Verse
(1) English Songs and Poems by Campion
‘A daie, a night, an houre of sweete content’
See CmT 7.
‘As by the streams of Babilon’
First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book I, No. xiv. Davis, p. 74.
CmT 1
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: A small oblong quarto songbook, in probably several hands, 18 leaves, in paper wrappers, disbound. Late-17th century.
A wrapper inscribed ‘For George Chalmers Esq.’: i.e. given probably to George Chalmers, FSA, FRS (1742-1825), antiquary and political writer.
CmT 2
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: A quarto book of vocal music, the lyrics largely in a single secretary hand, varying in size, 79 leaves, in modern dark green morocco. Inscribed (f. 45r) ‘REdwards book’: i.e. compiled by Robert Edwards (1616-96), minister of Murroes Parish, though originally belonging to his father, Alexander, merchant of Dundee. c.1635-70.
Owned in 1687 by Robert Edward's son Alexander (1651-1708). Panmure No. 11 among the Panmure Music Books gathered mainly by Lady Jean Campbell, second Countess of Panmure, and her sons James Maule, fourth Earl of Panmure, and Harie Maule. Subsequently preserved by their descendants, Earls of Dalhousie.
‘Awake, thou spring of speaking grace, mute rest become not thee’
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres [London. 1617], Book III, No. xiii. Davis, p. 148.
CmT 2.5
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: Music book compiled by Lady Margaret Wemyss, daughter of David, second Earl of Wemyss (1610-79), in contemporary vellum. c.1640s.
‘Be thou then my beauty named’
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres [London. 1617], Book III, No. xix. Davis, p. 155.
‘Beauty, since you so much desire’
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xxii. Davis, pp. 190-2.
CmT 3
Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: Three small quarto musical part books of the ‘St Andrews Psalter’ (the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1566 etc. by Thomas Wode, afterwards Vicar of St Andrews), copied c.1575-8, in formal angular roman hands, with rubrication and colour decoration, and with a series of secular songs added later in secretary and italic hands at the end, comprising (i) Treble part: iv + 214 pages (including blanks; (ii) Tenor part: iv + 200 pages; and (iii) Bassus part: 214 pages, all in 19th-century black morocco (iii incorporating an original vellum board). c.1575-early 17th century.
For a fourth (Counter-tenor) part book of this Psalter, see British Library, Add. MS 33933.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 500.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 483, (iii) p. 192.
CmT 4
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: A quarto musical part book, in several neat secretary and italic hands, with some initial-letter decoration, headed (f. 5r) ‘This is the fyrst Buke addit to the four psalme Bukkes, for songis of four or fyue partis, meit and apt for musitians, to recreat...’, with (ff. 2r-4r) a table of contents, 63 leaves, in old blind-stamped calf. One of the part books of the ‘St Andrews Psalter’. Early 17th century.
‘Breake now my heart and dye! Oh no, she may relent’
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. x. Davis, p. 144-5.
CmT 5
Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 3. c.1575-early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 496.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 483, (iii) p. 191.
Canto Quinto (‘A daie, a night, an houre of sweete content’)
First published among ‘sundry other rare Sonnets of diuerse Noble men and Gentlemen’ appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). Davis, p. 10.
CmT 7
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in an accomplished mixed hand throughout, with headings or incipts in engrossed lettering, 194 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. c.1596-1601.
This MS volume discussed in Katherine K. Gottschalk, ‘Discoveries concerning British Library MS Harley 6910’, MP, 77 (1979-80), 121-31.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 491.
Canto Tertio (‘My Love bound me with a kisse’)
First published (first strophe) among ‘sundry other rare Sonnets of diuerse Noble men and Gentlemen’ appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). Robert Jones, Second Booke of Songs and Ayres (London, 1601). Davis, p. 9. Doughtie, p. 151.
CmT 8
Copy in: An octavo miscellany of verse and university exercises, including twelve poems by Carew, in a single hand, compiled by Edward Natley, Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, 165 leaves (including many blanks), in calf (rebacked). c.1635-44.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 2592. Sotheby's, 10 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 960. Owned in 1896 by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Acquired in 1950 from H.F.B. Brett-Smith, Oxford literary scholar and editor.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Natley MS’: CwT Δ 6.
CmT 9
Copy, untitled.
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.
CmT 10
Copy, headed ‘Iames Heruie’, in a group of ballads ‘copied from an unprinted MS. written by Lady Robertson of Lude in 1630’.
In: A folio volume of ballads, comprising two MSS bound together, in possibly a single hand, 281 leaves, in half red morocco on marbled boards. Volume II of the compilations of Peter Buchan (1790-1854), the foundation of his Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1828). c.1820s.
This MS collated in Doughtie, p. 503.
CmT 11
Copies of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 3. c.1575-early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 491.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 483, (ii) p. 179; (ii) p. 194.
CmT 12
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: An oblong quarto book of mainly vocal music, the lyrics in several largely secretary hands, one predominating, 90 pages (including blanks), in contemporary brown calf, both covers stamped in gilt ‘I S’. Inscribed several times ‘John Squyer’, probably the compiler. Mid-17th century.
Also inscribed (p. 1) ‘Ane Cattologue of books 1700’, and (p. 25) ‘Joanne Squier’. Owned by David Laing in June 1855.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 492.
CmT 13
Copy of a four-strophe version, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics in two or more secretary and italic hands, iv + 43 leaves, in modern quarter-calf. Inscribed (f. 31r) ‘MAY 1639’ and ‘Williane Stirling’. A long note (f. iir) in the hand of John Leyden (1775-1811), linguist and poet, dated 5 March 1800, recording his purchase of the MS in 1788 from the library of the Rev. Mr Cranstow, minister of Ancrum; his lending it to Alexander Campbell in 1795 and retrieving it in December 1799; and his now consigning it to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. c.1639.
A complete facsimile of this volume is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 11 (New York & London, 1987).
Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), p. 14. Collated in Davis, p. 491, and in Doughtie, p. 503.
CmT 15
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics in a single secretary hand, 30 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum gilt, with modern ties. c.1630.
Inscribed inside the front cover ‘Ro Carre of Ferniehurst (1669)’, later fourth Lord Jedburgh. Initials ‘L. A. K.’ stamped on the cover possibly denoting his wife, Lady Ann Ker.
CmT 16
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, 180 pages, in three secretary hands, in contemporary limp vellum. Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court. c.1630.
Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Formerly Rosenbach 186.
‘Come let us sound with melody the praises’
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xxi. Davis, pp. 48-9.
CmT 18
Copy, headed ‘Saphickes’.
In: A folio composite miscellany compiled entirely by William Drummond of Hawthornden, including (ff. 165r-6v, 246r-7v) copies of, or brief extracts from, nineteen poems by Donne, 300 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt. c.1618-20s.
Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VIII.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Drummond Miscellany: DnJ Δ 66. Some extracts from this MS edited in Laing (1831), pp. 78-82. ‘Drummond's Catalogue of Comedies’ (ff. 122-3). Recorded in MacDonald, Library of Drummond, pp. 231-2.
‘Come, O come, my lifes delight’
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres [London. 1617], Book III, No. xxiii. Davis, p. 160.
‘Come, you pretty false-ey'd wanton’
First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xviii. Davis, pp. 109-10.
CmT 19
Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: A folio virginal book, largely in a single italic hand, written from both ends, with a list of contents (f. 1r), 60 leaves, in old brown calf gilt. Inscribed (f. 1v), probably by the compiler, ‘Elizabeth: Rogers hir virginall booke. ffebruarye ye 27: 1656’. c.1656.
Also inscribed (f. 1r, twice) ‘Elizabeth Fayre’. Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, February 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1151.
A facsimile of ff. 20v-3r, 26v-7r, 35v-7r, 46v-60r of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 2 (New York & London, 1986).
This MS collated in Davis, p. 495.
CmT 20
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics largely in a single italic hand, with (ff. 4v-5r) a table of contents, 84 leaves, in 19th-century red morocco gilt. Inscribed (f. 3v), evidently by the compiler, ‘Giles Earle his booke 1615’ (with other notes dated 1610) and (f. 1v) ‘Egidius Earle hunc librum possidet qui compactus fuit mense Septembris. 1626.’, f. 81r subscribed ‘Anno Dni: 1623 / Mense Augusti: Finis’. c.1615-26.
Acquired from Joseph Lilly, bookseller, 17 May 1862.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).
This MS collated in Davis, p. 495.
CmT 21
Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting.
In: MS songbook. Owned and probably compiled by Elizabeth Davenant (sister of Sir William Davenant), of Oxford. c.1624-30s.
Complete facsimile of this MS volume in Jorgens, VII (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘“Mris Elizabeth Davenant 1624”: Christ Church MS. Mus. 87’, RES, NS 10 (1959), 26-37.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 495.
‘Could my heart more tongues imploy’
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxiv. Davis, p. 160.
CmT 22
Copy, untitled.
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.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 498.
CmT 23
Copy of an untitled version beginning ‘Could my poore hart whole worlds of toungs employ’.
In: the MS described under CmT 22. c.1630.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 480.
