An exemplum bearinging no trace of Cowley's own hand but inscribed by a contemporary librarian ex dono Authoris
.
A quarto composite verse miscellany, principally of poems upon affairs of state, in two hands, i + 52 leaves.
Late 17th century.Copy, including a title-page and prefatory poem (beginning These lines had kissed your hands October last
), but without the postscript.
First published in London, 1668. Probably not by Wither; possibly by Edward Raddon: see Stephen K. Roberts, A Poet, a Plotter and a Postmaster: a Disputed Polemic of 1668, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 53 (1980), 258-65. See also David Norbrook, Some Notes on the Canon of George Wither, N&Q, 241 (1996), 276-81.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Osborne.
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.
Copy of a 56-line version, untitled, preceded by the words this being published abroad was called in and condemned to be burnt by the common hangman. betwixt 70 and 71. and about 1673. ½ it was againe revived and published abroad
.
This MS collated in Margoliouth. Recorded in Osborne.
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.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Osborne.
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.
Copy.
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 (
Copy, headed A diologue betwixt the bras hors at Charing Cross and the market hors in Cheapsid or stocks market
.
This MS collated in Margoliouth.
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.
Account in Latin of Queen Elizabeth's visit to Oxford from 31 August to 6 September 1566, on twenty small quarto leaves, cropped.
By John Bereblock, fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, written in a semi-calligraphic predominantly secretary script.
c.1566.Owned before 30 May 1864 by the Rev. John C. Jackson.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Autograph Compositions.
Beginning Qui male agunt oderunt lucem et idcirco...
, in Autograph Compositions, pp. 125-6. An English translation, beginning Those who do bad things hate the light...
, in Collected Works, Speech 8, pp. 89-91.
Copy, in a single secretary hand, i + 155 quarto leaves.
Late 16th-early 17th century.Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician (No. 278 in the sale catalogue of his library, 1759). Probably later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector (possibly No. 144 in the Bliss sale, Sotheby's 21 August 1858, to C.J. Stewart). James Colman's sale catalogue No. 59, 23 November 1867, item 198.
This MS recorded in Peck, p. 226.
First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.
Copy, in a professional hand, with a title-page, on 41 quarto pages, in contemporary calf gilt.
c.1634-41.Purchased from the Rev. John C. Jackson on 11 October 1870.
First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).
Copy, in a cursive hand, the Epistle Dedicatory to R. R. in another hand, vi + 131 quarto leaves, in vellum.
Early 17th century.Acquired on 12 November 1873 from C. T. Jefferies, bookseller, Bristol.
Collated in Hitchcock, Ro. Ba. and described, p. xii.
A life of More written in 1599, possibly by Robert Basset (1574-1641), of Devon, a zealous Catholic and kinsman of More: see Andrew Breeze, Sir Robert Basset and The Life of Syr Thomas More, N&Q, 249 (September 2004), 263. The work first published in Christopher Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical History, vol. II (London, 1839). Edited, as The Lyfe of Syr Thomas More Sometymes Lord Chancellor of England, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock and P.E. Hallett (EETS, London, 1950).
Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, with some emendations in a later hand (of c.1649), ii + 87 quarto leaves (plus eight blanks partly used for later notes), in contemporary calf (rebacked).
c.1620s.A treatise, with dedicatory epistle to James I, comprising 33 chapters, beginning The Question it self is no more than this, Whether the Impositions which the King of England hath laid and levied upon Merchandize, by vertue of his Prerogative onely...
. First published in London, 1656. Grosart, III, 1-116.
A 15th-century, French, illuminated MS book of hours with Ralegh's signature, W Ralegh
, at the top of fol. 1r.
This volume briefly discussed in Rosemond Tuve, Spenser and some Pictorial Conventions
, SP, 37 (1940), 149-76 (p. 151), and in G.A. Wilkes, The Authorship of The Passionate Mans Pilgrimage, N&Q, 202 (August 1957), 335-6.
A quarto miscellany, principally of poems on affairs of state, xvi + 130 leaves.
Entitled Horæ subsecivæ, or Misselanies in Prose & Verse
and arranged in four books
.
Given by J. Cater in 1756 to the Rev. William Cole (1714-82). In the Dalrymple sale. Afterwards owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary. Haslewood sale (16 December 1833), lot 1386. Evans, 1834. Owned in 1836 by Reginald Peacock (his bookplate). Bought from George A. Johnston, Edinburgh bookseller, 18 March 1885.
Copy, headed The Maiden Conjugates…Englishd by Ld. Dorsett
.
Edited from this MS in Harris.
First published in Harris (1979), p. 176.
Copy, subscribed Lord Rochester
.
Edited from this MS in Hayward, in Vieth, and in Walker.
First published in Collected Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. John Hayward (London, 1926). Vieth, pp. 25-6. Walker, pp. 23-4. Love, p. 35.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Harris.
First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384-5. Harris, pp. 43-4. In most texts the poem runs directly on from the previous poem on the Countess of Dorchester (
Copy, headed A Satyr: Or, Dorsett on Dorchester
.
Edited from this MS in Harris. Collated in POAS.
First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384. Harris, pp. 43-4.
A quarto composite miscellany, in Latin and English, associated with Oxford University, iii + 68 leaves.
In three parts, the first (ff. 1-20) owned in 1669 and probably compiled by Francis Philips (b.1651) of Brasenose College, Oxford; the second (ff. 21-46), c.1663 or so; the third part (ff. 47 onwards) 19th-century.
c.1669.Once owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 2 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 172. Purchased from the executors of Dr John Griffiths (d.1885) in May 1886.
Copy, headed Taken out of a little book found in the channill, in the street after the fatall battle of Worcester, written by Sr Thomas Vrquhart of Cromarty knight…
.
First published in Ekskubalauron: or the Discovery of a Most Exquisite Jewel, Found in the Kennel of Worcester-Streets, Anno 1651 (London, 1652). Willcock (1899), pp. 215-39. The Admirable Urquhart, ed. Richard Boston (London, 1975), pp. 65-96. Jack & Lyall (1983), [pp. 100-37].
Copy, here ascribed to Thomas Heywood.
First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, Poems by William Camden, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.
A quarto composite volume of MSS, in Latin and English, relating principally to Irish affairs, in various hands, vii + 225 leaves.
Assembled in part by James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh.
Copy of Strode's Latin oration, headed In Exequijs Clarissimj Doctoris Bainbrigii, Mathematici ac Medici probatissimi, Astronomiae Praelectoris Publici apud Oxonienses, Oratio Funebris, Nouemb. 6: 1643. habita
, beginning Si Medicinae loco sit Fama defunctis (ô aegrè Superstites Amici…
and subscribed Dixi Gulielmus Strodus, Orator Publicus
, with corrections in another hand, on two conjugate quarto leaves.
Unpublished.
A complete transcript of the London edition of 1633, dated 1708.
1708.Generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871).
A small quarto notebook compiled by H. Coley, i + 100 leaves.
1690-5.Extracts.
First published in London, 1681. Kinsley, I, 215-43. California, II, 2-36. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 450-532.
A quarto miscellany of extracts in verse and prose, ii + 68 pages.
Compiled by Bulkeley Bandinel (1781-1861), librarian and editor.
c.1811.Copy, transcribed from
This MS recorded in May, p. 15.
First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xiii. Davis, p. 102.
A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, 64 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.
Compiled by Leweston Fitzjames (1574-1638), of Leweston, Dorset, and the Middle Temple.
c.1595-early 17th century.Copy of a three-strophe version, headed A Songe
.
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.
Copy of poems 4 and 5, headed In Londinense Episcopu iampride Dominæ & scortæ nuptu
and beginning It is a question in Heraldry
, dated 20 February 1594/5.
This MS recorded in Krueger, pp. 398, 442.
First published in Samuel A. Tannenbaum, Unfamiliar Versions of Some Elizabethan Poems, PMLA, 45.ii (1930), 809-21 (pp. 818-19). Krueger, pp. 177-9.
Copy of an early version in 113 stanzas, headed A Poem of Dauncinge
, with a dedicatory sonnet To his very Friend, Ma. Rich: Martin
(beginning To whom shall I this dauncing Poeme send
), and eighteen additional stanzas inserted later (probably in 1596).
This MS collated in Krueger and described, p. 442, and in his Sir John Davies: Orchestra Complete, Epigrams, Unpublished poems, RES, NS 13 (1962), 17-29.
First published in London, 1596. Krueger, pp. 87-126.
Copy, headed Ludicru of marriage
and here beginning A fine younge Preist of kin to ffryar ffrapp
.
First published in 1618, Book II, No. 70. McClure No. 166, pp. 213-14. Kilroy, Book III, No. 7, pp. 169-70.
Copy, headed Of Othes
, subscribed Authore Ben: Jonsonio
.
First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.
Copy of 44 epigrams (Nos. 1-11, 13-44), headed Epigramata Jo: Dauisij
and here beginning Loue not yet Loue yt is a child and blynde
.
This MS collated in Krueger. Described in Krueger, pp. 378-9, 442, and in his Sir John Davies: Orchestra Complete, Epigrams, Unpublished Poems, RES, NS 13 (1962), 17-29, 113-24 (p. 120).
58 Epigrammes first published in Middleborugh
[i.e. London?], [1595-6?]. Krueger, pp. 127-51. Fourteen additional Epigrammes printed from MSS in Krueger, pp. 153-9.
Copy of a series of ten sonnets.
Edited from this MS in Krueger.
First published in Robert Krueger, Sir John Davies: Orchestra Complete, Epigrams, Unpublished Poems, RES, NS 13 (1962), 113-24 (pp. 114-18).
Copy, headed In Flaviam
.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.
A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, 11 + 109 leaves.
Early-mid-18th century.Owned in 1812 by Miss Elizabeth Mansel. Given to Henry Gough, of Redhill, who presented it to the Bodleian in December 1884.
Copy, headed The Discription of a Lark by Edmond Waller Esqr
.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 77-9.
Copy.
First published in Examen Poeticum…The Third Part of Miscellany Poems [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1693). Summers, IV, 33. Dobrée, pp. 234-5. McKenzie, II, 313-14.
Copy.
First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Examen Poeticum…The Third Part of Miscellany Poems [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1693). Summers, IV, 3-4. Dobrée, pp. 235-7. McKenzie, II, 315-17.
Copy, headed Veni Creator Spiritus Paraphras'd. By John Dryden Esqr
.
This MS recorded in California, IV, 802.
First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, II, 843-4. California, IV, 422-3. Hammond & Hopkins, IV, 308-10.
Extracts, including quotations from The Character of a Good Parson, Ceyx and Alcyone and Palamon and Arcite.
Recorded in California, IV, 802.
Copy, headed As the late Earl of Rochester went by a Country Church, where the People were singing Sternhold, and Hopkins's Version of ye Psalms, he spake the following Verses, Ex Tempore
.
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
First published in The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon, 3rd edition (London, 1709). Vieth, p. 22. Walker, p. 122. Love, p. 301, as Lord Rochester upon hearing the singing in a Country Church, among Impromptus.
Copy.
First published in Examen Poeticum…The Third Part of Miscellany Poems [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1693). Summers, IV, 25-7. Dobrée, pp. 225-8. McKenzie, II, 303-6.
Copy.
First published in Examen Poeticum…The Third Part of Miscellany Poems [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1693). Summers, IV, 28-32. Dobrée, pp. 228-33. McKenzie, II, 307-12.
Copy, headed To a Person of Honour: upon his Incomprehensible Poems
.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen
[i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.
Copy, headed Upon the same
[i.e. Edward Howard].
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen
[i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 340-1. Harris, pp. 15-17.
Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.
A duodecimo verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in several hands, ii + 53 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf.
c.1690.J. Salkeld, sale catalogue No. 222 (17 June 1885), item 273.
Copy.
Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to T. R.
. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.
Copy in two hands, headed By the E. of Rochester In imitation of the tenth Satye of the first booke of Horace's Sermons
.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.
Copy, headed An Anacriontick Ode paraphrasticaly Englished by Mr A Cowley
.
This MS recorded in Jean Loiseau, Abraham Cowley's Reputation in England (Paris, 1931), p. 27, n. 18.
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Among Miscellanies in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 51. Sparrow, p. 50.
Musical setting by Silas Taylor published in Catch that Catch Can: or the Musical Companion (London, 1667). Setting by Roger Hill published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
Copy, headed An Ode agst Mans life
, inscribed at the top Stubbs Poems
, and followed (ff. 14r-17r) by A Parode in praise of humane life
(beginning The worlds a Globe of State, our Life a Reigne
), a Latin version (beginning Mundus Bulla lovis, nec vita humana porequat
), and a Greek version.
First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.
Copy, headed Rochester Upon Nothing, or Somewhat of Nothing
.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.
First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.
Lines 174-221 edited from this MS in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled
) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.
The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among Poems Possibly by Rochester. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 37-40. Walker, pp. 30-2. Love, pp. 13-15.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, by the Right Honourable, the E[arl] of R[ochester] (Antwerp
[i.e. London], 1680). Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1684). Summers, VI, 178-82. Todd, I, No. 28, pp. 65-9.
Discussed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 448-50.
Copy, headed Upon his drinking bowl.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 52-3. Walker, pp. 37-8. Love, pp. 41-2, as Nestor.
Copy of lines 1-7, imperfect, lacking the rest.
This MS recorded in Vieth.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen
[i.e. London], 1680). Discussed in Harris, p. 185, and in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 437-8.
Copy, headed Roch: Love & Life. a Song.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.
Copy, probably transcribed from Poems (1689).
First published in Poems (1689), pp. 514-19. Beresford, pp. 341-4.
A quarto miscellany of Latin academic exercises and verses relating principally to Oxford University, in several hands, ii + 136 leaves, imperfect, in later half-calf.
Compiled principally by George Stradling (d.1688), Dean of Christ Church.
c.1650-4.Acquired from John A. Murphy, bookseller, Aberystwyth, 1885.
Copy, headed The Antiplatonick
.
First published in Poems, by J. C., With Additions (1651), the edition with yet more additions. Morris & Withington, pp. 54-6.
Copy, in a secrretary hand, on 29 folio leaves, imperfect in the middle and at the end, with contemporary pagination 87-98, [103]-148.
Untitled, but docketed (amidst scribbling) A Defence of the proceedings of Q. Eliz. agst ye Scottish Queen. Imperfect
, here beginning There hathe not hapned sithence the memorie of man…
, in a professional hand, with alterations in two other hands on ff. 5v, 9r, 12v and 22v.
Scribbling (by a juvenile hand) including the names of Thomas Phillip, John Curye, Richard Tempest, Tempest Rookes, Jonas Bookes, and also (f. 16r) John fleetewood Recorder of london
.
This MS recorded in Willcock & Walker, pp. xxiii-xiv (where it is erroneously described as containing corrections in Puttenham's own hand
). Extracts edited from this MS, with a facsimile of p. 96, in Breaking the Silence on the Succession: A Sourcebook of Manuscripts & Rare Elizabethan Texts (c.1587-1603), ed. Jean-Christophe Mayer (Montpellier, 2003), pp. 37-68.
A treatise on the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, beginning There hath not happened since the memorie of man…
. First published, as A Justification of Queene Elizabeth in relation to the Affaire of Mary Queene of Scottes, in Accounts and Papers relating to Mary Queen of Scots, ed. Allan J. Crosby and John Bruce, Camden Society, 93 (1867), pp. 67-134.
A folio composite volume of state and parliamentary papers, in various hands, iii + 96 leaves.
Possibly once owned by Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary. Acquired from W.H. Turner in 1878.
Copy.
Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 306.
A speech beginning I will use no preface, as they do who prepare men to something to which they would persuade them …
First published in two variant editions, as A Worthy Speech Made in the house of commons this present Parliament 1641 and as An Honorable and Learned Speech made by Mr Waller in Parliament respectively (both London, 1641). In Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), pp. 306-8. It is doubted whether Waller actually delivered this speech in Parliament, though He may have prepared and circulated the speech in manuscript to impress contemporaries
.
Fair copy in the hand of Benjamin Pullen, with Hooker's autograph marginal notes and corrections, iii + 228 folio leaves.
Bearing the signature and licence of Archbishop Whitgift and used as the printer's copy in 1597.
c.1595-7.Inscribed (f. 173v) Margaret Keynes
. Later owned by the Rev. William Woolston (d.1817), of Adderbury. Purchased on 4 December 1878 from Mrs Mary M. Morison.
Edited from this MS in Folger edition, VII. Described in Keble (1888), II, v-xvii, and in Percy Simpson, Proof-Reading in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (London, 1935) pp. 76-9. Various facsimile examples in Folger edition; in Keble, II, v; in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate LXXVIII; and in Simpson, facing p. 78. Also discusse, with a facsimile of f. 60r, in W. Speed Hill, Casting off Copy and the Composition of Hooker's Book V, SB, 33 (1980), 144-61.
First published in London, 1597. Keble, II, 1-533. Folger edition, Volume II.
Copy of the first two couplets, untitled.
Among marginal annotations made by Charles Stanhope (1593-1675), second Baron Stanhope of Harrington, on p. 314 in a printed exemplum of John Selden's Mare clausum seu de dominio maris (London, 1635).
c.1640.Facsimile of p. 314 in McLeod, Obliterature, EMS (2005), 93.
First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as Elegie XIX. Going to Bed). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.
The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's To his mistress going to bed, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.
Copy of Henryson's Testament of Cresseid (transcribed, with emendations, on pp. 475-509, from the edition of 1598), headed The Sixt & last booke…written by Mr Robert Henderson and called by him The Testament of Criseide
, following Chaucer's Troilus and Creseyde, both accompanied stanza for stanza by a Latin verse translation by Sir Francis Kinaston (1587-1642), in a professional hand, xiv + 536 folio leaves in all.
Later owned by Henry Aldrich (d.1710), Dean of Christ Church, Oxford; by John Haddon Hindley (his sale 9 March 1793, lot 1215); by Francis Godolphin Waldron (1743-1818), actor and playwright; by S.W. Singer (his sale 3 August 1858, lot 134); and by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector (his sale 20 June 1886, lot 2951). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 369, item 35797. Acquired 10 September 1886.
Edited from this MS in Gregory Smith, I, xcvii-clxii. Collated in Wood. Recorded in Fox.
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.
A folio commonplace book of miscellaneous historical material, in Latin and English, iii + 145 leaves (including blanks), in vellum.
Originally used as a commonplace book by T. Metcalf
in 1598 (up to f. 63v), and then by James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh.
Copy, headed A prayer composed by the Queenes Matie for the psperous sucese of her highnes forces imbarqued for invading of the kinge of Spaines Dominions vnder the conduct of the Earle of Essex, And the Lo: Admirall, Ao: dno: 1596. et Regni An 38
.
This MS cited in Selected Works.
Beginning Most omnipotent Maker and Guider of all our world's mass, that only searchest and fathomest...
. Collected Works, Prayer 38, pp. 425-6. Selected Works, Prayer 4, pp. 254-6 (as For the success of the expedition against Spain, June 1596).
Copy of Psalms 100 and 101, docketed in the margin By Sr. Philip Sidney
, the second with a sidenote by Ussher: I delivered a copy of this to the King at Cardiffe, August 4, 1645, having preached there unto him, the day before
.
Psalms 1-43 translated by Sidney. Psalms 44-150 translated by his sister, the Countess of Pembroke. First published complete in London, 1823, ed. S.W. Singer. Psalms 1-43, without the Countess of Pembroke's revisions, edited in Ringler, pp. 265-337. Psalms 1-150 in her revised form edited in The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, ed. J.C.A. Rathmell (New York, 1963). Psalms 44-150 also edited in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke (1988), Vol. II.
Copy, headed in another hand A letter I suppose from the Ld Chancellor Bacon to a young Lord intending to travell
.
The letter, dated from Greenwich, 4 January [1596], beginning My Lord, I hold it for a principle in the course of intelligence of state...
.
First published, as The Late E. of E. his aduice to the E. of R. in his trauels, in Profitable Instructions; Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 27-73. Francis Bacon, Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 106-10. Spedding, IX, 6-15. W.B. Devereux, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), I, No. xciii.
Essex's three letters to Rutland discussed by Paul E.J. Hammer in The Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholars, SP, 91/2 (Spring, 1994), 167-80, and in Letters of Travel Advice from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Rutland: Some Comments, PQ, 74/3 (Summer 1995), 317-22. It is likely that the first letter was written substantially by Francis Bacon.
A folio composite volume of state tracts and speeches, 81 leaves, in modern binding.
Among the collections of Gilbert Sheldon (1598-1677), Archbishop of Canterbury. Subsequently owned by members of the Dolben family, including probably John Dolben (1625-86), Archbishop of York.
Copy of the verses (here beginning Heere lyes ye worthy waryer
), in a copy of Richard Verstegan's Causes of the Great Troubles…1592 (occupying ff. 2r-15r), in a single secretary hand, endorsed in a later hand A slanderous Inuectiue against ye State and som partycular persons many yeares past
.
First published as introduced ...yet immediately after his [Leicester's] death, a friend of his bestowed vpon him this Epitaphe and beginning Heere lies the woorthy warrier
, in Richard Verstegan, A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (London, 1592
), p. 54, which is sometimes entitled Cecil's Commonwealth: see E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172, who notes that the epitaph was quoted, from a text among William Drummond's papers, in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821). Rudick, No. 46, p. 120.
Copy of Version 2, here beginning Mr Speaker, Yr comming is to present thanckes to vs…
, in a secretary hand, on a folded folio leaf (conjunct with a blank half-leaf).
This MS cited in Hartley and in Collected Works.
First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).
Version I. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we have heard your declaration and perceive your care of our estate...
. Hartley, III, 412-14. Hartley, III, 495-6. Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 337-40 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 11, pp. 84-92.
Version II. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me...
. Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).
Version III. Beginning Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent...
. Hartley, III, 292-3 (second version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 342-4 (Version 3). STC 7578.
Version IV. Beginning Mr Speaker, I well understand by that you have delivered, that you with these gentlemen of the Lower House come to give us thankes for benefitts receyved...
. Hartley, III, 289-91 (first version).
Extracts from Dr Taylors
, headed variously For Repentance
(beginning O Ld God father of our Ld Jesus…
), Comforts agt a violent sudden death
(beginning Consider at wt gate thy sicknes entred…
), and An Exhortation after Thanksgivinge agst death-bed repentance
(beginning God intended we should live an holy life…
.
A composite volume of letters by Scottish and Irish bishops, 1661-9.
Among papers of Gilbert Sheldon (1598-1677), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, from Portmore, 25 May 1664.
Edited in Eden, I, cxix, cxx.
A composite volume of ecclesiastical letters and papers, in various hands.
Among papers of Gilbert Sheldon (1598-1677), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Extracts, headed considerations prparatory to death
and ascribed to Dr Taylor
, on two conjugate folio leaves.
Copy, in three hands, of Gilbert Burnet 's The History of my own Time and of Thomas Burnet's Life of his father, both with autograph corrections by their respective authors.
Late 17th-early 18th century.This MS collated in Brown, II, 513-14.
Copy, in a professional hand, transcribed from His Character by the Marquess of Halifax
.
This MS collated in Brown, II, 513-14.
First published at the end of Thomas Burnet's Life of his father appended to Gilbert Burnet, History of His Own Time, 2 vols (London, 1724-34), II, 725-6. Foxcroft, II, 529-31. Brown, II, 450-2.
An early autograph draft of part of Gilbert Burnet's The History of my own Time, with his son Thomas Burnet's autograph Life of his father, iii + 146 folio leaves.
Late 17th-early 18th century.Copy in Thomas Burnet's hand.
This MS collated in Brown, pp. 513-14.
First published at the end of Thomas Burnet's Life of his father appended to Gilbert Burnet, History of His Own Time, 2 vols (London, 1724-34), II, 725-6. Foxcroft, II, 529-31. Brown, II, 450-2.
A large folio composite volume of state letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 393 leaves, in 19th-century morocco gilt.
Collected by the Hon. George Matthew Fortescue.
Autograph letter signed by Donne, to George Villiers, Marquess of Buckingham, 8 August 1621.
Edited in Gosse, II, 140.
Autograph letter signed by Wroth, to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, 15 December 1621.
Edited in Roberts, Poems, p. 236 (No. V), with a complete facsimile on p. 77. Facsimile examples also in Josephine A. Roberts, The Huntington Manuscript of Lady Mary Wroth's Play, Love's Victorie, HLQ, 46 (1983), 156-74 (pp. 157, 159).
Copy of both letters, in a rounded hand, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd report (1871), Appendix, p. 63.
Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.
These were first published in Two Letters written by … Edward Earl of Clarendon … one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.
A folio volume of copies of some 24 letters by Bacon dating between 1616 and 1624, 144 leaves.
c.1630.Once owned by by the Hon. George Matthew Fortescue.
Two detached proofsheets for the edition of 1639, mounted in a composite volume of printed sheets and pamphlets.
Perfected sheet A and both formes of sheet I2 imposed for work and turn, with MS proof corrections in the three Prologues to the King and Queen and the University, in the list of Dramatis Personae, and in The Epilogue to their Majesties; one sheet bearing a ten-line MS inscription in which Nicholas Swanne of London challenges Robert Milles to a duel.
c.1639.Discussed and reproduced in facsimile (Plates II -IV) in D.F. Foxon, The Varieties of Early Proof: Cartwright's Royal Slave, 1639, 1640, The Library, 25 (1970), 151-4. Jan Moore, p. 71.
First performed at Christ Church, Oxford, 30 August 1636. First published in Oxford, 1639. Evans, pp. 193-253.
Two proofsheet fragments (the versos blank) for the edition of 1640, mounted in a composite volume of printed sheets and pamphlets.
Comprising sigs B1v and 4r, including MS proof corrections in Act I, scene i, lines 39-66, and Act I, scene ii, lines 210-31.
c.1640.One leaf endorsed This book belongs to ye Library of Milding
.
Discussed and reproduced in facsimile (Plate V) in D.F. Foxon, The Varieties of Early Proof: Cartwright's Royal Slave, 1639, 1640, The Library, 25 (1970), 151-4. Jan Moore, p. 71, and art cit.
First performed at Christ Church, Oxford, 30 August 1636. First published in Oxford, 1639. Evans, pp. 193-253.
Walton's exemplum.
Mid-17th century.Autograph formal inscription in a hand-coloured printed exemplum once owned by Brahe himself and presented by Wotton to the Bodleian Library.
1633.Originally owned by Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), Danish astronomer, and inscribed by him to Marino Grimani (1532-1605), Doge of Venice.
Wotton's inscription edited in Pearsall Smith, II, 347.
Four autograph corrections, in a special presentation poem printed on two conjugate leaves, in an exemplum of Works (1601).
1601-5.Presented by Daniel in 1605 to the Bodleian Library.
Reprinted in Grosart, I, 4-7.
A printed exemplum, inscribed in pencil as Thomas Killigrew's Copy
, but signed (on [sig. A6r]) only by his son Charles (Charles Killigrew his book
).
Bookplates of the Rev. Arthur B. Evans, STP, headmaster of Massnet Bosworth School, and of H.R. Merewether. Donated to Francis Merewether by Evans's widow, 11 January 1855.
A printed exemplum of Donne's Pseudo-Martyr (London, 1610) bearing on the title-page an ex dono authoris inscription signed by Rowland Woodward and with his motto De juegos el mejor es con la hoja
.
The volume was later owned by John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector, sold at Christie's.
Facsimiles in Gosse, I, facing p. 248, and in Keynes, Bibliography, facing p. 6.
First published in London, 1610. Edited by Anthony Raspa (Montreal, 1993).
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mrs Austen.
Later in the Oxford library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous and state tracts and speeches, in Greek, Latin and English, in various hands, 335 leaves, in near-contemporary panelled calf.
Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, with autograph corrections and revisions by Cotton and signed by him at the end (Ro: Cotton
).
Tract beginning To search so high as the Norman Conquest...
. First published, as The Forme of Governement of the Kingdome of England collected out of the Fundamental Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdome, London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [11]-39.
Copy, in a professional hand, entitled (f. 99r) A Discourse written by Sr John Suckling Knt. to the Earle of Dorset
.
This MS collated in Clayton.
First published, with a separate title-page, in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 168-80.
A folio composite volume of MSS, on vellum and paper, 135 leaves.
