Verse
(1) English Poems by Herbert
Aaron (‘Holinesse on the head’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 174.
HrG 1
Copy in: A folio volume of 167 poems by George Herbert subsequently published as The Temple (Cambridge, 1633), in a neat hand, probably produced by a member of the Little Gidding community under the supervision of Nicolas Ferrar, 152 leaves. 1633.
Later owned by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, and by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735), Bishop of St Asaph.
Generally cited as the Tanner MS. A complete facsimile is published as The Bodleian Manuscript of George Herbert's Poems: A Facsimile of Tanner 307, introduced by Amy Charles and Mario A. Di Cesare (Delmar, New York, [1984]). The MS is edited by Mario A. Di Cesare as George Herbert, The Temple: A Diplomatic Edition of the Bodleian Manuscript (Tanner 307) (Binghamton, New York, 1995). The MS is also discussed in Hutchinson, pp. l-lii, lxxii-lxxiv; in J. Max Patrick, ‘Critical Problems in Editing George Herbert's The Temple’, The Editor as Critic and the Critic as Editor (Los Angeles, 1973), pp. 1-40; in Amy Charles, ‘“The Original of Mr George Herbert's Temple”’, George Herbert Journal, 6 (1982-3), 1-14; and in Mario A. Di Cesare, ‘The Bodleian Manuscript and the Text of Herbert's Poems’, George Herbert Journal, 6 (1982-3), 15-35.
HrG 1.5
Copy in: An octavo volume of some 137 poems from George Herbert's The Temple, in a single minute hand, many with revisions, 237 pages, in later black morocco. Possibly written by one ‘I.B.’ (p. 86), perhaps of ‘Hasleborow’ (p. 25), who refers to himself (p. 136) as ‘the translatr’, in versions adapted as hymns to be sung to (frequently specified) Psalm tunes, with page references to his printed exemplar (conforming to the 1633 edition) bearing complementary annotations, and with references (on pp. 42, 44, 46, 67, 78, 80, 117, 137, 152, 163, 171, 191, 196, 206, 207, 213, and 218) to those poems which are not copied here (though assigned Psalm tunes) probably because he had made no alterations to the printed versions. 1680/1-1682.
Bookplates of James Bindley, FSA (1737-1818), book collector, and of F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector, and of Professor George Herbert Palmer (1842-1933), American scholar and author (his gift to Harvard in 1922). Formerly Her. 2.5.
This MS discussed by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart in his edition of The Complete Works of George Herbert (3 vols, printed for private circulation, 1874), II, pp. xxv-xxxi.
Affliction (I) (‘When first thou didst entice to thee my heart’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 46-8.
*HrG 2
Copy, with an autograph correction.
In: An octavo volume of autograph Latin poems by George Herbert, together with a series of and early versions of 78 English poems by him, including several not subsequently published in The Temple, in the neat hand of an amanuensis, with Herbert's autograph corrections and revisions throughout, 137 leaves (including a number of blanks), in a Little Gidding calf binding. c.1620s.
Variously owned by Nicholas Ferrar (1593-1637), of the Little Gidding community, who was in effect Herbert's literary executor; by his relative by marriage the Rev. Hugh Mapletoft (d.1730), rector of All Saints, Huntingdon; by the Rev. John Jones (1700-70), of Abbots Ripton and Alconbury, near Cambridge; and by Thomas Dawson, before being acquired by Dr Williams.
Generally cited as the Dr Williams MS. A complete facsimile, introduced by Amy M. Charles, published as The Williams Manuscript of George Herbert's Poems (Delmar, New York, 1977). Facsimile examples in John J. Daniell, The Life of George Herbert of Bemerton (London, 1902), facing p. 317, and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), pp. 149 and 155. See also discussions in Frank L. Huntley, ‘The Williams Manuscript, Edmund Duncon, and Herbert's Quotidian Fever’, George Herbert Journal, 10 (1986-7), 23-32, and Lillian Myers, ‘Facing Pages: Layout in the Williams Manuscript of George Herbert's Poems’, George Herbert Journal, 21 (1997-8), 72-82.
A transcript of this MS volume made in 1899 by Miss E. M. Thompson for Professor George Herbert Palmer (1842-1933), American scholar and author, 202 large quarto pages in modern cloth, was donated to Harvard on 19 March 1912 and is now Harvard MS Eng 1542.
HrG 2.5
Copy of lines 65-6, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.
In: Diary of the Rev. Oliver Heywood (1630-1702), Presbyterian minister of Coley Chapel, Halifax, Yorkshire, i + 143 duodecimo leaves. 1665-73.
Edited in The Rev. Oliver Heywood, B.A. 1630-1702; His Autobiography, Diaries, Anecdotes and Event Books, ed. J. Horsfall Turner, 4 vols (Brighouse, 1881-5).
HrG 3.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Affliction (II) (‘Kill me not ev'ry day’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 62.
HrG 4.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Affliction (III) (‘My heart did heave, and there came forth, O God!’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 73.
HrG 5.5
Copy, here beginning ‘My heart did heave and presently’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Affliction (IV) (‘Broken in pieces all asunder’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 89-90.
Affliction (V) (‘My God, I read this day’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 97.
The Agonie (‘Philosophers have measur'd mountains’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 37.
HrG 10.5
Copy, here beginning ‘Philosophers haue by their art’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
The Altar (‘A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant reares’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 26.
*HrG 11
Copy, with an autograph revision.
In: the MS described under HrG 2. c.1620s.
Facsimile in James Boyd White, ‘This Book of Starres’: Learning to Read George Herbert (Ann Arbor, 1994), p. 84.
HrG 12
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1. 1633.
Facsimile in James Boyd White, ‘This Book of Starres’: Learning to Read George Herbert (Ann Arbor, 1994), p. 85.
HrG 12.5
Copy, in an alter pattern, under a general heading ‘Out of Herberts Poems’.
In: An oblong octavo miscellany of largely devotional verse and some prose, including (ff. 7v-22r) twelve poems by Crashaw, probably transcribed from Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652), in a single italic hand, written across the width of the pages with the spine upwards, with (ff. 181r-8r) a table of contents, 188 leaves, in calf gilt. Entitled Collections out of seuerall Authors by Marmaduke Raudon Eboracensis 1662: i.e. compiled by Marmaduke Rawdon (1610-69), traveller and antiquary, of Guiseley, Yorkshire, who later lived with his cousin, also named Marmaduke Rawdon, at Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, the MS including elegies on yet another (Sir) Marmaduke Rawdon (1582-1646), Governor of Basing House. c.1662.
Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849). Rodd's sale catalogue, February 1850, item 764.
Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Rawdon MS: CrR Δ 2. Crashaw's work collated in Martin (cited as A1) and discussed pp. lxxx-lxxxi.
For other Rawdon miscellanies, see Yale, Osborn MS fb 150; York Minster, MS Add. 122; and a MS sold at Puttick and Simpson's, 3 March 1870, lot 552, to Nicholls. For the Rawdon family, see H.F. Hayllar, The Chronicles of Hoddesdon (1948), pp. 52-4.
HrG 13
Copy 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.
This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.
Ana-{MARY/ARMY} gram (‘How well her name an Army doth present’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 77.
HrG 14.2
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany entitled A Collection of Verses Fancyes and Poems, Morrall and Devine, in a single hand, i + 180 leaves, (including index), in contemporary calf. Including 15 poems (and a second copy of one poem) by Cowley and 15 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source. Early 18th century.
Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as ‘Rawlinson MS II’: PsK Δ 7.
HrG 14.4
Copy, headed ‘The Anagram of Mary from the Virgin Marys name makes the word Army: And one makes this coment vpon the word Army’, here beginning ‘And well her name and Army doth prsent’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in at least two secretary hands, with (ff. 1r-7v) a table of contents, 183 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half-morocco. End of 17th century.
HrG 14.6
Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.
In: the MS described under HrG 2.5. 1665-73.
HrG 14.7
Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Temp. p. 69’.
In: A sextodecimo pocket notebook, for the most part in a single small mixed hand, largely written across the page with the spine to the top, including 31 poems by George Herbert transcribed from the sixth edition of The Temple (Cambridge, 1641), 103 leaves, in 19th-century diced brown calf. Compiled by Andrew Symson (1639-1712), usher of the Grammar School of Stirling, afterwards parson of Kerkinner in Wigton. Including (ff. 21r-53v) 31 poems transcribed by him in 1671 from the sixth edition of George Herbert's The Temple (Cambridge, 1641). c.1664-91.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘William Stirling’. Bookplate of John Pinkerton (1758-1826), historian and poet, and (f. 102v) his signature. Inscribed (f. [iv]) as bought at ‘Pinkerton's sale in 1812’ (Sotheby's, April 1812). Bookplate of George Chalmers, FRSSA (1742-1825), antiquary and political writer. Inscribed by Laing ‘Bought at the Sale of Mr Chalmers's Library Novr 1842. No. 1643.’
HrG 14.8
Copy, here beginning ‘How well doth her great Name’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
HrG 15
Copy, headed ‘An Anagram on the Blessed Virgin’.
In: A quarto miscellany of principally religious verse, in several hands, 213 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.
Inscribed (f. i) ‘Anthony Search his most excellent booke Janry 6th Anno Dom: 1695’.
The Answer (‘My comforts drop and melt away like snow’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 169.
HrG 16.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Antiphon (I) (‘Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 53.
HrG 17.5
Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.
In: the MS described under HrG 2.5. 1665-73.
Turner, III, 36.
Antiphon (II) (‘Praised be the God of love’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 92-3.
HrG 18.5
Copy, subscribed ‘From the same’.
In: A verse miscellany, comprising Volume I of ‘A Collection of Poems’ by Thomas Binns of Liverpool, paginated 4 to 625, including an index. 1789.
Artillerie (‘As I one ev'ning sat before my cell’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 139.
