Verse
Ad. charissimam memoriam Th. Nashi amici dilectissimi Beniamin Jons. hoc elegidium consecrauit (‘Mortals yt yet respire wth plenteous breathe’)
First published in Katherine Duncan-Jones, ‘Jonson's epitaph on Nashe’, TLS, 7 July 1995, pp. 4, 6.
JnB 0.5
Copy, the first of five elegies on Nashe in the hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, on f. 1r of a small folded leaf. c.1601.
Edited from this MS, and discussed, in Katherine Duncan-Jones's TLS article; in her ‘“They say a made a good end” Ben Jonson's Epitaph on Thomas Nashe’, Ben Jonson Journal, 3 (1996), 1-19; and in Robert C. Evans, ‘Ambiguity and Balance in Jonson's “New” Poem on Nashe’, Renaissance Papers (1998), 125-36.
‘And must I sing? what subiect shall I chuse?’
First published in Diuerse Poetical Essaies appended to Robert Chester, Loues Martyr (London, 1601). The Forrest (x) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 107-8.
See also JnB 423-4.
JnB 1
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single cursive secretary hand, with a later title-page supplied in 1832, x + 116 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century black leather elaborately gilt. Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by the compiler, ‘Richardus Jackson 1623’ and ‘Richard Jackson his booke’, who is described in a later pencil note as perhaps the brachygrapher. On ff. 113v-16r, in a later hand, is a ‘Catalogue of ye Books lately belonging to ye. Rev. Mr Jackson Rectr of Tatham’. c.1628-30s.
Also inscribed (f. 1r) ‘John Pecke’. Sold by Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, in 1831-2. Among collections of James Orchard Halliwell (from 1872 Halliwell-Phillipps) (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bought by him in 1871 from Sotheran's, London.
A 247-page transcript of this volume made c.1830 is in the Folger Shakespeare Library, MS M.b.26.
Another. In defence of their Inconstancie. A Song (‘Hang up those dull, and envious fooles’)
First published in The Vnder-wood (vi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 146.
JnB 2
Copy, headed ‘A song Apologetique: In defence of womens inconstancy’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in probably two or more secretary hands, 108 pages, in half brown morocco. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89). Bookplate of James W. Ellsworth.
JnB 3
Copy, headed ‘In Defence of weomens inconstancy by Ben: I:’.
In: An octavo commonplace book, 209 pages, in 17th-century calf (rebacked). Owned and probably compiled (in part) by one John Hale. c.1650s-1725.
An Answer to Alexander Gil (‘Shall the prosperity of a Pardon still’)
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 410-11.
JnB 4
Copy, headed ‘Another answeare’ and here beginning ‘Doth the prosperitie of a pardon still’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford and afterwards with the Inns of Court, 73 leaves (plus a few blanks and a modern index). Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9510. (Phillipps sale, lot 1015.) Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 342. Formerly MS 4201. 27. 1.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Dobell MS II’: StW Δ 19. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.42.
This MS evidently the Dobell MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 4.3
Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnson's Answer to ye said verses [by Alexander Gill]’.
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’.
JnB 4.5
Copy, headed ‘Ben: Johnsons reply’ and here beginning ‘Doeth ye prosperity of A pardon, still’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt. Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1650.
Scribbling on the first page including the words ‘Peyton Chester…’.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Osborn MS I’: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.
JnB 5
Copy, headed ‘An Answer’ and here beginning ‘Doth the prosperity of a pardon still’, in a MS volume. c.1632-42.
Formerly owned by Richard Heber (1773-1833), book collector.
Edited from his transcript of this MS in John Payne Collier, ‘Ben Jonson and Alexander Gill’, The Athenaeum, No. 1957 (29 April 1865), pp. 587-8, whence collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 6
Copy, headed ‘To Alexander Gill’ and here beginning ‘Doth the prosperity of a pardon still’, in a verse miscellany. 17th century?.
Once owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger.
Edited from this MS in John Payne Collier, An Old Man's Diary (London, 1871-2), part ii, p. 13, whence collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 7
Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnson against Gill’.
In: A folio heraldic notebook and miscellany compiled by John Cooper, a clerk of Sir Christopher Hatton (1605?-70), and relating in part to the latter's Book of Seals, 83 leaves, in contemporary vellum boards. c.1632-43.
Dawson's sale catalogue No. 200 (1969), item 24. Sotheby's, 29 October 1975, lot 78 (unsold).
A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph (‘See the Chariot at hand here of Love’)
First published (all ten poems) in The Vnder-wood (ii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 131-42 (pp. 134-5). Lines 11-30 of poem 4 (beginning ‘Doe but looke on her eyes, they do light’) first published in The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-113 (London, 1631).
JnB 8
Copy, headed ‘In Dominam amatoriam’ and here beginning ‘See now ye chariot at hand heere of Loue’, subscribed ‘B: Johnson’.
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.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 8.5
Copy of lines 21-30, headed ‘On a Mrs’ and here beginning ‘Haue you seene ye Lilly grow’, followed by the ‘Answer’ (‘Have you seene a black-head maggott’).
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in probably three hands, written from both ends, 86 leaves, in 17th-century calf. c.1648-61.
Scribbling on f. 33r rev. including the name ‘Elizabeth keech’.
JnB 9
Copy, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson.
In: A folio music book, containing 327 songs, in three largely secretary hands, with a ‘Cattalogue’ of contents, 229 leaves. Owned (in 1659) and partly compiled by the composer John Gamble (d.1687), with some misnumbering. c.1630s-50s.
Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.
A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 10 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in Charles W. Hughes, ‘John Gamble's Commonplace Book’, M&L, 26 (1945), 215-29.
This MS recorded in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 150-1. Facsimile in Jorgens, X.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 2.
JnB 10
Copy 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.
JnB 11
Copy of lines 11-30, headed ‘Songe’ and here beginning ‘Doe but loke on her eyes they doe delight’, subscribed ‘B: J:’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single professional hand, with later additions on ff. 58v-62v in three or four other hands, 65 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. Compiled by one Thomas Crosse, whose name appears (f. 1*) in ‘An Acrosticke upon my name’, as well as subscribed (‘Tho: Cro:)’ to a poem on ff. 23v-4r. c.1630s [-1670s].
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 11.5
Copy of lines 11-30, untitled and here beginning ‘Doe butt look on her Eyes, they doe light’.
In: A folio formal verse miscellany, comprising c.406 poems, many of them song lyrics, in various neat hands, compiled probably over a period, 8 blank leaves (pp. [i-xvi]) + 10 unnumbered pages of poems (pp. [xvii-xxvi]) + 9 numbered pages (pp. 1-9) + ff. [9v]-151v + 12 leaves at the end blank but for a poem on the penultimate page (f. [11v]), in contemporary calf gilt. Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘Sr Robert Killigrew / 1702’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.
Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, ‘Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?’, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, ff. 51v-2r.
JnB 12
Copy of lines 21-30, headed ‘A song’ and here beginning ‘Haue you seene ye white Lilly grow’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index. Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s.
Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Elizabeth Lane hir booke’ and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, ‘Johannes Finch’. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Elizabeth Lane MS’: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).
JnB 13
Copy of lines 21-30, headed ‘Cant 17’ and here beginning ‘Haue you seene the white lillye grow’, with two additional stanzas.
In: A folio verse miscellany, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Entitled Miscentur seria iocis. 1647. Elegies, Exequies, Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs Satires and other Poems, a formal compilation entirely in the hand of the Yorkshire antiquary John Hopkinson (1610-80). 1647.
From the library of Cecil Brent, FSA. Sold by P.J. & A.E. Dobell, January 1938.
JnB 14
Copy of lines 21-30.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and university exercises, including twelve poems by Carew, in a single hand, compiled by Edward Natley, Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, 165 leaves (including many blanks), in calf (rebacked). c.1635-44.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 2592. Sotheby's, 10 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 960. Owned in 1896 by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Acquired in 1950 from H.F.B. Brett-Smith, Oxford literary scholar and editor.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Natley MS’: CwT Δ 6.
JnB 15
Copy of lines 21-30, untitled and here beginning ‘Haue you scene the white Lilly grow’, written lengthways along the inner margin.
In: A quarto composite volume of four MSS, in English and Latin, iii + 187 leaves, in vellum boards. Part B (ff. 16d-86v): A quarto miscellany of poems and letters, in several hands, compiled by William Elyott (a nephew of Sir Simonds D'Ewes). c.1640-55.
Part C (ff. 86 bis-120r): A quarto verse miscellany compiled by Thomas Axton, M.A. (b.1699/1700), of Trinity College, Cambridge. c.1718-22.
Part C sold at the Thomas Rawlinson sale in March 1733/4, lot 289.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 16
Copy of lines 21-30, headed ‘A song’ and here beginning ‘Have you seene the lilly grow’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 98 pages (plus some blanks), in reversed calf (rebacked). c.1620s-30s.
Inscribed (f. ir) by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), the date ‘1741’ added.
JnB 17
Copy of lines 21-30, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson, untitled and here beginning ‘Haue you seene but a Whyte Lillie grow’.
In: A folio songbook, in probably two secretary and italic hands, 25 leaves, in a recycled contemporary vellum indenture within modern half red morocco. c.1614-30.
Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘John Shurlane His Booke’, and (f. 24v rev.) ‘This Book Do[ ] / Hugh ffloyd / Domn: 11’, with dates ‘28 Nov. 1630’ and ‘1633’. Purchased from Thomas Rodd, bookseller, 13 April 1844.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).
Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 54-5. Recorded in Herford & Simpson, XI, 609. Facsimile in F.H. Potter, Reliquary of English Song (London, 1935), facing p. x.
JnB 18
Copy of lines 21-30, headed ‘Another’ and here beginning ‘Have you seen ye white lilie growe’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, including sixteen poems by Strode and one of doubtful authorship, in several hands, including a small mixed hand on ff. 2r-43v, cursive secretary hands thereafter, and Latin entries in italic at the reverse end, 139 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1630s.
A flyleaf inscribed ‘[?] Johannes Philips’. Acquired from H. Stevens 11 December 1852.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1987), as the ‘John Philips MS’: StW Δ 8.
JnB 19
Copy of lines 21-30, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson, untitled.
In: An oblong folio songbook, the lyrics in two or more secretary and italic hands, 44 leaves, in contemporary vellum within brown calf gilt, stamped with the initials ‘A. B.’, now within modern half red morocco. c.1630.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Richard Elliotts his Booke’ and ‘William Wilkins 1743’. The cover initials ‘A. B.’ conjecturally attributed to Adrian Batten (1591-1637), composer. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1873.
Facsimile of ff. 2r-26v in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).
This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 150-3.
JnB 20
Copy of lines 21-30.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves. Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.early 1630s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) by one ‘I A’ of Christ Church, Oxford, and also ‘Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison’. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Killigrew MS’: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.
JnB 20.5
Copy of lines 21-30, untitled, here beginning ‘Have you seene ye white lilly growe’.
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.
JnB 21
Copy of lines 21-30, untitled and here beginning ‘Haue you seene the white lilly growe’, with an additional stanza beginning ‘Haue you seene the faire christall rocke’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, chiefly (ff. 1r-14r) in a single small mixed hand, i + 15 leaves, the eighth and last item in a composite volume of otherwise printed amatory poems and pamphlets, in 19th-century quarter brown calf. c.1620s.
The volume inscribed (on flyleaves) ‘E Bedford’, ‘W Monteagle’, ‘Fra: Goodwin’, ‘Edw nedwarde’.
The MS poems here edited in Frederick J. Furnivall, Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted New York, 1977).
Furnivall, pp. 16-17.
JnB 22
Copy of lines 21-8, headed ‘A song’ and here beginning ‘Did you ever see ye white lilly grow’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single cursive hand, 30 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half-calf. Compiled by a royalist. Mid-late 17th century.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Wm Godolphin Servt to Mr Savile’ and ‘Hen: Savile Servt: to Mr Godolphin’.
JnB 23
Copy of lines 21-30, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson, here beginning ‘Have you seene the white lilly grow’.
In: MS songbook. Owned and probably compiled by Elizabeth Davenant (sister of Sir William Davenant), of Oxford. c.1624-30s.
Complete facsimile of this MS volume in Jorgens, VII (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘“Mris Elizabeth Davenant 1624”: Christ Church MS. Mus. 87’, RES, NS 10 (1959), 26-37.
This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 150-1. Recorded in Herford & Simpson, XI, 609. Facsimile in Jorgens, VII.
JnB 23.5
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, untitled, here beginning ‘Haue you seene the white lillye growe’.
In: A folio songbook, in at least two secretary hands, dated on the first page ‘June the ffirst 1639’, 25 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. c.1639.
Bookseller's label of Kenneth Mummery, Bournemouth.
Clark Library, Los Angeles, C6967M4 [1639] Bound, ff. 13v-14r.
JnB 24
Copy of lines 21-30, headed ‘A Lover to his Mistrisse’ and here beginning ‘Haue you seene the whyte lillye grow’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, arranged (Part I) as an anthology, under genre headings, the reverse end (Part II) largely occupied by a later series of Latin verses, epistles, and other exercises, 168 leaves, in old calf (rebacked). Part I probably in several hands, the predominant italic hand that also responsible for the ‘Welbeck MS’: DnJ Δ 57), and including 21 poems by Donne. c.1630 [-1677].
Part I inscribed (f. 1r) ‘John Smyth his Book 1640’, ‘Charles Smyth 1674’, ‘Hugh Smyth 1676’; (f. 23v) ‘J Smyth 1677 / 1676’. Part II inscribed several times ‘Thomas Smith’, on f. 19r also ‘Die: Maij 12o Ano 1659’, with a reference on f. 58v to Balliol College, Oxford, 1659/60. Later inscribed (f. [ir]) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), who records buying ‘this very curious and interesting MS. of Messrs Boone’. Afterwards in the library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1. 28.
Cited in IELM, I.i, as the ‘Thomas Smyth MS’: DnJ Δ 48.
JnB 25
Copy of lines 21-30, headed ‘A Sonnet’ and here beginning ‘Have you seene the white Lilly grow’.
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).
This MS probably the Dobell MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 26
Copy of lines 21-30, here beginning ‘Haue you seene the bright lilly growe’, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson.
In: A folio songbook, largely in a single secretary hand, with poems and (reversed) culinary and medical receipts in later hands at the end, imperfect or incomplete, now 27 leaves, lacking half the songs listed in a ‘Table’ at the end. c.1620s-30s.
The original cover inscribed ‘Ann Twice her booke’. Inscribed on the first page ‘My Cosen Twice Leftte this Booke with me...which is to be returne to her AGhaine...’. Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.
A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 11 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘“Songs Vnto the Violl and Lute” -- Drexel Ms. 4175’, Musica Disciplina, 16 (1962), 73-92.
Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 56.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4175, No. xlix.
JnB 27
Copy of lines 21-30, headed ‘A Lover on his Mistresse’ and here beginning ‘Have you seene the white Lilly grow’.
In: A small quarto verse anthology, in a single minute hand (but for p. 206), arranged under genre headings (‘Epitaphs’, ‘Satyricall’, ‘Love Sonnets’, etc.), probably associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 382 pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the ‘Thomas Smyth MS’ (DnJ Δ 48). c.1630s.
Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Welbeck MS’: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, ‘A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others’, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).
JnB 27.5
Copy of lines 21-30, headed ‘The Properties of My Mistres. 23’ and here beginning ‘Have you seen ye Whitt Lillie grow’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in various hands, including seventeen poems by Carew, a title-page inscribed ‘A book of Verses / Seria mixta Jocis’, c.260 pages, in calf blind-stamped ‘V/I F 1667’. References to ‘Westminster Drollerie’ (which was not published until 1671) added on pp. 1 and 242. c.1667-8.
Inscribed on the title-page ‘Frendraught Legi’: i.e. by James Crichton (d.1674/5), second Viscount Frendraught. Bookplate of Thomas Fraser Duff (1830-77), of Woodcote, Oxfordshire. Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 9 April 1987, lot 272 (with a facsimile of p. 131 in the sale catalogue), sold to Quaritch.
JnB 28
Copy of lines 21-30, headed ‘A Songe’ and here beginning ‘Haue you seene the white Lillye Growe’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands (A: pp. 1-56; B: pp. 57-60, 75-122; C: pp. 61-74, 125-7), 127 pages, in contemporary limp vellum. Including 23 poems (and a second copy of one) by Randolph. c.1635.
Mostyn MS 196: from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, the MS possibly acquired by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) or by his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 191.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Mostyn MS’: RnT Δ 11. Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1873), Appendix, p. 356. Edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) [Mic 59-4669].
JnB 29
Copy of lines 21-30, headed ‘On thy Lady Percy’ and here beginning ‘Haue you seene the bright-Lilly growe’.
In: An oblong quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat hand, written with the volume tilted with the spine to the top, 167 pages (plus blanks), in elaborately tooled green morocco gilt. Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by Strode (and two poems of doubtful authorship). c.1634.
The initials ‘M W’ stamped on each cover: i.e. M[aidstone] and W[inchilsea]. Evidently compiled by or for Sir Thomas Finch, Viscount Maidstone and Earl of Winchilsea (who succeeded to the peerage in 1633 and died in 1634). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 190.
The MS came to Rosenbach with a printed exemplum of William Wishcart, An Exposition of the Lord's Prayer (London, 1633), and the two clearly share the same provenance. The printed volume is similarly bound, with the initials ‘M W’; it is inscribed ‘Lord Winchilsea for Mr Locker 1634’; it bears the late 17th-century signatures of Stephen Locker and Alexander Campbell, and the bookplates of Captain William Locker (1731-1800) and Edward Hawke Locker (1777-1849).
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Winchelsea MS’: CwT Δ 33 and StW Δ 25.
JnB 30
Copy of lines 21-30, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson, untitled and here beginning ‘Heave you seen bot a bright lillie grow’.
In: A quarto musical part book, in several neat secretary and italic hands, with some initial-letter decoration, headed (f. 5r) ‘This is the fyrst Buke addit to the four psalme Bukkes, for songis of four or fyue partis, meit and apt for musitians, to recreat...’, with (ff. 2r-4r) a table of contents, 63 leaves, in old blind-stamped calf. One of the part books of the ‘St Andrews Psalter’. Early 17th century.
This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 150-1.
JnB 31
Copy of lines 21-30, untitled and here beginning ‘Have yu seene the white lilly grow’; 1620s-30s.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves. c.1620-40s.
Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Morley MS’: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the ‘Killigrew MS’ (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).
Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.
Edited from this MS, including the parody, in Joshua Eckhardt, Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry (Oxford, 2009), p. 178.
JnB 32
Copy of lines 21-30, headed ‘A song’ and here beginning ‘Have you seene the white lilly grow’.
In: A sextodecimo verse miscellany, written from both ends in several hands (two principal ones on ff. 6r-40r, 41r et seq. respectively), 102 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf, with remains of metal clasps. Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Formerly Box 22, item II.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the ‘Osborn MS II’: StW Δ 30.
JnB 33
Copy of lines 21-30, here beginning ‘Have you seen ye white lilly grow’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several hands, showing communal use, 161 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.
Formerly Chest II, No. 21.
JnB 34
Copy of an extended 24-line version of lines 21-30, untitled and here beginning ‘Haue you seene ye white lilly grow’.
In: An octavo miscellany, comprising ‘Instructions for Justices of the Peace’ in a roman hand at one end and, from the other end a collection of poems in a secretary hand, much of the MS written in double columns in oblong format, 92 leaves, in calf. c.1623-30s.
Probably compiled by two members of the Calverley family (f. 1r contains a poem headed ‘A new years giuft presented to my father and Mother by my Brother Thomas Calverly’).
Later in the library od Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9624. Owned before 1947 by N.M. Broadbent. Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 13 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 135, to Maggs.
Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson, VIII, 135-6. Facsimile in Christie's sale catalogue, 13 June 1979 (Arthur A. Houghton Jr sale), lot 135, plate 20.
JnB 35
Copy of line 21 only, here ‘Heav you seen but a bright lillie grow’, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson, untitled.
In: Three small quarto musical part books of the ‘St Andrews Psalter’ (the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1566 etc. by Thomas Wode, afterwards Vicar of St Andrews), copied c.1575-8, in formal angular roman hands, with rubrication and colour decoration, and with a series of secular songs added later in secretary and italic hands at the end, comprising (i) Treble part: iv + 214 pages (including blanks; (ii) Tenor part: iv + 200 pages; and (iii) Bassus part: 214 pages, all in 19th-century black morocco (iii incorporating an original vellum board). c.1575-early 17th century.
For a fourth (Counter-tenor) part book of this Psalter, see British Library, Add. MS 33933.
This MS recorded in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 150-3.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 483, (iii) p. 201.
A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 7. Begging another, on colour of mending the former (‘For Loves-sake, kisse me once againe’)
Herford & Simpson, VIII, 139.
JnB 36
Copy, headed ‘On Begging A kiss of his Mris’.
In: A large folio composite verse miscellany, chiefly folio, partly quarto, 243 pages, in contemporary calf. Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to ‘I Nicholas Burgh’ occurring on ff. 165r, with the date ‘3d of June 1638’, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands. c.1638.
Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Burghe MS’: CwT Δ 1.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 37
Copy of a version of lines 1-6, untitled.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single neat largely italic hand, 155 leaves, in modern half-morocco. c.1630.
The table of contents (f. 155v) subscribed ‘Margrett Bellasys’, possibly the daughter of Thomas Belasyse (1577-1652), first Viscount Fauconberg of Henknowle. The front endpaper later inscribed ‘The pieces which I have extracted for “The Specimens” are, Page 91, 211, 265’: i.e. possibly by Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), editor of Specimens of the British Poets first published in 1809. Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Evans (Sotheby's), 29 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part VIII), lot 13.
JnB 38
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio composite volume of separate MSS of verse and some prose, in various secretary and italic hands, written over an extended period, with a table of contents (f. 3r-v), 186 leaves. Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the ‘Edward Smyth MS’ (DnJ Δ 45); also 15 poems (and second copies of two) by Henry King; and 19 poems (and two of doubtful authorship) by Carew. c.1620-50.
Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.
This MS is the ‘curious folio volume’ lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by ‘the late Lord Harborough’ and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his History of Leicestershire, 4 vols (1795-1815), III, part i (1800), 367.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Skipwith MS’: DnJ Δ 21; CwT Δ 14; KiH Δ 8. Also described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp. 119-29 (see KiH Δ 6). For Sir William Skipwith and his literary connections, see James Knowles, ‘Marston, Skipwith and The Entertainment at Ashby’, EMS, 3 (1992), 137-92 (esp.pp. 171-2).
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 38.5
Copy of lines 1-6 in a musical setting, untitled.
In: A tall folio composite miscellany of chiefly music and heraldic and genealogical material, in various hands and paper sizes, 45 leaves, in contemporary leather gilt with stamped initials ‘R A’ and arms of James I within modern half morocco. Volume XXII of the collections of Warren Royal Dawson (1888-1968), antiquary.
Associated with the Aston family of Aston, Cheshire, and probably once owned by Sir Roger Aston (d.1612), Master of the Great Wardrobe to James I and his heirs. Also inscribed with the names of [James?] Davies, an officer serving under Sir Charles Morgan during the Thirty Years War, and Thomas Davies. One section linscribed (f. 12r, c.1682-6) ‘Sylvanus Stirrop His Booke’. Bought by Warren Dawson at Sotheby's 1931.
This volume described in Pamela J. Willetts, ‘Silvanus Stirrop's Book’, Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, No. 10 (1972), 101-7, 156.
JnB 39
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, largely in a predominantly secretary hand, another hand on ff. 85r-7v, 95v-6r, xiii pages + 104 leaves (including blanks, but lacking ff. 7-9, 54-5, 95), with a table of contents (pp. 1-6), in modern calf, gilt-edged. Compiled by University or Inns of Court men. c.1630s.
The extracted fols 7, 8 and 54 are now Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2757, Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2216, and Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2217 respectively. The extracted fol. 9 is now Folger MS V.a.505, p. 27.
Inscribed (f. [104v] ‘Thomas White His Book May ye 20 Anno Domine 1691’. Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in his library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.21.
JnB 40
Copy of lines 1-6, headed ‘To his Mrs’.
In: A sextodecimo pocket miscellany, ff. 3r-53r in a single hand, other hands and scribbling on ff. 1r-2r, 54v, 87v-90v, 90 leaves in all (including blanks ff. 55r-87r), in contemporary calf, with remains of clasps. Including 12 poems by Carew. c.1650s.
Inscribed ‘Richard Archard his booke Amen 1650’; ‘Richard Archard his penn Amen 1657’; ‘to Mr Satars[?] towads the Casting of ye lead 1657’; ‘Tho: Wise’; ‘John Smith of halmortaine and I…went to Thornebury’; and ‘Edward Watt’. Bookplate of William Harris Arnold.
Cited in IELM, II.i, as the ‘Archard MS’: CwT Δ 24.
JnB 41
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, with later accounts on the last page dated June 1658, 1* + 238 pages (including stubs of extracted pages 191-6, plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked). Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph. c.1630s-40s.
Inscribed ‘Jane Wheeler’ and ‘Tho: Oliver Busfield’. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) ‘To ye two partners of my heart Mr John Wheeler, and Mr Symon Tue’. Item 96 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 2071.6.
A ‘Jo. Wheeler’ signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Wheeler MS’: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.
JnB 42
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio verse miscellany, in a single probably professional rounded hand (except for a poem on f. 81r and later scribbling); ii + 81 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to HeR Δ 2 and to RnT Δ 1. c. late 1630s.
Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) ‘Anthony St John/ Ann: St John/ 1640 Bletso’: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) ‘Oliver Beeesfor[d]’; and (f. 81v) ‘John Watts’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘St John MS’: HeR Δ 4 and RnT Δ 8. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 72).
JnB 43
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, 204 pages, in old calf. Including ten poems by Carew (and two of doubtful authorship) and 24 poems by Randolph. c.1630s.
Thomas Thorpe, ‘Catalogue of upwards of fourteen hundred manuscripts’ (1836), item 1030. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9282. Subsequently in the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 188.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Rosenbach MS I’: CwT Δ 31 and RnT Δ 10. The complete volume edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) (Rosenbach Library Mic 59-4669).
JnB 44
Copy of lines 1-12, with two other poems run on together.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, 89 leaves, in old calf gilt. Partly compiled (pp. 75-99) by one Robert Berkeley, who has inscribed the first page ‘Rob Berkeley his booke Ano. 1640’. c.1640s.
Formerly owned by Henry Huth (1815-78). Formerly Rosenbach 195.
JnB 44.5
Copy, headed ‘Clayminge another kiss on coullor of mending ye former, by Ben: J:’.
In: the MS described under JnB 3. c.1650s-1725.
A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 9. Her man described by her own Dictamen (‘Of your Trouble, Ben, to ease me’)
Herford & Simpson, VIII, 140-2.
JnB 45
Copy, headed ‘The Man’.
In: A folio volume of works in verse and prose, including (ff. 88r-144v) 98 poems by Donne and (among ff. 2r-56v, 173r-88v, 192r-204r) various masques and poems by Ben Jonson, 208 leaves. Compiled for Sir William Cavendish (1592-1676), first Duke of Newcastle, of Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire. Written principally in the semi-calligraphic hand of Cavendish's secretary John Rolleston (1597?-1681), of Sokeholme, Nottinghamshire, and including (ff. 57r-87v, 145r-72r, 189r-90v) some 85 poems by Dr Richard Andrews (d.1634), Rhetoric Reader at St John's College, Oxford, and physician, who has revised some six of the poems in his own hand, with one poem (f. 87r) by his daughter Francisca dated 14 August 1629. c.1620s-34.
After 1718 among the collections of Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford (who married in 1713 Newcastle's great granddaughter).
Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Newcastle MS’: DnJ Δ 3. Extensively discussed, and the main scribe identified, in Hilton Kelliher, ‘Donne, Jonson, Richard Andrews and the Newcastle Manuscript’, EMS, 4 (1993), 134-73, with facsimiles of ff. 2r, 55r, 84r and 88r. Facsimiles of ff. 1r and 6r also in Jonson's Masque of Gipsies, ed W.W. Greg (London, 1952), Plates X-XI, and of f. 172r in Lynn Hulse, ‘“The King's Entertainment” by the Duke of Newcastle’, Viator, 26 (1995), 355-405 (p. 365).
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 10. Another Ladyes exception present at the hearing (‘For his Mind, I doe not care’)
Herford & Simpson, VIII, 142.
JnB 46
Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘A Lady's Choyce’. c.1630s.
In: A quarto composite volume of verse MSS, in several hands and paper sizes, 129 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms, antiquary, his brother Oliver, and (in 1714) by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector. c.mid 17th century.
Later owned by Sir John Fenn (1739-94), antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 16-18 July 1866 (Fenn sale), lots 420-22.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
Charles Cauendish to his posteritie (‘Sonnes, seeke not me amonge these polish'd stones’)
First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. William Gifford, 9 vols (London, 1816). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 387-8.
JnB 47
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 45. c.1620s-34.
Printed from this MS in Gifford and in Herford & Simpson, and collated with the monument at Bolsover.
The Dreame (‘Or Scorne, or pittie on me take’)
First published in The Vnder-wood (xi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 150-1.
JnB 48
Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: A large folio volume of songs in musical settings by John Wilson (1595-1674), composer and musician, vi + 214 leaves (plus some blanks), gilt-edged, in contemporary black morocco elaborately gilt, lettered on each cover ‘DR. / I.W’, with silver clasps. Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82). c.1656.
Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth Century Lyrics: Oxford, Bodleian, MS. Mus. b. 1’, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209.
This MS collated (but overlooking two minor variants) in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth Century Lyrics’, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209 (p. 167). Facsimile in Jorgens, VII.
JnB 51
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Or skorne or on me pity take’.
In: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written over a period, 80 leaves (plus 67 blanks and stubs of numerous extracted leaves), in contemporary vellum gilt. Compiled by or for Sir Henry Cholmley, brother of Sir Hugh Cholmley (1600-57), the ascription ‘by my brother Sr Hugh Cholmley’ (1600-57) inserted on f. 19r in a cursive hand responsible for entries on ff. 3r-12v, 15v-29r, 41r-v, 75v-7r, the contents including twelve poems by Thomas Carew and poems by members of the circle of Lucius Cary (1610?-43), second Viscount Falkland, of Great Tew, Oxfordshire, by the St Leger family of Ulcombe, Kent, and by Sir William Twysden of Kent. c.1624-41.
Later bookplate of Henry B. Humphrey.
Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Cholmley MS’: CwT Δ 27.
JnB 52
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, written in alternating secretary and italic scripts, probably in a single hand; foliated in ink 1-32 and paginated in pencil 33-96, 32 leaves (lacking final leaf). Including nine poems by Randolph, plus two of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 10110. Bookplate of Robert Hoe (1839-1909), New York businessman and book collector.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Huntington MS’: RnT Δ 9. Complete microfilm at the Shakespeare Institute, Birmingham (Mic S 15).
JnB 53
Copy, headed ‘On a Virgin fallen in loue in her sleepe not knowing with whome’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, including 26 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Thomas Carew and poems by Henry King, in several hands, 92 leaves, plus an inserted gathering of eleven leaves after f. 82v (ff. [82a-82k]), but including stubs of some extracted leaves (ff. 74-8, 94-5), in contemporary vellum. Inscribed ‘To my euer honored good Cosen Sr John Reresby Barronett these prsent’: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall. c.1630s.
Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Mexborough MS’: CwT Δ 29.
JnB 54
Copy, in the hand of Wiliam Parkhurst.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters, tracts, and verse, collected by, and mostly in the hand of, William Parkhurst (fl.1604-67), Sir Henry Wotton's secretary in Venice and later Master of the Mint, including various works in verse and prose attributed to Donne, chiefly in a scribal hand, partly in Parkhurst's hand, 373 leaves (including blanks), in old calf.
Among the papers of the Finch family of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland. Mistakenly reported by Grierson and Logan Pearsall Smith to have been destroyed in a fire at Burley c.1908.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Burley MS’: DnJ Δ 53. Recorded in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 516. A complete microfilm of the MS is at the University of Sheffield, Microfilm 737.
A neat transcript of parts of the Burley MS (including principally poems on ff. 255r-v, 278v, [279r]-288v, 342v-3r, 294r-300r, 301r-8v), made before 1908, on 35 leaves, is in the Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 80.
JnB 55
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio volume of 121 poems by Donne and his Paradoxes and Problems, in a probably professional, predominantly italic hand (the scribe also probably responsible for the Dublin MS (I) (Trinity College, Dublin, MS 877); some poems by others added at the end (pp. 239-50) in other hands, 250 pages. c.1623-5.
Owned in the mid-late 17th century by ‘E. Puckering’ (signed f. 1r), probably a man but possibly Elizabeth (d.1689), wife of Sir Henry Newton (afterwards Puckering) (1618-1701), by whose bequest the MS came to Trinity College in 1691 (this Lady Elizabeth being the daughter of Thomas Murray (1564-1623), tutor to Prince Charles).
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Puckering MS, DnJ Δ 13. A note by Henry Bradshaw states that this MS was collated in 1861 and 1863 by the Rev. T.R. O' Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector.
Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R. 3. 12 (James 592), p. 242.
An Elegie On the Lady Jane Pawlet, Marchion: of Winton (‘what gentle Ghost, besprent with April deaw’)
First published in John Benson's 4to edition (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 268-72.
JnB 56
Copy in: A small duodecimo pocket-book volume (c.12 x 7cm) of poems by Ben Jonson, in a single small secretary hand, written from both ends, 28 leaves, in old brown calf. Transcribed principally by one ‘S. H.’ (born 20 October 1665) from John Benson's duodecimo edition of Horace: his Art of Poetry (London, 1640), the medicinal receipts on ff. 23v-8v partly in another hand. c.1680.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 57
Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand, subscribed ‘B J’.
In: A quarto miscellany of recusant verse, many of the 65 poems relating to the circle of the Catholic Aston family, in three hands, 200 leaves (including five preliminary blanks, and ff. 53r-135v are blank), in contemporary leather gilt. Compiled principally by Constance Fowler (d.1664), daughter of the diplomat Walter Aston, Baron Aston of Forfar (1584-1639), of Tixall and Colton, Staffordshire, her roman hand responsible for ff. 6r, 8r-15v, 24v-34v, 46v-52v, 136r-9r, 143v-59r, and 182v-95v. The second, predominantly secretary hand, responsible for fourteen poems on ff. 7r-v, 16r-24r, and 35r-46r, is that of Constance's sister Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68). The third hand, on ff. 196r-200v, is that of Constance's brother-in-law Sir William Pershall. c.1635-50s.
William H. Robinson, sale catalogue (1925), item 472.
This volume discussed, with a complete first-line index and a facsimile of f. 25r, in Jenijoy La Belle, ‘The Huntington Aston Manuscript’, The Book Collector, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67. See also Jenijoy La Belle, ‘A True Love's Knot: The Letters of Constance Fowler and the Poems of Herbert Aston’, JEGP, 79 (1980), 13-31. The complete volume edited in The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler: A Diplomatic Edition, ed. Deborah Aldrich-Watson (Tempe, Arizona, 2000), with a facsimile of f. 28v on p. lxiv.
Aldrich-Watson, pp. 107-9.
JnB 58
Copy, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.
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 collated in Herford & Simpson.
An Epigram on the Princes birth (‘And art thou borne, brave Babe? Blest be thy birth’)
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 237-8.
JnB 60
Copy, lacking the first two lines.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf. c.1630s.
Inscribed (f. 101v) ‘Henry Lawson’ (or just possibly ‘Lamson’). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Lawson MS’: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.
JnB 61
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the birth of ye yong Prince, eldest son to K. Charles. borne May 29. 1630’, subscribed ‘Ben: Jhonson’.
In: A folio composite volume, chiefly of English and Latin verse, in various hands; vi + 186 leaves, in reversed calf.
Scribbling on f. iir including ‘ffor mr William Rabey in New=market...’, ‘ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at mr Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk]’, ‘ffor mr John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge’; notes on f. iiiv-ivr, one ‘Recd 22 July 1669’, subscribed ‘John Cooke’ and including, on f. vir, ‘ffor mr John Cocke at his howse neere the white harte in Thetford...’. Later owned, in the 1730s, by Charles Barlow, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (his bookplate f. iiv).
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 62
Copy, headed ‘On the Princes Birth’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany and masque, in at least three hands, written from both ends, i + 123 leaves, in contemporary calf. Mid-late 17th century.
Including (f. 1r) an anagram on Frances Pawlett. Inscribed in red ink (f. 123v) ‘Egigius Frampton hunc librum jure tenet non est mortale quod opto: 1659’: i.e. by Giles Frampton, who is perhaps responsible for some of the later poems. Also inscribed [?]‘R. N. 1663’. Some later notes in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 63
Copy, headed ‘An Epigr. on ye Princes birth. may. 29. 1630’, subscribed ‘Ben Johnson’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in two or more cursive hands, written from both ends, iv + 278 pages, in contemporary calf. Compiled principally by one ‘H. S.’, a Cambridge University man. c.1640s-60s.
This MS volume edited in D.J. Rose, MS Rawlinson Poetical 147: An Annotated Volume of Seventeenth-Century Cambridge Verses (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leicester, 1992), of which a copy is in Cambridge University Library, Manuscript Department, A8f.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 64
Copy 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 Herford & Simpson.
JnB 65
Copy, subscribed ‘Ben Johnson’.
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.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 66
Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnsons Epigram on the prince his birth’.
In: the MS described under JnB 18. c.1630s.
JnB 67
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, written from both ends, 192 leaves (including blanks), in old brown calf. Compiled, over a period, principally by Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), Chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford, and Henry King's amanuensis, including (ff. 7r-61r) 24 poems by King in Manne's formal hand, written c.1625-30s; ff. 61v-72v, 73r-99v, 100r-101v written in a variant style of Manne's hand, c.1630s; and (ff. 72v, 99v, 102r-14v, 190v-169r rev.) additions in six other hands, c.1630s-44, with (ff. 75r, 76r, and 76v) three poems to which the subscription ‘R. Dorset’ is added in the hand of King himself. c.1625-46.
Inscribed (f. 190v rev.) ‘Ann Littleton’. Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue, [June 1848], p. 31. Sotheby's, 4 Februry 1850 (Rodd sale), lot 500, to James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Afterward owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 June 1873 (Corser sale), lot 325, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Later owned by the bookdealer Philip Robinson. Sotheby's, 26 June 1974, lot 3013, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Thomas Manne MS’: KiH Δ 7. Used in Crum. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).
JnB 68
Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnson on the princes birth’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany in several hands, written from both ends, 46 leaves, in contemporary calf. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed names (on front paste-down and f. 1r) of ‘Fra: Norreys’ (? Sir Francis Norris (1609-69)) and ‘Hen. Balle’. Purchased from J. Harvey 8 December 1877.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 69
Copy, headed ‘An Epigram Vpon the Prince his birth May 19o 1630’ and subscribed ‘Benjamin Johnson’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in a single secretary hand, written from both ends, 179 leaves, in 19th-century half blue morocco gilt. c.1640s.
Inscribed (f. 179r) ‘This is Sr. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book’: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 70
Copy, headed ‘Another’.
In: An octavo notebook of extracts, chiefly verse, compiled by one or two University of Cambridge men, 69 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1653-60s.
JnB 71
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 56. c.1680.
JnB 72
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf. Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1634.
The initials ‘T. C.’ stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Rosenbach MS II’: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).
JnB 73
Copy, headed ‘An Epigram’.
In: the MS described under JnB 58. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
An Epigram To my Mvse, the Lady Digby, on her Husband, Sir Kenelme Digby (‘Tho', happy Muse, thou know my Digby well’)
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxviii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 262-3.
JnB 74
Copy, headed ‘An Epigram on Sr Kellum to my Muse’, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 11. c.1630s [-1670s].
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 74.5
Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnsons epigram on Sr. Kenelm Digby. To my Muse’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat predominantly italic hand, occupying ff. 25r-79v, the second of three independent MSS in different hands (including extracts from Hayward's Henry IV and from Sir Edwin Sandys, and parliamentary proceedings 1623/4), in a composite volume, 141 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt. The verse miscellany, including an Index (ff. 78v-9v), is compiled by John Holles (1595-1666), second Earl of Clare. Mid-17th century.
JnB 75
Copy, headed ‘To Sir Kenelme Digby an Epigram’.
In: the MS described under JnB 56. c.1680.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 76
Copy, headed ‘To my muse on Sr kenelme Digby An Epigram’, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.
In: A large quarto verse miscellany, 76 leaves, in old vellum wrappers within modern quarter red morocco on marbled boards. Part I, including some Welsh, comprises sixteen leaves, all (but for f. 15r-v) in the cursive hand of William Jordan, schoolmaster of Denbigh or Caernarvon, whose name (‘Gulielmus Jordan’) is inscribed, the dates 1680-83 occurring. c.1674-84.
Part II comprises 60 leaves, ff. 1-50v in a neat italic hand, ff. 51r-60r in several other cursive hands.
The vellum wrapper on Part II bears notes on a debt by William Jordan in 1674 relating to ‘Evan Thomas’ and ‘Mr Richard Wilkinsn in pepper street’. Formerly Folger MS 1669.2.
JnB 77
Copy, headed ‘An Epigram one Sr Kenelme Digby’.
In: the MS described under JnB 41. c.1630s-40s.
An Epigram. To our great and good K. Charles On his Anniversary Day (‘How happy were the Subject, if he knew’)
First published in The Vnder-wood (lxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 236-7.
JnB 78
Copy, headed ‘To the great and Gratious King Charles. On the Vniuersary day of his Raigne. 1629’.
In: the MS described under JnB 45. c.1620s-34.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
An Epigram to the Queene, then lying in (‘Haile Mary, full of grace, it once was said’)
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxvi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 238.
An Epigram. To William Earle of Newcastle (‘They talke of Fencing. and the use of Armes’)
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lix) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 232-3.
JnB 83
Copy, subscribed ‘Ben Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 11. c.1630s [-1670s].
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
An Epigram. To William, Earle of Newcastle (‘When first, my Lord, I saw you backe your horse’)
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (liii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 288.
JnB 85
Copy, headed ‘To the Right Honorable William viscount Mansfield: On his Horsemanship, and Stable’.
In: the MS described under JnB 45. c.1620s-34.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 87
Copy, headed ‘To the earle of newcastle: Seeing Him ride a greate horse’.
In: the MS described under JnB 76. c.1674-84.
An Epistle to a Friend (‘Censure, not sharplye then, but mee advise’)
Lines 12-26 (beginning ‘Little knowe they that professe Amitye’) first published as lines 19-33 of ‘An Epistle to a friend’ in The Vnder-wood (xxxvii) in Workes (London, 1640). Lines 1-11 first published in William Dinsmore Briggs, ‘Studies in Ben Jonson. IV’, Anglia, 39 (1916), 209-51 (pp. 230-1). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 421-2.
JnB 89
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.128 items, including 94 poems by Donne plus his Paradoxes and Problems, compiled by Henry Champernowne (1600-56), of Dartington, Devon, 243 pages, dated on the first page 1623. 1623.
Afterwards owned by other members of the Champernowne family, by Sir Edward Seymour, Bart. (?the third Baronet, 1610-85). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1030. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) (MS 9568). Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 749. Bookplate of C. S. Harris and bequeathed by him 1916.
Cited in IELM, I.i (190), as the ‘Phillipps MS’: DnJ Δ 20.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 90
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio verse miscellany, entirely in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, containing some 76 poems, including eleven by Donne, later inscribed (erroneously) ‘Sir John Haringtons Poems Written in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth’, 56 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1620s-33.
From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Rawlinson MS’: DnJ Δ 38. Also briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 277 (No. 94), with facsimile examples on pp. 102-3.
This MS is in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94. Printed from this MS in Briggs (lines 1-11) and in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 91
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘B: J: ffinis’.
In: An octavo volume of poems and some prose, including 96 poems by Donne plus his Paradoxes and Problems (many ascribed to ‘J. D’), in a single neat secretary hand, 150 pages, in 17th-century calf gilt. c.1622-33.
Later owned by Major J.B. Whitmore. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 571, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Osborn MS’: DnJ Δ 30. For a facsimile page see DnJ 728, DnJ 1205. Complete microfilm in British Library (M/569).
An Epistle to a Friend. to perswade him to the Warres (‘Wake friend, from forth thy Lethargie: the Drum’)
First published in The Vnder-wood (xv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 162-8.
JnB 92
Copy, headed ‘To a Freind’.
In: the MS described under JnB 45. c.1620s-34.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
Epistle To Elizabeth Covntesse of Rvtland (‘Whil'st that, for which, all vertue now is sold’)
First published in The Forrest (xii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 113-16.
JnB 93
Copy, headed ‘To the Countesse Off Rutland: An Elegie’.
In: the MS described under JnB 90. c.1620s-33.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson. Discussed (in connection with a textual crux in line 99) in Anthony Miller, ‘Ben Jonson's Epistle to Elizabeth Countesse of Rutland: A Recovered MS Reading and Its Critical Implications’, PQ, 62 (1983), 525-30 (erroneously citing the MS as ‘Rawlinson poetry 32’).
JnB 94
Copy of the complete version, headed ‘To the Countesse of Rutland An Elegie’.
In: An independent quarto verse miscellany, including 47 poems by Donne, in two secretary hands. Constituting ff. 230r-99v in a quarto composite volume of verse and prose, in various hands, 308 leaves, in modern half green morocco gilt. c.1620-33.
Among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son, Edward, second Earl of Oxford (1681-1741), and acquired in 1722 from the bookseller Nathaniel Noel (fl.1681-c.1753).
Cited in IELM I.i as the ‘Harley Noel MS’: DnJ Δ 2.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson. Discussed in Anthony Miller, ‘Ben Jonson's “Epistle to Elizabeth Countesse of Rutland”: A Recovered MS Reading and its Critical Implications’, PQ, 62 (1983), 525-9.
JnB 95
Copy of lines 65-7, 35-6, untitled and here beginning ‘You, and that other starre, that purest light’, as Nos 18-19 in a series of extracts from ‘Ben: Johnson his poems’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse extracts, in a single italic hand (but for additions on f. 35r-v), foliated 14-52, in contemporary vellum. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed inside the front cover ‘F. C. Wellstood / Oxford’. Inscribed (f. 35r) ‘W. C. 1789’.
JnB 96
Copy of lines 2-4, here beginning ‘Allmighty gold’ and subscribed ‘fforrest to Eliz. Coun: of Rutland’, followed by lines 41-7, 72, 80-90.
In: A small unbound octavo booklet of verse, in English and Latin, in a secretary hand, written from both ends, 16 pages, formerly loosely inserted in Worcester College, Oxford, MS 58. Early-mid-17th century.
Epistle. To Katherine, Lady Avbigny (‘'Tis growne almost a danger to speake true’)
First published in The Forrest (xiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 116-20.
JnB 97
Copy of lines 1-6, 26-32, 43-52, 121-4, 71-2, 77-80, untitled, as Nos 8-12 in a series of extracts from ‘Ben: Johnson his poems’.
In: the MS described under JnB 95. Mid-17th century.
JnB 98
Copy of lines 49-50, untitled, here beginning ‘Great title, birth, but virtue most’ and subscribed ‘fforrest to Kath: La. Aubigny’, followed by lines 68-70, 85-6.
In: the MS described under JnB 96. Early-mid-17th century.
An Epistle to Master Iohn Selden (‘I know to whom I write. Here, I am sure’)
First published in John Selden, Titles of Honor (London, 1614). The Vnder-wood (xiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 158-61.
JnB 99
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of heraldic materials, 139 leaves (largely blank after f. 74). Late 17th century.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
Epistle. To my Lady Covell (‘You won not Verses, Madam, you won mee’)
First published in The Vnder-wood (lvi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 230-1.
JnB 100
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under JnB 45. c.1620s-34.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
An Epistle to Sir Edward Sacvile, now Earle of Dorset (‘If, Sackvile, all that have the power to doe’)
First published in The Vnder-wood (xiii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 153-8.
JnB 101
Copy, headed ‘B. Johnson / A Poeme by the way of thankfull acknowledgment sent and dedicated to Sr Edward Sackvile’.
In: the MS described under JnB 27. c.1630s.
Epitaph [on Cecilia Bulstrode] (‘Stay, view this stone: And, if thou beest not such’)
First published in John A. Harper, ‘Ben Jonson and Mrs. Bulstrode’, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 4 (5 September 1863), 198-9. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 371-2.
*JnB 102
Autograph fair copy. In an autograph letter signed by Jonson (‘Yor true Louer Ben: Jonson’), on the first page of a pair of quarto conjugate leaves, the fourth page bearing the address panel ‘To my right worthy Freind Mr. Geo: Garrard’. [1609].
Formerly among the MSS of the Bromley-Davenport family, at Baginton Hall, Warwickshire. Sotheby's, 8-9 March 1903, lot 345, to Quaritch. Acquired in May 1903 by Amy Lowell (1874-1925), American poet.
Edited from this MS in Harper; in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 79; in Percy Simpson, letter in TLS (6 March 1930); and in Herford & Simpson.
Facsimiles in The Houghton Library 1942-1967: A Selection of Books and Manuscripts in Harvard Collections (Cambridge, Mass., 1967), p. 83; in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 27; in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 204; and in Mark Bland, ‘Jonson, Biathanatos and the Interpretation of Manuscript Evidence’, SB, 51 (1998), 154-82 (p. 173).
JnB 103
Copy, headed ‘Vppon A Virgine wch liued and died att Courte’.
In: the MS described under JnB 36. c.1638.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 104
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 90. c.1620s-33.
This MS is in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94; collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 105
Copy, untitled, written lengthways along the inner margin.
In: the MS described under JnB 15.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 106
Copy, headed ‘On the death of Mistris Boulstead’.
In: the MS described under JnB 64. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 107
Copy in: A folio verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand associated with the playhouse and possibly inns of court (also responsible for ChG 12.5, HyT 5, and MiT 6), 97 leaves, with a first-line ‘Index’ at the end, in contemporary vellum boards. Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship). c.1636.
Inscribed (on the front paste-down) ‘My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire’ (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Chute MS’: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, ‘Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).
This MS recorded but not collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 108
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 18 poems by Donne, in several hands over a period (the predominant secretary hand on ff. 1r-35v, 45v-63r), written from both ends, 91 leaves, in later green morocco. c.1630s [-1777].
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘E Libris Richardo Glovero pharmacopol. Londinense pertinantibus’, the date ‘1638’ possibly added in a different hand. The name ‘William Allen’ on f. 77v among scribbling. Inscribed (f. 1v) by a later owner, apparently for ‘Mr Thorpe’, ‘I was informed by the bookseller of whom I bought this book; that it belonged formerly to a literary gentleman who lived in Burton Crescent and who died about six months ago. 3rd Augt. 1835’.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Glover MS’: DnJ Δ 42.
JnB 110
Copy, headed ‘on the death of mrs. Bowlstred’.
In: the MS described under JnB 11. c.1630s [-1670s].
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 111
Copy, headed ‘Vppon the death of Mrs: Boulstred’.
In: the MS described under JnB 20.5. c.1637.
JnB 112
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph’, subscribed ‘B. J.’
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in at least seven secretary and italic hands, 118 leaves (plus some blanks), currently disbound. Possibly compiled by one or more persons connected with the Inns of Court. c.1600-1620s.
Later in the library of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Probably owned afterwards by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Formerly Chetham's MS 8012.
The volume edited by Alexander B. Grosart as The Dr. Farmer Chetham MS. being a Commonplace Book in the Chetham Library, Manchester, temp. Elizabeth, James I, and Charles I, Chetham Society, vols 89 and 90 (Manchester, 1873).
Edited from this MS in Harper (1863). Collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 113
Copy, subscribed ‘BJ’.
In: A folio composite miscellany of verse, prose, and dramatic works, in several hands, an independant unit on ff. 88r-111r, in a single hand, containing, inter alia, twenty poems by Donne, 117 leaves (plus seventeen blanks), in contemporary vellum, with remains of ties. c.1630.
Inscribed (f. 134v) ‘Anthony Methuen’. Later owned by members of the Wyndham family, including probably the Henry Penruddocke Wyndham (1736-1819), topographer. Sotheby's, 11 April 1872, lot 1331, to David Laing.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Laing MS’: DnJ Δ 47.
JnB 115
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the same Mrs Boulstred’.
In: A quarto volume of 169 poems by Donne, plus some prose works by him, together with a few poems by others, almost entirely in a single hand, with a table of contents, viiii + ‘440’ pages (plus blanks, the pagination jumping from 156 to 161 and from 339 to 400), with an alphabetical first-line index (pp. [iii-vi]), in modern calf. Mainly transcribed from Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8468 (the ‘Luttrell MS’: DnJ Δ 18), with a title-page (p. i) inscribed ‘The Poems of D.J. Donne (not yet imprinted)...finished this 12 of October 1632’. It bears corrections in two hands (one possibly the original scribe) made from the 1633 edition of Donne's Poems, many of the poems headed ‘P.’ (signifying ‘Printed’), with some annotated in red ink ‘Not Printed’. The largest known MS collection of Donne's poems and apparently used in the preparation of the second edition of the Poems (1635). [1635].
According to the compiler of the partial transcript of this MS (Harvard MS Eng 966.2), the O'Flahertie MS belonged to ‘the late Dr Parnel, Arch Deacon of Clogher’: i.e. Thomas Parnell (1679-1718), poet and essayist, ‘and after his decease to Mr. Thos: Burton of Dublin, and [was] obtained from him by the Editor.’ Sold at Puttick & Simpson's, 28 April 1856 (Francis Moore sale), lot 975. Later owned by the Rev. T.R. O'Flahertie (fl.1861-94), vicar of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector. Sotheby's, 25-27 July 1899, lot 384, to Ellis. Described in Ellis and Elvey's sale catalogue No. 93 (November 1899), the relevant pages of which are inserted in the MS. Formerly MS Nor 4504.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the ‘O'Flahertie MS’: DnJ Δ 17.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 115.5
Copy in: MS copy of twenty-nine poems supposedly by Donne (only six actually by him) plus an epitaph by him, in a single hand, transcribed from the O' Flahertie MS (Harvard MS Eng 966.5), with a title-page ‘Poems on several Occasions Written by the Reverend John Donne, D.D. Late Dean of St Pauls’, 57 quarto pages, in cardboard wrappers. 19th century.
JnB 116
Copy, headed ‘On the death of Mris Boulstred’.
In: A small quarto volume of 123 poems by Donne plus some of his Paradoxes, Problems and characters, together with some poems by others, 185 leaves (including blanks on ff. 141r-61v) plus nine further blanks on ff. 185v-94v, inscribed ‘L: ll: N: 6./6’ on f. 1r and ‘Dr: Donne’ within a gilt grid on f. 3r, in contemporary vellum with initials ‘F B’ [Frances Bridgewater] in gilt and a smudged watercolour central lozenge on the upper cover. In a single, neat, predominantly roman hand (but for entries on ff. 105v-15r in a less neat cursive hand), and with various corrections or emendations throughout possibly in another hand. c.1622-32.
Once owned by Frances (née Stanley) Egerton (1583-1636), Countess of Bridgewater, and her husband John Egerton (1579-1649), first Earl of Bridgewater. Listed in ‘A Catalogue of my Ladies Bookes at London Taken October .27th 1627’ (Huntington, EL 6495) as No. 3, ‘The Lamentaons of Jeremy in verse by Dr Donne, 8o’, among ‘Paper Bookes of diverse volumes’ after the date 26 April 1631 and before a new list in a different hand under the date 17 April 1632.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Bridgewater MS’: DnJ Δ 24.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 117
Copy in: A folio verse miscellany, 148 leaves (foliated 161-206), once bound (reversed) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part I), rebound with this MS (in continuous form without inversion) in 1832 (by Charles Lewis). Including 59 poems by Donne (and second copies of six poems), in probably six professional secretary hands: A (ff. 1r-25v, 82r-129r); B (ff. 26r, 42v-7v, 49r-63r, 63v-79r, 130r-48r); C (ff. 27r-36v, 41r-2v; with occasional corrections possibly in hand B); D (ff. 37r-40v); E (ff. 63r-v); and F (f. 129v). c.1620-33.
Scribbling includes the name ‘Meriall Tracy’ (on f. 148v). Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary; by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary; and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library, lot 624). Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (II)’: DnJ Δ 26. Discussed in C.M. Armitage, ‘Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on “The Funerall”’, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707.
A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Betagraph of the watermark in f. 43 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks’, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 240).
JnB 118
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the same’.
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.
JnB 119
Copy in: A folio composite miscellany compiled entirely by William Drummond of Hawthornden, including (ff. 165r-6v, 246r-7v) copies of, or brief extracts from, nineteen poems by Donne, 300 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt. c.1618-20s.
Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VIII.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Drummond Miscellany: DnJ Δ 66. Some extracts from this MS edited in Laing (1831), pp. 78-82. ‘Drummond's Catalogue of Comedies’ (ff. 122-3). Recorded in MacDonald, Library of Drummond, pp. 231-2.
JnB 120
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph’, subscribed ‘B: I.’
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index). Possibly compiled by one ‘W: H:’: i.e. probably William Holgate (1618-46), of Queens' College, Cambridge, with late 17th-century additions apparently made by other members of the Holgate family, of Saffron Walden and Great Bardfield, Essex. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Holgate MS’: DnJ Δ 58. Briefly discussed in W.G.P., ‘Verses by Francis Beaumont’, TLS (15 September 1921), p. 596, and in E.K. Chambers, William Shakespeare, 2 vols (Oxford, 1930), II, 222-4. Also discussed, with facsimiles on pp. 68 and 70 of pp. 181 and 13, in Michael Roy Denbo, ‘Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73. For facsimile pages see DnJ 2931 and ShW 25. Complete microfilm in the Essex Record Office (T/A 98).
JnB 121
Copy, headed ‘On the death of Mrs Boulstred’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including fifteen poems by Donne, with a title-page ‘Miscellanies Or A Collection of Diuers Witty and pleasant Epigrams, Adages, poems Epitaphes &c for the recreation of ye ouertravelled sences: 1630 Robert Bishop’, in a single mixed hand, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 306 pages, in old calf. c.1630.
Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the ‘Bishop MS’: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].
JnB 121.5
Copy, headed ‘Vpon one Mrs Boulstred’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in one secretary hand, erratically paginated up to 333, 250 leaves, in 18th-century boards. c.late 1630s.
Inscribed (on p. [330]) ‘Robert Lord his book Anno Domini’; (on [p. 335]) ‘william Jacob his booke Amen’; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, ‘Hugh Gibgans of the same’ and ‘John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]’. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.
A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.
Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. (‘Would'st thou heare, what man can say’)
First published in Epigrammes (cxxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 79.
JnB 122
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on a gentlewoman whose name was Elizabeth’.
In: the MS described under JnB 36. c.1638.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 122.5
Copy of lines 3-6, headed ‘An Epitaph by Ben Johnson’, here beginning ‘Underneath this stone doth lie’, subscribed ‘Quoted in a Spectator saies N W.’
In: An oblong duodecimo verse miscellany, perhaps largely in one hand, with later additions by others, generally written across the page with the spine turned upwards, 136 leaves, with (f. 2r-v) a table of contents, in half green morocco. Including ten poems by Cowley (on ff. 113r-v, 124r-9v). c.1668-1713.
Inscribed (f. 2r) ‘Several Divine poems out of a Mss. of Mr. Hanserd Knolly's (thô [I suppose deleted] not of his composing)’; (f. 36r) ‘Finis Manuscript, H. K.’; (f. 1r and elsewhere) ‘H Packwood Anno 1668’ and ‘George Gaynor, 1681’. Item 988 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Purchased on 12 February 1876 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.
JnB 123
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph’.
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.
JnB 123.5
Copy in: A notebook chiefly of verse, compiled by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor, 35 leaves. c.1749.
Acquired by William Macmath from W. B. Bennett, Birmingham bookseller, in 1885. Davis & Orioli, sale catalogue No. 72 (1936), item 67.
JnB 124
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on Queene Elizabeth’, in a verse miscellany (ff. 267r-73v) compiled by an Oxford University man. c.1630.
In: A quarto composite volume of tracts and other papers, in verse and prose, 349 leaves, in half-calf. Copy, headed ‘An other lre from Sr Thomas Wiatte the elder to his sonne oute of Spaine aboute the same tyme’.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 125
Copy of lines 3-6, headed ‘An Epitaph’ and beginning ‘Vnderneath this stone doth lye’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, including 37 poems by Donne, in several hands, written from both ends, 279 leaves (including numerous blanks, mostly in ff. 42r-140r), with stubs of extracted leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled in part by the Oxford printer Christopher Wase (1627-90), fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Wase MS’: DnJ Δ 39.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 126
Copy of lines 3-6, headed ‘An Epitaph’ and beginning ‘Here vnderneath this stone doth ly’.
In: A quarto composite volume comprising three independent MSS bound together, i + 78 leaves. The first MS a verse miscellany, in an italic hand, 29 leaves. c.1640.
JnB 127
Copy, headed ‘An other’ [i.e. epitaph on Mrs Bulstrode] and here beginning ‘Wilt thou heare wt. man can saye’.
In: the MS described under JnB 64. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 128
Copy of lines 1-8, headed ‘On a Gentlewom: Tomb’ and here beginning ‘Wilt thou heare what wee can say’.
In: the MS described under JnB 8. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 128.5
Copy, untitled.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly in one mixed hand, 77 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Compiled by Sir Thomas Dawes (knighted 1639). c.1623-30.
Purchased on 4 July 1873 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.
JnB 129
Copy, headed ‘on Mrs. Bowlstred’ and here beginning ‘Wilt thou here what man can say’, subscribed ‘Ben Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 11. c.1630s [-1670s].
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 130
Copy of lines 3-12, headed ‘An Epitaph on Mrs El. Y’ and here beginning ‘Underneath this stone there lies’.
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 The Poems of Wiliam Browne of Tavistock, ed. Cordon Goodwin (London, 1894), 11, 295.
JnB 131
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph’, here beginning ‘Wilt thou heare what man can say’, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 20.5. c.1637.
JnB 131.5
Copy of lines 3-6, headed ‘Epitaph by Mr. Dryden, on his Sweetheart’, beginning ‘Underneath this Stone does lye’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single hand, xvi + 140 pages, in contemporary calf. With a title-page (p. ir): ‘The Six first Pastorals of Virgil, With Three of His Georgics; Together with some Miscellany Poems. Transcrib'd and Collected By E. Beardwell, 1724’. 1724.
Later owned by William Rees-Mogg.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 20, B, p. 126.
JnB 132
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Wilt thou heare what man can say?’, and subscribed ‘B J’.
In: the MS described under JnB 53. c.1630s.
JnB 132.5
Copy of line 3 et seq, headed ‘Ben Johnson upon His Mistress’ and here beginning ‘Reader, under this stone does lye’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems and plays by Corbet Owen (1645/6-71) and others, a ‘Catalogus Librorum’ at the reverse end, in probably several cursive predominantly italic hands, possibly associated with Oxford University, 166 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1671.
Owned in 1671 by one ‘J. H.’. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1253. Purchased from Dobell in 1935.
JnB 132.8
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in probably several neat secretary and italic hands, 194 pages. Compiled, probably at least in part, by ‘George Turner Scoolmaster’, as his name is inscribed at the end, a couplet on p. 179 reading ‘Hic liber me pertinet and beare yt well in minde / Per me Georgium Turner so curteous and kinde’. Possible contributors are members of the Bancrofte family, whom he might perhaps have tutored. c.1624-1645.
Various inscribed names (sometimes more than once): ‘Anne Bancrofte’, and ‘Mary Bancrofte’. Also, under ‘1624’, a list of names with perhaps birthdates: ‘Mary Bancrofte Ap. 28. 1611’, ‘Rich Bancrofte May 2. 1608’, ‘Elis Bancrofte Apr 27. 1614’, and ‘John Bancrofte Ap 30 1616’. A legal document in the volume, dated 4 November 1645, relates to Willesden, Kilburn and Hampstead.
Formerly Folger MS 1027.2, this MS has been missing since 1991. It can be seen only on microfilm (Film Fo 4376.8).
JnB 134
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph: on El: F:’ and here beginning ‘Wilt thou heare what man can say?’
In: the MS described under JnB 121. c.1630.
JnB 135
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Henry King, perhaps almost entirely written over a period in a single secretary hand with slightly varying styles, 54 leaves, in limp vellum. c.1636-40s.
The name of the possible compiler ‘John Pike’ inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the ‘Pike MS’: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 136
Copy of lines 1-8, headed ‘On the death of a most fayre and vertuous Lady’, subscribed ‘Sr Edw: Hastings’.
In: the MS described under JnB 58. c.1630s.
JnB 136.2
Copy, headed ‘On ye death of the Lady Eliz: Hobby’ and here beginning ‘Wilt thou heare wt man can say?’.
In: the MS described under JnB 4.5. c.1650.
JnB 136.4
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on a Lady - written by Ben Johnson’ and here beginning ‘Underneath this Stone doth Lye’.
In: Three quarto volumes of verse, 164, 155 and 145 leaves respectively, in later vellum. Compiled by Colonel Gabriel Lepipre. c.1753.
JnB 136.6
Copy, headed ‘On a Genlewoman’ and here beginning ‘Wilt thou hear wt man can say’.
In: A folio miscellany entitled Epitaphs Collected 1694, 42 pages. c.1695.
JnB 136.8
Copy of line 3 et seq., headed ‘Another [Epitaph] on the Lady Elizabeth LH’ and here beginning ‘Underneath this Stone doth lye’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, in a single neat hand, with some rubrication, 122 pages, with an index, in contemporary marbled boards. With a title-page: ‘Poems on Various Subjects Extracted cheifly from the Works of Some of the Most Celebrated Poets Scribendo Disces MDCCXLVII’. 1747.
Epitaph on Katherine, Lady Ogle (‘T'is a Record in heauen, You, that were’)
First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. William Gifford, 9 vols (London, 1816). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 399-400.
JnB 137
Copy in the hand of John Rolleston, with a faintly pencilled rough sketch of a design for a memorial tablet.
In: the MS described under JnB 45. c.1620s-34.
Printed from this MS in Gifford and in Herford & Simpson. Facsimile in Hilton Kelliher, ‘Donne, Jonson, Richard Andrews and The Newcastle Maniuscript’, EMS, 4 (1993), 134-73 (p. 157).
An Epitaph on Master Vincent Corbet (‘I have my Pietie too, which could’)
First published in The Vnder-wood (xii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 151-2.
JnB 138
Copy of lines 1-36.
In: the MS described under JnB 20. c.early 1630s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 139
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Dr. C: father: B: J:’ and here beginning ‘I hope my piety too, which could’.
In: the MS described under JnB 25. c.1630s[-55].
This MS probably the Dobell MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 140
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet vpon the death of his ffather, that kept a Nurserie att Twickenham’ and here beginning ‘I hope my pietie too, which could’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, 210 pages, comprising 38 unnumbered pages and 172 numbered pages (plus four blank leaves), perhaps largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with additions in four other hands on the unnumbered pages and pp. 167-71, including the scribbled title ‘Divers Sonnets & Poems compiled by certaine gentil Clarks and Ryme-Wrightes’, probably associated with Oxford University and the Inns of Court, in contemporary vellum. Including 14 poems by Strode (and a second copy of one poem). c.1637-51.
Inscribed (front pastedown) ‘Wakelin EeK Hering / Blows of Whitsor’, and (rear pastedown) ‘R. J. Cotton’. Formerly Folger MS 2073.4.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Cotton MS: StW Δ 20.
JnB 141
Copy of an untitled version, arranged in two sections: lines 7- 36, here beginning ‘Deare Vincent Corbett who so longe’, subscribed ‘B: I:’, and lines 1-6, 37-40, here beginning ‘I hope my pietie to, which could’.
In: the MS described under JnB 120. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
JnB 142
Copy beginning at line 7 (‘Deare Vincent Corbet, who so long)’.
In: the MS described under JnB 2. Mid-17th century.
JnB 142.5
Copy, headed ‘On the same’, in the right column beneath John Selden's 19-line epitaph Ad ejusdem Manes (‘Æternâ requie jaces beatas’).
In: Calligraphic funerary placard for Vincent Corbett, on a membrane of vellum, c.58.5 x 54.5cm, with pin holes. Comprising three English and Latin elegies on Vincent Corbett (‘He Dyed the xxvith: of Aprill in the Yeare of our Lord 1619’), by his son Richard Corbett, John Selden, and Ben Jonson, arranged in columns under the engrossed title ‘Sacred to the Memory of Vincent Corbet’, with an unattributed four-line epitaph at the foot To the Reader (‘Reader whose life and name did ere become’), in the form of a memorial tablet, with borders decorated in colours. This is evidently the original funerary placard for Vincent Corbett hung up in St Mary's Church, Twickenham, after 26 April 1619. 1619.
This MS once owned by John Evelyn. Thomas Rodd, ‘Catalogue of a Collection of Manuscripts’ (1838), item 317. Afterwards owned by William Upcott and sold at the Duke of Berwick sale 1843. Christie's 29 May 1986, lot 199 (with facsimile example in the sale catalogue). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1066 (Winter 1986), item 99 (with colour facsimile).
A photograph is in the British Library, RP 3523.
Epitaph on S<alomon> P<avy> a Child of Q. El<izabeths> Chappel (‘Weepe with me all you that read’)
First published in Epigrammes (cxx) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 77.
JnB 143
Copy, headed ‘Vppon Sal: Pauye a boy of 13 years of age and on of the Companye of the Reuells to Queene Elizabeth’.
In: the MS described under JnB 36. c.1638.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 144
Copy, headed ‘Epitaphium’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and some prose, in a secretary hand, largely written in oblong format, 36 pages (including blanks), in vellum wrappers (a recycled medieval religious text). Early 17th century.
Formerly among the manuscripts of the Isham family at Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd report (1872), Appendix, p. 253.
Edited from this MS in The Complete Poems of Richard Barnfield, ed. A. B. Grosart (London, 1876), pp. 217-18.
Epithalamion. or, A Song: Celebrating the Nvptials of Hierome Weston with Frances Stuart (‘Though thou hast past thy Summer standing, stay’)
First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 252-8.
Epode (‘Not to know vice at all, and keepe true state’)
First published in Diuerse Poeticall Essaies appended to Robert Chester, Loues Martyr (London, 1601). The Forrest (xi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 109-13.
JnB 146
Copy, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘Epos’, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnsonn's’.
In: A folio composite volume of verse, prose and dramatic works, in various hands, written over a period from both ends, 543 pages (including blanks), in contemporary panelled calf with remains of metal clasps. Compiled by members of the Salusbury family of Llewenni, Denbighshire, including works by Sir Thomas Salusbury, second Baronet (1612-43), poet and politician. Early-mid 17th century.
Later owned by J. Baskerville-Glegg, of Withington Hall, Chelford. Sotheby's, 14-16 March 1921, lot 421.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 147
Copy of lines 1-4, 55-62, 65-74, 91-103, 115-16, untitled, as Nos13-17 in a series of extracts from ‘Ben: Johnson his poems’.
In: the MS described under JnB 95. Mid-17th century.
JnB 148
Copy, headed ‘Epos’.
In: Verse, in a professional secretary hand, on three pages of two narrow ledger-size conjugate folio leaves. Early-mid-17th century.
Owned in 1921 by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Colbeck, Radford & Co. [i.e. Dobell], The Ingatherer, No. 18 (September 1931), item 129. Item 21 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 4457.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 149
Copy of lines 37-51, here beginning ‘The thing, they here call loue, is blind Desire’ and subscribed ‘Ben: Jo: fforrest. Epod. II.’, followed by lines 72-4, 76-82, 87-90, 113-16, 17-18.
In: the MS described under JnB 96. Early-mid-17th century.
JnB 150
Copy of the final couplet, untitled and here beginning ‘And to yor sence obiect this sentence euer’.
In: the MS described under JnB 125. Mid-17th century.
Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body (‘Sitting, and ready to be drawne’)
First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).
JnB 153
Copy, here ascribed to ‘Geo: Ghapman’.
In: the MS described under JnB 36. c.1638.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 154
Copy, headed ‘A Gentlewoman sitting in a chaire to have her picture drawne’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, predominantly in a single hand (up to f. 34v), with additions in four subsequent hands (ff. 37-50v), 50 leaves, in vellum. Compiled for the most part by a University of Oxford man, with (f. 1r-v) a list of contents. c.1640s.
Once owned by one John Faith, and by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.
Formerly cited as Corpus Christi College, MS E.i.33.
JnB 155
Copy 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).
JnB 156
Copy, headed ‘A Sonnett’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, apparently a presentation MS, 133 pages (including blanks), plus index, in half-calf. Including twenty poems by Randolph, plus ten of doubtful authorship (some here ascribed to ‘T.R.’), in two hands (A: pp. 3-99; B: pp. 1, 99-129), with some scribbling and one heading in other hands on pp. 3, 98 and 133; a poem on p. 1 (beginning ‘Loe here a sett of paper=pilgrimes sent’) dedicatingthe collection [‘To ye] Incomparably vertuous Lady the Lady Harflette’: i.e. Afra (d.1664), wife of Sir Christopher Harflete of Canterbury. c.1640.
Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Harflete MS: RnT Δ 2.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 157
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Venetia Stanley her picture’, subscribed ‘B. Jonson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 61.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 158
Copy of lines 13-28, headed ‘On Mrs Venetia Stanlye to ye paynter’ and here beginning ‘Draw first a cloud all saue her neck’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, 84 leaves, in contemporary calf. Probably compiled principally by an Oxford University man. c.1630s-40s.
Names inscribed on rear flyleaf and paste-down ‘Elizabeth hosman’ and ‘William Blois’.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 159
Copy, headed ‘Ben Ionson To the Painter’.
In: the MS described under JnB 64. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 160
Copy, headed ‘The same Ben: Jhonsons description of mrs Venetia Stanly, since wife of Sr. kel: Digby’.
In: A folio volume of largely amatory verse, iv + 92 pages, in a recycled vellum deed between John and Thomas Godfrey relating to land in Bury St Edmunds, 1567. Possibly compiled and written in part by one ‘Alphonso Mervall’. The front cover is inscribed, however, ‘English verse by J. Cobbes’, and some notes and Latin poems are added by one James Harvey. c.1629.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 161
Copy in: A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, 282 pages, in calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 34 of the Hopkinson MSS. Mid-late 17th century.
Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 299.
JnB 162
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman Sittinge to hav hir Picktur Drawne’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and medical and household prescriptions, in several cursive secretary hands, one predominating, written from both ends, 117 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Compiled in part by Brian Fairfax (1633-1711), scholar and courtier. Mid-late 17th century.
Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 117. Item 667 in an unidentified sale catalogue.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 163
Copy, headed ‘The Body’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single neat secretary hand, the first page formally inscribed ‘To the righte honoble: the Lorde Thomas Darcy Viscount Colchester’ (c.1565-1640, Viscount Colchester from 1621 to 1626), 191 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship. c.1620s.
This MS largely transcribed in British Library, Add. MS 21433. The hand occurs also in British Library, Harley MS 3910, between ff. 112v and 120v, and is possibly associated with the Inns of Court.
Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) ‘Mr John Bowyer’; (f. 2r) ‘Jeronomus ffox’; and (f. 3r) ‘William Ralph Baesh’.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Colchester MS’: CwT Δ 13.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 164
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under JnB 38. c.1620-50.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 165
Copy, headed ‘The Picture of the body and minde of Mris: Venetia Stanley (since Lady Digby) made by Mr. Benjamin Johnson / The Body’.
In: A quarto volume of elegies on Venetia Digby, in a semi-calligraphic roman hand (but for subsequent scribbling in another hand on f. 13v and pagination from 1 to 48), 24 leaves, lacking a final leaf, in 19th-century half morocco. Evidently a formal MS made by or for Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), natural philosopher and courtier, of the poems sent to him after the death of his wife Venetia (née Stanley) on 30 April/1 May 1633. [1633].
Purchased from J. Salkeld, 13 January 1877.
This MS (erroneously cited as ‘Add 17’) collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 167
Copy, headed ‘[On Mrs Venetia Stanly deleted] The body’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in two styles of italic, the last poem (f. 93v) added in a later hand, 93 leaves (plus ten blanks), in modern quarter-morocco gilt. Including 14 poems by Donne, six poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, ten poems by Habington and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph. Owned and possibly compiled by Arthur Capell (1631-83), second Earl of Essex, whose name is inscribed in red ink (1*), in a similar roman hand to that on ff. 1r-19r. He married (1653) Elizabeth Percy (1636-1718), daughter of Algernon, tenth Earl of Northumberland; she was therefore the great niece of Habington's mother-in-law, Eleanor Percy, sister of the ninth Earl of Northumberland. Mid-17th century.
Later among the collections of Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son, Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II, i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Capell MS’: DnJ Δ 43, CwT Δ 17, and RnT Δ 3. Discussed in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell’, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 168
Copy, headed ‘Of his Mrs sitting to be drawne’, with a marginal note that this should have appeared with ‘Mynde’ on ‘p. 154’ (i.e. JnB 207).
In: A quarto verse miscellany, written in two styles of hand (A: ff. 2r, after first six lines, to 64v; B: ff. 2r, first six lines, 64v-91v, 92v-4r), possibly both in the same hand, with an Index (ff. 93r-4r), 94 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Including 22 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 13 poems by King, and 24 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and probably associated with Christ Church, Oxford. c.1633.
Inscribed names including (f. 93v, in court hand) ‘ffrancis Baskeruile’: i.e. probably the Francis Baskerville who married Margaret Glanvill in 1635 and was in 1640 MP for Marlborough, Wiltshire. Other scribbling including (f. 1r) accounts referring to Wanborough, Wiltshire; (f. 9v) ‘Elizabeth White’; (f. 54v) ‘William Walrond his booke 1663’; (f. 92r) accounts dated 1658; and (f. 94r) ‘John Wallrond’. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Baskerville MS’: CwT Δ 20, KiH Δ 10, StW Δ 13. Facsimile examples of ff. 55r and 68r in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 6, after p. 86.
JnB 171
Copy, headed ‘His Mistresse drawne’.
In: the MS described under JnB 56. c.1680.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 172
Copy, headed ‘The Bodie’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a Scottish secretary hand, paginated 5-132, bound with a later verse MS on 98 pages, in brown calf. c.1630s-40s.
Bookplate of John Pinkerton (1758-1826), historian and poet. Sotheby's, April 1812 (Pinkerton sale), lot 593, to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1104, to Thomas Thorpe. His catalogue, 1836, bought by Laing.
JnB 174
Copy, headed ‘On the Lady Digby’.
In: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf. Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) ‘A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan’: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington. c.1630s.
Also inscribed ‘Mary Helerd’. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2
JnB 175
Copy, headed ‘The Body: Ben, Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 25. c.1630s[-55].
This MS probably the ‘Dobell MS II’ collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 176
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Mrs Venetia Stanley. The Body’.
In: the MS described under JnB 41. c.1630s-40s.
JnB 178
Copy, headed in another hand ‘By Ben Johnson upon Mrs Venetia Stanley’.
In: the MS described under JnB 51. c.1624-41.
JnB 179
Copy, headed ‘Of the Lady Venetia Digby The picture of her body’, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 52. c.1630s.
JnB 180
Copy, untitled, with a heading after line 12 ‘The boddye’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, 206 pages (plus blanks), rebound in 1832 (by Charles Lewis) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part II). Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled ‘L.C.’ [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637. c.1637.
Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names ‘Edw Denny’ [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], ‘Charles Cocks’, ‘Edward Randolphe’ and (on p. 162) ‘Thomas Cassy’. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Haslewood Kingsborough MS (I)’: DnJ Δ 25, CwT Δ 28, CoR Δ 10, and HeR Δ 5. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Discussed in C.M. Armitage, ‘Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on “The Funerall”’, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707. A facsimile of part of p. 63 in Marcy L. North, ‘Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 101).
JnB 180.5
Copy. headed ‘The Picture of the Body’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, comprising 162 poems in English, in a single hand, 273 pages, in brown morocco gilt. c.late 1640s.
Formerly (before 1686) in the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. Possibly acquired by Charles Louis (1617-80), Elector Palatine, while at the English court of his uncle, Charles I, from 1635 to 1649.
This volume discovered, and announced in the TLS, 23 July 2010, pp. 14-15, by June Schleuter and Paul Schleuter.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 261-2.
JnB 181
Copy, headed ‘Of his mrs sitting to haue her picture drawne / Body’.
In: the MS described under JnB 53. c.1630s.
JnB 182
Copy, untitled.
In: An oblong octavo verse miscellany, in a neat mixed hand up to p. 78, the remainder in later hands, 116 pages, in 19th-century half-leather marbled boards, with remains of crimson velvet. c.1630[-1700s].
Once owned by Elizabeth Herrick (1684-1745) and her brother William Herrick (1689-1773). Formerly among the papers of the Herrick family, of Beaumanor.
This MS discussed in J.A. Taylor, ‘Two Unpublished Poems on the Duke of Buckingham’, RES, NS 40 (May 1989), 232-40.
JnB 182.5
Copy, headed ‘The Body. On Mris. V. S sitting to be drawne’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single non-professional mixed hand, written from both ends, 90 leaves, in vellum (lacking spine). c.1630s.
Among papers of the Clitherow family of London, which included Sir Christopher Clitherow (1578-1642), Lord Mayor of London in 1635. Bookplate of James Clitherow Esq. of Boston House, Middlesex: i.e. either Christopher's son, James Clitherow (1618-82), merchant and banker, who purchased Boston Manor, in the parish of Hanwell, in 1670, or James Clitherow (1694-1752).
London Metropolitan Archives, ACC/1360/528, ff. [13v-14r rev.].
JnB 183
Copy, in a neat secretary hand, headed ‘The Bodie ://: Daniell poet:’.
In: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, iii + 286 leaves (including numerous blanks), in old brown calf gilt. c.1620s-30s.
Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.
Edited from this MS in Sir John Simeon, ‘Inedited Poems of Daniel’, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 2 (London, 1855-6), No. 13 (pp. 8-9).
University of London, Senate House Library, MS 304, ff. 276v-7r.
JnB 187
Copy, headed ‘The Picture’.
In: A quarto miscellany of epitaphs and poems, in several hands, the main collection of verse (ff. 46-147) in a single hand and including 54 poems by Donne (all subscribed ‘J. D.’) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index). c.1630s.
Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Grey MS’: DnJ Δ 60 and HeR Δ 6. Facsimile of p. 119r (HeR 355) in L.F. Casson, ‘The Manuscripts of the Grey Collection in Cape Town’, The Book Collector, 10 (Spring 1961), 147-55 (facing p. 153).
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, pp. 128-9.
JnB 188
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under JnB 58. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 189
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 58. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 191
Copy in: A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat italic hand, with rubrication, 144 pages (plus later index). Including twelve poems by Carew, nine poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph and nineteen (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the miscellany associated with Oxford University and possibly related to Bodleian MS Malone 21, the latest date occuring in a poem on pp. 63-6 ‘Vpon ye great Frost 1634’. c.1635.
Inscribed inside the front cover by a later owner: ‘April 1853 Read to Lit[erary] & Philosophical] Soc[iet]y of L[iver]pool’. Acquired in 1940 by Edwin Wolf II (1911-91), Philadelphia librarian.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Wolf MS’: CwT Δ 37; RnT Δ 12; StW Δ 28.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 91-2.
JnB 192
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman sitting in a chaire to haue her Picture drawne’.
In: the MS described under JnB 32. c.1630s.
JnB 192.5
Copy, headed ‘The Bodie:’, as by ‘B Johnson’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, including some thirty poems by Donne, in several hands, associated with the Inns of Court, with a 19th-century title-page, ‘A Collection of Original Poetry, written about the time of Ben: Johnson, qui ob. 1637’ and erroneously annotated ‘Chiefly in the Autograph of Dr. Donne Dean of St. Paul's’.67 pages (plus index). c.1614-25.
Later owned by Sir John Simeon, third Baronet, MP (1815-70); by Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-85), first Baron Houghton, author and politician, and by his son, Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Sotheby's, 22 July 1980, lot 585, to Quaritch.
Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Monckton Milnes MS’: DnJ Δ 63. Briefly discussed in Sir John Simeon, ‘Unpublished Poems of Donne’, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3, and, with selected collations, in Grierson (II, cix et passim). A complete set of photographs of the MS is in the British Library, RP 2031.
JnB 193
Copy in: An unbound collection of MS poems. Described by Bright in 1877 as ‘A small packet of old discoloured papers’. Early 17th century.
Once owned by Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), natural philosopher and courtier. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Bright's library was sold in five parts at Sotheby's, 3 and 18 June 1844, 3 March, 12 April and 7 July 1845.
The MS poems printed, with commentary by G.F. Warner, in Poems from Sir Kenelm Digby's Papers, in the possession of Henry A. Bright (Roxburghe Club, London, 1877).
Edited from this MS in Bright, pp. 21-2, whence collated in Herford & Simpson
Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind (‘Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone’)
Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.
JnB 197
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 155. c.1630s-40s.
JnB 200
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 161. Mid-late 17th century.
JnB 201
Copy, headed ‘The Mynde’, subscribed ‘B: J:’.
In: the MS described under JnB 163. c.1620s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 202
Copy, headed ‘The Minde’.
In: the MS described under JnB 38. c.1620-50.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 203
Copy, headed ‘The Minde’, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 165. [1633].
This MS (erroneously cited as ‘Add 17’), collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 204
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 67. c.1625-46.
JnB 205
Copy, headed ‘The mind’, subscribed ‘B. J’.
In: the MS described under JnB 167. Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 206
Copy, headed ‘The Minde’, subscribed ‘Ben Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 11. c.1630s [-1670s].
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 207
Copy, headed ‘Minde’.
In: the MS described under JnB 168. c.1633.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 208
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 20. c.early 1630s.
JnB 210
Copy, headed ‘Her Mind’.
In: the MS described under JnB 56. c.1680.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 211
Copy, headed ‘The Minde’, subscribed ‘Ben: Joh:’.
In: the MS described under JnB 172. c.1630s-40s.
JnB 213
Copy, under the running head ‘The Minde. B: J.’
In: the MS described under JnB 25. c.1630s[-55].
This MS probably the ‘Dobell MS’ collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 217
Copy, headed ‘The picture of her mynde’, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 52. c.1630s.
JnB 218.5
Copy, headed ‘The Mind’.
In: the MS described under JnB 180.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 262-6.
JnB 220.5
Copy, headed ‘The Minde. On the same’ and subscribed ‘Ben Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 182.5. c.1630s.
London Metropolitan Archives, ACC/1360/528, ff. [14r-15v rev.].
JnB 221
Copy, in a neat secretary hand, headed ‘The minde’.
In: the MS described under JnB 183. c.1620s-30s.
Printed from this MS in Sir John Simeon, ‘Inedited Poems of Daniel’, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 2 (London, 1855-6), No. 13 (pp. 9-12).
University of London, Senate House Library, MS 304, ff. 277v-8v.
JnB 223
Copy, headed ‘The picture of the minde’, subscribed in a different ink ‘Rob: Herrick’.
In: the MS described under JnB 187. c.1630s.
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, pp. 129-30.
JnB 225
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 191. c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 92-5.
JnB 226
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 193. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in Bright (1877), pp. 23-5, whence collated in Herford & Simpson.
Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 8. To Kenelme, Iohn, George (‘Boast not these Titles of your Ancestors’)
Herford & Simpson, VIII, 281-2.
JnB 227
Copy, complete with prose introduction subscribed ‘B. I.’
In: A quarto MS of ‘A Discourse of the Pedigree of Percy's and Stanley's’, dedicated, and possibly prepared as a presentation copy, to Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), natural philosopher and courtier, largely in a stylish italic hand, seventeen pages (plus 21 blanks), in 19th-century red morocco blind-stamped. c.1620s-30s.
Bookplate of W. W. E. Wynne.
Described erroneously, in a note by W. W. E. Wynne, as ‘in the autograph of celebrated Ben Jonson’.
Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 9. Elegie on my Muse (‘'Twere time that I dy'd too, now shee is dead’)
Herford & Simpson, VIII, 283-9.
JnB 228
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie made by Mr: Ben: Johnson to Sr: Kenelme Digby vpon the death of his Lady. Elegie On my Muse The truly honor'd Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby, who liuing gaue me leaue to call her so’, subscribed ‘Ben Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 165. [1633].
This MS (erroneously cited as ‘Add 17’) collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 229
Copy in: A miscellany of verse and prose, in a single hand, originally in two volumes, xxiii + 158 pages, in 19th-century green morocco gilt. c.1630s.
Once owned by one C. Agard and later by F.W. Cosens (1819-89), book collector. The original second volume here bought from Colbeck Radford, sale catalogue No. 24 (1932), item 157.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
An Execration upon Vulcan (‘Any why to me this, thou lame Lord of fire’)
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (xliii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 202-12.
JnB 231
Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnson upon the burning of his bookes’.
In: the MS described under JnB 60. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 232
Copy of lines 1-10, headed ‘Johnsons invectiue against Vulcan’, deleted.
In: the MS described under JnB 60. c.1630s.
JnB 233
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks). Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s-40s.
Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘English Poetry MS’: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.
JnB 234
Copy of lines 191-216, headed ‘Ben: Johnson against Vulcan’ and beginning ‘Pox on your flameship, Vulcan; if it be’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, 215 leaves (plus a few blanks), in modern calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 17 of the Hopkinson MSS. c.1670.
Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 295-6.
JnB 235
Copy, subscribed ‘Ben Jonson’, transcribed from JnB 236.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with some later additions and annotations, 188 leaves, in quarter-morocco. Transcribed from British Library Add. MS 25303 and perhaps associated likewise with the Inns of Court. Including 23 poems by Carew and three of doubtful authorship. c.1620s-30s.
Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 13 May 1856 (Pickering sale), lot 258.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Pickering MS’: CwT Δ 11.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 236
Copy, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 163. c.1620s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 237
Copy, in a secretary hand, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.
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 Herford & Simpson.
JnB 238
Copy, headed ‘Ben: Jonson upon the burning of his study and bookes’.
In: the MS described under JnB 20. c.early 1630s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 239
Copy, headed ‘An Execratione vppon Vulcan by Ben: Jonson occasioned by the burninge of his Deske of writinges’.
In: the MS described under JnB 20.5. c.1637.
JnB 240
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 56. c.1680.
JnB 241
Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnson against Vulcane’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152. Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship. c.late 1630s [-1789].
Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Thorpe-Halliwell MS’: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).
JnB 242
Copy, headed ‘Johnsons: Inuectiue against Vulcan’.
In: the MS described under JnB 76. c.1674-84.
JnB 243
Copy, in a small neat hand, in double columns, headed ‘An Execration on Vulcan’ and docketed ‘By Ben Johnson’, on both sides of a single folio leaf. c.1630s.
In: A disbound collection of chiefly verse MSS, in several hands, largely folio.
Once belonging to the Newdegate family of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 572.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. q. 11, No. 51.
JnB 244
Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnsons Verses on the burning of his Studye’.
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.
JnB 245
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 72. c.1634.
JnB 247
Copy, headed ‘An Execration against Vulcan for burninge his Papers’, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’, on folio leaves, endorsed ‘Vulcans Cursse’. c.1640.
Among the papers of the Middleton family, a Yorkshire recusant family. Formerly MD59/22/B/1.
An Expostulacon wth Inigo Iones (‘Mr Surueyr, you yt first begann’)
First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, 7 vols, ed. Peter Whalley (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 402-6.
JnB 248
Copy, in a mixed hand.
In: MS of three poems by Jonson in a professional mixed hand, on two pairs of conjugate quarto leaves, foliated in pencil 42-45 (ff. 44v-5v blank), endorsed in two hands with a note in French and ‘Mr Ben: Johnsons Expostulatio wth Inigo Jones’, disbound. c.1631.
Among papers of the Egerton family, Earls of Bridgewater.
This MS erroneously described as autograph by Herford & Simpson.
Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 250
Copy, transcribed from a MS source.
In: A folio notebook, largely in a single small cursive hand, 93 leaves, in half-calf. Compiled by George Vertue (1684-1756), engraver and antiquary, constituting Volume 3 of his collections. c.1713-54.
Bought from Vertue's widow, 22 August 1758, by Horace Walpole (1717-97), fourth earl of Orford, author, politician and patron, and with his bookplate. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1842, in item 524. Afterwards owned by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary. Turner sale, 9 June 1859, lot 517.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 250.5
Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnsons expostulation with Inigo Jones inuectiue against him’.
In: the MS described under JnB 74.5. Mid-17th century.
JnB 253
Copy, subscribed ‘Ben Jonson’.
In: Verse, in a professional secretary hand, on all six pages of two conjugate folio leaves and a single folio leaf, unbound. c.1630s.
Later owned by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Colbeck, Radford & Co. [i.e. Dobell], The Ingatherer, No. 18 (September 1931), item 130.
The Dobell MS collated in Herford & Simpson. Facsimile of the first page in Giles E. Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), plate 43.
JnB 253.5
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 182.5. c.1630s.
London Metropolitan Archives, ACC/1360/528, ff. [32r-3v rev.].
JnB 254
Copy, transcribed from an earlier MS source.
In: A pair of conjugate folio leaves of verse, in a neat italic hand, mounted in a guardbook. Mid-late 18th century.
A Fragment of Petronius Arbiter (‘Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short’)
First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxxviii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 294.
A Grace by Ben: Johnson. extempore. before King James (‘Our King and Queen the Lord-God blesse’)
First published (?) in John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1898), II, 14. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 418-19.
JnB 257
Copy of a short version beginning ‘Our Royall king & Queene, God Bless’.
In: the MS described under JnB 36. c.1638.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 258
Copy, in Aubrey's hand.
In: A folio composite autograph manuscript of the third part of Brief Lives by John Aubrey (1626-97), 106 leaves of various sizes, in half-calf. 1681.
Edited from this MS in Clark and in Herford Simpson.
JnB 259
Copy of a version headed ‘A Grace said before the King by a Jester’ and beginning ‘The King, the Queene, the Prince god blesse’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in three or more hands, probably compiled principally by a member of New College, Oxford, 163 pages, in calf-backed marbled boards. c.1620s-30s.
The name ‘George Brown’ inscribed on p. 14. Inscribed on p. i by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector ‘Feb 13. 1790. I this day purchased this Manuscript Collection of Poems, at the sale of Mr Brander's books, at the exorbitant price of Ten Guineas. EMalone’.
Printed from this MS in Herford & Simpson, VIII, 419 (n).
JnB 260
Copy of a version perhaps spoken at Lady Bedford's table, headed ‘A forme of a Grace’ and beginning ‘The Kinge, ye Queene, the Prince god blesse’; dated in the margin ‘1618’.
In: the MS described under JnB 61.
JnB 261
Copy of a version headed ‘Ben Jonsons grace’ and beginning ‘God blesse ye king, ye queene, god blesse’.
In: the MS described under JnB 64. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 262
Copy of a version headed ‘A grace said before ye king by his Jester’ and beginning ‘The Kinge and eke ye Queene God blesse’.
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.
JnB 263
Copy of an eight-line version headed ‘A grace said before the King by a Jester’ and beginning ‘The King, the Queen the Prince God bless’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in two very small hands (A: ff. 1r-44v; B: ff. 44v-87v), with further verse and prose pieces in other hands on ff. 88r-121r, written from both ends, associated with Oxford, possibly New College, and probably afterwards with the Inns of Court, 155 leaves (including 33 blanks), in modern black morocco elaborately gilt. Including 23 poems by Strode (and second copies of two poems) and one poem of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Including (ff. 98r-100r) a letter by one ‘Pet[er] Wood’. Inscribed (ff. 90r-1r), ‘Thease verses I borroed to write out of John Sherly [d. 1666] a booke seller in litle Brittaine, 28th of March 1633’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9235. Sotheby's, 21 February 1938, lot 243.
Cited in IELM II.ii (1993), as the ‘Wood MS’: StW Δ 21. Discussed in C.F. Main, ‘New Texts of John Donne’, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33.
JnB 263.5
Copy of a short version, here ascribed to ‘King Charles 2ds Fool’.
In: A quarto miscellany of Latin and English verse and prose, in several hands, written from both ends, 57 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1719-50.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 13, f. 42v.
JnB 264
Copy of a version headed ‘An Extemporary Grace by Ben. Iohnson before the kings’ and beginning ‘God blesse the King the Quene noe lesse’.
In: the MS described under JnB 121. c.1630.
<Horace. Epode 2.> The praises of a Countrie life (‘Happie is he, that from all Businesse cleere’)
First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 289-91.
JnB 265
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 45. c.1620s-34.
JnB 266
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 90. c.1620s-33.
This MS is in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94; collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 267
Copy, headed ‘An ode in Horrace in prayse of a Countrry lief, translated’.
In: the MS described under JnB 94. c.1620-33.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
Horace his Art of Poetry (‘If to a Womans head a Painter would’)
First published in John Benson's 12mo edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 297-355.
JnB 268
Long extracts, subscribed ‘Translat Ben: Johnson’, following the Latin of ‘Horace Arte Poeticâ’ (f. 18r).
In: the MS described under JnB 123. Mid-17th century.
JnB 268.5
Copy of lines 1-314, in the hand of Thomas Hearne.
In: An octavo volume of verse and miscellaneous collections compiled by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary, with his inscription ‘Tho. Hearne, Aug. 26, 1709’, 185 leaves. c.1709.
JnB 268.8
Copy of lines 101-4 of the 1640 duodecimo version, beginning ‘Much phrase that now is dead shall be reviv'd’.
In: A commonplace book, almost entirely in a single hand, compiled by William Stone. c.1748.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 8, f. R14r.
JnB 269
Copy of lines 229-36, headed ‘In a Translation of Hor: The Young Gentlemans Life’ and beginning ‘Th unbearded Youth, his Guardian once being gone’.
In: A quarto volume, in two hands. 274 leaves, unnumbered. 1626-96.
Comprising:
[Part I, ff. 12r-168r], five sermons, the first four by Donne, in the hand of Knightley Chetwode, son of Richard Chetwode, of Chetwode, Buckinghamshire, and Oakley, Staffordshire. 1625/6.
[Part II, ff. 1r-78r rev.], a verse miscellany, produced when the original blank pages were later filled from the reverse end, probably by one Katherine Butler. 1696.
The volume inscribed as having been given to Katherine Butler by her father in May 1693.
Described in Potter & Simpson, I, 41-2.
St Paul's Cathedral, MS 52. D. 14, Part II, [unnumbered pages] .
The Houre-glasse (‘Doe but consider this small dust’)
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.
*JnB 270
Autograph fair copy, headed ‘To the honoring respect / borne / to the Freindship contracted wth / the right vertuous, and learned / Mr. William Drummond: / And the perpetuating the same by all offices of Loue / herafter, / I Beniamin Jonson, / Whome he bath honord wth the leaue to be calld his, / haue, wth mine owne hand, to satisfie his request, / written this imperfect song, / On a Louers dust, made sand for an Howerglasse’.
In: Autograph fair copy of two poems, on one side of a single folio leaf, signed by Jonson and dated ‘January 19th 1619’ [i.e. 1618/19], presented to William Drummond of Hawthornden. The MS is accompanied by an 18th-century transcript on a single leaf endorsed ‘Copy of Ben Johnsone's verses of which I have the oreginal in the Charter house’. 1619.
Among papers of the Clerk family of Penicuik.
Edited from this MS in The Works of William Drummond (Edinburgh, 1711), p. 155 (see Herford & Simpson, I, 177-8): and cited (‘he sent to me this Madrigal / on a lovers dust, made sand for ane Houre Glasse...’) in Drummond's Conversations with Jonson (see Herford & Simpson, I, 150, and DrW 303). Facsimile in IELM, I.ii, Facsimile XXII. A facsimile of the MS is also among papers relating to Jonson given by Dr Percy Simpson to the Bodleian in 1952 (now MS facs. c/e 25, f. 4).
JnB 271
Copy, untitled, on one side of a half-folio leaf.
In: A large folio composite volume of verse, in various largely secretary hands, 327 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Collected, and partly written, by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Betagraph of the watermark in f. 29 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks’, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 239).
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson. The text accompanied by the original Latin version by Girolamo Amaltei.
JnB 272
Copy, headed ‘One yt sent an hour glasse to his Mrs’.
In: the MS described under JnB 154. c.1640s.
JnB 274
Copy, here beginning ‘See this small dust here running in the glass’.
In: the MS described under JnB 14. c.1635-44.
JnB 275
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by the writer Robert Codrington (1602-65) of Magdalen College, Oxford, 360 pages (including stubs of extracted leaves on pp. 297-328 and blanks, plus index), in contemporary calf. Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) ‘Anno Dom: 1638’ and ‘The 30th of May. 1638’. c.1638.
Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Codrington MS’: CwT Δ 7 and StW Δ 7.
JnB 276
Copy, here beginning ‘Consider the dust moving in this glass’.
In: the MS described under JnB 156. c.1640.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 277
Copy, headed ‘Of the Ashes of a dead Lover put in an hower glasse’.
In: A folio composite volume of verse and some prose, in various hands, v + 179 leaves, in early 18th-century half-calf.
With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 278
Copy, headed ‘Of the sand running In an hower glasse’.
In: A quarto composite volume of verse, in several hands (the 22 or 23 poems by Carew on ff. 2r-22r in a single hand), with later additions dated 1731-3 by one ‘G. Broughton’ on ff. 1r and after 44r, a reference to St John's College, Cambridge (in 1731) on f. 83v, 93 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century half black morocco. c.1630s [-1733].
‘G. Broughton’ is possibly William (‘Gulielmus’) Broughton (b.1684/5), of Trinity College, Cambridge (one of whose Latin verse compilations was copied in 1704-6 by Richard Robinson in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS 0.6.1 (James 1497). Also the name ‘Jo: Tweedy’ is inscribed several times on f. 81r. Owned before 1841 by one W. Potter.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Tweedye MS’: CwT Δ 10.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 279
Copy, headed ‘Of Sand in an houreglasse’.
In: the MS described under JnB 8. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 280
Copy, headed ‘On an Howglasse’.
In: the MS described under JnB 18. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 281
Copy, headed ‘On an houre-glasse’, subscribed ‘B. J.’
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single neat predominantly italic hand, 72 leaves, in old leather. Probably compiled by one ‘H.S.’, a Cambridge man. c.1640s-50s.
Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector, with his bookplate and inscription ‘1806 Purchased of Lansdown of Bristol’. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 192.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 282
Copy, headed ‘On ye Sand in an houreglasse’ and here beginning ‘Consider this small dust here in this glasse’, subscribed ‘Ben Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 107. c.1636.
This MS text collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 283
Copy, headed ‘A lovers ashes put into an houre glasse by his Mris’.
In: the MS described under JnB 69. c.1640s.
JnB 284
Copy in: A small folio volume of 102 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others, in a professional predominantly italic hand, the poems often subscribed with bunch-of-grapes decorations, 114 leaves (plus blanks), with an alphabetical ‘Table’ (ff. 112v-14r), in modern half-morocco on cloth boards gilt. c.1623-33.
Among the collections of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776-1839), of Stowe House, near Buckingham, largely derived from the collections of the antiquary Thomas Astle (1735-1803), which in turn chiefly derived from Astle's father-in-law, the Essex historian Philip Morant (1700-71). Later owned by the fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878).
Cited in IELM as ‘Stowe MS I’: DnJ Δ 15.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 286
Copies, in a musical setting by Alfonso Ferrabosco.
In: Two music part books compiled by Thomas Smith (1614-1701) of The Queen's College, Oxford, later Bishop of Carlisle. c.1637.
Formerly Carlisle Cathedral, Dean & Chapter of Carlisle MSS, Box B1.
These MSS discussed in John P. Cutts, Bishop Smith's Part-Song Books in Carlisle Cathedral Library (American Institute of Musicology, 1972).
Edited from this MS in Edward Doughtie, ‘Ferrabosco and Jonson's “The Houre-glasse”’, RQ, 22 (1969), 148-50.
Cumbria Archives, Carlisle, D&C Music 1, Altus, p. 8; Bassus, p. 8.
JnB 287
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a neat secretary hand, fourteen pages. c.1620s.
Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/31/16.
JnB 288
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentle-Woman working by an Houre-glasse’.
In: the MS described under JnB 56. c.1680.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 290
Copy, headed ‘On An Houreglasse’.
In: the MS described under JnB 25. c.1630s[-55].
This MS probably the Dobell MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 292
Copy, headed ‘vpon an houreglasse’.
In: A large folio verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford University, 34 leaves, in modern half-morocco marbled boards. Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King. c.1630s.
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Halliwell MS’: CwT Δ 26 and KiH Δ 11. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Some Account of the Antiquities…illustrating…Shakespeare (1852), No. 8. Facsimile example in Giles Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 42. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 195).
Facsimile of this MS in Giles E. Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), plate 42.
JnB 295
Copy, untitled.
In: A small octavo miscellany of 76 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others dating up to 1627, in a single italic hand, occasionally marking the end of poems with one or more quatrefoils, 102 leaves (foliation jumping from 55 to 57), gilt-edged, in 19th-century dark green leather gilt. c.late 1620s.
Inscriptions including (f. 6r) ‘Hannah Lewis Junr’; ‘Thomas Turner his Book’ (three times, ff. 8r, 14v, 48v, dated ‘1750’, ‘58’ and ‘1760’); (f. 12r) ‘Edmund Baxter att Mrs Nortons’; (ff. 20r, 59v) ‘John Jones’; (f. 40r) ‘Jon: Pryse 1729’; (f. 59v) ‘Robt. Was’[?]; and (f. 79r) ‘Edmund Baxter 1729’. Later owned by Edward Vernon Utterson (1776-1856), of Shanklin and Ryde, Isle of Wight, artist, literary antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 24 April 1852 (Utterson sale), lot 1317, sold to ‘Lelly’. Then owned by Sir John Simeon, third Baronet (1815-70), M.P. Sotheby's, 3 March 1871 (Simeon sale), lot 638, to Pickering. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 436 (1930), item 576. Formerly MS Nor 4620.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Utterson MS’: DnJ Δ 51. Discussed in Sir John Simeon, ‘Unpublished Poems of Donne’, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3. For an account of Utterson, see Raymond V. Turley, ‘Edward Vernon Utterson’, The Book Collector, 25 (1976), 21-44 (and plates after p. 48).
JnB 296
Copy, headed ‘upon an Hower Glass’, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 180. c.1637.
JnB 297
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoma working by an houreglass’, subscribed ‘BJ’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, i + 74 leaves, in contemporary calf. Owned (inscription f.[ir]), and possibly partly compiled, by Sir Henry Rainsford (1599-1641), of Clifford Chambers, near Stratford-upon-Avon. c. late 1630s-40s.
Bookplate of Edward Greenfield Doggett and Hugh Greenfield Doggett, of Bristol, 1893. Later owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.
Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 15. Discussed in Peter Davidson, ‘The Notebook of Henry Rainsford’, N&Q, 229 (June 1984), 247-50.
Formerly owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici No. 15.
JnB 298
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 118. c.1632.
JnB 299
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Consider but this dust heere in this glasse’.
In: the MS described under JnB 53. c.1630s.
JnB 300
Copy, headed ‘Of the Sand runinge in an hower Glass’.
In: the MS described under JnB 120. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
JnB 301
Copy, headed ‘On the sand running in an Houre glasse’.
In: the MS described under JnB 121. c.1630.
JnB 302
Copy, headed ‘On a faire Ladie working by an hower glasse’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather. Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew. c.1638-42.
Inscriptions including ‘Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus’ [viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], ‘Thomas Arding’, ‘Thomas Arden’, ‘William Harrington’, ‘Thomas John’, ‘John Anthehope’ and ‘Clement Poxall’. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 194.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Carey MS’: CwT Δ 34. Briefly discussed in Gary Taylor, ‘Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 68 (1985), 210-46 (pp. 220-4). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 188, 191-2).
JnB 304
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under JnB 187. c.1630s.
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, p. 75.
JnB 305
Copy, headed ‘Vpon an Howerglasse’ and subscribed ‘Ben. Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 10. c.1639 [-c.1728].
JnB 307
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 193. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in Bright, p. 31, whence collated in Herford & Simpson.
The humble Petition of poore Ben. To th' best of Monarchs, Masters, Men, King Charles (‘That whereas your royall Father’)
First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxvi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 259-60.
JnB 308
Copy in the hand of Elias Ashmole, headed ‘To the Kings Most Excellent Maiesty The humble Petcon of your Poet To your Maiestye dooth shew it’, here beginning ‘Whereas late your Royal father’, and subscribed ‘B. Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 271.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 309
Copy, headed ‘Ben: Johnsons peticion to ye ks: matie’ and here beginning ‘Whereas yor late roial father’.
In: A large folio miscellany of English and Welsh poems, in occasionally alternating black and red ink, 61 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Compiled by Richard Roberts, Justice of the Peace. c.1628.
Sold by P.J. Dobell in 1936.
JnB 310
Copy, headed ‘Mr Ben: Johnsons Petition to the Kings most Excellt Matie the humble Petition of yor Poet to your Matie doth shewe it’ and here beginning ‘Whereas late your Royall Father’.
In: the MS described under JnB 43. c.1630s.
A Hymne to God the Father (‘Heare mee, O God!’)
First published in The Vnder-wood (i.2) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 129-30.
JnB 311
Copy in: A folio volume of the words of anthems used in the Chapel Royal at Whitehall, 310 leaves, in contemporary brown leather stamped with the royal arms. c.1635.
Owned in 1732 by John, Earl of Leicester, Constable of the Tower. Bought by Rawlinson at an auction in St Paul's Churchyard 15 January 1742/3.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 311.5
Copies, largely of the incipit only, MS (i) with the full text, all in a musical setting by Alfonso Ferabosco.
In: A set of six folio musical part books, namely (i) Cantus, (ii) Altus, (iii) Tenor, (iv) Bassus, (v) Quintus and (vi) Sextus, the lyrics in a neat predominantly italic hand, respectively 176, 175, 176, 176, 163 and 58 leaves (plus numerous blanks), each volume in contemporary calf elaborately gilt with the initials ‘T M’ on the covers. Each volume with an engraved title-page: ‘Tristitiæ Remedivm Cantiones selectissimæ, diuersoru tu authorum, tum argumentoru; labore G manu exaratæ THOMÆ MYRIELL. A.D. 1616.’ c.1616.
Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.
J. Reichard, N&Q, 228 (1983), 147-8.
JnB 311.8
Copy of the incipit only, in a musical setting by Alfonso Ferrabosco.
In: A tall folio part book of vocal music, for the Altus voice, the lyrics in several italic and secretary hands, one formal italic hand predominating, 78 leaves, mounted on guards, in quarter vellum boards. Early 17th century.
Puttick & Simpson's, 29 April 1873.
JnB 312
Copy, in a musical setting by Alfonso Ferrabosco, untitled.
In: A square-shaped folio songbook, largely in a single rounded secretary hand, with (ff. 1r-v, 69r-v) a table of contents, i + 69 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Mid-17th century.
Puttick & Simpson's, 2 March 1866, lot 230.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 2 (New York & London, 1986).
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 312.5
Copy of the first three lines, in a musical setting by Alfonso Ferabosco Jr.
In: A large folio music book, in a single hand, now bound in two volumes (Vol. I, ff. i-iii + 1-198; Vol. II, ff. 199-523 + iv-vi), each in modern half dark red morocco. Compiled by Francis Tregian (1574-1617), compiler of the Fitzwilliam Viginal Book. Early 17th century.
Inscribed (f.vr) ‘ffrancis Sambrooke his Book’. Later in the Hurn Court Library of the Earl of Malmesbury. Christie's, 30-1 March 1950, lot 663.
A complete facsimile in Renaissance Music in Facsimile: Volume 7a: London, British Library, MS Egerton 3665 (‘The Tregian Manuscript’), ed. Frank A.D'Accone, 2 vols (New York & London, 1988).
JnB 312.8
Copy of lines 1-16, in a musical setting by Alfonso Ferrabosco, headed ‘Pauan.’, in six part books of John Brown.
JnB 313
Copy, untitled, ascribed to ‘Beniamin Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 51. c.1624-41.
JnB 314
Copy in a musical setting by Alfonso Ferrabosco.
In: A folio volume of songs, madrigals and motets, 48 leaves, the leaves now mounted with other MSS (1015-1019) in a double-folio guardbook. Early 17th century.
Formerly at St Michael's College, Tenbury Wells.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 6 (New York & London, 1987).
This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Lyrics at St. Michael's College’, M&L, 37 (1956), 221-33 (pp. 225-6).
Inviting a Friend to Svpper (‘To night, graue sir, both my poore house, and I’)
First published in Epigrammes (ci) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 64-5.
JnB 315
Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnson's invitation of a Gentleman to Svpper’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 33 poems by Thomas Carew and sixteen by Henry King, in a single small hand, with (ff. 1r-2v) an alphabetical Index, 105 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London. c.1641-9.
Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Cited in IELM II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6918 with which it was once bound, as the ‘Calfe MS’: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp 129-35, 444-5 (see KiH Δ 6).
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 316
Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnsons inuitation of a Gentleman to Supper’.
In: the MS described under JnB 76. c.1674-84.
JnB 316.5
Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnsons inuitation of a Gentleman to supper’.
In: the MS described under JnB 121.5. c.late 1630s.
JnB 316.8
Copy in the hand of Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65), on a sheet in his exemplum of Jonson's Workes.
In: Exemplum of Jonson's printed Workes (London, 1616) belonging to Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65), which was possibly made up from printing-house remnants. c.1635.
Discussed in Mark Bland, ‘William Stansby and the Production of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16’, The Library, 6th Ser. 20 (1998), 1-33 (pp. 20-3).
The iust indignation the Author tooke at the vulgar censure of his Play, by some malicious Spectators begat this following Ode to himselfe (‘Come leaue the lothed stage’)
See JnB 367-381.
A little Shrub growing by (‘Aske not to know this Man. If fame should speake’)
First published in The Vnder-wood (xxi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 172.
Lord Bacon's Birth-day (‘Haile, happie Genius of this antient pile!’)
First published in The Vnder-wood (li) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 225.
JnB 318
Copy, in the hand of John Aubrey.
In: A folio composite autograph manuscript of the first part of Brief Lives by John Aubrey (1626-97), 121 largely folio leaves, in vellum within modern boards. c.1679/80-1681.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
Martial. <Epigram XLVII, Book X.> (‘The Things that make the happier life, are these’)
First published in John Payne Collier, Memoirs of Edward Alleyn (London, 1841), p. 54. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 295.
*JnB 319
Autograph, on a folio leaf also containing WoH 2.
In: A collection of papers of the actor Edward Alleyn (1566-1626).
Edited from this MS in Collier and in Herford & Simpson. Edited and discussed in Anthony Miller, ‘The Text of Ben Jonson's Translation of Martial, Epigrams, X.xlvii’, ELN, 21/2 (December 1983), 8-10. Facsimiles in The Henslowe Papers, ed. R.A. Foakes (London, 1977), II, 135, and in The Henslowe Papers Supplement: The Theatre Papers, in honour of Dr D.M. Owen, ed. Masayuki Yamagishi (Kyoto, Japan, 1992), article 35.
JnB 320
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled. c.1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and miscellaneous verse and prose, in various hands, 69 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 321
Copy, headed ‘Translated out of Martiall by Ben: Johnson ~ libr: 10: Epi: 49’.
In: the MS described under JnB 76. c.1674-84.
The Musicall strife. In a Pastorall Dialogue (‘Come, with our Voyces, let us warre’)
First published in The Vnder-wood (iii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 143-4.
JnB 322
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.
In: A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked). Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere. c.1640s-60s.
Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Probert MS’: CwT Δ 4, HeR Δ 1. Discussed and analysed in John P. Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211. Also briefly discussed in George Thewlis, ‘Some Notes on a Bodleian Manuscript’, M&L, 22 (1941) 32-5, and in Willa McClung Evans, ‘Shakespeare's “Harke Harke ye Larke”’, PMLA, 60 (1945), 95-101 (with a facsimile of f. 78r). A facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 6 (New York & London, 1987).
This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 204). Facsimile in Jorgens, VI.
JnB 323
Copy, headed ‘Two Ladies invitinge each other to singe’.
In: A verse miscellany, i + 25 leaves. c.1640.
Owned before 1959 by the Lingard-Guthrie family.
JnB 324
Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: the MS described under JnB 48. c.1656.
This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth Century Lyrics’, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209 (p. 176). Facsimile in Jorgens, VII.
JnB 325
Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, used as an Oxford Act Song, i + 32 folio leaves. c.1660s.
JnB 326
Copy, headed ‘Cantilena’.
In: the MS described under JnB 8. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 327
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under JnB 38. c.1620-50.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 328
Copy, headed ‘Two Ladies ioyning each other to sing’.
In: A small octavo verse miscellany, written from both ends, predominantly in a single hand in variant styles (ff. 1v-79v, 80r, 88v-96v, 119r-117r rev.), with additions in later hands (ff. 97r-104v, 116v-106r rev.), 164 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Inscribed (f. 1v, in a court hand) ‘Daniell Leare his Booke’, ‘witnesse William Strode’, and (f. 164r) ‘Mr Daniell Leare eius Liber’: i.e. compiled chiefly by Daniel Leare, a distant cousin of the poet William Strode, probably at Christ Church, Oxford, before he entered the Middle Temple in 1633. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This suggestion, by Mary Hobbs, is supported by entries in the Caution Book of 1625-41 at Christ Church, where Strode is found (p. 22) paying £10 as college security for Leare and where Leare signs (p. 23) on this sum's repayment by Dr Fell on 13 May 1633. Forey suggests (p. lxxix) that he was the Daniell Leare of St Andrews, Holburne, whose will was proved in 1652; but it is more likely that he was the Daniel Leare to whom Henry King, Dean of Rochester, leased property at Chatham on 19 July 1655 (National Archives, Kew, SP 18/99/61). Daniel Leare's wife, Dorothy, was a member of the Hubert family with whom King was associated by virtue of the marriage of his sister Dorothy.
The volume includes 12 poems by Donne; 15 poems (plus a second copy of one and three of doubtful authorship) by Carew; 20 poems (plus two of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; and 84 poems (plus second copies of eight poems, four poems of doubtful authorship and some apocryphal poems) by Strode, the texts being closely related to, and in part probably transcribed from, the ‘Corpus MS’ of Strode's poems (StW Δ 1).
Inscribed also ‘John Leare’ (probably Daniel's younger brother); (f. 1r) ‘Anthony Euans his booke’ (who married Daniel Leare's niece Dorothy Leare in 1663); (f. 1v) ‘Alexander Croke his Book 1773’; and (f. 164v) ‘John Scott’ (who matriculated at Christ Church in 1632). Rimell & Son, 9 November 1878.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Leare MS’: DnJ Δ 41, CwT Δ 15, CoR Δ 4, and StW Δ 10.
Discussed in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973), pp. 185-90; in her ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 189-90); and in her Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), passim, with facsimile examples of ff. 79-80 facing p. 87.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 329
Copy, headed ‘Sonnett’, subscribed ‘B J:’.
In: the MS described under JnB 168. c.1633.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 331
Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue in song betweene A Nimph & a Shephard’, on both sides of a single trimmed and ruled octavo leaf. c.1630s.
This leaf is folio 54 extracted from the verse miscellany now Folger MS V.a.96.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 332
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under JnB 292. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Cutts, MD, 10 (1956), 176.
JnB 333
Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue in Song betweene a Nymph and a Shepheard’.
In: the MS described under JnB 42. c. late 1630s.
JnB 334
Copy, headed ‘Too Ladyes enuiting each other to sing’, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 53. c.1630s.
JnB 335
Copy, headed ‘Dialogue in Songe Betweene a Nymphe & a Shepheard’.
In: the MS described under JnB 43. c.1630s.
JnB 336
Copy, headed ‘Two sheapheards inuiting each other to singe’.
In: the MS described under JnB 302. c.1638-42.
JnB 337
Copy, headed ‘A dialog betweene two Ladies. B. J.’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Thomas Carew, probably in a single accomplished hand (changing to two styles of italic on ff. 42v-4v, 5r-60r, 76r-v), i + 89 leaves (including blanks, stubs of two or three excised leaves, and an index), in contemporary limp vellum. c.1630s-40s.
Later notes and scribbling including the names ‘John Nutting’ (ff. 26r, 56r) and ‘John M.’ and ‘John Susan’ (rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Nutting MS’: CwT Δ 35. The list of poems, probably relating to another MS, is edited, with facsimiles, in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 198-9, 217-19).
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), f. 53r-v.
JnB 338
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed ‘Corbett’, with a stave of music by Nicholas Lanier. c.1620s-30s.
In: A quarto composite volume of ecclesiastical tracts and sermons, in different hands, possibly associated with Lancelot Andrewes, 98 leaves, in quarter-calf marbled boards. Inscribed on the last page (f. 98v) by Andrewes's secretary ‘samMVel. WrIght of LonDon 1616’.
This MS discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 36r, 40v and 44v, in P.J. Klemp, ‘“Betwixt the Hammer and the Anvill”: Lancelot Andrewes's Revision Techniques in the Manuscript of His 1620 Easter Sermon’, PBSA, 89/2 (June 1995), 149-82.
Trinity College, Cambridge, MS B. 14. 22 (James 307), f. 87r.
JnB 339
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under JnB 58. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 340
Copy, headed ‘Sonnet’.
In: A folio miscellany of some 133 poems, including 55 poems by Henry King and nineteen by Thomas Carew, 247 pages. In the hands of two amanuenses associated with King: i.e. Scribe A (c.1636), pp. 1-214, that of Thomas Manne's ‘imitator’ using two styles (a: pp. 1-62, 64-6, 133-4, 147-215; and b, the earlier: pp. 63, 67-132, 135-45); and Scribe B (c.1641): pp. 217-47, that of the scribe responsible for the Phillipps MS (Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8471). c.1636-41.
The flyleaf inscribed ‘Ex dono Eugenii Stoughton Die Octobrii 23 Anno-1738-Domini’: i.e. owned before 1738 by the Stoughton family, of St John's House, Warwick.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Stoughton MS’: CwT Δ 36 and KiH Δ 6. A complete photocopy deposited by Mary Hobbs in the Bodleian (MS Facs. d. 157). Edited in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (An Early Seventeenth-Century Poetry Collection in Private Hands connected with Henry King and Oxford) seen in relation to other contemporary Poetry and Song Collections (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973). Also discussed in Mary Hobbs, ‘The Poems of Henry King: Another Authoritative Manuscript’, The Library, 5th Ser. 31 (1976), 127-35. Recorded in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King, D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96. A complete facsimile edition in The Stoughton Manuscript, ed. Mary Hobbs (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1990).
My Answer. The Poet to the Painter (‘Why? though I seeme of a prodigious wast’)
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 226-7.
JnB 342
Copy of lines 7-24, untitled, here beginning ‘You are not tied by any painters Law’.
In: the MS described under JnB 155. c.1630s-40s.
JnB 343
Copy of lines 1-15, headed ‘B. Johnson, to Burlace the Painter’ and here beginning ‘What though I be of a prodigious wast’.
In: the MS described under JnB 158. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 344
Copy, headed ‘Ben Ionson to ye Painter’.
In: the MS described under JnB 328. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 345
Copy, headed ‘Ben: Iohnsons Reply’.
In: the MS described under JnB 315. c.1641-9.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 346
Copy in: An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt. Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v. c.1635.
Inscribed on f. 111v rev. ‘Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt’. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Harley MS’: CoR Δ 5.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 347
Copy, headed ‘B.I. to the paynter’.
In: the MS described under JnB 20. c.early 1630s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 349
Copy, headed ‘Ben: J: to Burlace’, following ‘Burlace the painter to Ben: J.’
In: the MS described under JnB 241. c.late 1630s [-1789].
JnB 350
Copy, following (on f. 64v) William Burlase's ‘The painter to the poett’.
In: the MS described under JnB 53. c.1630s.
JnB 351
Copy, here beginning ‘Why Wt though I be of A pdigious wast?’
In: the MS described under JnB 4.5. c.1650.
My Picture left in Scotland (‘I now thinke, Love is rather deafe, then blind’)
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (ix) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 149-50.
*JnB 352
Autograph fair copy, headed ‘Yet, that Loue when it is at full, may admit heaping, / Receiue another; and this a picture of my self’.
In: the MS described under JnB 270. 1619.
JnB 353
Copy, headed ‘Verses on his Picture’.
In: the MS described under JnB 45. c.1620s-34.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
A New-yeares-Gift sung to King Charles. 1635 (‘To day old Janus opens the new yeare’)
First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxix) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 263-5.
JnB 361
Copy of a version of lines 56-65 (here beginning ‘Procures all Plenty & our Flocke encrease’) incorporated as lines 14-23 in a copy of Nicholas Lanier's ‘A Pastorall Song to the King on Newyeares day: Ano. Dni. 1663[/4?]’ (beginning ‘Looke shephards looke, old Janus doth vnfold’), on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves. c.1665.
In: the MS described under JnB 271.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
A Nymphs Passion (‘I love, and he loves me again’)
First published in The Vnder-wood (vii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 147-8.
JnB 362
Copy, headed ‘A Nymphes Passion in a Pastorall’.
In: A folio volume of of tracts and papers chiefly on state matters, largely in one hand, 72 leaves (plus blanks). c.1635.
Inscribed (f. 10r) with names of Stephen Foster of Wrexham, Buckinghamshire (possibly the principal compiler) and Robert Drake of Topsham, Devon. Bookplate (f. 11r) of Berkeley Seymour of Queens's College, Cambridge. Purchased from the Rev. John C. Jackson 8 December 1866.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 362.5
Copy, headed ‘A Nymph's Passion by Ben Jonson’.
In: A quarto composite verse miscellany, in one or possibly two hands, 56 pages (including blanks), in 19th-century boards. Early-mid-18th century.
Formerly among the papers of the Fairfax family, of Leeds Castle, Kent. Fairfax sale at Leeds Castle, 1843, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 11141. 1898 Phillipps sale, lot 479, to W. A. Lindsay. His sale London, 14 February 1927, lot 671, to Dobell. Dobell & Radford's sale catalogue The Ingatherer, No. 11 (1930), item 209.
Ode (‘Yff Men, and tymes were nowe’)
First published in William Dinmore Briggs, ‘Did Jonson Write a Third “Ode to Himself”?’, The Athenaeum (13 June 1914), p. 828. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 419-21.
JnB 363
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under JnB 90. c.1620s-33.
This MS is in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94. Printed from this MS in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 364
Copy, headed ‘Ode’.
In: the MS described under JnB 94. c.1620-33.
Edited from this MS in Briggs. Collated in Herford & Simpson.
Ode Enthousiastike (‘Splendor! O more then mortall’)
First published in Diuerse Poeticall Essaies appended to Robert Chester, Loues Martyr (London, 1601). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 364-5.
JnB 365
Copy, headed ‘To L:C: off: B’ and here beginning ‘Beautye, more then Mortall’.
In: the MS described under JnB 90. c.1620s-33.
This MS is in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94; collated in Herford & Simpson.
An Ode, or Song, by all the Muses. In celebration of her Majesties birth-day (‘Up publike joy, remember’)
First published in Benson's 4to edition (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxvii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 239-40.
Ode to himselfe (‘Come leaue the lothed stage’)
First published, with the heading ‘The iust indignation the Author tooke at the vulgar censure of his Play, by some malicious spectators, begat this following Ode to himselfe’, in The New Inn (London, 1631). Herford & Simpson, VI, 492-4.
JnB 367
Ode to himselfe. This is not the poem by Jonson but one by Owen Felltham: see FeO 1-6.
JnB 368
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 36. c.1638.
Printed from this MS in The New Inn, ed. G.B. Tennant (New York, 1908); collated in Herford & Simpson, and in Tom Davis, ‘Ben Johnson's Ode to Himself: An Early Version’, PQ, 51.i (1972), 410-21.
JnB 369
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small neat predominantly secretary hand but for additions in a second hand on ff. 35v and 58r, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, 97 leaves (inclusing two blanks), in half-calf. Including 14 poems by Carew (and a second copy of one poem), eight poems (plus 3 of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, and 28 poems by Strode (plus a second copy of one and two of doubtful authorship). c.late 1630s.
Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Fulman MS’: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 411.
JnB 370
Copy, headed ‘B. J: his discontented Soliloquye Vpon ye Censure of his Play called ye new inne, answered by T: R:’, here beginnning ‘Ben leaue ye stage’, and each stanza alternating with Randolph's ‘answer’.
In: the MS described under JnB 156. c.1640.
This MS collated in Davis.
JnB 371
Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnsons discontented Soliloquy, vpon ye sinister Censure of his Play, call'd ye New Inne; Answerd verse for verse by Tho Randall’, here beginning ‘Ben leaue ye loathed Stage’, each stanza alternating with Randolph's answer (RnT 27).
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in a single small hand, 54 leaves, in vellum boards. Compiled by a Cambridge University man. c.1640s.
JnB 373
Copy, headed ‘Ben: Johnsons Ode to his selfe’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, 49 leaves; in contemporary calf gilt. Including 14 poems by Carew; the main text (ff. 1r-27r) in a non-professional mixed hand of the 1630s (but for later scribbling); the remaining leaves filled by later hands; notes on family history from 1647 to 1664 on ff. 28r-9r. c.1630s[-75].
Inscribed on f. 29v ‘John Peverell Booke 1674’ and his name also on ff. 1r and 49r. Fol. 48v containing a receipt dated 30 June 1653 ‘by me Francis Blackitt of bro. William of Hoodcroft, Co. Durham’. Other names inside the front cover including ‘John Peves’ and ‘Railphe Hogwood’ and, inside the back cover, ‘James Portington’, ‘William Steadman 1675’, ‘Thomas Meeres’, ‘William Diton’ and ‘Ramond Swift’.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Peverell MS’: CwT Δ 9.
This MS collated in Davis.
JnB 374
Copy, headed ‘Ben: Johnsons discontented Soliloquy upon ye sinister Censure of his play called ye New Inne…’, alternating stanza-by-stanza with Randolph's Latin version (RnT 28) and answer (RnT 416).
In: the MS described under JnB 70. c.1653-60s.
JnB 375
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 56. c.1680.
JnB 376
Copy, headed ‘Ben: Johnsons ode to himself’.
In: Four octavo leaves removed fom the verse miscellany Folger MS V.a.97, bound in the order pp. 77-8, 83-4, 79-80 and 81-2, in modern half crushed morocco on marbled boards. c.late 1630s.
JnB 377
Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnsons ode to himselfe’.
In: the MS described under JnB 25. c.1630s[-55].
JnB 378
Copy, headed ‘Mr Ionsons farewell to the stage’, on versos only, interspersed stanza for stanza with the answer by Randolph (RnT 23), subscribed ‘Ben: Jonson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 41. c.1630s-40s.
JnB 379.5
Copy, together with (stanza-for-stanza) a Latin version by William Strode (StW 1413) and a Greek version by ‘Mr Maisters of New=colledge’.
In: A miscellany compiled by Vincent Sparkes, Minister of Northwood, Isle of Wight. Mid-17th century.
Formerly recorded as ‘Cromwellian commonplace book’.
Recorded in Mary Damant, ‘A Cromwellian Commonplace Book’, N&Q, 7th Ser. 10 (13 September 1890), 204-5.
JnB 380
Copy, headed ‘An Ode to him selfe’.
In: the MS described under JnB 337. c.1630s-40s.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), ff. 1r-2r.
JnB 380.5
Copy of the first stanza, untitled, followed by the first stanza of Randolph's answer (RnT 32) and two Latin versions (one StW 1414), all these verses then repeated, followed by the second stanza of Jonson's poem and the second stanza of Randolph's answer.
In: the MS described under JnB 58. c.1630s.
JnB 381
A printed exemplum of The New Inn (London, 1631) with MS annotations made by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary, collating the text of the ‘Ode to himselfe’ with a 17th-century MS once in his possession. Early 19th century.
This item collated in Herford & Simpson.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce 5363 (Pressmark Dyce 25.A.97).
An Ode. to himselfe (‘Where do'st thou carelesse lie’)
First published in The Vnder-wood (xxiii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 174-5.
JnB 382
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under JnB 90. c.1620s-33.
This MS is in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94; collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 383
Copy, headed ‘Ode’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 384
Copy, headed ‘Ode’.
In: the MS described under JnB 94. c.1620-33.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
An Ode to Iames Earle of Desmond (‘Where art thou, Genius? I should use’)
First published in The Vnder-wood (xxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 176-80.
*JnB 386
Autograph, untitled, here beginning ‘Genius where art thou? I should vse’, subscribed ‘B. J.’.
In: A folio composite verse and heraldic miscellany, in several hands, ii + 302 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf. Including much Welsh verse and coats of arms, some by or relating to Sir John Salusbury. Compiled, at least in part, by William Cynwal of Penmachno for Catherine of Berain, wife of Sir Richard Clough. c.1591-1609.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson, with a facsimile of lines 1-23 facing p. 179. Discussed, with a complete facsimile, in Mark Bland, ‘“As far from all Reuolt”: Sir John Salusbury, Christ Church MS 184 and Ben Jonson's First Ode’, EMS, 8 (2000), 43-78. Facsimile of first page also in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 189.
Ode. To Sir William Sydney, on his Birth-Day (‘Now that the harth is crown'd with smiling fire’)
First published in The Forrest (xiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 120-1.
JnB 387
Copy of lines 39-40, here beginning ‘They yt swell’ and subscribed ‘fforrest to S' Wil. Sydney’.
In: the MS described under JnB 96. Early-mid-17th century.
Of Life, and Death (‘The ports of death are sinnes. of life, good deeds’)
First published in Epigrammes (lxxx) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 53-4.
JnB 388
Copy of lines 5-8, in a mixed hand, untitled and here beginning ‘This world deathes region is, ye other lifes’. c.1630s.
In: the MS described under JnB 46. c.mid 17th century.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
On Banck the Vsvrer (‘Banck feeles no lamenesse of his knottie gout’)
First published in Epigrammes (xxxi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 36.
JnB 390
Copy in: An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in five hands, one predominating on ff. 8v-130r, ii + 166 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Compiled in part (ff. 131v-66r) by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary. c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 391
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, in two hands, one mixed hand predominating, 128 pages (plus a five-page index). Inscribed, and probably compiled, by Hugh Barrow (b.1617/18), of Brasenose College, Oxford. c.1638.
Also inscribed names of George Hope, Peter Wynne and [?]Anselm Huff. Later owned by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia bookseller and scholar: Rosenbach MS 192.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), p. 79.
On English Mounsievr (‘Would you beleeue, when you this Movnsievr see’)
First published in Epigrammes (lxxxviii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 56.
JnB 393
Copy of lines 7-8, headed ‘Ben: Johnson seeing a Fantasticall man new come from beyond the sea said,’ here beginning ‘Hee is French soe much’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, much relating to the Fane and Mildmay families, in a single predominantly italic hand, 130 leaves, in contemporary calf, remains of silk ties. Compiled by Sir Francis Fane (c.1612-80), of Fulbeck Hall, Northamptonshire, with his signed dedications to his son Henry (ff. 2r-v, 130r) dated respectively 1 January ‘1655’ and ‘20th. of Augt: 1663’. c.1655-63.
On Giles and Ione (‘Who sayes that Giles and Ione at discord be?’)
First published in Epigrammes (xlii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 40.
JnB 394
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 390. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson. A facsimile of f. 46v in Marcy L. North, ‘Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 94).
JnB 396
Copy, untitled.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and jests, in a minute hand, compiled by a Cambridge man, 59 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. c.1630.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 397
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, closely written in possibly several minute predominantly secretary hands, 291 leaves (ff. 212-16 bound out of order after f. 24), in modern calf. c.1640s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Joseph Hall’ (not the bishop). Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who has entered in pseudo-17th-century secretary script copies of various ballads on ff. 39r-41r, 107v-79r, 181r-v, 227r-8v, 243r-6r, as well as adding foliation (1-284) before the more recent foliation (1-291, used below). Quaritch's sale catalogue ‘of English Literature’ (August-November 1884), item 22350, Collier's transcript of the MS made c.1860 being item 22352. Formerly Folger MS 2071.7.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Giles E. Dawson, ‘John Payne Collier's Great Forgery’, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26.
JnB 398
Copy 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.
On Groyne (‘Groyne, come of age, his state sold out of hand’)
First published in Epigrammes (cxvii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 75.
On Gut (‘Gvt eates all day, and lechers all the night’)
First published in Epigrammes (cxviii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 76.
JnB 401
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘B. Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 244. c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
JnB 402
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, 180 pages, in three secretary hands, in contemporary limp vellum. Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court. c.1630.
Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Formerly Rosenbach 186.
JnB 403
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 96. Early-mid-17th century.
On Margaret Ratcliffe (‘Marble, weepe, for thou dost couer’)
First published in Epigrammes (xl) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 39.
JnB 405
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 391. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), p. 79.
On My First Sonne (‘Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and ioy’)
First published in Epigrammes (xlv) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 41.
JnB 406
Copy of lines 9-12, headed ‘Bens Epitaph on his eldest son dyinge in Infancy’ and here beginning ‘Rest in soft peace and Ask't, say heare doth lye’.
In: A small quarto miscellany of anecdotes, aphorisms, verses, etc., in two hands, compiled by Sir Francis Fane (c.1612-80), 193 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Inscribed by Fane on f. 1r ‘Aug: 24: 1629 / Franciscus Fane’ and, later, as a bequest to his three grandsons to be read by them when aged 21, dated from Fulbeck, 5 May 1672. c.1629-72.
Sold by Maggs, 29 May 1930.
On Play-wright (‘Play-wright, by chance, hearing some toyesI'had writ’)
First published in Epigrammes (c) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 64.
JnB 406.5
Copy in the hand of Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65), on a sheet in his exemplum of Jonson's Workes.
In: the MS described under JnB 316.8. c.1635.
Discussed in Mark Bland, ‘William Stansby and the Production of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16’, The Library, 6th Ser. 20 (1998), 1-33 (pp. 20-3).
On Some-Thing, That Walkes Some-Where (‘At court I met it, in clothes braue enough’)
First published in Epigrammes (xi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 30.
JnB 408
Copy, headed ‘Of Somewhat I mett somewhere’ and here beginning ‘In Courte I mett it in cloths braue enough’.
In: the MS described under JnB 117. c.1620-33.
JnB 409
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 391. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), p. 79.
On the new Motion (‘See you yond' Motion? Not the old Fa-ding’)
First published in Epigrammes (xcvii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 62-3.
JnB 410
Copy of lines 19-20, untitled and here beginning ‘What is't soe swels each lim?’, as No. 4 in a series of extracts from ‘Ben: Johnson his poems’.
In: the MS described under JnB 95. Mid-17th century.
JnB 410.5
Copy in the hand of Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65), headed ‘xcviii’, on a sheet in his exemplum of Jonson's Workes.
In: the MS described under JnB 316.8. c.1635.
Discussed in Mark Bland, ‘William Stansby and the Production of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16’, The Library, 6th Ser. 20 (1998), 1-33 (pp. 20-3), with a facsimile of the first four lines (p. 21).
On the Right Honourable, and vertuous Lord Weston, L. high Treasurer of England, Vpon the Day, Hee was made Earle of Portland, To the Envious (‘Looke up, thou seed of envie, and still bring’)
First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxiii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 250.
JnB 411.5
Copy, added in a third professional cursive hand after 1633.
In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, almost entirely in two professional secretary hands, predominantly that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, iv + 232 leaves, in reversed calf. c.1628-30s.
Once owned by ‘Ric: Tichbone’, probably Sir Richard Tichborne, second Baronet, MP (c.1578-1652). James Tregaskis, sale catalogue No. 1022 (1948), item 29. Bought from Maggs, 4 November 1948, by Annie Winifred Bryher (née Ellerman, d.1983). Afterwards owned by the Ralegh scholar Agnes Latham (1905-96), of Pickering, North Yorkshire.
Briefly described in Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 229-31 (No. 35).
On the Vnion (‘When was there contract better driuen by Fate?’)
First published in Epigrammes (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 28.
JnB 412
Copy, headed ‘On ye vnion betwixt scotland and England’.
In: the MS described under JnB 390. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 413
Copy, here beginning ‘Never was bargaine better driven by fate.’
In: the MS described under JnB 309. c.1628.
JnB 414
Second copy, headed ‘Vpon the Vnion by Ben: Johnson’ and also beginning ‘Never was bargaine better driven by fate’.
In: the MS described under JnB 309. c.1628.
JnB 415
Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnson vppon kinge James his vnion of England and Scotland’ and here beginning ‘Never was marriage better driven by fate’.
In: the MS described under JnB 125. Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 416
Copy, here beginning ‘Was ever contract driven by better fate’.
In: the MS described under JnB 64. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 416.5
Copy, headed ‘On ye vnion of England and Scotland’, here beginning ‘Was ever contract driven by better fate’.
In: the MS described under JnB 278. c.1630s [-1733].
JnB 417
Copy, headed ‘In Vnionem Angliae & Scotiae’ and here beginning ‘Was ever Contract better drawne by fate?’.
In: the MS described under JnB 8. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 417.3
Copy, headed ‘Of the Vnion’ and here beginning ‘Neuer was Contract better driuen of fate’.
In: the MS described under JnB 20.5. c.1637.
JnB 417.5
Copy, headed ‘On the Union of great Brittaine’ and here beginning ‘Never was Union better driven by fate’.
In: the MS described under JnB 24. c.1630 [-1677].
JnB 417.8
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘De vnione Brittanniæ’, here beginning ‘Was ever contract better driven by fate?’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in several italic and mixed hands, written probably over a period from both ends, 72 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1630s-40s.
John Rylands University Library of Manchester, English MS 410, f. 21r.
JnB 418
Copy, headed ‘King James his coming to the croune’.
In: the MS described under JnB 53. c.1630s.
JnB 419
Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, here beginning ‘Was ever contract better driven by fate’.
In: the MS described under JnB 54.
JnB 420
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 391. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), pp. 78-9.
JnB 421
Copy, headed ‘On the Vnion of great Britaine’, here beginning ‘Never was Vnion better driven by fate’.
In: the MS described under JnB 27. c.1630s.
JnB 422
Copy, headed ‘On the Vnion betweene Scotland and England by King James’, subscribed ‘James Stuart K: of England’.
In: the MS described under JnB 58. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 422.5
Copy, here beginning ‘Was euer contract driuen by better fate?’
In: the MS described under JnB 10. c.1639 [-c.1728].
A Poême sent me by Sir William Burlase (‘To paint thy Worth, if rightly I did know it’)
See JnB 341-351.
The praises of a Countrie life (‘Happie is he, that from all Businesse cleere’)
See JnB 265-267.
Proludium (‘An elegie? no. muse. yt askes a straine’)
A version of ‘And must I sing?...’ (see JnB 1) first published in G. Thorn-Drury, A Little Ark (London, 1921), p. 1. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 108.
JnB 423
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 148. Early-mid-17th century.
Edited from this MS in Thorn-Drury, Little Ark, and in Herford & Simpson, VIII, 108.
JnB 424
Copy, in a neat predominantly secretary hand. c.1620s-40s.
In: the MS described under JnB 146. Early-mid 17th century.
Edited partly from this MS in Herford & Simpson.
A Satyricall Shrub (‘A Womans friendship! God whom I trust in’)
First published (in an incomplete 24-line version) in The Vnder-wood (xx) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 171-2. Complete 32-line version first published in Grace Ioppolo, ‘The Monckton-Milnes Manuscript and the “Truest” Version of Ben Jonson's “A Satyricall Shrubb”’, Ben Jonson Journal, 16 (May 2009), 117-31 (pp. 125-6). Some later texts of this poem discussed in Peter Beal, ‘Ben Jonson and “Rochester's” Rodomontade on his Cruel Mistress’, RES, NS 29 (1978), 320-4. See also Harold F. Brooks, ‘“A Satyricall Shrub”’, TLS (11 December 1969), p. 1426.
JnB 425
Copy of lines 17-24, untitled and here beginning ‘Aske not to knowe this woman, she is worse’.
In: the MS described under JnB 36. c.1638.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson and in Beal.
JnB 426
Copy of a version of lines 17-24, in an unidentified hand, headed ‘Lord Buckhurst Rodomandado upon his Mistris’, here beginning ‘Seek not to know a woman’, for she's worse, and subscribed ‘Comunicat: á Mrs. Sam: Naylour Aug: 14. 1672’.
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.
This version edited in Westminster-Drollery (London, 1671), p. 14. Edited from this MS in Brice Harris, Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset (Urbana, 1940), p. 37. Collated in Beal. Recorded in Herford & Simpson. XI, 60.
JnB 427
Copy of lines 17-24, untitled and here beginning ‘Aske not to know this woman She is worse’.
In: the MS described under JnB 174. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Beal.
JnB 428
Copy of lines 17-24, untitled and here beginning ‘Aske not to know this woman: shee is worse’.
In: the MS described under JnB 53. c.1630s.
edited from this ms in Beal? check
JnB 428.2
Copy, headed ‘On a Woman’.
In: the MS described under JnB 182.5. c.1630s.
London Metropolitan Archives, ACC/1360/528, f. [23r-v rev.].
JnB 428.5
Copy of a 32-line version (plus one deleted line), headed ‘Satyre’.
In: the MS described under JnB 192.5. c.1614-25.
Edited from this in Ioppolo.
JnB 428.8
Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnson's Curse to his Perjur'd Mistrisse’.
In: An unbound collection of poems chiefly of a bawdy nature or on affairs of state (including a number in the Rochester and apocryphal Rochester canon), in a non-professional hand, possibly derived at least in part from printed sources, 29 folio leaves. c.1700.
Among the papers of the Turner family of Kirkleatham.
North Yorkshire Record Office, ZK MIC 1275/9785, f. [19r-v].
JnB 429
Copy of a version of lines 17-24, untitled, here beginning ‘Trust not yt thing call'd woman, she is worse’, and subscribed ‘Rochester’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, closely written from both ends in several hands, 144 leaves (plus entries on inside covers), in contemporary calf. Owned (name inscribed on f. 1r), and probably compiled in part, by one Thomas Watson. c.1680s.
Formerly MS P. 3. 1.
Edited from this MS in The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. David M. Vieth (New Haven & London, 1968), p. 159. Collated in Beal.
JnB 430
Copy of lines 17-24, beginning ‘Doe not you aske to know her, she is worse’.
In: the MS described under JnB 2. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Beal.
JnB 430.5
Copy of a later version of lines 17-24, untitled and here beginning ‘Seeke not to know a woman for Shee's worse’, written on the verso of a copy of Charles II's letter to James, Duke of York, dated 28 February ‘1678’. Late 17th century.
Among the papers of the Dukes of Ormonde. Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, in lot 263.
Song (‘Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest’)
See JnB 625-53.
A Song (‘Come, let us here enjoy the shade’)
First published in The Vnder-wood (xxxvi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 189.
JnB 430.8
Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue’ and ascribed to ‘Tho: fforde’.
In: Three music part books: (i), (ii), and (iii). Early-mid-17th century.
Song (‘ffrom a Gypsie in the morninge’)
See JnB 654-670.675.
Song (‘If I freely may discouer’)
See JnB 693-714.
Song (‘Still to be neat, still to be drest’)
See JnB 582-601.
Song (‘Though I am young, and cannot tell’)
See JnB 715-728.
A Song of the Moon (‘To the wonders of the Peake’)
First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. William Gifford, 9 vols (London, 1816). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 416-18.
JnB 431
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under JnB 45. c.1620s-34.
Printed from this MS in Gifford and in Herford & Simpson.
A Song of Welcome to King Charles (‘Fresh as the Day, and new as are the Howers’)
First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. William Gifford, 9 vols (London, 1816). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 416.
JnB 432
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under JnB 45. c.1620s-34.
Printed from this MS in Gifford and in Herford & Simpson.
Song. That Women are bvt Mens shaddowes (‘Follow a shaddow, it still flies you’)
First published in The Forrest (vii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 104.
JnB 434
Copy of lines 1-4, untitled.
In: A duodecimo commonplace book of extracts, in English and Latin, written from both ends, 60 leaves, disbound. Owned and probably compiled by John Abbott (b.1653/4), of St John's College, Oxford. c.1670s.
JnB 436
Copy, headed ‘Women are bvt mens shadowes’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse, academic exercises and other material, in English and Latin, almost entirely in a single hand, 134 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Inscribed by the compiler (f. 133v) ‘Anthony Scattergood His booke’: i.e. Anthony Scattergood (1611-87), theologian, of Trinity College, Cambridge. Volume XXXII of the Scattergood papers. c.1632-40.
Also inscribed (f. 130v) ‘Elisabeth Scattergood her Booke 1667/8’. Booklabel of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector.
JnB 437
Copy, headed ‘Women’.
In: the MS described under JnB 167. Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 439
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 119. c.1618-20s.
JnB 440
Copy, headed ‘A Woman’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Carew and one of doubtful authorship, in a single neat non-professional hand, 72 leaves (plus a later index). c.1643-50s.
Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Bell-White MS, CwT Δ 30. Described, with facsimiles of ff. 30r and 56v, in T.G.S. Cain, ‘The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems’, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, f. 42v.
Song. To Celia (‘Come my Celia let vs proue’)
First published in Volpone, III, vii, 166-83 (London, 1607). The Forrest (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 102. Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 294.
JnB 443
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Come: sweete (Celia) lett vs prove’.
In: the MS described under JnB 90. c.1620s-33.
This MS is in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94; collated in Herford & Simpson and in Doughtie, pp. 563-4.
JnB 444
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under JnB 277.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson and in Doughtie, pp. 563-4.
JnB 445
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Come sweet Cælia let vs proue’.
In: the MS described under JnB 37. c.1630.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson and in Doughtie, pp. 563-4.
JnB 446
Copy, in a musical setting by Alfonso Ferrabosco, untitled.
In: the MS described under JnB 17. c.1614-30.
Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 3-5, and in Doughtie, pp. 563-4.
JnB 448
Copy, headed ‘A Song’.
In: the MS described under JnB 140. c.1637-51.
This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 563-4.
JnB 449
Copy, in double columns, untitled, subscribed in a later hand ‘B Jonson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 397. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 563-4.
JnB 450
Copy, headed ‘Another’ and here beginning ‘Come sweet Mrs lett us proue’.
In: the MS described under JnB 302. c.1638-42.
This MS collated in Doughtie, ff. 563-4.
Song. To Celia (‘Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes’)
First published in The Forrest (ix) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 106.
JnB 451
Copy, headed ‘A health to his Mris’.
In: the MS described under JnB 60. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 451.5
Copy of the song, in a musical setting by Henry Harrington.
In: A square-shaped folio volume of vocal and instrumental music, in two or more cursive italic hands, written from both ends, with (ff. 1v-2v, 96v rev) a table of contents, 97 leaves, in modern half red morocco. c.1760s.
Bookplate of Edmund Thomas Warren Horne, publisher, and probably the compiler. Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.
JnB 452
Copy, subscribed ‘B: J:’.
In: the MS described under JnB 156. c.1640.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 453
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.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 454
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Drinke to mee Celia wth thine eye’.
In: the MS described under JnB 38. c.1620-50.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 455
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 167. Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 456
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs’, an original subscription ‘B J:’ deleted and replaced by another hand as ‘Mr Cary’.
In: the MS described under JnB 168. c.1633.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 459
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs’, here beginning ‘Drinke to mee Cælia wth thine eye’, subscribed ‘BJ.’
In: the MS described under JnB 174. c.1630s.
JnB 461
Copy, headed (to the side) ‘Epigram to Celia’ and here beginning ‘Drink onely to mee with thine eyes’.
In: the MS described under JnB 132.8. c.1624-1645.
JnB 463
Copy, here beginning ‘Drinke to me Cælia wth thine eyes’, subscribed ‘B: J:’.
In: the MS described under JnB 292. c.1630s.
JnB 467
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Drinke to me Cælia wth thine Eye’.
In: the MS described under JnB 58. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 468
Copy, headed ‘To his Mistresse’ and here beginning ‘Drink to mee Caelia with thine Eye’.
In: the MS described under JnB 340. c.1636-41.
A speech out of Lucan (‘Just and fit actions Ptolemy (he saith)’)
First published in William Dinsmore Briggs, ‘Studies in Ben Jonson. IV’, Anglia, 39 (1916), 209-51 (pp. 247-8). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 422-3.
JnB 469
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 90. c.1620s-33.
This MS is in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94; collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 470
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 94. c.1620-33.
Printed from this MS in Briggs and in Herford & Simpson.
A speach presented vnto king James at a tylting in the behalfe of the two noble Brothers sr Robert & sr Henrye Rich, now Earles of warwick and Hollande (‘Two noble knightes, whom true desire and zeale’)
First published (?) in Herford & Simpson, VIII (1947), 382-3.
This was Mr Ben: Johnsons Answer of the suddayne (‘Il may Ben Johnson slander so his feete’)
First published in William Dinsmore Briggs, ‘Studies in Ben Jonson’, Anglia, 37 (1913), 463-93 (p. 470). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 418.
JnB 472
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 45. c.1620s-34.
Printed from this MS in Briggs and in Herford & Simpson.
To a Friend (‘To put out the word, whore, thou do'st me woo’)
First published in Epigrammes (lxxxiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 54.
To a ffreind an Epigram Of him (‘Sr Inigo doth feare it as I heare’)
First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 407-8.
JnB 474
Copy, in a mixed hand, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 248. c.1631.
Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson. Facsimile of f. 44r in Mark Bland, ‘Jonson, Biathanatos and the Interpretation of Manuscript Evidence’, SB, 51 (1998), 154-82 (p. 168).
JnB 476
Copy, subscribed ‘Ben. Jonson’, transcribed from a MS source.
In: the MS described under JnB 250. c.1713-54.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 477
Copy, headed ‘An Epigram vpon him to his freind’, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 11. c.1630s [-1670s].
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 477.5
Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnsons epigram of Inigo Jones, to a frend’, subscribed ‘Ben Jonson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 74.5. Mid-17th century.
JnB 480
Copy, headed ‘An Epigram vpon Inego Jones to a freind’, subscribed ‘Ben: Jonson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 253. c.1630s.
JnB 480.5
Copy, headed ‘To a freind P.K.D. An Epigram of him’ and subscribed ‘Ben Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 182.5. c.1630s.
London Metropolitan Archives, ACC/1360/528, f. [34r-v rev.].
JnB 481
Copy, transcribed from an earlier MS source, subscribed ‘Ben Jonson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 254. Mid-late 18th century.
JnB 482
Copy, subscribed in another hand ‘Ben: Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 58. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
To Doctor Empirick (‘When men a dangerous disease did scape’)
First published in Epigrammes (xiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 31.
JnB 483
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, including fourteen poems by Donne, almost entirely in a single hand, 33 leaves (plus six blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1630.
Possibly associated with the Inns of Court. Later used, and annotated in the margin, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the ‘Fulman MS’: DnJ Δ 36. Formerly Bodleian MS CCC 327.
JnB 484
Copy, headed ‘To Dr Emperig’.
In: the MS described under JnB 436. c.1632-40.
Edited from this MS in Poetical and Dramatic Works of Thomas Randolph, ed. W.C. Hazlitt (London, 1875), p. 655.
To Fine Lady Wovld-Bee (‘Fine madame Wovld-Bee, wherefore should you feare’)
First published in Epigrammes (lxii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 46.
JnB 485
Copy, headed ‘Ben. Johnson on the fine Lady Would-bee’.
In: the MS described under JnB 123. Mid-17th century.
JnB 486
Copy of lines 9-12, headed ‘De abortientibus’ and here beginning ‘Why are yow barren? ô yow liue at Court’.
In: the MS described under JnB 61.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
To Foole, or Knave (‘Thy praise, or dispraise is to me alike’)
First published in Epigrammes (lxi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 46.
JnB 487
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘ffooles praise or dispraise is to me alike’, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 121. c.1630.
To Francis Beaumont (‘How I doe loue thee Beaumont, and thy Muse’)
First published in Epigrammes (lv) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 44.
JnB 487.5
Copy, headed ‘To Beamt: yn living’.
In: A verse miscellany. c.1674.
Owned by Henry Bracegirdle, of Merton College, Oxford, and in 1674 by one Hugh Massey.
King's College, Cambridge, Hayward Collection, H. 11. 13, f. [30r].
To Inigo Marquess Would be A Corollary (‘But cause thou hearst ye mighty k. of Spaine’)
First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 406-7.
JnB 488
Copy, in a mixed hand.
In: the MS described under JnB 248. c.1631.
Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson. Facsimile of f. 44r in Mark Bland, ‘Jonson, Biathanatos and the Interpretation of Manuscript Evidence’, SB, 51 (1998), 154-82 (p. 168).
JnB 490
Copy, transcribed from a MS source.
In: the MS described under JnB 250. c.1713-54.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 491
Copy, headed ‘Mr: Johnson to Inigo Joanes Marques Wouldbe’, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 11. c.1630s [-1670s].
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 494.5
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 182.5. c.1630s.
JnB 495
Copy, transcribed from an earlier MS source.
In: the MS described under JnB 254. Mid-late 18th century.
To Iohn Donne (‘Donne, the delight of Phoebvs, and each Muse’)
First published in Epigrammes (xxiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 34.
JnB 498
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 391. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), p. 80.
To Iohn Donne (‘Who shall doubt, Donne, where I a Poet bee’)
First published in Epigrammes (xcvi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 62.
JnB 498.5
Copy in the hand of Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65) on a ‘missing’ sheet in his exemplum of Jonson's Workes.
In: the MS described under JnB 316.8. c.1635.
Discussed in Mark Bland, ‘William Stansby and the Production of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16’, The Library, 6th Ser. 20 (1998), 1-33 (pp. 20-3), with a facsimile (p. 21).
To Lvcy, Countesse of Bedford, with Mr. Donnes Satyres (‘Lvcy, you brightnesse of our spheare, who are’)
First published in Epigrammes (xciiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 60-1.
JnB 499
Copy of lines 13-16, untitled and here beginning ‘They, though few / Bee of the best: and 'mongst those, best are you’, as No. 1 in a series of extracts from ‘Ben: Johnson his poems’.
In: the MS described under JnB 95. Mid-17th century.
To Mary Lady Wroth (‘How well, faire crowne of your faire sexe, might hee’)
First published in Epigrammes (ciii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 66-7.
JnB 499.5
Copy of the first two lines in the hand of Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65) on a sheet in his exemplum of Jonson's Workes.
In: the MS described under JnB 316.8. c.1635.
Discussed in Mark Bland, ‘William Stansby and the Production of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16’, The Library, 6th Ser. 20 (1998), 1-33 (pp. 20-3).
To Mary Lady Wroth (‘Madame, had all antiquitie beene lost’)
First published in Epigrammes (cv) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 67-8.
To Mr Ben: Johnson in his Jorney by Mr Crauen (‘When witt, and learninge are so hardly sett’)
See JnB 472.
To my Detractor (‘My verses were commended, thou dar'st say’)
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 408-9.
To my truly-belou'd Freind, Mr Browne: on his Pastorals (‘Some men, of Bookes or Freinds not speaking right’)
First published as a commendatory poem in William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals (London, 1616), sig. A5v. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 386.
JnB 503.5
Copy in: A collection of unbound verse manuscripts, in various hands and paper sizes (chiefly folio), 142 leaves. Partly compiled by Sir Richard Browne and his father Christopher Browne (1577-1646), of Saye's Court, Deptford.
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. Acquired March 1995.
To Robert Earle of Salisbvrie (‘What need hast thou of me? or of my Muse?’)
First published in Epigrammes (xliii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 40-1.
*JnB 504
Autograph fair copy, headed ‘To the most Worthy of his Honors. Robert, Earle of Salisbury. Epigramme’, together with JnB 505, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed on the fourth page in a contemporary hand ‘1606 Mr Johnsons Epigr’. 1606.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson. Facsimile in T. Bolt, ‘The Manuscripts at Hatfield House’, The Connoisseur, 8 (January-April 1904), 32-6 (p. 36).
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 144/266.
To Robert Earl of Salisbvrie (‘Who can consider thy right courses run’)
First published in Epigrammes (lxiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 47.
*JnB 505
Autograph fair copy, headed ‘Another’, following JnB 504 on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed on the fourth page in a contemporary hand ‘1606 Mr Johnsons Epigr’. 1606.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson. Facsimile in The Connoisseur, 8 (1904), p. 36.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 144/266.
JnB 506
Copy, as No. 3 in a series of extracts from ‘Ben: Johnson his poems’
In: the MS described under JnB 95. Mid-17th century.
To Sicknesse (‘Why, Disease, dost thou molest’)
First published in The Forrest (viii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 104-6.
JnB 507
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 90. c.1620s-33.
This MS is in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94; collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 509
Copy of lines 1-24.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 50 poems by Donne, in a single neat secretary hand except for ff. 70r-2r, which are in another secretary hand. Comprising folios 57r-137v in a quarto composite volume of MSS, in various hands, 173 leaves, in 19th-century leather gilt. c.1620s.
Later owned by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer. Among the collections of William Petty (1737-1805), first Marquess of Lansdowne, Lord Shelburne.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Lansdowne MS’: DnJ Δ 8). Recorded as item 133 among ‘Manuscripts in Quarto’ in the list at the end of Thoresby's Ducatus Leodensis, 2nd edition (Leeds, 1816), Appendix, p. 85.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
To Sir Henrie Savile (‘If, my religion safe, I durst embrace’)
First published in Epigrammes (xcv) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 61-2.
JnB 510
Copy of lines 25-36, untitled and here beginning ‘Although to write bee lesser then to doe’, as No. 2 in a series of extracts from ‘Ben: Johnson his poems’.
In: the MS described under JnB 95. Mid-17th century.
JnB 511
Copy, headed ‘To Sr Hen: sau: 95’.
In: A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, ‘A S’ in a gilt lozenge on each cover. The later additions partly compiled by George Clarke (1661-1736), politician and virtuoso (whose bookplate is inside the cover and whose family coat of arms is on f. [iv]), son of Sir William Clarke (1623?-66), Secretary of War to the Commonwealth and Charles II. c.1662[-1730s].
Inside the front cover inscribed ‘E[?] Barrow’, evidently a member of the family of Samuel Barrow (1625-82), Royal Physician and friend of John Milton, Barrow being the second husband of Sir William Clarke's widow, Dorothy (d.1695). Formerly MSS 6. 13.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Clarke MS’: PsK Δ 5. See also Elizabeth H. Hageman, ‘Treacherous Accidents, and the Abominable Printing of Katherine Philips's 1664 Poems’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004), pp. 85-95.
JnB 511.5
Copy of the last twenty lines in the hand of Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65), on a sheet in his exemplum of Jonson's Workes.
In: the MS described under JnB 316.8. c.1635.
Discussed in Mark Bland, ‘William Stansby and the Production of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16’, The Library, 6th Ser. 20 (1998), 1-33 (pp. 20-3), with a facsimile (p. 21).
To Sir Horace Vere (‘Which of thy names I take, not onely beares’)
First published in Epigrammes (xci) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 58.
*JnB 512
Autograph fair copy, untitled, on the first page of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers in verse and prose, in various hands and paper sizes, 170 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco. Including eleven poems by John Donne, three of them (ff. 10r-14v, 55r, 76r-7r) in the italic hand of his friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627); ff. 95r-8r in the same hand as the Leconfield MS (DnJ Δ 5) and constituting part of what was probably a quarto MS ‘book’ of Donne's satires; f. 132r-v constituting a set of six verse epistles by Donne, the text related to the Westmoreland MS (DnJ Δ 19). Early-mid-17th century.
From the ‘Conway Papers’ belonging chiefly to Sir Edward Conway, Baron Conway of Ragley, later Viscount Killultagh and Viscount Conway of Conway Castle (c.1564-1631), and to his son, Edward, second Viscount Conway (1594-1655). Later owned by John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), politician and writer, and presented 10 January 1860.
Cited in IELM, I.i, as the ‘Conway MS’: DnJ Δ 40. Cited as A23 by editors. Facsimile of f. 62r in Michael Roy Denbo, ‘Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73 (p. 71).
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
To Sir Robert Wroth (‘How blest art thou, canst loue the countrey, Wroth’)
First published in The Forrest (iii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 96-100.
JnB 513
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 90. c.1620s-33.
This MS is in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94; collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 514
Copy, headed ‘To Sr Robt Wroth in praise of a Cuntry lief, Epode’.
In: the MS described under JnB 94. c.1620-33.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 515
Copy of a version of lines 75-6, 79-80, here beginning ‘An vniust Lawyer / Changes possessions oftner wth his breath’ and subscribed ‘Ben: Johns: fforest. 3. med to Sr Rob: Wroth.’, followed by lines 85-90, headed ‘wicked courtiers’ and subscribed ‘Ib.’
In: the MS described under JnB 96. Early-mid-17th century.
To Sir Thomas Roe (‘Thou hast begun well, Roe, which stand well too’)
First published in Epigrammes (xcviii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 63.
JnB 516
Copy of lines 3-6, 9-12, untitled and here beginning ‘Hee that is round within himselfe, and streight’, as No. 5 in a series of extracts from ‘Ben: Johnson his poems’
In: the MS described under JnB 95. Mid-17th century.
JnB 517
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 96. Early-mid-17th century.
JnB 517.5
Copy in the hand of Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65), headed ‘xciii’, on a sheet in his exemplum of Jonson's Workes.
In: the MS described under JnB 316.8. c.1635.
Discussed in Mark Bland, ‘William Stansby and the Production of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16’, The Library, 6th Ser. 20 (1998), 1-33 (pp. 20-3).
To Svsan Covntesse of Montgomery (‘Were they that nam'd you, prophets? Did they see’)
First published in Epigrammes (ciiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 67.
JnB 518
Copy of lines 1-8, as No. 7 in a series of extracts from ‘Ben: Johnson his poems’.
In: the MS described under JnB 95. Mid-17th century.
To the Ghost of Martial (‘Martial, thou gau'st farre nobler Epigrammes’)
First published in Epigrammes (xxxvi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 38.
To the immortall memorie, and friendship of that noble paire, Sir Lvcivs Cary, and Sir H. Morison (‘Brave infant of Saguntum, cleare’)
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxx) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 242-7.
JnB 520
Copy, headed ‘To Sr Lucius Carey, on the death of his Brother Morison’.
In: the MS described under JnB 45. c.1620s-34.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 521
Copy, headed ‘Ode on the death of Sr: Henry Morison to the noble Sr: Lucius Cary’.
In: the MS described under JnB 271.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 522
Copy, headed ‘Ode Pindarick to ye Noble Sir Lucius Cary’.
In: the MS described under JnB 56. c.1680.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 523
Copy, headed ‘Ode Pindærick. On the death of Sr Hen: Morison’, subscribed ‘B: J.’
In: the MS described under JnB 41. c.1630s-40s.
JnB 524
Copy, headed ‘Ode Pindarique’.
In: the MS described under JnB 337. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), ff. 23r-5v.
To the King. On his Birth-day. An Epigram Anniversarie (‘This is King Charles his Day. Speake it, thou Towre’)
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 249.
JnB 525
Copy of lines 1-18.
In: the MS described under JnB 36. c.1638.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 526
Copy, headed ‘Vpon kinge Charles his Birth daie’, sunscribed ‘Ben Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 11. c.1630s [-1670s].
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
To ye memorye of that most honoured Ladie Jane, eldest Daughter, to Cuthbert Lord Ogle: and Countesse of Shrewsbury (‘I could begin with that graue forme, Here lies’)
First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. William Gifford, 9 vols (London, 1816). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 394.
JnB 528
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 45. c.1620s-34.
Printed from this MS in Gifford and in Herford & Simpson.
To the most noble, and aboue his Titles, Robert, Earle of Somerset (‘They are not those, are present wth theyre face’)
First published in anon., ‘Ben Jonson's Verses on the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset’, N&Q, 5 (28 February 1852), 193-4. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 384.
*JnB 529
Autograph fair copy, inserted in a printed exemplum of Jonson's folio Workes (London, 1640). With his note ‘These verses were made by the aucthor of this booke, and were deliuered to the Earle of Somersett vpon his lo:pps wedding day; they are written by his owne hand’. [1613].
Sotheby's, 9 February 1852, lot 585.
Edited from this MS in anon. article and in Herford & Simpson. Facsimile in Flower & Munby, English Poetical Autographs, p. 8.
To the Parliament (‘There's reason good, that you good lawes should make’)
First published in Epigrammes (xxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 34.
JnB 530
Copy, headed ‘Ben: Johnson on ye Parliamt:’, in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 159r-62v).
In: the MS described under JnB 271.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
To the Right honble Hierome, L. Weston. An Ode gratulatorie, For his Returne from his Embassie (‘Such pleasure as the teeming Earth’)
First published in Benson's 4to edition (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 250-1.
To the right Honourable, the Lord Treasurer of England. An Epigram (‘If to my mind, great Lord, I had a state’)
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxvii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 260-1.
JnB 533
Copy, headed ‘Benn Johnsons Newyears gift To my lord Treasurer’.
In: the MS described under JnB 155. c.1630s-40s.
JnB 535
Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnsons newyeares guift to The Lord Treasurer Weston’.
In: A quarto miscellany, in two or more predominantly secretary hands, 86 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1660.
A facsimile of f. 85r is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 2008), p. 33.
JnB 537
Copy, headed ‘A new yeares giuft sent to the Right Honorable’, subscribed ‘Ben Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 53. c.1630s.
JnB 537.5
Copy, headed ‘Ben. Johnson to the L. Treasorer’.
In: the MS described under JnB 182.5. c.1630s.
London Metropolitan Archives, ACC/1360/528, ff. [1v-2r rev.].
JnB 538
Copy, headed ‘To the Right honbl: the Lord tre: weston’.
In: the MS described under JnB 337. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), ff. 37v-8r.
JnB 539
Copy, introduced (on f. 19r) ‘Ben: Iohnsons verses to Sir Richard Weston Lord Trer Jan: 10 for wch bee gaue him 401r’; 1636-40s.
In: the MS described under JnB 135. c.1636-40s.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
To the Right Honourable, the Lord high Treasurer of England. An Epistle Mendicant (‘Poore wretched states, prest by extremities’)
First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 248.
JnB 540
Copy, headed ‘To my Lord Weston, Lo: Treasurer. A Letter’.
In: the MS described under JnB 45. c.1620s-34.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
To the Same (‘Kisse me, sweet: The warie louer’)
Lines 19-22 first published in Volpone, III, vii, 236-9 (London, 1607). Published complete in The Forrest (vi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 103.
JnB 543
Copy, headed ‘Catullus ad Lesbiam’, ascribed to ‘B. J.’
In: the MS described under JnB 156. c.1640.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 544
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under JnB 90. c.1620s-33.
This MS is in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94; collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 545
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under JnB 37. c.1630.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
To the same (‘That thou hast kept thy loue, encreast thy will’)
First published in Epigrammes (xcix) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 63-4.
JnB 548.5
Copy in the hand of Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65), on a sheet in his exemplum of Jonson's Workes.
In: the MS described under JnB 316.8. c.1635.
Discussed in Mark Bland, ‘William Stansby and the Production of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16’, The Library, 6th Ser. 20 (1998), 1-33 (pp. 20-3).
To the worthy Author M. Iohn Fletcher (‘The wise, and many-headed Bench, that sits’)
First published in John Fletcher, The Faithfull Shepheardesse (London, [1609?]). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 370-1.
JnB 549
Copy, headed ‘On Fletcher's faithfull Sheapheardesse’, subscribed ‘B J’, on one side of a single quarto leaf. c.1630.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous historical MSS, in modern boards. Collected by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary.
Bookplate of Sir Thomas Brooke, Bt, FSA (1830-1908), Yorkshire antiquary and book collector, of Armitage Bridge.
Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Leeds, MS 312, [no item number].
JnB 549.5
Copy, headed ‘To Mr John Fletcher upon his Faithful Shepherd’.
In: Verse inscribed in a printed exemplum of Ben Jonson's Workes, Vol. I (London, 1640), a folio, in modern panelled calf gilt. In the hand of The Rev. John Genest (1764-1839), theatre historian, whose signature dated 1 August 1784 appears on a flyleaf. c.1784.
Acquired from G. A. Baker, 1929.
To William Camden (‘Camden, most reuerend head, to whom I owe’)
First published in Epigrammes (xiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 31.
JnB 550
Copy of lines 1-6, headed ‘Benjamin Johnson at first bred in a private school in St martins & yn in westminster School, witness his own Epigra’.
In: A quarto volume of biographical extracts, for the most part alphabetically arranged, largely in a single mixed hand, with a few pages of drafts in another cursive hand, 30 leaves (plus stubs of excised leaves), in contemporary vellum boards. c.1670.
JnB 551
Copy, headed ‘Ben: Johnsons Epigram on himself’.
In: the MS described under JnB 406. c.1629-72.
To William Earle of Pembroke (‘I doe but name thee Pembroke, and I find’)
First published in Epigrammes (cii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 66.
JnB 553
Copy of lines 9-12, untitled and here beginning ‘They follow vertue for reward to day’as No. 6 in a series of extracts from ‘Ben: Johnson his poems’.
In: the MS described under JnB 95. Mid-17th century.
JnB 554
Copy of lines 1-4.
In: the MS described under JnB 391. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), p. 78.
JnB 554.5
Copy in the hand of Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65) on a sheet in his exemplum of Jonson's Workes.
In: the MS described under JnB 316.8. c.1635.
Discussed in Mark Bland, ‘William Stansby and the Production of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16’, The Library, 6th Ser. 20 (1998), 1-33 (pp. 20-3).
‘When late (graue Palmer) these thy graffs and flowers’
First published in Percy Simpson, ‘Thomas Palmer’, N&Q, 8th Ser. (28 September 1895), 243-4. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 361-2.
JnB 555
Copy, in a formal secretary and italic hand, untitled, subscribed ‘Ben: Jhonson’.
In: A quarto book of emblems, entitled The Sprite of Trees and Herbes (1598-9), in one or more secretary and italic hands, the emblems in watercolour emblems, with prefatory material addressed to Lord Burghley and Sir Robert Cecil and commendatory verses by others, 115 leaves, in later green morocco. Produced by Thomas Palmer (1540-1626), poet and orator. c.1598-early 17th century.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Margarett Nevill’ and ‘Wrote in the Year 1663’. Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849). Rodd sale, February 1850, lot 688.
Edited from this MS in Percy Simpson's article and in Herford & Simpson.
Dramatic Works
Bartholomew Fair
First published in London, 1631. Herford & Simpson, VI, 1-141.
JnB 556
Extracts, with comments on the play.
In: A quarto miscellany of extracts from plays and historical works, with comments on them, entitled ‘Excerpta quædam per A. W. Adolescentem’, in a single cursive predominantly italic hand, 119 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco. Entirely in the hand of the Rev. Abraham Wright (1611-90), of St John's College, Oxford, author. c.1640.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Ja: Wright’ (Abraham's son) and later ‘of Taylor, Brighton’. Bookplate of William Bromley, of Baginton, Warwickshire, 1703. Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 220.
For facsimile examples, see ShW 71 and ShW 44.
Wright's comments printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, ‘A Caroline Commentary on the Drama’, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (pp. 256-7).
—— III, v, 69 et seq. Song (‘My masters and friends, and good people draw neere’)
JnB 556.5
Copy of the song, in two mixed hands.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in possibly several hands, written from both ends, paginated 1-205, then from the reverse end 206-58 (plus blanks to 271), in old reversed calf (rebacked). Mid-17th century.
Later owned by Lucy Hutchinson's nephew Julius Hutchinson (1678-1738).
This MS is described in the online Perdita Project.
Britain's Burse
See JnB 574.2.
The Case is Altered
First published in London, 1609. Herford & Simpson, III, 93-190.
JnB 558
Extracts, headed ‘Tis a mad world’.
In: The greater part of a quarto commonplace book of extracts, compiled by Edward Pudsey (1573-1613), iii + 104 leaves, in 19th-century green morocco gilt. Four leaves of this commonplace book are in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21. c.1604-9.
Owned in 1615-16 by one ‘Bassett’ and in the 1880s by Richard Savage. At the Neligan sale, 2 August 1888, lot 1098. Bought by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), and his sale 4 July 1889, lot 1257.
All the Shakespearian texts except Othello were edited from this MS in Richard Savage's Shakespearean Extracts (1887). The MS also edited in Juliet Mary Gowan, An Edition of Edward Pudsey's Commonplace Book (c.1600-1615) (unpublished M. Phil., University of London, 1967). It was then found that the miscellany lacked several of its original leaves, including extracts from six plays by Shakespeare. These leaves were rediscovered in 1977 among Savage's papers at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21, and the Othello extracts identified by Gowan. The MS also discussed in J. Rees, ‘Shakespeare and “Edward Pudsey's Booke”, 1600’, N&Q, 237 (September 1992), 330-1, and in Fred Schurink, ‘Manuscript Commonplace Books, Literature, and Reading in Early Modern England’, HLQ, 73/3 (2010), 453-69 (pp. 465-9), with a facsimile of f. 31r on p. 467.
Catiline
First published in London, 1611. Herford & Simpson, V, 409-550.
JnB 559
Copy of various speeches, including Syllas's Ghost's ‘Dost thou not feel me Rome?’ and Catiline's ‘It is decree'd’, headed ‘Catilines Conspiracy: by B. Johnson’, transcribed from a printed source.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, including a diary for 3-23 March 1670/1, in a predominantly single mixed hand, 30 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards. c.1673.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Lent Cour: J Gooche Jan: 15 1672/3’.
JnB 559.5
Copy of a speech (I, i, 61 et seq.) in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary, in a small octavo booklet of verse in English and Latin chiefly in one hand (ff. 23r-42v), probably associated with Cambridge University.
In: An octavo composite miscellany, with extracts in verse and prose, in various hands, 213 leaves, in quarter-vellum boards. Late 17th century.
A flyleaf inscribed ‘Tho: Hearne. Sept. 1o. M: DCC: IX:’i.e. Collected by 1709 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary.
—— I, i, 73-97 (‘It is decree'd. Nor shall thy Fate, o Rome’)
JnB 559.8
Copy of sixteen lines of Catiline's speech.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, predominantly in a single non-professional hand, iv + 214 pages, in contemporary calf. Inscribed (p. 211) ‘I ended this book Novr. 13th 1723’. c.1723.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 15, p. 82.
JnB 560
Copy of Catiline's speech.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly in one cursive hand, written from both ends, 271 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards. c.1700.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 48, f. 42r.
JnB 561
Copy, in a musical setting by Morelli.
In: A folio volume of music compiled by Cesare Morelli for the use of Samuel Pepys, 169 leaves, in contemporary black morocco gilt. c.1680-93.
This MS discussed in MacDonald Emslie, ‘Three Early Settings of Jonson’, N&Q, 198 (November 1953), 466-9.
Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2591, ff. 41r-3v.
JnB 562
Copy in a musical setting (? by Samuel Pepys and John Hingston).
In: A folio songbook compiled by Cesare Morelli for the use of Samuel Pepys, 113 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1680-93.
This MS discussed in Emslie.
Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2803, ff. 108v-11v.
Christmas his Masque
First published in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VII, 431-47.
JnB 563
Copy of an early version, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, entitled ‘Christmas his Showe’, without descriptions of the characters, dresses and properties, inscribed in another cursive hand ‘Mock-maske The christmas shewe before the Kinge. 1615.’
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.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson. Facsimile example in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, IV, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2006). p. 172.
—— lines 71-8, 93-101, 172-9, 182-245. Song (‘Now God preserve, as you well doe deserve’)
JnB 564
Copy of the song of Christmas.
In: the MS described under JnB 45. c.1620s-34.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 565
Copy, headed ‘Ben Iohnsons Maske before the Kinge &c;’.
In: the MS described under JnB 64. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 566.5
Copy, headed ‘Ben: Johnsons Masque Before the Kinge’.
In: the MS described under JnB 10. c.1639 [-c.1728].
Cynthia's Revels
First published in London, 1601. Herford & Simpson, IV, 1-184.
JnB 568
Extracts, including Amorphus's song beginning ‘Thou more then most sweet gloue’ (IV, iii, 305-16).
In: the MS described under JnB 158. c.1630s-40s.
JnB 568.5
Extracts.
In: An octavo commonplace book, with entries under headings, in a single cursive hand, 512 pages (plus numerous blanks), in vellum boards. c.1705.
JnB 568.8
Extract.
In: An octavo commonplace book of verse and prose, in two or more secretary hands, 41 leaves, in a recycled illuminated vellum music document. Inscribed (ff. 1r, 2r) ‘Samuell Watts’. Early 17th century.
Among the papers of the Sanford family. Formerly DD/SF 3970.
—— IV, iii, 242-53. Song (‘O, That ioy so soone should waste!’)
JnB 570
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 recorded in Herford & Simpson, XI, 606.
JnB 571
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: A folio volume of largely vocal music, mainly in a single secretary hand, 120 pages, in mottled calf. Early 17th century.
Complete facsimile in Jorgens, VI (1987).
This MS recorded in Andrew J. Sabol, ‘A Newly Discovered Contemporary Song Setting for Jonson's “Cynthia's Revels”’, N&Q, 203 (September 1958), 384-5. Edited in Sabol, ‘Two Unpublished Stage Songs for the “Aery of Children”’, RN, 13 (1960), 222-32 (p. 229). Facsimile in Mary Chan, ‘Cynthia's Revels and Music for a Choir School: Christ Church Manuscript Mus 439’, SR, 18 (1971), 134-72 (pp. 138-9).
JnB 572
Copy of the song, undated.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, a neat mixed hand predominating up to f. 55r, 151 leaves (including a few blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1730.
Inscribed (in another hand) on the front pastedown ‘Thomas Boydell’. Formerly Folger MS 4108.
—— IV, iii, 305-16. Song (‘Thou more then most sweet gloue’)
JnB 572.5
Copy, headed ‘Song on his Mrs Gloue’, subscribed ‘B: J:’.
In: the MS described under JnB 11. c.1630s [-1670s].
—— The Epilogue (‘Gentles be't knowne to you, since I went in’)
JnB 573
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 1. c.1628-30s.
The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-103. Song (‘Doe but looke, on her eyes! They doe light’)
See JnB 8-35.
—— II, vi, 104-13. Song (‘Haue you seene but a bright Lilly grow’)
See JnB 8-35.
An Entertaimnent at the Blackfriars
First published in The Monthly Magazine. or British Register, Part I (February 1816). Herford & Simpson, VII, 765-86.
JnB 574
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 45. c.1620s-34.
Printed from this MS in The Monthly Magazine and in Herford & Simpson, with a facsimile of f. 48 facing p. 768.
An Entertainment at Britain's Burse
Identified as the ‘lost’ entertainment performed at the New Exchange in the Strand on 11 April 1609 in James Knowles, ‘Cecil's shopping centre’, TLS, 7 February 1997, pp. 14-15 (and see also Dalya Alberge, ‘Rediscovered: work of art that blessed the mall’, The Times, 1 February 1997, p. 5). First published in James Knowles, ‘Jonson's Entertainment at Britain's Burse’, in Re-Presenting Ben Jonson: Text, History, Performance, ed. Martin Butler (London, 1999), pp. 114-51.
*JnB 574.2
MS of a dramatic entertainment, rapidly written in three cursive hands, the first probably Jonson's, headed ‘The Key Keeper’, on six folio pages, folded and with an outer leaf addressed ‘for Sr Edward Conway Knight’. [1609].
Edited from this MS, with four facsimile examples, in Knowles (1999). Discussed in Janette Dillon, ‘Court Meets City: The Royal Entertainment at the New Exchange’, RORD, 38 (1999), 1-21, and, with a facsimile example, in Grace Ioppolo, Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood (London & New York), pp. 159-69.
An Entertainment for the Merchant Taylors' Company
Songs from an entertainment evidently for the Merchant Taylors' Company in 1607, first published in HMC, Salisbury, XIX (1965), pp. 490-2. Identification by James Knowles, Gabriel Heaton, et al., announced by Dalya Alberge in ‘New songs reveal Ben Jonson the party animal’, The Times, 24 July 2001, 7.
JnB 574.4
Copy of ‘Song i’, 30 lines beginning ‘Jolly Mate, Looke forthe & see’, in a stylish hand (similar to but not identical with Jonson's), on the first page of two conjugate small folio leaves, endorsed ‘1607’. 1607.
Edited from this MS in HMC, Salisbury, XIX, pp. 490-2. The third song in the sequence is not known to survive.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 144/267.
JnB 574.6
Copy of ‘Song ij’, eighteen lines beginning ‘To fill yr wellcome Stomaches, Mirth & Cheere’, in a stylish hand (similar to but not identical with Jonson's), on the first page of two conjugate small folio leaves, endorsed ‘1607’. 1607.
Edited from this MS in HMC, Salisbury, XIX, pp. 490-2. The third song in the sequence is not known to survive.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 144/273.
JnB 574.8
Copy of ‘Song iiij’, thirteen lines beginning ‘Will then these gloryes part away?’), in a stylish hand (similar to but not identical with Jonson's), on one side of a small folio leaf, endorsed ‘1607 Songs’. 1607.
Edited from this MS in HMC, Salisbury, XIX, pp. 490-2. The third song in the sequence is not known to survive.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 140/114.
An Entertainment of the King and Queen at Theobalds, 22 May 1607
First published in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VII, 151-8.
JnB 575
Copy of an early version of lines 1-125, without the prose description. Early 17th century.
In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous state tracts, speeches, and verse, in various largely professional hands, iv + 413 leaves (including a thirty-page index and some blanks), in half-calf (rebacked). Transcribed from the Yelverton papers chiefly belonging to Sir Christopher Yelverton (1535?-1612), Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), and their family.
Owned in 1679 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, VIII, 153.
JnB 575.5
Copy, in a secretary hand, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of verse and drama MSS, in various hands, 155 leaves, in 19th-century half brown morocco. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary, his brother Oliver, and Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.
JnB 576
Copy of an early version of lines 1-125, without the prose description, in a secretary hand, beginning with the speech of Genius ‘Let not yor gloryes darken to beholde’.
In: A folio volume of miscellaneous papers, many relating to Kent, the greater part in a single secretary hand, 228 leaves, in contemporary stamped calf. Compiled for, and chiefly relating to, Francis Fane (1582-1628), first Earl of Westmorland. Early 17th century.
Christie's, 18 July 1897.
This volume recorded in HMC, 10th Report, Appendix IV (1885), pp. 4-19.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
JnB 576.5
Copy of an untitled 115-line version (without the prose description), in the hand of Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), on two conjugate small folio leaves.once folded as a letter or packet. c.1607-20s.
In: A double-folio-size guardbook of separate verse MSS, in various hands and sizes, 43 leaves, in modern cloth.
Among the papers of Sir Joseph Williamson (1633-1701), but possibly derived in part from the Conway Papers: see Donne, Introduction.
JnB 577
Copy of the masque in a French version, beginning ‘Le genie: Ne vous estonnez pas Seigneurs si ceste place’ and ending ‘Et les loyaux subiectz s'auancent soubz leurs Roys’. In a stylish italic hand, on two pairs of conjugate folio leaves; presumably a file copy of a translation made for the use of Charles de Lorraine and his party; endorsed in a contemporary hand on a separate leaf ‘French verses at Theobalds 24 May 1607’. 1607.
Recorded in HMC, 9 Salisbury (Cecil) MSS, XIX (1965), 138.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 140/110-111.
JnB 578
Copy of an 89-line version, in a secretary hand, headed ‘A spech made at Tibaldes the xxiith of mayo when the Queene tooke posession beinge acompanied with the kinge, yonge prince a great peare of ffrance and many nobles’. c.1607.
In: Eight folio leaves removed from a miscellany, containing verse and English and Latin prose, in several secretary and italic hands. Early 17th century.
Probably the MS sold at Sotheby's, 28 June 1965, lot 9, to Miss Myers.
This MS discussed, and the scribe identified as (Sir) John Kaye, of The Queens' College, Cambridge, and the Middle Temple, in Gabriel Heaton, ‘The Copyist of a Ben Jonson Manuscript Identified’, N&Q, 246 (December 2001), 385-8.
—— lines 130-41. Song (‘O blessed change!’)
JnB 579
Copy of the concluding song, in the italic hand of Robert Kirkham, a secretary of Sir Robert Cecil, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed in a contemporary hand ‘1606 Song’. 1606.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 144/271.
The Entertainment of the Two Kings at Theobalds. 24 July 1606
First published in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VII, 145-50.
*JnB 580
Autograph of the opening speech, lines 8-15, here beginning ‘Enter, o long'd-for Princes’, with alterations in another hand (?Robert Kirkham's), on one side of a small folio leaf; endorsed in a contemporary hand ‘Sp: 1607’. 1607.
Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson, VII, 147 (where it is incorrectly stated that the ‘corrections’ are in the hand of Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury).
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 144/272.
JnB 581
Copy of the opening speech ‘by Ewmone by Dice and Irene the 3 houres which do represent Time’ (lines 8-15), here beginning ‘Enter (o lord), for princes blesse these bowers’.
In: A large folio miscellaneous compilation of verse and prose, chiefly in a single neat hand, written from both ends, 189 leaves, in contemporary vellum (rebound). Associated with the Freville family and probably assembled by Gilbert Frevile, of Bishop Middleham, Co. Durham, whose name appears on the cover with the date 1591. A pen-and-ink ornamental drawing at the end inscribed ‘Finis quoth G. W.’ c.1620s.
Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song (‘Still to be neat, still to be drest’)
First published in London, 1616. Herford & Simpson, V, 139-272.
JnB 582
Copy of Clerimont's song, headed ‘On a spruce Ladye’, subscribed ‘finis Ben John’.
In: the MS described under JnB 36. c.1638.
JnB 583
Copy of the second stanza, headed ‘His choice’ and here beginning ‘Giue mee a forme, giue me a face’.
In: the MS described under JnB 13. 1647.
JnB 586
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 90. c.1620s-33.
This MS is in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94.
JnB 590
Copy, headed ‘A song’, subscribed ‘Ben. Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 69. c.1640s.
JnB 592
Copy, untitled.
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.’
JnB 595
Copy of the song, in a rounded italic hand, untitled.
In: the MS described under JnB 417.8. c.1630s-40s.
John Rylands University Library of Manchester, English MS 410, f. 17r.
JnB 596
Copy, headed ‘To a spruse Lady’, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 53. c.1630s.
JnB 598
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
In: A folio songbook, in a single secretary hand, some items misnumbered, 144 leaves. c.1640s.
Once owned by the Shirley family, Earls Ferrers, of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. Also owned, and annotated, by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.
Generally cited as the Earl Ferrers MS. Collated in Cutts, ‘Drexel Manuscript 4041’, MD, 18 (1964), 151-202. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 9 (New York & London, 1987).
Edited from this MS in Murray Lefkowitz, William Lawes (London, 1960), pp. 197-8. Recorded in Herford & Simpson, XI, 606.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 64, f. 45v.
JnB 599
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under JnB 9. c.1630s-50s.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 179.
JnB 600
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman that used to in a verse trick upp her selfe over-curiously’.
In: the MS described under JnB 27. c.1630s.
JnB 600.5
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under JnB 11.5. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 62r.
Every Man in his Humour
First published in London, 1601. Herford & Simpson, III, 191-403.
JnB 603
Extracts.
In: An octavo commonplace book of extracts from various authors, some under headings, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, written from both ends, iv + 558 pages (the majority blank), in contemporary vellum. Late 17th century.
JnB 604
Extracts from Act I, scene i, headed ‘Ben Johnson: Euery man in his homor’.
In: An octavo notebook, in an italic hand, compiled by Thomas Plume (1630-1704). Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, I, 186.
Every Man out of his Humour
First published in London, 1600. Herford & Simpson, III, 405-604.
JnB 605.5
The text of the missing first four leaves supplied in MS, as a neat facsimile, in a defective exemplum of the quarto edition of 1600. 18th century.
The Fortunate Isles, and their Union, lines 586 et seq. Song (‘Come, noble Nymphs, and doe not hide’)
First published in London, 1625. Herford & Simpson, VII, 701-29 (p. 727).
JnB 606
Copy, headed ‘A Song at Court to inuite the Ladies to Dance’.
In: the MS described under JnB 45. c.1620s-34.
JnB 608
Copy of the incipit, untitled, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under JnB 322. c.1640s-60s.
Printed from this MS in David Fuller, ‘The Jonsonian Masque and its Music’, M&L, 54 (1973), 440-52 (p. 451); edited in Sabol, 400 Songs & Dances, No. 35. Facsimile in Jorgens, VI.
JnB 610
Copy, headed ‘Some Ladyes richly adorn'd and refusing to Dance at a Masque, wer woo'd to it after this manner’.
In: the MS described under JnB 53. c.1630s.
The Gypsies Metamorphosed
First published in John Benson's 12mo edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VII, 539-622. Edited by George Watson Cole (New York, 1931). Edited by W. W. Greg as Jonson's Masque of Gipsies (London, 1952).
JnB 611
Copy of a composite text representing both the version used for the performances at Burley-on-the Hill and Belvoir in August 1621 and that used for the performance at Windsor c. September 1621
In: the MS described under JnB 45. c.1620s-34.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson and in Greg; facsimiles of ff. 1 and 6 in Greg, plates X-XI; f. 2 in Hilton Kelliher, ‘Donne, Jonson, Richard Andrews and The Newcastle Manuscript’, EMS, 4 (1993), 134-73 (p. 146).
JnB 612
Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, on 29 quarto leaves of varying size, numbered ‘8.’, in wrappers. A composite text representing both the version used for the performances at Burley-on-the-Hill and Belvoir in August 1621 and that used for the performance at Windsor c. September 1621. c.1620s.
Inscribed and numbered by John Egerton, second Earl of Bridgewater. Later owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary. Afterwards owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 10100.
Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson and in Greg. The complete MS reproduced in facsimile, with a transcript, in Cole. Facsimile pages in Herford & Simpson, VII, facing pp. 564, 622, and in Greg, plates VI-XI.
JnB 613
Copy of the King's, the Prince's, and the Ladies' fortunes, in a hand similar to that of Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), inscribed at the end ‘The Gypsies Maaske att Burley’; imperfect. c.1620s.
Herford & Simpson, lines 272-556; Greg, Burley version, lines 248-480. This MS collated in Herford & Simpson and in Greg. Facsimile of p. 4 in Greg, plate XII.
JnB 614
Copy of the Lord Keeper's, the Lord Steward's, the Lord Treasurer's and the Lord Chamberlain's fortunes, on a folio leaf.
In: the MS described under JnB 277.
Herford & Simpson, lines 565-84, 631-43, 588-97, 681-97; Greg, Windsor version, lines 392-411, 455-67, 414-23, 373-89. This MS collated in Greg; recorded in Herford & Simpson, VII, 551.
JnB 615
Copy of the Lord Keeper's, the Lord Steward's, the Lord Treasurer's and the Lord Chamberlain's fortunes, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves.
In: A folio composite volume of verse and academic plays, in English and Latin, in various hands, 493 leaves, now in two volumes, foliated 1-250 and 251-493 respectively. Partly compiled by Archbishop Sancroft.
Herford & Simpson, lines 565-84, 631-9, 588-97, 681-97; Greg, Windsor version, lines 392-411, 455-63, 414-23, 373-89. This MS collated in Greg; recorded in Herford & Simpson, VII, 551.
—— Lady Purbeck's fortune (‘Helpe me wonder, here's a booke’)
Herford & Simpson, lines 522-43. Greg, Burley version, lines 447-68.
JnB 617
Copy, headed ‘Looking on A Gentlewomans hand to tell her fortune’ and here beginning ‘Bless me wonder, here's a booke’.
In: the MS described under JnB 292. c.1630s.
—— Song (‘The faery beame vppon you’)
Herford & Simpson, lines 262-71. Greg, Burley version, lines 237-46. Windsor version, lines 231-40.
JnB 620.5
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under JnB 11.5. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 29v.
—— Song (‘To the old, longe life and treasure’)
Herford & Simpson, lines 301-11. Greg, Burley version, lines 277-86. Windsor version, lines 271-80.
JnB 622
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under JnB 9. c.1630s-50s.
Edited from this MS in Sabol, 400 Songs & Dances, No. 29.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 177.
JnB 622.5
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under JnB 11.5. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 51v.
—— Song (‘Why, this is a sport’)
Herford & Simpson, lines 706-31. Greg, Windsor version, lines 508-26.
JnB 624
Copy of the song sung by Patrico and Jackman, in a musical setting by Edmund Chilmead, untitled.
In: A folio songbook, almost entirely in a single rounded italic hand, with (ff. 3r-7v) a table of contents, 113 leaves, in 19th-century half dark red morocco. Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer (his signature f. 2v). c.1654-70s.
Arms of Eleanor Bursh on a seal affixed to f. 56r. Later owned and annotated in pencil by Thomas Oliphant (1799-1873), music editor and cataloguer.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 5 (New York & London, 1986).
Edited from this MS in Sabol, 400 Songs & Dances, No. 30; collated in Greg; recorded in Herford & Simpson, XI, 607. Facsimiles in Cole, pp. 16-18; in Greg, plate V; and in Jorgens, V.
—— Song (‘Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest’)
Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.
JnB 625
Copy of the ballad, headed ‘Ben's Johnsons Cooklorrel’.
In: A composite volume of papers of the Herrick family of Leicestershire, iv + 170 leaves.
Once owned, and indexed, by J.G. Nichols. Hoffmann and Freeman's sale catalogue No. 25 (1968), part of item 27.
JnB 626
Copy, headed ‘Ben Iohnson on the Peake’.
In: the MS described under JnB 60. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, X, 635.
JnB 627
Copy, headed ‘Ben: Johnsons diuells dish before ye Kinge’.
In: A duodecimo notebook of verse and prose, comprising 131 interleaves in a printed exemplum of John Sansbury's Ilium in Italiam (Oxford, 1608), in contemporary calf (rebacked), blind-stamped ‘S. S.’ on the upper cover. Owned in 1619, and probably compiled, by Simon Sloper (b.1596/7), of Magdalen Hall, Oxford. c.1620s-30s.
Bought from Parker, of Oxford, 2 April 1889, by Percy Manning and bequeathed by him in 1917.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, X, 634-5.
JnB 628
Copy, headed ‘The devills feast’, here beginning ‘Cooke Lawrell needs would haue the deuill to his guest’, and subscribed ‘Ben: J.’
In: the MS described under JnB 275. c.1638.
JnB 629
Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnson on the Peake’ and subscribed ‘R. Corbet’.
In: the MS described under JnB 259. c.1620s-30s.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, X, 634.
JnB 630
Copy, headed ‘The Devills Arse a' Peake, alias Satans tayle in ye Peake’, the name ‘Ben. Johnson’ added in the margin in another hand.
In: the MS described under JnB 371. c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, X, 634.
JnB 631
Copy, headed ‘A Song’.
In: the MS described under JnB 64. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, X, 634.
JnB 632
Copy of a seven-stanza version, untitled, imperfect, lacking the rest.
In: the MS described under JnB 277.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, X, 634.
JnB 633
Copy, headed ‘A feast for the devill, at the divells arse ith' Peake’.
In: A quarto composite miscellany of verse, in English and Latin, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, who lived in Cambridge as student and Fellow of Emmanuel College from 1633 to 1651, ii + 115 leaves, in calf. Comprising three separate units: ff. 1r-96v all in Sancroft's hand; ff. 97r-104r in a second hand; and ff. 105r-9r in a third hand. c.1640s [and later].
Including (on ff. 2-23, 27ar-v, 70) 94 Latin poems ascribed to Crashaw (including three of doubtful authorship) and (on ff. 29-41, 43v, 44v-58, 60v, 62v-5v, 67-70v, 72-3, 95-6) 101 English poems (plus a second copy of one of them) attributed to him (including one of doubtful authorship) and (on f. 16r-v) one Greek poem attributed to him; a list of contents on the first page beginning ‘Mr. Crashaw's poems transcrib'd fro his own copie, before the were printed; among wch are some not printed…’.
Cited in IELM as the ‘Sancroft MS’: CrR Δ 1. Crashaw edited in part from this MS, and collated, in Grosart, in Waller and in Martin (cited as T or T5), and discussed in Waller, pp. vi-ix, and in Martin, pp. lviii-lxxiii. Folios 28-34v, 38v-41, 44v, 52v-6 reproduced in facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, X, 634.
JnB 634
Copy, in a rounded hand, headed (f. 161r) ‘Apollo & ye Poetts’, and (f. 162r) ‘The Feasting of Apollo at the Devills Arse of Peake--To the Tune of Cocklorin’, here beginning ‘Cocklorin once made the deuill his guest’, on four quarto-size leaves (plus one blank). Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous MSS of verse and prose, in Latin, Greek and English, in various hands, 188 leaves, bound with other MSS in vellum boards.
Among collections of Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary.
JnB 634.5
Copy, headed ‘An Invitation att ye Devils arse of Peake 1671’.
In: A folio volume of chiefly poems and prose on affairs of state, in several hands, one predominating, 165 leaves, in old reversed calf. Compiled by John Greene, of King's Lynn, Norfolk (probably the John Greene who was Mayor there in 1709). c.1720.
Sotheby's, 23 December 1958, lot 224.
JnB 635
Copy, with five extra stanzas.
In: A long narrow ledger-like volume (c.40 x 15 cm) of ballads and metrical romances, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 268 leaves, all mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by Thomas Percy (1768-1808), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor, and bearing copious annotations in his hand throughout, with a list by him at the end dated 20 December 1757.
This volume edited as Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript, ed. John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall, 4 vols (London, 1867-8). Re-edited by I. Gollancz, 4 vols (London, 1905-10). Facsimile example of f. 94r in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 20, p. 31. Discussed, with five facsimile examples, in Joseph Donatelli, ‘The Percy Folio Manuscript: A Seventeenth-Century Context for Medieval Poetry’, EMS, 4 (1993), 114-33.
The additional stanzas edited in Herford & Simpson, X, 633-4.
JnB 636
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under JnB 383. c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, X, 634.
JnB 637
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 167. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, X, 634.
JnB 638
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, including (ff. 113r-15r) copies of, or brief extracts from, 30 poems by Donne (plus two apocryphal poems), in a single hand, transcribed from the 1635 or 1639 edition of Donne's Poems, headed ‘Donnes quaintest conceits’ in several hands, 156 leaves (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. Late 17th century.
Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).
Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the ‘Harley Rawlinson MS’: DnJ Δ 64.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, X, 634.
JnB 639
Copy, headed ‘Mr Johnson to the King’.
In: the MS described under JnB 20. c.early 1630s.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, X, 634.
JnB 640
Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnson on the Peake’.
In: the MS described under JnB 262. Mid-17th century.
JnB 641
Copy, headed ‘The Deuils entertaynment at the Deuils arse a peake’.
In: the MS described under JnB 140. c.1637-51.
JnB 642.5
Copy, headed ‘The Divell feasted’.
In: A quarto commonplace book, written from both ends, unnumbered pages, in contemporary vellum rebound in modern vellum. Compiled by members of the Deynes family and others. Mid-late 17th century.
Inscribed names of Charles Deynes, Grey Bryan (in pencil), and (in pencil) Alex Robertson, Invercargill, New Zealand. Purchased from P.J. and A.E. Dobell 30 November 1924.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 114, ff. [iiiv]-[ivv].
JnB 644
Copy of the song, untitled.
In: An oblong octavo composite volume, comprising two independent verse miscellanies, Part I, in Latin and English, largely in a neat secretary hand, paginated 1-22, Part II, in English and Welsh, in several hands, one neat secretary hand predominating, paginated 1-266, the two parts bound together in modern quarter red morocco. c.1630s.
Inscriptions including (Part I, pp. 1, 3 and 42) ‘Edward Lewis his Book 1753’, ‘John Parker’, ‘P H Warburton’, and ‘John Aden’, and (Part II, p. 33) ‘Thomas Lloyd Esq’. Wigfair MS 43, among papers mainly of the Lloyd family of Hafodunos, Denbighshire, and Wigfair, near St Asaph, Flintshire, purchased in 1926-7 from Colonel H. C. Lloyd Howard, of Wigfair.
National Library of Wales, NLW MS 12443 A, Part II, pp. 78-82.
JnB 645
Copy (words only).
In: the MS described under JnB 9. c.1630s-50s.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 92.
JnB 647
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 72. c.1634.
JnB 649
Copy, headed ‘The reason why it was called the Deuills Arse in the Peake’.
In: the MS described under JnB 121. c.1630.
JnB 649.5
Copy, headed ‘The deuills inuitation by' cooke lawrell’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, of English and Welsh verse and prose, in probably several hands, the English verse (on pages 9-70, 93-104) including eleven poems by Strode and two of doubtful authorship, 110 pages (plus stubs of extracted leaves). Compiled by members of the Griffith family, of Llanddyfnan, the verse probably entered by one or more of the various members of that family who studied in this period at the University of Oxford. Mid-17th century.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Griffith MS’: StW Δ 26.
JnB 651
Copy, headed ‘A Songe by Benn. Johnson’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, compiled principally in the secretary hand of a University of Oxford man, with additions in one or more other hands, 150 pages, imperfect, disbound. c.1640.
JnB 652
Copy, headed ‘The diuells Banquett’ and subscribed ‘Finis Ben: Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 10. c.1639 [-c.1728].
JnB 653.8
Copy, headed ‘The Divell feasted’.
In: A quarto notebook and miscellany, largely in two hands, one of them that of Charles Deynes (1681-1756), of Roydon, near Diss, Norfolk, c.250 pages, in contemporary vellum (rebacked). Late 17th-early-18th century.
Later owned by the Rev. Guy Bryon, of Malden, Essex, and by Alex Robertson, of Inverscargill, New Zealand, who acquired it in 1924 from Dobell. Roy Davids's sale catalogue No.VI (1999), item 32.
—— Song (‘ffrom a Gypsie in the morninge’)
Herford & Simpson, lines 1329-89. Greg, Windsor version, lines 1129-89.
For a parody of this song, see DrW 117.1.
JnB 654
Copy of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses, headed ‘To ye king: B: I:’.
In: the MS described under JnB 12. c.1630s.
JnB 655
Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnson to King James’ and here beginning at the third line (‘ffrom ye Goblin and ye Spectar’).
In: the MS described under JnB 390. c.1630s-40s.
JnB 656
Copy, headed ‘Ben: Johnsons prayer for King James, a Caracter of his humours’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, i + 141 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked). Compiled, and composed, in part by John Polwhele, of Polwhele and Treworgan, Cornwall, and of Lincoln's Inn, who notes (fol. 141v rev.) ‘Johes Polwheile Lincol ex dono chariss: amici Josephi Maynardi’. c.1623-32.
Given to Jessie Glubb by a descendant of John Polwhele in 1843. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 97 (1947), item 185.
JnB 657
Copy, headed ‘In Eosdem’ [i.e. ‘The fiue Senses’].
In: the MS described under JnB 161. Mid-late 17th century.
JnB 661
Copy, headed ‘To K: James B: J.’
In: the MS described under JnB 25. c.1630s[-55].
Either this MS or JnB 662 probably the Dobell MS recorded in Greg, p. 10.
JnB 662
Copy, headed ‘To the King’, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.
In: the MS described under JnB 4. c.1630s.
See JnB 661.
JnB 663
Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, untitled, on one page of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1620s.
JnB 666
Copy, headed ‘Another to K: James’.
In: the MS described under JnB 72. c.1634.
Edited from this MS in Joshua Eckhardt, Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry (Oxford, 2009), pp. 200-2.
JnB 667
Copy of a version in praise of ‘great Buckinghame’, possibly satirical.
In: the MS described under JnB 135. c.1636-40s.
Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423), ff. 27v-8v.
JnB 668
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled and here beginning ‘from a Jipsye in the morning’, on one side of a single folio leaf. c.1620s.
Among papers of the Hay family of Haystoun.
JnB 669.5
Copy, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, untitled, on one side of a small folio leaf once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed by the fourth Earl of Bedford ‘Johnsons verses’. c.1620s.
In: A tall folio composite volume of state and antiquarian tracts and papers, in several hands, with a table of contents, 153 pages, in contemporary vellum. Assembled by, and partly in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.
JnB 670
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 191. c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 47-9.
The Haddington Masque, lines 86 et seq. Song (‘Beauties, haue yee seene this toy’)
First published together with The Masques of Blackness and Beauty (London, [1608]). Herford & Simpson, VII, 243-63 (p. 252).
JnB 671
Copy of the Graces' song, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes (three-part setting f. 81r, solo version f. 80v).
In: A folio songbook, in two or more predominantly italic hands, written from both ends, 87 leaves, in remains of contemporary vellum within modern half red morocco. Possibly compiled in part by one ‘T. C.’ c.1641-59.
Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘R. Guise [of Abbey] Feb: 12. 1760’. Purchased from Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, 17 June 1839.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 4 (New York & London, 1986).
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, XI, 606. Facsimile in Jorgens, IV.
JnB 671.5
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, untitled, here beginning ‘Beauties have ye seen a Toy’.
In: the MS described under JnB 451.5. c.1760s.
JnB 672
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: the MS described under JnB 570. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, XI, 606; facsimiles in Willa McClung Evans, Henry Lawes (New York & London, 1941), p. 27, and in Jorgens, III.
JnB 673
Copy, headed ‘Cupid runs from Venus’.
In: the MS described under JnB 391. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), p. 26.
JnB 674
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
In: the MS described under JnB 9. c.1630s-50s.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, XI, 606. Facsimile in Jorgens, X.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 37.
JnB 674.2
Copy, headed in the margin ‘A Cry for Cupidd B: J:’.
In: the MS described under JnB 192.5. c.1614-25.
JnB 674.4
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio formal verse miscellany, in a single rounded hand, 259 pages (plus a three-page index), in modern boards. The contents, the latest of which (on pp. 203-7) can be dated to a marriage that took place in November 1656, reflect the taste of Interregnum Royalist sympathisers. c.Late 1650s.
Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 4001. Sotheby's, 29 June 1946, lot 164, to Myers. Then in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
JnB 674.8
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under JnB 11.5. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, ff. 59r-60r.
—— lines 415-24. Song (‘Why stayes the Bride-grome to inuade’)
JnB 675
Copy, in a musical setting by Alfonso Ferrabosco.
In: the MS described under JnB 571. Early 17th century.
This MS recorded in David Fuller, ‘The Jonsonian Masque and its Music’, M&L, 54 (1973), 440-52 (p. 446), and in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 568.
The Key Keeper
See JnB 574.2.
The King's Entertainment at Welbeck
First published in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VII, 789-803.
JnB 676
Copy, transcribed from the acting copy (1633).
In: the MS described under JnB 45. c.1620s-34.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson, with a facsimile of f. 194 facing p. 790.
—— lines 5-18. Song (‘What softer sounds are these salute the Eare’)
JnB 677
Autograph copy by Lawes of the opening song, in his musical setting, headed ‘Dialogue’.
In: A folio autograph songbook by William Lawes (1602-45), composer, 49 leaves, in contemporary calf stamped in gilt with arms of Charles I. c.1638-45.
Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘Richard Gibbon his booke giuen to him by Mr William Lawes all of his owne pricking and composeing’, and ‘Giuen to me J R by his widdow mris Gibbon J R:’, and ‘Borrowed of Alderman Fidye by me Jo: Surgenson’. Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer, and of Julian Marshall (1836-1903), music and print collector and writer.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 2 (New York & London, 1986). Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘British Museum Additional MS. 31432 William Lawes' writing for the Theatre and the Court’, The Library, 5th Ser. 7 (1952), 225-34, and in Margaret Crum, ‘Notes on the Texts of William Lawes's Songs in B.M. MS. Add. 31432’, The Library, 5th Ser. 9 (1954), 122-7.
This MS discussed in Cutts, The Library (1952), p. 231.
The King's Entertainment in passing to his Coronation
First published in London, 1604. Herford & Simpson, VII, 81-109.
Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly, lines 338-42. Song (‘O What a fault, nay, what a sinne’)
First published in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VII, 357-71.
JnB 679
Copy, with an additional stanza, in a musical setting by Alfonso Ferrabosco.
In: the MS described under JnB 314. Early 17th century.
This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Lyrics at St. Michael's College’, M&L, 37 (1956), 221-33 (p. 227). Edited in Sabol, 400 Songs & Dances, No. 17. Facsimile in Jorgens, VI.
Love's Welcome at Bolsover
First published in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VII, 805-14.
JnB 680
Copy, transcribed from the acting copy (1634)
In: the MS described under JnB 45. c.1620s-34.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson, with a facsimile of f. 199 facing p. 806.
The Masque of Augurs, lines 411-23. Song (‘Doe not expect to heare of all’)
First published in London, 1622. Herford & Simpson, VII, 623-47.
JnB 681
Copy of Apollo's song, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier, untitled.
In: the MS described under JnB 671. c.1641-59.
Edited from this MS in Sabol, 400 Songs & Dances, No. 33. Discussed in MacDonald Emslie, ‘Three Early Settings of Jonson’, N&Q, 198 (November 1953), 466-9.
The Masque of Beauty, lines 341-63. Songs (‘If all these Cupids now were blind’)
First published together with The Masque of Blackness (London, [1608]). Herford & Simpson, VII, 181-94.
JnB 682
Copy of three consecutive songs, in a composite musical setting by Alfonso Ferrabosco.
In: the MS described under JnB 571. Early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 569.
The Masque of Blackness
First published together with The Masque of Beauty (London, [1608]). Herford & Simpson, VII, 161-80.
