Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

Christ Church, Oxford

  • a. 3. 130

    Printed exemplum of Poëtica Stromata (1648).

    Mid-17th century.
    • CoR 380 p. 120

      Copy of the first stanza, headed A Gentle woman on a Lute or Little Book of a Gentleman whom she entirely loved, inscribed in the book.

      This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 106-7.

      First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 8.

      Some texts followed by an answer beginning Little booke, when I am gone.

      Richard Corbett, Little Lute ('Little lute, when I am gone')

  • Allestree P. 4.3

    A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Dr Richard Allstree.

    Recorded in W.G. Hiscock, A Christ Church Miscellany (Oxford, 1946), p. 10.

    • *WtI 77
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Izaak Walton, The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert (London, 1670)

  • Allestree P. 4.4

    A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Dr Richard Allstree.

    Recorded in W.G. Hiscock, A Christ Church Miscellany (Oxford, 1946), p. 10.

    • *WtI 46
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Izaak Walton, The Life of Dr. Sanderson, late Bishop of Lincoln (London, 1678)

  • e. 7. 21 [a]

    An exemplum inscribed Izaak Walt[on] on the title-page.

    Bound with five other printed religious pamphlets of 1605-25, including works by William Barlow, Sir Edward Hoby, Francis Rogers, and Henry Mason (STC 21177; 13539; 1457; 17602), both covers blindstamped with the initials I W.

    Mid-17th century.
    • *WtI 144
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Izaak Walton, Constable, Henry. The Catholike Moderator, [trans. from Cardinal Jacques Davy du Perron] (London, 1623)

  • e. 7. 21 [b]

    An exemplum with the early signature Izaak Walton on the title-page.

    Bound with five other religious pamphlets of 1605-25, including works by William Barlow, Sir Edward Hoby, Francis Rogers, and Henry Mason (STC 21177; 13539; 1457; 17602), both covers blindstamped with the initials I W.

    Early-mid-17th century.
    • *WtI 206
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Izaak Walton, Wadsworth, James. The Copies of Certaine Letters (London, 1624)

  • f.8.64

    Autograph draft of four lines of verse, beginning deathes teror doth affright, a translation of lines by Lucretius later incorporated in the Anatomy (1621), inscribed on a flyleaf following a printed exemplum of John Bainbridge, An astronomicall description of the late comet from the 18. of Novem. 1618. to the 16. of December following (London, 1619).

    c.1620.

    Discussed, with a facsimile, in Nicolas Kiessling, Two Notes on Robert Burton's Annotations: His Date of Conception, and a Fragment of Copy for The Anatomy of Melancholy, RES, NS 36 (1985), 375-9.

    • *BuR 1.22
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Oxford, 1621. Edited by A.R. Shilleto (introduced by A.H. Bullen), 3 vols (London, 1893). Edited variously by Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kiessling, Rhonda L. Blair, J.B. Bamborough, and Martin Dodsworth, 6 vols (Oxford, 1989-2000).

      Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

  • f.10.35

    Autograph annotations, including notes giving birth dates of members of Burton's family and his own birthdate, 8 February 1576/7.

    Early 17th century.

    Discussed in Nicolas Kiessling, Two Notes on Robert Burton's Annotations: His Date of Conception, and a Fragment of Copy for The Anatomy of Melancholy, RES, NS 36 (1985), 375-9.

    • *BuR 6
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Robert Burton, Stadius. Ephemerides (Cologne, 1581)

  • Hyp.M.7917

    Exemplum of the printed edition of 1604 with the unprinted pages (E1v-E2r, E3v-E4r, E5r-E6v) supplied in MS in two professional secretary hands.

    c.1604.
    • BcF 129.8
      No description or publication history available.

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

      Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the Better Pacification and Edification of the Church of England

  • WK.8.7

    Two fragments of pages from what was probably a galley proof of the second printed edition (Oxford, 1624); one fragment containing some rough jottings (names of places &c) in Burton's hand; the other (p. 80) containing two proof corrections in an unidentified hand.

    Used as binder's waste in a printed exemplum of Josua Stegmann, Photinianismus (Rinteln, 1623) bound at Oxford.

    1624.

    Recorded in W.G. Hiscock, Burton's Anatomy, TLS (18 May 1933), p. 348, and on Jan Moore, p. 76.

    • *BuR 1
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Oxford, 1621. Edited by A.R. Shilleto (introduced by A.H. Bullen), 3 vols (London, 1893). Edited variously by Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kiessling, Rhonda L. Blair, J.B. Bamborough, and Martin Dodsworth, 6 vols (Oxford, 1989-2000).

      Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

  • MS i. b. 2

    Sub-Dean's Book for 1549-1643.

    • *CoR 801 pp. 365, 387, 391, 393, 395
      Autograph

      A series of statements on several pages signed by Corbett or on his behalf.

      Richard Corbett, Document(s)
    • *StW 1498 pp. 367, 377, 379, 413
      Autograph

      Strode's signatures, dated 17 February 1641; 6 February 1638[/9]; 22 December 1639; 18 November 1639-8 february 1639[/40] (three times, to admission statements).

      William Strode, Document(s)
    • *KiH 816 p. 387
      Autograph

      King's signature, 14 July 1626.

      Henry King, Document(s)

  • MS xii. b. 64

    Disbursements book for 1619-20.

    1619-20.
    • *CoR 794 passim
      Autograph

      Autograph signature.

      Richard Corbett, Document(s)
    • *GoT 12 passim
      Autograph

      Autograph signature.

      Thomas Goffe, Document(s)
    • *StW 1486 passim
      Autograph

      Six autograph signatures by Strode.

      William Strode, Document(s)

  • MS xii .b. 65

    Disbursements book for 1620-1.

    1620-21.
    • *CoR 795 passim
      Autograph

      Eight signatures by Corbett.

      Richard Corbett, Document(s)
    • *GoT 13 passim
      Autograph

      Goffe's signature.

      Thomas Goffe, Document(s)
    • *MoG 104 passim
      Autograph

      Two signatures by Morley.

      George Morley, Inscription(s)
    • *StW 1487 passim
      Autograph

      Two signatures by Strode.

      William Strode, Document(s)

  • MS xii. b. 67

    Disbursements Book for 1622-3.

    1622-3.
    • *CoR 796 passim
      Autograph

      Eight signatures by Corbett.

      Richard Corbett, Document(s)
    • *GoT 14 passim
      Autograph

      Goffe's signature.

      Thomas Goffe, Document(s)
    • *MoG 105 passim
      Autograph

      Morley's signature.

      George Morley, Inscription(s)
    • *StW 1489 passim
      Autograph

      Some nineteen signatures by Strode.

      William Strode, Document(s)

  • MS xii. b. 68

    Disbursements book for 1623-4.

    1623-24.
    • *CoR 797 passim
      Autograph

      Six signatures by Corbett.

      Richard Corbett, Document(s)
    • *MoG 106 passim
      Autograph

      Autograph signature.

      George Morley, Inscription(s)
    • *StW 1490 passim
      Autograph

      At least twenty-eight signatures by Strode.

      William Strode, Document(s)

  • MS xii. b. 69

    Disbursements book for 1624-5.

    1624-25.
    • *CoR 798 passim
      Autograph

      Seven signatures by Corbett.

      Richard Corbett, Document(s)
    • *StW 1491 passim
      Autograph

      Some eighteen autograph signatures by Strode.

      William Strode, Document(s)
    • MoG 107 passim

      Morley's signature.

      George Morley, Inscription(s)
    • *KiH 819 passim
      Autograph

      King's signature.

      Henry King, Document(s)

  • MS xii. b. 70

    Disbursements Book for 1625-6.

    • *CoR 799 passim
      Autograph

      Several signatures by Corbett.

      Richard Corbett, Document(s)
    • *MoG 108 passim
      Autograph

      Morley's signature.

      George Morley, Inscription(s)
    • *StW 1492 passim
      Autograph

      Some 22 signatures by Strode.

      William Strode, Document(s)

  • MS xii. b. 71

    Disbursements book for 1626-7.

    1626-27.
    • *CoR 800 passim
      Autograph

      Six signatures by Corbett.

      Richard Corbett, Document(s)
    • *MyJ 33 passim
      Autograph

      Mayne's signature.

      Jasper Mayne, Document(s)
    • *MoG 109 passim
      Autograph

      Morley's signature.

      George Morley, Inscription(s)
    • *StW 1493 passim
      Autograph

      Six signatures by Strode.

      William Strode, Document(s)

  • MS xii. b. 73

    Disbursements Book for 1628-9.

    • *StW 1494 passim
      Autograph

      Eleven signatures by Strode.

      William Strode, Document(s)
    • *MyJ 34 passim
      Autograph

      Mayne's signatures.

      Jasper Mayne, Document(s)
    • *MoG 110 passim
      Autograph

      Morley's signature.

      George Morley, Inscription(s)

  • MS xii. b. 74

    Disbursements Book for 1629-30.

    • *StW 1496 passim
      Autograph

      Some 26 signatures by Strode.

