Verse
See also BrW 257-8.
‘A hapless shepherd on a day’
First published in Goodwin (1894), II, 208-9.
BrW 1
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts, poems and other papers, in various hands, 329 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Fols 1r-82r comprise a separate collection of verse and some prose, possibly in a single predominantly secretary hand with some variants of style, the first leaf (f. 1) inscribed in another hand ‘Poems by Wm: Browne of the Inner-Temple Gent &c / 1650’, this possibly applying to the poems up to f. 62v, which is subscribed ‘ffinis W Browne’. c.1637-50.
This volume comprising Parts 1-3, 5, 8-13, of what was formerly a single composite volume but is now bound in three volumes.
Inscribed (f. 280v) ‘Philip Butler his book’.
Edited from this MS in Goodwin.
Amour (‘Like to the world my love I find to be’)
First published in Goodwin (1894), II, 225-6.
*BrW 2
Autograph fair copy, on one page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1613.
In: William Browne's printed exemplum of Britannia's Pastorals, Books I and II (1616), bound with other MS works by him. c.1613.
Edited from this MS in Goodwin.
‘Behold, O God, in rivers of my tears’
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 4-5.
BrW 3
Copy, untitled, with rudimentary patterning.
In: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 310-11. Discussed, with a facsimile, in Gillian Wright, ‘A Pattern Poem by William Browne of Tavistock: “Behold O God in Rivers of my Tears”’, EMS, 7 (1998), 264-74.
BrW 3.5
Copy in: A letterbook of correspondence sent to an officer serving in India in 1810. c.1810.
BrW 4
Copy, imperfect, largely torn away.
In: A long ledger-size miscellany of recusant verse and some prose, including 32 poems by Robert Southwell, largely in the single neat hand of Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68), a second hand on pp. 119-21, viii + 130 pages, some leaves partly torn away, in contemporary vellum. c.1651-7.
Associated with the Fairfax family of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, including Thomas Fairfax (d.1691), yeoman. Later inscribed with the name ‘Harriet Marcusden’. Sold by P.J. Dobell, 1948.
Discussed in Cedric C. Brown, ‘Recusant Community and Jesuit Mission in Parliament Days: Bodleian MS Eng. poet. b. 5’, Yearbook of English Studies, 23 (2003), 290-315.
BrW 4.3
Copy, set out calligraphically in patterned formation, headed ‘On the glorious Passion & Resurrection of our Lord, & Saviour Jesus Christ’ and beginning ‘Behold O Lord IN RIvers of my Tears’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, a neat mixed hand predominating up to f. 55r, 151 leaves (including a few blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1730.
Inscribed (in another hand) on the front pastedown ‘Thomas Boydell’. Formerly Folger MS 4108.
Discussed, with a facsimile, in Gillian Wright, ‘A Pattern Poem by William Browne of Tavistock: “Behold O God in Rivers of my Tears”’, EMS, 7 (1998), 264-74.
BrW 4.5
Copy, in a formal pattern, headed ‘Prayer’, here beginning ‘Behold o God INRIvers of my teares’ and subscribed ‘Will Browne seruiens Com Pembrock’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, including some thirty poems by Donne, in several hands, associated with the Inns of Court, with a 19th-century title-page, ‘A Collection of Original Poetry, written about the time of Ben: Johnson, qui ob. 1637’ and erroneously annotated ‘Chiefly in the Autograph of Dr. Donne Dean of St. Paul's’.67 pages (plus index). c.1614-25.
Later owned by Sir John Simeon, third Baronet, MP (1815-70); by Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-85), first Baron Houghton, author and politician, and by his son, Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Sotheby's, 22 July 1980, lot 585, to Quaritch.
Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Monckton Milnes MS’: DnJ Δ 63. Briefly discussed in Sir John Simeon, ‘Unpublished Poems of Donne’, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3, and, with selected collations, in Grierson (II, cix et passim). A complete set of photographs of the MS is in the British Library, RP 2031.
BrW 4.7
Copy, set out in patterned formation, untitled and here beginning ‘Beholde O God IN Riuers of my Teares’.
In: A folio miscellany of chiefly religious verse, in a calligraphic hand adopting various secretary and italic scripts and decorative motifs, in black and red ink, on fifteen leaves (plus three blanks), in modern quarter-morocco. In a hand associated with one Henry Feilde. c.1630s.
Britannia's Pastorals, Books I and II
Book I first published London, 1613. Book II first published London, 1616. Goodwin, Vol. I.
*BrW 5
A few marginal MS corrections and revisions to the printed text made by one or perhaps two amanuenses, with one or two single-word alterations in Browne's own hand, some additional pencil markings in a modern hand. [1616-1625].
In: the MS described under BrW 2. c.1613.
This volume used as copy-text in Goodwin. Discussed in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘Towards a Text of Browne's Britannia's Pastorals’, The Library, 4th Ser. 11 (1930-1), 193-202.
BrW 5.5
Extracts.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, i + 200 leaves (ff. 129-199 blank), in quarter-vellum over boards. Compiled by John Phillipps, of Exeter College, Oxford, and the Middle Temple, who has inscribed the front pastedown ‘John Phillipps. med: Temp: Lond: 1776’. c.1776-1804.
Acquired from Cumming of Exeter, 1941.
BrW 6
Extracts, comprising (p. 159) versions of Book I, Song 3, lines 477-8, headed ‘On a Ring’ and here beginning ‘Nature hath fram'd a Jem beyond compare’; lines 479-80, headed ‘On a Nose gay with a netle in it’ and here beginning ‘Such is ye posy loue composes’; (p. 167) Book I, Song 1, lines 241-2, headed ‘of a fayr woman’, here beginning ‘The powers aboue deny’, and followed by four other lines not found in the printed text; and (p. 169) the same six lines followed by a further six lines, headed ‘Vppon a fayre woman’ and inscribed in the margin ‘al this is taken out of brittanis pastorals’; c.1630.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single mixed hand, with additions in other hands, associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 315 pages (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett. c.1630s.
Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the ‘Curteis MS’: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, ‘Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript’, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.
BrW 7
Copy of Book I, Song 3, lines 477-8, headed ‘On a ring’ and here beginning ‘Nature hath fond a geeme without compare’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf. c.1630s.
Inscribed (f. 101v) ‘Henry Lawson’ (or just possibly ‘Lamson’). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Lawson MS’: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.
BrW 7.3
Extracts, headed ‘Seuerall sententious veres [sic] out of Britanias Pastorals’, here beginning ‘He that is stuffed wth a faithlesse tumour’.
In: An oblong octavo miscellany of largely devotional verse and some prose, including (ff. 7v-22r) twelve poems by Crashaw, probably transcribed from Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652), in a single italic hand, written across the width of the pages with the spine upwards, with (ff. 181r-8r) a table of contents, 188 leaves, in calf gilt. Entitled Collections out of seuerall Authors by Marmaduke Raudon Eboracensis 1662: i.e. compiled by Marmaduke Rawdon (1610-69), traveller and antiquary, of Guiseley, Yorkshire, who later lived with his cousin, also named Marmaduke Rawdon, at Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, the MS including elegies on yet another (Sir) Marmaduke Rawdon (1582-1646), Governor of Basing House. c.1662.
Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849). Rodd's sale catalogue, February 1850, item 764.
Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Rawdon MS: CrR Δ 2. Crashaw's work collated in Martin (cited as A1) and discussed pp. lxxx-lxxxi.
For other Rawdon miscellanies, see Yale, Osborn MS fb 150; York Minster, MS Add. 122; and a MS sold at Puttick and Simpson's, 3 March 1870, lot 552, to Nicholls. For the Rawdon family, see H.F. Hayllar, The Chronicles of Hoddesdon (1948), pp. 52-4.
BrW 7.5
Copy of Book I, Song 3, lines 477-8, headed ‘A Ring sent’ and here beginning ‘Nature framd a Jemme without compare’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in a single secretary hand, written from both ends, 179 leaves, in 19th-century half blue morocco gilt. c.1640s.
Inscribed (f. 179r) ‘This is Sr. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book’: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.
BrW 8
Copy of Book I, Song 3, lines 477-8, headed ‘his mistress’ and here beginning ‘Nature Hath fram'd a Gem beyod copare’.
In: An octavo notebook of extracts in verse and prose, in a small untidy hand, written from both ends, 42 leaves (plus three blanks), badly worn, remains of boards and green ties. c.1640.
Includes (f. [31r rev.] a reference to ‘my brother Capstons account book after his death 1632’. Given to the library by H.L. Pink, Assistant Under-Librarian, 22 November 1948.
BrW 8.5
Copy of Book I, Song 3, lines 477-8, headed ‘Mr. Browne on his mistresse’ and here beginning ‘Nature hath wrought a gemme beyond compare’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany (originally in two separate volumes), including eleven poems by Donne, chiefly in two hands, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 98 leaves, one of the original vellum covers now incorporated in modern red morocco. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Stephen Wellden’ and ‘Abraham Bassano’ and (f. 98r) ‘Elizabeth Weldon’. Later owned by William John Thoms (1803-85), writer, antiquary and librarian. Sotheby's, 11 February 1887 (Thoms sale), lot 1092. Also owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.4.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Welden MS’: DnJ Δ 49.
BrW 9
Copy of Book I, Song 3, lines 479-80, headed ‘A nosegay wth nettles’ and here beginning ‘Such is the posye love composes’, and of lines 481-2, headed ‘A Girdle’ and here beginning ‘This dureing light I give to clipt your waist’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, 215 leaves (plus a few blanks), in modern calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 17 of the Hopkinson MSS. c.1670.
Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 295-6.
BrW 10
Copy of Book I, Song 3, lines 479-80, headed ‘A Nosegay of Poses, wth a Nettle in it’ and here beginning ‘Such is the poesye loue composes’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single cursive secretary hand, with a later title-page supplied in 1832, x + 116 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century black leather elaborately gilt. Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by the compiler, ‘Richardus Jackson 1623’ and ‘Richard Jackson his booke’, who is described in a later pencil note as perhaps the brachygrapher. On ff. 113v-16r, in a later hand, is a ‘Catalogue of ye Books lately belonging to ye. Rev. Mr Jackson Rectr of Tatham’. c.1628-30s.
Also inscribed (f. 1r) ‘John Pecke’. Sold by Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, in 1831-2. Among collections of James Orchard Halliwell (from 1872 Halliwell-Phillipps) (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bought by him in 1871 from Sotheran's, London.
A 247-page transcript of this volume made c.1830 is in the Folger Shakespeare Library, MS M.b.26.
BrW 11
Copy of Book I, Song 3, lines 481-2, headed ‘On a Girdle’ and here beginning ‘This during Light I giue to Clippe your waste’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks). Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s-40s.
Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘English Poetry MS’: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.
BrW 12
Copy of Book I, Song 3, lines 481-2, headed ‘a girdle’ and here beginning ‘This during light I give to clip your waist’
In: An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in two very small hands (A: ff. 1r-44v; B: ff. 44v-87v), with further verse and prose pieces in other hands on ff. 88r-121r, written from both ends, associated with Oxford, possibly New College, and probably afterwards with the Inns of Court, 155 leaves (including 33 blanks), in modern black morocco elaborately gilt. Including 23 poems by Strode (and second copies of two poems) and one poem of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Including (ff. 98r-100r) a letter by one ‘Pet[er] Wood’. Inscribed (ff. 90r-1r), ‘Thease verses I borroed to write out of John Sherly [d. 1666] a booke seller in litle Brittaine, 28th of March 1633’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9235. Sotheby's, 21 February 1938, lot 243.
Cited in IELM II.ii (1993), as the ‘Wood MS’: StW Δ 21. Discussed in C.F. Main, ‘New Texts of John Donne’, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33.
BrW 12.5
Copy of Book I, song 3, ‘knot’ poem at the end (beginning ‘This is love and worth commending’).
In: A folio composite volume of verse, in various hands, i + 250 leaves. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729). Some pages in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.
Goodwin, I, 103.
BrW 12.8
Copy of Book I, song 3, ‘knot’ poem at the end (beginning ‘This is love and worth commending’).
In: A folio verse miscellany, including eleven poems by Carew, in a single professional secretary hand (adopting a different style on ff. 176r-8r), ii + 231 leaves (including numerous blanks), the date 1633 occurring on f. 55r. c.1630s.
