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  • MS A. v. 4

    A quarto composite volume of Robert Southwell's autograph papers, in various paper sizes, 64 leaves, in modern binding.

    c.1580.

    On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

    Described in McDonald, pp. 12-14.

    • *SoR 336 ff. 1r-3v
      Autograph

      Autograph notes of a treatise on dogmatic theology.

      This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 12.

      Unpublished.

    • *SoR 292 ff. 4r-8r
      Autograph

      Autograph draft, signed Robertus Southwellus.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart. Facsimile of part of f. 8r in Grosart (4to edition), facing p. 84.

      First published in Grosart (1872), pp. 191-9.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Poëma de Assumptione B.M.V. ('Cum caelum et tellus, et uasti machina mudi')
    • *SoR 289 ff. 14r-18r
      Autograph

      Autograph draft.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart.

      First published in Grosart (1872), pp. 199-205.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Filij Prodigi porcos pascentis ad Patre Epistola ('Si tam longinquis rogites quis scripsit ab oris')
    • *SoR 284 f. 22r
      Autograph

      Autograph draft.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart.

      First published in Grosart (1872), p. 212.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Ad deu in aff. Elegia ('Tu tacitas nosti lachrimas tu saucia cernis')
    • *SoR 285 f. 22r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph draft.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart.

      First published in Grosart (1872), p. 213.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Ad S. Catherina uirg. et mar ('Tu Catherina mei solatrix vnica luctus')
    • *SoR 291 f. 22v
      Autograph

      Autograph draft.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart.

      First published in Grosart (1872), p. 214.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, In renouationem uotorum festis Natalis Domini ('Vita uenit uitae cu uotis obuius ito')
    • *SoR 290 ff. 22v-3r
      Autograph

      Autograph draft, dated 21 May 1580.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart.

      First published in Grosart (1872), pp. 214-15.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, In festum pentecostes Ao D. 1.5.80. 21. Maij ('Postquam tartarei spolijs ditatus Auerni')
    • *SoR 286 f. 26r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph draft of the last part of what would have been Elegia 7, imperfect, lacking the beginning.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart.

      First published in Grosart (1872), pp. 206-7.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Elegia 7 ('Ex luctu populus redditur ipse chalybs')
    • *SoR 287 ff. 26v-7v
      Autograph

      Autography draft.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart.

      First published in Grosart (1872), pp. 208-10.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Elegia 8 ('Dic vbi nunc quod amo est! vbinam quod semper amavi?')
    • *SoR 288 f. 27v
      Autograph

      Autograph draft; imperfect, lacking the ending.

      Edited from this MS in Grosart.

      First published in Grosart (1872), pp. 21-11.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Elegia 9 ('Quid conclamato iacis irrita vota sepulchro?')
    • *SoR 334 f. 36r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph draft of a meditation beginning Omnia te in cruce dereliquerunt….

      This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.

      Unpublished.

    • *SoR 321 f. 37r
      Autograph

      Autograph copy of a Euphuistic prose recollection, beginning Alas whre doe I lament his losse….

      Edited from this MS in Trotman.

      First published in Trotman (1914), pp. 69-70.

    • *SoR 338 ff. 39r-40r
      Autograph

      Autograph draft of a prayer beginning O dulcissime et suauissime Jesu….

      This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.

      Unpublished.

    • *SoR 326 f. 41r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph draft of a prayer beginning O dulcissime Jesu Christe ecce nuc venit occasio….

      This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.

      Unpublished.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Ad omnia accomodata precatio
    • *SoR 327 ff. 42v-3r
      Autograph

      Autograph draft of a prayer beginning Cum tu dulcissime Jesu temetipsum spinis coronatu….

      This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.

      Unpublished.

    • *SoR 328 ff. 41v-2r
      Autograph

      Autograph draft of a prayer beginning Cum tu amatisse Jesu humanam natura assupteris….

      This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.

      Unpublished.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Ante orationem precatio
    • *SoR 329 ff. 43r-4r
      Autograph

      Autograph draft of a prayer beginning O benignissime Jesu qui vt ignaros viam salutis doceres….

      This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.

      Unpublished.

    • *SoR 330 f. 44r-v
      Autograph

      Autograph draft of a prayer beginning O bone Jesu qui semper meca es….

      This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.

      Unpublished.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Antequam cum externis aut etiam domesticis loquaris prec
    • *SoR 337 ff. 44v-6r
      Autograph

      Autograph draft of a prayer beginning Domine Jesu Christe fateor me indignu esse qui oculos meos ad te attollam….

      This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.

      Unpublished.

    • *SoR 170 ff. 50r-1v
      Autograph

      Autograph first draft of a verse translation of part of Luigi Tansillo's Le Lagrime di San Pietro.

      Facsimiles of f. 50r in Brown, frontispiece, and in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 19, and of f. 51r in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 29.

