograph

Autograph.

A quarto volume of four works by Thomas Traherne, in several hands, partly autograph, 473 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed in another hand on f. i Why is this soe long detaind in a desk manuscript, yt if printed would be a Light to ye World, & a uniuersal Blessinge?

c.1660s-70

This MS identified by Jeremy Maule and announced in Denise Inge and Calum Macfarlane, Seeds of Eternity: A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS, 2 June 2000, p. 14. Discussed in Ross, I, xiv-xxii.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 1360 f. 300v)
'To the same purpos. he not long before!'

First published, as part of On Leaping over the Moon (TrT 186), in Bell (1910), pp. 107-8. Margoliouth, II, 132. Ridler, pp. 120-1.

TrT 223

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 107-8)
[The Triumph] ('A life of Sabbaths here beneath!')

See TrT 1.

'True Reason answer all its Causes, Ends'

Untitled poem of 33 lines at the end of Chapter XXXVII of The Kingdom of God. Ross, pp. 446-7.

*TrT 223.5
Autograph

Autograph.

A quarto volume of four works by Thomas Traherne, in several hands, partly autograph, 473 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed in another hand on f. i Why is this soe long detaind in a desk manuscript, yt if printed would be a Light to ye World, & a uniuersal Blessinge?

c.1660s-70

This MS identified by Jeremy Maule and announced in Denise Inge and Calum Macfarlane, Seeds of Eternity: A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS, 2 June 2000, p. 14. Discussed in Ross, I, xiv-xxii.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 1360 f. 335r-v)
'Unto the Spring of Purest Life'

First published, as Aspiration, in Dobell (1903), pp. 134-7. Margoliouth, II, 200-2. Ridler, pp. 155-7.

This is an abridged adaptation apparently by Traherne of a translation of Pietro Damiani's hymn Ad Perennis Vitae Fontem.

*TrT 224
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Thomas Traherne's MS Meditations and Devotions on the festivals of the Church: Church Year-Book.

8°, 114 leaves (plus 29 blanks [ff. 114-42]); volume of autograph prose meditations and poems composed by Thomas Traherne and others, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, on nineteen occasions of the Church calendar from Easter to All Saints' Day (representing probably half of the meditations for a complete Church year); including (f. 112v) Traherne's autograph copy of George Herbert's To all Angels and Saints (see HrG 265); with additions intermittently throughout the MS (notably passages on ff. 15, 16, 17, 79, 113) in another, unidentified, cursive hand in darker ink, and with some additions on f. 24v only in the hand of Philip Traherne (written before his departure for Smyrna c.September 1670).

c.1660-74

Later owned by Alexander Grosart (1827-99) and acquired in the Grosart sale at Sotheby's, 11 December 1899, probably in one of the lots of miscellaneous theological MSS (Nos. 385, 443, 446, 463 or 464), by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914); [ante September 1870].

Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 3. The three sets of verse on ff. 13v-14, 30, 84v edited from this MS in Dobell (1903). Edited in full in Ross, Vol IV, pp. 7-311, with facsimiles of ff. 31r and 24v on pp., 3-4. Facsimile example in Dobell (1903), frontispiece. Discussed, and the contents listed, in Margoliuth, I, xvii-xx (where the MS is tentatively dated 1673); in Ridler, pp. 155-7; and in Carol L. Marks, Traherne's Church Year-Book, PBSA, 60 (1966), 31-72.

Bodleian Library, Eng. th. MSS (MS Eng. th. e. 51 ff. 13v-14)
The Vail ('This vail of Moses yt conceald ye Light')
*TrT 224.5
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions.

Autograph MS, with deletions and revisions, of Thomas Traherne's The Ceremonial Law.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [ir]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow ye whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

c.1670

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

Veni Creator Spiritus

See TrT 118.

The Vision ('Flight is but the Preparative: The Sight')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 20-2. Bell, pp. 16-18. Margoliouth, II, 26, 28. Ridler, pp. 15-17.

See also TrT 170 and TrT 192.

*TrT 225
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions, a deleted annotation in Philip Traherne's hand Adam. p. 12.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 f. 5r)
TrT 226

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning Flight is but the Praeparative: the Sight.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 27, 29.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 16-18)
Walking ('To walk abroad is, not with Eys')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 111-13. Margoliouth, II, 135-6. Ridler, pp. 123-4.

TrT 227

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 111-13)
'Who made it first? Whome did this Lovly Thing?'