‘Faine would I wed a faire yong man that day and night could please me’
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xxiv. Davis, p. 193.
CmT 24
Copy of a parodied version of Campion's song, in his musical setting.
In: the MS described under CmT 12. Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 500.
CmT 25
Copy of the incipit, here ‘Fayne would I wedd’, with a musical setting by Richard Farnaby.
In: A virginal book, probably compiled by Francis Tregian (the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book). c.1609-19.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 500.
CmT 26
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, closely written in possibly several minute predominantly secretary hands, 291 leaves (ff. 212-16 bound out of order after f. 24), in modern calf. c.1640s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Joseph Hall’ (not the bishop). Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who has entered in pseudo-17th-century secretary script copies of various ballads on ff. 39r-41r, 107v-79r, 181r-v, 227r-8v, 243r-6r, as well as adding foliation (1-284) before the more recent foliation (1-291, used below). Quaritch's sale catalogue ‘of English Literature’ (August-November 1884), item 22350, Collier's transcript of the MS made c.1860 being item 22352. Formerly Folger MS 2071.7.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Giles E. Dawson, ‘John Payne Collier's Great Forgery’, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26.
CmT 27
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: MS transcript of the first printed edition (Aberdeen, 1662) of John Forbes, Cantus, Songs and Fancies. c.1662.
In the Atholl Collection of Music, assembled by Lady Dorothea Stewart-Murray (1866-1937), daughter of John Stewart-Murray (1840-1917), seventh Duke of Atholl. Formerly in the Sandeman Library, Perth.
‘Fire, fire, fire, fire!’
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xx. Davis, p. 156-8. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 2.
CmT 28
Copy of the first strophe.
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.
CmT 29
Copy of the first strophe, untitled, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier.
In: A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked). Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere. c.1640s-60s.
Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Probert MS’: CwT Δ 4, HeR Δ 1. Discussed and analysed in John P. Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211. Also briefly discussed in George Thewlis, ‘Some Notes on a Bodleian Manuscript’, M&L, 22 (1941) 32-5, and in Willa McClung Evans, ‘Shakespeare's “Harke Harke ye Larke”’, PMLA, 60 (1945), 95-101 (with a facsimile of f. 78r). A facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 6 (New York & London, 1987).
This MS collated in Davis, pp. 497-8.
CmT 31
Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier.
In: A large quarto music part book, 102 leaves. Mid-17th century.
Part of a set of ten volumes, once owned by one John Merro and, in 1673, by one William Iles, who gave them to John Fell (1625-86), Dean of Christ Church and Bishop of Oxford, for ‘the vse of the publicke Musicke Scoole’.
CmT 32
Copy of the first strophe, untitled.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards. Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source. Late 17th century.
Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as ‘Rawlinson MS I’: PsK Δ 6.
CmT 33
Copy, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 19. c.1656.
Edited from this MS in Spink. Collated in Davis, pp. 497-8.
CmT 34
Copy, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier, untitled.
In: A square-shaped folio songbook, largely in a single rounded secretary hand, with (ff. 1r-v, 69r-v) a table of contents, i + 69 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Mid-17th century.
Puttick & Simpson's, 2 March 1866, lot 230.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 2 (New York & London, 1986).
This MS collated in Davis, pp. 497-8.
CmT 35
Copy, headed ‘Impatience in Loue incurable’.
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 Davis, pp. 497-8.
CmT 36
Copy, headed in the margin ‘Songe’.
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.
CmT 37
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: Two music part books compiled by Thomas Smith (1614-1701) of The Queen's College, Oxford, later Bishop of Carlisle. c.1637.
Formerly Carlisle Cathedral, Dean & Chapter of Carlisle MSS, Box B1.
These MSS discussed in John P. Cutts, Bishop Smith's Part-Song Books in Carlisle Cathedral Library (American Institute of Musicology, 1972).
Edited from this MS in James Walter Brown, ‘Some Elizabethan Lyrics’, CM, 51 (September 1921), 285-96 (p. 290-1). Collated in John P. Cutts, Bishop Smith's Part-Song Books in Carlisle Cathedral Library (American Institute of Musicology, 1972), p. 53.
CmT 38
Copies, in a musical setting by Thomas Ford.
In: Three music part books: (i), (ii), and (iii). Early-mid-17th century.
CmT 38.5
Copy, headed ‘Impatience in Love incurable’.
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.
CmT 39
Copy, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier.
In: A folio music book, containing 327 songs, in three largely secretary hands, with a ‘Cattalogue’ of contents, 229 leaves. Owned (in 1659) and partly compiled by the composer John Gamble (d.1687), with some misnumbering. c.1630s-50s.
Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.
A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 10 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in Charles W. Hughes, ‘John Gamble's Commonplace Book’, M&L, 26 (1945), 215-29.
This MS collated in Davis, pp. 497-8.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 83.
CmT 39.5
Copy, with two other poems run on together, headed ‘Sr R.B.’.
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.
‘Good men, shew, if you can tell’
First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. ix. Davis, p. 95.
CmT 40
Copy of the first line, in a musical setting.
In: An octavo musical part book, for the counter-tenor, of the ‘St Andrews Psalter’ (the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1566 etc. by Thomas Wode, afterwards Vicar of St Andrews), copied c.1575-8, with a series of secular songs added later (ff. 81v-93v) in a secretary hand, 93 leaves, in old blind-stamped calf. For three other part books of this Psalter, see Edinburgh University Library MS La. III. 483. Early 17th century (secular songs).
Purchased from Mrs H.S. Andrews, 14 November 1890.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 494.
CmT 41
Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 3. c.1575-early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 494.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 483, (iii) p. 187.
‘Harke, al you ladies that do sleep’
First published among ‘sundry other rare Sonnets of diuers Noble men and Gentlemen’ appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). Davis, pp. 5-6 (also pp. 44-5).
CmT 43
Copy, in the secretary hand of Edward Bannister, untitled, on a folio leaf, endorsed ‘A fantasye of Sr Phillyp Sydnys write owt of his Astrophell & stella’ and ‘owte of mr waterers Booke’. c.1587-91.
In: A tall folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 195 leaves, mounted on guards, in half-morocco. Compiled chiefly by members of the Caryll family. Early 17th century (Vol. I); Late 17th-early 18th century (Dorset).
Presented by Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, first Baronet, MP (1810-69).
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 493.
CmT 44
Copy of strophes I and II, in musical settings.
In: A folio volume of largely vocal music, mainly in a single secretary hand, 120 pages, in mottled calf. Early 17th century.
Complete facsimile in Jorgens, VI (1987).
This MS collated in Davis, p. 493.
‘Her fayre inflaming eyes’
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres [London. 1617], Book IV, No, xix. Davis, p. 187.
‘I care not for these Ladies’
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. iii. Davis, pp. 22-3.
‘I must complain, yet doe enjoy my Love’
First published in John Dowland, Third Book of Aires (London, 1603). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London [1617]), Book IV, No. xvii. Davis, pp. 184-5. Doughtie, p. 179.
CmT 47
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: A folio songbook, in probably two secretary and italic hands, 25 leaves, in a recycled contemporary vellum indenture within modern half red morocco. c.1614-30.
Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘John Shurlane His Booke’, and (f. 24v rev.) ‘This Book Do[ ] / Hugh ffloyd / Domn: 11’, with dates ‘28 Nov. 1630’ and ‘1633’. Purchased from Thomas Rodd, bookseller, 13 April 1844.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).
This MS collated in Davis, pp. 499-500, and in Doughtie, pp. 517-18.
CmT 48
Copy, headed ‘A sonnet’.
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.
This MS recorded in Doughtie, p. 517.
CmT 49
Copy of a three-strophe version, in a musical setting (a version of that in CmT 50).
In: the MS described under CmT 44. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics (Columbia, Missouri, 1959), p. 178. Collated in Davis, pp. 499-500, and in Doughtie, pp. 517-18.
CmT 50
Copy of strophes I and III, in a musical setting (a version of that in CmT 49), subscribed ‘fynis quod Mrs Elyzabeth Hampden’.
In: the MS described under CmT 44. Early 17th century.
This MS collated in Davis, pp. 499-500, and in Doughtie, pp. 517-18.
CmT 51
Copy, untitled, transcribed from fol. 19 of the original songbook.
In: Copy of ‘Sonnettes &c.’, in the hand of John Leyden (1775-1811), linguist and poet, made for Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector, on eight quarto leaves. Transcribed from an earlier musical partbook for the Cantus voice bearing a preface signed ‘Jo. Hiltoun’ (fl.c.1627-30) which in 1800 was ‘in the possession of Mr. Russell, Grandson of Dr Robertson, late Principal of Edinburgh College’ [i.e. William Robertson (1721-93), historian]. 26 February 1800.
CmT 52
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a Scottish secretary hand, paginated 5-132, bound with a later verse MS on 98 pages, in brown calf. c.1630s-40s.
Bookplate of John Pinkerton (1758-1826), historian and poet. Sotheby's, April 1812 (Pinkerton sale), lot 593, to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1104, to Thomas Thorpe. His catalogue, 1836, bought by Laing.
