Verse
(1) Poems by Herbert
Another Sonnet to Black it self (‘Thou Black, wherein all colours are compos'd’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 39.
HrE 1
Copy in: A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of the Herbert family, in various hands and paper sizes, 92 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco. Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) ‘The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630’, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions. c.1630-1.
Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.
This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 130.
The Brown Beauty (‘While the two contraries of Black and White’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 60.
De Vita coelesti, ex iisdem principiis conjectura (‘Toto lustratus Genio, mihi gratulor ipsi’)
Moore Smith, pp. 103-6.
A version of this poem appears in Herbert's Autobiography: see HrE 94-5.
De vita humana philosophica disquisitio (‘Prima fuit quondam genitali femine Vita’)
Moore Smith, pp. 99-102.
A short version of this poem appears in Herbert's Autobiography: see HrE 94-5.
A Description (‘I sing her worth and praises hy’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 2-5.
HrE 3
Copy, headed ‘Idea: Off Sr: Edw: Harbert’.
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 collated in Smith, p. 125.
HrE 4
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio verse miscellany, 148 leaves (foliated 161-206), once bound (reversed) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part I), rebound with this MS (in continuous form without inversion) in 1832 (by Charles Lewis). Including 59 poems by Donne (and second copies of six poems), in probably six professional secretary hands: A (ff. 1r-25v, 82r-129r); B (ff. 26r, 42v-7v, 49r-63r, 63v-79r, 130r-48r); C (ff. 27r-36v, 41r-2v; with occasional corrections possibly in hand B); D (ff. 37r-40v); E (ff. 63r-v); and F (f. 129v). c.1620-33.
Scribbling includes the name ‘Meriall Tracy’ (on f. 148v). Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary; by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary; and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library, lot 624). Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (II)’: DnJ Δ 26. Discussed in C.M. Armitage, ‘Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on “The Funerall”’, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707.
A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Betagraph of the watermark in f. 43 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. 240).
Ditty (‘If you refuse me once, and think again’)
Stanzas 1-3 first published (prefixed to verses by Sir Robert Ayton) in The Last Remains of Sr John Suckling (London, 1659). First published complete in Occasional Verses (1666). Moore Smith, pp. 31-2.
HrE 6
Copy, transcribed from The Last Remains of Sr John Suckling (1659).
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.
This MS recorded in The Works of Sir John Suckling: The Non-Dramatic Works, ed. Thomas Clayton (Oxford, 1971), p. 98.
Ditty (‘Why dost thou hate return instead of love?’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 56-7.
HrE 7
Copy of the first stanza.
In: the MS described under HrE 1.
This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 132.
Echo in a Church (‘Where shall my troubled soul, at large’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 47-8.
*HrE 8
Autograph draft with copious revisions.
In: A folio composite sheaf of autograph writings by Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, 25 leaves, sewn but unbound. c.1625.
From papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle.
This MS discussed in Rossi, III, 389-91. Facsimile in IELM, I.ii, after p. 169, Facsimile XIX.
*HrE 8.3
Autograph draft with some revisions.
In: the MS described under HrE 8. c.1625.
This MS discussed in Rossi, III, 389-91.
*HrE 8.5
Autograph draft, with some revisions.
In: the MS described under HrE 8. c.1625.
This MS discussed in Rossi, III, 389-91.
HrE 9
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under HrE 1.
This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 131, with a facsimile after p. xxiv.
HrE 10
Copy, headed ‘The Ecchoe’.
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).
HrE 11
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: A large folio volume of autograph vocal music by Henry Lawes (1596-1662), ix + 184 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt. Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller. Mid-17th century.
Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.
Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Henry Lawes MS’: CwT Δ 16; HeR Δ 3; WaE Δ 11. Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Pamela J. Willetts, The Henry Lawes Manuscript (London, 1969). Facsimiles of ff. 42r, 78r, 80r, 84r, 111r and 169r in The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric C. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 59, 60, 62, 64, 66 and 117. Also discussed in Willa McClung Evans, Henry Lawes: Musician and Friend of Poets (New York and London, 1941), and elsewhere. A complete facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 3 (New York & London, 1986).
Facsimile of f. 83 of this MS in Pamela J. Willetts, The Henry Lawes Manuscript (London, 1969), plate I.
HrE 11.5
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: A folio songbook, in at least two secretary hands, dated on the first page ‘June the ffirst 1639’, 25 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. c.1639.
Bookseller's label of Kenneth Mummery, Bournemouth.
Clark Library, Los Angeles, C6967M4 [1639] Bound, ff. 10v-12r.
Echo to a Rock (‘Thou heaven-threat'ning Rock, gentler then she’)
Moore Smith, pp. 46-7.
Elegy for Doctor Dunn (‘What though the vulgar and received praise’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 57-9.
*HrE 12
Copy, with seven autograph corrections and revisions.
In: the MS described under HrE 1.
This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 132.
Elegy for the Prince (‘Must he be ever dead? Cannot we add’)
First published among ‘Sundry Funeral Elegies’ appended to Joshua Sylvester, Lachrymae Lachrymarum, 3rd edition (London, 1613). Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 22-4.
HrE 13
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie uppon ye Prince is death’.
In: A folio composite volume, chiefly of English and Latin verse, in various hands; vi + 186 leaves, in reversed calf.
Scribbling on f. iir including ‘ffor mr William Rabey in New=market...’, ‘ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at mr Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk]’, ‘ffor mr John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge’; notes on f. iiiv-ivr, one ‘Recd 22 July 1669’, subscribed ‘John Cooke’ and including, on f. vir, ‘ffor mr John Cocke at his howse neere the white harte in Thetford...’. Later owned, in the 1730s, by Charles Barlow, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (his bookplate f. iiv).
This MS collated in Smith, pp. 127-8.
HrE 14
Copy, headed ‘SCH his Eligie’, transcribed from HrE 15.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with some later additions and annotations, 188 leaves, in quarter-morocco. Transcribed from British Library Add. MS 25303 and perhaps associated likewise with the Inns of Court. Including 23 poems by Carew and three of doubtful authorship. c.1620s-30s.
Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 13 May 1856 (Pickering sale), lot 258.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Pickering MS’: CwT Δ 11.
This MS collated in Smith, pp. 127-8.
HrE 15
Copy, headed ‘Sr Ed. H. his Elegy on Prince Harry’, subscribed ‘9ber 9th 1612’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single neat secretary hand, the first page formally inscribed ‘To the righte honoble: the Lorde Thomas Darcy Viscount Colchester’ (c.1565-1640, Viscount Colchester from 1621 to 1626), 191 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship. c.1620s.
This MS largely transcribed in British Library, Add. MS 21433. The hand occurs also in British Library, Harley MS 3910, between ff. 112v and 120v, and is possibly associated with the Inns of Court.
Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) ‘Mr John Bowyer’; (f. 2r) ‘Jeronomus ffox’; and (f. 3r) ‘William Ralph Baesh’.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Colchester MS’: CwT Δ 13.
This MS collated in Smith, pp. 127-8.
HrE 16
Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘One Prince Henery an Elegy by Sr Ed: Her:’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several largely italic hands, closely written, 148 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter morocco gilt. Probably compiled by university or inns of court men. c.1620s-30s.
This MS collated in Smith, pp. 127-8.
HrE 17
Copy, headed ‘Elegye’, subscribed ‘Sr Edwarde Harbort one the Prince’.
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.
This MS collated in Smith, pp. 127-8.
HrE 18
Copy, in the cursive italic hand of Sir Robert Phelips (1586?-1638), politician, untitled, on both sides of a single folio leaf, endorsed ‘Sr. Ed Herbert of the prin[ce]’. c.1612-20s.
In: A folio guardbook of state letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 70 items, 139 leaves.
Among the papers of the Phelips family, of Montacute House, Somerset.
Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 58.
HrE 19
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy upon ye princes death’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, with a title-page, 385 pages numbered 858-1243 (pp. 914-29, 966-7, 981-2, 995-6, 1023-4, 1041-2, 1083-4, 1135-6, and 1173-6 excised), in 17th-century calf. In non-professional hands, the miscellany entitled A Collection of Witt and Learning…consisting of verses, poems, songs, sonnetts, Ballads, Lampoons, Libells, Dialouges...from the year 1600, to this present year: 1677. c.1681.
Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.
HrE 19.5
Extracts, headed ‘Mr Ed Harbert of the prince’ and beginning at line 3 (here ‘My Soule Layd up in you’).
In: A tall folio commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts, in a single hand, 139 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Entirely in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician. c.1620s-30s.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1. Recorded (as the ‘Bedford MS’) in Peter Beal, ‘More Donne Manuscripts’, John Donne Journal, 6/2 (1987), 213-18 (p. 213).
