Verse
Caelica
The entire sonnet sequence first published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Bullough, I, 73-153. Wilkes, I, 79-177.
*GrF 1
A formal copy of the original sequence of 109 ‘sonnets’ made by one of Greville's amanuenses, Richard Willis (Bullough's scribe a), with Greville's frequent autograph revisions, some of the revisions copied again fairly by a second amanuensis (scribe d), iv + 85 folio leaves (including blanks), in limp vellum, with remains of green silk ties. c.1619-25.
Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 107, to Thomas Thorp. Bookplate of Warwick Castle. Christie's, 19 June 1968, lot 136.‘Warwick MSS, Vol. E’.
Edited from this MS in Wilkes. Collated in Bullough. Facsimile examples of sonnets lxxvi and lxxviii in Bullough I, facing pp. 32 and 112; sonnet lxxvii in BMQ, 34 (1969-70), Plate XXIV; sonnet xciii in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 15; sonnets lxxvii and lxxviii, with texts and discussion, in Norman K. Farmer, Jr., ‘Holograph Revisions in Two Poems by Fulke Greville’, ELR, 4 (1974), 98-110; sonnet lxxxxiii in Sixteenth-Century British Nondramatic Writers, Fourth Series, ed. David A. Richardson, DLB, vol. 172 (Detroit, 1996), p. 108; and sonnet lxxvi in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 63.
—— Sonnet v (‘Who trusts for trust, or hopes of loue for loue’)
This sonnet first published in John Dowland, First Booke of Songes or Ayres (London, 1597). Bullough, I, 75. Wilkes, I, 81-2.
GrF 2
Copy of the incipit of an early version, here ‘Who euer thinks or hopes’, in a musical setting by John Dowland.
In: A virginal book. Compiled by one ‘R: Cr.’ (Robert Creighton). c.1635-8.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Département de la Musique, MS Conservatoire Rés. 1186, f. 6v.
GrF 3
Copies of an early version, untitled and here beginning ‘Who euer thinks or hopes of loue for loue’, in a musical setting by John Dowland.
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’.
Bodleian, MS Mus. f. 7-10, (i) fol. 2v; (ii) fol. 3v; (iii) fol. 3v; (iv) fol. 5v.
—— Sonnet lii (‘Away with these self-louing lads’)
This sonnet first published in John Dowland, First Booke of Songes or Ayres (London, 1597). Bullough, I, 104. Wilkes, II, 114-15.
GrF 4
Copy, after a false start (on f. 146v).
In: A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain. Mid-late 16th century.
This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, ‘The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents’, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.
A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 198, pp. 242-3. Collated in Bullough.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 147r.
GrF 4.2
Copy of stanzas 1-2 in a musical setting by John Dowland, untitled.
In: the MS described under GrF 3. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 469.
Bodleian, MS Mus. f. 7-10, (i) fol. 12v; (ii) fol. 11v; (iii) fol. 12v; (iv) fol. 14v.
GrF 4.5
Copy, in a four-part musical setting by John Dowland.
In: A MS songbook. Once owned by one Thomas Myriell. Early 17th century.
This MS is collated in Doughtie, p. 469.
Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels, Belgium, MS II. 4. 109 (Fétis 3095), pp. 8-9.
GrF 4.6
Copy, in a musical setting by John Dowland.
In: A large square-shaped folio composite volume of largely vocal music, in several hands and paper sizes, 61 leaves, mounted on guards, in a recycled vellum indenture within modern quarter vellum boards. c.1762.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘R Guise Oct: 1762’. Puttick & Simpson's, 20 December 1872.
GrF 4.8
Copy of the incipit only, in a musical setting by John Dowland, 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.
This MS recorded in Doughtie, p. 469.
—— Sonnet lxxxiv (‘Farewell sweet Boy, comlaine not of my truth’)
This sonnet first published in Martin Peerson, Mottects (London, 1630). Bullough, I, 134-5. Wilkes, I, 154.
GrF 5
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.