Untitled poem of 93 lines, in Chapter ?? of The Kingdom of God. First published

*TrT 227.5
Autograph

A quarto volume of four works by Thomas Traherne, in several hands, partly autograph, 473 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed in another hand on f. i Why is this soe long detaind in a desk manuscript, yt if printed would be a Light to ye World, & a uniuersal Blessinge?

c.1660s-70

This MS identified by Jeremy Maule and announced in Denise Inge and Calum Macfarlane, Seeds of Eternity: A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS, 2 June 2000, p. 14. Discussed in Ross, I, xiv-xxii.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 1360 ff. 339r-40r)
Wonder ('How like an Angel came I down!')

First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 4-7. Bell, pp. 3-5. Margoliouth, II, 6, 8, 10. Ridler, pp. 6-8.

*TrT 228
Autograph

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler. Facsimile of f. 2 in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 ff. 2r, 3v)
TrT 229

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 7, 9, 11.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 3-5)
'Words are but feeble Barren Things'

Unpublished.

TrT 230

Copy of four lines at the end of the First Century [meditation 100], probably lacking the beginning on preceding leaves now excised from the MS.

8°, 270 pages (in present imperfect state); volume of prose meditations (376) and poems (14) by Thomas Traherne, in numbered sections (centuries of meditations), in fair copy in the italic hand of an unidentified amanuensis, with occasional autograph passages and insertions by Traherne himself (notably in Century II, meditations 31 [whole meditation], 92, and 93; Century III, meditations 9, 13, 38 and 50); the volume very imperfect; originally comprising apparently 468 meditations, but now beginning with the end of meditation 81 through to most of meditation 95 and then the end of meditation 100 in the first century (pp. [45-61] [ff. 1-7]), followed by Select Meditatins [sic] The Second Century (pp. 61-98 [ff. 7-25v]) and Select Meditations The Third Century (pp. 99-176 [ff. 26-62v]), all three centuries with missing and mutilated portions, and then Select Meditations The fforth Century, meditations 1-68 only (pp., 177-220 [ff. 26-62v]); pp. 220 bis-8 blank; pp. 229-30 containing A Prayer for Ash Wednesday and pp. 231-2 A Meditation, both anonymous and added later in another, unidentified, cursive hand (also responsible for an addition on p. 166); pp. 233-45 blank; pp. 246-64 occupied by an untitled discussion of the nature of ye soul addressed to an unnamed person, and pp. 266-70 by an untitled disquisition on Loue to God & man, both in the hand of the original amanuensis; the pages originally numbered [45] to 219 (some now missing), then continued up to 270 probably in the second unidentified hand.

There is no evidence that this MS is dedicated to a lady (Osborn misread Know ledg, in Century I, meditation 94, as know lady). See also TrT Δ 3 and further above.

c.1660-5

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Select Meditations, TrT Δ 8. Select passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20. Discussed in James M. Osborn, A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS (8 October 1964), p. 928; in Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven 1964), Appendix, pp. 207-11; and in Sharon Seelig, The Origins of Ecstasy: Traherne's Select Meditations, ELR, 9 (1979), 419-31. Edited in full, as Select Meditations, by Julia Smith (Manchester, 1997), with a facsimile page as frontispiece.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 308 p. 61 [f. 7])
The World ('When Adam first did from his Dust arise')

First published in Bell (1910), pp. 25-8. Margoliouth, II, 92-5. Ridler, pp. 83-6.

TrT 231

Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Poems of Felicity volume.

8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored.

[after 1674]

Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H.I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).

The British Library: other MSS (Burney MS 392 pp. 25-8)
'Ye hidden Nectars, which my God doth drink'

First published, as [The Influx], in Dobell (1903), pp. 103-4. Margoliouth, II, 174-5. Ridler, pp. 66-7.

*TrT 232
Autograph

Autograph, with revisions, headed in Bertram Dobell's hand The Influx.

Edited from this MS by editors.

The Dobell Folio.

Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered Ledbury Manuscript.

Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).

Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).

Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, a through d (MS Eng. poet. c. 42 f. 14r)
'Yee that Towers so much prize'

First published in Margoliouth (1958), II, 210-11. Ridler, p. 163.

*TrT 233
Autograph

Autograph translation from Seneca, with revisions.

Edited from this MS by editors.

Autograph octavo notebook by Thomas Traherne, in prose and verse, in English and Latin, written during and after his university days, 388 pages (mostly blank after p. 240), in contemporary calf, with remains of metal clasps.

