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  • Baldwin 2920a

    And exemplum of William Cartwright, Comedies Tragi-Comedies, with other Poems (London, 1651).

    Later owned by Professor T. W. Baldwin.

    • CaW 75 [unnumbered item]

      The printed text marked up as a promptbook for the Duke's Company, with copious cuts, emendations, entrances and exits, and other business.

      Discussed and collated in Evans, with a facsimile of pp. 44-5 opposite p. 86. A complete facsimile of the promptbook in Edward A. Langhans, Restoration Promptbooks (Carbondale and Edwardsville), No. 17, pp. 339-80, and discussed pp. 52-3.

      First published in Works (1651). Evans, pp. 89-161.

      William Cartwright, The Lady-Errant
    • CaW 77 [unnumbered item]

      The printed text marked up as a promptbook for the Duke's Company, with copious cuts, emendations, entrances and exits, and other business, inscribed at the end with the Master of the Revels's license to act: This Comedy, called the Ordinary the Reformations observed may bee Acted not otherwise January 15. 1671[/2]. Henry Herbert MR.

      Discussed and collated in Evans, with a facsimile of pp. 88-9 opposite p. 260. A complete facsimile of the promptbook in Edward A. Langhans, Restoration Promptbooks (Carbondale and Edwardsville), No. 16, pp. 295-338, and discussed pp. 50-1.

      First published in Works (1651). Evans, pp. 269-351.

      William Cartwright, The Ordinary

  • IUA01704

    Exemplum inscribed Bought at Venyse by Mr ffrancis Gherard For Daniel Oxenbridge & by hym sent to his good Freynd Mr John Milton in London p. ye Golden Lyon Thomas Whiteing Mr ye 19th: June 1643 In Lyvorne.

    1843.

    The inscription usually treated with scepticism. An argument in its defence in Leo Miller, Milton's Oxenbridge Boiardo Validated, Milton Quarterly, 23 (1989), 26-8.

    • MnJ 126
      No description or publication history available.
      John Milton, Boiardo, S. Matteo Maria. Orlando Innamorato (Venice, 1608)

  • IUA02706

    A printed exemplum of the edition of 1611 with some MS corrections (on sig. A2).

    c.1611?.

    This item recorded in Welsh, p. 388.

    • ChG 12
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1611. Edited by Robert F. Welsh in Urbana edition, Comedies, pp. 311-96.

      George Chapman, May Day

  • IUA02707

    An exemplum of the first printed edition, with extensive MS corrections.

    c.1613?.

    This item recorded in Blakemore Evans, pp. 559-60, and the corrections printed, pp. 592-3.

    • ChG 15
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, [1613]. Edited by G. Blakemore Evans in Urbana edition, Comedies, pp. 557-94. Also in Stephen Orgel and Roy Strong, Inigo Jones: The Theatre of the Stuart Court, 2 vols (University of California Press, 1973), I, 253-63.

      George Chapman, The Memorable Masque

  • Post-1650 MS 0001

    An octavo verse miscellany, 22 leaves plus numerous blanks, in calf.

    Late 17th century.

    P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue, The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1280. Acquired from Quaritch, 23 July 1959. Formerly Uncat. MSS. Rochester, Commonplace book and 821 R58c.

    A microfilm of the MS volume is in the British Library, M/573.

    • DoC 348 ff. [6r-9r]

      Copy, headed The E. of Rs farewell.

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

      Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell ('Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age')
    • RoJ 319 ff. [9r-12r]

      Copy, headed A Satyr against man by the Earl of Rochester.

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

      First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning All this with indignation have I hurled) in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as Satyr. Love, pp. 57-63.

      The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different Answer poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind ('Were I (who to my cost already am)')
    • RoJ 589 ff. [12v-13v]

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing.

      First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, The Text of Rochester's Upon Nothing, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing ('Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade')
    • DrJ 94 ff. [13v-16v]

      This MS collated in California and in Vieth.

      First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 265-71. California, II, 53-60. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 313-36.

      The text also discussed extensively in G. Blakemore Evans, The Text of Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case for Authorial Revision, Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 85-102; in David M. Vieth, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (1953), 32-54; and in Vinton A. Dearing, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case Against Editorial Confusion, Harvard Library Bulletin, 24 (1976), 204-45. See also David M. Vieth, The Discovery of the Date of MacFlecknoe in Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, ed. René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro (Oxford, 1979), pp. 71-86.