[Epitaph on Sir Philip Sidney]
Unpublished Latin verses.
GrF 6
Sir John Coke's autograph draft of his letter to Sir Fulke Greville (in response to Greville's letter of 4 September on ff. 166r-7v) in which Coke quotes from and comments on Greville's (now lost) Latin verse epitaph on Sidney, on four folio leaves, endorsed by one of Coke's sons ‘To Sr F G. Sent by my father Sept. 16 1615’.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters, in various hands, 171 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco. Volume VI of the papers of Sir John Coke (1563-1644), Secretary of State.
Purchased from the Marquess of Lothian, of Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, 14 July 1987.
Formerly in Melbourne Hall, Cowper (Coke) MSS, packet 15.
This MS edited (with errors) in Norman Farmer, Jr., ‘Fulke Greville and Sir John Coke: An Exchange of Letters on a History Lecture and Certain Latin Verses on Sir Philip Sidney’, HLQ, 33 (1969-70), 217-36. See also Joan Rees, ‘Fulke Greville's Epitaph on Sidney’, RES, NS 19 (1968), 47-51. Edited in Wilkes, II, 549-53.
An Inquisition upon Fame and Honour (‘What are Mens liues, but labyrinths of error’)
First published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Bullough, I, 192-213. Wilkes, II, 241-62.
GrF 7
A formal copy made by one of Greville's amanuenses (Bullough's scribe d).
In: A folio volume of works by Fulke Greville, in the secretary hands of two of Greville's amanuenses (Bullough's scribes c and d), with occasional corrections and revisions in Greville's hand, 79 leaves (plus blanks), in old limp vellum. c.1625-8.
Bookplate of Warwick Castle. ‘Warwick MSS, Vol. B’.
Edited from this MS in Wilkes. Collated in Bullough, with a facsimile of stanza 75, II, facing p. 48.
A tale put in verse by Mr Grevell (‘A tale I once did heare a true man tell’)
First published in Hughey, Arundel Harington MS (1960), I, No. 69, pp. 113-15. Wilkes, II, 555-61, as of uncertain authorship.
GrF 8
Copy, headed ‘A tale put in verse by Mr Grevell The ptyes that weare Authores of ye true reporte weare Mr of the Rolles yt nowe is and his ladye / to Sr. M. A.’
In: the MS described under GrF 4. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey and, in part, in Wilkes, II, 555-61.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, ff. 35r-6r.
GrF 9
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, subscribed ‘finis Sr F. G’.
In: A folio volume of state letters, speeches and verse, in probably two professional secretary hands, compiled chiefly by Simon Willis, a secretary (until 1602) of Robert Cecil (1563-1612), first Earl of Salisbury, and inscribed ‘Mr Robert Cecilles booke’, 32 leaves (including blanks). [c.1600-12].
This MS edited in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, ‘A Newly Discovered Poem by Fulke Greville’, ELR, 9 (1979), 64-8, with a facsimile example.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 286, ff. [21r-2r].
A Treatie of Humane Learning (‘The Mind of Man is this worlds true dimension’)
First published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Bullough, I, 154-91. Wilkes, II, 273-313.
*GrF 10
A formal copy made by one of Greville's amanuenses (Bullough's scribe c), with a few autograph corrections or revisions by Greville.
In: the MS described under GrF 7. c.1625-8.
Edited from this MS in Wilkes, with a facsimile of stanzas 67-8 in I, 290. Collated in Bullough., with a facsimile of stanzas 61-2 in I, facing p. 16. Facsimiles of stanza 25 in BMQ, 34 (1969-70), Plate XXVII.
A Treatie of Warres (‘Peace is the haruest of Mans rich creation’)
First published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Bullough, I, 214-30. Wilkes, II, 213-30.
GrF 11
A formal copy made by one of Greville's amanuenses (Bullough's scribe d).
In: the MS described under GrF 7. c.1625-8.
This MS collated in Bullough.
A Treatise of Monarchy (‘There was a tyme before the tymes of story’)
First published in The Remains of Sir Fulke Grevill (London, 1670). Wilkes, II, 31-203.