CmT 53
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 26. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 517-18.
‘If any hath the heart to kill’
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xxl. Vivian, pp. 185-6. Davis, p. 189.
CmT 53.2
Copy in: the MS described under CmT 2.5. c.1640s.
CmT 53.5
(ii) Treble or Cantus and (iv) Bass.
In: Part books of David Peebles's settings of the Psalms and Canticles, and other works. Compiled by Thomas Wode, Vicar of St. Andrews. 1562-c.1592.
CmT 53.8
(v) Quintus. 1586.
In: Part book of David Peebles's settings of the Psalms and Canticles, and other works. Compiled by Thomas Wode, Vicar of St Andrews. 1562-c.1592.
‘If Love loves truth, then women doe not love’
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xi. Davis, p. 146.
CmT 54
Copy, untitled.
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.
CmT 55
Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 3. c.1575-early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 496.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 483, (iii) p. 191.
CmT 56
Copies, in Campion's musical setting.
In: A set of four oblong duodecimo music part books, (i) Cantus Primus, (ii) Cantus Secundus, (iii) Bassus and (iv) Basso Continuo, each written from both ends, compiled by John Playford (1623-86?), 50, 36, 48, and 35 leaves respectively, each volume in limp vellum lettered ‘I. P.’. Leaves excised from these volumes are in the Folger, MS V.a.411 (five leaves) and (nine leaves) at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (Halliwell-Phillipps, Shakespearean scrapbooks). c.1660.
A flyleaf in the Cantus Secundus part book inscribed ‘Decemb. 30. 1674. Note that I Thomas Clifford bought this sett of Musick Books of Mr Richard Price's widow Mrs Dorothy Price for --7s--6d’.
University of Glasgow, MS Euing R.d.58-61, (i) f. 44r; (ii) f. 31r; (iii) f. 17v.
CmT 57
Copy, untitled.
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.
CmT 58
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 13. c.1639.
Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), pp. 89-90. Collated in Davis, p. 496.
CmT 59
Copy of the first two lines, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 2. c.1635-70.
CmT 60
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under CmT 39. c.1630s-50s.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 496.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 10.
‘If thou longst so much to learne (sweet boy) what 'tis to love’
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xvi. Davis, p. 151.
‘It fell on a sommers day’
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. viii. Davis, p. 31.
CmT 63
Copy in: the MS described under CmT 18. c.1618-20s.
‘My Love bound me with a kisse’
See CmT 8-17.
‘Never love unlesse you can’
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxvii. Davis, p. 163.
CmT 64
Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 3. c.1575-early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 498.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 483, Bassus, p. 190.
‘Never weather-beaten Saile more willing bent to shore’
First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book I, No. xi. Davis, pp. 70-1.
CmT 66
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: An oblong octavo music part book (tenor), 63 leaves. c.1680-1750.
Once owned by Thomas and Mary Withen.
‘Now let her change and spare not’
First published in Francis Pilkington, First Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1605). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London [1617]), Book III, No. ii. Davis, pp. 134-5. Doughtie, pp. 216, 227.
CmT 67
Copies, in a musical setting by Francis Pilkington.
In: A set of four oblong quarto music part books (Cantus, Quintus, Altus, Tenor and Bassus), including verses, ranging from 24 to 30 leaves each, in half-red calf marbled boards. Compiled chiefly by Thomas Hamond (d.1662), of Cressners, in the parish of Hawkdons, Suffolk. c.1630s.
Also inscribed ‘Marie Hammond’.
This MS recorded in Doughtie, p. 537.
Bodleian, MS Mus. f. 7-10, (i) fol. 18r; (ii) fol. 14v; (iii) fol. 17v; (iv) fol. 20r.
‘O sweet delight, O more then humane blisse’
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxi. Davis, p. 159.
CmT 68
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 34. Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 498.
‘Respect my faith, regard my service past’
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. ii. Davis, p. 169.
CmT 69
Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 3. c.1575-early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 498.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 483, (iii) p. 192.
‘Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee’
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xvii. Davis, pp. 152-3.
CmT 71
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 20. c.1615-26.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 497.
CmT 72
Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: An oblong folio songbook, the lyrics in two or more secretary and italic hands, 44 leaves, in contemporary vellum within brown calf gilt, stamped with the initials ‘A. B.’, now within modern half red morocco. c.1630.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Richard Elliotts his Booke’ and ‘William Wilkins 1743’. The cover initials ‘A. B.’ conjecturally attributed to Adrian Batten (1591-1637), composer. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1873.
Facsimile of ff. 2r-26v in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).
Printed from this MS in Davis, p. 153, and collated, p. 497.
CmT 73
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: MS music book, partly compiled by John Bull (c.1562-1628). Early 17th century.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 497.
CmT 74
Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under CmT 73. Early 17th century.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 497.
CmT 74.5
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio formal verse miscellany, in a single rounded hand, 259 pages (plus a three-page index), in modern boards. The contents, the latest of which (on pp. 203-7) can be dated to a marriage that took place in November 1656, reflect the taste of Interregnum Royalist sympathisers. c.Late 1650s.
Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 4001. Sotheby's, 29 June 1946, lot 164, to Myers. Then in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
CmT 74.8
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio formal verse miscellany, comprising c.406 poems, many of them song lyrics, in various neat hands, compiled probably over a period, 8 blank leaves (pp. [i-xvi]) + 10 unnumbered pages of poems (pp. [xvii-xxvi]) + 9 numbered pages (pp. 1-9) + ff. [9v]-151v + 12 leaves at the end blank but for a poem on the penultimate page (f. [11v]), in contemporary calf gilt. Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘Sr Robert Killigrew / 1702’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.
Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, ‘Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?’, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 41v.
‘Shall I then hope when faith is fled’
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxix. Davis, p. 165.
CmT 75
Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 3. c.1575-early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 498.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 483, (iii) p. 193.
‘Silly boy, 'tis ful Moone yet, thy night as day shines clearely’
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxvi. Davis, p. 162.
CmT 78
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 20. c.1615-26.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 498.
CmT 79
Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 3. c.1575-early 17th century.
MS recorded in Davis, p. 498.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 483, (iii) p. 193.
CmT 80
Copy, headed ‘Advice to a young Lover’, transcribed from a text in ‘a small MS. Collection in Mr. Bouchers possession’ [i.e. Jonathan Boucher of Epsom].
In: A composite volume of transcripts of ballads made, from various printed and manuscript sources, by and for Robert Jamieson (1780?-1844) for his edition of Popular Ballads and Songs (Edinburgh, 1806). c.1800.
Owned in 1921 by George Neilson, then by Charles R. Cowie, and now in the John Cowie Collection.
Discussed in G. Neilson, ‘A Bundle of Ballads’, E&S, 7 (1921), 108-42.
This MS recorded in Neilson, ‘A Bundle of Ballads’, p. 113.
CmT 81
Copy, headed ‘An aduice to a yonge louer’.
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.
CmT 82.5
Copy in: A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco. c.1620.
Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.
Cited by editors as the Todd MS.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39), f. 62v.
‘Sleepe, angry beauty, sleep, and feare not me’
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxv. Davis, p. 161.
CmT 83
Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 3. c.1575-early 17th century.
MS recorded in Davis, p. 498.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 483, (iii) p. 193.
‘So many loves have I neglected’
First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xv. Davis, p. 105.
CmT 85
Copy of the first strophe in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: A large folio volume of songs in musical settings by John Wilson (1595-1674), composer and musician, vi + 214 leaves (plus some blanks), gilt-edged, in contemporary black morocco elaborately gilt, lettered on each cover ‘DR. / I.W’, with silver clasps. Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82). c.1656.
Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth Century Lyrics: Oxford, Bodleian, MS. Mus. b. 1’, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209.
This MS collated in Davis, pp. 494-5.
CmT 86
Copy of the first strophe in a musical setting by John Wilson.
In: A folio music part book (2nd treble part), viii + 218 pages, in contemporary calf. Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer. c.1650s.
Bookplate of Povert Henley.
CmT 87
Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: A folio songbook (First Treble part), in a single hand, written from both ends, viii + 213 pages (paginated 1-191, then 1-22 rev.), lacking pp. 87-8, 115-18, the first two of which are now Birmingham Central Library, Acc. No. 57316, Location No. S747.01, in modern half brown morocco marbled boards. Compiled entirely by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer. Mid-late 17th century.
Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.
Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69’, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 8 (New York & London, 1987).
This MS collated in Davis, pp. 494-5.
‘So sweet is thy discourse to me’
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres [London. 1617], Book IV, No. vi. Davis, p. 173.
‘Tarry sweete love’
First published and attributed to Campion, in Mary Joiner ‘Another Campion Song?’, M&L, 48 (1967), 138-9.
CmT 88
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under CmT 44. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in Joyner.
‘The man of life upright’
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xviii. Davis, p. 43 (also p. 60).
CmT 89
Copy, in a different hand, untitled.
In: A folio volume comprising two independent units, foliated as a single series, xii + 246 leaves (plus 12 further blanks). Both parts containing antiquarian tracts:
ff. 1r-29v, ‘Matters of Combat 1609’, predominantly in a professional secretary hand, with additions in other hands, owned in 1612 by William Crispe (name inscribed in court hand several times) and also by Henry Crispe (inscribed f. 20r-v), one or both also probably responsible for trial exercises in decorative lettering. c.1609-12.
ff. 30r-45v, discourses and copies of Latin documents relating to the offices of Lord Steward, Constable, and Earl Marshal of England, with title-page and (incomplete) list of contents, in the hands of professional scribes: ff. 30r-119v, 132r-45v, 150v-61r, 165v to to half-way down f. 205r in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’; the remainder in two other scribal hands. c.1630s.
Once owned by the Isham family, of Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire. Sotheby's, 17 June 1904 (‘Library of a Gentleman in the Country’), lot 89, to Quaritch. P.J. and A.E. Dobell, sale catalogue No. 80 (1928), item 719.
Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 255 (No. 88). Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney, p. 30.
CmT 90
Second copy, in yet another hand.
In: the MS described under CmT 89.
Edited from this MS in Joiner.
CmT 91
Copy in: A folio verse miscellany, entirely in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, containing some 76 poems, including eleven by Donne, later inscribed (erroneously) ‘Sir John Haringtons Poems Written in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth’, 56 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1620s-33.
From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Rawlinson MS’: DnJ Δ 38. Also briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 277 (No. 94), with facsimile examples on pp. 102-3.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 493.
CmT 92
Copy, headed ‘Verses made by Mr. Fra. Bacon’, in Birch's hand.
In: A large quarto composite volume of letters and papers relating to Queen Elizabeth, Francis Bacon and the Earl of Essex, predominantly in the hand of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, 44 leaves. Chiefly mid-18th century.
Edited from this MS in Joiner. Collated in Davis, p. 493.
CmT 93
Copy; untitled.
In: An independent quarto verse miscellany, including 47 poems by Donne, in two secretary hands. Constituting ff. 230r-99v in a quarto composite volume of verse and prose, in various hands, 308 leaves, in modern half green morocco gilt. c.1620-33.
Among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son, Edward, second Earl of Oxford (1681-1741), and acquired in 1722 from the bookseller Nathaniel Noel (fl.1681-c.1753).
Cited in IELM I.i as the ‘Harley Noel MS’: DnJ Δ 2.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 493.
CmT 94
Copy, headed ‘Verses made by Mr Fra: Bacon’.
In: A quarto volume of papers relating to Robert, Earl of Essex, in two secretary hands, 30 leaves. Early 17th century.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 493. A 19th-century transcript made by Samuel Sanders is at Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R. 2. 21 (James 521), (3).
CmT 95
Copy, headed ‘Who liues well’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in at least seven secretary and italic hands, 118 leaves (plus some blanks), currently disbound. Possibly compiled by one or more persons connected with the Inns of Court. c.1600-1620s.
Later in the library of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Probably owned afterwards by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Formerly Chetham's MS 8012.
The volume edited by Alexander B. Grosart as The Dr. Farmer Chetham MS. being a Commonplace Book in the Chetham Library, Manchester, temp. Elizabeth, James I, and Charles I, Chetham Society, vols 89 and 90 (Manchester, 1873).
This MS collated in Davis, p. 493.
CmT 95.5
Copy, headed ‘Verses made by Mr: Francis Bacon’.
In: A quarto letterbook, in several neat hands, 191 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in red morocco gilt. c.1745.
‘The peacefull westerne winde’
First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xii. Davis, pp. 100-1.
CmT 96
Copy of a version in a musical setting by Thomas Morley, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 47. c.1614-30.
Edited from this MS in Davis, pp. 479-80.
‘The Spyres curten of the night is spread’
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. ix. Davis, p. 32.
CmT 97
Copy in: the MS described under CmT 18. c.1618-20s.
‘There is a Garden in her face’
First published in Robert Jones, Ultimum Vale (London, 1605). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [1617]), Book IV, No. vii. Davis, pp. 174-6. Doughtie, p. 212.
CmT 99
Copies of the incipit only, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: A set of six oblong quarto part-books of principally vocal music, largely in a single italic hand, each volume in modern half-morocco. Early 17th century.
These MSS collated in Davis, p. 498.
British Library, Add. MS 17786-91, (i, ii, iii, iv, vi) f. 11r.
CmT 100
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: A narrow oblong octavo songbook, the lyrics in a neat italic hand, ii + 37 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum within 19th-century morocco. Early 17th century.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Robius Downes’. Bookplates of Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary, and of William Hayman Cummings (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Notes in 1841 (f. 2r) by Joseph Warren (1804-81), composer and music editor. Sotheby's, 9 June 1917 (Cummings sale), lot 1586, to Maggs.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).
This MS recorded in Doughtie, p. 531.
CmT 101
Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: An oblong quarto musical part book, for the Treble voice, the song incipits chiefly in a rounded italic hand, with (ff. 2v-4r) an index, 53 leaves, in 19th-century black calf. Inscribed (f. 1r), in a secretary hand, ‘Sr William Maur’: i.e. Sir William Mure, Bt (d.1639), of Rawallan, Ayrshire, or else his son of that name (1594-1657), writer and politician; (f. 1r) ‘Robert Muire ist my hand’; and (f. 2r), in later red ink, ‘Thomas Lyle Surgeon’. c.1600s-20.
CmT 102
Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, here beginning ‘There is a gardine in hir face’, on one side of a single trimmed folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. Early 17th century.
‘There is none, O none but you’
First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xiii. Davis, p. 102.
CmT 104
Copy in Aubrey's hand, headed ‘For my Lady Eliz: Viscountesse Purbec repeated by her’ and subscribed ‘made By Rob: E of Essex yt was beheade[d]’.
In: A folio composite autograph manuscript of the third part of Brief Lives by John Aubrey (1626-97), 106 leaves of various sizes, in half-calf. 1681.
This MS recorded in The Poems of Edward De Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, ed. Steven W. May, Studies in Philology, 77, No. 5 (Early Winter 1980), p. 115, where the attribution to Essex is rejected.
CmT 104.5
Copy, transcribed from CmT 104.
In: A quarto miscellany of extracts in verse and prose, ii + 68 pages. Compiled by Bulkeley Bandinel (1781-1861), librarian and editor. c.1811.
This MS recorded in May, p. 15.
CmT 104.8
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on one side of a single quarto leaf, once folded as a letter or packet, in a file of verse MSS. Early 17th century.
In: A box of unbound and unnumbered legal and miscellaneous papers.
CmT 105
Copy, in a musical setting, no title.
In: the MS described under CmT 13. c.1639.
Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), p. 77. Collated in Davis, p. 494.
‘Thou art not faire, for all thy red and white’
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xii. Davis, pp. 34-5.
CmT 106
Copy of the first strophe, untitled, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under CmT 29. c.1640s-60s.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 492.
CmT 108
Copy of the first strophe, untitled.
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.
CmT 109
Copy 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.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 492.
CmT 110
Copy of a version in sonnet form, headed ‘Beautie without Love deformitie’.
In: the MS described under CmT 7. c.1596-1601.
Edited from this MS in Davis, p. 476.
CmT 111
Copy, untitled.
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.
CmT 112
Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet’.
In: A small octavo miscellany of 76 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others dating up to 1627, in a single italic hand, occasionally marking the end of poems with one or more quatrefoils, 102 leaves (foliation jumping from 55 to 57), gilt-edged, in 19th-century dark green leather gilt. c.late 1620s.
Inscriptions including (f. 6r) ‘Hannah Lewis Junr’; ‘Thomas Turner his Book’ (three times, ff. 8r, 14v, 48v, dated ‘1750’, ‘58’ and ‘1760’); (f. 12r) ‘Edmund Baxter att Mrs Nortons’; (ff. 20r, 59v) ‘John Jones’; (f. 40r) ‘Jon: Pryse 1729’; (f. 59v) ‘Robt. Was’[?]; and (f. 79r) ‘Edmund Baxter 1729’. Later owned by Edward Vernon Utterson (1776-1856), of Shanklin and Ryde, Isle of Wight, artist, literary antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 24 April 1852 (Utterson sale), lot 1317, sold to ‘Lelly’. Then owned by Sir John Simeon, third Baronet (1815-70), M.P. Sotheby's, 3 March 1871 (Simeon sale), lot 638, to Pickering. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 436 (1930), item 576. Formerly MS Nor 4620.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Utterson MS’: DnJ Δ 51. Discussed in Sir John Simeon, ‘Unpublished Poems of Donne’, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3. For an account of Utterson, see Raymond V. Turley, ‘Edward Vernon Utterson’, The Book Collector, 25 (1976), 21-44 (and plates after p. 48).
Edited from this MS by Sir John Simeon in Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (1856-7), No. 3, pp. 23-4.
CmT 113
Copy, headed ‘Sonnett. 12’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany of Scottish provenance, chiefly in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, including some shorthand, inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Incept. March. 23. 1652/3.’, 190 leaves, in old brown calf gilt (rebacked). c.1653-64.
Purchased c.1798.
CmT 114
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: A folio songbook, in a single secretary hand, some items misnumbered, 144 leaves. c.1640s.
