Verse
A Lover's Complaint (‘From off a hill whose concave womb reworded’)
First published in Sonnets (London, 1609). The poem is discussed and attributed to John Davies (1565?-1618) of Hereford in Brian Vickers, Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint, and John Davies of Hereford (Cambridge, 2007). The attribution disputed and debated in various subsequent letters to TLS (July-October 2007) and book reviews.
ShW 1
Copy of part of lines 41-2, here beginning ‘Of monarkes hands yt letts not bounty fall’, partly erased.
In: The detached cover of an octavo book, bearing inscriptions in a mixed hand, now enclosed in modern brown morocco. c.1620s-30s.
With a lengthy note by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.
The Passionate Pilgrim
The Rape of Lucrece (‘From the besieged Ardea all in post’)
First published in London, 1594.
ShW 2
Extracts, in a mixed hand, comprising lines 365-71, 386-99, 419-20, untitled, here beginning ‘Into ye chamber wickedly he stalkes’. 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.
ShW 2.3
Quotation from The Rape of Lucrece (line 1330: ‘For sorrow ebbs being blown with wind of words’).
In: A folio manuscript, comprising two works by William Scott, MP (c.1570-1612), the first (ff. 1r-50r), in a professional calligraphic italic hand, with corrections and alterations partly in Scott's own hand, entitled The Modell of Poesye Or The Arte of Poesye drawen into a short or Summary Discourse; the second (ff. 51r-76r), partly autograph and partly scribal, Scott's translation into English verse of part of Guillaume de Saluste, seigneur du Bartas's La Sepmaine ou Création du monde, imperfect. Including, besides quotations from poems, references to other works by Spenser and Samuel Daniel. c.1595-1600.
Formerly preserved at Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire, seat of the Lee family, Viscounts Dillon.
This MS discussed in Stanley Wells, ‘By the placing of his words’, TLS, 26 September 2003, pp. 14-15.
ShW 2.5
Copy of lines 386-95, headed ‘An imperfect coppy of Wil: Shackespeares’, here beginning ‘One of her hands one of her Cheeks lay vnder’ and followed by three other lines.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf. c.1713.
Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. 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.
This version appears in Sir John Suckling, Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646), pp. 29-30.
ShW 3
Copy of lines 869-82 and 897-924, in a cursive mixed hand, here beginning ‘Vnruly blastes waite on the tender Springe’, subscribed ‘Finis qd mr Shakespeare’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in possibly several hands, a cursive secretary hand predominating, ii + 77 leaves, imperfect, in contemporary limp vellum, within modern reversed calf. Owned and possibly compiled by Richard Waferer, of Buckinghamshire (name on ff. 43r and 76v). c.1597-1628.
Also inscribed (f. ii) with names of ‘Marth: Waferer’ and Walter Jesson.
This MS discussed in relation to a version of the poem printed in W.B., The Philosophers Banquet, 3rd edition (London, 1633) in Roland Mushat Frye, ‘Shakespeare's Composition of Lucrece: New Evidence’, SQ, 16 (1965), 289-96 (pp. 295-6); but a different view expressed in Hilton Kelliher's review in The Library.
ShW 4
Copy of lines 958-9, headed ‘On time’ and here beginning ‘It cheares ye plowman wth increasefull Crops’.
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.
ShW 5
Copy of line 1086 and part of line 1087, here given as ‘reuealing day through eyery Crany peepes and see’; written among other scribbling on an initial leaf.
In: A folio volume of state tracts and works associated with the Royal Court, in a single formal secretary hand except for an addition by a cursive secretary hand on p. 61 and subsequent scribbling on the first three pages, i + 90 pages, imperfect, all leaves damaged and lacking some text, all now in window mounts. c.1597.
Edited from this MS in Spedding (1870). A complete facsimile of the volume, with transcriptions, in Burgoyne, Alnwick MS.
Facsimile of this page also in William Shakespeare: A Documentary Volume, ed. Catherine Loomis, DLB, 263 (Detroit, 2002), p. 68.
Sonnets
First published in London, 1609. Second edition in Poems Written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. (London, 1640).
ShW 6
Three pages of miscellaneous quotations from the Sonnets (including items ShW 7, ShW 22, ShW 23, and ShW 27), headed ‘Shakespeare’.
In: A verse miscellany, much of it in shorthand, almost entirely closely written in a small cursive mixed hand, written from both ends, in contemporary calf with initials ‘E H’ in gilt. 16°, 87 leaves (plus two paste-downs); miscellany, including portions of some 42 identifiable English poems by Crashaw, many of the lines here re-arranged in a garbled fashion; compiled by a Cambridge man, possibly a member of Christ's College; probably in a single hand throughout, with variations of style, written from both ends, about thirty pages in shorthand. c.1650s.
Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90) of Walton Hall, near Wakefield, botanist and book collector. Sotheby's 23 April 1891 (Hailstone sale), probably lot 439, to Dobell). Bertram Dobell's sale catalogue No. 103 (June 1902), item 373. Formerly Folger MS 267.1.
Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Hailstone MS: CrR Δ 6. Crashaw's work selectively collated (cited as Dobell) in Martin and discussed p. lxxxi. Facsimile of f. 22 in Dobell catalogue. The MS discussed by Dobell, in other connections, in ‘Some Unpublished Epigrams by Thomas Fuller’, The Athenaeum (27 April 1901), p. 532, and in ‘An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet’, The Athenaeum (2 August 1913), p. 112. Compare CrR Δ 8.
This MS analysed in Tucker Brooke, pp. 68-9. Facsimile of f. 22 in Bertram Dobell sale catalogue, June 1902.
Sonnet 1 (‘From fairest creatures we desire increase’)
ShW 7
Copy of a composite version made up of lines 5-14 of Sonnet 1, here beginning ‘Thou Contracted to thine owne bright eys’, together with lines 1-4 of Sonnet 2 and line 5 of Sonnet 54, headed ‘Cruel’.
In: the MS described under ShW 6. c.1650s.
Printed from this MS in Alden, p. 23; recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 66. Facsimile in Dobell sale catalogue, June 1902.
Sonnet 2 (‘When forty winters shall besiege thy brow’)
Edited and most manuscript copies collated in Gary Taylor, ‘Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets’, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 68/1 (Autumn 1985), 210-46.
ShW 8
Copy, headed ‘Spes Altera’ and here beginning ‘When threescore winters shall besiege thy brow’.
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.
ShW 9
Copy, headed ‘Spes Altera’, transcribed from ShW 10.
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 recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 66.
ShW 10
Copy, headed ‘Spes altera’.
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 recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 66.
ShW 11
Copy, headed ‘To one that would dy a maide’ and here beginning ‘When to winters shall beseidge thy brow’.
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 recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 66.
ShW 12
Copy, headed ‘To one that would die a Mayd’.
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.
Printed from this MS in C. C. Stopes, ‘An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet’, The Athenaeum (26 July 1913), p. 89, and in Alden, pp. 21-2; recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 66.
ShW 13
Copy, headed ‘To one that would dye a Mayd’.
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).
Printed from this MS in Bertram Dobell, ‘An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet’, The Athenaeum (2 August 1913), p. 112, and in Alden, p. 22; recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67 (e).
ShW 14
Copy, headed ‘Spes Altera A song’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single mixed hand, with additions in other hands, associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 315 pages (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett. c.1630s.
Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the ‘Curteis MS’: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, ‘Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript’, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.
This MS recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67. Edited and discussed in Mary Hobbs, ‘Shakespeare's Sonnet II: A Sugred Sonnet?’, N&Q, 224 (1979), 112-13.
ShW 14.5
Copy, headed ‘Spes altera’.
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).
ShW 15
Copy, headed ‘W. S. / A Lover to his Mistres’.
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).
Edited from this MS in Harvey Wood, p. 180.
ShW 16
Copy, headed ‘The Benefitt of Mariage’ and here beginning ‘When forty yeares shall beseig thy browe’.
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).
ShW 17
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘W. Shakspere’.
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 H.T. Price, ‘An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet’, The Athenaeum (6 September 1913), p. 230, and edited in Alden, p. 22. Recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), f. 38r-v.
ShW 18
Copy, headed ‘To one yt would dye a Mayd’.
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.
ShW 19
Copy, headed ‘To one that would die a maide’.
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.
Facsimile of f. 54v in Laurence Witten, ‘Contemporary Collectors XXIII: James Marshall Osborn’, The Book Collector, 8 (Winter 1959), 383-96 (after p. 392).
Sonnet 8 (‘Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?’)
ShW 20
Copy, headed ‘In laudem Musice et opprobrium Contemptorij eiusdem’, subscribed ‘W: Shakespeare’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in several largely secretary hands, written from both ends over a long period, 149 leaves, in modern half blue morocco. c.1627-c.1673.
Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 190, to Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller.
Printed from this MS in Alden, pp. 33-4, and in The Shakespeare Allusion-Book (London, 1932), I, 211; recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67.
