Folger Shakespeare Library
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National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS

United Kingdom

  • Adv. MS 1.1.6

    A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

    Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

    c.1568.

    Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to Mr William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

    Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

    • DuW 157 Vol. I, pp. 9-11

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Ritchie, I, 13-18. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 227. Collated in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 83, pp. 163-7. Murdoch, II, 43-8. Ritchie, II, 42-7. Bawcutt, I, 267-73.

      William Dunbar, The Tabill of Confession ('To The, O mercifull Salviour, Jesus') | Catalogue
    • HnR 19 Vol. I, pp. 20-2

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Ritchie and in Fox. Collated in Wood.

      Wood, pp. 163-5. Ritchie, I. 33-6. Murdoch, II, 61-4. Fox, pp. 167-9.

      Robert Henryson, Ane Prayer for the Rest ('O eterne god, of power infinyt') | Catalogue
    • HnR 1 Vol. I, pp. 30-2

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Ritchie and in Fox. Collated in Wood.

      Wood, pp. 195-6. Ritchie, I, 50-2. Fox, pp. 156-8.

      Robert Henryson, The Abbay Walk ('Allone as I went up and doun') | Catalogue
    • HnR 21 Vol. I, pp. 42-3

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Mr robert Henrysone.

      Edited from this MS in Ritchie and in Fox. Collated in Wood.

      Wood, pp. 179-80. Ritchie, I, 68-71. Murdoch, II, 149-52. Craigie, I, 200-2. Stevenson, pp. 22-3. Fox, pp. 170-3.

      Robert Henryson, The Ressoning betuix Aige and Yowth ('Quhen fair flora, the godes of the flowris') | Catalogue
    • HnR 25 Vol. I, pp. 43-4

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Mr R Herisone.

      Edited from this MS in Ritchie and in Fox. Collated in Wood.

      Wood, pp. 211-12. Ritchie, I, 71-3. Murdoch, II, 153-5. Fox, pp. 173-5.

      Robert Henryson, The Ressoning betuix Deth and Man ('O mortall man, behold, tak tent to me') | Catalogue
    • HnR 16 Vol. I, p. 44

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Ritchie and in Fox. Collated in Wood.

      First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Wood, pp. 185-6. Ritchie, I, 73-4. Fox, pp. 165-7.

      Robert Henryson, The Prais of Aige ('Wythin a garth, under a rede rosere') | Catalogue
    • DuW 100 Vol. I, pp. 45-6

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Ritchie, I, 76-7.

      Mackenzie, No. 14, pp. 31-3. Murdoch, II, 165-7. Ritchie, II, 150-2. Bawcutt, I, 142-3.

      William Dunbar, Of Discretioun in Asking ('Off very asking followis nocht') | Catalogue
    • DuW 104 Vol. I, p. 46

      Copy of lines 1-33, imperfect, lacking the ending.

      Edited from this MS in Ritchie, I, 77-8; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 15, pp. 33-4. Murdoch, II, 167-9. Ritchie, II, 152-4. Bawcutt, I, 144-6.

      William Dunbar, Of Discretioun in Geving ('To Speik of gift or almous deidis') | Catalogue
    • DuW 111 Vol. I, p. 47

      Copy, imperfect at the beginning.

      Edited from this MS in Ritchie, I, 78-9.

      Mackenzie, No. 23, pp. 48-9. Murdoch, II, 180-1. Ritchie, II, 163-4. Bawcutt, I, 75-6.

      William Dunbar, Of Folkis Evill to Pleis ('Four Maner of folkis ar evill to pleis') | Catalogue
    • DuW 53 Vol. I, pp. 47-8

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p D.

      Edited from this MS in Ritchie, I, 79-82, and in Bawcutt.

      Of doubtful authorship. Mackenzie, No. 77, pp. 151-3. Murdoch, II, 162-5. Ritchie, II, 147-50. Bawcutt, I, 71-4.

      William Dunbar, A General Satyre ('Doverrit with dreme, devysing in my slummer') | Catalogue
    • DuW 42 Vol. I, pp. 53-4

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p dubar for Donald ovre epetaphe.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Ritchie, with a facsimile of p. 53; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 36, pp. 65-6. Ritchie, I, 87-8. Bawcutt, I, 111-12.

      William Dunbar, Epetaphe for Donald Owre ('In vice most vicius he excellis') | Catalogue
    • DuW 156 Vol. I, ff. 17v-19v (pp. 94-8)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

      Mackenzie, No. 83, pp. 163-7. Murdoch, II, 43-8. Ritchie, II, 42-7. Bawcutt, I, 267-73.

      William Dunbar, The Tabill of Confession ('To The, O mercifull Salviour, Jesus') | Catalogue
    • HnR 20 Vol. I, ff. 24r-5v (pp. 107-10)

      Copy, subscribed ffinis [p Henrysone in a different hand].

      Edited from this MS in Wood; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Fox.

      Wood, pp. 163-5. Ritchie, I. 33-6. Murdoch, II, 61-4. Fox, pp. 167-9.

      Robert Henryson, Ane Prayer for the Rest ('O eterne god, of power infinyt') | Catalogue
    • DuW 127 Vol. I, f. 27r-v (pp. 113-14)

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 79, pp. 154-5. Murdoch, II, 69-70. Ritchie, II, 65-6. Bawcutt, I, 182-3.

      William Dunbar, Of the Nativitie of Christ ('Rorate celi desuper!') | Catalogue
    • DuW 137 Vol. I, f. 35r (p. 129)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dunbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 81, pp. 159-60. Murdoch, II, 94-6. Ritchie, II, 88-9. Bawcutt, I, 69-70.

      William Dunbar, On the Resurrection of Christ ('Done is a battel on the dragon blak') | Catalogue
    • HnR 2 Vol. I, ff. 46v-7r (pp. 152-3)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p mr rot Henrysone.

      Edited from this MS in Wood; in Murdoch, II, 125-7, and in Ritchie, II. 116-17.

      Wood, pp. 195-6. Ritchie, I, 50-2. Fox, pp. 156-8.

      Robert Henryson, The Abbay Walk ('Allone as I went up and doun') | Catalogue
    • DuW 117 Vol. I, f. 47r-v (pp. 153-4)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 74, pp. 149-50. Murdoch, II, 127-9. Ritchie, II, 117-19. Bawcutt, I, 120-1.

      William Dunbar, Of Manis Mortalitie ('Memento, homo, quod cinis es!') | Catalogue
    • DuW 6 Vol. I, f. 48v (p. 156)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 71, pp. 145-6. Murdoch, II, 131-2. Ritchie, II, 121-2. Bawcutt, I, 159-60.

      William Dunbar, All Erdly Joy Returnis in Pane ('Off lentren in the first mornyng') | Catalogue
    • HnR 22 Vol. I, ff. 55r-6r (pp. 169-71)

      Copy, subscribed ffinis p mr Robert Hendsone.

      Edited from this MS in Wood; in Murdoch; in Ritchie, II, 137-9; and in Fox.

      Wood, pp. 179-80. Ritchie, I, 68-71. Murdoch, II, 149-52. Craigie, I, 200-2. Stevenson, pp. 22-3. Fox, pp. 170-3.

      Robert Henryson, The Ressoning betuix Aige and Yowth ('Quhen fair flora, the godes of the flowris') | Catalogue
    • HnR 26 Vol. I, ff. 56r-7r (pp. 171-3)

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Wood; in Murdoch; in Ritchie, II, 139-41; and in Fox.

      Wood, pp. 211-12. Ritchie, I, 71-3. Murdoch, II, 153-5. Fox, pp. 173-5.

      Robert Henryson, The Ressoning betuix Deth and Man ('O mortall man, behold, tak tent to me') | Catalogue
    • HnR 17 Vol. I, f. 57r-v (pp. 173-4)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Hendersone.

      Edited from this MS in Murdoch, II, 155-6; Ritchie, II, 141-2; collated in Wood.

      First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Wood, pp. 185-6. Ritchie, I, 73-4. Fox, pp. 165-7.

      Robert Henryson, The Prais of Aige ('Wythin a garth, under a rede rosere') | Catalogue
    • HnR 32 Vol. I, ff. 57v-8v (pp. 174-8)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p patk Johnstoun.

      Edited from this MS in Wood; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Fox.

      Wood, pp. 205-7. Murdoch, II, 157-9. Ritchie, II, 142-4. Craigie, I, 394-5. Fox, pp. 182-4.

      Robert Henryson, The Thre Deid Pollis ('O sinfull man, in to this mortall se') | Catalogue
    • DuW 190 Vol. I, f. 59r-v (pp. 179-80)

      Copy, untitled, headed ffollowis certane ballattis againe the Vyce in sessioun court and all estaitis, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, No. 43, pp. 79-80. Murdoch, II, 160-2. Ritchie, II, 145-7. Bawcutt, I, 39-40.

      William Dunbar, Tydingis fra the Sessioun ('Ane murlandis man of uplandis mak') | Catalogue
    • DuW 52 Vol. I, ff. 60r-1r (pp. 181-3)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

      Of doubtful authorship. Mackenzie, No. 77, pp. 151-3. Murdoch, II, 162-5. Ritchie, II, 147-50. Bawcutt, I, 71-4.

      William Dunbar, A General Satyre ('Doverrit with dreme, devysing in my slummer') | Catalogue
    • DuW 99 Vol. I, f. 61r-v (pp. 183-4)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis of asking.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 14, pp. 31-3. Murdoch, II, 165-7. Ritchie, II, 150-2. Bawcutt, I, 142-3.

      William Dunbar, Of Discretioun in Asking ('Off very asking followis nocht') | Catalogue
    • DuW 103 Vol. I, ff. 61v-2v (pp. 184-6)

      Copy, headed ffollowis discretoun of geving.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

      Mackenzie, No. 15, pp. 33-4. Murdoch, II, 167-9. Ritchie, II, 152-4. Bawcutt, I, 144-6.

      William Dunbar, Of Discretioun in Geving ('To Speik of gift or almous deidis') | Catalogue
    • DuW 107 Vol. I, ff. 62v-3r (pp. 186-7)

      Copy, headed ffollowis Discretioun in taking, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 16, pp. 35-6. Murdoch, II, 170-1. Ritchie, II, 154-5. Bawcutt, I, 147-8.