HrG 20.5
Copy, here beginning ‘Sitting one night before my cell’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Assurance (‘O spitefull bitter thought!’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 155-6.
HrG 21.5
Copy, here beginning ‘O spiteful woful bitter thought!’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Avarice (‘Money, thou bane of blisse, & sourse of wo’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 77.
HrG 22.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
HrG 23
Copy, headed ‘Out of Herberts Poems’, in a quarto booklet (ff. 319r-44v) written on rectos only. c.1700.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters, speeches and other papers, in various largely professional hands, folio- and quarto-size leaves, 577 leaves.
This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.
HrG 24
Copy, transcribed from the edition of 1678.
In: A duodecimo medical commonplace book, 23 leaves. Late 17th century.
The Bag (‘Away despair! my gracious Lord doth heare’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 151-2.
HrG 25.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 14.2. Early 18th century.
HrG 25.8
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
HrG 26
Copy, transcribed from George Swinnock's Christian-Man's Calling (1668).
In: A quarto miscellany of religious verse and prose, 182 leaves. c.1668-78.
Inscribed on the cover ‘This book was wrot by my grandmother Moye; keep it always in the family, for in it lies summum bonum, tho deep yet clear. 1678’.
The Banquet (‘Welcome sweet and sacred cheer’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 181-2.
Bitter-sweet (‘Ah my deare angrie Lord’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 171.
HrG 29
Copy, headed ‘Bitter-sweet, out of Herbert’.
In: An octavo miscellany of principally religious and moralistic verse, in a minute hand, written from both ends, in contemporary calf. Compiled by Robert Fleming. 8°, 82 leaves; verse miscellany, including portions of 17 poems by Cowley (on inside of front cover and ff. 2, 4-5v, 30, 47v-50, 66v); compiled by Robert Fleming (probably a Scotsman), who explains on f. 30v: ‘In this Manuscript, there is a confused casting together of several Miscellaneous things. Yet there is something here to denott many or most of the year sof my youth. Viz. these years; A°. 1670, 1673,1674, 1675, 1676, 1678, 1679, 1680, 1681, 1682, 1683, 1684, 1685. So that from the 9 year of my age, which is A° 1670 (for I was born May 16, A° 1661) until my 24 year, no year is undistinguished, but two years’. c.1670-85.
Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.
HrG 29.5
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, i + 284 leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled by Sir John Gibson (1606-65), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, Yorkshire, when he was a Royalist prisoner in Durham Castle. The name Penelope Gibson on f. 174r. c.1653-60.
Bookplate of William Ward Jackson.
This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.
HrG 29.8
Copy, in double columns, on one side of a folio leaf, quoted as ‘a sweet meditation’ by ‘devout Herbert’ in an autograph letter by John Lake, later Bishop of Chichester, to his sister, 6 June 1676.
In: A folio composite volume of letters by bishops and archbishops, in numerous hands, alphabetically arranged, 309 leaves. Collected by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer.
Bought at the sale of Thoresby's museum in 1764 by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.
The British Church (‘I joy, deare Mother, when I view’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 109-10.
The Bunch of Grapes (‘Joy, I did lock thee up: but some bad man’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 128.
HrG 31.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Businesse (‘Canst be idle? canst thou play’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 113-14.
The Call (‘Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 156.
HrG 34
Copy of lines 1-4, 9-12, subscribed ‘Call’.
In: An octavo volume of sermons by Stephen Machin, with some verses at the end, in a single small hand (Machin's?), 380 pages, in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.
Inscribed inside the front cover ‘John Machin 1708. Son to the Revd. Mr Stephen Machin late Rector of Margate in Kent, Author of these sermons & of volums more: who dyed Novem: 12. 1708’.
Charms and Knots (‘Who reade a chapter when they rise’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 96-7.
HrG 35
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 2. c.1620s.
HrG 36.8
Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.
In: the MS described under HrG 2.5. 1665-73.
Turner, III, 41.
HrG 37
Copy in: A folio volume of state tracts, speeches, and verse, closely written from both ends in a single hand, 260 pages, lacking a number of pages and some fragments (pp. 25-38, 48-64) now removed to MS Gg. 4. 13*, in quarter-calf. Mid-17th century.
Christmas (‘All after pleasures as I rid one day’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 80-1.
HrG 40.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
HrG 41
Copy of lines 15-34, in a musical setting by John Jenkins, untitled, beginning ‘The shepherds sing; and shall I silent be?’.
In: Three music part books: (i), (ii), and (iii). Early-mid-17th century.
This MS discussed in Vincent Duckles, ‘John Jenkins's Settings of Lyrics by George Herbert’, MQ, 48 (1962), 461-75.
Christ Church, Oxford, MSS Mus. 736-738, (i-ii), ff. 24v-5; (iii), ff. 25v-6r.
The Church-floore (‘Mark you the floore? that square & speckled stone’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 66-7.
Church-lock and key (‘I know it is my sinne, which locks thine eares’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 66.
The Church Militant (‘Almightie Lord, who from thy glorious throne’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 190-8.
HrG 45.2
Copy in: A quarto volume of chiefly religious tracts and verse, in a single italic hand, iv + 228 leaves, imperfect, disbound. Compiled by Thomas Sparrow, BA, of London. c.1658-61.
Donated by Arthur Freeman, March 1999.
HrG 45.5
Copy of lines 235-47.
In: A folio volume of notes and papers by Evelyn, 136 leaves. Volume CLXXVII of the Evelyn Papers.
HrG 45.8
Copy of a Latin verse translation made by James Leeke (1605-54), Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. 1634.
In: A tall folio composite volume of largely ecclesiastical verse and prose documents, in English and Latin, in various hands and paper sizes, with dates from 1613 to 1669, 238 leaves, in reversed calf.
Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.
Discussed and printed in part in P.G. Stanwood, ‘Poetry Manuscripts of the Seventeenth Century in the Durham Cathedral Library’, DUJ, 62 (1969-70), 81-90 (pp. 88-90).
HrG 46.5
Copy, here beginning ‘Allmighty God the Lord, who from’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Church-monuments (‘While that my soul repairs to her devotion’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 64-5.
Church-musick (‘Sweetest of sweets, I thank you: when displeasure’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 65-6.
HrG 50.5
Copy, here beginning ‘Sweetest of sweets I do you think’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
The Church-porch (‘Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhance’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 6-24.
HrG 51.5
Copy, docketed ‘Sing it as the C XIII Psalm’, subscribed ‘scripsi...apd Hasleborow, diebus prdict. et Feb. 12. 1680/1’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
HrG 53
Extract.
In: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Compiled by members of the Cartwright family, of Aynho, Northamptonshire, including (ff. 4r-7v) verse by William Cartwright (1634-76). Mid-17th century.
Inscribed names including ‘Will: Cartwright’, ‘Jo: Cartwright’, and ‘Katherin Cartwright’. Myers, sale catalogue No. 291 (1933), item 120.
HrG 53.2
Extracts.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of extracts, predominantly in one hand, 43 leaves (plus 21 blanks). c.1725.
Inscribed on the lower endpaper ‘Anne Castell 1725’.
HrG 53.5
Eighty-four lines of extracts, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.
In: the MS described under HrG 2.5. 1665-73.
Turner, III, 32-4.
HrG 54
Copy of stanzas 58 (beginning ‘Slight not the smallest losse, whether it be’) and 53, transcribed from the edition of 1678.
In: the MS described under HrG 24. Late 17th century.
HrG 55
Copy of various stanzas, beginning with stanza 2 (‘Beware of lust: it doth pollute and foul’).
In: A folio verse miscellany, in two hands, possibly compiled principally by Robert Clarke of Wadham College, Oxford. c.1663.
HrG 55.2
Copy of the first two stanzas, a false start, incomplete.
In: the MS described under HrG 14.7. c.1664-91.
HrG 55.5
Copy of the complete poem, subscribed ‘Transcripsi April. 4. 1671. Die Martis. A.’
In: the MS described under HrG 14.7. c.1664-91.
HrG 56
Copy, untitled, under a general heading ‘The Quadraines of Pibracke, or Pious exortations ffor youth out of Du bartas & Herberts Poems’.
In: the MS described under HrG 15. Late 17th century.
HrG 56.8
Copy, on fourteen pages, subscribed on the penultimate page ‘Thomas Rawlins His Booke 1670’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in neat variant scripts, including poems by George Herbert and Francis Quarles, compiled by Thomas Rawlins, in dark green morocco gilt, with clasps. 1670-1.
Last seen in 2000.
Church-rents and schismes (‘Brave rose, (alas!) where art thou? in the chair’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 140.
HrG 57.5
Copy, here beginning ‘Brave Rose (alas) where art yu now’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Clasping of hands (‘Lord, thou art mine, and I am thine’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 157.
The Collar (‘I struck the board, and cry'd, No more’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 153-4.
Coloss. 3. 3. Our life is hid with Christ in God (‘My words & thoughts do both expresse this notion’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 84-5.
Complaining (‘Do not beguile my heart’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 143-4.
HrG 62.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Confession (‘O what a cunning guest’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 126.
Conscience (‘Peace pratler, do not lowre’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 105-6.
Constancie (‘Who is the honest man?’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 72-3.
HrG 66
Copy in: An autograph translation or paraphrase of variousPsalms by Francis Knollys, preceded by two poems by Herbert, iii + 178 octavo pages (pp. 94-175 blank). 1660-70.
Content (‘Peace mutt'ring thoughts, and do not grudge to keep’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 68-9.
*HrG 67
Copy, with an autograph revision.
In: the MS described under HrG 2. c.1620s.
Edited from this MS in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938). pp. 240-1.
HrG 67.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 14.2. Early 18th century.
HrG 68.5
Copy, here beginning ‘Peace muttering thoughts, o peace & rest’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
HrG 69
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.
Edited from this MS in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938), pp. 240-1; Music edited in André Souris, Poèmes de Donne Herbert et Crashaw mis en musique par leur contemporains (Paris, 1961), pp. 20-3; not recorded in Hutchinson.