The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 26, ff. 54v-5r.
Elegy over a Tomb (‘Must I then see, alas! eternal night’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 32-4.
*HrE 20
Copy, with three autograph corrections or revisions.
In: the MS described under HrE 1.
This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 129.
Epitaph. Caecil. Boulstr. (‘Methinks Death like one laughing lyes’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 20-1.
HrE 21
Copy, headed ‘On Mrs. Bulstreed’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.128 items, including 94 poems by Donne plus his Paradoxes and Problems, compiled by Henry Champernowne (1600-56), of Dartington, Devon, 243 pages, dated on the first page 1623. 1623.
Afterwards owned by other members of the Champernowne family, by Sir Edward Seymour, Bart. (?the third Baronet, 1610-85). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1030. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) (MS 9568). Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 749. Bookplate of C. S. Harris and bequeathed by him 1916.
Cited in IELM, I.i (190), as the ‘Phillipps MS’: DnJ Δ 20.
This MS collated in Smith, p. 127.
HrE 22
Copy, headed ‘Another Sir Edw: Harbert’.
In: the MS described under HrE 3. c.1620s-33.
This MS collated in Smith, p. 127.
HrE 23
Copy, headed ‘Another’.
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 Smith, p. 127.
HrE 24
Copy of lines 11-21, untitled, here beginning ‘This mightie warrier was deceived yet’.
In: the MS described under HrE 4. c.1620-33.
HrE 25
Copy of lines 1-2, headed ‘One Mrs Boulstreed’, imperfect, lacking the rest.
In: An octavo volume of poems and some prose, including 96 poems by Donne plus his Paradoxes and Problems (many ascribed to ‘J. D’), in a single neat secretary hand, 150 pages, in 17th-century calf gilt. c.1622-33.
Later owned by Major J.B. Whitmore. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 571, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Osborn MS’: DnJ Δ 30. For a facsimile page see DnJ 728, DnJ 1205. Complete microfilm in British Library (M/569).
Epitaph of a stinking Poet (‘Here stinks a Poet, I confess’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 29.
HrE 26
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on one who had a stinking breath’ and here beginning ‘Here lyes one stinks I must confesse’.
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).
HrE 27
Copy, headed ‘On a stinking breath’ and here beginning ‘Haere lies one stinks I must confesse’.
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].
Epitaph on Sir Edward Saquevile's Child, who dyed in his Birth (‘Reader, here lies a Child that never cry'd’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 30.
*HrE 28
Copy, headed ‘On my L. of Dorsets first sonne’, with Herbert's autograph addition ‘who dyed in his birth’.
In: the MS described under HrE 1.
This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 128.
Epitaph on Sir Philip Sidney lying in St. Paul's without a Monument (‘Within this Church Sir Philip Sidney lies’)
First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 53.
HrE 29
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Sr Ed: Herberte’.
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.
This MS collated in Smith, p. 132.
Euryale maerens (‘Depressae valles piceis irriguae fontibus’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 93.
*HrE 30
Four autograph drafts, early versions of parts of the poem, on both sides of a folio leaf.
This MS discussed in Rossi, III, 391.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E3/2.
The first Meeting (‘As sometimes with a sable Cloud’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 39-42.
*HrE 31
Copy with four autograph corrections and revisions.
In: the MS described under HrE 1.
This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 130.
For a Dyal (‘Discurrens dubiae placidus compendia vitae’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 89.
HrE 32
Autograph, with one alteration, dated 12 September 1612, written on the rear endpaper of Herbert's printed exemplum of Antonio de Herrera, Tercera parte de la historia general del mundo (Madrid, 1612), a folio, in calf. w 1612.
Sotheby's, 20 March 1967 (Powis Castle Sale), lot 176. Dawson's sale catalogue No. 208 (1970), item 108, sold to Deighton Bell. Purchased in 1991 from Quaritch.
Facsimile of this MS in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 20 March 1967.
The Green-Sickness Beauty (‘From thy pale look, while angry Love doth seem’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 68-9.
*HrE 33
Copy of a seven-stanza version, with an autograph correction.
In: the MS described under HrE 1.
First pub in Occasional Verses (1665); Moore Smith, pp. 68-9. This MS collated and the last two stanzas printed in Moore Smith, pp. 134-5.
The Green-Sickness Beauty (‘Though the pale white within your cheeks compos'd’)
First published in Le Prince d'Amour (London, 1660). Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 67-8.
*HrE 34
Copy, with an autograph alteration.
In: the MS described under HrE 1.
This MS collated and the last two stanzas edited in Moore Smith, pp. 134-5.
Haered. ac nepot. suis praecepta & consilia (‘Si tibi chara Dei sunt Jussa, & Jussa Parentis’)
First published subjoined to De causis errorum (London, 1645). Moore Smith, pp. 106-18.
*HrE 35
Copy of an early 110-line version, in the neat italic hand of an amanuensis, with Herbert's autograph revisions, subscribed Eduardus Baro Herbert de Cherbury...Anno. Dni 1642, on all four pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, imperfect. 1642.
This MS discussed in Rossi, III, 391-2.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E3/1.
The Idea, Made of Alnwick in his Expedition to Scotland with the Army, 1639 (‘All Beauties vulgar eyes on earth do see’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 75-9.
HrE 36
Fair copy of an early 84-line version, in a predominantly italic hand, on both sides of a single folio leaf. c.1639.
Found in the vicarage of Chirbury and given to Lord Powis by the Rev. John Bard.
This MS discussed in Frank J. Warnke, ‘Two Previously Unnoted MSS. of Poems by Lord Herbert of Cherbury’, N&Q, 199 (April 1954), 141-2.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E3/4.
Imilce pleads that her son may not be sacrificed (‘What is this with blood to stain’)
Moore Smith, p. 99.
This translation of Silius Italicus's lines appears in A Dialogue between a Tutor and his Pupil, first published in 1768: see HrE 113.2-113.8.
In Answer to the Verses of Guit for the Pucelle d'Orleans, quasi extempore (‘Quod nequiere viri, potuit si fæmina, quid ni’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 89-90.
HrE 36.5
Copy of the elegiac distich, headed ‘Anglus’, and six elegiac couplets headed ‘Respons. Gallo supradicto qui Joanna[m] Aurelian[am] Virginem et plenam Deo fuisse contendit’ and beginning ‘Define, Galle, tuam tandem jactare Bubulcam’.
These verses follow in the MS a text of François Duiet's epigram in praise of Joan of Arc to which they are a response.
In: A folio composite volume of letters sent to William Camden by numerous correspondents, with some of his replies, 394 leaves (plus a later table of contents), in modern crushed morocco gilt.
Kissing (‘Come hither Womankind, and all their worth’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 30-1.
HrE 37
Copy of a version headed ‘More deiuersity of kissing’ and beginning at line 5 (here ‘The sweetly melting kisse that doth consume’).
In: the MS described under HrE 27. c.1630.
An Ode upon a Question moved, Whether Love should continue for ever? (‘Having interr'd her Infant-birth’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 61-6.
*HrE 38
Copy of a 38-stanza version, with several autograph corrections and revisions.
In: the MS described under HrE 1.
This MS collated and the last three stanzas printed in Moore Smith, pp. 133-4, with a facsimile of f. 13 after p. xxiv.
HrE 38.5
Copy, headed ‘The L. Herbert’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single non-professional mixed hand, written from both ends, 90 leaves, in vellum (lacking spine). c.1630s.
Among papers of the Clitherow family of London, which included Sir Christopher Clitherow (1578-1642), Lord Mayor of London in 1635. Bookplate of James Clitherow Esq. of Boston House, Middlesex: i.e. either Christopher's son, James Clitherow (1618-82), merchant and banker, who purchased Boston Manor, in the parish of Hanwell, in 1670, or James Clitherow (1694-1752).
London Metropolitan Archives, ACC/1360/528, ff. [34v-7r rev.].
Sonnet (‘Innumerable Beauties, thou white haire’)
First published in Moore Smith (1923), p. 97.
Sonnet (‘You well compacted Groves, whose light & shade’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 54.
*HrE 40
Copy, with an autograph revision, headed ‘Sonnet’, with Herbert's autograph addition ‘at Merlou 1620 in France’.
In: the MS described under HrE 1.
This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 132.
Sonnet of Black Beauty (‘Black beauty, which above that common light’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 38.
HrE 41
Copy in: the MS described under HrE 1.
Printed from this MS in Norman Ault, Seventeenth Century Lyrics, 2nd edition (New York, 1950), p. 3; collated in Moore Smith, p. 130.