Copy, in a single hand, entitled The Royall Slaue A Tragi-Comedy
, including dramatis personae and prologues and epilogues to the King and Queen and to the University.
This MS collated in Evans.
First performed at Christ Church, Oxford, 30 August 1636. First published in Oxford, 1639. Evans, pp. 193-253.
A printed exemplum inscribed Dec. 28. 93. From ye Author For the Publick Library in Oxford
.
First published in London, 1690. Edited by J.R. Tanner (Oxford, 1906).
Copy, in a professional hand, with a title-page, on 23 folio leaves, in early 18th-century half-calf.
c.1630s.This MS selectively collated in Osborn.
First published, as Directions for Speech and Style by John Hoskins, ed. Hoyt H. Hudson (Princeton, 1935). Osborn (1937), pp. 114-66.
Autograph manuscript of John Aubrey's Perambulations of Surrey.
Mid-late 17th century.Extracts.
First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 62-89. O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks.
A folio composite autograph manuscript of the first part of Brief Lives by John Aubrey (1626-97), 121 largely folio leaves, in vellum within modern boards.
c.1679/80-1681.Copy of lines 23-4, in the hand of John Aubrey, in his Life of William Aubrey.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.
Copy, in the hand of John Aubrey.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Vnder-wood (li) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 225.
Copy, in the hand of John Aubrey.
Edited from this MS in Aubrey's Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1898), I, 72-3.
First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.
Copy by Aubrey, as Sr W R. the Epigram on Robert Cecil Earle of Salisbury who died in a ditch
, here beginning Here lies Robert our shepherd whilom
, as given to Aubrey by Sir Thomas Malett…who knew Sr W. Raleigh
, incomplete.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 146.
First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.
Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.
Copy in the hand of John Aubrey.
Edited from this MS in Aubrey's Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1898), I, 312-13.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.
Autograph letter signed by Walton, to John Aubrey, a memorandum about Ben Jonson and others, 22 November 1680.
Edited in Waltoniana (1878); in Keynes (1929), pp. 603-4; and in John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark, 2 vols (Oxford, 1898), II, 15-16. Aubrey's accompanying notes on Jonson (f. 108r) edited in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, I (Oxford, 1925), 181.
Copy, in the hand of John Aubrey, with his note Dr Busby the school master of Westminster was Tom Randolphs school-fellow & coetanean; & sayth that he made these vses — 'tis his vaine
.
Edited from this MS in Clark. Reedited in Thorn-Drury.
First published in John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark, 2 vols (Oxford, 1898), II, 197. Thorn-Drury, p. 147.
Copy of twelve lines, in the hand of John Aubrey, headed Hudibras unprinted
and beginning No Jesuite ever took in hand
, preceded by Aubrey's note (intended for Anthony Wood) Insert in vita Sam. Butler his verses of the Jesuites, not printed, which I gave to you about 12 or 14
, on a single octavo leaf.
These lines first pub. (from this MS) in the anonymous Life
of Butler in Hudibras (London, 1704), sig. a8v. Also edited from this MS in John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark, 2 vols (Oxford, 1898), I, 137. The lines correspond, albeit in a redacted form, to a passage in Butler's autograph additions to Hudibras in BuS 5 (f. 80).
Part I first published in London, 1663
[i.e. 1662]. Part II published in London, 1664
[i.e. 1663]. Part III published in London 1678
[i.e. 1677]. the whole poem first published in London, 1684. Edited by John Wilders (Oxford, 1967).
A folio composite autograph manuscript of the third part of Brief Lives by John Aubrey (1626-97), 106 leaves of various sizes, in half-calf.
1681.Copy, ascribed to Francis Quarles.
Unpublished? Generally attributed to Francis Quarles.
Copy, ascribed by Aubrey to Serjeant Hoskins
.
Edited from this MS in Clark and in Osborn.
Clark, I, 424. Osborn, No. V (p. 169).
Copy in Aubrey's hand, headed For my Lady Eliz: Viscountesse Purbec repeated by her
and subscribed made By Rob: E of Essex yt was beheade[d]
.
This MS recorded in The Poems of Edward De Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, ed. Steven W. May, Studies in Philology, 77, No. 5 (Early Winter 1980), p. 115, where the attribution to Essex is rejected.
First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xiii. Davis, p. 102.
Copy, here beginning Uncivil death…
.
First published in Kastner (1931), II, 285. Often found in a version beginning Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre
. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.
Copy, in Aubrey's hand.
Edited from this MS in Clark and in Herford Simpson.
First published (?) in John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1898), II, 14. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 418-19.
Copy of lines 1-10, in Aubrey's hand, in his Life of Edward Herbert, Lord Herbert of Cherbury.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 61-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 88-9. Shawcross, No. 69.
A folio composite autograph manuscript of the fourth part of Brief Lives by John Aubrey (1626-97), occupied by his collections for The Life of Mr Thomas Hobbes, of Malmesburie, 76 leaves of various sizes.
c.1680-1.Copy, in the hand of John Aubrey, of a letter by Hobbes, to Josias Pullen, Vice-President of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, from London, 1[/11] February 1672/3.
Edited from this MS in Clark, I, 377-8. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 729, Letter 193.
Letter by Hobbes, entirely in the hand of his amanuensis James Wheldon, to John Aubrey, from Hardwick, 5[/15] March 1677/8.
Edited in Clark, I, 378-9. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 766-7, Letter 202.
Letter by Hobbes, entirely in the hand of his amanuensis James Wheldon, to William Crook, bookseller, from Chatsworth, 25 March[/4 April] 1679.
Edited in Clark, I, 379. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 769, Letter 204.
Letter by Hobbes, entirely in the hand of his amanuensis James Wheldon, to John Aubrey, from Chatsworth, 25 March[/4 April] 1679.
Edited in Clark, I, 380. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 770, Letter 205.
Letter by Hobbes, entirely in the hand of his amanuensis James Wheldon, to John Aubrey, from Chatsworth, 18[/28] August 1679.
Edited in Clark, I, 380-1. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 772-3, Letter 208.
Copy by Aubrey, transcribed from Hobbes's original autograph draft which Hobbes did leave in [Aubrey's] hands
but which he later sent for about 2 yeares before he died
.
Edited from this MS in Clark. Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 37.
According to Aubrey, Hobbes revised and rewrote his autobiography and Aubrey lent the [new] MS to Dr Richard Blackbourne, who published it as the second item in his edition of Hobbes's Vita (London, 1681), but who neglected to retrieve the MS from the printer and so
.twas made wast paper of
A brief autobiography in Latin. First published in Clark (1898), I, 395-403.
Copy, in John Aubrey's hand, of Hobbes's letter to him, from Chatsworth, 18[/28] August 1679, omitting the first paragraph.
Recorded in Malcolm, Correspondence, Letter 209.
Copy by Aubrey of love verses he [Hobbes] made not long before his death
, on one side of a single quarto leaf.
Edited from this MS in Clark.
First published in Clark (1898), I, 364-5.
A folio composite volume of papers of John Aubrey (1626-97), i + 195 leaves.
c.1684-90.Copy of Two Prayers compos'd by Sr Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, and Viscount St Albans, in Aubrey's hand, The first Prayer called by his Lordship, The Student's Prayer
and beginning To God the Father, God the Word, God ye Spirit, we pour forth most humble and heartie Supplications…
, The Second Prayer called by his Lordship, The Writer's Prayer
and beginning Thou, O Father! who gavest the Visible Light as the First-born of thy Creatures, and didst put into Man the Intellectual light…
.
First published in Baconiana. Or Certain Genuine Remains of Sr Francis Bacon (London, 1679). Spedding, VII, 259-60.
A folio composite volume of letters to John Aubrey, ii + 357 leaves.
Autograph letter signed by Harrington, to John Aubrey, cancelling an appointment, 16 February 1669[/70].
Edited in H.F. Russell Smith, Harrington and his Oceana (Cambridge, 1914), p. 127. Facsimile in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XXIIb, after p. xxiv.
Letter by Hobbes, entirely in the hand of his amanuensis James Wheldon, to John Aubrey, from Chatsworth, 7[/17] September 1663.
Edited in Tönnies, Analekten, pp. 309-10. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 555, Letter 153.
Letter by Hobbes, entirely in the hand of his amanuensis James Wheldon, 30 June/[10 July] 1664.
Edited (with the date erroneously given as 1661) in Tönnies, Analekten, p. 312. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 620-1, Letter 167.
Copy, in Aubrey's hand, of Hobbes's letter to him, from Hardwick, 24 February[/16 March] 1674/5.
Edited from this MS Tönnies, Analekten, pp. 313-14. Recorded in Malcolm, Correspondence, Letter 198.
A folio composite volume of letters to John Aubrey, in various hands, 385 leaves.
Autograph letter signed, to John Aubrey, from Brecon, 9 December 1675.
Edited in Martin, pp. 692-3.
Autograph letter signed by Vaughan, to John Aubrey, from Brecon, 28 June 1680.
Edited in Martin, pp. 692-3.
Autograph letter signed by Vaughan, to John Aubrey, 9 October 1694.
Edited in Martin, pp. 696-7.
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous collections of John Aubrey (1626-97), i + 120 leaves.
Late 17th century.Autograph of a six-line poem by Harrington, subscribed by Aubrey By Mr James Harrington Esq, autor Oceanae, whose handwriting this is
, on a single quarto leaf.
Edited from this MS in Clark and in Watson. Facsimile in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XXIIa, after p. xxiv.
First published in John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark, 2 vols (Oxford, 1898), I, 294. George Watson, James Harrington: A Last Apology for Poetry, MLN, 71 (1956), 170-2.
An exemplum of the 1707 printed edition of the History with annotations by Thomas Gray.
1707.An exemplum of the 1759 printed edition of Clarendon's Life with annotations by Thomas Gray.
1759.A folio guardbook of miscellaneous letters, in various hands, i + 99 leaves.
Autograph prayer, headed Compline. For the 31: December, or Last Day of the Year, & first of the New
, with an Advertisement
or preface, on two conjugate quarto leaves, imperfect.
Autograph letter signed by Vaughan, to Anthony Wood, 25 April 1689.
1689.Edited in Martin, p. 695. Facsimile examples in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LIX (a-b).
Autograph emendations.
For a discussion of annotations in Milles's books (which, however, does not mention this item) see P.H. Davison, The Annotations to Copies of Thomas Milles's Books in the British Museum and Bodleian Libraries, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 133-9.
A folio composite volume of letters by English noblemen, chiefly to Dr Arthur Charlett (d.1622), Master of University College, Oxford, 207 leaves.
Copy of Rochester's letter on his death-bed to Dr Thomas Pierce, President of Magdalen College, Oxford, July 1680.
Rochester's last known letter. Edited from this MS in Treglown, pp. 245-6. See also
A folio volume of letters, 186 leaves.
Copy of a letter by Ralegh., 26 July 1584.
A folio composite volume of verse and letters by the Rev. William Parry (1687-1756), antiquary, to Thomas Rawlins, many on Oxford subjects, 172 leaves.
c.1737-49.Copy, headed The Bride on her Wedding-day, describ'd. A Song
, on the first of two conjugate folio leaves.
This MS recorded in Clayton.
First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646): Clayton, pp. 79-84.
A small narrow ledger-size volume of copies of letters, made by Thomas James (1572-1629), Bodley's Librarian, xix + 233 leaves (including blanks), in vellum boards.
c.1620.Copy by Thomas James of a letter sent to him by Hall, from Emmanuel College, undated.
Copy by Thomas James of a letter sent to him by Hall, [1619].
Copy by Thomas James of a letter sent to him by Hall, [1619].
A folio composite volume of verse, in various hands and paper sizes, some printed, 175 leaves, in contemporary quarter-calf marbled boards.
Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.
Copy, headed Prologue to ye New Opera Call'd the Prophetesse
, subscribed at the end This Prologue was spoken but once & after forbid by ye Ld Chamberlain, which I suppose will encrease the value with persons of yr Curiosity
, on two conjugate quarto leaves, addressed on the verso (f. 84v) to Mr Charlett: att Trinity College Oxon.
, sent as a letter and bearing a postmark and seal tear.
This MS collated in California.
First published in Thomas Betterton, The Prophetess: or, The History of Dioclesian (London, 1690). Poems on Affairs of State, Part III (London, 1698). Kinsley, II, 556-7. California, III, 255-6. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 231-4.
A folio composite volume of verse in Latin and English, some relating to Oxford, in various hands, 215 leaves, in contemporary quarter-calf gilt vellum boards.
Early-mid-18th century.Copy on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves. Mid-17th century.
First published, under the pseudonym Francis Cole
, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Waller, I, 31-2 (and II, 161). Autrey Nell Wiley, The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).
Copy on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves. Mid-17th century.
First published, under the pseudonym Francis Cole
, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Printed (with the first line: The Play is done, great Prince, which needs must fear
) in The Guardian (London, 1650). Waller, I, 32 (and II, 242). Autrey Nell Wiley, The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).
Copy, headed On Smectymnius, or the Clubb Divine
, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Mid-17th century.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 23-6.
Copy, headed Charming Sylvia sett by Dr Green
, being No. 9 of a series of 42 poems on seven folio leaves on ff. 104, 106-11v (lacking an eighth leaf after f. 109 with poems 21-23). Early 18th century.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, p. 26.
Copy.
First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).
Copy, untitled, here beginning She first deceased, he for a little tried
.
First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.
This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds
, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see
Copy.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 415. Thorn-Drury, pp. 147-8.
Copy.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.
A folio volume of tracts relating to seafaring, in a single professional predominantly secretary hand, 237 leaves.
c.1640.Copy, with a title-page and dedicatory epistle to England.
This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 670. The prefatory material edited from this MS in Sandison (1940), pp. 247-52.
First published, as A larger Relation of the...Iland Voyage (but without any dedicatory epistle), in Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes (London, 1625). Glasgow edition of Purchas, XX (1907), 34-129. According to Purchas the work was written in 1607 and dedicated to Prince Henry.
Copy, ascribed to Gorges.
This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 671. The previously unpublished introduction in this MS edited in Sandison (1940), p. 252.
A tract dedicated to Prince Henry and beginning Having formerly, most excellent prince, discoursed of a maritimal voyage, and the passages and incidents therein...
. First published in Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 335-50. These notes probably written by Ralegh but usually appended to Sir Arthur Gorges, A larger Relation of the...Iland Voyage, printed in Purchas his Pilgrimes (London, 1625). Glasgow edition, XX (1907), 34-129. See Helen Estabrook Sandison, Manuscripts of the Islands Voyage and Notes on the Royal Navy, Essays and Studies in Honor of Carleton Brown (New York, London & Oxford, 1940), 242-52, and Lefranc (1968), pp. 53, 58-9.
Copy, chiefly in a mixed hand, partly in a second hand, ii + 293 folio leaves.
The two main hands also in
Griffin's B
text. Facsimile of the first page in Griffin, p. 172.
First published and attributed to Herbert in an edition by Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill, 1768).
Commonly rejected from the canon, but see arguments for possible authorial involvement of Herbert (as well as Charles Blount) in Julia Griffin, Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury's A Dialogue between a Tutor and his Pupil: Some New Questions, EMS, 7 (1998), 162-201, where the various MS texts are discussed.
A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous papers, chiefly relating to Oxford, in various hands, x + 154 leaves and pages (including blanks), in half-calf gilt marbled boards.
Collected by Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary, and by Thomas Rawlins.
Extracts, ex Lelando Collect
, transcribed by Anthony Wood, dated by him Jun 17: 1660
, and inscribed (f. 15v) perused Feb.6th 1728/9 TR
[i.e. Thomas Rawlins].
Lent by Rawlins to Thomas Hearne c.November 1732: see S.G. Gillam, Arthur Charlett's Letters and Manuscripts, Bodleian Library Record, 4 (1952-3), 105-14 (p. 108).
A small quarto volume of works by Thomas More, apparently transcribed from Workes (1557), iii + 106 leaves, in marbled boards.
Mid-16th century.Copy of the second book.
This MS recorded in Yale, Part III, p. 1420.
First published in London, 1529. Yale, Vol. 7, pp. 109-228.
All exempla of the two editions of 1529 bear a MS correction, evidently made in the printer William Rastell's workshop, on sig h2v: see Ralph Keen, A Correction by Hand in More's Supplication, 1529, Moreana, Vol. 20 (February 1983), 100.
Copy of the preface to the crysten reader.
This MS recorded in Yale, Part III, p. 1420.
First published in 2 vols, London, 1532-3. Yale, Vol. 8, Parts I-III (1973).
Copy of certaine letters
written by More while he was prysoner in the Towre of London
in 1534, including one to his daughter Margaret.
Autograph manuscript volume prepared by Princess Elizabeth in her italic hand as 64a New Year's gift to Edward VI, 30 December [1547], vii + 36 small quarto-size leaves (plus six blanks at the end), on vellum throughout, in modern crimson velvet.
Elizabeth's translation from Italian into Latin in the Princess's calligraphic roman hand, some words and subheadings rubricated, with a title-page in capitals (f. 1r), Berna/rdini. Oc/hinisene/sis de Chr/isti. Sermo/ ex. Italico, i / Latinv. co/versvs
, and dedication to her brother Edward (ff. 2r-4v), dated from Enfeldie, 30 Decembris
and signed Elizabeta
.
Inscribed (f. vr) J. Bowle, Idmerston. July 25, 1759
.
Edited from this MS in Translations, with a facsimile of f. 19v on p. 298.
Elizabeth's translation from Italian into Latin. Translations, pp. 300-27, with a translation of the Latin into modern English.
A quarto MS of commendatory poems by six Oxford University men (chiefly members of New College), in a semi-calligraphic hand, ii + 12 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum gilt, traces of silk ties.
A presentation MS to Lady Elizabeth Paulet.
[1636].Copy, headed To the Right vertuous the Ladie Elizabeth Powlet vpon her Present to the Vniuersitie of Oxon being the Birth, Death, Resurrection and Ascension of our Saviour wrought by her selfe in Needle-worke
, subscribed William Cartwright Mr of Arts of Christ=Church
.
First published in Works (1651), pp. 195-6. Evans, pp. 459-60.
Autograph volume of notes, verses, and other matter relating to the Carmelite order, beginning (f. lv) Ex magistro historiarum…
, including (ff. 140r-55r) lives of certain saints, xiii + 217 quarto leaves, in contemporary leather.
Owned in 1697 by Dr Francis Bernard; afterwards by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector; and on 28 June 1710 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary. Donated to the Bodleian by Mr Tanner, of Norwich.
Brief extracts from this MS edited in Monumenta historica Carmelitana. Recorded and discussed in Davies, p. 236 (iii), with a facsimile of f. 37v in plate II, after p. 244; in McCusker (1942), pp. 104-5; and in Fairfield, pp. 158-9.
Unpublished (complete).
Copy of a portion of the Collectanea, transcribed from Leland's autograph (
Inscribed taken out of a manuscript copy of Leyland's own handwriting in the hands of Sr Henry St. George, Clarenceaux King at Arms, procured by Rob: Plot. LL. D. Vniv.
Edited from this MS in Thomas Hearne's edition of The Itinerary, 3rd edition (Oxford, 1769), IV, 135-81. Recorded in Smith, I, xxx; II, 117.
An autograph note by Leland comparing Plutarch and Sulpicius Severus as biographers.
On f. iiv, headed Carmen Joannis Leylandi Londinensis
, in an early 13th-century MS on parchment of lives of saints entitled by Leland Vitae illustrium virorum, ii + 289 folio leaves in all, bound for Henry VIII.
Presented to the Bodleian in 1604 by Charles Howard (1536-1624), second Baron Howard of Effingham and first Earl of Nottingham, naval commander.
A folio volume of More's works, in an accomplished hand, in varying secretary and italic scripts, with ornamental capitals, probably produced for a man of wealth or high position, i + 234 leaves.
c.1553-8.Acquired by the Bodleian between 1605 and 1611.
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Yale, with facsimiles of ff. 37r and 149r facing p. 51 and p. xxvii. Facsimile examples also in M. P. Parkes, English Cursive Book Hands 1250-1500 (Oxford, 1969), facing p. 20.
First published in Workes (London, 1557), pp. 1270-1349. Yale, Vol. 13, pp. 1-177.
This MS collated in Yale.
First published in Workes (London, 1557), pp. 1264-9. Yale, Vol. 13, pp. 189-204.
This MS collated in Yale.
First published, as Expositio passionis Domini, in Thomae Mori...omnia...latina opera (Louvain, 1565). Mary Basset's English translation, An exposicion of a parte of the passion of our saviour Iesus Christe, published in Workes (London, 1557), pp. 1350-1404. Yale, Vol. 14, Parts I & II.
Copy of five parts
of Leland's The Itinerary, iii + 127 folio leaves.
Transcribed from Leland's autograph MS (
This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxvi.
Copy.
Copy of Leland's account of his travels.
First published in London, 1549, ed. John Bale.
A presentation copy, the main text beginning What is Natture…
, including (f. 11r-v) verse, written chiefly in the hand of one of Howard's amanuenses in two styles of secretary script, with some of the sidenotes in Howard's own hand, ii + 67 quarto leaves, in contemporary red calf elaborately tooled in gilt.
Produced for Howard's sister Lady Katherine Berkeley; the dedication (ff. 1r-12v) To hys very lovinge sister the Lady Kathe. Barkley
beginning Your earnest affection (my dere sister)…
and including (f. 11r-v) verses beginning Nothing applyede to common vse
, dated From Trinity haule in Cambridge the 6 of August 1569
and signed by Howard your lounge and fayth full brother durynge lyfe Henry Howarde
.
Donated to the Bodleian on 2 May 1735 by Dr Thomas Waine, who has inscribed f. iir Sir / I Desire that Mr Nichs, Holland of Merton College may have ye Liberty of peruseing Henry Howard's Manuscript of Philosophy att ye Request of me ye Donor Thos Waine
.
Unpublished treatise on natural philosophy.
A quarto manuscript of a catechism of Christian doctrine, in the Tupi-Guarini language of Brazil, with Portuguese rubrics, composed by a Jesuit missionary, written in double columns, ii + 109 leaves, inscribed Ex dono Thomæ Lodge D.M. Oxoniensis, qui sua manu e Brasilia deduxit
.
Acquired by Lodge at Santos in 1591 when he sailed with Thomas Cavendish to Brazil. Donated by him to the Bodleian Library probably when he was incorporated M.D. at Oxford in 1602.
Late 16th century.Recorded in Eccles, p. 81. Facsimile of the title-page in The Last Voyage of Thomas Cavendish 1591-1592, ed. David Beers Quinn (Chicago, 1975), p. 22.
A folio composite volume, comprising three MSS, in English and Latin, i + 12 leaves, in limp vellum.
Probably presented to the Bodleian in 1639 by Patrick Young (1584-1652), Royal Librarian.
Copy of the original Latin version, in a professional hand.
Edited from this MS in Autograph Compositions.
Beginning Merita et gratitudo sic meam rationem captiuam duxerunt...
, in Autograph Compositions, pp. 163-5. An English translation, beginning Merits and gratitude have so captured my reason...
, in Collected Works, Speech 20, pp. 327-8.
Autograph MS of the Queen's translation in her cursive hand.
Edited from this MS in Selected Works and in Translations (2), the latter with a facsimile of f. 6r on p. 2.
Translations (2), pp. 16-41, facing a modernized spelling version. Selected Works, pp. 268-86.
A presentation copy, chiefly in the accomplished secretary and italic scripts of one of Howard's amanuenses, with autograph additions, corrections and sidenotes by Howard throughout, 177 folio leaves, in purple velvet, with remains of silk ties.
Prepared for a member of the Stanhope family, probably Sir John Stanhope, later first Baron Stanhope of Harrington (c.1545-1621), Treasurer of the Chamber (in 1596-1616), with a lengthy title-page (f. 1r), subscribed by four lines in Latin in Howard's own hand quoting from Daniel 13.57; illuminated arms of the Stanhope family (f. 1v) followed by eight autograph lines of Latin verse by Howard and with his sidenote, signed Amicus tibi in perpetuum fidelissimus H. Hwward
; a Dedication To the Quenes most excellent Maiestie
on ff. 2r-19v, 19 bis - 20r, subscribed with two autograph lines of Latin signed by Howard (f. 20r) Your Maiesties most loyall / and humble subiecte and / seruante till deathe / H. Hwward
; the main text on ff. 21r-176v, with separate title-pages for the second book (f. 97r after a blank leaf) and third book (f. 119v).
Given to the Bodleian in 1621 by Ralph Radcliffe, Town Clerk of Oxford.
An unpublished answer to, and attack upon, John Knox's railing invective
against Mary Queen of Scots, First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (1558). Written, Howard claims in his Dedication, some thirteen years after he was asked to do so by a Privy Councillor [i.e. c.1585-90]. The Dedication to Queen Elizabeth beginning It pricketh now fast upon the point of thirteen years (most excellent most gratious and most redoubted Soveraign …
; the main text, in three books, beginning It may seem strange to men of grounded knowledge …
, and ending … Sancta et individuae Trinitati sit omnis honor laus et gloria in secula seculorum. Amen.
Copy, in an accomplished professional roman hand, xxvi + 966 folio pages, in dark blue calf elaborately gilt.
1638.Prefixed (p. iii) by an autograph letter to John Rouse, Bodley's Librarian, 31 January 1643, presenting the volume to the Bodleian via Thomas Master.
This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490.
First published in London, 1649. Published in London, 1880 (with Autobiography).
A double-folio-size composite volume of historical tracts and papers, many relating to state arraignments, in a single professional secretary hand up to p. 527, xxiv + 552 pages (plus blank pp. 553-684), in red morocco elaborately gilt.
c.1610 [with addition to c.1630].Presented to the Bodleian in 1620 by Sir Peter Manwood (1571-1625), judge and antiquary.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Sylvester, p. 278.
First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).
Copy, in a neat cursive secretary hand, untitled.
Collated in Hitchcock and briefly described, p. xviii.
First published in London, 1626. Edited, as The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, written by William Roper Esquire, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (EETS, London, 1935).
A summary of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603.
Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, The Great Day of Mart
: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.
Copy.
Copy of an account of the execution.
Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
Copy.
Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
Copy, unascribed.
Tract beginning I am not ignorant, that this latter age hath brought forth a swarm of busie heads...
, dated 11 August 1613. First published in two editions, as respectively Seriovs Considerations for Repressing of the Increase of Iesvites and A Treatise against Recusants (both London, 1641). Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [109]-159.
Autograph calligraphic MS, 77 leaves (51 x 80 mm.), in contemporary calf gilt, dated 21 June 1617.
A presentation MS to Joseph Hall (1574-1656), Dean of Worcester and later Bishop of Exeter, with a prose Dedication to him in English, in roman and italic scripts, with decoration and a self-portrait.
1617.Given to the Bodleian Library in 1638 by Edward Hall.
Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 50 (pp. 77-8).
Quatrains in French by Guy du Faur, Sieur de Pybrac (1529-84), first published in 1576.
Autograph calligraphic MS, xviii + 70 pages (184 x 128mm.), in red leather gilt, dated 13 April 1599.
A presentation MS to Robert Devereux (1566-1601), second Earl of Essex, with a prose Dedication to him in French, in numerous styles of script, with arms, decoration, and a self-portrait.
1599.Presented to the Bodleian in 1620 by Sir Thomas Nevill. Inscribed in 1711 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary, and also by Esther Inglis's great-grandson, Samuel Kello.
Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 9 (pp. 37-9), with a facsimile of p. 12 as Plate 11 (between pp. 42 and 43). Facsimile of the portrait page, f. xvr, in Jonathan Goldberg, Writing Matter: From the Hands of the English Renaissance (Stanford, 1990), p. 151. Facsimile of the Latin verses to Essex and the portrait page, ff. xivv-xvr, in Sally Mapstone, Scots and their Books in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: An exhibition in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Bodleian Library, 1996), p. 25.
A French translation of the Book of Proverbs in the Bible, with Latin verses to Essex by Melville, Rollock and Johnston and to Esther Inglis by Melville and Johnston.
Copy, in the hands of two amanuenses.
Entitled (f. 1r) Reges, Reginæ Nobiles in Ecclesia St. Petri Westmonasterij sepulti
, with rubrication and 166 emblazoned coats of arms, on 95 quarto leaves (including 22 blanks), gilt edged, in contemporary calf elaborately gilt with the arms of Queen Elizabeth and probably presented to her.