*GrF 12
Copy, in the secretary hand of one of Greville's amanuenses (Bullough's scribe b), with deletions, alterations and insertions in one or more other hands and some corrections and revisions in Greville's own hand, untitled, viii + 116 folio leaves (with a tipped-in certificate relating to 1601 signed by Greville), in contemporary limp vellum. c.1619-25.
With Add. MSS 54566-54571, later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 107, to Thomas Thorp. Bookplate of Warwick Castle. Christie's, 19 June 1968, lot 136. ‘Warwick MSS, Vol. A’.
Edited principally from this MS in Wilkes, with a facsimile of stanzas 330-1 in I, 116, and edited in Wilkes, Remains, pp. 35-202. Facsimiles of stanzas 169-70 in BMQ, 34 (1969-70), Plate XXV, and of stanzas 588-90 in Bullough, I, facing p. 160.
GrF 13
Copy, on seventeen quarto leaves, in paper wrappers. With a title-page in a predominantly italic hand, ‘Monarchie in its Excellence compared with Aristocratie, and Democratie seuerally, and with both Joyntly Written by the honble and learned Sr Foulke Greuill Lord Brooke and left in A Manuscript’; with a dedicatory epistle in a mixed hand ‘To the Honored and worpll Doctor Saint Barbe’ subscribed ‘Sr ffouck Greuill Lord Brooke, by him at his death bequeathed vnto my brother then his Lorps Chaplan And by my brother at his death giuen as A Legacy vnto mee for my better supportance ... The humblest of yor seruants / Richard Graues’; the text (ff. [3r-16v]) in yet another, professional mixed hand. c.1630s-40s.
A Treatise of Religion (‘What makes these manie lawes, these reynes of Power’)
First published in The Remains of Sir Fulk Grevill (London, 1670). Wilkes, II, 329-58.
GrF 14
A formal copy made by one of Greville's amanuenses (Bullough's scribe d).
In: the MS described under GrF 7. c.1625-8.
Edited from this MS in Wilkes, Remains, pp. 203-31.
Prose
A Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney
See Life of Sir Philip Sidney: GrF 24-26.
The Five Yeares of King James
First published, attributed to Greville, in London, 1643. Almost certainly apocryphal.
GrF 14.2
Copy in: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, 438 pages, now disbound in folders. In various professional hands, including those of the ‘Feathery Scribe’ and Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628).
Bookplate of John Moore (1646-1714), Bishop of Ely.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 215-16 (No. 4).
GrF 14.4
Copy in: A folio collection of 28 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others, in two independent units (ff. 1-60v, 61r-78r), each in a different secretary hand, bound with a tract (MS Ee. 4. 13), in quarter-calf on boards. c.1620-33.
From the library of John Moore, Bishop of Norwich and Ely (1646-1714), which was given to the University of Cambridge by King George I.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Moore MS’: DnJ Δ 46.
GrF 14.6
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, subscribed ‘Sr ffrancis Bacon’, with a seven-page table of contents, ii + 89 leaves (foliated 1-89).
In: A folio volume comprising three treatises, in a single professional secretary hand. c.1630.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 120. Microfilm in the British Library, M/346 (1st item).
GrF 14.8
Copy in: A large folio composite volume of state letters and papers, iv + 207 leaves, in contemporary calf.
A Letter to an Honourable Lady
First published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Grosart, IV, 233-99. Gouws, pp. 137-76.
*GrF 15
A formal copy made by one of Greville's amanuenses (Bullough's scribe b), with Greville's frequent autograph corrections and revisions, untitled, 43 folio leaves (plus numerous blanks), in limp vellum. c.1619-25.
Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 107, to Thomas Thorp. Bookplate of Warwick Castle. Christie's, 19 June 1968, lot 136. ‘Warwick MSS, Vol. F’.
Facsimile of part of Chapter III of this MS in Bullough, I, facing p. 224.
