National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS

Adv. MS 1.1.6

A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568.

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to Mr William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

Vol. I, pp. 9-11
DuW 157: William Dunbar, The Tabill of Confession ('To The, O mercifull Salviour, Jesus')

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Ritchie, I, 13-18. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 227. Collated in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 83, pp. 163-7. Murdoch, II, 43-8. Ritchie, II, 42-7. Bawcutt, I, 267-73.

Vol. I, pp. 20-2
HnR 19: Robert Henryson, Ane Prayer for the Rest ('O eterne god, of power infinyt')

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Ritchie and in Fox. Collated in Wood.

Wood, pp. 163-5. Ritchie, I. 33-6. Murdoch, II, 61-4. Fox, pp. 167-9.

Vol. I, pp. 30-2
HnR 1: Robert Henryson, The Abbay Walk ('Allone as I went up and doun')

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Ritchie and in Fox. Collated in Wood.

Wood, pp. 195-6. Ritchie, I, 50-2. Fox, pp. 156-8.

Vol. I, pp. 42-3
HnR 21: Robert Henryson, The Ressoning betuix Aige and Yowth ('Quhen fair flora, the godes of the flowris')

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Mr robert Henrysone.

Edited from this MS in Ritchie and in Fox. Collated in Wood.

Wood, pp. 179-80. Ritchie, I, 68-71. Murdoch, II, 149-52. Craigie, I, 200-2. Stevenson, pp. 22-3. Fox, pp. 170-3.

Vol. I, pp. 43-4
HnR 25: Robert Henryson, The Ressoning betuix Deth and Man ('O mortall man, behold, tak tent to me')

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Mr R Herisone.

Edited from this MS in Ritchie and in Fox. Collated in Wood.

Wood, pp. 211-12. Ritchie, I, 71-3. Murdoch, II, 153-5. Fox, pp. 173-5.

Vol. I, p. 44
HnR 16: Robert Henryson, The Prais of Aige ('Wythin a garth, under a rede rosere')

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Ritchie and in Fox. Collated in Wood.

First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Wood, pp. 185-6. Ritchie, I, 73-4. Fox, pp. 165-7.

Vol. I, pp. 45-6
DuW 100: William Dunbar, Of Discretioun in Asking ('Off very asking followis nocht')

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Ritchie, I, 76-7.

Mackenzie, No. 14, pp. 31-3. Murdoch, II, 165-7. Ritchie, II, 150-2. Bawcutt, I, 142-3.

Vol. I, p. 46
DuW 104: William Dunbar, Of Discretioun in Geving ('To Speik of gift or almous deidis')

Copy of lines 1-33, imperfect, lacking the ending.

Edited from this MS in Ritchie, I, 77-8; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 15, pp. 33-4. Murdoch, II, 167-9. Ritchie, II, 152-4. Bawcutt, I, 144-6.

Vol. I, p. 47
DuW 111: William Dunbar, Of Folkis Evill to Pleis ('Four Maner of folkis ar evill to pleis')

Copy, imperfect at the beginning.

Edited from this MS in Ritchie, I, 78-9.

Mackenzie, No. 23, pp. 48-9. Murdoch, II, 180-1. Ritchie, II, 163-4. Bawcutt, I, 75-6.

Vol. I, pp. 47-8
DuW 53: William Dunbar, A General Satyre ('Doverrit with dreme, devysing in my slummer')

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p D.

Edited from this MS in Ritchie, I, 79-82, and in Bawcutt.

Of doubtful authorship. Mackenzie, No. 77, pp. 151-3. Murdoch, II, 162-5. Ritchie, II, 147-50. Bawcutt, I, 71-4.

Vol. I, pp. 53-4
DuW 42: William Dunbar, Epetaphe for Donald Owre ('In vice most vicius he excellis')

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p dubar for Donald ovre epetaphe.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Ritchie, with a facsimile of p. 53; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 36, pp. 65-6. Ritchie, I, 87-8. Bawcutt, I, 111-12.

Vol. I, ff. 17v-19v (pp. 94-8)
DuW 156: William Dunbar, The Tabill of Confession ('To The, O mercifull Salviour, Jesus')

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

Mackenzie, No. 83, pp. 163-7. Murdoch, II, 43-8. Ritchie, II, 42-7. Bawcutt, I, 267-73.

Vol. I, ff. 24r-5v (pp. 107-10)
HnR 20: Robert Henryson, Ane Prayer for the Rest ('O eterne god, of power infinyt')

Copy, subscribed ffinis [p Henrysone in a different hand].

Edited from this MS in Wood; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Fox.

Wood, pp. 163-5. Ritchie, I. 33-6. Murdoch, II, 61-4. Fox, pp. 167-9.

Vol. I, f. 27r-v (pp. 113-14)
DuW 127: William Dunbar, Of the Nativitie of Christ ('Rorate celi desuper!')

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 79, pp. 154-5. Murdoch, II, 69-70. Ritchie, II, 65-6. Bawcutt, I, 182-3.

Vol. I, f. 35r (p. 129)
DuW 137: William Dunbar, On the Resurrection of Christ ('Done is a battel on the dragon blak')

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dunbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 81, pp. 159-60. Murdoch, II, 94-6. Ritchie, II, 88-9. Bawcutt, I, 69-70.

Vol. I, ff. 46v-7r (pp. 152-3)
HnR 2: Robert Henryson, The Abbay Walk ('Allone as I went up and doun')

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p mr rot Henrysone.

Edited from this MS in Wood; in Murdoch, II, 125-7, and in Ritchie, II. 116-17.

Wood, pp. 195-6. Ritchie, I, 50-2. Fox, pp. 156-8.

Vol. I, f. 47r-v (pp. 153-4)
DuW 117: William Dunbar, Of Manis Mortalitie ('Memento, homo, quod cinis es!')

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 74, pp. 149-50. Murdoch, II, 127-9. Ritchie, II, 117-19. Bawcutt, I, 120-1.

Vol. I, f. 48v (p. 156)
DuW 6: William Dunbar, All Erdly Joy Returnis in Pane ('Off lentren in the first mornyng')

Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 71, pp. 145-6. Murdoch, II, 131-2. Ritchie, II, 121-2. Bawcutt, I, 159-60.

Vol. I, ff. 55r-6r (pp. 169-71)
HnR 22: Robert Henryson, The Ressoning betuix Aige and Yowth ('Quhen fair flora, the godes of the flowris')

Copy, subscribed ffinis p mr Robert Hendsone.

Edited from this MS in Wood; in Murdoch; in Ritchie, II, 137-9; and in Fox.

Wood, pp. 179-80. Ritchie, I, 68-71. Murdoch, II, 149-52. Craigie, I, 200-2. Stevenson, pp. 22-3. Fox, pp. 170-3.

Vol. I, ff. 56r-7r (pp. 171-3)
HnR 26: Robert Henryson, The Ressoning betuix Deth and Man ('O mortall man, behold, tak tent to me')

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Wood; in Murdoch; in Ritchie, II, 139-41; and in Fox.

Wood, pp. 211-12. Ritchie, I, 71-3. Murdoch, II, 153-5. Fox, pp. 173-5.

Vol. I, f. 57r-v (pp. 173-4)
HnR 17: Robert Henryson, The Prais of Aige ('Wythin a garth, under a rede rosere')

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Hendersone.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch, II, 155-6; Ritchie, II, 141-2; collated in Wood.

First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Wood, pp. 185-6. Ritchie, I, 73-4. Fox, pp. 165-7.

Vol. I, ff. 57v-8v (pp. 174-8)
HnR 32: Robert Henryson, The Thre Deid Pollis ('O sinfull man, in to this mortall se')

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p patk Johnstoun.

Edited from this MS in Wood; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Fox.

Wood, pp. 205-7. Murdoch, II, 157-9. Ritchie, II, 142-4. Craigie, I, 394-5. Fox, pp. 182-4.

Vol. I, f. 59r-v (pp. 179-80)
DuW 190: William Dunbar, Tydingis fra the Sessioun ('Ane murlandis man of uplandis mak')

Copy, untitled, headed ffollowis certane ballattis againe the Vyce in sessioun court and all estaitis, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, No. 43, pp. 79-80. Murdoch, II, 160-2. Ritchie, II, 145-7. Bawcutt, I, 39-40.

Vol. I, ff. 60r-1r (pp. 181-3)
DuW 52: William Dunbar, A General Satyre ('Doverrit with dreme, devysing in my slummer')

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

Of doubtful authorship. Mackenzie, No. 77, pp. 151-3. Murdoch, II, 162-5. Ritchie, II, 147-50. Bawcutt, I, 71-4.

Vol. I, f. 61r-v (pp. 183-4)
DuW 99: William Dunbar, Of Discretioun in Asking ('Off very asking followis nocht')

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis of asking.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 14, pp. 31-3. Murdoch, II, 165-7. Ritchie, II, 150-2. Bawcutt, I, 142-3.

Vol. I, ff. 61v-2v (pp. 184-6)
DuW 103: William Dunbar, Of Discretioun in Geving ('To Speik of gift or almous deidis')

Copy, headed ffollowis discretoun of geving.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

Mackenzie, No. 15, pp. 33-4. Murdoch, II, 167-9. Ritchie, II, 152-4. Bawcutt, I, 144-6.

Vol. I, ff. 62v-3r (pp. 186-7)
DuW 107: William Dunbar, Of Discretioun in Taking ('Eftir Geving I speik of taking')

Copy, headed ffollowis Discretioun in taking, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 16, pp. 35-6. Murdoch, II, 170-1. Ritchie, II, 154-5. Bawcutt, I, 147-8.

Vol. I, ff. 63v-4r (pp. 188-9)
DuW 96: William Dunbar, Of Deming ('Musing allone this hinder nicht')

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

Of doubtful authorship. Mackenzie, No. 8, pp. 23-4. Murdoch, II, 171-3. Ritchie, II, 156-7. Bawcutt, I, 122-4.