      William Dunbar, Of Discretioun in Taking ('Eftir Geving I speik of taking') | Catalogue
    • DuW 96 Vol. I, ff. 63v-4r (pp. 188-9)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

      Of doubtful authorship. Mackenzie, No. 8, pp. 23-4. Murdoch, II, 171-3. Ritchie, II, 156-7. Bawcutt, I, 122-4.

      William Dunbar, Of Deming ('Musing allone this hinder nicht') | Catalogue
    • DuW 93 Vol. I, ff. 64v-5r (pp. 190-1)

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 67, pp. 141-2. Murdoch, II, 175-6. Ritchie, II, 159-60. Bawcutt, I, 77-8.

      William Dunbar, Of Covetyce ('Fredome, honour, and nobilnes') | Catalogue
    • DuW 62 Vol. I, ff. 65v-6v (pp. 192-4)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 203.

      Mackenzie, No. 9, pp. 24-6. Murdoch, II, 178-80; Ritchie, II, 162-3. Bawcutt, I, 87-8.

      William Dunbar, How Sall I Governe Me? ('How sould I rewill me or in quhat wys') | Catalogue
    • DuW 110 Vol. I, f. 66v (p. 194)

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 208. Collated in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 23, pp. 48-9. Murdoch, II, 180-1. Ritchie, II, 163-4. Bawcutt, I, 75-6.

      William Dunbar, Of Folkis Evill to Pleis ('Four Maner of folkis ar evill to pleis') | Catalogue
    • HnR 5 ff. Vol. I, 67v-8r (pp. 196-7)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p mr Robert Hendersone.

      Edited from this MS in Wood, in Murdoch, in Ritchie, and in Fox.

      Wood, pp. 215-16. Murdoch, II, 182-4. Ritchie, II, 165-7. Fox, pp. 163-5.

      Robert Henryson, Aganis Haisty Credence of Titlaris ('Ffals titlaris now growis up full rank') | Catalogue
    • DuW 149 Vol. I, ff. 68r-9r (pp. 197-9)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 41, pp. 75-6. Murdoch, II, 184-6. Ritchie, II, 167-9. Bawcutt, I, 264-5.

      William Dunbar, Rewl of Anis Self ('To dwell in court, my freind, gife that thow list') | Catalogue
    • DuW 116.5 Vol. I, f. 75v (p. 212)

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 76, p. 151. Craigie, I, 350. Bawcutt, I, 162.

      William Dunbar, Of Lyfe ('Quhat is this lyfe bot ane straucht way to deid') | Catalogue
    • HnR 35 Vol. I, f. 78r-v (pp. 217-18)

      Copy, untitled, here beginning Me mervellis of this grit Confusioun.

      Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Collated in Wood.

      First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Wood, pp. 189-91. Murdoch, II, 213-15. Ritchie, II, 195-7.

      Robert Henryson, The Want of Wyse Men ('Me ferlyis of this grete confusioun') | Catalogue
    • DuW 166 Vol. I, ff. 78v-9r (pp. 218-19)

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

      Mackenzie, No. 92, pp. 181-2. Murdoch, II, 215-16. Ritchie, II, 197-9.

      William Dunbar, To the Gouvernour in France ('We lordis hes chosin a chiftane mervellus') | Catalogue
    • SkJ 15 Vol. I, ff. 82r-3r (pp. 225-7)

      Copy of the poem as stanzas 6 and 9-11 of an untitled thirteen-stanza poem beginning O god that in tyme all thingis did begin.

      Edited from this MS in The Bannatyne Manuscript, ed. J. Barclay Murdoch, II, Hunterian Club (Glasgow, 1896), 227-30; The Bannatyne Manuscript, ed. W. Tod Ritchie, II, STS NS 22 (Edinburgh & London, 1928), 208-11; recorded in Canon.

      Canon, D52, p. 16. First published in Certaine bokes copyled by mayster Skelto (London, c.1545). Dyce, I, 137-8.

      John Skelton, How euery thing must haue a tyme ('Tyme is a thing that no man may resyst') | Catalogue
    • DuW 84 Vol. I, ff. 84r-5r (pp. 229-31)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie, with a facsimile of f. 84v. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 207, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 21, pp. 44-6. Edited from this MS in Murdoch, II, 234-6. Ritchie, II, 215-17 (with a facsimile of f. 84v). Bawcutt, I, 171-3.

      William Dunbar, None May Assure in this Warld ('Quhom to sall I compleine my wo') | Catalogue
    • DuW 171 Vol. I, ff. 94v-5v (pp. 250-2)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 206-7.

      Mackenzie, No. 20, pp. 41-3. Murdoch, II, 271-4. Ritchie, II, 251-4. Bawcutt, I, 225-8.

      William Dunbar, To the King ('Schir, yit remembir as of befoir') | Catalogue
    • DuW 82 Vol. I, ff. 97v-8v (pp. 256-8)

      Copy, headed Hermes the Philosopher p dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 73, pp. 148-9. Murdoch, II, 279-80. Ritchie, II, 259-60. Bawcutt, I, 61-2.

      William Dunbar, No Tressour Availis without Glaidnes ('Be mirry, man! and tak nocht far in mynd') | Catalogue
    • DuW 14 Vol. I, f. 98v (p. 258)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dunbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 69, pp. 143-4. Murdoch, II, 281-2. Ritchie, II, 260-1. Bawcutt, I, 79-80.

      William Dunbar, Best to be Blyth ('Full oft I mus and hes in thocht') | Catalogue
    • DuW 35 Vol. I, ff. 102r-3v (pp. 265-8)

      Copy, headed The dregy of dubar maid to King James ye fyrst being in stumbling, subscribed Heir endis dubaris dergy to the king bydand to lang in Stirling.

      Edited from this in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

      Mackenzie, No. 30, pp. 56-9. Murdoch, II, 292-6. Ritchie, II, 271-5. Bawcutt, I, 274-7, as Dumbaris Dirige to the King.

      William Dunbar, The Dregy of Dunbar ('We that ar heir in hevins glory') | Catalogue
    • DuW 67 Vol. I, ff. 103v-4 (pp. 268-9)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p S Clerk.

      Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 208-9, and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 28, pp. 53-5. Murdoch, II, 296-8. Ritchie, II, 275-7. Bawcutt, I, 106-8.

      William Dunbar, 'In secreit place this hyndir nycht' | Catalogue
    • DuW 71 Vol. I, ff. 109r-10r (pp. 277-9)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 202-3, and in Bawcutt.

      First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 7, pp. 20-3. Murdoch, II. 308-11. Ritchie, II, 287-91. Bawcutt, I, 94-7.

      William Dunbar, Lament for the Makaris ('I that in heill wes and gladnes') | Catalogue
    • DuW 27 Vol. I, ff. 110r-11r (pp. 279-81)

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 57, pp. 120-3. Murdoch, II, 312-15. Ritchie, II, 291-4. Bawcutt, I, 149-56.

      William Dunbar, The Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis ('Off Februar the fyistene nycht') | Catalogue
    • DuW 153 Vol. I, ff. 111r-12v (pp. 281-4)

      Copy, headed The Turnament, subscribed Heir endes the...maid be the nobill poyet mr Wm Dunnbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

      Mackenzie, No. 58, pp. 123-6. Murdoch, II, 316-19. Ritchie, II, 295-8.

      William Dunbar, The Sowtar and Tailyouris War ('Nixt that a turnament wes tryid') | Catalogue
    • DuW 8 Vol. I, ff. 112v-13r (pp. 284-5)

      Copy, headed ffollowis ye amedes mad be him to ye telyeres & sowtaris for the twrnment maid yn thame, subscribed p Dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 59, pp. 126-7. Murdoch, II, 319-21. Ritchie, II, 298-300. Bawcutt, I, 157-8.

      William Dunbar, The Amendis to the Telyouris and Sowtaris for the Turnament Maid on Thame ('Betuix twell houris and ellevin') | Catalogue
    • DuW 170 Vol. I, ff. 113v-14r (pp. 286-7)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dumbar to ye King.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 1, p. 1-2. Murdoch, II, 322-4. Ritchie, II, 301-2. Bawcutt, I, 194-5.

      William Dunbar, To the King ('Sanct Salvatour! send silver sorrow') | Catalogue
    • DuW 59 Vol. I, f. 115r-v (pp. 289-90)

      Copy, headed ffollowis how Dubar wes desyre to be ane freir and subscribed p Dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 4, pp. 3-4. Murdoch, II, 327-8. Ritchie, II, 306-7. Bawcutt, I, 248-9.

      William Dunbar, How Dumbar wes Desyrd to be Ane Freir ('This nycht, befoir the dawing cleir') | Catalogue
    • DuW 15 Vol. I, f. 115v (p. 290)

      Copy of lines 1-9, untitled, deleted.

      Edited from this MS in Murdoch, II, 329, and in Ritchie, II, 308.

      Mackenzie, No. 69, pp. 143-4. Murdoch, II, 281-2. Ritchie, II, 260-1. Bawcutt, I, 79-80.

      William Dunbar, Best to be Blyth ('Full oft I mus and hes in thocht') | Catalogue
    • DuW 10 Vol. I, ff. 115v-16 (pp. 290-1)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 2, pp. 2-3. Murdoch, II, 329-30. Ritchie, II, 308-9. Bawcutt, p. 86.

      William Dunbar, Ane His Awin Ennemy ('He that hes gold and grit riches') | Catalogue
    • DuW 194 Vol. I, f. 116r-v (pp. 291-2)

      Copy, headed follows ye wowing of the king quhen he wes in Dufermeling, subscribed p Dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 27, pp. 51-3. Murdoch, II, 330-3. Ritchie, II, 309-11. Bawcutt, I, 245-7.

      William Dunbar, The Wowing of the King quhen he was in Dumfermeling ('This hindir nycht in Dumfermeling') | Catalogue
    • DuW 45 Vol. I, ff. 117r-18v (pp. 293-6)

      Copy, headed Ane ballat of the fenyeit freir of tungland how he fell in the myre Ileand to turberland, subscribed finis p Dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 38, pp. 67-70. Murdoch, II, 333-7. Ritchie, II, 311-15. Bawcutt, I, 56-9.

      William Dunbar, The Fenyeit Freir of Tungland ('As yung Awrora, with cristall haile') | Catalogue
    • DuW 73 Vol. I, ff. 118v-20r (pp. 296-9)

      Copy, headed Ane Littill Interlud of ye Droichis pt of ye [play], subscribed ffinis off ye droichis pt of ye play.

      Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in . Ritchie. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 228-30.

