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McGill University, Montreal, Osler Library

  • Cat. No. 4589

    Copy of a version of the English Religio Laici, with autograph revisions; 18 leaves (written on one side).

    c.1642-5.

    This MS discussed in S.E. Sprott, The Osler Manuscript of Herbert's Religio Laici, The Library, 5th Ser. 11 (1956), 120-2; but see also Rossi, Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions (1962), 45-6 (n).

    • *HrE 137
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Herbert G. Wright, An Unpublished Manuscript by Lord Herbert of Cherbury Entitled Religio Laici, MLR, 28 (1933), 295-307.

      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Religio Laici [in English]

  • M90. Bd. 84

    An octavo verse miscellany. in old calf.

    Late 17th century.

    Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 22199. Sotheby's, 17 June 1908 (Phillipps sale), lot 543.

    • MnJ 62 ff. 2-24

      Copy, transcribed from a printed source.

      First published, as A Maske presented At Ludlow-Castle, 1634, in London, 1637. Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 85-123. Darbishire, II, 171-203. Carey & Fowler, pp. 168-229. John Milton, The Masque of Comus. The Poem, originally called A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, &c., ed. E.H. Visiak (Bloomsbury, 1937). John Milton, A Maske: The Earlier Versions, ed. S.E. Sprott (Toronto, 1973). Various texts also discussed in A Maske at Ludlow, ed. John S. Diekhoff (Cleveland, Ohio, 1968), [see esp. pp. 251-75].

      John Milton, Comus

  • MS M156 Bd. 150 (IV/47)

    A miscellany, compiled by Charles Allis.

    c.1660s-70s.
    • BcF 39.5 f. 8v

      Copy, the text followed (f. 9r) by Farnaby's Greek version.

      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'
    • CoA 110.5 f. 12r-v

      Copy, headed Mr. Abraham Cowley on his Motto: Tantavida est via...

      First published in Miscellanies (London, 1656). Grosart, I, 135. Waller, I, 15-16.

      Abraham Cowley, The Motto ('What shall I do to be forever known')

  • MS 84, f. 4 (138)

    Copy.

    • CoA 200.8
      No description or publication history available.

      Of doubtful authorship.

      Abraham Cowley, The well wish of A: C: to his Soueraigne King Charles ('Greate King whose pen ye Angells guide, whose minde')

  • MS 4416

    Collection of autograph notes and drafts, including observations on anatomy (the pericardium and diaphragma), a draft letter, and notes on Plutarch and Plato's Year, on twenty leaves.

    Late 17th century.

    This MS largely edited in Keynes, III, 261-2, 267-8, 343-4; IV, 85-6.

    • *BrT 54
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

  • MS 4417

    Copy, on 63 folio leaves.

    c.1630s-42.

    Formerly owned by a Lancashire family. Sotheby's, 14 December 1906, lot 273.

    This MS recorded and collated in part by Keynes and subsequent editors.

    • BrT 10
      No description or publication history available.

      First published (unauthorized edition) [in London], 1642. Authorized edition published [in London], 1643. Wilkin, II, 1-158. Keynes, I, 1-93. Edited by Jean-Jacques Denonain (Cambridge, 1953). Martin, pp. 1-80. Endicott, pp. 1-89.

      Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici

  • MS 4533

    Copy of prefatory and other supplementary material taken from Sir Thos. own edition of Religio Medici printed in 1660 (viz.? from the fifth or sixth editions of 1659 and 1669).

    Late 17th century.
    • BrT 5.97
      No description or publication history available.

      First published (unauthorized edition) [in London], 1642. Authorized edition published [in London], 1643. Wilkin, II, 1-158. Keynes, I, 1-93. Edited by Jean-Jacques Denonain (Cambridge, 1953). Martin, pp. 1-80. Endicott, pp. 1-89.

      Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici

  • MSS 4534-5

    Papers relating to Sir Thomas Browne and his works.

    c.1902-22.
    • BrT 62
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir Thomas Browne, Editorial Papers

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