Vol. I, ff. 64v-5r (pp. 190-1)
DuW 93: William Dunbar, Of Covetyce ('Fredome, honour, and nobilnes')

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 67, pp. 141-2. Murdoch, II, 175-6. Ritchie, II, 159-60. Bawcutt, I, 77-8.

Vol. I, ff. 65v-6v (pp. 192-4)
DuW 62: William Dunbar, How Sall I Governe Me? ('How sould I rewill me or in quhat wys')

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 203.

Mackenzie, No. 9, pp. 24-6. Murdoch, II, 178-80; Ritchie, II, 162-3. Bawcutt, I, 87-8.

Vol. I, f. 66v (p. 194)
DuW 110: William Dunbar, Of Folkis Evill to Pleis ('Four Maner of folkis ar evill to pleis')

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 208. Collated in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 23, pp. 48-9. Murdoch, II, 180-1. Ritchie, II, 163-4. Bawcutt, I, 75-6.

ff. Vol. I, 67v-8r (pp. 196-7)
HnR 5: Robert Henryson, Aganis Haisty Credence of Titlaris ('Ffals titlaris now growis up full rank')

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p mr Robert Hendersone.

Edited from this MS in Wood, in Murdoch, in Ritchie, and in Fox.

Wood, pp. 215-16. Murdoch, II, 182-4. Ritchie, II, 165-7. Fox, pp. 163-5.

Vol. I, ff. 68r-9r (pp. 197-9)
DuW 149: William Dunbar, Rewl of Anis Self ('To dwell in court, my freind, gife that thow list')

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 41, pp. 75-6. Murdoch, II, 184-6. Ritchie, II, 167-9. Bawcutt, I, 264-5.

Vol. I, f. 75v (p. 212)
DuW 116.5: William Dunbar, Of Lyfe ('Quhat is this lyfe bot ane straucht way to deid')

Copy.

This MS collated in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 76, p. 151. Craigie, I, 350. Bawcutt, I, 162.

Vol. I, f. 78r-v (pp. 217-18)
HnR 35: Robert Henryson, The Want of Wyse Men ('Me ferlyis of this grete confusioun')

Copy, untitled, here beginning Me mervellis of this grit Confusioun.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Collated in Wood.

First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Wood, pp. 189-91. Murdoch, II, 213-15. Ritchie, II, 195-7.

Vol. I, ff. 78v-9r (pp. 218-19)
DuW 166: William Dunbar, To the Gouvernour in France ('We lordis hes chosin a chiftane mervellus')

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

Mackenzie, No. 92, pp. 181-2. Murdoch, II, 215-16. Ritchie, II, 197-9.

Vol. I, ff. 82r-3r (pp. 225-7)
SkJ 15: John Skelton, How euery thing must haue a tyme ('Tyme is a thing that no man may resyst')

Copy of the poem as stanzas 6 and 9-11 of an untitled thirteen-stanza poem beginning O god that in tyme all thingis did begin.

Edited from this MS in The Bannatyne Manuscript, ed. J. Barclay Murdoch, II, Hunterian Club (Glasgow, 1896), 227-30; The Bannatyne Manuscript, ed. W. Tod Ritchie, II, STS NS 22 (Edinburgh & London, 1928), 208-11; recorded in Canon.

Canon, D52, p. 16. First published in Certaine bokes copyled by mayster Skelto (London, c.1545). Dyce, I, 137-8.

Vol. I, ff. 84r-5r (pp. 229-31)
DuW 84: William Dunbar, None May Assure in this Warld ('Quhom to sall I compleine my wo')

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie, with a facsimile of f. 84v. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 207, and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 21, pp. 44-6. Edited from this MS in Murdoch, II, 234-6. Ritchie, II, 215-17 (with a facsimile of f. 84v). Bawcutt, I, 171-3.

Vol. I, ff. 94v-5v (pp. 250-2)
DuW 171: William Dunbar, To the King ('Schir, yit remembir as of befoir')

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 206-7.

Mackenzie, No. 20, pp. 41-3. Murdoch, II, 271-4. Ritchie, II, 251-4. Bawcutt, I, 225-8.

Vol. I, ff. 97v-8v (pp. 256-8)
DuW 82: William Dunbar, No Tressour Availis without Glaidnes ('Be mirry, man! and tak nocht far in mynd')

Copy, headed Hermes the Philosopher p dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 73, pp. 148-9. Murdoch, II, 279-80. Ritchie, II, 259-60. Bawcutt, I, 61-2.

Vol. I, f. 98v (p. 258)
DuW 14: William Dunbar, Best to be Blyth ('Full oft I mus and hes in thocht')

Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dunbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 69, pp. 143-4. Murdoch, II, 281-2. Ritchie, II, 260-1. Bawcutt, I, 79-80.

Vol. I, ff. 102r-3v (pp. 265-8)
DuW 35: William Dunbar, The Dregy of Dunbar ('We that ar heir in hevins glory')

Copy, headed The dregy of dubar maid to King James ye fyrst being in stumbling, subscribed Heir endis dubaris dergy to the king bydand to lang in Stirling.

Edited from this in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

Mackenzie, No. 30, pp. 56-9. Murdoch, II, 292-6. Ritchie, II, 271-5. Bawcutt, I, 274-7, as Dumbaris Dirige to the King.

Vol. I, ff. 103v-4 (pp. 268-9)
DuW 67: William Dunbar, In secreit place this hyndir nycht

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p S Clerk.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 208-9, and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 28, pp. 53-5. Murdoch, II, 296-8. Ritchie, II, 275-7. Bawcutt, I, 106-8.

Vol. I, ff. 109r-10r (pp. 277-9)
DuW 71: William Dunbar, Lament for the Makaris ('I that in heill wes and gladnes')

Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 202-3, and in Bawcutt.

First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 7, pp. 20-3. Murdoch, II. 308-11. Ritchie, II, 287-91. Bawcutt, I, 94-7.

Vol. I, ff. 110r-11r (pp. 279-81)
DuW 27: William Dunbar, The Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis ('Off Februar the fyistene nycht')

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 57, pp. 120-3. Murdoch, II, 312-15. Ritchie, II, 291-4. Bawcutt, I, 149-56.

Vol. I, ff. 111r-12v (pp. 281-4)
DuW 153: William Dunbar, The Sowtar and Tailyouris War ('Nixt that a turnament wes tryid')

Copy, headed The Turnament, subscribed Heir endes the...maid be the nobill poyet mr Wm Dunnbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

Mackenzie, No. 58, pp. 123-6. Murdoch, II, 316-19. Ritchie, II, 295-8.

Vol. I, ff. 112v-13r (pp. 284-5)
DuW 8: William Dunbar, The Amendis to the Telyouris and Sowtaris for the Turnament Maid on Thame ('Betuix twell houris and ellevin')

Copy, headed ffollowis ye amedes mad be him to ye telyeres & sowtaris for the twrnment maid yn thame, subscribed p Dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 59, pp. 126-7. Murdoch, II, 319-21. Ritchie, II, 298-300. Bawcutt, I, 157-8.

Vol. I, ff. 113v-14r (pp. 286-7)
DuW 170: William Dunbar, To the King ('Sanct Salvatour! send silver sorrow')

Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dumbar to ye King.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 1, p. 1-2. Murdoch, II, 322-4. Ritchie, II, 301-2. Bawcutt, I, 194-5.

Vol. I, f. 115r-v (pp. 289-90)
DuW 59: William Dunbar, How Dumbar wes Desyrd to be Ane Freir ('This nycht, befoir the dawing cleir')

Copy, headed ffollowis how Dubar wes desyre to be ane freir and subscribed p Dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 4, pp. 3-4. Murdoch, II, 327-8. Ritchie, II, 306-7. Bawcutt, I, 248-9.

Vol. I, f. 115v (p. 290)
DuW 15: William Dunbar, Best to be Blyth ('Full oft I mus and hes in thocht')

Copy of lines 1-9, untitled, deleted.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch, II, 329, and in Ritchie, II, 308.

Mackenzie, No. 69, pp. 143-4. Murdoch, II, 281-2. Ritchie, II, 260-1. Bawcutt, I, 79-80.

Vol. I, ff. 115v-16 (pp. 290-1)
DuW 10: William Dunbar, Ane His Awin Ennemy ('He that hes gold and grit riches')

Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 2, pp. 2-3. Murdoch, II, 329-30. Ritchie, II, 308-9. Bawcutt, p. 86.

Vol. I, f. 116r-v (pp. 291-2)
DuW 194: William Dunbar, The Wowing of the King quhen he was in Dumfermeling ('This hindir nycht in Dumfermeling')

Copy, headed follows ye wowing of the king quhen he wes in Dufermeling, subscribed p Dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 27, pp. 51-3. Murdoch, II, 330-3. Ritchie, II, 309-11. Bawcutt, I, 245-7.

Vol. I, ff. 117r-18v (pp. 293-6)
DuW 45: William Dunbar, The Fenyeit Freir of Tungland ('As yung Awrora, with cristall haile')

Copy, headed Ane ballat of the fenyeit freir of tungland how he fell in the myre Ileand to turberland, subscribed finis p Dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 38, pp. 67-70. Murdoch, II, 333-7. Ritchie, II, 311-15. Bawcutt, I, 56-9.

Vol. I, ff. 118v-20r (pp. 296-9)
DuW 73: William Dunbar, The Manere of the Crying of ane Playe ('Harry, harry, hobbillschowe!')

Copy, headed Ane Littill Interlud of ye Droichis pt of ye [play], subscribed ffinis off ye droichis pt of ye play.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in . Ritchie. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 228-30.

Mackenzie, No. 86, pp. 170-4. Murdoch, II, 337-41. Ritchie, II, 315-20.

Vol. I, ff. 132v-3r (pp. 324-5)
DuW 31: William Dunbar, The Devillis Inquest ('This nycht in my sleip I wes agast')

Copy of a 17-stanza version, untitled, subscribed p Dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

Mackenzie, No. 42, p. 76-9 (see pp. 238-9). Murdoch, III, 372-5. Ritchie, III, 1-4. Bawcutt, I, 250-7.

