Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

Trinity College, Cambridge

  • Admissions and Admonitions Book 1560-1759

    • *RnT 600 p. 42
      Autograph

      Randolph's autograph Latin subscription signed, 22 September 1629.

      Facsimiles in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCVIII(a-e), and in IELM, II.ii (1993), Plate VIIId, after p. xxi.

      Thomas Randolph, Document(s)
    • *RnT 601 p. 42
      Autograph

      Randolph's autograph Latin subscription signed, 23 March 1631[/2].

      Facsimiles in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCVIII(a-e), and in IELM, II.ii (1993), Plate VIIIe, after p. xxi.

      Thomas Randolph, Document(s)
    • *RnT 602 p. 257
      Autograph

      Randolph's autograph Latin subscription signed, 9 April 1624.

      Facsimiles in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCVIII(a-e); in Fredson T. Bowers, A Possible Randolph Holograph, The Library, 4th Ser. 20 (1939-40), 159-62 (facing p. 164); and in IELM, II.ii (1993), Plate VIIIa, after p. xxi.

      Thomas Randolph, Document(s)

  • Admissions 1635-1740

    Admission Book of Scholars.

    • *MaA 568 [unspecified page number]
      Autograph

      Marvell's autograph entry in the Admission Book of Scholars at Trinity College, Cambridge, 13 April 1638.

      Facsimile in Kelliher, p. 23.

      Andrew Marvell, Document(s)
    • *DrJ 368 p. 15
      Autograph

      Dryden's autograph subscription, his signature John Driden, (the earliest known example of his hand), 18 May 1650.

      Facsimile in Paul Hammond, Dryden's Employment by Cromwell's Government, TCBS, 8, part I (1981), 130-6 (Plate III). Partly on the basis of this signature, Hammond establishes the likelihood that Dryden was also the signatory to a receipt for £50 from Secretary Thurloe, dated 19 October 1657, in the National Archives, Kew (SP 18/180/95: reproduced in Hammond, plate I).

      John Dryden, Document(s)

  • Admissions 1645-59

    Admissions book.

    • *DrJ 369 p. 84
      Autograph

      Dryden's autograph subscription, the signature Johannes Dryden Northamptoniensis, 2 October 1650.

      Facsimile in Paul Hammond, Dryden's Employment by Cromwell's Government, TCBS, 8, part I (1981), 130-6 (Plate IV). Partly on the basis of this signature, Hammond establishes the likelihood that Dryden was also the signatory to a receipt for £50 from Secretary Thurloe, dated 19 October 1657, in the National Archives, Kew (SP 18/180/95: reproduced in Hammond, plate I).

      John Dryden, Document(s)

  • MS B. 11. 35

    Copy of 101 Ordinances (or Decrees) made by the Lord Chancellor, in a professional secretary hand, on nine folio leaves, bound with two other MSS (MSS B. 10. 41 and B. 11. 34), in quarter-vellum boards.

    Together with (ff. 9v-11r) Additionall Rules in the same hand.

    c.1620s.
    • BcF 249.5
      No description or publication history available.

      First published as Ordinances made by...Sir Francis Bacon Knight...being then Lord Chancellor For the better and more regular Administration of Iustice in the Chancery (London, 1642), beginning No decree shall be reversed, altered, or explained, being once under the Great Seale.... Spedding, VII, 755-74 (mentioning, on p. 757, having seen some MSS and editions of this work but without specifying them or his copy-text).

      Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery

  • MS B. 14. 22 (James 307)

    A quarto composite volume of ecclesiastical tracts and sermons, in different hands, possibly associated with Lancelot Andrewes, 98 leaves, in quarter-calf marbled boards.

    Inscribed on the last page (f. 98v) by Andrewes's secretary samMVel. WrIght of LonDon 1616.

    This MS discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 36r, 40v and 44v, in P.J. Klemp, Betwixt the Hammer and the Anvill: Lancelot Andrewes's Revision Techniques in the Manuscript of His 1620 Easter Sermon, PBSA, 89/2 (June 1995), 149-82.

    • AndL 11 ff. 15r-32r

      Copy, in the neat mixed hand of Samuel Wright.

      First published as A Sermon on Easter Day (London, 1618). LACT, Sermons, II (1841), 404-28.

      Lancelot Andrewes, Sermon 13 Of the Resurrection, Easter 1618, on 1 Corinthians xi. 16
    • AndL 12 ff. 34r-47v

      Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, possibly that of Samuel Wright.

      This MS recorded (but not collated) in Story, p. xlix.

      First published as A Sermon on Easter Day (London, 1620). LACT, Sermons, III (1841), 3-22. Lancelot Andrewes, Sermons, ed. G.M. Story (Oxford, 1967), pp. 192-217.

      Lancelot Andrewes, Sermon 14 Of the Resurrection, Easter 1620, on John xx. 11-17
    • CoR 312 ff. 62r-71r

      Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

      First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.

      Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale ('Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two')
    • DnJ 4065 ff. 83r-5v

      Copy, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, the heading with a side-note J D., subscribed D. D.

      This MS collated in Simpson, pp. 80-93.

      First published in Poems (London, 1650). Edited, with an English translation, by Evelyn Mary Simposon (London, 1930).

      John Donne, The Courtier's Library, or Catalogus librorum aulicorum incomparabilium et non vendibilium
    • JnB 338 f. 87r

      Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed Corbett, with a stave of music by Nicholas Lanier.

      First published in The Vnder-wood (iii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 143-4.

      Ben Jonson, The Musicall strife. In a Pastorall Dialogue ('Come, with our Voyces, let us warre')
    • B&F 187 f. 87v

      Copy, in a secretary hand, subscribed Dr Donn.

      Edited from this MS in The Complete Poems of John Donne, D.D., ed. Alexander B. Grosart, 2 vols (privately printed, 1872-3), II, 246.

      Dyce, V, 297. Bullen, IV, 302. Bowers, IV, 360-1.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Valentinian, V, ii, 13-22. Song ('Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes')

  • MS B. 14. 49 (James 332)

    An octavo devotional miscellany, 53 leaves (paginated 19-124), in contemporary vellum boards.

    Donated by Ed. Rud, S. T. P., Trin: Coll; Cant: Soc: 1717.

    • AndL 43.8 pp. 104-10

      Copy, in a neat mixed hand, of A Prayer vsed by ye R.R.-L.A. before his Sermons, beginning That to what end the holy word of God was by him ordeined....

      Edited from this MS in Klemp (col. 4).

      Versions appear, as The forme of Prayer used by Bishop Andrews after the opening of the Text and as Another Exhortation to Prayer, used by Bishop Andrewes after his opening of the Text, in Private Devotions (London, 1647), pp. 152-61, 161-6. These are edited and collated in P.J. Klemp, Lancelot Andrewes's Prayer before Sermon: A Parallel-Text Edition, Bodleian Library Record, 11 (1985), 300-19 (cols 2 and 3).

      Lancelot Andrewes, A Prayer used by Andrewes before his Sermons

  • MS O. 1. 6 (James 1030)

    A small folio MS written by Roger Gale (1672-1744), antiquary, correcting and amplifying Bale's Scriptorum, c.200 leaves.

    c.1700.
    • BaJ 26.8
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Basle, 1557. Reprinted in facsimile (Farnborough, 1971).

      John Bale, Scriptorum illustrium Maioris Brytanniae catalogus

  • MS O. 1. 27 (James 1051)

    A quarto volume of state papers and tracts, in an accomplished closely written secretary hand, i + 29 leaves, in modern quarter-vellum boards.

    c.1600.
    • TiC 44 f. 9v

      Copy, headed in the margin verses made by Tichborne in ye Tower two daies beefore his Deathe.

      This MS recorded in Hirsch.

      First published in the single sheet Verses of Prayse and Joy Written Upon her Maiesties Preseruation Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes lamentation, written in the Towre with his owne hand, and an answer to the same (London, 1586). Hirsch, pp. 309-10. Also The Text of Tichborne's Lament Reconsidered, ELR, 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1987), between pp. 276 and 277. May EV 15464 (recording 37 MS texts). For the answer to this poem, see KyT 1-2.

      Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament ('My prime of youth is but a frost of cares')

  • O. 1. 35 (James 1059)

    A quarto verse miscellany, in a secretary hand, thirteen leaves (plus two blanks), bound with a slightly later miscellany of verse and prose in another hand on 38 further leaves, in quarter-vellum boards.

    c.1630.
    • MrJ 52 ff. 1r-2v.

      Copy, headed Vpon the Duke of B: retorne from the Isle of Rees.

      John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 ('And art returned again with all thy faults')

  • MS O. 1. 51 (James 1075)

    Copy of Psalms 1-150, in an accomplished professional secretary hand, with some corrections in another hand, with a title-page, The Psalms of David Translated into English Verse by That Noble and Virtuous Gent: Sr Philip Sydney, 169 quarto leaves, in 17th-century calf gilt (rebacked).

    Late 16th century.

    This MS described in Ringler, p. 549.

    • SiP 86
      No description or publication history available.

      Psalms 1-43 translated by Sidney. Psalms 44-150 translated by his sister, the Countess of Pembroke. First published complete in London, 1823, ed. S.W. Singer. Psalms 1-43, without the Countess of Pembroke's revisions, edited in Ringler, pp. 265-337. Psalms 1-150 in her revised form edited in The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, ed. J.C.A. Rathmell (New York, 1963). Psalms 44-150 also edited in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke (1988), Vol. II.

      Sir Philip Sidney, The Psalms of David

  • MS O. 2. 53 (James 1157)

    A quarto notebook, 74 leaves.

    Late 15th century.
    • SkJ 41 f. 66

      Seven lines, beginning How darest thou swere or be so bold also.

      Canon, L106, p. 30. A lost piece; doubtfully identified in Friedrich Brie, Skelton-Studien, ES, 37 (1907), 1-86 (pp. 31-2), with SkJ 41.

      John Skelton, The Recule ageinst Gaguyne of the Frenshe Nacyoun

  • MS O. 2. 66 (James 1170)

    Autograph copy, including the Prologue, Epilogue, and Induction, entitled A GAME at CHESSE. by T. Middleton, with two lines deleted on f. 10v, iv + 49 quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt.

    [1624].

    Edited from this MS in Bald; in Susan Z. Nascimento (later Zimmerman), Thomas Middleton's A Game at Chesse: A Textual Study (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland, 1975); and in A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton 1624, ed. T.H. Howard-Hill, Malone Society (Oxford, 1990).

