Folger Shakespeare Library
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Dr Peter Beal, London

  • Hall MS

    A folio volume comprising some twenty-two religious prose works by Joseph Hall, all published between 1605 and 1623, closely written in a single neat secretary hand, with some titles ornamented, 137 leaves, imperfect at the end, in 18th-century quarter-calf marbled boards (rebacked).

    Repeated references in titles to Josep: Hall now Bp. of Exon. indicate a date of transcription after 23 December 1627 and before 15 November 1641, when Hall became Bishop of Norwich. It was possibly copied out before 1633, since it contains his paraphrase on The Song of Songs following the text of the Geneva Bible (HlJ 57), a work which he revised following the text of the Authorized Version and incorporated in An Explication …of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (1633).

    The last page of the MS (f. 137v) contains eight untitled religious aphorisms (beginning The law before or sauiour Christs time, was like the rod in Moses hand turned into a serpent…), but it is not clear whether these aphorisms, perhaps an afterthought of the scribe to fill up the volume, derive from Hall's works.

    c.1627-41.

    Sotheby's, 5 July 1977, lot 109.

    Cited below as the Beal MS.

    • HlJ 57 ff. 1r-10r

      Copy.

      First published in Salomon's Divine Arts (London, 1609). Later incorporated in An Explication by way of Paraphrase of all the Hard Texts in the Old and New Testament (London, 1633). Edited in Wynter, III, 290-316, as part of the latter work.

      Joseph Hall, An Open and Plain Paraphrase upon the Song of Songs
    • HlJ 14 ff. 10v-21v

      Copy.

      First published in London, 1608. Wynter, VI, 89-125. Edited by Rudolf Kirk, together with Heaven vpon Earth (New Brunswick, N.J., 1948).

      Joseph Hall, Characters of Virtues and Vices
    • HlJ 42 ff. 22r-4v

      Copy.

      First published in Epistles, Vol. II (London, 1608). Wynter, VI, 191-8.

      Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade III, Epistle 3. To Mr. Samuel Burton. A discourse of the trial and choice of the true religion
    • HlJ 58 ff. 24v-34v

      Copy.

      First published in London, 1609. Wynter, V, 24-54.

      Joseph Hall, The Passion Sermon. Preached at Paul's Cross on Good-Friday, April 14, 1609
    • HlJ 51 ff. 35r-40v

      Copy.

      First published in London, 1623. Wynter, V, 158-73.

      Joseph Hall, The Great Impostor: Laid open in a Sermon at Gray's Inn, February 2, 1623
    • HlJ 10 ff. 41r-5r

      Copy.

      First published in London, 1623. Wynter, V, 174-85.

      Joseph Hall, The Best Bargain: A Sermon Preached to the Court at Theobald's on Sunday, September 21, 1623
    • HlJ 56 ff. 45v-75v

      Copy.

      First published in London, 1605. Wynter, VII, 439-521.

      Joseph Hall, Meditations and Vows. Divine and Moral. Three Centuries
    • HlJ 52 ff. 76r-91v

      Copy.

      First published in London, 1606. Wynter, VI, 1-45. Edited by Rudolf Kirk, together with Characters of Virtues and Vices (New Brunswick, N.J., 1948).

      Joseph Hall, Heaven upon Earth
    • HlJ 54 ff. 92r-9v

      Copy.

      First published in London, 1607. Wynter, VII, 522-43.

      Joseph Hall, Holy Observations
    • HlJ 60 ff. 100r-7r

      Copy.

      First published in The Peace of Rome (London, 1609). Wynter, VIII, 352-73.

      Joseph Hall, A Serious Dissuasive from Popery. To W.D. Revolted, &c
    • HlJ 31 ff. 107v-8v

      Copy.

      First published in Epistles, Vol. I (London, 1608). Wynter, VI, 128-31.

      Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade I, Epistle 1. To Jacob Wadsworth. lately revolted, in Spain
    • HlJ 48 ff. 108v-9r

      Copy.

      First published in Epistles, Vol. III, Part 2 (London, 1610). Wynter, VI, 283-5.

      Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade VI, Epistle 2. To Mr. T.S. Dedicated to Sir Fulke Grevill. Discoursing how we may use the world without danger
    • HlJ 59 ff. 109v-17v

      Copy.

      First published in London, 1608. Wynter, V, 1-23.

      Joseph Hall, Pharisaism and Christianity: Compared and set forth in a Sermon at Paul's Cross, May 1, 1608
    • HlJ 9 ff. 117v-33v

      Copy, with the appended A Meditation of Death, According to the Former Rules, imperfect, lacking one leaf between ff. 125 and 126 containing the end of Chapter XXIV and the beginning of Chapter XXV.

      First published in London, 1606. Wynter, VI, 46-88.