‘Tears, flow no more, or if you needs must flow’
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 26.
*HrE 42
Copy, with an autograph revision, headed by Herbert ‘Ditty’.
In: the MS described under HrE 1.
This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 128.
HrE 43
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio verse miscellany, including 15 poems by Donne, f. 162r-v in a rounded italic hand, ff. 164r-74v in a slightly erratic italic hand, ff. 175r-279v in a neat formal italic hand (also responsible for the index on ff. 2r-11v), this miscellany constituting ff. 162r-279v of a single folio volume containing also Part I (DnJ Δ 15), ii + 279 leaves in all (lacking one or more leaves at the end), in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked). c.1630s.
Formerly MS G. 2.21.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dublin MS (II): DnJ Δ 61.
Formerly MS G. 2. 21, p. 357; this MS collated in Smith, p. 128.
HrE 44
Copy in: A folio miscellany of some 133 poems, including 55 poems by Henry King and nineteen by Thomas Carew, 247 pages. In the hands of two amanuenses associated with King: i.e. Scribe A (c.1636), pp. 1-214, that of Thomas Manne's ‘imitator’ using two styles (a: pp. 1-62, 64-6, 133-4, 147-215; and b, the earlier: pp. 63, 67-132, 135-45); and Scribe B (c.1641): pp. 217-47, that of the scribe responsible for the Phillipps MS (Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8471). c.1636-41.
The flyleaf inscribed ‘Ex dono Eugenii Stoughton Die Octobrii 23 Anno-1738-Domini’: i.e. owned before 1738 by the Stoughton family, of St John's House, Warwick.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Stoughton MS’: CwT Δ 36 and KiH Δ 6. A complete photocopy deposited by Mary Hobbs in the Bodleian (MS Facs. d. 157). Edited in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (An Early Seventeenth-Century Poetry Collection in Private Hands connected with Henry King and Oxford) seen in relation to other contemporary Poetry and Song Collections (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973). Also discussed in Mary Hobbs, ‘The Poems of Henry King: Another Authoritative Manuscript’, The Library, 5th Ser. 31 (1976), 127-35. Recorded in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King, D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96. A complete facsimile edition in The Stoughton Manuscript, ed. Mary Hobbs (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1990).
The Thought (‘If you do love, as well as I’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 43-4.
HrE 46
Copy 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 John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth Century Lyrics’, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209, (p. 168).
HrE 47
Copy in: A folio composite volume of separate MSS of verse and some prose, in various secretary and italic hands, written over an extended period, with a table of contents (f. 3r-v), 186 leaves. Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the ‘Edward Smyth MS’ (DnJ Δ 45); also 15 poems (and second copies of two) by Henry King; and 19 poems (and two of doubtful authorship) by Carew. c.1620-50.
Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.
This MS is the ‘curious folio volume’ lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by ‘the late Lord Harborough’ and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his History of Leicestershire, 4 vols (1795-1815), III, part i (1800), 367.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Skipwith MS’: DnJ Δ 21; CwT Δ 14; KiH Δ 8. Also described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp. 119-29 (see KiH Δ 6). For Sir William Skipwith and his literary connections, see James Knowles, ‘Marston, Skipwith and The Entertainment at Ashby’, EMS, 3 (1992), 137-92 (esp.pp. 171-2).
This MS collated in Smith, p. 131.
HrE 48
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands, including eight poems by Randolph (one twice), 102 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Fols 1r-93v, 95r-100v in the hand of Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London (whose name is inscribed on a flyleaf: f. 1*); f. 94r-v in an unidentified hand, and ff. 101v-2r in that of Peter Calfe's son, Peter Calfe the Younger (d.1693). c.1650-9.
Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Janu. 6. 1738/9’.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6917 with which it was once bound, as the ‘Calfe MS’: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4.
This MS collated in Smith, p. 131.
HrE 49
Copy in: A folio verse miscellany, in a single probably professional rounded hand (except for a poem on f. 81r and later scribbling); ii + 81 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to HeR Δ 2 and to RnT Δ 1. c. late 1630s.
Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) ‘Anthony St John/ Ann: St John/ 1640 Bletso’: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) ‘Oliver Beeesfor[d]’; and (f. 81v) ‘John Watts’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘St John MS’: HeR Δ 4 and RnT Δ 8. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 72).
HrE 50
Copy 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).
HrE 51
Copy, subscribed ‘finis Ro: Herrick’.
In: A quarto miscellany of epitaphs and poems, in several hands, the main collection of verse (ff. 46-147) in a single hand and including 54 poems by Donne (all subscribed ‘J. D.’) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index). c.1630s.
Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Grey MS’: DnJ Δ 60 and HeR Δ 6. Facsimile of p. 119r (HeR 355) in L.F. Casson, ‘The Manuscripts of the Grey Collection in Cape Town’, The Book Collector, 10 (Spring 1961), 147-55 (facing p. 153).
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, pp. 134-5.
To a Lady who did sing excellently (‘When our rude & unfashion'd words, that long’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 44-5.
To her Body (‘Regardful Presence! whose fix'd Majesty’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp 5-6.
To her Eyes (‘Black eyes if you seem dark’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 35-6.
*HrE 54
Copy, with three autograph corrections.
In: the MS described under HrE 1.
This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 129.
To her Face (‘Fatal Aspect! that hast an Influence’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 5.
To her Hair (‘Black beamy hairs, which so seem to arise’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 37-8.
*HrE 57
Copy, with eight autograph corrections and revisions.
In: the MS described under HrE 1.
This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 130.
To her Mind.l (‘Exalted Mind! whose Character doth bear’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 6.
HrE 58
Copy, here beginning ‘Exalted minde, that guid'st thee beautious spheare’.
In: the MS described under HrE 3. c.1620s-33.
This MS collated in Smith, p. 126.
To his Friend Ben. Johnson, of his Horace made English (‘'Twas not enough, Ben Johnson, to be thought’)
First published in Ben Jonson, Horace: his Art of Poetry (London, 1640). Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 19-20.
HrE 60
Copy in: A small duodecimo pocket-book volume (c.12 x 7cm) of poems by Ben Jonson, in a single small secretary hand, written from both ends, 28 leaves, in old brown calf. Transcribed principally by one ‘S. H.’ (born 20 October 1665) from John Benson's duodecimo edition of Horace: his Art of Poetry (London, 1640), the medicinal receipts on ff. 23v-8v partly in another hand. c.1680.
To his Mistress for her true Picture (‘Death, my lifes Mistress, and the soveraign Queen’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 48-53.
*HrE 61
Copy, with at least twelve autograph corrections and revisions, headed ‘To my Mtris &c’.
In: the MS described under HrE 1.
This MS collated in Moore Smith, pp. 131-2.
To Mrs. Diana Cecyll (‘Diana Cecyll, that rare beauty thou dost show’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 34-5.
*HrE 62
Copy, with two autograph revisions.
In: the MS described under HrE 1.
This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 129.
HrE 63
Copy, untitled.
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).
This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.
HrE 64
Copy, headed ‘To Lady Diana Cecill’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in two or more cursive hands, written from both ends, iv + 278 pages, in contemporary calf. Compiled principally by one ‘H. S.’, a Cambridge University man. c.1640s-60s.
This MS volume edited in D.J. Rose, MS Rawlinson Poetical 147: An Annotated Volume of Seventeenth-Century Cambridge Verses (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leicester, 1992), of which a copy is in Cambridge University Library, Manuscript Department, A8f.
This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.
HrE 65
Copy, the first two words centred as a heading, transcribed from HrE 66.
In: the MS described under HrE 14. c.1620s-30s.
This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.
HrE 66
Copy, the first two words centred as a heading.
In: the MS described under HrE 15. c.1620s.
This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.
HrE 67
Copy, omitting the first two words.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in a single secretary hand, written from both ends, 179 leaves, in 19th-century half blue morocco gilt. c.1640s.
Inscribed (f. 179r) ‘This is Sr. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book’: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.
This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.
HrE 68
Copy, in an uneven italic hand, untitled, subscribed ‘Sr Ed: Harbert’.
In: the MS described under HrE 16. c.1620s-30s.
This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.
HrE 69
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘By Sr. Ed: Harbert’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt. c.1640.
Formerly MS 2073.3.
HrE 70
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Sr Edward Harbert’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, with later accounts on the last page dated June 1658, 1* + 238 pages (including stubs of extracted pages 191-6, plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked). Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph. c.1630s-40s.
Inscribed ‘Jane Wheeler’ and ‘Tho: Oliver Busfield’. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) ‘To ye two partners of my heart Mr John Wheeler, and Mr Symon Tue’. Item 96 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 2071.6.
A ‘Jo. Wheeler’ signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Wheeler MS’: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.
HrE 71
Copy, untitled and omitting the first two words, subscribed ‘by Sr Edward Herbert’.
In: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written over a period, 80 leaves (plus 67 blanks and stubs of numerous extracted leaves), in contemporary vellum gilt. Compiled by or for Sir Henry Cholmley, brother of Sir Hugh Cholmley (1600-57), the ascription ‘by my brother Sr Hugh Cholmley’ (1600-57) inserted on f. 19r in a cursive hand responsible for entries on ff. 3r-12v, 15v-29r, 41r-v, 75v-7r, the contents including twelve poems by Thomas Carew and poems by members of the circle of Lucius Cary (1610?-43), second Viscount Falkland, of Great Tew, Oxfordshire, by the St Leger family of Ulcombe, Kent, and by Sir William Twysden of Kent. c.1624-41.
Later bookplate of Henry B. Humphrey.
Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Cholmley MS’: CwT Δ 27.
HrE 72
Copy, untitled and omitting the first two words in the first line, in double columns.
In: A folio verse miscellany, 206 pages (plus blanks), rebound in 1832 (by Charles Lewis) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part II). Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled ‘L.C.’ [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637. c.1637.
Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names ‘Edw Denny’ [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], ‘Charles Cocks’, ‘Edward Randolphe’ and (on p. 162) ‘Thomas Cassy’. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Haslewood Kingsborough MS (I)’: DnJ Δ 25, CwT Δ 28, CoR Δ 10, and HeR Δ 5. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Discussed in C.M. Armitage, ‘Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on “The Funerall”’, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707. A facsimile of part of p. 63 in Marcy L. North, ‘Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 101).
HrE 73
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Lord Herbert’.
In: the MS described under HrE 43. c.1630s.
Formerly MS G. 2. 21, p. 307, this MS collated in Smith, p. 129.
HrE 73.5
Copy, headed ‘My Lord Herbert of my Lady of Oxford’, here beginning ‘That rare beauty thou dost show’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, comprising 162 poems in English, in a single hand, 273 pages, in brown morocco gilt. c.late 1640s.
Formerly (before 1686) in the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. Possibly acquired by Charles Louis (1617-80), Elector Palatine, while at the English court of his uncle, Charles I, from 1635 to 1649.
This volume discovered, and announced in the TLS, 23 July 2010, pp. 14-15, by June Schleuter and Paul Schleuter.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 260-1.
To one Blacke, and not very Hansome, who expected comendation (‘What though your eyes bee starres, your haire, bee night’)
First published in Moore Smith (1923), pp. 97-8.
To the C. of D. (‘Since in your face, as in a beauteous sphere’)
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 55.
(2) Poems of Uncertain Authorship
Inconstancy (‘Inconstancy's the greatest of synns’)
First published in Moore Smith (1923), p. 119.
HrE 77
Copy, untitled and ascribed to ‘Sir Edw: Harbert’.
In: the MS described under HrE 3. c.1620s-33.
Edited from this MS in Moore Smith.
HrE 78
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under HrE 23. c.1620-33.
Printed from this MS in Frank J. Warnke, ‘Two Previously Unnoted MSS. of Poems by Lord Herbert of Cherbury’, N&Q, 199 (April 1954), 141-2.
HrE 78.5
Copy, the first stanza headed ‘Of Inconstancy’, the second headed ‘The Aunswere, in praise of itt’.
In: A small quarto verse anthology, in a single minute hand (but for p. 206), arranged under genre headings (‘Epitaphs’, ‘Satyricall’, ‘Love Sonnets’, etc.), probably associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 382 pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the ‘Thomas Smyth MS’ (DnJ Δ 48). c.1630s.
Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Welbeck MS’: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, ‘A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others’, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).
Ode: Of our Sense of Sinne (‘Vengeance will sit above our faults. but till’)
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (Oxford, 1912), I, 350. Moore Smith, pp. 119-20.
HrE 79
Copy, untitled and here ascribed to ‘JD’.
In: the MS described under HrE 21. 1623.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.
HrE 80
Copy, ascribed to ‘Sr Edw. Herbert’.
In: the MS described under HrE 3. c.1620s-33.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.
HrE 81
Copy in: the MS described under HrE 23. c.1620-33.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.
HrE 82
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637. Including 91 poems and some prose works by John Donne and fourteen poems by Thomas Carew. c.1637.
Among the collections of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (1776-1839), first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham, largely derived from the collection of the antiquary Thomas Astle (1735-1803), which in turn chiefly derived from Astle's father-in-law, the Essex historian Philip Morant (1700-70) (see DnJ Δ 15). Later owned by Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as ‘Stowe MS II’: DnJ Δ 44 and ‘Stowe MS’: CwT Δ 22.
This MS collated in Smith, p. 139.
HrE 83
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’
In: A folio volume of 69 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others, in a single neat hand, 99 pages, in contemporary limp vellum. c.1620s-33.
Inscribed inside the rear cover ‘J. D. Dune Rainsford …Chiltearns’ probably by a member of the family of Sir Henry Goodyer's brother-in-law Sir Henry Rainsford (1575-1622), of Clifford Chambers, Stratford-upon-Avon. Later owned by J. Carnaby. Puttick and Simpson's, 25 November 1886, lot 334. Then owned by the Rev. T.R. O'Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector, and by Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), American professor and art historian. Formerly MS Nor 4502.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Carnaby MS’: DnJ Δ 22. Briefly discussed in C.E. Norton, ‘The Text of Donne's Poems’, [Harvard] Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, 5 (1896), 1-22 (pp. 10-11).
This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.
HrE 84
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio volume of 119 poems by Donne, plus some prose works by him, in a single neat secretary hand, each poem usually ending with a trefoil or triangular group of trefoils, 536 pages, in modern calf elaborately gilt. c.1623-30s.
Like Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 5778 (DnJ Δ 4) and University of Nottingham, Pw V 37 (DnJ Δ 57), this volume was extensively used as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire. Sotheby's 10-12 June 1914, lot 1095. Then owned until 1932 by Percy J. Dobell (1871-1956), bookseller. Formerly MS Nor 4506.
Recorded in IELM as the ‘Dobell MS’: DnJ Δ 16. Discussed, with a facsimile of f. 194r (see DnJ 2104) by Mabel Potter in ‘A Seventeenth-Century Literary Critic of John Donne: The Dobell Manuscript Re-examined’, HLB, 22 (1975), 63-89, and in ‘A Letter of Tom Browne’, N&Q, ? (October 1973), 393. A facsimile of the last page (see DnJ 4011) is in Potter & Simpson, X, 428-30. The extensive MS and typescript papers on this MS by George Reuben Potter and Mabel H. Potter, donated by George R. Potter in 1962, are Harvard, MS Eng 966.4.1.
HrE 85
Copy, headed ‘Ode’.
In: A quarto volume of 169 poems by Donne, plus some prose works by him, together with a few poems by others, almost entirely in a single hand, with a table of contents, viiii + ‘440’ pages (plus blanks, the pagination jumping from 156 to 161 and from 339 to 400), with an alphabetical first-line index (pp. [iii-vi]), in modern calf. Mainly transcribed from Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8468 (the ‘Luttrell MS’: DnJ Δ 18), with a title-page (p. i) inscribed ‘The Poems of D.J. Donne (not yet imprinted)...finished this 12 of October 1632’. It bears corrections in two hands (one possibly the original scribe) made from the 1633 edition of Donne's Poems, many of the poems headed ‘P.’ (signifying ‘Printed’), with some annotated in red ink ‘Not Printed’. The largest known MS collection of Donne's poems and apparently used in the preparation of the second edition of the Poems (1635). [1635].
According to the compiler of the partial transcript of this MS (Harvard MS Eng 966.2), the O'Flahertie MS belonged to ‘the late Dr Parnel, Arch Deacon of Clogher’: i.e. Thomas Parnell (1679-1718), poet and essayist, ‘and after his decease to Mr. Thos: Burton of Dublin, and [was] obtained from him by the Editor.’ Sold at Puttick & Simpson's, 28 April 1856 (Francis Moore sale), lot 975. Later owned by the Rev. T.R. O'Flahertie (fl.1861-94), vicar of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector. Sotheby's, 25-27 July 1899, lot 384, to Ellis. Described in Ellis and Elvey's sale catalogue No. 93 (November 1899), the relevant pages of which are inserted in the MS. Formerly MS Nor 4504.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the ‘O'Flahertie MS’: DnJ Δ 17.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.
HrE 86
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto volume of 84 poems by Donne, plus some prose works by him, together with a few poems by others, in a single secretary hand, 343 pages, in later half purple morocco marbled boards, dated at the end (p. 343) ‘19th, Julij 1620’. 1620.
Bookplate of Thomas Stephens of the Inner Temple (perhaps the Thomas Stephens who was at the Inner Temple in 1717 or else his son, Thomas, who was there in 1725). Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89), book collector; and purchased from Bernard Quaritch in 1896 by Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), American professor and art historian. Formerly MS Nor 4500.
Cited in IELM, I.i, as the ‘Stephens MS’: DnJ Δ 23. Used extensively in The Complete Poems of John Donne, D.D., ed. Alexander B. Grosart, 2 vols (privately printed, 1872-3). Briefly discussed in C. E. Norton, ‘The Text of Donne's Poems’, [Harvard] Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, 5 (1896), 1-22 (pp. 6-10).
This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.
HrE 87
Copy, untitled, ascribed at the top to ‘J D.’
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).
HrE 88
Copy, untitled.
In: A small quarto volume of 123 poems by Donne plus some of his Paradoxes, Problems and characters, together with some poems by others, 185 leaves (including blanks on ff. 141r-61v) plus nine further blanks on ff. 185v-94v, inscribed ‘L: ll: N: 6./6’ on f. 1r and ‘Dr: Donne’ within a gilt grid on f. 3r, in contemporary vellum with initials ‘F B’ [Frances Bridgewater] in gilt and a smudged watercolour central lozenge on the upper cover. In a single, neat, predominantly roman hand (but for entries on ff. 105v-15r in a less neat cursive hand), and with various corrections or emendations throughout possibly in another hand. c.1622-32.
Once owned by Frances (née Stanley) Egerton (1583-1636), Countess of Bridgewater, and her husband John Egerton (1579-1649), first Earl of Bridgewater. Listed in ‘A Catalogue of my Ladies Bookes at London Taken October .27th 1627’ (Huntington, EL 6495) as No. 3, ‘The Lamentaons of Jeremy in verse by Dr Donne, 8o’, among ‘Paper Bookes of diverse volumes’ after the date 26 April 1631 and before a new list in a different hand under the date 17 April 1632.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Bridgewater MS’: DnJ Δ 24.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.
HrE 89
Copy, untitled and here ascribed to ‘J[ohn] D[onne]’.
In: the MS described under HrE 4. c.1620-33.
HrE 90
Copy, headed ‘Ode’, subscribed ‘J. D.’
In: MS verse, in an italic hand, written in a printed exemplum of Donne's Deaths Dvell (London, 1633), in modern half-leather. c.1633-40.
In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.
To a Lady that desired I would love her (‘Now you have freely given me leave to love’)
Moore Smith, pp. 122-3.
See CwT 1021-1022.
Prose
Address to the King on the Present Estate of the Kingdom and Foreign Affairs
A memorial beginning ‘My most gratious Soveraine. It is observd amonge Statesmen that wise Princes have ever receivd their Counsailors advises in forraine affaires...’. First published, in a condensed form, in W.J. Moore Smith, Herbert Correspondence (Cardiff, 1963), pp. 86-8.
*HrE 92
Autograph fair copy, with alterations, on three leaves, dated 10 April 1635. 1635.
Edited from this MS in Smith. Discussed in Rossi, II, 475-85, and III, 542.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/4/16.
Advice to the King during the War with Spain
Unpublished.
*HrE 93
Autograph draft, with copious revisions, of a memorial to the King, 1624.
In: the MS described under HrE 8. c.1625.
This MS discussed in Rossi, II, 407-16, and III, 542.
Autobiography
First published at Strawberry Hill, 1764, ed. Horace Walpole. Edited in The Life of Edward, First Lord Herbert of Cherbury written by himself, ed. J.M. Shuttleworth (London, 1976).
The various MSS also discussed in N.W. Bawcutt, ‘The Manuscripts of Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Autobiography’, The Library, 6th Ser. 12, No. 2 (June 1990), 133-6.
HrE 94
A folio draft, principally in the hand of Herbert's secretary Rowland Evans, with corrections and revisions, a few probably in Herbert's hand, untitled, imperfect, comprising only pages 13-28, 33-72, 85-100, 105-20, 137-44, in modern blue half-morocco. c.1643.
Edited from this MS and discussed (as ‘AuE’) in Shuttleworth, with a facsimile of p. 58 facing p. 4. Discussed (as ‘Draft A’) in R.I. Aaron, ‘The “Autobiography” of Edward, First Lord Herbert of Cherbury: The Original Manuscript Material’, MLR, 36 (1941), 184-94, with a facsimile of p. 59 facing p. 161; and (as MS ‘E’) in Rossi, III, 508-20. Also discussed in N. W. Bawcutt, ‘The Manuscripts of Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Autobiography’, The Library, 6th Ser. 12 (1990), 133-6.
Other facsimile examples in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 174, and in DLB, vol. 252, British Philosophers 1500-1799, ed. Philip B. Damatteis and Peter S. Fosl (Detroit, 2002), p. 180.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E1/1.
HrE 95
Copy of the complete work, in the neat italic hand of an amanuensis, transcribed from a lost intermediate MS (‘AuX’), with alterations in three other hands, including that of Horace Walpole, with his title-page (f. ivr) ‘The Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury written by Himself’, iv + 177 folio pages, in contemporary calf. c.1700.
A copy probably made for the Herbert family and left at Stokes Manor, Buckinghamshire, which was sold in 1713 by Henry Herbert to James Howe, whose son John sent the MS c.1737 to the Earl of Powis.
The copy-text for Horace Walpole's edition (1764). The text corrected from this MS in Shuttleworth and discussed (as ‘AuW’) pp. xx-xxi. Discussed (as ‘Draft B’) in Aaron, and (as MS ‘W’) in Rossi, III, 508-20. Also discussed in N.W. Bawcutt, ‘The Manuscripts of Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Autobiography’, The Library, 6th Ser. 12 (1990), 133-6.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E1/2.
HrE 95.3
MS. 17th century?
A ‘lost’ MS of the Autobiography once in a trunk in the Herbert family house at Ribbesford, near Bewdley, Worcestershire, until c.1818.
Evidence for this MS discussed in N.W. Bawcutt, ‘The Manuscripts of Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Autobiography’, The Library, 6th Ser. 12 (1990), 133-6.
HrE 95.5
Extracts made by Birch on 7 February 1755 from a transcript of Herbert's autograph (?) made in 1718 (? HrE 95).
In: A large quarto composite volume of transcripts of letters by John Chamberlain, 592 leaves. Almost entirely in the hand of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian. Mid-18th century.
De causis errorum
First published in the 3rd edition of De veritate (London, 1645). Facsimile of this edition introduced by Günter Gawlick (Stuttgart, 1966).
*HrE 96
Autograph, with deletions and revisions, on both sides of a folio leaf, part of the first draft.
This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/5.
*HrE 97
A portion of the autograph first draft, 46 folio pages, irregularly numbered from 104 to 128, now united with HrE 131.
This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/9.
*HrE 98
Autograph portion of the second draft, with deletions and revisions, headed at the side ‘Rectu Judex sui et obliqui’, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1645.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/3.
*HrE 99
Part of the autograph second draft of the work, with copious deletions and revisions, iii + 46 folio leaves, unbound.
This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/6.
*HrE 100
Part of the autograph third draft of the work, with copious deletions and revisions, 43 folio leaves (plus blanks), chiefly on rectos only, unbound. c.1643.
This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/1.
*HrE 101
Part of the autograph third draft of the work, with copious deletions and revisions, 35 folio leaves, foliated 41-65 (plus eleven blanks), on rectos only, unbound. c.1645.
This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/8.
*HrE 102
A portion of a fair copy of the work, in the italic hand of an amanuensis, with Herbert's autograph corrections and revisions, 34 folio leaves, on rectos only, unbound.
Inscribed (f. ir) by the third Baron Herbert of Cherbury ‘De Causis Erroru manuscripts of my Grand fathers giuen me by Mr Edw: Griffith of Sutten June. 29. 1680 wherof I have not yet taken a Catalogue’
This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/4.
*HrE 103
Copy of part of the work, with autograph revisions, on pages numbered 42-59.
Formerly Powis MSS (1959 deposit), Series II, Bundle XIX, No. 5c.
This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/2.
*HrE 104
Fair copy of the complete work, chiefly in the italic hands of amanuenses, partly autograph and with Herbert's copious deletions and revisions, 143 folio leaves. on rectos only, unbound. 1640.
This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/7.
De religione Gentilium
First published in Amsterdam, 1663.
*HrE 105
Autograph draft of the table of contents and part of Chapter I, with deletions and revisions, on five folio leaves. c.1642-4.
This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 560.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/3/2.
HrE 105.5
Copy of a list of chapters, in an italic hand, subscribed in another hand ‘De Religione Gentilu Erroruq apud eos Caussis Authore Edoardo Barone Herbert &c.’, on one page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/4/3.
*HrE 106
Draft of Chapters II-X, chiefly autograph, partly in the hand of an amanuensis, with copious autograph deletions and revisions, 126 folio leaves, chiefly on rectos only, unbound. c.1642-4.
This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 506.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/3/1.
*HrE 107
A large portion of an autograph draft, comprising ‘Pars secunda’ and ‘Pars tertia’, with copious deletions and revisions, 241 folio leaves, chiefly rectos only, foliated 126-271, 271bis-342, + 5 unfoliated, + ff. 1-18 (plus blanks), unbound. c.1642-4.
This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 506.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/3/3.
*HrE 108
Portion of an original draft, comprising text in the predominantly italic hand of an amanuensis, with Herbert's autograph corrections and revisions in black ink, on four pages (rectos only of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves). c.1642-4.
This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 506.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/3/6.
*HrE 109
Copy of almost the complete work, in the italic hands of two amanuenses, with some autograph corrections or revisions by Herbert (notably on f. [13r], on 21 folio leaves (largely rectos only, plus blanks), unbound. c.1641-4.
This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 507.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/3/4.
De religione laici
See HrE 130-135.
De veritate
First published in Paris, 1624. Translated by Meyrick H. Carré (Bristol, 1937). Facsimile of the London edition of 1645 introduced by Günter Gawlick (Stuttgart, 1966).
*HrE 110
Autograph early draft, with copious deletions and revisions, untitled, subscribed ‘20 Julij 1619 EHerbert’, on 126 folio leaves, in old calf gilt. 1619.
This MS discussed in Rossi, III, 412-16, and in Gawlick, pp. xi-xii. For an account of its history see H.F.J. Vaughan, ‘Lord Herbert of Chirbury's MSS.’, Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society, 1st Ser. 3 (1880), 353-77.
*HrE 111
Copy, with autograph revisions, 232 folio leaves, imperfect, the dedication dated 15 December 1622. [1622-3].
This MS discussed in Rossi, III, 416-17, and in Gawlick, pp. xii-xiii. Facsimile of two pages in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate XLIX (a-b).
*HrE 112
Autograph draft, with copious autograph revisions, ff. 283r-6r in the hand of an amanuensis, 327 folio leaves, written on rectos only, bound in two volumes, in contemporary vellum. Inscribed at the beginning of the second volume (f. [iv]) ‘Authore Ed. Herbert...1619’ and at the end (f. 327r) ‘Parisji consum. 20/30 Juni. 1623’. c.1619-23.
Later owned by Thomas Wagstaffe (1645-1712), nonjuror bishop, and by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary.
These MSS discussed in Rossi, III, 417, and in Gawlick, p. xiii.
HrE 113
Autograph draft, headed ‘A designe for a perpetuall entertainment of about 15000 Foote and 3000 Horse for his Maties service’. 14 February [1624/5].
In: the MS described under HrE 8. c.1625.
Edited from this MS in Rossi, III, 484-6.
A Dialogue between a Tutor and his Pupil
First published and attributed to Herbert in an edition by Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill, 1768).
Commonly rejected from the canon, but see arguments for possible authorial involvement of Herbert (as well as Charles Blount) in Julia Griffin, ‘Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury's A Dialogue between a Tutor and his Pupil: Some New Questions’, EMS, 7 (1998), 162-201, where the various MS texts are discussed.
HrE 113.2
Copy, chiefly in a mixed hand, partly in a second hand, ii + 293 folio leaves. The two main hands also in HrE 113.2. Mid-17th century.
Griffin's ‘B’ text. Facsimile of the first page in Griffin, p. 172.
HrE 113.4
Copy, largely in one mixed hand, partly in two other hands, with a few pejorative annotations by a contemporary reader, 239 folio leaves, on rectos only, in old black morocco (rebacked). The two main hands also in HrE 113.2. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed ‘Anglesey his booke’ and ‘Let this book be restored to the owner. Edm. Rassingham’.
Griffin's ‘R’ text. Facsimile of the first page (the caption misprinted as ‘MS B’) in Griffin, p. 170.
HrE 113.5
Copy, in two hands, untitled, i + 60 folio leaves, imperfect, lacking the first few leaves, in modern half morocco. Early-mid-18th century.
Inscribed (f. ir) ‘Pembroke’: i.e. Henry Herbert (c.1689-1750), ninth Earl of Pembroke, architect and patron.
Griffin's ‘P’ text.
HrE 113.6
Copy, in a single neat rounded hand, with corrections and underlining in black ink apparently in another hand, ff. 84v-91v in another, mixed hand, headed ‘A Dialogue / Tutor. Pupil,’ 91 leaves, in half black morocco. Mid-late 17th century.
Acquired from R. E. Lonsdale, 10 April 1875.
Griffin's ‘A’ text.
HrE 113.8
Portions of a draft of the work, in two or three mixed hands, with corrections or emendations in another hand, untitled but endorsed ‘Dialogue / Master & Pupill’, twelve folio leaves, foliated or paginated 15, 16, 29, 30, 9-12, 15-18, 230-1, 55, in modern brown morocco gilt. Mid-17th century.
Among papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle, including particularly papers of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582?-1648). Acquired in 1916.
Griffin's ‘W’ text. Facsimiles of pp. 11 and 55 of the MS are in Griffin, pp. 181-2.
Expeditio in Ream Insulam
See HrE 114-120.
The Expedition to the Isle of Rhé
Latin version (Expeditio in Ream Insulam) first published in London, 1656, edited by Timothy Baldwin. English version first published by the Philobiblon Society in London, 1860, edited by Lord Powis.
*HrE 114
Autograph fair copy of the complete English version, with the dedicatory epistle to the King but without the preface, with some alterations and underlinings in another hand, the MS prepared by Herbert for presentation to Charles I, 268 folio pages, in olive green calf elaborately gilt. c.1630.
This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 486-7.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/2/6.
*HrE 115
Copy of Chapters III-VIII of the English version, in the predominantly secretary hand of an amanuensis, with corrections and revisions probably in Herbert's hand, 57 folio leaves, imperfect, some leaves gnawed by rodents, unbound. c.1630.
This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 486.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/2/3.
HrE 116
Fair copy of the beginning of Chapter I of the English version, in the neat italic hand of an amanuensis, headed ‘To the Corte’, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1630.
This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 487.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/2/1.
HrE 116.5
Historical documents used by Herbert when writing The Expedition to the Isle of Rhé. c.1630.
Formerly in Powis MSS (1959 deposit), Series II, Bundle XII, Nos. 3-6.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/3/8.
HrE 116.8
Historical documents used by Herbert when writing The Expedition to the Isle of Rhé.
Formerly in Powis MSS (1959 deposit), Series II, Bundle XII, Nos. 3-6.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/4/13-15.
*HrE 117
Autograph draft of the complete Latin version, with copious deletions and revisions, 122 leaves (including blanks) on rectos only, unbound. 1630/1.
This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 487.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/2/2.
*HrE 118
Autograph draft of the complete Latin version, with revisions, 169 folio pages, in vellum.
This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 487.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/2/7.
HrE 119
Copy of the complete Latin version, with a dedicatory epistle to the King dated 10 August 1630 and a preface ‘Ad Lectorem’, in a professional hand, 165 folio leaves, in dark blue calf gilt. c.1630.
Edited from this MS in Select Works (1849).
*HrE 119.2
A portion of an autograph draft of the Latin version, on three pages of two folio leaves.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/2/5.
HrE 119.5
Autograph draft by Sir John Coke of his critique of Herbert's treatise, addressed to ‘Your Lordship’ and endorsed ‘Memorial for the Lord Harbert Castl Isle’.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers. and correspondence, in various hands, 136 leaves. Volume XXXI of the papers of Sir John Coke (1563-1644), Secretary of State. 1629-30.
Recorded in HMC, 12th Report (Earl Cowper), I, 398.
HrE 119.8
Autograph fair copy by Sir John Coke of the final version of his critique of Herbert's treatise.
In: the MS described under HrE 119.5. 1629-30.
*HrE 120
Copy of the dedicatory epistle to Charles I, in English, dated 10 August 1630. Mid-late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 487.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/2/4.
The Life and Reign of King Henry VIII
First published in London, 1649. Published in London, 1880 (with Autobiography).
*HrE 121
Draft of the complete work, partly autograph, in 4 large folio volumes, 1090 + 388 leaves, the first dated 1634, the third 1638, each in contemporary calf (rebacked). Principally in the hands of three or four of Herbert's amanuenses, one of them Thomas Master (1602/3-43), poet, of New College, Oxford, who has written the dedicatory epistle; some pages are in Herbert's hand and with his frequent corrections and revisions; the last volume comprising a composite collection of related historical documents in various hands, including a number of pages written by Herbert, many of the documents transcribed by Thomas Master, and labelled ‘Collectorum liber secundus’. 1634-8.
Later inscriptions including ‘Hen. Topp. Jan. 10. 1652’ and ‘Maii 2, 1653, Jam tandem acquisita ab Tho. Earle, rectore de Shorncot, Wilts. ita nunc opus completum et perfectum hoc est (historiæ Henrici 8) in originali suo manuscripto a magistro Th. Master, Neo-Gymnasii Oxon.’
These MSS described in Rossi, III, 488-90.
*HrE 122
Copy in the hand of an accomplished amanuensis, with autograph corrections, deletions and insertions, comprising two large folio volumes bound together, xxii + 800 leaves, almost entirely on rectos only, in contemporary calf. Headed ‘The Life and Raigne of K. Henry the VIIIth. Together with which is brieflie represented a Generall Historie of the times’, and with a dedication to Charles I. c.1638.
This MS described in Rossi, III, 490.
*HrE 123
Copy, in an accomplished professional roman hand, xxvi + 966 folio pages, in dark blue calf elaborately gilt. 1638.
Prefixed (p. iii) by an autograph letter to John Rouse, Bodley's Librarian, 31 January 1643, presenting the volume to the Bodleian via Thomas Master.
This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490.
*HrE 124
Part of an autograph draft of the work, with copious revisions, on all eight pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves. c.1634-8.
This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/1/2.
HrE 125
Copy of part of the work, in a secretary hand, on 26 folio leaves (plus blanks). c.1634-8.
This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/1/1.
HrE 125.1
Quotations. c.1700.
In: A quarto volume of notes on kings of England, 186 leaves. 18th century.
Armorial bookplate of Russell Robartes, MP (d.1718), father of Henry (c.1695-1741), third Earl of Radnor.
HrE 125.2
Extracts. Early 18th century.
In: A folio composite volume of tracts and miscellaneous collections, in various hands, 383 leaves, in contemporary reversed calf.
Owned in 1730, and largely compiled as Vol III of his collections, by the Rev. John Lewis (1675-1747), of Margate. Owned in 1749 by Thomas Lewis. Acquired from Peter Thompson.
HrE 125.3
Extracts, headed ‘The History of H. 8t by my Ld cherbury’.
In: A folio commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts, in English and French, chiefly in a single cursive hand, with some pages in the hand of an amanuensis, written from both ends, i + 134 leaves, originally in contemporary calf (now detached), in modern half red morocco. Compiled by Sir Samuel Tuke, first Baronet (c.1615-74), royalist army officer and playwright, cousin and friend of John Evelyn. Inscribed by him (f. 134r rev.) ‘I began these Collections the 9th of July, 1662 / By Sr Samuel Tuke: Bart:’. c.1662-5.
Volume CCLVII 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 Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 164.
HrE 125.4
Extracts, headed ‘The Life of Henry ye 8th by ye Ld. Herbert of Cherbury’, those beginning on f. 84r under the general heading ‘Witty Sayinges’.
In: A folio volume of ‘Collections out of the Histories of England. 1670’, extracted from printed sources, in a single hand, 87 leaves, in mottled leather gilt. c.1670.
British Library, Sloane MS 273, ff. 18r-34r, 65v-9r, 84r-v, 85v-8r.
HrE 125.5
Extracts, including entries on pp. 52, 79, 185, 188, 201, 258, 308, 310, 488, 519, 618, and 623.
In: A folio commonplace book of entries arranged under subject headings, in a single hand, written from both ends, 652 pages (plus some unnumbered), in modern cloth. Mid-17th century.
A modern pencil note on a flyleaf claims to identify the compiler as one ‘Raworth’.
HrE 125.6
Extracts, headed ‘Hen: 8 written by Lo: Harbert’.
In: A duodecimo notebook of extracts from historical works, in a single cursive italic hand, 149 pages (plus 70 blanks), in contemporary calf. Mid-17th century.
Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 312.
HrE 125.7
Copy in: A quarto commonplace book, in a single mixed hand, 319 pages (including blanks, plus a few more), in brown calf. c.1620s-40s.
HrE 125.8
Extracts.
In: An octavo commonplace book relating to military history, in probably a single mixed hand, 230 pages (including many blanks), in contemporary brown calf. c.1630.
HrE 125.9
Extracts.
In: A folio volume chiefly of Acts of Parliament from 1483 to 1546, in a single rounded hand, 349 leaves, in brown morocco gilt. Compiled by William Petyt (1640/1-1707), lawyer and political propagandist. Late 17th century-1700s.
HrE 125.93
Extracts, headed ‘L. Cherbury's Hen, 8t’.
In: An octavo notebook of extracts, in a single small mixed hand, written from both ends, 165 leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled by one William Bright, entitled ‘ffragmenta hic omnigena è varijs excerpta authoribus ad priuatum existunt vsum WB ex anno 1644’. c.1644-76.
Inscribed also inside the lower cover ‘Will: Bright Novemb 12th pretiu 8d 1645’.
The Life of Edward, First Lord Herbert of Cherbury written by himself
See HrE 94-94.5.
The new Philosophy of Beauty
First published in Rossi (1947), III, 442-3.
*HrE 126
Autograph draft of the beginning of an unfinished treatise in English on aesthetics, on both sides of a a single quarto leaf. c.1630-48.
Edited from this MS in Rossi.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/6/3.
Of Knowledge and the Power cognitive in general
First published in Mario M. Rossi, ‘L'evoluzione del pensiero di Hobbes alla luce di un nuovo manuscritto’, Civilità Moderna, 13 (1941), 125-50, 217-46, 366-402. Reprinted in Rossi, Alle fonti del deismo e del materialismo moderno (Florence, 1942), pp. 104-19.
HrE 127
Copy of part of an English redaction, in twelve chapters, of an early version of Thomas Hobbes's De corpore (here Chapters VII, VIII, XI, XII), in a cursive italic hand, possibly that of Francis Herbert, with the sub-headings ‘1° De principiis cognitionis’| ‘2° De principiis actionis’, four tall folio leaves, in modern brown morocco gilt. c.1637-40.
Among papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle, including particularly papers of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582?-1648). Acquired in 1916.
Edited from this MS in Rossi's article and in Thomas Hobbes, Critique du De Mundo de Thomas White, ed. Jean Jacquot and Harold Whitmore Jones (Paris, 1973), Appendix II, pp. 448-60. Also discussed in R.I. Aaron, ‘A Possible Early Draft of Hobbes' De Corpore’, Mind, 54 (1945), 342-56, and in Arrigo Pacchi, Convenzione e ipotesi nella formazione della filosofia naturale di Thomas Hobbes (Florence, 1965), pp. 15-18, 42 et seq.
On the King's Supremacy in the Church
First published in Edward Herbert, De religione laici, ed. Harold R. Hutcheson (New Haven, 1944), pp. 183-6.
HrE 128
Copy, inscribed by someone on 14 May 1635 ‘shewed to his Grace the Arch Bpp of Canterbury by the Kings Command’. [1635].
Edited from this MS in Hutcheson and discussed in Rossi, II, 485-95, and III, 542.
HrE 129
Copy, the work dated 1635, indexed (No. 51) as ‘My Lord Herberts paper about ye Kings Supremacy showed to ye Arch Bp. of Canterbury by ye Kings Comand’.
In: A folio volume of state papers, 465 pages, with a later inserted list of contents (after p. 4), in contemporary vellum. Inscribed (p. 1) ‘Collected out of his Majesties papers of state, Anno 1677. by J Brydall’, being a series of transcripts in the cursive hand of John Brydall (c.1635-c.1705), lawyer and secretary to the Master of the Rolls. 1677.
The text corrected from this MS in Hutcheson. Recorded in Rossi, II, 493, and III, 542.
Opinion concerninge a designe in the Indies
Unpublished.
*HrE 129.5
Two autograph revised working drafts of a memorial, on fifteen folio pages. Addressed to the King [Charles I?], giving, at the monarch's request, his ‘opinion concerninge a designe in the Indies’, being Herbert's scheme to establish an English colony in northern Brazil. c.1630?
Quid laicus
See HrE 130-135.
Religio laici [in Latin]
First published, as De religione laici, with De causis errorum &c (London, 1645). Facsimile of this edition introduced by Günter Gawlick (Stuttgart, 1966). Edited and translated by Harold R. Hutcheson (New Haven, 1944).