Bookplate of Strickland Freeman, Fawley Court, Buckinghamshire, 1810. Sotheby's, 23 April 1945, lot 40.
Formerly Broxbourne R 276. Described, with an illustration, in Howard M. Nixon, Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs of Bookbindings from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century (London, 1956), pp. 112-14.
First published in London, 1600.
A duodecimo notebook and miscellany, entitled (f. [1r]) Vade mecum or A Pocket-Booke
, ii + 84 leaves, in contemporary calf.
Compiled by John Gibson (1630-1711), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, North Yorkshire, and in his minute hand throughout.
c.1665-78.Inscribed (f. [iir]) Joseph King / Lewes Sussex / Sept 30 1834 to Mr S.B. Williams
.
Formerly Broxbourne R 359.
Copy, headed In Diadema Regium a Bluddio Furto ablatum
.
First published in Thompson (1776), I, xxxix. Margoliouth, I, 178. Lord, p. 249. Smith, p. 414, with English translation.
Copy, headed In English
and subscribed A.M.
.
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
Copy, transcribed from a printed source (p. 497).
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).
Copy, headed On Somersets Fall. Sr H.W.
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 522. Hannah (1845), pp. 25-7. Some texts of this poem discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's Dazel'd Thus, with Height of Place and the Appropriation of Political Poetry in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, PBSA, 71 (1977), 151-69.
Copy, untitled, transcribed from Walton's Compleat Angler, p. 348.
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 531-3, subscribed Ignoto
, among Poems Found among the Papers of S. H. Wotton
. Described in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 239-40, as a Copy printed amongst Sir Henry Wottons Verses, and doubtless made either by him, or by a lover of Angling. Hannah (1845), pp. 55-9.
Copy, untitled, transcribed from Walton's Compleat Angler, p. 351.
First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by Dr. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.
Copy, headed Sr Hen: Wotton's Description of ye Spring
and here beginning This day dame Nature seemd in Love
.
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 524. Hannah (1845), pp. 32-5.
Copy, probably transcribed from a printed source.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 49-51.
Copy, untitled.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 87-8.
Copy, headed Mr Cowley's Translation of Vitam quae faciunt lecturem
, transcribed from a printed source.
First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 460.
A duodecimo Vade mecum or A Pocket-Book
of verse, compiled by John Gibson the Younger (1630-1711), of Welburne, Yorkshire, 86 unnumbered leaves, in contemporary calf, with traces of clasps.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's The Character of a Happy Life, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).
Copy, headed On Somersets fall. Sr H. W.
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 522. Hannah (1845), pp. 25-7. Some texts of this poem discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Sir Henry Wotton's Dazel'd Thus, with Height of Place and the Appropriation of Political Poetry in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, PBSA, 71 (1977), 151-69.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 531-3, subscribed Ignoto
, among Poems Found among the Papers of S. H. Wotton
. Described in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 239-40, as a Copy printed amongst Sir Henry Wottons Verses, and doubtless made either by him, or by a lover of Angling. Hannah (1845), pp. 55-9.
Extracts.
Books I-IV first published in London, 1621. Complete in 1626.
Copy, untitled.
First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by Dr. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.
Copy, headed Sr Hen Wottons Description of ye spring
, here beginning This day dame Nature…
.
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 524. Hannah (1845), pp. 32-5.
Extracts from poems by Cowley.
Exemplum of Daniel's printed Works (London, 1601).
Later in the library of John Buxton (1912-89), Reader in English Literature, Oxford University.
Autograph correction in line 2.
Grosart, I, 38. Sprague, p. 11.
Autograph correction in line 1.
Grosart, I, 42-3. Sprague, p. 15.
Autograph corrections in Act I, line 9, and Act V, scene ii, line 17.
First published in London, 1594. Grosart, III, 1-94.
Autograph corrections on sigs. G4r (line 20) and H1r (line 20).
First published in London, [1603]. Grosart, IV, 29-67. Sprague, pp. 125-58.
Autograph revision in the first stanza, line 5, and an autograph correction in the final stanza, line 1.
First published, together with Delia, in London, 1592. Grosart, I, 79-113. Sprague, pp. 37-63.
Autograph correction in Book VI, stanza 82, last line.
Books I-IV first published in London, 1595. Grosart, Vol. II. Edited by Laurence Michel (New Haven, 1958).
Autograph, headed Pindarique Ode. The Book Humbly presenting it selfe to the Vniversity Librarie at Oxford
, inscribed on the preliminary flyleaves of an exemplum of Cowley's Poems (London, 1656), presented by him to the Bodleian Library.
Facsimiles and facsimile examples of this MS in the Scolar Press facsimile edition of the 1656 Poems (Menston, 1971); in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 51; and in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate XXVII(c).
First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, I, 409-11.
Camden's copious autograph annotations in a printed exemplum of Brooke's Catalogue and Succession (London, 1619.
Constituting a detailed critique of the book, some on interleaves, inscribed Mr Yorke sent his booke to me to be censured the 19 of Febr: and I did resend it the 25th of the same month
, and some pages inscribed This page reprinted
.
Unpublished.
A folio composite volume of state letters and papers for the period January 1647/8 to November 1648, 699 leaves.
Autograph letter signed MK
, to James Butler, Marquess of Ormonde, from London, 28 February [1647/8].
Edited in Kelliher, p. 5.
Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to the Marquess of Ormond, from Paris, 25 October 1648, endorsed By Mr Fanshaw
.
A folio composite volume of state letters and papers for the period March 1648/9 to May 1649, in various hands, 801 leaves.
Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to Sir George Hamilton, from Kinsale, 3 March 1648/9.
A folio composite volume of state letters and papers for the period December 1650 to January 1650/1, in various hands, 660 leaves.
Autograph letter signed, to Lady Isabella Thynne, from The Hague, 27 December [1651].
Edited in Kelliher, pp. 9-11, with a facsimile of the first page. Facsimile also in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XIII, after p. xxiv.
Autograph letter signed, to Isabella Thynne, 8 February [1651/2].
Edited in Kelliher, pp. 11-12.
A folio volume of copies of documents relating to state matters in Ireland and to the Butler family of Ormonde and their estates, 1632-60, 715 leaves.
Autograph letter signed by Cowley, [to James Butler, Marquess of Ormonde], from Paris, 26 December 1659.
Edited in C.H. Firth, Abraham Cowley at the Restoration, The Academy, 44, No. 1118 (7 October 1893), 296.
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous correspondence and state papers, chiefy of the Duke of Ormonde, in various hands, 1660-2, 613 leaves.
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Hugh, Viscount Montgomery, from Hillsborough, 27 October 1660.
Edited in H.J. Lawlor, Two Letters of Jeremy Taylor, Church of Ireland Gazette, 43 (14 June 1901), 482-3.
A folio composite volume of papers, chiefly correspondence of the fifth and seventh Earls of Huntingdon, on state affairs, 723 leaves, in half-calf.
Copy, in a professional hand, untitled but subscribed The Coppie of Sr. wa. Raleigh his appologie to ye Kinge at his returne from Guiana in July 1618
.
Ralegh's letter of 1618 to his cousin George, Lord Carew of Clopton (beginning Because I know not whether I shall live...
). First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650). Edwards, II, 375 et seq. Youings, No. 222, pp. 364-8.
Copy of one or more letters by Ralegh.
A summary of Ralegh's arraignment.
Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, The Great Day of Mart
: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.
Copy, in a professional hand, the first leaf imperfect, endorsed (f. 102v) A discourse of w. Rawleigh agt a match with the daughter of Savoy
.
A tract beginning There is nobody that persuades our prince to match with Savoy, for any love to the person of the duke...
. First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses:...2) Touching a Marriage between Prince Henry of England and a Daughter of Savoy (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 237-52. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.
Copy of all Bacon's submissions.
The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...
); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...
); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...
), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.
A folio composite volume of correspondence and papers of Philip, fourth Baron Wharton (1613-96), and Thomas, first Marquess of Wharton (1648-1715), between 1665 and 1699, 759 leaves.
Extracts, made by Theophilus Hastings (1650-1701), seventh Earl of Huntingdon.
First published, as Collected by Sr. R. Cotton
, in London, 1657. Probably collected rather by William and Robert Bowyer, Keepers of the Records in the Tower, and revised and edited by William Prynne.
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous correspondence, including papers of the Wharton family, 1640-67, in various hands, 828 leaves.
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to Colonel Arthur Goodwyn, [July 1643].
Edited in Lord Nugent, Some Memorials of John Hampden, his Party, and his Times, 2 vols (London, 1832), II, 417-19. Text in Deas, pp. 170-1.
A folio composite volume of state correspondence, in various hands, of Philip, fourth Baron Wharton (1613-96), politician, and of Thomas Wharton (1648-1715), first Marquess of Wharton, politician.
Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Philip, fourth Baron Wharton, 9 May 1668.
Discussed by Nicholas von Maltzahn in TLS, 21 June 2002, pp. 14-15, and in Andrew Marvell and the Lord Wharton, The Seventeenth Century, 18/2 (Autumn 2003), 252-65 (p. 254).
A folio volume of state papers and treatises, chiefly relating to relations between England and Spain, in a single professional hand, vi + 166 leaves (including some blanks), in half-calf.
Copy, ascribed to Robert Cotton Esqr
.
Tract, relating to events in 1599/1600, beginning To seek before the decay of the Roman Empire...
. First published in London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [73]-79
[i.e. 89].
Copy, as by Sr Walter Rawlaigh Knt
.
This MS discussed in Lefranc (1968), p. 64.
An unpublished tract, dedicated to James I, beginning By the relation of the Spanish project agt this State of England most illustrious Prince...
.
Copy, as written by Sr Robert Cotton to Sr. Edward Mountague Anno Dni 1621
.
Tract, the full title sometimes given as A Brief discourse prouinge that the house of Comons hath Equall power with the Peeres in point of Judicature written by Sr Rob: Cotton to Sr Edward Mountague Ano Dni. 1621, beginning Sir, To give you as short an accompt of your desire as I can...
. First published in London, 1640. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [341]-351.
A folio composite volume of state papers and correspondence, in various hands, 661 leaves.
Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to [Philip, fourth Baron Wharton], from London, 2 April 1667.
Margoliouth, II, 309-11.
A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 306 leaves, in half-calf.
Copy of the dedication and Chapter 1 to the beginning of Chapter 10, in a professional hand, imperfect, lacking a title-page and the ending.
A treatise, with dedicatory epistle to James I, comprising 33 chapters, beginning The Question it self is no more than this, Whether the Impositions which the King of England hath laid and levied upon Merchandize, by vertue of his Prerogative onely...
. First published in London, 1656. Grosart, III, 1-116.
A folio composite volume of papers on antiquarian and state matters, in various hands, 207 leaves, in half-calf.
Copy, in a professional hand, as written by Sr Robert Cotton knt and Barontt
.
Tract beginning Yff wee curiouslye will looke the Roote of this question...
. Hearne (1771), II, 65-7.
Copy, in a professional hand, as written by Sr Robt: Cotton
.
Tract beginning The plentye of this discourse, the last question of Highe Connstables, whereto...
. Hearne (1771), II, 97-103.
Copy, in a professional hand.
A dedicatory epistle beginning Sir, Yor small tyme, I must Ballance, wth as sclendr Aunswere...
followed by a tract beginning Because the Jurisdiction att the Comon Lawe was vncertayne...
.
Copy, in a professional hand, headed The Etimologyie Antiquitie and office of the office [sic] of Erle Marshal…
.
A tract beginning Such is the vncertainety of etimologyes...
and sometimes entitled in manuscripts The Etymology, Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England
. First published, as Commentarius de etymologia, antiquitate, & officio Comitis Marescalli Angliae, in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 87-93. Hearne (1771), II, 90-7.
Copy of an account of Essex's execution and prayer at his death
, in a professional hand.
Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
Copy.
A folio composite volume of papers on Parliamentary subjects, in various hands, some printed, 195 leaves, in half-calf.
Copy, in a professional hand, headed The Antiquitie and Dignitie of Parliaments. Script p Sr Robt: Cotton
.
Tract beginning To search so high as the Norman Conquest...
. First published, as The Forme of Governement of the Kingdome of England collected out of the Fundamental Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdome, London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [11]-39.
Copy, in a professional hand.
Speech beginning My Lords, Since it hath pleased this Honourable Table to command...
. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [283]-294, with related texts (The Answer of the Committees Appointed...2 September 1626 and Questions to be proposed, etc.) on pp. 295-307. W.A. Shaw, Writers on English Monetary History, pp. 21-38.
A folio composite volume principally of state correspondence and papers of Sir Robert Long, Bt (c.1602-73), Secretary of State, 542 leaves.
Autograph letter signed, [to Sir Robert Long], from Paris, 13 March 1650
.
Edited in J. Simmons, An Unpublished Letter from Abraham Cowley, MLN, 57 (1942), 194-5.
A folio composite volume of state papers and correspondence of James Butler, first Duke of Ormonde, 1660-84, in various hands, 704 leaves.
Autograph letter signed, [to James Butler, Marquess of Ormonde], from Paris, 2 March 1660
.
Edited in C.H. Firth, Abraham Cowley at the Restoration, The Academy, 44, No. 1118 (7 October 1893), 296.
Copy of 25 Rules, including (ff. 1r-7r) a dedication to Queen Elizabeth dated 8 January 1596
and (ff. 8r-15r) a Preface, in secretary and italic hands, on 82 quarto leaves, in modern half-calf.
First published in The Elements of the Common Lawes of England (London, 1630). Spedding, VII, 307-87.
Bacon claimed to have collected 300 of them
, of which only some few
(25 maxims) were subsequently published. For an attempt to track down the missing
maxims, see John C. Hogan and Mortimer D. Schwartz, On Bacon's Rules and Maximes
of the Common Law, Law Library Journal, 76/1 (Chicago, Winter 1983), 48-77.
A folio volume of correspondence of the scholar Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614).
Copy of a letter by Lancelot Andrewes, to Daniel Heinsius, [1614].
Edited in LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. xlv-xlvii.
A quarto composite volume of ecclesiastical papers, in various hands, i + 76 leaves, in contemporary calf.
Among collections of Francis Cherry (1665-1713), of Shollesbrooke, Berkshire, nonjuror.
Copy, headed Sententia dris Andrews episcopi Wintoniensis de Articulis Lambethanis…
.
First published in Articuli Lambethani (London, 1651). LACT, Pattern of Catechistical Doctrine (1846), pp. 287-300.
A quarto miscellany of sermons and verse, in Greek, Latin and English, written from both ends, 84 leaves.
Inscribed inside the front cover, apparently by the principal scribe, George Taylar his booke witnesse by him that writ it October ye :21: Ano domini 1646
.
Among collections of Francis Cherry (1665-1713), of Shollesbrooke, Berkshire, nonjuror.
Copy, accompanied by a version in Greek.
First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, Bacon's Poem, The World: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.
Autograph MS by Princess Elizabeth, with a prayer by her added by someone else later, on vellum throughout, 65 small quarto-size leaves (including 2 blanks), in an elaborately embroidered binding.
1544.Among collections of Francis Cherry (1665-1713), of Shollesbrooke, Berkshire, nonjuror.
The embroidered binding and dedication to Katherine Parr illustrated in colour in Margaret H. Swain, A New Year's Gift from the Princess Elizabeth, The Connoisseur, 183 (1973, 258-66 (pp. 258-9). Binding also illustrated in colour in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), p. 472.
Autograph MS, in the Princess's neat hand, a New Year's Gift presented to Queen Katherine, including (ff. 2r-4v) Elizabeth's prose dedicatory epistle to her and (ff. 5r-6r) a preface to the reader, dated 31 December 1544.
Complete facsimile and transcription in Marc Shell, Elizabeth's Glass (Lincoln, Nebraska, & London, 1993). The dedicatory epistle edited in Collected Works, pp. 6-7, and in Autograph Compositions, pp. 6-7. Edited from this MS in Translations. Facsimile examples of the binding and of f. 2r in The Bodleian Library 1602-2002 (Oxford, 2002), No. 41, pp. 94-5. Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Frances Teague, Princess Elizabeth's Hand in The Glass of the Sinful Soul, EMS, 9 (2000), 33-48.
The translation first published, edited by John Bale, in A Godly Medytacyon of the Christen Sowle (Marburg, 1548). Translations, pp. 23-125.
Copy, in an unidentified italic hand, headed A praier made by her Matie
.
Edited from this MS, in both a diplomatic and an edited version, in Tucker Brooke, Queen Elizabeth's Prayers, HLQ, 2 (1938-90, 69-77 (p. 77). Cited in Selected Works.
Beginning O God, All-maker, Keeper, and Guider, inurement of thy rare-seen, unused and seld-heard-of goodness...
. Collected Works, Prayer 39, pp. 426-7. Autograph Compositions, pp. 104-5. Selected Works, Prayer 5, pp. 257-9.
A printed exemplum of the 1651 quarto edition with Davenant's autograph inscription For the most honor'd and Learned John Selden Esquire
.
A complete facsimile edition of this exemplum published by the Scolar Press, 1970.
Autograph inscription Sum Nicolai Vdalli. 1544
.
Also inscribed in 1523 by John Fox (d.1530), of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Juhász-Ormsby, No. 11.
Portion of a copy of Etherege's letterbook, on eighteen quarto leaves, unbound.
c.1686-8.This MS later brought from Ratisbon by Thomas Walpole, Envoy to the Court of Bavaria, and sent by him to Sir James Bland Burges (1752-1824) on 30 May 1795. Walpole's letter, in which he says Inclosed I have the Honor to send you the only part of the copy of Sir G. Etheredge's papers which I have hitherto received from Ratisbon
, is f. 136r.
Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987) as L 4
.
Portion of a transcript of Etherege's letterbook, comprising some twenty letters (plus verse) dated from Ratisbon, 19/29 November 1685 to 1/11 July 1686, in a single professional hand.
Copy.
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.
Copy.
First published in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 48-50.
Collections of Edmund Gibson for his edition of Britannia in English (1695).
c.1695.First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.
Autograph MS, iv + 88 leaves (ff. 54-88 blank).
Early 17th century.Later owned by H.A. Lee-Dillon, seventeenth Viscount Dillon, who gave it to Burford parish in 1925, whence it was deposited in the Bodleian in 1991.
A translation of the Mirroir du Monde of Abraham Ortelius and dedicated to her uncle Sir Henry Lee.
Copy, in a neat probably non-professional secretary hand, concluding with Three Sonnetts in the comendatio of ye Pamphlett
, iv + 59 quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum.
Formerly owned by Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon (1917-93), fifth Baron Kenyon, of Gredington, Shropshire.
First published [in London? 1596-7?]. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 21-73.
A sextodecimo composite booklet of autograph notes and memoranda by the young Southwell, i + 33 leaves (including nine blanks), in late 17th-century vellum gilt.
Comprising three MSS containing copies, in Latin and Italian, of Jesuit rules and spiritual exercises, a calendar of duties, and a Latin devotional tract On Christ's condemnation to death and the injustice of such a sentence, compiled while Southwell was a novice or scholastic in Rome.
c.1579-80.The booklet sent from Rome by Christopher Green, S.J., to John Keynes, S.J., Rector of the Jesuit college at Liège; later probably sent to Stonyhurst College at its foundation in 1794. Given to Thomas Anthony Southwell (1777-1860), third Viscount Southwell. Temporarily deposited in 1930 by the fifth Viscount Southwell (1872-44) in St Joseph's Church, Newbury, Berkshire. A typescript summary and partial transcript of the MS made in London in 1930 by or for Fr C.A. Newdigate, S.J. Afterwards in the custody of Patrick C. Barry, in the Office of the Vice-Postulation for the Cause of the English and Welsh Martyrs, in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London. Deposited in the Bodleian in 1988 by Iain Cameron.
Described in H[erbert] T[hurston, S.J.], An Autograph Manuscript of the Venerable Robert Southwell, S.J., The Month, 193, No. 718 (April 1924), p. 353. Also described in Spiritual Exercises and Devotions of Blessed Robert Southwell, S.J., ed. J.-M. de Buck, S.J. (London, 1931), pp. 29-31, and in McDonald, pp. 14-15.
Unpublished.
A sectodecimo autograph notebook, comprising lists of saints and of subjects for prayers, in Latin, inscribed Manu P. Rob. Southwelli Martyris scripta
, 16 unsewn leaves (ff. 9v-16r blank).
Unpublished.
A 15th-century rubricated MS of John Gower's Vox Clamantis, on vellum throughout, 157 folio-size leaves, ff' 158r-69v comprising later additions on paper, in old calf gilt (rebacked).
From the library of Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), natural philosopher and courtier. Inscribed name Roger Waller
.
Copy, headed E Reg
, here beginning The Dowte of future [force superscribed by] foes
. Late 16th-century.
This MS cited in Bradner and in Selected Works.
A version first published in George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (London, 1589), sig. 2E2v (p. 208). Bradner, p. 4. Collected Works, Poem 5, pp. 133-4. Selected Works, Poem 4, pp. 7-9.
A folio composite volume of heraldic and genealogical papers belonging to Camden, Robert Glover, and others, 172 leaves.
Among collections of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654), antiquary, passed on to Lord Fairfax, who donated them to the Bodleian.
One of Camden's miscellaneous collections, largely in his hand.
Fragment of an early autograph rough draft, here beginning When I first sett penne to write of Armes…
, on a single leaf.
A tract beginning Whereas somewhat hath bene saide of Allusions and Anagrams...
. First published in Remaines (London, 1614), pp. 177-95.
Fragment of a later draft, here beginning coates of Armes whch were registred alwayes…
, in the hand of an amanuensis with Camden's autograph corrections and revisions, on two separate leaves.
A tract beginning Whereas somewhat hath bene saide of Allusions and Anagrams...
. First published in Remaines (London, 1614), pp. 177-95.
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in various hands, ix + 121 leaves, in modern cloth.
Among collections of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654), antiquary, passed on to Lord Fairfax, who donated them to the Bodleian.
Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, ascribed to Cotton.
Tract beginning As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine...
. First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.
Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand.
First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).
A folio composite miscellany of antiquarian materials, in various hands, viii + 183 leaves, bound with MSS Dodsworth 62 and 63, in old calf.
Among collections of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654), antiquary, passed on to Lord Fairfax, who donated them to the Bodleian.
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Sr John Sucklings Lre out of Scotland, April. 1639
, on a single folio leaf.
This MS collated in Clayton.
First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 142-4.
A folio volume of miscellaneous historical and genealogical papers and verses, in several hands, x + 158 leaves.
Copy of a 50-line version.
This MS recorded in Akkerman.
A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to the Countesse of Faukland
in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place
. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.
Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.
A folio composite volume of historical and antiquarian papers, in various hands and paper sizes, vii + 129 leaves, bound with two other MSS (MSS Tanner 81 and 83), in contemporary calf.
Among collections of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654), antiquary, passed on to Lord Fairfax, who donated them to the Bodleian.
Extracts, transcribed from an antiquarian collection of St Loe Kniveton (d.1628) of Gray's Inn, together with extracts from calendars of public records made by Francis Thynne (1545?-1608), herald and antiquary.
A folio composite volume of historical and antiquarian papers, predominantly in one cursive secretary hand, xiv + 142 leaves, in later calf.
Among collections of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654), antiquary, passed on to Lord Fairfax, who donated them to the Bodleian.
Extracts from Leland's works — probably the Collectanea and perhaps the Itinerary — including transcriptions from (f. 97r-v) booke M
of mr Dugdale
[Sir William Dugdale (1605-86), antiquary and herald]; (f. 98r) Ex Leland, and Dugdale
; and (f. 102v), Ex Leland
.
A quarto composite volume of historical and antiquarian papers by Dodsworth and others, iv + 166 leaves, bound with MS Dodsworth 139, in contemporary calf (rebacked).
Among collections of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654), antiquary.
Copy, in a cursive secretary hand.
Tract, the full title sometimes given as A Brief discourse prouinge that the house of Comons hath Equall power with the Peeres in point of Judicature written by Sr Rob: Cotton to Sr Edward Mountague Ano Dni. 1621, beginning Sir, To give you as short an accompt of your desire as I can...
. First published in London, 1640. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [341]-351.
A quarto antiquarian miscellany, xii + 118 leaves.
Among collections of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654), antiquary.
Copy, headed Carmen Equiuocum
.
First published, as The Church Papist, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
Autograph annotations and marginalia.
Stern, p. 199.
Autograph annotations and marginalia.
Stern, pp. 198-9.
Autograph annotations and marginalia.
Stern, p. 199.
Two signatures pasted in a printed exemplum of Drayton's Poems (London, 1605) the second probably not genuine.
c.1605?.Facsimiles of both signatures in W.W. Greg, Fragments from Henslowe's Diary, Collections: Volume IV, Malone Society (Oxford, 1956), 27-32 (facing p. 32), and in Foakes.
Autograph four-line inscription, presenting the volume to Sir Henry Fanshawe.
c.1614.Later owned by the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Farmer sale, 7 May-16 June 1798, lot 6670, to Park, thence to Francis Douce.
The inscription is edited in The Odysseys of Homer translated by George Chapman, ed. Richard Hooper (London, 1857), I, xxvii, and in Chapman's Homer, ed. Allardyce Nicoll (New York, 1956), II, xiii. Facsimile in Cummings, p. 221.
Autograph signature (Gabrielis Harveij
) and inscription Ex dono Edmundi Spenseri Episcopi Roffensis Secretarij
.
Discussed, with a facsimile of the inscribed title-page, in D. M. Rogers, Edmund Spenser and Gabriel Harvey: A New Find, Bodleian Library Record, 12, No. 4 (April 1987), 334-7.
An octavo volume of tracts and sermons, including (f. 22 et seq.) a copy of John Stubbs's Gaping Gulf (1579), in various hands, iii + 165 pages.
c.1637.Early notes and accounts (f. 160r) refer to Chancery Lane, Bishops Court, and Whites Alley. The volume was once owned by William Herbert (1711-95), bibliographer and print seller. Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
Copy, in a single predominantly secretary hand, originally untitled, with a title-page (f. 1r) added in a different hand: A Letter to Queen Elizabeth diswading her from marrying wth. Monsieur written in the yeare 1581
.
This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq., and in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 275, No. 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).
A quarto volume of miscellaneous papers, v + 21 leaves.
c.1620s.Spedding, VI, 595-7; discussed 592-4.
Essay, beginning A king is a mortal god on earth...
. Spedding, VI, 595-7 (discussed pp. 592-4).
MS of the continuation of Chaucer's Squire's Tale by the poet John Lane (fl.1600-30).
1615.Quotations from Book IV, Canto II, stanzas 31-5.
Books I-III first published in London, 1590. Books IV-VI published in London, 1596. Variorum, Vols I-VI.
A quarto verse miscellany, made up from a larger book, 184 leaves, stubs of some excised leaves, in green boards.
Compiled by John Ramsay (b.1578), of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and the Middle Temple.
c.1596-1633.Name (inscribed several times) of Thomas Russell. Given in 1724 by Robert Cook of Bokenham to Francis Blomefield (1705-52), Norfolk topographer, and with Blomefield's bookplate, 1736. Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
Copy, ascribed to Edward Spencer
(changed in red ink to Edmund Spencer
).
First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 103-40.
Copy, ascribed to E. Spencer
.
First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 59-79.
Copy, ascribed to E: Spencer
.
First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 186-8.
Copy, under a general heading Songes & Dittyes to ye Lute & Viol de gambo
, with a sidenote E: Essex Downe
.
Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets.
May, Poems, No. 6, p. 46. May, Courtier Poets, p. 253.
Copy, under a general heading Songes & Dittyes to ye Lute & Viol de gambo
, with a sidenote Mr Jno Dowland
.
First published in John Dowland, The First Booke of Songes or Ayres (London, 1597). Discussed and attribution to Essex rejected in May, Poems, pp. 114-15. EV 4476.
Copy of lines 1-2 as the first two lines of a song (here first stanza only) by John Dowland, untitled and with sidenote Mr: Jno: Dowland
.
This MS recorded in Robertson, p. 447.
Ringler, pp. 68-9. Robertson, pp. 166-7. Dowland's song (in a musical setting) published in The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (London, 1600).
Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, closely written in a minute hand, headed E. Essex
with sidenote R: D: E. E.
and subscribed p R. D: E:
.
This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.
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.
