Verse
‘A life of Sabbaths here beneath!’
First published, as ‘[The Triumph]’, in Dobell (1903), pp. 125-6. Dobell (1908), pp. 195-6. Margoliouth, I, 138-9. Ridler, p. 288.
*TrT 1
Autograph.
In: Volume of autograph prose. Centuries of Meditation. 8°, 91 leaves (including three or four blank pages, a portion of f. 87 excised, plus 50 blanks at the end [ff. 91v-141v]; volume of autograph prose meditations and twelve poems by Thomas Traherne, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, in numbered sections, dedicated to an unnamed lady (‘the friend of my best friend’); inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 3) ‘Centuries of Meditation’.
Lettered on the spine ‘MSS. of Henry Vaughan Silurist’; subsequently owned, apparently in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who reacquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).
Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 2. Edited from this MS (in part: most of the verse and some prose extracts) in Dobell (1903), and (in full) in Dobell (1908); in Margoliouth, I, 1-232; Ridler, pp. 165-372. Facsimile examples in Margoliouth, I, frontispiece; English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), p. 12; Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven, 1964), facing p. 68; and Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 55. Complete microfilm in the Library of Congress.
Edited from this MS by editors.
‘A Wise Man will apply his Mind’
Untitled poem of fifteen octaves, at the end of Chapter XXVII of The Kingdom of God. First published
*TrT 1.5
Autograph.
In: A quarto volume of four works by Thomas Traherne, in several hands, partly autograph, 473 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum. Inscribed in another hand on f. i ‘Why is this soe long detaind in a desk manuscript, yt if printed would be a Light to ye World, & a uniuersal Blessinge?’ c.1660s-70.
This MS identified by Jeremy Maule and announced in Denise Inge and Calum Macfarlane, ‘Seeds of Eternity: A New Traherne Manuscript’, TLS, 2 June 2000, p. 14. Discussed in Ross, I, xiv-xxii.
Abels Lamb (‘How early do I see a Sacrifice’)
*TrT 1.8
Autograph, with revisions.
In: Autograph MS, with deletions and revisions, of Thomas Traherne's The Ceremonial Law. A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps. c.1670.
An inscription in another hand (p. [ir]) urges the author to finish the work (‘I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it...I would you would goe thorow ye whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you’), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.
Formerly MS Add. 167.
This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in ‘Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne’, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, ‘‘The Ceremonial Law’: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript’, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.
Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.
Abhorrence (‘Is then Abhorrence so sublime a Treasure’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 1. Ross, II, 14.
*TrT 2
Autograph, with a revision, headed ‘upon Abhorrence’, on a small slip of paper.
In: Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven, written in double columns throughout (one column on f. 66 excised), 201 folio leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked). A predominantly autograph volume of prose meditations and poems by Traherne, with autograph revisions and deletions; some passages on ff. 90v and 164r (the whole page) in the hand of an amanuensis (as in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 6); a title-page (f. 2) reading ‘Commentaries of Heaven. Wherein The Mysteries of Felicitie are opened: and All Things Discovered to be Objects of Happiness Evry being Created & Increated being Alphabeticaly Reprsented (As it will appear) In the Light of Glory…[&c]’; comprising an encyclopædic theological exposition, arranged by topic headings, containing 94 entries in prose and some 98 sets of verse on moral and religious themes, four additional slips of paper (ff. 198-201) containing further brief passages in verse and prose. c.1670s.
Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 61, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 12 December 1854 (Pickering sale), lot 41, to the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet (d.1892), rector of Deal and vicar of Margate. Retrieved c.1967 from a rubbish tip outside Manchester and afterwards exported to Canada by Mr Laurence Wookey, where it was identified as Traherne's in 1981 by Elliot Rose in collaboration with Allan Pritchard. Christie's, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Commentaries of Heaven MS’: TrT Δ 5. Edited in full in Ross, Vols II and III, the MS discussed I, xii et seq., and with facsimiles of f. 47v and 193r in II, 27, and III, 2 respectively. Discussed and 97 of the poems edited from this MS in Chambers. Selected passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, ‘Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674). Some Extracts from Commentaries of Heaven’, P.N. Review, 18, No. 6 (July-August 1992), 14-20. Discussed in Elliot Rose, ‘A New Traherne Manuscript’, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Further discussed, with extracts, in Allan Pritchard, ‘Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript)’, University of Toronto Quarterly, 53 (1983), 1-35, and in Hilton Kelliher, ‘The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne’, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038, and see also correspondence by Douglas Chambers, (26 March 1982), p. 355.
Facsimile examples in Christie's 1984 sale catalogue; in Richard Jordan, ‘The New Traherne Manuscript: “Commentaries of Heaven”’, Quadrant, 27 (1983), 73-6; in Pritchard, p. 22; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1986), No. 21, p. 32; in IELM, II.i, Facsimile XVI; and in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), p. 77.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Abilitie (‘In wt fair Splendor wouldst thou chuse to see’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 2. Ross, II, 21.
*TrT 3
Autograph, with extensive revisions, headed ‘upon Abilitie’, on a small slip of paper.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Abridgement (‘His Nature is my sole & whole Delight’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 4. Ross, II, 38.
*TrT 4
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Abstinence (‘If Abstinence becom it self a Way’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 6. Ross, II, 52.
*TrT 5
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Abundance (‘King Solomons Delights are mean & poor’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 7. Ross, II, 63.
*TrT 6
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Abuse (‘Will it not melt my Bowels to a flood’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 8. Ross, II, 75-6.
*TrT 7
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Acceptance (‘Acceptance too! doth yt Display a Beam’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 9. Ross, II, 84.
*TrT 8
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Acceptance (‘To be Accepted, & receivd to Bliss!’)
First published, as ‘[Accepted]’, in Chambers (1989), No. 10. Ross, II, 95-6.
*TrT 9
Autograph, with a revision.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Accepted (‘To be Accepted, and receivd to Bliss’)
See TrT 9.
Accesse (‘Lord! Am I so Divine! And is ye Way’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 11. Ross, II, 108.
*TrT 10
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Accident (‘An Accident! is yt a Glorious Being?’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 12. Ross, II, 121-3.
*TrT 11
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Account (‘His Image! Lord what Hopes! So Great a King’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 13. Ross, II, 132.
*TrT 12
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Accuratness (‘Gird up thy Loyns O my Soul, & be’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 14. Ross, II, 138.
*TrT 13
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Accusation (‘Is Accusation then a Part of Bliss!’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 15. Ross, II, 152-3.
*TrT 14
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Acknowledgement (‘Foundations are unseen, & roughly laid’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 16. Ross, II, 162.
*TrT 15
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Acquaintance (‘O Rapture! May a Man Acquainted be’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 17. Ross, II, 169.
*TrT 16
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Act (‘An Act! wt is an Act? An Act Acted’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 18. Ross, II, 185-7.
*TrT 17
Autograph, with extensive revisions, arranged in three pars, numbered ‘I’, ‘II’ (‘But can an Act extend so, as to be’) and ‘III’ (‘A Soul in Act, is all yt ere can be’).
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers. Facsimile in Christie's sale catalogue, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74. See also Facsimile XVI above.
Action (‘Fair Leavs so pleasant in Eternity’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 19. Ross, II, 195-6.
*TrT 18
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Activity [I] (‘As hungry men lov feasts, as Greedy Gold’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 20. Ross, II, 201-2.
*TrT 19
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Activity [II] (‘Good God! What Bright & Active fire comes down’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 21. Ross, II, 206-7.
*TrT 20
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Acuteness (‘The Soul its Endless Bredth & Depth & Height & Length’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 22. Ross, II, 213.
*TrT 21
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Ad Perennis Vitae Fontem
See TrT 224.
Adam (‘God made Man upright at the first’)
First published, as ‘Adam's Fall’, in Bell (1910), pp. 23-4. Margoliouth, II, 91-2. Ridler, pp. 82-3.
TrT 22
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherene, heading altered from ‘Misapprehension’ to ‘Adam's Fall’.
In: Poems of Felicity volume. 8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading ‘Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c’; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored. [after 1674].
Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).
Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H. I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, ‘The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne’, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, ‘Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne’, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).
Edited from this MS by editors.
Adam [I] (‘There was a Man two Children had most dear’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 23. Ross, II, 220-1.
*TrT 23
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Adam [II] (‘Amazing Sight! A Pile of Dust appeard’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 24. Ross, II, 225-6.
