Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

  • MS 52. D. 25

    A music book partly compiled by John Bull (c.1562-1628).

    Early 17th century.
    • B&F 84 ff. 98v-9r

      Copies in a musical setting by John Wilson in a music part book.

      Printed from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 70-1 (collated pp. 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')
    • B&F 90 ff. 99v-100r

      Copy in a musical setting.

      Printed from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 58-9 (collated pp. 154-6).

      Dyce, VI, 179-80. Bullen, III, 183. Bowers, V, 66-7.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Mad Lover, IV, i, 24-41. Song ('Orpheus I am, come from the deeps below')
    • MiT 32 ff. 107v-8r

      Copy of the witches' song in a musical setting possibly by Robert Johnson.

      This MS printed and collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 11-13, 123-4.

      Bullen, V, 416-18. Malone Society edition, pp. 57-9, lines 1331-71. Oxford Middleton, pp. 1152-3.

      Thomas Middleton, The Witch, III, iii, 39-72. Song ('Come away, come away, Hecate')
    • B&F 180 ff. 109v-10r

      Copy in a musical setting by Robert Johnson.

      Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 36-7 (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')

  • MU 3 - 1956

    Herbert's MS lute-book, mainly autograph, partly in the hand of an amanuensis; inscribed by Herbert The Lutebooke of Edward Lord Herbert, of Cherbury and Castle Island, containing diverse selected Lessons of excellent Authors in severall Countreys. Wherein also are some few of my owne Composition.

    c.1624-40.

    Formerly among Herbert's papers preserved at Powis Castle.

    Described in Thurston Dart, Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Lute-Book, M&L, 38 (1957), 136-48, and in Rossi, III, 405-7.

  • MU. 52. D. 25

    MS music book, partly compiled by John Bull (c.1562-1628).

    Early 17th century.
    • CmT 73 f. 73v

      Copy, in a musical setting.

      This MS collated in Davis, p. 497.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xvii. Davis, pp. 152-3.

      Thomas Campion, 'Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee'
    • CmT 74 f. 105r

      Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting.

      This MS collated in Davis, p. 497.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xvii. Davis, pp. 152-3.

      Thomas Campion, 'Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee'

  • MU. 52. D. 29

    A virginal book, probably compiled by Francis Tregian (the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book).

    c.1609-19.
    • ShW 108.4 p. 125

      Copy of the Clown's song, in a musical setting.

      The Clown's song.

      William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II, iii, lines 41-6, 49-54. Song ('O mistress mine, where are you roaming?')
    • CmT 25 p. 309

      Copy of the incipit, here Fayne would I wedd, with a musical setting by Richard Farnaby.

      This MS recorded in Davis, p. 500.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xxiv. Davis, p. 193.

      Thomas Campion, 'Faine would I wed a faire yong man that day and night could please me'
    • DnJ 2620 pp. 381-2

      Copy of the title only, with a musical setting by Martin Peerson.

      Edited from this MS in The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, ed. J.A.F. Maitland and W.B. Squire (Leipzig, [1899]), II, 422. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 61-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 88-9. Shawcross, No. 69.

      John Donne, The Primrose ('Upon this Primrose hill')
    • ShW 112.5 p. 416

      Music only for Autolycus's song.

      William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, IV, iii, 120-3. Song ('Jog on, jog on, thy foot-path way')

  • MU MS 87

    A large folio composite volume of English operas.

    c.1695-1701.
    • LeN 12 pp. 99-165 (ff. 45v-77r)

      Copy of a musical score for an operatic version of the play, Acts II-V, the music by Daniel Purcell (c1670-1717) and Gottfried Finger (c.1655-1730), headed The Musick In the Opera of the Rivall Queens.

      The music is chiefly incidental music, songs or choruses near the beginning or end of the four last acts; the libretto is partly Lee's original verses, partly new verses (by the politician Anthony Henley (d.1711), according to John Le Neve in 1713).

      This version discussed in Peter Beal, The Fortunes of Alexander: A Stage History of Nat Lee's The Rival Queens: or, The Death of Alexander the Great (unpub. Ph.D. diss., 4 vols, University of Leeds, 1973), I, 314-31; IV, Addenda, p. i.