    Facsimile pages in Bald, facing p. 34; in Harper, p. 1; in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCIV(a); in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 54; in IELM, I.i (1980), Facsimile XXVII, p. 342; in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 219; in Grace Ioppolo, Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood (London & New York, 2006), p. 172; and in Oxford Middleton, pp. 1780 and 1791.

    • *MiT 14
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, [1625]. Bullen, VII, 1-136. Edited by R.C. Bald (Cambridge, 1929) and by J.W. Harper (London, 1966). An early form in Oxford Middleton, pp. 1779-1824, with a later form on pp. 1830-85.

      Thomas Middleton, A Game at Chess

  • MS O. 3. 12 (James 1184)

    Copy, in a single hand, of a complete transcript made by Douglas's secretary, Matthew Geddes, with glosses added probably in another hand, 329 folio leaves, in contemporary leather on boards, with remains of clasps.

    c.1515?.

    Inscribed Johannes Danyelston Rector a Dysert.

    Edited from this MS in Coldwell, and described I, 96-7 (where it is mistakenly stated that this copy is in Geddes's hand and that the marginal commentary in the first part of the poem is in Douglas's hand). A facsimile example (the caption making the same mistake) in DLB, vol. 132, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. First Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1993), p. 116. Also discussed, with a facsimile of f. 4r on p. 192, in Jane Griffiths, Exhortations to the Reader: the Glossing of Douglas's Eneados in Cambridge, Trinity College MS O.3.12, EMS, 15 (2009), 185-97.

    • DoG 3
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, as The xiii Bukes of Eneados of the famose Poete Virgill, London, 1553. Edited, as Virgil's Æneid 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')

  • MS O. 3. 33 (James 1205)

    An index of Leland's sources for his Collectanea, probably compiled by Thomas Gale (1635?-1702), Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge, Dean of York, antiquary, c.200 folio leaves.

    Late 17th century.
    • LeJ 48
      No description or publication history available.
      John Leland, Collectanea [Other transcripts and extracts]

  • MS O. 4. 2 (James 1233)

    A folio volume comprising two works in the same professional secretary hand, the second (ff. 14r-123v) Sir John Hayward's Edward VI, 123 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

    Early 17th century.

    Arms of Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), natural philosopher and courtier, stamped in gilt on both covers.

    • DaS 39 ff. 1r-13v

      Copy, headed The life of William the first written by Sr Walter Raleigh.

      First published (from a MS found in the Library of a Person of High Quality) as An Introduction to a Breviary of the History of England with the Reign of King William the I, ascribed to Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1693). Works of Sir Walter Ralegh (Oxford, 1829), VIII, 509-37. Daniel's probable authorship discussed in Rudolf B. Gottfried, The Authorship of A Breviary of the History of England, SP, 53 (1956), 172-90, and in William Leigh Godshalk, Daniel's History, JEGP, 63.1 (1964), 45-57.

      Samuel Daniel, A Breviary of the History of England

  • MS O. 4. 52 (James 1502)

    Copy of twenty-one Essays by Bacon, in a professional secretary hand, on ten folio leaves, in modern morocco.

    Early 17th century.

    Inscription in pencil (f. 1r) J. Payne Collier / Maidenhead: i.e. owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger. Bookplate of William Aldis Wright, MP, 1901.

    Described in Kiernan, pp. lvi-lvii.

    • BcF 206 ff. 1r-6r, 7v-10r

      Copy of twenty Essays.

      Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).

      Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral
    • BcF 279 ff. 6v-7r

      Copy, headed Digested notes of Ciuill Conuersation.

      First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, VII, 105-10. Spedding notes (VII, 107) Basil Montagu's reference to an unspecified MS in the British Museum, but he could not find it.

      Francis Bacon, Short Notes for Civil Conversation

  • MS O. 5. 21 (James 1302), (20)

    A large folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 198 pages, in quarter-vellum boards.

    • RaW 728.26 pp. 175-6

      Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1618, i n a secretary hand, docketed These notes in ye margin, are out of mr O. Bands book, viz. at ye end of Rob: Monachus.

      Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, The Great Day of Mart: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)
    • RaW 807 pp. 177-82

      Copy, in a secretary hand, with annotations in a later hand.

      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)
    • RaW 95 p. 183

      Copy, in a secretary hand, with a lengthy preamble about Ralegh's conduct before his execution, concluding Going out of the prison, he gave certeyne verses in English to his Keeper, wch bycause they seme not to rellish an astonished invention, I thought good here to annexe them: His last verses, the text followed by answers.

      First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

      This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust'

  • MS O. 5. 25 (James 1306)

    Copy of most of the first three volumes of Leland's autograph MS, transcribed by Thomas Gale (1635/6-1702), Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge, Dean of York, antiquary, 198 folio leaves.

    Late 17th century.

    This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxix.

    • LeJ 67
      No description or publication history available.
      John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Other transcripts and extracts]

  • MSS O. 10. 6, 7 (James 1458-9)

    Copy, in two hands, with additions and indexes by Thomas Gale (1635/6-1702), Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge, Dean of York, antiquary, 242 folio leaves (plus index and interleaves), bound in two volumes.

    Late 17th century.
    • LeJ 53
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Oxford, 1709, ed. A. Hall, 2 vols. Edited, as De uiris illustribus/ On Famous Men, with an English translation, by James P. Carley, assisted by Caroline Brett (Oxford, 2010).

      John Leland, Commentarii de scriptoribus Britannicis

  • MS O. 10. 25 (James 1477)

    Copy of parts of the Collectanea, c.300 folio leaves.

    Inscribed (f. 1r) Ex quibusdam Collectionibus Joh. Lelandi penes Henr. St George Eg. Aur. Regem Armorum cognom: Norroy Ao. 1677.

    c.1677.
    • LeJ 49 ff. 1r-25r et passim

      Copy of a portion of the Collectanea, transcribed from Leland's autograph MS (LeJ 17), with annotations in a different ink, followed by various extracts from the Collectanea in another hand, with an index at the end.

      John Leland, Collectanea [Other transcripts and extracts]
    • LeJ 88 passim

      Extracts.

      John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Other transcripts and extracts]

  • MS R. 3. 4 (James 583)

    A composite collection of working literary papers by Milton, predominantly autograph, partly in the hands of amanuenses (including Jeremie Picard and Cyriack Skinner), on 47 pages, comprising one group of 25 large leaves c.12¼ x 7½ inches) bound with two leaves c.8½ x 6¾ inches), some leaves torn or frayed and probably now lacking a few present in the original collection; containing various drafts and fair copies of nineteen poems, two dramatic works, and some notes and drafts in prose, much of this material probably based on (lost) earlier drafts.

    The papers were arranged in their present form in 1736 by Charles Mason and Thomas Clarke, Fellows of Trinity College. The MS cannot be dated precisely, but has been traditionally thought to begin in 1632, though it has been argued that it may date later, with earlier work transcribed not before 1637. Milton's autograph contributions end probably in 1652, with additions in other hands continuing probably until the late 1650's (when Picard was known to be associated with Milton: see further below).

    c.1630s-[70s?].

    This MS possibly among the MSS given to Trinity College in 1691 by Sir Henry Newton Puckering (though not recorded in the 1697 catalogue of that collection), but it might instead derive from Daniel Skinner, who owned some of Milton's papers; who was a B.A. and minor fellow of the College in 1674 and became a major fellow in 1679.

    Cited by editors as the Trinity MS. A complete facsimile, with transcript, in Poems (1972). Earlier complete facsimiles published in an edition by W.A. Wright (Cambridge, 1899), in the Illinois Edition of Milton's Complete Poetical Works, 1943-8 (I, 381-455; II, 12-29), and by the Scolar Press (Menston, 1970). Facsimile examples in Sotheby, Ramblings (1861); in Masson, I, after p. 780; in The Cambridge Manuscript of Milton, ed. F.A. Patterson (New York, 1933); in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LII; in Carey & Fowler, after p. 234; in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 47; and in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 59.

    Discussed in Edmund Gosse, The Milton Manuscripts at Trinity, Atlantic Monthly, 85 (1900), 586-93; in Laura Lockwood, Milton's Corrections to the Minor Poems, MLN, 25 (1910), 201-5; in Allan H. Gilbert, The Cambridge Manuscript and Milton's Plans for an Epic, SP, 16 (1919), 172-6; in David Harrison Stevens, The Order of Milton's Sonnets, MP, 17 (1919-20), 25-33; in James Holly Hanford, The Arrangement and Dates of Milton's Sonnets, MP, 18 (1920-1), 475-83; in Columbia, I, ii, 408-11; in W.R. Parker, Some Problems in the Chronology of Milton's Early Poems, RES, 11 (1935), 276-83; in John S. Diekhoff, Milton's Craftsmanship as Revealed by the Revisions of the Poems of the Trinity College Manuscript (unpub. Ph.D. diss., case Western Reserve University, 1937); in John S. Diekhoff, Milton's Prosody in the Poems of the Trinity Manuscripts, PMLA, 54 (1939), 153-83; in John S. Diekhoff, Critical Activity of the Poetic Mind: John Milton, PMLA, 55 (1940), 116-18; in Maurice Kelley, Addendum: The Later Career of Daniel Skinner, PMLA, 55 (1940), 116-18; in John S. Diekhoff, The Trinity Manuscript and the Dictation of Paradise Lost, PQ, 28 (1949), 44-52; in Helen Darbishire, The Chronology of Milton's Handwriting, SCN, 11, No. 4 [Supplement] (Winter 1953), 11; in Maurice Kelley, Milton's Later Sonnets and the Cambridge Manuscript, MP, 54 (1956), 20-5; in John T. Shawcross, Speculation on the Dating of the Trinity MS of Milton's Poems, MLN, 75 (1960), 11-17; in Maurice Kelley, Daniel Skinner and Milton's Trinity College Manuscript, N&Q, 222 (May-June 1977), 206-7; in [John Shawcross] in A Milton Encyclopedia, VIII (1980), 92-3; in Masahiko Agari, A Note on Milton's Trinity MS, ELN, 22 (1984), 23-6; in William B. Hunter, A Bibliographical Excursion into Milton's Trinity Manuscript, Milton Quarterly, 19 (1985), 61-71; and elsewhere.

