Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

St John's College, Oxford

  • MS 13

    Copy, including the dedicatory epistle to Arlington, in the hand of an amanuensis, with Hobbes's autograph corrections, 90 folio leaves.

    c.1668.

    Ex dono Car. Wheatley, 1706.

    Edited from this MS in Tönnies.

    • *HbT 8
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, as The History of the Civil Wars of England, ([in London], 1679). Molesworth, English, VI, 161-418. Edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889). 2nd edition, with introduction by M.M. Goldsmith, (London, 1969), and reprinted with an introduction by Stephen Holmes (Chicago & London, 1990).

      Thomas Hobbes, Behemoth or The Long Parliament

  • MS 216

    Copy, in two hands.

    c.1590-1625.

    This MS collated in The Works of George Peele, ed. Alexander Dyce, 2 vols (London, 1828), and in Horne.

    • PlG 8
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1590. Edited by D.H. Horne in Prouty, I, 231-43.

      George Peele, Polyhymnia ('Therefore, when thirtie two were come and gone')

  • [no shelfmark]

    A printed exemplum of the first edition [1647], with seveal MS corrections probably made in the printing house.

    c.1647.

    Recorded in Charles Morgenstern's note John Sparrow's Manuscript Corrections in Two Issues of Donne's Biathanatos, The Book Collector, 21 (1972), 557.

    • DnJ 4054.8
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, [1647]. Reprinted in facsimile, ed. J.W. Hebel (New York, 1930). Edited by Michael Rudick and M. Pabst Bettin (New York, 1982) and by Ernest W. Sullivan II (Newark, NJ, 1984).

      John Donne, Biathanatos

  • A. 1. 25

    Autograph annotations and marginalia.

    Stern, p. 208.

    • *HvG 59
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Gabriel Harvey, Davies, Richard. A funerall sermon preached the xxvi. day of november...at the buriall of the right honourable walter earle of essex and ewe (London, 1577)

  • B. 2. 28

    A printed exemplum, inscribed (title-page verso) William Browne.

    Early 17th century.

    Edwards, No. 17.

    • BrW 257.5
      No description or publication history available.
      William Browne of Tavistock, Gower, John. Confessio amantis (London, 1532)

  • B. 5. 25

    A perfected proof-sheet, for sig 4K1r-v (pp. 629-30), for the fourth printed edition (Oxford, 1632).

    Used as the rear endpaper in a printed exemplum of Meric Casaubon, De quatuor linguis (London, 1650).

    c.1632.

    Recorded in Jan Moore, p. 79.

    • BuR 1.6
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Oxford, 1621. Edited by A.R. Shilleto (introduced by A.H. Bullen), 3 vols (London, 1893). Edited variously by Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kiessling, Rhonda L. Blair, J.B. Bamborough, and Martin Dodsworth, 6 vols (Oxford, 1989-2000).

      Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

  • K. 1. 5

    A corrected proof-sheet, for sigs 3Y2v-3r (pp. 546, 547 misprinted as 548), for the fourth printed edition (Oxford, 1632).

    Used as the front endpaper in a printed exemplum of Xanthopulus Nicephorus Callistus, Ecclesiasticæ historiæ libri duodeviginti (Paris, 1630), vol. I.

    c.1632.

    Recorded in Jan Moore, p. 80.

    • BuR 1.7
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Oxford, 1621. Edited by A.R. Shilleto (introduced by A.H. Bullen), 3 vols (London, 1893). Edited variously by Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kiessling, Rhonda L. Blair, J.B. Bamborough, and Martin Dodsworth, 6 vols (Oxford, 1989-2000).

      Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

  • HB4/6.b.5.5

    A printed exemplum of Donne's Poems (London, 1633), bound with a printed exemplum of Pseudo-Martyr (London, 1610), in modern red morocco.

    Later owned by Rev. Nathaniel Crynes (1685/6-1745), of Coventry, fellow of St John's College, a large part of whose library came from that of Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725).

    Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Crynes Volume: DnJ Δ 67.

    • DnJ 4160 The volume as a whole

      A printed exemplum of Donne's Poems (London, 1633), the text neatly corrected or emended throughout in a single modern hand, recording variant readings (most probably derived from MS sources) for 36 poems.

      The MS annotations apparently made by Frank G. Gordon (1874-1968). Some of the readings agreeing with the Dobell and O'Flahertie MSS (Harvard, fMS Eng 966.4 and Harvard MS Eng 966.5), some others representing an early version of certain of the Satyres.

      John Donne, Poems
    • DnJ 74 p. 47

      Lines 53-4 (omitted from the printed text) added in MS.

      First published as Elegie II in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as Elegie II). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.

      John Donne, The Anagram ('Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee')
    • DnJ 2576 p. 49

      Lines 7-8 (omitted from the printed text) added in MS and with MS emendation in line 29.

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

      John Donne, The Perfume ('Once, and but once found in thy company')
    • DnJ 1049 p. 53

      MS emendations in lines 21-2.

      First published, as Elegie VI, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 287. Gardner, Elegies, p. 26 (as A Funeral Elegy). Variorum, 6 (1995), p. 103, as Elegia.

      John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. ('Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way')
    • DnJ 2470 p. 53

      MS emendation in line 6.

      First published, as Elegie VII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as Elegie VI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.