Vol. I, ff. 133r-4r (pp. 325-7)
DuW 20: William Dunbar, The Birth of Antichrist ('Lucina schynnyng in silence of the nicht')

Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 39, pp. 70-1. Murdoch, III, 375-7. Ritchie, III, 4-5. Bawcutt, I, 114-15.

Vol. I, ff. 135v-6r (pp. 330-1)
DuW 12: William Dunbar, The Ballad of Kynd Kittok ('My gudame wes a gay wif, bot scho wes ryght gend')

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 227-8.

First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 85, pp. 169-70. Murdoch, III, 382-3. Ritchie, III, 10-11.

Vol. I, f. 136r-v (pp. 331-2)
DuW 1: William Dunbar, Advice to Spend anis Awin Gude ('Man, sen thy lyfe is ay in weir')

Copy, untitled, subscribed p dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 72, pp. 147-8. Murdoch, III, 383-4; Ritchie, III, 11-13; Bawcutt, I, 118-19.

Vol. I, f. 137r (p. 333)
DuW 186: William Dunbar, The Twa Cummeris ('Rycht airlie on Ask Weddinsday')

Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and n Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 46, p. 84. Murdoch, III, 386-7. Ritchie, III, 14-15. Bawcutt, I, 180-1.

Vol. I, ff. 141v-2v (pp. 342-4)
HnR 28: Robert Henryson, Sum Practysis of Medecyne ('Guk, guk, gud day, ser, gaip quhill ye get it')

Copy, subscribed p Mr Rot Henrysone.

Edited from this MS in Wood; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Fox.

Wood, pp. 157-60. Murdoch, III, 401-4. Ritchie, III, 28-31. Fox, pp. 179-82.

Vol. I, ff. 147r-54r (pp. 353-61)
DuW 47: William Dunbar, The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie ('Schir Johine the Ros, ane thing thair is compild')

Copy of lines 1-315.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 6, pp. 5-20. Murdoch, III. 420-37. Ritchie, III, 44-62. Bawcutt, I, 200-18.

Vol. I, ff. 154r-5v (pp. 367-70)
DuW 160: William Dunbar, The Testament of Mr. Andro Kennedy ('I, Maister Andro Kennedy')

Copy, untitled, subscribed so Heir endis the tesment of mr andreo Keinnedy Maid be Dumbar quhen he ews lyk to dy.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. The text corrected from this MS in Mackenzie, p. 213, and in Bawcutt.

First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 40, pp. 71-4. Murdoch, III, 438-41. Ritchie, III, 62-6. Bawcutt, I, 89-92.

Vol. I, ff. 159r-v, 161r-v, 177r (pp. 377-8, 381-2, 413)
HyJ 3: John Heywood, Epigrams ('')

Copy of eight epigrams, headed Epigramis of mr Haywood, comprising First Hundred, Nos 11, 25, 38, 39, 42; Fifth Hundred, No. 2; and Sixth Hundred, Nos 96, 100; also a deleted copy of a ninth epigram (Sixth Hundred, No. 98), written in the middle of a copy of Sir David Lindsay's Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis.

A sixt hundred of Epigrammes first published in Woorkes (London, 1562); Milligan, pp. 225-48. Edited from this MS in The Bannatyne Manuscript, ed. J. Barclay Murdoch, Hunterian Club (Glasgow, 1896), III, 450-2, 456-7; IV, 1079; The Bannatyne Manuscript, ed. W. Tod Ritchie, III, STS NS 23 (Edinburgh & London, 1928), 74-6, 79-81, 130.

First published London, 1550-60. First collected in Woorkes (London, 1562). Milligan, pp. 103-224.

Vol. I, f. 162r-v (pp. 383-4)
LiD 4: Sir David Lindsay, Ane Descriptioun of Peder Coffeis having na Ragaird till honestie in thair vocatioun ('It is my purpoiss to discryve')

Copy, subscribed ffinis [p Lindsay in a different hand].

Edited from this MS in Ramsay and in Hamer.

First published in Allan Ramsay, The Ever Green (Edinburgh, 1724), II, 219-22. Hamer, I, 389-92.

Vol. II, ff. 164r-210r (pp. 387-479)
LiD 10: Sir David Lindsay, Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis ('')

Extracts, headed Heir begynis the Ploenuratrony of the play, maid be Dauid Lynsayis, of the month Knicht in the Playfeild in the moneth of [space] the yeir of god 155 yeryis, comprising seven long passages (called Interludes), here beginning Richt famous pepill ye sall vnderstand..., in an irregular order, together with the prefatory banns, from a version performed on the Castle Hill, Cupar, Fifeshire, on 7 June 1552.

Edited from this MS (Hamer's Version II), in a parallel text with the 1602 edition, in Hamer, Vol. II; ed. James Kinsley (London, 1954). Also edited from this MS in The Bannatyne Manuscript, Hunterian Club (Glasgow, 1896), iii, 463-597; The Bannatyne Manuscript, ed. W. Tod Ritchie, III, STS NS 23 (1928), 87-238. Discussed in J. Derrick McClure, A Comparison of the Bannatyne MS and the Quarto Texts of Lyndsay's Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, Scottish Studies, 4 (Frankfurt am Main, 1986), 409-22. Facsimile of f. 168r in The British Inheritance: A Treasury of Historic Documents, ed. Elizabeth Hallam and Andrew Prescott (London, 1999), p. 30.

First published (in Hamer's Version III) in Edinburgh, 1602. Edited by James Kinsley (London, 1954).

The different versions of the play discussed in Anna J. Mill, Representations of Lyndsay's Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, PMLA, 47. i (1932), 636-51, with corrigenda in PMLA, 48 (1933), 315-16; in Raymond A. Houk, Versions of Lindsay's Satire of the Three Estates, PMLA, 55. i (1940), 396-405; in John MacQueen, Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, SSL, 3 (1965-6), 129-43; and in Anna Jean Mill, The Original Version of Lindsay's Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, SSL, 6 (1968-9), 67-75.

Vol. II, f. 212v (p. 484)
DuW 58: William Dunbar, Gude Counsale ('Be ye ane luvar, think ye nocht ye suld')

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 68, pp. 142-3. Murdoch, III, 602-3. Ritchie, III, 244-5. Bawcutt, p. 63.

Vol. II, ff. 214r-15r (pp. 487-9)
DuW 18: William Dunbar, Bewty and the Presoneir ('Sen that I am a presoneir')

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 54, pp. 104-7. Murdoch, III, 607-10. Ritchie, III, 249-52. Bawcutt, I, 229-32.

Vol. II, f. 215r-v
HnR 9: Robert Henryson, The Garment of Gud Ladeis ('Wald my gud lady lufe me best')

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis of ye garmet of gud ladeis p Mr rot Herysown.

Edited from this MS in Wood; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Fox.

Wood, pp. 169-70. Murdoch, III, 611-12. Ritchie, III, 252-4. Fox, pp. 162-5.

Vol. II, f. 238v (p. 532)
DuW 180: William Dunbar, To the Queen Dowager ('O lusty flour of yowth, benying and bricht')

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

Mackenzie, No. 91, pp. 180-1. Murdoch, III, 689-91. Ritchie, III, 323-4.

Vol. II, f. 250r-v (pp. 555-6)
WyT 124: Sir Thomas Wyatt, I am as I am and so wil I be

Copy of an untitled version.

Edited from this MS in The Bannatyne Manuscript, ed. J. Barclay Murdoch, Hunterian Club (Glasgow, 1896), III, 731-2; in The Bannatyne Manuscript, ed. W. Tod Ritchie, STS NS 26 (Edinburgh & London, 1930), pp. 2-3; and in H.A. Mason I am as I am, RES, NS 23 (1972), 304-8.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 148-50.

Vol. II, f. 261r-v (p. 577)
DuW 124: William Dunbar, Of the Ladys Solistaris at Court ('Thir ladyis fair, That makis repair')

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 48, pp. 97-8. Murdoch, IV, 762-3. Ritchie, IV, 30-1. Bawcutt, I, 238-9.

Vol. II, f. 278v (p. 612)
DuW 65: William Dunbar, In Prais of Wemen ('Now of wemen this I say for me')

Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, No. 45, pp. 83-4. Murdoch, IV, 809-10. Ritchie, IV, 75-6. Bawcutt, I, 135.

Vol. II, f. 281r (p. 617)
DuW 70: William Dunbar, Inconstancy of Luve ('Quha will behald of luve the chance')

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 51, pp. 100-1. Murdoch, IV, 816. Ritchie, IV, 81-2. Bawcutt, I, 161.

Vol. II, ff. 283r-4v (pp. 621-4)
DuW 79: William Dunbar, The Merle and the Nychtingaill ('In May as that Aurora did upspring')

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 63, pp. 134-7. Murdoch, IV, 822-6. Ritchie, IV, 87-91. Bawcutt, I, 101-5.

Vol. II, ff. 284v-5v (pp. 624-6)
DuW 115: William Dunbar, Of Luve Erdly and Divine ('Now culit is Dame Venus brand')

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 52, pp. 101-4. Murdoch, IV, 826-9. Ritchie, IV, 91-4. Bawcutt, I, 130-2.

Vol. II, ff. 291r-4v (pp. 637-44), Vol. I, ff. 45r-v, 9-11 (pp. 149-50, 77-82)
DoG 9: Gavin Douglas, Virgil's Aeneid ('Lawd, honour, praysyngis, thankis infynyte')

Copy of the Prologue of Book IV, the Prologue of Book IX (lines 1-18), and the Prologue of Book X, transcribed from the edition of 1553 and corrected from another source.

Edited from this MS in the Bannatyne Manuscript ed. J. Barclay Murdoch, Hunterian Club (Glasgow, 1896), IV, 844-53; II, 122-3, 21-7; and in The Bannatyne Manuscript, ed. W. Tod Ritchie, STS 3rd Ser. 5, 22, 23, 26 (1928-33), IV, 108-16; II, 113, 20-6; recorded in Coldwell, I, 101.

First published, as The xiii Bukes of Eneados of the famose Poete Virgill, London, 1553. Edited, as Virgil's Æneid Translated into Scottish Verse by Gavin Douglas, by David F.C. Coldwell, 4 vols, STS 3rd Ser. 30, 25, 27, 28 (Edinburgh & London, 1957-64).