      Mackenzie, No. 86, pp. 170-4. Murdoch, II, 337-41. Ritchie, II, 315-20.

      William Dunbar, The Manere of the Crying of ane Playe ('Harry, harry, hobbillschowe!') | Catalogue
    • DuW 31 Vol. I, ff. 132v-3r (pp. 324-5)

      Copy of a 17-stanza version, untitled, subscribed p Dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

      Mackenzie, No. 42, p. 76-9 (see pp. 238-9). Murdoch, III, 372-5. Ritchie, III, 1-4. Bawcutt, I, 250-7.

      William Dunbar, The Devillis Inquest ('This nycht in my sleip I wes agast') | Catalogue
    • DuW 20 Vol. I, ff. 133r-4r (pp. 325-7)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 39, pp. 70-1. Murdoch, III, 375-7. Ritchie, III, 4-5. Bawcutt, I, 114-15.

      William Dunbar, The Birth of Antichrist ('Lucina schynnyng in silence of the nicht') | Catalogue
    • DuW 12 Vol. I, ff. 135v-6r (pp. 330-1)

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 227-8.

      First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 85, pp. 169-70. Murdoch, III, 382-3. Ritchie, III, 10-11.

      William Dunbar, The Ballad of Kynd Kittok ('My gudame wes a gay wif, bot scho wes ryght gend') | Catalogue
    • DuW 1 Vol. I, f. 136r-v (pp. 331-2)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed p dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 72, pp. 147-8. Murdoch, III, 383-4; Ritchie, III, 11-13; Bawcutt, I, 118-19.

      William Dunbar, Advice to Spend anis Awin Gude ('Man, sen thy lyfe is ay in weir') | Catalogue
    • DuW 186 Vol. I, f. 137r (p. 333)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and n Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 46, p. 84. Murdoch, III, 386-7. Ritchie, III, 14-15. Bawcutt, I, 180-1.

      William Dunbar, The Twa Cummeris ('Rycht airlie on Ask Weddinsday') | Catalogue
    • HnR 28 Vol. I, ff. 141v-2v (pp. 342-4)

      Copy, subscribed p Mr Rot Henrysone.

      Edited from this MS in Wood; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Fox.

      Wood, pp. 157-60. Murdoch, III, 401-4. Ritchie, III, 28-31. Fox, pp. 179-82.

      Robert Henryson, Sum Practysis of Medecyne ('Guk, guk, gud day, ser, gaip quhill ye get it') | Catalogue
    • DuW 47 Vol. I, ff. 147r-54r (pp. 353-61)

      Copy of lines 1-315.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

      First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 6, pp. 5-20. Murdoch, III. 420-37. Ritchie, III, 44-62. Bawcutt, I, 200-18.

      William Dunbar, The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie ('Schir Johine the Ros, ane thing thair is compild') | Catalogue
    • DuW 160 Vol. I, ff. 154r-5v (pp. 367-70)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed so Heir endis the tesment of mr andreo Keinnedy Maid be Dumbar quhen he ews lyk to dy.

      Edited from this MS in Murdoch and in Ritchie. The text corrected from this MS in Mackenzie, p. 213, and in Bawcutt.

      First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 40, pp. 71-4. Murdoch, III, 438-41. Ritchie, III, 62-6. Bawcutt, I, 89-92.

      William Dunbar, The Testament of Mr. Andro Kennedy ('I, Maister Andro Kennedy') | Catalogue
    • HyJ 3 Vol. I, ff. 159r-v, 161r-v, 177r (pp. 377-8, 381-2, 413)

      Copy of eight epigrams, headed Epigramis of mr Haywood, comprising First Hundred, Nos 11, 25, 38, 39, 42; Fifth Hundred, No. 2; and Sixth Hundred, Nos 96, 100; also a deleted copy of a ninth epigram (Sixth Hundred, No. 98), written in the middle of a copy of Sir David Lindsay's Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis.

      A sixt hundred of Epigrammes first published in Woorkes (London, 1562); Milligan, pp. 225-48. Edited from this MS in The Bannatyne Manuscript, ed. J. Barclay Murdoch, Hunterian Club (Glasgow, 1896), III, 450-2, 456-7; IV, 1079; The Bannatyne Manuscript, ed. W. Tod Ritchie, III, STS NS 23 (Edinburgh & London, 1928), 74-6, 79-81, 130.

      First published London, 1550-60. First collected in Woorkes (London, 1562). Milligan, pp. 103-224.

    • LiD 4 Vol. I, f. 162r-v (pp. 383-4)

      Copy, subscribed ffinis [p Lindsay in a different hand].

      Edited from this MS in Ramsay and in Hamer.

      First published in Allan Ramsay, The Ever Green (Edinburgh, 1724), II, 219-22. Hamer, I, 389-92.

      Sir David Lindsay, Ane Descriptioun of Peder Coffeis having na Ragaird till honestie in thair vocatioun ('It is my purpoiss to discryve') | Catalogue
    • LiD 10 Vol. II, ff. 164r-210r (pp. 387-479)

      Extracts, headed Heir begynis the Ploenuratrony of the play, maid be Dauid Lynsayis, of the month Knicht in the Playfeild in the moneth of [space] the yeir of god 155 yeryis, comprising seven long passages (called Interludes), here beginning Richt famous pepill ye sall vnderstand..., in an irregular order, together with the prefatory banns, from a version performed on the Castle Hill, Cupar, Fifeshire, on 7 June 1552.

      Edited from this MS (Hamer's Version II), in a parallel text with the 1602 edition, in Hamer, Vol. II; ed. James Kinsley (London, 1954). Also edited from this MS in The Bannatyne Manuscript, Hunterian Club (Glasgow, 1896), iii, 463-597; The Bannatyne Manuscript, ed. W. Tod Ritchie, III, STS NS 23 (1928), 87-238. Discussed in J. Derrick McClure, A Comparison of the Bannatyne MS and the Quarto Texts of Lyndsay's Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, Scottish Studies, 4 (Frankfurt am Main, 1986), 409-22. Facsimile of f. 168r in The British Inheritance: A Treasury of Historic Documents, ed. Elizabeth Hallam and Andrew Prescott (London, 1999), p. 30.

      First published (in Hamer's Version III) in Edinburgh, 1602. Edited by James Kinsley (London, 1954).

      The different versions of the play discussed in Anna J. Mill, Representations of Lyndsay's Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, PMLA, 47. i (1932), 636-51, with corrigenda in PMLA, 48 (1933), 315-16; in Raymond A. Houk, Versions of Lindsay's Satire of the Three Estates, PMLA, 55. i (1940), 396-405; in John MacQueen, Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, SSL, 3 (1965-6), 129-43; and in Anna Jean Mill, The Original Version of Lindsay's Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, SSL, 6 (1968-9), 67-75.

      Sir David Lindsay, Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis | Catalogue
    • DuW 58 Vol. II, f. 212v (p. 484)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 68, pp. 142-3. Murdoch, III, 602-3. Ritchie, III, 244-5. Bawcutt, p. 63.

      William Dunbar, Gude Counsale ('Be ye ane luvar, think ye nocht ye suld') | Catalogue
    • DuW 18 Vol. II, ff. 214r-15r (pp. 487-9)

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 54, pp. 104-7. Murdoch, III, 607-10. Ritchie, III, 249-52. Bawcutt, I, 229-32.

      William Dunbar, Bewty and the Presoneir ('Sen that I am a presoneir') | Catalogue
    • HnR 9 Vol. II, f. 215r-v

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis of ye garmet of gud ladeis p Mr rot Herysown.

      Edited from this MS in Wood; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Fox.

      Wood, pp. 169-70. Murdoch, III, 611-12. Ritchie, III, 252-4. Fox, pp. 162-5.

      Robert Henryson, The Garment of Gud Ladeis ('Wald my gud lady lufe me best') | Catalogue
    • DuW 180 Vol. II, f. 238v (p. 532)

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

      Mackenzie, No. 91, pp. 180-1. Murdoch, III, 689-91. Ritchie, III, 323-4.

      William Dunbar, To the Queen Dowager ('O lusty flour of yowth, benying and bricht') | Catalogue
    • WyT 124 Vol. II, f. 250r-v (pp. 555-6)

      Copy of an untitled version.

      Edited from this MS in The Bannatyne Manuscript, ed. J. Barclay Murdoch, Hunterian Club (Glasgow, 1896), III, 731-2; in The Bannatyne Manuscript, ed. W. Tod Ritchie, STS NS 26 (Edinburgh & London, 1930), pp. 2-3; and in H.A. Mason I am as I am, RES, NS 23 (1972), 304-8.

      Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 148-50.

      Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'I am as I am and so wil I be' | Catalogue
    • DuW 124 Vol. II, f. 261r-v (p. 577)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie. Collated in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 48, pp. 97-8. Murdoch, IV, 762-3. Ritchie, IV, 30-1. Bawcutt, I, 238-9.

      William Dunbar, Of the Ladys Solistaris at Court ('Thir ladyis fair, That makis repair') | Catalogue
    • DuW 65 Vol. II, f. 278v (p. 612)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed p Dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, No. 45, pp. 83-4. Murdoch, IV, 809-10. Ritchie, IV, 75-6. Bawcutt, I, 135.

      William Dunbar, In Prais of Wemen ('Now of wemen this I say for me') | Catalogue
    • DuW 70 Vol. II, f. 281r (p. 617)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 51, pp. 100-1. Murdoch, IV, 816. Ritchie, IV, 81-2. Bawcutt, I, 161.

      William Dunbar, Inconstancy of Luve ('Quha will behald of luve the chance') | Catalogue
    • DuW 79 Vol. II, ff. 283r-4v (pp. 621-4)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 63, pp. 134-7. Murdoch, IV, 822-6. Ritchie, IV, 87-91. Bawcutt, I, 101-5.

      William Dunbar, The Merle and the Nychtingaill ('In May as that Aurora did upspring') | Catalogue
    • DuW 115 Vol. II, ff. 284v-5v (pp. 624-6)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis p Dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt.

      Mackenzie, No. 52, pp. 101-4. Murdoch, IV, 826-9. Ritchie, IV, 91-4. Bawcutt, I, 130-2.

      William Dunbar, Of Luve Erdly and Divine ('Now culit is Dame Venus brand') | Catalogue
    • DoG 9 Vol. II, ff. 291r-4v (pp. 637-44), Vol. I, ff. 45r-v, 9-11 (pp. 149-50, 77-82)

      Copy of the Prologue of Book IV, the Prologue of Book IX (lines 1-18), and the Prologue of Book X, transcribed from the edition of 1553 and corrected from another source.

