Verse
(1) Poems by Wotton
The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).
WoH 1
Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, untitled.
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 in Pearsall Smith, II, 490.
WoH 2
Copy, in the hand of Ben Jonson, on a folio leaf also containing JnB 319.
In: A collection of papers of the actor Edward Alleyn (1566-1626).
Edited (inaccurately) from this MS in John Payne Collier, Memoirs of Edward Alleyn (London, 1841), p. 53. Edited, with a facsimile, in Pebworth. Also collated in Hannah and recorded in Main. Other facsimiles in The Henslowe Papers, ed. R.A. Foakes (London, 1977), II, 136; in The Henslowe Papers Supplement: The Theatre Papers, ed. Masayuki Yamagishi (Kyoto, 1992), article 136, p. 135 and plates.
WoH 3
Copy of parts of the first stanza, alleged by J.P. Collier to be in the hand of the actor Edward Alleyn, ‘upon a scrap of paper on the back of which is a memorandum respecting some agricultural implements bought by him, bearing date in 1616’. 1616?
This MS allegedly found by Collier among the Alleyn Papers in Dulwich College: see Collier, Memoirs of Alleyn (1841), p. 54. Its authenticy cannot be verified.
WoH 4
Copy, headed ‘Sir He: Wotton, of happinesse’.
In: A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in various hands, probably associated with the University of Cambridge, 352 pages (including 35 blanks), in 19th-century boards. Erroneously described in 1965 as a commonplace book of the poet Robert Herrick. The so-called ‘Herrick hand’ responsible for complete poems or substantial passages on pp. 73-4, 102-3, 253, 312-13, 319-21, 323, 328 and 343, this hand also responsible for corrections and brief insertions in both verse and prose on pp. 55-6, 58-60, 68, 71, 75-6, 78, 83, 89, 91, 93, 97, 99. 108-9, 203, 266, 285, 291, 348 and 350. c.1612-24.
Scribbling on front- and end-leaves including ‘Georgius Cantuarien’, ‘Thomas Hobson’ [?the Cambridge Carrier], ‘Benjamin Broadeface’, ‘To my very long friend mr John Bond’, ‘To the right reuerend ffather in God George Archbyshop of Canterbury his grace’, ‘Whereas the Bearer hereof Thomas Hall hath serued his sixe weekes…’, ‘To the right honor Sr Tho: Moore Whereas the Bearer hereof John Tis[?]sdale’, ‘Williamson’ and ‘Phillip de Maceden’. Puttick and Simpson's, 30 May 1849, lot 158 (erroneously described as a commonplace book of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 12341*. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 146 (as Herrick's commonplace book). House of El Dieff (Lew David Feldman), New York, sale catalogue No. 65 (1965), with facsimile page as frontispiece. Formerly Ms File/(Herrick, R)/Works B.
Also facsimiles of p. 323 in the Sotheby's sale catalogue (frontispiece) and of p. 253 (as if in Herrick's hand) in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 33. Facsimile of all the verse in the MS (viz. pp. 63-83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93,95, 97, 99, 101-3, 105-9, 113-17, 251-3, 277-82, 291, 317-21, 323, 325-43, 345-50), together with a transcript, in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, ‘Poems from a Seventeenth-century Manuscript with the Hand of Robert Herrick’, Texas Quarterly, 16, No. 4 (Supplement) (Winter 1973), 1-185. Microfilm of the complete MS in the British Library, M/751.
The MS discussed by Farmer in loc. cit. and in ‘Robert Herrick's Commonplace Book? Some Observations and Questions’, PBSA, 66 (1972), 21-34; in P.J. Croft's critical comments on Farmer's articles in ‘To the Editor’, PBSA, 66 (1972), 421-6, and (correcting Farmer's published transcript of the text) in ‘Errata in “Poems from a Seventeenth-Century Manuscript”’, TQ, 19 (1976), 160-73; and in Farmer's ‘A Reply to Mr P. Croft’, TQ, 19 (1976), 174. Reasons for rejecting Herrick's alleged association are presented in the Introduction above, under The Texas ‘Herrick’ Manuscript.
Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in Pebworth.
WoH 5
Copy, headed ‘True ffelicitye’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in five hands, one predominating on ff. 8v-130r, ii + 166 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Compiled in part (ff. 131v-66r) by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary. c.1630s-40s.
WoH 6
Copy of two stanzas, untitled, in a musical setting.
In: A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked). Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere. c.1640s-60s.
Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Probert MS’: CwT Δ 4, HeR Δ 1. Discussed and analysed in John P. Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211. Also briefly discussed in George Thewlis, ‘Some Notes on a Bodleian Manuscript’, M&L, 22 (1941) 32-5, and in Willa McClung Evans, ‘Shakespeare's “Harke Harke ye Larke”’, PMLA, 60 (1945), 95-101 (with a facsimile of f. 78r). A facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 6 (New York & London, 1987).
This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 205).
WoH 7
Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘Sr H: Wotton’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, ii + 318 pages (pp. 103-290 largely blank). Including many poems by Sidney Godolphin (1610-43), poet and courtier, and associated with the circle of Lucius Cary (1609/10-1643), second Viscount Falkland, politician and author, of Great Tew, Oxfordshire. c.late 1630s-early 1640s.
This MS collated in Hannah; recorded in Main.
WoH 8
Copy, headed ‘Sr Hen. Wootton’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in three or more hands, probably compiled principally by a member of New College, Oxford, 163 pages, in calf-backed marbled boards. c.1620s-30s.
The name ‘George Brown’ inscribed on p. 14. Inscribed on p. i by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector ‘Feb 13. 1790. I this day purchased this Manuscript Collection of Poems, at the sale of Mr Brander's books, at the exorbitant price of Ten Guineas. EMalone’.
This MS collated in Hannah; recorded in Main.
WoH 9
Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘Qt Sr. Henr. Wotton’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in various secretary and italic hands, 90 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. c.1625.
WoH 10
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘sr Henry Wootton <GREEK>.’
In: A folio composite volume, chiefly of English and Latin verse, in various hands; vi + 186 leaves, in reversed calf.
Scribbling on f. iir including ‘ffor mr William Rabey in New=market...’, ‘ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at mr Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk]’, ‘ffor mr John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge’; notes on f. iiiv-ivr, one ‘Recd 22 July 1669’, subscribed ‘John Cooke’ and including, on f. vir, ‘ffor mr John Cocke at his howse neere the white harte in Thetford...’. Later owned, in the 1730s, by Charles Barlow, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (his bookplate f. iiv).
WoH 11
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio verse miscellany, entirely in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, containing some 76 poems, including eleven by Donne, later inscribed (erroneously) ‘Sir John Haringtons Poems Written in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth’, 56 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1620s-33.
From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Rawlinson MS’: DnJ Δ 38. Also briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 277 (No. 94), with facsimile examples on pp. 102-3.
WoH 12
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of verse and anecdotes, i + 93 leaves. c.1650-75.
WoH 13
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, i + 23 leaves, in contemporary vellum. compiled by one John Hooper of Devon. c.1665.
The binding is a recycled vellum legal document between Christopher and Katherine Mason.
WoH 14
Copy, untitled.
In: A small octavo miscellany of verse and prose, written from both ends, i + 155 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum. Compiled by an Oxford University man. Early 17th century.
Printed from this MS in Norman Ault, Elizabethan Lyrics, 4th edition (London, 1966), pp. 459-60; recorded in Main.
WoH 14.5
Copy, transcribed from a printed source (p. 497).
In: A duodecimo notebook and miscellany, entitled (f. [1r]) ‘Vade mecum or A Pocket-Booke’, ii + 84 leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled by John Gibson (1630-1711), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, North Yorkshire, and in his minute hand throughout. c.1665-78.
Inscribed (f. [iir]) ‘Joseph King / Lewes Sussex / Sept 30 1834 to Mr S.B. Williams’.
Formerly Broxbourne R 359.
WoH 14.8
Copy, untitled.
In: A duodecimo ‘Vade mecum or A Pocket-Book’ of verse, compiled by John Gibson the Younger (1630-1711), of Welburne, Yorkshire, 86 unnumbered leaves, in contemporary calf, with traces of clasps. c.1666-78.
WoH 15
Copy, headed ‘Sr Henry wootton on Mr Roger Askam’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, 215 leaves (plus a few blanks), in modern calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 17 of the Hopkinson MSS. c.1670.
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. 295-6.
WoH 16
Copy, headed ‘vpon a priuate life’.
In: A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, 282 pages, in calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 34 of the Hopkinson MSS. Mid-late 17th century.
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, p. 299.
WoH 16.5
Copy, transcribed from a printed exemplum of Reliquiae Wottonianae.
In: An oblong octavo miscellany of largely devotional verse and some prose, including (ff. 7v-22r) twelve poems by Crashaw, probably transcribed from Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652), in a single italic hand, written across the width of the pages with the spine upwards, with (ff. 181r-8r) a table of contents, 188 leaves, in calf gilt. Entitled Collections out of seuerall Authors by Marmaduke Raudon Eboracensis 1662: i.e. compiled by Marmaduke Rawdon (1610-69), traveller and antiquary, of Guiseley, Yorkshire, who later lived with his cousin, also named Marmaduke Rawdon, at Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, the MS including elegies on yet another (Sir) Marmaduke Rawdon (1582-1646), Governor of Basing House. c.1662.
Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849). Rodd's sale catalogue, February 1850, item 764.
Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Rawdon MS: CrR Δ 2. Crashaw's work collated in Martin (cited as A1) and discussed pp. lxxx-lxxxi.
For other Rawdon miscellanies, see Yale, Osborn MS fb 150; York Minster, MS Add. 122; and a MS sold at Puttick and Simpson's, 3 March 1870, lot 552, to Nicholls. For the Rawdon family, see H.F. Hayllar, The Chronicles of Hoddesdon (1948), pp. 52-4.
WoH 17
Copy of a five-stanza version, untitled, transcribed from WoH 18, with a marginal note in a later hand after line 6 saying ‘4 lines omitted here’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with some later additions and annotations, 188 leaves, in quarter-morocco. Transcribed from British Library Add. MS 25303 and perhaps associated likewise with the Inns of Court. Including 23 poems by Carew and three of doubtful authorship. c.1620s-30s.
Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 13 May 1856 (Pickering sale), lot 258.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Pickering MS’: CwT Δ 11.
This MS the Pickering MS collated in Hannah.
WoH 18
Copy of a five-stanza version, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single neat secretary hand, the first page formally inscribed ‘To the righte honoble: the Lorde Thomas Darcy Viscount Colchester’ (c.1565-1640, Viscount Colchester from 1621 to 1626), 191 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship. c.1620s.
This MS largely transcribed in British Library, Add. MS 21433. The hand occurs also in British Library, Harley MS 3910, between ff. 112v and 120v, and is possibly associated with the Inns of Court.
Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) ‘Mr John Bowyer’; (f. 2r) ‘Jeronomus ffox’; and (f. 3r) ‘William Ralph Baesh’.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Colchester MS’: CwT Δ 13.
WoH 19
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘H W’.
In: A folio composite volume of separate MSS of verse and some prose, in various secretary and italic hands, written over an extended period, with a table of contents (f. 3r-v), 186 leaves. Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the ‘Edward Smyth MS’ (DnJ Δ 45); also 15 poems (and second copies of two) by Henry King; and 19 poems (and two of doubtful authorship) by Carew. c.1620-50.
Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.
This MS is the ‘curious folio volume’ lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by ‘the late Lord Harborough’ and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his History of Leicestershire, 4 vols (1795-1815), III, part i (1800), 367.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Skipwith MS’: DnJ Δ 21; CwT Δ 14; KiH Δ 8. Also described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp. 119-29 (see KiH Δ 6). For Sir William Skipwith and his literary connections, see James Knowles, ‘Marston, Skipwith and The Entertainment at Ashby’, EMS, 3 (1992), 137-92 (esp.pp. 171-2).
WoH 19.5
Copy, headed ‘The Character of a Happy Life’.
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.
WoH 20
Copy, as by ‘Sr H W.’
In: An oblong duodecimo verse miscellany, perhaps largely in one hand, with later additions by others, generally written across the page with the spine turned upwards, 136 leaves, with (f. 2r-v) a table of contents, in half green morocco. Including ten poems by Cowley (on ff. 113r-v, 124r-9v). c.1668-1713.
Inscribed (f. 2r) ‘Several Divine poems out of a Mss. of Mr. Hanserd Knolly's (thô [I suppose deleted] not of his composing)’; (f. 36r) ‘Finis Manuscript, H. K.’; (f. 1r and elsewhere) ‘H Packwood Anno 1668’ and ‘George Gaynor, 1681’. Item 988 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Purchased on 12 February 1876 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.
WoH 21
Copy, headed ‘Song. Hen: Wotton’.
In: A small octavo verse miscellany, written from both ends, predominantly in a single hand in variant styles (ff. 1v-79v, 80r, 88v-96v, 119r-117r rev.), with additions in later hands (ff. 97r-104v, 116v-106r rev.), 164 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Inscribed (f. 1v, in a court hand) ‘Daniell Leare his Booke’, ‘witnesse William Strode’, and (f. 164r) ‘Mr Daniell Leare eius Liber’: i.e. compiled chiefly by Daniel Leare, a distant cousin of the poet William Strode, probably at Christ Church, Oxford, before he entered the Middle Temple in 1633. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This suggestion, by Mary Hobbs, is supported by entries in the Caution Book of 1625-41 at Christ Church, where Strode is found (p. 22) paying £10 as college security for Leare and where Leare signs (p. 23) on this sum's repayment by Dr Fell on 13 May 1633. Forey suggests (p. lxxix) that he was the Daniell Leare of St Andrews, Holburne, whose will was proved in 1652; but it is more likely that he was the Daniel Leare to whom Henry King, Dean of Rochester, leased property at Chatham on 19 July 1655 (National Archives, Kew, SP 18/99/61). Daniel Leare's wife, Dorothy, was a member of the Hubert family with whom King was associated by virtue of the marriage of his sister Dorothy.
The volume includes 12 poems by Donne; 15 poems (plus a second copy of one and three of doubtful authorship) by Carew; 20 poems (plus two of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; and 84 poems (plus second copies of eight poems, four poems of doubtful authorship and some apocryphal poems) by Strode, the texts being closely related to, and in part probably transcribed from, the ‘Corpus MS’ of Strode's poems (StW Δ 1).
Inscribed also ‘John Leare’ (probably Daniel's younger brother); (f. 1r) ‘Anthony Euans his booke’ (who married Daniel Leare's niece Dorothy Leare in 1663); (f. 1v) ‘Alexander Croke his Book 1773’; and (f. 164v) ‘John Scott’ (who matriculated at Christ Church in 1632). Rimell & Son, 9 November 1878.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Leare MS’: DnJ Δ 41, CwT Δ 15, CoR Δ 4, and StW Δ 10.
Discussed in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973), pp. 185-90; in her ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 189-90); and in her Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), passim, with facsimile examples of ff. 79-80 facing p. 87.
WoH 22
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio volume of of tracts and papers chiefly on state matters, largely in one hand, 72 leaves (plus blanks). c.1635.
Inscribed (f. 10r) with names of Stephen Foster of Wrexham, Buckinghamshire (possibly the principal compiler) and Robert Drake of Topsham, Devon. Bookplate (f. 11r) of Berkeley Seymour of Queens's College, Cambridge. Purchased from the Rev. John C. Jackson 8 December 1866.
WoH 23
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 18 poems by Donne, in several hands over a period (the predominant secretary hand on ff. 1r-35v, 45v-63r), written from both ends, 91 leaves, in later green morocco. c.1630s [-1777].
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘E Libris Richardo Glovero pharmacopol. Londinense pertinantibus’, the date ‘1638’ possibly added in a different hand. The name ‘William Allen’ on f. 77v among scribbling. Inscribed (f. 1v) by a later owner, apparently for ‘Mr Thorpe’, ‘I was informed by the bookseller of whom I bought this book; that it belonged formerly to a literary gentleman who lived in Burton Crescent and who died about six months ago. 3rd Augt. 1835’.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Glover MS’: DnJ Δ 42.
WoH 24
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled. c.1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of state and legal tracts, papers and speeches, in several hands, with (f. 4r) an ‘Index’ of contents, 338 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.
WoH 25
Copy, untitled.
In: An independent quarto verse miscellany, including 47 poems by Donne, in two secretary hands. Constituting ff. 230r-99v in a quarto composite volume of verse and prose, in various hands, 308 leaves, in modern half green morocco gilt. c.1620-33.
Among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son, Edward, second Earl of Oxford (1681-1741), and acquired in 1722 from the bookseller Nathaniel Noel (fl.1681-c.1753).
Cited in IELM I.i as the ‘Harley Noel MS’: DnJ Δ 2.
WoH 26
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single professional hand, with later additions on ff. 58v-62v in three or four other hands, 65 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. Compiled by one Thomas Crosse, whose name appears (f. 1*) in ‘An Acrosticke upon my name’, as well as subscribed (‘Tho: Cro:)’ to a poem on ff. 23v-4r. c.1630s [-1670s].
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WoH 27
Copy, headed ‘On a Priuate life’ and subscribed ‘Sr Henry Wotton’.
In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts, poems and other papers, in various hands, 329 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Fols 1r-82r comprise a separate collection of verse and some prose, possibly in a single predominantly secretary hand with some variants of style, the first leaf (f. 1) inscribed in another hand ‘Poems by Wm: Browne of the Inner-Temple Gent &c / 1650’, this possibly applying to the poems up to f. 62v, which is subscribed ‘ffinis W Browne’. c.1637-50.
This volume comprising Parts 1-3, 5, 8-13, of what was formerly a single composite volume but is now bound in three volumes.
Inscribed (f. 280v) ‘Philip Butler his book’.
WoH 28
Copy in: A duodecimo miscellany chiefly of verse, in one or more secretary hands, with a few later additions in other hands, 29 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. c.1665.
WoH 29
Copy, headed ‘Of a happie life’, here beginning ‘How happie is he borne or taught’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637. Including 91 poems and some prose works by John Donne and fourteen poems by Thomas Carew. c.1637.
Among the collections of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (1776-1839), first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham, largely derived from the collection of the antiquary Thomas Astle (1735-1803), which in turn chiefly derived from Astle's father-in-law, the Essex historian Philip Morant (1700-70) (see DnJ Δ 15). Later owned by Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as ‘Stowe MS II’: DnJ Δ 44 and ‘Stowe MS’: CwT Δ 22.
WoH 29.5
Copy. headed ‘Sr Henry Wotton, on Contentment’, here beginning ‘How happy is He, born or taught’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in one hand, written from both ends, 32 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco. c.1630s.