Vol. II, ff. 298r-302r, 310v-17v, 326v-42v (pp. 645-53, 670-84, 702-34)
HnR 11: Robert Henryson, The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian ('Thocht feinyeit fabils of ald poetre')

Copy of ten fables.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch; in Fox; and in Ritchie, with a facsimile of f. 301v facing p. 123. Collated in Wood.

First published in Edinburgh, 1570. Wood, pp. Murdoch, IV, 855-66, 898-922, 946-88. Ritchie, IV, 116-28, 158-82, 206-451-102. Fox, pp. 3-110.

Vol. II, ff. 317v-25r (pp. 684-99)
HnR 14: Robert Henryson, Orpheus and Eurydice ('The nobilnes and grit magnificens')

Copy of a 633-line version, subscribed Finis p mr R H.

Edited from this MS in Wood; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Fox.

First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Wood, pp. 129-48. Murdoch, IV, 922-42. Ritchie, IV, 182-201. Fox, pp. 132-53.

Vol. II, ff. 325r-6v (pp. 699-702)
HnR 8: Robert Henryson, The Bludy Serk ('This hindir yeir I hard be tald')

Copy, subscribed ffinis p Mr R Henrici.

Edited from this MS in Wood; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Fox.

Wood, pp. 173-6. Murdoch, IV, 942-6. Ritchie, IV, 202-5. Fox, pp. 158-62.

Vol. II, ff. 342v-5 r(pp. 734-9)
DuW 163: William Dunbar, The Thrissil and the Rois ('Quhen Merche wes with variand windis past')

Copy, subscribed Explicit p Dumbar.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

Mackenzie, No. 55, pp. 107-12. Murdoch, IV, 988-94. Ritchie, IV, 246-52. Bawcutt, I, 163-8.

Vol. II, ff. 345r-8v (pp. 739-46)
DuW 56: William Dunbar, The Goldyn Targe ('Ryght as the stern of day begouth to schyne')

Copy, headed followis the goldin terge, subscribed Explicit p Dumbar of the goldin terge.

Edited from this MS in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt. Recorded in Mackenzie, pp. 218-19. Facsimile of f. 345 in Small, I, at the end.

First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 56, pp. 112-19. Murdoch, IV, 995-1003. Ritchie, IV, 252-61. Bawcutt, I, 184-92.

Vol. II, ff. 348v-54v (pp. 746-58)
DuW 50: William Dunbar, The Freiris of Berwick ('At Tweidis mowth thair standis a nobill toun')

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie.

Of doubtful authorship. Mackenzie, No. 93, pp. 182-95. Murdoch, IV, 1004-20. Ritchie, IV, 261-77.

Vol. II, ff. 365r-6v (pp. 779-82)
HnR 27: Robert Henryson, Robene and Makyne ('Robene sat on gud grene hill')

Copy, untitled, subscribed p mr robert Henrysone.

Edited from this MS in Wood; in Murdoch; in Ritchie, III, 28-31; and in Fox.

Wood, pp. 151-4. Murdoch, IV, 1050-4. Ritchie, IV, 308-12. Fox, pp. 175-9.

Adv. MS 5.2.11

An oblong duodecimo book of chiefly vocal music, in at least three hands, one rounded hand predominating, 33 leaves, in old calf (rebacked). Mid-late 17th century.

Inscriptions including (f. 1v) Janet Glesone; (ff. 2r and 33v) Heline ffergusone; (f. 5v) Andrew Gardner Est Hujus Liber Anno domini; (f. 9v) John Patsen; and (f. 32r) John Watson. Purchased at the sale of the books of David Constable in 1828, lot 2905.

ff. 30r, 31r
HeR 243: Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to make much of Time ('Gather ye Rose-budd while ye may')

Copy in a musical setting by William Lawes, in an italic hand, untitled.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 84. Patrick, pp. 117-18. Musical setting by William Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

Adv. MS 5.2.14

An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics in two or more secretary and italic hands, iv + 43 leaves, in modern quarter-calf.

Inscribed (f. 31r) MAY 1639 and Williane Stirling. A long note (f. iir) in the hand of John Leyden (1775-1811), linguist and poet, dated 5 March 1800, recording his purchase of the MS in 1788 from the library of the Rev. Mr Cranstow, minister of Ancrum; his lending it to Alexander Campbell in 1795 and retrieving it in December 1799; and his now consigning it to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector.

c.1639.

A complete facsimile of this volume is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 11 (New York & London, 1987).

f. 4v
CmT 13: Thomas Campion, Canto Tertio ('My Love bound me with a kisse')

Copy of a four-strophe version, in a musical setting, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), p. 14. Collated in Davis, p. 491, and in Doughtie, p. 503.

First published (first strophe) among sundry other rare Sonnets of diuerse Noble men and Gentlemen appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). Robert Jones, Second Booke of Songs and Ayres (London, 1601). Davis, p. 9. Doughtie, p. 151.

f. 5r
CmT 196: Thomas Campion, Do not, O do not prize thy beauty at too high a rate

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), p. 75. Collated in Davis, p. 508, and in Doughtie, p. 527.

First published in Robert Jones, Ultimum Vale (London, 1605). Davis, p. 477. Doughtie, pp. 205-6.

f. 6r
CmT 105: Thomas Campion, There is none, O none but you

Copy, in a musical setting, no title.

Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), p. 77. Collated in Davis, p. 494.

First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xiii. Davis, p. 102.

f. 7r
CmT 147: Thomas Campion, Vaine man, whose follies make a God of Love

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), p. 78. Collated in Davis, p. 494.

First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. i. Davis, p. 85.

f. 8v
CmT 174: Thomas Campion, Young and simple though I am

Copy of a six-strophe version, in a musical setting, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), pp. 80-1. Collated and the sixth strophe edited in Davis, p. 499.

First published in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. ix. Davis, p. 177. Doughtie, p. 295.

f. 10r
WoH 115: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night')

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled and here beginning Youe twinkling stars that in the night.

Edited from this MS in Nelly Diem, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Schottischen Musik im XVII. Jahrhundert (Zürich & Leipzig, 1919), pp. 83-4.

First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, You Meaner Beauties of the Night A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

f. 10v
CmT 151: Thomas Campion, What is it that all men possesse, among themselves conversing?

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), p. 84. Collated in Davis, p. 497.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xiv. Davis, p. 149.

f. 11r
CmT 159: Thomas Campion, Where are all thy beauties now, all harts enchayning?

Copy in a musical setting.

Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), p. 85. Collated in Davis, p. 496.

First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book I, No. iii. Davis, p. 61.

f. 13r
BrN 5: Nicholas Breton, All my witte hath will enwrappèd

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Nelly Diem, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Schottischen Musik im XVII. Jahrhundert (Zürich & Leipzig, 1919), pp. 88-9.

First published in John Bartlet, A Booke of Ayres (London, 1606), No. 7. Grosart, I (t), p. 22. Authorship unknown.

f. 14r
CmT 58: Thomas Campion, If Love loves truth, then women doe not love

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), pp. 89-90. Collated in Davis, p. 496.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xi. Davis, p. 146.

ff. 17v-18r
WiG 11: George Wither, The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet ('Shall I wasting in despair')

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled and here beginning Sall I wrastling in despair.

Edited from this MS in Nelly Diem, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Schottischen Musik im XVII. Jahrhundert (Zürich & Leipzig, 1919), pp. 95-6.

First published in Fidelia (London, 1615). Sidgwick, I, 138-9. A version, as Sonnet 4, in Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), pp. 854-5. Sidgwick, II, 124-6.

For the answer attributed to Ben Jonson, but perhaps by Richard Johnson, see Sidgwick, I, 145-8, and Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 439-43. MS versions of Wither's poem vary in length.

f. 18r-v
ShW 39: William Shakespeare, As You Like It, V, iii, 15-38. Song ('It was a lover and his lass')

Copy of the Pages' song, in a musical setting by Thomas Morley, untitled.

This setting first published in Thomas Morley, First Book of Ayres (London, 1600). Edited from this MS in Nelly Diem, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Schottischen Musik im XVII Jahrhundert (Zürich & Leipzig, 1919), p. 97. Discussed in Edmund H. Fellowes, It was a Lover and his Lass: Some Fresh Points of Criticism, MLR, 41 (1946), 202-6, and in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 496-7.

f. 21r-v
LoT 7: Thomas Lodge, An Ode ('Now I find thy lookes were fained')

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled and here beginning Now I sie thy lookes wer fainzied.

Edited from this MS in Nelly Diem, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Schottischen Musik im XVII. Jahrhundert (Zürich & Leipzig, 1919), pp. 99-100.

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Phillis: Honoured with Pastorall Sonnets, Elegies, and amorous delights (London, 1593). Gosse, II, (p. 58). The song-version beginning Now I see thy looks were feigned first published in Thomas Ford, Musicke of Sundrie Kindes (London, 1607).

f. 25v
NaT 7.8: Thomas Nashe, Monsieur Mingo for quaffing doth surpass

Copy of the song, in a musical setting.

First published, as The Song, in Nashe's Pleasant Comedie Summers last will and Testament (London, 1600). McKerrow, III, 264. EV 14798.

Adv. MS 5.2.15

An oblong octavo book of chiefly vocal music, the lyrics mostly in a single italic hand, 252 pages (including blanks), in 19th-century calf gilt.

Inscribed, possibly by the compiler, (p. 1) Magister Johannes Skine (in a semi-court hand) and (p. 189) Mr Joannes Skeine His book: i.e. John Skene of Hallyards. Bequeathed in 1818 by Miss Elizabeth Skene of Curriehill and Hallyards.

c.1620s-30s.
pp. 113-14
CmT 228: Thomas Campion, What if a day, or a month, or a yeare

Copy of the incipit only, in a musical setting.

Edited from this MS in William Dauney, Ancient Scotish Melodies (Edinburgh, 1838), p. 246. Recorded in Greer, p. 307.

Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, The Authorship of What if a Day, and its Various Versions, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, What if a Day — An Examination of the Words and Music, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.

pp. 114-15
NaT 14: Thomas Nashe, Verses from Astrophel and Stella ('If flouds of teares could clense my follies past')

Copy of the incipt only, in a musical setting.

This MS recorded (but not seen) in Doughtie (p. 481).

First published in Poems and Sonets of sundrie other Noble men and Gentlemen appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). McKerrow, III, 396 (in poems of doubtful authorship). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 104-5.

Adv. MS 5.2.17

An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics in at least two secretary and italic hands, 21 leaves (plus blanks), in modern cloth. Mid-17th century-1704.

Inscribed (f. 9v) Mrs Agnes Hume her book Anno Dom 1704.

f. 16r
HeR 244: Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to make much of Time ('Gather ye Rose-budd while ye may')

Copy in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Nelly Diem, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Schottischen Musik im XVII Jahrhundert (Zürich & Leipzig, 1919), p. 119.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 84. Patrick, pp. 117-18. Musical setting by William Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

Adv. MS 13.2.5

An octavo volume of prose tracts by William Drummond of Hawthornden, in a single mixed hand, 66 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked). Mid-late 17th century.
ff. 1r-38v
DrW 323: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Irene ('')

Copy, the work dated 1638.

First published in Works (1711), pp. 163-73.

ff. 41r-5v
DrW 327: William Drummond of Hawthornden, The Load-Star ('')

Copy.

First published in Works (1711), pp. 183-4.

ff. 48v-55v
DrW 332: William Drummond of Hawthornden, The Magical Mirror ('')

Copy, the work dated 1639.

First published in Works (1711), pp. 174-6.

ff. 58r-61r
DrW 342: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Queries of State ('')

Copy.

First published in Works (1711), pp. 177-8.

ff. 62v-6r
DrW 344: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Remoras for the National League Between Scotland and England, 1642 ('')

Copy, the work dated 1642.

First published in Works (1711), pp. 188-9.

Adv. MS 19.1.12

A folio volume comprising two apparently independent miscellanies of poems on affairs of state, each in probably more than one professional hand, in variant styles, 199 pages, in modern cloth.

Part I, ff. 1r-110v (poems dated 1667-83); Part II, ff. 111r-99r, on larger paper (poems dated 1680-7).

c.1680s.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Advocates MS: MaA Δ 8. Works by Marvell recorded and some poems collated in POAS, I.

f. 4r
DoC 133: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, My Opinion ('After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory')

Copy, the poem here dated 1682.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.

ff. 4v-5r
DoC 326.91: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Dorsetts Lamentation for Moll Howards Absence ('Dorset no gentle Nimph can find')

Copy.

Recorded in Harris, p. 55, as obviously not by Dorset.

f. 10r
DoC 333: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Duchess of Portsmouth's Absence ('When Portsmouth did from England fly')

Copy, headed The Dutchess of Portsmouth 1682.

Edited from this MS (?) in Ebsworth.

First published (in part) in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, IV (Hertford, 1883), 286. Discussed in Harris, p. 194.

ff. 38r-42r
DrJ 43.93: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire ('How dull and how insensible a beast')

Copy.

A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.

First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that Mulgrave had by far the major hand. Recorded in Hammond & Hopkins, V, 684, in an Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition.

ff. 42v-4v
MaA 104: Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh ('Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign')

Copy, headed A Dialogue Between Britania and Raleigh's Ghost.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).

ff. 44v-6v
RoJ 104.42: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids ('Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second')

Copy.

See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.

ff. 48v-9r
MaA 237: Andrew Marvell, The Statue in Stocks-Market ('As cities that to the fierce conquerors yield')

Copy, headed Sr Robert Viner's Statute of the King on Horsback.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.

f. 49v
RoJ 353: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II ('I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown')

Copy, headed On King Charles.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 60-1. Walker, pp. 74-5. Love (five versions), pp. 85-6, 86-7, 88, 89-90, 90. The manuscript texts discussed, with detailed collations, in Harold Love, Rochester's I' th' isle of Britain: Decoding a Textual Tradition, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223.

ff. 49v-52r
MaA 146: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Two Horses ('Wee read in profane and Sacred records')

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 208-13, as probably Marvell's. POAS, I, 274-83, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

ff. 56r-8r
MaA 139.92: Andrew Marvell, A Country Clowne call'd Hodge Went to view the Pyramid, pray mark what did ensue ('When Hodge had number'd up how many score')

Copy.

This MS collated in Mengel.

First published, as Hodge a Countryman went up to the Piramid, His Vision, in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 5. Sometimes called Hodge's Vision from the Monument, [December, 1675]. Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 81-8. Thompson, III, 359-65. Grosart, I, 435-40. Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714, Volume II: 1678-1681, ed. Elias F. Mengel, Jr (New Haven & London, 1965), pp. 146-53.

First attributed to Marvell in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697), but probably written in 1679, after Marvell's death.

ff. 60v-1v
MaA 512: Andrew Marvell, His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, 13 April 1675 ('')

Copy, headed A speech of the King's.

A mock speech, beginning I told you last meeting the winter was the fittest time for business.... First published, and ascribed to Marvell, in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 36-43. Grosart, II, 431-3. Augustine Birrell, Andrew Marvell (London, 1905), pp. 200-2. Discussed in Legouis, p. 470, and in Kelliher, pp. 111-12.

ff. 72r-3v
DoC 77: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Duel of the Crabs ('In Milford Lane near to St. Clement's steeple')

Copy, subscribed Ld Buckhorst.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published, ascribed to Henry Savile, in The Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694 (London, 1694). Harris, pp. 118-23.

ff. 74r-6r
MaA 392: Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter ('Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before')

Copy, headed Instructions to a painter on the Burning of the Ships at Chattam, subscribed Marvel 1667.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

ff. 76r-7r
MaA 480: Andrew Marvell, Further Advice to a Painter ('Painter once more thy Pencell reassume')

Copy, headed Further Instructions to a Painter, subscribed Marvel.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). Margoliouth, I, 176-7. POAS, I, 163-7. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 38-9. Rejected from the canon by Lord and the authorship considered doubtful by Chernaik, pp. 211-12.

f. 77r
MaA 257: Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown ('When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd')

Copy, headed On Blood's Stealing the Crown 1678.

First published as a separate poem in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, I, 78. Lord, p. 193. Smith, p. 414.

This poem also appears as lines 178-85 of The Loyal Scot (see MaA 191-8 and Margoliouth, I, 379, 384).

ff. 77r-82r
MaA 163.92: Andrew Marvell, The Dream of the Cabal: A Prophetical Satire Anno 1672 ('As t'other night in bed I thinking lay')

Copy, subscribed Marvell.

A lampoon sometimes called The Gamball or a dreame of ye Grand Caball. First published in A Second Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Edited in POAS, I (1963), pp. 191-203, as possibly by John Ayloffe. Ascribed to Marvell in two MS copies (MaA 163.4 and MaA 163.92).

ff. 82v-4v
MaA 440: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by ('Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe')

Copy, headed Advice to a Painter to draw the Dutch, subscribed Marvell.

First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by A-M-l, Esq. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.

ff. 85r-6r
MaA 219: Andrew Marvell, The Statue at Charing Cross ('What can be the Mistery why Charing Cross')

Copy, headed On the Statute at Charing Cross.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Margoliouth, I, 199-201. POAS, I, 270-3. Lord, pp. 201-4. Smith, pp. 418-19.

f. 97v et seq.
RoJ 11.7: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion ('The freeborn English Generous and wise')

Copy.

First published in The Genius of True English-men (London, 1680). Love, p. 55 (21-line version) and pp. 257-8 (30-line version, among Disputed Works). Also attributed to Robert Wolseley.

ff. 98r-100r
DoC 52: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon ('As Colon drove his sheep along')

Copy, headed Colon, a Satyr on the Court Ladies 1679, here beginning As Colon was driving his Sheep along, subscribed Buck. & Dorset.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.

ff. 105v-6r
DoC 233: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen ('Clarendon had law and sense')

Copy, the poem here dated 1680, subscribed Dryden.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.

ff. 112r-13r
MaA 173: Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes ('When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb')

Copy, headed Royall Resolutions, here beginning when plate was at pawn and fob at an ebb.

First published as A Prophetick Lampoon, Made Anno 1659. By his Grace George Duke of Buckingham: Relating to what would happen to the Government under King Charles II [London, 1688/9]. Margoliouth, I, 173-5. POAS, I, 159-62. Lord, pp. 186-8, as The Vows. Discussed in Chernaik, pp. 212-14, where it is argued that it is of unknown authorship, possibly Marvell's, and that the poem grew by accretions by different authors.

ff. 116r-17r
MaA 305: Andrew Marvell, Upon his Majesties being made free of the Citty ('The Londoners Gent')

Copy, headed On the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen going to White=hall with the King and Duke's freedome.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 190-4. POAS, I, 237-42. Lord, pp. 196-201, as Upon the Citye's going in a body….

f. 117r-v
CoA 178: Abraham Cowley, Sors Virgiliana ('By a bold peoples stubborn armes opprest')

Copy, headed Virgil Lib 4. bis. 620. Englished by Mr Cowles at Oxford when the King was there in the time of the Warr.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Bowman, in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677].

Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Sparrow, p. 192. Texts usually preceded by a prose introduction explaining the circumstances of composition.

ff. 117v-20r
DoC 352: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell ('Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age')

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS.

First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being probably by the Ld Dorset in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.

ff. 151r-2r
EtG 54: Sir George Etherege, Second Letter to Lord Middleton ('Since love and verse, as well as wine')

Copy, headed Sr. George Etheridge to the Earle of Mifddleton 1686.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 48-50.

f. 152r-v
EtG 32: Sir George Etherege, A Letter to Lord Middleton ('From hunting whores and haunting play')

Copy, headed Sr. George Etheridge to the Earl of Middleton. 2d. Letter.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published, as Another from Sir G.E. to the E. of M--Greeting, in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 46-7.

ff. 153r-4r
DrJ 208: John Dryden, To Sir George Etherege Mr. D.- Answer ('To you who live in chill Degree')

Copy, headed A Letter from Mr Drydell to Sr George Etheridge 1686.