      First published in London, 1677. Stroup & Cooke, I, 211-83.

      Nathaniel Lee, The Rival Queens: or, The Death of Alexander the Great

  • MU MS 118

    A folio MS music book.

    c.1680.
    • HeR 87 p. 28

      Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).

      Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return')
    • PsK 542 pp. 36-7

      Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

      This MS recorded in Zimmerman.

      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')
    • CoA 95 p. 74

      Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

      First published in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 144-5. Sparrow, p. 145. Collected Works, II, No. 79, pp. 116-17.

      Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683). Works of Henry Purcell, XXV (London, 1928), pp. 156-8.

      Abraham Cowley, Honour ('She Loves, and she confesses too')

  • MU MS 120

    A folio MS music book.

    c.1728.
    • MaA 18 pp. 1-4

      Copy, in a musical setting by Matthew Locke.

      First published, in a musical setting by John Gamble, in his Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659). Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 19-21. Lord, pp. 261-2, as of doubtful authorship. Smith pp. 244-5. The authorship doubted and discussed in Chernaik, pp. 207-8.

      Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda ('When Death, shall part us from these Kids')
    • CoA 283 ff. 52r, 225r, 239r

      Copies or extracts from poems by Cowley, in musical settings.

      Abraham Cowley, Extracts
    • HeR 88 p. 75

      Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow.

      First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).

      Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song ('Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return')
    • CgW 47 p. 243

      Copy in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

      First published, in a musical setting, in Henry Purcell, Orpheus Britannicus (London, 1698), Book I, p. 112. The Works of Henry Purcell, XXII (London, 1922), pp. 120-4. Dobrée, p. 376. McKenzie, II, 466-7.

      William Congreve, A Two-part Song, the Words by Mr. Congreve ('There ne'er was so wretched a Lover as I')
    • CgW 55 p. 287-9

      Copy in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

      First published in London, 1694. Summers, II, 1-77 (p. 31). Davis, pp. 117-204 (p. 143). McKenzie, I, 125-245 (p. 157). Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Thesaurus Musicus (London, 1694). The Works of Henry Purcell, XVI (London, 1906), pp. 207-10.

      William Congreve, The Double-Dealer, II, iii, lines 29-41. Song ('Cynthia frowns when'er I Woo her')
    • PsK 195 [unspecified pages]

      Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

      This MS recorded in Zimmerman.

      First published in Poems (1667), pp. 170-83. Saintsbury, pp. 601-4. Thomas, III, 94-102.

      A musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Comes Amoris…The First Book (London, 1687), p. 18. The Theater of Music…The Fourth and Last Book (London, 1687), p. 57. The Works of Henry Purcell, XXV, ed. Arthur Somervell (London, 1928), pp. 137-40; revised edition, ed. Margaret Laurie (1985), pp. 75-9.

      Katherine Philips, La Solitude de St. Amant. Englished ('O! Solitude my sweetest choice')

  • MS 361

    A formal copy of a longer version, in a neat predominantly italic hand (the same as CaE 36), with a title-page The Raigne and deathe off Edwarde the Seconde. The highe and ffall of his too greate ffavorites Gaveston, and Spencer. Fe: 2o. 1627. By E. F., in contemporary brown morocco.

    1627/8.

    Discussed, with facsimiles of the title-page and address To the Reader, in Margaret Reeves, From Manuscript to Printed Text: Telling and Retelling the History of Edward II, in The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680, ed. Heather Wolfe (New York & Basingstoke, 2007), pp. 125-44.

    • CaE 35
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in two editions in London, 1680: one, in folio, as The History of the Life, Reign and Death of Edward II...Written by E.F. in the year 1627; the other, in octavo, as The History of the Most Unfortunate Prince King Edward II...(supposed to be) Writ by the Right Honourable Henry Viscount Faulkland. See also Jesse G. Swan, Towards a Texual History of the 1680 Folio The History of the Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 177-90.

      Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, The History of the Life, Reign and Death of Edward II

  • [no shelfmark]

    Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Jacob Tonson], from London, 18 June 1722.

    1722.

    Maggs's sale catalogue No. 623 (Spring 1936), item 221.

    Edited in Works, IV, 145-6 (No. 139). Register, No. 3113.

    • *VaJ 339
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Contents