Verse
Anthenors Item, to all young Gentlemen (‘The reckless race of youth's inconstant course’)
First published in Euphves Shadow, The Battaile of the Sences (London, 1592). EV 23951.
See also LoT 12.
LoT 0.5
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, in an accomplished mixed hand throughout, with headings or incipts in engrossed lettering, 194 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. c.1596-1601.
This MS volume discussed in Katherine K. Gottschalk, ‘Discoveries concerning British Library MS Harley 6910’, MP, 77 (1979-80), 121-31.
‘First shall the heauens want starrie light’
First published in Rosalynde. Euphues golden legacie (London, 1590). Gosse, I (Rosalynde, p. 38).
LoT 1
Copy, headed ‘A Sonet of Constant assurance to his Mrs’.
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 Described, with facsimiles of ff. 30r and 56v, in T.G.S. Cain, ‘The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems’, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70.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. 60v.
An Ode (‘Now I find thy lookes were fained’)
First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Phillis: Honoured with Pastorall Sonnets, Elegies, and amorous delights (London, 1593). Gosse, II, (p. 58). The song-version beginning ‘Now I see thy looks were feigned’ first published in Thomas Ford, Musicke of Sundrie Kindes (London, 1607).
LoT 2
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled and here beginning ‘Nowe I see thy lookes were fayned’.
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).
LoT 2.5
Copy, in a musical setting by Thomas Ford, here beginning ‘Now I see thy looks were feigned’.
In: An oblong folio songbook of glees and madrigals, chiefly written by the composer Philip Hayes (1738-97), 78 leaves. Mid-late 18th century.
LoT 3
Copy, in a musical setting by John Ford, here beginning ‘Now I see thy looks were feigned’.
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).
This MS collated in John P. Cutts, Bishop Smith's Part-Song Books in Carlisle Cathedral Library (American Institute of Musicology, 1972), p. 61.
LoT 4
Copy, here beginning ‘Now I see thy Loue is fained’.
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.
LoT 5
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled and here beginning ‘Now I see thy looks were fained’.
In: An oblong quarto book of mainly vocal music, the lyrics in several largely secretary hands, one predominating, 90 pages (including blanks), in contemporary brown calf, both covers stamped in gilt ‘I S’. Inscribed several times ‘John Squyer’, probably the compiler. Mid-17th century.
Also inscribed (p. 1) ‘Ane Cattologue of books 1700’, and (p. 25) ‘Joanne Squier’. Owned by David Laing in June 1855.
LoT 6
Copy, headed ‘A Song’ and here beginning ‘Now I see thy lookes are fained’.
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.
LoT 7
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled and here beginning ‘Now I sie thy lookes wer fainzied’.
In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics in two or more secretary and italic hands, iv + 43 leaves, in modern quarter-calf. Inscribed (f. 31r) ‘MAY 1639’ and ‘Williane Stirling’. A long note (f. iir) in the hand of John Leyden (1775-1811), linguist and poet, dated 5 March 1800, recording his purchase of the MS in 1788 from the library of the Rev. Mr Cranstow, minister of Ancrum; his lending it to Alexander Campbell in 1795 and retrieving it in December 1799; and his now consigning it to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. c.1639.
A complete facsimile of this volume is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 11 (New York & London, 1987).
Edited from this MS in Nelly Diem, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Schottischen Musik im XVII. Jahrhundert (Zürich & Leipzig, 1919), pp. 99-100.
LoT 8
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled, here beginning ‘Now I sie thy lucks ar fained’.
In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics in a single secretary hand, 30 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum gilt, with modern ties. c.1630.
Inscribed inside the front cover ‘Ro Carre of Ferniehurst (1669)’, later fourth Lord Jedburgh. Initials ‘L. A. K.’ stamped on the cover possibly denoting his wife, Lady Ann Ker.
LoT 8.5
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Now I see thy looks ar fained’.
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.
LoT 9
Copy, headed ‘A songe’ and here beginning ‘Now I see thy lookes were fained’.
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).
Phoebes Sonnet a replie to Montanus passion (‘Downe a downe: / Thus Phillis sung’)
First published in Rosalynde. Euphues golden legacie (London, 1590). Gosse, I (Rosalynde, p. 47). The musical setting first published in Francis Pilkington, The First Booke of Bongs or Ayres (London, 1605). EV 18870.
LoT 10
Copies, in a musical setting by Francis Pilkington.
In: A set of four oblong quarto music part books (Cantus, Quintus, Altus, Tenor and Bassus), including verses, ranging from 24 to 30 leaves each, in half-red calf marbled boards. Compiled chiefly by Thomas Hamond (d.1662), of Cressners, in the parish of Hawkdons, Suffolk. c.1630s.
Also inscribed ‘Marie Hammond’.
This MS collated in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 539.
Bodleian, MS Mus. f. 7-10, (i) fol. 22r; (ii) fol. 18v; (iii) fol. 21v; (iv) fol. 24r.
Prose
The Divel coniured
First published in London, 1596. Gosse, Vol. III.
LoT 11
Extracts.
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.
Euphves Shadow, The Battaile of the Sences
First published in London, 1592. Gosse, Vol. II.
See also LoT 0.5.
LoT 12
Extracts.
In: A tall folio miscellany of extracts from prose romances, 56 leaves (including blanks), largely written on rectos only, in modern half morocco on cloth boards. c.1600.
Note stating this MS was lent to Sidney Lee (1859-1926), literary scholar, by James Lee.
The Poore Mans Talentt
A medical handbook, in twelve chapters, with a dedicatory epistle to Lady Anne, Countess of Arundel. First published in Gosse, Vol. IV (1883).
LoT 13
Copy of Lodge's medical handbook, in a professional secretary and italic hand, with a dedicatory epistle ‘To the Right Honorable my very good Ladie the ladie Ann Mother Countesse of Arundell’, on 65 quarto leaves, ff. 65v-7v containing additional receipts in two other hands, a quarto, originally in contemporary calf gilt (now detached) and rebound in modern half-morocco on cloth boards. Probably a presentation copy to the dedicatee, the original covers bearing the Norfolk arms in gilt. c.1623.
Signed (f. [iiir]) by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who notes (f. [iiv]) ‘This MS. I bought at the sale of the books of the late Duke of Norfolk’. Bookplate of Henry Charles Howard, of Greystock, Cumberland.
Edited from this MS in Gosse, with a facsimile of the dedicatory epistle, which he mistakenly believed to be autograph.
LoT 14
Copy, with a dedicatory epistle, and with four leaves of additional receipts (ff. 32-5) as in LoT 13.
In: Volume of medical treatises and prescriptions. c.1623?.
The text followed on ff. 36-94 by miscellaneous medical works in the same hand (all unpublished) conceivably also by Lodge.
Rosalynde. Euphues Golden Legacie
First published in London, 1590. Gosse, Vol. I, last item.
LoT 15.5
Extracts of verse, beginning ‘Of all chaste birds the Phoenix doth excel’.
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.
Gosse, I, p. 27.
The Workes of L.A. Seneca both morrall and naturall
First published in London, 1614.
LoT 16
Extracts from Lodge's translation, headed ‘Ex Seneca obseruat’, on 23 leaves.
In: An octavo commonplace book, in English and Latin, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 152 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1659.
Owned by William Drake (1606-69) of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. 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).
Dramatic works
A Looking Glasse for London and England
See GrR 8.
Books and Manuscripts Owned by Lodge
Doutrina Christãa na lingoa Brasilica
LoT 17
A quarto manuscript of a catechism of Christian doctrine, in the Tupi-Guarini language of Brazil, with Portuguese rubrics, composed by a Jesuit missionary, written in double columns, ii + 109 leaves, inscribed ‘Ex dono Thomæ Lodge D.M. Oxoniensis, qui sua manu e Brasilia deduxit’. Acquired by Lodge at Santos in 1591 when he sailed with Thomas Cavendish to Brazil. Donated by him to the Bodleian Library probably when he was incorporated M.D. at Oxford in 1602. Late 16th century.
Recorded in Eccles, p. 81. Facsimile of the title-page in The Last Voyage of Thomas Cavendish 1591-1592, ed. David Beers Quinn (Chicago, 1975), p. 22.
Letters
Letter(s)
*LoT 18
Autograph letter signed by Lodge, to William Trumbull, 13 April 1607. 1607.
