Meisei University
MR 0799
A Collection of Original Poetry, written about the time of Ben: Johnson, qui ob. 1637and erroneously annotated
Later owned by Sir John Simeon, third Baronet, MP (1815-70); by Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-85), first Baron Houghton, author and politician, and by his son, Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Sotheby's, 22 July 1980, lot 585, to Quaritch.
Recorded in Monckton Milnes MS
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Copy, headed finis J D:
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This MS collated in Grierson.
First published, as
Copy of lines 1-9, headed in the margin
First published in
Copy, untitled and here beginning
First published in Thomas Deloney,
Copy of lines 17-24, untitled, here beginning
First published in
Copy, headed
This MS collated in Grierson.
First published, as
Copy of Sejanus's speech beginning,
First published in London, 1605. Herford & Simpson, IV, 327-486.
Copy, headed in the margin
First published together with
Copy of a variant, garbled version, beginning
Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in
For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see
Copy, untitled and here beginning
First published in
Copy, untitled.
First published, as R
; in Poems attributed to Donne in MSS
; and in
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This MS collated in Grierson.
First published, as
Copy, headed
This MS or
First published as
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First published, as
Copy, headed
This MS collated in Grierson.
First published, as
Copy, headed
This MS collated in Grierson.
First published, as
Copy of a 32-line version (plus one deleted line), headed
Edited from this MS in Ioppolo.
First published (in an incomplete 24-line version) in Truest
Version of Ben Jonson's Rochester's
Copy, untitled.
First published in
Copy, untitled.
First published in
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First published in
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First published in
Copy of lines 1-24.
First published in
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This MS collated in Grierson.
First published in
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This MS collated in Grierson.
First published in
Copy, untitled, subscribed D
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First published in William Corkine,
Copy, headed
First published in
Copy, in a formal pattern, headed Will Browne seruiens Co
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First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 4-5.
Copy, in double columns, headed in the margin
Osborn, p. 301.
Copy, untitled and here beginning
This MS collated in Grierson.
Lines 1-16 first published in
Copy, headed J D
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First published in
Copy, headed
First published in Francis Davison,
Copy, headed
Copy of lines 19-27, headed in the margin
First published in
Copy, subscribed J D:
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This MS collated in Grierson.
First published in
Copy, untitled, subscribed J D
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First published in
Copy, headed in the margin
First published in
Copy, headed D:
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This MS collated in Grierson.
First published in
Extract, headed in the margin taking her by ye hand
, lines lines 93-6, here beginning
First published in London, 1597.
Copy.
First published in
Copy, headed in the margin
First published, as
Copy, headed B Johnson
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First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in
Copy of an eight-line version, headed
First published in Edward Capell,
Copy, in double columns, untitled.
First published, among
Copy of a fourteen-line poem, headed Sherly
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Unpublished.
Copy, headed in the margin D.
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First published in William Corkine,
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Stringer and in
First published, and attributed to Donne, in Gary A. Stringer,
Copy, headed in the margin D.
First published in
Copy of lines 1-26, headed
First published as
MR 0840
Aduise,
Aunsweares,
Comendatory, etc.), 1039 pages, in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked). c.1595-1620s.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist and book collector. Sotheby's, 14 December 1976, lot 47, to Hofmann & Freeman. Then owned by Peter Beal, London. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 88, with a facsimile example.
A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, RP 2102.
Copy, with some corrections in another hand.
A tract beginning It were just and honourable for princes being in war together, that howsever they prosecute their quarrels...
. First published in
A letter to M. Critoy, Secretary of France, c.1589,
Copy of the complete entertainment, in a professional secretary hand, with corrections in another hand, headed printed by F B. in edibus Georgij fistuli
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Edited from this MS in Vickers.
The third and fourth speeches first published in
Copy of Version I, in a professional secretary hand.
First published (from a lost MS) in
Version I. Beginning Do I see God's most sacred, holy Word and text of holy Writ drawn to so divers senses...
. Hartley, I, 471-3 (Text i).
Version II. Beginning My lords, Do I see the Scriptures, God's word, in so many ways interpreted...
. Hartley, I, 473-5 (Text ii).
Copy of a version, in a professional secretary hand.
First published in J.E. Neale,
Version I. Beginning If the order of your causes had matched the weight of your matter...
. Hartley, I, 145 (Text i).
Version II. Beginning If the order had been observed in the beginning of the matter...
. Hartley, I, 146-9 (Text ii).
Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
Beginning Williams, I have heard by you the common request of my Commons...
. First published (from a lost MS) in
Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
Letter beginning In as mitch as now ye ar come to sume yeres of vnderstanding …
, dated from Paris 15 April. Muir,
Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
Letter beginning I doubt not but long ere this time my lettres are come to you …
, subscribed From Valedolide the xxiiith of June
. Muir,
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled and incomplete (a leaf skipped between pp. 1030 and 1031), under the classification
Beal,
First published in
This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal,
[Cavendish MS]
Alan Thomas, sale catalogue No. 41 (1980), item 57. Afterwards owned by Colin Franklin, bookdealer.
Recorded in Edwards (No. 4).
Recorded in Edwards (No. 4).
First published in George Cavendish,
[Shakespeare 1640]
Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1027,