Copy, chiefly in the secretary hands of two amanuenses, the list of Speakers
(f. 1v) in another cursive hand, with Daniel's signed autograph presentation inscription (f. 2r), songs (ff. 9r-v, 24r), and possibly corrections, 35 quarto leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum boards gilt.
Presented to Jean (or Jane) Drummond on the occasion of her marriage to Robert Ker (1570?-1650), later first Earl of Roxburgh, in February 1613/14.
Later given to William Drummond of Hawthornden, who presented it to Edinburgh College (his booklabel and inscription, f. 1r).
This MS recorded in Grosart, IV, lv-lvii; described and the additions printed in W.W. Greg, Hymen's Triumph and the Drummond MS, MLQ, 6 (1903), 59-64.
Facsimile pages in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate XXI(d); in Flower & Munby, English Poetical Autographs, p. 5; in Joan Rees, Samuel Daniel (Liverpool, 1964), facing pp. 158 and 159; and in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 21.