This MS collated in California.

First published at the end of The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Kinsley, II, 578-80. California, III, 224-6. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 21-7. The Letterbook of Sir George Etherege, ed. Sybil Rosenfeld (London, 1928), pp. 346-8. Letters of Sir George Etherege, ed. Frederick Bracher (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London, 1974), pp. 270-2.

ff. 160v-4r
MaA 193: Andrew Marvell, The Loyal Scot ('Of the old Heroes when the Warlike shades')

Copy, here beginning When the old Hero's of the warlike shades, subscribed Marvell.

First published in one version [c.1669?] (exemplum without title-page owned by the Library Company of Philadelphia, 935Q). An incomplete version in Charles Gildon, Chorus Poetarum (London, 1694). Margoliouth, I, 180-7. Lord, pp. 188-92. Smith, pp. 403-12.

Lines 15-62 also appear as lines 649-96 in The last Instructions to a Painter (MaA 500-4), and lines 178-85 appear as a separate poem in Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown (MaA 253-280).

ff. 193v-9r
DoC 95: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Faithful Catalogue of our Most Eminent Ninnies ('Curs'd be those dull, unpointed, doggerel rhymes')

Copy, the poem here dated March 1676/7.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset (London, 1707). POAS, IV (1968), 189-214. Harris, pp. 136-67.

[unspecified page numbers]
DoC 361.8: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Town Life ('Once how I doted on this jilting town')

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS.

First published in State Poems (London, 1697). POAS, IV, 62-7. An argument for Dorset's authorship advanced in O.S. Pickering, An Attribution of the Poem The Town Life (1686) to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset, N&Q, 235 (September 1990), 296-7.

Adv. MS 19.3.2

Transcript of seven English and Latin poems by Harington written in 1602 to accompany his new year's gift of a lantern to King James, four large quarto leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century calf (rebacked).

Made by John Leyden (1775-1811), linguist and poet, as an Authentic Copy from the original in the University Library, Edinr. March 26. 1802.

1802.

Edited from this transcript in Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 325-35. What Leyden calls the original is no longer in Edinburgh University Library and is untraced.

HrJ 26: Sir John Harington, Epigrams

Edited from this transcript in Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 325-35. What Leyden calls the original is no longer in Edinburgh University Library and is untraced.

Seven Epigrams first published in Epigrammes by Sir J. H. and others appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). 116 Epigrams published in London, 1615. 346 Epigrams published in London, 1618. 428 Epigrams edited in McClure (1930), pp. 145-322. See also HrJ 26.5-314.8. All the Epigrams published as The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. Gerard Kilroy (Farnham, 2009).

Adv. MS 19.3.4

A quarto verse miscellany of Scottish provenance, chiefly in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, including some shorthand, inscribed (f. 1r) Incept. March. 23. 1652/3., 190 leaves, in old brown calf gilt (rebacked). c.1653-64.

Purchased c.1798.

f. 9v
DnJ 2975: John Donne, Song ('Stay, O sweet, and do not rise')

Copy.

First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her Dubia). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.

f. 9v
DnJ 465.5: John Donne, Breake of day (''Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?')

Copy, of lines 1-6.

First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.

f. 11v
WaE 435: Edmund Waller, Song ('Chloris! farewell. I now must go')

Copy, headed Sonnet:t 6 and here beginning Cloris farwell I needes must goe.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652). Poems, Eighth edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 110-11.

f. 12r
HeR 157: Robert Herrick, Mistresse Elizabeth Wheeler, under the name of the lost Shepardesse ('Among the Mirtles, as I walkt')

Copy, headed Sonnett 8 and here beginning All in the Myrtells as I walked.

First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 106-7. Patrick, p. 147. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

f. 13v
BrN 76: Nicholas Breton, Phillida and Coridon ('In the merry moneth of May')

Copy.

First published as The Plowmans Song in The Honorable Entertainment at Elvetham (London, 1591). Englands Helicon (London, 1600), <No. 12>, ascribed to N. Breton; Grosart, I (t), p. 7. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 29. A musical setting first published in Michael East, Madrigals to Three, Four, and Five Parts (London, 1604).

f. 14r
CmT 113: Thomas Campion, Thou art not faire, for all thy red and white

Copy, headed Sonnett. 12.

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xii. Davis, pp. 34-5.

f. 16r-v
DaW 48: Sir William Davenant, Song. The Dying Lover ('Dear Love let me this Evening dy!')

Copy, headed Phill: Porters Rant, Sonnett . 17.

First published (in Lawes's musical setting) in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 168-70, 311-12.

f. 17r3
B&F 97: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Mad Lover, IV, i, 45-68. Song ('Charon, oh, Charon, Thou wafter of the souls to bliss or bane!')

Copy, headed Sonnett. 18.

Dyce, VI, 180-1. Bullen, III, 184. Bowers, V, 67-8.

f. 23r
ShJ 74: James Shirley, Strephon, Daphne ('Come my Daphne, come away')

Copy, headed [Sonnet] 29.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 6. Also in The Cardinal, Act V, scene iii, printed in Six New Playes (London, 1652-3). Gifford & Dyce, V, 271-352 (pp. 344-5). Musical setting by William Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652) and in John Playford, The Musical Companion, 2nd edition (London, 1673). Edited from the latter in James Shirley, The Cardinal, ed. E.M. Yearling (Manchester, 1986), p. 162.

f. 29v
DeJ 121: Sir John Denham, A Western Wonder ('Do you not know, not a fortnight ago')

Copy, headed The first part of a Westerne Wonder. 39.

First published in Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 130-2.

f. 30r
DeJ 82: Sir John Denham, A Second Western Wonder ('You heard of that wonder, of the Lightning and Thunder')

Copy, headed The 2d part of a Westerne Wonder. 40 and here beginning You have heard of the Wonder, when Lightning & Thunder.

First published in Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662). Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 133-4.

f. 49r
ClJ 219: John Cleveland, The Definition of a Protector ('What's a Protector? Tis a stately Thing')

Copy of a version headed A Protector and beginning A Protector whatt that? Tis a stately thinge.

Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 78-9. The Works of Mr. John Cleveland (London, 1687), p. 343. Berdan, p. 185, as probably not genuine. Rejected as probably not Cleveland's by Withington, pp. 321-2.

f. 59r-v
LoR 42: Richard Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison. Song ('When Love with unconfined wings')

Copy, headed in different ink Lovelace in prison; the text followed (ff. 59v-60) by The Answer (here beginning When Cynthia lock't within my Armes).

First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 70-1. (1930), pp. 78-9. Thomas Clayton, Some Versions, Texts, and Readings of To Althea, from Prison, PBSA, 68 (1974), 225-35. A musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).

ff. 70v-3v
DrW 17: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Polemo-Middinia inter Vitarvam et Nebernam ('Nymphae quae colitis highissima monta Fifaea')

Copy.

First published [in Edinburgh?, 1645?]. Kastner, II, 321-6, in Poems of Doubtful Authenticity. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 120.

ff. 122r-v
EtG 19: Sir George Etherege, The Imperfect Enjoyment ('After a pretty amorous discourse')

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Thorpe.

First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, pp. 7-8.

ff. 136r-7v
DoC 20: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Another Letter by the Lord Buckhurst to Mr. Etherege ('If I can guess the Devil choke me')

Copy, headed Lo: Buckhurst to Mr Etherege and here beginning I cannot guesse the Devill choake mee.

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated pp. 113-14) and in Harris.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). The Poems of Sir George Etherege, ed. James Thorpe (Princeton, 1963), pp. 40-2. Harris, pp. 112-14.

ff. 142r-3v
WaE 110: Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter ('First draw the sea, that portion which between')

Copy, incomplete, dated 1664.

First published as a broadside (London, 1665). Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 48-59. See also Mary Tom Osborne, Advice-to-a-Painter Poems (Austin, Texas, 1949), pp. 26-7.

Adv. MS 19.3.8

A quarto volume of pasquinades and other verse, almost all in a single cursive secretary hand, 54 leaves, in contemporary brown calf (rebacked).

Compiled by Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary.

c.1637-47.
ff. 14v-15v
DrW 93: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Drummonds Lines one the Bschopes: 14 Appryll 1638 ('Doe all pens slumber still, darr not one tray')

Copy, headed Vil: Drumonds Lynes one the Bischopes 14. Appryll 1638.

First published in the Third Book of James Maidment's Book of Scotish Pasquils (Edinburgh, 1827). Kastner, II, 293, in Poems of Doubtful Authenticity. Probably by Drummond: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 117.

f. 46r
DeJ 74: Sir John Denham, On the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and Death ('Great Strafford! worthy of that Name, though all')

Copy of a twenty-line version, headed E. of Straffords Epitaphe.

Edited from this MS in H.L. Hamilton, Lines by Denham, TLS (22 September 1966), p. 888. Recorded in Banks, p. xiv.

First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 153-4.

ff. 47r-8v
DrW 117.42: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge ('From such a face quois excellence')

Copy, headed for ye Kinge.

Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his Poems of Doubtful Authenticity (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.

Adv. MS 23.3.24

A folio volume of antiquarian and genealogical papers relating to Scottish families, mainly in a single neat mixed hand, ii + 107 leaves (including blanks), in old half-calf on marbled boads (rebacked).

Compiled by Robert Mylne, engraver, son of the antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), with additions in Mylne senior's hand. A note by Mylne junior says this account I had from Mr Alexr Nisbet Herauld his transcript who had it from the principal (wch he borrowed from the present Sr Wm. Drummond of Hawthornden his son the 7. Aug. 1701) copie writen with Mr Williams own hand.

c.1711-32.

Presented by trustees of the late Sir William Fraser, KCB, in 1922.

ff. 78r-80r
DrW 313: William Drummond of Hawthornden, History of the Family of Perth ('')

An abridged version by Mylne senior, as by Mr. William Drummond of Hawthornden, subscribed 13. Novr. i7i2.