HrG 70
Copy, headed ‘Against Vaineglorie’, subscribed ‘G. Herbert’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, including 15 poems by Donne, f. 162r-v in a rounded italic hand, ff. 164r-74v in a slightly erratic italic hand, ff. 175r-279v in a neat formal italic hand (also responsible for the index on ff. 2r-11v), this miscellany constituting ff. 162r-279v of a single folio volume containing also Part I (DnJ Δ 15), ii + 279 leaves in all (lacking one or more leaves at the end), in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked). c.1630s.
Formerly MS G. 2.21.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dublin MS (II): DnJ Δ 61.
This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.
The Crosse (‘What is this strange and uncouth thing?’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 164-5.
The Dawning (‘Awake sad heart, whom sorrow ever drowns’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 112.
HrG 73.5
Copy, here beginning ‘wake heart, whom sorrow ever drowns’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
HrG 74
Copies, in a musical setting by John Jenkins, untitled.
In: the MS described under HrG 41. Early-mid-17th century.
This MS discussed in Vincent Duckles, ‘John Jenkins's Settings of Lyrics by George Herbert’, MQ, 48 (1962), 461-75.
Christ Church, Oxford, MSS Mus. 736-738, (i-ii), ff. 25v-6; (iii), ff. 26v-7r.
Death (‘Death, thou wast once an uncouth hideous thing’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 185-6.
Decay (‘Sweet were the dayes, when thou didst lodge with Lot’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 99.
HrG 77.5
Copy, here beginning ‘The dayes were sweet wn thou (o Ld)’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
The Dedication (‘Lord, my first fruits present themselves to thee’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 5.
Deniall (‘When my devotions could not pierce’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 79-80.
Dialogue (‘Sweetest Saviour, if my soul’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 114-15.
A Dialogue-Antheme (‘Alas, poore Death, where is thy glorie?’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 169.
HrG 83.2
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 14.2. Early 18th century.
HrG 83.5
Copy, here beginning ‘Alas poore sorry death!’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
HrG 83.8
Copy, inscribed ‘H. Temp. p. 164,’ subscribed ‘Kr: Maij. 12o. 1671. transc. 6. fol. postere A. S.’
In: the MS described under HrG 14.7. c.1664-91.
The Discharge (‘Busie enquiring heart, what wouldst thou know?’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 144-5.
HrG 84.5
Copy, here beginning ‘Busy enquireing heart, I pray’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Discipline (‘Throw away thy rod’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 178-9.
Divinitie (‘As men, for fear the starres should sleep and nod’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 134-5.
Dooms-day (‘Come away’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 186-7.
Dotage (‘False glozing pleasures, casks of happinesse’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 167.
Dulnesse (‘Why do I languish thus, drooping and dull’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 115-16.
HrG 90.5
Copy, here beginning ‘why do I languish drooping thus’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Easter (‘Rise heart. thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 41-2.
*HrG 91
Copy, with an autograph revision; with lines 19-30 (here beginning ‘I had prepared many a flowre’) as a separate poem entitled ‘Easter’.
In: the MS described under HrG 2. c.1620s.
HrG 92.2
Copy, here beginning ‘Rise heart; thy Lord is risen up’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
HrG 92.8
Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.
In: the MS described under HrG 2.5. 1665-73.
Turner, III, 35.
Easter-wings (‘Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 43.
*HrG 93
Copy, with autograph revisions.
In: the MS described under HrG 2. c.1620s.
Facsimiles of this MS in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 57, and in David West, ‘Easter Wings’, N&Q, 237 (December 1992), 448-52 (p. 449).
HrG 94
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1. 1633.
Facsimile in David West, ‘Easter Wings’, N&Q, 237 (December 1992), 448-52 (p. 450).
HrG 94.5
Copy, here beginning ‘My tender youthful age’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
The Elixir (‘Teach me, my God and King’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 184-5.
*HrG 95
Copy of an early version beginning ‘Lord teach mee to referr’, with extensive autograph revisions; originally entitled ‘Perfection’, the title ‘The Elixir’ added by Herbert.
In: the MS described under HrG 2. c.1620s.
Facsimiles of this MS in Palmer, I, after p. 120; in Flower & Munby, English Poetical Autographs, p. 10; and in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 34.
Employment (I) (‘If as a flowre doth spread and die’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 57.
Employment (II) (‘He that is weary, let him sit’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 78-9.
HrG 100.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
HrG 100.8
Extract, beginning at line 21 (‘Oh that I were an Orenge-tree’), subscribed ‘Transc: Kr. April. 18. 1671’.
In: the MS described under HrG 14.7. c.1664-91.
L'Envoy (‘King of Glorie, King of Peace’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 199.
Ephes. 4. 30. Grieve not the Holy Spirit, &c (‘And art thou grieved, sweet and sacred Dove’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 135-6.
HrG 103.5
Copy, here beginning ‘And art thou griev'd, o dove’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
HrG 104
Copies of lines 1-18, in a musical setting by John Jenkins, untitled.
In: the MS described under HrG 41. Early-mid-17th century.
This MS discussed in Vincent Duckles, ‘John Jenkins's Settings of Lyrics by George Herbert’, MQ, 48 (1962), 461-75.
Christ Church, Oxford, MSS Mus. 736-738, (i-ii), ff. 31v-2r; (iii), ff. 32v-3r.
HrG 105
Copies of lines 19-36, untitled and beginning ‘Oh take thy lute, and tune it to a strain’, treated as a separate song, in a musical setting by John Jenkins (different from that in HrG 104).
In: the MS described under HrG 41. Early-mid-17th century.
This MS discussed in Vincent Duckles; not recorded in Hutchinson.
Christ Church, Oxford, MSS Mus. 736-738, (i-ii), f. 31; (iii), f. 32r.
Even-song (‘Blest be the God of love’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 63-4.
HrG 106.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Euen-song (‘The Day is spent, & hath his will on mee’)
First published (from this MS) in Grosart (1874). printed from this MS in Hutchinson, p. 203.
HrG 107
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 2. c.1620s.
Faith (‘Lord, how couldst thou so much appease’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 49-51.
The Familie (‘What doth this noise of thoughts within my heart’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 136-7.
HrG 110.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
The Flower (‘How fresh, O Lord, how sweet and clean’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 165-7.
HrG 111.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
The Foil (‘If we could see below’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 175-6.
HrG 112.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
The Forerunners (‘The harbingers are come. See, see their mark’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 176-7.
HrG 113.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Frailtie (‘Lord, in my silence how do I despise’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 71-2.
Giddinesse (‘Oh, what a thing is man! how farre from power’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 127.
The Glance (‘When first thy sweet and gracious eye’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 171-2.
HrG 117.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
The Glimpse (‘Whither away delight?’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 154-5.
HrG 118.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Good Friday (‘O my chief good’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 38-9.
HrG 119
Copy, with lines 21-32 (here beginning ‘Since nothing Lord can bee so good’) as a separate poem entitled ‘The Passion’.
In: the MS described under HrG 2. c.1620s.
HrG 120.5
Copy, here beginning ‘O thou that art my chiefest good’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
HrG 120.8
Copy of a Latin verse translation made by James Leeke (1605-54), Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. 1634.
In: the MS described under HrG 45.8.
Discussed and edited in part in P.G. Stanwood, ‘Poetry Manuscripts of the Seventeenth Century in the Durham Cathedral Library’, DUJ, 62 (1969-70), 81-90 (pp. 88-90).
Grace (‘My stock lies dead, and no increase’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 60-1.
Gratefulnesse (‘Thou that hast giv'n so much to me’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 123-4.
Grief (‘O who will give me tears? Come all ye springs’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 164.
H. Baptisme (I) (‘As he that sees a dark and shadie grove’)
First published in The Temple (1613). Hutchinson, pp. 43-4.
H. Baptisme (II) (‘Since, Lord, to thee’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 44.
The H. Communion (‘Not in rich furniture, or fine aray’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 52-3.
HrG 129
Copy of lines 25-40, headed ‘Prayer’ and beginning ‘Give me my captive soul, or take’.
In: the MS described under HrG 2. c.1620s.
HrG 130.5
Copy, here beginning ‘Not in the richest furniture’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
HrG 130.8
Copy of lines 25-40, here beginning ‘give me my captive soul’, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.
In: the MS described under HrG 2.5. 1665-73.
Turner, III, 36.
HrG 131
Copy of lines 25-40, untitled and here beginning ‘Giue me my Captiue soule, or take’.
In: A small quarto book of ‘Dayly Obseruations both Diuine & Morall / The First part by Thomas Grocer Florilegius. 1657’, on 215 pages (paginated irregularly, plus five preliminary leaves). A commonplace book of quotations from largely devotional or philosophical texts under subject headings, neatly written in a single hand, with a title-page and table of contents. 1657.
Inscriptions in the MS including ‘Crescentius Matherus 1680’, ‘Crescentii Matheri Liber 1682’, ‘Nathanaelis Matheri Liber 1683’, ‘By Mr Oakes’, ‘Elijah Warings Book 1734’, ‘Jne Daniell 1832’, and ‘Thos Alexander -- 1847’.
This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.
The H. Communion (‘O gratious Lord, how shall I know’)
First published in Grosart (1874). Hutchinson, pp. 200-1.
HrG 132
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 2. c.1620s.
Edied from this MS in Grosart and in Hutchinson.
The H. Scriptures (‘Oh Book! infinite sweetnessse! let my heart’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 58.
The H. Scriptures. II. (‘Oh that I knew how all thy lights combine’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 58.
Heaven (‘O who will show me those delights on high?’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 188.
The Holdfast (‘I threatned to observe the strict decree’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 143.
HrG 139.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Home (‘Come Lord, my head doth burn, my heart is sick’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 107-9.
HrG 140.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
HrG 140.8
Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.