WoH 29.8
Copy. Copy, in an italic hand, of a version headed ‘Beatus ille’ and beginning ‘That man is happy borne or taught’, subscribed ‘H: W:’, in some pages of MS verse bound with an octavo printed exemplum of Henry More, Psychodia Platonica (1642). Mid-17th century.
WoH 30
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio collection of 28 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others, in two independent units (ff. 1-60v, 61r-78r), each in a different secretary hand, bound with a tract (MS Ee. 4. 13), in quarter-calf on boards. c.1620-33.
From the library of John Moore, Bishop of Norwich and Ely (1646-1714), which was given to the University of Cambridge by King George I.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Moore MS’: DnJ Δ 46.
WoH 30.5
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in one female roman hand, written from both ends, 174 pages, in contemporary calf. Compiled by members of Sir Thomas Browne's family, chiefly his daughter Elizabeth Lyttelton (b. c.1648), containing various works in verse and prose including copies of a passage by Sir Thomas on consumptions (p. 43), a list of books which he had Elizabeth read out to him (pp. 44-5), copies of notes by him (pp. 77-76 rev.), his poem ‘Upon a Tempest at Sea’ (pp. 94-93 rev.) and verses beginning ‘the Almond flourisheth ye Birch trees flowe’ (p. 72); some of the verses in other hands including poems by Donne, Corbett, Wotton, Cartwright, William Browne, Ralegh, Katherine Phillips and others. Late 17th century.
Inscriptions (p. 1) ‘Mary Browne’ (who d.1676) and ‘James Dodsley’ and (p. 174) ‘Mar. 11th 1713/4 The gift of Mrs Lyttelton to Edward Tenison’. Percy Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1240. Bookplate of the Royal College of Medicine, London. Owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (Bibliotheca Bibliographici, No. 1301).
This MS volume described in [Geoffrey Keynes], ‘A Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne’, TLS (4 September 1919), p. 420. Discussed in Victoria E. Burke, ‘Contexts for Women's Manuscript Miscellanies: The Case of Elizabeth Lyttelton and Sir Thomas Browne’, Yearbook of English Studies, 33 (2003), 316-28. Edited selectively by Geoffrey Keynes as The Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttelton, Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne (Cambridge, 1919). The passages by Browne also edited in Keynes, I, 120-1, and III, 236-7, 331-2.
WoH 31
Copy in: MS poems, in several hands, on 28 octavo pages, at the end of a composite volume of three printed works, two dated 1659, the third Sir William Davenant's Two Excellent Plays (London, 1665), in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.
Inscribed (on the front free endpaper) ‘E libris Johanis Harding ex Aede Xti Oxon 1672’.
WoH 32
Copy, headed ‘A Contented Life’, inscribed at the side ‘Sr. Henry Wotton’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, arranged (Part I) as an anthology, under genre headings, the reverse end (Part II) largely occupied by a later series of Latin verses, epistles, and other exercises, 168 leaves, in old calf (rebacked). Part I probably in several hands, the predominant italic hand that also responsible for the ‘Welbeck MS’: DnJ Δ 57), and including 21 poems by Donne. c.1630 [-1677].
Part I inscribed (f. 1r) ‘John Smyth his Book 1640’, ‘Charles Smyth 1674’, ‘Hugh Smyth 1676’; (f. 23v) ‘J Smyth 1677 / 1676’. Part II inscribed several times ‘Thomas Smith’, on f. 19r also ‘Die: Maij 12o Ano 1659’, with a reference on f. 58v to Balliol College, Oxford, 1659/60. Later inscribed (f. [ir]) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), who records buying ‘this very curious and interesting MS. of Messrs Boone’. Afterwards in the library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1. 28.
Cited in IELM, I.i, as the ‘Thomas Smyth MS’: DnJ Δ 48.
WoH 33
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, 210 pages, comprising 38 unnumbered pages and 172 numbered pages (plus four blank leaves), perhaps largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with additions in four other hands on the unnumbered pages and pp. 167-71, including the scribbled title ‘Divers Sonnets & Poems compiled by certaine gentil Clarks and Ryme-Wrightes’, probably associated with Oxford University and the Inns of Court, in contemporary vellum. Including 14 poems by Strode (and a second copy of one poem). c.1637-51.
Inscribed (front pastedown) ‘Wakelin EeK Hering / Blows of Whitsor’, and (rear pastedown) ‘R. J. Cotton’. Formerly Folger MS 2073.4.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Cotton MS: StW Δ 20.
WoH 34
Copy, headed ‘Sr Hen: wootton on a pvate life’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single mixed hand, with additions in other hands, associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 315 pages (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett. c.1630s.
Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the ‘Curteis MS’: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, ‘Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript’, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.
WoH 35
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed ‘H. W.’
In: A folio memorandum book, in English and Latin, entitled (p. 1) ‘A book of Divers necessary remembraunces’, in various hands, 376 pages (including many blanks, a few leaves detached), in a wallet binding of embossed leather, straps and one remaining buckle. Compiled over a period by Richard Dering (d. 1612), of Surrenden, Kent, his son Anthony (1558-1635), and his grandson Sir Edward Dering (1598-1644). c.1603-44.
Formerly Folger MS Add. 450
WoH 36
Copy, headed ‘Sr Henry Wooton’ and here beginning ‘How happy is he borne or taught’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in two very small hands (A: ff. 1r-44v; B: ff. 44v-87v), with further verse and prose pieces in other hands on ff. 88r-121r, written from both ends, associated with Oxford, possibly New College, and probably afterwards with the Inns of Court, 155 leaves (including 33 blanks), in modern black morocco elaborately gilt. Including 23 poems by Strode (and second copies of two poems) and one poem of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Including (ff. 98r-100r) a letter by one ‘Pet[er] Wood’. Inscribed (ff. 90r-1r), ‘Thease verses I borroed to write out of John Sherly [d. 1666] a booke seller in litle Brittaine, 28th of March 1633’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9235. Sotheby's, 21 February 1938, lot 243.
Cited in IELM II.ii (1993), as the ‘Wood MS’: StW Δ 21. Discussed in C.F. Main, ‘New Texts of John Donne’, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33.
This MS recorded in Main.
WoH 37
Copy, headed ‘Sr Henry Wotton’.
In: A small octavo miscellany of 76 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others dating up to 1627, in a single italic hand, occasionally marking the end of poems with one or more quatrefoils, 102 leaves (foliation jumping from 55 to 57), gilt-edged, in 19th-century dark green leather gilt. c.late 1620s.
Inscriptions including (f. 6r) ‘Hannah Lewis Junr’; ‘Thomas Turner his Book’ (three times, ff. 8r, 14v, 48v, dated ‘1750’, ‘58’ and ‘1760’); (f. 12r) ‘Edmund Baxter att Mrs Nortons’; (ff. 20r, 59v) ‘John Jones’; (f. 40r) ‘Jon: Pryse 1729’; (f. 59v) ‘Robt. Was’[?]; and (f. 79r) ‘Edmund Baxter 1729’. Later owned by Edward Vernon Utterson (1776-1856), of Shanklin and Ryde, Isle of Wight, artist, literary antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 24 April 1852 (Utterson sale), lot 1317, sold to ‘Lelly’. Then owned by Sir John Simeon, third Baronet (1815-70), M.P. Sotheby's, 3 March 1871 (Simeon sale), lot 638, to Pickering. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 436 (1930), item 576. Formerly MS Nor 4620.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Utterson MS’: DnJ Δ 51. Discussed in Sir John Simeon, ‘Unpublished Poems of Donne’, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3. For an account of Utterson, see Raymond V. Turley, ‘Edward Vernon Utterson’, The Book Collector, 25 (1976), 21-44 (and plates after p. 48).
This MS recorded in Main.
WoH 37.5
Copy, ascribed to ‘Sr Henry Wootten’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in two neat hands, 14 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter-calf cloth. A (misapplied) title-page (f. 1r) possibly in another hand: ‘Copy of Verses upon ye Government under the Protectour Cromwel -- By Edmund Waller 1650’. Late 17th century.
Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘C F’[?].
WoH 38
Extracts.
In: A small quarto book of ‘Dayly Obseruations both Diuine & Morall / The First part by Thomas Grocer Florilegius. 1657’, on 215 pages (paginated irregularly, plus five preliminary leaves). A commonplace book of quotations from largely devotional or philosophical texts under subject headings, neatly written in a single hand, with a title-page and table of contents. 1657.
Inscriptions in the MS including ‘Crescentius Matherus 1680’, ‘Crescentii Matheri Liber 1682’, ‘Nathanaelis Matheri Liber 1683’, ‘By Mr Oakes’, ‘Elijah Warings Book 1734’, ‘Jne Daniell 1832’, and ‘Thos Alexander -- 1847’.
WoH 38.5
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat hand, 369 pages, in contemporary vellum boards. Mid-18th century.
Variously inscribed ‘R B’ and ‘Robert Beere fecit’, probably by the compiler. Also inscribed inside the upper cover ‘Ann Beere Her Book’.
WoH 39
Copy, headed ‘Sir Henry Wotto[n]’, imperfect.
In: An octavo miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, in a small secretary hand, 79 leaves (largely blank), disbound. Early 17th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 25, f. 7r.
WoH 40
Copy of a five-stanza version, headed ‘A Caracter of a happy man’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly in one cursive hand, written from both ends, 271 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards. c.1700.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 48, f. 49r.
WoH 40.2
Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, written, with the page reversed, in a copy of Ralegh's Apology. Mid-17th century.
In: A collection of state tracts and verse, in various professional hands (including the ‘Feathery Scribe’), now bound in two volumes, Vol. I comprising 249 leaves (plus blanks), Vol. II 247 leaves (plus blanks), each in modern half-morocco gilt.
Among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 349 (No. 75).
WoH 40.5
Copy, headed ‘A Perfect happy man described by Sir H. W.’
In: A folio verse miscellany, comprising 162 poems in English, in a single hand, 273 pages, in brown morocco gilt. c.late 1640s.
Formerly (before 1686) in the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. Possibly acquired by Charles Louis (1617-80), Elector Palatine, while at the English court of his uncle, Charles I, from 1635 to 1649.
This volume discovered, and announced in the TLS, 23 July 2010, pp. 14-15, by June Schleuter and Paul Schleuter.
WoH 40.8
Copy, headed ‘Vita Beata...’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in Latin and English, written from both ends, 181 pages. Compiled by, and principally in the hand of, William Burton (1609-57), antiquary. c.1637-46.
WoH 41
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘H W:’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, including (ff. 3r-49v) 49 poems by Donne in a single neat secretary hand, also responsible for poems by others on ff. 83r, 88r-90r, 4r-11v rev., later notes and two poems by Donne in other hands on the remaining leaves, 124 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1620[-76].
The later material including medical notes written c.1665-76 by Sir John Wedderburn (1599-1679), royal physician.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Wedderburn MS’: DnJ Δ 55. Discussed in Alan MacColl, ‘A New Manuscript of Donne's Poems’, RES, NS 19 (1968), 293-5.
WoH 42
Copy, headed ‘Sr Henry Wotton / A contented life’.
In: A small quarto verse anthology, in a single minute hand (but for p. 206), arranged under genre headings (‘Epitaphs’, ‘Satyricall’, ‘Love Sonnets’, etc.), probably associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 382 pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the ‘Thomas Smyth MS’ (DnJ Δ 48). c.1630s.
Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Welbeck MS’: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, ‘A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others’, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).
WoH 43
Copy, untitled, ascribed in the margin to ‘Sr. Henry Wotton’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index). Possibly compiled by one ‘W: H:’: i.e. probably William Holgate (1618-46), of Queens' College, Cambridge, with late 17th-century additions apparently made by other members of the Holgate family, of Saffron Walden and Great Bardfield, Essex. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Holgate MS’: DnJ Δ 58. Briefly discussed in W.G.P., ‘Verses by Francis Beaumont’, TLS (15 September 1921), p. 596, and in E.K. Chambers, William Shakespeare, 2 vols (Oxford, 1930), II, 222-4. Also discussed, with facsimiles on pp. 68 and 70 of pp. 181 and 13, in Michael Roy Denbo, ‘Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73. For facsimile pages see DnJ 2931 and ShW 25. Complete microfilm in the Essex Record Office (T/A 98).
WoH 43.5
Copy, headed ‘The Happy Man’.
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 from this MS in Hazard, pp. 123-4.
Rhode Island Historical Society, MSS 696, [unspecified page numbers].
WoH 44
Copy, subscribed ‘H: Wotton’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf. c.1713.
Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. In the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936.
WoH 45
Copy, headed ‘Sr Henry Wotton on a private life’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, written over a period in three hands (A, in alternating secretary and italic, written c.1638: ff. 1-59v; B, written c.1645: ff. 60r-9r; C, written c.1649, ff. 69v-70r), 70 leaves, in old calf. Including thirteen poems by Strode and three of doubtful authorship. c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
Later sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9569. Bookplate of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 193.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Rosenbach MS I’: CwT Δ 31 and StW Δ 23.
WoH 46
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio verse miscellany, containing 89 poems, including 43 by Donne, in several hands (ff. 21r-62r in a single accomplished secretary hand), 69 leaves, in paper wrappers. The text of the poems by Donne derived from the same source as the Lansdowne MS (British Library, Lansdowne MS 740) and related in part to the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS II (Huntington, HM 198, Part II). c.1620-5.
Formerly among the muniments of the Earl of Dalhousie (descendant of the Maule and Ramsay families), of Brechin Castle, on deposit in the Scottish Record Office [now National Archives of Scotland] (GD45/26/95/1). Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 490.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the the ‘Dalhousie MS I’: DnJ Δ 11. Complete reduced facsimile and transcription in The First and Second Dalhousie Manuscripts: Poems and Prose by John Donne and Others: A Facsimile Edition, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Columbia, 1988). Also discussed by Ernest W. Sullivan, II in ‘Donne Manuscripts: Dalhousie I’, John Donne Journal, 3/2 (1984), 204-19; in ‘“And, having done that, Thou hast done”: Locating, Acquiring, and Studying the Dalhousie Manuscripts’, in The Donne Dalhousie Discovery: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Acquisition and Study of the John Donne and Joseph Conrad Collections at Texas Tech University, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan II and David J. Murrah (Lubbock, TX, 1987), pp. 1-10; and in ‘The Renaissance Manuscript Verse Miscellany: Private Party, Private Text’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, ed. W. Speed Hill (Binghamton, 1993), pp. 289-97.
Facsimiles of f. 15v in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 13, and of f. 42r in Sotheby's sale catalogue and in Peter Beal, A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450-2000 (Oxford, 2008), p. 431, Illus. 91. A complete microfilm of the MS is in the National Archives of Scotland.
Sullivan suggests that the miscellany derives from sources preserved by members of the Earl of Essex's circle, their most likely ‘conduit’ to the Dalhousie family being John Ramsay (1580-1626), Viscount Haddington and Earl of Holderness.
WoH 47
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘H Watton’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, including 15 poems by Donne, f. 162r-v in a rounded italic hand, ff. 164r-74v in a slightly erratic italic hand, ff. 175r-279v in a neat formal italic hand (also responsible for the index on ff. 2r-11v), this miscellany constituting ff. 162r-279v of a single folio volume containing also Part I (DnJ Δ 15), ii + 279 leaves in all (lacking one or more leaves at the end), in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked). c.1630s.
Formerly MS G. 2.21.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dublin MS (II): DnJ Δ 61.
WoH 47.5
Copy, headed ‘The prayse of a priuate life’, subscribed ‘Sr Henry Wotton’.
In: the MS described under WoH 47. c.1630s.
WoH 48
Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘Sr Hen: Wootten’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by or attributed to Herrick, almost entirely in a single small predominantly italic hand, 250 pages (plus numerous blanks), originally in contemporary calf, but now disbound. Inscribed four times on a flyleaf ‘Tobias Alston his booke’: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end. c.1639 [-c.1728].
Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Alston MS’: HeR Δ 7. A complete set of photocopies of the MS is in the British Library, RP 772. Facsimile of pp. 6-7 in Sotheby's sale catalogue (see HeR 176, HeR 405) where the MS is described at some length. See also letters by Peter Beal and Donald W. Foster in TLS (24 January 1986), pp. 87-8.
WoH 48.5
Copy, headed ‘A Priuate contented Life’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in one secretary hand, erratically paginated up to 333, 250 leaves, in 18th-century boards. c.late 1630s.
Inscribed (on p. [330]) ‘Robert Lord his book Anno Domini’; (on [p. 335]) ‘william Jacob his booke Amen’; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, ‘Hugh Gibgans of the same’ and ‘John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]’. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.
A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.
A Dialogue between Sir Henry Wotton and Mr. Donne (‘If her disdaine least change in you can move’)
See PeW 30-53.
A Hymn to my God, in a night of my late sickness (‘Oh Thou great power! in whom I move’)
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 515. Hannah (1845), pp. 49-51.
WoH 49
Copy, headed ‘A shorte Hymne by S Hen: Wotton In a nyght of his present sicknes’.
In: A large folio composite verse miscellany, chiefly folio, partly quarto, 243 pages, in contemporary calf. Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to ‘I Nicholas Burgh’ occurring on ff. 165r, with the date ‘3d of June 1638’, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands. c.1638.
Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Burghe MS’: CwT Δ 1.
This MS collated in Hannah.
WoH 50
Copy, headed A Meditation, subscribed ‘Sr Henry Wotton’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in two or more cursive hands, written from both ends, iv + 278 pages, in contemporary calf. Compiled principally by one ‘H. S.’, a Cambridge University man. c.1640s-60s.
This MS volume edited in D.J. Rose, MS Rawlinson Poetical 147: An Annotated Volume of Seventeenth-Century Cambridge Verses (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leicester, 1992), of which a copy is in Cambridge University Library, Manuscript Department, A8f.
This MS collated in Hannah.
WoH 51
Copy in: A quarto composite miscellany of verse, in English and Latin, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, who lived in Cambridge as student and Fellow of Emmanuel College from 1633 to 1651, ii + 115 leaves, in calf. Comprising three separate units: ff. 1r-96v all in Sancroft's hand; ff. 97r-104r in a second hand; and ff. 105r-9r in a third hand. c.1640s [and later].
Including (on ff. 2-23, 27ar-v, 70) 94 Latin poems ascribed to Crashaw (including three of doubtful authorship) and (on ff. 29-41, 43v, 44v-58, 60v, 62v-5v, 67-70v, 72-3, 95-6) 101 English poems (plus a second copy of one of them) attributed to him (including one of doubtful authorship) and (on f. 16r-v) one Greek poem attributed to him; a list of contents on the first page beginning ‘Mr. Crashaw's poems transcrib'd fro his own copie, before the were printed; among wch are some not printed…’.