      William Strode, Document(s)
    • MyJ 35 passim

      Mayne's signature.

      Jasper Mayne, Document(s)

  • MS xii. b. 75

    Disbursements Book for 1630-31.

    • *StW 1498.5 passim
      Autograph

      Five signatures by Strode.

      William Strode, Document(s)
    • *MyJ 36 passim
      Autograph

      Mayne's signature.

      Jasper Mayne, Document(s)

  • MS xii. b. 103

    Disbursements Books, entries by Walton dating between 11 August 1660 and 13 February 1660/1.

    • MyJ 37 3rd Term, part 1, pp. 3, 12, 14.

      Mayne's signature(s).

      Jasper Mayne, Document(s)
    • MyJ 38 4th Term 1st Part pp. 2, 12

      Mayne's signatures.

      Jasper Mayne, Document(s)

  • MS xii. b. 104

    Disbursements Book for 1661.

    1660.
    • *MyJ 39 passim
      Autograph

      Mayne's signatures.

      Jasper Mayne, Document(s)

  • MS xiii. b. 1

    Caution Book, 1625-41.

    • *StW 1499 pp. 20-1 (rev.), 127, 161, 163, 167, 144-5
      Autograph

      Eight signatures by Strode, 1626-32.

      William Strode, Document(s)
    • StW 1500 p. 22

      Subscription in an unidentified hand, Receiued then of mr Strode the Caution of mr. Daniell Leare...£10, 23 January [1631/2], followed (on p. 23) Repaid to Mr Leare by Dor Fell These: May. 13. 1633. Da: Leare.

      William Strode, Document(s)
    • CaW 132 pp. 59, 68, 69, 78

      Cartwright's signatures, 21 July 1635, 28 October 1635, 4 July 1636, and 10 May 1636.

      William Cartwright, Document(s)

  • MS xiii. b. 2

    Caution book for 1638-48.

  • MS xiii. b. 4

    Book of cautions.

    1657-1675.
    • *OtT 20 p. 155
      Autograph

      The young Otway's autograph signature, 28 September 1671.

      Facsimile in Ghosh, I, frontispiece.

      Thomas Otway, Document(s)

  • MS liii. b. 2

    Sub-Dean's Books.

    • *GoT 15 f. 7v
      Autograph

      Goffe's autograph petition to Christ Church for permission to take up a rectorship of the parish of East Clandon, Surrey, in Latin, 11 October 1622.

      Facsimiles in David Carnegie, The Identification of the Hand of Thomas Goffe, Academic Dramatist and Actor, The Library, 5th Ser. 26 (1971), 161-5 (Plate XIII), and in Thomas Goffe, The Couragious Turke, ed. David Carnegie, Malone Society (Oxford, 1974), Plate V.

      Thomas Goffe, Document(s)
    • *StW 1497 passim
      Autograph

      Nine autograph inscriptions by Strode registering his leave of absence between 1619 and 1630.

      William Strode, Document(s)

  • MS Mus. 23

    Folio music book.

    Early 18th century.

    Once owned by one Richard Goodson.

    • PsK 541 ff. 10v-11r

      Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

      First published, as Upon the graving of her Name upon a Tree in Barnelmes Walks, in Poems (1667), p. 137. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 208, poem 91. Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in The Works of Henry Purcell, XXII, ed. W. Barclay Squire and J.A. Fuller-Maitland (London, 1922), pp. 153-4.

      Katherine Philips, Upon the engraving. K:P: on a Tree in the short walke at Barn=Elms ('Alass! how barbarous are we')

  • MS Mus. 46

    A folio music book, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 74 leaves (including c.35 blanks), in contemporary calf.

    c.1700.
    • CoA 182 ff. 70r--69r rev.

      Copy, in a musical setting.

      First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 58. Sparrow, p. 58.

      Musical setting by Pietro Reggio published in Songs [London, 1680].

      Abraham Cowley, The Swallow ('Foolish Prater, what do'st thou')
    • CoA 30 ff. 71v-70r rev.

      Copy, in a musical setting by Pietro Reggio.

      First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 55. Sparrow, pp. 54-5.

      Musical setting by Pietro Reggio published in Songs [London, 1680].

      Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. VII. Gold ('A Mighty pain to Love it is')

  • MS Mus. 87

    MS songbook.

    Owned and probably compiled by Elizabeth Davenant (sister of Sir William Davenant), of Oxford.

    c.1624-30s.

    Complete facsimile of this MS volume in Jorgens, VII (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, Mris Elizabeth Davenant 1624: Christ Church MS. Mus. 87, RES, NS 10 (1959), 26-37.