*TrT 24
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Adam's Fall (‘God made Man upright at the first’)
See TrT 22.
Adams Fall (‘The King of Glory, who on High’)
Admiration (‘Can Human Shape so taking be’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 67-9. Margoliouth, II, 122-3. Ridler, pp. 111-12.
TrT 25
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherene.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
Admiration (‘What can I further, or wt more Desire’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 26. Ross, II, 242-3.
*TrT 26
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers. Facsimile in Christie's sale catalogue, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74.
Adoration (‘A Sacrifice! Wt Sacrifice O Lord’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 27. Ross, II, 250-4.
*TrT 27
Autograph, with revisions and 24 lines in stanza 6 deleted.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Adultery (‘Hide thou mine Eys O Ld from Vanitie!’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 28. Ross, II, 259-60.
*TrT 28
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Advocate (‘O God my God, remember on ye Tree’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 29. Ross, II, 262-6.
*TrT 29
Autograph, with revisions, the poem ruled across on five occasions as if to break it into sections, also the last 59 lines (beginning ‘My God, my Advocat, my friend, my King’), set out after a break and the heading ‘III’.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Advocate III (‘My God, my Advocat, my friend, my King’)
See TrT 29.
Affairs (‘The Weighty Affairs’)
First published in Elliot Rose, ‘A New Traherne Manuscript’, TLS (19 March 1982), p. 324. Chambers (1989), No. 30. Ross, II, 271-3.
*TrT 30
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Affection (‘Affections are ye Wings & nimble feet’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 31. Ross, II, 293-4, 296-8.
*TrT 31
Autograph, with revisions, arranged in three parts, numbered ‘I’, ‘II’ (‘The World was made, he gave us glorious Laws’) and ‘III’ (‘The World was made to be a Scene of Love’).
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Affinity (‘Wt Words are worthy to depicture thee’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 32. Ross, II, 301-3.
*TrT 32
Autograph, with extensive revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Affliction (‘Tremble at nothing els but Sin, my Soul’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 33. Ross, II, 308-9.
*TrT 33
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Ages [I] (‘Things great & Marvellous are said of thee’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 34. Ross, II, 333-4.
*TrT 34
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Ages [II] (‘An Island is a Spot, a Continent’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 35. Ross, II, 350-3.
*TrT 35
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Air (‘Poets are wont in overflowing Strains’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 36. Ross, II, 361.
*TrT 36
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
All in one (‘Lord to be silent unto thee is all’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 45. Ross, III. 17.
*TrT 37
Autograph, with a few revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
‘All Musick, Sawces, Feasts, Delights and Pleasures’
First published in Christian Ethicks (London, 1675). Margoliouth II, 186.
TrT 38
Century IV, meditation 60.
In: 8°, 270 pages (in present imperfect state); volume of prose meditations (376) and poems (14) by Thomas Traherne, in numbered sections (‘centuries’ of ‘meditations’), in fair copy in the italic hand of an unidentified amanuensis, with occasional autograph passages and insertions by Traherne himself (notably in Century II, meditations 31 [whole meditation], 92, and 93; Century III, meditations 9, 13, 38 and 50); the volume very imperfect; originally comprising apparently 468 meditations, but now beginning with the end of meditation 81 through to most of meditation 95 and then the end of meditation 100 in the first ‘century’ (pp. [45-61] [ff. 1-7]), followed by ‘Select Meditatins [sic] The Second Century’ (pp. 61-98 [ff. 7-25v]) and ‘Select Meditations The Third Century’ (pp. 99-176 [ff. 26-62v]), all three centuries with missing and mutilated portions, and then ‘Select Meditations The fforth Century’, meditations 1-68 only (pp., 177-220 [ff. 26-62v]); pp. 220 bis-8 blank; pp. 229-30 containing ‘A Prayer for Ash Wednesday’ and pp. 231-2 ‘A Meditation’, both anonymous and added later in another, unidentified, cursive hand (also responsible for an addition on p. 166); pp. 233-45 blank; pp. 246-64 occupied by an untitled discussion of the nature of ‘ye soul’ addressed to an unnamed person, and pp. 266-70 by an untitled disquisition on ‘Loue to God & man’, both in the hand of the original amanuensis; the pages originally numbered [45] to 219 (some now missing), then continued up to 270 probably in the second unidentified hand. c.1660-5.
There is no evidence that this MS is dedicated to a lady (Osborn misread ‘Know ledg’, in Century I, meditation 94, as ‘know lady’). See also TrT Δ 3 and further above.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as ‘Select Meditations’, TrT Δ 8. Select passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, ‘Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings’, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20. Discussed in James M. Osborn, ‘A New Traherne Manuscript’, TLS (8 October 1964), p. 928; in Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven 1964), Appendix, pp. 207-11; and in Sharon Seelig, ‘The Origins of Ecstasy: Traherne's Select Meditations’, ELR, 9 (1979), 419-31. Edited in full, as Select Meditations, by Julia Smith (Manchester, 1997), with a facsimile page as frontispiece.
Al-sufficient (‘The floods ye Brooks ye Streams of Winy & Oyl’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 44. Ross, III. 9-10.
*TrT 39
Autograph, with a few revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
All Things (‘Heaven! Lord is not yt an Endless Sphere’)
First published (in full) in Allan Pritchard, ‘Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript)’, UTQ, 53 (1983), 1-35 (pp. 28-9). Chambers (1989), No. 42. Ross, III. 413-14.
*TrT 40
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Allurement (‘Awake my Soul, & soar upon ye Wing’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 37. Ross, II, 367-70.
*TrT 41
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Almes (‘Almes seen in clear divine & Heavenly light’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 38. Ross, II, 379-80.
*TrT 42
Autograph, with extensive revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Almighty [I] (‘How Great Almighty Power is to me!’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 39. Ross, II, 390-1.
*TrT 43
Autograph, with revisions, headed ‘A Sweet & Sacred Reflexion’.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Almighty [II] (‘The Best of Fountains & ye Best of Ends’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 40. Ross, II, 403-4.
*TrT 44
Autograph, after a deleted false start.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Almighty [III] (‘Almighty Power in its Greatness, is’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 41. Ross, II, 406.
*TrT 45
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Alone (‘Lov! O thou Monster of Delights!’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 43. Ross, II, 423-4.
*TrT 46
Autograph, with a revision.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Ambassadors (‘God out of Zion shineth in Compleat’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 46. Ross, III, 31-2.
*TrT 47
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Ambition (‘Man is Ambitious yt he might Delight’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 47. Ross, III, 45-6.
*TrT 48
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Amendment (‘A Toad transformed to ye Whitest Dove’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 48. Ross, III, 54.
*TrT 49
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Amendment (‘That all things should be mine’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 74-6. Margoliouth, II, 155-6. Ridler, p. 48.
*TrT 50
Autograph.
In: The Dobell Folio. Folio, 98 leaves (including a few blank pages and with half-leaves on ff. 9b and 48b; ff. 49, 52, 60, 64-5, 70, 72, 83, 985 and 90 ripped or with portions excised); volume containing (ff. 2-16) 37 autograph poems by Thomas Traherne, written in double-columns throughout, in fair copy with some autograph revisions, also incorporating various emendations and editorial markings and deletions in the hand of Philip Traherne; the rest of the volume (ff. 16v-96) comprising a commonplace book chiefly of prose passages (with verse on f. 37v by Thomas Jackson) arranged alphabetically under topic headings, partly autograph, a large part in the hand of an unidentified amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 5 and TrT Δ 6); f. 84 containing a later prescription, and the inserted f. 18 some accounts of 1746 relating in part to Ledbury (near Hereford), the (now detached) spine accordingly lettered ‘Ledbury Manuscript’.
Later sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (B. H. Bright sale), lot 129, to Pickering, and 12 December 1854 (William Pickering sale), lot 105, to Nisbet [i.e. the Rev. John Marjoribanks Nisbet, rector of Deal and vicar of Margate (d. 1892)]; subsequently owned, in 1870, by Alexander Grosart (1827-99), who re-acquired it in 1896 after its rediscovery in London by William T. Brooke; afterwards acquired by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914).
Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 1. The verse only edited from this MS in Dobell (1903); in Margoliouth, II, 4-83, 152-82; and (omitting a poem on f. 37v) in Ridler, pp. 5-75. Philip Traherne's emendations discussed in Gladys I. Wade, ‘The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne’, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7. The commonplace book section is unpublished, but discussed in Carol L. Marks, ‘Thomas Traherne's Commonplace Book’, PBSA, 58 (1964), 458-65. Facsimile example in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece. For some light on the provenance of this MS, see also Hilton Kelliger, ‘The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne’, TLS (14 September 1984), p. 1038. Notes and transcripts relating to this and Bertram Dobell's other Traherne MSS are among the Dobell papers now in the Bodleian (e.g. letters by Grosart to Brooke in August 1897 in MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 1, 3, 25, 27, and see also BLR, 11 (May 1984), 244-5).
Edited from this MS by editors.
Amisse (‘A Man wld think yt nothing was Amiss’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 49. Ross, III, 56.
*TrT 51
Autograph, with a revision.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Ancestor (‘John Baptist was Prcursor to our Lord’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 50. Ross, III, 58-9.
*TrT 52
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
‘And now my Soul Enjoy thy Rest’
Unpublished.
Angel (‘Such is ye Nature wch abov we see’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 51. Ross, III, 79-81.
*TrT 54
Autograph, with a few revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Anger (‘Lord, is thy favor gone for evermore?’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 52. Ross, III, 91.
*TrT 55
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Annointed (‘And am I Ld Annointed! Is thy Lov’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 53. Ross, III, 92.
*TrT 56
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Another (‘He seeks for ours as we do seek for his’)
See TrT 196.
Another (‘Humility! O Radiant Queen’)
Unpublished.
TrT 57
Copy, imperfect, Century IV, meditation 68.
In: the MS described under TrT 38 (TrT Δ 8). c.1660-5.
Ant (‘Bright Apprhensions & Angelical’)
First published in Allan Pritchard, ‘Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript)’, UTQ, 53 (1983), 1-35 (pp. 18-19). Chambers (1989), No. 54. Ross, III, 95.
*TrT 58
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Antichrist (‘And is it possible for Musick here’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 55. Ross, III, 113.
*TrT 59
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
The Anticipation (‘My Contemplation Dazles in the End’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 81-6. Margoliouth, II, 159-63. Ridler, pp. 52-6.
Antiquitie (‘Awake, awake O soul, & put on Strength’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 56. Ross, III, 122-3.
*TrT 61
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
The Apostacy (‘One Star’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 29-31. Margoliouth, II, 95-7. Ridler, pp. 86-8.
Part of this poem is related to Blisse (TrT 112).
TrT 62
Copy of the first stanza in the hand of Philip Traherne, deleted.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
See TrT 63.
TrT 63
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
Apostasie (‘Ld is it possible to fall from thee’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 57. Ross, III, 126-7.
*TrT 64
Autograph, with a few revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Apostle (‘A Friend is by his Messengers wth me’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 58. Ross, III, 132.
*TrT 65
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Apparel (‘The fertile Earth did willing Grain produce’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 59. Ross, III, 136.
*TrT 66
Autograph, with a revision.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Appearance (‘He yt to Angels shews himself in Glory’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 60. Ross, III, 140.
*TrT 67
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Appetite (‘Shall I to yt wch first was given to me’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 61. Ross, III, 157-8.
*TrT 68
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Application (‘I Lord Apply my Soul unto thy Mind’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 62. Ross, III, 167-8.
*TrT 69
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
The Apprehension (‘If this I did not evry moment see’)
First published in Dobell (1903), p. 46. Bell, p. 88, as ‘Right Apprehension II’. Margoliouth, II, 56. Ridler, p. 31 (as ‘Evidently a fragment of a discarded longer poem, which T[raherne] placed here as a kind of postscript to My Spirit [TrT 176-7]’).
*TrT 70
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth and in Ridler.
TrT 71
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, following ‘Right Apprehension’ (TrT 202) and headed ‘II’.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 57.
Apprehension (‘Thou Quintessential Joy, or Melted Gem!’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 63. Ross, III, 181-2.
*TrT 72
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
The Approach (‘That Childish Thoughts such Joys inspire’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 30-2. Margoliouth, II, 36, 38, 40. Ridler, pp. 21-2.
*TrT 74
Autograph, untitled but headed ‘Upon those Pure and Virgin Apprehensions which I had in my Infancy, I made this Poem’.
In: the MS described under TrT 1 (TrT Δ 2).
Edited from this MS in Dobell (1908), pp. 159-60; in Margoliouth, I, 112-13; and in Ridler, pp. 264-6.
TrT 75
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 37, 39, 41.
Approbation (‘When Thou O Lord Approvedst any Man’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 64. Ross, III, 187.
*TrT 76
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Aristotles Philosophie (‘Philosophie! The Pagan makes me start!’)
First published in Christie's sale catalogue, New York, 18 May 1984, lot 74. Chambers (1989), No. 65. Ross, III, 204-7.
*TrT 77
Autograph, with revisions, headed ‘A Poetical Reflexion’.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Arithmetick (‘Arithmetick is a Diviner Queen’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 66. Ross, III, 211.
*TrT 78
Autograph, with a revision.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Armour (‘A Spectacle to Angels & to Men!’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 67. Ross, III, 217-18.
*TrT 79
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Art (‘They say, there is an Art not to be sold’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 68. Ross, III, 221-2.
*TrT 80
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Article (‘An Article. yt is a certain Point’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 69. Ross, III, 234-5.
*TrT 81
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
‘As fragrant Mirrhe within the bosom hid!’
Ascension (‘Thy Ways O Ld are just & true to thee’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 70. Ross, III, 247-9.
*TrT 82
Autograph, arranged in three parts, numbered ‘I’, ‘II’ (‘Nor must I thee O Christ my Ld forget’) and ‘III’ (‘O yn send down thy Spirit unto me’).
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Aspect (‘To see ye Stars in all their Glory shine’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 71. Ross, III, 253-4.
*TrT 83
Autograph, with a revision.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Aspiration (‘After ye Best of things my Soul aspire’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 72. Ross, III, 258-9.
*TrT 84
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
[Aspiration] (‘Unto the Spring of Purest Life’)
See TrT 224.
Assimilation (‘An Eagle in ye Eg, a Little Bee’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 73. Ross, III, 265-6.
*TrT 85
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Assistance (‘My God is fixt in his Eternal Sphere’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 74. Ross, III, 274-6.
*TrT 86
Autograph, with a few revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Assumption (‘My flesh now seated in ye Throne of Glory!’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 75. Ross, III, 290-1.
*TrT 87
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Assurance (‘Ambitious people ye aspire to Thrones’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 76. Ross, III, 302-3.
*TrT 88
Autograph, with a few revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Astrologie (‘O God my God, my Life, my Joy, my Pleasure’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 77. Ross, III, 315.
*TrT 89
Autograph, with a revision.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Astronomie (‘Awake my Muse, & leav ye Narrow Cell’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 78. Ross, III, 321-3.
*TrT 90
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Atheist (‘God is Invisible, & yt's ye Cause’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 79. Ross, III, 329-32.
*TrT 91
Partly autograph, with revisions, the first six lines in Traherne's hand, the rest in that of an amanuensis, arranged in two parts, numbered ‘I’ and ‘II’ (‘Breath after him my Soul, take leav to soar’).
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Atom (‘For he that lodgeth his whole Deitie’)
Ross, III, 339.
Atom (‘As Earthly Vapors by Celestial fire’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 80. Ross, III, 352-63.
*TrT 92
Autograph, with revisions, arranged in two parts, numbered ‘I’ and ‘II’ (‘Nor have we done as yet for Atoms shew’).
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Atonement (‘Atonemt Ld! And is there such a Thing!’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 81. Ross, III, 374-5.
*TrT 93
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Attainment (‘Attainmt Lord! And is there such a Creature!’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 82. Ross, III, 384.
*TrT 94
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Attendance [I] (‘O Sweet, Eternal, free & Glorious Choise!’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 83. Ross, III, 392-3.
*TrT 95
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Attendance [II] (‘If evry holy Soul abov be found’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 84. Ross, III, 393-4.
*TrT 96
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Attention (‘Lord whither shld I go but unto Thee?’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 85. Ross, III, 397-8.
*TrT 97
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Attribute (‘O great & never comprhended Lord!’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 86. Ross, III, 404-5.
*TrT 98
Autograph, with a few revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Author (‘The Author of ye World implies’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 88. Ross, III, 419.