*HrE 130
Autograph first draft, with copious deletions and revisions, headed ‘Appendix’, incomplete, on seven pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves, unbound. c.1643-4.
This MS described in Rossi, III, 504.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/4/4.
*HrE 131
Portion of the second autograph draft, headed ‘Appendix’, twelve folio leaves, in a paper wrapper, and ten additional unbound folio leaves of autograph drafts heavily revised; now united with HrE 97. c.1643-4.
This MS described in Rossi, III, 504.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/9.
*HrE 131.5
Autograph draft, with copious deletions and revisions, untitled, comprising the ‘Appendix ad Sacerdotes’ and ‘Quid Laicus’, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1643-8.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/4/5.
*HrE 132
A fair copy of the complete work, in the italic hand of an amanuensis, headed ‘Appendix’, on eight folio leaves, in a paper wrapper. c.1643-4.
This MS described in Rossi, III, 504-5.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/4/2.
*HrE 133
A portion of a fair copy, in the italic hand of an amanuensis, with Herbert's autograph corrections and revisions, on fourteen unbound folio leaves.
This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 505. title deleted
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/4/6.
*HrE 134
Autograph early draft of the Quid laicus, with revisions, entitled ‘Resp. J. G. petentis Quod Laicus de relligione optima statuerit’, on the rectos of seven unbound folio leaves. c.1643-4.
This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 505.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/4/1.
HrE 135
A fair copy of the complete work, in the neat italic hand of an amanuensis, entitled ‘Appendix Libr. De Veritate’, comprising (ff. 1-8) ‘Religio laici’ and (ff. 8v-10v) ‘Quid laicus’, ten folio leaves, in modern half brown morocco. c.1643-8.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/4/7.
Religio Laici [in English]
First published in Herbert G. Wright, ‘An Unpublished Manuscript by Lord Herbert of Cherbury Entitled “Religio Laici”’, MLR, 28 (1933), 295-307.
HrE 136
Copy of an independent English work entitled ‘Religio Laici’ and beginning ‘Having [formerly] spoken of all Learning fitt to bee obtaynd in youth I shall say something of Religion...’, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, with corrections or revisions in another hand, the last leaf in yet another hand, nine folio leaves, in modern brown morocco gilt. c.1642-4.
Among papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle, including particularly papers of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582?-1648). Acquired in 1916.
Edited from this MS in Wright. Discussed in Rossi, III, 505; in R.I. Aaron, ‘A Possible Early Draft of Hobbes' De Corpore’, Mind, 54 (1945), 342-56 (pp. 354-5); in Gawlick, pp. xlvii-xlviii; and in Rossi, ‘Herbert of Cherbury's Religio Laici: A Bibliographical Note’, Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions, 5, Part 2 (1962), 45-52 (where it is argued that the piece may belong to the Autobiography, but see HrE 138).
This MS also misidentified as a work by John Dryden's (reporting hearsay in a belated note) in Hugh Macdonald, John Dryden: A Bibliography of Early Editions and of Drydeniana (Oxford, 1939), p. 323, Repeated in James M. Osborn, John Dryden: Some Biographical Facts and Problems (New York, 1940); revised edition (Gainesville, Florida, 1965), p. 289.
*HrE 137
Copy of a version of the English ‘Religio Laici’, with autograph revisions; 18 leaves (written on one side). c.1642-5.
This MS discussed in S.E. Sprott, ‘The Osler Manuscript of Herbert's Religio Laici’, The Library, 5th Ser. 11 (1956), 120-2; but see also Rossi, Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions (1962), 45-6 (n).
HrE 138
Copy of a version of the English ‘Religio Laici’, in a single secretary hand, inscribed (p. 1) in another hand ‘Lord Harbert’, ii + 64 duodecimo pages (plus stubs of excised leaves at the end), in contemporary leather with traces of ties. Entitled ‘Religio Laici offered to the consideration of all men (whether Dependants, or Independants) for the setling of some ffundamentall grounds of Religion’ (pp. 1-40), followed (pp. 41-59) by ‘An Appendix to the Preists touching Religio Laici’ (beginning ‘If, notwithstanding the Preists of whatsoever Religious order in whatsoever Country...’) and (pp. 60-4)‘The common notions touching Religion’ (beginning ‘Being about to speake of Revelation, wee thinke fitt to premise certaine præcognita thereof...’). Mid-17th century.
Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), pp. 312-13. The appendices, which may or may not be by Herbert, are unpublished.
Reply to D. Molin
Reply to a friend of Luise Molina concerning observations on De Veritate. Unpublished.
*HrE 139
A fair copy, in the neat italic hand of an amanuensis, with corrections probably in Herbert's hand, 22 folio pages, in a paper wrapper. September 1633.
This MS discussed in Rossi, I, 474-5, 589 et seq.; I, 524-5, and III, 542.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers MS E2/1/5.
*HrE 140
Autograph draft for the first five pages of Herbert's reply, in Latin, with deletions and revisions. September 1633.
This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 542 (n).
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/1.
Reply to P. Mersenne
Unpublished.
*HrE 141
Autograph draft of Herbert's reply to Mersenne's objections to De veritate, including a list of corrections to the printed edition.
This MS discussed in Rossi, I, 481; II, 529-39, and III, 542.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/1/6.
Translation of Bacon's Elogium Elizabethae
Unpublished.
See also BcF 298-300.
*HrE 142
Part of an autograph fair copy of Herbert's translation of Francis Bacon's In felicem memoriam Elizabethae, Angliae Reginae, beginning ‘Indeed about the 10th of her Raigne, some tumults were attempted in the North’, on all eight pages of four folio leaves, imperfect.
Recorded in Rossi, III, 542.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/3/47.
HrE 142.5
Copy, headed ‘The felicitie of Queene Elizabeth written by Sr. ffran: Bacon’, on eight folio pages.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, in 19th-century calf.
The spine labelled ‘Monson Mss. CCXII’.
Translation of Descartes' Discours de la méthode
An unpublished translation of Chapter IV and part of Chapter V of Descartes' Discours, beginning ‘I know not whether I may entertaine you with my first Meditations. since they are so Metaphysicall…’.
*HrE 143
Autograph draft, untitled, on six quarto leaves, in modern cloth. [1645?].
Formerly among Herbert's papers at Powis Castle. Sotheby's, 16 January 1956 (Powis Castle sale), lot 216, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue.
Discussed in Rossi, II, 537-8, and III, 542. Sotheby's, 16 January 1956, lot 216. A microfilm is in the British Library (M/471).
Translation of Hobbes's De principiis
See HrE 127.
Dramatic Works
The Amazon
Unpublished play or entertainment, possibly unfinished.
*HrE 143.5
Autograph working manuscript, begun probably as a fair copy and then copiously revised, headed (f. [3r] ‘The Amazon’, with (f. 1r) a list of Dramatis Personæ, the text on eleven pages, unfinished or incomplete, 26 folio leaves (including 18 blanks), sewn in a paper wrapper. c.1617-30s.
Formerly owned by the Earl of Powis, at Powis Castle. Bonhams, London, 10 November 2009, lot 56.
Facsimile examples in the sale catalogue (of ff. [5v-6r], [8r]) and in Bonham Magazine, issue 21 (Winter 2009), pp. 44-5 (of ff. [4v-5r] and [6v]).
Miscellaneous
Lute-book
*HrE 144
Herbert's MS lute-book, mainly autograph, partly in the hand of an amanuensis; inscribed by Herbert ‘The Lutebooke of Edward Lord Herbert, of Cherbury and Castle Island, containing diverse selected Lessons of excellent Authors in severall Countreys. Wherein also are some few of my owne Composition’. c.1624-40.
Formerly among Herbert's papers preserved at Powis Castle.
Described in Thurston Dart, ‘Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Lute-Book’, M&L, 38 (1957), 136-48, and in Rossi, III, 405-7.
Library Catalogue
*HrE 145
Herbert's catalogue of his Library, partly autograph (ff. 1r-4v), chiefly in the cursive hand of a secretary, untitled, 32 folio leaves, in modern brown morocco gilt. c.1636-7.
Memorandum
HrE 145.5
An autograph memorandum, headed ‘I find that 7 Manners in generall are found, for opposinge an enemie’, endorsed in Coke's hand ‘collected by the Ld Herbert’.
In: the MS described under HrE 119.5. 1629-30.
Negotiations
HrE 146
An account apparently by Herbert of negotiations concerning the English liturgy at St Germain-en-Laye. Early-mid 17th century.
Will
HrE 147
Herbert's last will and testament, proved October 1648. 1648.