First published in William Drummond, The Genealogy of the House of Drummond (Edinburgh, 1831), Appendix I, pp. 241-56.

Adv. MS 31.2.1

A tall folio composite volume of historical tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 269 leaves, in modern cloth.

Once owned by Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), Scottish antiquary. Inscribed by him (f. 2r) Gifted me by Spotswood: i.e. by John Spottiswoode (1667-1728), lawyer, jurist. and Keeper of the Library of the Faculty of Advocates of Edinburgh.

ff. 213r-69r
*DrW 324: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Irene ('')

Copy, in the neat roman hand of an amanuensis, with Drummond's autograph corrections and insertions, on rectos only. 1638.

First published in Works (1711), pp. 163-73.

Adv. MS 31.4.8

A partly autograph folio MS, viii + 153 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum with remains of ties.

A working manuscript, apparently one book of an intended three Bookes mentioned on the title-page, the main text in the professional hand of an amanuensis, chiefly in secretary script, occasionally italic, with autograph sidenotes, revisions, and copious additions by Dicsone.

[1598].

Later owned by Sir Robert Sibbald (1641-1722), royal physician and geographer. Purchased at the sale of his library in April 1723.

Facsimiles of f. 113v in Beal, Checklist, p. 125. Selections edited from this MS in Mayer, with a facsimile of f. 29v on p. 180.

*DiA 2: Alexander Dicsone, Of the Right of the crowne after Hir Majestie

Facsimiles of f. 113v in Beal, Checklist, p. 125. Selections edited from this MS in Mayer, with a facsimile of f. 29v on p. 180.

A treatise in support of James VI's title to the Crown of England. Beal, Checklist, pp. 123, 126-7. Unpublished in full. Extracts edited in Breaking the Silence on the Succession: A Sourcebook of Manuscripts and Rare Elizabethan Texts (c. 1587-1603), ed. Jean-Christophe Mayer (Montpellier, 2003), pp. 157-87.

Adv. MS 32.3.11

A quarto composite volume of three MSS, in three different hands, the first (ff. 1r-79v) Colin Lindsay, third Earl of Balcarres's Memoirs touching the Revolution in Scotland (c.1690) in a single rounded hand, 92 leaves, in half-calf (rebacked) on marbled boards.

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 7245. Sotheby's, 16 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 1013.

f. 79v
DrJ 236: John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Viscount Dundee ('O Last and best of Scots! who didst maintain')

Copy, headed Translated by Mr Dryden, the text following a Latin version by Archibald Pitcairne.

c.1700.

First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1777. California, III, 222. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 219.

Adv. MS 32.4.4

A quarto composite volume of writings by Scottish covenanters, in two hands, iii + 126 leaves, in old half-calf marbled boards.

Including (ff. 1r-26v) copies of 38 letters by the preacher John Welwood, while he was Preaching up & downe Scotland, in ye years 1675, 1676 & 1677, sixteen of them to Katherine Ross and some others to her sister Jean Collace.

ff. 27r-78v
RoK 1: Katherine Ross, Memoirs or spiritual exercises of Mrs Ross ('')

Copy of autobiographical writings and meditations by Katherine Ross, in a neat italic hand, transcribed after her death, followed (on ff. 78v-126v) by similar autobiographical writings by her sister Jean Collace, including (ff. 78v-9v) meditations on Ross's death.

c.1697-1735.

Described in the online Perdita Project.

First published in Edinburgh, 1735.

Adv. MS 32.4.9

A quarto volume of prose tracts by William Drummond, in a single secretary hand, 39 leaves, the pages slightly cropped, in later brown calf (rebacked). Mid-17th century.
ff. 1r-22r
DrW 325: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Irene ('')

Copy, the work dated 1638.

First published in Works (1711), pp. 163-73.

ff. 23r-6v
DrW 328: William Drummond of Hawthornden, The Load-Star ('')

Copy.

First published in Works (1711), pp. 183-4.

ff. 27r-32v
DrW 333: William Drummond of Hawthornden, The Magical Mirror ('')

Copy.

First published in Works (1711), pp. 174-6.

ff. 33r-5v
DrW 343: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Queries of State ('')

Copy.

First published in Works (1711), pp. 177-8.

ff. 36r-9r
DrW 345: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Remoras for the National League Between Scotland and England, 1642 ('')

Copy, the work dated 1642.

First published in Works (1711), pp. 188-9.

Adv. MS 33.1.6

A folio composite volume principally of original letters to King James VI from Learnid Men & Staitsmen, in various hands and paper sizes, 110 leaves, in modern quarter red morocco on marbled boards.

Vol. XX of the Denmilne Papers, collected by Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary.

f. 19r
*InE 61: Esther Inglis, Ad Serenissimvm Principem: Iacobvm Dei Gratia Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ et Hiberniæ Regem. &c ('Accipe E haec nostro quondam vigilata labore')

Autograph calligraphic copy by Esther Inglis of a poem by David Hume, in a meticulous roman script, not signed by her, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, evidently presented to James I. [1605].

A Latin poem by David Hume of Godscroft, to James I, first published in Hume's Iacobaea (Paris, 1639), p. 45.

f. 23r-v
*HoJ 284: John Hoskyns, Jacobo Magnæ Britanniæ Regi Maximo, Clementissimo ('Jam mihi bis centum fluxere in carcere noctes')

A formal copy, in an accomplished italic hand, signed by Hoskyns himself (J: Hoskyns), on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter and evidently presented to James I.

Osborn, No. XXXII (pp. 203-4).

ff. 35r-6v
*InE 62: Esther Inglis, Letter(s) ('')

Autograph letter signed by Esther Inglis, in English, on behalf of her son, to King James I, in a small roman script, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, addressed on the fourth page and once folded as a letter. Edinburgh, 20 June 1620.

1620.

Edited in Laing, Notes, pp. 307-8. Recorded in Scott & Elliott, p. 84. Facsimile in Facsimiles of National Manuscripts of Scotland (Southampton, 1871), III, No. XCIII.

Adv. MS 33.1.7

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, thirteen unpaginated items, modern quarter red morocco on marbled boards with ties.

Volume XXIII of the Denmilne Papers, collected by Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary.

item 12
BcF 131.9: Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the Better Pacification and Edification of the Church of England ('')

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as by Sr: Francis Bacon knight, 35 leaves.

Early 17th century.

First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604), The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.

item 13
BcF 396: Francis Bacon, Speech(es) ('')

Copy of a speech, by Sr ffrancis Bacon, on the naturalisation of the Scots, in a professional secretary hand, nineteen leaves.

Early 17th century.

Adv. MS 33.2.36

A folio composite volume of genealogical collections, including pedigrees of royal and noble houses of Scotland, with some coats of arms drawn in trick, and other matter relating to Scotland, in various hands, 77 leaves.

Given in 1629 by William Camden's executor, Sir Robert Cotton, to Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary, who has inscribed the cover Camdeni Clarentii Armorum Regis Regni Angliæ collectiones. Purchased in 1723 at the sale of the library of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641-1722), royal physician and geographer.

The MS as a whole
*CmW 160: William Camden, Collectanea ('')

A volume of genealogical papers largely compiled by William Camden, whose hand appears frequently throughout, some of the various texts probably in the hands of his amanuenses.

c.1606-20.
ff. 76r-7r
HlJ 2: Joseph Hall, Cearten veerses written by Doctor Hall upon the kings coming into Scotland ('Doe not repyine fayre sun to see these eyne')

Copy of the three poems, in a neat italic hand, each subscribed Dr Hall, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter.

c.1627.

Edited from this MS in Davenport.

First published in Arnold Davenport, Three Uncollected Poems by Joseph Hall, N&Q, 182 (31 January 1942), 58-9. Davenport (1949), p. 150.

Adv. MS 33.2.7

A tall folio composite volume of antiquarian papers, in several hands, 131 leaves, in modern cloth.

Partly written and compiled by Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary.

ff. 93r-111r
CmW 52: William Camden, Epitaphes ('')

Copy of the first part of the essay, here beginning The Caire all ages have had of Buriall, in the hand of Sir James Balfour, with his emendations and with Camden's examples of epitaphs replaced by Balfour's selection of some Scottish epitaphs.

Mid-17th century.

A tract beginning Great hath bene the care of burial euen since the first times.... First published in Remaines (London, 1605), [Part ii], pp. 27-59. Hearne (1771), I, 310-54. This draft essay was also developed into the essay Of Epitaphes (see CmW 67).

Adv. MS 33.3.3

A folio volume of state tracts relating to Spain, in a single, probably professional, predominantly secretary hand, II + 59 leaves, in contemporary brown sheepskin with the royal arms in gilt. c.1620s.

Inscribed (f.ir) with the name Charles Arnot. Among the collections of Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary (his cipher on f. 59r). Purchased in 1698.

ff. 41r-7r
BcF 282.8: Francis Bacon, A Short View to be taken of Great Britain and Spain ('')

Copy, unascribed.

First published in Spedding, XIV (1874), 22-8.

Adv. MS 33.3.11

A folio volume of state tracts and letters, largely in a single secretary hand, with other hands towards the end, i + 110 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. c.1585-1603.

Scribbled inscriptions including the names Archibald Delawar, Archibald Dewer, John Bourchier, Nicolas Barklay, and Symson. Among the collections of Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary. Acquired in 1698.

The MS as a whole
*DiA 10: Alexander Dicsone, Miscellany ('')

A miscellany of political papers, a number relating to Sir Thomas Smith (1513-77), Secretary of State, compiled in part by Alexander Dicsone, whose signature (Alexr Dicsone) appears on various pages, as well as on ff. 104v-5r.

This volume discussed, with facsimile examples, including Dicksone's signature and scribbling on ff. iir, iiv, and iiir, in Beal, Sidney's Letter.

ff. 104r-10r
SiP 209.5: Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur ('')

Copy, in two hands, Alexander Dicsone's secretary hand responsible for the heading and first page and a half (ff. 104v-5r), another cursive secretary hand for the remainder.

This MS discussed in Beal, Sidney's Letter, with facsimiles of ff. 104v-5r on pp. 4-5.