In: A composite folio volume of official letters and papers of William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), English Resident at Brussels, in various hands, 1605-8, 182 leaves. Volume XCVI of the Trumbull Papers.
HMC, [75], Downshire, II (1936), pp. 24-5. Facsimile in Sotheby's sale catalogue The Trumbull Papers, 14 December 1989, lot 26, p. 62.
*LoT 19
Autograph letter signed by Lodge, to William Trumbull, 23 April 1607. 1607.
In: the MS described under LoT 18.
HMC, [75], Downshire, II (1936), p. 94.
*LoT 20
Autograph letter signed by Lodge, to William Trumbull, 20 February 1608/9. 1609.
In: the MS described under LoT 18.
Facsimile example in Sotheby's sale catalogue The Trumbull Papers, 14 December 1989, lot 26, p. 65.
*LoT 21
Autograph letter signed by Lodge, to William Trumbull, 25 February 1608/9. 1609.
In: A composite folio volume of official letters and papers of William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), English Resident at Brussels, in various hands, 1608-9, 169 leaves. Volume XCVII of the Trumbull Papers.
HMC, [75], Downshire, II (1936), pp. 249-50 (misdated 23 February 1609/10).
*LoT 22
Autograph letter signed by Lodge, to William Trumbull, 20 April 1609. 1609.
In: the MS described under LoT 21.
HMC, [75], Downshire, II (1936), pp. 92-4.
*LoT 23
Autograph letter signed by Lodge, to William Trumbull, 2 July 1609. 1609.
In: the MS described under LoT 21.
HMC, [75], Downshire, II (1936), pp. 112-13.
*LoT 24
Autograph letter signed by Lodge, to William Trumbull, 12 July 1609. 1609.
In: the MS described under LoT 21.
HMC, [75], Downshire, II (1936), pp. 114-15.
*LoT 25
Autograph letter signed by Lodge, to William Trumbull, 21 September 1609. 1609.
In: the MS described under LoT 21.
HMC, [75], Downshire, II (1936), p. 140. Edited in Houppert, p. 122.
*LoT 26
Autograph letter signed by Lodge, to William Trumbull, 22 November 1609. 1609.
In: the MS described under LoT 21.
HMC, [75], Downshire, II (1936), pp. 189-90. Edited in Houppert, pp. 121-2.
*LoT 27
Autograph letter signed by Lodge, to Sir Thomas Edmondes, from London, 17 January 1610/11. 1611.
In: A folio composite volume of diplomatic letters and papers, 1609-11, in various hands, 396 leaves. Volume VI of the papers of Sir Thomas Edmondes (1592-1633), diplomat.
Facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XIX.
*LoT 28
Autograph letter signed by Lodge, to William Trumbull, 7 October 1613. 1613.
In: A composite folio volume of official letters and papers of William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), English Resident at Brussels, in various hands, 112 leaves. Volume CIII of the Trumbull Papers. 1613.
HMC, [75], Downshire, IV (1940), p. 215.
*LoT 29
Autograph letter signed by Lodge, to William Trumbull, concerning Lodge's edition of Seneca, 4 December 1617. 1617.
In: A composite folio volume of official letters and papers of William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), English Resident at Brussels, in various hands, 1617, 136 leaves. Volume CX of the Trumbull Papers. 1617.
HMC, 75, Downshire, VI (1995), p. 338.
LoT 30
A copy in Powle's hand of a letter, with a prescription, sent to him by Thomas Lodge, 20 August 1618. 1618.
In: A folio compendium or entry book of state letters and other documents and memoranda, in various secretary and italic hands, 231 leaves (including numerous blanks), in modern half-calf. Compiled over a period, and partly written, by Sir Stephen Powle (c.1553-1630), Clerk of the Crown.
Edited in N. Burton Paradise, Thomas Lodge: The History of an Elizabethan (New Haven, 1931), pp. 61-2.
LoT 31
Autograph letter signed by Lodge, to William Trumbull, 2 January 1621/2. 1622.
In: An unbound collection of letters sent to William Trumbull, Resident in Brussels, in various hands, 176 leaves, 1621-2. Trumbull Papers Vol. CXXII.