*JnB 683
Copy, in the neat scretary hand of an amanuensis, with Jonson's autograph signature at the end, entitled (f. 2r) ‘The twelvth nights Reuells’, evidently the copy submitted to Queen Anne for the performance on 6 January 1604/5.
In: A MS of two works (in part) by Ben Jonson, 8 quarto leaves (plus blanks). 1604-5.
Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson, VII, 195-201. Discussed in Gabriel Heaton, Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments (Oxford 2010), pp. 207-15, with a facsimile of f. 4r on p. 211.
—— lines 295-300. Song (‘Come away, come away’)
JnB 684
Copy, in a musical setting by Alfonso Ferrabosco.
In: the MS described under JnB 571. Early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 562.
The Masques of Blackness and of Beauty
*JnB 684.5
Jonson's autograph dedication to Queen Anne, in Latin, in his presentation exemplum of the printed quarto edition (1608). 1608.
Later owned by David Garrick (1717-79), actor and playwright.
The inscription is edited inHerford & Simpson, VIII, 663.
The Masque of Queens
First published in London, 1609. Herford & Simpson, VII, 265-317.
*JnB 685
Autograph fair copy, on twenty folio leaves, presented to Prince Henry. 1609.
Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson. The complete MS reproduced in facsimile, with Inigo Jones's designs, in London, 1930, ed. Guy Chapman.
Facsimile pages also in Facsimiles of Royal, Historical and Literary Autographs in the British Museum (1899), plate 94; in Shakespeare's England (Oxford, 1917), I, facing p. 292; in British Museum Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King's Collections, Vol. IV, ed. Sir George Warner and Julius P. Galson (London, 1921), Plate 103; in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate XXIV (b-c); in Herford & Simpson, VII, facing p. 290; in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 46; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), p. 27; in DLB, vol. 62, Elizabethan Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 151; in Mark Bland, ‘Jonson, Biathanatos and the Interpretation of Manuscript Evidence’, SB, 51 (1998), 154-82 (p. 161); and in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 61.
See also James K. Bracken, ‘Ben Jonson's “y” Spellings in the Masque of Queens Holograph’, AEB, NS. 1 (1987), 17-19 and his ‘The Preference for “y” Spellings in Ben Jonson's Autographs’, AEB, NS. 1 (1987), 237-246.
*JnB 685.2
Jonson's autograph dedication to Queen Anne, in Latin, in his presentation exemplum of the printed quarto edition (1609). 1609.
Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector, and by Thomas Grenville (1755-1846), politician and book collector.
The inscription edited in Herford & Simpson, VII, 279. Facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XXIV(a).
JnB 685.5
Copy of the Witches' chants (lines 155-204) in a musical setting.
In: An oblong folio of vocal compositions by the composer Richard John Samuel Stevens (1757-1837), 124 leaves. Late 18th-early 19th century.
JnB 686
Copy of the ‘argument’, or summary of the plot, which was submitted to the Court before the performance of the masque, in a neat mixed hand, untitled, on a single folio leaf. c.1609.
In: A large folio guardbook of chiefly verse MSS, in Latin, English and Greek, in various hands, at least some relating to Cambridge University, 408 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson, VIII, 318-19.
—— lines 743-8. Song (‘When all the Ages of the earth’)
JnB 687
Copy, in a musical setting by Alfonso Ferrabosco.
In: the MS described under JnB 571. Early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 570.
Neptune's Triumph for the Return of Albion
First published in London, 1623[/4]. Herford & Simpson, VII, 675-700.
JnB 687.5
Proof-sheet of both inner and outer formes of sheet C with twelve manuscript proof-corrections, made either in-house or possibly by Jonson, in an exemplum of the printed edition of 1623/4.
This proof-sheet recorded in James B. Hammersmith, ……AEB, 7 (1983), 188-215 (p. 214). Discussed, with facsimiles, in Johan Gerritsen, ‘A Jonson Proof-Sheet — Neptunes Triumph’, in Studies in Seventeenth-Century English Literature, History and Bibliography: Festschrift for Professor T.A. Birrell (Amsterdam, 1984), pp. 107-17.
—— lines 472-82. Song (‘Come, noble Nymphs, and doe not hide’)
See JnB 606-10.
The New Inn
See JnB 367-381.
Oberon, The Fairy Prince, lines 396-406. Song (‘Nay, nay, You must not stay’)
First published in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VII, 337-56.
JnB 688
Copy in a musical setting by Alfonso Ferrabosco.
In: the MS described under JnB 314. Early 17th century.
This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘Le rôle de la musique dans les masques de Ben Jonson’, Les fêtes de la Renaissance, ed. Jean Jacquot, I (Paris, 1956), 285-303 (p. 300). Edited in Sabol, 400 Songs & Dances, No. 15. Facsimile in Jorgens, VI.
—— lines 425-32. Song (‘Gentle knights, Knowe some measure of your nights’)
JnB 689
Copy in a musical setting by Alfonso Ferrabosco.
In: the MS described under JnB 314. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in Cutts, op. cit., 1. 298-9. Edited in Sabol, No. 16. Facsimile in Jorgens, VI.
A Panegyre on the King's Opening of Parliament. 19 March 1603/4
First published together with B. Jon: His Part of King James his Royall and Magnificent Entertainement through his Honorable Cittie of London (London, 1604). Herford & Simpson, VII, 111-17.
JnB 690
The formal title-page, in roman lettering, of a copy of the masque sent by Jonson to James I (the rest of the text now missing), entitled ‘The Teares of the Howers Ivstice, Peace, & Lawe. wept into the bosome of the best K...1604’.
In: the MS described under JnB 683. 1604-5.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, VII, 69.
Part of the Kings Entertainment in Passing to his Coronation
See JnB 678.
Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
First published in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VII, 473-91.
JnB 691
Copy, in the hand of Ralph Crane (fl.1589-1632), poet and scribe, probably made for presentation to a courtier; with a title-page (f. 1r) and text on 21 octavo pages (ff. 2r-12r). [1619].
Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson, with facsimiles of ff. 5r and 10r facing pp. 478, 492. Identified in F.P. Wilson, ‘Ben Jonson and Ralph Crane’, TLS (8 November 1941), p. 555, and in Wilson, ‘Ralph Crane, Scrivener to The King's Players’, The Library, 4th Ser. 7 (1926-7), 194-215.
The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, Strongroom, Shelf 4C [no item number].
The Poetaster
First published in London, 1602. Herford & Simpson, IV, 185-325.
JnB 692.5
Extracts from Ovid's speeches at the end of Act I, scene i (beginning ‘The suffering plowshare or the flint may wear’), and Act V, scene ii.
In: the MS described under JnB 568.8. Early 17th century.
—— II, ii, 163 et seq. Song (‘If I freely may discouer’)
JnB 693
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 483. c.1630.
JnB 697
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards. Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source. Late 17th century.
Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as ‘Rawlinson MS I’: PsK Δ 6.
JnB 701
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics largely in a single italic hand, with (ff. 4v-5r) a table of contents, 84 leaves, in 19th-century red morocco gilt. Inscribed (f. 3v), evidently by the compiler, ‘Giles Earle his booke 1615’ (with other notes dated 1610) and (f. 1v) ‘Egidius Earle hunc librum possidet qui compactus fuit mense Septembris. 1626.’, f. 81r subscribed ‘Anno Dni: 1623 / Mense Augusti: Finis’. c.1615-26.
Acquired from Joseph Lilly, bookseller, 17 May 1862.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).
Edited from this MS in David Fuller, ‘Ben Jonson's Plays and their Contemporary Music’, M&L, 58 (1977), 60-75 (p. 65). Recorded in Herford & Simpson, XI, 605-6. Facsimile in Willa McClung Evans, Ben Jonson and Elizabethan Music (Lancaster, Philadelphia, 1929), frontispiece.
JnB 702
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: the MS described under JnB 570. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, XI, 605-6.
JnB 705
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo notebook of extracts in verse and prose, in a small untidy hand, written from both ends, 42 leaves (plus three blanks), badly worn, remains of boards and green ties. c.1640.
Includes (f. [31r rev.] a reference to ‘my brother Capstons account book after his death 1632’. Given to the library by H.L. Pink, Assistant Under-Librarian, 22 November 1948.
JnB 708
Copy of the song, untitled and here beginning ‘If I freely might discouer’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single, minute non-professional italic hand, probably someone associated with Oxford University, comprising 180 pages now all separated and mounted, interleaved, in 19th-century calf. c.late 1630s.
Later in the libraries (with bookplates) of the book collector Richard Heber (1774-1833); of the bibliographer and antiquary Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833); of the biographer and literary editor Alexander Chalmers (1759-1834); and of the antiquary Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough (his sale by Charles Sharpe in Dublin, 1 November 1842, lot 577).
JnB 710
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
In: the MS described under JnB 9. c.1630s-50s.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, XI, 606.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 25.
JnB 713
Copy, headed ‘Canzone’.
In: A small oblong-octavo volume of 60 poems by Donne plus six of his Problems, together with a few poems by others, in a single hand, 336 pages (but numbering skipping pp. 49-51, 182-90, 241-9, 322, with 332 twice, and the last leaf missing), in contemporary vellum, remains of green silk ties. c.1620-33.
Possibly associated with the Inns of Court (see use of Law French on p. 238). Hodgson's, 27 April 1950, lot 257. Raphael King, sale catalogue No. 51 (1950), item 73. Formerly Chest II/68.
Cited in IELM, I as the ‘King MS’: DnJ Δ 29. Complete microfilm in the British Library (M/569).
The Sad Shepherd, I, v, 65-80. Song (‘Though I am young, and cannot tell’)
First published in Workes (London, 1641). Herford & Simpson, VII, 1-49.
JnB 717
Copy, headed ‘Death & Loue Paraleld’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, probably associated with Cambridge University, ii + 78 pages, in contemporary vellum. c.1625-31.
Inscribed (p. i) ‘Ex dono B. R. ao Jni. i625 [altered to i631] / Broughton / Thomas Gray’.
JnB 718
Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: the MS described under JnB 48. c.1656.
This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth Century Lyrics’, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209 (p. 196).
JnB 720
Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet’, subscribed ‘Thus far Ben: Jonsons Works. 1680. FINIS’.
In: the MS described under JnB 56. c.1680.
JnB 724
Copies, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier.
In: A set of four oblong duodecimo music part books, (i) Cantus Primus, (ii) Cantus Secundus, (iii) Bassus and (iv) Basso Continuo, each written from both ends, compiled by John Playford (1623-86?), 50, 36, 48, and 35 leaves respectively, each volume in limp vellum lettered ‘I. P.’. Leaves excised from these volumes are in the Folger, MS V.a.411 (five leaves) and (nine leaves) at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (Halliwell-Phillipps, Shakespearean scrapbooks). c.1660.
A flyleaf in the Cantus Secundus part book inscribed ‘Decemb. 30. 1674. Note that I Thomas Clifford bought this sett of Musick Books of Mr Richard Price's widow Mrs Dorothy Price for --7s--6d’.
This setting first published in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres and Dialogues in Three Books (London, 1653).
University of Glasgow, MS Euing R.d.58-61, (i) f. 46r; (ii) f. 35v; (iii) f. 45r; (iv) f. 32r.
JnB 726
Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet’, subscribed ‘BJ’.
In: the MS described under JnB 297. c. late 1630s-40s.
Formerly owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici No. 15.
JnB 727.5
Copy, headed ‘O Love and death. 41’ and here beginning ‘Though young I am I cannot tell’.
In: the MS described under JnB 27.5. c.1667-8.
JnB 727.8
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under JnB 11.5. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 31v.
Sejanus his Fall
First published in London, 1605. Herford & Simpson, IV, 327-486.
*JnB 729.2
An exemplum of the printed quarto edition (1605) containing on the title-page Jonson's presentation inscription ‘The Testemony of my Affection, & Obseruance to my noble Freind Sr. Robert Townseehend’, also bearing contemporary textual emendations. 1605.
Sotheby's, 13 July 1909, to Dobell. Afterwards owned by Thomas James Wise (1859-1937), book collector and forger.
Edited in Herford & Simpson, IV, 331; VIII, 665.
*JnB 729.5
An exemplum of the printed quarto edition (1605) containing Jonson's presentation inscription to his ‘perfect Freind, Mr Francis Crane’, in contemporary vellum. 1605.
Also inscribed in Latin by ‘F: M.’ [Francis Mundy]. Bookplate of Robert Cony, MD. Booklabel of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 22 January 1827, p. 12. Then owned by George Daniel (1789-1864), writer and book collector. Sotheby's, 20 July 1864 (Daniel sale), lot 951. Acquired by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 7 July 1914 (Huth sale, Part 4), lot 4064, with a facsimile of the inscribed page in the sale catalogue.
Edited in Herford & Simpson, VIII, 665.
*JnB 729.8
An exemplum of the printed quarto edition (1607) containing Jonson's presentation inscription to Henry Lambton, in olive morocco. Joseph Lilly's sale catalogue of ‘above fifty thousand volumes of rare, curious, unusual, and valuable books’ (c.1870), p. 31. c.1607.
JnB 730
Extracts, headed ‘Ex Sejano. Ben Jonson’.
In: An octavo notebook of proverbs, extracts, &c., in Latin and English, in a cursive hand, written from both ends, 167 leaves, in old calf. Compiled by Sir William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes House, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Mid-17th century.
Identified and cited in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England (New Haven & London, 2000), pp. 73-4 et passim.
JnB 731
Extracts, headed ‘Ben Johnsons Seianus’.
In: An octavo commonplace book, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 193 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards. Compiled entirely by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.1635-40s.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
JnB 731.5
Copy of Sejanus's speech beginning, ‘Swell, swell my ioys and faint not to declare’ (V, 1-3, 6-24), headed in the margin ‘Sejanus Ben Jhons’.
In: the MS described under JnB 192.5. c.1614-25.
JnB 732
Extracts, including part of Macro's speech beginning ‘by yu, that fooles call gods’ (V, 390-9).
In: the MS described under JnB 559. c.1673.
JnB 733
Copy of the couplet beginning ‘He that will thrive in state, he must neglect’ (III, 736-7).
In: the MS described under JnB 123. Mid-17th century.
JnB 733.5
MS of a German translation of the play, 66 leaves, in pigskin. c.1660s.
Discussed in June Schlueter, ‘Ben Jonson on the Continent: Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Copies of Sejanus’, Ben Jonson Journal, 17/1 (May, 2010), 19-37, with a facsimile example on p. 21.
JnB 733.8
MS of a German translation of the play, probably by John Michael Girish, 69 leaves, in marbled boards. c.1668.
Discussed in June Schlueter, ‘Ben Jonson on the Continent: Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Copies of Sejanus’, Ben Jonson Journal, 17/1 (May, 2010), 19-37, with a facsimile example on p. 20.
The Silent Woman
See JnB 582-601.
The Staple of News
First published in London, 1631. Herford & Simpson, VI, 271-382.
JnB 734
Extracts, with comments on the play.
In: the MS described under JnB 556. c.1640.
Wright's comments on f. 72v printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, ‘A Caroline Commentary on the Drama’, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 256).
The Vision of Delight
First published in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VII, 461-71.
JnB 735
Copy of the speeches of Phantasy (lines 57-125, beginning ‘Bright Night, I obey thee, and am come at thy call’), transcribed probably from a text used at the original performance in 1617.
In: the MS described under JnB 45. c.1620s-34.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
—— lines 237-42. Song (‘I was not wearier where I lay’)
JnB 736
Copy of Aurora's song, in a musical setting probably by Nicholas Lanier, untitled.
In: the MS described under JnB 312. Mid-17th century.
Edited from this MS in J.P. Cutts, ‘Ben Jonson's Masque “The Vision of Delight”’, N&Q, 201 (February 1956), 64-7; in MacDonald Emslie, ‘Nicholas Lanier's Innovations in English Song’, M&L, 41 (1960), 13-27 (pp. 23-4); and in Sabol, 400 Songs & Dances, No. 26.
Volpone
First published in London, 1607. Herford & Simpson, V, 1-137.
*JnB 737.5
An exemplum of the printed quarto edition (1607) containing Jonson's presentation inscription to ‘his louing Father, & worthy Freind Mr John Florio’. 1607.
Later owned by Dr Charles Chauncy (1709-77). Sotheby's, 15 April 1790 (Charles and Nathaniel Chauncy sale), lot b362, to Dent for the Duke of Grafton
Edited in Herford & Simpson, VIII, 665, with a facsimile in I, 56. Facsimiles in the Scholar Press facsimile of this exemplum (Menston, 1968); in DLB, vol. 62, Elizabethan Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 144; and in Nicolas Barker et al., Treasures of the British Library (London, 1988), p. 236.
JnB 738
The text of the missing title-page and last leaf supplied in MS in a defective exemplum of the quarto edition of 1607, which also contains readers' annotations in one or more other hands. Late 17th or 18th century.
This item recorded in Herford & Simpson, V, 6, and collated.
JnB 739
Exemplum of the printed edition of 1607 with the text of the missing first two leaves and signature 0 supplied in MS. Early 17th century.
Owned before 1937 by the Clifton Shakspere Society.
Recorded in Herford & Simpson, V, 7, and collated.
—— III, vii, 166-83. Song (‘Come my Celia, let vs proue’)
See JnB 443-450.
—— III, vii, 236-9. Song (‘That the curious may not know’)
See JnB 542-548.
Letters
Letter(s)
*JnB 740
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [1605]. 1605.
Edited in Herford & Simpson, I, 194-6.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 114/58.
*JnB 741
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, 8 November 1605. 1605.
Edited in Herford & Simpson, I, 202. Facsimiles in The Autographic Mirror, vol I (1864), p. 52; Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XXIII (a-b); and in Ann Morton, Men of Letters, Public Record Office Museum Pamphlets No. 6 (London, 1974), Plate III.
*JnB 742
Allegedly autograph letter signed by Jonson, to John Wake, 21 July 1623. 1623.
Puttick & Simpson's, 19 December 1850, lot 303.
*JnB 743
An autograph letter in Latin signed by Jonson (Jonsonio tuo), to Richard Briggs (‘Amico summo D. Rich Briggesio’), dated 10 August 1623, inscribed in Jonson's printed exemplum of Martial's Epigrammaton libri, ed. Thomas Farnaby (London, 1615). Inscribed (sig. A2v) ‘Gulielmus Dauling: His Booke Anno Domini 1676’. Armorial bookplate and inscription of Bryan Faussett, 1772. 1623.
The letter first published in Gentleman's Magazine (1786), vol. lvi, part i, p. 378. Edited in Herford & Simpson, I, 215-16.
JnB 744
Copies of a series of nine letters and petitions by Jonson, to Mr Leech; Thomas Bond; Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk [?]: Sir Robert Cecil; an unidentified lord; Lucy, Countess of Bedford [?]; Esmé Stuart, Lord D'Aubigny [?]; Philip Herbert, Earl of Pembroke; and William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke; undated but the first two probably 1613 and the rest probably 1613.
In: A quarto volume of transcripts of letters by various people, in several secretary and italic hands, 95 leaves (plus a few blanks), in modern calf gilt. c.1620s.
Evidently the MS from which selected items are transcribed in Cardiff Central Library MS 1.172, pp. 1-162, which is inscribed (p. 162) ‘Hitherto from the beginning of the Book, from a Manuscript in 4to: belonging to John Arden of Stockport Esqr:’i.e. probably John Arden (1742-1823), of Harden, Utkinton and Pepper Halls, High Sheriff of Cheshire. Acquired in 1942.
This volume discussed and various letters printed in Bertram Dobell, ‘Newly Discovered Documents of the Elizabethan and Jacobean Periods’, The Athenaeum (1901: 23 March, pp. 369-70; 30 March, pp. 403-4; 6 April, pp. 433-4; 13 April, pp. 465-7). A complete transcription and facsimile of the volume in A Seventeenth-Century Letter-Book: A Facsimile Edition of Folger MS. V.a.321, ed. A.R. Braunmuller (Newark, London & Toronto, 1983).
Braunmuller, Nos 93-4, 127-33. Eight letters edited in Herford and Simpson, I, 193-4, 197-201.
JnB 745
Copies of nine letters and petitions by, or probably by, Jonson.
In: An octavo volume of state letters, in a single neat italic hand, 184 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. Inscribed (p. 162) ‘Hitherto from the beginning of the Book, from a Manuscript in 4to: belonging to John Arden of Stockport Esqr:’i.e. probably John Arden (1742-1823), of Harden, Utkinton and Pepper Halls, High Sheriff of Cheshire, the MS in question evidently Folger MS V.a.321. Entries after p. 163, and relating to the Civil War, are copied from MSS including a ‘Folio M.S. at Bramhall’ and ‘an historical 4to M.S. at Withenshaw in Cheshire’. c.1772-5.
Inscribed ‘E libris Reverendi Viri Joannis Watson A.M. Rectoris Ecclesiæ Parochialis de Stockport Com: Cest: 1772’: i.e. the Rev. John Watson (1725-83), antiquary, and with his bookplate. Later booklabel of ‘Sarah Wood / 9th April 1889’.
These letters correspond to Nos 127-30, 132-3, 131, 93-4 in Folger MS V.a.321 (see JnB 744). Some of the recipients and dates are conjectural: see Braunmuller's edition.
JnB 746
Extracts from a letter, in a mixed hand, with annotations by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed ‘Ben Johnsons to Sr Kenelme Digby on the Lord Digbies opinion concerning Barcleys Euphonnio’, here beginning ‘If as that great examiner, and iudge of benefitts hath decreed...’, followed (p. 69) by ‘Notes out of my Lord Digbies Reply’.
In: A folio commonplace book, in several hands, begun 18 May 1626, written from both ends, with two tables of contents, 415 pages of text, in contemporary leather with traces of metal clasps. Compiled by, and partly in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician. c.1626-30s.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.
JnB 747
Copy of a letter by Jonson, to the Earl of Newcastle, dated 4 February 1631[/2].
In: the MS described under JnB 45. c.1620s-34.
Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson, I, 210.
JnB 748
Copy of a letter by Jonson, to the Earl of Newcastle, undated.
In: the MS described under JnB 45. c.1620s-34.
Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson, I, 211.
JnB 749
Copy of a letter by Jonson, to the Earl of Newcastle, undated. c.1620s-30s.
In: the MS described under JnB 45. c.1620s-34.
Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson, I, 212.
JnB 750
Copy in: the MS described under JnB 45. c.1620s-34.
Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson, I, 213-14.
*JnB 751
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cotton, [c.1635]. c.1635.
In: A folio composite volume of letters, chiefly to Robert Cotton, in various hands.
Edited in Herford & Simpson, I, 215. Facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XXIII(c).
Printed Exempla of Jonson's Workes (1616) with his Autograph Presentation Inscriptions
Workes (1616)
*JnB 752
A printed exemplum containing Jonson's presentation inscription ‘To his most learned and honor'd Freind Mr Edward Heyward’. 1616.
Later owned by Robert Hoe (1839-1909), New York businessman and book collector.
*JnB 753
A printed exemplum containing Jonson's presentation inscription ‘To his most worthy, & learned Freind Mr: John Wilson.’ 1616.
A facsimile of the inscribed title-page appears in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg, et al. (New York, 1981), Plate 27.
*JnB 754
A printed exemplum containing Jonson's inscription (on the verso of the title-page) ‘Ben: Jonson's Guift & Testimony of Observance’. c.1616.
Inscribed on the title-page ‘Do Panton’. Later owned by Bertram, fifth Earl of Ashburnham (1840-1913). Sotheby's, 6 December 1897 (Ashburnham sale, Part 3), lot 2174, to Quaritch.
*JnB 755
A printed exemplum containing Jonson's presentation inscription to a person whose name was later deleted. c.1616.
Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 3 March 1845 (Bright sale), lot 3223.
*JnB 756
A printed exemplum containing Jonson's presentation inscription to his ‘most learni'd and honor'd friend Mr. Tho. Farnabie’. 1616.
Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale), lot 275, to Fleming.
*JnB 757
A printed exemplum containing Jonson's presentation inscription to his ‘worthy and deseruing Brother Mr. Alexander Glouer’.
Later owned by Frank Capra (1897-1991), film director. Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 27 April 1949, lot 227, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue.
This inscription edited in Herford & Simpson, VIII, 666.
*JnB 758
A printed exemplum containing Jonson's presentation inscription to his worthy Friend Mr. John achmoty, for the hospitable favors I receivd of him in Scotland, dated 3 July 1619. 1619.
Sotheby's, 24 October 1977, Lot 29, to A. Scott.
Facsimiles of the inscription in Sotheby's hard-cover sale catalogue and in the British Library, RP 2693.
*JnB 759
A printed exemplum containing (on p. 5) Jonson's presentation inscription to his ‘Amicissimo...Francis Yong’.
Later owned by John Dent (c.1761-1826), politician and book collector. Sotheby's, 25 April 1827 (Dent sale, Part 2), lot 309. Bookplate of William Gott. Henry Sotheran & Co., sale catalogue Bibliotheca Pretiosa, [1907], item 277, with a facsimile of the inscribed contents page. Donated by Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911.
Facsimile of the inscribed page in Stephen Parks, The Elizabethan Club of Yale University and Its Library (New Haven & London, 1986), p. 143.
Documents and Miscellaneous Inscriptions
Document(s)
*JnB 760
A full-page autograph inscription in italic signed by ‘Beniamin Jonsonius Londinensis’. c. 1599-1611.
In: The liber amicorum of Captain Francis Segar, brother of Sir William Segar (c.1564-1633), Garter King of Arms, including signed inscriptions in numerous English and continental hands and various arms emblazoned in colours, 121 quarto leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1599-1611.
Later owned by James Bindley, FSA (1737-1818), book collector. His sale, London, 7 December 1818, I, item 362, to Triphook. Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 14. Sale in London 1865 of the library of Dr Henry Wellesley (1794-1866), Oxford College head and connoisseur, sold to Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. A.H. Huth sale, London, 1918, VII, item 6680, to Sabin. Then owned by G. Wells and sold at Anderson's Galleries, New York, 17 February 1919, lot 894, to G.D. Smith.
Edited in Herford & Simpson, VIII, 664-5.
*JnB 761
A deposition by Jonson in the case of Rowe versus Garland, in a professional secretary hand, signed ‘Ben Jonson’, on a single broadsheet, 8 May 1610.
*JnB 762
Jonson's autograph inscription, in Latin, in the Album academicum et apodemicum of Joachim Morsius (1593-1643), dated 1 January 1619/20. 1620.
This album was formerly in the Municipal Library of Lübeck, Germany, but was almost certainly destroyed in World War II.
Facsimile of the inscription in Heinrich Schneider, Joachim Morsius und sein Kreis (Lübeck, 1929), p. 25. Edited in Herford & Simpson, VIII, 664.
Ben Jonson's Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden
See DrW 303-304.
Epitaph on Robert Jermyn of Rushbrooke in St. Margaret's, Lothbury, 1623
JnB 763
Copy of Jonson's inscription, which was carved on a monument in a church largely destroyed in the Fire of London (1666).
In: the MS described under JnB 158. c.1630s-40s.
JnB 764
Copy, in a mixed hand, subscribed ‘Ben: Jonson’, on the recto of the engraved portrait in a printed exemplum of William Camden's Annales (London, 1615). An early copy of Jonson's inscription, which was carved on a monument in a church largely destroyed in the Fire of London (1666). c.1623.
The volume inscribed sum ‘ex libris Edwardi Worsælij...’. Armorial bookplate of Henry Labouchere, MP (1798-1869), Baron Taunton, politician.
Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson, VIII, 661. Facsimile in Mark Bland, ‘Jonson, Biathanatos and the Interpretation of Manuscript Evidence’, SB, 51 (1998), 154-82 (p. 166), where it is mistakenly treated as if autograph.
Miscellaneous Extracts from Jonson's Works
Extracts
JnB 765
Extracts from Jonson's poems on women, headed ‘Johnsons verses’.
In: A quarto commonplace book, in a single rugged italic hand, with a table of contents in another hand, written from both ends, begun 16 December 1616, 389 pages, in contemporary calf gilt. The text entirely in the hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician. c.1616-30.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.
The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 19, pp. 224-8.
JnB 766
Extracts from various of Jonson's plays, masques and poems.
In: the MS described under JnB 556. c.1640.
JnB 768
Extractts from various plays and Discoveries, headed ‘Ben-Johnsons Works Lond. 1640’.
In: A tall folio composite volume of commonplace-book notes and extracts, chiefly in the hand of John Evelyn the younger, on various paper sizes, 248 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Late 17th century.
Volume CCLXXVI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 281.
JnB 769
Extracts from Jonson's works, including an example on p. 69.
In: A quarto miscellany of extracts in verse and prose, in a single largely italic hand, 142 pages, in contemporary mottled calf gilt. Compiled by Sir John Cotton, Bt (1621-1702). Mid-17th century.
JnB 770
Extracts from various works.
In: A large untitled folio anthology of quotations chiefly from Elizabethan and Stuart plays, alphabetically arranged under subject headings, in a single mixed hand, in double columns, 900 pages (lacking pp. 1-4, 379-80, 667-8, 715-20 and 785-8), including (pp. 893-7) an alphabetical index of some 351 titles of plays, in modern boards. This is the longest known extant version of the unpublished anthology Hesperides or The Muses Garden, by John Evans, entered in the Stationers' Register on 16 August 1655 and subsequently advertised c.1660, among works he purposed to print, by Humphrey Moseley. Another version of this work, in the same hand, dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), is now distributed between Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger, MS V.a.75, Folger, MS V.a.79, and Folger, MS V.a.80. c.1656-66.
Formerly MS 469.2.
This MS identified in IELM, II.i (1980), p. 450. Discussed, as the ‘master draft’, with a facsimile of p. 7 on p. 381, in Hao Tianhu, ‘Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden and its Manuscript History’, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/4 (December 2009), 372-404 (the full index printed as ‘Catalogue A’ on pp. 385-94).
JnB 771
Extracts from Every Man in his Humour, Every Man out of his Humour, Cynthia's Revels, The Poetaster, Sejanus, Volpone, The Silent Woman, The Alchemist, Catiline, Epigrams, The Magnetic Lady, and Discoveries, headed ‘Collections from Ben Johnsons Workes’.
In: A folio commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts, in English and French, chiefly in a single cursive hand, with some pages in the hand of an amanuensis, written from both ends, i + 134 leaves, originally in contemporary calf (now detached), in modern half red morocco. Compiled by Sir Samuel Tuke, first Baronet (c.1615-74), royalist army officer and playwright, cousin and friend of John Evelyn. Inscribed by him (f. 134r rev.) ‘I began these Collections the 9th of July, 1662 / By Sr Samuel Tuke: Bart:’. c.1662-5.
Volume CCLVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 164.
British Library, Add. MS 78424, ff. 133v-r, 132r, 131r, 130r, 129r, 128r rev.