      John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe ('All humane things are subject to decay')
    • RoJ 506 f. [16v]

      Copy, headed To A Postboy: E: of R:.

      This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

      First published, in shortened form, in Johannes Prinz, Rochesteriana (Leipzig, 1926), p. 56. Vieth, pp. 130-1. Walker, p. 103. Love, pp. 42-3.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To the Postboy ('Son of a whore, God damn you! can you tell')
    • RoJ 104.55 ff. [17r-19r]

      Copy.

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

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids ('Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second')
    • RoJ 495 ff. [19r-20r]

      Copy, headed Ovid: Amor: lib. 2d. Eleg: 9.

      This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 35-7. Walker, pp. 49-50. Love, pp. 12-13.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To Love ('O Love! how cold and slow to take my part')

  • Post-1650 MS 0168

    Copy of the last 69 lines, untitled, beginning Let Virtuoso's in five years be writ, on a single quarto leaf; imperfect, lacking the beginning.

    Probably extracted from a quarto MS volume of Poems on Affairs of State.

    c.1678-80s.

    Later owned by Dobell.

    This MS collated in California, in Blakemore Evans, and in Vieth.

    • DrJ 93
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 265-71. California, II, 53-60. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 313-36.

      The text also discussed extensively in G. Blakemore Evans, The Text of Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case for Authorial Revision, Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 85-102; in David M. Vieth, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (1953), 32-54; and in Vinton A. Dearing, Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case Against Editorial Confusion, Harvard Library Bulletin, 24 (1976), 204-45. See also David M. Vieth, The Discovery of the Date of MacFlecknoe in Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, ed. René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro (Oxford, 1979), pp. 71-86.

      John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe ('All humane things are subject to decay')

  • Post-1650 MS 0191

    Fragment of a verse miscellany, possibly of Scottish provenance.

    Late 17th century.

    Acquired from Stonehill, 30 June 1945. Formerly Uncat. MSS. Rochester's Censures.

    • RoJ 33 pp. 209-12

      Copy, headed Rotchestrs censures of the poets.

      This MS recorded, as Illinois MS. 30 Je 45 Stonehill, in Vieth; collated in Walker.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book ('Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes')

  • Pre-1650 MS 0150

    Fragment of a small octavo autograph commonplace book compiled by Gabriel Harvey, five leaves, in half-morocco.

    c.1584.

    Bookplates of Frederick William Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector, and of Thomas Jefferson McKee (1840-99), New York lawyer and collector. Anderson Galleries, New York, 2-3 December 1901 (McKee sale, Part IV), lot 2960, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue. Afterwards owned by George Clifford Thomas (1839-1909), Philadelphia financier and collector. Bookplate also of John Gribbel (1858-1936), Philadelphia financier and collector. Parke Bernet, 7-8 May 1945 (Gribbel sale, Part Four), lot 240, to Stonehill Books, New Haven.

    Stern, p. 243 (as whereabouts unknown). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Alvan Bregman, A Gabriel Harvey Manuscript Brought to Light, The Book Collector, 54, No. 1 (Spring 2005), 61-81.

    • *HvG 7
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Gabriel Harvey, Commonplace Book fragment

  • Pre-1650 MS 0158

    Copy, in a professional hand, on 35 folio leaves.

    c.1630s.

    Formerly in the Kensington Palace library of Augustus Frederick (1773-1843), Duke of Sussex, sixth son of George IIII. Sale of the Duke of Sussex's library, at Evans's (Sotheby's), 31 July 1844, lot 462, to Thorpe. Owned in 1845 by George Livermore, of Dann Hill, Cambridge, Mass. Livermore sale in Boston, 1894, lot 2095. Sold 27 December 1941 by Dobell. Formerly Uncat. MSS, Bible OT, Job, English, attrib. G. Sandys.

    This MS described (as an original transcript) and extensively quoted in Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, Bibliotheca Susseriana. A Descriptive Catalogue...of the Manuscripts and Printed Books contained in The Library of His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex...in Kensington Palace, Volume I, Part 1 (London, 1827), item 1.

    • SaG 6
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638). Hooper, I, 1-78.