Cited in IELM as the ‘Sancroft MS’: CrR Δ 1. Crashaw edited in part from this MS, and collated, in Grosart, in Waller and in Martin (cited as T or T5), and discussed in Waller, pp. vi-ix, and in Martin, pp. lviii-lxxiii. Folios 28-34v, 38v-41, 44v, 52v-6 reproduced in facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
This MS collated in Hannah; facsimile in the appendix of the Scolar Press facsimile edition of Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple < 1646 > (menston, 1970).
WoH 52
Copy, subscribed ‘H. Wotton oper p. 515’.
In: A composite quarto verse miscellany, 199 leaves, in calf. Compiled (and ff. 2-39 written) by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop Canterbury; the rest in other hands. Mid-17th century.
WoH 53
Copy, transcribed from a printed exemplum of Reliquiae Wottonianae.
In: the MS described under WoH 16.5. c.1662.
WoH 53.5
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto miscellany of Latin and English verse and prose, in several hands, written from both ends, 57 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1719-50.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 13, f. 44r rev.
WoH 54
Copy, headed ‘A Hymn made by Sr H: Wotton in ye time of is sickness’.
In: the MS described under WoH 44. c.1713.
WoH 55
Copy, untitled.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, compiled principally in the secretary hand of a University of Oxford man, with additions in one or more other hands, 150 pages, imperfect, disbound. c.1640.
An Ode to the King, at his returning from Scotand to the Queen after his coronation there (‘Rouse up thyself, my gentle Muse’)
First published in Ben Jonson's Vnder-wood in his Workes (London, 1640). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 521. Hannah (1845), pp. 21-4. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), p. 267.
WoH 56
Copy of the first stanza, untitled, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under WoH 6. c.1640s-60s.
WoH 57
Copy, headed ‘An Ode Vpon Kg Charles's returne to ye Queene from his Coronacon in Scotland’, subscribed ‘Sr Henry Wotton’.
In: the MS described under WoH 50. c.1640s-60s.
This MS collated in Hannah.
WoH 57.5
Copy of a Latin rendition of the poem, headed ‘Ad Regem e Scotia reducem Henrici Wottonj Plausus, & Vota’.
In: An octavo volume of university Latin orations compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, xiv + 204 pages (pp. 110-94 blank). Late 17th century.
WoH 58
Copy, in double columns.
In: the MS described under WoH 51. c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Hannah.
WoH 58.2
Copy, headed ‘An Ode made upon the Kings speedy returne to the Queene from his coronation in Scotland’.
In: the MS described under WoH 40.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 40-1.
WoH 58.5
Copy, headed ‘An ode to the King, at his return’, subscribed ‘J R.’
In: A duodecimo miscellany, closely written in a minute hand from both ends, 152 pages, in modern brown morocco gilt. Compiled by ‘T. E.’, a member of St John's College, Oxford c.1655.
Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Bright sale, June 1844. MS 40 in the library of the Shirley family at Ettington Hall, Warwickshire, and with notes by E.Ph. Shirley.
Recorded in HMC, 5th Report, Part I (1876), Appendix, p. 365.
On a Bank as I sat a-Fishing. A Description of the Spring (‘And now all nature seemed in love’)
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 524. Hannah (1845), pp. 32-5.
WoH 59
Copy, headed ‘On the Spring’, subscribed ‘Sr H. Wotton’.
In: the MS described under WoH 50. c.1640s-60s.
This MS collated in Hannah.
WoH 59.5
Copy, headed ‘Sr Hen Wottons Description of ye spring’, here beginning ‘This day dame Nature...’.
In: the MS described under WoH 14.8. c.1666-78.
WoH 60
Copy, in double columns, headed ‘On the Spring’.
In: the MS described under WoH 51. c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Hannah.
WoH 60.5
Copy, headed ‘Sr Hen: Wotton's Description of ye Spring’ and here beginning ‘This day dame Nature seemd in Love’.
In: the MS described under WoH 14.5. c.1665-78.
WoH 61
Copy, headed ‘Of ye Springe: S: Hen: Wotton’ and here beginning ‘This day Dame nature seem'd in loue’, later subscribed ‘Iz: W.’, on one side of an octavo leaf. c.1620s-30s.
A later note on this MS incorrectly claims that it is in the hand of Izaak Walton.
WoH 61.5
Copy, headed ‘A Copy of Verses of Sr. H. Wottons. who made this description of that pleasantness that possess'd him, as he sat quietly in a summers evening on a Bank a Fishing: it is a Description of the Spring’ and here beginning ‘This Day Dame nature seem'd in love’.
In: An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, relating to angling, 284 pages (lacking pp. 161-84), in quarter-calf marbled boards. In several neat, small, chiefly italic hands, one on pp. 1-203 that of Nathaniel Bridges, of Magdalen College, Oxford, whose inscription on f. [iiir] is dated ‘1694’. c.1691-early 18th century.
Bookplate of George Weare Braikenridge, Broomwell House. A flyleaf is inscribed by him, November 1834, ‘The Book belonged to the late Dr. Nathl. Bridges Lecturer of St Mary Radcliffe & St Nicholas in the City of Bristol & purchased out of a private sale of his library at his decease.’ Other names inscribed after p. 212 including ‘William Trumbu[ll]’, ‘Joseph Brampton 1691’, and ‘Hen Sacheverell / Coll. Magd.’. A later bookplate inside the lower cover: ‘Gift of Daniel B. Fearing of Newport, 1915’.
On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)
First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, ‘“You Meaner Beauties of the Night” A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification’, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.
WoH 62
Copy of a four-stanza version, in the hand of William Parkhurst, headed ‘The Lady Eliza: Queene of Bohemia’.
In: the MS described under WoH 1.
WoH 62.5
Copy, headed ‘Sr Henry Wotton on Q: Eliz:’ and here beginning ‘In glorious Trifles of ye East’.
In: An octavo miscellany of Oxford University orations and of miscellaneous verse, in English and Latin, predominantly in one hand, written from both ends, 141 unnumbered leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum boards. Compiled by Thomas Lessey (1649/50-1724), of Wadham College, Oxford, later Canon of Sarum, with his inscription ‘Tho: Lessey or le levre est à Thomas Lessey L'An de Grace 1670’. c.1668-83.
WoH 62.8
Copy, headed ‘Sir Henry Wottons verses of the Queen of Bohemia’, here beginning ‘Yee meaner beautyes of the night’.
In: the MS described under WoH 40.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 24-5.
WoH 63
Copy of a five-stanza version, untitled, here beginning ‘You glorious trifles of the East’, subscribed ‘Sr H. W.’.
In: A composite collection of miscellaneous papers, now divided into two folio volumes (Part 1, ff. 1-199; Part 2, ff. 200-487), in various hands and paper sizes, originally in vellum, now each part in modern half-morocco. Volume I of the papers of the Wyatt family, of Allington Castle, Boxley, and Quex, Kent, including (ff. 332r-58v) quarto booklets of verse, in a rounded italic hand, possibly compiled, c.1630, by Sir Francis Wyatt (1575-1644), Governor of Virginia (although according to an uncertain note on f. 358v ‘all the hand writing of Sr H Wiat’).
Later owned by Bradford Denne Hawkins, vicar of Rivenhall, Essex; by Lionel Oliver, of Hencham, King's Lynn; and then in 1872, by Charles Marsham (1808-74), third Earl of Romney. Formerly Loan MS 15/Part 2 (Wyatt Commonplace Book).
Edited from this MS in Agnes Conway, ‘A New Stanza to “You Meaner Beauties of the Night”’, TLS (4 September 1924), p. 540. Also discussed by her in TLS (30 October 1924), p. 686. Recorded in Leishman.
WoH 64
Copy of a five-stanza version, headed ‘the 13 songe’.
In: the MS described under WoH 49. c.1638.
This MS recorded in Leishman.
WoH 65
Copy of a six-stanza version.
In: A folio miscellany of tracts, letters and verse, written over a period, 210 leaves. Compiled by one Philip Kynder (b.1597). c.1620s-50s.
This MS recorded in Leishman. The text followed on f. 22 by a parodied version, beginning ‘Ladies that guild the glittering moone’, on the fall of Charles I.
WoH 66
Copy of a six-stanza version, headed ‘To ye Lady Elizabeth’.
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.
WoH 67
Copy of an untitled six-stanza version, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under WoH 6. c.1640s-60s.
This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 202-3).
WoH 68
Copy of a five-stanza version, headed ‘An Ode vpon the Quene of Bohemia’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Entitled Miscentur seria iocis. 1647. Elegies, Exequies, Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs Satires and other Poems, a formal compilation entirely in the hand of the Yorkshire antiquary John Hopkinson (1610-80). 1647.
From the library of Cecil Brent, FSA. Sold by P.J. & A.E. Dobell, January 1938.
WoH 69
Copy, here beginning ‘Ye glorious trifles of the east’, accompanied by a Latin version by one ‘T. L.’.
In: A folio volume of poems chiefly on affairs of state, in professional hands, ff. 1-49 comprising poems of the 1640s, ff. 49v onwards Restoration poems up to 1681, 174 leaves (including twelve blanks), in contemporary calf, both covers stamped ‘1642’, with remains of clasps. Including nine poems in the Marvell canon (plus apocryphal poems); ff. 1-157 a single unit in variant styles of hand; ff. 158-62 in yet another hand on a smaller tipped-in quire of paper. Mid-late 17th century.
Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1993) as the Douce MS: MaA Δ 3. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.
WoH 70
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘You glorious trifles of the East’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, comprising nearly 250 poems, in five hands, vii + 135 leaves (with a modern index), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked), with remains of clasps. Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller. c.1630s-40s.
Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Peeter Daniell’ and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names ‘Thomas Gardinor’, ‘James Leigh’ and ‘Pettrus Romell’. Owned in 1780 by one ‘A. B.’ when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Daniell MS’: CwT Δ 5, HeR Δ 2, RnT Δ 1, StW Δ 5, WaE Δ 9. Briefly discussed in Margaret Crum, ‘An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick’, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9. A facsimile of f. 22v in Marcy L. North, ‘Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 106). Betagraphs of the watermark in f. 65 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. 241).
WoH 71
Copy of a six-stanza version, headed ‘Sr Henry Wotton vpon ye La: Elizab: Que: of Bohemia’ (the last two stanzas headed ‘Two other Staves added by Another’) and here beginning ‘Yee violetts wch first appear’.
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.
WoH 72
Copy, headed ‘On his Mrs’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by the writer Robert Codrington (1602-65) of Magdalen College, Oxford, 360 pages (including stubs of extracted leaves on pp. 297-328 and blanks, plus index), in contemporary calf. Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) ‘Anno Dom: 1638’ and ‘The 30th of May. 1638’. c.1638.
Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Codrington MS’: CwT Δ 7 and StW Δ 7.
WoH 73
Copy, headed ‘To the Spanish Lady’, ‘By Sr H. Wotton’ added in a later hand.
In: the MS described under WoH 8. c.1620s-30s.
This MS collated in Hannah; recorded in Leishman.
WoH 74
Copy of a six-stanza version, untitled.
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’.
WoH 75
Copy, in a professional hand, headed ‘Sr. Hen: Wooton on his Mistress, The Queen of Bohemia’ and here beginning ‘You meanest Beautyes of the Nigh’t, on one side of a quarto leaf. Late 17th century.
In: A quarto composite volume chiefly of poems on affairs of state, largely in professional hands, iii + 242 leaves, in vellum boards.
WoH 76
Copy, headed ‘On my Princesse and Mrs. the Lady Elisabeth elected Queene of Bohemia’ and here beginning ‘Yow violets yt doe first appeare’, subscribed ‘Sr: Hen: Wotton’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, including eleven poems by Carew, in a single professional secretary hand (adopting a different style on ff. 176r-8r), ii + 231 leaves (including numerous blanks), the date 1633 occurring on f. 55r. c.1630s.
The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Michell MS’: CwT Δ 8. Briefly discussed (in connection with the poem ‘Shall I die?’ attributed to Shakespeare) by Gary Taylor in The Sunday Times (24 November 1985, pp. 1, 3, with a facsimile example) and by Peter Beal in TLS (3 January 1986, p. 13); and see also letters on 24 January 1986, pp. 87-8.
WoH 77
Copy, headed ‘On the L: Eliz.’, here beginning ‘Ye glorious trifles of the East’, and docketed in another hand ‘Sr H: W:’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 98 pages (plus some blanks), in reversed calf (rebacked). c.1620s-30s.
Inscribed (f. ir) by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), the date ‘1741’ added.
WoH 78
Copy of a six-stanza version, headed ‘A Song’ [‘by Sr H Wotton’added in a later hand].
In: the MS described under WoH 51. c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Hannah; recorded in Leishman.
WoH 79
Copy of a five-stanza version, headed ‘An Ode upon this mariage’ [i.e. of the Prince Elector with the Princess Elizabeth].
In: A folio volume of state documents, speeches and verse, 284 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 27 of the Hopkinson MSS. Chiefly transcribed from papers belonging to John Savile, Baron of Pontefract, and Edward Taylor, of Furnivall's Inn, Holborn. 1674.
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, p. 298.
WoH 80
Copy, in a musical setting by John Hilton, untitled and here beginning ‘Yee violetts, yt first appeare’.
In: A folio songbook, in two or more predominantly italic hands, written from both ends, 87 leaves, in remains of contemporary vellum within modern half red morocco. Possibly compiled in part by one ‘T. C.’ c.1641-59.
Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘R. Guise [of Abbey] Feb: 12. 1760’. Purchased from Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, 17 June 1839.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 4 (New York & London, 1986).
WoH 81
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled and here beginning ‘Yee meaner beauties of the night’, subscribed ‘Bassus per T: C:’.
In: the MS described under WoH 80. c.1641-59.
WoH 82
Copy, headed ‘An ode upon ye Lady Elizab: Qu: of Bohemia’, subscribed ‘Sr Hen: Wotton’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Juvenilia Ludicra, in a single small mixed hand, 103 leaves, all now window mounted in a quarto volume, in 19th-century half morocco. Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man. c.1630s.
Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) ‘E Libris Richard Sutclif’. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.
WoH 83
Copy of a six-stanza version, headed ‘On ye Queene of Bohemia’, subscribed ‘Sr Henry wootton’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 49 leaves, outer leaves imperfect, in modern calf gilt. Including twenty poems by Carew, eleven poems by Crashaw on ff. 10-30 passim, and fifteen poems by Strode. c.1630s.
Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1834), item 728. Acquired from C. Booth, October 1857.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Thorpe MS’: CwT Δ 12, CrR Δ 3, StW Δ 9.
This MS recorded in Leishman.
WoH 84
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘Vpon the Queene of Bohemia’, one one page of three folio leaves of verse. c.1630s.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers in verse and prose, in various hands and paper sizes, 170 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco. Including eleven poems by John Donne, three of them (ff. 10r-14v, 55r, 76r-7r) in the italic hand of his friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627); ff. 95r-8r in the same hand as the Leconfield MS (DnJ Δ 5) and constituting part of what was probably a quarto MS ‘book’ of Donne's satires; f. 132r-v constituting a set of six verse epistles by Donne, the text related to the Westmoreland MS (DnJ Δ 19). Early-mid-17th century.
From the ‘Conway Papers’ belonging chiefly to Sir Edward Conway, Baron Conway of Ragley, later Viscount Killultagh and Viscount Conway of Conway Castle (c.1564-1631), and to his son, Edward, second Viscount Conway (1594-1655). Later owned by John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), politician and writer, and presented 10 January 1860.
Cited in IELM, I.i, as the ‘Conway MS’: DnJ Δ 40. Cited as A23 by editors. Facsimile of f. 62r in Michael Roy Denbo, ‘Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73 (p. 71).
WoH 85
Copy, headed ‘On Sr Henery Wootton to Qu. Anne’.
In: the MS described under WoH 21. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
WoH 86
Copy, headed ‘To ye Q of Bohemia’ and here beginning ‘Ye meaner Beauties of ye night’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse, academic exercises and other material, in English and Latin, almost entirely in a single hand, 134 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Inscribed by the compiler (f. 133v) ‘Anthony Scattergood His booke’: i.e. Anthony Scattergood (1611-87), theologian, of Trinity College, Cambridge. Volume XXXII of the Scattergood papers. c.1632-40.
Also inscribed (f. 130v) ‘Elisabeth Scattergood her Booke 1667/8’. Booklabel of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector.
WoH 87
Copy of a six-stanza version, headed ‘Sr H. Wootton on the Lady crownd Q of Bohemia’ and here beginning ‘Yee glorious trifles of the East’. A Latin version appears on f. 24v.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, largely in one secretary hand, written from both ends, with indexes (ff. 2r-3r, 168r-v), 168 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Compiled by Sir John Perceval, Bt (1629-65), probably while at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Volume CXCII of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family. c.1646-9.
WoH 88
Copy of a six-stanza version, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, written from both ends, 192 leaves (including blanks), in old brown calf. Compiled, over a period, principally by Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), Chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford, and Henry King's amanuensis, including (ff. 7r-61r) 24 poems by King in Manne's formal hand, written c.1625-30s; ff. 61v-72v, 73r-99v, 100r-101v written in a variant style of Manne's hand, c.1630s; and (ff. 72v, 99v, 102r-14v, 190v-169r rev.) additions in six other hands, c.1630s-44, with (ff. 75r, 76r, and 76v) three poems to which the subscription ‘R. Dorset’ is added in the hand of King himself. c.1625-46.
Inscribed (f. 190v rev.) ‘Ann Littleton’. Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue, [June 1848], p. 31. Sotheby's, 4 Februry 1850 (Rodd sale), lot 500, to James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Afterward owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 June 1873 (Corser sale), lot 325, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Later owned by the bookdealer Philip Robinson. Sotheby's, 26 June 1974, lot 3013, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Thomas Manne MS’: KiH Δ 7. Used in Crum. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).
WoH 88.4
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘An ode vppon the Lady Elizab my Princesse and Mrs elected Queene of Bohemia’, on one side of a folio leaf of verse once folded as a letter or packet, imperfect. c.1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of state, literary and family papers and speeches, in various hands and paper sizes, 93 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco. Papers principally of the Boteler family, of Biddenham, Bedfordshire, and of the family of John Hampden, MP (1595-1643), politician, of Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire.
Volume DLXXXIII of the Blenheim Papers, papers principally of John Churchill (1650-1722), first Duke of Marlborough, army commander and politician, his wife Sarah (née Jenyns) (1660-1744), and the related Spencer and Trevor families.
WoH 88.6
Copy, in a musical setting by Pietro Reggio, untitled.
In: A tall folio songbook, in two or more cursive hands, written from both ends, with (f. iiir) an index, iv + 99 leaves (including indexes), in 19th-century half green morocco gilt on marbled boards. A formal compilation, ff. 2r-44v in the hand of Henry Bowman (fl.1674-80), composer and copyist; ff. 44v-53v in a second hand; ff. 54r-65r in a third hand; with additions in one or more hands on ff. 99v-66v rev. Late 17th century.