    • *MnJ 56 pp. 1-3
      Autograph

      Autograph draft, perhaps transcribed from an earlier draft, the pages mutilated, headed Part of a maske, a title added by Milton afterwards Arcades / Part of an Entertainement at [lacking rest of title].

      This MS collated by editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972). Discussed in John T. Shawcross, The Manuscript of Arcades, N&Q, 204 (October 1959), 359-64, and in Cedric C. Brown, Milton's Arcades in the Trinity Manuscript, RES, NS 37 (1986), 542-9. Variously dated 1629-38 (and the second heading perhaps post-1640).

      First published in Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 72-6. Darbishire, II, 159-62. Carey & Fowler, pp. 155-61.

      John Milton, Arcades
    • *MnJ 6 pp. 4-5
      Autograph

      Three autograph drafts: the first, headed Song, with extensive revisions and struck out, the page mutilated; the second, untitled, also with extensive revisions and struck out; the third, headed At a solemn Musick, a fair copy.

      This MS collated in Columbia, in Daribishire, and in Carey & Fowler. A complete facsimile in Poems (1972). A facsimile example in Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby, English Poetical Autographs (London, 1938), p. 11. Discussed in P.L. Heyworth, The Composition of Milton's At a Solemn Musick, BNYPL, 70 (1966), 450-8.

      First published in Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 27-8. Darbishire, II, 132-3. Carey & Fowler, pp. 161-5.

      John Milton, At a solemn Musick ('Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav'ns joy')
    • *MnJ 68 pp. 6-7
      Autograph

      Two autograph drafts of a letter by Milton to an unnamed friend (speculatively identified as his tutor Thomas Young), the first including Sonnet VII (MnJ 25).

      edited in Columbia, XII, 320-5, and in Yale, I, 318-21.

      John Milton, Letter(s)
    • *MnJ 25 p. 6
      Autograph

      Autograph fair copy, untitled, contained in Milton's first draft of a letter to a friend (MnJ 68).

      Edited from this MS in Columbia, XII, 322. Collated in Darbishire and in Carey & Fowler. Facsimiles in Poems (1972); in Sotheby, Ramblings, p. 14 and after p. 52; in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 11; in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 59. N.B. the poem does not appear in the second draft of the letter on p. 7 of the MS.

      First published in Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 60-1. Darbishire, II, 149-50. Carey & Fowler, pp. 146-8.

      John Milton, Sonnet VII ('How soon hath Time the suttle theef of youth')
    • *MnJ 20 p. 8
      Autograph

      Autograph fair copy, original heading [To be] set on a clock case later deleted and retitled On Time.

      This MS collated in Columbia, in Darbishire, and in Carey & Fowler. Facsimile in Poems (1972).

      First published in Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 25-6. Darbishire, II, 131. Carey & Fowler, pp. 165-6.

      John Milton, On Time ('Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race')
    • *MnJ 45 p. 8
      Autograph

      Autograph fair copy.

      This MS collated by editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972).

      First published in Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 26-7. Darbishire, II, 132. Carey & Fowler, pp. 166-7.

      John Milton, Upon the Circumcision ('Ye flaming Powers, and winged Warriours bright')
    • *MnJ 26 p. 9
      Autograph

      Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, the original heading On his dore when ye Citty expected an assault deleted by Milton and retitled in his hand When the assault was intended to ye Citty, the date 1642 also added probably by Milton and deleted.

      This MS collated by Editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972).

      First published in Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 60-1. Darbishire, II, 150. Carey & Fowler, pp. 284-5.

      John Milton, Sonnet VIII ('Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms')
    • *MnJ 27 p. 9
      Autograph

      Autograph draft, with revisions, untitled.

      This MS collated by editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972). Generally dated 1642-5.

      First published in Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 61. Darbishire, II, 150. Carey & Fowler, pp. 287-8.

      John Milton, Sonnet IX ('Lady that in the prime of earliest youth')
    • *MnJ 28 p. 9
      Autograph

      Autograph draft, with revisions, headed To ye Lady Margaret Ley.

      This MS collated by editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972). Generally dated 1641-5.

      First published in Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 61-2. Darbishire, II, 151. Carey & Fowler, pp. 286-7.

      John Milton, Sonnet X ('Daughter to that good Earl, once President')
    • *MnJ 57 pp. 13-29
      Autograph

      Autograph draft, possibly transcribed from an earlier draft, with extensive revisions, headed A maske 1634, a few words added in another hand.

      Edited from this MS, with detailed discussion, in Sprott. Collated in Columbia; in Darbishire; and in Carey & Fowler. A complete facsimile in Poems (1972). Facsimile examples in Helen Darbishire, The Chronology of Milton's Handwriting, The Library, 4th Ser. 14 (1933), 229-35; in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LII; in Carey & Fowler, facing p. 235; in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 47. Discussed also in C.S. Lewis, A Note on Comus, RES, 8 (1932), 170-6; in John S. Diekhoff, The Punctuation of Comus, PMLA, 51 (1936), 757-68; and in John T. Shawcross, Certain Relationships of the Manuscripts of Comus, PBSA, 54 (1960), 38-56 (and pp. 293-4). The MS generally dated 1634-7.

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

      John Milton, Comus
    • *MnJ 11 pp. 30-4
      Autograph

      Autograph draft, with revisions, beginning with untitled drafts of lines 1-14, 142-50 (deleted), 142-50 (again) and 58-63 (marked to be inserted in the later text), then a text of the whole poem headed Lycidas [Novemb: 1637. deleted] / In this Monodie the author bewails a lerned freind unfortunatly drownd in his passage from Chester on the Irish seas 1637.

      This MS collated in Columbia and in Darbishire, and selectively in Carey & Fowler. Facsimiles in Poems (1972), and in Lycidas: 1637-1645 (Menston: Scolar Press, 1970). Facsimile examples in Darbishire, II, frontispiece; Sotheby, Ramblings, after p. 62; in Helen Darbishire, The Chronology of Milton's Handwriting, The Library, 4th Ser. 14 (1933), 229-35; and in Carey & Fowler, after p. 234. Discussed in C.F. Stone, III, Milton's Self-Concerns and Manuscript Revisions in Lycidas, MLN, 83 (1968), 867-81; and in Karen A. Young, Lycidas from the Manuscript in the Library of Trinity College Cambridge, together with a Study of the Language of the Poem (unpub. M. Phil. thesis, University of Leeds, 1975). See also John T. Shawcross, Establishment of a Text of Milton's Poems through a Study of Lycidas, PBSA, 56 (1962), 317-31.

      First published, among Obsequies to the memorie of Mr. Edward King, in Justa Edouardo King naufrago, ab amicis moerentibus, amoris (Cambridge, 1638). Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 76-83. Darbishire, II, 163-70. Carey & Fowler, pp. 232-54.

      John Milton, Lycidas ('Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more')
    • *MnJ 67 pp. 35-41
      Autograph

      Autograph notes on themes for projected tragedies, including Paradise Lost, Abram from Morea, or Isack redeemd, Baptistes, Sodom Burning, Adam Unparadiz'd, Scotch stories, themes from early British history, Christus patiens, and various other Biblical subjects.

      Edited from this MS, as Outlines for Tragedies, in Columbia, XVIII, 228-45; and in Yale, VIII, 539-85. The notes relating to Paradise Lost edited in Carey & Fowler, pp. 419-21. Complete facsimiles in Poems (1972), and in Illinois, II, 12-29. Facsimile example in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LII. Discussed in Allan H. Gilbert, The Cambridge Manuscript and Milton's Plans for an Epic, SP, 16 (1919), 172-6; in William R. Parker, The Trinity Manuscript and Milton's Plans for a Tragedy, JEGP, 24 (1935), 225-32; in J. Milton French, Chips from Milton's Workshop, ELH, 10 (1943), 230-42; and in Audrey I. Carlisle, A Study of the Trinity College Manuscript, pages 35-41, and certain authors represented in Milton's Commonplace Book, in their relationship to Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (unpub. B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1952). The MS generally dated 1639-42.

      First published in London, 1671. Columbia, I, Part 2, 330-99. Darbishire, II, 59-109. Carey & Fowler, pp. 330-402.

      John Milton, Samson Agonistes
    • *MnJ 31 p. 43
      Autograph

      Autograph draft, with revisions, headed 11 / On the [detraction crossed out] wch follow'd upon my writing certain treatises.

      This MS collated by editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972). Variously dated 1645-53.

      First published in Poems &c. upon several Occasions (1673). Columbia, I, 62-3. Darbishire, II, 151-2. Carey & Fowler, pp. 293-5.

      John Milton, Sonnet XII. On the same ('I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs')
    • *MnJ 33 p. 43
      Autograph

      Autograph rough draft, with revisions, crossed out, headed To my freind Mr Hen. Laws Feb. 9. 1645.

      This MS collated by editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972). Discussed in MacDonald Emslie, Milton on Lawes: The Trinity MS Revisions, in Music in English Renaissance Drama, ed. John H. Long (Lexington, 1968), pp. 96-102.

      First published, as To my friend Mr. Henry Lawes, in Henry Lawes and William Lawes, Choice Psalms put into Musick for three voices (1648). Poems &c. upon several Occasions (1673). Columbia, I, 63. Darbishire, II, 152. Carey & Fowler, pp. 292-3.

      John Milton, Sonnet XIII. To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires ('Harry whose tuneful and well measur'd Song')
    • *MnJ 34 p. 43
      Autograph

      Autograph fair copy, headed afterwards in the hand of an amanuensis To Mr: Hen: Laws on the publishing of his Aires.

      This MS collated by editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972). Discussed in Emslie. Generally dated c.1653.

      First published, as To my friend Mr. Henry Lawes, in Henry Lawes and William Lawes, Choice Psalms put into Musick for three voices (1648). Poems &c. upon several Occasions (1673). Columbia, I, 63. Darbishire, II, 152. Carey & Fowler, pp. 292-3.

      John Milton, Sonnet XIII. To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires ('Harry whose tuneful and well measur'd Song')
    • *MnJ 36 p. 44
      Autograph

      Autograph rough draft, extensively revised and crossed out, with the deleted heading On ye religious memorie of Mrs Catharine Thomason my christian freind deceas'd 16 Decem. 1646.

      This MS collated by editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972).

      First published in Poems &c. upon several Occasions (1673). Columbia, I, 63-4. Darbishire, II, 152-3. Carey & Fowler, pp. 298-9.