First published in Scrinia Caeciliana: Mysteries of State & Government (London, 1663) and in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (London, 1663). Feuillerat, III, 51-60. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 46-57.

This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), Chapter 4, pp. 109-46 (with most MSS catalogued as Nos 1-37, with comments on their textual tradition, in Appendix IV, pp. 274-80).

Adv. MS 33.3.19

A tall folio composite volume of Adversaria, comprising miscellaneous political, historical and antiquarian papers, 65 leaves, in modern red leather.

Collected by, and largely in the hand of, Sir Robert Sibbald (1641-1722), royal physician and geographer. Purchased at the sale of his library in April 1723.

c.1682-1706.
ff. 25v-31r
DrW 303: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Ben Jonson's Conversations with William Drummond ('')

Copy, in Sibbald's hand, headed Informations be Ben Johnston to W.D. when he came to Scotland upon foot 1619, transcribed from Drummond's (lost) autograph MS.

Edited from this MS in Laing and in Herford & Simpson.

First published (in an abridged form) in Works (1711). Laing (1833), pp. 241-70. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, I (Oxford, 1925), 132-51. Of Drummond's original MS only the cover remains, in National Library of Scotland, MS 2061, f. 140r.

Adv. MS 33.7.16

Copy, in a secretary hand, entitled The life, arraignment, and death of the famous and learned Sir Thomas More together with his vision, including a dedication to Captain Marmaduke Rawdon [i.e. Sir Marmaduke Rawdon (1583-1646), merchant, shipowner, and captain-general of the Honourable Artillery Company] subscribed John Hawkins and seven sonnets modelled on Spenser's Visions entitled Sir Thomas More his Vision. c.1630s.

Inscribed D. Alexander Seton a Pitmoddon Eques Baronettus...in Bibliotheca sua, quae Edinburgi est, reponendum donavit. 1708.

This MS discussed, and the seven sonnets edited in Constance Smith, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of A Vision attributed to Thomas More, Moreana, 10 (February 1973), 5-14. Also discussed, and the attribution of the Vision to More dismissed, in Joseph Butkie, Sabita Sankaran and Donald Vecchiolla, Some Reflections on the Vision attributed to Thomas More, Moreana, 11 (1974), 33-8.

MrT 70: Sir Thomas More, John Hawkins's Life of Sir Thomas More

This MS discussed, and the seven sonnets edited in Constance Smith, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of A Vision attributed to Thomas More, Moreana, 10 (February 1973), 5-14. Also discussed, and the attribution of the Vision to More dismissed, in Joseph Butkie, Sabita Sankaran and Donald Vecchiolla, Some Reflections on the Vision attributed to Thomas More, Moreana, 11 (1974), 33-8.

A life of More, based closely on William Roper's Life, by John Hawkins (c.1587-c.1641), grammarian, translator and physician. Unpublished.

Adv. MS 33.7.19

A quarto volume of state letters, the main text in a single mixed hand, viii + 125 pages, in half brown calf on marbled boards (rebacked). c.1630.
pp. 5-17
RaW 965: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s) ('')

Copies of four letters by Ralegh, to James I, Carr, Winwood and Ralegh's wife.

pp. 18-23
RaW 790: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618) ('')

Copy, headed Sr Walter Rawleigh his speech at his execution.

Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For relevant discussions, see Anna Beer, Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh, Modern Philology, 94:1 (August 1996), 19-38, and Andrew Fleck, At the time of his death: Manuscript Instability and Walter Ralegh's Performance on the Scaffold, Journal of British Studies, 48:1 (January 2009), 4-28.

Adv. MS 34.2.10

A tall folio composite volume of state tracts, in various professional secretary hands, 339 leaves, in old brown calf (rebacked). c.1623-41.
ff. 94r-95r
BcF 630: Francis Bacon, Letter(s) ('')

Copies of three letters by Bacon, two of them to Essex.

ff. 97v-8v.
EsR 81: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary ('It was a time when sillie Bees could speake')

Copy of the fifteen-stanza version, in a small secretary hand, untitled.

First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.

[unspecified page numbers]
EsR 25: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, The Right Honourable Robert, earle of Essex: Earle Marshall of England ('Change thy minde since she doth change')

Copy.

First published, with a musical setting, in Robert Dowland, A Musicall Banquet (London, 1610). May, Poems, No. 4, pp. 45-6. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 252-3. EV 4594.

Adv. MS 34.5.19

A quarto composite volume of writings by Scottish covenanters, in two or possibly three rounded hands, ii + 284 leaves, in modern cloth. Early 18th century.
ff. 185r-238r
RoK 2: Katherine Ross, Memoirs or spiritual exercises of Mrs Ross ('')

Copy of autobiographical writings and meditations by Katherine Ross, in a rounded italic hand, transcribed after her death, followed (on ff. 238r-84v) by similar autobiographical writings by her sister Jean Collace, including (f. 238r-v) meditations on Ross's death.

c.1697-1735.

Described in the online Perdita Project.

First published in Edinburgh, 1735.

Adv. MS 34.6.9

A quarto composite volume of antiquarian collections, in a single hand, 440 leaves.

Copied entirely by Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), Scottish antiquary.

Early 18th century.
ff. 264r-79v
DrW 311: William Drummond of Hawthornden, History of the Family of Perth ('')

Copy of the complete work, headed Sir William Drumond of Hawthornden his Historie of the familie of Perth.

First published in William Drummond, The Genealogy of the House of Drummond (Edinburgh, 1831), Appendix I, pp. 241-56.

Adv. MS 34.6.12

A quarto volume of antiquarian and genealogical tracts relating to Scottish families, in a single hand, 725 + 23 pages, in contemporary reversed calf.

Copied entirely by Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), Scottish antiquary.

c.1700s.
pp. 410-23, [and 23 unnumbered pages after p. 185]
DrW 312: William Drummond of Hawthornden, History of the Family of Perth ('')

An abridged version by Mylne, headed Ane Accompt of the of the Duke of Perth's familie By Sir william Drummond of Hathornden, with (after p. 185) Mylne's A Table of Remarkable names In the Manuscript of Drumonds Earles of Perth And these of the name of Forbess.

First published in William Drummond, The Genealogy of the House of Drummond (Edinburgh, 1831), Appendix I, pp. 241-56.

Adv. MS 34.6.22

A quarto volume, in two italic hands, ff. 1r-74v in a single cursive italic hand, ff. 75r-81r written much later apparently to replace missing leaves in the earlier MS, entitled An account of the Lord's gracious dealing with me, and of his remarkable hearing and answering my Supplications, 81 leaves, in modern speckled brown calf. c.1711 [-late 18th century].

This MS discussed in Howard, Marion Veitch (1992), pp. 691-2, with a facsimile of the first page on p. 13.

VeM 3: Marion Veitch, Journal

This MS discussed in Howard, Marion Veitch (1992), pp. 691-2, with a facsimile of the first page on p. 13.

First published in Memoir of Mrs William Veitch, Mr Thomas Hog of Kiltearn, Mr Henry Erskine, and Mr John Carstairs, [ed. Thomas Thomson] (Edinburgh, 1846).

Adv. MS 34.7. 3

A small composite miscellany (c.12 x 9 cm), in minute secretary hands, 83 leaves, partly on vellum, in modern red morocco (rebacked).

Compiled by James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane and secretary to William Schevez (d.1497) and James Stewart (d.1504), successive Archbishops of St Andrews.

End 15th-early 16th century.

Gift of John Ker, 1740.

ff. 70r-1v
HnR 7: Robert Henryson, The Annunciation ('Forcy as deith Is likand lufe')

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Wood, in Stevenson, and in Fox.

Wood, pp. 199-201. Stevenson, pp. 43-5. Fox, pp. 154-6.

Adv. MS 35.5.4

Copy of the complete work, in a single neat roman hand, with engrossed headings for the various chapters on each king (on ff. 2r, 80r, 178r, 300r and 382r), all as By W. D., 556 leaves, on rectos only, in old half-calf on marbled boards. Mid-17th century.
DrW 316: William Drummond of Hawthornden, The History of the Five Jameses, Kings of Scotland

First published as The History of Scotland (London, 1655). Works (1711), pp. 1-116.

Adv. MS 72.1.37

Copy of one stanza (lines 561-7), headed In bocas þt wes full gwd, on an octavo leaf (p. 92b) in a volume of Gaelic poetry comprising 159 quarto leaves (plus vellum fragments).

The volume compiled by Sir James MacGregor, vicar of Fortingall and titular Dean of Lismore.

c.1512-42.

Formerly Gaelic MS XXXVII.

This MS recorded in Fox, pp. xcvi-xcvii.

HnR 31.5: Robert Henryson, The Testament of Cresseid

This MS recorded in Fox, pp. xcvi-xcvii.

Possibly first published c.1508. First known publication in Workes of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. William Thynne (London, 1532). Wood, pp. 105-26. Fox, pp. 111-31.

Adv. MS 81.9.12

A small oblong quarto songbook, in probably several hands, 18 leaves, in paper wrappers, disbound. Late-17th century.

A wrapper inscribed For George Chalmers Esq.: i.e. given probably to George Chalmers, FSA, FRS (1742-1825), antiquary and political writer.

f. 9v
CmT 14: Thomas Campion, Canto Tertio ('My Love bound me with a kisse')

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

First published (first strophe) among sundry other rare Sonnets of diuerse Noble men and Gentlemen appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). Robert Jones, Second Booke of Songs and Ayres (London, 1601). Davis, p. 9. Doughtie, p. 151.

f. 9v
CmT 157: Thomas Campion, Where are all thy beauties now, all harts enchayning?

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book I, No. iii. Davis, p. 61.

f. 10v
CmT 197: Thomas Campion, Do not, O do not prize thy beauty at too high a rate

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

First published in Robert Jones, Ultimum Vale (London, 1605). Davis, p. 477. Doughtie, pp. 205-6.

f. 11r
CmT 1: Thomas Campion, As by the streams of Babilon

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book I, No. xiv. Davis, p. 74.