      Edited from this MS in the Bannatyne Manuscript ed. J. Barclay Murdoch, Hunterian Club (Glasgow, 1896), IV, 844-53; II, 122-3, 21-7; and in The Bannatyne Manuscript, ed. W. Tod Ritchie, STS 3rd Ser. 5, 22, 23, 26 (1928-33), IV, 108-16; II, 113, 20-6; recorded in Coldwell, I, 101.

      First published, as The xiii Bukes of Eneados of the famose Poete Virgill, London, 1553. Edited, as Virgil's ร†neid Translated into Scottish Verse by Gavin Douglas, by David F.C. Coldwell, 4 vols, STS 3rd Ser. 30, 25, 27, 28 (Edinburgh & London, 1957-64).

      Gavin Douglas, Virgil's Aeneid ('Lawd, honour, praysyngis, thankis infynyte') | Catalogue
    • HnR 11 Vol. II, ff. 298r-302r, 310v-17v, 326v-42v (pp. 645-53, 670-84, 702-34)

      Copy of ten fables.

      Edited from this MS in Murdoch; in Fox; and in Ritchie, with a facsimile of f. 301v facing p. 123. Collated in Wood.

      First published in Edinburgh, 1570. Wood, pp. Murdoch, IV, 855-66, 898-922, 946-88. Ritchie, IV, 116-28, 158-82, 206-451-102. Fox, pp. 3-110.

      Robert Henryson, The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian ('Thocht feinyeit fabils of ald poetre') | Catalogue
    • HnR 14 Vol. II, ff. 317v-25r (pp. 684-99)

      Copy of a 633-line version, subscribed Finis p mr R H.

      Edited from this MS in Wood; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Fox.

      First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Wood, pp. 129-48. Murdoch, IV, 922-42. Ritchie, IV, 182-201. Fox, pp. 132-53.

      Robert Henryson, Orpheus and Eurydice ('The nobilnes and grit magnificens') | Catalogue
    • HnR 8 Vol. II, ff. 325r-6v (pp. 699-702)

      Copy, subscribed ffinis p Mr R Henrici.

      Edited from this MS in Wood; in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Fox.

      Wood, pp. 173-6. Murdoch, IV, 942-6. Ritchie, IV, 202-5. Fox, pp. 158-62.

      Robert Henryson, The Bludy Serk ('This hindir yeir I hard be tald') | Catalogue
    • DuW 163 Vol. II, ff. 342v-5 r(pp. 734-9)

      Copy, subscribed Explicit p Dumbar.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; in Ritchie.

      Mackenzie, No. 55, pp. 107-12. Murdoch, IV, 988-94. Ritchie, IV, 246-52. Bawcutt, I, 163-8.

      William Dunbar, The Thrissil and the Rois ('Quhen Merche wes with variand windis past') | Catalogue
    • DuW 56 Vol. II, ff. 345r-8v (pp. 739-46)

      Copy, headed followis the goldin terge, subscribed Explicit p Dumbar of the goldin terge.

      Edited from this MS in Murdoch; in Ritchie; and in Bawcutt. Recorded in Mackenzie, pp. 218-19. Facsimile of f. 345 in Small, I, at the end.

      First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 56, pp. 112-19. Murdoch, IV, 995-1003. Ritchie, IV, 252-61. Bawcutt, I, 184-92.

      William Dunbar, The Goldyn Targe ('Ryght as the stern of day begouth to schyne') | Catalogue
    • DuW 50 Vol. II, ff. 348v-54v (pp. 746-58)

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Murdoch; and in Ritchie.

      Of doubtful authorship. Mackenzie, No. 93, pp. 182-95. Murdoch, IV, 1004-20. Ritchie, IV, 261-77.

      William Dunbar, The Freiris of Berwick ('At Tweidis mowth thair standis a nobill toun') | Catalogue
    • HnR 27 Vol. II, ff. 365r-6v (pp. 779-82)

      Copy, untitled, subscribed p mr robert Henrysone.

      Edited from this MS in Wood; in Murdoch; in Ritchie, III, 28-31; and in Fox.

      Wood, pp. 151-4. Murdoch, IV, 1050-4. Ritchie, IV, 308-12. Fox, pp. 175-9.

      Robert Henryson, Robene and Makyne ('Robene sat on gud grene hill') | Catalogue

  • Adv. MS 5.2.11

    An oblong duodecimo book of chiefly vocal music, in at least three hands, one rounded hand predominating, 33 leaves, in old calf (rebacked).

    Mid-late 17th century.

    Inscriptions including (f. 1v) Janet Glesone; (ff. 2r and 33v) Heline ffergusone; (f. 5v) Andrew Gardner Est Hujus Liber Anno domini; (f. 9v) John Patsen; and (f. 32r) John Watson. Purchased at the sale of the books of David Constable in 1828, lot 2905.

    • HeR 243 ff. 30r, 31r

      Copy in a musical setting by William Lawes, in an italic hand, untitled.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 84. Patrick, pp. 117-18. Musical setting by William Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

      Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to make much of Time ('Gather ye Rose-budd while ye may') | Catalogue

  • Adv. MS 5.2.14

    An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics in two or more secretary and italic hands, iv + 43 leaves, in modern quarter-calf.

    Inscribed (f. 31r) MAY 1639 and Williane Stirling. A long note (f. iir) in the hand of John Leyden (1775-1811), linguist and poet, dated 5 March 1800, recording his purchase of the MS in 1788 from the library of the Rev. Mr Cranstow, minister of Ancrum; his lending it to Alexander Campbell in 1795 and retrieving it in December 1799; and his now consigning it to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector.

    c.1639.

    A complete facsimile of this volume is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 11 (New York & London, 1987).

    • CmT 13 f. 4v

      Copy of a four-strophe version, in a musical setting, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), p. 14. Collated in Davis, p. 491, and in Doughtie, p. 503.

      First published (first strophe) among sundry other rare Sonnets of diuerse Noble men and Gentlemen appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). Robert Jones, Second Booke of Songs and Ayres (London, 1601). Davis, p. 9. Doughtie, p. 151.

      Thomas Campion, Canto Tertio ('My Love bound me with a kisse') | Catalogue
    • CmT 196 f. 5r

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), p. 75. Collated in Davis, p. 508, and in Doughtie, p. 527.

      First published in Robert Jones, Ultimum Vale (London, 1605). Davis, p. 477. Doughtie, pp. 205-6.

      Thomas Campion, 'Do not, O do not prize thy beauty at too high a rate' | Catalogue
    • CmT 105 f. 6r

      Copy, in a musical setting, no title.

      Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), p. 77. Collated in Davis, p. 494.

      First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xiii. Davis, p. 102.

      Thomas Campion, 'There is none, O none but you' | Catalogue
    • CmT 147 f. 7r

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), p. 78. Collated in Davis, p. 494.

      First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. i. Davis, p. 85.

      Thomas Campion, 'Vaine man, whose follies make a God of Love' | Catalogue
    • CmT 174 f. 8v

      Copy of a six-strophe version, in a musical setting, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), pp. 80-1. Collated and the sixth strophe edited in Davis, p. 499.

      First published in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. ix. Davis, p. 177. Doughtie, p. 295.

      Thomas Campion, 'Young and simple though I am' | Catalogue
    • WoH 115 f. 10r

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled and here beginning Youe twinkling stars that in the night.

      Edited from this MS in Nelly Diem, Beitrรคge zur Geschichte der Schottischen Musik im XVII. Jahrhundert (Zรผrich & Leipzig, 1919), pp. 83-4.

      First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, You Meaner Beauties of the Night A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

      Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ('You meaner beauties of the night') | Catalogue
    • CmT 151 f. 10v

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), p. 84. Collated in Davis, p. 497.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xiv. Davis, p. 149.

      Thomas Campion, 'What is it that all men possesse, among themselves conversing?' | Catalogue
    • CmT 159 f. 11r

      Copy in a musical setting.

      Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), p. 85. Collated in Davis, p. 496.

      First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book I, No. iii. Davis, p. 61.

      Thomas Campion, 'Where are all thy beauties now, all harts enchayning?' | Catalogue
    • BrN 5 f. 13r

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Nelly Diem, Beitrรคge zur Geschichte der Schottischen Musik im XVII. Jahrhundert (Zรผrich & Leipzig, 1919), pp. 88-9.

      First published in John Bartlet, A Booke of Ayres (London, 1606), No. 7. Grosart, I (t), p. 22. Authorship unknown.

      Nicholas Breton, 'All my witte hath will enwrappรจd' | Catalogue
    • CmT 58 f. 14r

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), pp. 89-90. Collated in Davis, p. 496.

      First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xi. Davis, p. 146.

      Thomas Campion, 'If Love loves truth, then women doe not love' | Catalogue
    • WiG 11 ff. 17v-18r

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled and here beginning Sall I wrastling in despair.

      Edited from this MS in Nelly Diem, Beitrรคge zur Geschichte der Schottischen Musik im XVII. Jahrhundert (Zรผrich & Leipzig, 1919), pp. 95-6.

      First published in Fidelia (London, 1615). Sidgwick, I, 138-9. A version, as Sonnet 4, in Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), pp. 854-5. Sidgwick, II, 124-6.

      For the answer attributed to Ben Jonson, but perhaps by Richard Johnson, see Sidgwick, I, 145-8, and Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 439-43. MS versions of Wither's poem vary in length.

      George Wither, The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet ('Shall I wasting in despair') | Catalogue
    • ShW 39 f. 18r-v

      Copy of the Pages' song, in a musical setting by Thomas Morley, untitled.

      This setting first published in Thomas Morley, First Book of Ayres (London, 1600). Edited from this MS in Nelly Diem, Beitrรคge zur Geschichte der Schottischen Musik im XVII Jahrhundert (Zรผrich & Leipzig, 1919), p. 97. Discussed in Edmund H. Fellowes, It was a Lover and his Lass: Some Fresh Points of Criticism, MLR, 41 (1946), 202-6, and in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 496-7.

      William Shakespeare, As You Like It, V, iii, 15-38. Song ('It was a lover and his lass') | Catalogue
    • LoT 7 f. 21r-v

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled and here beginning Now I sie thy lookes wer fainzied.

      Edited from this MS in Nelly Diem, Beitrรคge zur Geschichte der Schottischen Musik im XVII. Jahrhundert (Zรผrich & Leipzig, 1919), pp. 99-100.