      Joseph Hall, The Art of Divine Meditation
    • HlJ 32 ff. 133v-4v

      Copy.

      First published in Epistles, Vol. I (London, 1608). Wynter, VI, 131-3.

      Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade I, Epistle 2. To My Lord and Patron, The Lord Denny. Of the contempt of the World
    • HlJ 33 ff. 134v-5r

      Copy.

      First published in Epistles, Vol. I (London, 1608). Wynter, VI, 156-8.

      Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade I, Epistle 10. Written to Mr. J.B. and Dedicated to My Father, Mr. J. Hall. Against the fear of death
    • HlJ 35 ff. 135r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Epistles, Vol. I (London, 1608). Wynter, VI, 158-9.

      Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade II, Epistle 1. To Sir Robert Darcy. The estate of a true but weak Christian
    • HlJ 43 ff. 135v-6v

      Copy.

      First published in Epistles, Vol. II (London, 1608). Wynter, VI, 208-10.

      Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade III, Epistle 8. To Mr. Rob. Hay. A discourse of the continual exercise of a Christian. how he may keep his heart from hardness and his ways from error
    • HlJ 46 ff. 136v-7r

      Copy.

      First published in Epistles, Vol. II (London, 1608). Wynter, VI, 234-6.

      Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade IV, Epistle 7. to Mr. Ed. Alleyne. A direction how to conceive of God in our devotions and meditations

  • Florio MS

    Copy of 59 proverbs taken from Chapter VI, in a secretary hand, headed Wise Politique Italian Admonicons & Counsells, on a single folded vellum leaf.

    c.1595.

    Sotheby's, 29 October 1975, lot 148. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 938 (1974), item 35.

    • FloJ 3
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1591.

      John Florio, Florios Second frutes

  • Common Place Book

    An octavo notebook of largely ecclesiastical prose and some verse, chiefly in Latin, English and French, in a cursive italic hand, possibly a second hand on ff. 59r-66r, written from both ends, 96 leaves (including some blanks), in contemporary calf, with metal clasps.

    Compiled probably by an English cleric in France, who writes (f. 1v) I came to Maule. Aug. 16th at night, 1656 and (f. 16r) records visiting Lord Hatton at his house in St Germains, Paris, where he is shown books and manuscripts, on 1 August NS 1656.

    c.1656-8.

    Christie's, 27 March 1985, lot 154.

    • TaJ 116 f. 14r

      Extracts, headed Dr Tayler of originall Sin. in his first part of his answer to ye Bishop: of Rochesters letter. pag: 10.

      Jeremy Taylor, Extracts
    • TaJ 115.5 f. 15r

      Extracts, headed In Doctor Taylers second part of his answer to the Bisp: of Rochesters letter theire in three thing's wch: hee holds, & I thinke canot well be answer'd.

      Jeremy Taylor, XXVIII Sermons (London, 1651)
    • TaJ 31 f. 19r-v

      Extracts, headed Dr: Tayler. of Repent:: Ch: 5. Sect. 5. numb: 56. and from Nos 65, 66 and 30.

      First published in London, 1655.

      Jeremy Taylor, Unum Necessarium
    • AndL 55.5 ff. 23r-4v, 72r-3v

      Extracts, in Latin, the first headed Bishop: Andrews. ad Card: Bell:: Apolog: Responsio. p. 11.; the second De Reliquiis: Epis; Andr: Resp: Bett: p. 47:.

      First published in London, 1609.

      Lancelot Andrewes, Tortura torti
    • BrT 0.3 f. 93v-r rev.

      Copy, headed Dr: Browne, Verses, and dated Decemb: 420th: Paris. 1655.

      First published in Religio Medici, where Browne describes it as the dormitive I take to bedward…to make me sleepe. Published later, in an anonymous musical setting, in Harmonia Sacra, II (1693). Keynes, I, 89-90.

      Sir Thomas Browne, Colloquy with God ('The night is come like to the day')

  • Cooper's Hill

    An exemplum of the printed edition of Denham's Poems and Translations, with The Sophy (London, 1668), in contemporary calf, in which the text of Coopers Hill on pp. 1-22 is interlineated in manuscript with the Latin version by Moses Pengry.

    Late 17th century.

    Henry Sotheran's sale catalogue Picadilly Notes 29 (Winter 1992), item 178.

    • DeJ 19.2
      No description or publication history available.

      A Latin translation of Cooper's Hill by Moses Pengry, Chaplain to the Earl of Devonshire (beginning Si fuerint Vates, Parnassi nulla bicollis), prepared for Lord William Cavendish and printed at Oxford in 1676. The text is reprinted in O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks, pp. 257-75.

      Sir John Denham, Cooper's Hill (Latin translation)

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