Copy of a parodied version, headed Rosamond. Mich. D. 1. Second
and beginning The worles faire rose…
, followed by a couplet on The Admired Sr. Philip Sidneye
(beginning Divine Sr Philip I avouch thy writt
), subscribed M: D.
This parody unpublished.
First published, as sonnet 4, in Idea in Englands Heroicall Epistles (London, 1599). Hebel, II, 312.
Copy.
Brown, pp. 6-7.
A folio volume of poems chiefly on affairs of state, in professional hands, ff. 1-49 comprising poems of the 1640s, ff. 49v onwards Restoration poems up to 1681, 174 leaves (including twelve blanks), in contemporary calf, both covers stamped 1642
, with remains of clasps.
Including nine poems in the Marvell canon (plus apocryphal poems); ff. 1-157 a single unit in variant styles of hand; ff. 158-62 in yet another hand on a smaller tipped-in quire of paper.
Mid-late 17th century.Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1993) as the Douce MS:
Copy.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.
Copy, headed Wentworth's Tryumph over all
. The text followed (f. 8r-v) by a parody.
First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 153-4.
Copy.
First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as Internally unlike his manner
. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among Poems probably by Cleveland
. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).
Copy.
This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 6-7.
Copy, here beginning Ye glorious trifles of the east
, accompanied by a Latin version by one T. L.
.
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.
Copy.
First published in The Topographer for the year 1790 (London, 1790), II, 177. Banks, pp. 156-8.
Copy.
This MS collated in Sparrow.
First published, anonymously, [Oxford], 1643. Ascribed to Cowley in Wit and Loyalty Reviv'd (London, 1682). Waller, II, 149-57. Sparrow, pp. 17-28. J.H.A. Sparrow, The Text of Cowley's Satire The Puritan and the Papist, Anglia, 58 (1934), 78-102.
Copy, headed A Libell agst ye Parliamt
.
First published as a broadside entitled Mr. Hampdens speech occasioned upon the Londoners Petition for Peace [Lonon, 1643]. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 122-7.
Copy, headed A Libell Concerning a Misreport of Sr. Raeph Hoptons death
.
First published in Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 130-2.
Copy, headed The Prologue and Epilogue in a Comedy made by ye Poet Aquila prsented att ye Entertainmt of the Princes Highnss by the Schollars of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge March 1641
, with the marginal note Pooly
.
This MS recorded in G.C. Moore Smith, College Plays Performed in the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, 1923), p. 90.
First published, under the pseudonym Francis Cole
, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Waller, I, 31-2 (and II, 161). Autrey Nell Wiley, The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).
Copy, headed Epilogue…to the Game at Cheese by Pooley
.
This MS recorded in G.C. Moore Smith, College Plays Performed in the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, 1923), p. 90.
First published, under the pseudonym Francis Cole
, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Printed (with the first line: The Play is done, great Prince, which needs must fear
) in The Guardian (London, 1650). Waller, I, 32 (and II, 242). Autrey Nell Wiley, The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).
Copy of Book I, lines 1-568, headed On the Civill Warr Suppos'd to be written by Abr: Cowly and that upon very good ground tho not in his Printed Workes
.
This MS collated and described in Pritchard's edition, pp. 61-3.
Most of Book I first published as A Poem on the late Civil War (London, 1679). Waller, II, 465-81. The full text of Books I-III first published in Toronto, 1973, ed. Allan Pritchard. Collected Works, I, pp. 115-62.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Margoliouth.
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 (
Copy.
Published in Thompson (1776), III, 307-14. Cooke, II, 17-25. Grosart, I, 443-9. The poem probably dates from 1680-1, after Marvell's death.
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).
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.
Copy, headed A Satyr
.
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.
Copy, headed In Bludium habitu Sacerdotali Indutum cum Coronam caperet ffanatici cuiusdem Carmen
.
This MS collated in Margoliouth.
First published in Thompson (1776), I, xxxix. Margoliouth, I, 178. Lord, p. 249. Smith, p. 414, with English translation.
Copy, headed Englisht
and ascribed to Marvel
.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
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
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),
Copy, headed The History of the times
, in double columns.
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.
Copy, headed Upon the Statue of Brass of King Charles the first on Horsback to be set up at Chairing Cross
.
Edited from this MS in Margoliouth and 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.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Margoliouth and in POAS, I. Recorded in Osborne.
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.
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Margoliouth. 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.
This MS collated in POAS, I. Recorded in Osborne.
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.
Copy.
Sometimes called Upon the cutting of Sr John Coventry's nose. First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Thompson, I, xxxix-xli (from Marvell's writing
). Grosart, I, 456-8. Edited in POAS, I (1963), 168-71, as doubtfully by Marvell.
Copy, headed The Game at Chess
and the text here preceded by three stanzas beginning My Muse and I are drunk tonight
.
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.
Copy, headed A Dialogue between Brittania and Sr. W: Rawleigh
.
Edited from this MS Margoliouth and in POAS, I.
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).
Copy, headed My Opinion: Or the nine pins
.
This MS collated in POAS and 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.
Copy, untitled.
First published, as The Church Papist, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
Copy, subscribed Ld R: fecit Sept 20: 81
.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.
Copy, headed Upon Mr. Howards Brittish Princes
.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen
[i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.
Copy, headed On ye same
[i.e. Upon Mr. Howardes Brittish Princes
] and subscribed Hudebras
.
First published, ascribed to Mr. Waller
, in The Third Part of Miscellany Poems (London, 1716), pp. 68-9. The Works of Edmund Waller, ed. Elijah Fenton (London, 1729). The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler, ed. Robert Thyer, 2 vols (London, 1759), I, 104-6.
Copy.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…Buckingham, Vol. I (London, 1704). Thorpe, pp. 62-4.
Copy.
This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.
First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir John Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 143-6. POAS, I, 88-96. Lord, pp. 144-51. Smith, pp. 358-61.
Copy of Harington's complete Psalter, entitled King Davids Psalmes, inscribed in a later hand on a flyleaf The Psalmes putt into verse by Sr John Harrington
, iv + 96 folio leaves.
Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701. Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
Harington's complete Psalter, intended for publication just before his death, but unpublished.
A large folio formal miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished hand, that of Stephen Batman, DD (d.1584), 146 leaves, in half-calf gilt.
Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
Copy, with gilt decoration and a series of pen and ink illustrations (a procession, coloured, f. 52v; battle scene, f. 57r; procession, f. 58r; executed head, f. 61r; delivery of a seal, coloured, f. 71r; King's visit to the sick Cardinal, f. 76r; Cardinal's burial, f. 91r); inscribed (f. 93r) Copied forthe by S. B [i.e. Stephen Balman] Ano 1578 the first daye of September &c
.
Sylvester, No. 2, with the first page (f. 48), missing in
First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).
Copy, written on sig. A6 in an exemplum of John Stanbridge's Pervula printed by Wynkyn de Woorde [1495?].
?Mid-17th century.Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 493.
First published in Arcadia (London, 1593), a blank space having been left for this epitaph in the edition of 1590. Ringler, p. 241.
Transcript of The Paradise of Dainty Devises (London, 1577), iii + 162 quarto leaves (ff. 119-62 blank), mainly on rectos only, in contemporary vellum boards.
Made largely by William Herbert (1718-95), bibliographer and printseller (ff. 116-18 in two other hands).
1777.Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
Copy, headed 34. His good name being blemished, he bewayleth
, here beginning Framd is the front of forlorne hope, past all recoverie
, and subscribed E. O.
Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets. Collated in May, Poems.
First published, headed His good name being blemished, he bewayleth and subscribed E. O.
, in The Paradyse of Daynty Deuises (London, 1576). A variant version beginning Framd in the front of forlorne hope, past all recoverie
, in May, Poems, No. 4 (pp. 27-8), and in May, Courtier Poets, pp. 272-3. EV 7038.
Copy, headed 78. The complaint of a louer, wearing Blacke & Tawnie
, beginning with the second stanza (The more I followed on
), and subscribed E. O.
This MS collated in May, Poems.
First published in The Paradyse of Daynty Deuises (London, 1576). May, Poems, No. 3 (pp. 26-7). E V 23490.5.
Copy, headed 81. Being in loue he complaineth
and subscribed E.O.
This MS collated in May, Poems.
First published, headed Beyng in love, he complaineth and subscribed M. B.
, in The Paradyse of Daynty Deuises (London, 1576). May, Poems, No. 6 (pp. 29-30). May, Courtier Poets, pp. 274-5. EV 10667.
Copy, headed 82. A louer reiected, complaineth
and subscribed E.O.
This MS collated in May.
First published, as A louer reiected, complaineth and subscribed E. O.
, in The Paradyse of Daynty Deuises (London, 1576). May, Poems, No. 9 (pp. 31-2). May, Courtier Poets, pp. 276-7. EV 24528.
Copy, headed 83. Not attaining to his desire, he complaineth
and subscribed E. Oxf.
This MS collated in May, Poems.
First published, headed Not attainyng to his desire, he complaineth and subscribed E. O.
, in The Paradyse of Daynty Deuises (London, 1576). May, Poems, No. 5 (pp. 28-9). May, Courtier Poets, pp. 273-4. EV 9569. Also attributed to the Earl of Oxford: see
Copy, headed 84. His mind not quietly setled, he writeth this
and subscribed E. Ox.
This MS collated in May, Poems.
First published, headed His mynde not quietly setled, he writeth this and subscribed E. O.
, in The Paradise of Dainty Devices (London, 1576). May, Poems, No. 2 (p. 26). May, Courtier Poets, p. 271. EV 5884.
Copy, headed Verses by Robert Earl of Essex in his trouble
and subscribed R.E.E.
May, Poems, p. 47. May, Courtier Poets, p. 254. EV 24641.
An octavo verse miscellany compiled by an Oxford University man, i i + 37 leaves, in later half-calf.
c.1630s.Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
Copy, headed Verses on the cap by Mr Strode
.
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 104-7. Forey, pp. 47-51.
Copy.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.
Copy.
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 103-4. Forey, pp. 94-5.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).
Copy, headed Vpon the snowe falling vpon Cloris her breast
.
First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).
Copy.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, 144.
First published (omitting lines 7-10) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72-3.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, The Text of Ralegh's Lyric What is our life?
, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.
Copy, headed On a beggar & cripple
and here beginning Nor goe nor sit, nor stand ye cripple cries
.
This MS recorded in Milgate.
First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as Zoppo
) and 10.
An anonymous copy.
Copy, headed Uppon a bellowes-maker
and here beginning Browne lies here ye maker of bellowes
.
A version, ascribed to John Hoskyns, first published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Krueger, p. 303. Edited in The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns 1566-1638, ed. Louise Brown Osborn (New Haven & London, 1937), p. 170.
Copy of lines 1-20.
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 149.
First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, Great Tom of Oxford, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing (from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent
).
Copy of a version beginning Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre
.
First published in Kastner (1931), II, 285. Often found in a version beginning Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre
. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.
Copy of lines 1-54, headed Sr Walter Rawleighes farewell
.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 129.
First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London, 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.
This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's answer
to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.
Copy, headed A tresured blessing from one his kisse
.
This MS recorded in Forey.
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 48-9. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 340.
Copy, headed An Exhortacion to ye vniursitie concerning their printed poetry more especiallie at ye queens death
.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 65-7.
Copy, headed Vppon a Bellowes maker
and also beginning Browne lyes heere ye maker of Bellowes
.
A version, ascribed to John Hoskyns, first published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Krueger, p. 303. Edited in The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns 1566-1638, ed. Louise Brown Osborn (New Haven & London, 1937), p. 170.
Copy, headed A conference betwixt 2 lovers
.
This MS recorded in Latham.
First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. [179]. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 38, p. 106.
Copy, headed The conference of 6 Puritanicall wenches
.
First published (anonymously) in Rump: or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662), II, 158-9. McClure No. 356, p. 292. Kilroy, Book II, No. 94, p. 164.
Copy, headed On the death of A twinne
.
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 66. Forey, pp. 115-16.
Copy.
First published, as The Rapture, by J.D.
, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.
Copy of the first strophe, headed An old man to a yong Mris
.
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. ii. Davis, pp. 20-1.
Anonymous copy.
Copy, headed On the author of the play called ye game at chesse
.
This MS collated in Wagner, PQ, 14 (1935), 288.
First published in Edward Capell, The School of Shakespeare, III (London, [1780]), p. 31. Bullen, I, lxxxiii. A Game at Chesse, ed. R.C. Bald (Cambridge, 1929), p. 166. Oxford Middleton, p. 1895.
Copy.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.
Some texts accompanied by an Answer (A ballad late was made
).
Copy, complete.
First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, Great Tom of Oxford, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing (from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent
).
Copy, headed The Parliamentall fart
and here beginning Downe came ancient Sr John Crooke
.
Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of Doubtful Verses
in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.
Copy.
Copy, headed Sr Walter Rawleigh to Bp. Nowell
.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 138.
First published, as The Answer to A Riddle (Th'offence of the stomach, with the word of disgrace
), in Works (1829), VIII, 736. Latham, pp. 47-8. Rudick, Nos 19A, 19B and 19C (three versions, pp. 28-9).
Copy.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 5. McClure No. 259, p. 255. This epigram also quoted in a letter to Prince Henry, 1609 (McClure, p. 136). Kilroy, Book III, No. 43, p. 185.
Copy, headed On the death of King James
.
First published in Oxford Drollery (1671), p. 170. A version of lines 1-18, on the death of Gustavus Adolphus, was published in The Swedish Intelligencer, 3rd Part (1633). Also ascribed to William Strode.
Copy.
First published in John Aubrey, The Natural History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, ed. Richard Rawlinson (London, 1718-19), IV, 166-71.
Copy, headed On a flye
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
Copy, headed The Earle of Dorset to his sweete
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).
Copy, headed The degrees of sweareing
.
First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.
Copy, untitled.
First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr).
Copy, headed On Mr Henrie Boling his death by Dr Corbett
.
First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 74.
Copy, headed Vppon the Countesse of Rutlands death
.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.
Copy, headed On Mris Poale my lord Shandowes sister who dispaired because of her blacke haire & eyes
.
First published, as In praise of black Women; by T.R.
, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as On a black Gentlewoman
. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as On black Hair and Eyes
and superscribed R
; in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as on Black Hayre and Eyes, among Poems attributed to Donne in MSS
; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961:
Copy, headed Sr francis Bacon Lo: chan: of England deposed
and here beginning Greate Virulam is verie lame the gout of goe out feeleing
.
Osborn, No. XXXIX (p. 210). Whitlock, pp. 558-9.
An exemplum, inscribed to Sir Henry Fanshawe.
The inscription is edited in Hooper, op. cit., I, xxvii, and in Chapman's Homer, ed. Allardyce Nicoll (New York, 1956), II, xiii.
Copy of lines 91-6, here beginning That Antique Pile behold
, on a rear endpaper in a printed exemplum of Milton's Paradise Lost (London, 1668).
Inscribed on the title-page of the volume E Libris J Jenckinson Em: Coll: Cant: AB: 1746
.
First published as a broadside (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 40-5.
A folio composite volume of historical and heraldic papers, in various hands, ii + 122 leaves (plus stubs of excised leaves), in later reversed calf.
Compiled by, and partly in the hand of, Sir William Dugdale (1605-86), antiquary and herald.
Mid-late 17th century.Once owned by Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary. MS XXX Vol 2 of the collections of Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), banker and antiquary.
Transcript of Camden's autograph MS (
First published in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 1-85.
A folio composite volume of state and heraldic tracts, in various professional hands (including that of the Feathery Scribe
), 370 leaves.
Assembled, annotated, and copiously indexed by Sir William Dugdale (1605-86), antiquary and herald. Inscribed (f. 8v) Thomas Longman
.
Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 254-5 (No. 87), with facsimiles of ff. 145v and 178r on pp. 99 and 98.
An abridgment of the work.
Sylvester, No. 3.
First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).
Copy, headed diuers Elegiecall Poems upon sundry persons
, transcribed from
This MS recorded in Edwards and in his The Text of George Cavendish's Metrical Visions, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 2.1 (Winter, 1978), 3-62, as also in Sylvester, with the additional stanza edited, p. 279.
A series of poetical lamentations, comprising 2425 lines, on the deaths (the majority by execution) of Cardinal Wolsey, George, Viscount Rochford, Sir Henry Borris, sir Francis Weston, Sir William Brereton, Mark Smeaton, Anne Boleyn, Thomas Cromwell, Henry Courtenay, Marquess of Exeter, Henry Pole, Baron Montague, Catherine Howard, her lover Culpeper, Viscountess Rochford, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Henry VIII, Thomas Seymour, Lord Protector, Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, Sir Thomas Arundel, Sir Michael Stanhope, Sir Ralph Vane, Sir Miles Partridge, Edward VI, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, Lady Jane Grey, and Queen Mary.
First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (London, 1825). Metrical Visions by George Cavendish, ed. A.S.G. Edwards (Columbia, SC, 1980).
A folio volume of miscellaneous collections, ii + 124 leaves.
Among collections of Sir William Dugdale (1605-86), antiquary and herald. Once owned by Sir Henry Spelman (1564?-1641), historian and antiquary. Later owned by Cox Macro (1683-1767), antiquary. Christie's, February 1820 (Macro sale, Part VI). Then owned by Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), banker and antiquary (Gurney MS XXX, Vol. 2). Sotheby's, 30 March 1936 (Gurney sale), lot 108.
Copy, in a professional hand.
Tract beginning Since at these Assemblies few Diaries, or exact Iournall Books are remaining...
. First published as A Treatise, shewing that the Soveraignes Person is Required in the great Councells or Assemblies of the State, aswell at the Consultations as at the conclusions, London, 1641. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [41]-57.
Copy of Arcadia, i + 247 folio leaves, imperfect, in 17th-century panelled calf (rebacked).
Probably in three secretary hands: A, ff. 1r-183v, 197r to the bottom of f. 240v; B, ff. 184r-92v; C, ff. 193r-6v, bottom of f. 240v to 246r.
c.1580s.Copy of the complete text, untitled but beginning The ffirst booke or Acte of the countes of pembrookes Arcadia
.
This MS collated in Robertson and the poems collated in Ringler. Described in Ringler, p. 529.
The unfinished revised version of Arcadia (the New Arcadia
) first published in London, 1590. The original version (the Old Arcadia) first published in Feuillerat, IV (1926). The complete Old Arcadia edited by Jean Robertson (Oxford, 1973). The poems edited in Ringler, pp. 7-131.
Copy, here beginning Prometheus first from heaven high
.
First published in The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia, 3rd edition (London, 1598). Sargent, No. I, p. 176. May, Courtier Poets, p. 302. EV 19124.
Copy of sonnets 1-4, 6-24, 26-8, and 31 (in an irregular order), headed Certein lowse Sonnettes and songes
.
This MS collated in Ringler. Facsimile of f. 246r in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), Plate VI after p. 272.
First published in Arcadia (London, 1598). Ringler, pp. 133-62.
A folio composite volume of state tracts, in English and Latin, in various hands, 155 leaves, in limp vellum.
Inscribed (several times), by the principal compiler, ex dono D. Clay
: i.e. Dr Robert Clay (1576?-1628), vicar of Halifax.
Copy.
Copy, in a professional secretary and italic hand. End of 16th-early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in Spedding.
A tract beginning It is but ignorance if any man find it strange that the state of religion (especially in the days of peace) should be exercised...
. First published as A Wise and Moderate Discourse concerning Church-Affaires ([London], 1641). Spedding, VIII, 74-95.
Copy, headed A Translatio of Q Elizabeth
, in a neat secretary hand.
Edited from this MS in Anglia, 14 (1892), 34; in Bradner; in Selected Works, and in Translations.
Bradner, pp. 16-19. Selected Works, pp. 287-95. Translations, pp. 447-56.
Copy, closely written in Dr Clay's hand.
First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.
Copy, closely written in Dr Clay's hand.
This MS collated in Keble (see I, liii).
First published in Oxford, 1612. Keble, III, 548-9. Folger edition, Volume V, pp. 189-210.
Copy, closely written in Dr Clay's hand.
This MS collated in Keble and in Folger edition, Volume V.
First published, with Travers's Supplication, in Oxford, 1612. Keble, III, 570-96. Folger edition, Volume V, pp. 225-57.
A mid-15th-century MS volume of writings in Latin relating to John Wycliffe and the Lollards, viii + 224 leaves, in double columns on parchment throughout, in black embossed calf over wooden boards.
Bale's copious autograph notes and additions neatly entered throughout the volume, relating to Wycliffe and used for Bale's own work on the subject, particularly extensive additions occurring on ff. 61v-3v (sketches of various people including Bale himself), 91v (1 column), 127v (2 cols), 157r (1 col.), 161v-2v (4 cols), 222r-3v (8 cols), and 223r-v (tabula
in 3 cols).
This MS recorded in Davies, p. 237 (xiii), and in McCusker (1942), p. 106.
Unpublished.
Bale's autograph index to Thomas Walden, Fasciculus zizaniorum Magistri Iohannis Wyclif, beginning Abhominatio desolationis, fo. 107
, preceding a scribal copy of the Fasciculus with Bale's annotations.
The Fasciculus, without Bale's notes, was edited from this MS in Fasciculi Zizaniorum Magistri Johannis Wyclif, ascribed to Thomas Netter of Walden, ed. Walter Waddington Shirley, Rolls Series 5 (London, 1858), with a facsimile of f. 91 (which includes annotations by Bale) as the frontispiece. Recorded in Davies, p. 237 (xiv), and in McCusker (1942), p. 106.
Unpublished. This work corresponds to the In fasciculum zizaniorum... which Bale records in his Illustrium...scriptorum summarium (1548), f. 243.
Autograph Latin translation by Bale of the examination of William Thorpe for heresy in 1407, in 21 consecutive columns, on ff. 98v-103v of Bale's foliation.
First published in Select Works of John Bale, ed. Henry Christmas, Parker Society (Cambridge, 1849), pp. 61-133. Recorded in Davies, p. 237 (xv), and in McCusker (1942), p. 106.
Copy of the complete Latin version, with a dedicatory epistle to the King dated 10 August 1630 and a preface Ad Lectorem, in a professional hand, 165 folio leaves, in dark blue calf gilt.
c.1630.Edited from this MS in Select Works (1849).
Latin version (Expeditio in Ream Insulam) first published in London, 1656, edited by Timothy Baldwin. English version first published by the Philobiblon Society in London, 1860, edited by Lord Powis.
A partly autograph MS of Donne's Biathanatos, 287 folio pages.
Copy in a neat scribal hand, bearing Donne's numerous autograph corrections, marginal annotations, and one autograph sixteen-word insertion (on p. 215); some lines on page 73 in another hand; this MS being a copy presented by Donne to Sir Edward Herbert.
Edited from this MS in Sullivan's edition. Also discussed by Ernest W. Sullivan in The Genesis and Transmission of Donne's Biathanatos, The Library, 5th Ser. 31 (1976), 52-72, and in Dating the Bodleian Manuscript of John Donne's Biathanatos, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 1 (1977), 26-9. Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), chapter 2, pp. 31-57 passim. Discussed, as if in the hand of Ben Jonson, in Mark Bland, Jonson, Biathanatos and the Interpretation of Manuscript Evidence, SB, 51 (1998), 154-82, with a facsimile of p. 177 on p. 172.
First published in London, [1647]. Reprinted in facsimile, ed. J.W. Hebel (New York, 1930). Edited by Michael Rudick and M. Pabst Bettin (New York, 1982) and by Ernest W. Sullivan II (Newark, NJ, 1984).
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Edward Herbert, on a single page facing the title-page of Biathanatos.
Edited in Sullivan's edition. Facsimiles in Evelyn M. Simpson, A Study of the Prose Works of John Donne (Oxford, 1924), frontispiece; in Evelyn Hardy, Donne: A Spirit in Conflict (London, 1942), facing p. 264; in Derek Parker, John Donne and his World (London, 1975), p. 42; and in Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 33.
Copy, iii + fifteen quarto leaves, with a title-page, f. 1r originally paginated 241
.
Copy, initially entitled Mr: George Sands on the Canticles and then headed The Songe of Salomon
.
This MS discussed in Richard Beale Davis, Sandys's Song of Solomon: Its Manuscript Versions and Their Circulation, PBSA, 50 (1956), 328-41 (p. 332).
First published in London, 1641. Hooper, II, 335-56. Dedicatory verses To the Queen
first published in A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1676). Hooper, II, 338.
Collection of fourteen letters by Robert Herrick, all written in his student days at Cambridge, to his uncle, Sir William Herrick.
For other letters from this series, see
Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.
Martin, pp. 445-53. Facsimile examples also in Grosart (frontispiece); in Hazlitt, p. ix; in John Nicols, The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, II, ii (1798), Plate CV, facing p. 613; in George Walton Scott, Robert Herrick (London, 1974), p. 93; and in Ray Rawlins, The Guinness Book of Autographs (London, 1977), p. 105.
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, subscribed by Robert's older brother Thomas, acknowledging receipt of £15 from Sir William on 1 October 1613, [September 1613].
Martin, p. 445. Sotheby's (i).
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, from St John's College, Cambridge.
Martin, pp. 445-6. Sotheby's (ii), with a facsimile in the sale catalogue, p. 16.
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, from St John's College, Cambridge.
Martin, pp. 446-7. Sotheby's (iii).
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle.
Martin, p. 447. Sotheby's (iv), with a facsimile of Herrick's signature and subscription by Robert Martine acknowledging receipt from Sir William of £10.
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle [end of 1616 or beginning of 1616/7].
Martin, pp. 447-8. Sotheby's (v), with facsimiles in the sale catalogue, p. 18 and cover. Facsimiles also in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XXIII, after p. xxiv, and in in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 170.
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, [early 1616/7].
Martin, p. 448. Sotheby's (vii).
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, [March-April 1617].
Martin, p. 449. Sotheby's (vii), with a facsimile of Herrick's signature and the subscription by Anthony Uphill acknowledging receipt from Sir William of £10 on 11 April 1617.
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle.
Martin, p. 449. Sotheby's (viii).
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle.
Martin, p. 450. Sotheby's (ix), with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue, p. 21.
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle.
Martin, p. 450. Sotheby's (x).
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, from St John's College, Cambridge.
Martin, 451. Sotheby's (xi).
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, 11 October [no year].
Martin, p. 451. Sotheby's (xii), with a facsimile in the sale catalogue, p. 22. Facsimile also in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 171.
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle.
Martin, p. 452. Sotheby's (xiii).
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, from Trinity hall, Cambridge, [c.1616].
Martin, pp. 452-3. Sotheby's (xiv), with a facsimile of Herrick's signed subscription in the sale catalogue, p. 23.
A folder of unbound verse MSS and part of a diary (1672), in various hands and paper sizes, 42 leaves.
At least some relating to Sir Willoughby Aston, of Aston Hall, Warrington, Cheshire. Acquired in 2000 from the estate of H.G. Pollard.
Copy of Clarendon's letter to York, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed The Earle of Clarenden to the Duke & Dutchess of Yorke
.
Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.
These were first published in Two Letters written by … Edward Earl of Clarendon … one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.
Copy, in a rounded hand, in a folio sewn booklet, addressed For Sr Wilughby Aston Bart
, subscribed (f. 42r) These were supposed and confidently said to be Dreydons, but he by his lre to my Ld Devonsh: hath vtterly renounced them - Some since have father'd them on Ld Rocheste. But ye word Coward touchest soe neare ye quick that 'tis thought he would not have mention'd it touching him selfe choosing rather to abuse himselfe in things he is supposd to be less guilty of.
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
.
A collection of autograph manuscripts, compiled in the 19th century.
Once owned by the Enys family of Cornwall. Bonham's, 28 September 2004 (Enys sale), lot 392.
MS, in a cursive secretary hand, possibly autograph, with alterations, subscribed T. B.
, on one page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.
Later owned by John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), politician and writer, and given by him to Lord Londesborough.
Edited from this MS in Collier. Discussed in Jessica L. Malay, Thomas Sackville's Elegy to Thomas and Philip Hoby: The Discovery of a Draft Manuscript, N&Q, December 2009, 513-15.
A twenty-line elegy, originally inscribed c.1567 on the Hoby monument in the parish church of All Saints Bisham, in Berkshire. First published in John Payne Collier, On Norton and Sackville, the authors of Gorboduc, the earliest blank verse Tragedy in our language, The Shakespeare Society's Papers, IV (London, 1849), 123-8.
A folio volume of state tracts and letters, in several probably professional secretary hands, 225 pages, in marbled boards.
c.1630.Formerly among the F. Bacon Frank MSS at Campsall Hall, Yorkshire. Sotheby's, 11 August 1942, lot 70. Afterwards owned by Annie Winifred Bryher (née Ellerman, d.1983) and by the Ralegh scholar Agnes Latham (1905-96), of Pickering, North Yorkshire.
Recorded, as B. 3, in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 459.
Copy of the fifteen-stanza version, headed Th'erle of Essex his Buzze, made in his decayed estate by mr Henry Cuffe his Secretary
, with two lines deleted in the fifth stanza.
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.
Copy.
Copy, headed The maner of his death
.
Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment on 17 November 1603.
Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, The Great Day of Mart
: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.
Copy of letters by Ralegh, to his wife (2, 1603 and 1618); to Sir Robert Carr (1608); and to Winwood.
Copy, headed Sr Wa: Ralegh his Apologie
.
A tract beginning If the ill success of this enterprise of mine had been without example...
. First published in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 477-507. Edited by V.T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 316-34.
Copy, headed In what things the vse of the Law consisteth
.
A discourse beginning The use of the Law consisteth principally in these two things...
. Spedding, VII, 459-504 (and discussed pp. 302, 453-7). Probably by Sir Robert Forster (1589-1663), judge.
Copy, headed The equalling of Lawes done by Sr Fran: Bacon knt his maties Sollicitor generall, 1607
.
A discourse beginning Your Majesty's desire of proceeding towards the union of this whole island...
. First published in Cases of Treason (London, 1641). Spedding, VII, 731-43 (and see p. 775 et seq.).
Copy of A Draught of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia
, a satirical poem based on Arcadia, beginning Hee that would read and understand
, in the same hand as
Later owned by John Buxton.
Privately edited at the New Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1961, and reedited in Historical Essays 1600-1750 Presented to David Ogg (London, 1963), pp. 60-77.
A MS index to Arcadia, in two parts, in the same hand as
The first part entitled Sr Philip Sydneys exact Characters wherein hee is both painter & poet; the owtward Character poynting at the painter, the inward description at the poet; the second entitled A Clavis opening ye names and referring to the Characters.
c.1640s.Later owned by John Buxton.
Discussed by John Buxton in Sidney and Theophrastus, ELR, 2 (1972), 79-82.
A small octavo volume of poems chiefly by Michael Drayton, iv + 10 leaves (plus seven blanks), in modern brown morocco gilt.
Mid-17th century.Inscribed name (f. 1r) of John Saye, Sayce or Sayer. Purchased in 1951 from Dobell by Dr Bent Juel-Jensen (1922-2006), Oxford physician and book collector. Formerly classified after 1977 as MS Juel-Jensen Drayton f. 1.
Copy of the last thirty stanzas, here beginning then dayly begg'd I. / And being inconsideratly proud
, probably transcribed from Poems (London, 1619); imperfect, lacking the first part of the poem.
Edited from this MS in Hebel, II, 431-50.
First published (1740-line version) in London, [1593-4]. Hebel, I, 157-207. 702-line version among Legends in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 431-50.
Abbreviated version of the Preface to Legends, untitled, probably transcribed from Poems (London, 1619).
Edited from this MS in Hebel, II, 382.
First published in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 382.
Copy, in double columns, probably transcribed from Poems (London, 1619).
First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 355-6. For a later version, see
Copy, untitled, probably transcribed from Poems (London, 1619).
First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.
Copy, headed A Canzonet to his coy love
, probably transcribed from Poems (London, 1619).
First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 372.
Copy, in double columns, probably transcribed from Poems (London, 1619).
First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 368-9.
Copy, probably transcribed from Poems (London, 1619).
Edited from this MS in Hebel, II, 370.
First published in Poemes Lyrick and pastorall (London, [1606]). Among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 370.
Copy, headed Edmond Waller Esqr his Poeme To ye King on his navy
.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 15-16.
A quarto volume chiefly comprising sermons, in at least four hands, written from both ends, i + 66 leaves, imperfect, in contemporary limp vellum.
c.1624-5.Purchased from Blackwell's in 1949 by Dr Bent Juel-Jensen (1922-2006), Oxford physician and book collector. Formerly classified after 1977 as MS Juel-Jensen Drayton e. 2.
Copy of a 24-line version, possibly in the hand of Hugh Halswell (b.1597/8) of Wadham College and All Souls College, Oxford, the last two lines in another hand, subscribed W: B.
A quarto notebook of English and Latin verse and prose, in two or more cursive hands, ii + 100 leaves, in later black morocco.
Late 17th century.Armorial bookplate of Henry Ellison, of University College, Oxford, and his inscription (f. 43r) dated March 14th 1841. Donated in 1951 by Mrs G.L. Barstow.
Copy, headed Vita Thomæ Hobbes Malmes-buriensis usque ad Annum Millesemum, sexcentissimum septuagesimum secundum, ætatis vero Octagisimum quartum ab ipso conscripta
.
First published in London, 1679. Molesworth, Latin, I, lxxxi-xcix. See also
Copy, headed A Countrey Swain call'd Hodge
.
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.
Copy, headed A Translation of a Prophecy of Nostredamus
.
First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 178-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 185-9 (first part only as possibly by John Ayloffe). Rejected from the canon by Lord.
Copy, headed A Dialogue between Sr Walter Rawleigh's Ghost & Britannia
.
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).
Copy, headed On the French King
.
First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 21. Walker, p. 121, as [On Louis XIV]. See also A.S.G. Edwards, Rochester's Impromptu on Louis XIV, N&Q, 219 (November 1974), 418-19.
A duodecimo notebook of extracts from sermons, in a non-professional small secretary hand, 8 leaves, in half-calf.
Entitled (f. 5r) Apte and fit similes taken out of learned mens sermons in Oxford 1590; begun the xxijth of Aprill
. A modern owner has suggested that the compiler may have been Robert Cawdray, author of A Treasurie; or Storehouse of Similies (London, 1609).
Book label Ex Libris J. W. M. Vyse
. Purchased in 2002 from Andrew Stewart.
Extracts, headed Tindale in his booke called the practise of prelates
and beginning As the Ivy first springeth out of the earth and then a while, weepeth alonge by the grond…
.
First published [in Antwerp?, 1530].
A composite volume of correspondence of Francis Parry, Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Portugal, in various hands.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector. Sotheby's, 26 June 1974, lot 3005.
Copy, headed My Lord Buckhursts first Coppy
, with two other satires on Edward Howard, in the hand of one William Ball, on a single leaf sent as a letter to Parry, docketed by the recipient London June 21. 1669 ffrom Mr Ball Recd Augt 9…
.
Copy, headed my Ld Buckhursts last coppy
, with two other satires on Edward Howard, in the hand of one William Ball, on a single leaf sent as a letter to Parry, docketed by the recipient London June 21. 1669 ffrom Mr Ball Recd Augt 9…
.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen
[i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.
A quarto composite volume chiefly of original letters by Sir Paul Rycaut (1729-1700), Resident at Hamburg, to William Blathwayt (1650-1717), secretary to William III in Flanders, 1692, i + 242 leaves, in 19th-century cloth.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector. Sotheby's. 17 May 1897, lot 170, to Halliday. Bernard Halliday's sale catalogue No. 167 (1933), item 1103.
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke [of Marlborough], from London, 24 August 1705.
Edited in Whistler, pp. 230-1 (Appendix 1, No. 3).
Containing annotations by Sir Thomas Posthumous Hobby (1566-1641).
Late 16th-early 17th century.Discussed in the anonymous MS Notes to Spenser's Faerie Queene, N & Q, 202 (December 1957), 509-15, and in Alastair Fowler, Oxford and London Marginalia to The Faerie Queene, N & Q, 206 (November 1961), 416-18.
A volume comprising eleven printed prose tracts by Milton, with Milton's autograph presentation inscription to John Rous, Librarian of the Bodleian Library, on a flyleaf, together with Milton's autograph list of contents (originally accompanying
Comprising exempla of: Of Reformation touching Church-Discipline in England (1641), with possibly autograph corrections of some nine words on pp. 6-7, 44, 70); Of Prelatical Episcopacy (1641); The Reason of Church-Government (1641); Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus (1641); An Apology against…A Modest Confutation (1642); The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (1644), with possibly autograph corrections on pp. 65 and 73;The Judgement of Martin Bucer (1644); Colasterion (1645); Tetrachordon (1645); Areopagitica (1644); and Of Education [1644].
1641-7.A complete facsimile edition of this volume in John Milton, Prose Works 1641-50, 3 vols (Menston: Scolar Press, 1967-8), Vols I and II. Facsimile examples of the inscription, list and corrections in Sotheby, Ramblings, p. 120; in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LIII(c); in English Literature in the Seventeenth Century: Guide to an Exhibition held in 1957, Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1957), frontispiece; and in Nicholas von Maltzahn, Naming the Author: Some Seventeenth-Century Milton Allusions, Milton Quarterly, 27/1 (March 1993), 1-19 (p. 9). Edited in Columbia, XVIII, 269-70, and in LR, II, 139-42.
A quarto verse miscellany entitled The Imployment of my Solitude, ii + 734 pages.
Compiled by Thomas Fairfax (1612-71), third Lord Fairfax of Cameron, Parliamentary general.
c.1660-70.Once owned by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer. Bookplate of Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843). Sold at the sale of his library at Evans's, 31 July 1844, lot 436 to William Pickering. Then owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector.
Copy, headed An Egloge maide by my vncle Mr Ed: Fairfax in a Dialoge betwixt two sheapards
.
Edited from this MS by all editors.
First published in Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 12 (London, 1868-9), No. 4, ed. Clements R. Markham. Ed. William Grainge in Edward Fairfax, Daemonologia (Harrogate, 1882; reprinted London, 1971), pp. 181-9. Lea & Gang, pp. 665-75.
A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state entitled A Choice Collection of Poems, Lampoons, Satyrs &ca, xx + 412 pages (339-411 blank).
c.1700.Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
Copy.
Dated in some sources 1672 but not published until 1706.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 54-9. Walker, pp. 75-8.
The poem discussed, texts collated, and the attribution to Rochester questioned, in Harold Love, A Restoration Lampoon in Transmission and Revision: Rochester's(?) Signior Dildo, SB, 46 (1993), 250-62. Love (two versions and added stanzas), pp. 248-9, 250-2, 252-3, 253-7, among Disputed Works.
Copy, headed E; of Rochesters Conference With a Post Boy. 1674
.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
First published, in shortened form, in Johannes Prinz, Rochesteriana (Leipzig, 1926), p. 56. Vieth, pp. 130-1. Walker, p. 103. Love, pp. 42-3.
Copy, headed The Chequer Inn. To the Tune I tell thee Dick. By Mr. H. Savile, Esqr. 1674
.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.
Copy, headed A Dialogue between Nell Gwyn, & Dutchess of Portsmouth. By E: Rochester
.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
First published in Vieth, pp. 129-30. Walker, pp. 102-3. Love, p. 91, as Dialogue L: R.
Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated pp. 141-2.
First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…Buckingham, Vol. I (London, 1704). Thorpe, pp. 62-4.
Copy, the poem dated 1686.
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.
Copy.
Ascribed to Aphra Behn in
Copy, headed On K: Wm: By E. of Dorset
.
Edited from this MS in Harris.
First published in Harris (1979), pp 61-2.
A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, originally entitled Astrea's Booke of Songs & Satyr's 1686, in probably seven hands, vi + 332 pages (including 23 blanks), in half-calf.
Predominantly in two alternating semi-professional hands, the second of which (on altogether 117 pages) is probably that of the author Aphra Behn (1640?-89); poems on pp. 307-8 added by a later hand in 1736-8.
c.1686-9 [with additions to 1738].Bookplate of William Busby
. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
This MS volume discussed, and the second hand identified as Aphra Behn's, in Mary Ann O'Donnell, A Verse Miscellany of Aphra Behn: Bodleian Library MS Firth c. 16, EMS, 2 (1990), 189-218, with facsimile examples of the title-page
, and of pp. 50, 119, 180, 226, 238, 261, 307. Also discussed by her in Private jottings, public utterances: Aphra Behn's published writings and her commonplace book, in Aphra Behn Studies, ed. Janet Todd (Cambridge, 1996), pp. 285-309.
Copy.
Recorded in Harris, p. 55, as obviously not by Dorset
.
Copy.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…Buckingham, Vol. I (London, 1704). Thorpe, pp. 62-4.
Copy, headed The Opinion
and here ascribed to Dk B
[Duke of Buckingham].
This MS collated in POAS and 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.
Copy.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published (lines 1-16 only) in Choice Ayres and Songs, Fourth Book (London, 1683). Published complete in Lycidas (London, 1688). Thorpe, pp. 11-12.
Copy, headed A Sater to Mr Bayes
.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
First published in J.R., Religio Laici, or A Layman's Faith ([London, 1688]). POAS, IV (1968), 79-80. Harris, pp. 18-20.
Copy of lines 1-8, deleted.
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.
Second copy.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
First published in J.R., Religio Laici, or A Layman's Faith ([London, 1688]). POAS, IV (1968), 79-80. Harris, pp. 18-20.
Copy, headed Another on Mr Bays
.
First published in Summers (1915), VI, 400-1 (edited from a transcript made by G. Thorn-Drury from a MS in his possession which he copied from one itself copied by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833) from an old MS in [his] Port Folio
). Todd, No. 71, p. 231. Authorship uncertain: see Mary Ann O'Donnell, Private jottings, public utterances: Aphra Behn's published writings and her commonplace book, in Aphra Behn Studies, ed. Janet Todd (Cambridge, 1996), pp. 285-309 (pp. 297-300).
Copy, headed The Atheist
.
This MS recorded in Harris.
Unpublished. Discussed in Harris, pp. 189-90.
Copy.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Harris (1979), p. 176.
Copy.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 48-50.
Copy, headed Sir George Etheredge to the Earl of Middleton Greeting
.
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.
Copy.
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.
Copy.
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.
Copy, apparently in the hand of Aphra Behn.
Edited from this MS in Burrows & Love.
First published in The Muses Farewell to Poetry and Slavery (London, 1690), pp. 200-10. Lines 1-12 published, ascribed to Dors
[i.e. Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset], in Edward Bysshe, Art of English Poetry, 2nd edition (London, 1705). Published complete, and attributed to Aphra Behn, in John Burrows and Harold Love, Did Aphra Behn write Cæsar's Ghost?, in The Culture of the Book: Essays from Two Hemispheres in honour of Wallace Kirsop, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, occasional publication No. 8 (Melbourne, 1999), pp. 146-72 (poem on pp. 163-9). Also discussed in Harris, pp. 193-4.
Copy, headed The Quarell
and here beginning Of Chineas & Dorinda
.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 21-4. This poem is part of a series by William Wharton and Robert Wolseley.
A transcript of two 17th-century verse MSS, the second a miscellany, 195 large quarto pages, in calf gilt.
19th century.Once owned by F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), in lot 136. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
Copy, transcribed from
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.
Some texts accompanied by an Answer (A ballad late was made
).
Copy, transcribed from
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.
Copy, transcribed from
First published (stanzas 1-2), in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Complete in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
Copy, transcriibed from
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.
Copy, transcribed from
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.
Copy, transcribed from
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.
Copy, transcribed from
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 64-5.
Copy.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.
Copy, transcribed from
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.
Copy, transcribed from
First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London, 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.
This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's answer
to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.
Copy, transcribed from
First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr).
Copy.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. XIII (p. 171).
Copy of Oldwit's jocular verses, in a version beginning In a dish came fish
.
First published in London, 1689. Jocular lines by Oldwit. Versions published in Ben Jonson, ed. Herford and Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), pp. 424-5.
Copy, transcribed from
First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.
Copy, transcribed from
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 75.
Copy, transcribed from
This MS recorded in Pebworth.
First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), pp. [186-92]. Hutchinson, pp. 211-13. Ted-Larry Pebworth, George Herbert's Poems to the Queen of Bohemia: A Rediscovered Text and a New Edition, ELR, 9/1 (Winter 1979), 108-20 (pp. 117-20). Herbert's authorship supported in Kenneth Alan Hovey, George Herbert's Authorship of To the Queene of Bohemia, RQ, 30/1 (Spring 1977), 43-50, and in Pebworth.
A small quarto verse miscellany, apparently a presentation MS, 133 pages (including blanks), plus index, in half-calf.
Including twenty poems by Randolph, plus ten of doubtful authorship (some here ascribed to T.R.
), in two hands (A: pp. 3-99; B: pp. 1, 99-129), with some scribbling and one heading in other hands on pp. 3, 98 and 133; a poem on p. 1 (beginning Loe here a sett of paper=pilgrimes sent
) dedicatingthe collection [To ye] Incomparably vertuous Lady the Lady Harflette
: i.e. Afra (d.1664), wife of Sir Christopher Harflete of Canterbury.
Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Harflete MS:
Copy, headed Sir Walter Rawley his Lye to ye Worlde
.
First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London, 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.
This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's answer
to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.
Copy, headed Vpon a Man who dyed wth greife For his wife deceased
and here beginning The first deceased, he for a little tryed
.
First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.
This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds
, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see
Copy, untitled.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 132-6. Patrick, pp. 179-83.
Copy, headed Mr Hearick his welcome to Sack
.
This MS collated in Martin.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 77-9. Patrick, pp. 110-12.
Copy, headed Mr Hearick his farwell to Sacke
.
This MS collated in Martin.
First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 45-6. Patrick, pp. 62-3.
Copy, headed Oberon attired
.
This MS collated in Farmer.
First published, as A Description of the King of Fayries Clothes and attributed to Sir Simeon Steward, in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Musarum Deliciae (London, 1656), p. 32. Attributed to Herrick in Hazlitt, II, 473-7, and in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Robert Herrick and King Oberon's Clothing: New Evidence for Attribution, Yearbook of English Studies 1 (1971), 68-77. Not included in Martin or in Patrick. See also T.G.S. Cain, Robert Herrick, Mildmay Fane, and Sir Simeon Steward, ELR, 15 (1985), 312-17.
Copy, headed Oberon his Banquet
and without the preliminary lines.
This MS collated in Martin.
First published complete, with six preliminary lines beginning Shapcot! To thee the Fairy State
, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 119-20. Patrick, pp. 161-3. An earlier version, entitled A Description of his Dyet, published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Martin, pp. 454-5.
Copy, subscribed B: J:
.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Forrest (ix) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 106.
Copy, headed T. Randolph his gratulatory to B: J: vpon his adoption
.
This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 40-2.
Copy, headed Vpon the losse of a finger
, subscribed T. R
.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 56-7.
Copy, headed B. J: his discontented Soliloquye Vpon ye Censure of his Play called ye new inne, answered by T: R:
, here beginnning Ben leaue ye stage
, and each stanza alternating with Randolph's answer
.
This MS collated in Davis.
First published, with the heading The iust indignation the Author tooke at the vulgar censure of his Play, by some malicious spectators, begat this following Ode to himselfe
, in The New Inn (London, 1631). Herford & Simpson, VI, 492-4.
Copy, headed B. J. his discontented Soliloquye Vpon ye censure of his Play called ye new Inne, answered by T: R:
and here beginning Ben, doe not leaue ye stage
, each stanza alternating with Jonson's original ode
.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 82-4. Davis, pp. 63-76.
Copy, headed The character of a perfect Woman. T: R:
.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
First published in Parry (1917), pp. 220-3. Thorn-Drury, pp. 165-7.
Copy, headed A True Mistresse. T: R:
.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 66-7.
Copy, ascribed to T: R:
.
Edited from this MS in Moore Smith and in Thorn-Drury.
First published in Moore Smith (1925), pp. 253-4. Thorn-Drury, pp. 162-3.
Copy, headed A Pastorall: T: R.
This MS collated in part in Thorn-Drury and also in Davis.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 109-15. Davis, pp. 77-91.
Copy, here beginning Consider the dust moving in this glass
.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.
Copy, headed T: R: his Answere
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
Copy, headed Oberon his Pallace: by Mr Herrick
and without the preliminary lines.
This MS collated in Martin.
First published, with eight preliminary lines beginning After the Feast (my Shapcot) see
, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 165-8. Patrick, pp. 222-5.
Copy, headed Vpon ye hearing of a deformed Woman, sing sweetly. T: R
.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury and in Davis.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 115-17. Davis, pp. 92-105.
Copy, headed An Eglogue Vpon ye Pallalia: at Cotswold hill
.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
First published in Matthew Walbancke, Annalia Dvbrensia. Vpon the yeerely celebration of Mr. Robert Dovers Olimpick Games vpon Cotswold-Hills (London, 1636). Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 118-23.
Copy, headed An Eglogue
, subscribed T: R:
.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 101-4.
Copy, ascribed to T. R.
Fitst published in The Last Remains of Sr John Suckling (London, 1659), pp. 32-3. Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 48-9.
Copy, headed To his Mrs
, ascribed to T. R.
.
This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 4-5.
Copy, headed Catullus ad Lesbiam
, ascribed to B. J.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
Lines 19-22 first published in Volpone, III, vii, 236-9 (London, 1607). Published complete in The Forrest (vi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 103.
Copy of the song, headed A Sonnett
.
Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.
For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see
Copy, headed A Sonnett
.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).
Copy of a nineteen-stanza version, headed Epithalamium
.
This MS collated in Martin.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 112-16. Patrick, pp. 154-8.
Copy, headed On his Mistresse admiring herselfe in a lookinglasse
, subscribed T: R.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 99-100.
Copy, subscribed T: R:
.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 92-3.
Copy, headed Vpon 6: Wenches washing Them selues in Cambridge riuer. June 25: 1629
, subscribed T: R:
.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury and in Davis.
First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 138-40. Davis, pp. 56-62.
Copy, headed A Sonnett
.
First published in a five-stanza version beginning Aske me no more where Iove bestowes
in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. Aske me no more whether doth stray
).
For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, Manuscript Evidence and the Author of Aske me no more
: William Strode, not Thomas Carew, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, Aske me no more
and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.
Copy, headed Vpon Good Fryday
, subscribed T: R:
.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 57. This poem is the Englished
version of Latin verses beginning Quid templum abscindit? quo luxque diesque recessit
, printed in Thorn-Drury, pp. 178-9.
Copy, ascribed to Randolph.
Edited from this MS in Moore Smith (1927).
Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 96-7.
Copy, headed Cleevelands square Cappe
.
First published in The Character of a London-Diurnall, with severall select Poems by the same Author (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 43-5.
Copy, headed Vpon one yt was drown'd in ye snow at Christ=Church jn Oxford
.
First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.
Copy.
First published in A Crew of Kind London Gossips (London, 1663).
Copy, headed Vpon one haueinge ye greene sicknesse
.
First published in Musarum Deliciae (London, 1655). Dunlap. p. 129.
Copy, headed The faire Maide to ye blacke Boy
, subscribed J. C.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 22-3.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 79.
Edited from this MS in Moore Smith and in Thorn-Drury.
First published in Moore Smith (1925), pp. 249-50. Thorn-Drury, p. 158.
Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman
.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.
Copy, headed The Answer
.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds (Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee
). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Moore Smith (1925).
Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Moore Smith (1925), pp. 255-6.
Copy, headed Mr Randolph on his Dunn
.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 131-4.
Copy, headed Vpon a Gentlewoman singing, and playing
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.
Copy, headed T. R.
Edited from this MS in Moore Smith and in Thorn-Drury.
First published in Moore Smith (1927), p. 112. Thorn-Drury, p. 159.
Copy, ascribed to T. R.
.
Unpublished?
Copy, headed Vpon a Gentlewoman in ye snow
, subscribed T. R.
First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).
Copy, headed Vpon a sigh
, subscribed T. R.
First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.
Copy, ascribed to T. R.
By Thomas Philipott. Numerous largely anonymous MS copies exist.
Copy, headed On a Lovers absence
.
This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.
First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 18.
Copy, here beginning I will embrace ye now my dearest come
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.
Copy, headed To his Mrs
.
First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.
Copy, headed An Anagr: vpon his Mris name. Vertue alone thy blisse
, subscribed T. R.
This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury.
First published in Hazlitt (1875). Thorn-Drury, pp. 168-9.
Copy, headed A Sonnet
.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 167-8.
Copy, headed On seing his Mrs face in the water
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 102.
Copy, ascribed to T. R.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 23-8.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Moore Smith (1927).
Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 118-19.
Copy, headed An Epithal: on his honored ffreind Mr Hunt
, subscribed T. R.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 54-6.
Copy, headed An Elegy vpon ye incomparablely beautyous Lady Maddam Venetia Digby
and omitting the epitaph, subscribed T. R
.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 52-3.
A quarto miscellany of largely Jacobite poems on affairs of state, x + 187 leaves, in red morocco gilt.
c.1688-91.Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), in lot 93. Afterwards owned by William Hayman Cummings, FSA (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Hammond.
First published, in a musical setting by Robert King, in Comes Amoris (London, 1689), pp. 6-7. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 452-3. Also published and discussed in Paul Hammond, A Song Attributed to Dryden, The Library, 21/1 (March 1999), 59-66, and in Martin Holmes, A Song Attributed to Dryden: A Postscript, The Library, NS 2/1 (March 2001), 65-8.
Copy.
This MS collated in California.
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.
Copy.
This MS collated in California.
First published in Thomas Betterton, The Prophetess: or, The History of Dioclesian (London, 1690). Poems on Affairs of State, Part III (London, 1698). Kinsley, II, 556-7. California, III, 255-6. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 231-4.
Copy, including dedicatory epistle satirically attributed to John Dryden, subscribed This Mock-Apology and Poem are said to be writ by Mr Shadwel
.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Summers, V, 353-8.
Copy.
This MS recorded in Harris.
Unpublished. Discussed in Harris, p. 187.
Copy, headed A translation of Horace his 10th Ode of ye second booke ab Licinium
, on a leaf inserted after p. 476 in a printed exemplum of Arcadia (London, 1598).
Ringler, pp. 142-3.
A folio volume, comprising A Collection of Lives out of Fuller's Worthies, other authors, &c., to be inserted in the second vol. of my Athenæ Cantabrigienses M D M
, compiled by Morris Drake Morris (1695-c.1733), biographer, 133 leaves, including numerous blanks, plus an index.
First published in London, 1662.
A composite volume of printed works and MSS.
Among the collections of Richard Gough, FSA (1735-1809), antiquary and topographer.
Copy on a single folio leaf.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.
Some texts accompanied by an Answer (A ballad late was made
).
Copy of Leland's The Itinerary, in two hands, iv + 804 folio pages.
Late 17th-early 18th century.Among the collections of Richard Gough, FSA (1735-1809), antiquary and topographer
This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxix.
Copy of five parts
, transcribed from William Burton's scribal transcript (
Copy, transcribed from
This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxix.
First published in London, 1549, ed. John Bale.
A folio composite volume of transcripts of Leland's works, xvi + 276 pages, some imperfect, partly gnawed by rodents, in old marbled boards.
Made largely by William Burton (1575-1645), Leicestershire antiquary, with some original gaps supplied in another hand, entitled (f. xir) The Itinerarye of john Leiland the famous Antiquarie / The first part copied out of the original: 1628: by me William Burton of Lindley com: Leic:
, with the dedicatory epistle to Henry VIII.
Inscribed (f. ixr) Liber Willimi Burton de Lindley com: Leicestr. 1628
. Given by Thomas Allen, Lord of the Manor of Finchley, in June 1758, to William Stukely (1687-1765), antiquary and natural philosopher. Among the collections of Richard Gough, FSA (1735-1809), antiquary and topographer.
Copy, transcribed by Burton from Leland's autograph MS.
This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxv.
First published in London, 1549, ed. John Bale.
Burton's copy of five parts
.
This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxv.
Extracts, transcribed by Burton from Leland's autograph MS.
This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxv-xxvii.
A folio composite volume of antiquarian tracts, in English and Latin, in various hands, ii + 93 leaves, in marbled boards.
Once owned by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, antiquary and collector (No. 4556 in the 1773 catalogue of his books). Among the collections of Richard Gough, FSA (1735-1809), antiquary and topographer.
Copy of the ending, in a professional hand, imperfect, all the beginning excised.