      John Donne, 'Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve'
    • DnJ 3086 pp. 56-8

      MS emendations to the title and lines 20-1, 30, 54, 66.

      First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.

      John Donne, The Storme ('Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)')
    • DnJ 569 p. 60

      MS emendations in line 44.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.

      John Donne, The Calme ('Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage')
    • DnJ 3505 p. 61

      MS emendations in line 4.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.

      John Donne, To Sr Henry Wotton ('Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules')
    • DnJ 1086 p. 67

      Lines 44-5 (omitted from the printed text) added in MS in Crynes volume.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.

      John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham ('Man is the World, and death th' Ocean')
    • DnJ 1026 p. 70

      MS emendation in line 32.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.

      John Donne, Elegie on Mris Boulstred ('Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee')
    • DnJ 3299 p. 75

      MS emendations in line 31.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.

      John Donne, To Mr Rowland Woodward ('Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe')
    • DnJ 3537 p. 79

      MS emendation in line 36.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 189-90. Milgate, Satires, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 134.

      John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford ('Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right')
    • DnJ 3328 p. 94

      MS emendation in line 23.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 203-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 59-60. Shawcross, No. 114.

      John Donne, To Mr T.W. ('All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire')
    • DnJ 1471 p. 165 [i.e. 195]

      MS emendations in lines 3, 20-1.

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

      John Donne, The good-morrow ('I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I')
    • DnJ 3121 p. 169 [i.e. 199]

      MS emendation in line 6.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.

      John Donne, The Sunne Rising ('Busie old foole, unruly Sunne')
    • DnJ 516 p. 192

      MS emendation in line 21.

      Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.

      John Donne, The broken heart ('He is starke mad, who ever sayes')
    • DnJ 1946 p. 180

      MS emendation in line 153.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.

      John Donne, The Litanie ('Father of Heaven, and him, by whom')
    • DnJ 3749 p. 193

      MS emendation to the title.

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

      John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning ('As virtuous men passe mildly away')
    • DnJ 2182 p. 201

      MS variant version of the third stanza (lines 17-24).

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 13-14. Gardner, Elegies, p. 44. Shawcross, No. 38.

      John Donne, Loves Usury ('For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now')
    • DnJ 3020 p. 207

      MS emendation of line 21.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.

      John Donne, Song ('Sweetest love, I do not goe')
    • DnJ 1856 p. 208

      MS emendations (of punctuation) in lines 1-4.

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

      John Donne, The Legacie ('When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye')
    • DnJ 1337 p. 210

      MS emendations in line 23.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 21. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 61-2. Shawcross, No. 44.

      John Donne, A Feaver ('Oh doe not die, for I shall hate')
    • DnJ 452 p. 212

      MS emendation in line 15.

      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?')
    • DnJ 3794 p. 214

      MS emendation in line 4.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.

      John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window ('My name engrav'd herein')
    • DnJ 3681 pp. 218-19

      MS emendations in lines 12, 15, 18, 20, 26.

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

      John Donne, Twicknam garden ('Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares')
    • DnJ 679 p. 222

      MS variant version of lines 23-4.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.

      John Donne, Communitie ('Good wee must love, and must hate ill')
    • DnJ 2122 p. 223

      MS emendations in lines 9-10.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.

      John Donne, Loves growth ('I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure')
    • DnJ 756 p. 226

      MS emendations in lines 11, 16.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.

      John Donne, Confined Love ('Some man unworthy to be possessor')
    • DnJ 3854 p. 228

      MS emendations in lines 8, 15.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.

      John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping ('Let me powre forth')
    • DnJ 1984 pp. 229-30

      MS alternative title (Mummie).

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

      John Donne, Loves Alchymie ('Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I')
    • DnJ 1375 p. 230

      MS emendations in line 5.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.

      John Donne, The Flea ('Marke but this flea, and marke in this')
    • DnJ 1268 pp. 277-8

      MS emendations in lines 2, 4, 9.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 51-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 59-61. Shawcross, No. 62.

      John Donne, The Extasie ('Where, like a pillow on a bed')
    • DnJ 1114 pp. 296-7

      MS emendations to the title and line 44.

      First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 284-6 (as Elegie. Death). Shawcross, No. 151 (as Elegie: Death). Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 61-3. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 146-7.

      John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred ('Language thou art too narrow, and too weake')
    • DnJ 2785 pp. 329-32

      MS emendations and variant readings in lines 2-3, 6, 22, 25-7, 32-4, 36, 41, 49-50, 54, 62-3, 77, and 98, and lines 69-70 and 74-5 (omitted from the printed text) added in MS.

      This MS recorded in Milgate, pp. liii(n), 129.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.

      John Donne, Satyre II ('Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate')
    • DnJ 2814 pp. 333-6

      MS emendations in lines 11, 32, 75, 77, 79-80, 82, 95.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.

      John Donne, Satyre III ('Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids')
    • DnJ 2847 p. 341

      Lines 134-6 (omitted from the printed text) added in MS.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.

      John Donne, Satyre IV ('Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne')
    • DnJ 2876 pp. 346, 348-9

      MS emendations in lines 58, 66, 68, 72, 76, 91.

      First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 168-71. Milgate, Satires, pp. 22-5. Shawcross, No. 5.

      John Donne, Satyre V ('Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they')

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