Booklabel of William Hayman Cummings, FSA (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Sotheby's, 17-24 May 1917 (Cummings sale), lot 487.
WoH 88.8
Copy, headed ‘Sr Hen: Wootton on his Mistress The Queen of Bohemia’.
In: A large quarto miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled Collection of Choice Poemes, in a single neat hand, with a ‘Catalogue’ of contents (ff. 382v-6v), 387 leaves, in half brown morocco gilt. c.1703.
Note of purchase (f. 1r) ‘pd - 6 - 9 -/ April 24 1703’.
WoH 89
Copy of a six-stanza version, headed ‘On Ladie Eliz: Queene of Bohemia by Sr H: Wotton’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, written in two styles of hand (A: ff. 2r, after first six lines, to 64v; B: ff. 2r, first six lines, 64v-91v, 92v-4r), possibly both in the same hand, with an Index (ff. 93r-4r), 94 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Including 22 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 13 poems by King, and 24 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and probably associated with Christ Church, Oxford. c.1633.
Inscribed names including (f. 93v, in court hand) ‘ffrancis Baskeruile’: i.e. probably the Francis Baskerville who married Margaret Glanvill in 1635 and was in 1640 MP for Marlborough, Wiltshire. Other scribbling including (f. 1r) accounts referring to Wanborough, Wiltshire; (f. 9v) ‘Elizabeth White’; (f. 54v) ‘William Walrond his booke 1663’; (f. 92r) accounts dated 1658; and (f. 94r) ‘John Wallrond’. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Baskerville MS’: CwT Δ 20, KiH Δ 10, StW Δ 13. Facsimile examples of ff. 55r and 68r in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 6, after p. 86.
This MS recorded by Agnes Conway in TLS (4 September 1924), p. 540.
WoH 90
Copy of a six-stanza version, headed ‘Sir H. Wotton. on the Lady Elizabeth when she was first crowned Que. of Bohemia’ and here beginning ‘Ye glorious trifles of the East’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves. Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.early 1630s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) by one ‘I A’ of Christ Church, Oxford, and also ‘Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison’. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Killigrew MS’: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.
This MS recorded by Agnes Conway in TLS (4 September 1924), p. 540.
WoH 91
Copy of a six-stanza version, untitled.
In: An octavo notebook of extracts, chiefly verse, compiled by one or two University of Cambridge men, 69 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1653-60s.
WoH 92
Copy, in a musical setting, here beginning ‘Yow minor beauties of the night.’
In: A quarto songbook, in a secretary and italic hand, 193 leaves (including ten blanks). Compiled by Robert Taitt, schoolmaster and precenter in the Church of Lauder, Berwickshire. c.1676-90.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist and book collector. Formerly T 135Z. B724 1677-89 Bound.
Discussed in Walter H. Rubsamen, ‘Scottish and English Music in the Renaissance in a Newly-Discovered Manuscript’, Festschrift Heinrich Besseler (Leipzig, 1961), 259-84
Clark Library, Los Angeles, MS. 1959. 003, Cantus 3: ff. 35, 52.
WoH 93
Copy, headed in the margin ‘On ye Queen of Bohemia’.
In: A folio commonplace book of verse and prose, in a single neat hand. c.1666.
Among papers of the Sheridan family, of Frampton Court, Dorset.
WoH 94
Copy of a version headed in another hand ‘Alterations of Sir Henry Wotton's Verses,Bal. 2. 312’, here beginning ‘Yow minor beautyes of the night’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a Scottish secretary hand, paginated 5-132, bound with a later verse MS on 98 pages, in brown calf. c.1630s-40s.
Bookplate of John Pinkerton (1758-1826), historian and poet. Sotheby's, April 1812 (Pinkerton sale), lot 593, to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1104, to Thomas Thorpe. His catalogue, 1836, bought by Laing.
WoH 95
Copies of the incipit only, here ‘You meaner beauties: &c.’, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: Three small quarto musical part books of the ‘St Andrews Psalter’ (the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1566 etc. by Thomas Wode, afterwards Vicar of St Andrews), copied c.1575-8, in formal angular roman hands, with rubrication and colour decoration, and with a series of secular songs added later in secretary and italic hands at the end, comprising (i) Treble part: iv + 214 pages (including blanks; (ii) Tenor part: iv + 200 pages; and (iii) Bassus part: 214 pages, all in 19th-century black morocco (iii incorporating an original vellum board). c.1575-early 17th century.
For a fourth (Counter-tenor) part book of this Psalter, see British Library, Add. MS 33933.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 483, (ii) p. 185; (i) pp. 192-3; (iii) pp. 194, 202.
WoH 96
Copy of an untitled version in eight three-line stanzas, here beginning ‘Yow minor beawties of the night’, in a musical setting, subscribed ‘finis Coronet opus Joannes Squyer’.
In: An oblong quarto book of mainly vocal music, the lyrics in several largely secretary hands, one predominating, 90 pages (including blanks), in contemporary brown calf, both covers stamped in gilt ‘I S’. Inscribed several times ‘John Squyer’, probably the compiler. Mid-17th century.
Also inscribed (p. 1) ‘Ane Cattologue of books 1700’, and (p. 25) ‘Joanne Squier’. Owned by David Laing in June 1855.
WoH 97
Copy of a six-stanza version, headed ‘On the Lady Elizabeth, when shee was first crowned Queene of Bohemia’ and here beginning ‘Yee glorious trifles of ye East’. The text followed on ff. 53v-4 by a Latin version.
In: the MS described under WoH 32. c.1630 [-1677].
WoH 98
Copy, untitled.
In: A verse miscellany, much of it in shorthand, almost entirely closely written in a small cursive mixed hand, written from both ends, in contemporary calf with initials ‘E H’ in gilt. 16°, 87 leaves (plus two paste-downs); miscellany, including portions of some 42 identifiable English poems by Crashaw, many of the lines here re-arranged in a garbled fashion; compiled by a Cambridge man, possibly a member of Christ's College; probably in a single hand throughout, with variations of style, written from both ends, about thirty pages in shorthand. c.1650s.
Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90) of Walton Hall, near Wakefield, botanist and book collector. Sotheby's 23 April 1891 (Hailstone sale), probably lot 439, to Dobell). Bertram Dobell's sale catalogue No. 103 (June 1902), item 373. Formerly Folger MS 267.1.
Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Hailstone MS: CrR Δ 6. Crashaw's work selectively collated (cited as Dobell) in Martin and discussed p. lxxxi. Facsimile of f. 22 in Dobell catalogue. The MS discussed by Dobell, in other connections, in ‘Some Unpublished Epigrams by Thomas Fuller’, The Athenaeum (27 April 1901), p. 532, and in ‘An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet’, The Athenaeum (2 August 1913), p. 112. Compare CrR Δ 8.
WoH 99
Copy of a version headed ‘On the Spanish Lady wch the prince should marry’ and beginning ‘You meaner beauty to the sight’.
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.
WoH 100
Copy of lines 1-7, untitled, deleted.
In: A sextodecimo miscellany of verse and topographical prose, probably in a single small cursive hand, 78 leaves, written from both ends, Part I foliated 1r-33r, Part II foliated 1r-45r, in old calf. c.1650s-60s.
Inscribed (Part I, f. 1r) ‘Mr John Oldhams Booke’ [i.e. the poet John Oldham (1653-83)]. Inscribed (Part II, f. 1r) ‘James Bateman’ [(b.1633/4) of Christ's College, Cambridge], and ‘Robert Pierrepont’ [either the son of Col. Francis Pierrepont, M.P. (d.1659), or the third Earl of Kingston (1650/1-82), of Holme-Pierrepoint, Nottinghamshire, Oldham's patron]. Formerly Folger MS 621.1.
Described in F.P. Hammond, ‘A Commonplace Book owned by John Oldham’, N&Q, 224 (December 1979), 515-18.
WoH 102
Copy, headed ‘On Q: Anne. By Sr. H: W.’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf. Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s[-55].
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Dobell MS’: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18A. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).
WoH 103
Copy of a six-stanza version, headed ‘Vpon the La: Elizabeth: By Sr. H: Wootton’ and here beginning ‘You glorious trifles of the East’.
In: the MS described under WoH 102. c.1630s[-55].
WoH 104
Copy, headed ‘Sr Henr: Wotton on Queene Anne’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford and afterwards with the Inns of Court, 73 leaves (plus a few blanks and a modern index). Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9510. (Phillipps sale, lot 1015.) Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 342. Formerly MS 4201. 27. 1.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Dobell MS II’: StW Δ 19. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.42.
WoH 105
Copy, headed ‘Sir Henry Wotton on the Lady Elizabeth Queene of Bohemia’.
In: the MS described under WoH 33. c.1637-51.
WoH 106
Copy, headed ‘Song’, subscribed ‘By Sr: Hen: Wotton’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt. c.1640.
Formerly MS 2073.3.
WoH 107
Copy, headed ‘Song’, subscribed ‘Sr Hen: Wotton’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, with later accounts on the last page dated June 1658, 1* + 238 pages (including stubs of extracted pages 191-6, plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked). Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph. c.1630s-40s.
Inscribed ‘Jane Wheeler’ and ‘Tho: Oliver Busfield’. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) ‘To ye two partners of my heart Mr John Wheeler, and Mr Symon Tue’. Item 96 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 2071.6.
A ‘Jo. Wheeler’ signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Wheeler MS’: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.
WoH 108
Copy, headed ‘On ye Queen of Bohemia Sr Hen: Wootton’.
In: the MS described under WoH 34. c.1630s.
WoH 108.5
Copy, headed ‘Sir Henry Wottons beautiful Poem on Elizabeth Princess Royal, Princess palatine, & Queen of Bohemia: 1620’. Inscribed in May 1782 by one James Bisset, Jr., of Montrose, in a quarto printed exemplum of Tasso's La Gierusalemme liberata (Ferrara, 1581), in contemporary limp vellum. 1782.
Bought by Bisset in Aberdeen in 1781.
WoH 109
Copy of a five-stanza version, untitled and here beginning ‘You glorious trifles of the East’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, in a single probably professional rounded hand (except for a poem on f. 81r and later scribbling); ii + 81 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to HeR Δ 2 and to RnT Δ 1. c. late 1630s.
Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) ‘Anthony St John/ Ann: St John/ 1640 Bletso’: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) ‘Oliver Beeesfor[d]’; and (f. 81v) ‘John Watts’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘St John MS’: HeR Δ 4 and RnT Δ 8. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 72).
WoH 110
Copy of a five-stanza version, headed ‘To the Spanish Lady’ and beginning ‘Yee meaner beauties of the night’.
In: the MS described under WoH 36. c.1630s.
WoH 111
Copy of a four-stanza version, headed ‘In reginam Bohemiæ per Henricum Wotton: milite:’.
In: the MS described under WoH 36. c.1630s.
WoH 112
Copy of a five-stanza version, untitled and here beginning ‘You glorious trifles of the Easte’.
In: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written over a period, 80 leaves (plus 67 blanks and stubs of numerous extracted leaves), in contemporary vellum gilt. Compiled by or for Sir Henry Cholmley, brother of Sir Hugh Cholmley (1600-57), the ascription ‘by my brother Sr Hugh Cholmley’ (1600-57) inserted on f. 19r in a cursive hand responsible for entries on ff. 3r-12v, 15v-29r, 41r-v, 75v-7r, the contents including twelve poems by Thomas Carew and poems by members of the circle of Lucius Cary (1610?-43), second Viscount Falkland, of Great Tew, Oxfordshire, by the St Leger family of Ulcombe, Kent, and by Sir William Twysden of Kent. c.1624-41.
Later bookplate of Henry B. Humphrey.
Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Cholmley MS’: CwT Δ 27.
WoH 113
Copy, headed ‘On the Q. of Bohemia’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, comprising approximately 80 poems, including eleven poems by Donne, 21 poems by Strode, and one poem of doubtful authorship, in several hands, one small neat hand predominating (ff. 1r-34r), with later receipts for 1658-62 at the end, 161 leaves (including numerous blanks). c.1630s-40s.
Inscriptions include ‘Edwardus Hyde’ (at the end) and (f. [ir]) ‘Edward Hyde is a knave’: i.e. probably Edward Hyde (1607-59), royalist divine, who may be the ‘E. H.’ responsible for a poem ‘To his Wife’ (f. 34r) and the ‘Ned Hide’ who is subject of an ‘Epitaph’ (f. [18r rev]). Later inscribed ‘Robertus Walker’ and ‘Elizabeth Walker’. Early 18th- century bookplate of Baron Aston of Forfar. Percy Dobell, sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 345. Later owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.
Discussed in Geoffrey Keynes, ‘A Footnote to Donne’, The Book Collector, 22 (Summer 1973), 165-8, with a facsimile of the page with Hyde's ‘signature’ (which does not correspond to the main handwriting). Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 1863.
WoH 114
Copy, headed ‘Upon the Queen of Bohemia, by Sir John Harrington’ and afterwards inscribed ‘By Sir H. Wotton’, here beginning ‘Ye twinckling starrs that in the night’, transcribed from a text in ‘a small MS. Collection in Mr. Bouchers possession’ [i.e. Jonathan Boucher of Epsom].
In: A composite volume of transcripts of ballads made, from various printed and manuscript sources, by and for Robert Jamieson (1780?-1844) for his edition of Popular Ballads and Songs (Edinburgh, 1806). c.1800.
Owned in 1921 by George Neilson, then by Charles R. Cowie, and now in the John Cowie Collection.
Discussed in G. Neilson, ‘A Bundle of Ballads’, E&S, 7 (1921), 108-42.
This MS recorded in Neilson, ‘A Bundle of Ballads’, p. 112.
WoH 115
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled and here beginning ‘Youe twinkling stars that in the night’.
In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics in two or more secretary and italic hands, iv + 43 leaves, in modern quarter-calf. Inscribed (f. 31r) ‘MAY 1639’ and ‘Williane Stirling’. A long note (f. iir) in the hand of John Leyden (1775-1811), linguist and poet, dated 5 March 1800, recording his purchase of the MS in 1788 from the library of the Rev. Mr Cranstow, minister of Ancrum; his lending it to Alexander Campbell in 1795 and retrieving it in December 1799; and his now consigning it to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. c.1639.
A complete facsimile of this volume is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 11 (New York & London, 1987).
Edited from this MS in Nelly Diem, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Schottischen Musik im XVII. Jahrhundert (Zürich & Leipzig, 1919), pp. 83-4.
WoH 116
Copy, in a neat mixed hand, headed ‘Upon ye queene of Bohemia’.
In: A folio composite volume of verse, prose and dramatic works, in various hands, written over a period from both ends, 543 pages (including blanks), in contemporary panelled calf with remains of metal clasps. Compiled by members of the Salusbury family of Llewenni, Denbighshire, including works by Sir Thomas Salusbury, second Baronet (1612-43), poet and politician. Early-mid 17th century.
Later owned by J. Baskerville-Glegg, of Withington Hall, Chelford. Sotheby's, 14-16 March 1921, lot 421.
WoH 117
Originally a copy in a musical setting, listed in the table of contents (as ‘You meaner bewties’) but now lacking.
In: A folio songbook, largely in a single secretary hand, with poems and (reversed) culinary and medical receipts in later hands at the end, imperfect or incomplete, now 27 leaves, lacking half the songs listed in a ‘Table’ at the end. c.1620s-30s.
The original cover inscribed ‘Ann Twice her booke’. Inscribed on the first page ‘My Cosen Twice Leftte this Booke with me...which is to be returne to her AGhaine...’. Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.
A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 11 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘“Songs Vnto the Violl and Lute” -- Drexel Ms. 4175’, Musica Disciplina, 16 (1962), 73-92.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4175, No. i.
WoH 118
Copy of a five-stanza version, in a musical setting.
In: A folio music book, containing 327 songs, in three largely secretary hands, with a ‘Cattalogue’ of contents, 229 leaves. Owned (in 1659) and partly compiled by the composer John Gamble (d.1687), with some misnumbering. c.1630s-50s.
Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.
A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 10 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in Charles W. Hughes, ‘John Gamble's Commonplace Book’, M&L, 26 (1945), 215-29.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 98.
WoH 119
Copy of a six-stanza version, headed ‘Sr H. Wotton / On the Lady Elizabeth, when shee was first crowned Queene of Bohemia’, here beginning ‘Yee glorious trifles of the East’.
The text followed on p. 111 by a Latin version.
In: the MS described under WoH 42. c.1630s.
WoH 120
Copy, headed ‘Uppon the Queene of Bohemia’.
In: the MS described under WoH 43. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
WoH 121
Copy, headed ‘On the Lady Elizabeth’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf. Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1634.
The initials ‘T. C.’ stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Rosenbach MS II’: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).
WoH 122
Copy of a five-stanza version, headed ‘Sr H. Wotton on ye L. Elizabeth when she was first crown'd Q: of Bohemia’ and here beginning ‘Yee glorious trifles of ye East’.
The text followed on pp. 34-5 by a Latin version.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands (A: pp. 1-56; B: pp. 57-60, 75-122; C: pp. 61-74, 125-7), 127 pages, in contemporary limp vellum. Including 23 poems (and a second copy of one) by Randolph. c.1635.
Mostyn MS 196: from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, the MS possibly acquired by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) or by his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 191.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Mostyn MS’: RnT Δ 11. Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1873), Appendix, p. 356. Edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) [Mic 59-4669].
WoH 123
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Queene of Bohemya’, here beginning ‘Ye twinckling Starrrs, that in the night’ and ascribed to ‘Sr John Harrington’.
In: An oblong quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat hand, written with the volume tilted with the spine to the top, 167 pages (plus blanks), in elaborately tooled green morocco gilt. Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by Strode (and two poems of doubtful authorship). c.1634.
The initials ‘M W’ stamped on each cover: i.e. M[aidstone] and W[inchilsea]. Evidently compiled by or for Sir Thomas Finch, Viscount Maidstone and Earl of Winchilsea (who succeeded to the peerage in 1633 and died in 1634). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 190.
The MS came to Rosenbach with a printed exemplum of William Wishcart, An Exposition of the Lord's Prayer (London, 1633), and the two clearly share the same provenance. The printed volume is similarly bound, with the initials ‘M W’; it is inscribed ‘Lord Winchilsea for Mr Locker 1634’; it bears the late 17th-century signatures of Stephen Locker and Alexander Campbell, and the bookplates of Captain William Locker (1731-1800) and Edward Hawke Locker (1777-1849).
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Winchelsea MS’: CwT Δ 33 and StW Δ 25.
WoH 124
Copy, headed ‘An Ode upon ye Lady Elizabeth’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather. Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew. c.1638-42.