Largely autograph, with a few pages at the beginning in the hand of Philip Traherne, who inscribed it (p. iii) Philip Traherne is the true owner of this booke Amen Ano Domi 1655, used some pages for neat examples of his penmanship as a child and, in later years (after 1689), copied on pp. 237-40 an extract from Thomas Burnet's Telluris Theoria Sacra.

c.1655-early 1660s

Scribbling at the ends of the volume including names of Thomas and Philip Traherne, Holway and Warmeston. Later owned on 30 April 1841 by Rashleigh Duke of Salisbury: i.e.[son of Edward Duke (1779-1852), Wiltshire antiquary. Hodgson's, 13 December 1935, lot 137, to P.J. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Early Notebook: TrT Δ 4. Twelve poems edited from this MS, and attributed to Thomas Traherne, in Margoliouth, II, 204-11. The remainder of the MS unpublished. Six of the poems edited in Ridler, pp. 159-63; the incomplete Epitaphium of uncertain authorship (TrT 138) omitted by her, and the other five poems rejected outright (i.e. What e're I have from God alone I have, Oh how injurious is this wall of sin, As fragrant Mirrhe within the bosom hid, and To bee a Monarch is a glorious thing, all by Francis Quarles, and a Serious and a Curious night-Meditation, by William Austin). Discussed in Anne Ridler, Traherne: Some Wrong Attributions, RES, NS 18 (1967), 48-9, and in Carol L. Marks, Traherne's Early Studies, PBSA, 62 (1968), 511-36. Facsimile of p. 209 in Margoliouth, II, frontispiece.

Bodleian Library, other MSS (MS Lat. misc. f. 45 p. 375)

Prose

The Ficino Notebook

Unpublished.

*TrT 233.5
Autograph

A predominantly autograph notebook by Thomas Traherne, in Latin prose throughout, inscribed by him (f. 1v) Ex libris Tho Traherne, 59 quarto leaves (plus a few blanks).

Containing (f. 3r) a title-page (Platonis Philosophi Speculationes practicæ. A Marsilio Ficino breviter digestæ) and table of contents (f. 4r), notes from Marsilio Ficino's life of Plato (ff. 5r-9v), epitomes of Plato and Pseudo-Plato (ff. 10r-45r), an anonymous life of Socrates (ff. 46r-57v), Ficino's Argumentum to his translation of Hermes Trismegistus (f. 58r-v) and notes on eleven chapters of an anonymous Stoicismus Christianus (f. 59r); with notes from Theophilus Gale's Court of the Gentiles, Part II (1670) added (ff. 57v, 59v) in the miniscule hand of an amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 5).

Late 17th century

The name Elinor scribbled several times on f. 1v. Later owned by Dr Charles Burney (1757-1817), schoolmaster and book collector.

Recorded in Bell, p. xxx (who, however, thought the MS belonged not to the poet but to his nephew Thomas Traherne). Discussed in Carol Marks Sicherman, Traherne's Ficino Notebook, PBSA, 63 (1969), 73-81 (where the MS is questionably dated c.late 1660s). The extract from Gale's work (Book IV, chapter 1) also occurs, under the heading Aristotle's Philosophy, in TrT Δ 5. The MS cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as TrT Δ 6.

[Inducements to Retiredness]

First published in Ross, I (2005), 3-43.

*TrT 234
Autograph

Autograph, untitled but introduced In this Introduction ye pious Soul is Invited vnto Retiremt from ye World for ye better Introversion of Spirit to Considr & enioy those Divine Obiects heer prsented & delineated to it: For Everything Rests most Composedly in its Pper place & ye Soul of Man is not in its Pper place till it be sweetly disposed and Composed for Divine Enioyments.

Edited from this MS in Ross, with a facsimile of f. 11r as Plate I on p. 4.

A quarto volume of four works by Thomas Traherne, in several hands, partly autograph, 473 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed in another hand on f. i Why is this soe long detaind in a desk manuscript, yt if printed would be a Light to ye World, & a uniuersal Blessinge?

c.1660s-70

This MS identified by Jeremy Maule and announced in Denise Inge and Calum Macfarlane, Seeds of Eternity: A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS, 2 June 2000, p. 14. Discussed in Ross, I, xiv-xxii.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 1360 ff. 1r-14r)
The Kingdom of God

First published in Ross, I (2005), 253-503.