      John Milton, Sonnet XIV ('When Faith and Love which parted from thee never')
    • *MnJ 37 p. 44
      Autograph

      Autograph fair copy, with revisions, untitled but numbered 14.

      This MS collated by editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972).

      First published in Poems &c. upon several Occasions (1673). Columbia, I, 63-4. Darbishire, II, 152-3. Carey & Fowler, pp. 298-9.

      John Milton, Sonnet XIV ('When Faith and Love which parted from thee never')
    • MnJ 30 p. 45

      Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, untitled but numbered 12.

      This MS collated by editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972).

      First published in Poems &c. upon several Occasions (1673). Columbia, I, 62. Darbishire, II, 151. Carey & Fowler, pp. 305-6.

      John Milton, Sonnet XI ('A Book was writ of late call'd Tetrachordon')
    • MnJ 32 p. 45

      Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, originally untitled but numbered 11, subsequently headed in the hand of Jeremie Picard these sonnets follow ye. 10 in ye. printed booke / On the detraccon which followed upon my writeing certaine treatises / 1 vid. ante.

      This MS collated in Columbia and in Darbishire. Facsimile in Poems (1972).

      First published in Poems &c. upon several Occasions (1673). Columbia, I, 62-3. Darbishire, II, 151-2. Carey & Fowler, pp. 293-5.

      John Milton, Sonnet XII. On the same ('I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs')
    • MnJ 35 p. 45

      Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, headed To Mr: H[en deleted]. Lawes on [the publishing of deleted] his Aires.

      This MS collated by editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972). Discussed in Emslie. Generally dated c.1653.

      First published, as To my friend Mr. Henry Lawes, in Henry Lawes and William Lawes, Choice Psalms put into Musick for three voices (1648). Poems &c. upon several Occasions (1673). Columbia, I, 63. Darbishire, II, 152. Carey & Fowler, pp. 292-3.

      John Milton, Sonnet XIII. To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires ('Harry whose tuneful and well measur'd Song')
    • MnJ 38 p. 46

      Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, untitled but numbered 14.

      This MS collated by editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972). Generally dated c.1653.

      First published in Poems &c. upon several Occasions (1673). Columbia, I, 63-4. Darbishire, II, 152-3. Carey & Fowler, pp. 298-9.

      John Milton, Sonnet XIV ('When Faith and Love which parted from thee never')
    • *MnJ 29 p. 47
      Autograph

      Autograph rough draft, with extensive revisions, untitled but numbered 12. Variously dated 1645-1653.

      This MS collated by editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972).

      First published in Poems &c. upon several Occasions (1673). Columbia, I, 62. Darbishire, II, 151. Carey & Fowler, pp. 305-6.

      John Milton, Sonnet XI ('A Book was writ of late call'd Tetrachordon')
    • *MnJ 39 p. 47
      Autograph

      Autograph draft, numbered 15, with the deleted heading On ye Lord Gen. Fairfax at ye siege of Colchester and the marginal note on ye forcers of Conscience to come in heer turn over the leafe.

      Edited from this MS in Columbia; in Darbishire; and in Carey & Fowler. Facsimile in Poems (1972). Generally dated 1648-53.

      First published, as To my Lord Fairfax, at the end of Edward Phillips's life of Milton prefixed to Letters of State, written by Mr. John Milton (London, 1694). Columbia, I, 64. Darbishire, II, 153. Carey & Fowler, pp. 321-3.

      John Milton, Sonnet XV. On the Lord Gen. Fairfax at the seige of Colchester ('Fairfax, whose name in armes through Europe rings')
    • *MnJ 40 p. 47
      Autograph

      Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, with revisions, numbered 16 and with the deleted heading To the Lord Generall Cromwell May 1652 / On the proposalls of certaine ministers at ye Commtee for Propagation of the Gospell.

      Edited from this MS in Columbia; in Darbishire; and in Carey & Fowler. Facsimile in Poems (1972. Facsimile examples in A Treatise on Christian Doctrine, ed. Charles R. Sumner (London, 1825), after p. xviii, and in Miller, p. 292.

      First published, as To Oliver Cromwell, at the end of Edward Phillips's life of Milton prefixed to Letters of State, written by Mr. John Milton (London, 1694). Columbia, I, 65. Darbishire, II, 153-4. Carey & Fowler, pp. 325-7.

      John Milton, Sonnet XVI. To the Lord Generall Cromwell May 1652 ('Cromwell, our cheif of men, who through a cloud')
    • MnJ 18 p. 48

      Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, with revisions, headed On the forcers of Conscience, with a deleted side-note, to come in as directed in the leafe before.

      This MS collated in Columbia; in Darbishire; and in Carey & Fowler. Facsimile in Poems (1972). Variously dated between 1646 and 1653.

      First published in Poems &c. upon several Occasions (1673). Columbia, I, 71. Darbishire, II, 157. Carey & Fowler, pp. 295-8.

      John Milton, On the new forcers of Conscience under the Long Parlament ('Because you have thrown of your Prelate Lord')
    • MnJ 41 p. 48

      Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, with revisions, numbered 17 and with the deleted heading To Sr Henry Vane the younger.

      Edited from this MS in Columbia and in Darbishire. Collated in Carey & Fowler. Facsimile in Poems (1972). Facsimile example in Miller, p. 296.

      First published, and dated 3 July 1652, in G. Sikes, The Life and Death of Sir Henry Vane (1662). Edited, ss To Sir Henry Vane, at the end of Edward Phillips's life of Milton prefixed to Letters of State, written by Mr. John Milton (London, 1694). Columbia, I, 65-6. Darbishire, II, 154. Carey & Fowler, pp. 327-9.

      John Milton, Sonnet XVII. To Sr Henry Vane the younger ('Vane, young in yeares, but in sage counsell old')
    • MnJ 42 p. 49

      Copy of lines 5-14 (beginning To day deep thoughts resolve with me to drench), in the hand of an amanuensis (Cyriack Skinner), imperfect, lacking the beginning.

      This MS collated in Columbia and in Darbishire. Discussed in Carey & Fowler. Facsimiles in Poems (1972), and in Darbishire, Early Lives, after p. xxvi. Generally dated c.1654-5.

      First published in Poems &c. upon several Occasions (1673). Columbia, I, 67-8. Darbishire, II, 156. Carey & Fowler (as Sonnet XVIII), pp. 412-14.

      John Milton, Sonnet XXI ('Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench')
    • MnJ 43 p. 49

      Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis (Cyriack Skinner), with revisions, untitled but numbered 22.

      Edited from this MS in Columbia; in Darbishire; and in Carey & Fowler. Facsimiles in Poems (1972), and in Darbishire, Early Lives, after p. xxvi. Generally dated c.1654-6.

      First published, as To Mr Cyriac Skinner Upon his Blindness, at the end of Edward Phillips's life of Milton prefixed to Letters of State, written by Mr. John Milton (London, 1694). Columbia, I, 68. Darbishire, II, 156. Carey & Fowler, p. 414.

      John Milton, Sonnet XXII. To Mr. Cyriack Skinner upon his Blindness ('Cyriack, this three years day these eys, though clear')
    • MnJ 44 p. 50

      Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis (Jeremie Picard), untitled but numbered 23.

      This MS collated in Columbia and in Darbishire. Facsimiles in Poems (1972); in Don M. Wolfe, Milton and His England (Princeton, 1971), p. 59; and in A Treatise on Christian Doctrine, ed. Charles R. Sumner (London, 1825), after p. xviii. Discussed in C.R. Dahlberg, Milton's Sonnet 23 on his Late Espoused Saint, N&Q, 194 (23 July 1949), 321. Generally dated c.1655-8.

      First published in Poems &c. upon several Occasions (1673). Columbia, I, 68-9. Darbishire, II, 156-7. Carey & Fowler (as Sonnet XIX), pp. 415-16.

      John Milton, Sonnet XXIII ('Methought I saw my late espoused Saint')

  • MS R. 3. 10 (James 590)

    Copy, in a professional hand, the title-page added in another hand, 43 folio leaves.

    c.1665.

    Owned in 1665 by Elizabeth (d.1689), wife of Sir Henry Newton (afterwards Puckering) (1618-1701), who donated the MS in 1691.

    This MS discussed in Fredson Bowers, The 1665 Manuscript of Dryden's Indian Emperour, SP, 48 (1951), 738-60, and, briefly, in California, IX, 381-3.

    • DrJ 268
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1667. California, IX (1966), pp. 1-112.

      John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards

  • MS R. 3. 12 (James 592)

    A folio volume of 121 poems by Donne and his Paradoxes and Problems, in a probably professional, predominantly italic hand (the scribe also probably responsible for the Dublin MS (I) (Trinity College, Dublin, MS 877); some poems by others added at the end (pp. 239-50) in other hands, 250 pages.

    c.1623-5.

    Owned in the mid-late 17th century by E. Puckering (signed f. 1r), probably a man but possibly Elizabeth (d.1689), wife of Sir Henry Newton (afterwards Puckering) (1618-1701), by whose bequest the MS came to Trinity College in 1691 (this Lady Elizabeth being the daughter of Thomas Murray (1564-1623), tutor to Prince Charles).

    Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Puckering MS, DnJ Δ 13. A note by Henry Bradshaw states that this MS was collated in 1861 and 1863 by the Rev. T.R. O' Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector.

    • DnJ 42 pp. 1-2

      Copy, headed Elegie.

      This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

      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 3281 pp. 3-4

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

      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 3453 pp. 4-5

      Copy, headed (cropped by binder) [J]o: D. to Mr H: W.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.

      John Donne, To Sr Henry Wootton ('Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well')
    • DnJ 684 pp. 6-7

      Copy, headed Elegie.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as Elegie VIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.

      John Donne, The Comparison ('As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still')
    • DnJ 2548 pp. 8-10

      Copy, headed Elegie.

      This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

      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 618 pp. 10-12

      Copy, headed Elegie.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie III, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as Elegie III). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.

      John Donne, Change ('Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too')
    • DnJ 2330 pp. 12-13

      Copy, headed Elegie.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie VIII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as Elegie VII). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.

      John Donne, 'Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love'
    • DnJ 252 pp. 13-15

      Copy, headed Elegie.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie. The Autumnall, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as Elegie IX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.

      John Donne, The Autumnall ('No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace')
    • DnJ 954 pp. 15-16

      Copy, headed Elegie.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 95 (as Elegie X). Gardner, Elegies, p. 58. Shawcross, No. 35.