GrF 15.6
Extracts, in a mixed hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed ‘Notes out of a Letter written to an honoble Ladie’.
In: A tall folio commonplace book, chiefly of naval tracts and sermons, in two hands, begun 23 May 1629, 322 pages of text (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. Partly in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician, partly in the neat mixed hand of an amanuensis. c.1629-30s.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.
The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 23, pp. 265-70.
GrF 15.8
Copy in: A folio volume of two works by Sir Fulke Greville, in a single professional secretary hand, i + 107 unfoliated leaves, in old calf (rebacked). Early 17th century.
Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘The 18 chapters are printed are printed [sic] as I found in my library at Castle Rushin the 11th of Oct. 1699’: i.e. in Castle Rushen, Castletown, Isle of Man, owned in 1699 by William Stanley (1655-1702), ninth Earl of Derby. Later in the collection of William Frampton Andrews (1839-1918) and his brother Robert Thornton Andrews (1838-1928), of Hertford. Formerly ACC 2418.
This MS discussed in Victor Skretkowicz, ‘Greville's Life of Sidney: The Hertford Manuscript’, EMS, 3 (1992), 102-36 (esp. p. 127), with a facsimile of the first page on p. 107.
Letter to Grevill Varney on his Travels
An epistolary essay beginning ‘My good Cousin, according to the request of your letter, dated the 19. of October, at Orleance...’, dated from Hackney, 20 November 1609. First published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Grosart, IV, 301-6. This essay perhaps originally written by Thomas Bodley and possibly also used by Francis Bacon and/or the Earl of Essex. Also perhaps sent by Greville to John Harris rather than Greville Varney: see Norman K. Farmer, Jr., ‘Fulke Greville's Letter to a Cousin in France and the Problem of Authorship in Cases of Formula Writing’, RQ, 22 (1969), 140-7.
GrF 16
Copy in: A quarto volume of letters and state papers, in a secretary hand, xii + 209 pages (plus blank pp. 211-472, 475-6), in contemporary calf. c.1620s-30s.
Owned in the 17th century by William Goswell, his friend James Bedford, and Gerard Langbaine [? Gerard Langbaine (1608/9-58), head of Queen's College, Oxford]. Also inscribed (f. 376) ‘Amy Wigmore’.
This MS collated in Grosart and discussed in Farmer, p. 141.
GrF 16.5
Copy, headed ‘Sr Fulke Greville to his Cosen Grevill Varney residinge in France’, under a general heading (on f. 191r) ‘Three lres concerninge Travaile & Travailors’.
In: An octavo volume of transcripts of state tracts and letters, iii + 227 leaves (including blanks) in all, in calf. Mainly in three hands, with later additions in c.1683-99.
Inscribed names including Anthony, Thomas and John Marshall, Jonas Ramsden, Jenkinson, Thomas Maleverer, and Lawson. Owned c.1670s-90s by the family of Sir Thomas Seyliard, third Baronet (d.1701), of Delawarre, Kent. Later note: ‘Bought this Manuscript at Montague's Book warehouse near Queen Street Lincoln's Inn Fields Tuesday Feb: 12 1739’. Later armorial bookplate apparently of the Appleyard family of either Yorkshire or Norfolk. Phillips, 20 March 1998, lot 467, to Quaritch.
20 Nov 1609
GrF 16.8
Copy, headed ‘Sr Fulk Grevill to his kinsman in France’. c.1630s.
In: A quarto composite volume of verse, state letters and culinary recipes, in English and French, in various hands, 136 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
Inscribed (f. 2r) ‘Fane Chambrelaine’.
GrF 17
Copy, headed ‘Sir ffulke Greville to a couzin of his residing in ffrance’.
In: A small folio volume of state tracts and papers, in one or more probably professional hands. c.1620s-30s.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 203-4.
This MS described in Farmer, pp. 140-1.
GrF 18
Copy, headed ‘A Letter written by Sr ffulke Greuill to his cousin Grevill Varney then residing in ffrance, wherein are set downe certaine directions, how he may make the best vse of his travailes’, the third of ‘Three Letters conserning one subiect...All giueing directions to their said frinds how to make the best of their Travailles’.