Inscriptions including ‘Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus’ [viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], ‘Thomas Arding’, ‘Thomas Arden’, ‘William Harrington’, ‘Thomas John’, ‘John Anthehope’ and ‘Clement Poxall’. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 194.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Carey MS’: CwT Δ 34. Briefly discussed in Gary Taylor, ‘Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 68 (1985), 210-46 (pp. 220-4). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 188, 191-2).
WoH 125
Copy, in a musical setting, here beginning ‘You minor beauties of the night’.
In: MS transcript of the first printed edition (Aberdeen, 1662) of John Forbes, Cantus, Songs and Fancies. c.1662.
In the Atholl Collection of Music, assembled by Lady Dorothea Stewart-Murray (1866-1937), daughter of John Stewart-Murray (1840-1917), seventh Duke of Atholl. Formerly in the Sandeman Library, Perth.
WoH 126
Copy, 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.
WoH 127
Copy, in a roman hand, headed ‘Sr Henry Wottons verse of the Queene of Bohemya’.
In: the MS described under WoH 47. c.1630s.
WoH 129
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis. i6i.’
In: An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves. c.1620-40s.
Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Morley MS’: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the ‘Killigrew MS’ (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).
Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.
WoH 129.5
Copy, followed (p. 4) by a Latin version.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat italic hand, with rubrication, 144 pages (plus later index). Including twelve poems by Carew, nine poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph and nineteen (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the miscellany associated with Oxford University and possibly related to Bodleian MS Malone 21, the latest date occuring in a poem on pp. 63-6 ‘Vpon ye great Frost 1634’. c.1635.
Inscribed inside the front cover by a later owner: ‘April 1853 Read to Lit[erary] & Philosophical] Soc[iet]y of L[iver]pool’. Acquired in 1940 by Edwin Wolf II (1911-91), Philadelphia librarian.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Wolf MS’: CwT Δ 37; RnT Δ 12; StW Δ 28.
WoH 130
Copy, headed ‘Song 49’ and here beginning ‘Your meaner bewties of the night’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, 54 leaves, imperfect (chewed by rodents), lacking covers. Compiled by Herbert Aston (1613-88/9), poet, son of Walter Aston, Baron Aston of Forfar (1584-1639), of Tixall, Staffordshire, diplomat. c.1634.
Inscribed on f. iv‘Her: Aston [monogram] the 29 of July an: D: 1634’.
WoH 131
Copy, headed ‘On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia By Sir Henry Wootton. Kt’, in a 19th-century hand.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, predominantly in a single hand, with 19th-century additions (pp. 195 onwards, at least partly from earlier MS sources), 279 pages, in contemporary calf. c.1644 (and later).
Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘William Han: 1644’, probably by the academic compiler.
WoH 132
Copy, here beginning ‘You violetts that doe first appeare’ and subscribed ‘Sr Hen: Wotton’.
In: the MS described under WoH 48. c.1639 [-c.1728].
WoH 133
Copy, untitled.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several hands, showing communal use, 161 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.
Formerly Chest II, No. 21.
WoH 133.5
Copy of a five-stanza version, headed ‘An Ode on ye Queen of Bohemia by Sr Henry Wotton’.
In: An octavo miscellany, comprising ‘Instructions for Justices of the Peace’ in a roman hand at one end and, from the other end a collection of poems in a secretary hand, much of the MS written in double columns in oblong format, 92 leaves, in calf. c.1623-30s.
Probably compiled by two members of the Calverley family (f. 1r contains a poem headed ‘A new years giuft presented to my father and Mother by my Brother Thomas Calverly’).
Later in the library od Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9624. Owned before 1947 by N.M. Broadbent. Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 13 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 135, to Maggs.
A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth (‘O faithless world, and thy most faithless part’)
First published in Francis Davison, Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602), p. 157. As ‘A poem written by Sir Henry Wotton, in his youth’, in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 517. Hannah (1845), pp. 3-5. Edited and texts discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Sir Henry Wotton's “O Faithless World”: The Transmission of a Coterie Poem and a Critical Old-Spelling Edition’, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 5/4 (1981), 205-31.
WoH 134
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Sr H. W.’.
In: the MS described under WoH 63.
This MS collated in Dyce (1843), pp. 1-2, and in Hannah.
WoH 135
Copy in Fulman's hand, untitled, subscribed ‘H. W.’
In: A large folio composite volume of tracts and miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 229 leaves, in reversed calf. Second volume of the miscellaneous collections of Richard Davis of Sandford.
Owned by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.
WoH 136
Copy, untitled.
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.
WoH 138
Copy, subscribed ‘H. Wotton’.
In: the MS described under WoH 50. c.1640s-60s.
This MS collated in Hannah.
WoH 139
Copy, headed ‘His Mrs Constancie’, subscribed ‘Sr Hen Wotton’.
In: A quarto composite volume of verse, in several hands (the 22 or 23 poems by Carew on ff. 2r-22r in a single hand), with later additions dated 1731-3 by one ‘G. Broughton’ on ff. 1r and after 44r, a reference to St John's College, Cambridge (in 1731) on f. 83v, 93 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century half black morocco. c.1630s [-1733].
‘G. Broughton’ is possibly William (‘Gulielmus’) Broughton (b.1684/5), of Trinity College, Cambridge (one of whose Latin verse compilations was copied in 1704-6 by Richard Robinson in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS 0.6.1 (James 1497). Also the name ‘Jo: Tweedy’ is inscribed several times on f. 81r. Owned before 1841 by one W. Potter.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Tweedye MS’: CwT Δ 10.
WoH 140
Copy, headed ‘On his Mistris falshood’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand associated with the playhouse and possibly inns of court (also responsible for ChG 12.5, HyT 5, and MiT 6), 97 leaves, with a first-line ‘Index’ at the end, in contemporary vellum boards. Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship). c.1636.
Inscribed (on the front paste-down) ‘My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire’ (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Chute MS’: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, ‘Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).
WoH 141
Copy, untitled.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning. c.1630s-40s.
WoH 142
Copy, headed ‘On his loues unconstancy’, subscribed in a later hand ‘sr. H. W.’
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in a single secretary hand, written from both ends, 179 leaves, in 19th-century half blue morocco gilt. c.1640s.
Inscribed (f. 179r) ‘This is Sr. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book’: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.
WoH 145
Copy, headed ‘On his loues Inconstancy’.
In: A folio volume; ff. 5r-80v constituting a collection of 97 poems by Donne, in a neat mixed hand; the text possibly derived from the same source as Leconfield MS (DnJ Δ 5); ff. 81r-7r containing poems by various writers (including three by Donne) in two other 17th-century hands, 133 leaves in all, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1620-33.
The volume later used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, filling up ff. 87v-134 (and compare Balam's annotated MSS DnJ Δ 16, DnJ Δ 57, and a miscellany of Robert Stonehouse, dated 10 March 1681/2: Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 5779).
Inscribed on the cover in a 17th-century hand ‘[Thes?] for [Mr Coote?] Att his legeinge in bow street next to bull Couent garden’. Donated to the library in 1916 by Geoffrey Keynes.
Cited in IELM as ‘Cambridge Balam MS’: DnJ Δ 4. Discussed in H.J.L. Robbie, ‘An Undescribed MS of Donne's Poems’, RES, 3 (1927), 415-19.
WoH 146
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a neat secretary hand, fourteen pages. c.1620s.
Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/31/16.
WoH 149
Copy, headed ‘oPart II, f loues inconstance by: Sr: H: Wotton’.
In: A large quarto verse miscellany, 76 leaves, in old vellum wrappers within modern quarter red morocco on marbled boards. Part I, including some Welsh, comprises sixteen leaves, all (but for f. 15r-v) in the cursive hand of William Jordan, schoolmaster of Denbigh or Caernarvon, whose name (‘Gulielmus Jordan’) is inscribed, the dates 1680-83 occurring. c.1674-84.
Part II comprises 60 leaves, ff. 1-50v in a neat italic hand, ff. 51r-60r in several other cursive hands.
The vellum wrapper on Part II bears notes on a debt by William Jordan in 1674 relating to ‘Evan Thomas’ and ‘Mr Richard Wilkinsn in pepper street’. Formerly Folger MS 1669.2.
WoH 150
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘by Sr Hen: Wotton’.
In: the MS described under WoH 112. c.1624-41.
Facsimile of this page in Pebworth's AEB article, p. 221.
WoH 151
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘ffaithlesse world & thy most faythles parte’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, 148 leaves (foliated 161-206), once bound (reversed) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part I), rebound with this MS (in continuous form without inversion) in 1832 (by Charles Lewis). Including 59 poems by Donne (and second copies of six poems), in probably six professional secretary hands: A (ff. 1r-25v, 82r-129r); B (ff. 26r, 42v-7v, 49r-63r, 63v-79r, 130r-48r); C (ff. 27r-36v, 41r-2v; with occasional corrections possibly in hand B); D (ff. 37r-40v); E (ff. 63r-v); and F (f. 129v). c.1620-33.
Scribbling includes the name ‘Meriall Tracy’ (on f. 148v). Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary; by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary; and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library, lot 624). Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (II)’: DnJ Δ 26. Discussed in C.M. Armitage, ‘Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on “The Funerall”’, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707.
A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Betagraph of the watermark in f. 43 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. 240).
WoH 153
Copy of lines 7-26, headed ‘Verses made by Sr Henry Wotton’ and here beginning ‘Why was shee borne to please, or I to trust’.
In: A quarto formal verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand, 83 pages, in modern quarter-calf. c.1630s.
WoH 154
Copy, untitled.
In: An oblong octavo composite volume, comprising two independent verse miscellanies, Part I, in Latin and English, largely in a neat secretary hand, paginated 1-22, Part II, in English and Welsh, in several hands, one neat secretary hand predominating, paginated 1-266, the two parts bound together in modern quarter red morocco. c.1630s.
Inscriptions including (Part I, pp. 1, 3 and 42) ‘Edward Lewis his Book 1753’, ‘John Parker’, ‘P H Warburton’, and ‘John Aden’, and (Part II, p. 33) ‘Thomas Lloyd Esq’. Wigfair MS 43, among papers mainly of the Lloyd family of Hafodunos, Denbighshire, and Wigfair, near St Asaph, Flintshire, purchased in 1926-7 from Colonel H. C. Lloyd Howard, of Wigfair.
National Library of Wales, NLW MS 12443 A, Part II, pp. 52-3.
WoH 155
Copy, headed ‘On his Mistris Inconstancie’.
In: the MS described under WoH 43. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
WoH 156
Copy, headed ‘On his Mrs proouing false to his affections’, subscribed ‘Robert Wisedom’.
In: the MS described under WoH 47. c.1630s.
WoH 157
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo volume of poems and some prose, including 96 poems by Donne plus his Paradoxes and Problems (many ascribed to ‘J. D’), in a single neat secretary hand, 150 pages, in 17th-century calf gilt. c.1622-33.
Later owned by Major J.B. Whitmore. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 571, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Osborn MS’: DnJ Δ 30. For a facsimile page see DnJ 728, DnJ 1205. Complete microfilm in British Library (M/569).
Sir Henry Wotton, and Serjeant Hoskins, riding on the way (‘Noble, lovely, vertuous Creature’)
See HoJ 230.
Tears at the Grave of Sir Albertus Morton who was buried at Southampton (‘Silence in truth would speak my sorrow best’)
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 528. Hannah (1845), pp. 40-3.
WoH 158
Copy, headed ‘At the tombe of Sr Albertus Morton The teares of a friende’.
In: the MS described under WoH 72. c.1638.
WoH 159
Copy, headed ‘On the Death of Sr Albertus Morton’, subscribed ‘Sr Henry Wotton’.
In: the MS described under WoH 50. c.1640s-60s.
This MS collated in Hannah.
WoH 160
Copy, headed ‘Teares at the graue of Sr Albert morton by Sr Henry Wootton Kt’.
In: the MS described under WoH 15. c.1670.
WoH 160.2
Copy, in an italic hand, headed ‘At the Tombe of Sr Albertus Morton the Teares of a friend’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several largely italic hands, closely written, 148 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter morocco gilt. Probably compiled by university or inns of court men. c.1620s-30s.
WoH 160.5
Copy, headed ‘Tears wept at the Graue of Sr Albertus Morton by Henry Wotton’.
In: the MS described under WoH 30.5. Late 17th century.
WoH 160.8
Copy, headed ‘Att the tombe of Sir. Albertus Morton by Sir H. W. one of his nearest freinds’.
In: the MS described under WoH 40.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 42-4.
This Hymn was made by Sir H. Wotton, when he was an Ambassador at Venice, in the time of a great sickness there (‘Eternal mover, whose diffused glory’)
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), pp. 45-8.
WoH 161
Copy, headed ‘A Hymne made by Sr Hen Wootton In ye vnquiet nights of his late Sicknes’.
In: the MS described under WoH 70. c.1630s-40s.
WoH 162
Copy, headed ‘A Hyme By Sr Henry Wotton In tyme of his Sicknes’.
In: the MS described under WoH 76. c.1630s.
WoH 163
Copy, subscribed ‘H. Wotton. oper p. 529’.
In: the MS described under WoH 52. Mid-17th century.
WoH 164
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘A Hymne made by Sr Henry Wotton in an unquiet night at the tyme of his late sicknes’, on the first page of a trimmed pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed (f. 190v) ‘A Hymne made by Sr He: Wotton att Venice’. c.1620s-30s.
In: A large folio composite volume of state latters, tracts and verse, in various hands, 282 leaves, in modern morocco gilt. Largely Burghley papers, with some later additions.
Bookplate of Shelburne.
WoH 165
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh in the vnquiett rest of his last sickness’.
In: the MS described under WoH 89. c.1633.
WoH 165.5
Copy, headed ‘A hymne or meditation by the same Author at Venice in ye time of a languishinge Feaver’.
In: the MS described under WoH 40.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 48-9.
WoH 165.8
Copy, headed ‘A Himne made by Sr. H. W. in the nights of a painfull sicknes’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single non-professional mixed hand, written from both ends, 90 leaves, in vellum (lacking spine). c.1630s.
Among papers of the Clitherow family of London, which included Sir Christopher Clitherow (1578-1642), Lord Mayor of London in 1635. Bookplate of James Clitherow Esq. of Boston House, Middlesex: i.e. either Christopher's son, James Clitherow (1618-82), merchant and banker, who purchased Boston Manor, in the parish of Hanwell, in 1670, or James Clitherow (1694-1752).
WoH 166
Copy, headed ‘An other Hymn made by him on the same occasion’.
In: the MS described under WoH 44. c.1713.
To a Noble Friend in his Sickness (‘Untimely fever, rude insulting guest’)
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 519. Hannah (1845), pp. 16-17.
WoH 167
Copy, headed ‘On the Duke of Buckingham sicke of a feaver’, subscribed ‘Sr Henry Wotton’.
In: the MS described under WoH 50. c.1640s-60s.
This MS collated in Hannah.
To J: D: from Mr H: W: (‘'Tis not a coate of gray or Shepherds life’)
First published in Herbert J.C. Grierson, ‘Bacon's Poem, “The World”: Its Date and Relation to Certain other Poems’, MLR, 6 (1911), 145-56 (p. 155).
WoH 168
Copy, untitled and here ascribed to ‘J[ohn] D[onne]:’.
In: the MS described under WoH 136. 1623.
This MS probably one of the two unspecified MSS known to Grierson.
WoH 169
Copy, headed ‘Agaynst Solitarines’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, including 37 poems by Donne, in several hands, written from both ends, 279 leaves (including numerous blanks, mostly in ff. 42r-140r), with stubs of extracted leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled in part by the Oxford printer Christopher Wase (1627-90), fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Wase MS’: DnJ Δ 39.
WoH 170
Copy, headed ‘A Letter Against Solitarines’.
In: the MS described under WoH 32. c.1630 [-1677].
WoH 171
Copy, headed in another hand ‘To JH fro Mr H: W.’
In: A small quarto volume of 123 poems by Donne plus some of his Paradoxes, Problems and characters, together with some poems by others, 185 leaves (including blanks on ff. 141r-61v) plus nine further blanks on ff. 185v-94v, inscribed ‘L: ll: N: 6./6’ on f. 1r and ‘Dr: Donne’ within a gilt grid on f. 3r, in contemporary vellum with initials ‘F B’ [Frances Bridgewater] in gilt and a smudged watercolour central lozenge on the upper cover. In a single, neat, predominantly roman hand (but for entries on ff. 105v-15r in a less neat cursive hand), and with various corrections or emendations throughout possibly in another hand. c.1622-32.
Once owned by Frances (née Stanley) Egerton (1583-1636), Countess of Bridgewater, and her husband John Egerton (1579-1649), first Earl of Bridgewater. Listed in ‘A Catalogue of my Ladies Bookes at London Taken October .27th 1627’ (Huntington, EL 6495) as No. 3, ‘The Lamentaons of Jeremy in verse by Dr Donne, 8o’, among ‘Paper Bookes of diverse volumes’ after the date 26 April 1631 and before a new list in a different hand under the date 17 April 1632.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Bridgewater MS’: DnJ Δ 24.
Printed probably from this MS in Grierson.
A Translation of the CIV. Psalm to the original sense (‘My soul exalt the Lord with hymns of praise’)
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 525. Hannah (1845), pp. 36-9.
WoH 174
Copy, subscribed ‘H. Wotton. oper. p. 525.&c’.
In: the MS described under WoH 52. Mid-17th century.
WoH 174.5
Copy, as ‘by Sir. H. Wotton’.
In: the MS described under WoH 40.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 44-7.
Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (‘He first deceased. she for a little tried’)
First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.
This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning ‘Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds’, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see HrG 290.5-290.8.
WoH 175
Copy, untitled.
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.
WoH 176
Second copy, headed ‘Altero p Hen: Wootton Kt.’
In: the MS described under WoH 175. Mid-17th century.
WoH 176.5
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘She first deceased, he for a little tried’.
In: A folio composite volume of verse in Latin and English, some relating to Oxford, in various hands, 215 leaves, in contemporary quarter-calf gilt vellum boards. Early-mid-18th century.
WoH 176.8
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘She first deceased, he for a little tried’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, 171 leaves, with an index, imperfect at the beginning, in contemporary calf (rebacked). Compiled by Colonel Gabriel Lepipre, being the ‘4th Vol’. of his compilations. c.1748-50s.
Donated in 1938 by F.F. Madan.
WoH 177
Copy, headed ‘On a Gent.- dying soon after his wife’ and here beginning ‘His Wife deceas'd hee after liu'd & try'de’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks). Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s-40s.
Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘English Poetry MS’: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.