      John Donne, The Dreame ('Image of her whom I love')
    • DnJ 426 pp. 16-17

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      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 3098 pp. 17-18

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      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 1795 pp. 18-19

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published, as Song, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.

      John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow ('Stand still, and I will read to thee')
    • DnJ 3722 pp. 19-20

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      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 2442 pp. 21-2

      Copy; headed Elegie.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      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 1828 pp. 22-3

      Copy, headed Elegie.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      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 3615 pp. 23-4

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.

      John Donne, The triple Foole ('I am two fooles, I know')
    • DnJ 1061 pp. 24-6

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      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 1005 pp. 27-9

      Copy, headed An Elegie vpon the death of Mistress Bulstrod.

      This MS collated in Grierson, in Shawcross and in Milgate.

      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 1444 pp. 29-30

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      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 484 pp. 30-1

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      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 3650 p. 32

      Copy, headed Twittnam Garden.

      This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

      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 2195 pp. 33-4

      Copy, headed Elegie.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as Elegie XX). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.

      John Donne, Loves Warre ('Till I have peace with thee, warr other men')
    • DnJ 1095 pp. 35-7

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      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 818 pp. 37-8

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.

      John Donne, The Curse ('Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes')
    • DnJ 1958 pp. 38-9

      Copy, headed Mummy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      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 581 pp. 39-41

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.

      John Donne, The Canonization ('For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love')
    • DnJ 2035 pp. 41-2

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.

      John Donne, Loves diet ('To what a combersome unwieldinesse')
    • DnJ 3897 pp. 43-4

      Copy of a five-stanza version, headed Loues Legacies.

      This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.

      John Donne, The Will ('Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath')
    • DnJ 2527 p. 45

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69-70. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 38-9. Shawcross, No. 77.

      John Donne, The Paradox ('No Lover saith, I love, nor any other')
    • DnJ 2909 pp. 46-7

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.

      John Donne, Song ('Goe, and catche a falling starre')
    • DnJ 658 p. 48

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      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 3981 p. 49

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson, and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.

      John Donne, Womans constancy ('Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day')
    • DnJ 1352 p. 50

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      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 1252 pp. 51-3

      Copy, headed Extasie.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      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 1997 p. 54

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.

      John Donne, Loves Deitie ('I long to talke with some old lovers ghost')
    • DnJ 1393 p. 55

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.

      John Donne, The Funerall ('Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme')
    • DnJ 2131 pp. 56-60

      Copy, headed Elegie.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as Elegie XVIII). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as Elegie XVIII). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.

      John Donne, Loves Progress ('Who ever loves, if he do not propose')
    • DnJ 343 pp. 61-2

      Copy, headed The Blossome.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 59-60. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 87-8. Shawcross, No. 68.

      John Donne, The Blossoms ('Little think'st thou, poore flower')
    • DnJ 3165 pp. 63-4

      Copy, headed Elegie.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as Elegie XIX. Going to Bed). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.

      The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's To his mistress going to bed, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.

      John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed ('Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie')
    • DnJ 176 p. 65

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.

      John Donne, The Apparition ('When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead')
    • DnJ 3482 pp. 66-8

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      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 2609 pp. 69-70

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

      John Donne, The Primrose ('Upon this Primrose hill')
    • DnJ 3312 pp. 70-1

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      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 3355 pp. 71-2

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 205. Milgate, Satires, pp. 60-1. Shawcross, No. 115.

      John Donne, To Mr T.W. ('Hast thee harsh verse, as fast as thy lame measure')
    • DnJ 3363 p. 72

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206. Milgate, Satires, p. 61. Shawcross, No. 116.

      John Donne, To Mr T.W. ('Pregnant again with th' old twins Hope, and Feare')
    • DnJ 3337 p. 73

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206-7. Milgate, Satires, p. 62. Shawcross, No. 117.

      John Donne, To Mr T.W. ('At once, from hence, my lines and I depart')
    • DnJ 3231 pp. 73-4

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 208. Milgate, Satires, p. 63. Shawcross, No. 120.

      John Donne, To Mr C.B. ('Thy friend, whom thy deserts to thee enchaine')
    • DnJ 3303 p. 74

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 211. Milgate, Satires, pp. 66-7. Shawcross, No. 124.

      John Donne, To Mr S.B. ('O Thou which to search out the secret parts')
    • DnJ 3222 pp. 75-6

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 212-13. Milgate, Satires, pp. 67-8. Shawcross, No. 126.

      John Donne, To Mr B.B. ('Is not thy sacred hunger of science')
    • DnJ 3258 pp. 76-7

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 209-10. Milgate, Satires, pp. 64-5. Shawcross, No. 122.

      John Donne, To Mr R.W. ('If, as mine is, thy life a slumber be')
    • DnJ 3250 pp. 77-8

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 212. Milgate, Satires, p. 67. Shawcross, No. 125.

      John Donne, To Mr I.L. ('Of that short Roll of friends writ in my heart')
    • DnJ 3241 pp. 78-9

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 213-14. Milgate, Satires, pp. 68-9. Shawcross, No. 127.

      John Donne, To Mr I.L. ('Blest are your North parts, for all this long time')
    • DnJ 3415 pp. 79-80

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 214-16. Milgate, Satires, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 129.

      John Donne, To Sir H.W. at his going Ambassador to Venice ('After those reverend papers, whose soule is')
    • DnJ 3430 pp. 81-2

      Copy, headed To Sr. H:G. mouing him to trauell.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 183-4. Milgate, Satires, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 130.

      John Donne, To Sr Henry Goodyere ('Who makes the Past, a patterne for next yeare')
    • DnJ 3398 pp. 83-4

      Copy, headed To Sr. E: H:.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 193-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 80-1. Shawcross, No. 140.

      John Donne, To Sr Edward Herbert, at Julyers ('Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee')
    • DnJ 3376 pp. 85-7

      Copy, headed To M. M. H.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 216-18. Milgate, Satires, pp. 88-90. Shawcross, No. 133.

      John Donne, To Mrs M.H. ('Mad paper stay, and grudge not here to burne')
    • DnJ 2711 pp. 87-9

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 124-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 92-4 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 24. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 409-10.

      John Donne, Sapho to Philaenis ('Where is that holy fire, which Verse is said')
    • DnJ 1676 pp. 90-1

      Copy, headed Elegie.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie I, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 79-80 (as Elegie I). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 9-10. Shawcross, No. 11.

      John Donne, Jealosie ('Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die')
    • DnJ 2496 pp. 91-3

      Copy, headed Elegie.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as Elegie XVI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.

      John Donne, On his Mistris ('By our first strange and fatall interview')
    • DnJ 1525 pp. 93-4

      Copy, headed Elegie.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published as Elegie V in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as Elegie V). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.

      John Donne, His Picture ('Here take my picture. though I bid farewell')
    • DnJ 2385 pp. 94-6

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published, as Elegie IV, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 44-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 84-5. Shawcross, No. 82.

      John Donne, A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day, Being the shortest day (''Tis the yeares midnight, and it is the dayes')
    • DnJ 718 p. 96

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69. Gardner, Elegies, p. 36. Shawcross, No. 76.

      John Donne, The Computation ('For the first twenty yeares, since yesterday')
    • DnJ 909 pp. 96-7

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 64. Gardner, Elegies, p. 86. Shawcross, No. 72.

      John Donne, The Dissolution ('Shee is dead. And all which die')
    • DnJ 3950 p. 98

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.

      John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture ('I fixe mine eye on thine, and there')
    • DnJ 1700 pp. 98-9

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 65-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 38. Shawcross, No. 73.

      John Donne, A Jeat Ring sent ('Thou art not so black, as my heart')
    • DnJ 2079 pp. 99-101

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 34-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 46-7. Shawcross, No. 55.

      John Donne, Loves exchange ('Love, any devill else but you')
    • DnJ 1315 pp. 101-2

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      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 1637 pp. 102-3

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.

      John Donne, The Indifferent ('I can love both faire and browne')
    • DnJ 3773 pp. 104-6

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

      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 12 pp. 106-7

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.

      John Donne, Aire and Angels ('Twice or thrice had I loved thee')
    • DnJ 2101 p. 108

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

      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 923 pp. 109-10

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.

      John Donne, The Dreame ('Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee')
    • DnJ 2628 p. 110

      Copy of stanzas 1-2.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 67-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 39-40. Shawcross, No. 47.

      John Donne, The Prohibition ('Take heed of loving mee')
    • DnJ 109 pp. 110-11

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 24-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 71-2. Shawcross, No. 48.

      John Donne, The Anniversarie ('All Kings, and all their favorites')
    • DnJ 855 p. 112

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 63-4. Gardner, Elegies, p. 49. Shawcross, No. 71.

      John Donne, The Dampe ('When I am dead, and Doctors know not why')
    • DnJ 2686 pp. 113-14

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 62-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 89-90. Shawcross, No. 70.

      John Donne, The Relique ('When my grave is broke up againe')
    • DnJ 2363 pp. 114-15

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 66. Gardner, Elegies, p. 56. Shawcross, No. 74.

      John Donne, Negative love ('I never stoop'd so low, as they')
    • DnJ 3833 pp. 115-16

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      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 3804 pp. 116-18

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.

      John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke ('I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe')
    • DnJ 1191 p. 119

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published, in a musical setting, in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 68. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 36-7. Shawcross, No. 75.

      John Donne, The Expiration ('So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse')
    • DnJ 3694 pp. 119-20

      Copy, headed Platonique Loue.

      This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.

      John Donne, The undertaking ('I have done one braver thing')
    • DnJ 740 p. 121

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      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 2283 p. 122

      Copy, untitled, under a general heading Songs wch were made to certaine Aires wch were made before.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.

      John Donne, The Message ('Send home my long strayd eyes to mee')
    • DnJ 2993 p. 123

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

      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 294 p. 124

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.

      John Donne, The Baite ('Come live with mee, and bee my love')
    • DnJ 1476 p. 125

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 83. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

      John Donne, Hero and Leander ('Both rob'd of aire, we both lye in one ground')
    • DnJ 2650 p. 125

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 84. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

      John Donne, Pyramus and Thisbe ('Two, by themselves, each other, love and feare')
    • DnJ 2375 p. 125

      Copy, under a general heading Epigrammes.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 85. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

      John Donne, Niobe ('By childrens births, and death, I am become')
    • DnJ 524 p. 125

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 86. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as Nave arsa) and 10.