*TrT 235
Autograph

An untitled draft version, in an unidentified hand, of the first two chapters, headed Cap. i Of GODS Kingdome: yt it is but one Monarchy, the Consisting of several Territories. A Digression concerning its Incomprhensibileness, with deletions, revisions, sidenotes and much underlining in a second hand, inscribed See after 24 leavs, being a false start to the treatise entered in full later (TrT 236), ff. 126r-8r a fragment on love added by Traherne.

Edited from this MS in Ross, pp. 555-64 (and textual emendations listed pp. 565-6), with a facsimile of ff. 125v-6r on p. 556.

A quarto volume of four works by Thomas Traherne, in several hands, partly autograph, 473 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed in another hand on f. i Why is this soe long detaind in a desk manuscript, yt if printed would be a Light to ye World, & a uniuersal Blessinge?

c.1660s-70

This MS identified by Jeremy Maule and announced in Denise Inge and Calum Macfarlane, Seeds of Eternity: A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS, 2 June 2000, p. 14. Discussed in Ross, I, xiv-xxii.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 1360 ff. 124r-8r)
*TrT 236
Autograph

A working manuscript of the whole treatise, in two unidentified hands or variant of Traherne's hand, in 42 chapters, with sidenotes, and with numerous autograph deletions, revisions, and underlining.

Edited from this MS in Ross, pp. 253-503, with textual emendations listed on pp. 504-53.

A quarto volume of four works by Thomas Traherne, in several hands, partly autograph, 473 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed in another hand on f. i Why is this soe long detaind in a desk manuscript, yt if printed would be a Light to ye World, & a uniuersal Blessinge?

c.1660s-70

This MS identified by Jeremy Maule and announced in Denise Inge and Calum Macfarlane, Seeds of Eternity: A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS, 2 June 2000, p. 14. Discussed in Ross, I, xiv-xxii.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 1360 ff. 148r-366r)
The Introduction [to The Ceremonial Law]

An Introduction, beginning Two thousand yeers before my Savior came, In Hieroglyphick Laws I see His Name....

*TrT 236.5
Autograph

Autograph, headed The Ceremonial Law / The Introduction.

Autograph MS, with deletions and revisions, of Thomas Traherne's The Ceremonial Law.

A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps.

An inscription in another hand (p. [ir]) urges the author to finish the work (I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it…I would you would goe thorow ye whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

c.1670

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, The Ceremonial Law: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

Seeds of Eternity or The Nature of the Soul in which Everlasting Powers are Prepared

First published in Ross, I (2005), 232-52.

*TrT 237
Autograph

Autograph draft, with a title-page, with many deletions and revisions.

Edited from this MS in Ross, with a facsimile of ff. 140v-1r as Plate III on p. 232.

A quarto volume of four works by Thomas Traherne, in several hands, partly autograph, 473 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed in another hand on f. i Why is this soe long detaind in a desk manuscript, yt if printed would be a Light to ye World, & a uniuersal Blessinge?

c.1660s-70

This MS identified by Jeremy Maule and announced in Denise Inge and Calum Macfarlane, Seeds of Eternity: A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS, 2 June 2000, p. 14. Discussed in Ross, I, xiv-xxii.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 1360 ff. 134r-44r)
A Sober View if Dr Twisses his Considerations

First published in Ross, I (2005), 45-230.

*TrT 238
Autograph

Autograph draft, starting with eight lines (beginning Christ died for ye whole World...) and headed (f. 22r) A Sober View of Dr Twisses his Considerations. Wth a compleat Disquisition of Dr Hammonds Letter to Dr Sanderson. And a Prospect of all their Opinions Concerning GODs Decrees, with many deletions and underlinings and with sidenotes.

Edited from this MS in Ross, with a facsimile of f. 44r as Plate II on p. 47.

A quarto volume of four works by Thomas Traherne, in several hands, partly autograph, 473 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Inscribed in another hand on f. i Why is this soe long detaind in a desk manuscript, yt if printed would be a Light to ye World, & a uniuersal Blessinge?

c.1660s-70

This MS identified by Jeremy Maule and announced in Denise Inge and Calum Macfarlane, Seeds of Eternity: A New Traherne Manuscript, TLS, 2 June 2000, p. 14. Discussed in Ross, I, xiv-xxii.

Lambeth Palace Library (MS 1360 ff. 21v-120r)

Document(s)

Document(s)
*TrT 239
Autograph

Autograph Declaration or Acknowledgement signed by Traherne (Tho: Traherne), five lines in all, 18 August 1662, on the Subscription Roll for 1662.