      First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Phillis: Honoured with Pastorall Sonnets, Elegies, and amorous delights (London, 1593). Gosse, II, (p. 58). The song-version beginning Now I see thy looks were feigned first published in Thomas Ford, Musicke of Sundrie Kindes (London, 1607).

      Thomas Lodge, An Ode ('Now I find thy lookes were fained') | Catalogue
    • NaT 7.8 f. 25v

      Copy of the song, in a musical setting.

      First published, as The Song, in Nashe's Pleasant Comedieย Summers last will and Testament (London, 1600). McKerrow, III, 264. EV 14798.

      Thomas Nashe, 'Monsieur Mingo for quaffing doth surpass' | Catalogue

  • Adv. MS 5.2.15

    An oblong octavo book of chiefly vocal music, the lyrics mostly in a single italic hand, 252 pages (including blanks), in 19th-century calf gilt.

    Inscribed, possibly by the compiler, (p. 1) Magister Johannes Skine (in a semi-court hand) and (p. 189) Mr Joannes Skeine His book: i.e. John Skene of Hallyards. Bequeathed in 1818 by Miss Elizabeth Skene of Curriehill and Hallyards.

    c.1620s-30s.
    • CmT 228 pp. 113-14

      Copy of the incipit only, in a musical setting.

      Edited from this MS in William Dauney, Ancient Scotish Melodies (Edinburgh, 1838), p. 246. Recorded in Greer, p. 307.

      Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, The Authorship of What if a Day, and its Various Versions, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, What if a Day โ€” An Examination of the Words and Music, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.

      Thomas Campion, 'What if a day, or a month, or a yeare' | Catalogue
    • NaT 14 pp. 114-15

      Copy of the incipt only, in a musical setting.

      This MS recorded (but not seen) in Doughtie (p. 481).

      First published in Poems and Sonets of sundrie other Noble men and Gentlemen appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). McKerrow, III, 396 (in poems of doubtful authorship). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 104-5.

      Thomas Nashe, Verses from Astrophel and Stella ('If flouds of teares could clense my follies past') | Catalogue

  • Adv. MS 5.2.17

    An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics in at least two secretary and italic hands, 21 leaves (plus blanks), in modern cloth.

    Mid-17th century-1704.

    Inscribed (f. 9v) Mrs Agnes Hume her book Anno Dom 1704.

    • HeR 244 f. 16r

      Copy in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Nelly Diem, Beitrรคge zur Geschichte der Schottischen Musik im XVII Jahrhundert (Zรผrich & Leipzig, 1919), p. 119.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 84. Patrick, pp. 117-18. Musical setting by William Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

      Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to make much of Time ('Gather ye Rose-budd while ye may') | Catalogue

  • Adv. MS 13.2.5

    An octavo volume of prose tracts by William Drummond of Hawthornden, in a single mixed hand, 66 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked).

    Mid-late 17th century.

  • Adv. MS 19.1.12

    A folio volume comprising two apparently independent miscellanies of poems on affairs of state, each in probably more than one professional hand, in variant styles, 199 pages, in modern cloth.

    Part I, ff. 1r-110v (poems dated 1667-83); Part II, ff. 111r-99r, on larger paper (poems dated 1680-7).

    c.1680s.

    Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Advocates MS: MaA ฮ” 8. Works by Marvell recorded and some poems collated in POAS, I.

    • DoC 133 f. 4r

      Copy, the poem here dated 1682.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written byโ€ฆGeorge, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, My Opinion ('After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory') | Catalogue
    • DoC 333 f. 10r

      Copy, headed The Dutchess of Portsmouth 1682.

      Edited from this MS (?) in Ebsworth.

      First published (in part) in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, IV (Hertford, 1883), 286. Discussed in Harris, p. 194.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Duchess of Portsmouth's Absence ('When Portsmouth did from England fly') | Catalogue
    • DrJ 43.93 ff. 38r-42r

      Copy.

      A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.

      First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

      The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that Mulgrave had by far the major hand. Recorded in Hammond & Hopkins, V, 684, in an Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition.

      John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire ('How dull and how insensible a beast') | Catalogue
    • MaA 104 ff. 42v-4v

      Copy, headed A Dialogue Between Britania and Raleigh's Ghost.

      First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).

      Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh ('Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign') | Catalogue
    • RoJ 104.42 ff. 44v-6v

      Copy.

      See Vivian de Sola Pinto in The History of Insipids: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids ('Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second') | Catalogue
    • MaA 237 ff. 48v-9r

      Copy, headed Sr Robert Viner's Statute of the King on Horsback.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

      First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.

      Andrew Marvell, The Statue in Stocks-Market ('As cities that to the fierce conquerors yield') | Catalogue
    • RoJ 353 f. 49v

      Copy, headed On King Charles.

      This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 60-1. Walker, pp. 74-5. Love (five versions), pp. 85-6, 86-7, 88, 89-90, 90. The manuscript texts discussed, with detailed collations, in Harold Love, Rochester's I' th' isle of Britain: Decoding a Textual Tradition, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II ('I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown') | Catalogue
    • MaA 146 ff. 49v-52r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

      First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 208-13, as probably Marvell's. POAS, I, 274-83, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

      Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Two Horses ('Wee read in profane and Sacred records') | Catalogue
    • MaA 139.92 ff. 56r-8r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Mengel.

      First published, as Hodge a Countryman went up to the Piramid, His Vision, in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 5. Sometimes called Hodge's Vision from the Monument, [December, 1675]. Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 81-8. Thompson, III, 359-65. Grosart, I, 435-40. Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714, Volume II: 1678-1681, ed. Elias F. Mengel, Jr (New Haven & London, 1965), pp. 146-53.

      First attributed to Marvell in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697), but probably written in 1679, after Marvell's death.

      Andrew Marvell, A Country Clowne call'd Hodge Went to view the Pyramid, pray mark what did ensue ('When Hodge had number'd up how many score') | Catalogue
    • MaA 512 ff. 60v-1v

      Copy, headed A speech of the King's.

      A mock speech, beginning I told you last meeting the winter was the fittest time for business.... First published, and ascribed to Marvell, in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 36-43. Grosart, II, 431-3. Augustine Birrell, Andrew Marvell (London, 1905), pp. 200-2. Discussed in Legouis, p. 470, and in Kelliher, pp. 111-12.

      Andrew Marvell, His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, 13 April 1675 | Catalogue
    • DoC 77 ff. 72r-3v

      Copy, subscribed Ld Buckhorst.

      This MS collated in Harris.

      First published, ascribed to Henry Savile, in The Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694 (London, 1694). Harris, pp. 118-23.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Duel of the Crabs ('In Milford Lane near to St. Clement's steeple') | Catalogue
    • MaA 392 ff. 74r-6r

      Copy, headed Instructions to a painter on the Burning of the Ships at Chattam, subscribed Marvel 1667.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

      First published in Directions to a Painterโ€ฆOf Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

      Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter ('Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before') | Catalogue
    • MaA 480 ff. 76r-7r

      Copy, headed Further Instructions to a Painter, subscribed Marvel.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). Margoliouth, I, 176-7. POAS, I, 163-7. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 38-9. Rejected from the canon by Lord and the authorship considered doubtful by Chernaik, pp. 211-12.

      Andrew Marvell, Further Advice to a Painter ('Painter once more thy Pencell reassume') | Catalogue
    • MaA 257 f. 77r

      Copy, headed On Blood's Stealing the Crown 1678.

      First published as a separate poem in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, I, 78. Lord, p. 193. Smith, p. 414.

      This poem also appears as lines 178-85 of The Loyal Scot (see MaA 191-8 and Margoliouth, I, 379, 384).

      Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown ('When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd') | Catalogue
    • MaA 163.92 ff. 77r-82r

      Copy, subscribed Marvell.

      A lampoon sometimes called The Gamball or a dreame of ye Grand Caball. First published in A Second Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Edited in POAS, I (1963), pp. 191-203, as possibly by John Ayloffe. Ascribed to Marvell in two MS copies (MaA 163.4 and MaA 163.92).

      Andrew Marvell, The Dream of the Cabal: A Prophetical Satire Anno 1672 ('As t'other night in bed I thinking lay') | Catalogue
    • MaA 440 ff. 82v-4v

      Copy, headed Advice to a Painter to draw the Dutch, subscribed Marvell.

      First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by A-M-l, Esq. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.

      Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by ('Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe') | Catalogue
    • MaA 219 ff. 85r-6r

      Copy, headed On the Statute at Charing Cross.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Margoliouth, I, 199-201. POAS, I, 270-3. Lord, pp. 201-4. Smith, pp. 418-19.

      Andrew Marvell, The Statue at Charing Cross ('What can be the Mistery why Charing Cross') | Catalogue
    • RoJ 11.7 f. 97v et seq.

      Copy.

      First published in The Genius of True English-men (London, 1680). Love, p. 55 (21-line version) and pp. 257-8 (30-line version, among Disputed Works). Also attributed to Robert Wolseley.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion ('The freeborn English Generous and wise') | Catalogue
    • DoC 52 ff. 98r-100r

      Copy, headed Colon, a Satyr on the Court Ladies 1679, here beginning As Colon was driving his Sheep along, subscribed Buck. & Dorset.

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

      First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon ('As Colon drove his sheep along') | Catalogue
    • DoC 233 ff. 105v-6r

      Copy, the poem here dated 1680, subscribed Dryden.

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

      First published in A Third Collection ofโ€ฆPoems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen ('Clarendon had law and sense') | Catalogue
    • MaA 173 ff. 112r-13r

      Copy, headed Royall Resolutions, here beginning when plate was at pawn and fob at an ebb.

      First published as A Prophetick Lampoon, Made Anno 1659. By his Grace George Duke of Buckingham: Relating to what would happen to the Government under King Charles II [London, 1688/9]. Margoliouth, I, 173-5. POAS, I, 159-62. Lord, pp. 186-8, as The Vows. Discussed in Chernaik, pp. 212-14, where it is argued that it is of unknown authorship, possibly Marvell's, and that the poem grew by accretions by different authors.

      Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes ('When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb') | Catalogue
    • MaA 305 ff. 116r-17r

      Copy, headed On the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen going to White=hall with the King and Duke's freedome.

      This MS collated in POAS, I.

      First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 190-4. POAS, I, 237-42. Lord, pp. 196-201, as Upon the Citye's going in a bodyโ€ฆ.