      George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon Job ('In Hus, a land which near the sun's uprise')

  • Pre-1650 0163

    A commonplace book.

    c.1648.
    • DrJ 267.7 unspecified page numbers

      Extracts.

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

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

  • Pre-1650 MS 0177

    A small quarto miscellany, in various hands, possibly compiled in part by one William Leigh, in modern leather.

    c.1650.

    Inscribed (f. 1v) Buckley 1772. Acquired in 1950 from P.M. Mill. Formerly MS Leigh, William (?), comp., Commonplace Book (ca. 1650).

    This volume offered in Maggs's sale catalogue No. 640 (1937), item 302.

    • LoR 40 pp. 4-5

      Copy, headed Captaine Lovelace, to his Althea from Prison.

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

      Richard Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison. Song ('When Love with unconfined wings')
    • CwT 914 p. 9

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

      Thomas Carew, Song. Perswasions to enjoy ('If the quick spirits in your eye')
    • CwT 868 pp. 9-10

      Copy.

      First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 23-4.

      Thomas Carew, Song. Eternitie of love protested ('How ill doth he deserve a lovers name')
    • WiG 8 p. 17

      Copy, headed A songe of Ben: Jonsons, followed (p. 18) by Withers paralel to Ben Jonson (beginning Shal I my affection slacke).

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

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

      George Wither, The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet ('Shall I wasting in despair')
    • WoH 247 pp. 20-1

      Copy, headed A contempt of ye world.

      First published, as a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by Dr. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World ('Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!')
    • DnJ 322 p. 22

      Copy of a six-stanza version, headed One to his Love.

      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')
    • StW 1329 p. 29

      Copy, headed An answer of Dr Corbet to his Mrs who ask'd him why the rose was red and ye Lylly white.

      First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

      William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress ('Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde')
    • KiH 160 pp. 43-5

      Copy, headed A Coppy of verses composed on the frailty of man.

      First published in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 12-15]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 174-7.

      Henry King, An Elegy Occasioned by Sicknesse ('Well did the Prophet ask, Lord what is Man?')
    • KiH 456 p. 82

      Copy, headed Verses compos'd one the ffrailty of mans life Made by J:H..

      First published, as Man's Miserie, by Dr. K, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.

      Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation ('Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care')

  • Pre-1650 MS 0183

    Copy, headed Of Robert Deuerux Earle of Essex and George Villers Duke of Buckingham, 63 small quarto pages, in contemporary calf.

    c.1634-41.

    Acquired from King, 2 September 1943. Formerly Uncat. MSS. Wotton.

    • WoH 285.8
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).

      Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham

  • 821.08/C737/17—

    A duodecimo miscellany of chiefly Restoration verse and drama, including thirteen poems by Waller and also extracts from 45 poems by Donne, the greater part in a single neat hand (also responsible for Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 4146), 241 pages (plus blanks).

    c.1690-1700.

    Inscribed (on front pastedown and f. 133r) by one Peter Save and, in 1743, by one Joseph Butler.

    Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Save MS: WaE Δ 13.

    • DrJ 2.9 ff. 31v-2v

      Extracts.

      First published in London, 1681. Kinsley, I, 215-43. California, II, 2-36. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 450-532.

      John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel ('In pious times, e'r Priest-craft did begin')
    • BuS 1.8 ff. 32v-40r

      Extracts.

      Part I first published in London, 1663 [i.e. 1662]. Part II published in London, 1664 [i.e. 1663]. Part III published in London 1678 [i.e. 1677]. the whole poem first published in London, 1684. Edited by John Wilders (Oxford, 1967).

      Samuel Butler, Hudibras ('Sir Hudibras his passing worth')
    • DnJ 280.8 f. 46v

      Copy of lines 33-42, headed For Age.

      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 642.5 f. 46v

      Copy of lines 35-6, 5-6, 15-16, headed For Age.

      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 2429.5 f. 46v

      Copy of lines 15-24, headed Night.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 271-9. Shawcross, No. 153. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 66-74. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 177-82.

      John Donne, Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford ('Faire soule, which wast, not onely, as all soules bee')
    • DnJ 2576.5 f. 46v

      Copy of lines 13-14, headed For Age.

      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')
    • WaE 618 ff. 47v-8

      Copy, headed On the Kings Navy.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 15-16.