1662
Herefordshire Record Office ([no shelfmark])
*TrT 240
Autograph

Autograph annual report, being A True copy of ye register Book of ye Parish of Credenhill Anno Dom. 1662, nineteen lines in all, signed by George Gwillim Ch. Warden, post 30 March 1663, in the Bishops Transcript for 1662.

1662-3
Herefordshire Record Office ([no shelfmark])
*TrT 241
Autograph

Autograph annual report, being extracts from the Credenhill Register An° 1663, eleven lines in all, signed by George Gwillim Churchwarden, in the Bishops Transcript for 1663.

1663
Herefordshire Record Office ([no shelfmark])
*TrT 242
Autograph

Autograph annual report, being A Copy of Credenhill Register for ye yeer of our Lord 1664, signed by Traherne (Tho Traherne Rector), six lines in all, on the Bishops Transcript for 1664.

1664
Herefordshire Record Office ([no shelfmark])
*TrT 243
Autograph

Autograph annual report, being An Extract or Copy of ye Register Book in Credenhill Anno. 1665…, signed by Traherne (Tho Traherne Rr), eight lines in all, on the Bishops Transcript for 1665.

1665
Herefordshire Record Office ([no shelfmark])
*TrT 244
Autograph

Churchwardens' Presentment to the Articles of Enquiry, the text in the hand of a churchwarden and signed by Traherne, (Tho. Traherne), ante 15 June 1666.

1666
Herefordshire Record Office (Registrars Files 1666/36)
*TrT 245
Autograph

Churchwardens' Presentment to the Articles of Enquiry, the text in the hand of a churchwarden and signed by Traherne (Tho. Traherne Rector), 18 April 1667.

Inter alia, this presentment states: The Minister or Parson of or Church and Rectorie is Mr Thomas Trehearne, a goo[d] and Godlie man well Learned, a vniversitie man, Episcopally ordayned, and a good Preacher of gods word and a [very inserted out of place] devout liver….

1667
Herefordshire Record Office (Registrars Files 1667/349)
*TrT 246
Autograph

A brief autograph letter (six lines) signed by Traherne (Tho. Traherne), to Mr Staverton at Leominster (the address also autograph), requesting a copy of a will for This Bearer, my Servant, 29 March 1669.

1669
Herefordshire Record Office (Registrars Files 1669/136(a))
*TrT 247
Autograph

Annual report, being A true note & coppy of the Register Booke of all the psons Buried and Baptized in…1668, chiefly in the hand of a churchwarden, the last two lines in Traherne's hand and with his largely faded signature, 22 April 1669, in the Bishops Transcript for 1668.

1669
Herefordshire Record Office ([no shelfmark])
*TrT 248
Autograph

Autograph testimony signed by Traherne (Tho. Traherne. Rector. Cred.), five lines in all, witnessing to the performance of a penance for incest by Thomas Lewis, 29 August 1669.

1669
Herefordshire Record Office (Registrars Files 1669/148)
*TrT 249
Autograph

Churchwardens' Presentment to the Articles of Enquiry, being a series of answers entirely in Traherne's hand, 38 lines in all, (reporting inter alia, that all things are well; only we want…a Register book in Parchmt…we have already a Register book in paper…), 1671.

1671
Herefordshire Record Office (Registrars Files 1671/340)
*TrT 250
Autograph

Annual report, being extracts from the parish register, largely in the hand of a churchwarden, the heading (Credenhill Parish An. Dom. 1672) and possibly an insertion in the first line in Traherne's hand and signed by him (Tho Traherne Rector), in the Bishops Transcript for 1672.

1672
Herefordshire Record Office ([no shelfmark])
*TrT 251
Autograph

Autograph signature of Traherne (Tho. Traherne) as witness to the will of his patron, Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 19 February 1673/4, proved 15 July 1674.

A registered copy (unsigned) is PROB 11/345/83.

1674

Recorded in Gladys Wade, Thomas Traherne (Princeton, 1944), p. 103.

National Archives, Kew (PROB 10/1059)
Will
TrT 252

Traherne's nuncupative will, bequeathing, among other things, All my books…to my brother Phillip, drawn up after his death and witnessed by Alice Coxson, Mary Linum, John Berdoe and K. Digby Jr, 27 September 1674, proved 22 October 1674.

National Archives, Kew (PROB 10/1061)
TrT 253

A registered copy of Traherne's nuncupative will, 27 September 1674, proved 22 October 1674.

c.1674

Edited from this copy in Dobell (1903), pp. 167-8. Reprinted in Margoliouth, I, xxvi-xxvii.

National Archives, Kew (PROB 11/346/119)

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