      First published in Grosart (1872). Transcribed more accurately in Mario Praz, Robert Southwell's Saint Peter's Complaint and its Italian Source, MLR, 19 (1924), 273-90. McDonald, pp. 144-7. Brown, pp. 103-7.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, [The] Peeter Playnt ('That sturdy peter...an...did boaste')
    • *SoR 313 ff. 56r-60r, 62r
      Autograph

      Autograph draft of an English translation by Southwell of a 13th-century Latin homily (formerly attributed to Origen), intended to be read as a sermon; here beginning In this psent solemnity hauynge to speake in this audience of yr charityes…, unfinished; a work later expanded into Mary Magdalen's Funeral Tears.

      This MS discussed in Pierre Janelle, Robert Southwell the Writer (London, 1935), pp. 184-5. Facsimile of f. 56r in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XXIX (p. 498).

      Marie Magdalens Funerall Teares first published in London, 1591. Facsimile edition of the exemplum in the Huntington Library published in New York, 1975.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Mary Magdalen's Funeral Tears
    • *SoR 236 f. 61r
      Autograph

      Autograph fragment, comprising seven lines of verse (with revisions) preceded by the words I goe…Amemmon, on a single leaf also containing a transcript in a later hand.

      Edited from this MS in McDonald.

      First published in McDonald (1937), p. 159.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, 'The shippe that fro the port dothe sayle'
    • *SoR 314 f. 61v
      Autograph

      Autograph draft of the beginning of Southwell's English translation of the 13th-century Latin homily; here beginning As she surpassed many in loue so she passed most christs oune disciplines in loyalty…, unfinished, a work later expanded into Mary Magdalen's Funeral Tears.

      Marie Magdalens Funerall Teares first published in London, 1591. Facsimile edition of the exemplum in the Huntington Library published in New York, 1975.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Mary Magdalen's Funeral Tears

  • MS A. v. 27

    A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves.

    c.1592-1609.

    Bearing the childish signature of iereneme WalDegrave (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.

    On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

    Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the lost Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.

    • SoR 305 ff. 4r-18r

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Trotman and in Brown, Two Letters.

      Epistle, beginning In children of former ages it hath been thought so behooveful a point of duty.... First published as An Epistle of a Religious Priest unto his Father in A Short Rule of Good Life ([London?, 1596-7?]). Trotman, pp. 36-64. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 1-20.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, An Epistle unto his Father (22 October 1589)
    • SoR 324 ff. 20r-36r

      Copy, complete with dedicatory epistle, the Epitaph on Lady Margaret Sackville and the Latin epitaph.

      This MS collated in Trotman.

      First published in London, 1595. Trotman, pp. 1-35.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Triumphs over Death
    • SoR 295 f. 38r-v

      Copy of the dedication of Southwell's poems.

      This MS collated in Brown.

      Prefatory address, beginning Poets by abusing their talents, and making the follies and fayninges of love.... First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 1-2.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Author to his loving Cosen
    • SoR 243 f. 39r

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 2.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, To the Reader ('Deare eye that doest peruse my muses style')
    • SoR 221 ff. 39v-44v

      Copy of the sequence of fourteen poems.

      Poems vi & xii first published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Poems i-v, vii-xi first published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Poems xiii & xiv first published in The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.B. Turnbull (London, 1856). Brown, pp. 3-12.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Sequence on the Virgin Mary and Christ ('Our second Eve puts on her mortall shroude')
    • SoR 13 f. 45r

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 13.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A childe my Choyce ('Let folly praise that fancie loves, I praise and love that child')
    • SoR 154 ff. 45r-6r

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 13-15.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, New heaven, new warre ('Come to your heaven you heavenly quires')
    • SoR 159 f. 46v

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 16-17.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, New Prince, new pompe ('Behold a silly tender Babe')
    • SoR 231 f. 47r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 17-18.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Sinnes heavie loade ('O Lord my sinne doth over-charge thy brest')
    • SoR 20 ff. 47v-8r

      Copy.

      First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 18-19.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Christs bloody sweat ('Fat soile, full spring, sweete olive, grape of blisse')
    • SoR 27 ff. 48r-9r

      Copy.

      First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 19-21.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Christs sleeping friends ('When Christ with care and pangs of death opprest')
    • SoR 81 ff. 49r-50v

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 21-3.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Josephs Amazement ('When Christ by growth disclosed his descent')
    • SoR 65 ff. 50v-1v

      Copy, headed Saint Thomas of Aquines Hymne read on corpus christy daye. Lauda Sion saluatorem.

      First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 23-6.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A holy Hymne ('Praise, O Sion, praise thy Saviour')
    • SoR 165 ff. 51v-3r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Brown, pp. 26-8.