Sonnet 32 (‘If thou survive my well-contented day’)
ShW 21
Copy, headed ‘A sonnet’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany (originally in two separate volumes), including eleven poems by Donne, chiefly in two hands, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 98 leaves, one of the original vellum covers now incorporated in modern red morocco. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Stephen Wellden’ and ‘Abraham Bassano’ and (f. 98r) ‘Elizabeth Weldon’. Later owned by William John Thoms (1803-85), writer, antiquary and librarian. Sotheby's, 11 February 1887 (Thoms sale), lot 1092. Also owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.4.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Welden MS’: DnJ Δ 49.
This MS collated in Tucker Brooke, p. 67.
Sonnet 33 (‘Full many a glorious morning have I seen’)
Sonnet 68 (‘Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn’)
ShW 23
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Thus is thy cheeke the map of Days outworn’.
In: the MS described under ShW 6. c.1650s.
This MS recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67.
Sonnet 71 (‘No longer mourn for me when I am dead’)
ShW 24
Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet’.
In: the MS described under ShW 21. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67 (as his sonnet 75).
Sonnet 106 (‘When in the chronicle of wasted time’)
ShW 25
Copy, headed ‘On his Mistris Beauty’ and here beginning ‘When in the Annalls of all wastinge Time’.
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).
Edited from this MS in Rollins, p. 260. Facsimiles in Autograph Letters & Manuscripts: Major Acquisitions of the Pierpont Morgan Library 1924-1974 (New York, 1974), Plate 12, and in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 33.
ShW 26
Copy, headed ‘On his Mris Beauty’ and here beginning ‘When in the Annales of all-wasting time’, with 18 additional lines.
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].
This MS recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67.
Sonnet 107 (‘Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul’)
ShW 27
Copy, headed ‘A Monument’.
In: the MS described under ShW 6. c.1650s.
This MS collated in Alden, p. 252, and in Tucker Brooke, p. 67. Facsimile in Dobell sale catalogue, June 1902.
Sonnet 116 (‘Let me not to the marriag of true minds’)
ShW 28
Copy, here beginning ‘Selfe blinding error seazeth all those mindes’, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
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.
Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in Willa McClung Evans, ‘Lawes' Version of Shakespeare's Sonnet CXVI’, PMLA, 51.i (1936), 120-2, and in Evans, Henry Lawes (New York & London, 1941), pp. 43-4. Facsimile in John H. Long, Shakespeare's Use of Music (Gainesville, Florida, 1961), p. 146.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 33.
Sonnet 128 (‘How oft when thou, my music, music play'st’)
ShW 29
Copy, in a non-professional hand, among other verses on both sides of a leaf, untitled and here beginning ‘how oft when thow, deere deerist musick plaiest’.
In: A folio composite volume of verse, in various hands, i + 250 leaves. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729). Some pages in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.
This MS edited and discussed in R.H.A. Robbins, ‘A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Shakespeare's Sonnet 128’, N&Q, 212 (April 1967), 137-8. Facsimile in Bruce R. Smith, ‘Shakespeare's Sonnets and the History of Sexuality: A Reception History’, in A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Vol. IV, ed. Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard (Oxford, 2003), pp. 4-26 (p. 8).
Sonnet 138 (‘When my love swears that she is made of truth’)
Sonnet 138 first published as poem 1 in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599).
ShW 30
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.
This MS recorded in Rollins, p. 354.
Venus and Adonis (‘Even as the sun with purple-coloured face’)
First published in London, 1593.
ShW 31
Copy of lines 17-18 (beginning ‘Here come and sit, where never serpent hisses’) in a four-line version headed ‘Kessing: a song’ and beginning ‘Come sweet sit heere where neuer serpent hisses’.
In: the MS described under ShW 26. c.1630.
ShW 31.3
Copy of lines 799-804.
In: An octavo volume of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive hands, 102 leaves (plus blanks), in half brown morocco on marbled boards. Including principally autograph poems by Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax (1661-1715), but also (ff. 72v-7v) some poems apparently in a much earlier hand.
Later owned by John Lilly, bookseller. Sotheby's, 15-25 March 1871 (Lilly sale), lot 1366.
ShW 31.5
Copy of lines 91-102, here beginning ‘wherfore did venus loue adonis but for the member where noe bone is’, in a secretary hand. On the verso of a quarto draft legal document relating to a payment by George Sloman of Hawkhurst, Kent, to Katherine Watts of Ticehurst, Sussex. 1630s.
Sotheby's, 12 July 2005, lot 76, to Christopher Edwards.
This MS discussed by Stanley Wells in a letter to TLS, 19 November 2004, p. 17. Facsimile of the MS in Sotheby's sale catalogue, p. 60. Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 8820.
ShW 32
Copy of lines 131-2, here beginning ‘Fayer flowers that are not gathered in there prime’, inscribed in the MS.
In: A 13th-century volume of Latin theological treatises, on vellum throughout, 228 quarto-size leaves.
Edited from this MS in The Shakespeare Allusion-Book (London, 1932), I, 216.
ShW 32.5
Copy of lines 229-40, here beginning ‘fondlyng quoth she sinc I haue hemd the heere’, in the cursive italic hand of Henry Colling.
In: MS verses written in late 16th-century hands in a late 15th-century rubricated MS of tracts relating to Scottish expeditions of Edward I up to the reign of Richard II, 64 folio leaves of parchment, in calf. c.1596.
Owned and inscribed, with the date 2 December 1596, by Henry Colling (1565-1628), of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, who matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge, and was connected by marriage to the Hervey family of Ickworth. Other contemporary names relating to Bury inscribed (ff. 63v-4r) including William Penninge, George Dove, Henry Couelle, and Frances Frodge.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Hilton Kelliher, ‘Unrecorded Extracts from Shakespeare, Sidney and Dyer’, EMS, 2 (1990), 163-87.
Edited from this MS in Kelliher, p. 169, with a facsimile as Plate 1, p. 168.
ShW 32.8
Copy of the incipit only of lines 517-22, here ‘A 1000 kisses winne my heart from mee’, in a musical setting.
In: A virginal book. Compiled by one ‘R: Cr.’ (Robert Creighton). c.1635-8.
This MS discussed, with a facsimile, in David Greer, ‘An Early Setting of Lines from “Venus and Adonis”’, M&L, 45, No. 2 (April 1964), 126-9.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Département de la Musique, MS Conservatoire Rés. 1186, f. 56v.
ShW 33
Copy of lines 517-22 (words only), untitled and here beginning ‘A thousand kisses wynns my hearte from mee’.
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 John P. Cutts, ‘“Venus and Adonis” in an Early Seventeenth-Century Song-Book’, N&Q, 208 (August 1963), 302-3, and see also David Greer, ‘An Early Setting of Lines from “Venus and Adonis”’, M&L, 45, No. 2 (April 1964), 126-9.
ShW 33.5
Copy of lines 529-34, headed ‘Good Night to you’ and here beginning ‘Now ye Worlds comforter wth weary gate’.
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).
ShW 34
Copy of lines 529-34, headed ‘Another’ [i.e. on Night] and here beginning ‘Now the worlds comforter with weary gate’.
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).
These lines published as a separate poem in Englands Parnassus (London, 1600).
ShW 35
Copy of lines 529-34, headed ‘Goodnight to you’ and here beginning ‘Now the worlds Comforter wt weary gate’.
In: the MS described under ShW 26. c.1630.
ShW 35.5
Copy of lines 17-18 (beginning ‘Here, come and sit where never serpent hisses’), 125-32, 161-8, 209-10, 215-16, 407-8, 229-40, 575-6, 755-6, 767-8, 809-10, 799-804, 833-4, 1007-8.
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.
Dramatic Works
Antony and Cleopatra
First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).
ShW 36
A proof sheet, of four pages (sigs xx6r-xx7v, pp. 351-4), with MS markings calling for nineteen corrections on sig. xx6v (p. 352), extracted from an exemplum of the First Folio (1623), in a modern half morocco on marbled boards folder. c.1623.
Later in the libraries of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector, and James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.
This item (first discovered by Halliwell-Phillipps) described, with facsimiles, in Edwin Eliott Willoughby, The Printing of the First Folio of Shakespeare (Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1932), and in Charlton Hinman, The Printing and Proof-Reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare, 2 vols (Oxford, 1963), I, 317-19 and facing p. 234.
Facsimiles also in S. Schoenbaum, Shakespeare The Globe & the World (Washington, DC, & London, 1979), p. 179, and in DLB, vol. 62, Elizabethan Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 330.
ShW 37
Extracts.
In: A quarto composite miscellany, in three or more hands, 76 leaves, in quarter-leather marbled boards. Late 17th century.
As You Like It
First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).
ShW 38
Copy, untitled, derived from the Second Folio (London, 1632).
In: MS volume of plays, used for amateur staging by one of the English colleges in Douai. 1694/5.
This MS described in Evans, PQ, 41 (1962).
Bibliothèque Municipale, Douai, France, MS 787, ff. 32v-65v.
ShW 38.5
Comments on the play.
In: A folio miscellany, owned and probably compiled by one ‘P. D’, 123 leaves, the first entry dated ‘Ap. 18. 1687’. 1687-9.
Discussed, with extracts, in G. Blakemore Evans, ‘A Seventeenth-Century Reader of Shakespeare’, RES, 21 (1945), 271-9.