      Edmund Waller, To the King, on his Navy ('Wher'er thy navy spreads her canvas wings')
    • WaE 242 f. 48r

      Copy, headed Playing on ye Lute.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 90.

      Edmund Waller, Of My Lady Isabella, Playing on the Lute ('Such moving sounds from such a careless touch!')
    • DnJ 74.8 f. 48v

      Copy of lines 3-8, 15-16, 23-8, 37-8, 55-6, headed Beautie.

      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 714 ff. 48v-9r

      Copy of lines 19-22, 25-6, 31-4, 15-18, 27-8, headed Beautie.

      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 1337.5 ff. 49r-v, 67v

      Copy of lines 115-22, 125-6, 129-30, 143-6, 175-6, 305-8 and (on f. 67v) 305-8 again, headed Decay o' Mans Age.

      First published in An Anatomie of the World (London, 1611). Grierson, I, 229-45. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 7-17.

      John Donne, The First Anniversary ('When that rich Soule which to her heaven is gone')
    • DnJ 2877.5 f. 49v

      Copy of lines 9, 12-13, 17-18, headed Decay o' Mans Age.

      First published in London, 1612. Grierson, I, 251-66. Shawcross, No. 157. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 41-56. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 25-37.

      John Donne, The second Anniversary. Of the Progresse of the Soule ('Nothing could make me sooner to confesse')
    • DnJ 1338.5 ff. 49v, 67v.

      Copy of lines 51-4, 59-60, and (on f. 67v) 51-4 again, headed Decay o' Mans Age.

      First published in An Anatomie of the World (London, 1611). Grierson, I, 245-8. Shawcross, No. 156. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 35-8.

      John Donne, The First Anniversary. A Funerall Elegie (''Tis lost, to trust a Tombe with such a guest')
    • DnJ 334.5 f. 50v

      Copy of lines 12-14, untitled.

      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 874 f. 51r

      Copy of lines 1-8, untitled.

      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 1269 f. 51r

      Copy of lines 1-20, untitled.

      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 1239.5 f. 51r

      Copy of lines 66-70, untitled.

      First published, as Elegie, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 108-10 (as Elegie XV). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 94-6 (among her Dubia). Shawcross, No. 22. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 369-70.

      John Donne, The Expostulation ('To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true')
    • DnJ 515.5 f. 51v

      Copy of lines 23-30, untitled.

      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 991.5 f. 51v

      Copy of lines 39-40, untitled.

      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 1547.5 f. 51v

      Copy of lines 5-10, untitled.

      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 2470.5 f. 51v

      Copy of lines 14-19, untitled.

      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 2722.5 f. 51v

      Copy of lines 13-14, untitled.

      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 3389.5 f. 51v

      Copy of lines 21-4, 47-8, untitled.

      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 3542.5 f. 51v

      Copy of lines 7-8, untitled.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 195-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 95-8. Shawcross, No. 138.

      John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford ('T' have written then, when you writ, seem'd to mee')
    • DnJ 3968.5 f. 51v

      Copy of lines 1-3, untitled.

      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 29.5 f. 52r

      Copy of lines 2-4, untitled.

      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 1301.5 f. 52r

      Copy of lines 13-14, headed Pious things.

      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 942.5 f. 52r

      Copy of lines 7-20, headed Wak't by a Lady.

      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 1471.5 f. 52r

      Copy of lines 19-21, untitled.

      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 2122.5 f. 52r

      Copy of lines 11-14, untitled.

      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 3121.5 f. 52r

      Copy of lines 11-13, untitled.

      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 3681.5 f. 52r

      Copy of lines 19-22, untitled.

      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 1984.8 f. 52r-v

      Copy of lines 6-11, 23-4, headed Wak't by a Lady.

      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 1086.8 f. 59r

      Copy of lines 41-2, headed Pious things.

      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 1429.5 f. 59r

      Copy of lines 17-18, headed Pious things.

      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 1561.5 f. 59r

      Copy of lines 26-8, headed Pious things.

      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 1946.8 f. 59r

      Copy of lines 89-90, headed Pious things.

      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 2707.5 f. 59r

      Copy of lines 5-6, headed Pious things.

      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 3046.5 f. 59r

      Copy of lines 11-14, headed Pious things.