In: A folio miscellany of tracts, letters, plays and verse, for the most part in a single secretary hand, partly on inserted sheaves of long narrow ledger-size leaves, written from both ends, 248 leaves, in contempoary vellum with metal clasps. Compiled by a University of Cambridge man. Early 17th century.
Inscribed at the end ‘Josephus Diggins me possedit’: i.e. by Joseph Diggins, of Clare Hall, Cambridge (matric. 1607, d.1658). Christie's, 5 December 1973, lot 84, to Hofmann & Freeman.
GrF 19
Copy, headed ‘A letter written by Sr ffulke Grevill to his cousin Grevill Varney then residinge in ffrance...directinge him how hee may make the best use of his travells’.
In: A pair of conjugate folio leaves containing two texts (the first a copy of Lady Penelope Rich's letter to Queen Elizabeth in 1601), both in the hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple. c.1620.
Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D 258/56/35.
Recorded in HMC, 9th Report, Part II (1884), Appendix, p. 386.
GrF 20
Copy, headed ‘Sr Fulk Grevill to a Cosen of his residing in France wherein hee setteth downe what obseruacons hee thinkes fitt for him to make vse of in his Trauailes’.
In: A folio volume of state letters, speeches and verse, in a single neat italic hand. c.1620s.
Among the papers of the Fuller family of Brightling Park. Possibly once owned by Ambrose Trayton of Lewes, Esquire of the Body to James I and Charles I.
GrF 21
Copy, headed ‘Sir ffulke Grevill to his Kinsman in ffrance’.
In: A folio volume of state papers and tracts, in a professional cursive secretary hand, 346 leaves, in red morocco gilt. c.1620s-30s.
This MS recorded in Farmer, p. 141.
GrF 22
Copy, headed ‘A Letter written by Sr. Fulke Greville to a Kinsman of his residing in France wherein are set downe Certaine Rules directing him how to make ye best use of his travaile’, dated 1609.
In: An octavo volume of essays on travel, largely in one professional secretary hand, a ‘Table’ and some notes in other hands, with a formal title-page ‘Itineraria Collectanea or Instructions for A Traveler Directing him how to make the best use of his Travels Together with the Politique survay of A Kingdome’, 107 pages (plus blanks), in old vellum boards. c.1630.
This MS recorded in BC, 15 (Summer 1966), p. 156.
GrF 22.5
Copy in: A volume of transcripts of 15th-17th-century letters. 1806.
Owned and possibly compiled by the novelist Jan Porter (1776-1850). Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 16688. Sotheby's, 27 June 1977, lot 4935.
GrF 23
This text here is not the letter by Fulke Greville. See EsR 181: Second Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland.
GrF 23.5
Copy, headed ‘A letter written by Sr ffulke Grevill to a Cosen of his residinge in ffrance wherein he setts downe what observacons he thinks fitt for him to make vse of his travells’.
In: A portion of a folio volume of state letters, in a secretary hand, 22 pages, disbound. Early-mid-17th century.
Bought in the ‘Fenn sale 1866 (243)’. Formerly part of Phillipps MS 29759. Sotheby's, 14 June 1971, lot 1492, to Dobell.
Life of Sir Philip Sidney
Generally entitled A Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney. First published in London, 1652. Grosart, IV, 1-224. Edited by Nowell Smith (Oxford, 1907). Gouw, pp. 3-135.
GrF 24
Copy of an early version, in seventeen chapters, in two or three mixed hands, untitled, on 87 tall folio pages, followed by a series of blanks and then lists of books belonging to W.Leveson Gower in several hands, in 19th-century calf. Early-mid-17th century.
Book lists c.1677-85 relating to Sir William Leveson-Gower, fourth Baronet (c.1647-91) and partly in the hand of Mr Plaxton, rector of Donington and Kinnardley, Shropshire, apparently librarian to Sir John Leveson-Gower, fifth Baronet (1675-1709). Descended to Dukes of Sutherland, of Trentham Hall. Sotheby's, 19 November 1906 (Trentham Hall Library sale). Christie's, 24 November 1959, lot 334, to Quaritch.
This MS collated in Gouws.
GrF 24.5
Copy, headed ‘A dedication to Sr: Phillip Sidney’.
In: the MS described under GrF 15.8. Early 17th century.
This MS discussed in Victor Skretkowicz, ‘Greville's Life of Sidney: The Hertford Manuscript’, EMS, 3 (1992), 102-36 (esp. p. 127), with a facsimile of the first page on p. 104. Discussed, with a different critical interpretation, in John Gouws, ‘Fulke Greville's A Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney and the Protocols of Textual Scholarship’, EMS, 6 (1997), 106-31.
GrF 25
Copy of an early version. 1st half 17th century.
This MS described in S. Blaine Ewing, ‘A New Manuscript of Greville's “Life of Sidney”’, MLR, 49 (1954), 424-7.
GrF 26
Copy, entitled ‘A Dedication to Sr. Phillip Sidney’ and in eighteen chapters, bound in two duodecimo volumes, each in a different hand, 75 and 60 leaves respectively, each in leather gilt. First half of 17th century.
Modern bookplate of Henry Puckering.
This MS collated in Grosart and in Smith.
GrF 26.5
Extracts, in a mixed hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed ‘Notes out of a dedication of the ould Lo: Brookes to Sr Phillip Sidney’.
In: the MS described under GrF 15.6. c.1629-30s.
The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 23, pp. 246-65.
Dramatic works
Alaham
First published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Bullough, II, 138-213. Wilkes, I, 310-98.
*GrF 27
A formal copy made by one of Greville's amanuenses (Bullough's scribe d), with corrections in Greville's hand, untitled, v + 96 folio leaves, in limp vellum. c.1625-8.
Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 107, to Thomas Thorp. Bookplate of Warwick Castle. Christie's, 19 June 1968, lot 136. ‘Warwick MSS, Vol. C’.
Edited from this MS in Wilkes. Collated in Bullough, with a facsimile of p. 108 (part of Act III) in II, facing p. 192.
GrF 27.5
Extracts, headed ‘My Ld Brookes Alaham’.
In: A folio commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts from printed sources, in English and French, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, i + 95 leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt. Compiled by Sir Samuel Tuke, first Baronet (c.1615-74), royalist army officer and playwright, cousin and friend of John Evelyn. c.1656.
Volume CCLVI of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford, as Evelyn MS 254. Purchased March 1995.
Recorded (as the ‘Tuke MS’) in Peter Beal, ‘More Donne Manuscripts’, John Donne Journal, 6/2 (1987), 213-18 (p. 214).
Mustapha
An early version first published in London, 1609. A later version first published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Bullough, II, 63-137. Wilkes, I, 210-97.
*GrF 28
A formal copy of a later version made by one of Greville's amanuenses (Bullough's scribe d), with corrections in Greville's hand, iv + 86 folio leaves, in limp vellum, with remains of green silk ties. c.1625-8.
Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 107, to Thomas Thorp. Bookplate of Warwick Castle. Christie's, 19 June 1968, lot 136.‘Warwick MSS, Vol. D’.
Edited principally from this MS in Wilkes. Collated in Bullough, with a facsimile of part of Chor. 2 in II, facing p. 96. Facsimile of III, i, 9-14 in BMQ, 34 (1969-70), Plate XXVII(b).
GrF 28.5
Extracts, in a mixed hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed ‘Notes out of my ould lord Brookes tragidye of Mustapha’.
In: the MS described under GrF 15.6. c.1629-30s.
The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 23, pp. 281-301.
GrF 29
Copy of an early version, in a predominantly secretary hand, untitled, on 28 folio leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked). c.1609.
This MS recorded in Wilkes, II, 464-5. Collated in Bullough (his ‘C text’).