The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Michell MS’: CwT Δ 8. Briefly discussed (in connection with the poem ‘Shall I die?’ attributed to Shakespeare) by Gary Taylor in The Sunday Times (24 November 1985, pp. 1, 3, with a facsimile example) and by Peter Beal in TLS (3 January 1986, p. 13); and see also letters on 24 January 1986, pp. 87-8.
Goodwin, I, 103.
BrW 13
Copy of book II, Song 1, line 242 et seq., here beginning ‘Slyde Softe, yea Siluer floods’, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: A large folio volume of autograph vocal music by Henry Lawes (1596-1662), ix + 184 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt. Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller. Mid-17th century.
Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.
Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Henry Lawes MS’: CwT Δ 16; HeR Δ 3; WaE Δ 11. Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Pamela J. Willetts, The Henry Lawes Manuscript (London, 1969). Facsimiles of ff. 42r, 78r, 80r, 84r, 111r and 169r in The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric C. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 59, 60, 62, 64, 66 and 117. Also discussed in Willa McClung Evans, Henry Lawes: Musician and Friend of Poets (New York and London, 1941), and elsewhere. A complete facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 3 (New York & London, 1986).
Edited from this MS in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 41.
BrW 14
Copy of versions of the epitaph in Book II, Song 1, and of most of the lyrics in Songs 2-5 (i.e. Song 1, lines 312-18; Song 2, lines 103-22, 193-222; Song 3, lines 645-96, 1029-58; Song 4, lines 551-62; Song 5, lines 229-64), with no general heading and here beginning ‘In depth of waves long hath Alexis slept’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in two styles of italic, the last poem (f. 93v) added in a later hand, 93 leaves (plus ten blanks), in modern quarter-morocco gilt. Including 14 poems by Donne, six poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, ten poems by Habington and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph. Owned and possibly compiled by Arthur Capell (1631-83), second Earl of Essex, whose name is inscribed in red ink (1*), in a similar roman hand to that on ff. 1r-19r. He married (1653) Elizabeth Percy (1636-1718), daughter of Algernon, tenth Earl of Northumberland; she was therefore the great niece of Habington's mother-in-law, Eleanor Percy, sister of the ninth Earl of Northumberland. Mid-17th century.
Later among the collections of Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son, Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II, i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Capell MS’: DnJ Δ 43, CwT Δ 17, and RnT Δ 3. Discussed in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell’, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91.
This MS discussed in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell’, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-92 (pp. 385-6).
BrW 14.5
Copy of Book II, Song 2, lines 193-222, headed ‘The Choice of a mistris’ and beginning ‘Shall I tell you whom I love?’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 33 poems by Thomas Carew and sixteen by Henry King, in a single small hand, with (ff. 1r-2v) an alphabetical Index, 105 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London. c.1641-9.
Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Cited in IELM II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6918 with which it was once bound, as the ‘Calfe MS’: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp 129-35, 444-5 (see KiH Δ 6).
This MS collated in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 622.
—— Book II, Song 4, lines 705-28 (‘A man that only liv'd to live no more’)
*BrW 15
Autograph copy of an early version, headed ‘Perijt memoria eius vna cum sonitu. Ps: 9. 6.’ and here beginning ‘That man Whoe onlie liu'd to liue no more’.
In: Browne's emblem book.
Facsimile of this MS in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 30, and in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 42.
—— Book III
First published in London, 1852, ed T.C. Croker, Percy Society.
BrW 16
Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, incomplete or unfinished, 47 pages. c.1624-5.
In: the MS described under BrW 2. c.1613.
Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 23-75. For discussions of dating, see Joan Ozark Holmer ‘Internal Evidence for Dating William Browne's Britannia's Pastorals, Book III’, PBSA, 70 (1976), 347-64, and Cedric C. Brown and Margherita Piva, ‘William Browne, Marino, France, and the Third Book of Britannia's Pastorals’, RES, NS 29 (1978), 385-404.
—— Book III, Song I, lines 45 et seq. (‘Marina's gone, and now sit I’)
BrW 17
Copy of a 24-line version, possibly in the hand of Hugh Halswell (b. 1597/8) of Wadham College and All Souls College, Oxford, the last two lines in another hand, subscribed ‘W: B.’
In: A quarto volume chiefly comprising sermons, in at least four hands, written from both ends, i + 66 leaves, imperfect, in contemporary limp vellum. c.1624-5.
Purchased from Blackwell's in 1949 by Dr Bent Juel-Jensen (1922-2006), Oxford physician and book collector. Formerly classified after 1977 as MS Juel-Jensen Drayton e. 2.
BrW 18
Copy of an untitled version beginning ‘Caelia is gone, and now sit I’.
In: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Brydges (1815), pp. 129-31, and in Goodwin, II, 209-10.
—— Book III, Song 1, lines 159-234 (‘Vain dreams, forbear! yet but deceivers be’)
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 53-7. Goodwin, II, 302-5.
BrW 19
Copy of a version, headed ‘On a dreame’.
In: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Brydges (1815), pp. 53-7, and in Goodwin, II, 302-5.
—— Book III, Song 1, lines 430-7 (‘Yet one day's rest for all my cries!’)
BrW 20
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Brydges (1815), p. 26. Recorded in Goodwin, II, 340.
—— Book III, Song 1, lines 463-92 (‘Love! when I met her first whose slave I am’)
BrW 21
Copy in: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Brydges (1815), pp. 17-18. Collated in Goodwin, II, 340.
BrW 21.5
Copy, headed ‘To the God of loue’.
In: An oblong quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat hand, written with the volume tilted with the spine to the top, 167 pages (plus blanks), in elaborately tooled green morocco gilt. Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by Strode (and two poems of doubtful authorship). c.1634.
The initials ‘M W’ stamped on each cover: i.e. M[aidstone] and W[inchilsea]. Evidently compiled by or for Sir Thomas Finch, Viscount Maidstone and Earl of Winchilsea (who succeeded to the peerage in 1633 and died in 1634). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 190.
The MS came to Rosenbach with a printed exemplum of William Wishcart, An Exposition of the Lord's Prayer (London, 1633), and the two clearly share the same provenance. The printed volume is similarly bound, with the initials ‘M W’; it is inscribed ‘Lord Winchilsea for Mr Locker 1634’; it bears the late 17th-century signatures of Stephen Locker and Alexander Campbell, and the bookplates of Captain William Locker (1731-1800) and Edward Hawke Locker (1777-1849).
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Winchelsea MS’: CwT Δ 33 and StW Δ 25.
—— Book III, Song 1, lines 552-63 (‘I know that like to silkworms of one year’)
BrW 22
Copy of a version beginning ‘Like to a Silkeworme of one yeare’.
In: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
‘Celia is gone, and now sit I’
See BrW 18.
Caelia. Sonnets (‘Lo, I the man that whilom lov'd and lost’)
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 34-46.
BrW 23
Copy of a sequence of fourteen sonnets.
In: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 217-25.
—— Sonnet 14 (‘Divinest Caelia, send no more to ask’)
Unpublished?
BrW 24
Copy, headed ‘One that was sick, to a lady that sent to see howe hee did’.
In: the MS described under BrW 21.5. c.1634.
‘Deep are the wounds which strike a virtuous name’
First published in Brydges (1815), p. 24.
Devotional Verses (‘Behold, O God, in rivers of my tears’)
See BrW 3-4.
An Elegy (‘Is Death so great a gamester, that he throws’)
First published in Le Prince d'Amour (London, 1660).
BrW 27
Copy in: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Brydges (1815), pp. 143-8, and in Goodwin, II, 266-270.
BrW 28
Copy, headed ‘Dr. Donnes Elegy on his Wives Death’.
In: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Compiled by members of the Cartwright family, of Aynho, Northamptonshire, including (ff. 4r-7v) verse by William Cartwright (1634-76). Mid-17th century.
Inscribed names including ‘Will: Cartwright’, ‘Jo: Cartwright’, and ‘Katherin Cartwright’. Myers, sale catalogue No. 291 (1933), item 120.
BrW 29
Copy, headed ‘Dr Dun vpon ye death of a Gentlewoman’.
In: the MS described under BrW 7. c.1630s.
BrW 30
Copy, headed ‘On ye death of his Mrs’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in two or more hands, 95 leaves (plus blanks), including two ‘Indexes’, in contemporary vellum. Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College. c.1634-43.
A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his ‘brother Ed: Weston’, 3 May 1714. The name ‘John Saunders’ inscribed on the final leaf.
BrW 31
Copy of lines 1-78, headed ‘On the death of his Mistres’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single professional hand, with later additions on ff. 58v-62v in three or four other hands, 65 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. Compiled by one Thomas Crosse, whose name appears (f. 1*) in ‘An Acrosticke upon my name’, as well as subscribed (‘Tho: Cro:)’ to a poem on ff. 23v-4r. c.1630s [-1670s].
BrW 32.5
Copy, headed ‘Elegye Funerall’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single non-professional mixed hand, written from both ends, 90 leaves, in vellum (lacking spine). c.1630s.
Among papers of the Clitherow family of London, which included Sir Christopher Clitherow (1578-1642), Lord Mayor of London in 1635. Bookplate of James Clitherow Esq. of Boston House, Middlesex: i.e. either Christopher's son, James Clitherow (1618-82), merchant and banker, who purchased Boston Manor, in the parish of Hanwell, in 1670, or James Clitherow (1694-1752).
BrW 33
Copy, headed ‘Elegia’.
In: A quarto volume of 72 poems by Donne, together with a poem by John Cave on Donne's satires and four poems by Richard Corbett, in two alternating styles of hand, 84 leaves (including 41 blank pages). Chiefly in the hand of John Nedham, of Lincoln College, Oxford, and probably transcribed from the ‘John Cave MS’ (DnJ Δ 27), the title-page dated 31 March 1625. c.1625.
Also owned or used by Millicent Nedham and by one William Edmunde. Possibly the quarto MS of ‘Poems by Dr. Donne and Dr. Corbet’ in Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue of a Collection of MSS, 1841, item 600, and in his catalogue of MSS, 1846, p. 29. Later owned by Francis Godolphin Waldron (1743-1818), actor and playwright, and by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Nedham MS’: DnJ Δ 28. Some poems edited from this MS in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802).
Edied from this MS in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 3-5, whence collated in Goodwin, II, 348.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 18 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.17), ff. 45v-6v.
An Elegy on Mr. William Hopton (‘When shall mine eyes be dry? I daily see’)
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 69-72.
An Elegy on Sir Thomas Overbury, Poisoned in the Tower of London (‘Had not thy wrong, like to a wound ill cur'd’)
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Goodwin, II, 261-3.
BrW 35
Copy of lines 1-10.
In: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Brydges (1815), p. 111, and partly from this MS in Goodwin.
An Elegy on the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Time hath a long course run since thou wert clay’)
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 81-90.
BrW 37
Copy, lacking lines 1-52 and here beginning ‘& though thy glasse a burning one become’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.128 items, including 94 poems by Donne plus his Paradoxes and Problems, compiled by Henry Champernowne (1600-56), of Dartington, Devon, 243 pages, dated on the first page 1623. 1623.
Afterwards owned by other members of the Champernowne family, by Sir Edward Seymour, Bart. (?the third Baronet, 1610-85). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1030. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) (MS 9568). Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 749. Bookplate of C. S. Harris and bequeathed by him 1916.
Cited in IELM, I.i (190), as the ‘Phillipps MS’: DnJ Δ 20.
Edited from this MS in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (London, 1912), I, 462-5.
An Elegy On the untimely death of...Mr. Thomas Ayleworth (‘Is goodness shortest liv'd? doth Nature bring’)
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 111-15.
BrW 38
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on Mr Thomas Ayleworth, slayne at Croydon’.
In: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 263-6.
An Epiced on Mr. Fishbourne (‘As some, too far inquisitive, would fain’)
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 106-10.
An Epistle (‘Dear soul, the time is come, and we must part’)
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 28-9.
An Epistle (‘Hasten, O hasten, for my love's sake haste’)
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 97-100.
BrW 41
Copy, subscribed ‘ffrom an Inner Temple then ye Inn or Temple May the third 1615 / WB.’
In: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 234-6.
An Epistle Occasioned by the most intolerable jangling of the Papists' bells on All Saints' Night (‘Palmes and my friend, this night of Hallantide’)
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 77-81.
BrW 42
Copy, subscribed ‘WB’.