In: the MS described under HrG 2.5. 1665-73.
Turner, III, 42-3.
HrG 141
Copy, headed ‘Home, out of Herbert’.
In: the MS described under HrG 29. c.1670-85.
This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.
Hope (‘I gave to Hope a watch of mine: but he’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 121.
HrG 143.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Humilitie (‘I saw the Vertues sitting hand in hand’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 70-1.
HrG 144
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 2. c.1620s.
HrG 145.5
Copy, here beginning ‘I saw the virtues all’, subscribed ‘March 28. 1682’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
HrG 145.6
Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.
In: the MS described under HrG 2.5. 1665-73.
Turner, III, 39-40.
The Invitation (‘Come ye hither All, whose taste’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 179-80.
HrG 146.5
Copy of a 32-line version beginning ‘Come ye up hither all’, in double columns.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
HrG 146.8
Copy of a 48-line version headed ‘aliter’ and beginning ‘Come hither ye, ye all whose taste’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Jesu (‘Jesu is in my heart, his sacred name’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 112.
HrG 147.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
HrG 147.8
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 14.2. Early 18th century.
HrG 148.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 12.5. c.1662.
HrG 148.8
Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.
In: the MS described under HrG 2.5. 1665-73.
Turner, III, 43-4.
HrG 149
Copy in: A miscellany of hymns and poems, 67 pages. Inscribed at the end ‘Miss Mary Webber: Her Book Anno Domini 1694’, evidently the compiler. Inscribed on a flyleaf with the names Robert Britton and ‘Miss Sopia Delight’. c.1694.
The Jews (‘Poore nation, whose sweet sap and juice’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 152.
HrG 150.5
Copy, here beginning ‘Poor nation long be wildered’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Jordan (I) (‘Who sayes that fictions onely and false hair’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 56-7.
Jordan (II) (‘When first my lines of heav'nly joyes made mention’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 102-3.
Josephs coat (‘Wounded I sing, tormented I indite’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 159.
HrG 155.5
Copy, here beginning ‘wounded most sore I sing’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Judgement (‘Almightie Judge, how shall poore wretches brook’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 187-8.
Justice (I) (‘I cannot skill of these thy wayes’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 95-6.
HrG 158.5
Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.
In: the MS described under HrG 2.5. 1665-73.
Turner, III, 41.
Justice (II) (‘O dreadfull Justice, what a fright and terrour’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 141.
The Knoll (‘The Bell doth tolle’)
First published in Grosart (1874). Hutchinson, p. 204.
HrG 160
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 2. c.1620s.
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Hutchinson.
L'Envoy (‘King of Glorie, King of Peace’)
See HrG 101-102.
Lent (‘Welcome deare feast of Lent: who loves not thee’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 86-7.
HrG 162.5
Copy, with the scribe's marginal comment on p. 108 ‘In my poor judgt. the Poetry is better then the Reason -- therefore though I translated it as piously intended, yet I cannpt say yt. I am like-minded wth ys worthy Author. May. 30. 1682.’
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Life (‘I made a posie, while the day ran by’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 94.
HrG 163.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Longing (‘With sick and famisht eyes’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 148-50.
Love (‘Thou art too hard for me in Love’)
First published in Grosart (1874). Hutchinson, pp. 201-2.
HrG 165
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 2. c.1620s.
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Hutchinson.
Love I. (‘Immortall Love, authour of this great frame’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 54.
HrG 166
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 2. c.1620s.
Love II. (‘Immortall Heat, O let thy greater flame’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 54.
Love III (‘Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 188-9.
HrG 170
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 2. c.1620s.
Facsimiles in Palmer, I, 84 and in James Boyd White, ‘This Book of Starres’: Learning to Read George Herbert (Ann Arbor, 1994), p. 262.
HrG 171
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1. 1633.
Facsimile in James Boyd White, ‘This Book of Starres’: Learning to Read George Herbert (Ann Arbor, 1994), p. 263.
HrG 172
Copy, headed ‘Herberts poem, p. 183. called Loue’, added at the end of the volume.
In: An octavo MS tract Safe custody or A Discourse of a Christians committing his soul into the hands of god, iv + 53 pages, in quarter-calf on boards. Written by, and in the hand of, Oliver Heywood (1629-1702). c.1700.
Leeds University Library and Special Collections, MS 13, p. 53.
Love-joy (‘As on a window late I cast mine eye’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 116.
HrG 173.2
Copy, in double columns, here beginning ‘As on a window lately I’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
HrG 173.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 14.2. Early 18th century.
HrG 173.8
Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.
In: the MS described under HrG 2.5. 1665-73.
Turner, III, 44.
Love unknown (‘Deare Friend, sit down, the tale is long and sad’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 129-31.
HrG 174.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Man (‘My God, I heard this day’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 90-2.
Mans medley (‘Heark, how the birds do sing’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 131-2.
HrG 177.5
Copy, here beginning ‘Heark how the birds do sweetly sing’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Marie Magdalene (‘When blessed marie wip'd her Saviours feet’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 173.
HrG 178.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Mattens (‘I cannot ope mine eyes’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 62-3.
The Method (‘Poore heart, lament’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 133-4.
Miserie (‘Lord, let the Angles praise thy name’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 100-2.
Mortification (‘How soon doth man decay!’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 98-9.
Nature (‘Full of rebellion, I would die’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 45.
Obedience (‘My God, if writings may’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 104-5.
The Odour. 2. Cor. 2. 15 (‘How sweetly doth My Master sound! My Master!’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 174-5.
An Offering (‘Come, bring thy gift. If blessings were as slow’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 147-8.
HrG 192.5
Copy, here beginning ‘Come bring thy gift away’, subscribed ‘oct. 17. 1682’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
HrG 192.8
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 14.2. Early 18th century.
HrG 193
Copy of lines 25-42, beginning ‘Since my sadnesse’.
In: the MS described under HrG 55. c.1663.
Paradise (‘I blesse thee, Lord, because I Grow’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 132-3.
A Parodie (‘Souls joy, when thou art gone’)
First published in The Temple (1633). John Donne, Poems, By J.D. (London, 1635). Hutchinson, pp. 183-4.
Herbert's poem is a ‘Parodie’ of a poem by William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, first published in John Donne, Poems (2nd edition, London, 1635). Entries below include both poems indiscriminately.
HrG 195.2
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘E. of Pembroke’.
In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts, poems and other papers, in various hands, 329 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Fols 1r-82r comprise a separate collection of verse and some prose, possibly in a single predominantly secretary hand with some variants of style, the first leaf (f. 1) inscribed in another hand ‘Poems by Wm: Browne of the Inner-Temple Gent &c / 1650’, this possibly applying to the poems up to f. 62v, which is subscribed ‘ffinis W Browne’. c.1637-50.
This volume comprising Parts 1-3, 5, 8-13, of what was formerly a single composite volume but is now bound in three volumes.
Inscribed (f. 280v) ‘Philip Butler his book’.
Edited from this MS in Krueger.
HrG 195.5
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 recorded in Krueger.
HrG 195.8
Copy 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 recorded in Krueger.
HrG 195.9
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
HrG 196
Copy, headed ‘Songe’.
In: A quarto volume of 140 poems by Donne plus his epitaph on his wife and a letter to Sir Robert Carr, together with a few poems by others, 125 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. In a single neat secretary hand, one other poem by Donne (f. 104r) added in a later hand, the MS entitled ‘A Collection of Poems & Songs on sevrall occasions’ and perhaps prepared for an intended edition. c.1632.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Nar. Luttrell His Book 1680’: i.e. owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector. Sotheby's, 4 May 1936, lot 74. Then in the library of Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Luttrell MS’: DnJ Δ 18. For facsimile pages, see DnJ 860, DnJ 1421. Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 1861.
HrG 196.5
Copy, an adapted version.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a single italic hand, entitled Gospell Obseruations & Religius manifestations, 370 pages, in contemporary calf. Entirely in the hand of Robert Overton (1608/9-1678/9), parliamentarian army officer, whose signature appears on a flyleaf. Prepared as a memorial and tribute to his wife, Ann Gardiner (d.1665), and written when in prison, either on Jersey or in the Tower of London. c.1671/2.
Inscribed inside the front cover ‘Saml Atkins Wykeham’ and inside the rear cover ‘17 Feby 1879. Purchased this Book of Prescot Bookseller. Upper Arcade. Bristol...Edwd G. Doggett’.
This volume discussed extensively, with facsimile examples (of pp. 85-6, 151-2, 162, 166, 190-2), in David Norbrook, ‘“This blushinge tribute of a borrowed muse”: Robert Overton and his Overturning of the Poetic Canon’, EMS, 4 (1993), 220-66.
Peace (‘Sweet Peace, where dost thou dwell? I humbly crave’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 124-5.
HrG 197.5
Copy, here beginning ‘Sweet Peace, where dost thou dwel, I trow’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
The Pearl. Matth. 13. 45. (‘I know the wayes of Learning. both the head’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 88-9.
Perseverance (‘My God, the poore expressions of my Love’)
First published in Grosart (1874). Hutchinson, pp. 204-5.
HrG 200
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 2. c.1620s.
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Hutchinson.
The Pilgrimage (‘I travell'd on, seeing the hill, where lay’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 141-2.
HrG 201.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
The Posie (‘Let wits contest’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 182-3.
Praise (I) (‘To write a verse or two is all the praise’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 61.
Praise (II) (‘King of Glorie, King of Peace’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 146.
Praise (III) (‘Lord, I will mean and speak thy praise’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 157-9.
HrG 207.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Prayer (I) (‘Prayer the Churches banquet, Angels age’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 51.
HrG 208
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 2. c.1620s.
HrG 209.5
Copy, here beginning ‘Prayer the Churches banquet is’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
HrG 209.8
Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.
In: the MS described under HrG 2.5. 1665-73.
Turner, III, 35.
HrG 210
Copy, with a general heading ‘Verses out of Herbert, oratour to ye vniusitie of Cambridge Touching prayer’.
In: the MS described under HrG 37. Mid-17th century.
Prayer (II) (‘Of what an easie quick accesse’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 103.
The Priesthood (‘Blest Order, which in power dost so excell’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 160-1.
HrG 213.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
HrG 214
Copy, headed ‘The Preisthood out of Herberts Poems’, in a quarto booklet (ff. 319r-44v) written on rectos only. c.1700.
In: the MS described under HrG 23.
This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.
Providence (‘O sacred Providence, who from end to end’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 116-21.
HrG 215.8
Copy of lines 125-8, beginning ‘Sometimes thou dost divide thy gifts to man’, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.
In: the MS described under HrG 2.5. 1665-73.
Turner, III, 44.
HrG 216
Copy of part of the poem, beginning at line 61 (‘Each creature hath a wisdome for his good’).
In: the MS described under HrG 55. c.1663.
HrG 216.8
Copy, in double columns, headed ‘Mr Herberts Poem upon Providence’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany of Scottish provenance, in a single largely italic hand, vii + 224 leaves, including an Index, one of what was once two volumes, in quarter vellum on marbled boards. c.1740.
Phillipps MS 9616 (vol. 2).
The Pulley (‘When God at first made man’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 159-60.
HrG 217.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
The Quidditie (‘My God, a verse is not a crown’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 69-70.
The Quip (‘The merrie world did on a day’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 110-11.
HrG 220.5
Copy, subscribed ‘From Herberts Poems 5th. Edition printed in the year 1638’.
In: the MS described under HrG 18.5. 1789.
Redemption (‘Having been tenant long to a rich Lord’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 40.
Repentance (‘Lord, I confesse my sinne is great’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 48-9.
The Reprisall (‘I have consider'd it, and finde’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 36-7.
The Rose (‘Presse me not to take more pleasure’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 177-8.
HrG 228
Copy of a version of the second stanza, here beginning ‘Sure there is no pleasure here’, subscribed ‘Herbt Rose’.
In: the MS described under HrG 34. Late 17th century.
This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.
The Sacrifice (‘Oh all ye, who passe by, whose eyes and minde’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 26-34.
The Search (‘Whither, O, whither art thou fled’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 162-3.
Self-condemnation (‘Thou who condemnest Jewish hate’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 170-1.
HrG 232.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Sepulchre (‘O blessed bodie! Whither art thou thrown?’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 40-1.
Sighs and Grones (‘O do not use me’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 83.
Sinne (I) (‘Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round!’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 45-6.
Sinne (II) (‘O that I could a sinne once see!’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 63.
The Sinner (‘Lord, how I am all ague, when I seek’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 38.
Sinnes round (‘Sorrie I am, my God, sorrie I am’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 122.
HrG 242.5
Copy, here beginning ‘Sorry I am, my God, I am’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Sion (‘Lord, with what glorie wast thou serv'd of old’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 106-7.
HrG 243.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
The Size (‘Content thee, greedie heart’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 137-8.
The Sonne (‘Let forrain nations of their language boast’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 167-8.
HrG 245.5
Copy, here beginning ‘Let forraign Nations loudly boast’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
The Starre (‘Bright spark, shot from a brighter place’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 74.
HrG 246.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
HrG 247
Copies of lines 1-16, in a musical setting by John Jenkins, untitled.
In: the MS described under HrG 41. Early-mid-17th century.
This MS discussed in Vincent Duckles, ‘John Jenkins's Settings of Lyrics by George Herbert’, MQ, 48 (1962), 461-75.
Christ Church, Oxford, MSS Mus. 736-738, (i-ii), f. 33r; (iii), f. 34r.
HrG 248
Copies of lines 17-32, in a musical setting by John Jenkins (different from that in HrG 104), untitled, beginning ‘Then with our trinitie of light’.
In: the MS described under HrG 41. Early-mid-17th century.
This MS discussed in Vincent Duckles.
Christ Church, Oxford, MSS Mus. 736-738, (i-ii), f. 32v; (iii), f. 33v.
The Storm (‘If as the windes and waters here below’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 132.
HrG 249.5
Copy, here beginning ‘If as the furious winds’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Submission (‘But that thou art my wisdome, Lord’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 95.
HrG 251
Copy of lines 1-4, 13-16, subscribed ‘Herberts Submission’.
In: the MS described under HrG 34. Late 17th century.
Sunday (‘O day most calm, most bright’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 75-7.
HrG 253.5
Copy, here beginning ‘O day most calm, most sweet, most bright’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Superliminare (‘Thou, whom the former precepts have’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 25.
The Temper (I) (‘How should I praise thee, Lord! how should my rymes’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 55.
HrG 257.5
Copy, docketed ‘medu this should haue bin placed before the last,.being pag. 46’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
HrG 257.8
Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.
In: the MS described under HrG 2.5. 1665-73.
Turner, III, 37.
The Temper (II) (‘It cannot be. Where is that mightie joy’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 56.
The Thanksgiving (‘Oh King of grief! a title strange, yet true’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 35-6.
Time (‘Meeting with Time, Slack thing, said I’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 122-3.
To all Angels and Saints (‘Oh glorious spirits, who after all your bands’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 77-8.
HrG 264.5
Copy, here beginning ‘oh glorious spirits, who on high’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
HrG 265
Copy in the hand of Thomas Traherne.
In: Thomas Traherne's MS Meditations and Devotions on the festivals of the Church: Church Year-Book. 8°, 114 leaves (plus 29 blanks [ff. 114-42]); volume of autograph prose meditations and poems composed by Thomas Traherne and others, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, on nineteen occasions of the Church calendar from Easter to All Saints' Day (representing probably half of the meditations for a complete Church year); including (f. 112v) Traherne's autograph copy of George Herbert's To all Angels and Saints (see HrG 265); with additions intermittently throughout the MS (notably passages on ff. 15, 16, 17, 79, 113) in another, unidentified, cursive hand in darker ink, and with some additions on f. 24v only in the hand of Philip Traherne (written before his departure for Smyrna c.September 1670). c.1660-74.
Later owned by Alexander Grosart (1827-99) and acquired in the Grosart sale at Sotheby's, 11 December 1899, probably in one of the lots of miscellaneous theological MSS (Nos. 385, 443, 446, 463 or 464), by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914); [ante September 1870].
Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 3. The three sets of verse on ff. 13v-14, 30, 84v edited from this MS in Dobell (1903). Edited in full in Ross, Vol IV, pp. 7-311, with facsimiles of ff. 31r and 24v on pp., 3-4. Facsimile example in Dobell (1903), frontispiece. Discussed, and the contents listed, in Margoliuth, I, xvii-xx (where the MS is tentatively dated 1673); in Ridler, pp. 155-7; and in Carol L. Marks, ‘Traherne's Church Year-Book’, PBSA, 60 (1966), 31-72.
This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.
Trinitie Sunday (‘Lord, who hast form'd me out of mud’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 68.
Trinity Sunday (‘He that is one’)
First published in Grosart (1874). Hutchinson, pp. 202-3.
HrG 268
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 2. c.1620s.
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Hutchinson.
A true Hymne (‘My joy, my life, my crown!’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 168.
HrG 269.5
Copy, here beginning ‘my dearest joy, My life, my Crown!’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
The 23d Psalme (‘The God of love my shepherd is’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 172-3.
HrG 272
Copy, subscribed ‘G. Herbert. p. 167’.
In: A composite quarto verse miscellany, 199 leaves, in calf. Compiled (and ff. 2-39 written) by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop Canterbury; the rest in other hands. Mid-17th century.
HrG 273
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).
This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.
HrG 274
A formal copy, in an italic hand, drawn up in a column facing a Latin version, headed on a banderole ‘Poema Pium Or A Holy Hymne’, the poem headed ‘The Twenty Third Psalme By the Pious -- Herbert Much Meliorated’, subscribed in a device ‘W: F:’, on on one side of a decorative broadsheet. Mid-17th century.
Ungratefulnesse (‘Lord, with what bountie and rare clemencie’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 82.
Unkindnesse (‘Lord, make me coy and tender to offend’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 93-4.
Vanitie (I) (‘The fleet Astronomer can bore’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 85-6.
HrG 279.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Vanitie (II) (‘Poore silly soul, whose hope and head lies low’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 111.
HrG 280.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Vertue (‘Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 87-8.
HrG 281.5
Copy, untitled.
In: A duodecimo notebook and miscellany, entitled (f. [1r]) ‘Vade mecum or A Pocket-Booke’, ii + 84 leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled by John Gibson (1630-1711), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, North Yorkshire, and in his minute hand throughout. c.1665-78.
Inscribed (f. [iir]) ‘Joseph King / Lewes Sussex / Sept 30 1834 to Mr S.B. Williams’.
Formerly Broxbourne R 359.
The Water-couse (‘Thou who dost dwell and linger here below’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 170.
HrG 283.5
Copy, here beginning ‘Thou who impatiently dost dwell’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
Whitsunday (‘Listen sweet Dove unto my song’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 59-60.
HrG 284
Copy of an early version beginning ‘Come blessed doue charmd wth my song’.
In: the MS described under HrG 2. c.1620s.
HrG 285.5
Copy of the heading (‘Whitsunda’) and first line only (here ‘Listen sweet dove unto my song’), docketed ‘& vid coelora in libro -- onely take out the words thus enclosed [*]’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
The Windows (‘Lord, how can man preach thy eternall word?’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 67-8.
The World (‘Love built a stately house. where Fortune came’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 84.
A Wreath (‘A wreathed garland of deserved praise’)
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 185.
HrG 289
Copy in: the MS described under HrG 2. c.1620s.
L'Envoy (‘Shine on, Maiestick soule, abide’)
See HrG 294-298.
(2) English Poems of Uncertain Authorship
An Answer to Anacreon (suppos'd) by Mr Geo Herbert. Against Drinking (‘The parched Earth when one would thinke’)
HrG 290.1
Copy, subscribed ‘Hæc omnia comunicata frater Ben. Watson & Rob. Peachy A. M.’
In: An octavo miscellany of English and Latin verse and some prose, largely in one mixed hand, 123 leaves, with (ff. 2r-4r) an index, in calf gilt. Compiled by John Watson (d. c.1707), of Queens' College, Cambridge, vicar of Mildenhall, Suffolk. c.1667-73.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Ex dono Drs Barb: Rhodes ...Mri Joan: Rhodes Decemb: 5 1667’; ‘Janawary ye 2 day 1726’; ‘Wm faildham London to ye Land of maderah & from thence to Jamaca’. Purchased from Lilly, 13 July 1850.
On Henry Danvers earl of Danby (‘Sacred Marble, safely keepe’)
Inscribed on Danby's tomb in Dauntsey Church, Wiltshire. First published in Izaak Walton, Lives, ed. Thomas Zouch (London, 1776). Hutchinson, pp. 208-9.
HrG 290.2
Copy, here beginning ‘A wreathed Garland Lord’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
HrG 290.3
Copy in: A folio volume of verse, some of it relating to the Cecil family, in a professional secretary hand up to f. 47r, with additions in two other hands thereafter, 60 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. c.1626-40s.
Inscribed ‘At Leith the 4 June 1649 Ro: Carre’. Later owned by Professor Douglas Grant (1921-69). Sotheby's, 20-21 July 1981, lot 493, to Quaritch.
Discussed in Tom Lockwood, ‘“All Hayle to Hatfield”: A New Series of Country House Poems from Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt q 44’, ELR, 38, No 2 (Spring 2008), 270-303.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. q. 44, f. 47v.
On the death of Mr. Barker of Hammon, and his wife who dyed both together (‘Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds’)
A twelve-line epitaph. First published in Baird W. Whitlock, ‘The Authorship of the Couplet on Sir Albertus Morton and His Wife’, N&Q, 226 (December 1981), 523-4, where (through a misreading of ‘G. H.’ in HrG 290.6 as ‘J. H.’) it is attributed to John Hoskins. Edited and attributed to George Herbert in James Doelman, ‘Herbert's couplet?’, TLS, 19 February 2010, p. 15.
For lines 5-6, beginning ‘The first deceased. He for a little try'd’, a couplet which in various forms circulated independently for many years and has traditionally, though uncertainly, been associated with Sir Henry Wotton, see WoH 175-198.
HrG 290.5
Copy, untitled and unascribed.
In: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous tracts and papers, in various hands, in modern red morocco gilt.
This MS recorded in Doelman.
HrG 290.6
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘G. H.’
In: A large quarto volume of verse and prose, in several hands, a cursive mixed hand predominating on ff. 1r -51, 53r-8v, with a later addition dated 1694 on f. 78r, 82 leaves, in modern half green morocco. Mid-17th century.
Edited from this MS in Whitlock and in Doelman.
HrG 290.8
Copy, headed ‘On the death of Mr. Barker of Hammon, and his wife who dyed both together’, unascribed.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single mixed hand, with additions in other hands, associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 315 pages (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett. c.1630s.
Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the ‘Curteis MS’: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, ‘Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript’, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.
This MS recorded in Doelman.
A Paradox. That the Sicke are in better State then the Whole (‘You whoe admire yourselues because’)
First published in Works of George Herbert, ed. William Pickering, II (London, 1835). Hutchinson, pp. 209-11.
HrG 291
Copy, subscribed ‘G. Herbert’.
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.
Edited from this MS in Pickering. Collated in Hutchinson.
HrG 292
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single neat secretary hand, the first page formally inscribed ‘To the righte honoble: the Lorde Thomas Darcy Viscount Colchester’ (c.1565-1640, Viscount Colchester from 1621 to 1626), 191 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship. c.1620s.
This MS largely transcribed in British Library, Add. MS 21433. The hand occurs also in British Library, Harley MS 3910, between ff. 112v and 120v, and is possibly associated with the Inns of Court.
Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) ‘Mr John Bowyer’; (f. 2r) ‘Jeronomus ffox’; and (f. 3r) ‘William Ralph Baesh’.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Colchester MS’: CwT Δ 13.
Edited from this MS in Hutchinson.
HrG 293
Copy, subscribed ‘George Herbert’.
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 Hutchinson.
To the Queene of Bohemia (‘Bright soule, of whome if any countrey knowne’)
First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), pp. [186-92]. Hutchinson, pp. 211-13. Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘George Herbert's Poems to the Queen of Bohemia: A Rediscovered Text and a New Edition’, ELR, 9/1 (Winter 1979), 108-20 (pp. 117-20). Herbert's authorship supported in Kenneth Alan Hovey, ‘George Herbert's Authorship of “To the Queene of Bohemia”’, RQ, 30/1 (Spring 1977), 43-50, and in Pebworth.
HrG 294
Copy, complete with ‘L'Envoy’ (beginning ‘Shine on, Maiestick soule, abide’).
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).
This MS collated in Pebworth.
HrG 295
Copy, transcribed from HrG 298.
In: A transcript of two 17th-century verse MSS, the second a miscellany, 195 large quarto pages, in calf gilt. 19th century.
Once owned by F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), in lot 136. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
This MS recorded in Pebworth.
HrG 296
Copy, complete with ‘L'Envoy’, which is subscribed ‘G: H:’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, including eleven poems by Carew, in a single professional secretary hand (adopting a different style on ff. 176r-8r), ii + 231 leaves (including numerous blanks), the date 1633 occurring on f. 55r. c.1630s.
The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Michell MS’: CwT Δ 8. Briefly discussed (in connection with the poem ‘Shall I die?’ attributed to Shakespeare) by Gary Taylor in The Sunday Times (24 November 1985, pp. 1, 3, with a facsimile example) and by Peter Beal in TLS (3 January 1986, p. 13); and see also letters on 24 January 1986, pp. 87-8.
This MS collated in Pebworth.
HrG 297
Copy, in an italic hand, complete with ‘L'Envoy’, docketed ‘G. H.’.
In: the MS described under HrG 293. c.1620s-30s.
Edited from this MS in Hutchinson. Collated in Pebworth.
HrG 298
Copy, complete with ‘L'Envoy’, ascribed to ‘G: H:’.
In: A verse miscellany, in long narrow format, 66 leaves (including a number of blanks), in later calf. Largely in one neat secretary hand; a second hand on ff. 58v-9r, and a third on f. 66r. Compiled chiefly by a University of Cambridge man. c.1630s.
Once owned by F. W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Bequeathed in 1894 by Samuel Sandars, of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth and Claude J. Summers, ‘Recovering an Important Seventeenth-Century Poetical Miscellany: Cambridge Add. MS 4138’, TCBS, 7 (1978), 156-69 (pp. 160-1). A 19th-century transcript of much of this MS is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 7, ff. 60r-9r.
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Pebworth and Summers, with facsimiles.
To the Right Hon. the L. Chancellor (Bacon) (‘My Lord. A diamond to mee you sent’)
First published, ‘from a small quarto volume of MS. Latin poetry’, in J. Fry, Bibliographical Memoranda (Bristol, 1816). Hutchinson, p. 209. The authorship discussed in Fram Dinshaw, ‘A Lost MS. of George Herbert's Occasional Verse and the Authorship of “To the L. Chancellor”’, N&Q, 228 (October 1983), 423-5.
HrG 299
Copy, headed ‘To my Ld. Chancellour Sr ffr: Bacon’.
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 not recorded in Hutchinson.
HrG 300
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in a minute cursive hand, ii + 78 leaves, in early 18th-century half-calf. Compiled by a Cambridge University man, possibly of King's College, and formerly at Eton. c.1648-60.
Inscribed names: ‘Hennericus Some’, ‘Johannes Chase’, ‘Jacobus Chase’.
This MS collated in Hutchinson.
HrG 301
Copy in: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in generally small mixed hands, ii + 40 leaves, in 19th-century embossed black leather. c.1640s.
Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller; by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; and by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 190.
Edited from this MS in Hutchinson.
HrG 301.5
Copy in: A quarto volume of poems by George Herbert, in a single italic hand, iv + 20 leaves, in 19th-century dark brown calf. c.1620s.
Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 July 1845 (Bright sale, Part V), lot 1728. Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue, 1846, p. 62. Cochrane's sale catalogue, 1846, item ‘Melvin’. Inscribed (f. iiir) in 1850 by William Pickering (1795-1854), publisher. Bookplate (1911) of Robert Monckton-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 80, with a facsimile of ff. 10v-11r in the sale catalogue.
Edited from this MS in Fry.
(3) Latin Poems by Herbert
Ad Autorem Instaurationis Magnae (‘Per strages licet autorum veterúmque ruinam’)
First published in James Duport, Ecclesiastes Solomonis (Cambridge, 1662). Hutchinson, p. 435. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 166-7.
HrG 302
Copy, headed ‘Ad Eundem’.
In: the MS described under HrG 300. c.1648-60.
This MS collated in Hutchinson.
HrG 302.8
Copy, headed ‘In Autorem Instaurationis Magnæ’ and subscribed ‘Geo: Herbert’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by or attributed to Herrick, almost entirely in a single small predominantly italic hand, 250 pages (plus numerous blanks), originally in contemporary calf, but now disbound. Inscribed four times on a flyleaf ‘Tobias Alston his booke’: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end. c.1639 [-c.1728].
Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Alston MS’: HeR Δ 7. A complete set of photocopies of the MS is in the British Library, RP 772. Facsimile of pp. 6-7 in Sotheby's sale catalogue (see HeR 176, HeR 405) where the MS is described at some length. See also letters by Peter Beal and Donald W. Foster in TLS (24 January 1986), pp. 87-8.
Aethiopissa ambit Cestum Diuersi Coloris Virum (‘Qvid mihi si facies nigra est? hoc, Ceste, colore’)
First published in James Duport, Ecclesiastes Solomonis (Cambridge, 1662). Hutchinson, p. 437. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 170-1.
HrG 304
Copy, subscribed G. Herbert.
In: the MS described under HrG 301. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Hutchinson.
HrG 304.3
Copy, headed ‘Æthiopissa ad Cæstum’.
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.
HrG 304.5
Copy, subscribed ‘Georg: Herbert’. The text followed by an answer, ‘Cestae ad Aethiopissam responsio’ (beginning ‘Vota precesq tuas negro signato lapillo’) also ascribed to ‘Georg: Herbert’.
In: the MS described under HrG 302.8. c.1639 [-c.1728].
This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.
Comparatio inter Munus Summi Cancellariatus et Librum (‘Mvnere dum nobis prodes, Libróque futuris’)
First published in James Duport, Ecclesiastes Solomonis (Cambridge, 1662). Hutchinson, p. 435. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 166-7.
HrG 305
Copy, headed ‘Comparatio Cancellariatus et libri’.
In: the MS described under HrG 300. c.1648-60.
This MS collated in Hutchinson.
Dum petit Infantem (‘Dvm petit Infantem Princeps, Grantámque Iacobus’)
First published in True Copies Of all the Latine Orations, made on the 25. and 27. of Februarie 1622 (London, 1623). Hutchinson, pp. 437-8. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 172-3.
HrG 306
Copy, in one of Mede's autograph letters to Stutevile. 15 March 1622/3.
In: A bound collection of letters by Joseph Mede' (1586-1638), Cambridge Hebraist and biblical scholar, to Sir Martin Stutevile of Dalham, Suffolk.
This MS collated in Hutchinson.
HrG 307
Copy of lines 1-4, here beginning ‘Dum petit Hispanam Princeps, Grantamq Jacobus’.
In: A quarto volume of theological and state tracts, written from both ends, the first part (ff. 1r-131r) chiefly in the hand of John Overall (1561-1619), Bishop of Norwich, ii + 131 leaves at one end, x + 132 leaves (plus a number of blanks) at the other. Mid-17th century.
Once owned by John Moore (1646-1714), Bishop of Norwich and Ely.
This MS collated in Hutchinson.
HrG 307.5
Copy, here beginning ‘O thou immortal Loue’.
In: the MS described under HrG 1.5. 1680/1-1682.
HrG 308
Copy, subscribed ‘Geor. Herbert’, pasted on the flyleaf of a printed exemplum of Izaak Walton, The Life of Mr. George Herbert (London, 1670), a sextodecimo, in olive morocco. 17th century.
Henry Sotheran & Co., sale catalogue Bibliotheca Pretiosa, [1907], in item 438 (pp. 89-90), where it is erroneously described as ‘in George Herbert's autograph’.
This MS collated in Hutchinson.
HrG 309
Copy, untitled.
In: A single half-folio leaf with verse on one side, in a predominantly italic hand. The MS is accompanied by a transcript of the verse and a translation into English made by Rosslyn Bruce, 18 June 1905. Mid 17th century.
In Honorem Illustr. D.D. Verulamij, Sti Albani, Mag. Sigilli Custodis post editam ab eo Instaurationem Magnam (‘Qvis iste tandem? non enim vultu ambulat’)
First published in Emanuele Tesauro, Caesares, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1637). Hutchinson, pp. 436-7. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 168-71.
HrG 310
Copy, in a roman hand, subscribed ‘Geor. Herbert Orat: Pub in Academ Cantab.’, on one side of a narrow folio leaf tipped-in between the frontispiece and the title-page of a printed quarto exemplum of Francis Bacon, The Translation of Certaine Psalmes (London, 1625), in modern calf gilt. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed December 1850 (f. [ir]) by William Pickering (1796-1853), publisher, ‘Verses addressed by Herbert to Lord Bacon in his own hand writing’. Owned in 1870 by Mrs Seaman of Tunbridge Wells, Kent. A tipped-in letter about the volume by Richard Garnett (1835-1906), librarian and author, dated 14 March 1890. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.
This MS leaf, erroneously said to be autograph, was recorded in Miscellanies of The Fuller Worthies Library, ed. A.B. Grosart, I (London, 1870).
HrG 310.5
Copy, possibly transcribed from a printed source.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in a single hand, vi + 98 leaves, in calf. Probably compiled by a member of New College, Oxford. c.1630s.
Some tipped-in notes by Richard Rawlinson.
HrG 312
Copy, in an italic hand, subscribed ‘G. Herbert Orat. pub. in Acad. Cant.’, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse. c.1640s.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, parliamentary speeches, and verse, in various hands, with an alphabetical Index (ff. 1r-6v), 144 leaves, in modern mottled leather gilt.
This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.
HrG 313
Copy, here ascribed to ‘Gulielmus Herbert’, in an unidentified hand, on a leaf pasted over the original first leaf of the Bacon MS. Mid-17th century.
In: A folio volume of partly autograph drafts by Bacon, 30 leaves (including blanks), a number lacking the bottom half of the page, all now disjunct and mounted on guards.
This MS collated in Hutchinson.
The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, MS Hardwick 72A, f. 1r.
In Natales et Pascha Concurrentes (‘Cvm tu, Christe, cadis, nascor. mentémque ligauit’)
First published in James Duport, Ecclesiastes Solomonis (Cambridge, 1662). Hutchinson, p. 434. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 164-5.
In nobilissimi Cornitis Palatini Ad Rhenum, et illustrissa: Domina Elizabethe Nuptiae Epithal. (‘En Aurora vocat, lectur genialis in aula est’)
A sixteen-line epithalamium on the marriage of Frederick, the Elector Palatine, to Princess Elizabeth. First published in Leicester Bradner, ‘New Poems by George Herbert: The Cambridge Latin Gratulatory Anthology of 1613’, RN, 15 (1962), 208-11. Translation in Kenneth Alan Hovey, ‘George Herbert's Authorship of “To the Queene of Bohemia”’, RN, 30 (1977), 43-50 (p. 45).
HrG 314
Copy in: Two MS volumes of gratulatory verse presented to the Elector Palatine by the University of Cambridge on 6 March 1612/13. 6 March 1612/13.
This MS recorded in Leicester Bradner, ‘New Poems by George Herbert: The Cambridge Latin Gratulatory Anthology of 1613’, RN, 15 (1962), 208-11.
Edited from this MS in Bradner.
In obitum integerrimi pharmacopoloe Hadleiensis, Edvardi Gale febre extincti Carmen (‘Anglici numquid pars regni nulla vacabit?’)
Unpublished?
HrG 314.5
Copy, ascribed to ‘G: H’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Juvenilia Ludicra, in a single small mixed hand, 103 leaves, all now window mounted in a quarto volume, in 19th-century half morocco. Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man. c.1630s.
Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) ‘E Libris Richard Sutclif’. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.
Lucus (‘Svm, quis nescit, Imago Dei, sed sexea certè’)
First published in Grosart (1874). Hutchinson, pp. 410-21. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 80-121.
*HrG 315
Autograph MS of thirty-five Latin poems.
In: the MS described under HrG 2. c.1620s.
Edited principally from this MS in Grosart and in Hutchinson. Facsimiles of poems xxv, xxvi and xxvii in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 58, and of poems xxx and xxi in John J. Daniell, The Life of George Herbert (London, 1902), facing p. 317.
—— X. Papae titulus Nec Deus Nec Homo (‘Qvisnam Antichristus cessemus quarere. Papa’)
Hutchinson, p. 412. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 88-9.
HrG 316
Copy, headed ‘In adulatorium Papæ titulam ‘“Nec deus est nec homo”’’, subscribed ‘Mr Geo: Herbert’.
In: the MS described under HrG 309. Mid 17th century.
—— XXV. Roma. Anagr. (‘Roma, tuum nomen quam non pertransijt Oram’)
An untitled eight-line poem on the visit of Frederick, the Elector Palatine, to the University of Cambridge. First published in James Duport, Ecclesiastes Solomonis (Cambridge, 1662). Hutchinson, p. 416. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 102-3.
HrG 317
Copy, subscribed ‘George Herbert’, on one side of a folio leaf. c.1700.
In: A folio volume of miscellaneous and antiquarian papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 331 leaves, in 18th-century half-morocco gilt. Collected by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer.
Bought at the sale of Thoresby's museum in 1764 by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.
This MS collated in Hutchinson, p. 416.
HrG 318
Copy, in an italic hand. c.1620s.
In: the MS described under HrG 290.5.
The text followed by an English version beginning ‘Rome, Thou that cal'st thyselfe a queene a whore’. This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.
HrG 319
Copy, subscribed ‘G: H: 1618’.
In: the MS described under HrG 290.6. Mid-17th century.
The text followed on f. 16 by an English version (see HrG 318).
HrG 320.5
Copy, headed ‘Roma Anagramma’, subscribed ‘Ge. Herbt’.
In: A folio volume of miscellaneous verse and prose, in Latin and English, largely in one hand, with additions in other hands, written from both ends, dates ranging from 1633 to 1649, 43 unfoliated leaves, in paper wrappers. Principally composed and copied by Mildmay Fane (1602-66), second Earl of Westmorland, politician and writer. c.1640s-50s.
This MS recorded in Gerald W. Morton, ‘Two Literary and Historical Manuscripts in the Westmorland Collection’, ELN, 26 (1988), 13-17 (pp. 13-14).
Northamptonshire Record Office, W(A) Box 6 Parcel VI, No. 1, f. [12r].
—— XXXII. Triumphus Mortis (‘O mea suspicienda manus, ventérque perennis!’)
First published in The Works of George Herbert, ed. William Pickering, I (London, 1836). Hutchinson, pp. 418-21. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 108-17.
HrG 321
Copy of a version headed ‘Inuenta Bellica’ and beginning ‘O mortis longæua fames, venterque perennis’.