Copy, in a professional hand, imperfect, the lower half of f. 2 excised.
Tract beginning The plentye of this discourse, the last question of Highe Connstables, whereto...
. Hearne (1771), II, 97-103.
Copy, in a professional hand.
A dedicatory epistle beginning Sir, Yor small tyme, I must Ballance, wth as sclendr Aunswere...
followed by a tract beginning Because the Jurisdiction att the Comon Lawe was vncertayne...
.
Copy, in a professional hand.
A tract beginning Such is the vncertainety of etimologyes...
and sometimes entitled in manuscripts The Etymology, Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England
. First published, as Commentarius de etymologia, antiquitate, & officio Comitis Marescalli Angliae, in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 87-93. Hearne (1771), II, 90-7.
The MSS for Richard Gough's edition of Britannia in English (1789), almost entirely in Gough's hand, dated 1771-82, in three volumes, 648, 680 and iii + 609 leaves respectively.
1771-82.First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.
Exemplum of the printed edition of 1607 with notes in the hand of Thomas Gale (1635?-1702) and Richard Gough (1735-1809).
1607.First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.
An exemplum of the printed edition of 1607 with annotations made by one Dr Mason.
17th century.First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.
An exemplum of the printed edition of Britannia (1607) with Richard Gough's extensive annotations.
c.1789.First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.
An exemplum of the printed edition of Britannia (1607) with Richard Gough's extensive annotations.
With Gough's extensive annotations.
c.1789.First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.
An exemplum of the printed edition of 1637, with annotations in possibly several hands.
Mid-late 17th century.Inscribed on a flyleaf T Balldwyn prtium 3s
and used by Mr Sumner
, and, on p. 420, Robert Elwis
.
First published, dedicated to Sir Robert Cotton, in London, 1605. 2nd edition (with additions) London, 1614. 3rd edition (with a few further additions) London, 1623. Edited by R.D. Dunn (Toronto, Buffalo & London, 1984).
An exemplum of the printed quarto edition of 1614, with annotations by William Cole (1714-82).
18th century.Inscribed on the title-page R. Spence
.
First published, dedicated to Sir Robert Cotton, in London, 1605. 2nd edition (with additions) London, 1614. 3rd edition (with a few further additions) London, 1623. Edited by R.D. Dunn (Toronto, Buffalo & London, 1984).
An exemplum of the printed edition of Britannia (1607) with Richard Gough's extensive annotations.
c.1789.First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.
MS of John Shrimpton's History of St Albans.
c.1640.Copy of lines 36-42.
First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 35-56.
Quotations.
First published in London, 1612. 1622. Hebel, IV.
Copy, closely written in a non-professional secretary hand, iv + 64 leaves (plus five blanks), in quarter-calf marbled boards.
With a lengthy title-page (f. ivr), Ireland's survey, or A Historical Dialogue & View of ancient & modern times…with many other matters…worthy of observation to ye Judicious Reader…
and headed (f. 1r) A View of ye prsent state of Ireland, by way of Dialogue
.
Among the collections of Richard Gough, FSA (1735-1809), antiquary and topographer, and inscribed by him (f. 1r) R. G. ex lib. G. Scott, 1781
.
This MS collated in Variorum.
First published in Sir James Ware, The Historie of Ireland (Dublin, 1633). Variorum, Prose Works (ed. Rudolf Gottfried), pp. 39-231.
Spenser's authorship of this View
is generally accepted, especially in light of the comparable views about Ireland in The Faerie Queene. A cautionary note about authorship is sounded, however, in Jean R. Brink, Constructing the View of the Present State of Ireland, Spenser Studies, 11 (1994), 203-28; in her Appropriating the Author of The Faerie Queene: The Attribution of the View of the Present State of Ireland and A Brief Note of Ireland to Edmund Spenser, in Soundings of Things Done: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of S.K. Heninger, Jr, ed. Peter E. Medine and Joseph Wittreich (Newark, Delaware, 1997), 93-136. See also, inter alia, Andrew Hadfield, Certainties and Uncertainties: By Way of Response to Jean Brink, Spenser Studies, 12 (1998), 197-202, and Jean R. Brink, Spenser and the Irish Question: Reply to Andrew Hadfield, Spenser Studies, 13 (1999), 265-6.
A folio volume of historical material relating to London, iv + 112 leaves.
Late 16th century.Extracts, together with extracts from Holinshed's Chronicles, with a preliminary table of contents.
First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).
An octavo composite volume of MS and printed tracts, in Latin and English, iii + 338 leaves.
Among the collections of Richard Gough, FSA (1735-1809), antiquary and topographer.
Numerous MS alterations in the text of a printed exemplum of Directions to a Painter ([London], 1667).
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.
The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, Two New Poems by Marvell?, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.
Numerous MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.
Numerous MS alterations to the printed text.
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.
Numerous MS alterations to the printed text.
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 146-52, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 35-6, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.
Numerous MS alterations to the printed text.
Edited from this text in Margoliouth. Collated in POAS, I
First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir John Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 143-6. POAS, I, 88-96. Lord, pp. 144-51. Smith, pp. 358-61.
Numerous MS alterations to the printed text.
Edited from this text in Margoliouth.
First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 146-7. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.
A large double-folio album containing some 349 antiquarian engravings, drawings, and other items, in diced calf gilt.
Among the collections of Richard Gough, FSA (1735-1809), antiquary and topographer.
Copy of lines 51-74, here begining When now th' incensed Rebel proudly came
, on a folio leaf attached to a page relating to a monument for Sir Bevil Granvil. Mid-18th century.
First published as Verses on the death of the Right Valiant Sr Bevill Grenvill, Knight (1643). Works (1651), pp. 303-6. Evans, pp. 555-8.
A folio volume originally used c.1528 as a manorial rental (up to f. 23) and subsequently, c.1580s, as a commonplace book of miscellaneous entries by Thomas Brampton, of Norfolk and Suffolk, i + 61 leaves, in marbled boards.
c.1528-90.Once owned by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, antiquary and collector. Among the collections of Richard Gough, FSA (1735-1809), antiquary and topographer.
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.
This MS collated in May, p. 123.
May, Poems, No. 1, pp. 43-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 250-1EV 14991.
Extensive emendations and deletions to the text in a printed exemplum of Cavendish's The Life and Death of Thomas Woolsey (8vo, London, 1667), in contemporary calf.
In the small italic hand of Humfrey Wanley (1672-1726), scholar and librarian, for an intended new edition, some notes on slips of paper pinned or tipped in, the alterations transcribed from one of the early manuscript sources (comprising 74 leaves, probably
The front free endpaper inscribed Wm: Herbert 1773
[i.e. William Herbert (1718-95), bibliographer and print seller] and The corrections in this book are made from one of the MS. copies…Mary Coney her Booke 1676
. Among the collections of Richard Gough, FSA (1735-1809), antiquary and topographer.
Sylvester, No. 4 (and see note on p. 288).
First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).
Copy in the hand of an amanuensis, incomplete, 188 pages (169-88 blank), in vellum.
Given by Andrewes in 1626 to William Laud (1573-1645), later Archbishop of Canterbury. Later owned by one J. Mandevile
(name inscribed p. 188); by W. Bristow (fl.1760s), bookseller or auctioneer in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London; and by R.G. Livingstone, whose daughter Isobel Henrietta bequeathed it to the Bodleian in 1969.
Edited from this MS in The Greek Devotions of Lancelot Andrewes, ed. Peter Goldsmith Medd (London, 1892). Described in Brightman, pp. xiii-xv.
First published in an English translation as The Private Devotions, ed. Humphrey Moseley (London, 1647). Selections of the original Greek and Latin version published in Verus Christianus, ed. David Stokes (Oxford, 1668). A more comprehensive version published as Preces privatae, Graece et Latine, ed. John Lamphire (London, 1675). Translated by F.E. Brightman as The Preces Privatae of Lancelot Andrewes (London, 1903).
An exemplum of the first printed edition with some MS stage directions on pp. 48-9 in the last act of the non-tragic version, made by someone apparently familiar with a MS or performance of the play.
Mid-17th century.Once owned by John Selden (1584-1654).
This item collated in Beaurline and described, p. 259.
First published in London, 1638. Beaurline, Plays, pp. 33-119.
An autograph diary of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary, 252 octavo pages, in contemporary calf.
24 June-16 September 1706.Copy, untitled, here beginning Out of stark love, & kindnes, & arrant devotion
, ascribed to some libertine, I know not whether T. Brown
, dated 23 March 1700/1, the text followed by Joshua Barnes's parody beginning Out of stark love and kindness, with zeal and devotion
.
First published in Vieth (1968), p. 159. Walker, pp. 130-1, among Poems Possibly by Rochester
. Love, pp. 40-1, as Of Marriage and beginning Out of Stark Love, and arrant Devotion
.
An autograph diary of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary, 256 octavo pages, in contemporary calf.
23 September 1706-18 February 1706/7.Copy, with introductory preamble …my Ld Rochester vpo the Kings Request made ye following verses
. 17 November 1706.
Edited from this MS in Reliquiae Hearnianae, ed. Philip Bliss, 2 vols (Oxford, 1857), I, 113-14; in Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne, Vol. I, ed. C.E. Doble (Oxford Historical Society, 2, 1885), p. 308; and in Walker, p. 220.
First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 135. Walker, p. 123, as A Lampoon upon the English Grandees.
Copy of a version headed The Ld Rochesters verses vpo the King an occasion of His Majestys saying he would leave everyone to his liberty in lathing when Himself was in company, & would not take wt was said, at all amiss, viz:
, beginning We have a pretty witty king
, subscribed These verses were put in one of the windows of the Room
. 17 November 1706.
Edited from this MS in Reliquiae Hearnianae, ed. Philip Bliss, 2 vols (Oxford, 1857), I, 114 and in Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne, Vol. I, ed. C.E. Doble (Oxford Historical Society, 2, 1885), p. 308.
First published, in a version headed Posted on White-Hall-Gate and beginning Here lives a Great and Mighty Monarch
, in The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon (London, 1707). Vieth, p. 134. Walker, p. 122, as [On King Charles].
An autograph diary of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary, for 6 July-12 September 1711, 242 quarto pages.
1711.Copy.
First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. [179]. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 38, p. 106.
An autograph diary of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary.
Hearne's transcript of
First published, as The Church Papist, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
Draft of the complete work, partly autograph, in 4 large folio volumes, 1090 + 388 leaves, the first dated 1634, the third 1638, each in contemporary calf (rebacked).
Principally in the hands of three or four of Herbert's amanuenses, one of them Thomas Master (1602/3-43), poet, of New College, Oxford, who has written the dedicatory epistle; some pages are in Herbert's hand and with his frequent corrections and revisions; the last volume comprising a composite collection of related historical documents in various hands, including a number of pages written by Herbert, many of the documents transcribed by Thomas Master, and labelled Collectorum liber secundus
.
Later inscriptions including Hen. Topp. Jan. 10. 1652
and Maii 2, 1653, Jam tandem acquisita ab Tho. Earle, rectore de Shorncot, Wilts. ita nunc opus completum et perfectum hoc est (historiæ Henrici 8) in originali suo manuscripto a magistro Th. Master, Neo-Gymnasii Oxon.
These MSS described in Rossi, III, 488-90.
First published in London, 1649. Published in London, 1880 (with Autobiography).
A folio volume of state papers, in two or three hands, 70 leaves, in vellum.
c.1620s.Copy, in a secretary hand, headed The Earle of Essex advice to the Earle of Rutland in his Travailes
, the letter dated this 4th of Ju.
.
The letter, dated from Greenwich, 4 January [1596], beginning My Lord, I hold it for a principle in the course of intelligence of state...
.
First published, as The Late E. of E. his aduice to the E. of R. in his trauels, in Profitable Instructions; Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 27-73. Francis Bacon, Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 106-10. Spedding, IX, 6-15. W.B. Devereux, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), I, No. xciii.
Essex's three letters to Rutland discussed by Paul E.J. Hammer in The Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholars, SP, 91/2 (Spring, 1994), 167-80, and in Letters of Travel Advice from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Rutland: Some Comments, PQ, 74/3 (Summer 1995), 317-22. It is likely that the first letter was written substantially by Francis Bacon.
Copy.
First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.
Copy in an italic hand, headed Certaine verses made by the Earle of Essex not longe before his death
.
May, Poems, No. 7, p. 47. May, Courtier Poets, p. 254. EV 8176.
Copy.
Copy, in a secretary hand
A tract beginning If the ill success of this enterprise of mine had been without example...
. First published in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 477-507. Edited by V.T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 316-34.
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.
Ralegh's letter of 1618 to his cousin George, Lord Carew of Clopton (beginning Because I know not whether I shall live...
). First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650). Edwards, II, 375 et seq. Youings, No. 222, pp. 364-8.
Copy of an account of the speech and execution, in two secretary hands, headed The Confession of Sr Water R
.
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.
Copy of the complete text, closely written in a small and probably professional secretary hand, the headings, incipits and colophons in engrossed lettering, 285 quarto pages (including various blanks and plus a number of blanks at the end), imperfect at the beginning and end and lacking a title, in contemporary calf.
Late 16th century.Inscribed inside the front cover Edward Thelwall
, Anne Thelwalls brother
, and Sidnay Tholwall
.
This MS collated in Robertson and the poems collated in Ringler. Described in Ringler, p. 525.
The unfinished revised version of Arcadia (the New Arcadia
) first published in London, 1590. The original version (the Old Arcadia) first published in Feuillerat, IV (1926). The complete Old Arcadia edited by Jean Robertson (Oxford, 1973). The poems edited in Ringler, pp. 7-131.
Lady Anne Clifford's exemplum of the 4th edition, folio, in 19th-century olive morocco.
Inscribed in her rugged italic hand (on the verso of the title-page) This Booke did I beegine to red ouor att Shipton in Crauen aboutt the Latter-ende of Januaray and I made an ende of Reding itt all ower in Apollbey Castell in Westmorland the 19 day of Marche folloing; in 1651: as the yeare beegines on Nwors-daye
, with marginal annotations by her on pp. 195-6 and other readers' annotations elsewhere.
An exemplum of Arcadia
is shown in the celebrated triptych of Lady Anne Clifford in the Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal.
Bookplate of Edward Pease, of Otterburn Tower, Northumberland. Sotheby's, 22 July 1985, lot 8, to Blackwell. Afterwards in the library of Dr Bent Juel-Jensen (1922-2006), Oxford physician and book collector.
Briefly discussed in Paul Salzman, Anne Clifford's Annotated Copy of Sidney's Arcadia, N&Q, 254 (December 2009), 554-5.
Copy, untitled, in a professional hand, 196 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt.
c.1630.Among collections of the Rev. Henry Jones (d.1707), nonjuror.
Sylvester, No. 5.
First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).
A folio composite volume of ecclesiastical tracts, iii + 356 leaves, in half-vellum boards.
Copy, in a professional hand, subscribed by him Finis Per me Thoma Woodcock
: i.e. the printer Thomas Woodcock (d.1693).
Sylvester, No. 6.
First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).
A folio composite volume of MSS, eighteen leaves, in modern cloth.
Copy, untitled, with other verses, on one page of two conjugate folio leaves.
First published in John Aubrey, The Natural History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, ed. Richard Rawlinson (London, 1718-19), IV, 166-71.
Copy, in a professional hand, 224 quarto leaves (plus two blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.
c.1600.A tract beginning It is but ignorance if any man find it strange that the state of religion (especially in the days of peace) should be exercised...
. First published as A Wise and Moderate Discourse concerning Church-Affaires ([London], 1641). Spedding, VIII, 74-95.
Copy, in a professional hand, 55 quarto leaves (plus 3 blanks), ruled margins, in contemporary vellum gilt.
Headed The point handled is Whether it be better to suppresse Popish practises by the strict execution of Lawes touching Jesuites and seminary priests, or to restraine them to close Prison during life, &c.
, the tract dated 11 August 1613 and subscribed Robertus Cotton
.
Tract beginning I am not ignorant, that this latter age hath brought forth a swarm of busie heads...
, dated 11 August 1613. First published in two editions, as respectively Seriovs Considerations for Repressing of the Increase of Iesvites and A Treatise against Recusants (both London, 1641). Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [109]-159.
A quarto volume of three tracts (two on the Succession written the 6t [and 4th] of novebr. 1599
) respectively), in three different professional secretary hands, 87 quarto leaves (plus two blanks), in contemporary vellum.
Inscribed twice (f. 1r) Gualterus Johnes verus possessor huius libri
.
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Peck. p. 226.
First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.
A large folio composite volume of papers on public affairs, in English and Latin, in various hands, 180 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.
The first leaf inscribed by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary.
Copy, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 92-3.
Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to James I.
Copy.
A treatise, with a dedicatory epistle to James I beginning Those that are suppressed and hopeless are commonly silent ...
, the dialogue beginning Now, sir, what think you of Mr. St. John's trial in the Star-chamber?...
. First published as The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (Midelburge
and Hamburg
[i.e. London], 1628). Works (1829), VIII, 151-221.
Copy, in the margins on ff. 50v, 59r-65r of a 15th-century MS on parchment of Petrarch's Quatuor invectivarum libri.
Mid-17th century.Inscribed names of Sampson Walker (f. 2v) and Roger and Richard Martin.
Osborn, p. 301.
A printed exemplum of Poems (London, 1619) with annotations in the hand of Richard Butcher (1587-1664), including an extra stanza added to the Ballad of Agincourt.
c.1620.This item recorded and the extra stanza edited in Hebel, V (1961), 291; facsimile in Hebel, III (1961), facing p. 9.
First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 375-8.
Copy.
c.1630s.Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).
Copy of an early version, in seventeen chapters, in two or three mixed hands, untitled, on 87 tall folio pages, followed by a series of blanks and then lists of books belonging to W.Leveson Gower in several hands, in 19th-century calf.
Early-mid-17th century.Book lists c.1677-85 relating to Sir William Leveson-Gower, fourth Baronet (c.1647-91) and partly in the hand of Mr Plaxton, rector of Donington and Kinnardley, Shropshire, apparently librarian to Sir John Leveson-Gower, fifth Baronet (1675-1709). Descended to Dukes of Sutherland, of Trentham Hall. Sotheby's, 19 November 1906 (Trentham Hall Library sale). Christie's, 24 November 1959, lot 334, to Quaritch.
This MS collated in Gouws.
Generally entitled A Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney. First published in London, 1652. Grosart, IV, 1-224. Edited by Nowell Smith (Oxford, 1907). Gouw, pp. 3-135.
An octavo volume of essays on travel, largely in one professional secretary hand, a Table
and some notes in other hands, with a formal title-page Itineraria Collectanea or Instructions for A Traveler Directing him how to make the best use of his Travels Together with the Politique survay of A Kingdome
, 107 pages (plus blanks), in old vellum boards.
This MS recorded in BC, 15 (Summer 1966), p. 156.
Copy, headed A letter written by Sr Phillip Sidney to his brother Robert Sidney (now Lord Lisle) shewing what cours was fit for him to hold in his travails
.
A letter beginning My most deere Brother. You have thought unkindness in me, I have not written oftner unto you...
. First published in Profitable Instructions. Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 74-103. Feuillerat (as Correspondence No. XXXVIII), III, 124-7.
Copy, headed A Letter written by Sr. Fulke Greville to a Kinsman of his residing in France wherein are set downe Certaine Rules directing him how to make ye best use of his travaile
, dated 1609.
An epistolary essay beginning My good Cousin, according to the request of your letter, dated the 19. of October, at Orleance...
, dated from Hackney, 20 November 1609. First published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Grosart, IV, 301-6. This essay perhaps originally written by Thomas Bodley and possibly also used by Francis Bacon and/or the Earl of Essex. Also perhaps sent by Greville to John Harris rather than Greville Varney: see Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Fulke Greville's Letter to a Cousin in France and the Problem of Authorship in Cases of Formula Writing, RQ, 22 (1969), 140-7.
Copy, headed Sr Fran: Bacons essay of Travell
.
The Oxford Francis Bacon, XV, 56-8.
Copy, headed The Erle of Essex his aduice to ye E: of R: in his Travels
, dated from Greenwich, 4 January 1596
.
The letter, dated from Greenwich, 4 January [1596], beginning My Lord, I hold it for a principle in the course of intelligence of state...
.
First published, as The Late E. of E. his aduice to the E. of R. in his trauels, in Profitable Instructions; Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 27-73. Francis Bacon, Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 106-10. Spedding, IX, 6-15. W.B. Devereux, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), I, No. xciii.
Essex's three letters to Rutland discussed by Paul E.J. Hammer in The Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholars, SP, 91/2 (Spring, 1994), 167-80, and in Letters of Travel Advice from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Rutland: Some Comments, PQ, 74/3 (Summer 1995), 317-22. It is likely that the first letter was written substantially by Francis Bacon.
Copy in a secretary hand.
Headed (with side-note) Sr Philippe Sydneys Letter to the Q: concearning her mariage wth Mounsier
, and the salutation (Most feared & beloued sweete, and gracious Souereigne
) set apart and slightly engrossed, on twelve folio pages, in contemporary limp vellum.
Formerly bound with three other tracts dating up to 1626. William H. Robinson's sale catalogue No. 72 (1940), item 147. Sold by Seven Gables Bookshop at Sotheby's, 10 April 1962, lot 467.
This MS recorded in The Book Collector, 15 (Summer 1966), 156, and in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 26 (pp. 278-9).
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).
A duodecimo volume of four tracts.
Early 17th century.Formerly in the library of the Harvey family, of Ickwell Bury, Bedfordshire, and of Finningley Park, Yorkshire. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 536 (1930), item 2129. Then owned by André de Coppet (1892-1953), New York financial broker. Sotheby's, 4 July 1955 (de Coppet sale), lot 888, to Quaritch.
Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 62, and in The Book Collector, 15 (Summer 1966), p. 156.
Copy, on ten pages.
Recorded in Duncan-Jones and Van Dorsten. Edited from this MS in a private edition printed in the New Bodleian, 1959.
An account, probably by George Gifford. Duncan-Jones and Van Dorsten, pp. 166-72.
Copy, on 23 leaves.
Removed from this volume before the volume was acquired by Dr Juel-Jensen.
A treatise beginning Forasmuch as in every doubtfull and questionable matter, it is familiar and common amongst men to be diverse...
. First published in London, 1734. It was probably written by Sir Thomas Wilford (1541-1601?), or possibly by Sir Francis De Vere or Nathaniel Boothe. See Lefranc (1968), pp. 64-5.
Copy of Bacon's speech on 17 May 161, on three pages.
Copy.
Essay, beginning A king is a mortal god on earth...
. Spedding, VI, 595-7 (discussed pp. 592-4).
A duodecimo verse miscellany, including 24 poems by Strode, in a single mixed hand, associated with Oxford, 56 leaves (out of an original eight gatherings), in contemporary calf.
c.1630s.Inscriptions inside the covers including the name Phil. Mu
(or Mer.
). Later in the library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector. Acquired in 1969 by Dr Bent Juel-Jensen (1922-2006), Oxford physician and book collector.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Sparrow MS
:
Copy, headed On the Earle of Dorsets death
, imperfect, half torn away.
First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.
Copy, headed On Ch: Ch: Play
.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 70.
Copy, headed An Elegy on the death of Sr. John Burrowe
.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 12-16. Extract in Bliss, pp. 225-6. Edited in James Doelman, John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 499-502).
Copy, imperfect, lacking the first nine lines and here beginning The aspen tree
, subscribed W. S.
First published in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dobell, pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 79-80. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).
Copy of the first and third poems, headed respectively On Mrs. Mary Prideaux dying
and Mrs. Mary Prideaux Epitaph
.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 335.
Sequence of three poems, the second headed Consolatorium, Ad Parentes and beginning Lett her parents then confesse
, the third headed Her Epitaph and beginning Happy Grave, thou dost enshrine
. The third poem probably by George Morley and first published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). The three poems published in Dobell (1907), pp. 59-63. Forey, pp. 211-16.
Copy, headed On a greate hollow Tree
, subscribed W. S.
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 21-4. Forey, pp. 1-5.
Copy.
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 108-9. Forey, pp. 16-17.
Copy, headed A gentleman on his entertainment at Sarum in Kent
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 27-9.
Copy.
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 25-7. Forey, pp. 7-10.
Copy, headed A song
, subscribed W. S.
This MS collated in Forey.
First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.
Copy, headed To his loue on his departure from her
.
This MS recorded in Gardner.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
Copy, subscribed W. S.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 328.
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 42. Forey, p. 193.
Copy, headed On a gentleman who kissing a gentle woman left some blood on her lipp
.
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 32-3. Forey, pp. 22-3.
Copy.
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 52-3. Forey, p. 52.
Copy, subscribed W. S.
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 53. Forey, p. 52.
Copy.
Third stanza (beginning Voutchsafe my Pris'ner thus to be
) and fourth stanza (beginning When you putt on this little bande
) first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 43-4. Forey, p. 34.
Copy.
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] Sr Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 101. Dobell, p. 44. Forey, pp. 34-5.
Copy.
First stanza first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Second stanza (Loe on my necke…
) first published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] Sr Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 100. Complete in Dobell, p. 45. Forey, p. 35.
Copy.
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 45-6. Forey, p. 193.
Copy.
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 44. Forey, p. 210.
Copy.
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 44-5. Forey, p. 210.
Copy, headed A Gentleman to his Sisters
and here beginning Loving sisters euery line
, subscribed W. S.
.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 328.
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 88. Forey, p. 198.
Copy, here beginning ffor your good lookes & yr good clarret
.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, p. 102. Forey, p. 30.
Copy, subscribed B. G.
.
First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8v. Moore Smith (1925), pp. 252-4, and in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 92-3. Edited, discussed, and the possible attribution to Randolph supported, in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 448-9.
The poem is most commonly attributed to Ben Jonson. Also sometimes ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay, JP, and to Randolph.
Copy, here beginning Like to a hand that hath beene vs'd to play
, subscribed W. S.
.
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 99-100. The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, 1949), p. 130. Forey, p. 31.
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 33-4. Forey pp. 42-3.
Copy, headed To a gentle woman
, subscribed W. S.
This MS collated in Forey.
Lines 15-20 (beginning Oft when I looke I may descrie
) first published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 29-30. Forey, pp. 37-9.
Copy, headed A song
, subscribed W. S.
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 11-12. Forey, pp. 77-9.
Copy.
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 55. Forey, p. 109.
Copy, headed J. D. to his freind
, subscribed W. S.
This MS recorded in Gardner.
First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.
Copy, headed On the Blazing starr
and here beginning A starre of late appeared in virgo's traine
.
First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.
Copy, subscribed W. S.
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 58-9. Forey, p. 111.
Copy of a thirty-line version (comprising lines 1-4, 45-52, 67-8, 73-4, 95-8), headed On his wiues departure D. Corbet
.
This MS recorded in Gardner.
First published, in a 42-line version as Elegie XIIII
, in Poems (London, 1635). Published complete (104 lines) in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 100-4 (as Elegie XII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 96-100 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 21. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 332-4 (with versions printed in 1635 and 1669 on pp. 335-6 and 336-8 respectively).
Copy, headed To his Mrs in absence
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 22.
Copy, headed An Elegy on a fly
subscribed T. C.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
Copy, headed To the King
.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 30-1.
Copy, headed A godly exhortation to Mr. John Hammond minister of the word of God in the parish of Beawdly for the battering downe of uanities of the Gentiles wch are comprehended in a May-poole by a zealous brother from ye Black ffriars
, imperfect, lacking the last eighteen lines.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 52-6.
An exemplum of Poëtica Stromata at Christ Church, Oxford, has against this poem the MS marginal note None of Dr Corbets
and an attribution to John Harris of Christ Church.
Copy, headed Fran: Beamont to Ben: Johnson
, imperfect, lacking the last ten lines.
First published in An addition of some excellent Poems...By other Gentlemen in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare Gent. (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 500-3. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, XI (Oxford, 1952), 374-7.
Nearly all recorded MS texts of this poem are discussed and collated, with an edited text (pp. 170-4), in Mark Bland, Francis Beaumont's Verse Letters to Ben Jonson and The Mermaid Club
, EMS, 12 (2005), 139-79.
Copy, headed A farewell to the Duke when he went with the fflete towards the Islands of Rees
.
A folio with MS annotations in Latin.