In: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 229-32.
An Epistle Thrown into a River in a Ball of Wax (‘Go, gentle paper. happy, happier far’)
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 93-4.
BrW 44
Copy, headed ‘An Epistle to his unconstant Mrs throwne into a Riuer where shee usually walked’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather. Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew. c.1638-42.
Inscriptions including ‘Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus’ [viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], ‘Thomas Arding’, ‘Thomas Arden’, ‘William Harrington’, ‘Thomas John’, ‘John Anthehope’ and ‘Clement Poxall’. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 194.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Carey MS’: CwT Δ 34. Briefly discussed in Gary Taylor, ‘Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 68 (1985), 210-46 (pp. 220-4). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 188, 191-2).
An Epitaph (‘Fair Canace this little tomb doth hide’)
First published in Brydges (1815), p. 95.
An Epitaph on Him (‘Here wither'd lies a flower, which blown’)
First published in Brydges (1815), p. 116.
BrW 46
Copy, subscribed ‘WBrowne’.
In: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 266.
An Epitaph on Mr. John Smyth, Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Pembroke. 1624 (‘Know thou, that tread'st on learned Smyth inurn'd’)
First published in Brydges (1815), p. 68.
BrW 48
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, written in two styles of hand (A: ff. 2r, after first six lines, to 64v; B: ff. 2r, first six lines, 64v-91v, 92v-4r), possibly both in the same hand, with an Index (ff. 93r-4r), 94 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Including 22 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 13 poems by King, and 24 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and probably associated with Christ Church, Oxford. c.1633.
Inscribed names including (f. 93v, in court hand) ‘ffrancis Baskeruile’: i.e. probably the Francis Baskerville who married Margaret Glanvill in 1635 and was in 1640 MP for Marlborough, Wiltshire. Other scribbling including (f. 1r) accounts referring to Wanborough, Wiltshire; (f. 9v) ‘Elizabeth White’; (f. 54v) ‘William Walrond his booke 1663’; (f. 92r) accounts dated 1658; and (f. 94r) ‘John Wallrond’. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Baskerville MS’: CwT Δ 20, KiH Δ 10, StW Δ 13. Facsimile examples of ff. 55r and 68r in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 6, after p. 86.
BrW 50
Copy, headed ‘Upon Mr Smith’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf. Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1634.
The initials ‘T. C.’ stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Rosenbach MS II’: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).
An Epitaph on Mr. Wm. Hopton (‘Reader, stay, and read a truth’)
First published in Brydges (1815), p. 73.
An Epitaph on Mrs. El:Y. (‘Underneath this stone there lines’)
See JnB 122-136.
An Epitaph on Sir John Prowde (‘After a march of twenty years and more’)
First published in Brydges (1815), p. 74.
BrW 52
Copy, the poem on Prowde who was ‘buryed at Zutphen. 1627’.
In: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Goodwin II, 288-9.
BrW 53
Copy, headed ‘On ye death of a souldier’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 49 leaves, outer leaves imperfect, in modern calf gilt. Including twenty poems by Carew, eleven poems by Crashaw on ff. 10-30 passim, and fifteen poems by Strode. c.1630s.
Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1834), item 728. Acquired from C. Booth, October 1857.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Thorpe MS’: CwT Δ 12, CrR Δ 3, StW Δ 9.
BrW 53.5
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on Sir John Stroude’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, comprising 162 poems in English, in a single hand, 273 pages, in brown morocco gilt. c.late 1640s.
Formerly (before 1686) in the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. Possibly acquired by Charles Louis (1617-80), Elector Palatine, while at the English court of his uncle, Charles I, from 1635 to 1649.
This volume discovered, and announced in the TLS, 23 July 2010, pp. 14-15, by June Schleuter and Paul Schleuter.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 32-3.
Fido: An Epistle to Fidelia (‘Sitting one day beside a silver brook’)
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 132-43.
BrW 54
Copy, some words at the foot of f. 33r heavily deleted.
In: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 237-45.
‘Give me three kisses, Phillis. if not three’
First published in Brydges (1815), p. 131.
BrW 55
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 285.
The Happy Life (‘O blessed man! who, homely bred’)
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 5-7.
BrW 57.5
Copy in: the MS described under BrW 53.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 62-4.
In Obitum M S, Xo Maij, 1614 (‘May! Be thou never grac'd with birds that sing’)
First published in Brydges (1815), p. 75.
BrW 58
Copy, subscribed ‘W B’.
In: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 289.
In Urbem Romam Qualis est Hodie (‘Qui Romam in media quaeris novus advena Roma’)
See BrW 179.
‘It happen'd lately at a fair, or wake’
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 15-16.
BrW 59
Copy, headed ‘Epigramme’.
In: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 283.
Kisses (‘Give me three kisses, Phillis. if not three’)
See BrW 55-56.
‘Look as a bough out lately from the rind’
First published in Goodwin (1894), II, 226.
*BrW 60
Autograph fair copy, on one page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1613.
In: the MS described under BrW 2. c.1613.
‘Love who will, for I'll love none’
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 21-2.
Lydford Journey (‘I oft have heard of Lydford law’)
First published in John Phillips, Sportive Wit (London, 1656).Goodwin, II, 305-9.
BrW 62
Copy of lines 1-48, 67-120.
In: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Brydges (1815), pp. 9-15, and chiefly from this MS in Goodwin.
BrW 63
Copy, headed ‘Lydford Law’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany and masque, in at least three hands, written from both ends, i + 123 leaves, in contemporary calf. Mid-late 17th century.
Including (f. 1r) an anagram on Frances Pawlett. Inscribed in red ink (f. 123v) ‘Egigius Frampton hunc librum jure tenet non est mortale quod opto: 1659’: i.e. by Giles Frampton, who is perhaps responsible for some of the later poems. Also inscribed [?]‘R. N. 1663’. Some later notes in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.
BrW 64
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, in several largely italic hands, closely written, 148 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter morocco gilt. Probably compiled by university or inns of court men. c.1620s-30s.
BrW 65
Copy, in an italic hand, in double columns, on a single leaf, endorsed (f. 15v) ‘Lydford Law. By Mr Browne follower of the Earle of Pembrooke’. c.1640s.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, parliamentary speeches, and verse, in various hands, with an alphabetical Index (ff. 1r-6v), 144 leaves, in modern mottled leather gilt.
BrW 65.5
Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate long narrow ledger-size leaves. c.1700.
BrW 66
Copy, in double columns, headed ‘Lydfoord eLaw in Deuon-sheere:’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index). Possibly compiled by one ‘W: H:’: i.e. probably William Holgate (1618-46), of Queens' College, Cambridge, with late 17th-century additions apparently made by other members of the Holgate family, of Saffron Walden and Great Bardfield, Essex. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Holgate MS’: DnJ Δ 58. Briefly discussed in W.G.P., ‘Verses by Francis Beaumont’, TLS (15 September 1921), p. 596, and in E.K. Chambers, William Shakespeare, 2 vols (Oxford, 1930), II, 222-4. Also discussed, with facsimiles on pp. 68 and 70 of pp. 181 and 13, in Michael Roy Denbo, ‘Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73. For facsimile pages see DnJ 2931 and ShW 25. Complete microfilm in the Essex Record Office (T/A 98).
Man (‘Like to a silkworm of one year’)
See BrW 22.
My Own Epitaph (‘Loaden with earth, as earth by such as I’)
First published in Brydges (1815), p. 101.
BrW 68
Copy, subscribed ‘Wm. Browne 1614’.
In: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 293.
‘Not long agone a youthful swain’
First published in Brydges (1815), p. 21.
An Ode (‘Awake, fair Muse. for I intend’)
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 1-3.
BrW 71
Copy, headed ‘The honour and eternity of Poetry’, subscribed ‘John Chudleigh’.
In: An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt. Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v. c.1635.
Inscribed on f. 111v rev. ‘Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt’. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Harley MS’: CoR Δ 5.
On a Dream (‘Vain dreams, forbear, ye but deceivers be’)
See BrW 19.
On a faire Lady, that songe admirably (‘Hee that to the voyce is neere’)
Unpublished. Authorship uncertain.
On a Fair Lady's Yellow Hair, powdered with White (‘Say, why on your hair yet stays’)
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 19-20.
BrW 72
Copy, headed ‘One a faire Ladyes yellow harre powdred with white, writting in the dissoluing of a snow’.
In: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 194-5.
BrW 73
Copy, headed ‘on a powdred hayre’.
In: A folio composite volume of separate MSS of verse and some prose, in various secretary and italic hands, written over an extended period, with a table of contents (f. 3r-v), 186 leaves. Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the ‘Edward Smyth MS’ (DnJ Δ 45); also 15 poems (and second copies of two) by Henry King; and 19 poems (and two of doubtful authorship) by Carew. c.1620-50.
Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.
This MS is the ‘curious folio volume’ lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by ‘the late Lord Harborough’ and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his History of Leicestershire, 4 vols (1795-1815), III, part i (1800), 367.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Skipwith MS’: DnJ Δ 21; CwT Δ 14; KiH Δ 8. Also described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp. 119-29 (see KiH Δ 6). For Sir William Skipwith and his literary connections, see James Knowles, ‘Marston, Skipwith and The Entertainment at Ashby’, EMS, 3 (1992), 137-92 (esp.pp. 171-2).
On a Rope-Maker Hanged (‘Here lies a man much wronged in his hopes’)
First published in Brydges (1815), p. 151.
On a Twin at Two Years Old Dead of a Consumption (‘Death! thou such a one hast smit’)
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 151-2.
BrW 75
Copy, subscribed (possibly relating to the poems hitherto) ‘ffinis W Browne’.
In: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 270.
On an Hour-Glass (‘The truest hour-glass lies. for, you'll confess’)
First published in Brydges (1815), p. 68.
On an Infant Unborn, and the Mother Dying in Travail (‘Within this grave there is a grave entomb'd’)
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Brydges (1815), pp. 90-1. Goodwin, II, 255-6. Also (doubtfully) attributed to Richard Corbett and to Sir William Davenant: see Sir William Davenant, The Shorter Poems, and Songs from the Plays and Masques, ed. A.M. Gibbs (Oxford, 1972), p. lxxxvii.
BrW 77
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman dying in Travell and the childe unborne’.
In: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Brydges and in Goodwin.
BrW 78
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small neat predominantly secretary hand but for additions in a second hand on ff. 35v and 58r, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, 97 leaves (inclusing two blanks), in half-calf. Including 14 poems by Carew (and a second copy of one poem), eight poems (plus 3 of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, and 28 poems by Strode (plus a second copy of one and two of doubtful authorship). c.late 1630s.
Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Fulman MS’: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.
BrW 80
Copy, headed ‘Doctor Corbett one a mother wth hir Infant dying in travell’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, including 37 poems by Donne, in several hands, written from both ends, 279 leaves (including numerous blanks, mostly in ff. 42r-140r), with stubs of extracted leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled in part by the Oxford printer Christopher Wase (1627-90), fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Wase MS’: DnJ Δ 39.
BrW 81
Copy, headed ‘On a woman dyinge in Travell the child vnborne’.
In: A quarto composite volume comprising three independent MSS bound together, i + 78 leaves. The first MS a verse miscellany, in an italic hand, 29 leaves. c.1640.
BrW 82
Copy, headed ‘Vpon An infant & ye mother dying in travaile’.
In: the MS described under BrW 12.8. c.1630s.
BrW 83
Copy, headed ‘on a woman dying in travaile with child’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 98 pages (plus some blanks), in reversed calf (rebacked). c.1620s-30s.
Inscribed (f. ir) by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), the date ‘1741’ added.
BrW 84
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in a single hand, vi + 98 leaves, in calf. Probably compiled by a member of New College, Oxford. c.1630s.
Some tipped-in notes by Richard Rawlinson.
BrW 85
Copy, headed ‘Vppon an Infant unborne the Mother dying thereof’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, including sixteen poems by Strode and one of doubtful authorship, in several hands, including a small mixed hand on ff. 2r-43v, cursive secretary hands thereafter, and Latin entries in italic at the reverse end, 139 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1630s.
A flyleaf inscribed ‘[?] Johannes Philips’. Acquired from H. Stevens 11 December 1852.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1987), as the ‘John Philips MS’: StW Δ 8.
