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Untraced, Abel Berland Collection

  • Berland MS (Donne)

    MS and printed copies of poems and prose works by Donne.

    A quarto collection of six poems by Donne, headed Poems of JD. not printed, and of prose works by him, neatly written throughout in a single neat predomonantly italic hand (adopting a slightly variant style for the prose), 35 pages; bound with annotated exempla of Donne's Poems (1633) and Juvenilia (1633).

    c.1630s.

    Later inscription Eccl. Cathedr. Norwi.M.91 [i.e. Norwich Cathedral]. Purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 22 January 1970, by Abel E. Berland, of Chicago, lawyer and book collector. Christie's, New York, 8 October 2001 (Berland sale), lot 36, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

    Recorded in John Donne, exhibition catalogue compiled by Robert S Pirie (Grolier Club, New York, 1972), p. 8, item 25, and in Peter Beal, More Donne Manuscripts, John Donne Journal, 6/2 (1987), 213-18 (p. 215, as Privately owned in the U.S.A.). Briefly discussed in John T. Shawcross, Notes on an Important Volume of Donne's Poetry and Prose, John Donne Journal, 9, No. 2 (1990), 137-9.

    • DnJ 4159 The printed volume as a whole

      Printed exempla of Donne's Poems (1633) and Juvenilia (1633), which both bear MS corrections and emendations in a hand different from the MS poems.

      John Donne, Poems
    • DnJ 1666.8 [Printed text]

      MS emendations.

      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 642.8 [Printed text]

      MS emendations.

      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 3121.8 [Printed text]

      MS emendations.

      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 606.5 [Printed text]

      MS emendations.

      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 1049.8 [Printed text]
      No description or publication history available.

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

      John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. ('Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way')
    • DnJ 2699.5 [Printed text]

      MS emendations.

      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 872.5 [Printed text]

      MS emendations.

      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 2576.8 [Printed text]

      MS emendations, filling out printed dashes for censored text.

      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 2785.9 [Printed text]

      MS emendations, filling out printed dashes for censored text.

      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 2149.8 [MS Poems] ff. 1r-3r

      Copy, headed Elegie 1 Loves Progresse.

      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 2521.8 [MS Poems] ff. 3r-4r

      Copy, headed Elegie . 2, with a sidenote This is in the last 8o impression.

      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 398.5 [MS Poems] ff. 4v-6v

      Copy, headed Elegie . 3 ., with a sidenote This is in the 8o. Edition.

      First published, as Eleg. XII. The Bracelet, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as Elegie XI). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.

      John Donne, The Bracelet ('Not that in colour it was like thy haire')
    • DnJ 224.5 [MS Poems] f. 7r-v

      Copy, headed Elegie . 4 .

      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 3537.8 [MS Poems] f. 8r-v

      Copy, headed Elegie . 5 .

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

      John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford ('Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right')
    • DnJ 1815.9 [MS Poems] f. 9r-v

      Copy, with a sidenote Is in the 8o Edition.

      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 4081.8 [MS Prose] ff. 1r-4v

      Copy of eight Problems, numbered XI-XVII and I, headed in another hand Problems, &c. of J.D. not printed.; 1. Probleme (Why have Bastards best fortune?) superscribed wanting in the first printed Probleme.

      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 4095.5 [MS Prose] ff. 5r-6v
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Hayward, pp. 415-17. Peters, pp. 59-62 (among Dubia). The authorship discussed in Dennis Flynn, Three Unnoticed Companion Essays to Donne's An Essay of Valour, BNYPL, 73 (1969), 424-39.

      John Donne, The True Character of a Dunce
    • DnJ 4066.5 [MS Prose] ff. 6v-9r
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Cottoni Posthuma (London, 1651), as Valour Anatomiz'd in a Fancie by Sir Philip Sidney. Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). The Prose Works of Sir Philip Sidney, ed. Albert Feuillerat, 4 vols (Cambridge, 1968), III, 308-10 (as Appendix). Hayward, pp. 417-20. Peters, pp. 62-7 (among Dubia). The authorship discussed in Dennis Flynn, Three Unnoticed Companion Essays to Donne's An Essay of Valour, BNYPL, 73 (1969), 424-39.

      John Donne, An Essay of Valour

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