*TrT 99
Autograph, with a revision.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
The Author to the Critical Peruser (‘The naked Truth in many faces shewn’)
First published in Bell (1910), sig. B3-B4r. Margoliouth, II, 2-3. Ridler, pp. 3-4.
TrT 100
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
Authoritie (‘Arme me O Ld wth all Authoritie’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 89. Ross, III, 432.
*TrT 101
Autograph, with a revision.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Avarice (‘Hydropick Nature thirsteth after all’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 87. Ross, III, 411-16.
*TrT 102
Autograph, with a few revisions, arranged in two parts, numbered ‘I’ and ‘II’ (‘If this, my God, be Natures foul Diseas’).
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Awake (‘And O yt I at last cld thus awake’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 90. Ross, III, 434-6.
*TrT 103
Autograph, with revisions, arranged in two parts, numbered ‘I’ and ‘II’ (‘Light is ye Promise, tis but Light to see’).
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Babe (‘Give me ye Light & ye Simplicitie’)
First published in Allan Pritchard, ‘Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven (With Selections from the Manuscript)’, UTQ, 53 (1983), 1-35 (p. 21). Chambers (1989), No. 91. Ross, III, 439.
*TrT 104
Autograph, with a revision.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Babel (‘A Spiritual Stroak upon ye Tongue’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 92. Ross, III, 441-3.
*TrT 105
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Backsliding (‘Come Holy Ghost, Eternal God inspire’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 93. Ross, III, 446. This poem is related to TrT 118.
*TrT 106
Autograph, with a revision.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Balme (‘Balme made for Wounds! It is a Nectar sure’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 94. Ross, III, 448.
*TrT 107
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Barrenness (‘Shall I my God be void of Fruit’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 96. Ross, III, 458-9.
*TrT 108
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Baseness (‘Thy Life & Kingdom are so Pure & Bright’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 97. Ross, III, 464-5.
*TrT 109
Autograph, with a few revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Bells (‘Hark!, hark, my Soul! the Bells do ring’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 52-5. Margoliouth, II, 113-16. Ridler, pp. 103-5. First published as two poems, ‘Bells I’ (‘Hark! hark, my Soul! the Bells do ring’) and ‘Bells II’ (‘From Clay, & Mire, & Dirt, my Soul’).
TrT 110
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
Bells II (‘From Clay, & Mire, & Dirt, my Soul’)
See TrT 110.
The Bible (‘That! That! There I was told’)
First published in Bell (1910), p. 43. Margoliouth, II, 106. Ridler, p. 96.
TrT 111
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
Blisse (‘All Blisse’)
First published in Dobell (1903), p. 154. Margoliouth, II, 171-2. Ridler, p. 64. This poem is closely related to stanzas 5 and 6 of The Apostacy (TrT 62-3).
*TrT 112
Autograph, deleted.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS by editors.
The Ceremonial Law / The Introduction (‘Two thousand yeeres before my Savior came’)
See TrT 236.5.
The Choice (‘When first Eternity Stooped down to Nought’)
See TrT 122-123.
Christendom (‘When first mine Infant-Ear’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 43-7. Margoliouth, II, 106-10. Ridler, pp. 97-100.
TrT 113
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
Churches I (‘Those stately Structures which on Earth I view’)
First published in Bell (1910), p. 56. Margoliouth, II, 116. Ridler, pp. 105-6.
TrT 114
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
Churches II (‘Were there but one alone’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 57-8. Margoliouth, II, 116-18. Ridler, pp. 106-7.
TrT 115
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
The Circulation (‘As fair Ideas from the Skie’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 70-3. Margoliouth, II, 152. Ridler, pp. 45-7.
*TrT 116
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS by editors.
The City (‘What Structures here among God's Works appear?’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 121-4. Margoliouth, II, 142-5. Ridler, pp. 130-2.
TrT 117
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
‘Com Holy Ghost Eternal God!’
First published, as ‘[Supplication]’, in Dobell (1903), p. 138. Margoliouth, II, 202. Ridler, pp. 157-8.
See also TrT 106.
*TrT 118
Autograph translation of the hymn Veni Creator Spiritus.
In: Thomas Traherne's MS Meditations and Devotions on the festivals of the Church: Church Year-Book. 8°, 114 leaves (plus 29 blanks [ff. 114-42]); volume of autograph prose meditations and poems composed by Thomas Traherne and others, in fair copy and with autograph revisions, on nineteen occasions of the Church calendar from Easter to All Saints' Day (representing probably half of the meditations for a complete Church year); including (f. 112v) Traherne's autograph copy of George Herbert's To all Angels and Saints (see HrG 265); with additions intermittently throughout the MS (notably passages on ff. 15, 16, 17, 79, 113) in another, unidentified, cursive hand in darker ink, and with some additions on f. 24v only in the hand of Philip Traherne (written before his departure for Smyrna c.September 1670). c.1660-74.
Later owned by Alexander Grosart (1827-99) and acquired in the Grosart sale at Sotheby's, 11 December 1899, probably in one of the lots of miscellaneous theological MSS (Nos. 385, 443, 446, 463 or 464), by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914); [ante September 1870].
Recorded in IELM as TrT Δ 3. The three sets of verse on ff. 13v-14, 30, 84v edited from this MS in Dobell (1903). Edited in full in Ross, Vol IV, pp. 7-311, with facsimiles of ff. 31r and 24v on pp., 3-4. Facsimile example in Dobell (1903), frontispiece. Discussed, and the contents listed, in Margoliuth, I, xvii-xx (where the MS is tentatively dated 1673); in Ridler, pp. 155-7; and in Carol L. Marks, ‘Traherne's Church Year-Book’, PBSA, 60 (1966), 31-72.
Edited from this MS by editors.
Consummation (‘The Thoughts of Men appear’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 126-8. Margoliouth, II, 147-8. Ridler, pp. 134-6.
TrT 119
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
‘Could but the Crow in lonely Silence Eat’
First published in Dobell (1908), p. 248. Margoliouth, I, 175. Ridler, p. 322.
‘Could they, my Soul, unless they him did pleas?’
Untitled poem of sixteen lines at the end of Chapter XXXIII of The Kingdom of God. Ross, p. 444.
The Demonstration (‘The Highest Things are Easiest to be shewn’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 77-80. Margoliouth, II, 156-9. Ridler, pp. 49-52.
The Designe (‘When first Eternity Stooped down to Nought’)
First published, as ‘The Choice’, in Dobell (1903), pp. 57-9. Margoliouth, II, 70-1. Ridler, pp. 37-9.
See also TrT 213.
*TrT 122
Autograph, the title altered in Philip Traherne's hand to ‘The Choice’.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS by editors.
TrT 123
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed ‘The Choice’ and here beginning ‘When first eternity stoopt down to Nought’.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 71-4.
Desire (‘For giving me Desire’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 108-10. Margoliouth, II, 177-9. Ridler, pp. 70-1.
*TrT 124
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS by editors.
The Desolatness of Absence (‘That Man is Poor & Desolat whose Lov’)
Ross, II, 45.
The Dialogue (‘Why dost thou tell me that the fields are mine?’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 113-14. Margoliouth, II, 136-7. Ridler, pp. 124-5.
TrT 126
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
Dissatisfaction (‘In Cloaths confin'd, my weary Mind’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 39-42. Margoliouth, II, 103-6. Ridler, pp. 93-6.
TrT 127
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
Dreams (‘Tis strange! I saw the Skies’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 114-16. Margoliouth, II, 138-9. Ridler, pp. 126-7.
TrT 128
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
‘Drie Barren Arguments whereby we strive’
Unpublished.
Dumnesse (‘Sure Man was born to Meditat on Things’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 33-6. Margoliouth, II, 40, 42, 44. Ridler, pp. 22-4.
*TrT 130
Autograph, with deletions and revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS by editors.
TrT 131
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed ‘Dumness’ and here beginning ‘Sure Man was born to meditat on things’.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 41, 43, 45.
Ease (‘How easily doth Nature teach the Soul’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 53-4. Margoliouth, II, 64, 66. Ridler, pp. 35-6.
TrT 133
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed ‘Eas’ and here beginning ‘How easily doth Nature teach the Soul!’
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 65, 67.
Eden (‘A learned and a Happy Ignorance’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 8-10. Margoliouth, II, 12, 14. Ridler, pp. 8-10.
*TrT 134
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS by editors.
TrT 135
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 13, 15.
Elim (‘Hail Sacred Place! Thou fair & living Tower’)
Elim II (‘This Sacred Plot of Beauties & Delights’)
The Enquirie (‘Men may delighted be with Springs’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 67-9. Margoliouth, II, 82, 84. Ridler, pp. 44-5.
*TrT 136
Autograph, with alterations in Philip Traherne's hand and annotated ‘[The Return deleted] p. 2 The Evidence p. 3’.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS by editors.
TrT 137
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed ‘The Enquiry’.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 83, 85.
Epitaphium (‘His situs est Haeres Mundi, Mundanus Amator’)
First published in Margoliouth (1958), II, 205-6. Incomplete and unsigned, thus of uncertain authorship: see Anne Ridler, ‘Traherne: Some Wrong Attributions’, RES, NS 18 (1967) 48-9.
*TrT 138
Autograph.
In: Autograph octavo notebook by Thomas Traherne, in prose and verse, in English and Latin, written during and after his university days, 388 pages (mostly blank after p. 240), in contemporary calf, with remains of metal clasps. Largely autograph, with a few pages at the beginning in the hand of Philip Traherne, who inscribed it (p. iii) ‘Philip Traherne is the true owner of this booke Amen Ano Domi 1655’, used some pages for neat examples of his penmanship as a child and, in later years (after 1689), copied on pp. 237-40 an extract from Thomas Burnet's Telluris Theoria Sacra. c.1655-early 1660s.
Scribbling at the ends of the volume including names of Thomas and Philip Traherne, Holway and Warmeston. Later owned on 30 April 1841 by Rashleigh Duke of Salisbury: i.e.[son of Edward Duke (1779-1852), Wiltshire antiquary. Hodgson's, 13 December 1935, lot 137, to P.J. Dobell.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Early Notebook: TrT Δ 4. Twelve poems edited from this MS, and attributed to Thomas Traherne, in Margoliouth, II, 204-11. The remainder of the MS unpublished. Six of the poems edited in Ridler, pp. 159-63; the incomplete ‘Epitaphium’ of uncertain authorship (TrT 138) omitted by her, and the other five poems rejected outright (i.e.‘What e're I have from God alone I have’, ‘Oh how injurious is this wall of sin’, ‘As fragrant Mirrhe within the bosom hid’, and ‘To bee a Monarch is a glorious thing’, all by Francis Quarles, and ‘a Serious and a Curious night-Meditation’, by William Austin). Discussed in Anne Ridler, ‘Traherne: Some Wrong Attributions’, RES, NS 18 (1967), 48-9, and in Carol L. Marks, ‘Traherne's Early Studies’, PBSA, 62 (1968), 511-36. Facsimile of p. 209 in Margoliouth, II, frontispiece.
Edited from this MS in Margoliouth.
Epitaphium Annae Cholmeley sacrum (‘Though stone I am, yet must I weep’)
First published in Margoliouth (1958), II, 207. Ridler, p. 166.
*TrT 139
Autograph, with a revision and initialled ‘T.T.’.
In: the MS described under TrT 138 (TrT Δ 4). c.1655-early 1660s.
Edited from this MS by editors.
The Estate (‘But shall my Soul to Wealth possess’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 63-6. Bell, pp. 97-8. Margoliouth, II, 78, 80, 82. Ridler, pp. 42-3.
*TrT 140
Autograph, with revisions, with other alterations in Philip Traherne's hand, stanza 3 deleted.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.
TrT 141
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning ‘But shall my Soul no Wealth possess?’.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 79, 81, 83.
‘Even as the Sea within a finit Shore’
First published in Dobell (1908), p. 86. Margoliouth, I, 61. Ridler, p. 219. These two lines are related to lines 7-8 of “His Power Bounded, Greater is in Might” (TrT 151).
The Evidence (‘His Word confirms the Sale’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 99-100. Margoliouth, II, 126-7. Ridler, pp. 115-16.
TrT 143
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
‘ffarewell ye Rarities!’
Unpublished.
Felicity (‘Prompted to seek my Bliss abov the Skies’)
First published in Bell (1910), p. 22. Margoliouth, II, 90. Ridler, p. 81.
TrT 145
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
[Finite yet Infinite] (‘His Power Bounded, Greater is in Might’)
See TrT 151.
‘ffor Man to Act as if his soul did see’
Untitled poem comprising fifteen lines, followed by ‘Again he saith’ and another fourteen lines (beginning ‘The Angels who are faithfull while they view’), towards the end (chapter XLII) of The Kingdom of God. First published
‘--ffor to Augment ye Wonder’
Untitled poem of five sestains, in the middle of Chapter XXVIII of The Kingdom of God. First published
Fullnesse (‘That Light, that Sight, that Thought’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 47-8. Margoliouth, II, 58, 60. Ridler, pp. 31-2.
*TrT 146
Autograph, headed ‘Fulnesse’.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.
TrT 147
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed ‘Fulness’.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 59, 61.
The Glory of Baptism (‘Baptizd! And made a Son of God! An Heir’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 95.
*TrT 148
Autograph, with extensive revisions, including a deleted stanza.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
[The Glory of Israel] (‘In Salem dwelt a Glorious King’)
See TrT 162.
Goodnesse (‘The Bliss of other Men is my Delight’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 115-18. Margoliouth, II, 182-4. Ridler, pp. 75-7.
*TrT 149
Autograph, with revisions, annotated in Philip Traherne's hand ‘& p. 143’.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS by editors.
‘The Great Creator and the King’
Untitled poem of ten lines in the middle of Chapter XXXIX of The Kingdom of God. Ross, p. 477.
‘He Apprehends it not with any Pleasure’
Unpublished.
‘His Power Bounded, Greater is in Might’
First published, as ‘[Finite yet Infinite]’ in Dobell (1903), p. 121. Dobell (1908), p. 173-4. Margoliouth, I, 122-3. Ridler, p. 274.
See also TrT 142.
Hosanna (‘No more shall Walls, no more shall Walls confine’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 129-31. Margoliouth, II, 149-51. Ridler, pp. 136-8.
TrT 152
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
Human Abilitie (‘What other Treasure can be more our Joy’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 3.
*TrT 153
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
‘Humility! O Radiant Queen’
See TrT 57.
An Hymne upon St Bartholomews Day (‘What Powerfull Spirit livs within’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 139-40. Margoliouth, II, 202-3. Ridler, pp. 157-8.
*TrT 154
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 118 (TrT Δ 3). c.1660-74.
Edited from this MS by editors. Facsimile in Dobell (1903), frontispiece.
‘If after all Endeavors made’
First published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, ‘Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings’, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20 (p. 18).
‘If God as verses say a Spirit be’
First published in Dobell (1908), p. 140. Margoliouth, I, 99. Ridler, p. 253.
*TrT 156
Autograph translation from Cato, headed ‘Si Deus est Animus sit pura Mente Colendus’.
In: the MS described under TrT 1 (TrT Δ 2).
Edited from this MS by editors.
The Image (‘If I be like my God, my King’)
First published in Bell (1910), p. 146. Margoliouth, II, 126. Ridler, p. 115.
TrT 157
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, deleted.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
The improvment (‘'Tis more to recollect, then make. The one’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 25-9. Bell, pp. 61-4. Margoliouth, II, 30, 32, 34, 36. Ridler, pp. 18-20.
*TrT 158
Autograph, with revisions, stanza 8 deleted, annotated in Philip Traherne's hand ‘[Childhood deleted] p. 120 & p. 9. News p. 133’.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.
TrT 159
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning ‘Tis more to recollect than make; the one’.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 31, 33, 35, 37.
‘In Making Bodies Lov could not Express’
First published, as ‘[The Soul's Glory]’, in Dobell (1903), pp. 119-20. Dobell (1908), pp. 171-2. Margoliouth, I, 121. Ridler, pp. 272-3.
*TrT 160
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 1 (TrT Δ 2).
Edited from this MS by editors.
In Obitum viri optimi J:C. Eirenarchae (‘Heer lied pure and precious Dust’)
First published in Margoliouth (1958), II, 210-11. Ridler, pp. 162-3.
*TrT 161
Autograph, initialled ‘T.T.’.
In: the MS described under TrT 138 (TrT Δ 4). c.1655-early 1660s.
Edited from this MS by editors.
‘In Salem dwelt a Glorious King’
First published, as ‘[The Glory of Israel]’, in Dobell (1903), pp. 130-3. Dobell (1908), pp. 212-15. Margoliouth, I, 150-3. Ridler, pp. 299-301.