      John Donne, A burnt ship ('Out of a fired ship, which, by no way')
    • DnJ 1273 p. 125

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 87. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6 (untitled), 7 (as Caso d'vn muro), and 10 (as Fall of a Wall).

      John Donne, Fall of a wall ('Vnder an undermin'd, and shot-bruis'd wall')
    • DnJ 1732 p. 126

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as Zoppo) and 10.

      John Donne, A lame begger ('I am unable, yonder begger cries')
    • DnJ 1883 p. 126

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.

      John Donne, A licentious person ('Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call')
    • DnJ 149 p. 126

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 93. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled and beginning If, in his study, Hamon hath such care), 8 (as Antiquary), and 11.

      John Donne, Antiquary ('If in his Studie he hath so much care')
    • DnJ 2261 p. 126

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 96. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.

      John Donne, Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus ('Like Esops fellow-slaves, O Mercury')
    • DnJ 2587 p. 126

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 97. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.

      John Donne, Phryne ('Thy flattering picture, Phryne, is like thee')
    • DnJ 2398 p. 126

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 98. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6 (untitled), 9 and 11.

      John Donne, An obscure writer ('Philo, with twelve yeares study, hath beene griev'd')
    • DnJ 1717 p. 127

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 99. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6, 9 and 11.

      John Donne, Klockius ('Klockius so deeply hath sworne, ne'r more to come')
    • DnJ 2666 p. 127

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 103. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 9 and 11.

      John Donne, Raderus ('Why this man gelded Martiall I muse')
    • DnJ 1147 pp. 127-30

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson, in Shawcross, and in Milgate.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 141-4. Shawcross, No. 106. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 3-6. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 87-9.

      John Donne, Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne ('The Sun-beames in the East are spred')
    • DnJ 980 pp. 131-40

      Copy, complete with the 11-poem Epithalamion, headed Eclogue Induceing an Epithalamion at the Marriage of the E: of S:.

      This MS collated in Grierson, in Shawcross, and in Milgate.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 131-44. Shawcross, No. 108. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 10-19 (as Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset). Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 133-9.

      John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 ('Unseasonable man, statue of ice')
    • DnJ 4070 pp. 141-81

      Copy of ten Paradoxes and seventeen Problems.

      This MS discussed by Evelyn Simpson in RES, 10 (1934), 416. Betagraph of the watermark in p. 241 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 238).

      Eleven Paradoxes and ten Problems first published in Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes (London, 1633). Twelve Paradoxes and seventeen Problems published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Two more Problems published in 1899 and 1927 (see DnJ 4073, DnJ 4089). Twelve Paradoxes and eighteen Problems reprinted in Paradoxes and Problemes by John Donne (London, 1923). Twelve Paradoxes (Nos XI and XII relegated to Dubia) and nineteen Problems (No. XI by Edward Herbert) edited in Peters.

      John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems
    • DnJ 1929 pp. 183-93

      Copy, headed A Letanie.

      This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      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 1416 pp. 193-5

      Copy, headed Goodfriday Made as I was rideing westward that daye.

      This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 336-7. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 185.

      John Donne, Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward ('Let mans Soule be a spheare, and then, in this')
    • DnJ 783 pp. 195-7

      Copy, headed Of the Crosse.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 331-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 26-8. Shawcross, No. 181.

      John Donne, The Crosse ('Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I')
    • DnJ 2703 p. 198

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 333-4. Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 28. Shawcross, No. 182. The MS texts discussed in Lara M. Crowley, A Text of Resurrection. Imperfect, John Donne Journal, 29 (2010), 185-98.

      John Donne, Resurrection, imperfect ('Sleep sleep old Sun, thou canst not have repast')
    • DnJ 1552 p. 199

      Copy, headed A Hymne to Christ.

      This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 352-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 48-9. Shawcross, No. 190.

      John Donne, A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany ('In what torne ship soever I embarke')
    • DnJ 1571 p. 200

      Copy, headed To Christ.

      This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 369 (and variant text p. 370). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 193. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 26, 110 (in four sequences).

      John Donne, A Hymne to God the Father ('Wilt thou forgive that sinne where I begunne')
    • DnJ 1662 pp. 201-23

      Copy.

      This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 293-316. Milgate, Satires, pp. 25-46. Shawcross, No. 158.

      John Donne, Infinitati Sacrum. 16 Augusti 1601 Metempsychosis ('I sing the progresse of a deathlesse soule')
    • DnJ 764 pp. 224-7

      Copy of the sequence of seven sonnets.

      This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 318-21. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 1-5. Shawcross, No. 160.

      John Donne, La Corona ('Deigne at my hands this crown of prayer and praise')
    • DnJ 217 pp. 227-8

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Holy Sonnets. I, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 322 (as Holy Sonnets. I). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 6. Shawcross, No. 162. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 5, 11, 21, 103 (in four sequences).

      John Donne, 'As due by many titles I resigne'
    • DnJ 2479 p. 228

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Holy Sonnets. II, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 323 (as Holy Sonnets. IV). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 163. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 21, 104 (in three sequences).

      John Donne, 'Oh, my blacke Soule! now thou art summoned'
    • DnJ 3137 ff. 228-9

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Holy Sonnets. III, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 324 (as Holy Sonnets. VI). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 164. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 22, 105 (in three sequences).

      John Donne, 'This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint'
    • DnJ 232 p. 229

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Holy Sonnets. IV, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 325 (as Holy Sonnets. VII). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 165. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 8, 14, 22, 106 (in four sequences).

      John Donne, 'At the round earths imagin'd corners, blow'
    • DnJ 1618 pp. 229-30

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Holy Sonnets. V, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as Holy Sonnets. IX). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 166. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 9, 15, 23, 107 (in four sequences).

      John Donne, 'If poysonous mineralls, and if that tree'
    • DnJ 882 p. 230

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Holy Sonnets. VI, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as Holy Sonnets. X). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 167. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 23, 107 (in four sequences).

      John Donne, 'Death be not proud, though some have called thee'
    • DnJ 3042 pp. 230-1

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Holy Sonnets. VII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 327 (as Holy Sonnets. XI). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 168.

      John Donne, 'Spit in my face you Jewes, and pierce my side'
    • DnJ 3880 p. 231

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Holy Sonnets. VIII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 327 (as Holy Sonnets. XII). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 10. Shawcross, No. 169.

      John Donne, 'Why are wee by all creatures waited on?'
    • DnJ 3868 pp. 231-2

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Holy Sonnets. IX, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 328 (as Holy Sonnets. XIII). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 10. Shawcross, No. 170.

      John Donne, 'What if this present were the worlds last night?'
    • DnJ 330 p. 232

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Holy Sonnets. X, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 328 (as Holy Sonnets. XIV). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 11. Shawcross, No. 171. Variorum, 7, Pt 1 (2005), pp. 18, 25.

      John Donne, 'Batter my heart, three person'd God. for, you'
    • DnJ 3937 pp. 232-3

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Holy Sonnets. XI, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as Holy Sonnets. XV). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 11. Shawcross, No. 172.

      John Donne, 'Wilt thou love God, as he thee! then digest'
    • DnJ 1294 p. 233

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

      First published, as Holy Sonnets. XII, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as Holy Sonnets. XVI). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 173. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 6, 12, 26, 110 (in four sequences).

      John Donne, 'Father, part of his double interest'
    • DnJ 1588 pp. 236-7

      Copy, preceded (p. 235) by Donne's prose letter to Hamilton, both subscribed J. D.

      This MS collated in Grierson, in Shawcross, and in Milgate.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 288-90. Shawcross, No. 154. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 74-5. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 220-1.

      John Donne, An hymne to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton ('Whether that soule which now comes up to you')
    • KiH 89 p. 239

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds (Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

      Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore ('Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly')
    • JnB 55 p. 242

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in The Vnder-wood (xi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 150-1.

      Ben Jonson, The Dreame ('Or Scorne, or pittie on me take')
    • KiH 584 p. 242

      Copy, untitled.

      This MS recorded in Crum.

      First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

      Musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (Oxford, 1659).

      Henry King, Sonnet ('I prethee turne that face away')
    • B&F 70 p. 243

      Copy, untitled.

      First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, IX, 105-95 (p. 149). Bowers, III, 12-93, ed. George Walton Williams (p. 48). This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Love's Cure, III, ii, 118-225. Song ('Turn, turn thy beauteous face away')
    • RnT 358 pp. 244-6

      Copy, in a cursive predominantly italic hand, subscribed Tho: Randolph.

      This MS collated in Fredson T. Bowers, A Possible Randolph Holograph, The Library, 4th Ser. 20 (1939-40), 159-62, with a facsimile of p. 246 facing p. 164. Also collated in Davis. Facsimile in Georges Borias, Randolph's Praeludium, Cahiers Elisabéthains, 29 (1986), 53-76 (after p. 54).

      First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 115-17. Davis, pp. 92-105.

      Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet ('I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare')
    • KiH 349 pp. 247-50

      Copy, headed An Elegie.

      This MS collated in Crum.

      First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.

      Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind ('Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!')

  • MS R. 3. 16 (James 596)

    Copy of Psalms 1-150, in an accomplished professional hand, some initials decorated, with a title-page, The Psalmes of Dauid metaphrased into sundry Kindes of verse, By the noble & famous gent: Sir Philip Sidney Knight, 302 folio pages, in old calf.

    Late 16th-early 17th century.

    Subscribed (p. 302) I haue perused this Metaphrase of the Psalmes by that Worthy, whose happy meditations may yield others content, and, a precedent worthy imitation, Which I desire may be published in Print. John Langley. Donated in 1664 by W. Lynnet, STB, Fellow, whose name is stamped in gilt on the front cover.

    This MS described in Ringler, p. 549.

    • SiP 87
      No description or publication history available.

      Psalms 1-43 translated by Sidney. Psalms 44-150 translated by his sister, the Countess of Pembroke. First published complete in London, 1823, ed. S.W. Singer. Psalms 1-43, without the Countess of Pembroke's revisions, edited in Ringler, pp. 265-337. Psalms 1-150 in her revised form edited in The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, ed. J.C.A. Rathmell (New York, 1963). Psalms 44-150 also edited in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke (1988), Vol. II.

      Sir Philip Sidney, The Psalms of David

  • MS R. 3. 17 (James 597)

    A manuscript volume principally of The Romance of Earl Raymond of Poitiers.