BrW 86
Copy, transcribed from BrW 87.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with some later additions and annotations, 188 leaves, in quarter-morocco. Transcribed from British Library Add. MS 25303 and perhaps associated likewise with the Inns of Court. Including 23 poems by Carew and three of doubtful authorship. c.1620s-30s.
Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 13 May 1856 (Pickering sale), lot 258.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Pickering MS’: CwT Δ 11.
BrW 87
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single neat secretary hand, the first page formally inscribed ‘To the righte honoble: the Lorde Thomas Darcy Viscount Colchester’ (c.1565-1640, Viscount Colchester from 1621 to 1626), 191 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship. c.1620s.
This MS largely transcribed in British Library, Add. MS 21433. The hand occurs also in British Library, Harley MS 3910, between ff. 112v and 120v, and is possibly associated with the Inns of Court.
Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) ‘Mr John Bowyer’; (f. 2r) ‘Jeronomus ffox’; and (f. 3r) ‘William Ralph Baesh’.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Colchester MS’: CwT Δ 13.
BrW 88
Copy, headed ‘On a woman dying in child birth’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning. c.1630s-40s.
BrW 89
Copy, headed ‘On an Gentlewoman dying in Trauell and her childe unborne’, subscribed ‘W: Diuvenit’ [i.e. Davenant].
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany in several hands, written from both ends, 46 leaves, in contemporary calf. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed names (on front paste-down and f. 1r) of ‘Fra: Norreys’ (? Sir Francis Norris (1609-69)) and ‘Hen. Balle’. Purchased from J. Harvey 8 December 1877.
BrW 90
Copy, headed ‘Vppon an Infant vnborne whose mother dyed in travell’, subscribed ‘William Browne’.
In: the MS described under BrW 71. c.1635.
BrW 92
Copy headed ‘On one dying in child bed with her child’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves. Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.early 1630s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) by one ‘I A’ of Christ Church, Oxford, and also ‘Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison’. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Killigrew MS’: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.
BrW 93
Copy, headed ‘On a Woman dying in trauell the child vnborne’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152. Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship. c.late 1630s [-1789].
Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Thorpe-Halliwell MS’: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).
BrW 94
Copy, headed ‘On a mother dying in child bedd’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf. Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s[-55].
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Dobell MS’: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18A. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).
BrW 95
Copy, headed ‘On an Infant & ye Mother dying in Trauell’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single, minute non-professional italic hand, probably someone associated with Oxford University, comprising 180 pages now all separated and mounted, interleaved, in 19th-century calf. c.late 1630s.
Later in the libraries (with bookplates) of the book collector Richard Heber (1774-1833); of the bibliographer and antiquary Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833); of the biographer and literary editor Alexander Chalmers (1759-1834); and of the antiquary Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough (his sale by Charles Sharpe in Dublin, 1 November 1842, lot 577).
BrW 95.5
Copy, headed ‘Of an infant unborne, the mother therof dying in travell’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, of English and Welsh verse and prose, in probably several hands, the English verse (on pages 9-70, 93-104) including eleven poems by Strode and two of doubtful authorship, 110 pages (plus stubs of extracted leaves). Compiled by members of the Griffith family, of Llanddyfnan, the verse probably entered by one or more of the various members of that family who studied in this period at the University of Oxford. Mid-17th century.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Griffith MS’: StW Δ 26.
BrW 96
Copy, headed ‘Vppon an infant unborne whose Mother dyed in trauell’ and subscribed ‘William Browne’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt. Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1650.
Scribbling on the first page including the words ‘Peyton Chester…’.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Osborn MS I’: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.
On Goodman Hurst of the George at Horsham (‘See what we are: for though we often say’)
First published in Brydges (1815), p. 118.
BrW 97
Copy, the poem dated 26 August 1637.
In: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 296-7.
On His Wife, an Epitaph (‘Thou need'st no tomb, my wife, for thou hast one’)
First published in Brydges (1815), p. 102.
On John Tooth (‘Here lieth in sooth’)
First published in Brydges (1815), p. 96.
On Mr. Francis Lee of the Temple, Gent. (‘Nature having seen the Fates’)
First published in Brydges (1815), p. 96.
On Mr. John Deane, of New College (‘Let no man walk near this tomb’)
First published in Brydges (1815), p. 92.
On Mr. Turner of St. Mary-Hall (‘I rose, and coming down to dine’)
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 117.
On Mr. Vaux, the Physician (‘Stay! this grave deserves a tear’)
First published in Brydges (1815), p. 75.
BrW 106
Copy, headed ‘Will Browne on Mr Vaux Physition’.
In: the MS described under BrW 95. c.late 1630s.
BrW 107
Copy, headed ‘Vppon the death of Mr Vaux A famous Phisition’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, including 26 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Thomas Carew and poems by Henry King, in several hands, 92 leaves, plus an inserted gathering of eleven leaves after f. 82v (ff. [82a-82k]), but including stubs of some extracted leaves (ff. 74-8, 94-5), in contemporary vellum. Inscribed ‘To my euer honored good Cosen Sr John Reresby Barronett these prsent’: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall. c.1630s.
Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Mexborough MS’: CwT Δ 29.
On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor (‘Nature in this small volume was about’)
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.
BrW 109
Copy, headed ‘On ye death of a young gentle woman’, in a verse miscellany compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, and later used by William Fulman.
In: the MS described under BrW 78. c.late 1630s.
BrW 110
Copy, headed ‘In eundem’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, comprising nearly 250 poems, in five hands, vii + 135 leaves (with a modern index), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked), with remains of clasps. Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller. c.1630s-40s.
Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Peeter Daniell’ and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names ‘Thomas Gardinor’, ‘James Leigh’ and ‘Pettrus Romell’. Owned in 1780 by one ‘A. B.’ when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Daniell MS’: CwT Δ 5, HeR Δ 2, RnT Δ 1, StW Δ 5, WaE Δ 9. Briefly discussed in Margaret Crum, ‘An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick’, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9. A facsimile of f. 22v in Marcy L. North, ‘Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 106). Betagraphs of the watermark in f. 65 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. 241).
BrW 111.5
Copy, headed ‘177 an Epitaph on a Young Lady, writ several years past.’
In: A quarto verse miscellany, 171 leaves, with an index, imperfect at the beginning, in contemporary calf (rebacked). Compiled by Colonel Gabriel Lepipre, being the ‘4th Vol’. of his compilations. c.1748-50s.
Donated in 1938 by F.F. Madan.
BrW 113
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman dying younge’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by the writer Robert Codrington (1602-65) of Magdalen College, Oxford, 360 pages (including stubs of extracted leaves on pp. 297-328 and blanks, plus index), in contemporary calf. Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) ‘Anno Dom: 1638’ and ‘The 30th of May. 1638’. c.1638.
Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Codrington MS’: CwT Δ 7 and StW Δ 7.
BrW 114
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, apparently a presentation MS, 133 pages (including blanks), plus index, in half-calf. Including twenty poems by Randolph, plus ten of doubtful authorship (some here ascribed to ‘T.R.’), in two hands (A: pp. 3-99; B: pp. 1, 99-129), with some scribbling and one heading in other hands on pp. 3, 98 and 133; a poem on p. 1 (beginning ‘Loe here a sett of paper=pilgrimes sent’) dedicatingthe collection [‘To ye] Incomparably vertuous Lady the Lady Harflette’: i.e. Afra (d.1664), wife of Sir Christopher Harflete of Canterbury. c.1640.
Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Harflete MS: RnT Δ 2.
BrW 115
Copy, headed ‘of a Gentlewoman yt dyed being 7 yeares old’.
In: A quarto composite volume of four MSS, in English and Latin, iii + 187 leaves, in vellum boards. Part B (ff. 16d-86v): A quarto miscellany of poems and letters, in several hands, compiled by William Elyott (a nephew of Sir Simonds D'Ewes). c.1640-55.
Part C (ff. 86 bis-120r): A quarto verse miscellany compiled by Thomas Axton, M.A. (b.1699/1700), of Trinity College, Cambridge. c.1718-22.
Part C sold at the Thomas Rawlinson sale in March 1733/4, lot 289.
BrW 118
Copy, headed ‘On a childe’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Juvenilia Ludicra, in a single small mixed hand, 103 leaves, all now window mounted in a quarto volume, in 19th-century half morocco. Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man. c.1630s.
Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) ‘E Libris Richard Sutclif’. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.
BrW 119
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman dyinge younge’.
In: the MS described under BrW 87. c.1620s.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
BrW 119.5
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a young Gentlewoman’.
In: A quarto volume of ‘Divine and Morall Observations’, in verse and prose, in a neat roman hand varying in style, with later additions at the end, 61 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black leather. Inscribed by the compiler, on an elaborate title-page (f. 1r), ‘Abygall Guilford her Booke 1672’. c.1672 [-1714].
Inscribed (top of f. 1r) ‘This Book was I conclude my Grandmother Hoopers before her Marriage’. Acquired from the Rev. H. Hooper, 9 December 1874.
BrW 121
Copy, headed ‘On ye Death of a young gentlewoman’.
In: the MS described under BrW 89. Mid-17th century.
BrW 124
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a young Gentlewoman's death’.
In: the MS described under BrW 14.5. c.1641-9.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
BrW 126
Copy, headed ‘On a yonge gentlewoman:’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, nearly all perhaps in probably several hands, with (ff. 41v-2r) a ‘Tabula’ of contents, 45 leaves, in 19th-century mottled leather gilt. c.1630s.
Recorded in Osborn (erroneously as ‘MS. Sloane 1827’), p. 295.
BrW 127
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637. Including 91 poems and some prose works by John Donne and fourteen poems by Thomas Carew. c.1637.
Among the collections of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (1776-1839), first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham, largely derived from the collection of the antiquary Thomas Astle (1735-1803), which in turn chiefly derived from Astle's father-in-law, the Essex historian Philip Morant (1700-70) (see DnJ Δ 15). Later owned by Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as ‘Stowe MS II’: DnJ Δ 44 and ‘Stowe MS’: CwT Δ 22.
BrW 128
Copy, headed ‘On Dr Prideaux his daughter 6 years old’.
In: the MS described under BrW 93. c.late 1630s [-1789].
BrW 129
Copy, headed ‘The Epitaph on Dr Prideaux daughter’.
In: A sextodecimo pocket miscellany, ff. 3r-53r in a single hand, other hands and scribbling on ff. 1r-2r, 54v, 87v-90v, 90 leaves in all (including blanks ff. 55r-87r), in contemporary calf, with remains of clasps. Including 12 poems by Carew. c.1650s.
Inscribed ‘Richard Archard his booke Amen 1650’; ‘Richard Archard his penn Amen 1657’; ‘to Mr Satars[?] towads the Casting of ye lead 1657’; ‘Tho: Wise’; ‘John Smith of halmortaine and I…went to Thornebury’; and ‘Edward Watt’. Bookplate of William Harris Arnold.
Cited in IELM, II.i, as the ‘Archard MS’: CwT Δ 24.
BrW 130
Copy, headed ‘On a child’.
In: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf. Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) ‘A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan’: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington. c.1630s.
Also inscribed ‘Mary Helerd’. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2
BrW 131
Copy, headed ‘On a yong Gentlewoman, that dyed’.
In: the MS described under BrW 94. c.1630s[-55].
BrW 132
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford and afterwards with the Inns of Court, 73 leaves (plus a few blanks and a modern index). Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9510. (Phillipps sale, lot 1015.) Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 342. Formerly MS 4201. 27. 1.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Dobell MS II’: StW Δ 19. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.42.
BrW 133
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, 210 pages, comprising 38 unnumbered pages and 172 numbered pages (plus four blank leaves), perhaps largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with additions in four other hands on the unnumbered pages and pp. 167-71, including the scribbled title ‘Divers Sonnets & Poems compiled by certaine gentil Clarks and Ryme-Wrightes’, probably associated with Oxford University and the Inns of Court, in contemporary vellum. Including 14 poems by Strode (and a second copy of one poem). c.1637-51.
Inscribed (front pastedown) ‘Wakelin EeK Hering / Blows of Whitsor’, and (rear pastedown) ‘R. J. Cotton’. Formerly Folger MS 2073.4.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Cotton MS: StW Δ 20.
BrW 135
Copy, headed ‘On the death of a young Gentlewoman’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, comprising approximately 80 poems, including eleven poems by Donne, 21 poems by Strode, and one poem of doubtful authorship, in several hands, one small neat hand predominating (ff. 1r-34r), with later receipts for 1658-62 at the end, 161 leaves (including numerous blanks). c.1630s-40s.