WoH 178
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye death of a new married couple’, here beginning ‘She first deceased, he for a little tried’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and university exercises, including twelve poems by Carew, in a single hand, compiled by Edward Natley, Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, 165 leaves (including many blanks), in calf (rebacked). c.1635-44.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 2592. Sotheby's, 10 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 960. Owned in 1896 by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Acquired in 1950 from H.F.B. Brett-Smith, Oxford literary scholar and editor.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Natley MS’: CwT Δ 6.
WoH 179
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Man who dyed wth greife For his wife deceased’ and here beginning ‘The first deceased, he for a little tryed’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, apparently a presentation MS, 133 pages (including blanks), plus index, in half-calf. Including twenty poems by Randolph, plus ten of doubtful authorship (some here ascribed to ‘T.R.’), in two hands (A: pp. 3-99; B: pp. 1, 99-129), with some scribbling and one heading in other hands on pp. 3, 98 and 133; a poem on p. 1 (beginning ‘Loe here a sett of paper=pilgrimes sent’) dedicatingthe collection [‘To ye] Incomparably vertuous Lady the Lady Harflette’: i.e. Afra (d.1664), wife of Sir Christopher Harflete of Canterbury. c.1640.
Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Harflete MS: RnT Δ 2.
WoH 180
Copy, headed ‘on Sr Henry Wottons [wife deleted] Lady’ and here beginning ‘He first deseast She liv'd & tryd’.
In: A duodecimo notebook, in Latin and English, in several hands, written from both ends, 88 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Owned and probably compiled at least in part by John Gandye (b.1604/5), of Oriel College, Oxford, who has inscribed f. 2r ‘Si quis me quærat, præsto est / Jo: Gandye’. c.1620s.
Name inscribed (f. 1v rev.) ‘Thomas Keen’.
WoH 181
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany and masque, in at least three hands, written from both ends, i + 123 leaves, in contemporary calf. Mid-late 17th century.
Including (f. 1r) an anagram on Frances Pawlett. Inscribed in red ink (f. 123v) ‘Egigius Frampton hunc librum jure tenet non est mortale quod opto: 1659’: i.e. by Giles Frampton, who is perhaps responsible for some of the later poems. Also inscribed [?]‘R. N. 1663’. Some later notes in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.
WoH 182
Copy, headed ‘A Lady dy'd soon after her husbd’ and here beginning ‘He first deceased. She a little try'd’.
In: An octavo book of jests and verse compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, vi + 374 pages (pp. 72-306 blank), in contemporary calf. c.1682-91.
WoH 184.5
Copy in: the MS described under WoH 16.5. c.1662.
WoH 184.8
Copy, headed ‘On a gentleman dyeinge soone after his wife’ and here beginning ‘She first deceased he after liu'd, & tryde’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, including sixteen poems by Strode and one of doubtful authorship, in several hands, including a small mixed hand on ff. 2r-43v, cursive secretary hands thereafter, and Latin entries in italic at the reverse end, 139 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1630s.
A flyleaf inscribed ‘[?] Johannes Philips’. Acquired from H. Stevens 11 December 1852.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1987), as the ‘John Philips MS’: StW Δ 8.
WoH 185
Copy, headed ‘An epitaph of two louers’, here beginning ‘She first deceas'd: hee for a little try'd’.
In: the MS described under WoH 19. c.1620-50.
WoH 186
Copy, headed ‘On a gentleman dying presently after his wife’ and here beginning ‘She first deceased, he after liv'd, & tried’.
In: the MS described under WoH 21. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
WoH 187
Copy, here beginning ‘Shee first deceas'd hee after liv'd & tried’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in Latin and English, one cursive hand predominating, 69 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black crushed morocco. c.1630s.
Inscribed (f. 62r) ‘Nathaniel Heighmore’: i.e. presumably Nathaniel Highmore (1613-85), chemical physician and anatomist; ‘John Sacheverell his hand and pen Amen’; and ‘John Sacheverell the Author of this...’.
WoH 188
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘H. W.’
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.
WoH 188.5
Copy, headed ‘On the Death of Sr: Albert Morton's Wife’.
In: A tall folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in professional hands, 257 leaves, in modern calf gilt. In three sections each with its own title-page. Early 1700s.
First section: ‘A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &ca Not yet Printed’.
Second section (f. 102r): ‘A Collection of Choice Poems, Satyrs, & Lampoons From 1672 to 1688 Never printed’.
Third section (f. 146r): ‘A Collection of Poems. From 1688 to 1699. 1703/4’.
WoH 189
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘First she deceased / Hee a little tryd’.
In: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf. Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) ‘A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan’: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington. c.1630s.
Also inscribed ‘Mary Helerd’. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2
WoH 190
Copy, headed ‘By Sir Henry Wotton, on a Lady who died prsently after her husband’ and here beginning ‘The first deceas'd, she for a little tri'd’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in various secretary and italic hands, iv + 119 leaves, in modern quarter green crushed morocco. A flyleaf inscribed ‘Th: Ayle 6o. Dec 1679o’. c.1678-1718.
WoH 190.2
Copy, headed ‘On one who died the next day after his wife’, here beginning ‘She first deceased, he after liv'd and tried’.
In: A quarto miscellany principally of English and Latin verse, drama, and jests, perhaps largely in a single hand, written from both ends, iv + 181 pages, in contemporary calf. Inscribed by, and the MS most likely compiled by, the Rev. Henry Newcome (1650-1713), of St Edmund's Hall, Oxford, in 1669, rector at Middleton, Manchester. c.1669.
A pencil note (f. [iv]) refers to ‘Original MSS otherwise from Hockwold Hall’.
WoH 190.4
Copy, headed ‘On Two Lovers who dy'd before they were marry'd’, here beginning ‘She first deceas'd He for a little try'd’.
In: A folio volume comprising a collection of epitaphs, in a single neat italic hand, entitled ‘Delectus Epitaphiorum Anglo-Latinorum Tam Veterum quam Recentiu’, 74 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1664-1705.
Pencil inscription on front pastedown: ‘Charles A. Cole[?] June 26 '64’. The rear cover stamped ‘R. S. 1705’.
WoH 190.8
Copy, in English, in an unidentified hand, accompanied by a translation into Dutch. August 1630.
In: Autograph drafts by Constantijn Huygens (1596-87), poet and statesman, of his translations into Dutch of poems by John Donne, on folio and quarto leaves. 1630.
These MSS discussed, with facsimile examples, in Richard Todd, ‘The Manuscript Sources for Constantijn Huygens's Translation of Four Poems by John Donne, 1630’, EMS, 11 (2002), 154-80.
WoH 191
Copy, headed ‘Of a gentlewoman yt dyed within a few dayes after her Husband’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, including 26 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Thomas Carew and poems by Henry King, in several hands, 92 leaves, plus an inserted gathering of eleven leaves after f. 82v (ff. [82a-82k]), but including stubs of some extracted leaves (ff. 74-8, 94-5), in contemporary vellum. Inscribed ‘To my euer honored good Cosen Sr John Reresby Barronett these prsent’: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall. c.1630s.
Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Mexborough MS’: CwT Δ 29.
WoH 191.5
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on two Lovers, who were contracted, both dying before Marriage’.
In: A large octavo miscellany of verse and prose, the greater part in a single probably female hand, with additions into the 19th century, 111 leaves (including blanks), in quarter-calf on marbled boards. Inscribed (f. 111v) with the name ‘Sarah Bignell’, possibly the principal compiler. c.1750-70 [plus later additions].
Bookplate of The Pacific Union Club, San Francisco.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 93, f. 15v.
WoH 192
Copy, headed ‘on one dying prsently after her husband’ and here beginning ‘He first deceasts, she after liv'd & tryed’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in two hands, one mixed hand predominating, 128 pages (plus a five-page index). Inscribed, and probably compiled, by Hugh Barrow (b.1617/18), of Brasenose College, Oxford. c.1638.
Also inscribed names of George Hope, Peter Wynne and [?]Anselm Huff. Later owned by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia bookseller and scholar: Rosenbach MS 192.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), p. 23.
WoH 192.5
Copy, headed ‘Upon two Lovers that died before they were married. 1600’ and here beginning ‘She first deceas'd, he for a little try'd’.
In: A large quarto miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, in a single neat italic hand, 81 leaves (including blanks), unbound. Mid-late 18th century.
WoH 193
Copy, headed ‘Vpon 2 Lovers who being espoused, dyed both before they were married’, added in a late 17th-century hand.
In: the MS described under WoH 43. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
WoH 194
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph’ and here beginning ‘The man dy'd first, shee livd a while & try'd’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, 204 pages, in old calf. Including ten poems by Carew (and two of doubtful authorship) and 24 poems by Randolph. c.1630s.
Thomas Thorpe, ‘Catalogue of upwards of fourteen hundred manuscripts’ (1836), item 1030. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9282. Subsequently in the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 188.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Rosenbach MS I’: CwT Δ 31 and RnT Δ 10. The complete volume edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) (Rosenbach Library Mic 59-4669).
WoH 195
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on a Gentlewoman who died for greife within a few daies after her husband’.
In: the MS described under WoH 122. c.1635.
WoH 195.5
Copy, headed ‘on a man and his wife’ and here beginning ‘Shee first deseased, he after liued and try'd’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Thomas Carew, probably in a single accomplished hand (changing to two styles of italic on ff. 42v-4v, 5r-60r, 76r-v), i + 89 leaves (including blanks, stubs of two or three excised leaves, and an index), in contemporary limp vellum. c.1630s-40s.
Later notes and scribbling including the names ‘John Nutting’ (ff. 26r, 56r) and ‘John M.’ and ‘John Susan’ (rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Nutting MS’: CwT Δ 35. The list of poems, probably relating to another MS, is edited, with facsimiles, in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 198-9, 217-19).
WoH 195.8
Copy, headed ‘Vpon tow louers contracted but dyed both before marriage’.
In: A small quarto miscellany of anecdotes, aphorisms, verses, etc., in two hands, compiled by Sir Francis Fane (c.1612-80), 193 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Inscribed by Fane on f. 1r ‘Aug: 24: 1629 / Franciscus Fane’ and, later, as a bequest to his three grandsons to be read by them when aged 21, dated from Fulbeck, 5 May 1672. c.1629-72.
Sold by Maggs, 29 May 1930.
WoH 196
Copy, headed ‘On a Lady yt dyd soon after her husband’ and here beginning ‘He first deceased she liv'd, and try'd’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, 148 pages (lacking pp. 55-8, 117-26). Late 17th century.
Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1284. Afterwards owned by John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.
WoH 196.3
Copy, headed ‘On a gentleman dyinge soone after his wife’ and here beginning ‘She first deceased, he after lived and dyed’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, of English and Welsh verse and prose, in probably several hands, the English verse (on pages 9-70, 93-104) including eleven poems by Strode and two of doubtful authorship, 110 pages (plus stubs of extracted leaves). Compiled by members of the Griffith family, of Llanddyfnan, the verse probably entered by one or more of the various members of that family who studied in this period at the University of Oxford. Mid-17th century.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Griffith MS’: StW Δ 26.
WoH 196.5
Copy, headed ‘On the death of Sir Albert Morton's wife’.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, in two volumes: Vol. I, including twelve poems by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal item, spp. 1-461 (plus index); Vol. II, pp. 462-842 (with irregularities of pagination). This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090. c.1690s-1700.
Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 ‘was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes’.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), p. 70.
WoH 197
Copy in: the MS described under WoH 129.5. c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], p. 52.
WoH 197.5
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on two louers who beinge Espoused dyed before they were marryed’ and here beginning ‘She first deceased; he for a little tryde’.
In: the MS described under WoH 48. c.1639 [-c.1728].
WoH 197.6
Copy, headed ‘on a Gentleman who died ye next Day after his Lady’ and here beginning ‘She first Departed: He for one Day try'd’.
In: Three quarto volumes of verse, 164, 155 and 145 leaves respectively, in later vellum. Compiled by Colonel Gabriel Lepipre. c.1753.
WoH 197.8
Copy, headed ‘On two Louers who di'd before they were Married’, here beginning ‘She ffirst deceas'd, he for a Little tryed’.
In: A folio miscellany entitled Epitaphs Collected 1694, 42 pages. c.1695.
WoH 198
Copy, here beginning ‘She first deceas'd, he after liv'd, and try'd’ and ascribed to ‘W. S.’
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, including poems by Corbett, Jonson and Strode. c.1630s?
Formerly among collections of the Rev. Thomas William Webb, of Hardwick Vicarage, Herefordshire.
Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 691.
Edited from this MS in HMC volume (1879) p. 691.
Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour (‘Dazzled thus with the height of place’)
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 522. Hannah (1845), pp. 25-7. Some texts of this poem discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Sir Henry Wotton's “Dazel'd Thus, with Height of Place” and the Appropriation of Political Poetry in the Earlier Seventeenth Century’, PBSA, 71 (1977), 151-69.
WoH 199
Copy, originally headed ‘Sr H.W. (on ye Duke of Somer.)’ and headed in another hand ‘On the suddaine restraint of a Favorite. Impressa’, subscribed ‘Sr H: W.’
In: the MS described under WoH 50. c.1640s-60s.
This MS collated in Hannah and in Pebworth, p. 161 et seq.
WoH 200
Copy, headed ‘By ye moste Illustrious Prince George Duke of Buckingham &c.’ and here beginning ‘Dazeled wth ye height of place’.
In: A folio volume of largely amatory verse, iv + 92 pages, in a recycled vellum deed between John and Thomas Godfrey relating to land in Bury St Edmunds, 1567. Possibly compiled and written in part by one ‘Alphonso Mervall’. The front cover is inscribed, however, ‘English verse by J. Cobbes’, and some notes and Latin poems are added by one James Harvey. c.1629.
Printed from this MS in Pebworth, pp. 154-5. On p. 82 of the MS are three Latin versions added later by one James Harvey.
WoH 200.5
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled and here beginning ‘Thus dazeled with the height of place’. Early 17th century.
In: A folio guardbook of separate state papers, in various hands, 271 leaves (but some removed to MS Tanner 89*).
WoH 201
Copy, in double columns, headed ‘On the suddaine restraint of a Favourite’ and here beginning ‘Thus dazel'd wth ye height of place’.
In: the MS described under WoH 51. c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Hannah and in Pebworth, p. 161 et seq.
WoH 202
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Secretarye Da: fall’, subscribed ‘ff. B.’.
In: the MS described under WoH 15. c.1670.
Edited from this MS (or from the second copy: WoH 203) in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 295.
WoH 203
Copy, headed ‘On Secretarye Dauison fall’ and subscribed ‘F. B.’.
In: the MS described under WoH 15. c.1670.
WoH 204
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the sudden restraint of a Fauorite’, subscribed ‘Hen: Wotten’.
In: the MS described under WoH 19. c.1620-50.
This MS collated in Pebworth, p. 161 seq.
WoH 204.5
Copy in: A large folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 160 leaves, mounted on guards. Volume XXXIIIA (Series III) of the papers of Sir John Coke (1563-1644), Secretary of State, and his family.
Purchased from the Marquess of Lothian, of Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, 14 July 1987.
WoH 204.8
Copy, headed ‘On the sudden restraint of a favourite’, followed by two Latin versions.
In: A folio composite volume of largely official letters and papers of Georg Rudolph Weckherlin (1584-1653), German poet, secretary to Charles I, and afterwards parliamentary Secretary for the Foreign Tongues, c.180 leaves. c.1615-51.
Volume CXCVIII of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park
WoH 205
Copy, untitled, the English text set out flanked by a different Latin version on each side.
In: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous tracts and papers, in various hands, in modern red morocco gilt.
This MS collated in Pebworth, p. 161 seq. The text accompanied by two Latin versions.
WoH 206
Copy, untitled.
In: A large quarto volume of verse and prose, in several hands, a cursive mixed hand predominating on ff. 1r -51, 53r-8v, with a later addition dated 1694 on f. 78r, 82 leaves, in modern half green morocco. Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Pebworth, p. 161 seq. The text accompanied by two Latin versions.
WoH 207
Copy, headed ‘To a Favorite’.
In: the MS described under WoH 27. c.1637-50.
This MS collated in Pebworth, p. 161 seq.
WoH 208
Copy, headed ‘Of ffauorites’.
In: the MS described under WoH 89. c.1633.
This MS collated in Pebworth, p. 161 seq.
WoH 209
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Somersets fall’, subscribed ‘H. W.’
In: the MS described under WoH 188. Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Pebworth, p. 160 et seq. Edited in the online ‘Early Stuart Libels’ website.
WoH 210
Copy, headed ‘To the Lord Bacon then falling from favour’.
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.
WoH 211
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Thus dazelled with height of place’, subscribed ‘Sr: Hen: Wotton’.
In: the MS described under WoH 107. c.1630s-40s.
WoH 211.5
Copy, headed ‘A chorus upon the suddaine restraint of a great favourite’, here beginning ‘Thus dazle'd with height of place’.
In: the MS described under WoH 40.5. c.late 1640s.
WoH 212
Copy, headed ‘Of Fauorites’, subscribed in different ink ‘Sr Water Ralegh’.
In: the MS described under WoH 191. c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe, Arizona, 1999), No. 49, p. 122.
WoH 213
Copy, in a neat italic hand, untitled and here beginning ‘Dazled with the height of Place’, with an alternating version in Latin verse, on the first page of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves. Early-mid-17th century.
WoH 214
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Thus dazelled with height of place’, subscribed ‘Sr Hen: Wootton’.
In: the MS described under WoH 194. c.1630s.
WoH 215
Copy, in the hand of Johs. Rasbrick vic. de Kirkton, headed ‘To the Lord Bacon when Falling from Favour’, written on the flyleaf of ‘an Old Music Book’. 17th century.
Owned in 1850 by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist, author and antiquary. Its authenticity cannot be verified.
Edited from this MS by Edward F. Rimbault in ‘Ten Queries concerning Poets and Poetry’, N&Q, 1 (9 March 1850), 302. This source recorded in Pebworth, p. 161.
(2) Poems of Uncertain Authorship
A Description of the Country's Recreations (‘Quivering fears, heart-tearing cares’)
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 531-3, subscribed ‘Ignoto’, among ‘Poems Found among the Papers of S. H. Wotton’. Described in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 239-40, as ‘a Copy printed amongst Sir Henry Wottons Verses, and doubtless made either by him, or by a lover of Angling’. Hannah (1845), pp. 55-9.
WoH 216.8
Copy, untitled, transcribed from Walton's Compleat Angler, p. 348.
In: the MS described under WoH 14.5. c.1665-78.
WoH 217.5
Copy, headed ‘A Copy of Verses, thought to be of Sr. H. Wottons composing, in which is an elegat description of the Recreations & pleasures of the Country’.
In: the MS described under WoH 61.5. c.1691-early 18th century.
WoH 217.8
Copy, headed ‘Of the Country life’, transcribed from Reliquiae Wottoniana.
In: the MS described under WoH 16.5. c.1662.
WoH 218
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 ‘Rusticatio Religiosi in Vacantiis’, in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 297-300, whence collated in Hannah.
Epigram (‘If breath was made for every man to buy’)
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 540, among ‘Poems Found among the Papers of S. H. Wotton’.
WoH 218.5
Copy in: A miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, in various hands, including tipped-in printed matter. Mid-late 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 106, f. 144r.
A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)
First published, as ‘a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by Dr. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will’, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.
WoH 219
Copy, headed ‘Doctor Donn's valadiction to the worlde’.
In: the MS described under WoH 49. c.1638.
This MS recorded in Hannah.
WoH 219.5
Copy, in a musical setting, in an italic hand (?Kremberg's), headed ‘A Farewell to the World. The Words made by the Honourable Sir H. W. Compos'd for one Voice with a Flute allemande or violin and a Harpsichord, by James Kremberg’ [i.e. the Polish composer Jacob Kremberg, member of the Chapel Royal, on eight folio pages. c.1700s.
Item 132 in an un identified sale catalogue. Purchased in 1967 from Otto Haas.
WoH 219.8
Copy in: the MS described under WoH 66. c.late 1630s.
Possibly the MS cited in Grierson, p. 465, as ‘C.C.C. Oxon. MS. 324’.
WoH 220
Copy, headed ‘A Hermitts meditation in the Grote’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, predominantly in a single hand (up to f. 34v), with additions in four subsequent hands (ff. 37-50v), 50 leaves, in vellum. Compiled for the most part by a University of Oxford man, with (f. 1r-v) a list of contents. c.1640s.
Once owned by one John Faith, and by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.
Formerly cited as Corpus Christi College, MS E.i.33.
WoH 221
Copy, headed ‘Dr Donnes farewell to ye world’.
In: the MS described under WoH 66. c.late 1630s.
This MS (erroneously cited as ‘MS. 324’) collated in Grierson.
WoH 222
Copy, headed ‘Sr Kellam Digbyes farewell to the World’.
In: the MS described under WoH 175. Mid-17th century.
WoH 223
Copy, headed ‘An Invention for an Arbour’, with a lengthy prose introduction describing a ‘devise’ with an emblem of a man with his foot on a globe &c.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, written from both ends (ff. 1-19, then ff. 82-20 rev.), the forty-three sonnets on ff. 1r-11r in a single neat secretary hand and headed ‘Sonetts by Alablaster vppo ye ensignes of Christes Crucifyinge’, iii + 82 leaves (plus three blanks), in contemporary vellum. Early-mid-17th century.
Discovered c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), book dealer and literary scholar. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 106 (1949), item 1.
WoH 225
Copy, untitled, on a folio page at the end of a folding pedigree by Dugdale of Lord Crew's family. Mid-17th century.
In: A large double-folio guardbook of genealogical papers, in various hands, 136 leaves.
WoH 225.5
Copy, headed ‘Sr Kenelm Digby's farewell to England’, in a small octavo booklet of verse in English and Latin chiefly in one hand (ff. 23r-42v) probably associated with Cambridge University.
In: An octavo composite miscellany, with extracts in verse and prose, in various hands, 213 leaves, in quarter-vellum boards. Late 17th century.
A flyleaf inscribed ‘Tho: Hearne. Sept. 1o. M: DCC: IX:’i.e. Collected by 1709 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary.
WoH 225.8
Copy, headed ‘A Farewell to ffollye’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany entitled A Collection of Verses Fancyes and Poems, Morrall and Devine, in a single hand, i + 180 leaves, (including index), in contemporary calf. Including 15 poems (and a second copy of one poem) by Cowley and 15 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source. Early 18th century.
Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as ‘Rawlinson MS II’: PsK Δ 7.
WoH 226
Copy, headed ‘A Poeme made by Dr: Donne a little befor his death’.
In: A quarto composite volume comprising three independent MSS bound together, i + 78 leaves. The first MS a verse miscellany, in an italic hand, 29 leaves. c.1640.
WoH 227
Copy, on one side of a half-folio leaf.
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.
WoH 228
Copy, headed ‘An Hermite in an Arbour, wth a prayer booke in his hand, his foote spurning a globe, thus speaketh’.
In: the MS described under WoH 51. c.1640s [and later].
This MS recorded in Hannah.
WoH 228.5
Copy, untitled, transcribed from Walton's Compleat Angler, p. 351.
In: the MS described under WoH 14.5. c.1665-78.
WoH 229
Copy, headed ‘Sr Kenelm Digby's Farewell to England’, subscribed ‘ex chastis Mri Joan. Nitingale B. M. Jan. 20. 1658/9’.
In: An octavo miscellany of English and Latin verse and some prose, largely in one mixed hand, 123 leaves, with (ff. 2r-4r) an index, in calf gilt. Compiled by John Watson (d. c.1707), of Queens' College, Cambridge, vicar of Mildenhall, Suffolk. c.1667-73.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Ex dono Drs Barb: Rhodes ...Mri Joan: Rhodes Decemb: 5 1667’; ‘Janawary ye 2 day 1726’; ‘Wm faildham London to ye Land of maderah & from thence to Jamaca’. Purchased from Lilly, 13 July 1850.
This MS collated in Grierson.
WoH 229.5
Copy of the last twelve lines.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, i + 284 leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled by Sir John Gibson (1606-65), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, Yorkshire, when he was a Royalist prisoner in Durham Castle. The name Penelope Gibson on f. 174r. c.1653-60.
Bookplate of William Ward Jackson.
WoH 230
Copy of lines 1-25, headed ‘Dr. Donne his farewell to the world’.
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.
WoH 231
Copy, headed ‘A ffarewell to the world by Sr. Kenelme Digby’, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves.
In: A double-folio guardbook of miscellaneous historical documents, in various hands, 70 leaves of various sizes.
Later owned by Frederic Ouvry (1814-81), antiquary and lawyer.
This MS collated in Grierson.
WoH 232
Copy, headed ‘Doctor King his Farewell to the World’.
In: the MS described under WoH 142. c.1640s.
WoH 233
Copy, headed ‘A Good night to the world’, subscribed ‘H: Kinge’.
In: the MS described under WoH 26. c.1630s [-1670s].
This MS collated in Grierson.
WoH 234
Copy, headed ‘A far well to ye world’, in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in various professional hands, 138 leaves, in red mottled leather gilt.
Bookplate (as ‘Shelburne’) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.
WoH 235
Copy, headed ‘A Farwell to ye world. May ye 16’ transcribed by Francis Mortoft.
In: Francis Mortoft's MS Journal of a Voyage through France and Italy in 1658-59. 16 May [1659].
This MS recorded in Francis Mortoft: His Book, ed. Malcom Letts, Hakluyt Society, 2nd Ser. 57 (London, 1925), p. xiii.
WoH 236
Copy, headed ‘A farewell to ye world, p Sir Kell Digby. 1635’.
In: the MS described under WoH 29. c.1637.
This MS collated in Krueger.
WoH 236.3
Copy, headed ‘A Farewell to the Vanities of the World, said to be written by Sr Henry Wotton’.
In: the MS described under WoH 29.5. c.1630s.
WoH 236.5
Copy. Written on the end-leaf of a printed exemplum of Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Mid-17th century.
WoH 236.8
Copy, headed ‘A Farewell to the world’, subscribed ‘H. Wooton's’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, principally in a single non-professional hand (pp. 1-119), with additions (pp. 56-71) in later hands of c.1702, 71 leaves (plus blanks). c.1680s-1702.
WoH 237
Copy, headed ‘Dr Donne's farewell to ye world’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single cursive hand, 30 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half-calf. Compiled by a royalist. Mid-late 17th century.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Wm Godolphin Servt to Mr Savile’ and ‘Hen: Savile Servt: to Mr Godolphin’.
Printed from this MS in The Complete Poems of John Donne, ed. A.B. Grosart, 2 vols (privately printed, 1871-2), II, 248-9. Recorded in Grierson.
WoH 237.5
Copy, untitled, on two pages of an pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Verses of the tragedye of this life’. Mid-17th century.
In: A bundle of unbound papers, chiefly verse, of Sir William Dugdale (1605-86), antiquary and herald.
Sir William Dugdale, Merevale Hall, Bundle XVI, Part ii, in Horse-hair trunk, [unnumbered item].
WoH 237.8
Copy, headed ‘Verses on ye frailty of this Life’.
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. 185-7.
WoH 239
Copy headed ‘Dr Dunn's farewell to ye world’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152. Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship. c.late 1630s [-1789].
Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Thorpe-Halliwell MS’: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).
WoH 241
Copy, headed ‘Upon Solitud & the vanity of other things’, ‘by Sir Kenelm Digby’ added in another hand.
In: the MS described under WoH 210. c.1680-1710.
WoH 242
Copy, headed ‘A Hermitt in an Arbor wth a prayer booke in his hand spurning the Globe’.
In: the MS described under WoH 149. c.1674-84.
WoH 243
Copy, headed ‘A ffarewell to folly’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, a neat mixed hand predominating up to f. 55r, 151 leaves (including a few blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1730.
Inscribed (in another hand) on the front pastedown ‘Thomas Boydell’. Formerly Folger MS 4108.
WoH 244
Copy, untitled, inscribed as a heading ‘Dr. Dunn’.
In: the MS described under WoH 106. c.1640.
WoH 245
Copy, untitled, inscribed at the top ‘Dr Dunn’.
In: the MS described under WoH 107. c.1630s-40s.
WoH 245.5
Copy, headed ‘A farwell to the world’.
In: A quarto miscellany entitled Poems, tracts & memoirs Collected by J Rolf beginning Anno 1700, in several neat hands, written over a period from both ends, 195 pages, with a tipped-in index, in contemporary green vellum. c.1700-5 [with additions to 1777].
Inscribed inside the front cover ‘N.H.W. Tytheridge, St James's Square, Notting Hill, W.’ Bookplate of G. Davies. Bequeathed by Susan Greene Dexter.
WoH 246
Copy, headed ‘Dr Donns good night to ye World’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single, minute non-professional italic hand, probably someone associated with Oxford University, comprising 180 pages now all separated and mounted, interleaved, in 19th-century calf. c.late 1630s.
Later in the libraries (with bookplates) of the book collector Richard Heber (1774-1833); of the bibliographer and antiquary Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833); of the biographer and literary editor Alexander Chalmers (1759-1834); and of the antiquary Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough (his sale by Charles Sharpe in Dublin, 1 November 1842, lot 577).
WoH 247
Copy, headed ‘A contempt of ye world’.
In: A small quarto miscellany, in various hands, possibly compiled in part by one William Leigh, in modern leather. c.1650.
Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘Buckley 1772’. Acquired in 1950 from P.M. Mill. Formerly MS Leigh, William (?), comp., Commonplace Book (ca. 1650).
This volume offered in Maggs's sale catalogue No. 640 (1937), item 302.
WoH 249
Copy, in a cursive mixed hand, headed ‘Sr Kenellam Digbies farwell to the Worlde’. c.1640.
In: the MS described under WoH 116. Early-mid 17th century.
WoH 250
Copy, headed ‘Contempt of ye World’, subscribed ‘By Sr Kenelme Digby’.
In: the MS described under WoH 44. c.1713.
WoH 251
Copy, headed ‘His last goodnight. Dr Don’.
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.
WoH 252
Copy, headed ‘To the world Dr: Dunne’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, 89 leaves, in old calf gilt. Partly compiled (pp. 75-99) by one Robert Berkeley, who has inscribed the first page ‘Rob Berkeley his booke Ano. 1640’. c.1640s.
Formerly owned by Henry Huth (1815-78). Formerly Rosenbach 195.
WoH 253
Copy, headed ‘Dr Dons last verses’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Henry King, perhaps almost entirely written over a period in a single secretary hand with slightly varying styles, 54 leaves, in limp vellum. c.1636-40s.
The name of the possible compiler ‘John Pike’ inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the ‘Pike MS’: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423), f. 26r-v.
WoH 254
Copy, headed ‘Sr Kellam Digbie's Farewell to the World’.
In: A duodecimo commonplace book, in several hands, in English and Latin, probably associated with Oxford, written from both ends, 147 leaves, in contemporary calf. The original blanks later filled with texts with headings including (f. 116v rev.)‘By my cousen Stansfild oct 2 87’ and (f. 102v rev.) ‘By Mr Band of Stroud oct 1687’. c.1636-89.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 44 (James 434), ff. 142v-142r rev.
WoH 255
Copy, headed ‘A hermite in an arboure, wth a prayer booke in his hand, his foote spurninge A Globe’.
In: A quarto formal verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary and italic hand throughout, paginated 1-162 (but lacking some leaves), in modern limp vellum. Compiled by John Cruso (fl.1595-1655), poet and military writer, who matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1632. c.1630s.
Names inscribed lengthways down margins (pp. 71, 91, 95) including ‘Cuthbert Sewell Esq’, ‘Jos. Nicholson’, ‘Wm Richardson’, and ‘Somers’. Donated in 1922 by Gordon Wordsworth who claims that the volume was once owned by the poet William Wordsworth.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS U. 26 (James 548), pp. 84-6.
WoH 255.5
Copy, in an unidentified hand, of a somewhat garbled version, headed ‘Poem by Sir Kelham Digby, 1686’. Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of over thirty verse manuscripts, in various hands, including that of Sir John Molyneux, third Baronet (1623-91).
Among the papers of the Molyneux family of Teversall, Nottinghamshire. Donated in 1977 by the eighth Lord Carnarvon.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Paul Davis, ‘An Unrecorded Collection of Restoration Scribal Verse Including Three New Rochester Manuscripts’, EMS 18 (2013), 139-172.
University of Nottingham, Molyneux Papers, Vol. II, MOL 221.
WoH 257
Copy, headed ‘On an Hermite in A grove wth A prayer booke in his hand’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt. Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1650.
Scribbling on the first page including the words ‘Peyton Chester…’.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Osborn MS I’: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.
WoH 257.2
Copy, headed ‘The Pilgrim’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, originally written in two hands (A: ff. 1r-22r, 27v-8v; B: ff. 22r-7v, predominantly italic), with late 17th-century additions in three other hands on ff. 28v-33v, 52r and f. 34r, associated with Cambridge, 35 leaves (plus 17 blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. Including 13 poems by Randolph, plus three of doubtful authorship. Initials stamped on both covers of ‘F R’ and the inside of the cover inscribed ‘Francis Rolfe Anno dni 1637’: i.e. Francis Rolfe (1618-78), Town Clerk of [King's] Lynn, Norfolk. c.1637.
Sotheby's, 21 July 1988, lot 18.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Rolfe MS’: RnT Δ 5. Briefly described in E.S. Leedham-Green, ‘Francis Rolfe's poetical miscellany: Add.Ms 8684’, Bulletin of the Friends of Cambridge University Library, 9 (1988), 20-2. A facsimile of f. 9v in Sotheby's sale catalogue: see RnT 123, RnT 239. For the Rolfe family (whose later papers are in the Norfolk Record Office, NRS 27114, 404 x 3), see R.T. and A. Gunther, Rolfe Family Records, 2 vols (London & Aylesbury, 1914), and Veronica Berry, The Rolfe Papers: The Chronicle of a Norfolk Family 1559-1908 (Brentwood, Essex, 1979; 2nd impression 1986).
WoH 257.4
Copy in Alice Thornton's hand, headed ‘A faire=well to the World’.
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. 178-9.
‘Rise oh my soul wth: thy desires to heauen’
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 537, subscribed ‘Ignoto’, among ‘Poems Found among the Papers of S. H. Wotton’.
WoH 257.5
Copy, headed ‘Sursum Corda’.
In: An octavo miscellany of religious poems, hymns and some prose, in English, French and Latin, ii + 129 leaves, in contemporary half-calf. Early 18th century.
WoH 257.6
Copy in: A quarto volume of religious verse and prose, in a single predominantly italic hand, 33 leaves, in modern half black morocco. The first item (ff. 1r-25v) a sermon (on the authority of kings) with a dedicatory epistle to Charles I signed by the probable compiler of the volume, Thomas Lenthall (b.1610/11), Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and dated July 1642. c.1642.
Presented by Edward J.L. Scott, 14 October 1894.
WoH 257.7
Copy, in a 17th-century hand, subscribed ‘Sr: Henery Wotton’, on a single page laid-down.
In: the MS described under WoH 131. c.1644 (and later).
A short hymn upon the birth of Prince Charles (‘You that on stars do look’)
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 519.
WoH 257.8
Copy in: the MS described under WoH 40.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 85-92.
Prose
A Brief Discourse concerning the Emperor's Election, the Netherlands, and the Low Countries' Greatness, with some other affairs of State
Unpublished?
WoH 258
Copy in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’ and ascribed to ‘Sr Henrye Wootton’.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, 79 leaves, in vellum covered boards. In various professional hands, including that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
Once owned by James Brydges (1674-1744), first Fuke of Chandos, politician and music patron, of Cannons, Middlesex (lot 1426 in the house sale there in 1747). Among collections of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.
Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 255-6 (No. 91).
This MS recorded in Pearsall Smith, II, 414. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 255 (No. 91.1).
Character of Robert, late Earl of Salisbury
See ToC 2-6.
A Concept of some Observations intended upon Things most Remarkable in the Civil History of this Kingdom
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 163-74.
WoH 259
Copy of ‘The preface to my sayd discourse’ which is cited as ‘A taste of some observacons intended upon things most remarkeable in ye history of this Kingdome’, on three quarto leaves (the first misplaced).
In: A quarto composite volume of state letters and tracts, in various hands, 180 leaves, in 17th-century calf.
Compiled, and partly written, by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury.
This preface first published (from this MS) in John Gutch, Collectanea Curiosa, 2 vols (Oxford, 1781), I, 215-22.
The Elements of Architecture
First published in London, 1624.
*WoH 259.1
An autograph dedicatory epistle to Prince Charles and, on page 88, an autograph ‘Note omitted in the Presse’, in a printed exemplum of the 1624 edition. 1624.
The epistle edited in Pearsall Smith, II, 284-5. A facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LXXXI(b).
*WoH 259.4
Autograph inscription to William Boswell, in a presentation exemplum of the printed edition of 1624. c.1624.
*WoH 259.5
An autograph inscription to ‘Mr Doctor Goslin, the most worthie Master of Caies Colledge’, in a presentation exemplum of the 1624 printed edition.dedicatory epistle to Hannah (1845), pp. xv-xvi, prints the text of the dedicatory epistle to the Earl of Middlesex written in an exemplum owned by ‘Mr. [William] Pickering’
Recorded in Hannah (1845).
*WoH 259.6
An autograph inscription to William Juxon (1582-1663), Archbishop of Canterbury, while he was Lord High Treasurer (from 1636), in a presentation exemplum of the 1624 printed edition. 1636-9.