      First published as The Christians Manna in S. Peters Complaint and Saint Mary Magdalens Fvnerall Teares ([St Omers], 1616). Brown, pp. 26-8.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Of the Blessed Sacrament of the Aulter ('In paschall feast the end of auncient rite')
    • SoR 191 ff. 53r-4v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.

      This version first published in McDonald (1937), pp. 141-3. Brown, pp. 29-31.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Saint Peters Complaynte ('How can I live, that have my life deny'de?')
    • SoR 149 f. 55r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 32-3.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Mary Magdalens blush ('The signs of shame that staine my blushing face')
    • SoR 40 f. 56v

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 35-6.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Davids Peccavi ('In eaves, sole Sparrowe sits not more alone')
    • SoR 171 ff. 57r-8v

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 36-40.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A Phansie turned to a sinners complaint ('Hee that his mirth hath lost')
    • SoR 249 ff. 59r-60r

      Copy.

      First published in Moeoniae, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 41-3.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A vale of teares ('A vale there is enwrapt with dreadfull shades')
    • SoR 176 ff. 60v-1r

      Copy, in the hand of a second scribe responsible only for corrections elsewhere in the MS.

      First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 43-5.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The prodigall childs soule wracke ('Disankerd from a blisfull shore')
    • SoR 136 ff. 61v-2r

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 45-6.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Marie Magdalens complaint at Christs death ('Sith my life from life is parted')
    • SoR 45 f. 62r-v

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Brown, pp. 47-8.

      First published in St. Peter's Complaint, and other Poems. by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817). Brown, pp. 47-8.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Decease release. Dum morior orior ('The pounded spice both tast and sent doth please')
    • SoR 76 f. 62v-3r

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Brown, pp. 48-9.

      First published in St. Peters Complaint, and other Poems. by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817). Brown, pp. 48-9.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, I dye without desert ('If orphane Childe enwrapt in swathing bands')
    • SoR 129 f. 63v

      Copy.

      First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 49-50.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Mans civill warre ('My hovering thoughts would flie to heaven')
    • SoR 92 f. 64r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 50-1.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Life is but Losse ('By force I live, in will I wish to die')
    • SoR 214 ff. 64v-5r

      Copy.

      First published in Moeoniae, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 52.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Seeke flowers of heaven ('Soare up my soule unto thy rest')
    • SoR 70 f. 65r

      Copy.

      Facsimile of stanza 3 of this MS in Grosart (quarto edition), facing p. 84. For an account of Grosart's misreadings, see Pierre Janelle, Robert Southwell the Writer (London, 1935), pp. 304-5.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 52-3.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, I dye alive ('O life what lets thee from a quicke decease?')
    • SoR 255 f. 65r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 53-4.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, What joy to live? ('I wage no warre yet peace I none enjoy')
    • SoR 98 ff. 65v-6

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 54-5.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Lifes death loves life ('Who lives in love, loves least to live')
    • SoR 1 ff. 66r-7r

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 55-6.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, At home in Heaven ('Faire soule, how long shall veyles thy graces shroud?')
    • SoR 106 f. 67r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 57.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Looke home ('Retyred thoughts enjoy their owne delights')
    • SoR 237 f. 67v

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 57-8.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Time goe by turnes ('The lopped tree in time may grow againe')
    • SoR 111 f. 68r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 58-9.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Losse in delaies ('Shun delaies, they breede remorse')
    • SoR 124 ff. 68v-9v

      Copy.

      Lines 1-48 first published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Lines 49-76 published in 2nd edition (1595). Brown, pp. 60-2.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Loves servile lot ('Love mistris is of many mindes')
    • SoR 86 ff. 69v-70v

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 62-3.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Lewd Love is Losse ('Misdeeming eye that stoupest to the lure')
    • SoR 118 ff. 70v-1r

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 64.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Loves Garden grief ('Vaine loves avaunt, infamous is your pleasure')
    • SoR 51 f. 71r-v

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 65-6.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Fortunes Falsehoode ('In worldly meriments lurketh much miserie')
    • SoR 57 f. 72r

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 66-7.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, From Fortunes reach ('Let fickle fortune runne her blindest race')
    • SoR 34 ff. 72v-3v

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 67-9.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Content and rich ('I dwell in grace's courte')
    • SoR 206 ff. 72v-4r

      Copy.

      First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 69-70.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Scorne not the least ('Where wards are weake, and foes encountring strong')

  • MS B. vi. 1

    Transcript of an early copy which was allegedly transcribed from ye Originall … written wth Mr. Robert Southwells owne hand and with a dedication by the early copyist to Lady Beauchamp, vii + 408 quarto leaves (plus later index and blanks).

    Early 19th century.

    On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.

    Edited from this MS in Morris. Described in McDonald, pp. 15-16.

    • SoR 339
      No description or publication history available.

      An English translation of Diego de Estella's Meditaciones devotissimas del amor de Dios. First published in London, 1873, ed. John Morris, S.J.

      Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Hundred Meditations of the Love of God

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