      Andrew Marvell, Upon his Majesties being made free of the Citty ('The Londoners Gent') | Catalogue
    • CoA 178 f. 117r-v

      Copy, headed Virgil Lib 4. bis. 620. Englished by Mr Cowles at Oxford when the King was there in the time of the Warr.

      First published, in a musical setting by Henry Bowman, in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677].

      Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Sparrow, p. 192. Texts usually preceded by a prose introduction explaining the circumstances of composition.

      Abraham Cowley, Sors Virgiliana ('By a bold peoples stubborn armes opprest') | Catalogue
    • DoC 352 ff. 117v-20r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in POAS.

      First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being probably by the Ld Dorset in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell ('Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age') | Catalogue
    • EtG 54 ff. 151r-2r

      Copy, headed Sr. George Etheridge to the Earle of Mifddleton 1686.

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

      First published in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 48-50.

      Sir George Etherege, Second Letter to Lord Middleton ('Since love and verse, as well as wine') | Catalogue
    • EtG 32 f. 152r-v

      Copy, headed Sr. George Etheridge to the Earl of Middleton. 2d. Letter.

      This MS collated in Thorpe.

      First published, as Another from Sir G.E. to the E. of M--Greeting, in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 46-7.

      Sir George Etherege, A Letter to Lord Middleton ('From hunting whores and haunting play') | Catalogue
    • DrJ 208 ff. 153r-4r

      Copy, headed A Letter from Mr Drydell to Sr George Etheridge 1686.

      This MS collated in California.

      First published at the end of The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Kinsley, II, 578-80. California, III, 224-6. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 21-7. The Letterbook of Sir George Etherege, ed. Sybil Rosenfeld (London, 1928), pp. 346-8. Letters of Sir George Etherege, ed. Frederick Bracher (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London, 1974), pp. 270-2.

      John Dryden, To Sir George Etherege Mr. D.- Answer ('To you who live in chill Degree') | Catalogue
    • MaA 193 ff. 160v-4r

      Copy, here beginning When the old Hero's of the warlike shades, subscribed Marvell.

      First published in one version [c.1669?] (exemplum without title-page owned by the Library Company of Philadelphia, 935Q). An incomplete version in Charles Gildon, Chorus Poetarum (London, 1694). Margoliouth, I, 180-7. Lord, pp. 188-92. Smith, pp. 403-12.

      Lines 15-62 also appear as lines 649-96 in The last Instructions to a Painter (MaA 500-4), and lines 178-85 appear as a separate poem in Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown (MaA 253-280).

      Andrew Marvell, The Loyal Scot ('Of the old Heroes when the Warlike shades') | Catalogue
    • DoC 95 ff. 193v-9r

      Copy, the poem here dated March 1676/7.

      This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

      First published in The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset (London, 1707). POAS, IV (1968), 189-214. Harris, pp. 136-67.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Faithful Catalogue of our Most Eminent Ninnies ('Curs'd be those dull, unpointed, doggerel rhymes') | Catalogue
    • DoC 361.8 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      This MS collated in POAS.

      First published in State Poems (London, 1697). POAS, IV, 62-7. An argument for Dorset's authorship advanced in O.S. Pickering, An Attribution of the Poem The Town Life (1686) to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset, N&Q, 235 (September 1990), 296-7.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Town Life ('Once how I doted on this jilting town') | Catalogue

  • Adv. MS 19.3.2

    Transcript of seven English and Latin poems by Harington written in 1602 to accompany his new year's gift of a lantern to King James, four large quarto leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century calf (rebacked).

    Made by John Leyden (1775-1811), linguist and poet, as an Authentic Copy from the original in the University Library, Edinr. March 26. 1802.

    1802.

    Edited from this transcript in Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 325-35. What Leyden calls the original is no longer in Edinburgh University Library and is untraced.

    • HrJ 26
      No description or publication history available.

      Seven Epigrams first published in Epigrammes by Sir J. H. and others appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). 116 Epigrams published in London, 1615. 346 Epigrams published in London, 1618. 428 Epigrams edited in McClure (1930), pp. 145-322. See also HrJ 26.5-314.8. All the Epigrams published as The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. Gerard Kilroy (Farnham, 2009).

      Sir John Harington, Epigrams

  • Adv. MS 19.3.4

    A quarto verse miscellany of Scottish provenance, chiefly in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, including some shorthand, inscribed (f. 1r) Incept. March. 23. 1652/3., 190 leaves, in old brown calf gilt (rebacked).

    c.1653-64.

    Purchased c.1798.

    • DnJ 2975 f. 9v

      Copy.

      First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her Dubia). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.

      John Donne, Song ('Stay, O sweet, and do not rise') | Catalogue
    • DnJ 465.5 f. 9v

      Copy, of lines 1-6.

      First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.

      John Donne, Breake of day (''Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?') | Catalogue
    • WaE 435 f. 11v

      Copy, headed Sonnet:t 6 and here beginning Cloris farwell I needes must goe.

      First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652). Poems, Eighth edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 110-11.

      Edmund Waller, Song ('Chloris! farewell. I now must go') | Catalogue
    • HeR 157 f. 12r

      Copy, headed Sonnett 8 and here beginning All in the Myrtells as I walked.

      First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 106-7. Patrick, p. 147. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

      Robert Herrick, Mistresse Elizabeth Wheeler, under the name of the lost Shepardesse ('Among the Mirtles, as I walkt') | Catalogue
    • BrN 76 f. 13v

      Copy.

      First published as The Plowmans Song in The Honorable Entertainment at Elvetham (London, 1591). Englands Helicon (London, 1600), <No. 12>, ascribed to N. Breton; Grosart, I (t), p. 7. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 29. A musical setting first published in Michael East, Madrigals to Three, Four, and Five Parts (London, 1604).

      Nicholas Breton, Phillida and Coridon ('In the merry moneth of May') | Catalogue
    • CmT 113 f. 14r

      Copy, headed Sonnett. 12.

      First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xii. Davis, pp. 34-5.

      Thomas Campion, 'Thou art not faire, for all thy red and white' | Catalogue
    • DaW 48 f. 16r-v

      Copy, headed Phill: Porters Rant, Sonnett . 17.

      First published (in Lawes's musical setting) in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 168-70, 311-12.

      Sir William Davenant, Song. The Dying Lover ('Dear Love let me this Evening dy!') | Catalogue
    • B&F 97 f. 17r3

      Copy, headed Sonnett. 18.

      Dyce, VI, 180-1. Bullen, III, 184. Bowers, V, 67-8.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Mad Lover, IV, i, 45-68. Song ('Charon, oh, Charon, Thou wafter of the souls to bliss or bane!') | Catalogue
    • ShJ 74 f. 23r

      Copy, headed [Sonnet] 29.

      First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 6. Also in The Cardinal, Act V, scene iii, printed in Six New Playes (London, 1652-3). Gifford & Dyce, V, 271-352 (pp. 344-5). Musical setting by William Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652) and in John Playford, The Musical Companion, 2nd edition (London, 1673). Edited from the latter in James Shirley, The Cardinal, ed. E.M. Yearling (Manchester, 1986), p. 162.

      James Shirley, Strephon, Daphne ('Come my Daphne, come away') | Catalogue
    • DeJ 121 f. 29v

      Copy, headed The first part of a Westerne Wonder. 39.

      First published in Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 130-2.

      Sir John Denham, A Western Wonder ('Do you not know, not a fortnight ago') | Catalogue
    • DeJ 82 f. 30r

      Copy, headed The 2d part of a Westerne Wonder. 40 and here beginning You have heard of the Wonder, when Lightning & Thunder.

      First published in Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662). Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 133-4.

      Sir John Denham, A Second Western Wonder ('You heard of that wonder, of the Lightning and Thunder') | Catalogue
    • ClJ 219 f. 49r

      Copy of a version headed A Protector and beginning A Protector whatt that? Tis a stately thinge.

      Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 78-9. The Works of Mr. John Cleveland (London, 1687), p. 343. Berdan, p. 185, as probably not genuine. Rejected as probably not Cleveland's by Withington, pp. 321-2.

      John Cleveland, The Definition of a Protector ('What's a Protector? Tis a stately Thing') | Catalogue
    • LoR 42 f. 59r-v

      Copy, headed in different ink Lovelace in prison; the text followed (ff. 59v-60) by The Answer (here beginning When Cynthia lock't within my Armes).

      First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 70-1. (1930), pp. 78-9. Thomas Clayton, Some Versions, Texts, and Readings of To Althea, from Prison, PBSA, 68 (1974), 225-35. A musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).

      Richard Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison. Song ('When Love with unconfined wings') | Catalogue
    • DrW 17 ff. 70v-3v

      Copy.

      First published [in Edinburgh?, 1645?]. Kastner, II, 321-6, in Poems of Doubtful Authenticity. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 120.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, Polemo-Middinia inter Vitarvam et Nebernam ('Nymphae quae colitis highissima monta Fifaea') | Catalogue
    • EtG 19 ff. 122r-v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Thorpe.

      First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, pp. 7-8.

      Sir George Etherege, The Imperfect Enjoyment ('After a pretty amorous discourse') | Catalogue
    • DoC 20 ff. 136r-7v

      Copy, headed Lo: Buckhurst to Mr Etherege and here beginning I cannot guesse the Devill choake mee.

      Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated pp. 113-14) and in Harris.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (Antwerpen [i.e. London], 1680). The Poems of Sir George Etherege, ed. James Thorpe (Princeton, 1963), pp. 40-2. Harris, pp. 112-14.

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Another Letter by the Lord Buckhurst to Mr. Etherege ('If I can guess the Devil choke me') | Catalogue
    • WaE 110 ff. 142r-3v

      Copy, incomplete, dated 1664.

      First published as a broadside (London, 1665). Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 48-59. See also Mary Tom Osborne, Advice-to-a-Painter Poems (Austin, Texas, 1949), pp. 26-7.

      Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter ('First draw the sea, that portion which between') | Catalogue

  • Adv. MS 19.3.8

    A quarto volume of pasquinades and other verse, almost all in a single cursive secretary hand, 54 leaves, in contemporary brown calf (rebacked).

    Compiled by Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary.

    c.1637-47.
    • DrW 93 ff. 14v-15v

      Copy, headed Vil: Drumonds Lynes one the Bischopes 14. Appryll 1638.