GrF 30
Copy of an early version, in a professional italic hand, the Chorus added at the end (f. 28r-v) in possibly another italic hand. c.1609.
In: A folio volume comprising two independent works (the second by George Buchanan), in different hands, 40 leaves, in contemporary calf.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9060. The front pastedown inscribed in June 1906 by Sir Israel Gollancz (1863-1930), literary scholar. Formerly Folger MS 421118.1.
A facsimile of this MS is in the University of London Library (MS/F 142).
Edited principally from this MS in Wilkes, II, 481-545. Briefly discussed in Ronald A. Rebholz, Life of Fulke Greville (Oxford, 1971), 101-2.
GrF 31
Copy of an early version, in two neat secretary hands, with lines added in the margin of f. 19r in the first hand, 45 folio pages of text, lacking a title, disbound. c.1609.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 13 November 1968, lot 86. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.
This MS recorded in Wilkes, II, 463-4.
Mustapha, Chorus Sacerdotum (‘Oh wearisome condition of Humanity’)
Wilkes, I, 297.
GrF 31.5
Copy of the Chorus Sacerdotum on one side of a single quarto leaf, endorsed ‘Ex Very Mediocres’. Early 18th century.
Among archives of the Carr family, Marquesses of Lothian.
GrF 32
A printed exemplum of Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633) with MS notes on pp. 158-9 at the end of Mustapha in the hand of the editor, Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), recording an original reading for the Chorus Quintvs and noting that the Chorus Sacerdotvm‘is misplaced’, &c. c.1633.
This item discussed in W. Hilton Kelliher, ‘The Warwick Manuscripts of Fulke Greville’, BMQ, 34 (1969-70), 107-21 (pp. 117-18, 121). Recorded in Wilkes, I, 206.
GrF 33
Copy of the Chorus Sacerdotvm at the end, headed ‘A Chorus of Turkish Priests in Mustapha. by Lord Brooks’ and here beginning ‘O wearisome condition of humanity!’.
In: A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, ‘A S’ in a gilt lozenge on each cover. The later additions partly compiled by George Clarke (1661-1736), politician and virtuoso (whose bookplate is inside the cover and whose family coat of arms is on f. [iv]), son of Sir William Clarke (1623?-66), Secretary of War to the Commonwealth and Charles II. c.1662[-1730s].
Inside the front cover inscribed ‘E[?] Barrow’, evidently a member of the family of Samuel Barrow (1625-82), Royal Physician and friend of John Milton, Barrow being the second husband of Sir William Clarke's widow, Dorothy (d.1695). Formerly MSS 6. 13.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Clarke MS’: PsK Δ 5. See also Elizabeth H. Hageman, ‘Treacherous Accidents, and the Abominable Printing of Katherine Philips's 1664 Poems’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004), pp. 85-95.
Bullough, II, 136-7.
Mustapha, II, i, 1-10
Wilkes, I, 230-1.
GrF 34
Copy of the first ten lines of Achmat's soliloquy (II, i, 1-10), headed ‘Sir ffulke Greuille of ambition’ and here beginning ‘Who standing in the shade of humble valleyes’.
In: An octavo miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, in a small secretary hand, 79 leaves (largely blank), disbound. Early 17th century.
Bullough, II, 79-80.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 25, f. 6v.
—— IV, iv, 116-117 (‘Mischiefe is like the Cockatrices eyes’)
Bullough, II, 118.
GrF 35
Copy of the couplet, headed ‘Treason’ and here beginning ‘Treason is like the Basiliscus eye’, 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).
GrF 36
Copy, headed ‘On Treason’ and here beginning ‘Treason is like ye Basiliscus eye’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, predominantly in a single hand (up to f. 34v), with additions in four subsequent hands (ff. 37-50v), 50 leaves, in vellum. Compiled for the most part by a University of Oxford man, with (f. 1r-v) a list of contents. c.1640s.
Once owned by one John Faith, and by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.
Formerly cited as Corpus Christi College, MS E.i.33.
GrF 37
Copy, here beginning ‘Treason is like the Basiliscus eye’.