1617.Discussed in the anonymous MS Notes to Spenser's Faerie Queene, N & Q, 202 (December 1957), 509-15, and in Alastair Fowler, Oxford and London Marginalia to The Faerie Queene, N & Q, 206 (November 1961), 416-18.
Apparently Sandys's own exemplum, bearing his arms on the binding.
1621.Recorded in M. A. Rogers, Books from the Library of George Sandys, BC, 23 (Autumn 1974), 361-70 (p. 370), where the binding is illustrated (Plate A).
Autograph annotations.
1576.Autograph annotations, on the flyleaves and in the third item, in a composite volume of four 16th-century printed works owned by Bale.
Comprising (1) François Lambert, Farrago [Strasbourg?, 1525]; (2) Reno Vatio Ecclesiae Nordlingiacensis (1525); (3) Histori-armet chronicorum totius mundi epitome [n.d.]; (4) Andreas Alciatus, Emblemata (Paris, 1535).
A folio miscellany of letters, speeches and other documents, chiefly relating to Oxford University, largely in Latin, in several hands, iv + 432 pages, in half-calf.
Compiled chiefly by Henry Wilkinson (d.1690), Principal of Magdalen Hall (in 1648-62), who entitles the miscellany (p. 1) Elegantiores Conciones, Orationes, Epistolæ vna cum alijs notata dignioribus exercitijs Ex Proprio nec. non alieno pulchrius transcribuntur 1653
.
Owned in 1841 by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Turner sale, 9 June 1859, lot 528. Sotheby's, 28 July 1903 (as from a College Library
), lot.
Copy, headed Dr Strowd on Mris Corbett Walking in the snow
.
First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).
Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, with a correction in another hand, on two quarto leaves, sent by Milton to John Rous (1574-1652), Librarian of the Bodleian Library, 23 January 1646/7.
Formerly preserved pasted in an exemplum of Poems (1645) sent by Milton to the Bodleian as a replacement for one lost en route [8° M. 168. Art.].
1647.This MS collated in Columbia. Recorded in Darbishire and in Carey & Fowler. Complete facsimile in Illinois, I, 457-62. Facsimile examples in Sotheby, Ramblings, after p. 114 (Plate [XVII]); in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LIII(d-e); and in Maurice Kelley, Milton and the Notes on Paul Best, The Library, 5th Ser. 5 (1950), 49-51.
First published in Poems &c. upon several Occasions (1673). Columbia, I, 316-25. Darbishire, II, 284-6. Carey & Fowler, pp. 299-304.
Autograph octavo notebook by Thomas Traherne, in prose and verse, in English and Latin, written during and after his university days, 388 pages (mostly blank after p. 240), in contemporary calf, with remains of metal clasps.
Largely autograph, with a few pages at the beginning in the hand of Philip Traherne, who inscribed it (p. iii) Philip Traherne is the true owner of this booke Amen Ano Domi 1655
, used some pages for neat examples of his penmanship as a child and, in later years (after 1689), copied on pp. 237-40 an extract from Thomas Burnet's Telluris Theoria Sacra.
Scribbling at the ends of the volume including names of Thomas and Philip Traherne, Holway and Warmeston. Later owned on 30 April 1841 by Rashleigh Duke of Salisbury: i.e.[son of Edward Duke (1779-1852), Wiltshire antiquary. Hodgson's, 13 December 1935, lot 137, to P.J. Dobell.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Early Notebook:
Extensive extracts.
First published in Opera, tomus primus (London, 1623). Spedding, I, 413-840.
Autograph, initialled T.T.
.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Margoliouth (1958), II, 205. Ridler, p. 159.
Autograph.
Edited from this MS in Margoliouth.
First published in Margoliouth (1958), II, 205-6. Incomplete and unsigned, thus of uncertain authorship: see Anne Ridler, Traherne: Some Wrong Attributions, RES, NS 18 (1967) 48-9.
Autograph, initialled T.T.
and deleted.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Margoliouth (1958), II, 206-7. Ridler, p. 159.
Copy in the hand of Thomas Traherne, untitled, preceded on p. 200 by a Latin version.
First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).
Autograph, with a revision and initialled T.T.
.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Margoliouth (1958), II, 207. Ridler, p. 166.
Autograph, with revisions and initialled T.T.
.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Margoliouth (1958), II, 208. Ridler, pp. 161-2.
Autograph, initialled T.T.
.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Margoliouth (1958), II, 210-11. Ridler, pp. 162-3.
Autograph translation from Seneca, with revisions.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Margoliouth (1958), II, 210-11. Ridler, p. 163.
A folio theological miscellany, on paper and parchment, with some rubrication, iii + 159 leaves, in calf over oak boards, with remains of clasps.
Compiled by Robert Parkyn (d.1569), curate of Adwick-le-Street, Yorkshire.
c.1551.Afterwards owned by the Cooke family, baronets. Crouch of Doncaster, February 1931 (Cooke-Yarborough sale), lot 769.
See A.G. Dickens, A New Prayer of Sir Thomas More, The Church Quarterly Review, 124 (1937), 224-37; A.G. Dickens, Robert Parkyn's Narrative of the Reformation, English Historical Review 62 (1947), 58-83; David Rogers, St. John Fisher: An Unpublished Prayer to God the Father, The Month, NS 7 (1952), 106-11; and A.G. Dickens, The last medieval Englishman, Christian spirituality: essays in honour of Gordon Rupp, ed. Peter Brooks (London, 1975), 141–82, reprinted in Dickens, Reformation Studies (London, 1982), 247-285.
Copy of More's English deuoute prayer
, here beginning O Holy trinite the father the sone & the holy goste…
.
Workes (1557), pp. 1417-18. Yale, Vol. 13, pp. 228-31. This MS collated in Yale.
Devout Instructions &c. first published in Workes (London, 1557), pp. 1405-18. Yale, Vol. 13, with English translation.
Copy of More's English godly instruccion
, here beginning Beyre no malice nor evill Will to any man…
.
Workes (1557), p. 1405. Yale, Vol. 13, pp. 207-8. This MS collated in Yale.
Devout Instructions &c. first published in Workes (London, 1557), pp. 1405-18. Yale, Vol. 13, with English translation.
Copy of More's English godly meditacion
, here beginning Gyue me the gre good lorde…
.
Yale, Volume 13, pp. 226-7. This MS collated in Yale.
Devout Instructions &c. first published in Workes (London, 1557), pp. 1405-18. Yale, Vol. 13, with English translation.
Copy of More's English verse translation of a prayer by Pico della Mirandola, beginning O holly gode of dreydfull maieste
.
Edited from this MS in A.S.G. Edwards, Robert Parkyn's Transcript of More's Prayer of Picus Mirandula vnto God, Moreana, 27 (May 1990), 133-8.
First published in London, [1510?]. Yale, Volume 1, pp. 51-123.
Copy, in the professional hand of the notary public William Langham, 128 folio leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf, the initials W L
stamped in gilt on the cover.
Subscribed (f. 128r) Ex manuscripto Rogeri Manwood [i.e. Sir Roger Manwood (1524/5-92), judge] olim Capitalis Baronis de Scaccario dnæ Elizabethæ nvper Reginæ Angliæ fideliter extract Per me Gulielmu Langham Notarium publicum
.
Inscribed variously (f. ir) Willmus Langham me Jure tenet Anno Dni 161[3]
; (f. iir) Willmus Vaughanis me Jure tenet Anno Dni 1613
; and (f. 1r) Liber Guil. Laude Archiepi Cant et Cancillarij Vniuersit Oxon. 1636
. Among collections of William Laud (1573-1645), Archbishop of Canterbury.
This MS recorded in Sylvester, pp. 280-1.
First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).
A folio volume of miscellaneous papers, 333 leaves.
Among the Irish collections of Sir George Carew (c.1556-1612), administrator and diplomat. Afterwards among collections of William Laud (1573-1645), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Extensive extracts.
A treatise, dedicated to James I, beginning During the time of my service in Ireland (which began in the first yeare of his Majesties raigne) I haue visited all the Prouinces...
. First published as A Discoverie of the Trve Cavses why Ireland was neuer entirely subdued...vntill...his Maiesties happie Raigne ([London], 1612). Grosart, II, 1-168.
Extracts.
Charge beginning You my Masters that are sworn, I am to direct my Speech principally unto you...
. First published (from a MS owned by A. Cooper Ramgard, Barrister) in Grosart, III (1876), 243-81.
Notes and extracts.
Two speeches, one in the Irish House of Commons, the other in the Irish House of Lords, beginning respectively Most honble. Lord & Rt. Worthy Deputy of Our most Invincible Renowned & Gracious Sovereign, I am here presented to your Lordp...
. and Most honble. & Right Noble Lord. Since your high Wisdom (unto which I humbly made my Appeal) has not thought fit to repeal...
. The second speech first published in Davies, Historical Tracts (Dublin, 1787). The two speeches first published together in Grosart, III (1876), 215-21, 222-41.
Extracts.
Part I (to 1589) first published in London, 1615. Parts I-II (to 1603) published in Leiden, 1625-7.
Extracts.
First published in Wesel [i.e. London], 1546.
Edmund Lynolde's own MS compilation (consisting of 47 leaves).
Meditations Vnmused and Vowes Vnvoted In An Epistle written to Doctor Joseph Hall late Bishop of Exceter wherein he is argued for a great wrong done to A Man of His Owne Profession in ye late High Commission Court about an vniust and illegall sentence there passed.
Autograph letter signed by Hall, to the Rev. Edmunde Lynolde, pastor of Heling, near Grimsby, Lincolnshire, 14 August 1645.
Defending himself against Lynolde's accusations that Hall had done a great wrong to a fellow clergymam who had been unjustly sentenced in court; also with a revealing comment on Laud, who had been executed in the previous January, and notable comments on his own plight (having had his whole estate…seized by the Parliament …and…hauing not so much as a comptency allowed mee, as yet, for the necessary sustentaon of my family
).
A composite volume of verse collected by John Locke (1632-1704), philosopher, partly in his hand, partly in that of Sylvester Brownover, 50 leaves.
c.1680s-90s.Copy, on two small folio conjugate leaves.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in The Swedish Intelligencer, Third Part (London, 1633). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 77-81.
Copy, on a single folio leaf.
This MS collated in Walker.
First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.
A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, compiled in part by John Locke (1632-1704), philosopher, and also in part by Thomas Barlow and Sylvester Brownover, xxviii + 358 pages (pp. 224-358 blank), in calf.
Late 17th century.Copy, headed To the Lady Morton who carried away the Princesse, sent her on New years day
, subscribed E Waller
.
First published as a broadside (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 6-7.
Copy, headed To my Lady Isabella Thinn cutting trees in paper
, subscribed E Waller
.
First published, in a fourteen-line version, in Poems, Third
edition (London, 1668). A 22-line version in Thorn-Drury, II, 68.
Copy of a twenty-line version, headed An Epitaph on the Earle of Strafford
.
Edited from this MS in O Hehir, Harmony, pp. 36-7.
First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 153-4.
Copy, headed The faire weather at the Coronation betwixt 2 great stormes which preceded and followed it
, subscribed Mrs Philips
.
This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.
First published in Poems (1664), pp. 9-10. Poems (1667), p. 5. Saintsbury, p. 509. Hageman (1987), p. 585. Thomas, I, 73, poem 4.
Copy, subscribed Mrs. Philips
.
Edited from this MS in Mambretti and in Thomas.
First published in Mambretti (1977), p. 450. Thomas, I, 249-50, poem 124.
Copy, headed To her Royall Highness the Dutchess of York who commanded mee to send her what I had writen
, subscribed Mrs Philips
.
This MS collated in Thomas.
First published in Poems (1664), pp. 22-4. Poems (1667), pp. 11-12. Saintsbury, pp. 513-14. Thomas, I, 80, poem 9.
Copy, including the envoy To ye King
, here ascribed to Denham.
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.
The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, Two New Poems by Marvell?, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.
Copy, iii + 39 leaves (including six blanks).
c.1624-8.Among the collections of James P.R. Lyell (1871-1948), book collector.
A tract dedicated to Prince Charles, beginning Your Highness hath an imperial name. It was a Charles that brought the empire first into France...
. First published in Certaine Miscellany Works, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, XIV, 469-505.
A 15th-century MS of the office of the dead (use of Sarum) and Psalms, on parchment, ii + 100 leaves (130 x 90 mm.).
Among the collections of James P.R. Lyell (1871-1948), book collector.
Copy of the first two stanzas, written on the last page.
Edited from this MS, with a facsimile of f. 65r of the main MS, in Quaritch's sale catalogue of Illuminated and other MSS (1931), item 66, and in catalogue No. 474 (1933), item 148.
Skelton wrote a Wofully araid but it is uncertain whether his version can be identified with any extant poem incorporating these words: see Canon, L118, pp. 32-3. First published in Sir John Hawkins, General History of the Science and Practice of Music (London, 1776), III, 2. Dyce (1843), I, 141-3.
Copy of the song.
Inscribed on p. 144 in a late-15th-century quarto volume of astrological and astronomical texts and a Cambridge play.
17th century.Probably once owned by John and Elizabeth Salkeld. Bookplate of Ashburnham Appendix No. CCXLIX. Bought in May 1897 by Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928), newspaper proprietor and manuscript collector. Sotheby's, 1 May 1899, lot 171. Tregaskis, Caxton Head, sale catalogue No. 1020 (February 1936), item 6. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 697 (1940-1), item 169. Among the collections of James P.R. Lyell (1871-1948), book collector, who purchased it in August 1942.
Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.
For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see
A printed exemplum bearing the contemporary inscription Ex dono Georgij Sandys Armigeri / Translation. A° Domini 1636
.
An exemplum (originally accompanying
Exemplum of the first printed edition, with autograph corrections and alterations for a projected second edition.
c.1661.Later owned by James Bindley, FSA (1737-1818), book collector.
This volume reproduced in facsimile, ed. J.L. Nevinson (Blackwell's, for the Luttrell Society, 1951). Facsimile of title-page in Keynes, p. 113. The MS corrections are edited in Bray (1818), II, 320-32.
First published in London, 1661. Bray, II, part i, pp. 321-32. Keynes, pp. 109-13.
A large quarto composite volume, comprising c.230 letters of British poets, 234 leaves (including blanks), in 19th-century half-calf.
Assembled in 1824 by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector.
Among collections of Captain Montagu Montagu, RN (d.1863).
Copy, in the hand of Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), natural philosopher and courtier, headed Ben Johns. Ode translat. per Gu: Stroud, Proc. Oxon
, on two and a half trimmed folio leaves, endorsed by Digby Ben: Johnsons Ode translated into Latin by the Proctor of Oxforde
and, in pencil in a later hand, I had it from Mr Whaley T G W
.
Given to Upcott by William Gifford (1756-1826), editor and satirical writer.
Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson.
First published in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, Volume X (Oxford, 1950), 335-6. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.
Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to Sir Richard Browne, from St Germains, 14 August [1646].
Edited in Harbage, p. 104, and in Nethercot, pp. 224-5.
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to [John Evelyn], from Rouen, [after July] 1646].
Edited in Ella Theodora Riske, Waller in Exile, TLS (13 October 1932), 734. Text also in Deas, pp. 172-3.
Autograph MS of Waller's twelve-line French version of his poem Of Mrs. Arden, which he describes as a translation of something of my owne (wch you may have heard or read) produced by the same occasion as the originall
, on both sides of a quarto leaf in Waller's letter to John Evelyn, from Rouen, [after July] 1646.
Edited from this MS in Riske.
First published in Ella Theodora Riske, Waller in Exile, TLS (13 October 1932), p. 734.
Copy, with an alteration in line 8 possibly in another hand, untitled, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed (f. 52v) Mr Wallers verses uppon the meetinge of the Parlament, 1679.
Edited from this MS in Firth.
First published as an anonymous broadside [London, 1679]. For the attribution to Waller by Gilbert Burnet (who recorded it in a contents list as Waller's Verses on the New Parl., 1679
), see G. Thorn-Drury in N&Q, 11th Ser. 5 (20 April 1912), 305. Also printed by Charles Firth in N&Q, 9th Ser. 4 (15 July 1899), 41-2 (and see also 2 September 1899, p. 190), where the attribution to Waller is rejected, as it is in Deas (pp. 316-17).
Copy of Dryden's letter to his sons, 3 September [1697].
An authorization to sell stock, signed by Congreve, 26 April 1717.
Recorded in Hodges, Letters, p. ix.
A quarto verse miscellany, compiled chiefly by Eliza Chapman, 89 leaves.
1788-9 [with additions to 1817].Among collections of Captain Montagu Montagu, RN (d.1863).
Copy.
Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).
Copy.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 177-8.
Copy.
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).
Copy.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 88.
A notebook of verse and prose, in several hands, written from both ends over a period, 73 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.
Compiled and written principally by Dudley North, third Baron North (1581-1666).
Early 17th century.Sotheby's, 29 October 1975, lot 149.
Copy.
First published in John Dowland, The First Booke of Songes or Ayres (London, 1597). Discussed and attribution to Essex rejected in May, Poems, pp. 114-15. EV 4476.
A large double-folio composite volume of literary, political and miscellaneous papers, on paper and parchment, in various hands and sizes, 339 leaves, in modern cloth.
Among papers of the North family, Barons North and Earls of Guilford, seated principally at Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire.
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Early 17th century.
Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of Doubtful Verses
in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.
Copy of lines 1-176, in a professional hand, on two conjugate folio leaves, imperfect, lacking the remainder. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp
, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.
Copy, headed The Game at Chesse
and preceded by three stanzas beginning My muse & I are drunke to Night
, on a single folio leaf. End of 17th century.
Edited in part from this MS in Harris.
First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.
Copy, headed Writte on ye Glass
, the verses in a different order and here beginning And now God bless our Gratious king
, on a single folio leaf. End of 17th century.
First published, in a version headed Posted on White-Hall-Gate and beginning Here lives a Great and Mighty Monarch
, in The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon (London, 1707). Vieth, p. 134. Walker, p. 122, as [On King Charles].
A quarto composite volume of works, in verse and prose, by Dudley North (1582-1666), third Baron North, poet, in various hands, 235 leaves, in modern cloth.
Among papers of the North family, Barons North and Earls of Guilford, seated principally at Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire.
Copy, untitled, in a series of poems by North (ff. 6r-54r) neatly written by an accomplished amanuensis with North's autograph corrections.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
First published in Dudley North, A Forest of Varieties (1645). Poems (1660), pp. 26-7, superscribed P.
. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
and as by Dudley North, third Baron North.
Copy, untitled, with an authorial revision in one line, in a series of poems by North (ff. 6r-54r) neatly written by an accomplished amanuensis with North's autograph corrections.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
Poems (1660), pp. 33-4, superscribed P.
. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition
. This poem is by Dudley North, third Baron North. First published in North's A Forest of Varieties (1645), p. 46.
Annotations in an unidentified hand, unsigned.
c.1590s-1600s.Stern, p. 269.
An exemplum with annotations once attributed to Milton.
The annotations discussed, and attributed to Milton, by R. Brook Aspland in The Christian Reformer; or, Unitarian Magazine and Review, 3rd Ser. 9 (1853), 561-3, with facsimile examples. Discussed, with a facsimile example, and the attribution rejected, in Maurice Kelley, Milton and the Notes on Paul Best, The Library, 5th Ser. 5 (1950), 49-51. The annotations edited in Columbia, XVIII, 341-4. Recorded in LR, II, 170, and in Boswell, No. 178.
A large folio guardbook of notes and miscellaneous documents, written or collected by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer, i + 238 leaves.
Copy of stanzas 129-134, untitled and here beginning For so the place was call'd where he was lay'd
, with three lines in stanza 133 deleted, in an unidentified hand, on a single trimmed broadsheet. Late 18th century.
First published, in an unauthorized edition as The Deplorable Life and Death of Edward the Second. Together with the Downefall of the two Unfortunate Favorits, Gavestone and Spencer. Storied in an Excellent Pöem, London, 1628. First authorized edition, as The Historie of Edward the Second, Surnamed Carnarvan, one of our English Kings. Together with the Fatall down-fall of his two vnfortunate Favorites Gaveston and Spencer, London, 1629. An edition of a 576-stanza version in three cantos, entitled The Life of Edward II, was printed in London 1721 from an unidentified MS.
Mellor, pp. 4-169 (664-stanza version, headed The Life and Death of Edward the Second, including The Authors Preface beginning Rebellious thoughts why doe you tumult so
?).
A folio volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 193 leaves.
Early 17th century.One of the volumes donated in 1727 by Thomas Perrott, of St John's College, Oxford.
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603.
Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, The Great Day of Mart
: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.
A folio volume of state tracts, in various hands, 209 leaves.
One of the volumes donated in 1727 by Thomas Perrott, of St John's College, Oxford.
Copy, headed A learned exposition of certaine of Spencers verses written by sir Kenelme Digby…
.
One of the earliest commentaries on The Faerie Queene, including quotations, dated 13 June 1628, addressed to Sir Edward Stradling, and beginning My much honored freind, I am too well acquainted with the weaknes of my abillities...
. First published in London, 1643. Variorum, II, 472-8.
Extensive autograph astronomical and astrological notes, including Burton's horoscope.
1603.Facsimiles of Burton's horoscope in Proceedings & Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1 (1922-6), after p. 246, and in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LXXXIII. The volume discussed in J.B. Bamborough (with appendix by C.J. Eade), Robert Burton's Astrological Notebook, RES, NS. 32 (1981), 267-85.
A volume of heraldic collections, including emblazoned arms, in several hands, i + 522 leaves, in old calf (rebacked).
Once owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary, and by Joseph Smith, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford.
Grant(s) of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms.
Grant(s) of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms.
A quarto composite volume of various works in the hand of John Bale, 400 leaves, in stamped leather (rebacked).
c.1527-33, with additions to c.1540?.Among collections of John Selden, MP (1584-1654), lawyer, historian, and linguistic scholar.
An autograph collection of notes and writings relating to the Carmelite order, some works by Bale, some by other authors, including (ff. 197-220v) some lives of saints (beginning Oratio fratris Martini persone ytali Carmelite…
).
Brief extracts from this MS edited in Monumenta historica Carmelitana. Recorded and discussed in Davies, pp. 236 (ii), 240 (with a facsimile of f. 23v in plate II, after p. 244); in McCusker (1942), pp. 103-4; and in Fairfield, pp. 159-61.
Unpublished (complete).
Autograph.
This MS recorded in Davies, p. 237 (ix), and in McCusker (1942), p. 103.
Unpublished. This work corresponds to the Fasciculum ex omnibus... recorded in Bale's Scriptorum illustrium (1557), I, 703.
Autograph, beginning Bertoldus lemouicarum aquitanie…
.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 236 (vi), and in McCusker (1942), p. 103. See also Fairfield, p. 161.
Unpublished. This work corresponds to the Catalogum Generalium... recorded in Bale's Scriptorum illustrium (1557), I, 703.
An autograph octavo volume of collections by Bale for a list of works by British authors, i + 227 leaves.
c.1549-57.Among collections of John Selden, MP (1584-1654), lawyer, historian, and linguistic scholar.
John Bale's autograph Index Britanniae scriptorum, untitled, with supplementary lists of works by foreign and anonymous authors, extracts from monastic catalogues, and other materials.
Edited from this MS in Oxford edition 1902, ed. R.L. Poole and Mary Bateson. Recorded in Davies, p. 237 (xvii); in McCusker (1942), p. 104; and in Fairfield, p. 163.
First published in Oxford, 1902, ed. R.L. Poole and Mary Bateson.
The work, and its shortcomings, discussed in James P. Carley, Misattributions and Ghost Entries in John Bale's Index Britanniae Scriptorum: Some Representative Examples Ex bibliotheca Anglorum regis
, in Anglo-Latin and its Heritage: Essays in Honour of A.G. Rigg on his 64th Birthday, ed. Siân Echard and Gernot R. Wieland, Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin, 4 (Turnhout, Belgium, 2001), pp. 229-42.
Extracts from Leland's autograph MS, transcribed by John Bale.
Edited from this MS in John Bale, Index Britanniae scriptorum, ed. R.L. Poole and M. Bateson (Oxford, 1902). Recorded in Skeat, p. 506.
Unpublished. Discussed in T.C. Skeat, Two Lost
Works by John Leland, EHR, 65 (1950), 505-8.
A small quarto composite volume of tracts in Latin relating to the Carmelite order, in two or more hands, 47 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
Early 16th century.Once owned by Lord William Howard (1563-1640), of Naworth Castle, antiquary. Among collections of John Selden, MP (1584-1654), lawyer, historian, and linguistic scholar.
Unpublished.
A volume of tracts, including one by Robert Bale, prior of Burnham Norton, and three by Walter of Coventry, possibly scribal exercises which Bale set for young friars at Cambridge, certain of the incipits and annotations being in his early and later hands.
This MS recorded and discussed in McCusker, The Library (1935), 152 (No. 63), and in Fairfield, p. 158.
Unpublished.
Copy, possibly autograph.
This MS recorded in Fairfield, p. 158.
Unpublished. This work corresponds to the Catalogum Generalium... recorded in Bale's Scriptorum illustrium (1557), I, 703.
A transcript of Thomas Hearne's nine-volume edition of 1710-12.
18th century.An ecclesiastical certificate relating to one Richard Neech, signed by Corbett at Ludham, 22 December 1633.
Bound in one of Thorn-Drury's books, after p. xxxiii.
1633.This may, perhaps, be the unspecified document signed by Corbett as Bishop of Norwich sold at Sotheby's, 15 March 1916, lot 82, to Dobell.
A folio composite volume of collections, in English and Latin, relating to Cambridge, in various hands and partly printed, 402 leaves.
18th century.Copy.
Attributed to Randolph in Moore Smith (1925), p. 249.
A folio volume of miscellaneous and historical tracts and papers, chiefly written by Robert Nalson, 607 leaves.
Owned by another Robert Nalson in 1686 and later by Edward Taylor.
Copy, ascribed to T. Randale
.
Unpublished?
Copy.
A translation of Alabaster's Latin poem by Hugh Holland. Sutton, p. 13.
Copy.
(Sometimes called A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17th: 1637.) Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, I, xviii. II, 667-70. By Robert Wild.
Copy.
A large folio composite volume of collections relating to Devon, ii + 161 leaves.
Assembled by Jeremiah Milles (1714-84), Dean of Exeter.
Fragment of a copy of the Itinerary.
Largely autograph MS of Leland's Collectanea, xliii + 1655 pages, bound in three folio volumes, with William Burton's index c.1612.
c.1545.Once owned by Sir John Cheke (1514-57), royal tutor and administrator; then by Humphrey Purefoy, whose son Thomas gave them in 1612 to William Burton (1575-1645), Leicestershire antiquary, who has supplied a title, index, and list of authors cited, and who donated them to the Bodleian in 1632.
Autograph MS, a few pages in a professional hand with autograph corrections and revisions.
Edited from these MSS in Hearne. Recorded in Smith, I, xx.
First published in J. Lelandi antiquarii de rebus Britannicis collectanea, ed. Thomas Hearne, 6 vols (Oxford, 1715; 2nd. edition London, 1770; 3rd edition London, 1774).
Autograph of several passages belonging to the Itinerary.
This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxx. Edited III, 127; IV, 164 et seq.
First published in Oxford, 1710-12, ed. Thomas Hearne, 9 vols.
Autograph, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Smith, I, xxxvii-xliii.
First published in London, 1549, ed. John Bale.
Autograph, xx + 388 folio pages.
Entitled c.1612 by William Burton (1575-1645), Leicestershire antiquary, De Scriptoribus Illustribus Britanniae.
c.1545.Edited from this MS in Hall's edition. Facsimile of p. 198 of the MS in Theodore Besterman, The Beginnings of Systematic Bibliography, 2nd edition (London, 1936), facing p. 20. Edited from this MS, with numerous facsimile examples. in Carley's edition.
First published in Oxford, 1709, ed. A. Hall, 2 vols. Edited, as De uiris illustribus/ On Famous Men, with an English translation, by James P. Carley, assisted by Caroline Brett (Oxford, 2010).
Copy of most of the first four volumes of Leland's autograph MS, transcribed by Browne Willis (1682-1760), antiquary, while at Christ Church, Oxford, in May 1704.
1704.This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxix-xxx.