Inscriptions include ‘Edwardus Hyde’ (at the end) and (f. [ir]) ‘Edward Hyde is a knave’: i.e. probably Edward Hyde (1607-59), royalist divine, who may be the ‘E. H.’ responsible for a poem ‘To his Wife’ (f. 34r) and the ‘Ned Hide’ who is subject of an ‘Epitaph’ (f. [18r rev]). Later inscribed ‘Robertus Walker’ and ‘Elizabeth Walker’. Early 18th- century bookplate of Baron Aston of Forfar. Percy Dobell, sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 345. Later owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.
Discussed in Geoffrey Keynes, ‘A Footnote to Donne’, The Book Collector, 22 (Summer 1973), 165-8, with a facsimile of the page with Hyde's ‘signature’ (which does not correspond to the main handwriting). Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 1863.
BrW 136
Copy, added in a late 17th-century hand.
In: the MS described under BrW 66. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
BrW 137
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Browne’.
In: the MS described under BrW 66. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
BrW 138
Copy, headed ‘On a Gent womans death’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands (A: pp. 1-56; B: pp. 57-60, 75-122; C: pp. 61-74, 125-7), 127 pages, in contemporary limp vellum. Including 23 poems (and a second copy of one) by Randolph. c.1635.
Mostyn MS 196: from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, the MS possibly acquired by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) or by his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 191.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Mostyn MS’: RnT Δ 11. Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1873), Appendix, p. 356. Edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) [Mic 59-4669].
BrW 140
Copy, headed ‘On one that dyde att the age of Six yeares’, subscribed ‘Will: Browne’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, including 15 poems by Donne, f. 162r-v in a rounded italic hand, ff. 164r-74v in a slightly erratic italic hand, ff. 175r-279v in a neat formal italic hand (also responsible for the index on ff. 2r-11v), this miscellany constituting ff. 162r-279v of a single folio volume containing also Part I (DnJ Δ 15), ii + 279 leaves in all (lacking one or more leaves at the end), in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked). c.1630s.
Formerly MS G. 2.21.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dublin MS (II): DnJ Δ 61.
This MS recorded in Goodwin, I, xi.
BrW 141
Copy, headed ‘On Dr Prideaus daughter dying very younge’.
In: A fragment of a quarto verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, seven leaves, the second item in a quarto composite volume also containing (item 1) a MS translation of the Song of Solomon written on nine leaves in 1622 by one Robert Eliot, and (item 3) Greek verse, on thirteen leaves subscribed ‘J: Malet’, in modern cloth. c.1630s.
Formerly MSS 4. 29.
BrW 142
Copy, headed ‘On the Death of a Vertuous Lady’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, compiled principally in the secretary hand of a University of Oxford man, with additions in one or more other hands, 150 pages, imperfect, disbound. c.1640.
BrW 143
Copy in: A sextodecimo verse miscellany, written from both ends in several hands (two principal ones on ff. 6r-40r, 41r et seq. respectively), 102 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf, with remains of metal clasps. Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Formerly Box 22, item II.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the ‘Osborn MS II’: StW Δ 30.
BrW 143.5
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in one secretary hand, erratically paginated up to 333, 250 leaves, in 18th-century boards. c.late 1630s.
Inscribed (on p. [330]) ‘Robert Lord his book Anno Domini’; (on [p. 335]) ‘william Jacob his booke Amen’; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, ‘Hugh Gibgans of the same’ and ‘John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]’. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.
A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.
On One Born Blind, and so Dead (‘Who (but some one like thee) could ever say’)
First published in Brydges (1815), p. 148.
BrW 146
Copy, the heading largely cropped by a binder.
In: the MS described under BrW 8.5. Mid-17th century.
BrW 147
Copy, headed ‘On one yt was borne blind and died blind’.
In: the MS described under BrW 138. c.1635.
On One Drowned in the Snow (‘Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd’)
First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.
BrW 148
Copy in: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Brydges and in Goodwin.
BrW 149
Copy in: An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in five hands, one predominating on ff. 8v-130r, ii + 166 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Compiled in part (ff. 131v-66r) by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary. c.1630s-40s.
BrW 150
Copy, headed ‘On One drowned in snow’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, predominantly in a single hand (up to f. 34v), with additions in four subsequent hands (ff. 37-50v), 50 leaves, in vellum. Compiled for the most part by a University of Oxford man, with (f. 1r-v) a list of contents. c.1640s.
Once owned by one John Faith, and by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.
Formerly cited as Corpus Christi College, MS E.i.33.
BrW 151
Copy in: the MS described under BrW 78. c.late 1630s.
BrW 153
Copy, headed ‘Vpon one yt was drown'd in ye snow at Christ=Church jn Oxford’.
In: the MS described under BrW 114. c.1640.
BrW 157
Copy, headed ‘An epitaph on a Gentleman who was founde dead in ye snow and afterwardes buryed’, subscribed ‘W: B:’.
In: A quarto miscellany of plays (by George Wilde, of St John's College, Oxford) and English and Latin verse, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford, written over a period from both ends, 158 leaves, in 19th-century half black morocco. c.late 1630s-late 17th century.
BrW 158
Copy, headed ‘On A woman lost in the snow’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, largely in one secretary hand, written from both ends, with indexes (ff. 2r-3r, 168r-v), 168 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Compiled by Sir John Perceval, Bt (1629-65), probably while at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Volume CXCII of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family. c.1646-9.
BrW 159
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, written from both ends, 192 leaves (including blanks), in old brown calf. Compiled, over a period, principally by Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), Chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford, and Henry King's amanuensis, including (ff. 7r-61r) 24 poems by King in Manne's formal hand, written c.1625-30s; ff. 61v-72v, 73r-99v, 100r-101v written in a variant style of Manne's hand, c.1630s; and (ff. 72v, 99v, 102r-14v, 190v-169r rev.) additions in six other hands, c.1630s-44, with (ff. 75r, 76r, and 76v) three poems to which the subscription ‘R. Dorset’ is added in the hand of King himself. c.1625-46.
Inscribed (f. 190v rev.) ‘Ann Littleton’. Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue, [June 1848], p. 31. Sotheby's, 4 Februry 1850 (Rodd sale), lot 500, to James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Afterward owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 June 1873 (Corser sale), lot 325, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Later owned by the bookdealer Philip Robinson. Sotheby's, 26 June 1974, lot 3013, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Thomas Manne MS’: KiH Δ 7. Used in Crum. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).
BrW 159.5
Copy, headed ‘Epit. On a man drown'd in the Snow’.
In: A collection of epitaphs, principally from churches in and about London, at least up to f. 193 in a single large rounded hand, an epitaph on f. 309 dated 1760, 244 folio leaves. Late 18th century.
Owned in 1785 by Mary Windsor of Tottenham High Cross, Owned in 1821 by one John Marris [i.e. Morris?]. Bookplate of James Walsh, FSA, FRAS. Purchased from J. R. Smith 9 December 1848.
BrW 160
Copy, subscribed ‘G:D.’ [i.e. William Davenant].
In: the MS described under BrW 89. Mid-17th century.
BrW 162
Copy, headed ‘On one drown'd in a great snow by W Browne’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in Latin and English, one cursive hand predominating, 69 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black crushed morocco. c.1630s.
Inscribed (f. 62r) ‘Nathaniel Heighmore’: i.e. presumably Nathaniel Highmore (1613-85), chemical physician and anatomist; ‘John Sacheverell his hand and pen Amen’; and ‘John Sacheverell the Author of this...’.
BrW 164
Copy, headed ‘Vpon one dead in the snow’.
In: the MS described under BrW 93. c.late 1630s [-1789].
BrW 168
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Boy drowned in the snow’.
In: A sextodecimo miscellany of verse and topographical prose, probably in a single small cursive hand, 78 leaves, written from both ends, Part I foliated 1r-33r, Part II foliated 1r-45r, in old calf. c.1650s-60s.
Inscribed (Part I, f. 1r) ‘Mr John Oldhams Booke’ [i.e. the poet John Oldham (1653-83)]. Inscribed (Part II, f. 1r) ‘James Bateman’ [(b.1633/4) of Christ's College, Cambridge], and ‘Robert Pierrepont’ [either the son of Col. Francis Pierrepont, M.P. (d.1659), or the third Earl of Kingston (1650/1-82), of Holme-Pierrepoint, Nottinghamshire, Oldham's patron]. Formerly Folger MS 621.1.
Described in F.P. Hammond, ‘A Commonplace Book owned by John Oldham’, N&Q, 224 (December 1979), 515-18.
BrW 170
Copy, headed ‘Vpon one that was drownd in the Snow’.
In: A large folio verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford University, 34 leaves, in modern half-morocco marbled boards. Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King. c.1630s.
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Halliwell MS’: CwT Δ 26 and KiH Δ 11. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Some Account of the Antiquities…illustrating…Shakespeare (1852), No. 8. Facsimile example in Giles Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 42. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 195).
BrW 170.5
Copy, headed ‘Upon one dead in the Snow. p. 78’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, 22 leaves, in modern marbled boards. Inscribed (f. 4r) ‘The following 11 Poems are transcrib'd from a small printed 12mo voll Cal[led] “Parnassus Biceps”...1656.’ c.1750s.
BrW 171
Copy, here beginning ‘Within a silent fleece of Waters drownd’.
In: the MS described under BrW 95. c.late 1630s.
BrW 172
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on one drouned in snow’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, 206 pages (plus blanks), rebound in 1832 (by Charles Lewis) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part II). Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled ‘L.C.’ [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637. c.1637.
Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names ‘Edw Denny’ [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], ‘Charles Cocks’, ‘Edward Randolphe’ and (on p. 162) ‘Thomas Cassy’. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Haslewood Kingsborough MS (I)’: DnJ Δ 25, CwT Δ 28, CoR Δ 10, and HeR Δ 5. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Discussed in C.M. Armitage, ‘Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on “The Funerall”’, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707. A facsimile of part of p. 63 in Marcy L. North, ‘Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 101).
BrW 173
Copy, headed ‘On a ma drowned in ye snow’, subscribed ‘JR’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, i + 74 leaves, in contemporary calf. Owned (inscription f.[ir]), and possibly partly compiled, by Sir Henry Rainsford (1599-1641), of Clifford Chambers, near Stratford-upon-Avon. c. late 1630s-40s.
Bookplate of Edward Greenfield Doggett and Hugh Greenfield Doggett, of Bristol, 1893. Later owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.
Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 15. Discussed in Peter Davidson, ‘The Notebook of Henry Rainsford’, N&Q, 229 (June 1984), 247-50.
BrW 173.2
Copy, headed ‘On a Man drown'd in the snow’.
In: the MS described under BrW 53.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 9-10.
BrW 174
Copy in: the MS described under BrW 50. c.1634.
BrW 175
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, including fifteen poems by Donne, with a title-page ‘Miscellanies Or A Collection of Diuers Witty and pleasant Epigrams, Adages, poems Epitaphes &c for the recreation of ye ouertravelled sences: 1630 Robert Bishop’, in a single mixed hand, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 306 pages, in old calf. c.1630.
Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the ‘Bishop MS’: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].
BrW 176
Copy, here ascribed to ‘Wm Stroude’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Henry King, perhaps almost entirely written over a period in a single secretary hand with slightly varying styles, 54 leaves, in limp vellum. c.1636-40s.
The name of the possible compiler ‘John Pike’ inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the ‘Pike MS’: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.
BrW 176.5
Copy, headed ‘Of on drowned in a great snow’.
In: the MS described under BrW 95.5. Mid-17th century.
BrW 177
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, with a title-page, 385 pages numbered 858-1243 (pp. 914-29, 966-7, 981-2, 995-6, 1023-4, 1041-2, 1083-4, 1135-6, and 1173-6 excised), in 17th-century calf. In non-professional hands, the miscellany entitled A Collection of Witt and Learning…consisting of verses, poems, songs, sonnetts, Ballads, Lampoons, Libells, Dialouges...from the year 1600, to this present year: 1677. c.1681.
Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.
BrW 178
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph vpon one, drowned in ye Snowe’.
In: the MS described under BrW 96. c.1650.
On Rome as it is now (‘Thou, who to look for Rome, to Rome art come’)
First published in Brydges (1815), p. 52.
