Folger Shakespeare Library
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Emmanuel College, Cambridge

  • MS 68 (I. 3. 16)

    A quarto composite volume of verse, prose and dramatic MSS, in several hands, the second item (II) constituting an independent quire of six leaves containing copies of, or extracts from, 14 poems by Donne, in a single minute hand, c.160 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.

    c.1630.

    Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Emmanuel College MS: DnJ Δ 65.

    • AlW 135 I, ff. 1r-16r

      Copy of Book I, in a roman hand, with (f. ir) a title-page, ELISÆIS Apotheosis poetica, dedicatory epistle (f. 2r-v) subscribed Gulielmus Albaster, dedicatory verses (f. 3r), and main text (ff. 4r-16r).

      This MS collated in O'Connell.

      Of Alabaster's unfinished epic Apotheosis poetica, written probably in 1588-91 and celebrating the reign of Queen Elizabeth, only Book I survives. The text is preceded by a dedicatory prose epistle to the Queen and by eight lines of dedicatory verse to her beginning Qua sinuat tellus viridans immania terga. First published, with an English prose translation, as The Elisæis of William Alabaster, ed. and trans. Michael O'Connell, Studies in Philology, 76, No. 5 (Early Winter 1979), 77 pp.

      William Alabaster, Elisæis ('Virgineum mundi decus, augustamque Britannae')
    • DnJ 280 II, f. 3r-v

      Copy, headed Praise of middle age.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie. The Autumnall, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as Elegie IX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.

      John Donne, The Autumnall ('No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace')
    • DnJ 73 II, f. 3v

      Copy of lines 1-16, 35-6, headed Dunns Prayse of an Old woman.

      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.

      John Donne, The Anagram ('Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee')
    • DnJ 3748 II, ff. 3v-4r

      Copy, headed His Parting wth his Mrs.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.

      John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning ('As virtuous men passe mildly away')
    • DnJ 1504 II, f. 4r

      Copy of lines 1-4, headed His parting wth her.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      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).

      John Donne, His parting from her ('Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night')
    • DnJ 1469 II, f. 4r

      Copy, headed To his Mrs.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.

      John Donne, The good-morrow ('I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I')
    • DnJ 2309 II, f. 4r-v

      Copy, headed A Sonnet.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.

      John Donne, The Message ('Send home my long strayd eyes to mee')
    • DnJ 1983 II, f. 4v

      Copy, headed Mummy.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.

      John Donne, Loves Alchymie ('Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I')
    • DnJ 1855 II, ff. 4v-5r

      Copy, headed A Song.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.

      John Donne, The Legacie ('When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye')
    • DnJ 2149 II, f. 5r

      Copy of lines 41-64, untitled and here beginning The haire a forrest is of ambushes.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as Elegie XVIII). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as Elegie XVIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.

      John Donne, Loves Progress ('Who ever loves, if he do not propose')
    • DnJ 2575 II, ff. 5r-6r

      Copy, headed Discovered by a Perfume.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie IV, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as Elegie IV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.

      John Donne, The Perfume ('Once, and but once found in thy company')
    • DnJ 3680 II, f. 6r

      Copy of a version of lines 17-22, headed Selecta. In a garden and here beginning Make me a fountayne weeping out my yeare.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.

      John Donne, Twicknam garden ('Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares')
    • DnJ 844 II, f. 6r

      Copy of a variant version of lines 14-15, 25-32, here beginning May he for her vertue reverence.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.

      John Donne, The Curse ('Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes')
    • DnJ 2062 II, f. 6r

      Copy of lines 25-30, headed at the side A diet for love and here beginning Thus I reclaym'd my Buzard love to flye.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.

      John Donne, Loves diet ('To what a combersome unwieldinesse')
    • DnJ 711 II, f. 6r-v

      Copy of lines 1-14, 19-34, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as Elegie VIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.

      John Donne, The Comparison ('As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still')
    • BrW 254 II, ff. 8r-16v

      Copy, in a cursive hand, on nine quarto leaves.

      Edited from this MS in all modern editions.

      First published in The Works of William Browne, ed. Thomas Davies (London, 1772). Goodwin, II, 165-90. Edited by R.F. Hill as The Masque of the Inner Temple (Ulysses and Circe), in A Book of Masques in Honour of Allardyce Nicoll (Cambridge, 1967), pp. 179-206.

      William Browne of Tavistock, The Inner Temple Masque
    • MrJ 69 VI, f. [16v]

      An anonymous copy.

      John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII ('Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree')
    • CrR 134 VI, ff. [17r-19v]

      Copy, untitled.

      First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 149-53.

      Richard Crashaw, Musicks Duell ('Now Westward Sol had spent the richest Beames')
    • BcF 27 VI, f. [23r]

      Copy, headed Sr ffrancis Bacon.

      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.

      Francis Bacon, 'The world's a bubble, and the life of man'
    • RnT 148 VI, ff. [25v-8r]

      Copy, headed In Nuptias Geo. Goringe, incomplete.

      Edited in part from this MS in Moore Smith and in Thorn-Drury.

      First published in Alexander B. Grosart, Literary-Finds in Trinity College, Dublin, and Elsewhere, Englische Studien, 26 (1899), 1-19 (pp. 9-13). Thorn-Drury, pp. 151-6.

      Thomas Randolph, In auspicatissimas nuptias Nobilissimi Iuvenis Georgii Goringe ('When I my serious thoughts had sett')
    • CwT 651 VI, ff. [28r-30v]

      Copy, headed Caryes rapture.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.

      Thomas Carew, A Rapture ('I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come')
    • CwT 1011 VI, ff. [31r-2r]

      Copy, headed To a beautifull Lady perswasions to Loue.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.

      Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love ('Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say')
    • CwT 670 VI, f. [32r-v]

      Copy, headed The Epicures parædoxe.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 103-4.

      Thomas Carew, The second Rapture ('No worldling, no, tis not thy gold')
    • CwT 980 VI, f. [33r]

      Copy, headed A faire yet hard mrs.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 3.

      Thomas Carew, The Spring ('Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost')

  • MS 76 (I. 3. 24)

    A quarto volume of writings by and about Sir Thomas More (including The confession of my beliefe), with a Protestant reader's critical annotations, 115 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

    Late 16th century.

    Inscribed on a flyleaf This booke was fovnde by Rich: Topclyff in Mr Tho: Moares Studdye amonge other bookes at Greenstreet Mr wayfarers hovse when mr Moare was apprhended: the xiijth of Aprll 1582: i.e. owned by Sir Thomas More's grandson Thomas More of Barnborough, apprehended by Richard Topcliffe (1531-1604), pursuivant and interrogator.

    • MrT 75 ff. 1r-57r

      Copy, in an accomplised hand, untitled.

      Edited principally from this MS in Hitchcock & Chambers, described pp.xiii-xv, and the dedicatory epistle to William Roper edited on pp. 3-4.

      First published, edited by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock and R.W. Chambers, as The life and death of Sr Thomas Moore. knight, sometymes Lord high Chancellor of England...by Nicholas Harpsfield (EETS, London, 1932).

      Sir Thomas More, Nicholas Harpsfield's Life of Sir Thomas More

  • MS 80 (I. 3. 28)

    A quarto miscellany, largely in a professional secretary hand, i + 59 leaves (plus numerous blanks and some loose papers), in contemporary vellum.

    Late 16th-early 17th century.

    Once owned by the Draycott family.

    • LeC 48 ff. ir-54v

      Copy, with a title-page, side-notes added in another hand, and subscribed L. Daneidis.

      This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

      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.

      Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth
    • HrJ 308 f. 56r

      Copy, headed Sr John Harringtons epigram vppon the deathe of his magesties Mother Mary quen of Scotland.