    • PeW 136 f. 1r

      Copy, in a musical setting.

      This MS recorded in Krueger.

      First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 170. Poems (1660), p. 104, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Amintas ('Cloris sate, and sitting slept')
    • CmT 21 f. 1v

      Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting.

      This MS collated in Davis, p. 495.

      First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xviii. Davis, pp. 109-10.

      Thomas Campion, 'Come, you pretty false-ey'd wanton'
    • CmT 243 f. 1v

      Copy, in a musical setting.

      Edited from this MS in Cutts and in Davis, p. 481.

      First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II. Davis, p. 481. John P. Cutts, Mris Elizabeth Davenant 1624: Christ Church MS. Mus. 87, RES, NS 10 (1959), 26-37 (p. 30).

      Thomas Campion, 'Whether away my sweetest deerest?'
    • GoT 10 f. 3v

      Copy of the song, in a musical setting.

      Mentioned in Malone Society edition. Edited from this MS in Jorgens, XII, pp. 61, 403.

      Thomas Goffe, The Couragious Turke, or, Amurath the First, Act II, scene ii, lines 489-98: Song ('Drop golden showers, gentle sleepe')
    • JnB 23 ff. 4v-5r

      Copy of lines 21-30, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson, here beginning Have you seene the white lilly grow.

      This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 150-1. Recorded in Herford & Simpson, XI, 609. Facsimile in Jorgens, VII.

      First published (all ten poems) in The Vnder-wood (ii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 131-42 (pp. 134-5). Lines 11-30 of poem 4 (beginning Doe but looke on her eyes, they do light) first published in The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-113 (London, 1631).

      Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph ('See the Chariot at hand here of Love')
    • B&F 179 ff. 5v-6r

      Copy, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson.

      Edited ffom this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 37-8 (collated pp. 140-2).

      Dyce, V, 297. Bullen, IV, 302. Bowers, IV, 360-1.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Valentinian, V, ii, 13-22. Song ('Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes')
    • B&F 83 ff. 7v-8r

      Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

      This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 161-2.

      First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, VI, 115-212 (pp. 171-2). Bullen, III, 111-219, ed. R.W. Bond (p. 174). Bowers, V, 11-98, ed. Robert K. Turner (pp. 58-9).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Mad Lover, III, iv, 49-63. Song ('Go, happy heart! for thou shalt lie')
    • DrM 63 ff. 12v-13r

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 372.

      Michael Drayton, To His Coy Love, A Conzonet ('I pray thee leave, love me no more')
    • HeR 224 ff. 13v-14r

      Copy of an eight-line version, in a musical setting.

      This MS collated in Martin.

      First published (in a six-line version) in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 103. Patrick, p. 143.

      Robert Herrick, To Musick. A Song ('Musick, thou Queen of Heaven, Care-charming-spel')

  • MS 140

    Copy, as per Jo. Foxum, in a neat roman hand, with a formal title-page Syllogisticon. hoc est: Argvmenta sev Probationes & Resolutiones...De re materia Sacramenti Eucharistici. Cum Epistola ad Papistas hortatoria.

    Mid-16th century.
    • FxJ 15
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, [1560-4?].

      John Foxe, Syllogisticon, hoc est argumenta...de re et materia sacramenti eucharistici &c

  • MS 154

    Copy, in a single professional hand, headed after the Prologue The life and death of Thomas Wolsey late Cardinall, written by George Cavendish his gent.vsher, 172 folio leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

    Copy, 172 folio leaves.

    c.1630.

    Sylvester, No. 15.

    • CvG 26
      No description or publication history available.

      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).

      George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey

  • MS 155

    Copy, in a single cursive hand, except for ff. 53-58, 114 tall folio leaves (plus blanks), in old boards, dated on a flyleaf 10 December 1741.

    Early 18th century.

    Transcribed from an ancient manuscript [? CvG 26] at the expence of the Rev. John Blackbourn, MA, of Trinity College, Cambridge, whose widow donated it, via the Rev. Dr Tookie, to Christ Church on 10 December 1741.

    Sylvester, No. 16.

    • CvG 27
      No description or publication history available.

      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).

      George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey

  • MS 180

    Autograph MS, iii + 156 pages (185 X 130mm.), in contemporary crimson velvet embroidered.

    A presentation MS to Queen Elizabeth, with a Dedication to her, in several styles of script, with decoration and drawn figures, and with a self-portrait of Esther Inglis.

    27 March 1599.

    Inscribed by the Countess of Ancram.