In: A quarto volume of Latin poems, 9 leaves, ff. 2r-9r in a single largely secretary hand, with additions in a largely roman hand on f. 9v, in modern brown calf (rebacked). Early-mid-17th century.
Later owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector.
Edited from this MS in G.M. Story, ‘George Herbert's Inventa Bellica: A New Manuscript’, MP, 59 (1962), 270-2.
HrG 321.5
Copy of a version of lines 62-99, headed ‘Inventa Bellica’ and here beginning ‘O Mortis longæva fames venterq perennis’, in a neat italic hand, subscribed ‘G Herbert’, on three pages of a pair of conunct folio leaves, folded as a letter. c.1620s.
In: An unbound collection of mainly verse MSS, in various hands, 142 leaves.
Volume LXVII 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. Purchased March 1995.
HrG 321.8
Copy of lines 62-101, in an italic hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Plumbea glans livensq suæ quasi conscia noxæ’, subscribed ‘G. Herbert’, on a quarto-size leaf, split at the folds and imperfect, lacking the first 61 lines. c.1632s.
In: the MS described under HrG 321.5.
HrG 322
Copy of a version headed ‘Inventæ Bellica’, here beginning ‘O Martis longæva fames! venterque perennis!’, subscribed ‘T: May’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf. Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s[-55].
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Dobell MS’: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18A. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).
HrG 323
Copy of a version headed ‘Inventa Bellica’ and beginning ‘O mortis longaeua fames, verterque perennis’, subscribed ‘G: Herbert’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, written over a period in three hands (A, in alternating secretary and italic, written c.1638: ff. 1-59v; B, written c.1645: ff. 60r-9r; C, written c.1649, ff. 69v-70r), 70 leaves, in old calf. Including thirteen poems by Strode and three of doubtful authorship. c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
Later sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9569. Bookplate of 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 193.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Rosenbach MS I’: CwT Δ 31 and StW Δ 23.
HrG 323.5
MS, headed ‘Inventa Bellica’, on two and a half quarto pages, allegedly ‘Entirely autograph and signed, upwards of one hundred lines, closely written’. Early-mid-17th century.
Waller's sale catalogue, No. 123 (1879), lot 104.
Memoriae Matris Sacrum. II. (‘Corneliae sanctae, graues Semproniae’)
First published in A Sermon of Commemoration of the Lady Dauers. By John Donne. together with other Commemorations of Her (London, 1627). Hutchinson, pp. 422-31 (pp. 422-4). McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 122-9.
HrG 324
Copy of lines 1-51, headed ‘In Mortem [deleted]’, and docketed ‘G. Herbert on his mother. / Edited’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in a single small hand, 54 leaves, in vellum boards. Compiled by a Cambridge University man. c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Hutchinson.
Musae Responsoriae ad Andreae Melvini Scoti Ante-tami-cami-categoriam (‘Cvm millena tuam pulsare negotia mentem’)
A series first published in James Duport, Ecclesiastes Solomonis (Cambridge, 1662). Hutchinson, pp. 384-403. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 2-61.
HrG 324.2
Copy of three poems in the sequence: Nos XI (‘De iuramento Ecclesiæ’); XIX (‘De Textore Catharo’); and XL (‘Ad D.O. M’), copied c.1663 as ‘not yet printed’.
In: the MS described under HrG 290.1. c.1667-73.
Hutchinson, pp. 389, 382, 402-3. McCloskey & Murphy, pp. 20, 28, 60.
HrG 324.5
Copy of 43 poems, comprising (f. 6r-v) the three preliminary poems addressed to James I, to Prince Charles, and to Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, and (ff. 7r-19r) Epigrams i-xl.
In: the MS described under HrG 301.5. c.1620s.
The text here follows a copy (on ff. 1r-5r) of Andrew Melville's Pro supplici euangelicorum ministrorum in Anglia...siue Anti-tami-cami-categoria (beginning ‘Insolens audax facinus nefandum’) which inspired Herbert's response. It was written in 1603-4 and first published in David Calderwood, Parasynagma Perthense (1620). Hutchinson, pp. 609-14.
HrG 324.8
Copy, in an italic hand, of 42 poems, comprising two of the preliminary poems addressed to James I and Prince Charles and Epigrams i-xl.
The text follows a copy (on ff. 2r-5r) of Andrew Melville's Pro Supplici Evangelicor[um] Ministroru In Anglia...sive Anti-tami-cami-categoria (here beginning ‘Insolens audax facinus nefandu’) which inspired Herbert's response. It was written in 1603-4 and first published in David Calderwood, Parasynagma Perthense (1620). Early 17th century.
In: A quarto composite volume of verse and dramatic works, in various hands, 200 leaves, each of the fifteen items now bound separately in modern boards.
Sotheby's, 19 March 1930, lot 450.
Passio Discerpta (‘Cvm lacrymas oculósque duos tot vulnera vincant’)
First published in Grosart (1874). Hutchinson, pp. 404-9. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 62-79.
*HrG 325
Autograph of twenty-one Latin poems.
In: the MS described under HrG 2. c.1620s.
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Hutchinson. Facsimiles of f. 103r in Palmer, I, 168, and of f. 106r in Hutchinson, frontispiece.
‘Peregrinis Almam Matrem Invisentibus’
First published in J. Gibbs, ‘An Unknown Poem of George Herbert’, TLS (30 December 1949), p. 857.
HrG 326
Copy, in an unidentified hand, subscribed ‘G. Herbert Orator’. On the blank page facing the title-page in a printed exemplum of The Workes of James I (London, 1616 [1620 issue]), a folio volume in contemporary calf. c.1620s.
Bookplate with the motto ‘Timet Pudorem’.
Edited from this MS in Gibbs, where it is mistakenly described as autograph. Facsimile in The Houghton Library 1942-1967: A Selection of Books and Manuscripts in Harvard Collections (Cambridge, Mass., 1967), p. 53.
‘Sume Palatini versus de numine Phoebi’
First published in Leicester Bradner, ‘New Poems by George Herbert: The Cambridge Latin Gratulatory Anthology of 1613’, RN, 15 (1962), 208-11. Translation in Kenneth Alan Hovey, ‘George Herbert's Authorship of “To the Queene of Bohemia”’, RQ, 30/1 (Spring 1977), 43-50 (pp. 44-5).
Wren cum chirothecis (‘Candida amicitiæ nascentis pignora, sed quæ’)
Ten lines, unpublished.
Prose
Oratio in Discessum Regis ab Academiâ Cantabrigiae habita 120 die Martij 1622
First published in Hutchinson (1941), pp. 443-4.
HrG 328
Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, on one side of a single folio leaf, endorsed ‘Oratio in discessum Regis ab Academia, Cantabrigiæ habita 12o die Martij 1622’. [1623].
In: A folio guard-book of independent Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-179.
Edited from this MS in Hutchinson.
Outlandish Proverbs
First published in London, 1640. Hutchinson, pp. 321-55.
HrG 329
Copy of 204 proverbs, headed ‘In the Name of God, IHS. Amen. Proverbs’, on the first three pages of one of the [MS?] story books of the Little Gidding community. c.1630s.
Formerly owned by Lady Langman.
This MS collated in Hutchinson and described p. 571. Erroneously recorded in IELM, I.ii (1980) as at Clare College, Cambridge.
HrG 330
Copy of 72 proverbs, on quarto leaves, ff. 1r-2r in the italic hand of George Herbert's brother, Sir Henry Herbert (1594-1673), Master of the Revels, headed ‘Outlandishe Prouerbs selected out of seuerall Languages & entered here the [?vi or 2i]. August 1637. At Ribsford. H. H.’, followed (ff. 5r-7r) by proverbs in a different cursive italic hand, on quarto leaves from another stock of paper. 1637.
In: A folio composite volume of family papers, chiefly verse and proverbs, in several hands, 43 leaves, in modern brown morocco gilt.
Among papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle, including particularly papers of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582?-1648). Acquired in 1916.
This MS collated in Hutchinson and discussed p. 572.
Documents
Will
*HrG 330.5
Herbert's last will and testament, in the hand of his curate, Nathaniel Bostocke, and signed by Herbert, dated 25 February 1632/3, and proved 12 March 1632/3. 1633.
Edited in Hutchinson, pp. 382-3.
HrG 330.8
A registered copy of Herbert's last will and testament, in a professional hand, proved 12 March 1632/3. 1633.
Miscellaneous Extracts from Works by Herbert
Extracts
HrG 331
Extracts, headed ‘These Verses taken out of Mr George Herbert's Poems’.
In: A large quarto miscellany of verse extracts, comprising 182 entries, in a single cursive hand varying in style, 115 unnumbered leaves (plus 26 blanks), in contemporary calf. Entitled (f. [1r]) ‘A Collection of Miscellany Poems from the Greatest Poets, both Ancient and Modern That i have Read, & here place for my own entertainment, to diuert Malincolly Thoughts, & to assist My Memory, That was neuer Good at no Time:’. Late-17th century.
From the library at Newburgh Priory, Yorkshire.
HrG 332
A series of extracts, headed ‘Precepts out of Herbert's Poem’.
In: A quarto miscellany of devotional writings and extracts, in a single cursive italic hand, 359 pages, in contemporary blind-stamped calf. Compiled by Dame Sarah Cowper (1644-1720), of Panshanger.
HrG 333
Adapted extracts from various poems by Herbert.
In: the MS described under HrG 196.5. c.1671/2.
Discussed by Sidney Gottlieb in ‘Allusions to George Herbert in Robert Overton's Gospell Obseruations & Religious Manifestations’, SP, 90 (1993), 83-100, and in ‘George Herbert and Robert Overton’, George Herbert Journal, 18 (1994-5), 184-200.
Princeton, CO199 No. 812, passim, including pp. 157-8, 316-25, 327-50, 352-6, 358-67.