Once owned by the Shirley family, Earls Ferrers, of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. Also owned, and annotated, by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.
Generally cited as the Earl Ferrers MS. Collated in Cutts, ‘Drexel Manuscript 4041’, MD, 18 (1964), 151-202. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 9 (New York & London, 1987).
This MS collated in Davis, p. 492.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 4, f. 5r-v.
CmT 115
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under CmT 39. c.1630s-50s.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 492.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 80.
CmT 116
Copy, headed ‘A scor'nd Bewty’.
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).
CmT 116.5
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 74.8. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 29r.
CmT 117
Copy, headed ‘Cant: 27’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, 54 leaves, imperfect (chewed by rodents), lacking covers. Compiled by Herbert Aston (1613-88/9), poet, son of Walter Aston, Baron Aston of Forfar (1584-1639), of Tixall, Staffordshire, diplomat. c.1634.
Inscribed on f. iv‘Her: Aston [monogram] the 29 of July an: D: 1634’.
CmT 118
Copy in: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several hands, showing communal use, 161 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.
Formerly Chest II, No. 21.
‘Thou joy'st, fond boy, to be by many loved’
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. iii. Davis, p. 170.
CmT 119
Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 3. c.1575-early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 498.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 483, (iii) p. 188.
‘Though you are yoong and I am olde’
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. ii. Davis, pp. 20-1.
CmT 121
Copy, headed ‘Old: Young’, in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 136r-45v).
In: A large folio composite volume of verse, in various largely secretary hands, 327 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Collected, and partly written, by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Betagraph of the watermark in f. 29 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. 239).
CmT 122
Copy of the first strophe, headed ‘An old man to a yong Mris’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany compiled by an Oxford University man, i i + 37 leaves, in later half-calf. c.1630s.
Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
CmT 123
Copy of the incipit only, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 47. c.1614-30.
CmT 124
Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 20. c.1615-26.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 492.
CmT 125
Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 44. Early 17th century.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 492.
CmT 126
Copy, headed ‘Old wooing’.
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.
CmT 126.5
Copy, headed ‘An oulde man to a yonge woman’.
In: A quarto miscellany of both bawdy and religious verse and some prose, in several hands, 94 leaves (including a number of blanks), in modern quarter-calf marbled boards. Mid-late 17th century.
Inscribed ‘Charles Shuttleworth His Booke Anno 1691’. Peter Murray Hill, London, sale catalogue No. 82 (1962), item 33.
CmT 127
Copy, untitled.
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).
CmT 127.5
Copy of the first couplet only, here beginning ‘Though you be yonge & I be old’.
In: An octavo miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, in a small secretary hand, 79 leaves (largely blank), disbound. Early 17th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 25, f. 9v.
CmT 128
Copy, in a mixed hand, with a fifth stanza added in another mixed hand, untitled.
In: A quarto composite memorandum book of English, Welsh and latin verse and prose, in several hands, 100 leaves, in a contemporary limp vellum wrapper within modern half red morocco. Compiled over a period, at least in part, by various members of the Lloyd family of Llwydiarth. Early 17th century-1672.
Inscriptions including (f. 3r) ‘Mounta: Lloyd 1671’ and (f. 49r) ‘David Wms. his Book beeing Mrs Anne Lloyds Guift’, and with other references to David Lloyd, Elizabeth Lluyd, Robert Lluyd, Jane Lloyd, and Hugh Lloyd. Probably Quaritch's sale ‘Catalogue of English Literature’ (August-November 1884), item 22351. Formerly Sotheby MS B. 2.
CmT 129
Copy, headed ‘An old man to a maide’.
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).
CmT 129.5
Copy of the first four lines only, headed ‘A Old Man to his Mrs’.
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.
‘Though your strangenesse frets my hart’
First published in Robert Jones, A Musical Dreame (London, 1609). Campion, Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xvi. Davis, pp. 106-7. Doughtie, pp. 319-20.
CmT 131
Copy of the first line, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under CmT 40. Early 17th century (secular songs).
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 495.
CmT 132
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 18 poems by Donne, in several hands over a period (the predominant secretary hand on ff. 1r-35v, 45v-63r), written from both ends, 91 leaves, in later green morocco. c.1630s [-1777].
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘E Libris Richardo Glovero pharmacopol. Londinense pertinantibus’, the date ‘1638’ possibly added in a different hand. The name ‘William Allen’ on f. 77v among scribbling. Inscribed (f. 1v) by a later owner, apparently for ‘Mr Thorpe’, ‘I was informed by the bookseller of whom I bought this book; that it belonged formerly to a literary gentleman who lived in Burton Crescent and who died about six months ago. 3rd Augt. 1835’.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Glover MS’: DnJ Δ 42.
This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 573-5; recorded in Davis, p. 495.
CmT 133
Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under CmT 44. Early 17th century.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 495, and in Doughtie, pp. 573-5.
CmT 134
Copy of strophes I and III, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 87. Mid-late 17th century.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 495.
CmT 135
Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 3. c.1575-early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 495.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 483, (iii) p. 190.
CmT 136
Copy, in a musical setting by Robert Jones.
In: A folio songbook, largely in a single secretary hand, with poems and (reversed) culinary and medical receipts in later hands at the end, imperfect or incomplete, now 27 leaves, lacking half the songs listed in a ‘Table’ at the end. c.1620s-30s.
The original cover inscribed ‘Ann Twice her booke’. Inscribed on the first page ‘My Cosen Twice Leftte this Booke with me...which is to be returne to her AGhaine...’. Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.
A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 11 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘“Songs Vnto the Violl and Lute” -- Drexel Ms. 4175’, Musica Disciplina, 16 (1962), 73-92.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 495, and in Doughtie, pp. 573-5.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4175, No. xxv.
CmT 139
Copies in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: Three oblong quarto music part books (4/a, 4/b, and 4/c), 103, 93, and 75 leaves (including numerous blanks) respectively, in contemporary calf gilt. Principally in a single hand, a second hand responsible for 4/b, ff. 17v-24v, and for 4/c, ff. 5r-12v; the collection largely copies of vocal trios that would appear in John Wilson's Cheereful Ayres (Oxford, 1660). Mid-17th century.
In a collection of MS music books associated with the Filmer family, baronets, of Kent, members of whom included the political philosopher Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653), his brother Edward (d.1650, compiler of French Court Aires, 1628) and son Sir Edward (d.1668), and the playwright Edward Filmer (fl.1700).
This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 573-5.
Yale Music Library, Misc. MS 170, Filmer MS 4, 4/a ff. 10v-11r; 4/b f. 8v; 4/c f. 11v.
‘Thrice tosse these Oaken ashes in the ayre’
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xviii. Davis, p. 154.
CmT 140
Copy of a version in sonnet form.
In: the MS described under CmT 7. c.1596-1601.
Printed from this MS in Davis, p. 476.
CmT 141
Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 3. c.1575-early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 497.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 483, (iii) p. 191.
‘Thus I resolve, and time hath taught me so’
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres [London. 1617], Book III, No. xxii. Davis, p. 159.
‘Turne all thy thoughts to eyes’
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xx. Davis, p. 188.
CmT 143
Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 3. c.1575-early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 500.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 483, (iii) p. 192.
‘Vaine man, whose follies make a God of Love’
First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. i. Davis, p. 85.
CmT 145
Copy of the first line, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under CmT 40. Early 17th century (secular songs).
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 494.
CmT 146
Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 3. c.1575-early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 494.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 483, (iii) p. 192.
CmT 147
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 13. c.1639.
Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), p. 78. Collated in Davis, p. 494.
‘Were my hart as some mens are, thy errours would not move me’
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. iii. Davis, p. 137.
CmT 148
Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 3. c.1575-early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 496.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 483, (iii) p. 187.
‘What is it that all men possesse, among themselves conversing?’
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xiv. Davis, p. 149.
CmT 150
Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 3. c.1575-early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 497.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 483, (iii) p. 193.
CmT 151
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 13. c.1639.
Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), p. 84. Collated in Davis, p. 497.
‘When thou must home to shades of vnder ground’
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xx. Davis, p. 46.
CmT 152.5
Copy in: the MS described under CmT 18. c.1618-20s.
This MS recorded in David Lindley, ‘Campion and Rosseter: The Ascription of A Booke of Ayres’, N&Q, 228 (October 1983), 416.
‘When to her lute Corrina sings’
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. vi. Davis, pp. 28-9.
CmT 153
Copy, headed ‘On Corinna singing’.
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.
CmT 154
Copy of lines 1-2, 5-6, headed ‘Of Corrina her Lute’.
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.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 492.
CmT 155
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘When to her lute my Mistres singes’.
In: the MS described under CmT 52. c.1630s-40s.
CmT 156
Copy, headed ‘Sympathy’ and here beginning ‘When to her lute Althea sings’.
In: A verse miscellany, much of it in shorthand, almost entirely closely written in a small cursive mixed hand, written from both ends, in contemporary calf with initials ‘E H’ in gilt. 16°, 87 leaves (plus two paste-downs); miscellany, including portions of some 42 identifiable English poems by Crashaw, many of the lines here re-arranged in a garbled fashion; compiled by a Cambridge man, possibly a member of Christ's College; probably in a single hand throughout, with variations of style, written from both ends, about thirty pages in shorthand. c.1650s.
Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90) of Walton Hall, near Wakefield, botanist and book collector. Sotheby's 23 April 1891 (Hailstone sale), probably lot 439, to Dobell). Bertram Dobell's sale catalogue No. 103 (June 1902), item 373. Formerly Folger MS 267.1.
Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Hailstone MS: CrR Δ 6. Crashaw's work selectively collated (cited as Dobell) in Martin and discussed p. lxxxi. Facsimile of f. 22 in Dobell catalogue. The MS discussed by Dobell, in other connections, in ‘Some Unpublished Epigrams by Thomas Fuller’, The Athenaeum (27 April 1901), p. 532, and in ‘An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet’, The Athenaeum (2 August 1913), p. 112. Compare CrR Δ 8.
‘Where are all thy beauties now, all harts enchayning?’
First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book I, No. iii. Davis, p. 61.
CmT 158
Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 3. c.1575-early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 49
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 483, (iii) p. 188.
CmT 159
Copy in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under CmT 13. c.1639.
Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), p. 85. Collated in Davis, p. 496.
‘Where shall I refuge seeke, if you refuse mee?’
First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xxi. Davis, p. 112.
CmT 160.5
Copy in: the MS described under CmT 2.5. c.1640s.
‘Young and simple though I am’
First published in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London [1617]), Book IV, No. ix. Davis, p. 177. Doughtie, p. 295.
CmT 162
Two copies, one inverted, of the first strophe, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier, for cantus and bassus parts, untitled.
In: A folio songbook, in two or more predominantly italic hands, written from both ends, 87 leaves, in remains of contemporary vellum within modern half red morocco. Possibly compiled in part by one ‘T. C.’ c.1641-59.
Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘R. Guise [of Abbey] Feb: 12. 1760’. Purchased from Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, 17 June 1839.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 4 (New York & London, 1986).
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 499.
CmT 163
Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting by Alfonso Ferrabosco, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 20. c.1615-26.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 499, and in Doughtie, p. 564.
CmT 164
Copy, headed ‘A Songe’ and here beginning ‘Young and tender though I am’.
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].
This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 565-6.
CmT 166
Copy of a six-stanza version, untitled.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, chiefly (ff. 1r-14r) in a single small mixed hand, i + 15 leaves, the eighth and last item in a composite volume of otherwise printed amatory poems and pamphlets, in 19th-century quarter brown calf. c.1620s.
The volume inscribed (on flyleaves) ‘E Bedford’, ‘W Monteagle’, ‘Fra: Goodwin’, ‘Edw nedwarde’.
The MS poems here edited in Frederick J. Furnivall, Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted New York, 1977).
Furnivall, pp. 5-6.
CmT 167
Copy, in a musical setting by Alfonso Ferrabosco, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 44. Early 17th century.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 499.
CmT 168
Copy of the first line only, in a musical setting by Alfonso Ferrabosco, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 3. c.1575-early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 499.
CmT 169
Copy, headed ‘A Maydes deliberation’, with four additional strophes.
In: the MS described under CmT 38.5. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 565-7.
CmT 170
Copy, untitled.
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.
CmT 171
Copies, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier.
In: the MS described under CmT 56. c.1660.
University of Glasgow, MS Euing R.d.58-61, (i) f. 46r; (ii) f. 35v; (iii) f. 45r; (iv) f. 32r.
CmT 173
Copy, headed ‘A maides delibertion and resolucion’.
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.
CmT 174
Copy of a six-strophe version, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 13. c.1639.
Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), pp. 80-1. Collated and the sixth strophe edited in Davis, p. 499.
CmT 174.5
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under CmT 2.5. c.1640s.
Facsimile and transcription of this MS in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 482-3.
CmT 175
Copy, headed ‘A maydes Deliberation’, with four additional strophes.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, 204 pages, in old calf. Including ten poems by Carew (and two of doubtful authorship) and 24 poems by Randolph. c.1630s.
Thomas Thorpe, ‘Catalogue of upwards of fourteen hundred manuscripts’ (1836), item 1030. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9282. Subsequently 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 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 188.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Rosenbach MS I’: CwT Δ 31 and RnT Δ 10. The complete volume edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) (Rosenbach Library Mic 59-4669).
This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 565-7.
CmT 176
Copy of a 48 line version headed ‘A Maydes deliberate Resolucon’ and here beginning ‘Although I'me younge, yet not so ignorant am I…’.
In: the MS described under CmT 116. c.1638-42.
This MS recorded in Doughtie, f. 565.
CmT 176.5
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 74.8. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 27r-v.
(2) English Songs and Poems of Doubtful Authorship
‘And would you see my Mistris face?’
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. ii. Davis, p. 451.
CmT 179
Copy, in an italic hand, untitled.
In: A folio volume of historical collections, largely in a single small hand, with an Index (ff. 2r-5v), 178 leaves, in leather gilt. Compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1600s.
According to two long notes (ff. 6r, 178v) by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary, identifying the hand as Kniveton's, the MS was ‘after possest by the Lord Chaworth [i.e. George Chaworth (d.1639), first Viscount Chaworth] who gaue this & severall other books to Doctor Thoreton of Carcolston in the County of Nottingham whose grandson Robert Sherard gave this & 8o others’ in Kniveton's handwriting to Le Neve, 21 March 1712.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 506.
‘Art thou that shee then whome noe fayrer is?’
First published in More Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A.H. Bullen (London, 1888), pp. 6-7. Davis, p. 478.
CmT 181
Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 20. c.1615-26.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 508.
CmT 183
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under CmT 44. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in Davis.
‘As on a day Sabina fell asleepe’
First published in Vivian (1909), p. 356. Davis, p. 479.
CmT 184
Copy, untitled, imperfect.
In: A folio composite volume of verse and some prose, in various hands, v + 179 leaves, in early 18th-century half-calf.
With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.
CmT 185
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 20. c.1615-26.
Printed from this MS in Vivian and in Davis.
CmT 185.5
Copy, transcribed from fol. 20 of the original songbook.
In: the MS described under CmT 51. 26 February 1800.
CmT 186
Copy, headed ‘In Sabinam’.
In: A quarto formal verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary and italic hand throughout, paginated 1-162 (but lacking some leaves), in modern limp vellum. Compiled by John Cruso (fl.1595-1655), poet and military writer, who matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1632. c.1630s.
Names inscribed lengthways down margins (pp. 71, 91, 95) including ‘Cuthbert Sewell Esq’, ‘Jos. Nicholson’, ‘Wm Richardson’, and ‘Somers’. Donated in 1922 by Gordon Wordsworth who claims that the volume was once owned by the poet William Wordsworth.
A Ballad (‘Dido was the Carthage Queene’)
First published in George Mason & John Earsden, The Ayres That Were Sung and Played, at Brougham Castle in Westmerland, in the Kings Entertainment (London, 1618). Davis, p. 467.
CmT 187
Copy, headed ‘Aeneas & Dido’.
In: A long narrow ledger-like volume (c.40 x 15 cm) of ballads and metrical romances, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 268 leaves, all mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by Thomas Percy (1768-1808), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor, and bearing copious annotations in his hand throughout, with a list by him at the end dated 20 December 1757.
This volume edited as Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript, ed. John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall, 4 vols (London, 1867-8). Re-edited by I. Gollancz, 4 vols (London, 1905-10). Facsimile example of f. 94r in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 20, p. 31. Discussed, with five facsimile examples, in Joseph Donatelli, ‘The Percy Folio Manuscript: A Seventeenth-Century Context for Medieval Poetry’, EMS, 4 (1993), 114-33.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 507.
CmT 188
Copy, headed ‘The song of Dido sung to k. James whe he was at Broome castle in Westmrland’.
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.
CmT 189
Copy, untitled, transcribed from fol. 22 of the original songbook.
In: the MS described under CmT 51. 26 February 1800.
CmT 190
Copy, headed ‘Dido’, here beginning ‘Dido was a Carthage queene’.
In: the MS described under CmT 52. c.1630s-40s.
CmT 190.5
Copy, headed ‘Counsell, not for men to bee constant, a Songe’.
In: the MS described under CmT 81. c.1634.
CmT 191
Copy in: A folio verse miscellany, containing 89 poems, including 43 by Donne, in several hands (ff. 21r-62r in a single accomplished secretary hand), 69 leaves, in paper wrappers. The text of the poems by Donne derived from the same source as the Lansdowne MS (British Library, Lansdowne MS 740) and related in part to the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS II (Huntington, HM 198, Part II). c.1620-5.