      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 3505.5 f. 59r

      Copy of lines 39-40, headed Pious things.

      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 3944.5 f. 59r

      Copy of lines 13-14, headed Pious things.

      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 2752.3 f. 60r

      Copy of lines 15-22, 35-6, 41-4, 71-6, headed Empty Fop.

      First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.

      John Donne, Satyre I ('Away thou fondling motley humorist')
    • DnJ 2785.5 f. 60r

      Copy of lines 47-52, 57-8, headed Empty Fop.

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

      John Donne, Satyre II ('Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate')
    • DnJ 2814.5 f. 60r

      Copy of lines 45-8, untitled.

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

      John Donne, Satyre III ('Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids')
    • DnJ 1026.5 f. 67v

      Copy of lines 13-16, untitled.

      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')
    • WaE 298 f. 69r

      Copy, headed The Scandall.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 50.

      Edmund Waller, Of the Misreport of her being Painted ('As when a sort of wolves infest the night')
    • WaE 193 f. 69r-v

      Copy, headed Passing thro' a Crowd.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 51.

      Edmund Waller, Of her Passing through a Crowd of People ('As in old chaos (heaven with earth confused)')
    • WaE 230 f. 69v

      Copy, headed Singing.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 91. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

      Edmund Waller, Of Mrs. Arden ('Behold, and listen, while the fair')
    • WaE 366 ff. 69v-70r

      Copy, headed Stags Horns.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 110.

      Edmund Waller, On the Head of a Stag ('So we some antique hero's strength')
    • WaE 176 f. 70r-v

      Copy, headed The Chamber.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 26.

      Edmund Waller, Of her Chamber ('They taste of death that do at heaven arrive')
    • WaE 89 f. 70v

      Copy, headed Sending a Rose.

      First published, as On the Rose, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 128. Setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).

      Edmund Waller, 'Go, lovely Rose'
    • WaE 504 f. 71r

      Copy, headed Singing A Song o' Mine.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 105. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published, as To the same Lady singing the former Song, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

      Edmund Waller, To a Lady Singing a Song of his Composing ('Chloris! yourself you so excel')
    • WaE 449 f. 71v

      Copy, headed The Dream.

      First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 53-4.

      Edmund Waller, Song ('Say, lovely dream! where couldst thou find')
    • WaE 343 f. 72r

      Copy, headed Discovery o' Painting.

      First published, as On a patch'd up Madam, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 99.

      Edmund Waller, On the Discovery of a Lady's Painting ('Pygmalion's fate reversed is mine')
    • WaE 622 ff. 72v-3v

      Copy, headed The Kings Return.

      First published as a broadside (London, [1660]). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 35-9.

      Edmund Waller, To the King, upon His Majesty's happy Return ('The rising sun complies with our weak sight')
    • WaE 474 f. 73v

      Copy, headed Playing with a Snake.

      First published, as Of a fair Lady playing with a Snake, in Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 47.

      Edmund Waller, To a Fair Lady, Playing with a Snake ('Strange|! that such horror and such grace')
    • WaE 123 f. 74r-v

      Copy, headed Pretty in ye dark.

      First published in Poems, Third edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 65-6.

      Edmund Waller, The Night-Piece. or, A Picture drawn in the Dark ('Darkness, which fairest nymphs disarms')
    • DnJ 2847.5 f. 74v

      Copy of lines 18-20, 23-7, 30, 35-6, 73, 127-8, 198, 225-8, headed A Pill.

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

      John Donne, Satyre IV ('Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne')
    • DnJ 1665.5 f. 75r

      Copy of lines 309-20, 328-32, 334-5, headed Whale.

      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 569.8 f. 75v

      Copy of line 24, headed Storm.

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

      John Donne, The Calme ('Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage')
    • DnJ 3086.5 f. 75v

      Copy of lines 25-8, 43-50, 62, 71-2, headed Storm.

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

      John Donne, The Storme ('Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)')
    • DrJ 250 f. 104r
      No description or publication history available.

      California, XI, 51-2. Song in Kinsley, I, 130-2. Hammond & Hopkins, I, 238-9. Songs first published in Westminster-Drollery (London, 1671).