Quoted in Blakemore Evans, pp. 275-6.
As You Like It, V, iii, 15-38. Song (‘It was a lover and his lass’)
ShW 39
Copy of the Pages' song, in a musical setting by Thomas Morley, untitled.
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).
This setting first published in Thomas Morley, First Book of Ayres (London, 1600). Edited from this MS in Nelly Diem, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Schottischen Musik im XVII Jahrhundert (Zürich & Leipzig, 1919), p. 97. Discussed in Edmund H. Fellowes, ‘“It was a Lover and his Lass”: Some Fresh Points of Criticism’, MLR, 41 (1946), 202-6, and in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 496-7.
The Comedy of Errors
First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).
ShW 40
Copy, with stage directions in another hand, derived from the Second Folio (London, 1632).
In: the MS described under ShW 38. 1694/5.
This MS described in Evans, PQ, 41 (1962).
Bibliothèque Municipale, Douai, France, MS 787, ff. 66v-93v.
ShW 40.5
Pages 85-100 from the Shakespeare First Folio (1623), marked up for use as a promptbook by the Hatton Garden ‘Nursery’, London. c.1672.
Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. III (Charlottesville, VA, 1964).
ShW 40.8
Pages 85-100 from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), marked up for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. c.1670s.
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.
Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VIII (Charlottesville, VA, 1996).
ShW 41
Brief quotations, including Aegeon's lines beginning ‘Yet this my comfort: when your words are done’ (I, i, 27-8).
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.
Extracts.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 48, f. 34r rev.
ShW 41.5
Copy in: A copy of plays by Shakespeare, in a single hand, 170 quarto pages, in marbled boards. Mid-18th century.
Loosely inserted bookplate of David Garrick (1717-79), actor. Sotheby's, 8 December 1983, lot 48 (unsold).
Cymbeline
First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).
ShW 41.8
A MS copy of the last page of Cymbeline as in the First Folio (London, 1623), p. 399 (misprinted as 993), on a separate folio leaf, presumably originally written to supply the missing leaf in an exemplum of the First Folio. c.1623-40s.
The verso of the leaf inscribed ‘Elizabeth Rockett’ and ‘Richard’.
Cymbeline, II, iii, 19-27. Song (‘Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings’)
ShW 42
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting possibly by Robert Johnson.
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).
Printed from this MS, with a facsimile, in Willa McClung Evans, ‘Shakespeare's “Harke harke ye larke”’, PMLA, 60. i (1945), 95-101; also discussed in George A. Thewlis, ‘Some Notes on a Bodleian Manuscript’, M&L, 22 (1941), 32-5, and printed in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 6.
ShW 43
Copy, transcribed from the Folio of 1664.
In: An octavo book of jests and verse compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, vi + 374 pages (pp. 72-306 blank), in contemporary calf. c.1682-91.
Hamlet
First published in London, 1603.
ShW 44
Extracts ‘Out of ye Tragedie of Hamlet ye Prince of Denmark. by Will: Shakespeare’, 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.
These extracts and comments printed in James G. McManaway, ‘Excerpta quaedam per A. W. adolescentem’, Studies in Shakespeare, Bibliography and Theater (New York, 1969), 279-91 (pp. 286-9), and in Arthur C. Kirsch, ‘A Caroline Commentary on the Drama’, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (pp. 257-8).
Facsimiles of f. 85r-v in Parnassus Biceps or Severall Choice Pieces of Poetry by Abraham Wright 1656, ed. Peter Beal (Scolar Press, 1990), pp. 190-3.
ShW 44.1
The text of Hamlet marked up for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. c.1670s.
In: Pages 729-60 from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663).
Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. IV (Charlottesville, VA, 1966).
ShW 44.2
A leaf extracted from a promptbook, being pages 265-6 from an exemplum of the First Folio (1623), comprising part of Act III including Hamlet's soliloqy ‘To be, or not to be, that is the Question’ and his speech to the players (‘Speake the Speech I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you’), the text marked up to denote various extensive cuts and substantial emendations to a speech by Polonius. Late 17th century.
Sotheby's, 21 July 1983, lot 28, to Sall.
Facsimile of p. 265 in Sotheby's sale catalogue. Facsimile of both pages in the British Library, RP 2601.
ShW 44.3
Copy of the gravedigger's song, in Act V, scene i, here beginning ‘In Youth when I did love’, docketed ‘Among Surreys sonnets fol. 72’.
In: An annotated exemplum of the First Folio (London, 1623). Mid-17th century.
Free Library of Philadelphia, [Shakespeare First Folio], Hamlet, sig PP3r (p.‘273’: i.e. 277).
ShW 44.5
Copy of Hamlet's ‘To be or not to be’ speech, headed ‘Futurity’.
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, pp. 74-5.
ShW 44.6
Copy of Hamlet's soliloquy ‘To be or not to be’, headed ‘Out of Hamlet / Shakespear's’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single possibly female hand, 36 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Mid-18th century.
Inscribed (f. 36r) ‘M Lowthers Jun:’, by a member of the Lowther family, Baronets and later Earls of Lonsdale.
ShW 44.7
Extract, headed ‘The Scene in Hamlet Prince of Denmak. The Ghost & Hamlet’, subscribed ‘Andover 4th. 9th mo. 1730’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in a single hand, written from both ends, the contents collected over a period but not entered in chronological order, 171 leaves, in contemporary panelled calf. Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Benj: Coles At Great Forster's. near Egham. In Surrey. owns this book MDCCXXXII’ and the miscellany evidently compiled by Coles. A similar inscription on f. 31r rev. dated ‘3d. Jany 1740/1’. c.1729-41.
Inscribed (f. iiv) ‘purchased by R Brown, for a valuable consideration of Benjamin Coles Anno 1754. August 8th’. Later owned by James Langlands and, in 1965, by Mrs V.J. Dawson, of Southan, Gloucestershire.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 24, ff. 35r-6r rev.
ShW 44.9
Copy of Hamlet's ‘To be or not to be’ speech, headed ‘Futurity’, subscribed ‘Shak. Hamt’.
In: Two quarto volumes of poems, translations and other material, including (with title-page f. 53r) ‘Poems & Translations. by Hugh Wormington. A.D, 1718’, in a single hand, probably autograph, 216 leaves, both volumes in contemporary calf gilt. c.1715-23.
Inscribed (f. 3r) ‘Ex Libris Hugonis Wormington S2. C. D. Anno Dom 1715’, and (f. 1r) ‘Presented by The Marchioness De Crequy To Randle Jackson’. With Jackson's bookplate.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 80, I, f. 7r-v.
ShW 45
Extracts, on both sides of one of four leaves now detached.
In: A portion of a commonplace book, largely in a single cursive secretary hand, compiled by Edward Pudsey (1573-1613), comprising four quarto leaves. These leaves are detached from a commonplace book, the major part of which is Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. d. 3. c.1604-9.
Among the papers of Richard Savage (1847-1924), antiquarian, Secretary and Librarian of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in 1884.
A facsimile of this MS portion is in the Bodleian, MS Facs. d. 155, ff. 150-3.
Edied from this MS in Savage, Shakespearean Extracts, pp. 51-80.
ShW 46
Extracts from Polonius's speech to Laertes (I, iii, 59-69, 75-8), headed ‘Advice to a Young man’, here beginning ‘Give thy thought noe tongue’, and subscribed ‘Sh:’.
In: A quarto volume of works by or relating to Sir Walter Ralegh, largely in a single stylish hand, with later additions after f. 106v probably in another hand, 113 leaves (ff. 29v-106v blanks), in contemporary calf. Probably chiefly in the hand of Andrew Card, who inscribes f. 5r ‘Ex libris Andreæ Card 1674’. c.1674-84.
Bookplate of Richard Cranmer [i.e. Richard Dixon (d.1828), of the manor of Mitcham, Surrey, who claimed descent from Archbishop Cranmer.
ShW 47
Copy of Hamlet's soliloquy ‘To be, or not to be, that is the question’ (III, i, 56-88), 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.
Edited from this MS in Macdonald Emslie, ‘Pepys' Shakespeare Song’, SQ, 6 (1955), 159-70.
Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2591, ff. 37r-40r.
Henry IV, Parts I and II
1 Henry IV first published in London, 1598. 2 Henry IV first published in London, 1600.
ShW 48
MS of a conflated version of Shakespeare's two Henry IV plays, made by Sir Edward Dering (1598-1644), of Surrenden, Kent, i + 55 folio leaves. Based on the Fifth Quarto of 1 Henry IV (1613) and a 1600 Quarto of 2 Henry IV., this play was probably written for a private theatrical performance, the dramatis personæ including members of the Dering family. The MS is largely in the secretary and italic hand of a ‘mr Carington’ who was paid 4 shillings in February 1622/3 for the task, and bears Dering's autograph corrections and additions, as well as some rubrication. c.1622-3.
Item 1035 in a sale catalogue.
Edited from this MS, with facsimile examples, in Shakespeare's Play of King Henry the Fourth Printed from a Contemporary Manuscript, ed. James Orchard Halliwell, Shakespeare Society (London, 1845). A complete facsimile edition, with transcription, as The History of King Henry the Fourth as revised by Sir Edward Dering, ed. George Walton Williams and G. Blakemore Evans (Charlottesville, 1974).