*TrT 162
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 1 (TrT Δ 2).
Edited from this MS by editors.
An Infant-Ey (‘A simple Light from all Contagion free’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 10-12. Margoliouth, II, 86-7. Ridler, pp. 77-8.
TrT 163
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
The Inference I (‘Well-guided Thoughts within possess’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 117-19. Margoliouth, II, 139-41. Ridler, pp. 127-9.
TrT 164
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
The Inference II (‘David a Temple in his Mind conceiv'd’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 119-20. Margoliouth, II, 141-2. Ridler, pp. 129-30.
TrT 165
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
[The Influx] (‘Ye hidden Nectars, which my God doth drink’)
See TrT 232.
Innocence (‘But that which most I Wonder at, which most’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 11-13. Bell, pp. 7-10. Margoliouth, II, 14, 16, 18. Ridler, pp. 10-11.
*TrT 166
Autograph, with revisions, here beginning ‘But that which most I wonder at, which most’.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.
TrT 167
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 15, 17, 19.
Insatiableness I (‘No Walls confine! Can nothing hold my Mind?’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 124-5. Margoliouth, II, 145-6. Ridler, p. 133.
TrT 168
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
Insatiableness II (‘This busy, vast, enquiring Soul!’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 125-6. Margoliouth, II, 146-7. Ridler, p. 134.
TrT 169
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
The Inside (‘When God had spoke to ye ruder Croud’)
An unfinished poem of eleven lines.
The Instruction (‘Spue out thy filth, thy flesh abjure’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 18-19. Bell, pp. 15-16. Margoliouth, II, 24. Ridler, pp. 14-15.
*TrT 170
Autograph, with revisions, the heading altered from ‘The Vision’.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.
TrT 171
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning ‘Spew out thy Filth, thy Flesh abjure’.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 25.
‘Invisibles are not Diminishd by’
Untitled poem of 102 lines at the end of Chapter XXII in The Kingdom of God. Ross, pp. 373-5.
Israel and Egypt (‘One Lamb ye Shepherd out of many takes’)
‘Lett whose will in Icie state’
Love (‘O Nectar! O Delicious Stream!’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 94-5. Margoliouth, II, 167-8. Ridler, pp. 60-1.
*TrT 172
Autograph, annotated in Philip Traherne's hand ‘Insatiableness p. 133.138’.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS by editors.
Manna (‘The Staff of Life is gone, & nothing here’)
Manna II (‘As in ye deepest Wells we better see’)
Manna III (‘The Ordinance about ye Manna is’)
Manna IV (‘But there's a Deeper Mystery yn this’)
Memento mori (‘Beneath that Stone, lies buried One’)
First published in Margoliouth (1958), II, 208. Ridler, pp. 161-2.
*TrT 173
Autograph, with revisions and initialled ‘T.T.’.
In: the MS described under TrT 138 (TrT Δ 4). c.1655-early 1660s.
Edited from this MS by editors.
Misapprehension (‘Men are not wise in their Tru Interest’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 59-61. Margoliouth, II, 118-20. Ridler, pp. 107-9.
TrT 174
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS, with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece, in Bell.
Moses Call (‘Shall I not serv & lov ye Dietie’)
Moses face (‘Instructed after forty days he came’)
Moses in ye Mount (‘When God had thunderd these 10. Words aloud’)
Moses Rod (‘'Tis strange to see how fitly things conspire’)
Mount Sinai (‘Long time ye World had been wthout a Law’)
‘My God, my Advocat, my friend, my King’
See TrT 29.
‘My Growth is strange! at First, I onely knew’
Unpublished.
My Spirit (‘My Naked Simple Life was I’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 41-5. Bell (1910), pp. 78-82. Margoliouth, II, 50, 52, 54, 56. Ridler, pp. 27-30.
See also TrT 70-1.
*TrT 176
Autograph, revised.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.
TrT 177
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning ‘My naked simple Life was I’.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 51, 53, 55, 57.
Nature (‘That custom is a Second Nature, we’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 49-52. Bell, pp. 71-3. Margoliouth, II, 60, 62, 64. Ridler, pp. 32-4.
*TrT 178
Autograph, with revisions, annotated in Philip Traherne's hand ‘The Inheritance p. 113’.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.
TrT 179
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning ‘That Custom is a Second Nature, we’.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 61, 63, 65.
News (‘News from a forein Country came’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 20-1. Margoliouth, II, 88-9. Ridler, pp. 79-81.
This poem is a variant version of TrT 187.
TrT 180
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
‘No Tongue can Tell wt Treasure[s] are in Store’
Unpublished.
Noahs Rainbow (‘from Earth we offer up a Sacrifice’)
‘Nor haue I any leasure’
Unpublished.
‘O Sing, o Soar, o faint, o pant & Breath!’
Unpublished.
The Odour (‘These Hands are Jewels to the Ey’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 64-7. Margoliouth, II, 120-2. Ridler, pp. 109-11.
TrT 184
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
Of Israels coming out of Egypt (‘By Mighty seas Divided here I seem’)
On Christmas-Day (‘Shall Dumpish Melancholy spoil my Joys’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 48-52. Margoliouth, II, 110-13. Ridler, pp. 100-3.
TrT 185
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
On Leaping over the Moon (‘I saw new Worlds beneath the Water ly’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 104-7. Margoliouth, II, 130-2. Ridler, pp. 118-20.
See also TrT 223.
TrT 186
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
On News (‘News from a forrein Country came’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 122-4. Dobell (1908), pp. 177-9. Margoliouth, I, 125-7. Ridler, pp. 276-8. This poem is a variant version of TrT 180.
*TrT 187
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 1 (TrT Δ 2).
Edited from this MS by editors. Facsimiles in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 55 (as two separate pages complete with prose), and in English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), p. 12 (verse only rearranged as a single page).
On the Bible (‘When Thou dost take’)
First published in Margoliouth (1958), II, 205. Ridler, p. 159.
*TrT 188
Autograph, initialled ‘T.T.’.
In: the MS described under TrT 138 (TrT Δ 4). c.1655-early 1660s.
Edited from this MS by editors.
The Only Ill (‘Sin!’)
See TrT 211.
The Paschal Lamb (‘The Lamb each Famelie doth take alone’)
The Person (‘Ye Sacred Lims’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 60-2. Bell (1910), pp. 94-6. Margoliouth, II, 74, 76, 78. Ridler, pp. 40-1.
*TrT 189
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.
TrT 190
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning ‘Ye sacred Limbs’.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 75, 77, 79.
A Poetical Reflexion (‘Philosophie! The Pagan makes me start!’)
See TrT 77.
Poverty (‘As in the House I sate’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 37-8. Margoliouth, II, 101-3. Ridler, pp. 92-3.
TrT 191
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
The Preparative (‘My Body being Dead, my Lims unknown’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 14-17. Bell, pp. 13-15. Margoliouth, II, 20, 22, 24. Ridler, pp. 12-14.
*TrT 192
Autograph, with revisions, the heading altered from ‘The Vision’.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.
TrT 193
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed ‘The Praeparative’ and here beginning ‘My Body being dead, my Limbs unknown’.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 21, 23, 25.
‘Pure Bodies, or Pure Spirits we with ease’
Untitled poem of 40 lines in the middle of Chapter XL of The Kingdom of God. Ross, pp. 484-5.
The Rapture (‘Sweet Infancy!’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 23-4. Bell, p. 19. Margoliouth, II, 30. Ridler, p. 17.
*TrT 194
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.
TrT 195
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 31.
Recovery (‘He seeks for ours as we do seek for his’)
First published, as ‘Another’, in Dobell (1903), pp. 91-3. Margoliouth, II, 165-7. Ridler, pp. 58-60, as ‘Another’.
*TrT 196
Autograph, with revisions, with one alteration in Philip Traherne's hand.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS by editors.
The Recovery (‘Sin! wilt Thou vanquish me!’)
First published in Dobell (1903), p. 129. Dobell (1908), p. 198. Margoliouth, I, 140. Ridler, p. 290.
The Recovery (‘To see us but receiv, is such a Sight’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 87-90. Margoliouth, II, 163-5. Ridler, pp. 56-8.
*TrT 198
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS by editors.
A Reflexion (‘That we no fiction make, but see ye Thing’)
The Return (‘To Infancy, O Lord, again I com’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 12-13. Margoliouth, II, 87-8. Ridler, p. 79.