      First published in the Third Book of James Maidment's Book of Scotish Pasquils (Edinburgh, 1827). Kastner, II, 293, in Poems of Doubtful Authenticity. Probably by Drummond: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 117.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, Drummonds Lines one the Bschopes: 14 Appryll 1638 ('Doe all pens slumber still, darr not one tray') | Catalogue
    • DeJ 74 f. 46r

      Copy of a twenty-line version, headed E. of Straffords Epitaphe.

      Edited from this MS in H.L. Hamilton, Lines by Denham, TLS (22 September 1966), p. 888. Recorded in Banks, p. xiv.

      First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 153-4.

      Sir John Denham, On the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and Death ('Great Strafford! worthy of that Name, though all') | Catalogue
    • DrW 117.42 ff. 47r-8v

      Copy, headed for ye Kinge.

      Often headed in MSS The [Five] Senses, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his Poems of Doubtful Authenticity (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge ('From such a face quois excellence') | Catalogue

  • Adv. MS 23.3.24

    A folio volume of antiquarian and genealogical papers relating to Scottish families, mainly in a single neat mixed hand, ii + 107 leaves (including blanks), in old half-calf on marbled boads (rebacked).

    Compiled by Robert Mylne, engraver, son of the antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), with additions in Mylne senior's hand. A note by Mylne junior says this account I had from Mr Alexr Nisbet Herauld his transcript who had it from the principal (wch he borrowed from the present Sr Wm. Drummond of Hawthornden his son the 7. Aug. 1701) copie writen with Mr Williams own hand.

    c.1711-32.

    Presented by trustees of the late Sir William Fraser, KCB, in 1922.

    • DrW 313 ff. 78r-80r

      An abridged version by Mylne senior, as by Mr. William Drummond of Hawthornden, subscribed 13. Novr. i7i2.

      First published in William Drummond, The Genealogy of the House of Drummond (Edinburgh, 1831), Appendix I, pp. 241-56.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, History of the Family of Perth | Catalogue

  • Adv. MS 31.2.1

    A tall folio composite volume of historical tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 269 leaves, in modern cloth.

    Once owned by Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), Scottish antiquary. Inscribed by him (f. 2r) Gifted me by Spotswood: i.e. by John Spottiswoode (1667-1728), lawyer, jurist. and Keeper of the Library of the Faculty of Advocates of Edinburgh.

    • *DrW 324 ff. 213r-69r
      Autograph

      Copy, in the neat roman hand of an amanuensis, with Drummond's autograph corrections and insertions, on rectos only. 1638.

      First published in Works (1711), pp. 163-73.

  • Adv. MS 31.4.8

    A partly autograph folio MS, viii + 153 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum with remains of ties.

    A working manuscript, apparently one book of an intended three Bookes mentioned on the title-page, the main text in the professional hand of an amanuensis, chiefly in secretary script, occasionally italic, with autograph sidenotes, revisions, and copious additions by Dicsone.

    [1598].

    Later owned by Sir Robert Sibbald (1641-1722), royal physician and geographer. Purchased at the sale of his library in April 1723.

    Facsimiles of f. 113v in Beal, Checklist, p. 125. Selections edited from this MS in Mayer, with a facsimile of f. 29v on p. 180.

    • *DiA 2
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      A treatise in support of James VI's title to the Crown of England. Beal, Checklist, pp. 123, 126-7. Unpublished in full. Extracts edited in Breaking the Silence on the Succession: A Sourcebook of Manuscripts and Rare Elizabethan Texts (c. 1587-1603), ed. Jean-Christophe Mayer (Montpellier, 2003), pp. 157-87.

      Alexander Dicsone, Of the Right of the crowne after Hir Majestie | Catalogue

  • Adv. MS 32.3.11

    A quarto composite volume of three MSS, in three different hands, the first (ff. 1r-79v) Colin Lindsay, third Earl of Balcarres's Memoirs touching the Revolution in Scotland (c.1690) in a single rounded hand, 92 leaves, in half-calf (rebacked) on marbled boards.

    Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 7245. Sotheby's, 16 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 1013.

    • DrJ 236 f. 79v

      Copy, headed Translated by Mr Dryden, the text following a Latin version by Archibald Pitcairne.

      First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Poems on Affairs of Stateโ€ฆPart III (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1777. California, III, 222. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 219.

      John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Viscount Dundee ('O Last and best of Scots! who didst maintain') | Catalogue

  • Adv. MS 32.4.4

    A quarto composite volume of writings by Scottish covenanters, in two hands, iii + 126 leaves, in old half-calf marbled boards.

    Including (ff. 1r-26v) copies of 38 letters by the preacher John Welwood, while he was Preaching up & downe Scotland, in ye years 1675, 1676 & 1677, sixteen of them to Katherine Ross and some others to her sister Jean Collace.

    • RoK 1 ff. 27r-78v

      Copy of autobiographical writings and meditations by Katherine Ross, in a neat italic hand, transcribed after her death, followed (on ff. 78v-126v) by similar autobiographical writings by her sister Jean Collace, including (ff. 78v-9v) meditations on Ross's death.

      Described in the online Perdita Project.

      First published in Edinburgh, 1735.

      Katherine Ross, Memoirs or spiritual exercises of Mrs Ross | Catalogue

  • Adv. MS 32.4.9

    A quarto volume of prose tracts by William Drummond, in a single secretary hand, 39 leaves, the pages slightly cropped, in later brown calf (rebacked).

    Mid-17th century.

  • Adv. MS 33.1.6

    A folio composite volume principally of original letters to King James VI from Learnid Men & Staitsmen, in various hands and paper sizes, 110 leaves, in modern quarter red morocco on marbled boards.

    Vol. XX of the Denmilne Papers, collected by Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary.

    • *InE 61 f. 19r
      Autograph

      Autograph calligraphic copy by Esther Inglis of a poem by David Hume, in a meticulous roman script, not signed by her, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, evidently presented to James I. [1605].

      A Latin poem by David Hume of Godscroft, to James I, first published in Hume's Iacobaea (Paris, 1639), p. 45.

      Esther Inglis, Ad Serenissimvm Principem: Iacobvm Dei Gratia Magnรฆ Britanniรฆ, Franciรฆ et Hiberniรฆ Regem. &c ('Accipe E haec nostro quondam vigilata labore')
    • *HoJ 284 f. 23r-v
      Autograph

      A formal copy, in an accomplished italic hand, signed by Hoskyns himself (J: Hoskyns), on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter and evidently presented to James I.

      Osborn, No. XXXII (pp. 203-4).

      John Hoskyns, Jacobo Magnรฆ Britanniรฆ Regi Maximo, Clementissimo ('Jam mihi bis centum fluxere in carcere noctes')
    • *InE 62 ff. 35r-6v
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed by Esther Inglis, in English, on behalf of her son, to King James I, in a small roman script, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, addressed on the fourth page and once folded as a letter. Edinburgh, 20 June 1620.

      Edited in Laing, Notes, pp. 307-8. Recorded in Scott & Elliott, p. 84. Facsimile in Facsimiles of National Manuscripts of Scotland (Southampton, 1871), III, No. XCIII.

      Esther Inglis, Letter(s)

  • Adv. MS 33.1.7

    A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, thirteen unpaginated items, modern quarter red morocco on marbled boards with ties.

    Volume XXIII of the Denmilne Papers, collected by Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary.

    • BcF 131.9 item 12

      Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as by Sr: Francis Bacon knight, 35 leaves.

      First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604), The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.

      Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the Better Pacification and Edification of the Church of England | Catalogue
    • BcF 396 item 13

      Copy of a speech, by Sr ffrancis Bacon, on the naturalisation of the Scots, in a professional secretary hand, nineteen leaves.

  • Adv. MS 33.2.36

    A folio composite volume of genealogical collections, including pedigrees of royal and noble houses of Scotland, with some coats of arms drawn in trick, and other matter relating to Scotland, in various hands, 77 leaves.

    Given in 1629 by William Camden's executor, Sir Robert Cotton, to Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary, who has inscribed the cover Camdeni Clarentii Armorum Regis Regni Angliรฆ collectiones. Purchased in 1723 at the sale of the library of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641-1722), royal physician and geographer.

    • *CmW 160 The MS as a whole
      Autograph

      A volume of genealogical papers largely compiled by William Camden, whose hand appears frequently throughout, some of the various texts probably in the hands of his amanuenses.

    • HlJ 2 ff. 76r-7r

      Copy of the three poems, in a neat italic hand, each subscribed Dr Hall, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter.

      Edited from this MS in Davenport.

      First published in Arnold Davenport, Three Uncollected Poems by Joseph Hall, N&Q, 182 (31 January 1942), 58-9. Davenport (1949), p. 150.

      Joseph Hall, Cearten veerses written by Doctor Hall upon the kings coming into Scotland ('Doe not repyine fayre sun to see these eyne') | Catalogue

  • Adv. MS 33.2.7

    A tall folio composite volume of antiquarian papers, in several hands, 131 leaves, in modern cloth.

    Partly written and compiled by Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary.

    • CmW 52 ff. 93r-111r

      Copy of the first part of the essay, here beginning The Caire all ages have had of Buriall, in the hand of Sir James Balfour, with his emendations and with Camden's examples of epitaphs replaced by Balfour's selection of some Scottish epitaphs.

      A tract beginning Great hath bene the care of burial euen since the first times.... First published in Remaines (London, 1605), [Part ii], pp. 27-59. Hearne (1771), I, 310-54. This draft essay was also developed into the essay Of Epitaphes (see CmW 67).

  • Adv. MS 33.3.3

    A folio volume of state tracts relating to Spain, in a single, probably professional, predominantly secretary hand, II + 59 leaves, in contemporary brown sheepskin with the royal arms in gilt.

    c.1620s.

    Inscribed (f.ir) with the name Charles Arnot. Among the collections of Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary (his cipher on f. 59r). Purchased in 1698.

    • BcF 282.8 ff. 41r-7r

      Copy, unascribed.

      First published in Spedding, XIV (1874), 22-8.

      Francis Bacon, A Short View to be taken of Great Britain and Spain | Catalogue

  • Adv. MS 33.3.11

    A folio volume of state tracts and letters, largely in a single secretary hand, with other hands towards the end, i + 110 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

    c.1585-1603.

    Scribbled inscriptions including the names Archibald Delawar, Archibald Dewer, John Bourchier, Nicolas Barklay, and Symson. Among the collections of Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary. Acquired in 1698.