      John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part I, Act II, scene i, lines 198-232. Song ('Beneath a Myrtle shade')

  • 881 L71601 copy 1

    An exemplum with Milton's autograph inscription on the title-page, Sum ex libris Jo: Miltoni, and his copious marginal annotations.

    c.1630s.

    Also inscribed Nunc Josephi Wells & amicorum pre: 13s. 1634. Once owned by Francis William Caulfield (1775-1863), second Earl of Charlemont. Sotheby's, 11 August 1865, lot 71. Bookplate of Birket Foster (1825-99), painter and illustrator. Sotheby's, 11 June 1894, lot 38, to Quaritch. Later owned by Adrian Van Sinderen of Brooklyn.

    The annotations discussed in Sotheby, Ramblings, pp. 110-11, and, in considerable detail, in Harris Francis Fletcher, John Milton's Copy of Lycophron's Alexandra in the Library of the University of Illinois, Milton Quarterly, 23/4 (December 1989), 129-66. Edited in Columbia, XVIII, 320-5. Facsimile examples in Kelley and Atkins, SB, 17 (1964), 77-82. Recorded in Hanford No. 3, and in Boswell, No. 941.

    • *MnJ 123
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Milton, Lycophron. Lycophronis Alexandra (Geneva, 1601)

  • X881 H215 1544

    An exemplum with Milton's autograph inscription on the flyleaf, Jo. Milton pd pre: 5s 1637.

    c.1637.

    Maggs's sale catalogue Mercurius Britannicus, No. 100 (January 1947), item 71.

    Discussed in Harris Fletcher, Milton's Copy of Gesner's Heraclides, 1544, JEGP, 47 (1948), 182-7. Facsimile examples in Sotheby, Ramblings, after p. 124 (Plate XVII [bis], No. i, item 4), and in Kelley and Atkins, SB, 17 (1964), 77-82. Recorded in Hanford No. 6; in Columbia, XVIII, 577; in LR, I, 304; and in Boswell, No. 746.

    • *MnJ 122
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      John Milton, Heraclides of Pontus. Allegoriae in Homeri fabulas de dijs (Basel, 1544)

  • Uncat. MSS, Bible OT. Song of Solomon, English. Paraphrase by George Sandys

    Copy, in a professional hand, on ten quarto leaves.

    c.1630s-40s.

    Inscribed (twice) on the last blank page James Halsteede. Sold 27 December 1941 by Dobell.

    • SaG 29.5
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1641. Hooper, II, 335-56. Dedicatory verses To the Queen first published in A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1676). Hooper, II, 338.

      George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon the Song of Solomon ('Join thy life-breathing lips to mine')

  • Uncat. MSS. Joseph Hall. two Sermons [etc.]

    A MS volume of sermons, 48 folio leaves (plus 5 blanks).

    In a semi-calligraphic hand, in black and red ink, by or associated with one Henry Feilde.

    c.1620s.

    Sold by Winifred Myers, 21 December 1949.

    • HlJ 61 ff. [7r-10v]

      Copy, headed The Text Eexurgat Deus disipetur mimici Let god arise let his Enemyes Bee Scattered ooop Psalme 68: 1: and beginning My Texte is the Kings Motto..., ascribed to Joseph Hall.

      Unpublished sermon, beginning My Text is the King's Motto....

      Joseph Hall, Sermon on Psalms 68.1

  • Verses OT, 221.52 B47 1629

    A formal copy of all 150 Psalms, in a professional hand, with decorated initial majuscules, 248 folio pages, in leather gilt.

    c.1630.

    Inscribed (on front and rear pastedowns) W Corke[?] New Coll: Oxon and W Croke[?] Coll Nov. Oxon. 1762. Sold 2 January 1942 by Dobell.

    • SiP 76.8
      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

  • [no shelfmark]

    Copy of lines 1-8, 17-24, headed An Address to Vulcan, with a musical setting.

    Late 17th century.

    This MS cannot now be located, unless Vieth's reference to it is mistaken. It appears to be identical with RoJ 552.

    This MS recorded (as Illinois MS. 20 D 43 Ellis) in Vieth, Attribution.

    • RoJ 553
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Poems on Several Occasions (Antwerp, 1680). Vieth, pp. 52-3. Walker, pp. 37-8. Love, pp. 41-2, as Nestor.

      John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Drinking a Bowl ('Vulcan, contrive me such a cup')

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