TrT 199
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
The Review I (‘Did I grow, or did I stay?’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 131-2. Margoliouth, II, 151. Ridler, pp. 138-9.
TrT 200
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
The Review II (‘My Child-hood is a Sphere’)
First published in Bell (1910), p. 133. Margoliouth, II, 152. Ridler, p. 139.
TrT 201
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
Right Apprehension (‘Giv but to things their tru Esteem’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 85-8. Margoliouth, II, 123-6. Ridler, pp. 112-14.
TrT 202
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
Right Apprehension II (‘If this I did not evry moment see’)
See TrT 70-71.
‘Rise noble soule and come away’
First published in Margoliouth (1958), II, 206-7. Ridler, p. 159.
*TrT 203
Autograph, initialled ‘T.T.’ and deleted.
In: the MS described under TrT 138 (TrT Δ 4). c.1655-early 1660s.
Edited from this MS by editors.
The Rock (‘But there's a Deeper Mystery yn this’)
See TrT 172.8.
‘The Rock was Christ: from whence yt Water flows’
The Salutation (‘These little Limmes’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 1-3. Bell, pp. 1-2. Margoliouth, II, 4, 6. Ridler, pp. 5-6.
*TrT 204
Autograph, stanza 6 deleted.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.
TrT 205
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning ‘These little Limbs’.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 5, 7.
The Second Adam (‘A Second Adam, Greater then ye first!’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 25. Ross, III, 234-5.
*TrT 206
Autograph, with a revision.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
Shadows in the Water (‘In unexperienc'd Infancy’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 101-4. Margoliouth, II, 127-30. Ridler, pp. 116-18.
TrT 207
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
Sight (‘Mine Infant-Ey’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 108-10. Margoliouth, II, 132-4. Ridler, pp. 121-3.
TrT 208
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
Silence (‘A quiet Silent Person may possess’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 37-40. Bell, pp. 82-5. Margoliouth, II, 44, 46, 48, 50. Ridler, pp. 25-7.
*TrT 209
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.
TrT 210
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning ‘A quiet silent Person may possess’.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 45, 47, 49, 51.
‘Sin!’
First published, as ‘[The Only Ill]’, in Dobell (1903), pp. 127-8. Dobell (1908), pp. 197-8. Margoliouth, I, 139-40. Ridler, pp. 289-90.
Solitude (‘How desolate!’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 32-6. Margoliouth, II, 98-101. Ridler, pp. 88-91.
TrT 212
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
[The Soul's Glory] (‘In Making Bodies Lov could not Express’)
See TrT 160.
Speed (‘The Liquid Pearl in Springs’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 55-6. Bell, pp. 90-1. Margoliouth, II, 68, 70. Ridler, pp. 36-7.
*TrT 213
Autograph, with alterations in Philip Traherne's hand and the heading changed from ‘The Designe’.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.
TrT 214
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning ‘The liquid Pearl in Springs’.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 69, 71.
Spiritual Absence (‘Is not ye Greatest Death yt ere can be’)
First published in Chambers (1989), No. 5. Ross, II, 47.
See also TrT 125.
*TrT 215
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 2 (TrT Δ 5). c.1670s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers.
The Stone (‘When Bloody Amalock an Inroad made’)
Supplication (‘Come Holy Ghost, Eternal God inspire’)
See TrT 118.
A Sweet & Sacred Reflexion (‘How Great Almighty Power is to me!’)
See TrT 43.
‘The Living waters yt revive’
Unpublished.
The 10. Comandmts (‘The moral Law a Gospel did implie’)
Unpublished?
‘This book unto the friend of my best friend’
First published in Dobell (1908), p. 2. Margoliouth, I, 2. Ridler, p. 166.
*TrT 217
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 1 (TrT Δ 2).
Edited from this MS by editors.
Thoughts I (‘Ye brisk Divine & Living Things’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 96-9. Margoliouth, II, 169-72. Ridler, pp. 61-4.
*TrT 218
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS by editors.
Thoughts II (‘A Delicate and Tender Thought’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 100-2. Margoliouth, II, 172-3. Ridler, pp. 65-6.
*TrT 219
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS by editors.
Thoughts III (‘Thoughts are the Angels which we send abroad’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 105-7. Margoliouth, II, 175-7. Ridler, pp. 67-9.
*TrT 220
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS by editors.
Thoughts IV (‘Thoughts are the Wings on which the Soul doth flie’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 111-14. Margoliouth, II, 179-82. Ridler, pp. 72-4.
*TrT 221
Autograph, untitled but headed ‘In thy Presence there is fulness...’, headed in Philip Traherne's hand ‘—IV’.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS by editors.
Thy Turtle Doues O Lord to Dragons turn!
Unpublished.
‘'Tis use alone’
Untitled poem of six lines near the end of Chapter XXXI of The Kingdom of God. Ross, p. 431.
‘To the same purpos. he not long before!’
First published, as part of On Leaping over the Moon (TrT 186), in Bell (1910), pp. 107-8. Margoliouth, II, 132. Ridler, pp. 120-1.
TrT 223
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
[The Triumph] (‘A life of Sabbaths here beneath!’)
See TrT 1.
‘True Reason answer all its Causes, Ends’
Untitled poem of 33 lines at the end of Chapter XXXVII of The Kingdom of God. Ross, pp. 446-7.
‘Unto the Spring of Purest Life’
First published, as ‘Aspiration’, in Dobell (1903), pp. 134-7. Margoliouth, II, 200-2. Ridler, pp. 155-7.
This is an abridged adaptation apparently by Traherne of a translation of Pietro Damiani's hymn Ad Perennis Vitae Fontem.
*TrT 224
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 118 (TrT Δ 3). c.1660-74.
Edited from this MS by editors.
The Vail (‘This vail of Moses yt conceald ye Light’)
Veni Creator Spiritus
See TrT 118.
The Vision (‘Flight is but the Preparative: The Sight’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 20-2. Bell, pp. 16-18. Margoliouth, II, 26, 28. Ridler, pp. 15-17.
See also TrT 170 and TrT 192.
*TrT 225
Autograph, with revisions, a deleted annotation in Philip Traherne's hand ‘Adam. p. 12’.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler.
TrT 226
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning ‘Flight is but the Praeparative: the Sight’.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 27, 29.
Walking (‘To walk abroad is, not with Eys’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 111-13. Margoliouth, II, 135-6. Ridler, pp. 123-4.
TrT 227
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
‘Who made it first? Whome did this Lovly Thing?’
Untitled poem of 93 lines, in Chapter ?? of The Kingdom of God. First published
*TrT 227.5
Copy in: the MS described under TrT 1.5. c.1660s-70.
Wonder (‘How like an Angel came I down!’)
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 4-7. Bell, pp. 3-5. Margoliouth, II, 6, 8, 10. Ridler, pp. 6-8.
*TrT 228
Autograph.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS in Dobell, in Margoliouth, and in Ridler. Facsimile of f. 2 in The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, ed. Gladys I. Wade (London, 1932), frontispiece.
TrT 229
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 7, 9, 11.
‘Words are but feeble Barren Things’
Unpublished.
TrT 230
Copy of four lines at the end of the First Century [meditation 100], probably lacking the beginning on preceding leaves now excised from the MS.
In: the MS described under TrT 38 (TrT Δ 8). c.1660-5.
The World (‘When Adam first did from his Dust arise’)
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 25-8. Margoliouth, II, 92-5. Ridler, pp. 83-6.
TrT 231
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 22 (TrT Δ 7). [after 1674].
Edited from this MS by editors.
‘Ye hidden Nectars, which my God doth drink’
First published, as ‘[The Influx]’, in Dobell (1903), pp. 103-4. Margoliouth, II, 174-5. Ridler, pp. 66-7.
*TrT 232
Autograph, with revisions, headed in Bertram Dobell's hand ‘The Influx’.
In: the MS described under TrT 50 (TrT Δ 1).
Edited from this MS by editors.
‘Yee that Towers so much prize’
First published in Margoliouth (1958), II, 210-11. Ridler, p. 163.
*TrT 233
Autograph translation from Seneca, with revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 138 (TrT Δ 4). c.1655-early 1660s.
Edited from this MS by editors.
Prose
The Ficino Notebook
Unpublished.
*TrT 233.5
A predominantly autograph notebook by Thomas Traherne, in Latin prose throughout, inscribed by him (f. 1v) ‘Ex libris Tho Traherne’, 59 quarto leaves (plus a few blanks). Containing (f. 3r) a title-page (‘Platonis Philosophi Speculationes practicæ. A Marsilio Ficino breviter digestæ’) and table of contents (f. 4r), notes from Marsilio Ficino's life of Plato (ff. 5r-9v), epitomes of Plato and Pseudo-Plato (ff. 10r-45r), an anonymous life of Socrates (ff. 46r-57v), Ficino's ‘Argumentum’ to his translation of Hermes Trismegistus (f. 58r-v) and notes on eleven chapters of an anonymous ‘Stoicismus Christianus’ (f. 59r); with notes from Theophilus Gale's Court of the Gentiles, Part II (1670) added (ff. 57v, 59v) in the miniscule hand of an amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 5). Late 17th century.
The name ‘Elinor’ scribbled several times on f. 1v. Later owned by Dr Charles Burney (1757-1817), schoolmaster and book collector.
Recorded in Bell, p. xxx (who, however, thought the MS belonged not to the poet but to his nephew Thomas Traherne). Discussed in Carol Marks Sicherman, ‘Traherne's Ficino Notebook’, PBSA, 63 (1969), 73-81 (where the MS is questionably dated c.late 1660s). The extract from Gale's work (Book IV, chapter 1) also occurs, under the heading ‘Aristotle's Philosophy’, in TrT Δ 5. The MS cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as TrT Δ 6.
[Inducements to Retiredness]
First published in Ross, I (2005), 3-43.
*TrT 234
Autograph, untitled but introduced ‘In this Introduction ye pious Soul is Invited vnto Retiremt from ye World for ye better Introversion of Spirit to Considr & enioy those Divine Obiects heer prsented & delineated to it: For Everything Rests most Composedly in its Pper place & ye Soul of Man is not in its Pper place till it be sweetly disposed and Composed for Divine Enioyments’.
In: the MS described under TrT 1.5. c.1660s-70.
Edited from this MS in Ross, with a facsimile of f. 11r as Plate I on p. 4.
The Kingdom of God
First published in Ross, I (2005), 253-503.
*TrT 235
An untitled draft version, in an unidentified hand, of the first two chapters, headed ‘Cap. i Of GODS Kingdome: yt it is but one Monarchy, the Consisting of several Territories. A Digression concerning its Incomprhensibileness’, with deletions, revisions, sidenotes and much underlining in a second hand, inscribed ‘See after 24 leavs’, being a false start to the treatise entered in full later (TrT 236), ff. 126r-8r a fragment on love added by Traherne.
In: the MS described under TrT 1.5. c.1660s-70.
Edited from this MS in Ross, pp. 555-64 (and textual emendations listed pp. 565-6), with a facsimile of ff. 125v-6r on p. 556.
*TrT 236
A working manuscript of the whole treatise, in two unidentified hands or variant of Traherne's hand, in 42 chapters, with sidenotes, and with numerous autograph deletions, revisions, and underlining.
In: the MS described under TrT 1.5. c.1660s-70.
Edited from this MS in Ross, pp. 253-503, with textual emendations listed on pp. 504-53.
The Introduction [to The Ceremonial Law]
An Introduction, beginning ‘Two thousand yeers before my Savior came, In Hieroglyphick Laws I see His Name...’.
*TrT 236.5
Autograph, headed ‘The Ceremonial Law / The Introduction’.
In: the MS described under TrT 1.8. c.1670.
Seeds of Eternity or The Nature of the Soul in which Everlasting Powers are Prepared
First published in Ross, I (2005), 232-52.
*TrT 237
Autograph draft, with a title-page, with many deletions and revisions.
In: the MS described under TrT 1.5. c.1660s-70.
Edited from this MS in Ross, with a facsimile of ff. 140v-1r as Plate III on p. 232.
A Sober View if Dr Twisses his Considerations
First published in Ross, I (2005), 45-230.
*TrT 238
Autograph draft, starting with eight lines (beginning ‘Christ died for ye whole World...’) and headed (f. 22r) ‘A Sober View of Dr Twisses his Considerations. Wth a compleat Disquisition of Dr Hammonds Letter to Dr Sanderson. And a Prospect of all their Opinions Concerning GODs Decrees’, with many deletions and underlinings and with sidenotes.
In: the MS described under TrT 1.5. c.1660s-70.
Edited from this MS in Ross, with a facsimile of f. 44r as Plate II on p. 47.
Document(s)
Document(s)
*TrT 239
Autograph Declaration or Acknowledgement signed by Traherne (‘Tho: Traherne’), five lines in all, 18 August 1662, on the Subscription Roll for 1662. 1662.
*TrT 240
Autograph annual report, being ‘A True copy of ye register Book of ye Parish of Credenhill Anno Dom. 1662’, nineteen lines in all, signed by ‘George Gwillim Ch. Warden’, post 30 March 1663, in the Bishops Transcript for 1662. 1662-3.
*TrT 241
Autograph annual report, being extracts from the ‘Credenhill Register An° 1663’, eleven lines in all, signed by ‘George Gwillim Churchwarden’, in the Bishops Transcript for 1663. 1663.
*TrT 242
Autograph annual report, being ‘A Copy of Credenhill Register for ye yeer of our Lord 1664’, signed by Traherne (‘Tho Traherne Rector’), six lines in all, on the Bishops Transcript for 1664. 1664.
*TrT 243
Autograph annual report, being ‘An Extract or Copy of ye Register Book in Credenhill Anno. 1665…’, signed by Traherne (‘Tho Traherne Rr’), eight lines in all, on the Bishops Transcript for 1665. 1665.
*TrT 244
Churchwardens' Presentment to the Articles of Enquiry, the text in the hand of a churchwarden and signed by Traherne, (‘Tho. Traherne’), ante 15 June 1666. 1666.
*TrT 245
Churchwardens' Presentment to the Articles of Enquiry, the text in the hand of a churchwarden and signed by Traherne (‘Tho. Traherne Rector’), 18 April 1667. Inter alia, this presentment states: ‘The Minister or Parson of or Church and Rectorie is Mr Thomas Trehearne, a goo[d] and Godlie man well Learned, a vniversitie man, Episcopally ordayned, and a good Preacher of gods word and a [very inserted out of place] devout liver…’. 1667.
*TrT 246
A brief autograph letter (six lines) signed by Traherne (‘Tho. Traherne’), to Mr Staverton at Leominster (the address also autograph), requesting a copy of a will for ‘This Bearer, my Servant’, 29 March 1669. 1669.
*TrT 247
Annual report, being ‘A true note & coppy of the Register Booke of all the psons Buried and Baptized in…1668’, chiefly in the hand of a churchwarden, the last two lines in Traherne's hand and with his largely faded signature, 22 April 1669, in the Bishops Transcript for 1668. 1669.
*TrT 248
Autograph testimony signed by Traherne (‘Tho. Traherne. Rector. Cred.’), five lines in all, witnessing to the performance of a penance for incest by Thomas Lewis, 29 August 1669. 1669.
*TrT 249
Churchwardens' Presentment to the Articles of Enquiry, being a series of answers entirely in Traherne's hand, 38 lines in all, (reporting inter alia, that ‘all things are well; only we want…a Register book in Parchmt…we have already a Register book in paper…’), 1671. 1671.
*TrT 250
Annual report, being extracts from the parish register, largely in the hand of a churchwarden, the heading (‘Credenhill Parish An. Dom. 1672’) and possibly an insertion in the first line in Traherne's hand and signed by him (‘Tho Traherne Rector’), in the Bishops Transcript for 1672. 1672.
*TrT 251
Autograph signature of Traherne (‘Tho. Traherne’)as witness to the will of his patron, Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 19 February 1673/4, proved 15 July 1674. A registered copy (unsigned) is PROB 11/345/83. 1674.
Recorded in Gladys Wade, Thomas Traherne (Princeton, 1944), p. 103.
Will
TrT 252
Traherne's noncupative will, bequeathing, among other things, ‘All my books…to my brother Phillip’, drawn up after his death and witnessed by Alice Coxson, Mary Linum, John Berdoe and K. Digby Jr, 27 September 1674, proved 22 October 1674.
TrT 253
A registered copy of Traherne's noncupative will, 27 September 1674, proved 22 October 1674. c.1674.
Edited from this copy in Dobell (1903), pp. 167-8. Reprinted in Margoliouth, I, xxvi-xxvii.