    Evidently the MS to which Bartholemew Kello refers, in his letter to Queen Elizabeth, complaining for lack of reward, 18 July 1599 (British Library, Add. MS 4125, ff. 355r-6v): namely, the booke of psalmes wreaten be my wyfe in french and in diuers sortes of Carectaris adornit euerie way so far as was possible to ane simple woman, being presentit to your Matie.

    Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 7 (pp. 33-5), with facsimiles of pp. 69 and 99 as Plates 9 and 10 (between pp. 42 and 43).

    • *InE 30
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Psalms in French, with Latin verses to Queen Elizabeth by Andrew Melville (1545-1622) and Robert Rollock (1555-99) and French verses to Esther Inglis by Melville and John Johnston (?1570-1611).

      Esther Inglis, [Psalms] Le Livre des Pseaumes escrites en diverses sortes de lettres par Esther Anglois francoise. A Lislebourg en Ecosse 1599

  • MS 184

    A folio composite verse and heraldic miscellany, in several hands, ii + 302 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.

    Including much Welsh verse and coats of arms, some by or relating to Sir John Salusbury. Compiled, at least in part, by William Cynwal of Penmachno for Catherine of Berain, wife of Sir Richard Clough.

    c.1591-1609.
    • *JnB 386 f. 40r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph, untitled, here beginning Genius where art thou? I should vse, subscribed B. J..

      This MS collated in Herford & Simpson, with a facsimile of lines 1-23 facing p. 179. Discussed, with a complete facsimile, in Mark Bland, As far from all Reuolt: Sir John Salusbury, Christ Church MS 184 and Ben Jonson's First Ode, EMS, 8 (2000), 43-78. Facsimile of first page also in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 189.

      First published in The Vnder-wood (xxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 176-80.

      Ben Jonson, An Ode to Iames Earle of Desmond ('Where art thou, Genius? I should use')
    • EsR 73 ff. 43v-4v

      Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, in one secretary and one italic hand, untitled.

      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.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary ('It was a time when sillie Bees could speake')
    • TiC 26 f. 49r

      Copy, headed Mors certa, incerta dies, interior hora!.

      This MS text 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 KyT 1-2.

      Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament ('My prime of youth is but a frost of cares')

  • MS Mus. 350

    An oblong quarto songbook.

    Late 17th century.

    Owned in 1732 by Richard Goodson, of Christ Church, Oxford.

    • CoA 66.5 pp. 12-13

      Copy, in a musical setting ascribed to Mr Henry Hall.

      First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 55-6. Sparrow, p. 55.

      Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Comes Amoris (London, 1687). Works of Henry Purcell, XXII (1922), pp. 55-8.

      Abraham Cowley, The Epicure ('Fill the Bowl with rosie Wine')
    • B&F 133 pp. 64-5

      Copy, in a musical setting; incomplete.

      This MS recorded in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 186.

      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 StW 641-663.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song ('Hence, all you vain delights')
    • PsK 579 pp. 93-7

      Copy of the song by Pompey's ghost, headed Pompey's Ghost to Camilla [Cornelia added in a different ink], in a musical setting here ascribed to Mr [John] Banister (c.1625-79).

      This MS discussed in Curtis A. Price, The Songs for Katherine Philips' Pompey (1663), TN, 33 (1979), 61-6.

      A recitative air sung by Pompey's ghost. Saintsbury, pp. 611-12. Thomas, I, 244-5, poem 120. Thomas, III, 55-6. This song originally set to music by Dr Peter Pett (1630-99).

      Katherine Philips, Pompey. A Tragedy, Act III, scene iv. Song ('From lasting and unclouded Day')
    • PsK 582 pp. 98-9

      Copy of the song, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS discussed in Price, loc. cit.

      Saintsbury, p. 612. Thomas, I, 245-6, poem 121. Thomas, III, pp. 72-3. This song originally set to music by Le Grand a Frenchman.

      Katherine Philips, Pompey. A Tragedy, Act IV, scene v. Song ('Proud Monuments of Royal Dust')
    • PsK 584 pp. 100-1

      Copy of the song, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS discussed in Price, loc. cit.

      Song sung by two Egyptian Priests. Saintsbury, p. 612. Thomas, I, 247-8, poem 122. Thomas, III, pp. 88-9.

      Katherine Philips, Pompey. A Tragedy, Act V, scene v. Song ('Ascend a Throne, Great Queen! to you')
    • DnJ 1583 pp. 114-17

      Copy, in a musical setting by Pelham Humfrey (1647-74), untitled.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 369 (and variant text p. 370). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 193. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 26, 110 (in four sequences).