    15th century.
    • SkJ 37 [vellum flyleaf]

      Copy.

      Edited from this MS in Skeat.

      Canon, R66, p. 21. Edited in The Romans of Partenay, ed. Walter W. Skeat, EETS 22 (London, 1866), p. vi.

      John Skelton, Masteres Anne

  • MS R. 5. 1 (James 695)

    Copy, headed An account of such Service as was enioyned by your Matys Commission to me and others concerning ye present state of your Nauy, incomplete, unsigned, 16 folio leaves, bound with other tracts.

    Early 17th century.
    • CtR 5
      No description or publication history available.

      An official report by the Navy Commission, to James I, produced principally by Cotton, with corrections by Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton. Unpublished?

      Sir Robert Cotton, An Accompt of such Service as was enioyed by your Mats. Comission to me and others concerninge the prsent State of your Navy

  • MS R. 5. 5 (James 699)

    A folio composite volume of letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 86 items, in quarter-calf marbled boards.

    The letters chiefly to Anne Sadleir, of Standon, some to her husband.

    Donated by Anne Sadleir in 1669.

    • *KiH 809 No. 45
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to Mrs Anne Sadleir, from London, 14 August 1661.

      Ciited in Crum, p. 21. Edited in Hobbs, Correspondence, p. 143.

      Henry King, Letter(s)
    • *HlJ 137 No. 47
      Autograph

      Autograph letter signed, to Anne Sadleir, from Higham, 23 April [no year].

      Joseph Hall, Letter(s)
    • CoA 151 No. 78

      Copy, headed The Prologue & Epilogue to the Comedy acted before the Prince in Trinitye Colledge spoken by the Author Sr Cowley. March: 1642, on the second page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

      This MS collated in Wiley.

      First published, under the pseudonym Francis Cole, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Waller, I, 31-2 (and II, 161). Autrey Nell Wiley, The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).

      Abraham Cowley, Prologue to the Guardian ('Who says the Times do Learning disallow?')
    • CoA 80 No. 78

      Copy, on the second page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1642.

      This MS collated in Wiley.

      First published, under the pseudonym Francis Cole, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Printed (with the first line: The Play is done, great Prince, which needs must fear) in The Guardian (London, 1650). Waller, I, 32 (and II, 242). Autrey Nell Wiley, The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).

      Abraham Cowley, The Epilogue [to the Guardian] ('The Play, great Sir, is done. yet needs must fear')
    • ElQ 32 No. 83

      Copy of a version headed On the Communion and beginning Hee was the word that spake it, following other verses on the subject, on one page of two conjugate long ledger-size leaves, docketed by Anne Sadleir Verses vpon the putting downe of the Book of Common Prayer.

      First published in Alexander Huish, Lectures upon the Lord's Prayer (London, 1626), sig. Y2v of his sermon on Give us this day our daily bread. Bradner, p. 6, as Christ was the Word, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship. Collected Works, Poem 3, p. 47. Selected Works, among Wrongly Attributed Works 1, p. 330. The authorship discussed with scepticism also in J.E. Neale, Essays in Elizabethan History (London, 1958), pp. 102-3.

      A version headed On the Sacrament and beginning He was the Word that spake it published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 427, among Poems attributed to John Donne.

      Queen Elizabeth I, 'Twas Christ the Word that spake it'
    • ClJ 34 No. 84

      Copy, headed 1640 A Dialogue betweene two Zelots concerninge &c. in the New oath of Canons, on three pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves.

      First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.

      John Cleveland, A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath ('Sir Roger, from a zealous piece of Freeze')

  • MS R. 5. 8 (James 702), (III)

    Copy of 101 Ordinances, together with fifteen additional Ordinances, in a professional secretary hand, on eleven folio leaves, bound with two unrelated manuscripts, in modern boards.

    c.1620s.
    • BcF 250
      No description or publication history available.

      First published as Ordinances made by...Sir Francis Bacon Knight...being then Lord Chancellor For the better and more regular Administration of Iustice in the Chancery (London, 1642), beginning No decree shall be reversed, altered, or explained, being once under the Great Seale.... Spedding, VII, 755-74 (mentioning, on p. 757, having seen some MSS and editions of this work but without specifying them or his copy-text).

      Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery

  • MS R. 5. 9 (James 703)

    Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, with a modern title-page (otherwise untitled), 142 folio pages (plus blanks), in later calf.

    Late 16th-early 17th century.

    Inscribed (f [ir]) Ed: Rud S.T.B. Trin: Coll: Cant: Soc: 1712.

    This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

    • LeC 74
      No description or publication history available.

      First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.

      Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

  • MS R. 5. 12 (James 707)

    A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 270 leaves (including some blanks), in quarter-calf marbled boards.

    • EsR 310 ff. 155v-6v

      Copy, in a secretary hand.

      Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution
    • RaW 728.265 ff. 160v-4v

      Copy of Ralegh's Arraignment in 1603.

      Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, The Great Day of Mart: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)
    • RaW 983 ff. 164v-71v, 175v-7v

      Copy of letters by Ralegh, to his wife, in 1603; to Sir Robert Carr; and to Winwood.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
    • RaW 566 ff. 172r-7v

      Copy, in a secretary hand.

      A tract beginning If the ill success of this enterprise of mine had been without example.... First published in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 477-507. Edited by V.T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 316-34.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Apology for his Voyage to Guiana
    • BcF 84 ff. 200r-8v

      Copy, in a secretary hand, subscribed An: Dom: 1623. Octob: 20: per Eduardum Sadleir. 1623.

      First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 139-60.

      Francis Bacon, Apology in Certain Imputations concerning the late Earl of Essex
    • BcF 110 ff. 208v-12v

      Copy, the title in a large secretary hand, the rest in a roman hand, subscribed An: Dom: 1623: Octob: 24. per me Edwardu Sadleir. 1623.

      A tract beginning I do not find it strange (excellent King).... First published in London, 1603. Spedding, X, 90-9.

      Francis Bacon, A Brief Discourse touching the Happy Union of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland

  • MS R. 5. 13 (James 708)

    A folio composite volume of state and legal tracts, in various hands.

    • BcF 95.5 Item 3

      Copy of the arguments by Bacon and others, with second copies of two of the arguments, in three professional secretary hands, 41 folio pages.

      Spedding, VII, 567-611.

      Francis Bacon, Arguments of Law. The Arguments on the Jurisdiction of the Council of the Marches

  • MS R. 5. 15 (James 710)

    A folio composite volume of tracts and state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, c.281 pages, in quarter-calf marbled boards.

    • CtR 94 Item 2

      Copy, in a secretary hand, on twenty folio pages.

      Tract, relating to events in 1599/1600, beginning To seek before the decay of the Roman Empire.... First published in London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [73]-79 [i.e. 89].

      Sir Robert Cotton, A Breife Abstract of the Question of Precedencie between England and Spaine: Occasioned by Sir Henry Nevill the Queen of Englands Ambassador, and the Ambassador of Spaine, at Calais Commissioners appointed by the French King...
    • RaW 1075 item 5

      Copy, in a secretary hand, 48 pages.

      A treatise beginning Forasmuch as in every doubtfull and questionable matter, it is familiar and common amongst men to be diverse.... First published in London, 1734. It was probably written by Sir Thomas Wilford (1541-1601?), or possibly by Sir Francis De Vere or Nathaniel Boothe. See Lefranc (1968), pp. 64-5.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, A Military Discourse

  • MS R. 5. 18 (James 713)

    A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in several hands, 121 leaves, in 17th-century calf.

    With a later title-page (f. [iiir]), Leycesters Common-wealth...Together with other Political Papers written or Collected by Mr Beaupre Bell...De Beauprè Hall in Com: Norf: 1726. Inscribed inside the front cover by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary, Sept. 1. 1733. This MS. belongs to Beaupré Bell Junior, Esq. Tho: Hearne.

    • LeC 75 ff. 1r-47r

      Copy, in at least two secretary hands.

      This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

      First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.

      Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth
    • EsR 177 ff. 69r-72r

      Copy, in a secretary hand, headed A lre written by the Earle of Essex to the Earle of Rutland touching the direction of his travell Januarie 1594.

      The letter, dated from Greenwich, 4 January [1596], beginning My Lord, I hold it for a principle in the course of intelligence of state....

      First published, as The Late E. of E. his aduice to the E. of R. in his trauels, in Profitable Instructions; Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 27-73. Francis Bacon, Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 106-10. Spedding, IX, 6-15. W.B. Devereux, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), I, No. xciii.

      Essex's three letters to Rutland discussed by Paul E.J. Hammer in The Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholars, SP, 91/2 (Spring, 1994), 167-80, and in Letters of Travel Advice from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Rutland: Some Comments, PQ, 74/3 (Summer 1995), 317-22. It is likely that the first letter was written substantially by Francis Bacon.

      Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, First Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland
    • EsR 145 ff. 107r-16v

      Copy, in an accomplished professional secretary hand.

      First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.

  • MS R. 5. 20 (James 715)

    A folio composite volume of antiquarian papers, in various hands and paper sizes.

    c.1603-23.

    Donated by John Hacket (1592-1670), Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.

    The contents of this MS listed in Montague Rhodes James, The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, II (Cambridge, 1901), pp. 423-6.

    • *CmW 161 The volume as a whole
      Autograph

      A volume of antiquarian papers, compiled by, and largely in the hand of, William Camden, comprising drafts of antiquarian tracts and other writings, as well as historical notes, lists, jottings, and other material, including James I's licence to print Britannia.

      William Camden, Collectanea
    • *CmW 3 [unspecified pages]
      Autograph

      Autograph draft plan of the Annales, in double columns, on thirteen leaves, also (later) a rudimentary index to them.

      Part I (to 1589) first published in London, 1615. Parts I-II (to 1603) published in Leiden, 1625-7.

      William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha
    • *CmW 15 [unspecified pages]
      Autograph

      Autograph autobiographical notes, on one page.

      First published in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 85-6.

      William Camden, Memorabilia de seipso
    • *CmW 17 [unspecified pages]
      Autograph

      Autograph, on 45 leaves.

      Thomas Smith's own exemplum of his edition of 1691 with his MS additions to these Annales, is in the Bodleian, 4° Rawl. 204.

      First published in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 1-85.