BrW 179
Copy in: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 301. The text is preceded on f. 33v by the Latin version by Janus Vitalis, headed ‘In urbem Romam qualis est hodie’ and beginning ‘Qui Romam in media quæris nouus aduena Roma’ (edited in Goodwin, II, 300-1).
On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, ‘Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha’, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.
BrW 179.2
Copy in: the MS described under BrW 111.5. c.1748-50s.
BrW 179.5
Copy, headed ‘On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke’ and here beginning ‘Underneath this Marble Hearse’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in one rounded hand, with later additions in other hands, 169 pages, in a marbled wrapper. c.1710-30s.
Among papers of the Knatchbull family, Barons Brabourne, of Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent.
BrW 179.8
Copy, headed ‘On ye Countess of Pembk. Sr Phil. Sidney's Sister’.
In: A folio volume comprising a collection of epitaphs, in a single neat italic hand, entitled ‘Delectus Epitaphiorum Anglo-Latinorum Tam Veterum quam Recentiu’, 74 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1664-1705.
Pencil inscription on front pastedown: ‘Charles A. Cole[?] June 26 '64’. The rear cover stamped ‘R. S. 1705’.
BrW 180
Copy in: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Brydges; in Goodwin; and in Ben Jonson, ed. C. H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 433-4.
BrW 181
Copy in: A large folio composite verse miscellany, chiefly folio, partly quarto, 243 pages, in contemporary calf. Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to ‘I Nicholas Burgh’ occurring on ff. 165r, with the date ‘3d of June 1638’, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands. c.1638.
Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Burghe MS’: CwT Δ 1.
BrW 182
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on the death of Marie Countesse of Pembrooke’.
In: A small quarto colume of state papers and verse, in a closely written hand, i + 170 pages, badly affected by ink seepage. c.1620s-37.
This MS collated in Norman Ault, Seventeenth Century Lyrics, 2nd edition (New York, 1950), p. 2.
BrW 183
Copy in the hand of John Aubrey.
In: A folio composite autograph manuscript of the first part of Brief Lives by John Aubrey (1626-97), 121 largely folio leaves, in vellum within modern boards. c.1679/80-1681.
Edited from this MS in Aubrey's Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1898), I, 312-13.
BrW 184
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on ye Countesse of Pembrooke’ and here beginning ‘Vnder here this marble hearse’.
In: the MS described under BrW 78. c.late 1630s.
BrW 185
Copy in: A folio verse miscellany, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Entitled Miscentur seria iocis. 1647. Elegies, Exequies, Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs Satires and other Poems, a formal compilation entirely in the hand of the Yorkshire antiquary John Hopkinson (1610-80). 1647.
From the library of Cecil Brent, FSA. Sold by P.J. & A.E. Dobell, January 1938.
BrW 188
Copy, headed ‘An epitaph on the Countess of Pembrooke’.
In: the MS described under BrW 113. c.1638.
BrW 189
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph of the same’ [i.e. Countess of Pembroke].
In: the MS described under BrW 80. Mid-17th century.
BrW 191
Copy, each stanza separately headed ‘Aliud’ [i.e. epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke] and the whole subscribed ‘Browne’.
In: the MS described under BrW 12.8. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.
BrW 192
Copy in: A quarto composite miscellany of verse, in English and Latin, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, who lived in Cambridge as student and Fellow of Emmanuel College from 1633 to 1651, ii + 115 leaves, in calf. Comprising three separate units: ff. 1r-96v all in Sancroft's hand; ff. 97r-104r in a second hand; and ff. 105r-9r in a third hand. c.1640s [and later].
Including (on ff. 2-23, 27ar-v, 70) 94 Latin poems ascribed to Crashaw (including three of doubtful authorship) and (on ff. 29-41, 43v, 44v-58, 60v, 62v-5v, 67-70v, 72-3, 95-6) 101 English poems (plus a second copy of one of them) attributed to him (including one of doubtful authorship) and (on f. 16r-v) one Greek poem attributed to him; a list of contents on the first page beginning ‘Mr. Crashaw's poems transcrib'd fro his own copie, before the were printed; among wch are some not printed…’.
Cited in IELM as the ‘Sancroft MS’: CrR Δ 1. Crashaw edited in part from this MS, and collated, in Grosart, in Waller and in Martin (cited as T or T5), and discussed in Waller, pp. vi-ix, and in Martin, pp. lviii-lxxiii. Folios 28-34v, 38v-41, 44v, 52v-6 reproduced in facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
BrW 193
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on the Death of the Countesse of Pembroke’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single neat largely italic hand, 155 leaves, in modern half-morocco. c.1630.
The table of contents (f. 155v) subscribed ‘Margrett Bellasys’, possibly the daughter of Thomas Belasyse (1577-1652), first Viscount Fauconberg of Henknowle. The front endpaper later inscribed ‘The pieces which I have extracted for “The Specimens” are, Page 91, 211, 265’: i.e. possibly by Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), editor of Specimens of the British Poets first published in 1809. Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Evans (Sotheby's), 29 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part VIII), lot 13.
BrW 194
Copy, headed ‘In Comitissam Sussexiae’ and here beginning ‘Vnder this cold marble hearse’.
In: the MS described under BrW 118. c.1630s.
BrW 195
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the late Countesse of Pembrooke 1622’.
In: the MS described under BrW 87. c.1620s.
BrW 197
Copy in: An oblong duodecimo verse miscellany, perhaps largely in one hand, with later additions by others, generally written across the page with the spine turned upwards, 136 leaves, with (f. 2r-v) a table of contents, in half green morocco. Including ten poems by Cowley (on ff. 113r-v, 124r-9v). c.1668-1713.
Inscribed (f. 2r) ‘Several Divine poems out of a Mss. of Mr. Hanserd Knolly's (thô [I suppose deleted] not of his composing)’; (f. 36r) ‘Finis Manuscript, H. K.’; (f. 1r and elsewhere) ‘H Packwood Anno 1668’ and ‘George Gaynor, 1681’. Item 988 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Purchased on 12 February 1876 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.
BrW 198
Copy in: A small octavo verse miscellany, written from both ends, predominantly in a single hand in variant styles (ff. 1v-79v, 80r, 88v-96v, 119r-117r rev.), with additions in later hands (ff. 97r-104v, 116v-106r rev.), 164 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Inscribed (f. 1v, in a court hand) ‘Daniell Leare his Booke’, ‘witnesse William Strode’, and (f. 164r) ‘Mr Daniell Leare eius Liber’: i.e. compiled chiefly by Daniel Leare, a distant cousin of the poet William Strode, probably at Christ Church, Oxford, before he entered the Middle Temple in 1633. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This suggestion, by Mary Hobbs, is supported by entries in the Caution Book of 1625-41 at Christ Church, where Strode is found (p. 22) paying £10 as college security for Leare and where Leare signs (p. 23) on this sum's repayment by Dr Fell on 13 May 1633. Forey suggests (p. lxxix) that he was the Daniell Leare of St Andrews, Holburne, whose will was proved in 1652; but it is more likely that he was the Daniel Leare to whom Henry King, Dean of Rochester, leased property at Chatham on 19 July 1655 (National Archives, Kew, SP 18/99/61). Daniel Leare's wife, Dorothy, was a member of the Hubert family with whom King was associated by virtue of the marriage of his sister Dorothy.
The volume includes 12 poems by Donne; 15 poems (plus a second copy of one and three of doubtful authorship) by Carew; 20 poems (plus two of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; and 84 poems (plus second copies of eight poems, four poems of doubtful authorship and some apocryphal poems) by Strode, the texts being closely related to, and in part probably transcribed from, the ‘Corpus MS’ of Strode's poems (StW Δ 1).
Inscribed also ‘John Leare’ (probably Daniel's younger brother); (f. 1r) ‘Anthony Euans his booke’ (who married Daniel Leare's niece Dorothy Leare in 1663); (f. 1v) ‘Alexander Croke his Book 1773’; and (f. 164v) ‘John Scott’ (who matriculated at Christ Church in 1632). Rimell & Son, 9 November 1878.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Leare MS’: DnJ Δ 41, CwT Δ 15, CoR Δ 4, and StW Δ 10.
Discussed in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973), pp. 185-90; in her ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 189-90); and in her Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), passim, with facsimile examples of ff. 79-80 facing p. 87.
BrW 198.5
Copy of lines 1-6, headed in the margin ‘Sidney C. of Pembroke her Epitaph’.
In: A folio formal miscellany of verse and prose, partly under headings, labelled on the spine ‘Adversaria’, in at least three hands, one predominating, with (ff. 178r-86v) an index, 186 leaves, in contemporary vellum boards. Compiled by John Perceval (1683-1748), first Earl of Egmont, politician. Volume CCIX of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family. c.1730.
BrW 199
Copy in the hand of Sir John Perceval, third Baronet, headed ‘A Ladyes Epitaph ex libris Miscelan. Fratris’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in two italic hands, i + 12 leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled (ff. 1r-8r) by Sir Philip Perceval, second Baronet (1656-80), and (ff. 8r-12r) by Sir John Perceval, third Baronet (1660-86). Volume CXCIII of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family. c.1670s.
BrW 200
Copy in: the MS described under BrW 159. c.1625-46.
BrW 201.5
Copy, headed ‘On the Lady Pembrook’.
In: the MS described under BrW 159.5. Late 18th century.
BrW 201.8
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on ye Countesse Dowager of Pembroke’ and here beginning ‘Vnder this harde marble hearse’.
In: the MS described under BrW 89. Mid-17th century.
BrW 202
Copy, headed ‘Lady Pembrookes Epitath’.
In: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous tracts and papers, in various hands, in modern red morocco gilt.
BrW 204
Copy, headed ‘On the Arcadian Countess of Pembroke’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including (ff. 113r-15r) copies of, or brief extracts from, 30 poems by Donne (plus two apocryphal poems), in a single hand, transcribed from the 1635 or 1639 edition of Donne's Poems, headed ‘Donnes quaintest conceits’ in several hands, 156 leaves (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. Late 17th century.
Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).
Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the ‘Harley Rawlinson MS’: DnJ Δ 64.
BrW 205
Copy, headed ‘Lady Pembrookes Epitaph’.
In: A large quarto volume of verse and prose, in several hands, a cursive mixed hand predominating on ff. 1r -51, 53r-8v, with a later addition dated 1694 on f. 78r, 82 leaves, in modern half green morocco. Mid-17th century.
BrW 205.5
Copy, headed ‘Lady Pembrokes Epitaph’.
In: A folio miscellany of largely poems on affairs of state, in two professional hands, with others on six tipped-in leaves at the end, 205 leaves (plus blanks), in black morocco gilt. c.1730.
BrW 206
Copy in: the MS described under BrW 92. c.early 1630s.
BrW 206.5
Copy of the first stanza only, headed ‘An Epitaph upon Queen Elizabeth’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in one female roman hand, written from both ends, 174 pages, in contemporary calf. Compiled by members of Sir Thomas Browne's family, chiefly his daughter Elizabeth Lyttelton (b. c.1648), containing various works in verse and prose including copies of a passage by Sir Thomas on consumptions (p. 43), a list of books which he had Elizabeth read out to him (pp. 44-5), copies of notes by him (pp. 77-76 rev.), his poem ‘Upon a Tempest at Sea’ (pp. 94-93 rev.) and verses beginning ‘the Almond flourisheth ye Birch trees flowe’ (p. 72); some of the verses in other hands including poems by Donne, Corbett, Wotton, Cartwright, William Browne, Ralegh, Katherine Phillips and others. Late 17th century.
Inscriptions (p. 1) ‘Mary Browne’ (who d.1676) and ‘James Dodsley’ and (p. 174) ‘Mar. 11th 1713/4 The gift of Mrs Lyttelton to Edward Tenison’. Percy Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1240. Bookplate of the Royal College of Medicine, London. Owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (Bibliotheca Bibliographici, No. 1301).
This MS volume described in [Geoffrey Keynes], ‘A Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne’, TLS (4 September 1919), p. 420. Discussed in Victoria E. Burke, ‘Contexts for Women's Manuscript Miscellanies: The Case of Elizabeth Lyttelton and Sir Thomas Browne’, Yearbook of English Studies, 33 (2003), 316-28. Edited selectively by Geoffrey Keynes as The Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttelton, Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne (Cambridge, 1919). The passages by Browne also edited in Keynes, I, 120-1, and III, 236-7, 331-2.
