Untraced, Phillipps MS

Bale's autograph annotations in his composite volume of seven MS fragments written in the 12th to15th centuries, 206 vellum leaves.

Comprising: (ff. 1r-24v) Wireker's Speculum and three short poems on the Fall of Troy; (ff. 25r-52v) the Chronicle of Martinus Polonus; (ff. 53r-4r) a list of Pictish and Scottish kings; (ff. 55v-121v) a series of largely Franciscan texts; (ff. 144r-75v) part of a MS from Ramsey Abbey containing the Historia tripartita of Cassiodorus, lives of saints, &c; and (ff. 176r-205r) Thomas Rudborne, Chronica.

Early 16th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1973, lot 610, to Kraus. Description and facsimile example in the sale catalogue, pp. 102-8 and plate 29.

This volume probably corresponds to items 27, 48-9, 57, 77-8, 133, 152-3, 170-3 in the list in McCusker, The Library (1935), 149-62, but is not there recorded.

Copy; quarto. described in the Phillipps catalogue as Sir Walter Raleigh's Discourse on Spain. 1602.

17th century.

Unlocated Phillipps MS 8455, sold at Sotheby's 15 June 1896, Lot 982, to W. Flower.

Copy.

Christie's, 29 May 1986, lot 200.

Camden's extensive autograph annotations, additions and revisions in a volume of heraldic collections, c.200 pages.

Comprising visitations of Devon, Dorset and Suffolk, with pedigrees (including Sir Walter Ralegh's on f. 66r) and coats of arms drawn in trick, &c, mainly in two scribal hands, with some notes also in the hand of Henry St George the Elder (1581-1644).

Sotheby's, 14 December 1976, lot 49, to Maxwell.

A printed exemplum with Wycherley's autograph inscription For y^e fayrest Lady in Kent, M^rs Jane Twisden….

c.1704.

Puttick & Simpson's, 10 July 1861, lot 679; Sotheby's, 18 June 1962, lot 743, to Holloway. Anderson Auction Company, New York, 1 May 1911 (Robert Hoe sale, Part II), lot 3526, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue. This volume is also recorded in Phillipps MS 8101, a 19th-century MS Catalogue of Books and Pamphlets being part of the Library of Sir Roger Twysden Bar^t of Roydon Hall in the 17^th Century, a catalogue preserved at the University of Salford.

A quarto volume of tracts.

Mid-17th century?.

Sotheby's, 15 June 1896, lot 982, to W. Flower.

Copy, allegedly neatly transcribed From the Original Copy written with his own hand, with pen-and-ink drawings, prefatory verses, a title-page and index, c.330 octavo pages.

Mid-late 17th century.

Sotheby's, 8 June 1898, lot 430, to J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), of Richmond, Surrey, engineer and book collector. Sotheby's, 14 December 1993 (Fairfax sale), lot 15, to Spelman.

Facsimile examples in Sotheby's 1993 sale catalogue.

A folio guardbook of state tracts and papers, in various hands, c.1160 pages (plus blanks), in half-morocco.

c.1601-40.

Owned in 1709 by Browne Willis, MP, FSA (1682-1760), of Whaddon Hall, near Winslow, Buckinghamshire, antiquary. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 11936. Bookplate of W.A. Foyle (1885-1963), of Beeleigh Abbey, Essex, bookseller. Christie's, 12-13 July 2000 (W.A. Foyle sale, Part III), lot 317.

Autograph folio volume of pedigrees of English families, with numerous coats of arms emblazoned or drawn in trick, 56 pages (plus blanks), in 19th-century half-morocco.

Once owned by the St George family of heralds. Sotheby's, 28 June 1965, lot 43, to Jantzen. Sotheby's, 21 July 1980, lot 3 (unsold). Sotheby's, 11 July 1983, lot 84, to Ferrers-Walker.

Camden's autograph additions (pp. 6, 7, 21, 25) in a volume of pedigrees of English and European noble families, with coats of arms drawn in trick, in the hand of Nicholas Charles, Lancaster Herald (d.1613), 32 pages.

Once owned by the St George family of heralds. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1612, unsold.

A folio heraldic notebook and miscellany compiled by John Cooper, a clerk of Sir Christopher Hatton (1605?-70), and relating in part to the latter's Book of Seals, 83 leaves, in contemporary vellum boards.

c.1632-43.

Dawson's sale catalogue No. 200 (1969), item 24. Sotheby's, 29 October 1975, lot 78 (unsold).

Grant(s) of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms.

Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1623 (withdrawn).

Autograph emblazoned grant(s) of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms, in a composite volume of heraldic collections, c.80 folio pages in all (plus blanks), in Middle Hill boards.

16th-17th century.

Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1626 (withdrawn).

Autograph items by Camden in a large composite volume of heraldic MSS comprising about 250 items (plus blanks and indexes).

Successively owned and augmented by Richard Lee, Clarenceux King of Arms (d.1597), Nicholas Charles, Lancaster Herald (d.1613), Camden, and the St Georges. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1624, unsold.

An octavo miscellany, compiled by Johann Michael Wansleben (1635-79).

c.1661.

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 18428. Sotheby's, 28 June 1965, lot 61, to Miss [Winifred] Myers. Probably the Phillipps volume sold at Sotheby's 29 April 1903, lot 529, to Dobell.

MS volume of various Italian poems and other pieces, said to be the autograph of Edward Fairfax, entitled Armada, Raccolta di Pasquinate Diverse in Diverse Lingue Scritte.

c.1610.

Once in the library of James I and afterwards among the papers of the Fairfax family.

Sotheby's, 8 June 1898 (Phillipps sale of Fairfax MSS), lot 390, to Ellis.

An octavo miscellany, possibly compiled by one Ralph Parr.

17th century?.

Later owned by the Rev. John Brand (1744-1806), antiquary and topographer, and by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 May 1897 (Phillipps sale), lot 238.

Copy, item 52 in a folio volume, in contemporary binding.

Covers bearing arms of the Russel family, Earls of Bedford, Woburn Abbey. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue for 1831, item 4236. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector.