Verse
(1) Poems by Sidney not in Arcadia
Astrophil and Stella
First published in London, 1591. Ringler, pp. 163-237.
SiP 1
Copy of sonnets 1-20, 105-8, and songs viii and xi, in a predominantly roman hand, f. 31r in another roman hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Louing in [truth and faine] in verse my loue to shou’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in nine secretary and italic hands, 42 leaves (including blanks), in old marbled boards within modern reversed calf. Late 1580s.
Inscribed names (on front pastedown) ‘John [?]roper’ and (f. 40r) ‘ffraunces [?]ington of the [?]’. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author (with a note by him on f. 39r). Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 240.
This MS (the ‘Bright MS’) described in Ringler, pp. 538-9.
This MS collated in Ringler.
SiP 2
Copy of sonnets 1-66, 87-108, and songs i, ix-xi, in one or possibly two professional secretary hands, untitled, imperfect, 53 oblong quarto leaves (plus some blanks), in 19th-century brown calf gilt. Made by or for Sir Edward Dymoke (c.1559-1624), of Scrivelsby and Kyme, Lincolnshire (inscribed ‘Ed Dymoke’ on f. 3r). c.late 1580s-early 1590s.
Later owned by William Drummond of Hawthornden, with his title-page (‘Astrophil and Stella Written by Sr Philip Sidney Knight’, repeated on ff. 3v and blank 60r) and his record of presentation to Edinburgh College.
This MS collated in Ringler and described pp. 539-40. Facsimile of f. 10v (Sonnet 13) in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), Plate VIII facing p. 273.
SiP 3
Copy of sonnets 1-23, 26-7, 29-34, 36, 38-9, 41-4, 47-108 (in an irregular order), headed ‘Sonnetts wrytten by Sr Phillipp Sydney Knight’.
In: A tall folio miscellany of verse and prose, including a series of ‘Pithie sentences and wise sayinges’, largely in a secretary hand, iv + 120 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary dark brown calf on wooden boards (rebacked), with remains of brass clasps. Compiled principally by William Briton (1564-1637), of Kelston, Somerset. c.1586-1605.
Once owned by members of the Harington family, including John Harington, MP (d.1654). Acquired by Quaritch in 1932 and in their centenary sale catalogue (1947), item 198. Booklabel of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 12 June 1980 (Houghton sale), lot 427.
This MS collated in Ringler and described pp. 540-2. Facsimile example in Christie's sale catalogue, 12 June 1980, Plate 33.
SiP 4
Extracts.
In: An octavo volume of miscellaneous entries, 266 pages. Volume X of the miscellaneous collections of Brian Twyne (1579?-1644). Early 17th century.
SiP 4.5
Extracts.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in an accomplished mixed hand throughout, with headings or incipts in engrossed lettering, 194 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. c.1596-1601.
This MS volume discussed in Katherine K. Gottschalk, ‘Discoveries concerning British Library MS Harley 6910’, MP, 77 (1979-80), 121-31.
—— Sonnet 1 (‘Loving in truth, and faine in verse my love to show’)
Ringler, p. 165.
SiP 5
Copy, in the hand of Sir John Harington, headed ‘Sonnettes of Sr Phillip Sydneys [vppon deleted] to ye Lady Ritch’.
In: A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain. Mid-late 16th century.
This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, ‘The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents’, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.
A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 223, pp. 254-5. Collated in Ringler.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 155r.
—— Sonnet 17 (‘His mother deare Cupid offended late’)
Ringler, p. 173.
SiP 5.3
Copy of lines 13-14, untitled, in an idiosyncratic type of abbreviated writing, here beginning ‘And streight therewt like’, derived from an early quarto edition.
In: Extracts from Sidney, in a predominantly secretary hand, on the verso of the first rear endpaper in a printed exemplum of Bernardo Tasso, Le lettere (Venice, 1585), an octavo in quarter calf on marbled boards. Early 17th century.
Inscribed on the title-page by Rowland Woodward (1573-1637), friend of John Donne, with Woodward's motto ‘De juegos el mejor es con la hoja’. MS label ‘The Earl of Westmorland 1856’. Formerly Folger MS Add. 1216.
Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 8191.
—— Sonnet 21 (‘Your words my friend (right healthfull caustiks) blame’)
Ringler, p. 175.
SiP 5.5
Copy of parts of lines 3-4, untitled, in an idiosyncratic type of abbreviated writing, here beginning ‘my ow wri lik bad sr shew my b~’, derived from an early quarto edition.
In: the MS described under SiP 5.3. Early 17th century.
—— Sonnet 28 (‘You that with allegorie's curious frame’)
Ringler, pp. 178-9.
SiP 5.8
Copy of lines 11-14, untitled, in an idiosyncratic type of abbreviated writing, here beginning ‘Look at my h~ f n suc quintce but kno y I in’, derived from an early quarto edition.
In: the MS described under SiP 5.3. Early 17th century.
—— Sonnet 37 (‘My mouth doth water, and my breast doth swell’)
Ringler, p. 183.
SiP 6
Copy of lines 5-9, 12-14, headed ‘Laydie Rich:’ and here beginning ‘Towardes Auroras courte a Nymph did dwell’.
In: A folio composite volume of verse and some prose, in various hands, v + 179 leaves, in early 18th-century half-calf.
With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 473.
—— Sonnet 75 (‘Of all the kings that ever here did raigne’)
Ringler, p. 204.
SiP 6.5
Copy of sonnet 75, concerning Edward IV, here introduced ‘Of whome the Noble Sr Phillip Sydney in a pleasant Sonnet giues this testimonye’, and here beginning ‘Of all the King's that euer heer did raigne’.
In: A quarto volume, comprising a treatise by Sir John Harington, to which was subsequently added (pp. 263-8), in a cursive secretary hand, after 1623, a tract relating to a prognostication by Sebalt Brandt Schweizer, xiv + 268 pages, in contemporary vellum. The treatise in the hands of Harington's ‘servant’ Thomas Combe and of Harington's brother Francis. 1602 (and later).
Edited from this MS in H.R. Woudhuysen, ‘Astrophel and Stella 75: A “New” Text’, RES, NS 37 (1986), 388-92.
—— Song ii (‘Have I caught my heav'nly jewell’)
Ringler, pp. 202-3.
SiP 7
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
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).
Ringler, pp. 202-3. Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, ‘Falstaff's “Heauenlie Iewel”: Incidental Music for The Merry Wives of Windsor’, SQ, 11 (1960), 89-92. Recorded in Ringler, p. 480.
SiP 7.5
Copy of lines 9-12, 21-9, untitled, in an idiosyncratic type of abbreviated writing, here beginning ‘hir tongu wak stil refu. giv frank nig no’, derived from an early quarto edition.
In: the MS described under SiP 5.3. Early 17th century.
—— Song iv (‘Onely joy, now here you are’)
Ringler, pp. 210-11.
SiP 8
Copy, headed ‘A song’, subscribed ‘Finis. S. P. S.’.
In: A quarto miscellany chiefly of verse, largely in a single secretary hand, compiled by a Cambridge student, vii + 130 leaves, in later calf. c.1586-91.
This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as ‘The John Finett miscellany’. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.
This MS collated in Ringler.
—— Song vi (‘O you that heare this voice’)
Ringler, pp. 215-17.
SiP 9
Copies, largely of the incipit only, (i) with the full text, all in a musical setting by William Byrd, untitled.
In: A set of five oblong octavo music part books for five voices, namely (i) Cantus, (ii) Medius, (iii) Tenor, (iv) Bassus, and (v) Quintus, the lyrics in a single neat italic hand, respectively 58, 56, 56, 56, and 56 leaves, each volume in modern red morocco. Early 17th century.
Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.
Byrd's setting first published in his Psalmes, Sonets, & songs of sadnes and pietie (1588). These MSS recorded in Ringler, pp. 447, 566.
SiP 10
Copy of the incipit only, in a musical setting by William Byrd.
In: An oblong folio volume of musical works, the lyrics almost entirely in a single neat italic hand, with (ff. 1r-2r, 99r-v) a table of contents, 99 leaves, in contemporary brown calf, both covers stamped in gilt ‘Edwardvs Paston’. c.1611.
Sotheby's, 28 November 1882.
This MS recorded in Ringler, pp. 447, 566.
SiP 10.5
Copy of the ‘Sixt song’, untitled, here beginning ‘O ye that heare this voice’.
In: A quarto booklet of verse, ff. 1r-10r in a cursive secretary hand, additions afterwards in other hands, sixteen leaves (ff. 12-13 stubs), unbound. Early 17th century.
Owned in 1781 by the Rev. John Williams (1760-1826), of Llanrwst.
—— Song viii (‘In a grove most rich of shade’)
Ringler, pp. 217-21.
SiP 11
Copy of lines 1-36, 41-104, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis Sr P. Sydneye’.
In: the MS described under SiP 8. c.1586-91.
This MS collated in Ringler.
SiP 12.5
Copy of lines 45-8, 53-66, untitled, in an idiosyncratic type of abbreviated writing, here beginning ‘grt o grt but spe (al) fail me fear on to pas’, derived from an early quarto edition.
In: the MS described under SiP 5.3. Early 17th century.
—— Song ix (‘Go my flocke, go get you hence’)
Ringler, pp. 221-2.
SiP 13
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, 63 leaves, partly mounted on guards, in modern quarter-calf on marbled boards. Compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, including George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon. c.1581-1612.
A complete transcription of this volume in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75 (New York, 1988).
This MS collated in Ringler. May, Stanford, pp. 168-70 (No. 237).
SiP 14
Copy of a version beginning ‘I never laid me downe to rest’, in a musical setting by Robert Taylor.
In: A folio volume of largely vocal music, mainly in a single secretary hand, 120 pages, in mottled calf. Early 17th century.
Complete facsimile in Jorgens, VI (1987).
This MS recorded in Ringler, pp. 486, 566.
—— Song x (‘O deare life, when shall it be’)
Ringler, pp. 225-7.
SiP 15
Copy in the hand of Sir John Harington, subscribed ‘Sr Phillip Syd: to the bewty of the worlde’.
In: the MS described under SiP 5. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 71, pp. 116-17. Collated in Ringler.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 36v.
SiP 16
Copy of lines 1-20, 25-48, untitled, subscribed ‘finis: Britton’.
In: the MS described under SiP 8. c.1586-91.
This MS collated in Ringler.
SiP 16.5
Copy of the ‘Tenth Song’, in a secretary hand, words only, untitled here beginning ‘O deare life, when shall it be’.
In: A folio volume of music and verse, in several secretary and italic hands, 46 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in 19th-century half brown calf on marbled boards. Early 17th century.
Inscriptions including (f. 1v) ‘Richard Shinton his booke Witnis Thomas ffowke’; (f. 40r, in a court hand) ‘Thomas Shinton of Woluerhamt’; (f. 42v) ‘Richard Shinton this Booke did owe. And John Congreue the Same doth know / 1633’, ‘Richard Congreve’, ‘Jane Hart is my name’; and (f. 44v) ‘Martha Congreve’, and ‘Elizabeth Congreve Writ this’. Purchased from Thomas Rodd, bookseller, 13 April 1844.
SiP 17
Copies, largely of the incipit only, (i) with the full text, all in a musical setting by William Byrd, untitled.
In: the MS described under SiP 9. Early 17th century.
Byrd's setting first published in his Songs of sundrie natures (1589). This MS recorded in Ringler, pp. 447, 566.
SiP 18
Copy of the incipit only, in a musical setting by William Byrd.
In: the MS described under SiP 10. c.1611.
This MS recorded in Ringler, pp. 447, 566.
—— Song xi (‘Who is it that this darke night’)
Ringler, pp. 233-5.
SiP 18.5
Copy of the song in an abridged and garbled version, untitled and here beginning ‘Who is it that this Darcke nighte’, 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, pp. 171-2.
Certain Sonnets
First published in Arcadia (London, 1598). Ringler, pp. 133-62.
SiP 19
Copy of sonnets 1-4, 6-24, 26-8, and 31 (in an irregular order), headed ‘Certein lowse Sonnettes and songes’.
In: Copy of Arcadia, i + 247 folio leaves, imperfect, in 17th-century panelled calf (rebacked). Probably in three secretary hands: A, ff. 1r-183v, 197r to the bottom of f. 240v; B, ff. 184r-92v; C, ff. 193r-6v, bottom of f. 240v to 246r. c.1580s.
This MS collated in Ringler. Facsimile of f. 246r in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), Plate VI after p. 272.
SiP 20
Copy of sonnets 3-32, headed ‘Dyuers and sondry Sonettes’, here beginning ‘The ffyer to see my wronges for anger burneth’.
In: Copy of Arcadia (the ‘Clifford MS’), in a single professional secretary hand, 229 folio leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Late 16th century.
Inscribed (f. [iir]) ‘Arthur trogmorton’ and ‘Henry Clifford’. Hodgson's, 13 December 1906, to Dobell. Later owned by William Augustus White (1843-1927), American banker and collector. Acquired in 1940.
This MS collated in Ringler.
SiP 21
Copy of sonnets 8 (lines 1, 4-10), 9 (lines 1-7), 10 (lines 1-4), 11 (lines 1-8), 12 (lines 7-9, 16), 15, 16, 17 (lines 11-12, 14-15, 17-20, 27-45, 48-52), 18 (lines 3-4, 13-14,), 19 (lines 3-4, 6), 21, 22 (lines 9-10, 62-3, 65-8), 23 (lines 16-20, 25-6, 29-32), 24 (lines 6-7, 12-13, 15-16, 22-7), 26 (lines 16-22, 27-33), 27, 30 (lines 4-6, 12-16, 23-6), 31, transcribed from a printed edition.
In: A folio composite miscellany of verse and prose, compiled entirely by William Drummond, 403 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt. c.1606-14.
Among the working papers and collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VII.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 560.
National Library of Scotland, MS 2059, ff. 292r-4r, 295v-6r.
SiP 22
Copy of sonnets 1-2, 13-25, 31, 32 (in an irregular order).
In: An unbound sheaf of six folio leaves of poems, in a neat secretary hand, in double columns. Among papers of Adam Ottley (1685-1752), Registrar of the diocese of St David's, Wales, and formerly in Pitchford Hall, Shropshire. c.1580s.
This MS discussed. with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, ‘Poems by Sir Philip Sidney: The Ottley Manuscript’, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 284-95. See also correspondence with Jean Robertson in The Library, 6th Ser. (June 1980) and (June 1981).
—— Sonnet 1 (‘Since shunning paine, I ease can never find’)
Ringler, p. 135.
SiP 23
Copy in: the MS described under SiP 5. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 176, p. 214. Collated in Ringler.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 130r.
—— Sonnet 3 (‘The fire to see my wrongs for anger burneth’)
Ringler, pp. 136-7.
SiP 24
Copy in: the MS described under SiP 5. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 67, pp. 111-12 (where the hand is mistakenly described as that of Sir John Harington). Collated in Ringler.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 34r.
SiP 25
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis S. P. S.’
In: the MS described under SiP 8. c.1586-91.
This MS collated in Ringler.
SiP 25.5
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘qd Ph. S.’
In: A tall folio volume, comprising a transcript of ‘Dr Harington's Manuscript No. 2’: i.e. of The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. (the ‘Arundel-Harington MS’). c.1810.
Owned by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor.
Typed and MS notes relating to this volume made in the 1920s by Professor Hyder Edward Rollins (1889-1958) are in Harvard MS Eng 1613.
SiP 26
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘FINIS. Sr P. Sy.’
In: A quarto composite verse miscellany, comprising three miscellaneous MSS in different hands, 151 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Fols 11r-78r, largely in a single secretary hand, comprising a verse miscellany compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1585-90s.
This MS collated in Ringler.
SiP 27
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under SiP 13. c.1581-1612.
This MS collated in Ringler. May, Stanford, pp. 80-1 (No. 107).
SiP 28
Copy of the incipit only.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, originally in calf, now disbound.
This MS recorded in Ringler.
Cambridge University Library, MS Kk. 1. 5 (2), [unspecified page number].
SiP 29
Copy, headed ‘Non credo gia che piu infelice am'te’.
In: Copy of the Old Arcadia, in a professional secretary hand, to which is added some of the Certain Sonnets in an italic hand, 242 folio leaves, in contemorary vellum, with traces of ties, within modern vellum. Late 16th century.
Inscribed (f. 3r) ‘Will. Walker of Chiswick in Middlesex bought this Booke among other Manuscripts of the Executor of Sr Edmonde Scorie Knight And now possesses it AD 1633.’ and (f. 239v) ‘This Manuscript wth many others were bought of Mr Busbie executor to Sr Edmonde Scorie Knight by Will. Walker Theol. Bac:’. Later owned by Thomas Wagstaffe (1645-1712), nonjuror bishop, and by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary.
This MS collated in Ringler.
—— Sonnet 5 (‘O my thoughtes' sweete foode, my onely owner’)
Ringler, p. 138.
SiP 30
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under SiP 29. Late 16th century.
This MS collated in Ringler.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS I. 7 (James 308), f. 241r-v.
—— Sonnet 6 (‘Sleepe Babie mine, Desire, nurse Beautie singeth’)
Ringler, p. 139.
*SiP 31
Autograph verses inscribed by Sidney.
In: A printed exemplum of a work by Jean Bouchet.
Sotheby's, 11 June 1849 (Duke of Buckingham's intended sale), lot 769. Waller, ‘Catalogue of a highly interesting and valuable collection of autograph letters’ [February 1859], item 139. Later owned by Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Raphael King, London, sale catalogue (January 1951).
Facsimile in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 14.
Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, Cologny-Geneva, Switzerland, [no shelfmark], last page.
SiP 32
Copy, headed ‘To the tune of Basciam vita mia’.
In: the MS described under SiP 29. Late 16th century.
This MS collated in Ringler.
—— Sonnets 8-11 (‘The scourge of life, and death's extreame disgrace’)
Ringler, pp. 140-2.
SiP 33
Copy of four sonnets, headed ‘These 4 Sonnets followinge wer made by Sr. P: Sidney when his Ladye hadd a payne [the small pox added in another hand] in her face’ and subscribed ‘finis. Sr P: S:’.
In: the MS described under SiP 8. c.1586-91.
This MS collated in Ringler.
—— Sonnet 12 (‘You better sure shall live, not evermore’)
Ringler, pp. 142-3.
SiP 34
Copy, headed ‘A translation of Horace his 10th Ode of ye second booke ab Licinium’, on a leaf inserted after p. 476 in a printed exemplum of Arcadia (London, 1598). 17th century.
SiP 34.5
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo volume, chiefly devoted to Colvil's ‘Mock poem’, in a single small hand, with verses etc. in English and Latin added afterwards, written from both ends, 86 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1680.
Scribbling (f. ir-v) includes the names ‘George Hay’ and ‘Laurence Oliphant’.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 2, ff. 7v-8r rev.
Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 13 (‘Unto no body my woman saith she had rather a wife be’)
Ringler, p. 143.
SiP 34.8
Copy, untitled, preceded by the original Latin headed ‘Out of Catullus’.
In: the MS described under SiP 34.5. c.1680.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 2, f. 8r rev.
—— Sonnet 15 (‘Like as the Dove which seeled up doth flie’)
Ringler, p. 144.
SiP 35
Copy, transcribed from the edition of 1598.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 114 leaves, bound with a printed exemplum of Thomas Watson's <GREEK> or Passionate Centurie of Love (London, [1581?]). Compiled by John Lilliat (c.1550-c.1599). c.1590s.
This MS volume printed in full, with facsimile examples, in Liber Lilliati: Elizabethan Verse and Song (Bodleian MS Rawlinson Poetry 148), ed. Edward Doughtie (Newark, DE, 1985).
This MS recorded in Ringler, pp. 424, 558.
SiP 36
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Vppon the Deuise of a seeled Doue Wth these of Petrarch…’.
In: An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in several secretary, italic and mixed hands, 190 leaves (irregularly numbered), in contemporary limp vellum. c.1580s-1615.
Inscribed (inside front and rear covers) ‘Robert Thornton’ and ‘William Sherida / Wm Sheridan.’
This MS collated in Ringler.
—— Sonnet 16 (‘A Satyre once did runne away for dread’)
Ringler, p. 145.
SiP 37
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis S. P. S.’
In: the MS described under SiP 8. c.1586-91.
This MS collated in Ringler.
SiP 38
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘FYNIS. SY’.
In: the MS described under SiP 26.
This MS collated in Ringler.
SiP 39
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘S p. Sydney’.
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.
This MS collated in Ringler.
—— Sonnet 19 (‘If I could thinke how these my thoughts to leave’)
Ringler, pp. 147-8.
SiP 42
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.
In: the MS described under SiP 36. c.1580s-1615.
This MS collated in Ringler.
SiP 43
Copy, in a second secretary hand, untitled.
In: the MS described under SiP 29. Late 16th century.
This MS collated in Ringler.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS I. 7 (James 308), f. 241r-2.
—— Sonnet 21 (‘Finding those beames, which I must ever love’)
Ringler, p. 149.
SiP 44
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis. Mr Nowell’.
In: the MS described under SiP 8. c.1586-91.
This MS collated in Ringler.
—— Sonnet 22. The 7. Wonders of England (‘Neere Wilton sweete, huge heapes of stones are found’)
Ringler, pp. 149-51.
SiP 45
Copy, headed ‘loue fashyoned to 7: Wonders of Englande’, subscribed ‘finis: Incertus author’.
In: the MS described under SiP 8. c.1586-91.
This MS collated in Ringler.
SiP 45.5
Copy, headed ‘The Seven Wonders of England’.
In: the MS described under SiP 34.5. c.1680.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 2, ff. 8v-9v rev.
SiP 46
Copy, in a secretary hand.
In: the MS described under SiP 36. c.1580s-1615.
This MS collated in Ringler.
—— Sonnet 23 (‘Who hath his fancie pleased’)
Ringler, pp. 151-2.
SiP 48
Copy of lines 1-32, in double columns, untitled and here beginning ‘Whoso hath fancye pleased’.
In: the MS described under SiP 4.5. c.1596-1601.
This MS collated in Ringler.
SiP 50
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘To the tune of Wyllielm Van Nassaw, &c.’.
In: the MS described under SiP 36. c.1580s-1615.
This MS collated in Ringler.
—— Sonnet 25 (‘When to my deadlie pleasure’)
Ringler, pp. 154-5.
SiP 51
Copy of lines 27-34, untitled and here beginning ‘Thus do I fall to ryse thus’.
In: the MS described under SiP 8. c.1586-91.
This MS collated in Ringler.
SiP 52
Copy of a six-line paraphrase of lines 30-4, untitled and beginning ‘Sweet I cannot be from you’.
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.
Edited from this MS in Ringler, p. 431.
—— Sonnet 27. To the tune of a Neapolitan Villanell (‘Al my sense thy sweetnesse gained’)
Ringler, pp. 156-7.
SiP 53
Copy in: the MS described under SiP 5. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 192, pp. 239-40. Collated in Ringler.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 145r.
—— Sonnet 30 (‘Ring out your belles, let mourning shewes be spread’)
Ringler, pp. 159-61.
SiP 54
Copy in: the MS described under SiP 5. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 196, pp. 241-2. Collated in Ringler.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 146r.
SiP 55
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on one side of a folio leaf, once folded as a letter, endorsed by Edward Bannister ‘A Dyttye mad by Sr phillpe sydnye gevene me Att pvttenye In svrrye Decembris xo Anno 1584’, with the name (of the donor) ‘Sr phillyppe Sydnye’. c.1584.
In: A tall folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 195 leaves, mounted on guards, in half-morocco. Compiled chiefly by members of the Caryll family. Early 17th century (Vol. I); Late 17th-early 18th century (Dorset).
Presented by Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, first Baronet, MP (1810-69).
This MS collated in Ringler.
SiP 56
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Ringe forth yor Belles, let morninge tunes be spred’, subscribed ‘FINIS qd Sr. Ph. Syd’.
In: the MS described under SiP 26.
This MS collated in Ringler.
SiP 57
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under SiP 13. c.1581-1612.
This MS collated in Ringler. May, Stanford, pp. 79-80 (No. 106).
SiP 58
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under SiP 29. Late 16th century.
This MS collated in Ringler.
—— Sonnet 32 (‘Leave me o Love, which reachest but to dust’)
Ringler, pp. 161-2.
SiP 59
Copy 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.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 557.
SiP 60
Copy of lines 1-4 written in a later hand (probably that of a vicar).
In: the MS described under SiP 59. c.1604-9.
SiP 60.5
Copy, in Alice Thornton's hand, headed ‘An inducement to Loue Heauen’.
In: Autograph MS of the Autobiography of Alice Thornton, including some verses, 303 duodecimo pages, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1668.
Inscribed on a flyfeaf ‘Ex Libris Tho. Comber De Creech St. Michael in Comitatu Somerset 1789. 1800. The Contents of this Book are written by the hand of Mrs Alice Thornton, the Great Great Grandmother of me Thomas Comber 1789’. Owned in 1875 by a descendant of Alice Thornton, the Rev. Henry George Wandesford Comber, MA, Rector of Oswaldkirk. Sotheby's, 21 July 1980, lot 63, unsold. Sotheby's, 29 June 1982, lot 17, to Quaritch, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue. Then owned by Paula Peyraud, New York State. Bloomsbury Auctions, New York, 6 May 2009, lot 464.
A microfilm of this MS is also in the British Library, RP 2346.
Presumably edited from this MS in Jackson, p. 178?
SiP 61
Copy, untitled, in an ungainly roman hand.
In: A folio volume comprising two MSS bound together, the first (iii + 323 leaves) a 15th-century MS of John Lydgate's Destruction of Troy, the second (v + 82 leaves, including blanks) a verse miscellany in various hands, in modern quarter-calf on marbled boards. The volume owned and possibly partly compiled by Sir James Murray, of Tibbermure, or by someone in his household, dated at the end ‘anno 1612 ye 24 of Maij’.
Inscriptions including ‘Marie Moorray wt my hand’,‘Kathrin Morton with my hand’, and ‘Capitane James Lyell’.
This MS collated in Ringler, p. 554. Facsimile of f. 71v in Sebastiaan Verweij, ‘Ten Sonnets from Scotland: Text, Context and Coterie Writing in Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.5.30’, EMS, 16 (2011), 141-169 (p. 141).
Cambridge University Library, MS Kk. 5. 30 , Item 2, ff. 71v-2r.
SiP 62
Copy, a name deleted and then ‘Sir ffrancis Bacon’ written as a heading.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in two neat mixed hands, with subsequent additions in other hands, 32 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco. Probably compiled in Scotland by members of the Rutherford family. c.1680-1710.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Mr Gideon Rutherford’ and ‘Jean Rutherford’, and (ff. 11v-13v) including a poem on ‘John Reutherfoord’. Acquired in 1924 from Maggs Bros.
Briefly discussed in Marcia Allentuck, An Unpublished Commonplace Book of Scottish Interest in the Folger Shakespeare Library, SSL, 7, No. 4 (April 1970), 270-1.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 561.
The Epitaph (‘His being was in her alone’)
First published in Arcadia (London, 1593), a blank space having been left for this epitaph in the edition of 1590. Ringler, p. 241.
SiP 63
Copy of lines 1-2, untitled and here beginning ‘Her being was in he alone’.
In: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Compiled by members of the Cartwright family, of Aynho, Northamptonshire, including (ff. 4r-7v) verse by William Cartwright (1634-76). Mid-17th century.
Inscribed names including ‘Will: Cartwright’, ‘Jo: Cartwright’, and ‘Katherin Cartwright’. Myers, sale catalogue No. 291 (1933), item 120.
SiP 64
Copy, written on sig. A6 in an exemplum of John Stanbridge's Pervula printed by Wynkyn de Woorde [1495?]. ?Mid-17th century.
Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 493.
SiP 65
Copy of lines 1-2, here beginning ‘Her being was in him a lone’.
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.
SiP 66
Copy, in a printed exemplum of Arcadia (London, 1590), written to fill the blank space left for this epitaph. End 16th-17th century.
Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector.
Recorded in Ringler, p. 493.
SiP 67
Copy written in a printed exemplum of Arcadia (London, 1590) to fill the blank space left for this epitaph. End 16th-17th century.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 493.
SiP 68
Copy written in a printed exemplum of Arcadia (London, 1590) to fill the blank space left for this epitaph. End 16th-17th century.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 493.
SiP 69
Copy in: A miscellaneous collection of MS verse, ‘totally unconnected with each other, and written on backs of letters, or other scraps of paper’. 17th century.
Formerly among the papers of the Aston family, of Tixall, Staffordshire.
Selectively edited (as his ‘Fourth Division: Miscellaneous Poems’) in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 207-324.
Edited from this MS, as ‘On Argalus and Parthenia, Epitaph’, in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), p. 276.
The Lady of May
See SiP 216-219.
‘Me thought some staves he mist: if so, not much amisse’
First published in Arcadia (London, 1590). Ringler, p. 241.
SiP 70
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under SiP 28.
This MS collated in Ringler.
Cambridge University Library, MS Kk. 1. 5 (2), [unspecified page numbers].
‘Miso mine owne pigsnie, thou shalt heare news o' Damaetas’
First published in Arcadia (London, 1590). Ringler, p. 241.
SiP 71
Copy in: the MS described under SiP 28.
Cambridge University Library, MS Kk. 1. 5 (2), [unspecified page numbers].
The Psalms of David
Psalms 1-43 translated by Sidney. Psalms 44-150 translated by his sister, the Countess of Pembroke. First published complete in London, 1823, ed. S.W. Singer. Psalms 1-43, without the Countess of Pembroke's revisions, edited in Ringler, pp. 265-337. Psalms 1-150 in her revised form edited in The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, ed. J.C.A. Rathmell (New York, 1963). Psalms 44-150 also edited in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke (1988), Vol. II.
SiP 72
Copy of Psalms 1-150, in an accomplished professional secretary and roman hand, iv + 227 folio pages. in formerly half-calf marbled boards (rebacked). Entitled ‘The Psalmes of Dauid translated into diuers & sundry kindes of verse, more rare, & excellent, for the method & varietie then euer yet hath bene don in English: begun by the noble & learned gent. Sr P: Sidney Kt., & finished by the R: honnorable the Countesse of Pembroke, his Sister, & by her dirrection & appointment’. Early 17th century.
Inscribed on the title-page ‘W. Barkwith’.
This MS described in Ringler, p. 548. Facsimile of the title-page in Rathmell, p. xxxiii.
SiP 73
Copy of Psalms 1-87, 102-30, in the small hand of Dr Samuel Woodford, lacking a title, vi + 157 folio leaves (ff. 83r-99v and 132r-45v blank), incomplete, in vellum boards. Inscribed on f. 82v, after Psalm 87, ‘But here all the leaues are torn off, to the 23 verse of the CII. Psalms, to be supplyd if possible from some other Copy, of wch ther is a fayre one in Trinity Colledg library in Cambridg, & of wch many years since I had ye sight when I first began my Paraphrase Sam: Woodforde’ and, on f. 131v, after Psalm 130, ‘But from this place to the end, my Copy is defective the leaves being torn off Ita tester Sam: Woodforde who for Sr philip Sedneys sake, & to preserue such a remaine of him undertook this tiresome task of transcribing, 1694/5’. 1694/5.
Also inscribed by Woodford (f. iir) ‘The Original Copy is by mee Given me by my brother Mr John Woodford who bought it among other broken books to putt up Coffee pouder as I remembr’. Inscribed (f. 146r) ‘T. W’ and ‘Mary Woodforde’.
Psalms 1-43 edited from this MS in Ringler and described pp. 547-8. Psalm 85 edited from this MS and discussed in Noel Kinnamon, ‘A Variant of the Countess of Pembroke Psalm 85’, Sidney Newsletter, 2/2 (1981), 9-12.
SiP 74
Copy of Psalms 1-26, 51, 58, 68-71, 73-8, 80, 83-6, 88-9, 91, 93, 96, 98-100, 102, 104-5, 108-13. 117, 120-7. 129-34, 137-8, 142-3, 147, 149, 150 (in an irregular order), with second versions of Psalms 75, 89 and 122, untitled, on 95 quarto leaves, in black leather gilt. In the secretary hands of Harington's ‘servant’ Thomas Combe and of Harington's brother Francis, with Harington's occasional autograph corrections and insertions largely in italic. Late 16th-early 17th century.
Covers stamped ‘Bibliotheca Butleriana’: i.e. the library of Samuel Butler (1774-1839), Bishop of Lichfield. Booklabel of Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary.
This MS described in Ringler, p. 550.
SiP 75
Copy of Psalms 1-150, in a probably professional roman hand, with a few alterations in a different ink, the title-page and pages towards the end faded, 148 quarto leaves, in modern half red morocco. Early 17th century.
Sotheby's, 6 June 1793 (Dr Taylor's sale). Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector.
This MS described in Ringler, pp. 549-50.
SiP 76
Copy of Psalms 1-6, 8-148, chiefly in the hand of Harington's ‘servant’ Thomas Combe, with corrections and annotations in Harington's hand, untitled, imperfect. Volume VII of the Harington Papers. Late 16th century.
With additional notes by John Harington, MP (d.1654).
This MS collated in Ringler and described pp. 551-2.
SiP 76.5
Copy, on 355 octavo pages. Inscribed on the last page ‘Haec meminisse juvat Apr. 23 163[ ]’. c.1630s.
Owned in 1820 by Henry Cotton (1789-1879), sub-librarian of the Bodleian Library; later by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, and by Sir Hugh Walpole (1884-1941). Christie's, 2 April 1940/8[?], lot 18, and 12 June 2000 (William Foyle sale, Part III), lot 312.
This MS discussed in Gavin Alexander, ‘A New Manuscript of the Sidney Psalms: A Preliminary Report’, Sidney Journal, 18/1 (Summer 2000), 43-56.
SiP 76.8
A formal copy of all 150 Psalms, in a professional hand, with decorated initial majuscules, 248 folio pages, in leather gilt. c.1630.
Inscribed (on front and rear pastedowns) ‘W Corke[?] New Coll: Oxon’ and ‘W Croke[?] Coll Nov. Oxon. 1762’. Sold 2 January 1942 by Dobell.
SiP 77
Copy of Psalms 1-150, in a calligraphic italic hand, with elaborate and partly coloured ornamentation, with a title-page, ‘The Psalmes of David Done into English Verse, By the moste noble and vertuouse gentellman sr: Phillipp Sydney knight’, subscribed ‘W. H.’, 228 folio leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked) bearing the initials ‘T M’. c.1595-1605.
The early owner ‘T M’ possibly Thomas Moffett (1553-1604), poet and physician to the Countess of Pembroke, or perhaps Tobie Matthew (1544?-1628), Archbishop of York: see H.R. Woudhuysen, ‘Astrophel and Stella 75: A New Text’, RES, NS 37 (August 1986), 388-92. Later apparently in the library of Warwick Castle. Sotheby's, 24 November 1969, lot 135. Owned before 1976 by Mr John Goelet when it was on deposit at Harvard (*69M-142). Sotheby's, 21-22 July 1980, lot 574, to Colin Franklin.
Described in G.F. Waller, ‘The Text and Manuscript Variants of the Countess of Pembroke's Psalms’, RES, NS 26 (1975), 1-18. A facsimile example is in the Sotheby's 1980 sale catalogue. Two microfilms are in the British Library: RP 412 and RP 2051.
SiP 78
Copy of Psalms 1-150, untitled, on 118 folio leaves (plus three blanks), in contemporary vellum. In a professional secretary hand, with three lines in black ink possibly added in a second hand after Psalm 23 on f. 17r. End of 16th-early 17th century.
Contemporary ownership of one Henry Platt.
This MS described in Cecil C. Seronsy, ‘Another Huntington Manuscript of the Sidney Psalms’, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 109-16.
SiP 79
Copy of Psalms 1-150, in an accomplished, professional, predominantly italic hand, on 164 quarto leaves, including a title-page ‘The Psalmes of Dauid done into English Verse by the Most Noble & Vertuous gent: Sr. Phillipp Sidney Knt’, in late-17th- or early-18th-century red morocco gilt. Early 17th century.
This MS described in Ringler, p. 552.
SiP 80
Copy of Psalms 1-150, in a single professional secretary hand, on 321 quarto pages, with a title-page ‘The Psalmes of David metaphrased into verse by the noble, learned, & famous gent Sr Philip Sidney Knight’, gilt-edged in modern brown morocco gilt. Early 17th century.
Owned in 1789 by the poet William Hayley (1745-1820), and later by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector.
This MS described in Ringler, p. 552.
SiP 81
A formal copy of Psalms 1-150, in a calligraphic italic hand, untitled, with two dedicatory poems by his sister, Mary, Countess of Pembroke (PeM 1, PeM 2).
In: A manuscript of The Psalms of David, i + 145 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum richly gilt, the volume possibly prepared for presentation to Queen Elizabeth. Late 16th century.
Formerly in the library of Walter Aston (1583-1639), Baron Aston of Forfar, of Tixall, Staffordshire, diplomat. Bequeathed by Dr Bent Juel-Jensen (1922-2006), Oxford physician and book collector.
Described by B.E. Juel-Jensen in BC, 15 (Summer 1966), 156 (with a facsimile of two pages in Plate 3), and in Book Collector, 18 (Summer 1969), 222-3. Described in Ringler, pp. 550-1. (1988), I, 102-4 and 110-12. Discussed in Noel Kinnamon, ‘The Sidney Psalms: The Penshurst and Tixall Manuscripts’, EMS, 2 (1990), 139-61.
SiP 82
Copy of Psalms 1-150, in at least two italic hands, entitled ‘The Psalms of David done into English Verse by the Most Noble and Vertuous Gent. Sr. Phillip Sidney Knt.’, 191 leaves, in 18th-century vellum boards. Mid-18th century.
Inscribed (inside the front cover) ‘Ex dono Roberti Wynn’ and (f. 1r) ‘E libris Griffithii Roberto 1791’.
SiP 83
Copy of Psalms 1-150, with a second version of Psalms 75 and 131. Early 17th century.
Once owned by Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), courtier and natural philosopher.
This MS described in Ringler, p. 552.
Bibliothèque des Universités de Paris à la Sorbonne, MS 1110.
SiP 84
A calligraphic copy of Psalms 4-150, transcribed, probably from the Countess of Pembroke's working copy, by John Davies (1565-1618) of Hereford, 135 folio leaves, imperfect; lacking a title and first three psalms, in later red leather. Late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Rathmell. Collated in Ringler and described pp. 546-7. Facsimile of Psalm 117 in John Buxton, Sir Philip Sidney and the English Renaissance, revised edition (London, 1964), after p. 156. Discussed, with facsimile examples of ff. 45v, 54v, 118r, and 135r, in Noel Kinnamon, ‘The Sidney Psalms: The Penshurst and Tixall Manuscripts’, EMS, 2 (1990), 139-61.
SiP 85
Copy of Psalms 1-150, in two or more probably professional secretary hands, headed ‘The Psalmes of Dauid done into English verse By ye most noble & vertuous gent: Sr Phillip: Sydney knight’, 158 quarto leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Early 17th century.
This MS described in Ringler, p. 549.
SiP 86
Copy of Psalms 1-150, in an accomplished professional secretary hand, with some corrections in another hand, with a title-page, ‘The Psalms of David Translated into English Verse by That Noble and Virtuous Gent: Sr Philip Sydney’, 169 quarto leaves, in 17th-century calf gilt (rebacked). Late 16th century.
This MS described in Ringler, p. 549.
SiP 87
Copy of Psalms 1-150, in an accomplished professional hand, some initials decorated, with a title-page, ‘The Psalmes of Dauid metaphrased into sundry Kindes of verse, By the noble & famous gent: Sir Philip Sidney Knight’, 302 folio pages, in old calf. Late 16th-early 17th century.
Subscribed (p. 302) ‘I haue perused this Metaphrase of the Psalmes by that Worthy, whose happy meditations may yield others content, and, a precedent worthy imitation, Which I desire may be published in Print. John Langley.’ Donated in 1664 by W. Lynnet, STB, Fellow, whose name is stamped in gilt on the front cover.
This MS described in Ringler, p. 549.
SiP 88
Copy of Psalms 17-150, here beginning ‘My sute is just, just Lord to my sute harke’, imperfect, lacking a title and the first sixteen Psalms. Early 17th century.
Once owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and by his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician (whose library was sold in 1759).
This MS described in Ringler, pp. 548-9.
SiP 88.1
Copy, quarto. Late 16th century?
Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725). Ballard, 4 March 1733/4, lot 139, to Calamy.
SiP 88.2
Copy, described as Certain Psalms of David, translated into English Verse by the Countess of Pembroke and Sir Philip Sidney; prefixed is a copy of Edmund Campion's Virgilian epic in Latin on the early history of the Church entitled Nascentis Eclesiæ generatio prima.
Later owned by James Boswell the younger (1778-1822), barrister and literary scholar, whose library incorporated some materials owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector. Sotheby's, 24 May 1825, lot 3190.
SiP 88.3
Copy of Psalms 51, 104 and 137, in a neat secretary hand. Early 17th century.
In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous state tracts, speeches, and verse, in various largely professional hands, iv + 413 leaves (including a thirty-page index and some blanks), in half-calf (rebacked). Transcribed from the Yelverton papers chiefly belonging to Sir Christopher Yelverton (1535?-1612), Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), and their family.
Owned in 1679 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.
The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke (1988), Vol. II, pp. 49-51, 158-62, 231-2.
SiP 88.5
Copy of Psalms 51, 104 and 137, in an italic hand, headed ‘Psalmes translated by the Countesse of Pembrooke’, on three folio leaves. Early 17th century.
A copy of verses sent by Sir John Harington to Lucy, Countess of Bedford, on 29 December 1600, his letter (copy on f. 303v) declaring ‘I have sent yow heere the devine, and trulie devine translation of three of Davids psalmes, donne by that Excellent Countesse, and in Poesie the mirroir of our Age’.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and miscellaneous papers, in various largely professional hands, 480 leaves, in red morocco gilt.
This MS discussed in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke, II, 316. See also SiP 74, SiP 76 and SiP 88.8.
SiP 88.6
Copy of Psalm 137, headed ‘Psalm ye 137th done by Sr Philip Sidney Knt’, here beginning ‘Nigh seated where ye River flows’.
In: A series of quarto leaves of devotional poems, apparently copied by William Dugdale Jr, bound with a printed Book of Common Prayer (1679). c.1700.
Sir William Dugdale, Merevale Hall, [no shelfmark], pp. 75-6.
SiP 88.7
Copy of Psalm 137, in a neat italic hand, as ‘translated by Mary Countesse of Pembrook’, here beginning ‘Nigh-seated where the riuer floes’, on the first two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Early 17th century.
SiP 88.8
Copy of Psalms 51, 69, 104, 112, and 137,‘translated by the Countess of Pembroke’.
In: A collection of papers of Sir John Harington (1560-12) and his family. Late 16th-early 17th century.
Owned by Sir John's descendants Henry Harington (1686-1769) and Dr Henry Harington (1727-1816).
These manuscripts edited in Nugae Antiquae (first published in two volumes, London, 1769); various editions, expanded to 2 vols, ed. Henry Harington [and Thomas Park], London, 1804.
Edited from this MS in Nugae Antiquae (1769), II, 57-69; (1804), II, 407-10.
SiP 88.9
Copy of Psalms 100 and 101, docketed in the margin ‘By Sr. Philip Sidney’, the second with a sidenote by Ussher: ‘I delivered a copy of this to the King at Cardiffe, August 4, 1645, having preached there unto him, the day before’.
In: A folio commonplace book of miscellaneous historical material, in Latin and English, iii + 145 leaves (including blanks), in vellum. Originally used as a commonplace book by ‘T. Metcalf’ in 1598 (up to f. 63v), and then by James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh. First half of 17th century.
(2) Poems of Uncertain Authorship
‘The darte, the beames, the stringe so stronge I prove’
First published in [Philip Bliss], Bibliographical Miscellanies (Oxford, 1813), p. 63. Ringler, pp. 344, in his ‘Poems Possibly by Sidney’ No. 2.
A dialogue betweene two shepherds, uttered in a patorall shew, at Wilton (‘Dick, since we cannot dance, come let a chearefull voyce’)
First published in The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (London, 1613). Ringler, pp. 343-4, in his ‘Poems Possibly by Sidney’ No. 1.
SiP 90.5
Copy, as ‘Sr Ph: Sydneys Sonnet’.
In: A formal transcript of John Aubrey's Naturall Historie of Wiltshire (1685), in the neat italic hand of B. G. Cramer, made for the Royal Society and dedicated to the President, the Earl of Pembroke, 393 folio pages, in contemporary elaborately blind-stamped diced russia. [1690-1].
Inscription on Sidney's portrait at Longleat, 1577 (‘Who gives him selfe, may well his picture give’)
First published in A.C. Judson, Sidney's Appearance (Bloomington, Indiana, 1958), p. 51. Ringler, p. 345, as his ‘Poems Possibly by Sidney’ No. 3.
SiP 91
Copy, as by ‘Sr P. S.’
In: A folio composite miscellany compiled entirely by William Drummond of Hawthornden, including (ff. 165r-6v, 246r-7v) copies of, or brief extracts from, nineteen poems by Donne, 300 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt. c.1618-20s.
Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VIII.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Drummond Miscellany: DnJ Δ 66. Some extracts from this MS edited in Laing (1831), pp. 78-82. ‘Drummond's Catalogue of Comedies’ (ff. 122-3). Recorded in MacDonald, Library of Drummond, pp. 231-2.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 518 (with one folio incorrectly cited as f. 9v).
SiP 91.1
Copy, headed ‘In one of the Pictures of S Philip Sidney are these verses, viz’.
In: the MS described under SiP 90.5. [1690-1].
‘Philisides, the Shepherd good and true’
First published in Bernard Mathias Wagner, ‘New Poems by Sir Philip Sidney’, PMLA, 53.i (1938), 118-24. Ringler, pp. 356-7, as ‘Wrongly Attributed Poems’, AT 19. This poem belongs to the same Accession Day tournament as SiP 91.5-6 and SiP 91.8 and was possibly by Sidney.
SiP 91.2
Copy, subscribed ‘P. Sidney’.
In: the MS described under SiP 26.
Edited from this MS in Wagner and in Ringler.
SiP 91.4
Copy in: the MS described under SiP 22. c.1580s.
Edited from this MS in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), pp. 413-14.
National Library of Wales, Pitchford Hall (Ottley) English Literary MSS (uncatalogued), B B1, f. 4v.
‘Singe neighbours singe, here yow not Say’
First published in Bernard Mathias Wagner, ‘New Poems by Sir Philip Sidney’, PMLA, 53.i (1938), 118-24. Ringler, pp. 357-8, as ‘Wrongly Attributed Poems’, AT 21. This poem belongs to the same Accession Day tournament as SiP 91.2-3 and SiP 91.8 and was possibly by Sidney.
SiP 91.5
Copy, subscribed ‘FINIS. Sr P Sy.’
In: the MS described under SiP 26.
Edited from this MS in Wagner and in Ringler.
SiP 91.7
Copy in: the MS described under SiP 22. c.1580s.
Edited from this MS in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), p. 414.
National Library of Wales, Pitchford Hall (Ottley) English Literary MSS (uncatalogued), B B1, f. 4v.
‘Waynd from the hope wch made affection glad’
First published in Peter Beal, ‘Poems by Sir Philip Sidney: The Ottley Manuscript’, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 284-95 (p. 288). This poem belongs to the same Accession Day tournament as SiP 91.2-91.6 and is possibly by Sidney.
SiP 91.8
Copy in: the MS described under SiP 22. c.1580s.
Edited from this MS in Beal (1978) and in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), p. 415.
Verse and Prose: The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
(1) The Complete Text or Large Selections
The Old Arcadia
The unfinished revised version of Arcadia (the ‘New Arcadia’) first published in London, 1590. The original version (the ‘Old Arcadia’) first published in Feuillerat, IV (1926). The complete Old Arcadia edited by Jean Robertson (Oxford, 1973). The poems edited in Ringler, pp. 7-131.
SiP 92
Copy of the complete text, untitled but beginning ‘The ffirst booke or Acte of the countes of pembrookes Arcadia’.
In: the MS described under SiP 19. c.1580s.
This MS collated in Robertson and the poems collated in Ringler. Described in Ringler, p. 529.
SiP 93
Copy of the complete text, closely written in a small and probably professional secretary hand, the headings, incipits and colophons in engrossed lettering, 285 quarto pages (including various blanks and plus a number of blanks at the end), imperfect at the beginning and end and lacking a title, in contemporary calf. Late 16th century.
Inscribed inside the front cover ‘Edward Thelwall’, ‘Anne Thelwalls brother’, and ‘Sidnay Tholwall’.
This MS collated in Robertson and the poems collated in Ringler. Described in Ringler, p. 525.
SiP 94
Copy of an almost complete text, predominantly in two neat secretary hands, one that of Harington's ‘servant’ Thomas Combe, with a number of autograph insertions by Harington, another that of harington's brother Francis, headed ‘A treatis made by Sr Phillip Sydney Knyght of certeyn accidents in Arcadia. made in the yeer 1580 and emparted to some few of his frends, in his lyfe tyme and to more sence his vnfortunat deceasse’, i + 202 quarto leaves, lacking the last leaf, in contemporary vellum, with traces of ties. c.1590.
Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's (Evans), 10 February 1836 (Heber Sale, Part XI), lot 1433. Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1171. In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9610. Sotheby's, 15 June 1908 (Phillipps sale), lot 677. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 228 (March 1914), item 108. Acquired 25 July 1914.
This MS collated in Robertson and the poems collated in Ringler. Described in Ringler, pp. 526-7. The identification of Harington's hand established in P.J. Croft, ‘Sir John Harington's Manuscript of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia’, in Stephen Parks and P.J. Croft, Literary Autographs (Los Angeles, 1983), pp. 37-75, with facsimiles of ff. 85r, 87r, 126r, as Plates 4, 2, and 3.
SiP 95
Copy of the complete text, in a single professional secretary hand, untitled, with a later title (f. iir, supplied by Thomas Martin) Sr. Philip Sydneys Arcadia A Romance, &c. In Prose & Verse..., 190 leaves, in modern half calf. Late 16th century.
Inscribed (f. ir) ‘Tho: Martin’: i.e. Thomas Martin (1697-1771), antiquary and collector. Martin sale, 1772, lot 270, and 1773, lot 4543. Later inscribed (f. iir) ‘I bought this Book out of the Collection of the Late Antiquary Mr Martin of Palsgrave Suffolk / Charles Brietzcke 18th May 1774’: i.e. Charles Brietzcke (fl.1756-95), Deputy Clerk of the Signet. Donated by Miss Mary E. Davies, of Wedderburn House, Hampstead, on 18 May 1925.
This MS (the ‘Davies MS’) collated in Robertson and the poems collated in Ringler. Described in Ringler, p. 526.
SiP 96
Copy of 66 poems from Arcadia and two prose passages from Book II, in a single professional hand, untitled, 38 leaves, with two staves of music at the end, in contemporary vellum, within modern quarter-vellum. Inscribed on the original cover ‘Swr Henry Lee delivered being champean to the qwen delivered to my lord cwmberland by willeam Simons’: i.e. delivered to George Clifford (1558-1605), third Earl of Cumberland, courtier and privateer, and then owned by Sir Henry Lee (1530-1610), of Ditchley, Oxfordshire, the Queen's Champion. Presented by Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon (1844-1932), seventeenth Viscount Dillon, CH, antiquary. Late 16th century.
This MS (the ‘Lee MS’) collated in Robertson and the poems collated in Ringler. Described in Ringler, pp. 527-8.
SiP 97
Copy of the complete text, in the professional secretary hand of Richard Robinson (1554/5-1603), scribe and translator, lacking a title-page, the first heading: ‘The first Booke or Acte of the Countess of Pembrookes Arcadia’.
In: the MS described under SiP 20. Late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Feuillerat. Collated in Robertson and the poems collated in Ringler. Described in Ringler, p. 527, and in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), p. 400, with a facsimile of f. 2r in Plate V after p. 272. A facsimile of f. 2r also in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 122.
SiP 98
Copy of the complete Arcadia, untitled, imperfect.
In: Copy of works by Sir Philip Sidney, in a probably professional secretary and italic hand, ii + 147 folio leaves, in contemporary brown calf gilt (rebacked). Formerly in the library of the Tollemache family, at Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, and probably once owned by Sir Lionel Tollemache, first Baronet (1562-1612?), whose initials (‘S L T’) are stamped in blind on the cover. Late 16th century.
Sotheby's, 6 June 1961, lot 21. Booklabel of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 12 June 1980 (Houghton sale), lot 426.
Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 61.
This MS collated in Robertson and described p. xlii. Described in Ringler, pp. x-xii. Facsimile of f. 61r in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 6 June 1961, lot 21, and of f. 2r in Christie's sale catalogue, 12 June 1980, Plate 32.
SiP 99
Copy, largely in six largely secretary hands, imperfect, lacking a title and beginning on the original fol. 7 (now f. 1r), also lacking one or more leaves after f. 94v, 183 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum. Late 16th century.
Once owned by Robert Walker, Treasurer to Sir Henry Sidney from 1575 to c.1581. Later owned by Bertram Ashburnham (1797-1874), fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and then in 1878 by Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928), newspaper proprietor and manuscript collector. Sotheby's, 1 May 1899, lot 16.
This MS (the ‘Ashburnham MS’) collated in Robertson and the poems collated in Ringler; described in Ringler, p. 528. Facsimiles of ff. 116v and 154r in DLB, vol. 167, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Third Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1996), pp. 204-5.
SiP 100
Copy of 24 of the poems (Nos. 2, 3, 11, 12, 13, [Lines 116-21, 123, 125, 129, 131-2, 136-7, 141], 14-22, 27, 28 [lines 37-48], 31, 33-5, 38, 60, 62, 77, in an irregular order) and also the ‘Nota’ on rules of verse (here beginning ‘Rules in mesured verses in English wch I observe’).
In: the MS described under SiP 22. c.1580s.
The ‘Nota’ edited (from SiP 102) in Ringler, p. 391, and in Robertson, pp. 80-1. Facsimile of f. 6v, including the ‘Nota’ on rules of verse, in Beal (1978), Plates I and II.
SiP 101
Copy of the complete text, in three probably professional secretary hands, untitled, probably transcribed from SiP 98, vii + 142 large folio leaves (plus some blanks), in contemporary calf elaborately gilt, gauffered edges. Late 16th century.
The name ‘Thomas Savoy’ attached (f. ir) to a later copy of a letter by Charles I, dated July 1636.
This MS collated in Robertson and the poems collated in Ringler. Described in Ringler, pp. 525-6.
SiP 102
Copy of the complete text, with some corrections in a later hand.
In: the MS described under SiP 29. Late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Robertson. The poems collated in Ringler. Described in Ringler, pp. 528-9.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS I. 7 (James 308), ff. 1r-239v.
SiP 102.3
A fragment of an otherwise lost MS copy of Arcadia. Containing the text of poems OA 18 (here ‘The seauenth songe:’ beginning ‘Yee lovinge Pouers enclosed in statelye shryne’) and OA 19, lines 1, 8-12, 11 (here ‘The Eighte songe’ beginning ‘My wordes in hoope to blase my stedfast mynde’, with related prose, written in the accomplished secretary hand of John Paxton, steward of the Huddleston estate, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves (c.355 x 230mm.), probably discarded because of a mistake in copying (eyeskip) and later used to reinforce the lower cover of a vellum-bound manuscript terrier relating to manors of Sir Edmund Huddleston dated 10 May 1580. c.1580s.
Possibly written for Sir Edmund Huddleston (c.1536-1606), of Sawston Hall, a prominent member of a Catholic family.
This MS, discovered by Steven W. May, discussed, with a facsimile, in H.R. Woudhuysen, ‘A New Manuscript Fragment of Sidney's Old Arcadia: The Huddleston Manuscript’, EMS, 11: Manuscripts and their Makers in the English Renaissance (2002), 52-69. The prose text corresponds to Robertson's edition of Old Arcadia, p. 109, lines 27-9, and p. 110, lines 13-28. The poems are in Ringler, pp. 40-1.
Cambridgeshire Record Office, Huddleston Papers 488/M [R92/88].
SiP 102.5
A quarto fair copy. Late 16th century?
Later owned by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector. Baker & Leigh (Sotheby's), 28 April 1773, lot 4744.
SiP 102.8
Copy, ‘neatly written and apparently prepared for the press’, three octavo volumes (containing 44, 33 and 36 chapters respectively), 584 pages. Late 16th century.
Thomas Thorpe's ‘Catalogue of manuscripts upon papyrus, vellum and paper’, 1843, item 582, and in his subsequent sale catalogues until 1850.
The New Arcadia
The unfinished revised version of Arcadia (the ‘New Arcadia’) first published in London, 1590. Edited, as The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The New Arcadia), by Victor Skretkowicz (Oxford, 1987).
SiP 103
Copy of the prose text (incomplete) and 17 of the poems (Nos. 2-5, 8 [beginning only], 14-17, 20-2, 25, 26 [lines 1-4], 30 [lines 5-37], 62 [lines 1-8], 74 [lines 1-6]), in the same probably professional italic hand as SiP 176, with an engrossed incipit, some decoration, and occasional spaces left in the text presumably for words unclear in the scribe's exemplar, on 210 folio leaves, lacking title, dated (f. 1r) ‘1584’.
In: the MS described under SiP 28.
This MS collated in Robertson and the poems collated in Ringler; described in Ringler, pp. 529-31. Facsimile of f. 75r in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), Plate VII after p. 272
Cambridge University Library, MS Kk. 1. 5 (2), [unspecified page numbers].
SiP 104
Substantial prose extracts from Books I-V and 19 of the poems (Nos. 3, 8, 9 [lines 121-37]. 10 [lines 67-85, 89-96], 21, 25, 27, 40, 41, 43, 46, 52, 54, 59, 60, 65, 69, 72 [lines 1-20], 75 [lines 79-93], in an irregular order), untitled, transcribed from a printed edition.
In: the MS described under SiP 21. c.1606-14.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 560.
National Library of Scotland, MS 2059, ff. 6v, 36r-8r, 39r-42r, 236v-91v.
SiP 105
Epitome of Books I-III, with ten of the poems, based on the edition of 1627; entitled ‘The History of Arcadia’. 17th century.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 531.
SiP 106
Prose extracts and parts of lines 1-6 of poem No. 77, transcribed from a printed source; variously headed ‘Sr Phillip Sidney's discourse: vpo Atheism’ (beginning ‘Cecropia to Pamela. devotion is indeed yr best bond...’ and ending ‘...& shalt onely greiue him to haue beene a Creator in thy destruction. Arcadia. fol: 129. 130’); ‘Sr P. Sidney of selfe murther’ (f. 20v); ‘Sr P. Sidney of Death’ (f. 21r-v); ‘A Sonet of Death. by. Sr. P.S.’, beginning ‘Since nature's work's bee good’ (f. 22r, largely torn away); ‘Sr P. Sidneys discourse of Princes Conspireinge in another Princes land’ (ff. 22v-3r, imperfect); ‘Sr. P. Sidney, of Dauids. Psal.’ (f. 23v); and ‘Sr P. Sidney of Learninge’ (f. 24r).
In: A small quarto commonplace book of extracts, in a single mixed hand, 83 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Early 17th century.
Later scribbling (f. 15r) including names ‘Joseph England’, ‘Tho Denton’ and ‘Joseph Dixon’.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 554.
SiP 106.5
Prose extracts, headed ‘Out of the Arcadia’ and beginning ‘Let vs thinke wth consderacon, & cosider wth acknowleginge...’. c.1600.
In: A quarto composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in several hands, 115 leaves, with an Index (ff. 68r-77r), in modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
Facsimile of f. 85v in Fred Schurink, ‘Lives and Letters: Three Early Seventeenth-Century Manuscripts with Extracts from Sidney's Arcadia’, EMS, 16 (2011), 170-96 (p. 175).
SiP 107
Prose extracts with three of the poems (Nos. 17, 20 and 62 [lines 35-6, 95-6, 125-6, 123-4, 73-6, 65-6, 37-8, 21-2]), transcribed from a printed edition.
In: An oblong octavo pocket commonplace book, comprising (f. 1r) ‘Poems / Characters / Proverbs / Sentences / Historicall Remarques / Tales’, in Latin, English and Greek, in perhaps two or more hands, probably associated with Cambridge University, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Including (on ff. 17-27, rectos only) portions of 17 English poems by Crashaw. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753).
Recorded in IELM as Sloane MS: CrR Δ 5. Crashaw's work collated in Martin (cited as S) and discussed p. lxxix.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 557.
SiP 108
Verse and prose extracts, including lines from poems No. 2, 4, 6, 14, 19 and 51, transcribed for writing practice by Lady Katherine Manners (1603?-49), who became wife of the first Duke of Buckingham, in a small booklet, the name ‘William Ellis’ inscribed (f. 45v). Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands. c.1612-20.
In collections of the Manners family, Dukes of Rutland.
Recorded (erroneously as Volume XXIV) in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix V, Rutland II (1889), pp. 316-31.
This MS discussed in Josephine A. Roberts, ‘Extracts from Arcadia in the Manuscript Notebook of Lady Katherine Manners’, N&Q, 226 (1981), 35-6.
The Duke of Rutland, Belvoir Castle, Letters & Papers, Verses, Vol. XXV, ff. 32-46v passim.
(2) Individual Poems in Arcadia
[in addition to those in SiP 92-109]
New Arcadia, in Third Eclogues (‘The ladd Philisides’)
Inserted in the 1693 edition of Arcadia, Book III, between OA 65 and OA 66. Ringler, Other Poems No. 5, pp. 256-7.
SiP 109
Copy, in the italic hand of John Evelyn Jr, on both sides of a folio leaf. Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of verse chiefly by John Evelyn Jr (1655-99) and his tutor Ralph Bohun, 39 leaves, in modern half red morocco.
Vol. CCLXXXIX of the Evelyn Papers. Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 253.
SiP 109.5
A series of references to Arcadia under headings (‘Defensio’, ‘Expurgatio’, ‘Narratoria’, ‘Disputatoria’, ‘Gratulatoria’, etc.), on pages including ff. 5v, 7r, 10r, 11r, 15v, 16r, 18r, 23r, 25r, 26r, and 31r-2r.
In: An octavo commonplace book of extracts under headings, in Latin and English, in a single mixed hand, written from both ends, 92 leaves, paginated 1-89 then foliated 3-49, in modern wrappers. Early 17th century.
Formerly MS Add. 774.
Discussed in Fred Schurink, ‘Manuscript Commonplace Books, Literature, and Reading in Early Modern England’, HLQ, 73/3 (2010), 453-69 (p. 460 et seq.), with a facsimile of f. 6r on p. 464.
Old Arcadia. Book I, No. 2 (‘Transformed in shew, but more transformed in minde’)
Ringler, pp. 11-12. Robertson, pp. 28-9.
SiP 110
Copy, headed ‘Another’, transcribed from the edition of 1593.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, ff. 2r-26r in a single secretary hand, ff. 26r-40v in yet another, with later additions near the end dated 1653, 60 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1596 [-1653].
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Anthonie Babingtonn of warrington’, with the date ‘1596’, and ‘Roger Wright me possidett ex dono Henerici fratrie Meo’. Later owned and annotated by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Signature and bookplate of F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), lot 50. Purchased from Jarvis & Son, 15 June 1891.
Identified in Ringler, PQ (1975), as the ‘Quarto MS’ from which Percy derived the texts of three poems by Breton edited in his Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765). Substantial extracts from it edited in Grosart's edition of Breton (1879). Also briefly discussed in P.M. Buck, Jr., ‘Add MS. 34064 and Spenser's Ruins of Time and Mother Hubberd's Tale’, MLN, 22 (1907), 41-6, and in Robertson's edition of Breton, pp. liv-lv.
Typed and MS notes relating to this volume made in the 1920s by Professor Hyder Edward Rollins (1889-1958) are in Harvard MS Eng 1613.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 555, and in Robertson, p. 423.
SiP 111
Copy, in the play Loves Changelinges change.
In: A folio composite volume of plays. c.1620s-1640s.
From the library of Lord Charlemont.
Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, ‘More Manuscript Versions of Poems by Sidney’, ELN, 9 (1971-2), 3-12 (pp. 4-5).
SiP 112
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under SiP 13. c.1581-1612.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson. May, Stanford, p. 127 (No. 200).
—— Book I, No. 3 (‘What length of verse can serve brave Mopsa's good to show’)
Ringler, p. 12. Robertson, pp. 30-1.
SiP 113
Copy, headed ‘Mopsa’, transcribed from a printed source.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, 84 leaves, in contemporary calf. Probably compiled principally by an Oxford University man. c.1630s-40s.
Names inscribed on rear flyleaf and paste-down ‘Elizabeth hosman’ and ‘William Blois’.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 558, and in Robertson, p. 424.
SiP 113.5
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto volume of ‘Divine and Morall Observations’, in verse and prose, in a neat roman hand varying in style, with later additions at the end, 61 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black leather. Inscribed by the compiler, on an elaborate title-page (f. 1r), ‘Abygall Guilford her Booke 1672’. c.1672 [-1714].
Inscribed (top of f. 1r) ‘This Book was I conclude my Grandmother Hoopers before her Marriage’. Acquired from the Rev. H. Hooper, 9 December 1874.
SiP 114
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under SiP 4.5. c.1596-1601.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.
SiP 115
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Sr Phyll Sydn’.
In: the MS described under SiP 26.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.
SiP 116
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under SiP 13. c.1581-1612.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson. May, Stanford, p. 124 (No. 196).
SiP 116.5
Copy, headed ‘The Praises of Mopsa daughter to Dametas’.
In: the MS described under SiP 34.5. c.1680.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 2, f. 7r rev.
SiP 116.8
Copy of Book I, No. 3, lines 13-14 (beginning ‘As for those parts unknowne, which hidden sure are best’).
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single cursive secretary hand, 153 pages (including many blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. Late 16th century.
—— Book I, No. 4 (‘Come shepheard's weedes, become your master's minde’)
Ringler, p. 13. Robertson, p. 40.
SiP 117
Copy of an abridged version beginning ‘These weedes will beecome my mind’, in the play Loves Changelinges change.
In: the MS described under SiP 111. c.1620s-1640s.
Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, ‘More Manuscript Versions of Poems by Sidney’, ELN, 9 (1971-2), 3-12 (p. 5).
SiP 117.5
Extracts, headed ‘Sr Philip Sidney’ and dated 1646.
In: An octavo notebook of extracts, in a single small mixed hand, written from both ends, 165 leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled by one William Bright, entitled ‘ffragmenta hic omnigena è varijs excerpta authoribus ad priuatum existunt vsum WB ex anno 1644’. c.1644-76.
Inscribed also inside the lower cover ‘Will: Bright Novemb 12th pretiu 8d 1645’.
—— Book I, No. 5 (‘Now thanked be the great God Pan’)
Ringler, p. 13. Robertson, p. 51. this setting first published in Thomas Ravenscroft, Pammelia (London, 1609).
SiP 118
Copy of the first stanza, in a musical setting.
In: An oblong octavo book of roundels, in a formal Scottish hand with some rubrication, 152 pages, in near-contemporary calf elaborately gilt, with clasps. With a title-page ‘Ane buck off roundells...Collected and notted by dauid meluill. 1612’, the compiler David Melvill, of Aberdeen, being the brother of James Melvill (1556-1614), Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages. 1612.
The binding bearing the name of ‘Robert Ogilvie’ in gilt. Later owned by Lord Ashburnham. Recorded in 1916 as owned by Michael Tomkinson, of Franche Hall, Kidderminster. Recorded in 1958 as being ‘somewhere in Australia’.
This MS edited as The Melvill Book of Roundels, ed. Granville Bantock and H. Orsmond Anderton (Roxburghe Club, London, 1916).
Edited from this MS in the 1916 edition, No. 68, pp. 27, 139-41. Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘Dametas' Song in Sidney's Arcadia’, RN, 11 (1958), 183-8. Recorded in Ringler, p. 567, and in Robertson, p. 427.
Library of Congress, Music Division, M1490 M535 A5, 68. Roundell.
SiP 118.5
Copy, headed ‘Dametas song’.
In: the MS described under SiP 34.5. c.1680.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 2, f. 7v rev.
SiP 118.8
Copy, headed ‘demetrius on dorus, in Sr: Philp sidneys Arca, 1671’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 25 leaves (including blanks), in a paper wrapper. c.1690s.
Sotheby's, 20 July 1989, lot 36.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 86, f. 5v.
SiP 119
Copy of the incipit, in a musical setting, untitled.
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.
—— First Eclogues no. 6 (‘We love, and have our loves rewarded’)
Ringler, p. 14. Robertson, pp. 57-8.
SiP 120
Copy of a two-stanza version beginning ‘wee loue and are beelovd againe’, in the play Loves Changelinges change.
In: the MS described under SiP 111. c.1620s-1640s.
Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, ‘More Manuscript Versions of Poems by Sidney’, ELN, 9 (1971-2), 3-12 (pp. 5-6).
—— First Eclogues, No. 7 (‘Come Dorus, come, let songs thy sorowes signifie’)
Ringler, pp. 14-20. Robertson, pp. 58-64.
SiP 121
Copy of lines 152-6, untitled and here beginning ‘My earthy moulde doth melt in watry teares’.
In: the MS described under SiP 8. c.1586-91.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.
—— First Eclogues, No. 13 (‘Lady, reservd by the heav'ns to do pastors' company honnor’)
Ringler, pp. 31-7. Robertson, pp. 82-8.
SiP 122
Copy of lines 113-39, 141-4, 146-54, here beginning ‘When I behoulde the trees in the earthes fayre lyuerye clothed’.
In: the MS described under SiP 8. c.1586-91.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.
—— Book II, No. 14 (‘In vaine, mine Eyes, you labour to amende’)
Ringler, p. 38. Robertson, p. 93.
SiP 123
Copy, headed ‘Another’, transcribed from the edition of 1593.
In: the MS described under SiP 110. c.1596 [-1653].
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 555, and in Robertson, p. 437.
—— Book II, No. 15 (‘Let not old age disgrace my high desire’)
Ringler, p. 38-9. Robertson, p. 95.
SiP 124
Copy, headed ‘Ould age’.
In: the MS described under SiP 6.
This MS recorded in Ringler, pp. 558-9, and in Robertson, p. 437.
SiP 125
Copy, headed ‘An old man fallen in love with a yonge maiden’.
In: the MS described under SiP 110. c.1596 [-1653].
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 555, and in Robertson, p. 437.
SiP 126
Copy of lines 1-8, 13-14.
In: the MS described under SiP 4.5. c.1596-1601.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.
SiP 126.5
Copy, headed ‘An old man a suitor’ and here beginning ‘Why should old age disgrace my high desire’, inscribed ‘An old paper of my Coz. Burrows’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in probably two or more secretary hands, 108 pages, in half brown morocco. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89). Bookplate of James W. Ellsworth.
—— Book II, No. 16 (‘Since so mine eyes are subject to your sight’)
Ringler, p. 39. Robertson, p. 99.
SiP 127
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf. c.1630s.
Inscribed (f. 101v) ‘Henry Lawson’ (or just possibly ‘Lamson’). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Lawson MS’: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.
Ringler, p. 39; Robertson, p. 99.
SiP 128
Copy, headed ‘Another’, transcribed from the edition of 1593.
In: the MS described under SiP 110. c.1596 [-1653].
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 555, and in Robertson, p. 437.
—— Book II, No. 17 (‘My sheepe are thoughts, which I both guide and serve’)
Ringler, p. 39. Robertson, p. 197.
SiP 129
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘T.S[?]’.
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 Ringler, p. 561, and in Robertson, p. 438.
SiP 130
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.
In: the MS described under SiP 36. c.1580s-1615.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.
—— Book II, No. 21 (‘Over these brookes trusting to ease mine eyes’)
Ringler, pp. 41-2. Robertson, p. 118.
SiP 131
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under SiP 8. c.1586-91.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.
SiP 132
Copy, transcribed from the edition of 1598.
In: the MS described under SiP 35. c.1590s.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 558, and in Robertson, p. 440.
SiP 133
Copy, headed ‘Another’, transcribed from the edition of 1593.
In: the MS described under SiP 110. c.1596 [-1653].
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 555, and in Robertson, p. 440.
SiP 134
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in two styles of italic, the last poem (f. 93v) added in a later hand, 93 leaves (plus ten blanks), in modern quarter-morocco gilt. Including 14 poems by Donne, six poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, ten poems by Habington and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph. Owned and possibly compiled by Arthur Capell (1631-83), second Earl of Essex, whose name is inscribed in red ink (1*), in a similar roman hand to that on ff. 1r-19r. He married (1653) Elizabeth Percy (1636-1718), daughter of Algernon, tenth Earl of Northumberland; she was therefore the great niece of Habington's mother-in-law, Eleanor Percy, sister of the ninth Earl of Northumberland. Mid-17th century.
Later among the collections of Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son, Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II, i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Capell MS’: DnJ Δ 43, CwT Δ 17, and RnT Δ 3. Discussed in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell’, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 556, and in Robertson, p. 440.
—— Book II, No. 22 (‘Wyth two strange fires of equall heate possest’)
Ringler, p. 42. Robertson, p. 123.
SiP 135
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under SiP 8. c.1586-91.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.
—— Second Eclogues, No. 27 (‘Thou Rebell vile, come, to thy master yelde’)
Ringler, pp. 46-7. Robertson, pp. 135-6.
SiP 136
Copy, headed ‘The Scyrmish betwixt Reasons and Passion’, transcribed from the edition of 1593.
In: the MS described under SiP 110. c.1596 [-1653].
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 555, and in Robertson, p. 443.
—— Second Eclogues, No. 33 (‘Reason, tell me thy mind, if here be reason’)
Ringler, pp. 67-8. Robertson, pp. 165-6.
SiP 137
Copy, with deleted heading ‘Carmen phalemia’.
In: the MS described under SiP 8. c.1586-91.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.
—— Second Eclogues, No. 34 (‘O sweet woods the delight of solitarines!’)
Ringler, pp. 68-9. Robertson, pp. 166-7. Dowland's song (in a musical setting) published in The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (London, 1600).
SiP 138
Copy of lines 1-2 as the first two lines of a song (here first stanza only) by John Dowland, untitled and with sidenote ‘Mr: Jno: Dowland’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, made up from a larger book, 184 leaves, stubs of some excised leaves, in green boards. Compiled by John Ramsay (b.1578), of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and the Middle Temple. c.1596-1633.
Name (inscribed several times) of Thomas Russell. Given in 1724 by Robert Cook of Bokenham to Francis Blomefield (1705-52), Norfolk topographer, and with Blomefield's bookplate, 1736. Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
This MS recorded in Robertson, p. 447.
SiP 139
Copy of lines 1-2 in the song version of John Dowland (first stanza only) (see SiP 138), in Lawes's musical setting.
In: A large folio volume of autograph vocal music by Henry Lawes (1596-1662), ix + 184 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt. Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller. Mid-17th century.
Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.
Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Henry Lawes MS’: CwT Δ 16; HeR Δ 3; WaE Δ 11. Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Pamela J. Willetts, The Henry Lawes Manuscript (London, 1969). Facsimiles of ff. 42r, 78r, 80r, 84r, 111r and 169r in The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric C. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 59, 60, 62, 64, 66 and 117. Also discussed in Willa McClung Evans, Henry Lawes: Musician and Friend of Poets (New York and London, 1941), and elsewhere. A complete facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 3 (New York & London, 1986).
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 566, and in Robertson, p. 447. Facsimiles in Willa McClung Evans, Henry Lawes (New York & London, 1941), p. 20, and in Pamela J. Willetts, The Henry Lawes Manuscript (London, 1969), plate XIII.
—— Book III, No. 35 (‘Sweete glove the wittnes of my secrett blisse’)
Ringler, p. 70. Robertson, p. 169.
SiP 140
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under SiP 13. c.1581-1612.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson. May, Stanford, p. 119 (No. 194).
—— Book III, No. 38 (‘Phaebus farewell, a sweeter Saint I serve’)
Ringler, p. 72. Robertson, p. 177.
SiP 141
Copy in: the MS described under SiP 8. c.1586-91.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.
—— Book III, No. 41 (‘Like those sicke folkes, in whome strange humors flowe’)
Ringler, p. 74. Robertson, p. 181.
—— Book III, No. 42 (‘Howe is my Sunn, whose beames are shining bright’)
Ringler, p. 74. Robertson, pp. 181-2.
SiP 144
Copy of lines 1-8.
In: the MS described under SiP 13. c.1581-1612.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson. May, Stanford, p. 78 (No. 102)
—— Book III, No. 45 (‘My true love hath my hart, and I have his’)
Ringler, p. 75-6. Robertson, pp. 190-1.
—— Book III, No. 47 (‘Do not disdaine, o streight up raised Pine’)
Ringler, p. 77. Robertson, p. 198.
SiP 147
Copy, headed ‘The answere to ye former verses’, transcribed from the edition of 1593.
In: the MS described under SiP 110. c.1596 [-1653].
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 555, and in Robertson, p. 453.
—— Book III, No. 48 (‘Sweete roote say thou, the roote of my desire’)
Ringler, p. 77. Robertson, p. 198.
SiP 148
Copy in: the MS described under SiP 13. c.1581-1612.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson. May, Stanford, p. 78 (No. 103).
—— Book III, No. 51 (‘Locke up, faire liddes, the treasures of my harte’)
Ringler, p. 79. Robertson, pp. 200-1.
SiP 149
Copy in: the MS described under SiP 5. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 191, p. 239. Collated in Ringler and in Robertson.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 145r.
SiP 150
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis S. P. S.’
In: the MS described under SiP 8. c.1586-91.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.
SiP 151
Copy, subscribed ‘FINIS. Sy’.
In: the MS described under SiP 26.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.
SiP 152
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under SiP 13. c.1581-1612.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson. May, Stanford, pp. 75-6 (No. 96)
—— Book III, No. 54 (‘My Lute within thy selfe thy tunes enclose’)
Ringler, p. 81. Robertson, pp. 210-11.
SiP 153
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: the MS described under SiP 139. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 566, and in Robertson, p. 455.
—— Book III, No. 60 (‘Vertue, beawtie, and speach, did strike, wound, charme’)
Ringler, p. 84. Robertson, pp. 229-30.
—— Book III, No. 62 (‘What toong can her perfections tell’)
Ringler, pp. 85-90. Robertson, pp. 238-42.
SiP 155
Copy, headed ‘In comendation of a beautifull lady’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small neat predominantly secretary hand but for additions in a second hand on ff. 35v and 58r, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, 97 leaves (inclusing two blanks), in half-calf. Including 14 poems by Carew (and a second copy of one poem), eight poems (plus 3 of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, and 28 poems by Strode (plus a second copy of one and two of doubtful authorship). c.late 1630s.
Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Fulman MS’: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 559, and in Robertson, p. 459.
SiP 156
Copy, headed ‘Another’, transcribed from the edition of 1593.
In: the MS described under SiP 110. c.1596 [-1653].
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 555, and in Robertson, p. 459.
SiP 157
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under SiP 13. c.1581-1612.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson. May, Stanford, pp. 77 (No. 100), pp. 119-23 (No. 195).
Cambridge University Library, MS Dd. 5. 75, ff. 26r, 36v-7r.
SiP 158
Copy, headed ‘In prayse of bewty’, transcribed from a printed source.
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 recorded in Ringler, p. 560, and in Robertson, p. 459.
SiP 158.5
Copy, in a small predominantly italic hand, untitled. Mid-late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of prose and verse principally on religious matters, in several hands and paper sizes, 342 leaves, in contemporary brown calf (rebacked), with traces of metal clasps.
Inscribed names (f. 318v) ‘Samuel Brett’ and (f. 342v) ‘John Stewart’. Presented in 1965 by James Thin, Edinburgh bookseller.
SiP 159
Copy of lines 1-4, in a mixed hand, untitled. c.1630s.
In: A quarto composite volume of verse MSS, in several hands and paper sizes, 129 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms, antiquary, his brother Oliver, and (in 1714) by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector. c.mid 17th century.
Later owned by Sir John Fenn (1739-94), antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 16-18 July 1866 (Fenn sale), lots 420-22.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 555, and in Robertson, p. 459.
SiP 160
Copy of a version of lines 75-6, headed ‘On a Mayden’ and here beginning ‘A prettie seale of virgine wax’, in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 136r-45v).
In: A large folio composite volume of verse, in various largely secretary hands, 327 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Collected, and partly written, by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Betagraph of the watermark in f. 29 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks’, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 239).
SiP 161
Copy of a version of lines 75-6, headed ‘A maiden’ and here beginning ‘Aprills Seals of virgin wax’.
In: the MS described under SiP 127. c.1630s.
SiP 161.5
Copy of Book 3, No. 62, lines 83-6 (beginning ‘In that sweete seate the Boy doth sport’).
In: the MS described under SiP 116.8. Late 16th century.
SiP 162
Copy of lines 75-6, headed ‘A Mayden’ and here beginning ‘A pretty seale of Virgin wax’.
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].
SiP 163
Copy of lines 143-6, beginning ‘The inke immortall fame dooth lende’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany in several hands, written from both ends, 46 leaves, in contemporary calf. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed names (on front paste-down and f. 1r) of ‘Fra: Norreys’ (? Sir Francis Norris (1609-69)) and ‘Hen. Balle’. Purchased from J. Harvey 8 December 1877.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.
—— Third Eclogues, No. 64 (‘A neighbor mine not long agoe there was’)
Ringler, pp. 94-7. Robertson, pp. 249-53.
SiP 164
Copy in: the MS described under SiP 4.5. c.1596-1601.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.
—— Third Eclogues, No. 65 (‘Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be’)
SiP 164.5
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, in various hands, including seventeen poems by Carew, a title-page inscribed ‘A book of Verses / Seria mixta Jocis’, c.260 pages, in calf blind-stamped ‘V/I F 1667’. References to ‘Westminster Drollerie’ (which was not published until 1671) added on pp. 1 and 242. c.1667-8.
Inscribed on the title-page ‘Frendraught Legi’: i.e. by James Crichton (d.1674/5), second Viscount Frendraught. Bookplate of Thomas Fraser Duff (1830-77), of Woodcote, Oxfordshire. Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 9 April 1987, lot 272 (with a facsimile of p. 131 in the sale catalogue), sold to Quaritch.
—— Book IV, No. 68 (‘Who hath his hire, hath well his labour plast’)
Ringler, p. 108. Robertson, p. 265.
SiP 165
Copy, transcribed from the edition of 1598.
In: the MS described under SiP 35. c.1590s.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 558, and in Robertson, p. 466.
—— Fourth Eclogues, No. 71 (‘Yee Gote-heard Gods, that love the grassie mountaines’)
Ringler, pp. 111-13. Robertson, pp. 328-30.
SiP 166
Copy, headed ‘Strephon Sklayne’, subscribed ‘Finis S P. S.’
In: the MS described under SiP 8. c.1586-91.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.
—— Fourth Eclogues, No. 74 (‘Unto the caitife wretch, whom long affliction holdeth’)
Ringler, pp. 122-4. Robertson, pp. 341-4.
SiP 167
Copy in: the MS described under SiP 5. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 229, pp. 258-61. Collated in Ringler and in Robertson.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, ff. 157-8v.
SiP 167.5
Copy of a version headed ‘Sr Phil: Sidney Lib. 3: 133p.’ and beginning ‘Vnto a Caitiff wretch who misery well nigh has ended’.
In: A small (?sextodecimo) miscellany, entitled (f. 1r) ‘Miscellanea Vol 2 1690’, largely in a neat minute hand (up to f. 60v), 85 leaves (plus 37 blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1690.
Inscribed name (f. 2r) ‘Peter Save’ (who was also responsible for University of Illinois, 821.08/C737/17—). Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90), of Walton Hall, Wakefield, botanist and book collector. Bequeathed in 1894 by Samuel Sandars, of Kensington.
—— Book V, No. 77 (‘Since nature's works be good, and death doth serve’)
Ringler, p. 131. Robertson, pp. 373-4.
SiP 167.8
Copy, in Alice Thornton's hand, headed ‘Against the feares of Death’.
In: the MS described under SiP 60.5. c.1668.
Presumably edited from this MS in Jackson, p. 177.
SiP 168
Copy, headed ‘Verses agt feare of Death: made by Sir ph: sidney’, transcribed from a priited source.
In: A large folio miscellaneous compilation of verse and prose, chiefly in a single neat hand, written from both ends, 189 leaves, in contemporary vellum (rebound). Associated with the Freville family and probably assembled by Gilbert Frevile, of Bishop Middleham, Co. Durham, whose name appears on the cover with the date 1591. A pen-and-ink ornamental drawing at the end inscribed ‘Finis quoth G. W.’ c.1620s.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 556, and in Robertson, p. 480.
Other Books and Manuscripts Relating to Arcadia
Arcadia related
SiP 168.1
Copy of a French translation of at least Book II, by Jean Loiseau de Tourva, with two prefixed dedications. c.1607-10.
In: A quarto and duodecimo composite volume of miscellaneous papers in several European languages, in various hands, 500 leaves.
Edited from this MS in Albert W. Osborn, Sir Philip Sidney en France (Paris, 1932), Appendice, pp. i-xlii.
SiP 168.3
Copy of an anonymous dramatic adaptation of Arcadia, entitled Loves Changelinges change.
In: the MS described under SiP 111. c.1620s-1640s.
The complete play has been edited by Felicina Rota in L'Arcadia di Sidney e il teatro (Bari, 1966) and by John P. Cutts (Fennimore, 1974).
SiP 168.7
Copy of ‘A Draught of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia’, a satirical poem based on Arcadia, beginning ‘Hee that would read and understand’, in the same hand as SiP 000. c.1640s.
Later owned by John Buxton.
Privately edited at the New Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1961, and reedited in Historical Essays 1600-1750 Presented to David Ogg (London, 1963), pp. 60-77.
SiP 168.8
A MS index to Arcadia, in two parts, in the same hand as SiP 000. The first part entitled Sr Philip Sydneys exact Characters wherein hee is both painter & poet; the owtward Character poynting at the painter, the inward description at the poet; the second entitled A Clavis opening ye names and referring to the Characters. c.1640s.
Later owned by John Buxton.
Discussed by John Buxton in ‘Sidney and Theophrastus’, ELR, 2 (1972), 79-82.
The Historie of Arcadia: or an Addition to: and a Continuance Of Sir Phillip Sydney's Arcadia
An unpublished ‘allegorical account of the Grand Rebellion begun 1640. By one of the Lord Digby's Family’, the ‘account’ covering English history from before the reign of Queen Elizabeth to 1649.
SiP 168.9
Copy, in a neat non-professional roman hand, comprising an address ‘To the Reader’ and four chapers numbered VI-IX, 259 small folio pages, in contemporary calf. c.1650.
Variously owned or inscribed by Elizabeth Holt, of Warwickshire; John Bryars, rector of Diss, Norfolk; Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector; Ann Bridge (1755); Martin Joseph Routh (1755-1854); Captain Kenelm Somerville, R.N.; Noel Digby, of Magdalen College, Oxford, rector of Brinton; given by him to J. Wight, 22 March 1830; and Lady Biddulph. Sotheby's, 22 June 1953, to Dobell.
Prose
Certain notes concerning the present state of the Prince of Orange and the provinces of Holland and Zeeland, as they were in the month of May 1577
First published in Baron Kervynde Lettenhove, Relations politiques des Pays-Bas et de l'Angleterre sous le règne de Philippe II, Vol. IX (Brussels, 1890).
SiP 169
Copy, in a secretary hand, docketed in another hand (f. 51r) ‘Belgia 1577 May’.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 189 leaves, gilt edged, damaged by the fire of 1732, in modern brown crushed morocco gilt. [1577].
Edited from this MS and attributed to Sidney in Osborn, Young Philip Sidney, pp. 482-90. Also discussed by Osborn in TLS (30 April 1970), pp. 487-8.
SiP 170
Copy. [1577].
The text corrected from this MS in Osborn.
SiP 171
Copy. [1577].
Edited from this MS in Lettenhove; the text corrected from this MS in Osborn.
Defence of the Earl of Leicester
First published in Arthur Collins, Letters and Memorials of State of the Sidney Family (London, 1746), I, 62-8. Feuillerat, III, 61-71. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 129-41.
*SiP 172
Autograph draft, with revisions, untitled, on both sides of seven folio leaves. Mounted with other separate state documents in a double-folio album, gilt-edged, in red morocco gilt. c.1585.
Inscribed ‘found in ye evidence Room at Penshurst’ and, in the hand of Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe (1780-1855), sixth Viscount Strangford and first Baron Penshurst, ‘Bought of Thomas Thorpe 1837’. Owned in 1927 by Mrs P. M. Russell, granddaughter of Lord Penshurst. Sotheby's, 30 May 1927, lot 532, to Quaritch. Sotheby's, 10 May 1828, lot 21, to ‘Triphook’. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 436 (1930), item 1647, with a facsimile example. Quaritch's sale catalogue in 1948, item 14. Acquired by the Morgan Library in 1953.
Edited from this MS in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten. Facsimile pages in Ringler, facing p. lxiii; in The Pierpont Morgan Library: A Review of Acquisitions 1949-1968 (New York, 1969), plate 31; in Autograph Letters & Manuscripts: Major Acquisitions of the Pierpont Morgan Library 1924-1974 (New York, 1974), Plate 8; in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 20; in DLB, vol. 167, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Third Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1996), p. 199; and in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 114.
SiP 173
Copy, evidently transcribed from SiP 172, untitled, headed in another hand ‘Apologie par le feu renome Cheualeir Ph. Sidney po le Cote de Leycester so oncle 1582’.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers generally concerning diplomatic relations between England and France, in various hands.
This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 333-4, and in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten. Facsimile of f. 111r in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 118.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Cinq cents de Colbert n° 466, ff. 111r-16r.
SiP 174
Copy, transcribed from Sidney's autograph MS (SiP 172), perhaps by Arthur Collins (1681/2-1760), genealogist and historian, headed ‘The Answer of Sir Philip Sidney To a Book published by Father Parsons the Jesuit Intituled Secret Memoirs of Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester’, fifteen small folio leaves, on rectos only, now on mounts, unbound. Early-mid-18th century.
Among papers of the Sidney family, Viscounts De L'Isle, of Penshurst Place, Ashford, Kent.
Edited from this MS in Feuillerat. Collated in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten.
A Defence of Poetry
First published in London, 1595. Feuillerat, III, 1-46.
See also SiP 226.
SiP 175
Copy, in a professional secretary and italic hand, 16 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum. Later owned by Robert Sidney (1563-1626), with some corrections on the last leaf in his hand. Late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 73-121. Collated in Feuillerat, III, 317-25.
A microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic. S82).
SiP 176
Copy, in the same hand as SiP 103, untitled, bound up with a miscellany compiled by Francis Blomefield (1705-52), rector of Fersfield, Norfolk topographer, and indexed by him in 1726 as ‘A treatise of Horsman shipp. (Not so.). Tis a defence of Neglected Poetry, in 19 fol:’. c.1584.
Also once owned by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector; by John Ives, FRS (1751-76), antiquary and Suffolk Herald-Extraordinary; by John Thane (1747?-1818), bookdealer; and by John Borthwick (1788-1845), thirteenth Earl of Crookston. Sold by Major Borthwick at Sotheby's, 3 June 1946, lot 195, to Quaritch.
Edited from this MS, with a facsimile of the first page, in The Norwich Sidney Manuscript: The Apology for Poetry, ed. Mary R. Mahl (Northridge, California, 1969). Discussed by Mary Mahl in TLS (21 December 1967), p. 1245; in ‘The Norwich Sidney Manuscript: Adventures of a Literary Detective’, Coranto, 8 (1972), 18-32, and in ‘Sir Philip Sidney's Scribe: The New Arcadia and the Apology for Poetry’, ELN, 10 (1972-3), 90-1. Collated in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten.
SiP 176.2
MS of a Spanish translation, possibly by Don Juan de Bustamente. Early 17th century.
Edited by Dwight O. Chambers as Deffensa de Poesia: A Spanish Version (n.p., 1968), and by Benito Brancaforte as Deffensa de la Poesia: A 17th Century Anonymous Spanish translation of Philip Sidney's ‘Defence of Poesie’ (Chapel Hill, 1977).
SiP 176.5
Extracts, headed ‘In ye Defence of Poetry’.
In: the MS described under SiP 117.5. c.1644-76.
SiP 177
Extracts.
In: the MS described under SiP 4. Early 17th century.
Facsimile of f. 116v in Fred Schurink, ‘Lives and Letters: Three Early Seventeenth-Century Manuscripts with Extracts from Sidney's Arcadia’, EMS, 16 (2011), 170-96 (p. 182).
SiP 178
Extracts, headed ‘Apolog: of Poetry. sr P.S.’.
In: the MS described under SiP 59. c.1604-9.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 557.
SiP 179
Extracts, headed ‘Defence of Poesie by Sr. Phil Sydney’.
In: An octavo commonplace book, in English and Latin, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 152 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1659.
Owned by William Drake (1606-69) of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
Discourse on Irish Affairs
First published in Feuillerat, III (1923), 46-50. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 8-12.
*SiP 180
Autograph, untitled, imperfect, lacking the ending. [1577].
In: A folio composite volume of state papers relating to Ireland, in various hands, c.666 leaves.
Edited from this MS in Feuillerat and in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten. Facsimile of f. 564r in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 115.
A Letter of Advice to Robert Sidney
A letter beginning ‘My most deere Brother. You have thought unkindness in me, I have not written oftner unto you...’. First published in Profitable Instructions. Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 74-103. Feuillerat (as Correspondence No. XXXVIII), III, 124-7.
SiP 180.1
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed in a partly court hand ‘A letter written by Sr Phillippe Sidney to his brother Robert Sidney (now Lord Lisle) showing what Course was fittest for him to hold in his Trauaile’. c.1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters, speeches and other papers, in various largely professional hands, folio- and quarto-size leaves, 577 leaves.
SiP 180.112
Copy, headed ‘A Lre wrytten by Sir Phillipp Sidnye, to his Brother Robte Sidnye (now Lord Lyle) shewinge what Course was ffitt ffor him to hould in his Travells’.
In: A folio volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, including the ‘Feathery Scribe’ and Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), 374 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter-calf. c.1620s-30s.
Bookplate of John Moore (1646-1714), Bishop of Ely.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 216-17 (No. 6).
SiP 180.115
Copy, headed ‘Sr Phillip Sidney to his Brother beyond ye seas’.
In: A folio miscellany, begun as a commonplace book and then used for transcribing state papers, letters and verses, in several hands, 560 pages (including numerous blanks), in quarter-calf marbled boards. Early-mid-17th century.
Inscribed (p. i), probably in the late 17th century, ‘John Peck His Book’.
SiP 180.12
Copy, headed ‘A lre of Sr philip Sidney to his brother Robert aboute travell’.
In: A folio volume of state tracts and letters, c.480 pages. c.1625-30s.
Inscribed on the rear cover ‘Robert Wingfield his Booke witnes Barbary Wingfield’. Among the Tabley House MSS and once owned by Sir Peter Leycester (1614-78), antiquary.
Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, pp. 47-8.
SiP 180.2
Copy in: A folio compendium or entry book of state letters and other documents and memoranda, in various secretary and italic hands, 231 leaves (including numerous blanks), in modern half-calf. Compiled over a period, and partly written, by Sir Stephen Powle (c.1553-1630), Clerk of the Crown.
SiP 180.3
Copy, headed ‘Sr Phillip Sidney to his Brother being beyond the Seas’.
In: A quarto volume of letters and state papers, in a secretary hand, xii + 209 pages (plus blank pp. 211-472, 475-6), in contemporary calf. c.1620s-30s.
Owned in the 17th century by William Goswell, his friend James Bedford, and Gerard Langbaine [? Gerard Langbaine (1608/9-58), head of Queen's College, Oxford]. Also inscribed (f. 376) ‘Amy Wigmore’.
SiP 180.4
Copy, in Birch's hand, headed ‘A Letter written by Sr Philip Sidney to a Brother of his touching the Direction of his Travell: temper'd with an Edition of it printed in Profitable Instructions &c. London 1633’.
In: A large quarto volume of letters, copied almost entirely in Thomas Birch's hand, 340 leaves. Volume I of the collection of state letters etc. by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian. Mid-18th century.
SiP 180.5
Copy, headed ‘Sr. Philip Sidney to his Brother’, under a general heading ‘Three lres concerninge Travaile & Travailors’.
In: An octavo volume of transcripts of state tracts and letters, iii + 227 leaves (including blanks) in all, in calf. Mainly in three hands, with later additions in c.1683-99.
Inscribed names including Anthony, Thomas and John Marshall, Jonas Ramsden, Jenkinson, Thomas Maleverer, and Lawson. Owned c.1670s-90s by the family of Sir Thomas Seyliard, third Baronet (d.1701), of Delawarre, Kent. Later note: ‘Bought this Manuscript at Montague's Book warehouse near Queen Street Lincoln's Inn Fields Tuesday Feb: 12 1739’. Later armorial bookplate apparently of the Appleyard family of either Yorkshire or Norfolk. Phillips, 20 March 1998, lot 467, to Quaritch.
SiP 180.6
Copy in: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, with (f. 1*r-v) an ‘Index’ of contents, 247 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt. In various professional hands, including those of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, and the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
Later owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary. Then by Robert Harley.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 239-41 (No. 53).
SiP 180.7
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Phillip Sydney his lre to Sr Robert Sydney touching his Travell’. c. 1630.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in several hands, 189 leaves, in old calf gilt.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘E libris Abr. Pry[son?] D. J. e. e. 1690’.
SiP 180.8
Copy in: A small folio volume of state tracts and papers, in one or more probably professional hands. c.1620s-30s.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 203-4.
SiP 180.9
Copy, headed ‘A letter written by Sr Phillip Sidney to his brother Robt Sidney (now Lord Lisle) shewing what course was fittest for him to hold in his travailes’, the first of ‘Three Letters conserning one subiect...All giueing directions to their said frinds how to make the best of their Travailles’.
In: A folio miscellany of tracts, letters, plays and verse, for the most part in a single secretary hand, partly on inserted sheaves of long narrow ledger-size leaves, written from both ends, 248 leaves, in contempoary vellum with metal clasps. Compiled by a University of Cambridge man. Early 17th century.
Inscribed at the end ‘Josephus Diggins me possedit’: i.e. by Joseph Diggins, of Clare Hall, Cambridge (matric. 1607, d.1658). Christie's, 5 December 1973, lot 84, to Hofmann & Freeman.
SiP 180.91
Copy, headed ‘Sr Phillippe Sidney to his brother being beyond the Seas’.
In: A folio volume of state letters, speeches and verse, in a single neat italic hand. c.1620s.
Among the papers of the Fuller family of Brightling Park. Possibly once owned by Ambrose Trayton of Lewes, Esquire of the Body to James I and Charles I.
SiP 180.92
Copy, headed ‘A letter written by Sr Phillip Sidney to his brother Robert Sidney (now Lord Lisle) shewing what cours was fit for him to hold in his travails’.
In: An octavo volume of essays on travel, largely in one professional secretary hand, a ‘Table’ and some notes in other hands, with a formal title-page ‘Itineraria Collectanea or Instructions for A Traveler Directing him how to make the best use of his Travels Together with the Politique survay of A Kingdome’, 107 pages (plus blanks), in old vellum boards. c.1630.
This MS recorded in BC, 15 (Summer 1966), p. 156.
SiP 180.93
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A Letter written by Sr Phillip Sidney to a brother of his touchinge the direction of his travell’.
In: A folio volume of state and antiquarian tracts and letters, in two or more professional hands, with a table of contents at the end, ii + 227 leaves, in modern cloth. c.1630.
Mostyn MS 139 (Old Catalogue MS 53), from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Hollywell, Flintshire, and maintained by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) and his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). Sotheby's, 13 July 1920, lot 72, to Sumner.
Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 352.
SiP 180.94
Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed ‘A letter Written by Sr Phillipe Sidney to his Brother Robert Sidney (now lo Lissle) shewing what course was fitt for him to hould in his trauels’.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters, in two professional hands, 24 leaves, in paper wrappers, unbound. Early 17th century.
SiP 180.95
Copy, in the secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, the flourished italic heading (possibly in another hand) ‘A Leetter written by Sir Phillipp Sidney to a brother of his touching the direction of his Trauaile’, the final subscription ‘Your assured louing brother Phillipp Sidney’ possibly also in another hand. c.1625-30s. c.1625-30s.
In: A tall folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 201 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf.
Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark E. 1. 10.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 224-5 (No. 20).
SiP 180.96
Copy, headed ‘A letter written by Sr Phillip Sidney to a brother of his touching the direction of his Trauaile’.
In: A folio volume of state tracts and papers relating chiefly to Privy Council matters, in several largely professional secretary hands, 266 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards. c.1620s-30s.
Sotheby's, 15 March 1895, lot 207. In the library of Herbert Somerton Foxwell (1849-1936), economist and bibliographer.
University of London, Senate House Library, MS 20, ff. 261v-5r.
SiP 180.97
Copy, headed ‘A Letter written by Sr. Phillip Sydney to his brother Robert Sydney (now Lord Lisle) shewing which Course was fitt for him to hould in Traueiles’.
In: A quarto volume of transcripts of state letters, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 93 pages, imperfect, in 17th-century calf. c.1630.
Bookplate of George Folliott.
SiP 180.98
Copy of the letter ‘to his brother beinge beyond the Seas’.
In: A portion of a folio volume of state letters, in a secretary hand, 22 pages, disbound. Early-mid-17th century.
Bought in the ‘Fenn sale 1866 (243)’. Formerly part of Phillipps MS 29759. Sotheby's, 14 June 1971, lot 1492, to Dobell.
A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur
First published in Scrinia Caeciliana: Mysteries of State & Government (London, 1663) and in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (London, 1663). Feuillerat, III, 51-60. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 46-57.
This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), Chapter 4, pp. 109-46 (with most MSS catalogued as Nos 1-37, with comments on their textual tradition, in Appendix IV, pp. 274-80).
SiP 181
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed in a later hand ‘Reasons offered agt Queen Elizabeths marriage wth ye Duke of Anjoy, Alanson; in a letter to her’, on fourteen quarto pages. Early 17th century.
In: the MS described under SiP 88.3.
Beal, In Praise of Scribes, 274, No. 1.
SiP 182
Copy, untitled, imperfect.
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.
This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 2.
SiP 183
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled and incomplete (a leaf skipped between pp. 1030 and 1031), under the classification ‘Aduise’.
In: A folio volume of of state letters and tracts, in several professional secretary hands, the letters on pp. 877-1039 arranged under genre headings (‘Aduise’, ‘Aunsweares’, ‘Comendatory’, etc.), 1039 pages, in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked). c.1595-1620s.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist and book collector. Sotheby's, 14 December 1976, lot 47, to Hofmann & Freeman. Then owned by Peter Beal, London. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 88, with a facsimile example.
A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, RP 2102.
Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 31.
SiP 184
Copy in a secretary hand, headed ‘A discours of Syr Ph.S. to ye Q. Mty touching hir mariage wth Monsr’, on thirteen folio pages, docketed in a different hand ‘Discours de Syr P.S. Sur le mariage de la Re. Elizab. auec Monsieur’. c.1580s.
In: the MS described under SiP 173.
Edited from this MS in Feuillerat. Collated in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 275 (No. 3), with a facsimile of f. 89r on p. 117.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Cinq cents de Colbert n° 466, ff. 89r-95r.