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.
GrF 38
Copy, here beginning ‘Treason is like ye Basiliscus eye’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks). Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s-40s.
Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘English Poetry MS’: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.
GrF 39
Copy, headed ‘On Treason &’ and here beginning ‘Treason is like a Basiliscus eye’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in three or more hands, probably compiled principally by a member of New College, Oxford, 163 pages, in calf-backed marbled boards. c.1620s-30s.
The name ‘George Brown’ inscribed on p. 14. Inscribed on p. i by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector ‘Feb 13. 1790. I this day purchased this Manuscript Collection of Poems, at the sale of Mr Brander's books, at the exorbitant price of Ten Guineas. EMalone’.
GrF 40
Copy, in a roman hand, subscribed ‘29 No: 1606: Mr Clapham from Mr. Foucke Greuill’ and here beginning ‘Treason is like a Cocatrices eies’. 1606.
In: A folio compendium or entry book of state letters and other documents and memoranda, in various secretary and italic hands, 231 leaves (including numerous blanks), in modern half-calf. Compiled over a period, and partly written, by Sir Stephen Powle (c.1553-1630), Clerk of the Crown.
Edited from this MS in G. A. Wilkes, ‘The Sequence of the Writings of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke’, SP, 56 (1959), 489-503 (p. 491).
GrF 41
Copy, headed ‘On Treason’ and here beginning ‘Treason is like the basiliscus eye’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany (originally in two separate volumes), including eleven poems by Donne, chiefly in two hands, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 98 leaves, one of the original vellum covers now incorporated in modern red morocco. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Stephen Wellden’ and ‘Abraham Bassano’ and (f. 98r) ‘Elizabeth Weldon’. Later owned by William John Thoms (1803-85), writer, antiquary and librarian. Sotheby's, 11 February 1887 (Thoms sale), lot 1092. Also owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.4.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Welden MS’: DnJ Δ 49.
GrF 41.5
Copy of the couplet, here beginning ‘Mischeife is like the Cocatrices Eyes’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse extracts, in a single italic hand (but for additions on f. 35r-v), foliated 14-52, in contemporary vellum. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed inside the front cover ‘F. C. Wellstood / Oxford’. Inscribed (f. 35r) ‘W. C. 1789’.
GrF 42
Copy, headed ‘On Treason’, here beginning ‘Treason is like the Basiliscus eye’.
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.
GrF 43
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘On treason’, here beginning ‘Treason is like a Basilis'cus eye’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in several italic and mixed hands, written probably over a period from both ends, 72 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1630s-40s.
John Rylands University Library of Manchester, English MS 410, f. 22v.
GrF 44
Copy, headed ‘On Treason’ and here beginning ‘Treason is like a Basiliske his eye’.
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).
GrF 45
Copy, headed ‘On Treason’ and here beginning ‘Treason is like a Basiliscus eye’.
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].
GrF 46
Copy, headed ‘alter’ [i.e. another on Treason] and here beginning ‘Treason is like the basiliske his eye’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, compiled principally in the secretary hand of a University of Oxford man, with additions in one or more other hands, 150 pages, imperfect, disbound. c.1640.
Miscellaneous Extracts from Works by Greville
Extracts
GrF 47
Extracts from a poem, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Verses out of my ould lord Brooke’, here beginning ‘Man dreame noe more of Curious misteries’.
In: A folio commonplace book, in several hands, begun 18 May 1626, written from both ends, with two tables of contents, 415 pages of text, in contemporary leather with traces of metal clasps. Compiled by, and partly in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician. c.1626-30s.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.
The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 22, pp. 54, 56.
GrF 48
Extracts from various works by Greville.
In: A folio guardbook of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, including (ff. 1r-9r) a quarto booklet of sixteen poems by Donne in a single neat italic hand, 54 leaves, in modern brown morocco gilt. c.1620-33.
Among papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle, including particularly papers of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582?-1648). Acquired in 1916.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Herbert MS’: DnJ Δ 56.