Verse
Laudatio pacis (‘Martia bella canant alij, gladiosque cruentos’)
First published in London, 1546. Reprinted in Joannis Lelandi...collectanea, ed. Thomas Hearne, 3rd edition (London, 1774), V, 69-78.
LeJ 1
Exemplum of the edition of 1546 with a few MS corrections.
In: A few MS corrections in an exemplum of the printed edition of 1546. Mid-16th century. 16th century.
This item recorded in James Hutton, ‘John Leland's Laudatio pacis’, SP, 58 (1961), 616-26.
LeJ 1.5
Copy in Richard Rawlinson's hand, transcribed from the printed edition of 1546 given to St John's College, Oxford, in 1602 by (Sir) William Paddy (1554-1634), physician to Lord Burghley.
Ownership inscription by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary, 30 December 1710. Early 18th century.
In: A quarto composite volume of chiefly state letters and tracts, in English and Latin, in various hands, 176 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.
Poemata
Many of Leland's Latin epigrams published in Principum, ac illustrium aliquot & eruditorum in Anglia virorum, encomia, trophaea, genethliaca & epithalamia, ed. Thomas Newton (London, 1589). Reprinted in Joannis Lelandi...collectanea, ed. Thomas Hearne, 3rd edition (London, 1774), V, 79-167.
LeJ 2
A quarto volume containing a copy of Leland's Latin epigrams transcribed from his (now lost) autograph by John Stow (1525?-1605), 70 leaves. c.1576.
Twenty-eight poems printed from this MS in Leicester Bradner, ‘Some Unpublished Poems by John Leland’, PMLA, 71.ii (1956), 827-36.
*LeJ 3
Autograph Latin verses, beginning ‘Aethelstanus erat nostre pars maxima cure’, inscribed by Leland. Early 16th century.
In: A 10th-century MS of the Four Gospels in Latin, on vellum throughout, 199 folio-size leaves.
These verses appear in Stow's transcript (LeJ 2), p. 17.
LeJ 4
Copy of a large number of Leland's Latin poems, in a single mixed hand, prepared for John Jones of Gellilyfdy. c.1611.
In: A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, 66 leaves, in modern half-leather.
Inscribed (f. 66v) ‘Thomas Jones is my name’.
National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 364 B (1), ff. 14r-43v.
LeJ 5
Copy of five of Leland's Latin epigrams, the first beginning ‘Druydes, genus hominum tum antiquissimi nominis’, in the hand of John Bale.
In: Autograph volume of writings by John Bale, 174 quarto leaves. c.1552-7.
Donated in 1667 by William Corker, AM, Fellow.
Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R. 7. 15 (James 753), ff. 3r-5r.
LeJ 6
Copy of two Latin poems ascribed to ‘Lelandus’.
In: An antiquarian miscellany, compiled by William Wyrley (1565-c.1613). Late 16th-early 17th century.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13152. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1649.
LeJ 7
Copy of an epigram on Cambridge University, headed ‘Jhoannes Lelandus antiquarius composuit sequens epigramma’ and beginning ‘Olim granta fuit titulis vrba inclyta multis’.
In: A quarto copy of William Whitlock's Chronicon Lichefeldensis Ecclesie, in a professional secretary hand, 66 leaves, bound with two much earlier quarto and octavo MSS on vellum (ff. 67-8, 69-76), in contemporary calf. 2nd half 16th century.
Verses made at the Coronation of Queen Anne
Verses made for the coronation procession of Queen Anne Boleyn, 31 May 1533. First published in John Nichols, The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth, I (London, 1788), i-xx.
*LeJ 8
Autograph fair copy of Leland's Latin verses, together with Nicholas Udall's autograph English and Latin verses (UdN 1), on sixteen quarto leaves. This is presumably the copy presented to the Queen herself. 1533.
Edited from this MS in Nichols and in F.J. Furnivall, ‘Leland's and Udall's Verses before the Coronation of Anne Boleyn’, Ballads from Manuscripts, Ballad Society (London, 1870), I, 364-401. Facsimile of one page (Leland's hand in the lower half) in Alfred Fairbank and Berthold Wolpe, Renaissance Handwriting: An Anthology of Italic Scripts (London, 1960), Plate 23. J.P. Collier's transcript of the MS (c.1850) is in the Folger, MS N. b. 48.
LeJ 8.5
Copy, headed ‘Copie of divers and sundry verses as well in Latin as in English, devised and made partely by John Leland and partly by Nicholas Udal, whereof sum were sette up and sum were spoken and pronounced to the ladie Anne, wif unto our soverain Lorde K. Henry VIII. as her grace rode from the Tower of London to her coronation at Westminster’.
In: A folio volume of state papers and letters, 217 leaves.
Prose
Antiphilarchia
An unpublished treatise in Latin, dedicated to Henry VIII.
LeJ 9
Leland's presentation copy to King Henry VIII, 187 folio leaves. In a professional virtually calligraphic hand, with sidenotes in italic, including (f. 1r) a title-page (‘Antiphilarchia’) with two Latin epigrams, ‘Ad candidos lectores’ (eight lines beginning ‘Me iussit pietas, amorque ueri’), and ‘Ad Censorem’ (two lines beginning ‘Cui minus ista mei calami foetura placebit’); (f. 2r) a dedication in Latin to the King; (ff. 3r-4r) a list of contents, ‘Syllabus capitum’; and (ff. 5r-187r) the text, headed ‘Dialogus cui titulus Antiphilarcha Interlocutores Philalêthes & Iranôtes’, in modern half-calf on marbled boards. 1540s.
Inscribed (f. 11r) ‘Thomas Knyvett Nouemb: 18: 1586’: i.e. Thomas, Baron Knyvett (1545/6-1622), courtier.
LeJ 10
Copy, in a professional secretary and italic hand, 136 folio leaves, in vellum boards. Complete with address to readers and dedicatory epistle to Henry VIII, subscribed ‘Ex originale ab ipso Authore (vt par est credere) Henr: R: 8o: prentato, In illustri, & copiosa grosissi Thomæ Knyuet Armigri BBca: apud Ashwell Thorpe, Com: Norf. Jun. 13. 1625’: i.e. presumably transcribed from LeJ 9. 1625.