Formerly among the muniments of the Earl of Dalhousie (descendant of the Maule and Ramsay families), of Brechin Castle, on deposit in the Scottish Record Office [now National Archives of Scotland] (GD45/26/95/1). Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 490.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the the ‘Dalhousie MS I’: DnJ Δ 11. Complete reduced facsimile and transcription in The First and Second Dalhousie Manuscripts: Poems and Prose by John Donne and Others: A Facsimile Edition, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Columbia, 1988). Also discussed by Ernest W. Sullivan, II in ‘Donne Manuscripts: Dalhousie I’, John Donne Journal, 3/2 (1984), 204-19; in ‘“And, having done that, Thou hast done”: Locating, Acquiring, and Studying the Dalhousie Manuscripts’, in The Donne Dalhousie Discovery: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Acquisition and Study of the John Donne and Joseph Conrad Collections at Texas Tech University, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan II and David J. Murrah (Lubbock, TX, 1987), pp. 1-10; and in ‘The Renaissance Manuscript Verse Miscellany: Private Party, Private Text’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, ed. W. Speed Hill (Binghamton, 1993), pp. 289-97.
Facsimiles of f. 15v in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 13, and of f. 42r in Sotheby's sale catalogue and in Peter Beal, A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450-2000 (Oxford, 2008), p. 431, Illus. 91. A complete microfilm of the MS is in the National Archives of Scotland.
Sullivan suggests that the miscellany derives from sources preserved by members of the Earl of Essex's circle, their most likely ‘conduit’ to the Dalhousie family being John Ramsay (1580-1626), Viscount Haddington and Earl of Holderness.
Beautie without Love deformitie (‘Thou are not fayer for all thy red and white’)
See CmT 110.
‘Could my poore hart whole worlds of toungs employ’
See CmT 23.
‘Do not, O do not prize thy beauty at too high a rate’
First published in Robert Jones, Ultimum Vale (London, 1605). Davis, p. 477. Doughtie, pp. 205-6.
CmT 192
Copy, in a musical setting, inscribed ‘Cantus & Bassus’, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 20. c.1615-26.
This MS collated in Doughtie, p. 527.
CmT 193
Copy of the incipit only, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 3. c.1575-early 17th century.
These MSS recorded in Davis, p. 508.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 483, (i) p. 191; (iii) p. 190.
CmT 195
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 12. Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 508.
CmT 196
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 13. c.1639.
Edited from this MS in Diem (1919), p. 75. Collated in Davis, p. 508, and in Doughtie, p. 527.
Dolus (‘Thou shalt not love mee, neither shall these eyes’)
First published in Vivian (1909), p. 356. Davis, p. 475.
‘Hide not, sweetest Love, a sight so pleasing’
First published in The Works of Dr. Thomas Campion, ed. A. H. Bullen (London, 1889), p. 405. Davis, p. 481.
CmT 203
Copy, in a miscellany. Mid-17th century.
Owned in 1889 by the Duke of Buccleuch, Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfriesshire.
Edited from this MS in Bullen.
‘Long have mine eies gaz'd with delight’
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. x. Davis, pp. 455-6.
CmT 204
Copy of a five-strophe version, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under CmT 39. c.1630s-50s.
This MS collated and the fourth and fifth strophes edited in Davis, p. 506.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 118.
CmT 204.5
Copy in: the MS described under CmT 2.5. c.1640s.
‘No graue for woe, yet earth my watrie teares deuoures’
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II. Davis, p. 451.
CmT 204.8
Copy, here ascribed to ‘Philip Rosseter’.
In: the MS described under CmT 18. c.1618-20s.
This MS discussed in David Lindley, ‘Campion and Rosseter: The Ascription of A Booke of Ayres’, N&Q, 228 (October 1983), 416.
‘Shadowes before the shining sunne do vanish’
First published in Gesta Grayorum (London, 1688). Edited by W. W. Greg, Malone Society (Oxford, 1914). Davis, p. 475.
CmT 205
Copy, in an italic hand, headed ‘The song at ye ending’, at the end of a copy (on ff. 138r-45r) of Francis Davison's ‘Masque of Proteus’. Late 16th-early 17th century.
In: A quarto composite volume of tracts, in various hands, 232 leaves, in modern half calf gilt.
Owned, at least in part, by Sir Simonds D'Ewes.
Edited from this MS in Davis and in Greg, p. xxi. Discussed in Greg, pp. vii-viii.
‘Sweete, come againe’
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. i. Davis, p. 450.
CmT 206
Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under CmT 44. Early 17th century.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 506.
‘The peacefull westerne winde the wintrye stormes hath calmde’
See CmT 96.
‘Thou shalt not love mee, neither shall these eyes’
See CmT 200-1.
‘Thrice tosse those oaken ashes in the ayer’
See CmT 140-2.
‘What if a day, or a month, or a yeare’
Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, ‘The Authorship of “What if a Day”, and its Various Versions’, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, ‘“What if a Day” — An Examination of the Words and Music’, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.
See also CmT 239-41.
CmT 207
Copy of the first line, with a musical setting by one ‘R: Cr.’ (? R. Creighton).
In: A virginal book. Compiled by one ‘R: Cr.’ (Robert Creighton). c.1635-8.
This MS recorded in Greer, p. 309.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Département de la Musique, MS Conservatoire Rés. 1186, f. 15r-v.
CmT 208
Copy of a three-strophe version, headed ‘A Songe’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, 64 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Compiled by Leweston Fitzjames (1574-1638), of Leweston, Dorset, and the Middle Temple. c.1595-early 17th century.
CmT 209
Copy of a three-strophe version, headed ‘The fickle estate of our vncartayn lyfe to A pleasant new tune’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in more than one hand, written from both ends, in vellum boards. c.1595-1600s.
This MS recorded in Greer, p. 305.
CmT 210
Copy of a two-strophe version.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 114 leaves, bound with a printed exemplum of Thomas Watson's <GREEK> or Passionate Centurie of Love (London, [1581?]). Compiled by John Lilliat (c.1550-c.1599). c.1590s.
This MS volume printed in full, with facsimile examples, in Liber Lilliati: Elizabethan Verse and Song (Bodleian MS Rawlinson Poetry 148), ed. Edward Doughtie (Newark, DE, 1985).
Edited from this MS in Greer, p. 305.
CmT 211
Copy of a three-strophe version, in the secretary hand of Richard Wigley, untitled.
In: A folio miscellany and memorandum book, in several secretary hands, one predominating, 214 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Compiled by Henry Wigley (fl.1600), of Middleton, Lancashire, and Richard Wigley (1591-1643), of Wigwall. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in Swaen, pp. 408-9.
CmT 212
Copy of a two-strophe version, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 20. c.1615-26.
Edited from this MS in Peter Warlock, Giles Earle his Booke (London, 1932), p. 34, and in Swaen, pp. 404-5. Recorded in Greer, p. 308.
CmT 213
Copy of an eight-strophe version, in a musical setting, here beginning ‘Goe silly note to ye eares of my deare’.
In: the MS described under CmT 20. c.1615-26.
Edited from this MS in Peter Warlock, op. cit., pp. 89-92. Recorded in Greer, p. 308.
CmT 214
Copy of a two-strophe version, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under CmT 40. Early 17th century (secular songs).
Edited from this MS in Swaen, pp. 400-1. Recorded in Greer, pp. 306, 316.
CmT 214.5
Copy of an eight-strophe version, in a secretary hand, untitled, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter. c.1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of state, literary and family papers and speeches, in various hands and paper sizes, 93 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco. Papers principally of the Boteler family, of Biddenham, Bedfordshire, and of the family of John Hampden, MP (1595-1643), politician, of Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire.
Volume DLXXXIII of the Blenheim Papers, papers principally of John Churchill (1650-1722), first Duke of Marlborough, army commander and politician, his wife Sarah (née Jenyns) (1660-1744), and the related Spencer and Trevor families.
CmT 215
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: A folio lute book compiled by one Jane Pickering. Inscribed on the flyleaf by the compiler ‘Jane Pickering owe this Booke, 1616’ and her unitials ‘I. P.’ stamped on covers. c.1616.
This MS recorded in Greer, p. 307.
CmT 216
Copy, here beginning ‘What yf a day or a night, or an hower’. c.1592.
In: A folio diary and notebook, in several hands, from 1560 to 1610, 411 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Compiled by John Sanderson, a merchant at Constantinople.
Edited from this MS in Swaen, pp. 401-2.
CmT 217
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘What if a day or a night or a yeare’.
In: An octavo notebook of extracts, chiefly verse, compiled by one or two University of Cambridge men, 69 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1653-60s.
CmT 218
Copy of the first line, here ‘What is a day or a night or an hower’, in a musical setting.
In: A long quarto MS music book, 35 leaves of music, each doubled. c.1610.
Edited from this MS in Greer, pp. 306-7.
CmT 219
Copy, here beginning ‘Quhat giff a day or a nyt or a yeir’.
In: A folio volume comprising two MSS bound together, the first (iii + 323 leaves) a 15th-century MS of John Lydgate's Destruction of Troy, the second (v + 82 leaves, including blanks) a verse miscellany in various hands, in modern quarter-calf on marbled boards. The volume owned and possibly partly compiled by Sir James Murray, of Tibbermure, or by someone in his household, dated at the end ‘anno 1612 ye 24 of Maij’.
Inscriptions including ‘Marie Moorray wt my hand’,‘Kathrin Morton with my hand’, and ‘Capitane James Lyell’.