      John Donne, A Hymne to God the Father ('Wilt thou forgive that sinne where I begunne')

  • MSS Mus. 423-28

    Copy of lines 1-16, in a musical setting by Alfonso Ferrabosco, headed Pauan., in six part books of John Brown.

    • JnB 312.8
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in The Vnder-wood (i.2) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 129-30.

      Ben Jonson, A Hymne to God the Father ('Heare mee, O God!')

  • MS Mus. 434

    A folio music volume, written from both ends, 4 + 9 rev. leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

    Early-mid-17th century.
    • B&F 22 f. 1r

      Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

      This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 114.

      Dyce, X, 459. Jump, p. 67. Bowers, X, 237. The first stanza first published in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (First Folio, 1623), IV, i. Authorship discussed in Jump, pp. 105-6 (first stanza probably by Shakespeare, second by Fletcher).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Bloody Brother, V, ii, 21-32. Song ('Take o take those lipps away')

  • MS Mus. 439

    A folio volume of largely vocal music, mainly in a single secretary hand, 120 pages, in mottled calf.

    Early 17th century.

    Complete facsimile in Jorgens, VI (1987).

    • CmT 88 p. 3

      Copy, in a musical setting.

      Edited from this MS in Joyner.

      First published and attributed to Campion, in Mary Joiner Another Campion Song?, M&L, 48 (1967), 138-9.

      Thomas Campion, 'Tarry sweete love'
    • SiP 14 p. 9

      Copy of a version beginning I never laid me downe to rest, in a musical setting by Robert Taylor.

      This MS recorded in Ringler, pp. 486, 566.

      Ringler, pp. 221-2.

      Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, Song ix ('Go my flocke, go get you hence')
    • CmT 206 p. 10

      Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting.

      This MS collated in Davis, p. 506.

      First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. i. Davis, p. 450.

      Thomas Campion, 'Sweete, come againe'
    • CmT 125 p. 11

      Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS collated in Davis, p. 492.

      First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. ii. Davis, pp. 20-1.

      Thomas Campion, 'Though you are yoong and I am olde'
    • CmT 133 p. 26

      Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting.

      This MS collated in Davis, p. 495, and in Doughtie, pp. 573-5.

      First published in Robert Jones, A Musical Dreame (London, 1609). Campion, Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xvi. Davis, pp. 106-7. Doughtie, pp. 319-20.

      Thomas Campion, 'Though your strangenesse frets my hart'
    • CmT 44 pp. 26-7

      Copy of strophes I and II, in musical settings.

      This MS collated in Davis, p. 493.

      First published among sundry other rare Sonnets of diuers Noble men and Gentlemen appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). Davis, pp. 5-6 (also pp. 44-5).

      Thomas Campion, 'Harke, al you ladies that do sleep'
    • JnB 684 p. 31

      Copy, in a musical setting by Alfonso Ferrabosco.

      This MS recorded in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 562.

      Ben Jonson, The Masque of Blackness, lines 295-300. Song ('Come away, come away')
    • RaW 435 p. 35

      Copy, in a musical setting.

      This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 504-10.

      First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). The first and last stanzas were a song in Thomas Heywood, The Rape of Lucrece (London, 1608). Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 171. Edited in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 156-7. Ralegh's possible authorship also discussed and largely supported in Walter Oakeshott, The Queen and the Poet (London, 1960), p. 161; in Lefranc (1968), pp. 78-9, 83; and in Michael West, Raleigh's disputed Authorship of A Description of Loue, ELN, 10 (1972-3), 92-9.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Now what is Loue, I praie thee tell'
    • CmT 183 p. 36

      Copy, in a musical setting.

      Edited from this MS in Davis.

      First published in More Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A.H. Bullen (London, 1888), pp. 6-7. Davis, p. 478.

      Thomas Campion, 'Art thou that shee then whome noe fayrer is?'
    • SoR 145 p. 37

      Copy of lines 25-30, 19-24, 18-18, in a musical setting by Thomas Morley, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics (Columbia, Mo., 1959), p. 423.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 45-6.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Marie Magdalens complaint at Christs death ('Sith my life from life is parted')
    • NaT 7.6 ff. 37v-8r

      Copy of the song, in a musical setting.

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

      Thomas Nashe, 'Monsieur Mingo for quaffing doth surpass'
    • JnB 571 pp. 38-9

      Copy, in a musical setting.

      This MS recorded in Andrew J. Sabol, A Newly Discovered Contemporary Song Setting for Jonson's Cynthia's Revels, N&Q, 203 (September 1958), 384-5. Edited in Sabol, Two Unpublished Stage Songs for the Aery of Children, RN, 13 (1960), 222-32 (p. 229). Facsimile in Mary Chan, Cynthia's Revels and Music for a Choir School: Christ Church Manuscript Mus 439, SR, 18 (1971), 134-72 (pp. 138-9).

      Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, IV, iii, 242-53. Song ('O, That ioy so soone should waste!')
    • JnB 675 pp. 60-1

      Copy, in a musical setting by Alfonso Ferrabosco.

      This MS recorded in David Fuller, The Jonsonian Masque and its Music, M&L, 54 (1973), 440-52 (p. 446), and in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 568.

      Ben Jonson, The Haddington Masque, lines 415-24. Song ('Why stayes the Bride-grome to inuade')
    • CmT 49 pp. 62-3

      Copy of a three-strophe version, in a musical setting (a version of that in CmT 50).

      Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics (Columbia, Missouri, 1959), p. 178. Collated in Davis, pp. 499-500, and in Doughtie, pp. 517-18.

      First published in John Dowland, Third Book of Aires (London, 1603). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xvii. Davis, pp. 184-5. Doughtie, p. 179.

      Thomas Campion, 'I must complain, yet doe enjoy my Love'
    • CmT 50 pp. 68-9

      Copy of strophes I and III, in a musical setting (a version of that in CmT 49), subscribed fynis quod Mrs Elyzabeth Hampden.

      This MS collated in Davis, pp. 499-500, and in Doughtie, pp. 517-18.

      First published in John Dowland, Third Book of Aires (London, 1603). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xvii. Davis, pp. 184-5. Doughtie, p. 179.

      Thomas Campion, 'I must complain, yet doe enjoy my Love'
    • CmT 167 p. 86

      Copy, in a musical setting by Alfonso Ferrabosco, untitled.

      This MS collated in Davis, p. 499.

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

      Thomas Campion, 'Young and simple though I am'
    • JnB 682 pp. 93-4, 96

      Copy of three consecutive songs, in a composite musical setting by Alfonso Ferrabosco.

      This MS recorded in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 569.

      First published together with The Masque of Blackness (London, [1608]). Herford & Simpson, VII, 181-94.

      Ben Jonson, The Masque of Beauty, lines 341-63. Songs ('If all these Cupids now were blind')
    • JnB 687 p. 95

      Copy, in a musical setting by Alfonso Ferrabosco.

      This MS recorded in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 570.

      Ben Jonson, The Masque of Queens, lines 743-8. Song ('When all the Ages of the earth')
    • DyE 52 p. 102

      Copy of the opening stanzas, in a musical setting by William Byrd, untitled.

      Facsimile of this MS in DLB, vol. 172, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Fourth Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1996), p. 22.

      First published, as two poems (one comprising stanzas 1-4, 6 and 8. the other stanzas 9-12) in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & Songs (London, 1588). Sargent, No. XIV, pp. 200-1. The uncertain authorship of this poem and its textual history are discussed in Steven W. May, The Authorship of My mind to me a kingdom is, RES, NS 26 (1975), 385-94. EV 15376.

      Sir Edward Dyer, 'My mynde to me a kyngdome is'
    • TiC 28 pp. 108-10

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      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 KyT 1-2.

      Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament ('My prime of youth is but a frost of cares')
    • CmT 220 p. 115

      Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Greer, p. 309.

      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.

      Thomas Campion, 'What if a day, or a month, or a yeare'

  • MS Mus. 440

    A quarto volume of anthems.

    Late 17th century.

    Once owned by one Edward Yonge.

    • KiH 495 ff. 37r-36v rev.

      Copy, in a musical setting.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in The Psalmes of David (London, 1651). Crum, p. 190.

      Henry King, Psalme CXXX paraphrased for an Antheme ('Out of the horrour of the lowest Deep')

  • MS Mus. 628

    A folio music book.

    Early 18th century.
    • SaG 11 pp. 121-4

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

      This MS recorded in Zimmerman.

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

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

  • MSS Mus. 736-738

    Three music part books: (i), (ii), and (iii).

    Early-mid-17th century.
    • ShW 69 (i-ii), ff. 3r-4r; (iii) f. 3r-v

      Copies of Balthazar's song, in a musical setting by Thomas Ford.

      This version edited in John H. Long, Shakespeare's Use of Music, I, (Gainesville, Florida, 1955), 132-3.

      William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, II, iii, 61-76. Song ('Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more')
    • CmT 38 (i-iii), f. 4v

      Copies, in a musical setting by Thomas Ford.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xx. Davis, p. 156-8. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 2.