Inscribed on a leaf affixed to the first page ‘Suum cuiq Tho: Hearne, Oct. 30. 1717. Ex dono Amici, virtutibus & doctrina ornatissimi Thomæ Bakeri S.T.B. Cantabrigiensis’: i.e. given to Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary, by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary, who has inscribed f. 136v ‘In testimonium summæ, quam debet, gratitudinis, mittet, Tho: Baker’.
LeJ 11
Copy, complete with address to readers and dedicatory epistle to Henry VIII, largely in a single hand, subscribed at the end ‘Ex Originale ab ipso Authore (ut par est credere) Henr: R: 8o. præsentato, In illustri, & copiosa. generosissimi Thomæ Knyuet Armigeri BBcâ: apud Ashwell Thorpe. Com: Norf. Jun. 13. 1625’: i.e. presumably transcribed from LeJ 10. Early 18th century.
In: A folio composite volume of historical and antiquarian papers, in various hands, 164 leaves, in 18th-century vellum. Collected by, and partly in the hand of, Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary.
LeJ 11.5
Extracts, in Baker's hand.
In: A folio volume of historical collections, in a single hand, 282 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. Compiled entirely by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary, being Volume XXI of his collections. Early 18th century.
Antiquitates Britanniae
Unpublished. Discussed in T. C. Skeat, ‘Two “Lost” Works by John Leland’, EHR, 65 (1950), 505-8.
*LeJ 12
Autograph, imperfect and lacking a title.
In: A folio composite volume of Leland's works, c.257 leaves. c.1535-45.
LeJ 12.5
Copy of parts of the work, probably from a transcript by John Stow. Late 16th century.
In: A folio composite volume of historical MSS, c.325 leaves.
LeJ 13
Extracts from Leland's autograph MS, transcribed by John Bale.
In: An autograph octavo volume of collections by Bale for a list of works by British authors, i + 227 leaves. c.1549-57.
Among collections of John Selden, MP (1584-1654), lawyer, historian, and linguistic scholar.
Edited from this MS in John Bale, Index Britanniae scriptorum, ed. R.L. Poole and M. Bateson (Oxford, 1902). Recorded in Skeat, p. 506.
LeJ 14
Extracts from Leland's autograph MS (LeJ 12) transcribed by William Camden. c.1580s-90s.
In: A composite folio volume of antiquarian and state papers, by Camden and others, in various hands, 197 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works. c.1580s-90s.
This MS recorded in Skeat, p. 506.
British Library, Cotton MS Julius F. X, ff. 103r, 157v-9v, 163r-4v.
Assertio inclytissimi Arturii regis Britanniae
First published in London, 1544. Edited by William Edward Mead in Christopher Middleton, The famous Historie of Chinon of England, EETS, 165 (London, 1925). Richard Robinson's translation published in London, 1582.
LeJ 15
Copy of an anonymous English translation of Leland's work, 101 quarto leaves, imperfect. Late 16th century.
Purchased from Henry Hammond, Oxford bookseller, 15 November 1861.
This is not R. Robinson's translation published in 1582.
Collectanea
First published in J. Lelandi antiquarii de rebus Britannicis collectanea, ed. Thomas Hearne, 6 vols (Oxford, 1715; 2nd. edition London, 1770; 3rd edition London, 1774).
*LeJ 16
Autograph MS, a few pages in a professional hand with autograph corrections and revisions.
In: Largely autograph MS of Leland's Collectanea, xliii + 1655 pages, bound in three folio volumes, with William Burton's index c.1612. c.1545.
Once owned by Sir John Cheke (1514-57), royal tutor and administrator; then by Humphrey Purefoy, whose son Thomas gave them in 1612 to William Burton (1575-1645), Leicestershire antiquary, who has supplied a title, index, and list of authors cited, and who donated them to the Bodleian in 1632.
Edited from these MSS in Hearne. Recorded in Smith, I, xx.
*LeJ 17
A portion of the Collectanea, all in Leland's hand except for a list of religious houses (ff. 28r-38r) which is in the hand of a clerk with Leland's autograph corrections and revisions, iv + 39 folio leaves, in modern half brown morocco. c.1536-45.
Owned in 1677 by Sir Henry St George (1625-1715), later Garter King of Arms. Bookplate of the Rev. Dr Osmund Beauvoir, FSA (d.1789), who has added (ff. iir, iiir-ivr) notes and a list of contents. Afterwards owned by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector. Upcott sale, 1846, lot 111. Then in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 12111. Sotheby's, 24-28 April 1911 (Phillipps sale), lot 680.
This MS recorded in Moore Smith, I, xxx, et passim. Facsimile examples of ff. 16v, 17v, in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate CI, and in Petti, English Literary Hands (1977), No. 21.
*LeJ 18
A list of books in monastic libraries, together with extracts from Latin poets and other writers, partly autograph, partly in a professional hand, imperfect. c.1535-45.
In: the MS described under LeJ 12.5.
This MS recorded in Smith, V, xiv.
British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius C. IX, ff. 233r-4v, 240r-5v.
LeJ 19
Lists of MSS in 35 Lincolnshire religious houses probably compiled by Leland, in a professional hand, headed ‘Tabula librorum de Historiis antiquitatum ac diuinitate tractancium in librariis et domibus religiosis’, on nine folio leaves. Prepared for Henry VIII who has annotated the MS in his own hand. c.1536-8.
Edited from this MS in J.R. Liddell, ‘“Leland's” Lists of Manuscripts in Lincolnshire Monasteries’, EHR, 213 (1939), 88-95; discussed, with a facsimile page, in Francis Wormald and C.E. Wright, The English Library before 1700 (London, 1958), pp. 161-2 and plate 12.
—— [Stow transcript]
LeJ 20
A quarto volume, containing portions of the Collectanea (on ff. 1r-47r, 60v-150v) transcribed from Leland's autograph MS (LeJ 16) by John Stow (1525?-1605), London historian, 193 leaves. c.1576.
This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxiii.
LeJ 21
Extracts transcribed by John Stow.
In: A quarto composite volume of antiquarian papers, c. c.402 leaves. Collected by Francis Thynne (1545?-1608), Lancaster Herald
This MS recorded in Smith, V, xii.
LeJ 22
Extracts transcribed by John Stow, headed ‘Excerpta ex Lelando de libris, quos ille reperit in biblothecis Monasteriorum’, imperfect..1576.
In: A folio composite volume of historical, heraldic and antiquarian papers, c.316 leaves, imperfect.
LeJ 23
Extracts transcribed from one of John Stow's transcripts.
In: A large folio volume of antiquarian collections, in a single italic hand, 115 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary reversed calf (rebacked), with remains of metal clasps. Compiled by Robert Glover (1544-88), Somerset Herald. Late 16th century.
LeJ 24
Copy of portions of the Collectanea, transcribed in part from one of John Stow's transcripts (LeJ 20), untitled.
In: A small folio volume of works chiefly by John Leland, in a predominantly neat italic hand, 741 pages, in modern quarter-calf. Transcribed by Robert Vaughan (1591/2-1667) of Hengwrt, antiquary. c.1638-67.
National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 273 C (1), pp. 125-46, 154-212, 233-360.
—— [Burton transcript]
LeJ 25
Extracts, transcribed by Burton from Leland's autograph MS.
In: A folio composite volume of transcripts of Leland's works, xvi + 276 pages, some imperfect, partly gnawed by rodents, in old marbled boards. Made largely by William Burton (1575-1645), Leicestershire antiquary, with some original gaps supplied in another hand, entitled (f. xir) ‘The Itinerarye of john Leiland the famous Antiquarie / The first part copied out of the original: 1628: by me William Burton of Lindley com: Leic:’, with the dedicatory epistle to Henry VIII. [1628-41].
Inscribed (f. ixr) ‘Liber Willimi Burton de Lindley com: Leicestr. 1628’. Given by Thomas Allen, Lord of the Manor of Finchley, in June 1758, to William Stukely (1687-1765), antiquary and natural philosopher. Among the collections of Richard Gough, FSA (1735-1809), antiquary and topographer.
This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxv-xxvii.
LeJ 26
Extracts transcribed by William Burton for John Selden and Sir Robert Cotton.
In: the MS described under LeJ 12. c.1535-45.
This MS recorded in Smith, V, xii.
—— [Dugdale transcript]
LeJ 27
Copy of Volume I of the Collectanea (LeJ 16), entirely in the hand of Sir William Dugdale (1605-86), antiquary and herald, with his underlinings in red ink, as ‘transcribi fecit D. Christopherus Hatton Baro Hatto de Kirby postquam apud Oxonium delituit...’, with (pp. [914-30]) Dugdale's index dated ‘mense Augusti Ao 1657’, 930 folio pages (the first four leaves foliated, and skipping from p. 96 to 175 and from p. 878 to 911), in reversed calf. c.1642-57.
This MS recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 31.
LeJ 27.5
A formal copy of ‘Volumen Secundum Collectaneæ Iohannis Lelandi’ (LeJ 16), in the neat italic hand of an amanuensis of Sir William Dugdale (1606-86), antiquary and herald, the index at the end (pp. [385-92]) and volume title in Dugdale's hand, signed and dated by him ‘Julij Ao 1657’, 392 folio pages, in reversed calf. c.1642-57.
LeJ 28
Copy of ‘Volumen tertium Collectaneæ Johis Lelandi’ (i.e. LeJ 16), in the neat italic hand of an amanuensis of Sir William Dugdale (1606-86), antiquary and herald, the index at the end (pp. 288-91) and volume title in Dugdale's hand, 291 folio pages, in reversed calf. c.1642-57.
LeJ 29
Copy of extracts ‘ex quibusdam Collectionibus Iohannis Lelandi penès Henricum St. George equitem...1677’, transcribed by Dugdale from Leland's autograph MS (LeJ 16). 1677.
In: A folio volume of antiquarian texts, 45 leaves. Compiled by Sir William Dugdale (1605-86), antiquary and herald, who begins with ‘A perfect Index or Repertorie unto twenty-five volumes of Manuscript-Bookes in folio, wch were the Collections of Sr William Le Neve knt...made and composed by me Sr William Dugdale...mense Iunij Ao 1679’. c.1677-9.
Owned in the 18th century by ‘Tho. Skiffington’. Later by James T. Gibson Craig. Sotheby's, 22 March 1888 (Gibson Craig sale Part II), lot 1738.
This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxx; II, 117.
LeJ 30
Extracts from Leland's works — probably the Collectanea and perhaps the Itinerary — including transcriptions from (f. 97r-v) ‘booke M’ of ‘mr Dugdale’ [Sir William Dugdale (1605-86), antiquary and herald]; (f. 98r) ‘Ex Leland, and Dugdale’; and (f. 102v), ‘Ex Leland’. c.1642-51.
In: A folio composite volume of historical and antiquarian papers, predominantly in one cursive secretary hand, xiv + 142 leaves, in later calf.
Among collections of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654), antiquary, passed on to Lord Fairfax, who donated them to the Bodleian.
—— [Other transcripts and extracts]
LeJ 31
Brief extracts in Ashmole's hand.
In: A volume of collections for Ashmole's History of the Order of the Garter. 274 leaves, on single sheets. Chiefly in Ashmole's hand and constituting Volume XIV of such volumes. Mid-late 17th century.
LeJ 32
Extracts, ‘ex Lelando Collect’, transcribed by Anthony Wood, dated by him ‘Jun 17: 1660’, and inscribed (f. 15v) ‘perused Feb.6th 1728/9 TR’ [i.e. Thomas Rawlins].
In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous papers, chiefly relating to Oxford, in various hands, x + 154 leaves and pages (including blanks), in half-calf gilt marbled boards. Collected by Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary, and by Thomas Rawlins.
Lent by Rawlins to Thomas Hearne c.November 1732: see S.G. Gillam, ‘Arthur Charlett's Letters and Manuscripts’, Bodleian Library Record, 4 (1952-3), 105-14 (p. 108).
LeJ 33
Copy of a portion of the Collectanea, transcribed from Leland's autograph (LeJ 17) for the antiquary Robert Plot (1640-96), viii + 48 folio pages. Inscribed ‘taken out of a manuscript copy of Leyland's own handwriting in the hands of Sr Henry St. George, Clarenceaux King at Arms, procured by Rob: Plot. LL. D. Vniv.’ 1682.
Edited from this MS in Thomas Hearne's edition of The Itinerary, 3rd edition (Oxford, 1769), IV, 135-81. Recorded in Smith, I, xxx; II, 117.
LeJ 33.5
Copy of parts of the Collectanea, in Haward's hand, entitled in another hand (f. iir) ‘Lelands Commentaries of England’, with Latin verses on Leland by John Bale and John Pits (f. ivr).
In: A folio volume, in the neat roman hand of Sir William Haward, FRS (c.1617-1704), of Tandridge Hall, Surrey, courtier and antiquary, 290 pages, in contemporary calf gilt within modern half-morocco gilt. c.1658-67.
Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980) as LeJ 28.
LeJ 34
Extracts, in the hand of William Fulman, headed ‘Leland. Collect. Vol. 1. p. 839’ and, on f. 291r, ‘Ex Nennio MS. in Bibl. Bodl. fol. 241’. Mid-late 17th century.
In: A quarto composite volume of ecclesiastical and state tracts, in various hands, v + 397 leaves, in half-vellum boards.
Owned, and partly written, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.
LeJ 35
Extracts, transcribed from an antiquarian collection of St Loe Kniveton (d.1628) of Gray's Inn, together with extracts from calendars of public records made by Francis Thynne (1545?-1608), herald and antiquary.
In: A folio composite volume of historical and antiquarian papers, in various hands and paper sizes, vii + 129 leaves, bound with two other MSS (MSS Tanner 81 and 83), in contemporary calf.
Among collections of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654), antiquary, passed on to Lord Fairfax, who donated them to the Bodleian.
LeJ 36
Extracts.
In: A quarto volume of historical collections, 120 leaves. Compiled by the historian Sir James Ware (1594-1666). c.1644-55.
Subsequently owned by the Earl of Clarendon.
LeJ 37
Notes of Leland's list of books in various monastic libraries taken from the Collectanea.
In: A quarto miscellany of extracts, in various hands, 198 leaves. Late 17th century.
LeJ 38
A list of the contents of the Collectanea, vols 1-5, in Willis's accomplished cursive hand. Early 18th century.
In: A large folio composite volume of antiquarian collections, in Latin and English, in several hands, iii + 189 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked).
Among the collections of Browne Willis (1682-1760), antiquary, of Whaddon Hall, near Winslow, Buckinghamshire.
LeJ 39
Extract, in the hand of Sir Henry St George (1625-1715), Clarenceux and Garter King of Arms, headed ‘Notes of some Familyes of Staffordshire taken by Leland being his owne hand writing being loose in folio 127. of this Booke, which I have transcribed in this place fearing they might be lost’, referring to an autograph leaf by Leland which once formed part of LeJ 17 (and is now indeed lost). c.1703.
In: A folio composite volume of genealogical and historical collections, chiefly relating to the county of Essex, in several hands, one cursive secretary hand predominating, with (ff. 2r-5v, 147r-52r) a list of contents and separate index, 156 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
Bookplate of Osmund Beauvoir, Sheriff of Essex (fl.1742).
This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxi, xxx. Edited II, 117 seq.
LeJ 40
Extracts.
In: the MS described under LeJ 12. c.1535-45.
This MS recorded in Smith, V, xii.
British Library, Cotton MS Julius C. VI, ff. 90r-103r, 104r-7v.
LeJ 41
A list of witnesses from eight or nine old charters, copied ‘ex Lelando’, probably from the Collectanea.
In: A quarto composite volume of state and antiquarian papers, in various hands, c.126 leaves.
This MS recorded in Smith, V, xiv.
LeJ 41.5
Extracts, headed ‘Ex collectan Johis Lelandi in Biblioth: Bodl: Autograph’.
In: An octavo notebook of extracts, in a cursive mixed hand, 13 leaves (plus numerous blanks), written from both ends, in modern panelled speckled calf gilt. Early-mid 17th century.
LeJ 42
Extracts, in double columns, headed ‘Ex alijs diuersis collectaneis Johannis Leilandi’.
In: A folio volume of antiquarian collections, extracted from chronicles, genealogies, etc., in a single neat hand, 164 leaves (plus blanks), inscribed ‘Miscellanea ex variis scriptoribus collecta, 1573’, in modern morocco gilt. Compiled by, and in the hand of, Robert Glover (1543/4-88), Somerset Herald. 1573.
This MS recorded in Smith, V, xii.
LeJ 43
Extracts, headed ‘Ex Collectaneis Joh. Leland: MS.’, with references to ‘47v. vol. 2.’ and ‘Vol. 1. fol.’ respectively.
In: An octavo notebook of extracts, in a single small cursive hand, 139 leaves, in modern half-calf gilt. Volume XXIX of the collections of White Kennett (1660-1728), Bishop of Peterborough, historian. c.1700.
Transcribed either from a lost volume of the Collectanea or partly from a MS of Part II of the Itinerary.
This MS recorded in Smith, V, xiii-xiv.
LeJ 44
Extracts, headed ‘Leland. Collect. vol. 1. p. 132, 133’, on one side of a folio leaf.
In: A folio partly composite miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly on affairs of state, in a single closely written hand (up to f. 294v) but for a second hand on ff. 220v-31v, a third hand on ff. 315r, 316r-25. 325 leaves (plus blanks), in quarter-vellum. Early 18th century.
This MS recorded in Smith, V, xiv.
LeJ 45
Extracts taken from Hearne's edition, headed ‘E Joannis Lelandi Antiquani de Rebus Britan. Collectaneiis, Edit. pr Tho. Hearn. A: M. Oxon’, from Volumes I, III and IV respectively.
In: A duodecimo notebook of historical, topographical and antiquarian collections, in probably three cursive hands, written from both ends, 81 leaves, in contemporary calf. Late 17th-early 18th century.
Inscribed (inside the front cover) ‘Ex Dono Caroli Stanhope filij vnici Arthuri Stanhope de East Stoat Comitatu Nottinghamiæ et Collegij Mertonensis generosi Comensatis Anno Dni 1667’: ‘i.e’. Charles Stanhope (1655-1711/12), of Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire. Also inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Gowin Knight’.
This MS recorded in Smith, V, xiv.
LeJ 46
Extracts, in a mixed hand, headed ‘Archiva A Lelandi Collectanea / vol. 4. in fol. / vol. 7. in 4o’, transcribed from Leland's autograph MS in the Bodleian Library.
In: A folio composite volume of ecclesiastical papers, in various hands, 831 pages, in modern half-calf marbled boards. Compiled by Henry Wharton (1664-95).
Among collections of Henry Wharton (1664-94), William Sancroft's chaplain (in 1688-9).
LeJ 47
Extracts in Latin from the Life of St Winifred by Robert, Prior of Shrewsbury, inscribed in the margin as having been transcribed from Leland's MS [of the Collectanea] in ‘Bibliotheca Bod:leianâ Oxonij existente’.
In: A folio volume of extracts from antiquarian collections, largely in one neat mixed hand, vii + 52 leaves (plus thirty blanks), in contemporary calf. From the library of the Mostyn family, of Mostyn Hall, Flintshire, and Gloddaeth, Denbighshire, whose notable book and manuscript collectors included Sir Thomas Mostyn (1651-1700?) and his grandson Sir Thomas Mostyn, fourth Baronet (1704-58). Formerly Mostyn MS 255. Bookplate of Thomas Mostyn, 1744, inscribed ‘No. 34’. Sotheby's, 13 July 1920 (Mostyn sale), lot 70, to Backhouse. Christie's, 24 October 1974 (Mostyn sale). Mid-late 17th century.
Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 360.
LeJ 47.5
Copy of ‘Walford's’ roll of arms, transcribed from LeJ 16 (first volume).
In: A folio volume, entitled A booke of Armes in ordenaries made in the time of King Edw. 3: comonly called Jenninges his booke, of one Tho: Jenninges the first discoverer thereof in the beginning of the raigne of Queene Elizabeth, in one or more cursive secretary hands, partly in double columns, with an index at the end, vi + 42 leaves (plus three loosly inserted leaves and some blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. Partly compiled or owned by Sir Simon Archer (1581-1662), magistrate and antiquary, of Tanworth, Warwickshire, whose arms are stamped on the front cover.
Inscribed ‘Liber Willemi Burton Lindlisci Leicestrensis socij Interioris Templi Londoni: 1609’i.e. William Burton (1575-1645), Leicestershire antiquary, of the Inner Temple.
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, DR 37/3/44, ff. [20v-1r] cols 44-7.
LeJ 48
An index of Leland's sources for his Collectanea, probably compiled by Thomas Gale (1635?-1702), Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge, Dean of York, antiquary, c.200 folio leaves. Late 17th century.
LeJ 49
Copy of a portion of the Collectanea, transcribed from Leland's autograph MS (LeJ 17), with annotations in a different ink, followed by various extracts from the Collectanea in another hand, with an index at the end.
In: Copy of parts of the Collectanea, c.300 folio leaves. Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Ex quibusdam Collectionibus Joh. Lelandi penes Henr. St George Eg. Aur. Regem Armorum cognom: Norroy Ao. 1677’. c.1677.
Trinity College, Cambridge, MS O. 10. 25 (James 1477), ff. 1r-25r et passim.
LeJ 49.5
Copy, in a single neat hand, 347 pages (on rectos only, plus blanks), in a stiff paper wrapper, inscribed on the front ‘Extracts from Leland's Collectanea’. Entirely in the hand of Charles Mellish, MP (1737-97), politician and antiquary, of Badsworth Hall and Blyth, Yorkshire. Mid-late 18th century.
—— Antiquitates Britanniae
See LeJ 12-14.
Commentarii de scriptoribus Britannicis
First published in Oxford, 1709, ed. A. Hall, 2 vols. Edited, as De uiris illustribus/ On Famous Men, with an English translation, by James P. Carley, assisted by Caroline Brett (Oxford, 2010).
See also LeJ 98.
*LeJ 50
Autograph, xx + 388 folio pages. Entitled c.1612 by William Burton (1575-1645), Leicestershire antiquary, ‘De Scriptoribus Illustribus Britanniae’. c.1545.
Edited from this MS in Hall's edition. Facsimile of p. 198 of the MS in Theodore Besterman, The Beginnings of Systematic Bibliography, 2nd edition (London, 1936), facing p. 20. Edited from this MS, with numerous facsimile examples. in Carley's edition.
LeJ 51
Exemplum of the edition of 1709 with annotations in the hand of Thomas Hearne collating the printed text to p. 132 with Leland's autograph MS. c.1709-16.
LeJ 52
Extracts transcribed from Leland's autograph, dated in a different dand at the top of the first leaf 25 November 1644.
In: the MS described under LeJ 36. c.1644-55.
LeJ 53
Copy, in two hands, with additions and indexes by Thomas Gale (1635/6-1702), Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge, Dean of York, antiquary, 242 folio leaves (plus index and interleaves), bound in two volumes. Late 17th century.
De Viris Illustribus
See LeJ 50-53.
The Itinerary of John Leland
First published in Oxford, 1710-12, ed. Thomas Hearne, 9 vols.
*LeJ 54
Autograph MS, bound in eight quarto volumes, somewhat disordered and imperfect, c.715 leaves (plus blanks). c.1540-45.
Owned (probably by 1598) by William Burton (1575-1645), Leicestershire antiquary, whose annotations appear in the MSS, and who donated them to the Bodleian in 1632 and 1642-3.
Edited from these MSS in Smith. A facsimile example in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XXIII, p. 300.
*LeJ 55
Autograph of several passages belonging to the Itinerary.
In: the MS described under LeJ 16. c.1545.
This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxx. Edited III, 127; IV, 164 et seq.
Bodleian, MS Top. gen. c. 1-3, Vol. III, pp. 96-8, 107, 117-24, 149-52, et passim.
*LeJ 56
Autograph fragment, comprising three pages of text on two quarto leaves taken from one of Leland's MS volumes of the Itinerary, beginning ‘I redde yn an olde booke of Rameley that such a yere dyed Thomas Broyerton Edward the firstes sune...’. c.1535-43.
In: A folio composite volume of state and antiquarian papers, in various hands, a list of contents (f. 1r-v) in the hand of William Dugdale, 276 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
Edited from this MS in Smith, I, 327-9.
—— [Stow transcript]
LeJ 57
Quarto volumes containing a copy of the Itinerary in ten parts, transcribed from Leland's autograph MS (LeJ 54) by John Stow (1525?-1605), entitled ‘Comentaria Angliae John Layland’, 189 leaves, 126 leaves, and 148 leaves respectively. c.1576.
This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxii-xxiv.
LeJ 58
Copy, transcribed from John Stow's transcript (LeJ 57) by Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt (1591/2-1667), antiquary, headed ‘Comentarij Angliæ John Leyland. 1542. of late written by Jon Stow Ano Dni 1576’, incomplete.
In: the MS described under LeJ 24. c.1638-67.
This MS recorded in Smith, III, vi (n).
National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 273 C (1), pp. 361-741.
LeJ 59
Copy of part of the fifth volume of Leland's autograph MS, in a mixed hand, transcribed from Stow's transcript (LeJ 57), headed ‘Comentarij Anglia 4. bookes by Jon Laylande written by John Stow in Anno. 1576. Collegis in Kent’, 150 small folio pages, imperfect, in modern quarter-calf. Transcribed for Robert Vaughan (1592?-1667) of Hengwrt. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Smith, III, vi (n).
—— [Burton transcript]
LeJ 60
Burton's copy of five ‘parts’.
In: the MS described under LeJ 25. [1628-41].
This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxv.
LeJ 61
Copy in: Copy of five ‘parts’ of Leland's The Itinerary, iii + 127 folio leaves. Transcribed from Leland's autograph MS (LeJ 54) for William Burton and presented by him to the Bodleian. c.1632.
This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxvi.
LeJ 62
Copy of five ‘parts’, transcribed from William Burton's scribal transcript (LeJ 61).
In: Copy of Leland's The Itinerary, in two hands, iv + 804 folio pages. Late 17th-early 18th century.
Among the collections of Richard Gough, FSA (1735-1809), antiquary and topographer
This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxix.
—— [Dugdale transcript]
LeJ 63
Copy of nine ‘books’, in Hawarth's hand, entitled in red ink (f. 8v) ‘Johis Lelandi Itinerarium’, a list of contents (f. 2r); in another neat hand, a formal title-page (f. 3r), Latin verses (f. 3v), and Latin verses on Leland by John Bale and John Pitts (f. 8r); ff. 263r-323r comprising ‘Divers Passages omitted in the Copy in the Oxford Library transcribed out of Stows Copy in the Custody of Mr Robert Vaughan of Henwrt in Merioneth’; with (ff. 260r-2v) a copy of William Dugdale's index dated 15 July 1657.
In: A large folio volume comprising works principally by John Leland, almost all in the formal roman hand of Sir William Haward, FRS (c.1617-1704), of Tandridge Hall, Surrey, courtier and antiquarye, with light rubrication, 323 large folio leaves (plus blanks), in remains of contemporary calf gilt within modern half morocco gilt. c.1658-67.
This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxviii-xxix.
LeJ 64
Copy of seven ‘parts’ of ‘Itinerarium Johis Lelandi inceptum Ao D. Mo. Doxxxviijo 30o Henr: viij’, in the neat italic hand of an amanuensis of Sir William Dugdale (1606-86), antiquary and herald, the index at the end (pp. [505-12]) and volume title in Dugdale's hand, signed and dated by him ‘15o Julij Ao 1657’, 512 folio pages, in a contemporary vellum wrapper within later reversed calf. c.1642-57.
Among the papers of the Hatton family, formerly of Holdenby and Kirby Hall, Northamptonshire.
This MS recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 31.
LeJ 65
A folio copy of seven ‘books’, in a professional predominanyly italic hand, headed ‘Itinerarium Johis Lelandi inceptum Ao D. Mo. Do. XXXviijo. 30o. Henr: viij’, 261 leaves, in mottled calf bearing the name Robert Harley in gilt on each cover. With an index (ff. 254r-61r), in a neat professional italic hand, headed ‘Index hujus voluminis compositus per me Willielmum Dugdale 15o Iulij. Ao. 1657’. This MS transcribed from LeJ 54 or from one of the transcripts of William Dugdale (1605-86), antiquary and herald (i.e.LeJ 63 or LeJ 64) and possibly made for Dugdale. c.1657.
This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxix.
LeJ 66
Copy of seven ‘parts’, in a single professional hand, xviii + 504 large folio pages, plus Dugdale's fifteen-page index in his hand and some blanks, in contemporary calf. A note (p. [xiv]) by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector, states that this MS of The Itinerary‘was copied from a Manuscript thereof belonging to Robert Harley Esq [? LeJ 65], & was examined therwith by me, wherein I observed these following matters....’, the MS exemplar being ‘not very intelligible in many places’. 2nd half 17th century.
—— [Other transcripts and extracts]
LeJ 67
Copy of most of the first three volumes of Leland's autograph MS, transcribed by Thomas Gale (1635/6-1702), Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge, Dean of York, antiquary, 198 folio leaves. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxix.
LeJ 68
Copy of most of the first four volumes of Leland's autograph MS, transcribed by Browne Willis (1682-1760), antiquary, while at Christ Church, Oxford, in May 1704. 1704.
This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxix-xxx.
LeJ 69
Extracts.
In: A volume of antiquarian collections concerning Lichfield, 450 pages (pp. 250-450 chiefly blank), in contemporary mottled calf. Compiled by Elias Ashmole (1617-92). Mid-late 17th century.
LeJ 70
Extracts from seven ‘books’, headed ‘8. Oct 1659 / Seuerall things excerpted out of John Lelands Itinerary; otherwise called his Collectanea’, followed (pp. 402-7) by Ashmole's attempt to draw up ‘John Leilands Journies through England, extracted out of his Itinerary’. October 1659.
In: A folio volume of antiquarian tracts and papers, x + 571 pages (including blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, with metal clasps.
Volume VII of twelve volumes of collections made by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxix.
LeJ 71
Copy of part of the fourth volume of Leland's autograph MS, in one or more secretary hands. Early 17th century.
In: the MS described under LeJ 34.
LeJ 72
Copy of the pedigree of the Tregoz family taken ‘Ex Itenerario Johannis Lelandi’.
In: A folio volume of heraldic and genealogical collections, in several hands, 276 leaves (eight leaves excised), in contemporary vellum. Compiled by Sir Richard St George (c.1555-1635). c.1586-1619.
LeJ 73
Part of a transcript of Leland's autograph MS made by Thomas Hearne, on a series of quarto and folio leaves paginated (but lacking numerous leaves) 5-44 and 217-[531].
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous historical papers, in various hands, c.300 leaves, in 18th-century half-calf.
Assembled by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary.
LeJ 74
Copy of a list of monastic houses in England, ‘abstracted chiefly from Leland's Itinerary’, in a secretary hand, with corrections and additions in another hand, on 41 quarto leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Late 16th century.
Scribbling on f. 1r including names ‘Foster Anthonius’ and ‘Bartholomew Weekes’. Once owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary.
LeJ 74.5
A transcript of Thomas Hearne's nine-volume edition of 1710-12. 18th century.
LeJ 75
Fragment of a copy of the Itinerary.
In: A large folio composite volume of collections relating to Devon, ii + 161 leaves. Assembled by Jeremiah Milles (1714-84), Dean of Exeter.
LeJ 76
Extracts from the Itinerary Vols 2, 5 and 6, concerning Gloucestershire, made by the Rev. Richard Furney (d.1753), Archdeacon of Surrey.
In: A folio composite volume of collections relating to Gloucester, in various hands and paper sizes, vii + 397 leaves (including some blanks), in half-reversed calf marbled boards.
LeJ 77
Extracts from the Itinerary relating to Gloucestershire, probably transcribed from Hearne's edition. Mid-18th century.
In: A large folio guardbook of miscellaneous papers relating to Gloucestershire, in various hands, i + 65 leaves.
LeJ 78
Extracts, headed ‘Several things excerpted out of John Lelands Itinerary; otherwise called his Collectanea’, transcribed from Ashmole MSS in the Bodleian Library.
In: A small quarto volume of collections relating to Shropshire, in a single hand, with indexes, 59 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum boards. Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘June ye 5th W M. 1733’: i.e. by William Mytton (1693-1746), of Halston, Shropshire, Rector of Habberley, antiquary. c.1733-42.
Sotheby's, 2 May 1877. Item 22 in an unidentified sale catalogue.
LeJ 79
Extracts from Part II transcribed by Francis Thynne, Lancaster Herald (1545?-1608) (ff. 67v-87v); 17 December 1589; with a few other miscellaneous notes from the Itinerary (ff. 179v, 199v-201).
In: the MS described under LeJ 21.
This MS recorded in Smith, V, xii.
British Library, Cotton MS Cleopatra C. III, ff. 67v-87v, 179v, 199v-201.
LeJ 80
Copy of Part I, with a few other extracts in another hand.
In: the MS described under LeJ 12. c.1535-45.
This MS recorded in Smith, V, xii.
British Library, Cotton MS Julius C. VI, ff. 192-232, and passim after f. 90.
LeJ 81
A folio volume of extracts from the Itinerary arranged according to the counties of England and Wales. Late 16th-early 17th century.
Later owned by Edward Stillingfleet (1635-99), Bishop of Worcester.
This MS recorded in Smith, V, xii-xiii.
LeJ 82
Extracts from the Itinerary, in double columns, headed ‘Ex Comentarijs Angliæ, Johannis Laylandi’.
In: the MS described under LeJ 42. 1573.
This MS recorded in Smith, V, xii.
LeJ 83
List of names of counties and towns along Leland's routes and, in another hand, an extract concerning the Priory of Snelleshall, Staunford, &c.
In: A folio composite volume of MSS.
This MS recorded in Smith, V, xiii.
LeJ 84
Substantial extracts, chiefly relating to Huntingdonshire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire, in several hands, headed ‘The Itinerary of John Leiland the famous Antiquarie Begun An. 1538 30th Hen: 8’. Late 17th century.
In: A quarto composite volume of MSS, in several hands, 190 leaves, in modern leather gilt. Volume VI of the miscellaneous historical collections of White Kennett (1660-1728), Bishop of Peterborough, historian. 17th century.
This MS recorded in Smith, V, xiii.
LeJ 84.2
Copy of a series of extracts relating to North Wales, made by Richard Fenton (1747-1821), topographical writer and antiquary, 57 quarto leaves (plus blanks), on rectos only, in vellum boards. c.1800.
LeJ 84.5
Copy of a further series of extracts relating to Wales, made by Richard Fenton (1747-1821), topographical writer and antiquary, 94 quarto leaves (plus blanks), on rectos only, in vellum boards. c.1800.
LeJ 84.8
Extracts, headed ‘From ye Itinerary of John Leland. vol. 1. published by John Hearne. 8o. Oxf. 1710’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in Latin and English, in several hands, 147 leaves (plus blanks), in half calf on marbled boards. c.1720s.
Once owned by Radley Aynscough (d.1727/8), chaplain, fellow of Manchester Collegiate Church, and, according to an inscription, ‘Formerly belonging to, and most probably written by the Rev Baldwin, of Bunwell, Norfolk’.
LeJ 85
Extracts, in a mixed hand, headed ‘Collectanea Lelandi. 4o. vol. 2’, transcribed from Leland's autograph MS in the Bodleian Library.
In: the MS described under LeJ 46.
LeJ 86
Extracts relating to Pontefract, transcribed by Richard Frank (1698-1762), Yorkshire antiquary, from the papers of Nathaniel Johnston (1629?-1705), political theorist and antiquary, of Pontefract, and dated 1752.
In: A folio volume of antiquarian collections, in two or more hands, c.350 pages (including blanks), in vellum boards. c.1752.
Formerly BF. B. 3. From the Bacon Frank papers, of Campsall Hall, Yorkshire.
Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 448.
LeJ 87
Copy of part of the Itinerary relating to Wales, untitled, inscribed in the margin as having been transcribed from Leland's MS [of the Collectanea] in ‘Bibliotheca Bod:leianæ Oxonij existente’.
In: the MS described under LeJ 47. Mid-late 17th century.
National Library of Wales, NLW MS 21246 D, ff. viir, 1r-42r.
LeJ 87.2
Copy of substantial parts of Leland's autograph MS (LeJ 54), largely in a neat secretary hand, the dedication ‘To my Soverayne Leige king Henry the eight’ in another secretary hand, i + 71 quarto leaves (plus blanks at the end), in contemporary limp vellum, inscribed on the cover ‘Lelands Itinerary’. Written or compiled by Sir Simon Archer (1581-1662), magistrate and antiquary, of Tanworth, Warwickshire. c.1628.
LeJ 87.5
A folio composite volume, largely a copy of substantial parts of The Itinerary, partly from Leland's autograph MS (LeJ 54), partly from a MS once in the custody of John Hales, MP (1516?-72), of Coventry, in two or more secretary hands, 138 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary limp vellum, inscribed on the cover ‘A copy of some of Lelandes Antiquityes’. Written or compiled by Sir Simon Archer (1581-1662), magistrate and antiquary, of Tanworth, Warwickshire. Late 16th century - 1640.
Some scribbling including the names ‘Johannes Rowse of Faye’ and ‘William Barsewell’.
LeJ 87.8
Extensive extracts from Books I and II, in two cursive hands, headed in Warburton's hand ‘Leland's Itinerary for Corwall’. Early-mid-18th century.
In: A tall folio composite volume of miscellaneous antiquarian documents and extracts, both manuscript and printed, relating to Cornwall, in various hands and paper sizes, iii + 101 leaves, in 18th-century half-calf. Collected by John Warburton, FSA (1682-1759), Somerset Herald and antiquary.
Presented by John Evans, DCL, President of the Society of Antiquaries, 2 December 1886.
LeJ 88
Extracts.
In: the MS described under LeJ 49. c.1677.
Trinity College, Cambridge, MS O. 10. 25 (James 1477), passim.
LeJ 88.5
Extracts, transcribed, or derived from, the ‘Leland MS. in Bodleys Library at Oxford’.
In: A folio commonplace book, in English, Latin and Italian, in several hands, arranged under headings in double columns, 558 pages, in half-morocco. Compiled in part by Richard Symonds (1617-after 1692?), antiquary and genealogist, of Black Notley, Essex. Late 17th-early 18th century.
Later owned by Evelyn Philip Shirley (1812-82), of Ettington Hall, Warwickshire. Later in the library of W.A. Foyle (1885-1963), bookseller, of Beeleigh Abbey, Essex. Christie's, 12 July 2000 (Foyle sale, Part III), lot 328.
Untraced, [Symonds commonplace book], [unspecified page numbers].
LeJ 89
Copy of part of the Itinerary relating to Kent, in a composite volume of MSS chiefly concerning Kent. 18th century?
Formerly MS XXXI (item 4) in the library of the Towneley family of Towneley Hall, near Burnley, Lancashire.
Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 412.
LeJ 89.5
Extracts, headed ‘A Transcript of Leland's Itinerary for Lancashire and Yorkshire; from a Copy taken 1658, and courteously communicated to me, An. 1696, by his Grace my Lord Archbishop of Yorke’, in a quarto volume of ‘Miscellanies’. c.1658-96.
Owned, and probably compiled, by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer. Bought by ‘G. S.’ at the sale of Thoresby's musem in London, 1764.
Recorded in Thoresby's Ducatus Leodiensis, 2nd edition, ed. T. D. Whitaker (Leeds, 1816), p. 88, No. 179.
The Laboryouse Journey and Serche of Johan Leylande for Englandes Antiquitees
First published in London, 1549, ed. John Bale.
*LeJ 90
Autograph, untitled.
In: the MS described under LeJ 16. c.1545.
Edited from this MS in Smith, I, xxxvii-xliii.
LeJ 91
Copy, transcribed by Burton from Leland's autograph MS.
In: the MS described under LeJ 25. [1628-41].
This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxv.
LeJ 93
Copy, transcribed from LeJ 92.
In: the MS described under LeJ 62. Late 17th-early 18th century.
This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxix.
LeJ 93.5
A copy of John Bale's edition made by Thomas Hearne.
In: A quarto miscellaneous collection of antiquarian materials in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary, 98 leaves. Early 18th century.
LeJ 94
Copy, in Haward's hand, headed ‘Iohn Leylands new-yeres-gyft, giuen of him to King Henry ye. 8th in ye. 37th yeere of his Reigne, concerning his laborious Iorney, & search for Englands Antiquities’.
In: the MS described under LeJ 63. c.1658-67.
LeJ 94.5
A printed exemplum, with a missing word near the top of sig. F6v supplied in John Bale's hand. 1549.
See W.W. Greg, ‘Pen-and-Ink Corrections’, RES, 7 (1931), 337.
LeJ 94.8
A printed exemplum, with a missing word near the top of sig. F6v supplied in John Bale's hand. 1549.
See W.W. Greg, ‘Pen-and-Ink Corrections’, RES, 7 (1931), 337.
LeJ 95
Copy, headed ‘John Leyland's New years Gift, given of him to King Henry the VIII. in the 37.year of his Reigne concerning his laborious Journey and search for Englands Antiquities’.
In: A folio volume chiefly of Acts of Parliament from 1483 to 1546, in a single rounded hand, 349 leaves, in brown morocco gilt. Compiled by William Petyt (1640/1-1707), lawyer and political propagandist. Late 17th century-1700s.
LeJ 95.5
Copy of the work as enlarged by John Bale, in the predominantly secretary hand of Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt (1592?-1667), with a formal title-page in italic in red ink, a dedicatory epistle to Prince Edward (pp. 145-9), one by Bale to the Reader (p. 149), a Preface (pp. 150-5), and The conclusion (pp. 175-84) followed by a related register of names (pp. 185-93). Early-mid-17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of antiquarian and state tracts and papers, in various hands, 264 pages, in a contemporary vellum wrapper within modern quarter red morocco. Partly in the hand of Robert Vaughan (1591/2-1667) of Hengwrt, antiquary.
Tabula librorum de historiis antiquitatum ac diuinitate tractancium in librariis et domibus religiosis
See LeJ 19.
Marginalia in Printed Books and Manuscripts
The Four Gospels
See LeJ 3.
Giraldus Cambrensis. De instructione principium
*LeJ 96
Copy in: 14th century MS with Leland's autograph annotations.
This probably the MS referred to in John Bale, Index Britanniae scriptorum, ed. R. Lane Poole and M. Bateson (Oxford, 1902), p. 425.
Homer's Iliad: Latin translation by L. Valla (Cologne, 1522)
Vitae illustrium virorum
See also LeJ 50.
*LeJ 98
An autograph note by Leland comparing Plutarch and Sulpicius Severus as biographers. On f. iiv, headed ‘Carmen Joannis Leylandi Londinensis’, in an early 13th-century MS on parchment of lives of saints entitled by Leland ‘Vitae illustrium virorum’, ii + 289 folio leaves in all, bound for Henry VIII. c.1528-43.
Presented to the Bodleian in 1604 by Charles Howard (1536-1624), second Baron Howard of Effingham and first Earl of Nottingham, naval commander.
Letters and Documents
Letter(s)
*LeJ 99
Autograph letter signed by Leland, to Cardinal Wolsey, 19 January [c.1522]. c.1522.
In: A double-folio guardbook of miscellaneous historical documents, in various hands, 70 leaves of various sizes.
Later owned by Frederic Ouvry (1814-81), antiquary and lawyer.
*LeJ 100
Autograph letter signed by Leland, to Thomas Cromwell, 25 January 1536/7.
Edited in Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic of Henry VIII, Vol. XII, part 1 (1890), No. 230.
Document(s)
*LeJ 101
An official document signed by Leland, 20 May 1545.
Recorded in Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic of Henry VIII, Vol. XX, part 1 (1905), No. 776.