Edited from this MS text in Swaen, pp. 403-4.
Cambridge University Library, MS Kk. 5. 30 , Item 2, f. 82v.
CmT 220
Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 44. Early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Greer, p. 309.
CmT 221
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: A quarto songbook, in a secretary and italic hand, 193 leaves (including ten blanks). Compiled by Robert Taitt, schoolmaster and precenter in the Church of Lauder, Berwickshire. c.1676-90.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist and book collector. Formerly T 135Z. B724 1677-89 Bound.
Discussed in Walter H. Rubsamen, ‘Scottish and English Music in the Renaissance in a Newly-Discovered Manuscript’, Festschrift Heinrich Besseler (Leipzig, 1961), 259-84
Clark Library, Los Angeles, MS. 1959. 003, Cantus 2: ff. 34, 51.
CmT 222
Copy of the incipit, with a musical setting for the viol da Gamba, in the hand of A.J. Wighton.
In: Transcript, made by A.J. Wighton (d.c.1884), of a transcript (then belonging to James Davie of Aberdeen) of the original ‘Blaikie MS’, a music book dated [Glasgow] 1692. Mid-19th century.
Owned in the early 19th century by Andrew Blaikie, engraver in Paisley. Bequeathed c.1884 by A.J. Wighton.
This MS recorded in Nelly Diem, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Schottischen Musik im XVII Jahrhundert (Zürich & Leipzig, 1919), pp. 27-8. The original Blaikie MS is untraced. Another transcript of the Blaikie MS, made by Alfred Moffat, was item 436 in an unidentified sale catalogue (c.1940s).
CmT 224
Copies, in a musical setting, the lyrics in secretary script, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 3. c.1575-early 17th century.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 483, (i) pp. 189-90; (ii) pp. 178-9; (iii) pp. 183-5.
CmT 225
Copy of a five-strophe version, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 12. Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 507.
CmT 226
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 126. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Curt F. Bühler, ‘Four Elizabethan Poems’, Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), 695-706 (p. 705).
CmT 227
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘What if a day or a weeke or a year’.
In: the MS described under CmT 126.5. Mid-late 17th century.
CmT 228
Copy of the incipit only, in a musical setting.
In: An oblong octavo book of chiefly vocal music, the lyrics mostly in a single italic hand, 252 pages (including blanks), in 19th-century calf gilt. Inscribed, possibly by the compiler, (p. 1) ‘Magister Johannes Skine’ (in a semi-court hand) and (p. 189) ‘Mr Joannes Skeine His book’: i.e. John Skene of Hallyards. Bequeathed in 1818 by Miss Elizabeth Skene of Curriehill and Hallyards. c.1620s-30s.
Edited from this MS in William Dauney, Ancient Scotish Melodies (Edinburgh, 1838), p. 246. Recorded in Greer, p. 307.
CmT 229
Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 15. c.1630.
CmT 230
Copy of the incipit only, here ‘Quhat if a day’, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 2. c.1635-70.
CmT 231
Copy of the incipit only, here ‘What if a day’, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 2. c.1635-70.
CmT 232
Copy of a two-strophe version, untitled, headed in a later hand in red ink ‘On the Brevity of Humane Happyness’ and here beginning ‘What if a daie, or an night, or an hower’, among other verse in one secretary hand on a single folio leaf. c.1600-10.
In: A collection of separate state papers and poems, in folders.
Edited from this MS in Curt F. Bühler, ‘Four Elizabethan Poems’, in Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), p. 705.
Pierpont Morgan Library, Rulers of England (Eliz. I), No. 48[d].
CmT 233
Copy, headed ‘A Sonnett’.
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].
This MS collated in Bühler, p. 705.
CmT 235
Copy of five strophes, imperfect, lacking a leaf with the title and first strophe, here therefore begininning ‘What yf a smile, or a becke, or a looke’.
In: A small quarto volume of 80 English ballads and songs, in probably two variable secretary hands, transcribed from edited black-letter broadsides, iii + 162 leaves, originally foliated 98-257, imperfect, lacking the original first 97 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf gilt. This volume edited in full in The Shirburn Ballads, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1907), with facsimile examples opposite pp. 236, 246 and 272. c.1609-16.
Inscribed (f. 59r) ‘Edwarde Hull’, possibly the main scribe of the MS. Also variously inscribed ‘Thomas Sturgies is the right Oner of this booke’ and the names of Edward Sturgis, Thomas Manton, Richard Manton, Richard Halford, William Halford, Dorothy Halford, William Wagstaffe and Thomas Wagstaffe. Later in the library of the Parker family, Earls of Macclesfield, at Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire. Acquired 30 March 2007.
Clark, No. LIX (pp. 238-40). Recorded in Greer, p. 311.
CmT 237
Copy of a four-strophe version.
In: the MS described under CmT 82.5. c.1620.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39), f. 5r-v.
CmT 238
Copy, headed ‘Sonnetto’, on the last page of a pair of conjugate oblong octavo leaves. Early-mid-17th century.
‘What is a day, what is a yeere’
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. xviii. Davis, p. 459.
See also CmT 207-38.
CmT 239
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 20. c.1615-26.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 506.
CmT 240
Copy, untitled, transcribed from fol. 6 of the original songbook.
In: the MS described under CmT 51. 26 February 1800.
CmT 241
Copy of the incipit only, here ‘What is a day’, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 101. c.1600s-20.
‘What thing is love but mourning?’
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. xx. Davis, p. 460.
CmT 242
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 20. c.1615-26.
The text corrected from this MS in Davis.
‘When Laura smiles’
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. ix. Davis, p. 455.
CmT 242.5
Copy, here ascribed to ‘Philip Rosseter’.
In: the MS described under CmT 18. c.1618-20s.
This MS discussed in David Lindley, ‘Campion and Rosseter: The Ascription of A Booke of Ayres’, N&Q, 228 (October 1983), 416
‘Whether away my sweetest deerest?’
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II. Davis, p. 481. John P. Cutts, ‘“Mris Elizabeth Davenant 1624”: Christ Church MS. Mus. 87’, RES, NS 10 (1959), 26-37 (p. 30).
CmT 243
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under CmT 21. c.1624-30s.
Edited from this MS in Cutts and in Davis, p. 481.
‘Whether men doe laugh or weepe’
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. xxi. Davis, p. 461.
CmT 244
Copy, untitled.
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).
CmT 246
Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CmT 12. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 507.
(3) Latin Poems by Campion
De puluerea coniuratione (‘Patroni magnum cano, mirum opus omnipotentis’)
First published as Thomas Campion: De Puluerea (On the Gunpowder Plot), ed David Lindley, with translation and additional notes by Robin Sowerby, Leeds Texts and Monograph Series, NS 10 (Leeds Studies in English, 1987).
CmT 247
Copy of a Latin poem of ‘Thomae Campiani Londinatis, D: Med:’ on the Gunpowder Plot, comprising two books of about 680 lines and 560 lines respectively (each with an ‘Argumentum’), with a dedicatory poem ‘Ad augustissimu, serenissimu Jacobum magnae Britanniae regem’ (beginning ‘Querna corona Joui datur olim, Laurea Phoebo’) and five preliminary epigrams on the Jesuits, in a probably professional hand, revisions possibly in another hand written on numerous pasted-on slips, vi + 29 leaves. c.1615-20.
This MS recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), p. 189. Edited from this MS in Lindley & Sowerby.
Dramatic works
The Ayres That Were Sung and Played at Brougham Castle. v. Ballad (‘Dido was the Carthage Queene’)
See CmT 187-91.
Gesta Grayorum. Song (‘Shadowes before the shining sunne do vanish’)
See CmT 205.
The Lord Hay's Masque
First published as The Discription of a Maske...in honour of the Lord Hayes (London, 1607). Davis, pp. 203-30. Also published, with illustrations of costume designs [?], in Stephen Orgel and Roy Strong, Inigo Jones: The Theatre of the Stuart Court, 2 vols (University of California Press, 1973), I, 115-20.
CmT 248
Copy of some of the songs in the masque, beginning with ‘Flora's songe’ (‘Now hath Flora rob'd her bowres’), in a neat secretary hand, untitled, on three pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Verses of the Maske 1606’, once folded as a packet. 1606.
Recorded in HMC, 9 Salisbury (Cecil) MSS, XIX (1965), p. 2.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 144/268-269.
The Lords' Masque. Song (‘Wooe her, and win her, he that can’)
First published together with A Relation of the Late Royall Entertainment given By The Right Honorable The Lord Knowles (London, 1613). Davis, pp. 249-62 (p. 257). Also edited, with illustrations of costume designs [?], in Stephen Orgel and Roy Strong, Inigo Jones: The Theatre of the Stuart Court, 2 vols (University of California Press, 1973), I, 240-52.
CmT 249
Copy in a musical setting.
In: A folio volume of songs, madrigals and motets, 48 leaves, the 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).
Documents
Document(s)
CmT 250
Official deposition, signed by Campion, relating to the alleged implication of Sir Thomas Monson in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, dated 26 October 1615. 1615.
Facsimile in Vivian (frontispiece).