The first part of John Aubrey's autograph MS of his Monumenta Britannica, with annotations by John Evelyn, iii + 281 folio leaves.
c.1665-93.Copy by Aubrey of Henry Vaughan's letter to him, 9 October 1694.
Autograph MS, bound in eight quarto volumes, somewhat disordered and imperfect, c.715 leaves (plus blanks).
c.1540-45.Owned (probably by 1598) by William Burton (1575-1645), Leicestershire antiquary, whose annotations appear in the MSS, and who donated them to the Bodleian in 1632 and 1642-3.
Edited from these MSS in Smith. A facsimile example in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XXIII, p. 300.
First published in Oxford, 1710-12, ed. Thomas Hearne, 9 vols.
A quarto volume of epitaphs, in Latin and English, apparently compiled by one F. Cumming, 140 leaves.
c.1784-1810.Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.
Copy.
First published in Poems (1656). Kastner, II, 198.
Copy, ascribed to Dr. Corbett Bp. of Norwich
.
First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.
Copy, headed A favorite dog
.
First published in Poems ([Edinburgh?, 1614?]). Kastner, II, 151.
Copy of an anonymous English translation of Leland's work, 101 quarto leaves, imperfect.
Late 16th century.Purchased from Henry Hammond, Oxford bookseller, 15 November 1861.
This is not R. Robinson's translation published in 1582.
First published in London, 1544. Edited by William Edward Mead in Christopher Middleton, The famous Historie of Chinon of England, EETS, 165 (London, 1925). Richard Robinson's translation published in London, 1582.
A volume of heraldic notes and pedigrees, compiled by Henry Ferrers (1550-1633), of Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire, antiquary., i + 54 leaves, its original vellum wrapper (recycled from a 15th-century antiphoner) now ff. 53-4, within Middle Hill boards.
Early 17th century.Inscribed (f. 54v) George Owen [c.1598-1665] York Herald
. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13758. Sotheby's, 28 June 1965, lot 98.
Autograph annotations by Camden, with his comments and corrections, including those on ff. 11r, 17r and 44r.
A folio composite volume of collections relating to Gloucester, in various hands and paper sizes, vii + 397 leaves (including some blanks), in half-reversed calf marbled boards.
Extracts from the Itinerary Vols 2, 5 and 6, concerning Gloucestershire, made by the Rev. Richard Furney (d.1753), Archdeacon of Surrey.
A large folio guardbook of miscellaneous papers relating to Gloucestershire, in various hands, i + 65 leaves.
Extracts from the Itinerary relating to Gloucestershire, probably transcribed from Hearne's edition. Mid-18th century.
A commonplace book of English and Latin verse, compiled by John Burn of St John's College, Oxford, later undermaster at Merchant Taylors' School, London, some entries in another hand, begun 1722, viii + 368 pages, in contemporary vellum.
Early 18th century.Bought from Simmons & Waters's sale catalogue No. 213 (1907) by Falconer Madan (1851-1935), librarian and bibliographer, and donated by him in 1917.
Copy.
Twenty-two lines, first published, introduced The following verses were wrote by her (as I am inform'd) on her death-bed at Bath, to her husband in London
, in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), pp. 418-22.
Autograph letter signed, to Richard Rawlinson, including a list of his own plays. from London, 17 November 1737.
A large folio guardbook of miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in various hands, ii + 104 leaves.
Papers owned by John Randolph (1749-1813), Bishop of Oxford, Bangor and London, and by his son Thomas, rector of Much Hadham.
Copy, headed A Ballad written at Sea in ye first Dutch war the Night before ye Engagement
, in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 1-23).
This MS collated in Harris.
First published as a broadsheet [1664? no exemplum extant]. Songs [1707?]. Old Songs [1707?]. Harris, pp. 65-8.
A folio composite volume of verse, 130 leaves (plus numerous blanks).
Volume 3 of the collections of Dr Robert Shippen (1675-1745), Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford. Once owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector (Part of Phillipps MS 4274, bought in 1826 probably from Thorpe). Sotheby's, 1 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 598.
Copy, on two folio leaves. End of 17th century.
First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 131-5.
A folio composite volume of documents, in various hands, 243 leaves (including blanks), in 19th-century calf.
A formal copy of the will of Richard Powell which was originally witnessed by Milton (John Milton
), in a stylish rounded hand, on the rectos of three broadsheets, 30 December 1646.
Recorded in Columbia, XVIII, 624. Edited in LR, II, 164-6.
A folio miscellany, in Latin and English, xii + 372 leaves, in 19th-century purple calf gilt.
Inscribed Sum liber Roberti Dowi ex Collegio omnium Animarum
[All Souls College, Oxford] and later owned by Peter Thompson of Bermondsey, Surrey. Acquired from Dr G. Wellesley, 15 February 1862.
Copy.
Facsimile in Yale, Vol. 15, facing p. cxxv.
First published, as Epistola Thomæ Mori ad Academiam Oxoniensem, ed. Richard James (Oxford, 1633). Yale, Vol. 15, pp. 129-49, in Latin with an English translation.
A quarto miscellany of poems and speeches, in English and Latin, i + 235 leaves (ff. 131-235 blank), stubs of some extracted leaves, in contemporary calf.
Compiled by an Oxford University man.
Late 17th century.Copy, headed On ye Death of the Protector
, subscribed Edm. Waller Esq
.
First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C. in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.
Copy, headed Verses on Oliuer Ld Protector written after ye Celebration of his funerall
.
This MS collated in Dearing et al., loc. cit.
First published in Three Poems Upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (London, 1659). Kinsley, I, 6-12. California, I, 11-16. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 18-29.
Copy, headed A Poem by Mr Dryden to the Countesse of Castlemain who gott his play printed
, subscribed John Dryden
.
This MS collated in Hammond.
First published in A New Collection of Poems and Songs…Collected by John Bulteel (London, 1674). Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, I, 154-6. California, I, 45-6. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 81-3. Also in Paul Hammond, Dryden's Revision of To the Lady Castlemain, PBSA, 78 (1984), 81-90.
Copy.
Published in in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704); Thompson, I, xxxix-xli.
Sometimes called Upon the cutting of Sr John Coventry's nose. First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Thompson, I, xxxix-xli (from Marvell's writing
). Grosart, I, 456-8. Edited in POAS, I (1963), 168-71, as doubtfully by Marvell.
Copy, headed Advise to a Painter ye 4th part
and the poem here dated 1670.
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.
Copy.
This MS collated in California and in Hammond.
First published in Convent Garden Drolery (London, 1672). Marriage A-la-mode (London, 1673). Kinsley, I, 144-5. California, XI, 225-6. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 246-9. See also Paul Hammond, The Prologue and Epilogue to Dryden's Marriage A-la-Mode and the Problem of Covent Garden Drolery, PBSA, 81 (1987), 155-72.
Copy.
This MS collated in California and in Hammond.
First published in Covent Garden Drolery (London, 1672). Marriage A-la-mode (London, 1673). Kinsley, I, 145-6. California, XI, 315-16. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 249-50. See also Paul Hammond, The Prologue and Epilogue to Dryden's Marriage A-la-Mode and the Problem of Covent Garden Drolery, PBSA, 81 (1987), 155-72.
Copy, headed Upon one who endeavoured to Steal ye kings Crown out of ye Tower but was taken
.
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
Copy, headed On the Statue of the late king on Horse=Back, yt is to be sett up by ye Treasurer att charing-Crosse. 1675
.
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.
A miscellany relating to Oxford, in several hands, i + 705 pages (including many blanks).
Late 17th century.Copy.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 5. McClure No. 259, p. 255. This epigram also quoted in a letter to Prince Henry, 1609 (McClure, p. 136). Kilroy, Book III, No. 43, p. 185.
A miscellany, ii + 182 leaves (ff. 39-130 blank).
Compiled by a Cambridge man, probably James Monson (d.1683), ninth son of Sir John Monson, second Baronet.
Late 17th century.Copy.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.
Some texts accompanied by an Answer (A ballad late was made
).
A miscellany of verse and prose, iii + 141 leaves.
Compiled by Matthew Crosse, Oxford University bedell of law.
c.1630s.Copy, headed To one that slighted his Mris.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.
Copy of an abridged version, headed The ffayry King
and here beginning On a time the fayry elues
.
First published, as A Description of the King of Fayries Clothes and attributed to Sir Simeon Steward, in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Musarum Deliciae (London, 1656), p. 32. Attributed to Herrick in Hazlitt, II, 473-7, and in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Robert Herrick and King Oberon's Clothing: New Evidence for Attribution, Yearbook of English Studies 1 (1971), 68-77. Not included in Martin or in Patrick. See also T.G.S. Cain, Robert Herrick, Mildmay Fane, and Sir Simeon Steward, ELR, 15 (1985), 312-17.
Copy, headed Randolphs payeing his Creditors
.
First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 131-4.
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 87-8.
Copy, headed A farewell to his mistress
.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 146-7.
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 84-6.
A folio composite volume of tracts and miscellaneous antiquarian papers, in various hands (including one on ff. 3r-4v by the Feathery Scribe
), iii + 231 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.
Among the collections of Nathaniel Johnston (1627-1705), physician, many of which were bought in 1756 by Richard Frank (c.1698-1762) and descended to F. Bacon Frank, of Campsall Hall, Yorkshire, most of which were sold at Sotheby's, 11 August 1942.
Copy, in double columns, on pp. 2-3 of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, imperfect. Late 17th century.
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.
A quarto volume of letters and state papers, in a secretary hand, xii + 209 pages (plus blank pp. 211-472, 475-6), in contemporary calf.
c.1620s-30s.Owned in the 17th century by William Goswell, his friend James Bedford, and Gerard Langbaine [? Gerard Langbaine (1608/9-58), head of Queen's College, Oxford]. Also inscribed (f. 376) Amy Wigmore
.
Copy.
Beginning Most Gratious and dread Soveraigne: I dare not pester yor Highnes wth many wordes...
. Written probably in 1598. Bond, I, 64-5. Feuillerat, pp. 556-7.
Copy.
Beginning Most gratious and dread Soveraigne: Tyme cannott worke my peticons, nor my peticons the tyme...
. Written probably in 1601. Bond, I, 70-1. Feuillerat, pp. 561-2.
Copy, headed Sr Phillip Sidney to his Brother being beyond the Seas
.
A letter beginning My most deere Brother. You have thought unkindness in me, I have not written oftner unto you...
. First published in Profitable Instructions. Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 74-103. Feuillerat (as Correspondence No. XXXVIII), III, 124-7.
Copy.
This MS collated in Grosart and discussed in Farmer, p. 141.
An epistolary essay beginning My good Cousin, according to the request of your letter, dated the 19. of October, at Orleance...
, dated from Hackney, 20 November 1609. First published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Grosart, IV, 301-6. This essay perhaps originally written by Thomas Bodley and possibly also used by Francis Bacon and/or the Earl of Essex. Also perhaps sent by Greville to John Harris rather than Greville Varney: see Norman K. Farmer, Jr, Fulke Greville's Letter to a Cousin in France and the Problem of Authorship in Cases of Formula Writing, RQ, 22 (1969), 140-7.
Copy of several letters by Ralegh, to his wife, to James I, to Sir Robert Carr, and to Winwood.
Copy.
An essay beginning That absolute prerogative according to the king's pleasure revealed by his laws...
. Spedding, VI, 597-600 (discussed pp. 592-4). Probably by Thomas Egerton, Lord Ellesmere.
Copy of two of Bacon's submissions in April 1621.
The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...
); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...
); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...
), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.
Printed exemplum of the first edition, first issue [1647], with five MS corrections probably made in the printing house.
c.1647.From the Oxford library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.
This item discussed, with facsimile examples, in John Sparrow, Manuscript Collections in the Two Issues of Donne's Biathanatos, The Book Collector, 21 (Spring 1972), 29-32. Also discussed in Ernest Sullivan, Authoritative Manuscript Corrections in Donne's Biathanatos, SB, 28 (1975), 268-76.
First published in London, [1647]. Reprinted in facsimile, ed. J.W. Hebel (New York, 1930). Edited by Michael Rudick and M. Pabst Bettin (New York, 1982) and by Ernest W. Sullivan II (Newark, NJ, 1984).
Copious autograph revisions in an exemplum of the printed edition of 1845, including a change of the title, The tytle is A Mothers Legacie To Her sixe Davghters
, inscribed Written 1625
, presented to her brother Sir John Beaumont.
Discussed, with facsimiles of the first page and sigs D2v-D2r, in Victoria E. Burke, Elizabeth Ashburnham Richardson's motherlie endeauors
in Manuscript, EMS, 9 (2000), 98-113 (pp. 109-10). Facsimile of the first page also in Women's Writing in Stuart England, ed. Sylvia Brown (Stroud, 1999), p. 161.
First published in London, 1645. Women's Writing in Stuart England, ed. Sylvia Brown (Stroud, 1999), pp. 157-247.
An annotated printed exemplum of Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1658).
Extensive MS annotations in a printed exemplum of the third edition, prepared for use as a promptbook by the King's Company.
This item briefly discussed in Beaurline, pp. 262-3. Complete reduced facsimile in Edward A. Langhans, Restoration Promptbooks (Carbondale & Edwardsville, 1981), pp. 163-95 (and discussed pp. 30-1).
First published in London, 1638. Beaurline, Plays, pp. 33-119.
Extensive MS annotations in a printed exemplum of the third edition, prepared for use as a promptbook by the King's Company.
This item briefly discussed in Beaurline, pp. 262-3. Complete reduced facsimile in Edward A. Langhans, Restoration Promptbooks (Carbondale & Edwardsville, 1981), pp. 232-60 (and discussed pp. 31, 37).
First published, with a separate title-page, in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Beaurline, Plays, pp. 183-244.
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers in various hands, collected by John Walker (1674-1747), Prebendary of Exeter, 502 leaves.
Memoranda about John Hales, writ from Mr ffaringdons Copie
, partly autograph, partly in the hand of an amanuensis, headed The Authours Life
, on two folio leaves.
Recorded in The Poems of Henry King, ed. Margaret Crum (Oxford, 1965), p. 21.
Unfinished and unpublished.
A large folio composite volume of antiquarian collections, in Latin and English, in several hands, iii + 189 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked).
Among the collections of Browne Willis (1682-1760), antiquary, of Whaddon Hall, near Winslow, Buckinghamshire.
A list of the contents of the Collectanea, vols 1-5, in Willis's accomplished cursive hand. Early 18th century.
A folio composite volume of state tracts and estate papers, in English and Latin, in various largely professional hands, i + 527 leaves, in modern calf.
Among the collections of Browne Willis, MP, FSA (1682-1760), antiquary, of Whaddon Hall, near Winslow, Buckinghamshire.
Copy, untitled, with the Dedication to the King, f. 122v inscribed in another hand Whether ye King can impose taxes
.
A treatise, with dedicatory epistle to James I, comprising 33 chapters, beginning The Question it self is no more than this, Whether the Impositions which the King of England hath laid and levied upon Merchandize, by vertue of his Prerogative onely...
. First published in London, 1656. Grosart, III, 1-116.
Copy.
First published in Cases of Treason (London 1641). Spedding, VII, 745-54.
Copy.
Tract beginning Where difference could not be determined...
. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [59]-[71]. Hearne (1771), II, 172-80.
Copy.
Tract, relating to events in 1599/1600, beginning To seek before the decay of the Roman Empire...
. First published in London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [73]-79
[i.e. 89].
Copy, a sidenote on f. 486r dated 1629.
Tract beginning To search so high as the Norman Conquest...
. First published, as The Forme of Governement of the Kingdome of England collected out of the Fundamental Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdome, London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [11]-39.
Copy.
A treatise beginning Frames of Policy, as well as works of Nature, are best preserved from the same grounds...
., written in 1609. First published London, 1655. Also published as Warrs with Forregin Princes Dangerous to oyr Common-Wealth: or, reasons for Forreign Wars Answered (London, 1657); as An Answer to such Motives as were offer'd by certain Military-Men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect Arms more than Peace... (London, 1665); and as A Discourse of Foreign War (London, 1690).
A large folio composite volume of state tracts, in English and Latin, in various professional hands, i + 488 leaves, in modern calf.
Among the collections of Browne Willis (1682-1760), antiquary, of Whaddon Hall, near Winslow, Buckinghamshire.
This volume discussed, with a facsimile of f. 92r (Plate IV after p. 272) in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), pp. 176-8.
Copy, in a professional cursive hand, untitled.
This MS collated in Hitchcock and briefly described, pp. xviii-xix.
First published in London, 1626. Edited, as The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, written by William Roper Esquire, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (EETS, London, 1935).
Copy, headed A Discourse plainly proueing that it was lawfull for her Matie not only to deteyne the Scottish Queene prisoner But also to put her to death for her manifold offences Notwithstanding ye Allegacons and Reasons of her fauorites to the Contrary
, with numerous corrections, insertions and sidenotes (including words repeated in the margin to clarify certain textual readings) in one or more other hands, on 75 pages, folio, owned by the scrivener and public notary Humphrey Dyson (c.1569-1632/3) with his price for the tract prec xs
[10 shillings] inscribed (f. 136r) in the top border and with Dyson's signature (Hum: Dyson
).
Woudhuysen tentatively suggests that Dyson's priced MSS were used as master exemplars
for subsequent copying to paying clients (but see alternative explanations by Alan Nelson (forthcoming)).
A treatise on the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, beginning There hath not happened since the memorie of man…
. First published, as A Justification of Queene Elizabeth in relation to the Affaire of Mary Queene of Scottes, in Accounts and Papers relating to Mary Queen of Scots, ed. Allan J. Crosby and John Bruce, Camden Society, 93 (1867), pp. 67-134.
Copy.
Copy of Bacon's speech on the naturalization of the Scots.
Copy.
First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.
Copy, subscribed H. W.
First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).
Copy, headed The disparity beetweene the Earle of Essex and the Duke of Buckingham
.
This MS recorded in Belford.
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), where it is ascribed to Sir Henry Wotton. First ascribed to Clarendon in the third edition (1672). First published separately as The characters of Robert Earl of Essex … and George Duke of Buckingham (London, 1706). Reprinted in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (London, 1724), pp. 247-71, and in A Collection of several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727), I, 247-71.
A quarto composite volume of antiquarian collections, epitaphs and monuments, in Latin and English, iv + 362 pages, in modern calf gilt.
Early 18th century.Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 63.
A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Anthony Wood, with Wood's note that the last four lives were given to him by the author on St James's day [26 July] 1670.
1670.Complete facsimile published by the Scolar Press (Menston, 1969).
Anthony Wood's printed exemplum, inscribed on the title-page in an unidentified hand Ex dono Author[is]
.
Copy, in a musical setting, on a flyleaf in a printed exemplum of Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues in Three Bookes (London, 1653).
c.1653-64.Owned in 1664 by Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary.
This MS collated in Clayton.
First published in Aglaura (London, 1638), Act IV, scene ii, lines 14-28. Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Beaurline, Plays, p. 72. Clayton, p. 64.
A composite volume of pamphlets and MSS.
Late 17th century.Among collections of Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary.
Copy, untitled and here beginning Though Philis youer preuailinge Charmes
, subscribed Made by the Duke of Buckinham one the 20 of Julij 1665 Addrest to his Mistris
, on a single folio leaf, with a note at the top in the hand of Anthony Wood (1632-95) This I found written in a spare leafe before a Romance called Eliana. - Lond. 1661. fol.
.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Harris, pp. 69-71. Authorship of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, suggested in Arthur Mizener, Though, Phyllis, Your Prevailing Charms
, MLN, 56 (1941), 529-30. Not, however, included in Plays, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings associated with George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham, ed. Robert D. Hume and Harold Love, 2 vols (Oxford, 2007).
Copy, written in a printed exemplum of George Sadleir, Threnodia in obitum E. Lewkenor, 1606.
Early 17th century.Among collections of Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary.
This MS recorded in Hirsch.
First published in the single sheet Verses of Prayse and Joy Written Upon her Maiesties Preseruation Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes lamentation, written in the Towre with his owne hand, and an answer to the same (London, 1586). Hirsch, pp. 309-10. Also The Text of Tichborne's Lament Reconsidered, ELR, 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1987), between pp. 276 and 277. May EV 15464 (recording 37 MS texts). For the answer
to this poem, see
A quarto volume of antiquarian notes, principally on chapels at Windsor and Eton, vi + 308 pages.
Compiled by Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary.
Copy, headed Against the wall neare to a north Chappell, was an inscription on a fair marble, but now covered with paint
.
This MS recorded in Kelliher, BLJ, 4, 137.
First published, as prose, in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 139-40. This inscription, in lapidary verse, was on a memorial formerly in Eton College Chapel and several extant texts recorded below were transcribed from a transcript of it made by one Taffy
Woodward, Chapel Clerk at Eton. See the discussion and reconstructed text in Kelliher (1978), pp. 72-3, and in Kelliher, Some Notes on Andrew Marvell, British Library Journal, 4 (1978), 122-44 (pp. 134-9). Smith, pp. 193-4, with English translation.
An octavo composite volume of notes and antiquarian collections, in various hands, 154 pages, in vellum boards.
1682.Collected, and partly written, by Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary.
Copy Transcribed, & additional notes put to it in the lower margin in red inke by me Anth. à Wood of merton college in Oxon, in the beginning of march an. 168½
, on 15 octavo leaves.
First published in Posthumous Works (London, 1712). Wilkin, IV, 1-31. Keynes, III, 121-43.
A quarto volume of notes on Wood's historical writings on Oxford made by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, xv + 170 pages.
c.1675-8.Among collections of Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary.
Copy in Fulman's hand, with a note Wood's hand By Joh. Earls of Mt. coll. afterwards Bp of Sarum
.
First published in John Aubrey, The Natural History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, ed. Richard Rawlinson (London, 1718-19), IV, 166-71.
A quarto composite volume of partly Oxford-related historical notes and papers, state tracts, and an academic play, in English and Latin, in various hands, c.700 pages.
c.1665-93.Among collections of Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary.
Copy, in a secretary hand, ascribed to Cotton.
Tract beginning As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine...
. First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.
A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous MSS, in various hands, ii + 117 leaves, in half-calf.
Among collections of Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary.
Copy, untitled, on eight quarto leaves, with a note on a preliminary leaf (f. 71v) by Wood identifying it as Iter boreale by Rich. Corbet, D.D., afterwards Bp of Norwich
and recording I remember I had this out of Dr Barten Holydayes studie after his death
[i.e. Barten Holyday (1593-1661), poet and cleric].
This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. xxi-xxii.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.
Copy, untitled, on a single quarto leaf. Late 17th century.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.
Copy, untitled and here beginning Here lyeth old Coker a maker of Bellowes
.
A version, ascribed to John Hoskyns, first published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Krueger, p. 303. Edited in The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns 1566-1638, ed. Louise Brown Osborn (New Haven & London, 1937), p. 170.
Copy, headed On the E. of Lecester Robert Dudley
, among other epitaphs on a pair of conjugate quarto leaves. Mid-17th century.
First published as introduced ...yet immediately after his [Leicester's] death, a friend of his bestowed vpon him this Epitaphe and beginning Heere lies the woorthy warrier
, in Richard Verstegan, A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (London, 1592
), p. 54, which is sometimes entitled Cecil's Commonwealth: see E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172, who notes that the epitaph was quoted, from a text among William Drummond's papers, in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821). Rudick, No. 46, p. 120.
Copy, on a single octavo leaf. Late 17th century.
Edited from this MS in Vieth.
First published in David M. Vieth, Sir Charles Sedley and the Ballers' Oath, The Scriblerian, 12 (1979), 47-9.
Exemplum presented to Camden by the author with Camden's autograph annotations (together with others by Brian Twyne, Anthony Wood, et al.).
A quarto notebook, in Latin and English, compiled by Brian Twyne (1581-1644), antiquary, 337 leaves.
Early 17th century.Among collections of Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary.
Copy, untitled and ascribed to Ios Hall. Imman.
.
Edited from this MS in Sandison and in Davenport.
First published (from this MS) in Helen E. Sandison, Three Spenser Allusions, MLN, 44 (1929), 159-62. Davenport, p. 105.
MS volume.
Copy, in an italic hand.
Cited in Yale, Vol. 15, p. cxxiii.
First published in Thomæ Mori Lucubrationes (Basle, 1563). Yale, Vol. 15, pp. 2-127, in Latin, with an English translation.
MS of a genealogical history of the Neville family of Raby, to c.1647, i + 52 pages, in a composite volume of various tracts bound together.
Mid-17th century.Copy.
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.
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous MSS in Latin and English, compiled by Brian Twyne (1581-1644), antiquary, xiv + 204 pages.
c.1622.Among the collections of Brian Twyne.
Extracts, headed Initia librorum apud Baleum de Scriptoribus Britannicis, saltem quoad historiarum et Chronicorum auctores
.
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous MSS of verse and prose, in Latin, Greek and English, in various hands, 188 leaves, bound with other MSS in vellum boards.
Among collections of Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary.
Copy, in an italic hand.
First published in Thomæ Mori Lucubrationes (Basle, 1563). Yale, Vol. 15, pp. 2-127, in Latin, with an English translation.
Copy, in an italic hand.
First published in London, 1533. Yale, Vol. 9, ed. J.B. Trapp (1979).
Copy, in a rounded hand, headed (f. 161r) Apollo & ye Poetts
, and (f. 162r) The Feasting of Apollo at the Devills Arse of Peake--To the Tune of Cocklorin
, here beginning Cocklorin once made the deuill his guest
, on four quarto-size leaves (plus one blank).
Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.
A folio composite volume of letters written or sent to Wood by John Aubrey (1626-97), antiquary and biographer, ii + 461 leaves.
Among collections of Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary.
Autograph letter signed by Vaughan, to John Aubrey, from Brecon, 15 June 1673, and sent on by Aubrey to Anthony Wood, from Westminster, 24 June 1673.
Edited in Martin, pp. 687-9.
Autograph letter signed by Vaughan, to John Aubrey, from Newton, 7 July 1673, and sent on by Aubrey to Anthony Wood, from London, 20 September 1673.
Edited in Martin, pp. 690-1. Facsimile example in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 61.
Copy in Aubrey's hand, headed These lines Sir Walter Ralegh wrote in his Bible, the night before he was beheaded
. Mid-late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.
First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).
This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see
A composite volume of letters sent to Anthony Wood, in various hands, i + 355 leaves.
Autograph letter signed by Vaughan, to Anthony Wood, from Newton, 25 March 1689.
Edited in Martin, p. 694.
Autograph letter signed by Walton, from Farnham Castle, 26 May 1683, subscribed to an autograph letter by George Morley, Bishop of Winchester, which Walton sent on to Wood.
Autograph annotations in a very imperfect exemplum, recording, inter alia, its gift to Harvey by Edmund Spenser in London, 20 December 1578.
1578.Stern, p. 228.
Autograph annotations, dated 18-19 May 1619.
1619.A printed exemplum of A Selection from the Poetical Works of Thomas Carew, [ed. John Fry] (London, 1810), with interleaved annotations and tipped-in earlier leaves.
Early 19th century.Copy, as by Herrick
.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 176.
Copy, headed Song, by Sir John Suckling
.
First published, as Song, in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 50-1.
Copy, as by Herrick
.
First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640) and, among verse By other Gentlemen
, in Poems written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 208. Patrick, pp. 276-7. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
Copy.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 121.
Copy, headed In memory of the late deceased Virgin Mistris Elizabeth Hereicke
, transcribed from Stow's printed text.
First published in John Stow, Survey of London (London, 1633), p. 812. Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 145-6. Patrick, pp. 197-8. The memorial tablet of c.1630 bearing this epitaph at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, was restored there in 1955: see Charles Smyth, A Herrick Epitaph, TLS (13 May 1955), p. 253.
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 98.
Copy, headed To my Friend mr Georg Sandys
, subscribed Tho. Carew
, on four tipped-in oblong octavo pages.
This MS recorded (erroneously as possibly autograph) in Dunlap, pp. lxviii-lxix.
First published in George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems, 2nd edition (London, 1638). Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 93-4.
Autograph annotations and marginalia.
Stern p. 239.
An exemplum of Donne's LXXX Sermons (London, 1640) annotated by S. T. Coleridge.
Described in The Collected Works of Samuel Coleridge, Vol. 12: Marginalia II, ed. Kathleen Coburn et al. (London & Princeton, 1984), p. 259 et seq.