Collated in Henry IV, Part I, ed. Samuel Burdett Hemingway (Philadelphia & London, 1936), pp. 495-501, and in Henry IV, Part II, ed. Matthias A. Shaaber (Philadelphia & London, 1940), pp. 645-50. Discussed in G. Blakemore Evans, ‘The “Dering MS” of Shakespeare's Henry IV and Sir Edward Dering’, JEGP, 54 (1955), 498-503. Discussed, with a facsimile of the record of payment to Carington (Centre for Kentish Studies, U350 E4), in Laetitia Yeandle, ‘The Dating of Sir Edward Dering's Copy of “The History of King Henry the Fourth”’, Shakespeare Quarterly, 37 (1986), 224-6, where a possible candidate for Carington is suggested as Samuel Carington (d.1641), rector of Wootton, Kent. Discussed, as if a ‘pre-publication and authorial’ MS, in John Baker, ‘Found: Shakespeare's Manuscript of Henry IV’, Elizabethan Review, 4/1 (Spring 1996), 14-46.
Other facsimile examples in Giles E. Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 39, and in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 87.
ShW 48.5
Cuttings from pages of a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), marked up as promptbooks for use by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. c.1670s.
In: Cuttings from an anthology, in a mixed hand, originally at least 1028 pages long, entitled Hesperides, or the Muses Garden, now pasted into 61 of a collection of 128 Shakespearian scrapbooks formed by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. A 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 by Humphrey Moseley, c.1660, among works he purposed to print. Other portions of this MS are Folger MS V.a.75, Folger MS V.a.79 and Folger MS V.a.80, and another version of this compilation, in the same hand, is Folger MS V.b.93. c.1655-6.
Formerly in the Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Discussed in Gunnar Sorelius, ‘An Unknown Shakespearian Commonplace Book’, The Library, 5th Ser. 28 (1973), 294-308. See also Hao Tianhu, ‘Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden and its Manuscript History’, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/4 (December 2009), 372-404, with a facsimile example on p. 378 and a list of headings in the MS given on pp. 402-4.
Facsimile examples of this MS are also in The Works of William Shakespeare, ed. James O. Halliwell, 16 vols (London 1853-65), I, 395; II, facing p. 177; III, facing pp. 51, 133; IV, facing p. 184; V, facing p. 308; VI, facing p. 471; VII, facing p. 128.
Discussed in Gunnar Sorelius, ‘The Smock Alley Prompt-Books of 1 and 2 Henry IV’, Shakespeare Quarterly, 22 (1971), 111-28.
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, ‘Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare’, passim.
Henry IV, Part I
ShW 49
Copy of Prince Hal's speech beginning ‘I know you all, and will awhile uphold’ (I, ii, 187-209), headed ‘The Prince of Walles his speech. 165’, written out as prose in an italic hand, on one side of a single quarto leaf, dated in the margin ‘April 14 / Anno / Domi 1620’.
In: A folio composite volume of historical papers, in various hands, 31 leaves, in 19th-century blue morocco gilt.
Bought from J. Harvey, 9 February 1878.
Edited from this MS in The Shakespeare Allusion-Book (London, 1932), I, 336.
ShW 49.1
Various extracts from the play, on ff. 47r-8r in a notebook containing notes chiefly in Latin on metaphysics and theology ascribed to Thomas Harriot (c.1560-1621), mathematician and natural philosopher, ii + 48 oblong quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum. The extracts, possibly derived from jottings in a pocket book made during a performance rather than from the edited quarto of 1598, apparently arranged for intended inclusion under topic headings in a commonplace book. c.1594-c.1603.
Sotheby's, 18 December 1986, lot 14, with facsimile pages in the sale catalogue.
This MS discussed, with facsimiles, in Hilton Kelliher, ‘Contemporary Manuscript Extracts from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I’, EMS, 1 (1989), 144-81.
ShW 49.2
Pages 355-6 from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), being a fragment of a promptbook marked up for use by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. c.1680s.
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.
Henry IV, Part II
ShW 49.5
An exemplum of the quarto printed edition of The Second part of Henrie the fourth (London, 1600), with numerous MS additions recording stage entrances and exits and (sig. B2) with a small rough stage plan, in 19th-century red morocco. Late 17th century?
Containing two pages of notes in the hand of James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, dated June 1866. Bookplate of Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821-95), poet, and book label of E. D. Church.
Recorded in Shattuck, p. 141, No. 1.
Henry IV, Part II. Song (‘Monser myngo for qualifying does passe’)
Silence's song “Do me right”, V, iii, 72-4, is the refrain from the popular Elizabethan song “Monser myngo”.
See NaT 7.1-7.9.
Henry V
First published in London, 1600.
ShW 50
Extracts, untitled.
In: An octavo miscellany of extracts chiefly from plays and religious works, closely written in a predominantly italic hand, 33 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half red crushed morocco on marbled boards. Lettered on the spine ‘W. How's Common-placebook’. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in the Warwick Castle Library.
Henry VIII
By Shakespeare and John Fletcher. First published in the First Folio (1623), as The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth. Cited in 1613 by the title All is True.
ShW 50.5
Pages 541-68 from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), marked up for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. c.1670s.
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.
Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VIII (Charlottesville, VA, 1996).
ShW 50.8
Extract, headed ‘Greatnes’.
In: the MS described under ShW 44.5. c.1723.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 15, pp. 75-6.
Julius Caesar
First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).
ShW 51
Copy, with stage directions in another hand, derived from the Second Folio (London, 1632).
In: the MS described under ShW 38. 1694/5.
This MS described in Evans, PQ, 41 (1962).
Bibliothèque Municipale, Douai, France, MS 787, ff. 131r-70v.
ShW 51.5
Pages 667-688 from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), comprising an unmarked text of Timon of Athens, but with a MS cast list for a production of Julius Caesar at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. The rest of the (probably marked up) text of Julius Caesar was destroyed by fire at the Shakespeare Memorial Library, Birmingham, in 1879. c.1670s.
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.
Shattuck, p. 172 (No. 1)
ShW 52
Copy of the play, transcribed from the Second Folio (London, 1632), possibly related to ShW 51; imperfect, lacking most of the last scene.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and drama, largely in a single small cursive hand, with later additions by one or two hands after p. 142, 185 pages (including blanks) plus a tipped-in leaf at the end, in brown calf. Late 17th century.
Sotheby's, 13 June 1870, lot 157, to James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector; thence, on 5 July 1870, to Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 3.4.
This MS described in G. Blakemore Evans, ‘Shakespeare's Julius Caesar -- A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript’, JEGP, 41 (1942), 401-17.
King Lear
First published in London, 1608.
ShW 53
Proof sheet, with MS markings calling for five corrections, of sig. qq6v (p. 292), in an exemplum of the First Folio (1623). c.1623.
Inscribed ‘Alice Stevenson 1723’; ‘Thomas Willson’ [c.1775]; and ‘17. Nov. 1807. John Cranch’ [the painter, 1751-1821]. Also owned by Walter T. Spencer (d.1936), London bookseller.
This item discussed, with a facsimile, in Charlton Hinman, ‘Mark III: New Light on the Proof-Reading for the First Folio of Shakespeare’, SB, 3 (1950-1), 145-53.
ShW 53.5
Extract, from Act IV, scene vi, lines 10-21 (Edgar's ‘Come on, Sir, here's the place...’), headed ‘Out of King Lear’.
In: the MS described under ShW 44.6. Mid-18th century.
ShW 53.8
Pages 761-87 marked up for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. c.1670s.
In: Pages 761-88 from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663).
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.
Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VIII (Charlottesville, VA, 1996).
ShW 54
Proof sheet, with MS markings calling for ten corrections, of sig. rr3r (p. 297) in an exemplum of the First Folio (1623). 1623.
This item discussed with facsimiles, in James G. McManaway, ‘Another Discovery of a Proof Sheet in Shakespeare's First Folio’, HLQ, 41 (1977-78), 19-26.
Love's Labours Lost
First published in London, 1598.
ShW 56
Copy of Longaville's couplet (I, i, 26-7), untitled and here beginning ‘ffat paunches make lean pates, & dainty bitts’.
In: the MS described under ShW 4. c.1670s.
ShW 57
Copy of Longaville's couplet (I, i, 26-7), untitled.
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.
ShW 58
Copy of Armado's couplet beginning ‘The Fox, the Ape, and the Humble-bee’ (III, i, 84-5).
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.
Macbeth
First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).
ShW 59
Copy, derived from the Second Folio (London, 1632).
In: the MS described under ShW 38. 1694/5.
This MS described in Evans, PQ, 41 (1962).
Bibliothèque Municipale, Douai, France, MS 787, ff. 171r-209r.
ShW 59.2
Pages 711-28 (misbound) from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), marked up in several hands for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. Lacking p. 729, which is in Edinburgh University Library: see ShW 59.5. c.1670s.
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.
Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. V (Charlottesville, VA, 1970).
ShW 59.5
The last page of a promptbook of Macbeth, marked up for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. The rest of the promptbook is ShW 59.2. c.1670s.
In: the MS described under ShW 44.1.
—— III, v, 34. Song (‘Come away, come away, &c.’)
See MiT 32-33.
Measure for Measure
First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).
ShW 60
Copy of two of the Duke's speeches (III, ii, 178-81, beginning ‘No might nor greatness in mortality’, and III, ii, 253-66, beginning ‘He, who the sword of heaven will bear’).
In: the MS described under ShW 41. c.1700.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 48, ff. 16v, 20r.
ShW 60.2
Comments on the play.
In: the MS described under ShW 38.5. 1687-9.
Quoted in Blakemore Evans, p. 274.
ShW 60.6
Extract.
In: A quarto volume of ‘Miscellany Poems 1728’, in several hands, 145 pages (plus a number of blanks), with an index, in quarter-calf on boards. c.1728-69.
Bookplate of George Scott, of Woolston Hall, Essex.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 12, [at the back].
ShW 60.8
Extract.
In: the MS described under ShW 44.5. c.1723.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 15, pp. 61-2.
—— IV, i, 1-6. Song (‘Take, oh take those lips away’)
See Beaumont and Fletcher, The Bloody Brother, V, ii. Song: ‘Take, oh, take those lips away’ (B&F 15-26), of which Shakespeare's song forms the first stanza.
The Merchant of Venice
First published in London, 1600.
ShW 61
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.
Printed from this MS in Savage, Shakespearean Extracts, pp. 1-6.
ShW 62.5
Pages 163-84 from a Shakespeare Second Folio (1632), roughly marked up with cuts. Mid-late 17th century?
Recorded in Shattuck, p. 276, No. 1.
ShW 62.8
Copy of the song ‘Tell me where is fancy bred’ in the casket scene (Act III, scene ii).
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.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
First published in London, 1602.
ShW 64
Copy, in a small italic hand, chiefly in double columns, on 42 quarto pages, in 19th-century half-calf on marbled boards. Probably transcribed from a (?marked-up) exemplum of the Second Folio (1632), including Hugh Holland's poem on Shakespeare and a Dramatis Personae page. Mid-17th century.
Later acquired by Thomas Rodd from a Mr Proctor and in Rodd's sale catalogue of manuscripts for 1841, item 601. Owned in March 1842 by James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Subsequently sold by him to George Guy Greville, MP (1818-93), fourth Earl of Warwick, of Warwick Castle.
This MS described in James Orchard Halliwell, An Account of the Only Known Manuscript of Shakespeare's Plays (London, 1843). Discussed in G. Blakemore Evans, ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor: The Folger Manuscript’, in Shakespeare Text, Language, Criticism: Essays in Honour of Marvin Spevack, ed. Bernhard Fabian and Kurt Tetzeli von Rosador (Hildesheim, 1987), pp. 57-79.
ShW 64.2
Comments on the play.
In: the MS described under ShW 38.5. 1687-9.
Quoted in Blakemore Evans, p. 274.
ShW 64.5
An exemplum of the printed quarto edition of 1630, with a reader's inscriptions recording entrances (‘Entter’) throughout the first four acts. Mid-17th century.
Recorded in Shattuck, p. 303, No. 1.
ShW 64.8
Pages ‘36’ [i.e. 39]-60 (but lacking pp. 53-6) from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), and marked up as a promptbook for the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. For a MS supplying the text for the missing leaves, see Folger MS V.b.240 (ShW 65). c.1670s.
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.
Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VIII (Charlottesville, VA, 1996).
ShW 65
Copy of part of Act III, sc.v, and Act IV, sc. i-v, in a single hand, on eight folio leaves, written to supply the missing text in a promptbook prepared for use by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, in half morocco on marbled boards. For the rest of the promptbook (part of a Third Folio) see Folger PROMPT 3d Folio M.W. Smock Alley (ShW 64.8). c.1670s-1700s.
Recorded in Shattuck, p. 303 (No. 3).
A Midsummer Night's Dream
First published in London, 1600.
ShW 66.5
Pages 145-62 from the Shakespeare First Folio (1623), marked up with cuts for use by the Hatton Garden ‘Nursery’, London. c.1672.
Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. III (Charlottesville, VA, 1964).
ShW 66.8
Pages 145-62 from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663) marked up for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. c.1670s.
Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VII (Charlottesville, VA, 1989).
Much Ado about Nothing
First published in London, 1600.
ShW 67.5
Comments on the play.
In: the MS described under ShW 38.5. 1687-9.
Quoted in Blakemore Evans, pp. 273-4.
ShW 68
Extracts.
In: the MS described under ShW 45. c.1604-9.
Edited from this MS in Savage, Shakespearean Extracts, pp. 32-50.
ShW 68.5
An exemplum of the printed quarto edition of 1600, marked up with cuts and with dramatis personae. Mid-late 17th century?
Recorded in Shattuck, p. 333, No. 1.
ShW 68.8
Copy in: the MS described under ShW 41.5. Mid-18th century.
—— II, iii, 61-76. Song (‘Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more’)
ShW 69
Copies of Balthazar's song, in a musical setting by Thomas Ford.
In: Three music part books: (i), (ii), and (iii). Early-mid-17th century.
This version edited in John H. Long, Shakespeare's Use of Music, I, (Gainesville, Florida, 1955), 132-3.
Christ Church, Oxford, MSS Mus. 736-738, (i-ii), ff. 3r-4r; (iii) f. 3r-v.
—— V, iii, 25-28. Song (‘The god of love’)
ShW 69.6
Copy of Benedick's song.
In: An oblong quarto miscellany of verse, receipts, and lute music, in possibly several secretary hands, 60 leaves, in modern red morocco. c.1570.
‘The Braye LuteBook’, formerly among the Cave family papers of Lord Braye at Stanford Hall, Rugby.
This MS discussed in James M. Osborn, ‘Benedick's Song in “Much Ado”’, The Times, 17 November 1958, p. 11.
Othello
First published in London, 1622.
ShW 70
Proof sheet, with MS markings calling for nine corrections, of sig. vv3r (p. 333), in an exemplum of the First Folio (1623). c.1623.
Owned in 1902 by Maurice Jonas.
This item discussed, with facsimiles, in Charlton Hinman, ‘A Proof-Sheet in the First Folio of Shakespeare’, The Library, 4th Ser. 23 (1943), 101-7.
ShW 71
Extracts ‘Out of ye Tragedy of Othello by Shakespeare’, with comments on the play.
In: the MS described under ShW 44. c.1640.
These extracts and comments edited in James G. McManaway, ‘Excerpta quaedam per A.W. adolescentem’, Studies in Shakespeare, Bibliography and Theater (New York, 1969), 279-91 (pp. 286-9), and in Arthur C. Kirsch, ‘A Caroline Commentary on the Drama’, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 257).
Facsimiles of ff. 83v-4v in Parnassus Biceps or Severall Choice Pieces of Poetry by Abraham Wright 1656, ed. Peter Beal (Scolar Press, 1990), pp. 184-9.
ShW 72
Extracts relating to marriage, transcribed from a printed source, added in a late 17th-century hand.
In: the MS described under ShW 25. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
ShW 72.2
Extracts, with comments on the play.
In: the MS described under ShW 38.5. 1687-9.
Quoted in Blakemore Evans, pp. 274-5.
ShW 72.4
Page 788, the first page of Othello, a fragment of a promptbook used by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.
For the rest, see ShW 72.5.
In: the MS described under ShW 53.8.
ShW 72.5
Pages 789-817 (but lacking p. 788 and pp. 795-800) from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), marked up for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. For the missing page 788, see ShW 72.4. c.1670s.
Loter owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.
Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VI (Charlottesville, VA, 19??)
ShW 72.8
An exemplum of the printed quarto edition of The Tragoedy of Othello, The Moore of Venice (London, 1622), with MS annotations recording stage business and prompt markings, the pages all now mounted, in modern red morocco gilt. Late 17th century?.
Inscribed name on the title-page of George Steevens (1736-1800), literary editor and scholar. Annotated in 1804 as ‘Collated & Perfect’ by John Philip Kemble (1757-1823), actor.
Recorded in Shattuck, p. 354, No. 1.
ShW 73
Extracts, copied presumably after an early performance, untitled.
In: the MS described under ShW 45. c.1604-9.
This MS discussed in Philip Howard, ‘Purple passages from the early days of Othello’, The Times (25 June 1977), p. 14, and quoted in Othello, ed. E.A.J. Honigmann, Arden Shakespeare (Walton-on-Thames, 1997), pp. 388-9.
ShW 74
Two quotations, headed ‘Othello the Moore of Venice’, comprising Iago's speech beginning ‘O, sir, content you’ (I, i, 41-58), and the Duke of Brabantio's speech beginning ‘When remedies are past, the griefs are ended’ (I, iii, 202-9), transcribed from the quarto edition of 1622.
In: A quato commonplace book of legal, literary, religious, and miscellaneous entries, in various hands, 205 leaves (plus blanks), in original vellum wrappers (partly a recycled 13th-century theological MS). Inscribed several times ‘Henry Danby’ and the MS associated with a branch of the Danby family living near Kirkby Knowle outside Thirsk, North Yorkshire. Dawson's of Pall Mall, sale catalogue No. 200 (1969), item 19, with a facsimile example. Sotheby's, 29 October 1975, lot 150, to Kleinmann. Sotheby's, 27 September 1988, lot 146. Christie's, 29 November 1999, lot 237. c.1570-1625.
Sotheby's, 29 October 1975, lot 150, to Kleinmann. Sotheby's, 27 September 1988, lot 146 (unsold). Pickering and Chatto, sale catalogue No. 676, item 106. Christie's, 29 November 1999, lot 237.
Facsimiles of f. 81r in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 27 September 1988, lot 146, and Christie's sale catalogue, 29 November 1999, lot 237.
ShW 75
Copy of Iago's lines beginning ‘She yt was ever fair, & never proud’ (II, i, 148-58), transcribed from the Folio of 1664, headed ‘Womens unknown Vertues’ and subscribed ‘W.Sh. 795’.
In: the MS described under ShW 43. c.1682-91.
Othello, IV, iii, 40-8. Song (‘The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree’)
ShW 76
Copy of Desdemona's willow song, in a five-strophe version in a musical setting, untitled and here beginning ‘The poore soule sate sighinge by a Sickamore tree, Singe willo willo willo’.
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).
Printed from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 1-2, 115-19, and in F.W. Sternfeld, Music in Shakespearean Tragedy (London, 1963), 39-44 (with facsimiles). Music settings for this song but without words appear in Folger MS V. a. 159, f. 19, and Trinity College, Dublin, MS 410, p. 26, and there is a related MS song on the flyleaf of New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel 4183 (these are all printed, with facsimiles, in Sternfeld, pp. 44-52).
Pericles
First published in London, 1609.
ShW 77
Several brief quotations, in a secretary hand, on a duodecimo-size slip of paper, once used as a bookmark. Early 17th century.
In: A square-shaped folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands, 143 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
ShW 77.5
A garbled version of two lines adapted from II, 2, lines 55-6 (‘Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan)’, here beginning ‘he is a foole that scann’, inscribed at the end of a printed exemplum of George Chapman's An Humorous dayes mirth (London, 1599). In the hand of Thomas Bentley who ‘owes this booke’. Early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Katherine Duncan-Jones, Ungentle Shakespeare (London, 2001), pp. 205, 302-3.
Richard II
First published in London, 1597.
ShW 79.5
Extracts, including II, iii, lines 332-7; III, ii, lines 37-8; and III, iii, line 166.
In: the MS described under ShW 2.3. c.1595-1600.
ShW 79.8
Extract, headed ‘K. Richard 2d in Prison’.
In: the MS described under ShW 44.5. c.1723.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 15, pp. 84-5, 190-5.
ShW 80
Extracts.
In: the MS described under ShW 45. c.1604-9.
Edited from this MS in Savage, Shakespearean Extracts, pp. 23-7.
Richard III
First published in London, 1597.
ShW 81
Several brief quotations, in a secretary hand, on a duodecimo-size slip of paper, once used as a bookmark. Early 17th century.
In: the MS described under ShW 77.
ShW 83
Extracts.
In: the MS described under ShW 45. c.1604-9.
Edited from this MS in Savage, Shakespearean Extracts, pp. 28-31.
Romeo and Juliet
First published in London, 1597.
ShW 84
Proof sheet, with MS markings calling for two corrections, of sig. ff6r (p. 71), in an exemplum of the First Folio (1623). c.1623.
Inscribed ‘Thomas Polwhele’ [fl.c.1700]. Later owned by Alexander Smith Cochran (1874-1929), founder of the Elizabethan Club at Yale.
This item discussed, with facsimiles, in Charlton Hinman, ‘The Proof-Reading of the First Folio Texts of Romeo and Juliet’, SB, 6 (1954), 61-70.
ShW 85
Copy, untitled, with stage directions in another hand, derived from the Second Folio (London, 1632).
In: the MS described under ShW 38. 1694/5.
This MS described in Evans, PQ, 41 (1962).
Bibliothèque Municipale, Douai, France, MS 787, ff. 94v-130v.
ShW 86
Extracts.
In: the MS described under ShW 61. c.1604-9.
Printed from this MS in Savage, Shakespearean Extracts, pp. 10-22. See also ShW 87.
ShW 86.2
Two MS versions of the last line, in a mixed hand. Here ‘Who euer heard a story of more woe / Then that of Juliet and her Romeo’ and ‘ffor neuer was there story of more woe / Then that of Juliet and her Romeo’, among other quotations inscribed in the italic hand of Richard Derham on the last page (verso of p. 45) of his printed exemplum of Nathaniel Shute, Corono Charitatis (London, 1626). 1627-9.
Inscribed ‘Joh: Squire’ and ‘W. W. Radford 1871’. Later in the library of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).
ShW 86.5
Copy of the prologue and of additional lines and alterations.
In: the MS described under ShW 44.3. Mid-17th century.
ShW 86.8
Extract, headed in the margin ‘In Juliett & Romeo’, comprising a version of Romeo's speech in Act I, scene v, lines 44-51, here beginning ‘Oh shee doth teach the torches to burne bright’, and, with a stage diection ‘taking her by ye hand’, lines lines 93-6, here beginning ‘Yf I pfane wth my unworthyest hand’.
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.
ShW 86.9
An exemplum of the printed quarto edition of 1599, lightly marked up with stage cues. 17th century?
Signed on the title-page by George Steevens (1736-1800), literary editor and scholar. Initials ‘G. D.’ in gilt on the red leather cover.
Recorded in Shattuck, p. 411, No. 1.
ShW 87
Extracts.
In: the MS described under ShW 45. c.1604-9.
This MS continues the text from ShW 86 as edited in Savage.
Sir Thomas More
By several dramatists, including Anthony Munday, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Heywood, and probably Shakespeare. First published in London, 1844, ed. Alexander Dyce, Shakespeare Society. Edited by W.W. Greg, Malone Society (Oxford, 1911; reprinted 1961).
*ShW 88
One scene on ff. 8r-9r in a hand generally known as ‘Hand D’ identified as probably that of William Shakespeare.
In: A folio composite MS, thirteen remaining leaves, originally bound with Harley MS 7367, in a vellum wrapper (recycled from a 15th-century Latin breviary) inscribed ‘The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore’, now disbound, comprising a play largely in the hand of Anthony Munday (1560-1633), playwright, with additions and contributions in five other hands. c.mid-1590s.
The play edited from this MS by all editors. Reproduced in facsimile by John S. Farmer, Tudor Facsimile Texts (London, 1910).
Discussions of the various hands in the MS, generally with facsimile examples, include those in Greg's Malone Society edition; in Greg, Dramatic Documents, I, 224-5, and II, Plate 2; in R.C. Bald, ‘The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore and its Problems’, SS, 2 (1949), 44-65; in Peter W.M. Blayney, ‘The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore Re-Examined’, SP, 69 (1972), 167-91; in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 23; in Michael L. Hays, ‘Shakespeare's Hand in Sir Thomas More: Some Aspects of the Paleographic Argument’, SSt, 8 (1975), 241-53; in Paul Ramsey, ‘Shakespeare and Sir Thomas More Revisited: or, A Mounty on the Trail’, PBSA, 70 (1976), 333-46; in Giles E. Dawson, ‘Theobald, table/babbled, and Sir Thomas More’, TLS (22 April 1977), p. 484; in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 36; in Giles E. Dawson, ‘Shakespeare's Handwriting’, Shakespeare Survey, 42 (1990), 119-28; in Grace Ioppolo, Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood (London & New York, 2006), pp. 100-9; and elsewhere.
Facsimiles of f. 9r also in English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), No. 6; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 11, p. 23; in Elizabethan Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers, DLB, 62 (Detroit, 1987), p. 407; in William Shakespeare: A Documentary Volume, ed. Catherine Loomis, DLB, 263 (Detroit, 2002), p. 33; in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 55; and elsewhere.
ShW 88.5
MS annotations.
In: the MS described under ShW 44.3. Mid-17th century.
Free Library of Philadelphia, [Shakespeare First Folio], The Tempest, sig. A5r (p. 9).
The Tempest
First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).
—— I, ii, 400-9. Song (‘Full fathom five thy father lies’)
ShW 89.5
Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson.
In: A folio volume of glees with music, 16 leaves. 18th century.
ShW 89.8
Copy of the song in a musical setting.
In: An oblong folio book of vocal music, largely in one hand, 165 leaves, in moder half red morocco. Mid-18th century.
Acquired from Julian Marshall (1836-1903), music and print collector and writer, 1880-81.
ShW 90
Copy of Ariel's song, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson).
In: Two folio leaves, paginated 87-88 and [88bis], detached from a First Treble part book (now Edinburgh University Library, MS Dc. 1. 69), in a single hand. Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer. Mid-late 17th century.
A complete facsimile of these pages is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 8 (New York & London, 1987).
Johnson's setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659). Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 24. Discussed in Cutts, ‘Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69’, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94.
Birmingham Central Library, Acc. No. 57316, Location No. S747.01, p. 87.