      Thomas Campion, 'Fire, fire, fire, fire!'
    • JnB 430.8 (i-iii), f. 5r

      Copy, headed A Dialogue and ascribed to Tho: fforde.

      First published in The Vnder-wood (xxxvi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 189.

      Ben Jonson, A Song ('Come, let us here enjoy the shade')
    • DnJ 1783 (i-ii), f. 21; (iii), f. 22r

      Copies of stanzas 1-2, in a musical setting by Thomas Ford, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 354-67. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 35-48. Shawcross, No. 187.

      John Donne, The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the most part according to Tremelius ('How sits this citie, late most populous')
    • HrG 41 (i-ii), ff. 24v-5; (iii), ff. 25v-6r

      Copy of lines 15-34, in a musical setting by John Jenkins, untitled, beginning The shepherds sing; and shall I silent be?.

      This MS discussed in Vincent Duckles, John Jenkins's Settings of Lyrics by George Herbert, MQ, 48 (1962), 461-75.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 80-1.

      George Herbert, Christmas ('All after pleasures as I rid one day')
    • HrG 74 (i-ii), ff. 25v-6; (iii), ff. 26v-7r

      Copies, in a musical setting by John Jenkins, untitled.

      This MS discussed in Vincent Duckles, John Jenkins's Settings of Lyrics by George Herbert, MQ, 48 (1962), 461-75.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 112.

      George Herbert, The Dawning ('Awake sad heart, whom sorrow ever drowns')
    • HrG 105 (i-ii), f. 31; (iii), f. 32r

      Copies of lines 19-36, untitled and beginning Oh take thy lute, and tune it to a strain, treated as a separate song, in a musical setting by John Jenkins (different from that in HrG 104).

      This MS discussed in Vincent Duckles; not recorded in Hutchinson.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 135-6.

      George Herbert, Ephes. 4. 30. Grieve not the Holy Spirit, &c ('And art thou grieved, sweet and sacred Dove')
    • HrG 104 (i-ii), ff. 31v-2r; (iii), ff. 32v-3r

      Copies of lines 1-18, in a musical setting by John Jenkins, untitled.

      This MS discussed in Vincent Duckles, John Jenkins's Settings of Lyrics by George Herbert, MQ, 48 (1962), 461-75.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 135-6.

      George Herbert, Ephes. 4. 30. Grieve not the Holy Spirit, &c ('And art thou grieved, sweet and sacred Dove')
    • HrG 248 (i-ii), f. 32v; (iii), f. 33v

      Copies of lines 17-32, in a musical setting by John Jenkins (different from that in HrG 104), untitled, beginning Then with our trinitie of light.

      This MS discussed in Vincent Duckles.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 74.

      George Herbert, The Starre ('Bright spark, shot from a brighter place')
    • HrG 247 (i-ii), f. 33r; (iii), f. 34r

      Copies of lines 1-16, in a musical setting by John Jenkins, untitled.

      This MS discussed in Vincent Duckles, John Jenkins's Settings of Lyrics by George Herbert, MQ, 48 (1962), 461-75.

      First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 74.

      George Herbert, The Starre ('Bright spark, shot from a brighter place')

  • MS Mus. 984

    A set of five music part books, begun by Robert Dow.

    c.1580s-1600.
    • DyE 97 Nos. 60-63

      Copies, in a musical setting by William Byrd, the full text in the first MS, incipits only in the rest.

      Edited from the first MS in May, Courtier Poets.

      First published in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & Songs (London, 1588). May, Courtier Poets, p. 311. EV 17616.

      Sir Edward Dyer, 'Oh that most rare brest, chrystalin syncere'
    • OxE 39 No. 94

      Copy, in a musical setting, here beginning If women could be fair and never fond.

      First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). May, Poems, No. III (pp. 40-1). May, Courtier Poets, p. 284. EV 11604.

      Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, 'If woemen coulde be fayre and yet not fonde'
    • DyE 53 No. 118

      Copy, in a musical setting.

      First published, as two poems (one comprising stanzas 1-4, 6 and 8. the other stanzas 9-12) in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & Songs (London, 1588). Sargent, No. XIV, pp. 200-1. The uncertain authorship of this poem and its textual history are discussed in Steven W. May, The Authorship of My mind to me a kingdom is, RES, NS 26 (1975), 385-94. EV 15376.

      Sir Edward Dyer, 'My mynde to me a kyngdome is'

  • MS Mus. 1150

    Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, on six folio leaves (the last trimmed).

    c.1700.
    • CoA 48
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, I, 435-40. Sparrow, pp. 169-74.

      Abraham Cowley, The Complaint ('In a deep Vision's intellectual scene')

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