      William Camden, Regni regis Jacobi I annalium apparatus
    • *CmW 61 [unspecified pages]
      Autograph

      Unfinished autograph draft of an untitled essay addressed to James I concerning the proiect of Armes; two pages.

      An unpublished tract beginning Most gratious and dread Soueraigne According to the Greek Adage....

      William Camden, Kings of Arms
    • *CmW 112 [unspecified pages]
      Autograph

      Autograph draft, untitled and here beginning If such an inhaerent Excellency, retentive facultie, and inseperabilitie of titles had beene known in former ages…, on seven pages.

      An unpublished tract beginning Whether the title of a Baronie brought into a familie wch afterward is invested with an Earledom....

      William Camden, The Title of Baron

  • MS R. 7. 15 (James 753)

    Autograph volume of writings by John Bale, 174 quarto leaves.

    c.1552-7.

    Donated in 1667 by William Corker, AM, Fellow.

    • *BaJ 23 The MS as a whole
      Autograph

      Autograph MS of Bale's epitome of Leland's Commentarii de scriptoribus Britannicis (LeJ 50-3), with autograph notes on papal history (material for Acta Romanorum pontificum) and other extracts.

      This MS recorded and discussed in Davies, p. 237 (xvi); in McCusker (1942), pp. 108-9; and in Fairfield, pp. 163-4.

      This version unpublished.

      John Bale, Opus Ioannis Lelandi, de illustribus uiris Anglice nationis, epitomatum, ac plerisque in locis emendatum et auctum
    • LeJ 5 ff. 3r-5r

      Copy of five of Leland's Latin epigrams, the first beginning Druydes, genus hominum tum antiquissimi nominis, in the hand of John Bale.

      Many of Leland's Latin epigrams published in Principum, ac illustrium aliquot & eruditorum in Anglia virorum, encomia, trophaea, genethliaca & epithalamia, ed. Thomas Newton (London, 1589). Reprinted in Joannis Lelandi...collectanea, ed. Thomas Hearne, 3rd edition (London, 1774), V, 79-167.

      John Leland, Poemata

  • MS R. 7. 22 (James 758)

    A formal copy of the report of the Committee appointed by King James I to inspect the Navy, seventeen leaves, bound with another tract.

    Early 17th century.
    • CtR 6
      No description or publication history available.

      An official report by the Navy Commission, to James I, produced principally by Cotton, with corrections by Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton. Unpublished?

      Sir Robert Cotton, An Accompt of such Service as was enioyed by your Mats. Comission to me and others concerninge the prsent State of your Navy

  • MS R. 7. 23* (III) (James 762)

    A quarto MS, in the calligraphic roman hand of an amanuensis, with decoration, 23 leaves, imperfect, the margins chewed by rodents, in contemporary vellum gilt.

    A presentation copy to Prince Henry, with his illuminated arms and a title-page, the dedication signed by Gorges (A Gorges) and dated 1610.

    1610.

    One in a collection of volumes presented to Prince Henry, donated in 1691 by Sir Henry Puckering.

    This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 672.

    • *GgA 128
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Unpublished.

      Sir Arthur Gorges, A Breife Discourse tending to ye wealth, and strength of this Kingdome of Greate Brittayne

  • MS R. 7. 30 (James 772)

    Copy, in a secretary hand, 156 octavo pages, in quarter-vellum boards.

    With a title-page and lengthy preamble, The royal antiquity and Princely Divinity of Royall Queene Eliza both drawne forth of the Originall Manuscript written wth hir Mates owne hand shortly after hir Coming to ye goumt ... Neuer yet Published But penned by hir Matie for hir owne priuate vse and Contentment.

    Early 17th century.

    Modern bookplate of Henry Puckering.

    • ElQ 72
      No description or publication history available.

      A treatise, beginning When Princes come to their gouernment..., allegedly written by the Queen's own hand. Unpublished.

      Queen Elizabeth I, The royal antiquity and Princely Divinity of Royall Queene Eliza

  • MSS R. 7. 32, 33 (James 774)

    Copy, entitled A Dedication to Sr. Phillip Sidney and in eighteen chapters, bound in two duodecimo volumes, each in a different hand, 75 and 60 leaves respectively, each in leather gilt.

    First half of 17th century.

    Modern bookplate of Henry Puckering.

    This MS collated in Grosart and in Smith.

    • GrF 26
      No description or publication history available.

      Generally entitled A Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney. First published in London, 1652. Grosart, IV, 1-224. Edited by Nowell Smith (Oxford, 1907). Gouw, pp. 3-135.

      Fulke Greville, Life of Sir Philip Sidney

  • MS R. 17. 10 (James 996)

    A folio composite volume of academic Latin plays, in modern half-calf.

    Donated in 1897 by W. Aldis Wright, M.A., Vice-Master.

    • AlW 266 ff. 40r-52v

      Copy, in a small non-professional hand, subscribed Authore Dre Alabaster collegij quonda Trinitatis socio.

      First acted at Trinity College, Cambridge c.1595?. First published in London, 1632. A translation by Dana F. Sutton put online in 1998 by the University of California at Irvine.

  • Adv. a. 1. 4

    Dryden's printed exemplum, containing his copious autograph corrections, glosses and annotations, on some 68 pages.

    His annotations occur in The Faery Queene (pp. 16, 24, 33-4, 41, 47, 62-4, 69, 73, 81, 88-91, 95, 99, 103-4, 129-30, 143, 154, 156-7, 161, 167, 169, 172-3, 177, 191, 202-3, 212, 217, 221, 223, 227, 239, 248-50, 253-6, 269, 271-2, 281, 288, 296, 298, 300, 307, 312, 314-15, 335), Prosopopoia (p. 6), The Shepheardes Calender (pp. 9, 39, 42), Colin Clouts come home againe (p. 57), Amoretti (p. 92) and Muiopotmos (p. 173).

    Late 17th century.

    Inscribed on the flyleaf by Jacob Tonson: The corrections made in this Book are of mr Drydens own hand writing J Tonson.

    This volume discussed in Osborn, pp. 241-5.

    • *DrJ 300
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Dryden, Spenser, Edmund. The Works Of that Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser (London, 1679)

  • Capell W. 1

    Copy, written on the last leaf (Gg 4v) of a printed exemplum of Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557).

    Late 16th century.

    This item recorded in Rollins, II, 150.

    • SuH 42
      No description or publication history available.

      First published at the end of Book III in William Baldwin, A treatise of Morrall phylosophye (London, 1547/8). Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Padelford, No. 41, p. 94. Jones, pp. 34-5.

      The texts discussed in J.M. Evans, The Text of Surrey's The Meanes to Attain Happy Life, N&Q, 228 (1983), 409-11; in W.D. McGaw, The Text of Surrey's The Meanes to Attain Happy Life -- A Reply, N&Q, 230 (December 1985), 456-8; and in A.S.G. Edwards, Surrey's Martial Epigram: Scribes and Transmission, EMS, 12 (2005), 74-82.

      Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, 'Marshall, the thinges for to attayne'

  • C.9.1611

    Exemplum of the printed edition of 1604 with the unprinted pages supplied in MS.

    c.1604.

    Facsimile of sigs D4v-[E1r] in Serjeantson and Woolford, p. 146.

    • BcF 130.5
      No description or publication history available.

      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

  • K.1.97

    MS extracts, on pp. [219-20] in an exemplum of the first printed edition, second issue [1647].

    Mid-17th century?.
    • DnJ 4058.5
      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

  • L.12.112(1)

    Autograph annotations and marginalia.

    Stern, pp. 209-10.

    • *HvG 67
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Gabriel Harvey, Duarenus, Franciscus. De Sacris Ecclesiae Ministeriis Ac Beneficiis Libri VIII. In quibus quicquid ad plenam Iuris Pontificij cognitionem necessarium est, breviter ac dilucide explicatum continetur (Paris, 1564)

  • L.12.112(2)

    Autograph annotations and marginalia.

    Stern, p. 210.

    • *HvG 68
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Gabriel Harvey, Duenarus, Franciscus. F. Duareni Jurisconsulti Clarissimi Praelectiones In Tit. Ad Leg. Falc. D. in celebri Biturig. academia habitae anno 1555. Opera Leontii Beriaci I.C. (Paris, 1561)

  • III.18.74

    Autograph annotations and marginalia.

    Stern, pp. 222-3.

    • *HvG 111
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Gabriel Harvey, Humphrey, Laurence. Interpretatio Linguarum: seu de ratione convertendi & explicandi autores tam sacros quam profanos, Libri tres (Basle, 1559)

  • VI.4.4

    MS verses on a flyleaf in a printed exemplum of Ralegh's The History of the World (London, 1621), a folio in contemporary calf.

    c.1620s-30s.

    Inscribed (f. [ir]) Ed: Rudd Trin: Coll: Cant: 1700.

    • RaW 449.5 f. [iir]

      Copy, headed Sr Waltr Raleigh his pilgrimage.

      First published with Daiphantvs or The Passions of Loue (London, 1604). Latham, pp. 49-51. Rudick, Nos 54A, 54B and 54C (three versions, pp. 126-33).

      This poem rejected from the canon and attributed to an anonymous Catholic poet in Philip Edwards, Who Wrote The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage?, ELR, 4 (1974), 83-97.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, The passionate mans Pilgrimage ('Giue me my Scallop shell of quiet')
    • RaW 95.5 f. [iir]

      Copy, in double columns, headed When Kinge James the firste sente sente [sicWorde to Sr Walther Ralegh that he shod dy. he called for a pen & wrote these verses.

      First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

      This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

      Sir Walter Ralegh, 'Euen such is tyme which takes in trust'
    • RaW 984 f. [iir]

      Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife, when expecting execution in 1603.

      Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

  • VI.18.2

    Copy, in a cursive hand, untitled, on the verso of the final flyleaf (f. 77v) in a printed exemplum of Caxton's Dictes or Sayeingis of the Philosophres (London, 1477).

    Mid-late 16th century.

    This MS edited and discussed, with a facsimile, in A.S.G Edwards and Lynne R. Mooney, A New Version of a Skelton Lyric, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 10 (1994), 507-10 and Plate 12.

    • SkJ 7.8
      No description or publication history available.

      Canon, C37, p. 11. First published in Sir John Hawkins, A General History of the Science and Practice of Music (London, 1776), III, 2. Dyce, I, 28-9. Scattergood, pp. 35-6.

      John Skelton, Manerly Margery Mylk and Ale ('Ay, besherewe yow, be my fay')

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