      First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 82. McClure No. 336, pp. 280-1. Kilroy, Book III, No. 44, p. 185. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5).

      Sir John Harington, A Tragicall Epigram ('When doome of Peeres & Iudges fore-appointed')
    • HrJ 86 f. 56r

      Copy, headed The sam Author vppon ye countes of Darby the wiff of ffernando.

      First published in 1618, Book III, No. 47. McClure No. 248, p. 251. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 74, p. 237.

      Sir John Harington, In prayse of the Countesse of Darby, married to the Lord Keeper ('This noble Countesse liued many yeeres')

  • MS 181 (III. 1. 13)

    A folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various hands, 250 leaves, in modern leather.

    • EsR 126 V, ff. 1r-13v

      Copy, in three or more secretary hands.

      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.

    • AlW 259 VI, pp. 1-156

      Copy.

      A tract apparently by William Bedell, with a dedication to Ambrose Jermyn dated 25 February 1604/5.

      William Alabaster, (3) A Defence of the Answers to Mr: Alablaster's Four Demands against a Treatise Intituled The Catholic's Reply upon Bedal's Answer to Mr: Alablaster's four Demands
    • AndL 13 VIII, ff. 52r-69v

      Copy of Sermons by Bish: Andrewes, in probably four hands, comprising three sermons and five sets of sermon-notes (one a fragment), the texts from Philemon (2: 5-8), Hebrews (10: 28-9), Romans (4: 25; 13: 11-14), John (20: 22-3; 5: 14), Psalms (107: 6), and Luke (15: 1-7).

      Unpublished.

  • MS 185 (III. 1. 17)

    A folio composite volume of academic Latin plays, in non-professional hands, 114 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

    Early 17th century.
    • AlW 263 ff. [64r-78v]

      Copy, in a neat italic hand, subscribed ffinis Authore Dct. Alablaster. Collegij quonda Trinitatis Socio, on fourteen leaves.

      First acted at Trinity College, Cambridge c.1595?. First published in London, 1632. A translation by Dana F. Sutton put online in 1998 by the University of California at Irvine.

  • 324.862

    Autograph annotations and marginalia.

    Stern, p. 224.

    • *HvG 117
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Gabriel Harvey, Justinian, D. Iustiniani Imp. Institutionum Libri IIII. Francisci Accursii glossis illustrati (Lyons, 1577)

  • Peter Sterry MSS 4, p. 182

    Extracts, the MS copied or owned by Peter Sterry (1613-72), theologian, Fellow of Emmanuel College from 1636.

    Mid-17th century.
    • MnJ 138
      No description or publication history available.
      John Milton, Extracts

  • Peter Sterry MSS 289

    Copy.

    Copied or owned by Peter Sterry (1613-72), theologian, Fellow of Emmanuel College from 1636.

    Mid-17th century.
    • MnJ 6.5
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 27-8. Darbishire, II, 132-3. Carey & Fowler, pp. 161-5.

      John Milton, At a solemn Musick ('Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav'ns joy')

  • S 14. 2. 3426

    Archbishop Sancroft's exemplum, with some autograph corrections by Walton.

    c.1680.

    Recorded in Nicolas, I, c.

    • *WtI 126
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Izaak Walton, Love and truth (London, 1680)

  • S 14.2.43(4)

    Annotations.

    • *HvG 118
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Gabriel Harvey, La Place, Pierre de. Politique Discourses (London, 1578)

  • S. 14.3.37

    A printed exemplum inscribed on an endleaf hir son, I am. J. H. vpo his Mother…, this text followed by a parody, headed Art thou hir son whi than in the ' We shall the Dams true Image see, the last line containing an allusion to The Metamorphosis of Ajax.

    c.1587-1600s.
    • HrJ 345
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Harington, Contarini, Nicola. De perfectione rerum (Lyon, 1587)

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