SiP 185
Copy in a single secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Phillip Sidney to hir Matie’, on seven closely-written folio pages, endorsed on f. 4v ‘Sr Phillip Sidney to Quee Elizabeth Concning her Marriage wth Mounser’. End of 16th-early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of political letters and speeches (up to 1640), in various hands, 259 leaves (ff. 8-20 and 212-59 blank), in contemporary calf.
Assembled by the astrologer and antiquary Elias Ashmole (1617-92).
This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 37. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 4.
SiP 186
Copy, in a single predominantly secretary hand, originally untitled, with a title-page (f. 1r) added in a different hand: ‘A Letter to Queen Elizabeth diswading her from marrying wth. Monsieur written in the yeare 1581’.
In: An octavo volume of tracts and sermons, including (f. 22 et seq.) a copy of John Stubbs's Gaping Gulf (1579), in various hands, iii + 165 pages. c.1637.
Early notes and accounts (f. 160r) refer to Chancery Lane, Bishops Court, and Whites Alley. The volume was once owned by William Herbert (1711-95), bibliographer and print seller. Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq., and in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 275, No. 5.
SiP 187
Copy in a single bold hand, headed ‘A Letter written by Sr Phillip Sydny: unto Q ELIZabeth toutching her mariage with Mounseiur’, on fifteen pages.
In: An octavo volume of tracts and papers relating to France, 180 leaves, in calf. Early 17th century.
Later Phillipps MS 11931. Bookplate of one Robert Steele, Wandsworth Common. Sotheby's, 5 June 1899, lot 505. P.J. and A.E. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 73 (1928), item 455.
Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 6.
SiP 188
Text of a freely adapted paraphrase of the ‘Letter’, headed ‘The effect of a Discourse directed and delivered to Queen Elisabeth about her Mariage with Monsieur: Ao. 158i: by Sr Philip Sidney’ and ending ‘...At your Majestys fete: Philip Sidney’, on seven pages, subscribed ‘Script: Decembr. 7. i618’.
In: An octavo volume of transcripts of state tracts and documents in the minute hand of Robert Horn of Shropshire, two items (ff. 19-30, dated 20 January 1620/1) added by Herbert Jenks of Newhall, 104 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1618-30s.
This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 7.
An abridgement of John Stubbs's Gaping Gulf (1679), the book which partly prompted Sidney's Letter, in on ff. 15v-17v, subscribed ‘Script. i619. Mens: Martij .19’.
SiP 188.5
Copy of the first 63 words only, untitled, the rest of the page left blank.
In: A folio volume of state papers and verses relating chiefly to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in a single professional secretary hand up to f. 58r, other hands on ff. 59r-65r, 65 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1610.
An anonymous reader has dated f. 58r ‘Septembr 10. 93 / ffebr: 30. [1]700/1’.
SiP 188.8
Copy, headed ‘The Coppie of a letter written to Queene Elizabeth when the Duke of Alanson was a suitor to her’.
The text follows (on ff. 35r-54r) a copy of Sir Thomas Smith's ‘discourse concerning the conveniencie of mariage of Queene Elizabeth...by waye of dialogue’.
In: A folio volume of political tracts and letters, in a single secretary hand, 57 leaves, in contemporary vellum. The lower vellum cover inscribed ‘Book of noates collected out of Mr Traffords Sermons & others’. Early 17th century.
SiP 189
Copy, headed ‘To Queene Elizabeth about the mariage with monsieur the Duke of Aniou’, with the subscription ‘when God long prserve your maties most dutifull and humble subiect & seruant / Ignot.’
In: A folio volume of ‘Speeches in Parliamt and other speeches with seuerall letters of Concernmt being of great Antiquitie...And some other speeches and Letters relateing to these late distracted tymes’, iv + 165 leaves, in calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 18 of the Hopkinson MSS. 1660.
Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 296-7.
This MS recorded (but not seen) in Feuillerat, III, 326. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 8.
SiP 190
Copy in a single neat secretary hand, untitled, on five pages (f. 33r-v misbound in reverse order), in a section under the subject heading ‘Advise’.
In: A large double-folio formal volume of state papers of c.1545-80, arranged according to subject, in a single professional secretary hand, on 46 leaves of vellum, in half green morocco. c.1590s.
Bookplate of Richard Towneley, of Townely Hall, near Burnley, Lancashire, dated 1702. Sotheby's, 27-28 June 1883 (Towneley sale), lot 170, to Quaritch. Quaritch's sale catalogue ‘of English Literature’ (August-November 1884), item 22349. Presented by William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst (1835-1908), first Baron Amherst of Hackney, 13 April 1887.
This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 325 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 37. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 9.
SiP 191
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.
In: Volume I of the Harington Papers, i + 126 leaves (including blanks), in modern calf gilt, ‘Prose N° I’ stamped on the spine. Late 16th century.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 276 (No. 10), with a facsimile of f. 100r on p. 123.
SiP 192
Copy in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘The copie of a Lre written to the Queen by Mr P.S.’, this heading later extended in Beale's hand ‘after wards called Sr Philipp Sidney, concrning the mareage wth Monsr d'Aniou’, on twelve folio pages.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, many relating to Mary Queen of Scots, some concerning the proposed Anjou marriage, in various hands and paper sizes, 711 leaves, in contemporary vellum, with ties. Collected and annotated by Robert Beale (1541-1601), Clerk of the Privy Council. Including (ff. 152r-95v) a printed exemplum of Stubbs's banned tract A Gaping Gulf (1579). c.1580s-90s.
Yelverton MS 31, among Beale's papers descending to Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 41.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 276 (No. 11), with a facsimile of f. 230r on p. 120.
SiP 192.5
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A letter Written to Queene Elizabeath against the Match wth: Monseieur’, on fourteen folio pages, part of a single unit (ff. 215r-50v) of papers dating up to 1623. c. 1623-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers and tracts, in English and Latin, in various hands, ii + 380 leaves, in contemporary vellum, with traces of ties.
Yelverton MS 49, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.
This MS cited in H.R. Woudhuysen, ‘A crux in the text of Sidney's A Letter to Queen Elizabeth’, N&Q, 229 (June 1984), 172-3. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 12.
SiP 192.8
Copy in the hand of the merchant and antiquary Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), on thirteen folio pages (part of a single section: ff. 17r-32v), imperfect. c.1600s-28.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and paperc, in various hands, c.470 leaves in all, now bound in two volumes, damaged by the fire of 1732.
This MS cited in H.R. Woudhuysen, ‘A crux in the text of Sidney's A Letter to Queen Elizabeth’, N&Q, 229 (June 1984), 172-3. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 13, with facsimile example Plate 71.
British Library, Cotton MS Caligula E. XII, Part I, ff. 25r-31r.
SiP 193
Copy, partly in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’ (on ff. 270r, 273r-82v), partly in another professional secretary hand (on ff. 271r-2v, the same hand as SiP 202 and SiP 209), with a few marginal marks by a reader.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, speeches and letters dating up to 1631, in various professional hands, including the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 313 leaves.
In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Inscribed by him on f. [iv] ‘F Hargrave A gift to me this day from my friend George Hardinge Esquire [(1743-1816), judge and writer]. F. H. 16. July 1789.’
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 232-3 (No. 41).
This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 325 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38.
SiP 194
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A Letter written by Sr: Phillipp Sidney vnto Queene Elizabeth touching hir Marriage wth Mounseir’. c.1625-30s.
In: the MS described under SiP 180.6.
This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 325 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 277 (No. 15).
SiP 195
Copy, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, with a title-page ‘The Coppye off a Letter wrytten by Sr: Phillipp Sidnye To Queene Elizabeth, Touchinge hir Marryage wth Mounsieur: &c’.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, 285 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. In various professional hands, including that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 242-4 (No. 57).
Edited from this MS in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten. Collated in Feuillerat, III, 325 et seq. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 243 (No. 57.4) and p. 277 (No. 16), with facsimiles of ff. 54v-5r on pp. 140-1.
SiP 196
Fragment of a copy of the letter, in two or three cursive secretary hands, or possibly one which progressively degenerates, here beginning ‘of Spaines Dowter some tymes yor. Matie. are evident testimonie of a light minde...’, on two large folio leaves. Early 17th century.
In: A large folio composite volume of state papers and tracts, in various professional hands, 298 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.
A later note in the gutter of f. 199r: ‘Bought of H.W.’, and similar inscriptions on ff. 12r and 13v (1581).
This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 325 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 17.
SiP 197
A précis of the letter in a single cursive secretary hand, originally untitled, here beginning ‘To arme an excuse wth reasons were to acknowledg yt I did willinglie amisse...’, on six folio pages, with blank wrappers (ff. 53r, 61v), docketed in another contemporary hand (f. 53r) ‘1579. Notes out of mr Phillip Sidneys lre to ye Q. towching hir mariage wth. Monsieur’; other inscriptions including ‘1579 / Bundle XII / Varia’ (and scribbling in cipher on f. 53r in the same hand as the inscription on f. 63v: ‘Ano. 1579 IV. LXXV. Articles propounded in behalf of ye Duke of Anjoy concerning marryinge wth ye Queen’). c.1579.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 196 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Comprising papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.
Bookplate (as ‘Shelburne’) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.
This MS recorded in Feuillerat, III, 325. Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 277 (No. 18), with a facsimile of f. 54r on p. 126.
SiP 198
Copy in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, on sixteen folio leaves. c.1625-30.
This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 325 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 245 (No. 64), and p. 277 (No. 19).
SiP 199
Copy, on six folio leaves in a 38-leaf section (including PtG 4.5) in the same professional secretary hand, untitled, with a prayer added as a coda after the ‘Finis’ (f. 6v): ‘God saue our gracious Queen Elizabeth; and so indue her wth his grace, and touch her heart wth the spirit of wisedome, that herein shee erre not, but maie doe onlie that, yt maie make most for his glorie, best for her owne solace & comfort, and the good & quiet of our Land. Amen.’ Late 16th-early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters and tracts, in various professional hands, 240 leaves (plus blanks), now in four volumes, in modern quarter-calf.
This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 20.
Cambridge University Library, MS Kk. 1. 3 , III, Item 14, ff. 3r-6v.
SiP 200
Copy of the first twenty lines and then a series of condensed extracts from various parts of the Letter including the last few lines, in a cursive secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Phillip Sydney to her Matie: concerninge her Marriage wth Mounsieur’, on two pages.
In: the MS described under SiP 180.12. c.1625-30s.
This MS recorded (but not seen) in Feuillerat, III, 326. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 21.
SiP 201
Copy, in a professional, predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Phillip Sidney his letter or Treatise to her Matie against Monsieurs Mariage’, with the salutation (‘Most ffeared & beloved, most sweete & Gratious Soveraigne’) superscribed and centred.
In: A Folio composite volume of state tracts, in three hands, 130 leaves, in old calf. c.1625-30s.
Once owned by Henry Powle (1630-92), Master of the Rolls, whose library and MS collection were assembled with the help of John Bagford (1650-1716). Bookplate of Francis North (1704-90), first Earl of Guilford, of Wroxton Abbey. Acquired by Henry Clay Folger (1857-1930) from the Arthur H. Clark Company, Cleveland (from their London warehouse) in August 1924. Formerly Folger MS 1291.3.
Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 22.
SiP 202
Copy, on eighteen folio leaves, with a title-page, ‘The Coppye Off a Lre wrytten by Sr. Phillipp Sidnye to Queene Elizabeth Touchinge hir Marriage wth Mounsieur’, disbound. Partly in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’ (the title-page and end of f. 17v to f. 18r), the rest in another professional hand (the same as SiP 193 and SiP 209), who is perhaps also responsible for some deletions and corrections. c.1625-30s.
Acquired in 1923 by Henry Clay Folger (1857-1930) from E. Williams, of Hove, Sussex. Formerly Folger MS 1132.2.
This MS recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 267 (No. 110) and p. 278 (No. 23), with a facsimile example of f. 3r on p. 124.
SiP 203
Copy, headed ‘Sr: Philip Sydne’.
In: An oblong quarto volume of transcripts of state letters up to 1627, closely written in two professional secretary hands, 39 leaves, in a late 16th-century vellum deed wrapper (now within modern green morocco gilt). c.1627-30s.
Phillipps MS 10665.
This MS recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 24.
SiP 204
Copy in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A Coppie of A Letter written by Sr Phillipp Sydney vnto Queene Eliz: toucheing hir Marriage with Monsier’ and with an extended valediction subscribed ‘Phillipp Sydney’, on eighteen pages. c.1630.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, with (ff. 1r-2v) a table of contents, ii + 266 leaves, in red morocco gilt.
This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 25.
SiP 205
Copy in a secretary hand. Headed (with side-note) ‘Sr Philippe Sydneys Letter to the Q: concearning her mariage wth Mounsier’, and the salutation (‘Most feared & beloued sweete, and gracious Souereigne’) set apart and slightly engrossed, on twelve folio pages, in contemporary limp vellum. c.1625-30s.
Formerly bound with three other tracts dating up to 1626. William H. Robinson's sale catalogue No. 72 (1940), item 147. Sold by Seven Gables Bookshop at Sotheby's, 10 April 1962, lot 467.
This MS recorded in The Book Collector, 15 (Summer 1966), 156, and in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 26 (pp. 278-9).
SiP 206
Copy, in a cursive professional hand, the text set out with exceptional clarity, headed ‘A Letter written by Sr. Philip Sidney to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsr. Duke of Aniow’ and with the salutation (‘Most feared and beloved, Most sweet and gratious Soveraigne’) set out and centred, 31 folio pages.
In: Two folio composite volumes of state tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, in 19th-century half-vellum marbled boards gilt.
Mostyn MS 177: from the library of the Mostyn family, of Mostyn Hall, Flintshire, and Gloddaeth, Denbighshire, whose notable book and manuscript collectors included Sir Thomas Mostyn (1651-1700?) and his grandson Sir Thomas Mostyn, fourth Baronet (1704-58).
Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 355.
Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 27.
SiP 207
Copy, in a professional mixed hand, the order of some passages rearranged and the text occasionally abridged or slightly paraphrased, headed ‘Sr: P: Sidnes ltre to the Queene against the match with Mouncieur:’, the salutation (‘Most feared & beloved most sweet & gratious Queene’) isolated and set out into the margin, subscribed at the end ‘Sr: P: Sidney’, on eleven folio pages.
In: A folio volume of state letters and poems, 65 pages. c.1625-30s.
Once belonging to the Sotheby family of London and Ecton Hall, Northamptonshire.
Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 28.
SiP 208
Copy, in a single mixed hand, the order of some passages rearranged and the text occasionally abridged or slightly paraphrased, headed ‘Sr Phillip Sydney to her Matie Concerning Mounseur:’.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters, tracts, and verse, collected by, and mostly in the hand of, William Parkhurst (fl.1604-67), Sir Henry Wotton's secretary in Venice and later Master of the Mint, including various works in verse and prose attributed to Donne, chiefly in a scribal hand, partly in Parkhurst's hand, 373 leaves (including blanks), in old calf.
Among the papers of the Finch family of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland. Mistakenly reported by Grierson and Logan Pearsall Smith to have been destroyed in a fire at Burley c.1908.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Burley MS’: DnJ Δ 53. Recorded in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 516. A complete microfilm of the MS is at the University of Sheffield, Microfilm 737.
A neat transcript of parts of the Burley MS (including principally poems on ff. 255r-v, 278v, [279r]-288v, 342v-3r, 294r-300r, 301r-8v), made before 1908, on 35 leaves, is in the Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 80.
This MS recorded (but not seen) in Feuillerat, III, 326. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 29.
SiP 209
Copy, the title-page and ff. 238r-43v in the secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, ff. 231r-7v in another professional cursive secretary hand, entitled ‘The: Coppye: Off a Letter written by Sr. Phillipp Sednye, to Queene Elizabeth Touchinge hir Marryage wth Mounsieur’. c.1625-40.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional secretary hands including that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, ii + 281 leaves (including blanks), in calf.
In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 10464. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 250-1 (No. 78).
Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 251 (No. 78.7) and p. 279 (No. 30).
University of London, Senate House Library, MS 308, ff. 230r-43v.
SiP 209.5
Copy, in two hands, Alexander Dicsone's secretary hand responsible for the heading and first page and a half (ff. 104v-5r), another cursive secretary hand for the remainder.
In: A folio volume of state tracts and letters, largely in a single secretary hand, with other hands towards the end, i + 110 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. c.1585-1603.
Scribbled inscriptions including the names ‘Archibald Delawar’, ‘Archibald Dewer’, ‘John Bourchier’, ‘Nicolas Barklay’, and ‘Symson’. Among the collections of Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary. Acquired in 1698.
This MS discussed in Beal, ‘Sidney's Letter’, with facsimiles of ff. 104v-5r on pp. 4-5.
National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 33.3.11, ff. 104r-10r.
SiP 209.8
Copy, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, headed ‘A Lre written by Sir: Phillipp: Sidney vnto Queene Elizabeth Touchinge hir Marryage wth Mounsr’.
In: A worn folio volume of transcripts of state letters and tracts, the majority by or relating to Francis Bacon, in a single professional secretary hand (the ‘Feathery Scribe’), 101 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1625-30s.
From the papers of the Cartwright family of Aynho. Formerly an unnumbered MS in C(A) Box 56, in the Northamptonshire Record Office.
SiP 210
Copy, with a brief valediction: ‘Your Majesties faythfull, humble, and obedient Subject, P. Sydney’. 17th century?
Formerly ‘Sidney Papers B’ among the Sidney family archives of the Viscount De L'Isle, Penshurst Place, Kent.