This MS edted in Keynes, The Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttleton, p. 24.
BrW 206.8
Copy of lines 1-6, headed ‘On ye Countess of Penbroke’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, in possibly two neat rounded hands, 366 pages plus a five-page index, dated at the end ‘Finis August ye. 6th 1717’. 1715-17.
BrW 207
Copy, here beginning ‘Under this same marble herse’, imperfect at the foot of the page.
In: the MS described under BrW 93. c.late 1630s [-1789].
BrW 211
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the late Countess of Pembroke’.
In: the MS described under BrW 133. c.1637-51.
BrW 212
Copy, headed ‘On ye Countesse of Pembrocke’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt. c.1640.
Formerly MS 2073.3.
BrW 212.5
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on the Cs of Peme. Sister to Sir P. Sidney’ and here beginning ‘Underneath this marble herse’.
In: Verse inscribed in a printed exemplum of Ben Jonson's Workes, Vol. I (London, 1640), a folio, in modern panelled calf gilt. In the hand of The Rev. John Genest (1764-1839), theatre historian, whose signature dated 1 August 1784 appears on a flyleaf. c.1784.
Acquired from G. A. Baker, 1929.
BrW 213
Copy, headed ‘The Countess of Pembrookes Epitaph’.
In: the MS described under BrW 12. c.1630s.
BrW 214
Copy, inscribed inside the front cover of a printed exemplum of Sidney's Arcadia (London, 1613), a large folio, in contemporary calf. The volume neatly annotated up to p. 332 in an unidentified roman hand, once thought to be that of Gabriel Harvey. Early-mid-17th century.
Lot 869 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Once owned by William Augustus White (1843-1927), American banker and collector.
Formerly Houghton 14457.23.8.7*.
This MS recorded, and the volume discussed, in W.L. Godshalk, ‘Gabriel Harvey and Sidney's Arcadia’, MLR, 59 (1964), 497-9.
BrW 215
Copy in: the MS described under BrW 135. c.1630s-40s.
BrW 215.5
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on C. of Pembroke’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, predominantly in a single non-professional hand, iv + 214 pages, in contemporary calf. Inscribed (p. 211) ‘I ended this book Novr. 13th 1723’. c.1723.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 15, p. 126.
BrW 216
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on the Countesse of Penbroke’.
In: the MS described under BrW 107. c.1630s.
BrW 217
Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, the second stanza apparently added by him at a different time.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters, tracts, and verse, collected by, and mostly in the hand of, William Parkhurst (fl.1604-67), Sir Henry Wotton's secretary in Venice and later Master of the Mint, including various works in verse and prose attributed to Donne, chiefly in a scribal hand, partly in Parkhurst's hand, 373 leaves (including blanks), in old calf.
Among the papers of the Finch family of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland. Mistakenly reported by Grierson and Logan Pearsall Smith to have been destroyed in a fire at Burley c.1908.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Burley MS’: DnJ Δ 53. Recorded in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 516. A complete microfilm of the MS is at the University of Sheffield, Microfilm 737.
A neat transcript of parts of the Burley MS (including principally poems on ff. 255r-v, 278v, [279r]-288v, 342v-3r, 294r-300r, 301r-8v), made before 1908, on 35 leaves, is in the Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 80.
BrW 218
Copy, headed ‘A Epitaph Vpon the Countesse of Pembrock’, here beginning ‘Intomb'd within this sable hearse’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Carew and one of doubtful authorship, in a single neat non-professional hand, 72 leaves (plus a later index). c.1643-50s.
Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Bell-White MS, CwT Δ 30. Described, with facsimiles of ff. 30r and 56v, in T.G.S. Cain, ‘The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems’, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, f. 41r.
BrW 219
Copy on a leaf among the papers of Sir Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester (1573-1632). c.1621.
This MS discussed in Joan Grundy, ‘A New Manuscript of the Countess of Pembroke's Epitaph’, N&Q, 205 (February 1960), 63-4.
BrW 220
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf. c.1713.
Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. In the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936.
BrW 221
Copy in: the MS described under BrW 50. c.1634.
BrW 222
Copy in: the MS described under BrW 44. c.1638-42.
BrW 223
Copy of the first stanza, subscribed ‘These Verses were made by Mr ... Browne, who wrote the Pastoralls....’.
In: A formal transcript of John Aubrey's Naturall Historie of Wiltshire (1685), in the neat italic hand of B. G. Cramer, made for the Royal Society and dedicated to the President, the Earl of Pembroke, 393 folio pages, in contemporary elaborately blind-stamped diced russia. [1690-1].
Edited from this MS in Naturall History of Wiltshire by John Aubrey, ed. John Britton (London, 1847), p. 90.
BrW 224
Copy, headed ‘on the Countesse of Pembroke’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Thomas Carew, probably in a single accomplished hand (changing to two styles of italic on ff. 42v-4v, 5r-60r, 76r-v), i + 89 leaves (including blanks, stubs of two or three excised leaves, and an index), in contemporary limp vellum. c.1630s-40s.
Later notes and scribbling including the names ‘John Nutting’ (ff. 26r, 56r) and ‘John M.’ and ‘John Susan’ (rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Nutting MS’: CwT Δ 35. The list of poems, probably relating to another MS, is edited, with facsimiles, in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 198-9, 217-19).
BrW 225
Copy in: the MS described under BrW 176. c.1636-40s.
BrW 226
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph’.
In: A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in various hands, probably associated with the University of Cambridge, 352 pages (including 35 blanks), in 19th-century boards. Erroneously described in 1965 as a commonplace book of the poet Robert Herrick. The so-called ‘Herrick hand’ responsible for complete poems or substantial passages on pp. 73-4, 102-3, 253, 312-13, 319-21, 323, 328 and 343, this hand also responsible for corrections and brief insertions in both verse and prose on pp. 55-6, 58-60, 68, 71, 75-6, 78, 83, 89, 91, 93, 97, 99. 108-9, 203, 266, 285, 291, 348 and 350. c.1612-24.
Scribbling on front- and end-leaves including ‘Georgius Cantuarien’, ‘Thomas Hobson’ [?the Cambridge Carrier], ‘Benjamin Broadeface’, ‘To my very long friend mr John Bond’, ‘To the right reuerend ffather in God George Archbyshop of Canterbury his grace’, ‘Whereas the Bearer hereof Thomas Hall hath serued his sixe weekes…’, ‘To the right honor Sr Tho: Moore Whereas the Bearer hereof John Tis[?]sdale’, ‘Williamson’ and ‘Phillip de Maceden’. Puttick and Simpson's, 30 May 1849, lot 158 (erroneously described as a commonplace book of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 12341*. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 146 (as Herrick's commonplace book). House of El Dieff (Lew David Feldman), New York, sale catalogue No. 65 (1965), with facsimile page as frontispiece. Formerly Ms File/(Herrick, R)/Works B.
Also facsimiles of p. 323 in the Sotheby's sale catalogue (frontispiece) and of p. 253 (as if in Herrick's hand) in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 33. Facsimile of all the verse in the MS (viz. pp. 63-83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93,95, 97, 99, 101-3, 105-9, 113-17, 251-3, 277-82, 291, 317-21, 323, 325-43, 345-50), together with a transcript, in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, ‘Poems from a Seventeenth-century Manuscript with the Hand of Robert Herrick’, Texas Quarterly, 16, No. 4 (Supplement) (Winter 1973), 1-185. Microfilm of the complete MS in the British Library, M/751.
The MS discussed by Farmer in loc. cit. and in ‘Robert Herrick's Commonplace Book? Some Observations and Questions’, PBSA, 66 (1972), 21-34; in P.J. Croft's critical comments on Farmer's articles in ‘To the Editor’, PBSA, 66 (1972), 421-6, and (correcting Farmer's published transcript of the text) in ‘Errata in “Poems from a Seventeenth-Century Manuscript”’, TQ, 19 (1976), 160-73; and in Farmer's ‘A Reply to Mr P. Croft’, TQ, 19 (1976), 174. Reasons for rejecting Herrick's alleged association are presented in the Introduction above, under The Texas ‘Herrick’ Manuscript.
BrW 227
Copy, headed ‘On the death of the Countesse of Pembrooke’, subscribed ‘William Browne’.
In: the MS described under BrW 140. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Goodwin, I, xi, and in Herford & Simpson.
BrW 228
Copy in: A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat italic hand, with rubrication, 144 pages (plus later index). Including twelve poems by Carew, nine poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph and nineteen (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the miscellany associated with Oxford University and possibly related to Bodleian MS Malone 21, the latest date occuring in a poem on pp. 63-6 ‘Vpon ye great Frost 1634’. c.1635.
Inscribed inside the front cover by a later owner: ‘April 1853 Read to Lit[erary] & Philosophical] Soc[iet]y of L[iver]pool’. Acquired in 1940 by Edwin Wolf II (1911-91), Philadelphia librarian.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Wolf MS’: CwT Δ 37; RnT Δ 12; StW Δ 28.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], p. 119.
BrW 228.5
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph’, on the first page of two pairs of conjugate quarto leaves of verse. Mid-17th century.
In: A collection of songs and poems, unbound, in folders. Among papers of the Clarke family, of Littlecote.
Worcester College, Oxford, MS 267/II, Fasc. 3, Doc. No. 38 [f. 71r].
BrW 229
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on ye death of Mary Countess of Pembroke’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by or attributed to Herrick, almost entirely in a single small predominantly italic hand, 250 pages (plus numerous blanks), originally in contemporary calf, but now disbound. Inscribed four times on a flyleaf ‘Tobias Alston his booke’: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end. c.1639 [-c.1728].
Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Alston MS’: HeR Δ 7. A complete set of photocopies of the MS is in the British Library, RP 772. Facsimile of pp. 6-7 in Sotheby's sale catalogue (see HeR 176, HeR 405) where the MS is described at some length. See also letters by Peter Beal and Donald W. Foster in TLS (24 January 1986), pp. 87-8.
BrW 229.2
Copy, headed ‘On ye countess of Pembroke’.
In: the MS described under BrW 143.5. c.late 1630s.
BrW 229.4
Copy of lines 1-6.
In: A folio verse miscellany, in a single hand, compiled by Nathaniel Hamby, of Wymondham, Norfolk, 648 pages, in morocco gilt. c.1729.
BrW 229.5
Copy of lines 1-6, headed ‘an Epitaph by an uncertain hand on Mary Countess Dowager of Pembroke’ and here beginning ‘Underneath this Marble Hearse’.
In: Three quarto volumes of verse, 164, 155 and 145 leaves respectively, in later vellum. Compiled by Colonel Gabriel Lepipre. c.1753.
BrW 229.7
Copy of lines 1-6.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, compiled by John Freeman Milward Dovaston (1782-1854), 309 pages. Early 19th century.
BrW 229.8
Copy of lines 1-6.
In: A quarto commonplace book of extracts, compiled by Elizabeth Elliotson, 330 pages. 1729.
BrW 230
Copy in: A folio miscellany entitled Epitaphs Collected 1694, 42 pages. c.1695.
On the Countess of Somerset's Picture (‘The pitied fortune most men chiefly hate’)
First published in Brydges (1815), p. 73.
On the Right Honourable Charles, Lord Herbert of Cardiff and Shurland (‘If there be a tear unshed’)
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 103-5.
On the Right Honourable Susan, Countess of Montgomery (‘Though we trust the earth with thee’)
First published in Brydges (1815), p. 103.
One that was iealous that an other loued his Mistres (‘Hee that woulde my Mistres knowe’)
Unpublished. Authorship uncertain.
‘Poor silly fool! thou striv'st in vain to know’
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 26-7.
BrW 235
Copy, headed ‘The answer [to ‘He that would my mris know’] by him that was suspected’.
In: the MS described under BrW 181. c.1638.
BrW 236
Copy, headed ‘An Answere to Dr Donnes curse’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in two or more cursive hands, written from both ends, iv + 278 pages, in contemporary calf. Compiled principally by one ‘H. S.’, a Cambridge University man. c.1640s-60s.
This MS volume edited in D.J. Rose, MS Rawlinson Poetical 147: An Annotated Volume of Seventeenth-Century Cambridge Verses (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leicester, 1992), of which a copy is in Cambridge University Library, Manuscript Department, A8f.