ShW 91
Copy in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson).
In: A folio music part book (2nd treble part), viii + 218 pages, in contemporary calf. Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer. c.1650s.
Bookplate of Povert Henley.
ShW 91.5
Copy, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson, 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).
ShW 92
Copy of the song, under a general heading ‘songes [out of added] Shakespeare / The Tempest’.
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 recorded in The Shakespeare Allusion-Book (London, 1932), I, 425-6.
ShW 93
Copies in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson).
In: An oblong octavo music part book, in a single hand, five leaves foliated 9-12 (plus blanks), in half morocco. Compiled by John Playford (1623-86?), being leaves detached from four of his MS autograph music part books, which are now at the University of Glasgow (MS Euing R.d.58-61) and (nine leaves) at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (Halliwell-Phillipps, Shakespearean scrapbooks). c.1660.
Bookplate of William Harrison, F.S.H. Booklabel of William Hayman Cummings, FSA (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Owned (and detached) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Formerly Folger MS 747.
This MS recorded in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 129, 131.
Halliwell-Phillipps, ‘Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Henry V and Twelfth Night’.
ShW 94
Copy (words only).
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).
This MS recorded in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 131-2.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 90, ff. 67v-8r.
ShW 94.5
Copies in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson), untitled.
In: Three oblong quarto music part books (4/a, 4/b, and 4/c), 103, 93, and 75 leaves (including numerous blanks) respectively, in contemporary calf gilt. Principally in a single hand, a second hand responsible for 4/b, ff. 17v-24v, and for 4/c, ff. 5r-12v; the collection largely copies of vocal trios that would appear in John Wilson's Cheereful Ayres (Oxford, 1660). Mid-17th century.
In a collection of MS music books associated with the Filmer family, baronets, of Kent, members of whom included the political philosopher Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653), his brother Edward (d.1650, compiler of French Court Aires, 1628) and son Sir Edward (d.1668), and the playwright Edward Filmer (fl.1700).
Yale Music Library, Misc. MS 170, Filmer MS 4, 4/a f. 20v; 4/b f. 14v; 4/c f. 20r.
—— II, ii, 48-56. Song (‘The master, the swabber, the bos'n, and I’)
ShW 95
Copy of Stephano's song, headed ‘Ibid’.
In: the MS described under ShW 92. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in The Shakespeare Allusion-Book (London, 1932), I, 425-6.
—— II, ii, 185-90. Song (‘No more dams I'll make for fish’)
ShW 96
Copy of Caliban's song, headed ‘Ib.’
In: the MS described under ShW 92. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in The Shakespeare Allusion-Book (London, 1932), I, 425-6.
—— IV, i, 106-17. Song (‘Honour, riches, marriage-blessing’)
ShW 97
Copy of the song sung by Juno and Ceres, headed ‘Ibid’.
In: the MS described under ShW 92. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in The Shakespeare Allusion-Book (London, 1932), I, 425-6.
—— V, i, 88-94. Song (‘Where the bee sucks, there suck I’)
ShW 98
Copy of Ariel's song, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson), the inserted second page (the verso blank) containing three additional stanzas and docketed by Lowe ‘this I had of Madam Trumball at Chalfont: 27 sept. 1676’ and ‘thes supposd to bee made by Mr Smith Secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury’.
In: the MS described under ShW 90. Mid-late 17th century.
Birmingham Central Library, Acc. No. 57316, Location No. S747.01, pp. 88, [88bis] .
ShW 99
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson).
In: the MS described under ShW 42. c.1640s-60s.
This MS reproduced in John H. Long, Shakespeare's Use of Music, II (Gainesville, 1961), 147; collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 132-3.
ShW 100
Copy in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson).
In: the MS described under ShW 91. c.1650s.
ShW 100.5
Copy, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson), untitled.
In: the MS described under ShW 91.5. c.1654-70s.
ShW 101
Copy of the song, headed ‘Ibid’.
In: the MS described under ShW 92. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in The Shakespeare Allusion-Book (London, 1932), I, 425-6.
ShW 102
Copy in: the MS described under ShW 62.8. Late 17th century.
ShW 103
Copies in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson).
In: the MS described under ShW 93. c.1660.
ShW 103.2
Copy, in a musical setting by Pelham Humphrey.
In: A folio song book, in a single hand, 95 pages (slightly misnumbered), in modern boards. c.1720.
Bookplate of William Hayman Cummings, FSA (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1602. Formerly Folger MS cs 1064.
ShW 103.5
Copy, untitled.
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, f. 65v.
ShW 103.8
Copies in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson), untitled.
In: the MS described under ShW 94.5. Mid-17th century.
Yale Music Library, Misc. MS 170, Filmer MS 4, 4/a f. 21r; 4/b f. 15r; 4/c f. 20v.
Titus Andronicus
First published in London, 1594.
ShW 104
Drawing of a scene and the text of speeches by Tamora, Titus and Aaron (I, i, 104-20; V, i, 125-44; I, i, 121, 125), on a single leaf, signed ‘Henricus Peacham’ and endorsed in another hand ‘Henrye Peachams Hande 1595’; the text possibly not in the same hand as the drawing but perhaps copied later from the First Folio (1623). c.1595-c.1630.
In: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in various hands.
This MS discussed in E. K. Chambers, ‘The First Illustration to “Shakespeare”’, The Library, 4th Ser. 5 (1924-5), 326-30, and in John Dover Wilson, ‘“Titus Andronicus” on the Stage in 1595’, SS, 1 (1948), 17-22. Other discussions include G. Harold Metz, ‘Titus Andronicus: A Watermark in the Longleat Manuscript’, Shakespeare Quarterly, 36/4 Winter 1985), 450-3; René Breier, ‘The Longleat Manuscript: Tamora's Great Belly’, ELN, 35/3 (March 1998), 20-2; Herbert Berry, ‘The Date on the “Peacham” Manuscript’, Shakespeare Bulletin, 17/2 (Spring 1999), 5-6; and Richard Levin, ‘The Longleat Manuscript and Titus Andronicus’, Shakespeare Quarterly, 53/3 (Fall 2002), 323-40.
Facsimiles also in Chambers; in W. Moelwyn Merchant, Shakespeare and the Artist (London, 1959), facing p. 16; in S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life (Oxford, 1975), p. 122; in DLB, vol. 62, Elizabethan Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 302; in William Shakespeare: A Documentary Volume, ed. Catherine Loomis, DLB, 263 (Detroit, 2002), p. 43; and elsewere.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Harley Papers, Vol. I, f. 159v.
ShW 105
Extracts.
In: the MS described under ShW 61. c.1604-9.
Printed from this MS in Savage, Shakespearean Extracts, pp. 8-9.
Twelfth Night
First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).
ShW 106
Copy, untitled, with stage directions in another hand, derived from the Second Folio (London, 1632). 13 June 1694.
In: the MS described under ShW 38. 1694/5.
This MS described in Evans, PQ, 41 (1962).
ShW 106.5
Pages 255-75 from a Shakespeare Second Folio (1632), marked up for use as a promptbook for an unidentified theatre production. Late 17th century?.
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, and in the Warwick Castle Library.
Shattuck, p. 469 (No. 1).
ShW 106.8
Pages 255-75 from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), marked up for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. c.1670s.
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.
Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VIII (Charlottesville, VA, 1996).
Twelfth Night, II, iii, lines 41-6, 49-54. Song (‘O mistress mine, where are you roaming?’)
The Clown's song.
ShW 108.2
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
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.
ShW 108.3
Copy of the song, in a musical setting, headed ‘Glee for five Voices/ 1788’.
In: An oblong folio volume of part-songs, madrigals, glees, etc., the second in a set of three part books, in a single hand, 214 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. c.1780-1833.
Bookplate of Julian Marshall (1836-1903), music and print collector and writer.
ShW 108.4
Copy of the Clown's song, in a musical setting.
In: A virginal book, probably compiled by Francis Tregian (the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book). c.1609-19.
Twelfth Night, II, iii, line 105. Song (‘Farewell dear heart, since I must needs be gone’)
Sir Toby Belch's song.
ShW 108.5
Copy of the song, here beginning ‘ffarewell Deare loue since I mvst needes begone’, in a secretary hand, on one side of a folio leaf, the verso bearing in the same hand ‘The Answere’ (beginning ‘Let me chose farewell vntill we next doe meete’). c.1600.
Among the papers of the Jervoise family, of Herriard Park, and probably owned by Sir Thomas Jervoise (1588-1654).
Edited from this MS in Charles Murray Willis, Shakespeare and George Puttenham's Arte of English Poesie (St Leonards-on-Sea, 2003), pp. 250-3, with a two-page facsimile.
ShW 108.6
Copy of the song, in a musical setting.
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.
Edited from this MS in J. Stafford Smith, Musica Antiqua (London, 1812), II, 204-5.
The Winter's Tale
First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).
ShW 108.7
Pages 277-303 from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), with cuts made for use at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. c.1670s.
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.
Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VIII (Charlottesville, VA, 1996).
The Winter's Tale, IV, iv, 218-30. Song (‘Lawn as white as driven snow’)
ShW 109
Copy of Autolycus's song in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under ShW 91. c.1650s.
This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).
ShW 110
Copy in a musical setting (? by John Wilson), untitled.
In: Leaves extracted from three oblong quarto music part books, now interleaved, in modern half red crushed morocco on marbled boards. c.1675.
Owned (and extracted) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of Warwick Castle Library.
—— IV, iv, 294-309. Song (‘Get you hence, for I must go’)
ShW 111
Copy of the song sung by Autolycus, Dorcas and Mopsa, with a second verse, in a musical setting possibly by Robert Johnson.
In: the MS described under ShW 94. c.1640s.
Edited from this MS in J.P. Cutts, ‘An Unpublished Contemporary Setting of a Shakespeare Song’, SS, 9 (1956), 86-9, and in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 19.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 142, ff. 131v-3v.
ShW 112
Copy, in a musical setting possibly 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, pp. 17-18. Facsimile in John H. Long, Shakespeare's Use of Music, II (Gainesville, 1961), 138-9.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4175, No. lix.
The Winter's Tale, IV, iii, 120-3. Song (‘Jog on, jog on, thy foot-path way’)
ShW 112.8
Copy of Autolycus's 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.
Miscellaneous Extracts from Shakespeare's Works
Extracts
ShW 113
Extracts from various plays.
In: the MS described under ShW 48.5. c.1655-6.
A facsimile of a quotation from Henry V in Tianhu, p. 378.
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, ‘Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare’, passim.
ShW 114
An oblong quarto booklet of four leaves, in a single mixed hand, in double columns, entitled Hesperides or The Muses Garden, in modern half-morocco marbled boards. Comprising two pages of extracts under ‘A’ subject headings, followed by six pages of ‘A Catalogue of the Bookes from whence these Collections were extracted’, including titles of works by Shakespeare, Bacon, and many others, this being a fragment of the large anthology of dramatic extracts by John Evans dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, other portions of which are Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger MS V.a.79, and Folger MS V.a.80, with another version of the whole anthology in Folger MS V.b.93. c.1655-6.
Bookplate of the Shakespeare Library at Warwick Castle.
This, Folger MS V.a.78, and Folger MS V.a.80 are recorded as Nos. 133, 173, and 313 in James O. Halliwell, A Brief Hand-list of Books, Manuscripts, etc. illustrative of the Life and Writings of Shakespeare; collected between the years 1842 and 1859 (London, 1859).
Discussed in Hao Tianhu, ‘Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden and its Manuscript History’, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/4 (December 2009), 372-404, the full catalogue printed as ‘Catalogue H’ on pp. 395-402.
ShW 115
Numerous extracts.
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).
ShW 116
Quotations from Shakespeare (including Henry VI, King Lear, and A Midsummer Night's Dream).
In: An octavo commonplace book of extracts, in English and Latin, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, written from both ends, ii + 456 pages (pp. 121-96 blank). Late 17th century.
ShW 117
Brief quotations from Shakespeare (including All's Well that Ends Well, Henry IV, King John and Troilus and Cressida).
In: the MS described under ShW 37. Late 17th century.
ShW 118
Allusions to Shakespeare, and quotations from various of his works, including Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, and Richard III, in a contemporary copy of the academic plays The Pilgrimage to Parnassus and The First Part of The Returne from Parnassus, in a non-professional secretary hand. c.1598-1602.
In: A folio composite volume of letters, verses, academic plays and other documents, in various hands and paper sizes, 253 leaves, in 18th-century black half-calf.
Assembled by Thomas Hearne (178-1735), antiquary, who has inscribed a slip attached to the front pastedown ‘Tho: Hearne Junij 21o. 1709’.
This MS printed in facsimile in the Old English Drama Students' Facsimile series, 1912. The two plays were first edited by W.D. Macray in 1886. For the third part of the trilogy, see Folger, MS V.a.355. Edited from the MSS and printed sources by J.B. Leishman in The Three Parnassus Plays (1598-1601) (London, 1949).
ShW 119
A serious of extracts from some 37 plays.
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.
ShW 120
The cuttings including extracts from All's Well that Ends Well, As You Like It, Loves Labours Lost, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, and Two Gentlemen of Verona.
In: A quarto scrapbook containing pasted-in cuttings from a large anthology of extracts from dramatic works in a single mixed hand, sixteen leaves, in modern half -morocco marbled boards. A fragment of the large anthology of dramatic extracts by John Evans dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, other portions of which are Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger MS V.a.75, and Folger MS V.a.80, with another version of the whole anthology in Folger MS V.b.93. c.1655-6.
Bookplate of the Shakespeare Library at Warwick Castle.
ShW 121
The cuttings including extracts from All's Well that Ends Well, A Comedy of Errors, Measure for Measure, The Tempest, and A Winter's Tale.
In: A small quarto scrapbook containing pasted-in cuttings from a large anthology of extracts from dramatic works in a single mixed hand, seventeen leaves, in modern half-morocco marbled boards. A fragment of the large anthology of dramatic extracts by John Evans dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, other portions of which are Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger MS V.a.75, and Folger MS V.a.79, with another version of the whole anthology in Folger MS V.b.93. c.1655-6.
Bookplate of the Shakespeare Library at Warwick Castle.
This, Folger MS V.a.75, and Folger MS V.a.78 are recorded as Nos. 133, 173, and 313 in James O. Halliwell, A Brief Hand-list of Books, Manuscripts, etc. illustrative of the Life and Writings of Shakespeare; collected between the years 1842 and 1859 (London, 1859).
ShW 122
Copy in: An oblong quarto verse miscellany, in three accomplished secretary hands, xvi + 52 pages (including blanks), being a fragment of a larger volume, now mounted in an album, in russia gilt. c.1590-1600s.
Inscribed (on an affixed slip of paper) ‘Anne Cornwaleys her booke’ [i.e. probably Anne Cornwallis (d.1635), who on 30 November 1610 became Countess of Argyll]; (p. 34) ‘Ed Philips his Book 1740’; ‘Robert Thomas not his Book 1740’; (p. [xvi]); ‘Sam: Lysons’ [i.e. Samuel Lysons (1763-1819), antiquary]. Afterwards owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Bright sale, Part II (18 June 1844), to Thorpe. Then owned by Dr Thomas Russell and his son the Rev. John Fuller Russell (1813-84), ecclesiastical historian (who has signed the MS ‘John F. Russell’ on p.[i]); by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, and then in the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.112.
Discussed in William H. Bond, ‘The Cornwallis-Lysons Manuscript and the Poems of John Bentley’, Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), pp. 683-93, and 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. (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57.
ShW 124
Numerous extracts from Shakespeare's plays, including apocrypha.
In: A quarto commonplace book of extracts illustrating specified topics, largely in a single cursive hand, entitled Miscellanea Tragica Theatrical Index of Sentimts. & Descriptions Vol. 7, 244 pages (including blanks, plus a seven-page index and further blanks), in quarter crushed morocco on marbled boards. Inscribed ‘W. Harte 1726’: i.e. by Walter Harte (1709-41), compiler of the MS, which also has his bookplate. c.1726.
Documents
Document(s)
*ShW 125
Shakespeare's signature, in a cursive secretary hand, on a deposition in the case of Belott versus Mountjoy, 11 May 1612. Twenty-five other documents relating to the case, many mentioning Shakespeare, are REQ 4/1/3. 1612.
Facsimile in S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life (New York, 1975), p. 212.
National Archives, Kew, REQ 4/1/4/1 (Court of Requests: William Shakespeare: Documents).
*ShW 126
Shakespeare's signature on a conveyance of the Blackfriars Gatehouse, on a membrane of vellum, 10 March 1612/13. 1613.
Formerly in the Guildhall Library.
Unfolding facsimile in S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life (New York, 1975), pp. 221-2. Facsimile also in William Shakespeare: A Documentary Volume, ed. Catherine Loomis, DLB, 263 (Detroit, 2002), p. 220; and elsewhere.
*ShW 127
Shakespeare's signature on the mortgage of the Blackfriars Gate-House, on a membrane of vellum, 11 March 1612/13. 1613.
Unfolding facsimile in S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life (New York, 1975), pp. 225-6. Facsimile also in William Shakespeare: A Documentary Volume, ed. Catherine Loomis, DLB, 263 (Detroit, 2002), p. 218. Discussed in R.C. Bald, ‘The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore and its problems’, Shakespeare Survey, 2 (1949), 44-65; and elsewhere.
Will
ShW 128
Shakespeare's last will and testament, in the cursive secretary hand of a legal clerk or scrivener, signed by Shakespeare in a shaky hand three times on three separate pages, the last ‘By me William Shakspeare’, dated 25 March 1616, proved 22 June 1616. 1616.
Facsimiles in S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life (New York, 1975), pp. 243-5; in William Shakespeare: A Documentary Volume, ed. Catherine Loomis, DLB, 263 (Detroit, 2002), pp. 245-7; and elsewhere.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
ShW 129
A printed exemplum of Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-Speare. Gent. (London, 1640), with extensive MS emendations and alterations throughout in an unidentified hand. Late 17th century.
Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1027, ‘English Poetry before 1701’ (1982), item 192, with a facsimile opening facing p. 64.