Edited from this MS in Arthur Collins, Letters and Memorials of State, 2 vols (London, 1746), I, 287-92. Recorded (but not seen) in Feuillerat, III, 326, and in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 32.
SiP 211
Copy, in the secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, with a title-page ‘The Coppye: Off a Lre wrytten by Sr: phillipp. Sidnye, to Queene Elizabeth, Touchinge the Marryage, wth Mounsieur, &c’. c.1625-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands including that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 209 leaves (including blanks), in modern half-vellum marbled boards.
Among the papers of the Acland Hood family, of Fairfield, Stogursey.
Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 350. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 261 (No. 105), with facsimile examples on pp. 144-5.
This MS recorded (but not seen) in Feuillerat, III, 326. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 261 (No. 105.1) and p. 280 (No. 33), No. 33, with facsimiles of ff. 51v-2r on pp. 144-5.
SiP 212
Copy, in the secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, with a title-page ‘The: Coppye: Off: a; Letter: wrytten by Sr: Phillipp Sidnye to Queene Elizabeth. Touchinge her Marryage, wth Mownsieur &tc.’, inscribed ‘AA May. 7. 1641’ (or ‘1691’) and ‘N. 52’. c.1625-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, with (f. 1r) a table of contents, 232 leaves, in old blind-stamped calf.
Purchased in December 1806 from Mr Mercier. Old pressmark E. 3. 25.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 222 (No. 17).
This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 222 (No. 17) and p. 280 (No. 34), with a facsimile of f. 10v on p. 138.
SiP 213
Copy, ff. 38r-45r in the secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, as well as his title-page (f. 33r) ‘The Coppye Off a Lre written by Sr: Phillipp: Sidnye to Queene Elizabeth, touching hir Marryage wth: Mounsieur’, ff. 34r-7v in another professional secretary hand.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various professional hands, including the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 385 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf.
Once owned by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark G. 4.10.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 223 (No. 18).
This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 223 (No. 18.1) and p. 280 (No. 35), with facsimiles of ff. 33r and 45r on pp. 133 and 137.
SiP 214
Copy, in the secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, the flourished italic heading (possibly in another hand) ‘A Letter Written by Sir Phillipp Sidney vnto Queene Elizabeth touching her marriage with Monsuer’. c.1625-30s.
In: the MS described under SiP 180.95.
This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 224 (No. 20.1) and p. 280 (No. 36).
SiP 215
Copy, ‘in a very neat old Court Hand’, headed ‘A Letter written by Sir Phillip Sidney unto Queene Elizabeth touchinge hir Marriage with Mounseer’, nineteen folio pages.
In: A foio volume comprising two tracts, in a single professional hand, 60 leaves, in half-vellum. c.1600?.
Formerly Mostyn MS 261, from the library of Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, seat of Sir Thomas Mostyn, second Baronet (c.1651-1700?) and of Sir Roger Mostyn, third Baronet (1675-1739). Sotheby's, 13 July 1920, lot 35, to Maggs. Maggs's sale catalogues Nos 423 (1922), item 1127, and No. 550 (1931), item 987.
Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 361.
Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 37.
SiP 215.5
Copy. Copy, apparently headed ‘The Copy of a Letter written by Sir Philip Sidney to our late famous Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur’. 17th century?
Owned by Thomas Brotherton of Hey, Lancashire.
Recorded by Edward Bernard in Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ [ed. Humphrey Wanley] (Oxford, 1697).
SiP 215.8
Copy, probably in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary. c.1600s-28.
Recorded as No. 39 in the MS catalogue of papers found in Starkey's study presumably after his death (Huntington, EL 8175): see Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 271.
Dramatic Works
The Lady of May
First published in Arcadia (London, 1598). Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 21-32. The verse portions in Ringler, pp. 3-5.
SiP 216
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under SiP 98. Late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Robert Kimbrough and Philip Murphy, ‘The Helmingham Hall Manuscript of Sidney's The Lady of May: A Commentary and Transcription’, RD, NS 1 (1968), 103-19; collated in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten; recorded in Ringler, pp. x-xii.
SiP 217
Substantial extracts, transcribed from a printed source.
In: the MS described under SiP 21. c.1606-14.
This MS recorded in Ringler, pp. 361, 560 and in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 20.
National Library of Scotland, MS 2059, ff. 294v-5r, 296v-9v.
SiP 218
Extracts from one of Rhombus's speeches.
In: the MS described under SiP 4. Early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 361, and in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 20.
SiP 219
Extracts, headed ‘Sr. P. Sydnie. The speech of Rombus a School-master’, beginning ‘Now the thunder thumping Jove...’, transcribed from a printed source.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, including a diary for 3-23 March 1670/1, in a predominantly single mixed hand, 30 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards. c.1673.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Lent Cour: J Gooche Jan: 15 1672/3’.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 361, and in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 20.
Books and Manuscripts Owned or Inscribed by Sidney
Bandello, Mateo. Histoires tragiques, transl. Pierre Boisteau and François de Belleforest (Lyons, 1561)
Mateo Bandello, Histoires tragiques, translated by Pierre Boisteau and François de Belleforest (Lyons, 1561), now in the Hugh Walpole Collection at King's School, Canterbury, has brief inscriptions by Sidney and by his friend Fulke Greville made when they were both schoolboys; these inscriptions are reproduced and discussed in Jean Robertson, ‘Sidney and Bandello’, The Library, 5th Ser. 21 (1966), 326-8.
*SiP 221
A printed exemplum containing brief inscriptions by Sidney and by his friend Fulke Greville made when they were schoolboys. c.1561.
These inscriptions are reproduced in facsimile and discussed in Jean Robertson, ‘Sidney and Bandello’, The Library, 5th Ser. 21 (1966), 326-8.
King's School, Canterbury, Hugh Walpole Collection, [no shelfmark].
Bouchet, Jean. Les annales d'Aquitaine, faicts & gestes en sommaire des roys de France, & d'Angleterre (Poitiers, 1557)
*SiP 222
A printed exemplum owned and annotated by Sidney.
In: the MS described under SiP 31.
Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, Cologny-Geneva, Switzerland, [no shelfmark], The volume as a whole.
Guicciardini, M. Francesco. La Historia d'Italia (Venice, 1569)
*SiP 223
An exemplum of the printed folio edition, with Sidney's inscription on the title-page ‘Philippo Sidneio. Patauij. 20. Junij 1574’ (when he was studying at Padua), in later red morocco gilt. c.1574.
Inscription on a flyleaf, dated 30 March 1837, by Charles Marriott (1811-58), Sub-dean of Oriel College, Oxford. According to W. C. Hazlitt's annotated A Roll of Honour (1908, in the British Library) this volume appeared at ‘a public sale of the library of Beaumont of Whitley, near Huddersfield, in 1906’.
Discussed in William L. Godshalk, ‘A Sidney Autograph’, Book Collector, 13 (Spring 1964), 65. A facsimile of the inscription is in Hazlitt, p. 214.
Liber amicorum
*SiP 224
Sidney's autograph inscription ‘Philippus Sideneus generosus Angliæ scripsit Argentorati 1573’ and his motto ‘Quo me fata vocant’. 1573.
In: The liber amicorum of Georg, Freiherr von Hofkirchen, comprising an interleaved printed exemplum of Philip Lonicer, Bibliorum utrisque testamenti icones (Frankfurt, 1571). 1573.
Recorded in George Gömöri, ‘Inscriptions by Philip and Robert Sidney in Alba Amicorum’, N&Q, 50 (September 2004), 240-2.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 9689, f. 102r.
Cranmer, Thomas. Defensio verae et catholicae doctrine de sacramento (Emden, 1557)
SiP 225
A printed exemplum inscribed ‘Thomae Martialis et amicorum Salopiae ex Libris Thomae Astoni Ludimagistri Philippi Sidnei’. c.1557.
Once owned by Thomas Ashton (d.1578), who was Sidney's headmaster at Shrewsbury School.
Miscellaneous Related Books and Manuscripts
Analysis tractationis de poesi contextae a nobilissimo viro Philippo Sidneio Equite Auratu
SiP 226
MS of a work in Latin by William Temple (1555-1627), Sidney's secretary in Flushing, including numerous quotations from Sidney's Defence of Poetry, partly in Temple's own hand.
Discussed in J.P. Thorne, ‘A Ramistical Commentary on Sidney's An Apologie for Poetrie’, MP, 54 (1957), 158-64. Edited from this MS, with a translation, by John Webster, as William Temple's Analysis of Sir Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry (Binghamton, NY, 1984).
The Lady Penelope Rich to Sr. Phillipe Sidney (‘Martyrd in thought but martyr'd more in soule’)
First published in Josephine A. Roberts, ‘The Imaginary Epistles of Sir Philip Sidney and Lady Penelope Rich’, ELR, 15/1 (Winter 1985), 59-77 (pp. 73-5).
SiP 227
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.128 items, including 94 poems by Donne plus his Paradoxes and Problems, compiled by Henry Champernowne (1600-56), of Dartington, Devon, 243 pages, dated on the first page 1623. 1623.
Afterwards owned by other members of the Champernowne family, by Sir Edward Seymour, Bart. (?the third Baronet, 1610-85). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1030. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) (MS 9568). Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 749. Bookplate of C. S. Harris and bequeathed by him 1916.
Cited in IELM, I.i (190), as the ‘Phillipps MS’: DnJ Δ 20.
Edited from this MS in Roberts.
Sr Philip Sidney to the Lady Penelope Rich (‘If yet a choyce more worthy, cause more new’)
First published in Josephine A. Roberts, ‘The Imaginary Epistles of Sir Philip Sidney and Lady Penelope Rich’, ELR, 15/1 (Winter 1985), 59-77 (pp. 67-72).
SiP 228
Copy in: the MS described under SiP 227. 1623.
Edited from this MS, and discussed, in Roberts.
The Manner of Sir Philip Sidney's Death
An account, probably by George Gifford. Duncan-Jones and Van Dorsten, pp. 166-72.
SiP 229
Copy in:
Edited principally from this MS in Duncan Jones and Van Dorsten.
SiP 230
Copy, on ten pages.
In: A duodecimo volume of four tracts. Early 17th century.
Formerly in the library of the Harvey family, of Ickwell Bury, Bedfordshire, and of Finningley Park, Yorkshire. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 536 (1930), item 2129. Then owned by André de Coppet (1892-1953), New York financial broker. Sotheby's, 4 July 1955 (de Coppet sale), lot 888, to Quaritch.
Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 62, and in The Book Collector, 15 (Summer 1966), p. 156.
Recorded in Duncan-Jones and Van Dorsten. Edited from this MS in a private edition printed in the New Bodleian, 1959.
Nobilis, or a View of the Life and Death of a Sidney, and Lessus Lugubris
Two tributes to Sidney, in Latin, the first prose, the second verse, by Thomas Moffett, MD (1553-1604), dedicated to his patron William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke.
SiP 231
MS, in an accomplished roman hand, 37 quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum. Possibly in Moffett's hand, or prepared under his supervision, as a new-year's gift to his patron William Herbert. c.1594.
Edited from this MS, with English translations, by Virgil B. Heltzel and Hoyt H. Hudson (Santa Monica, 1940).
Will
SiP 232
A registered copy of Sidney's last will and testament. c.1580s.
Edited in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 147-52.
Miscellaneous Extracts from Works by Sidney, predominantly from Arcadia
Extracts
SiP 233
A series of extracts, marked ‘Sr Ph. Sidn.’
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.
SiP 234
Extracts chiefly from Arcadia.
In: John Milton's Commonplace Book. c.1632-60s.
This MS probably given to Viscount Preston by Daniel Skinner, his former schoolfellow at Westminster School; Milton's Commonplace Book (MnJ 66), together with the letter addressed to him by Henry Lawes (MnJ 10), were discovered by Alfred J. Horwood in 1874 among the papers of the Graham family at Netherby Hall, Longtown, Cumberland, and recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 320. The state papers of Viscount Preston, among whose muniments Milton's commonplace book (with related material) was found, were sold at Sotheby's on 10 July 1986, lot 303, and are now in the British Library (Add. MSS 63752-63781).
SiP 235
Extracts from verse by Sidney, including Astrophil and Stella (Songs VII and VIII) and Arcadia (Books II and III), and references to A Defence of Poetry.
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.
For Scott's edited exemplum of The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (London, 1598) in Cambridge University Library, Syn. 4.59.12, see Hannah Leah Crummé, ‘William Scott's Copy of Sidney’, N&Q, 254 (December 2009), 553-4.
SiP 236
Extracts from different works.
In: A notebook. Probably compiled by Thomas Frewen (1630-1702) of Brickwall. c.1648.
SiP 238
Extracts from Arcadia.
In: A tall folio miscellany of extracts from prose romances, 56 leaves (including blanks), largely written on rectos only, in modern half morocco on cloth boards. c.1600.
Note stating this MS was lent to Sidney Lee (1859-1926), literary scholar, by James Lee.
SiP 239
Extracts from various works.
In: A large untitled folio anthology of quotations chiefly from Elizabethan and Stuart plays, alphabetically arranged under subject headings, in a single mixed hand, in double columns, 900 pages (lacking pp. 1-4, 379-80, 667-8, 715-20 and 785-8), including (pp. 893-7) an alphabetical index of some 351 titles of plays, in modern boards. This is the longest known extant version of the unpublished anthology Hesperides or The Muses Garden, by John Evans, entered in the Stationers' Register on 16 August 1655 and subsequently advertised c.1660, among works he purposed to print, by Humphrey Moseley. Another version of this work, in the same hand, dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), is now distributed between Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger, MS V.a.75, Folger, MS V.a.79, and Folger, MS V.a.80. c.1656-66.
Formerly MS 469.2.
This MS identified in IELM, II.i (1980), p. 450. Discussed, as the ‘master draft’, with a facsimile of p. 7 on p. 381, in Hao Tianhu, ‘Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden and its Manuscript History’, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/4 (December 2009), 372-404 (the full index printed as ‘Catalogue A’ on pp. 385-94).
SiP 240
A prose extract from Arcadia, in a secretary hand, headed ‘in praier taken out of Sr P. Sdes: A.’, beginning ‘O all seeing light & eternall life...’.
In: A quarto composite memorandum book of English, Welsh and latin verse and prose, in several hands, 100 leaves, in a contemporary limp vellum wrapper within modern half red morocco. Compiled over a period, at least in part, by various members of the Lloyd family of Llwydiarth. Early 17th century-1672.
Inscriptions including (f. 3r) ‘Mounta: Lloyd 1671’ and (f. 49r) ‘David Wms. his Book beeing Mrs Anne Lloyds Guift’, and with other references to David Lloyd, Elizabeth Lluyd, Robert Lluyd, Jane Lloyd, and Hugh Lloyd. Probably Quaritch's sale ‘Catalogue of English Literature’ (August-November 1884), item 22351. Formerly Sotheby MS B. 2.
National Library of Wales, Wynne (Bodewryd) MS 6, ff. 63v-4r.
SiP 241
Extracts from a German translation of Arcadia, at ff. 26v-9v.
SiP 242
Approximately 72 extracts from Arcadia.
In: A memorandum book of miscellaneous verse and prose, compiled by Judge John Saffin (1632-1710), of New England, originally in blue velvet. c.1665-1708.
Donated in December 1894 by Laura H. and Mary Carpenter, of Wakefield, Rhode Island.
This volume edited as John Saffin his Book (1665-1708), ed. Caroline Hazard (New York, 1928).
Edited in Hazard, passim. Discussed in Jessie A. Coffee, ‘Arcadia to America: Sir Philip Sidney and John Saffin’, American Literature, 45 (1973-4), 100-4.
SiP 243
Various extracts, including entries on ff. 28r, 37v, 45r, and 53r.
In: A folio commonplace book, with entries in Latin, English and Greek, under subject headings, largely in one secretary hand, mainly in triple columns, 348 pages, in contemporary calf (rebacked). c.1640.
Inscribed (five times) ‘Roger Boyle’: i.e. Roger Boyle (1617/18?-87), Scholar of Trinity College Dublin (1638, Fellow 1646), later Bishop of Down and Connor and of Clogher. Inscribed also ‘Daniell Clay’ (deleted) and again with the date ‘1640 August 26’: i.e. probably Daniel Clay, student of Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1637. Old pressmark G. 2.12.
SiP 244
Extracts, headed ‘Deuine & morall sentences taken out of Sr. Phillip Sedneys Arcadia’, dated at the end ‘16. finis. 2i. / Aug. 24’.
In: A folio commonplace book cum letterbook, predominantly in one hand, compiled by Sir Francis Castillion (1561-1638), 241 pages (plus many blanks). c.1620s-30s.
The front pastedown inscribed ‘Thomas Hugh Markham From his Mother. Sepr 11th. 1846’ and, in pencil, ‘Darker Esqr. Gayton’.
Facsimile of f. p. 57 in Fred Schurink, ‘Lives and Letters: Three Early Seventeenth-Century Manuscripts with Extracts from Sidney's Arcadia’, EMS, 16 (2011), 170-96 (p. 187).
SiP 245
Further extracts, headed respectively ‘A description of an excellent woman, for mind & body. Out of Arcadia’ and ‘The excellency of marriage taken out of Arcadia; which I cannot now so well aproue of, when as I do look on my [wife deleted]’.
In: the MS described under SiP 244. c.1620s-30s.
Facsimile of f. p. 211 in Fred Schurink, ‘Lives and Letters: Three Early Seventeenth-Century Manuscripts with Extracts from Sidney's Arcadia’, EMS, 16 (2011), 170-96 (p. 190).