BrW 237
Copy, headed ‘The answer to the ialous man’, here ascribed to ‘Willyam Stroude’.
In: the MS described under BrW 21.5. c.1634.
A Round (‘Now that the Spring hath fill'd our veins’)
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 8-9. Goodwin, II, 213-14.
BrW 238
Copy in: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Brydges and in Goodwin.
BrW 239
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single neat predominantly italic hand, 72 leaves, in old leather. Probably compiled by one ‘H.S.’, a Cambridge man. c.1640s-50s.
Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector, with his bookplate and inscription ‘1806 Purchased of Lansdown of Bristol’. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 192.
‘Shall I love again, and try’
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 22-3.
The Shepherd's Pipe. Eclogue 4 (‘Under an aged oak was Willie laid’)
First published in London, 1614. Goodwin, II, 77-164 (pp. 134-41).
*BrW 241
Autograph draft, written on the available space on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1613.
In: the MS described under BrW 2. c.1613.
This MS collated in Goodwin, II, 343-5.
Facsimile pages in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 31; in IELM, I, i (1980), Facsimile V; and in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 38.
BrW 242
Copy, headed ‘A pastorall Elegie’ on Mr. Thomas Manwood.
In: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Brydges (1815), pp. 118-27. Collated in Goodwin, II, 343-5.
A Sigh from Oxford (‘Go, and if thou chance to find’)
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 57-67.
Sonnet (‘For her gait if she be walking’)
First published in Goodwin (1894), II, 226-7.
*BrW 244
Autograph fair copy, on one page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1613.
In: the MS described under BrW 2. c.1613.
‘Telle me, Pyrrha, what fine youth’
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 24-5.
To Don Antonio, King of Portugal (‘Between thee and thy kingdom late with force’)
First published in Brydges (1815), p. 95.
‘Unhappy I, in whom no joy appears’
First published in Goodwin (1894), II, 215.
‘Unhappy Muse, that nothing pleasest me’
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 149-50.
BrW 248
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 214.
Visions (‘Sitting one day beside the banks of Mole’)
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 47-51.
BrW 249
Copy of six ‘Visions’ (numbered 1, 3-7, with blank spaces left for 2 and 8).
In: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 279-82.
‘Welcome, welcome, do I sing’
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 30-1.
BrW 250
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
In: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 198-99.
‘Ye merry birds, leave of to sing’
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 32-4.
BrW 251
Copy in: the MS described under BrW 1. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 199-200.
BrW 252
Copy, headed ‘Love forssaken’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, 89 leaves, in old calf gilt. Partly compiled (pp. 75-99) by one Robert Berkeley, who has inscribed the first page ‘Rob Berkeley his booke Ano. 1640’. c.1640s.
Formerly owned by Henry Huth (1815-78). Formerly Rosenbach 195.
Dramatic works
The Inner Temple Masque
First published in The Works of William Browne, ed. Thomas Davies (London, 1772). Goodwin, II, 165-90. Edited by R.F. Hill as The Masque of the Inner Temple (Ulysses and Circe), in A Book of Masques in Honour of Allardyce Nicoll (Cambridge, 1967), pp. 179-206.
BrW 254
Copy, in a cursive hand, on nine quarto leaves.
In: A quarto composite volume of verse, prose and dramatic MSS, in several hands, the second item (II) constituting an independent quire of six leaves containing copies of, or extracts from, 14 poems by Donne, in a single minute hand, c.160 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards. c.1630.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the ‘Emmanuel College MS’: DnJ Δ 65.
Edited from this MS in all modern editions.
Emmanuel College, Cambridge, MS 68 (I. 3. 16), II, ff. 8r-16v.
BrW 255
Copy, including the prose dedication, in the secretary hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple, headed ‘The Iner Temple masque by W.B.’; on seven quarto leaves (plus one blank), imperfect, gnawed by rodents. c.1620s.
Once among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Later owned by Lt. Col. John Chandos-Pole, of Newnham Hall, Daventry.
Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, p. 386b. The text corrected from this MS in Goodwin (II, 345) and in Hill.
—— i, 1-10. Song (‘Steer hither, steer, your winged pines’)
BrW 256
Copy of the Siren's song in a musical setting possibly by Robert Johnson.
In: A folio songbook, i + 6 leaves, now mounted with other MSS (1015-1019) in a double-folio guardbook. Early 17th century.
Formerly at St Michael's College, Tenbury Wells.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 6 (New York & London, 1987).
Edited from this MS in John Cutts, ‘Original Music to Browne's Inner Temple Masque, and other Jacobean Masque Music’, N&Q, 199 (May 1954), 194-5.
Manuscripts and Books Inscribed or Annotated by Browne
Boethius. De Consolatione Philosophiæ
BrW 256.2
MS of the translation by John Walton, inscribed (f. 2r) ‘Willelmus Browne 1612’. 1612.
In the library of John Cosin (1595-1672), Bishop of Durham.
Edwards, No. 13.
Chaucer, Geoffrey. Troilus & Criseyde, and Hoccleve
*BrW 256.4
MS, inscribed (f. 4v) ‘W Browne’. Early 17th century.
In the library of John Cosin (1595-1672), Bishop of Durham.
Edwards, No. 12. Described in R.K. Root, The Manuscripts of Chaucer's Troilus (London, 1914), p. 11.
Chronicle of the Brut
BrW 256.6
A 15th-century folio MS, in English, inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Wm Browne’. Early 17th century.
Edwards, No. 6.
Emblem Books
Unpublished.
*BrW 257
An illustrated MS emblem book belonging to William Browne, 112 quarto leaves (ff. 1r-20v, 22r-3r, 113-17 blank), bound with other manuscripts in contemporary calf. Produced in 1598 by Thomas Palmer and originally intended as a gift for Lord Burghley (who died in that year), the verses in a neat secretary script (with watercolours on ff. 21r, 24v-87v), bearing (f. 21r) Browne's inscription ‘Liber: willi: Browne’. 1598.
This and MS Ashmole 767 (III) discussed by Geoffrey Tillotson in ‘A Manuscript of William Browne’, RES, 6 (1930), 187-91, and in ‘Further Note on Ashmole MS. 767’, RES, 7 (1931), 457-8. Also discussed in Percy Simpson in ‘Two Emblem Books’, BQR, 6 (1932), 172-3, and, with facsimile examples, in Gillian Wright, ‘The Growth of an Emblem: Some Contexts for Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 767’, in Emblems and the Manuscript Tradition, ed. Laurence Grove (Glasgow, 1997), pp. 81-99.
*BrW 257.4
The manuscript as a whole. An illustrated MS emblem book, the main text all in Browne's semi-calligraphic hand (a different hand or variation in style in the addition on f. 14r), the watercolours also probably executed by him, the pictures and mottoes being largely copied from Palmer's MS (BrW 257), but the verses (on the first 14 leaves), beginning ‘Euerie thing as 'tis taken’, composed by Browne, with his inscription (f. 3r) ‘Liber W: Browne’, 103 quarto leaves, incomplete, bound with other MSS in contemporary calf. Early 17th century.
This and MS Ashmole 767 (II) discussed by Geoffrey Tillotson in ‘A Manuscript of William Browne’, RES, 6 (1930), 187-91, and in ‘Further Note on Ashmole MS. 767’, RES, 7 (1931), 457-8; also Percy Simpson in ‘Two Emblem Books’, BQR, 6 (1932), 172-3.
Gower, John. Confessio amantis (London, 1532)
BrW 257.5
A printed exemplum, inscribed (title-page verso) ‘William Browne’. Early 17th century.
Edwards, No. 17.
Higden, Ranulf. Polychronicon
BrW 257.8
A medieval MS, inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Liber Willi: Browne. 1612’. 1612.
Edwards, No. 16.
Hoccleve, Thomas. Regement of Princes
*BrW 258
A 15th-century folio MS, on 97 vellum leaves, of Hoccleve's treatise dedicated to Henry V (as Prince) inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Liber W: Browne, / 1612’, with Browne's autograph notes and corrections, including.additional verses (ff. 7r, 40v, 80r) and the text of three missing leaves (ff. 65r-v, 70r-v, 74r-v) supplied in his hand, the MS evidently collated by him with another text. c.1612.
Edwards, No. 8.
Hoccleve, Thomas. Works
BrW 259
MS, inscribed (ff. 3r, 14r) ‘W Browne’. Early 17th century.
In the library of John Cosin (1595-1672), Bishop of Durham.
Edwards, No. 15.
Legenda Aurea
*BrW 260
A 15th-century folio MS on vellum of an English translation, inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Wm Browne’. Early 17th century.
Also inscribed by Sir Thomas North and, in 1776, by William Herbert (1718-95), bibliographer and print seller. Arms on the cover of Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary. Armorial bookplate of Prince Augustus Frederick (1773-1843), Duke of Sussex.
Edwards, No. 3.
Lydgate, John, and works by others
BrW 261
A 15th-century collection of verse and prose, 134 leaves, inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Liber W: Browne’ and (f. 133v) ‘W. Browne Inter. Templi 1614’, bound with another tract by Lydgate (ff. 135-84). 1614.
Edwards, No. 11. Described in E. P. Hammond, ‘Ashmole 59 and Other Shirley Manuscripts’, Anglia, 30 (1907), 320-48.
Lydgate, John. Life of Our Lady
*BrW 262
MS, inscribed (f. 3r) ‘W Browne’. Early 17th century.
In the library of John Cosin (1595-1672), Bishop of Durham.
Edwards, No. 14. Described in A Critical Edition of John Lydgate's Life of Our Lady, ed. J.A. Lauritis, R.A. Klinefelter & V.F. Gallagher (Pittsburgh. 1961), pp. 22-4.
Lydgate, John. Lives of SS Edmund & Fremund
*BrW 263
A quarto 15th-century illuminated MS, on vellum, 163 leaves, inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Wm Browne’, in old leather gilt. Early 17th century.
Edwards, No. 10.
Lydgate, John. The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man
*BrW 264
A 15th-16th-century quarto MS of an English translation of a work by Guillaume Deguileville, inscribed (f. 1r) ‘W. Browne:’ and with Browne's annotations. Early 17th century.
Edwards, No. 7.
Lydgate, John. Poems
*BrW 265
A small folio 15th-century MS of poems by Lydgate and other works, inscribed (f. 2v) ‘fortuna non mutat genus WB’ and (f. 4r) ‘W. Browne’. Early 17th century.
Later in the library of Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector.
Edwards, No. 2. This MS described in E.P. Hammond, ‘Two British Museum Manuscripts (Harley 2251 and Adds. 34360): A Contribution to Lydgate Bibliography’, Anglia, 28 (1905), 1-28.
Lydgate, John. Works
BrW 266
A 15th-century MS of works by Lydgate, on paper and vellum, inscribed (f. 2r) ‘W Browne 1615’ and (f. 95r) ‘Wm Browne’, together with the opening lines of Britannia's Pastorals. 1615.
Later owned by Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts.
Edwards, No. 5.
Northern Homily Cycle, etc.
*BrW 267
MS of Middle English religious verse, including the Gospel of Nichodemus and the Prick of Conscience, inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Wm Browne 1622’. 1622.
Edwards, No. 4.
The Story of the Erle of Tolous
BrW 268
A 16th-century quarto MS of the romance, inscribed (ff. 2r) ‘W. Browne’ and (f. 3r) ‘W Browne’, bound with other MSS. Early 17th century.
Edwards, No. 9.
William of Malmesbury. De gestis Regum Anglorum
*BrW 269
A small folio 12th-century MS on vellum, inscribed (f. 1v) ‘Liber Willi: Browne’. Early 17th century.
Annotated on f. 42r by John Stow (1524/5-1605), London historian. Owned in 1756 by Alexander Grant and Robert Leith.
Edwards, No. 1. Possibly the MS cited by Browne at the very beginning of Britannia's Pastorals as ‘a manuscript copy of [William of] Malmesbury…belonging to the Abbey of S. Augustine in Canterbury…in the hands of my very learned friend M. Selden’ (Goodwin, I, 17).
Letters
Letter(s)
BrW 270
Probably a copy of a letter by ‘Wm Browne’, in a secretary hand, to Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, from Dorking, 29 November 1640. 1640.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters, speeches and other papers, in various hands and paper sizes, x + 315 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.
Collected and partly written by Elias Ashmole (1617-92).
Edited in Goodwin, I, xxv).