    • *DiA 10 The MS as a whole
      Autograph

      A miscellany of political papers, a number relating to Sir Thomas Smith (1513-77), Secretary of State, compiled in part by Alexander Dicsone, whose signature (Alexr Dicsone) appears on various pages, as well as on ff. 104v-5r.

      This volume discussed, with facsimile examples, including Dicksone's signature and scribbling on ff. iir, iiv, and iiir, in Beal, Sidney's Letter.

    • SiP 209.5 ff. 104r-10r

      Copy, in two hands, Alexander Dicsone's secretary hand responsible for the heading and first page and a half (ff. 104v-5r), another cursive secretary hand for the remainder.

      This MS discussed in Beal, Sidney's Letter, with facsimiles of ff. 104v-5r on pp. 4-5.

      First published in Scrinia Caeciliana: Mysteries of State & Government (London, 1663) and in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (London, 1663). Feuillerat, III, 51-60. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 46-57.

      This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), Chapter 4, pp. 109-46 (with most MSS catalogued as Nos 1-37, with comments on their textual tradition, in Appendix IV, pp. 274-80).

      Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur | Catalogue

  • Adv. MS 33.3.19

    A tall folio composite volume of Adversaria, comprising miscellaneous political, historical and antiquarian papers, 65 leaves, in modern red leather.

    Collected by, and largely in the hand of, Sir Robert Sibbald (1641-1722), royal physician and geographer. Purchased at the sale of his library in April 1723.

    c.1682-1706.
    • DrW 303 ff. 25v-31r

      Copy, in Sibbald's hand, headed Informations be Ben Johnston to W.D. when he came to Scotland upon foot 1619, transcribed from Drummond's (lost) autograph MS.

      Edited from this MS in Laing and in Herford & Simpson.

      First published (in an abridged form) in Works (1711). Laing (1833), pp. 241-70. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, I (Oxford, 1925), 132-51. Of Drummond's original MS only the cover remains, in National Library of Scotland, MS 2061, f. 140r.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, Ben Jonson's Conversations with William Drummond

  • Adv. MS 33.7.16

    Copy, in a secretary hand, entitled The life, arraignment, and death of the famous and learned Sir Thomas More together with his vision, including a dedication to Captain Marmaduke Rawdon [i.e. Sir Marmaduke Rawdon (1583-1646), merchant, shipowner, and captain-general of the Honourable Artillery Company] subscribed John Hawkins and seven sonnets modelled on Spenser's Visions entitled Sir Thomas More his Vision.

    c.1630s.

    Inscribed D. Alexander Seton a Pitmoddon Eques Baronettus...in Bibliotheca sua, quae Edinburgi est, reponendum donavit. 1708.

    This MS discussed, and the seven sonnets edited in Constance Smith, A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of A Vision attributed to Thomas More, Moreana, 10 (February 1973), 5-14. Also discussed, and the attribution of the Vision to More dismissed, in Joseph Butkie, Sabita Sankaran and Donald Vecchiolla, Some Reflections on the Vision attributed to Thomas More, Moreana, 11 (1974), 33-8.

    • MrT 70
      No description or publication history available.

      A life of More, based closely on William Roper's Life, by John Hawkins (c.1587-c.1641), grammarian, translator and physician. Unpublished.

      Sir Thomas More, John Hawkins's Life of Sir Thomas More | Catalogue

  • Adv. MS 33.7.19

    A quarto volume of state letters, the main text in a single mixed hand, viii + 125 pages, in half brown calf on marbled boards (rebacked).

    c.1630.
    • RaW 790 pp. 18-23

      Copy, headed Sr Walter Rawleigh his speech at his execution.

      Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For relevant discussions, see Anna Beer, Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh, Modern Philology, 94:1 (August 1996), 19-38, and Andrew Fleck, At the time of his death: Manuscript Instability and Walter Ralegh's Performance on the Scaffold, Journal of British Studies, 48:1 (January 2009), 4-28.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618) | Catalogue

  • Adv. MS 34.2.10

    A tall folio composite volume of state tracts, in various professional secretary hands, 339 leaves, in old brown calf (rebacked).

    c.1623-41.
    • EsR 81 ff. 97v-8v.

      Copy of the fifteen-stanza version, in a small secretary hand, untitled.

      First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary ('It was a time when sillie Bees could speake') | Catalogue
    • EsR 25 [unspecified page numbers]

      Copy.

      First published, with a musical setting, in Robert Dowland, A Musicall Banquet (London, 1610). May, Poems, No. 4, pp. 45-6. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 252-3. EV 4594.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, The Right Honourable Robert, earle of Essex: Earle Marshall of England ('Change thy minde since she doth change') | Catalogue

  • Adv. MS 34.5.19

    A quarto composite volume of writings by Scottish covenanters, in two or possibly three rounded hands, ii + 284 leaves, in modern cloth.

    Early 18th century.
    • RoK 2 ff. 185r-238r

      Copy of autobiographical writings and meditations by Katherine Ross, in a rounded italic hand, transcribed after her death, followed (on ff. 238r-84v) by similar autobiographical writings by her sister Jean Collace, including (f. 238r-v) meditations on Ross's death.

      Described in the online Perdita Project.

      First published in Edinburgh, 1735.

      Katherine Ross, Memoirs or spiritual exercises of Mrs Ross | Catalogue

  • Adv. MS 34.6.9

    A quarto composite volume of antiquarian collections, in a single hand, 440 leaves.

    Copied entirely by Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), Scottish antiquary.

    Early 18th century.
    • DrW 311 ff. 264r-79v

      Copy of the complete work, headed Sir William Drumond of Hawthornden his Historie of the familie of Perth.

      First published in William Drummond, The Genealogy of the House of Drummond (Edinburgh, 1831), Appendix I, pp. 241-56.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, History of the Family of Perth | Catalogue

  • Adv. MS 34.6.12

    A quarto volume of antiquarian and genealogical tracts relating to Scottish families, in a single hand, 725 + 23 pages, in contemporary reversed calf.

    Copied entirely by Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), Scottish antiquary.

    c.1700s.
    • DrW 312 pp. 410-23, [and 23 unnumbered pages after p. 185]

      An abridged version by Mylne, headed Ane Accompt of the of the Duke of Perth's familie By Sir william Drummond of Hathornden, with (after p. 185) Mylne's A Table of Remarkable names In the Manuscript of Drumonds Earles of Perth And these of the name of Forbess.

      First published in William Drummond, The Genealogy of the House of Drummond (Edinburgh, 1831), Appendix I, pp. 241-56.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, History of the Family of Perth | Catalogue

  • Adv. MS 34.6.22

    A quarto volume, in two italic hands, ff. 1r-74v in a single cursive italic hand, ff. 75r-81r written much later apparently to replace missing leaves in the earlier MS, entitled An account of the Lord's gracious dealing with me, and of his remarkable hearing and answering my Supplications, 81 leaves, in modern speckled brown calf.

    c.1711 [-late 18th century].

    This MS discussed in Howard, Marion Veitch (1992), pp. 691-2, with a facsimile of the first page on p. 13.

    • VeM 3
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Memoir of Mrs William Veitch, Mr Thomas Hog of Kiltearn, Mr Henry Erskine, and Mr John Carstairs, [ed. Thomas Thomson] (Edinburgh, 1846).

  • Adv. MS 34.7. 3

    A small composite miscellany (c.12 x 9 cm), in minute secretary hands, 83 leaves, partly on vellum, in modern red morocco (rebacked).

    Compiled by James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane and secretary to William Schevez (d.1497) and James Stewart (d.1504), successive Archbishops of St Andrews.

    End 15th-early 16th century.

    Gift of John Ker, 1740.

    • HnR 7 ff. 70r-1v

      Copy, untitled.

      Edited from this MS in Wood, in Stevenson, and in Fox.

      Wood, pp. 199-201. Stevenson, pp. 43-5. Fox, pp. 154-6.

      Robert Henryson, The Annunciation ('Forcy as deith Is likand lufe') | Catalogue

  • Adv. MS 35.5.4

    Copy of the complete work, in a single neat roman hand, with engrossed headings for the various chapters on each king (on ff. 2r, 80r, 178r, 300r and 382r), all as By W. D., 556 leaves, on rectos only, in old half-calf on marbled boards.

    Mid-17th century.
    • DrW 316
      No description or publication history available.

      First published as The History of Scotland (London, 1655). Works (1711), pp. 1-116.

      William Drummond of Hawthornden, The History of the Five Jameses, Kings of Scotland | Catalogue

  • Adv. MS 72.1.37

    Copy of one stanza (lines 561-7), headed In bocas รพt wes full gwd, on an octavo leaf (p. 92b) in a volume of Gaelic poetry comprising 159 quarto leaves (plus vellum fragments).

    The volume compiled by Sir James MacGregor, vicar of Fortingall and titular Dean of Lismore.

    c.1512-42.

    Formerly Gaelic MS XXXVII.

    This MS recorded in Fox, pp. xcvi-xcvii.

    • HnR 31.5
      No description or publication history available.

      Possibly first published c.1508. First known publication in Workes of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. William Thynne (London, 1532). Wood, pp. 105-26. Fox, pp. 111-31.

      Robert Henryson, The Testament of Cresseid ('Ane doolie sessoun to ane cairfull dyte')

  • Adv. MS 81.9.12

    A small oblong quarto songbook, in probably several hands, 18 leaves, in paper wrappers, disbound.

    Late-17th century.

    A wrapper inscribed For George Chalmers Esq.: i.e. given probably to George Chalmers, FSA, FRS (1742-1825), antiquary and political writer.

    • CmT 14 f. 9v

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published (first strophe) among sundry other rare Sonnets of diuerse Noble men and Gentlemen appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). Robert Jones, Second Booke of Songs and Ayres (London, 1601). Davis, p. 9. Doughtie, p. 151.

      Thomas Campion, Canto Tertio ('My Love bound me with a kisse') | Catalogue
    • CmT 157 f. 9v

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book I, No. iii. Davis, p. 61.

      Thomas Campion, 'Where are all thy beauties now, all harts enchayning?' | Catalogue
    • CmT 197 f. 10v

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published in Robert Jones, Ultimum Vale (London, 1605). Davis, p. 477. Doughtie, pp. 205-6.

      Thomas Campion, 'Do not, O do not prize thy beauty at too high a rate' | Catalogue
    • CmT 1 f. 11r

      Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

      First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book I, No. xiv. Davis, p. 74.

      Thomas Campion, 'As by the streams of Babilon' | Catalogue

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