Recorded in Hannah (1845), pp. xv-xvi.
WoH 259.7
An autograph dedicatory epistle to the Earl of Middlesex, in a presentation exemplum of the 1624 printed edition.
Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher.
The epistle edited in Hannah (1845), pp. xv-xvi.
*WoH 259.8
Inscribed presentation volume. Exemplum of the printed edition of 1624 inscribed by Wotton to George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, on the blank page facing the title-page, ‘To the Most Reverend Father in God / the ArchBishop of Caunterburie / his Grace &c / I humbly present this poore / pamphlet with the Authors / long and true deuotion. / Henry Wotton’; also with the errata on p. 123 crossed out and the relevant corrections made in ink in the text, including on p. 88 a twelve-line ‘Note omitted in the presse’ added in the margin in a small neat hand. c.1624.
Italian Authors selected and censured by Sir Hen. Wotton
First published in Pearsall Smith (1907), II, 484-6.
WoH 260
Copy of Wotton's list and comments, in an unidentified hand, on two folio leaves. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 254 leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled in part by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Edited from this MS in Pearsall Smith.
A Meditation upon the XXIIth Chapter of Genesis. By H. W.
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 343-50.
WoH 261
Copy in the hand of William Sancroft, ascribed to ‘Sr H. Wotton’. Mid-17th century.
In: the MS described under WoH 260.
A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham
First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).
WoH 262
Copy, in a professional hand, with a title-page, on 41 quarto pages, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1634-41.
Purchased from the Rev. John C. Jackson on 11 October 1870.
WoH 262.2
Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, on twenty folio leaves. c.1630s.
In: A tall folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 81 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.
Presented by the Rt Hon. Godfrey L. T. Locker-Lampson, PC, MP (1875-1946), politician, 13 October 1934.
WoH 262.4
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with (f. 46r) a general title-page, damp-stained and imperfect. c.1630s.
In: Two unbound manuscripts relating to the first Duke of Buckingham, in professional hands, 61 folio leaves.
Volume CCCCLXXXVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Purchased March 1995.
WoH 262.5
Copy of the last part, imperfect, lacking all the rest (now National Library of Wales, Carreglwyd MS II. 595).
In: A folio booklet of discourses, in a single secretary hand, 42 pages, in modern stiff paper wrapper. Lacking pages after p. 26 and p. 32, some of which are now National Library of Wales, Carreglwyd II. 595. c.1640.
Among papers of the Griffith family of Carreglwyd, Anglesey, including papers of John Griffith of Gray's Inn, private secretary to Henry Howard (1540-1614), Earl of Northampton.
WoH 262.6
Copy of the first part of the work, including title, twelve folio pages, unbound, imperfect, lacking the last part (which is now National Library of Wales, Carreglwyd MS I. 9, pp. 33-5). c.1630s.
Among papers of the Griffith family of Carreglwyd, Anglesey, including papers of John Griffith of Gray's Inn, private secretary to Henry Howard (1540-1614), Earl of Northampton.
WoH 262.7
Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
In: A folio volume of state tracts and speeches, in several professional hands, 586 leaves, in old calf. c.late 1620s-30s.
Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Former pressmark G. 4. 9.
Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 222-3 (No. 17A).
WoH 262.8
Copy, in a professional hand, on 21 folio leaves, numbered ‘5’. c.1630.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, in 19th-century calf.
The spine labelled ‘Monson Mss. CCXIII’.
WoH 263
Copy, endorsed for ‘Mr hide’.
In: Miscellany compiled by Edward Hyde, first Earl of Clarendon (1609-74). c.1634-41.
WoH 264
Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand. c.1630s.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in various hands, ix + 121 leaves, in modern cloth.
Among collections of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654), antiquary, passed on to Lord Fairfax, who donated them to the Bodleian.
WoH 265
Copy, headed ‘The Comparer, or, Observations concerning Robert Earle of Essex, & George Duke of Buckingham by way of parallel. By Sr Henry Wotton’.
In: A quarto volume of letters, tracts and speeches, 208 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. All in the hand of William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury. Mid-late 17th century.
WoH 266
Copy, subscribed ‘H. W.’c.1620s-30s.
In: A large folio composite volume of state tracts, in English and Latin, in various professional hands, i + 488 leaves, in modern calf.
Among the collections of Browne Willis (1682-1760), antiquary, of Whaddon Hall, near Winslow, Buckinghamshire.
This volume discussed, with a facsimile of f. 92r (Plate IV after p. 272) in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), pp. 176-8.
WoH 267
Copy, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, unascribed. c.1630s.
In: A quarto composite volume of state papers and printed material relating to Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex, in various hands, ff. 3r-87r in the neat secretary hand possibly of one ‘M. K.’ whose initials appear on the title-page (f. 3r), 161 leaves, with a table of contents (ff. 4r-5v), in modern half-morocco. Collected by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian. Early 17th century-1630s.
Inscribed (f. 2r) ‘Rd Bankes Anno Dni 1708’; (f. 1r) ‘Tho: Birch Januarii 8. 1752’; and (f. 96r) ‘Tho. Birch 28. Janua: 1754’.
WoH 268
Copy in: A square-shaped folio volume of antiquarian and state tracts, with a table of contents (ff. 374r-7v) and occasional engraved borders by John Sudbury and George Humble, 377 leaves, in modern half-morocco. In a single calligraphic hand, employing various scripts, a scribe identified or associated with one Henry Feilde. c.1640s.
Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 140.
This MS discussed in Van Strien.
WoH 268.5
Copy, unascribed.
In: A copy of two tracts, the second about the Earl of Essex's voyage in 1597, in a single professional secretary hand, 15 folio leaves, bound with two other independant MSS (Harley MSS 4302 and 6029), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. c.1620s-30s.
Bookplate (f. 1*v) of John Holles (1662-1711), Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, politician.
WoH 269
Copy in: A folio volume of ten state tracts, in a single professional hand, 437 leaves, in modern quarter-vellum. c.1620s-30s.
In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Inscribed by him on f. iv‘A present to me from my friend Charles Butler Esqr. Fra: Hargrave 15 Jan. 1792’. Inscribed on f. 1r in a different hand, ‘Given me by Mr: S. Baker, Bookseller, Whit-. May 26. 74 in XII. f. 1. my way home from Woodfd. Church, with another Fol. Ms. Halfd:’.
WoH 270
Copy, in two professional secretary hands. c.1620s-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, tracts and verse, 242 leaves (plus some blanks), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. In professional hands, including those of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), merchant and antiquary, and John Stow (1524/5-1605), historian.
Later owned, and annotated, by Sir Simonds D'Ewes.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 238-9 (No. 50).
WoH 270.5
Copy, in a professional secretary hand. c.1634-41.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and verse, in several hands, 97 leaves, in panelled mottled calf. Folios 62r-78v comprise an independent verse miscellany in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, with his title-page ‘A: Booke;, Off, verses &c.’
Later owned by Edward Stillingfleet (1635-99), Bishop of Worcester. Bought by Robert Harley in 1707.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 242 (No. 56).
WoH 271
Copy, in a professional secretary hand. c.1620s-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of tracts, in various hands, 158 leaves, in modern green half crushed morocco gilt.
Inscribed on the last page Bought of ‘Mrs G: Pauls landlady’.
WoH 272
Copy, in a professional secretary hand. c.1620s-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, 122 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. In various professional hands, including that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
Inscribed by Wanley (f. 1r and elsewhere) with date of accession into the Harley library ‘16 October 1725’. In the Harley Library, formed by the politician and book collector Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford; the volume docketed 16 October 1725, a year after the library was moved from Brampton Bryan to London.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 244-5 (No. 59).
WoH 272.5
Copy, in a single mixed hand, ten quarto leaves, in modern half morocco gilt. c.1620s-30s.
WoH 273
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page in engrossed lettering. c.1620s-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various professional hands, 380 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
WoH 274
Copy, as ‘Written by Sr Henry Wotton, kt’.
In: A folio volume of state tracts and papers, dating up to 1663, in a single semi-calligraphic hand, except for ff. 224r-95r in two other professional hands, 445 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt. The principal scribe associated with Henry Feilde. c.1660s.
WoH 275
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio volume of largely parliamentary and state tracts, predominantly in three secretary hands, 137 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. c.1637-43.
Owned in 1643 by one Charles Cheyney.
WoH 277
Copy, in a mixed hand, imperfect, consisting of only one quarto leaf and fragments of two excised others. c. 1620s-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, 182 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards. Collected by the pamphleteer John Nalson (1638?-86). 1634-41.
Inscribed inside the front cover in pencil ‘D Wms Papers wch we brought from Barrow’.
WoH 277.5
Copy, on 24 folio leaves. c.1620s-30s.
In: A folio volume of state tracts, in a single professional predominantly secretary hand, with a few later annotations in an 18th-century hand, 213 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
Sotheby's, 16 February 1938 (Clumber Library sale), lot 1341. Sotheby's, 14 December 1994 (Lord Fairfax of Cameron sale), lot 29, unsold; 13 December 1994, lot 539, sold to Quaritch.
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Reduced fasimile of the title-page in Sotheby's Fairfax sale catalogue.
WoH 278
Copy, in a mixed hand. c.1630s.
In: A composite volume of four tracts, each in a different hand, in quarter-calf.
WoH 279
Copy, in an accomplished rounded hand, subscribed ‘finis Henry Wotton’. c.1620s-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and speeches, in various professional hands (including that of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary), 257 leaves, in old calf (rebacked). c.1634-41.
WoH 280
A small quarto volume of state tracts, in a single secretary hand, i + 17 leaves (plus fourteen blanks), with much seepage of ink, in contemporary limp vellum gilt. c.1634-41.
Bookplate of William Bateman. Item 231 in an unidentified sale catalogue and lot 1770 in a sale of 1893. Inscribed by E.L. Vaughan, assistant master, 1899.
WoH 281
Copy, in a closely written secretary hand, subscribed ‘Sir Henry Wotton’, seven quarto leaves (plus blanks), in modern half green morocco. c.1634-41.
MS 22 in the library of the Shirley family, Ettington Park, Stratford-upon-Avon. Sotheby's, 29 April 1947, lot 346. Presented in September 1847 by John Hely-Hutchinson, of Chippenham Lodge, Ely.
WoH 282
Copy. Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘written by the honorable Knit: Sr: Henry Wotton Prouost of Eaton Colledge’, 18 tall folio leaves, in modern boards. c.1634-41.
Phillipps MS 19020. No. 1340 in an unidentified sale.
WoH 283
Copy, including a prefatory letter by Wotton to the Earl of Portland (‘late Lord Treasurer’) presenting him with a New Year's gift, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, entitled ‘A Parralell betweene the Earle of Essex, and the Duke of Buckingham’, 25 folio leaves, in a paper wrapper. c.1634-41.
WoH 284
Copy, in a neat predominantly italic hand. c.1630.
In: A quarto composite volume of state and ecclesiastical tracts, speeches and letters, in several professional hands, 653 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum boards.
Inscribed names of ‘John Paman’ (p. 57), ‘Rob Hare’ (p. 81), ‘Rob Toynton’ (p. 294), and ‘Henry Myrielle’ (p. 656). Donated by William Moore by 1681.
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MS 389/609, pp. 423-43.
WoH 285
Copy. Copy, in a single cursive hand, i + 18 quarto leaves, the last leaf imperfect, in remains of paper wrappers. c.1634-41.
This MS sold at Sotheby's, 5 July 1955 (André De Coppet sale), lot 1019.
WoH 285.5
Copy, headed ‘Of Robert Devoreux Earle of Essex, And Of George Villiers Duke of Buckingham / Some obseruations by way of Parallell in the tyme of their Estates of ffortune’.
In: A folio volume of state tracts and political proceedings, in several professional hands, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1630s.
The cover stamped in gilt with the badge of Henry Percy (1564-1632), ninth Earl of Northumberland, the ‘wizard earl’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8262. Sotheby's, 25 April 1911 (Phillipps sale), lot 348, and 18 July 1973, lot 180, to Maggs.
This MS cited in Sutton.
WoH 285.8
Copy, headed ‘Of Robert Deuerux Earle of Essex and George Villers Duke of Buckingham’, 63 small quarto pages, in contemporary calf. c.1634-41.
Acquired from King, 2 September 1943. Formerly Uncat. MSS. Wotton.
WoH 286
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with (f. 60r) a later note in the margin ‘See an Answer to this in this Vo: fo: 188. JB / 1721’: i.e. by Joshua Blew, librarian, referring to an ‘Answer’ to Wotton's tract on ff. 188r-208r. c.1630s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and miscellaneous papers, in various largely professional hands, 480 leaves, in red morocco gilt.
WoH 287
Copy, in a mixed hand, closely written, unascribed. c.1628-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional secretary hands, with (ff. 4r-6r) a table of contents, 222 leaves, in old half-calf.
Stamped (f. 1r) with name of Sir Richard Betenson, Bt (? the first Baronet, d.1679, of Hatton Garden, Holborn). Thomas Thorpe, ‘Catalogue of books, ancient and modern...[and] manuscripts’, Part 2 (1823), item 5903. In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 2519. Sotheby's, 21 March 1895 (Phillipps sale), lot 301. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.
University of London, Senate House Library, MS 309, ff. 179r-83r.
WoH 288
Copy, in a mixed hand, the tract dated 1634. c.1635-40.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, letters and speeches, in various hands, 614 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.
WoH 288.5
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, entitled (f. 1r) ‘A parley betweene Robert Deuoreux Earle of Essex & George Villers Duke of Buckingham’, headed (f. 2r) ‘Of Robert Devoreux Earle of Essex And Of George Villers Duke of Buckingham’, 23 folio leaves, in marbled paper wrappers within modern cloth. c.1634-41.
WoH 288.8
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Of Robert Devoreux Earl of Essex And George Villiers Duke of Buckham’. c.1630s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, iv +130 leaves, in reversed calf.
Presented by Philip Henry, fifth Earl Stanhope, President of the Society of Antiquaries, 22 January 1863.
WoH 289
Copy, in a professional secretary hand. c.1625.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional secretary hand, with a table of contents, i + 221 pages (including some blanks), in old vellum boards. Early-mid-17th century.
Old pressmark E. 1. 36.
Of Robert...etc. date?
WoH 290
Copy, in a non-professional secretary hand.
In: A folio volume of state tracts, sermons and other texts, in at least four hands, 89 leaves (including some blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. c.1640.
Probably associated with Oxford. Armorial stamp on the cover of a Duke (?of Devonshire). Sotheby's, 5 July 1955 (André De Coppet sale), lot 952.
WoH 291
Copy, on 18 folio pages, incomplete, inscribed on the final blank ‘Fragment of a Comparison between the Earle of Essex, and Duke of Buckingham, which I judge to be writ about the reign of king Charles the first’.
In: A folio composite volume of state and historical papers, once in marbled boards, now disbound.
Inscribed on front paste-down ‘Sr George Ness’. Once owned by John Perceval (1683-1748), first Earl of Egmont. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 13964. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 16.
WoH 292
Copy, headed ‘A discourse of Robert Deuereux Earle of Essex. And George Villers Duke of Buckingham. by way of Paralell: by Sr Ed: Wootten Kt.’, on ten folio leaves (plus two blanks), unbound. c.1634-41.
Among papers of the Middletons, a Yorkshire recusant family. Formerly MD59/22/E/15.
WoH 293
Copy, in a cursive mixed hand, on the rectos only of 32 leaves.
In: A quarto miscellany, containing eleven texts in verse and prose, in several hands, including seven poems by Donne in a single hand, 114 pages (plus blanks), in a vellum wrapper. Early 17th century.
Inscribed on the cover ‘Mich: Heneage: A Paris’: i.e. probably either the son (fl.1640) or the grandson (1632-c.1707) of Michael Heneage (1540-1600), antiquary. Formerly Somerset Record Office DD/WHb/3086, among the Button-Walker-Heneage MSS.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the ‘Heneage MS’: DnJ Δ 34.
WoH 294
Copy in: A quarto volume containing at least two tracts. Early-mid-17th century?
Formerly among the papers of the Isham family, of Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire. (Not among the Isham papers in the Northamptonshire Record Office.)
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix p. 253.
WoH 295
Copy, in a professional hand, on 30 small quarto pages, in vellum gilt. c.1634-41.
Among the papers of Sir Richard Grosvenor, first Baronet (1585-1645).
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 215.
Philosophical Survey of Education
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (1651), pp. 309-35.
WoH 295.5
An ‘Abstract’ of ‘Wotton on Education’. 1706.
WoH 295.8
Extracts.
In: An octavo commonplace book, in a single cursive italic hand, 101 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1630s.
Owned by William Drake, MP (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).
The State of Christendom
A lengthy treatise, beginning ‘After that I had lived many years in voluntary exile and banishment...’. First published in London, 1657. Wotton's authorship is not certain.
WoH 296
Copy, in probably a single professional small secretary hand, 387 quarto leaves, lacking a title but inscribed in a later hand (f. 1r) ‘The argumts & obiections for the laws salick...wherby Englands right to fra is confirmed...42. Eliz’. 1st half 17th century.
WoH 296.5
Copy, lacking title-page, in two volumes, on 581 folio leaves. In a single, predominantly secretary professional hand. 1st half 17th century.
Once in the library of Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer. Later in the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal write and book collector.
WoH 297
Copy, on 554 folio leaves, entitled ‘A large and excellent discourse of the Estate of Christiandome Written by An vnknowne Author about the years of our Lord 1594…’, with a table of contents in another hand. 1st half 17th century.
WoH 298
Copy, in a single secretary hand, imperfect at the beginning, lacking a title-page and first leaf of text, with a ten-page table of contents, 427 quarto leaves, disbound. Early 17th century.
WoH 299
Copy, the text in a single professional cursive secretary hand, with (f. ivr) a title-page in the hand of another cursive secretary hand, iv + 340 folio leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Entitled ‘A large and excellent discourse of the Estate of Christendome Written by an unknowne Author about the yeare of or Lord 1594. and 35th of the Raigne of Queen Elizab. Contayning many secrett Passages and hidden Histories of the time both past and present, With much Varietie of other good matter both historicall and Politicall’. c.1620s-30s.
Bookplates of Sheppard Frere, of John Frere, and of J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), of Richmond Surrey, engineer and book collector. Loosely inserted autograph note signed by Logan Pearsall Smith (who thought the MS was Wotton's original manuscript), presenting it to Eton College, 24 March 1941.
WoH 300
Copy, in a small professional secretary hand, v + 457 + iii quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum. Including dedication ‘To the Reader’, a list of authors, and at the end a table of contents, lacking a title-page but inscribed by the second Earl of Bridgewater ‘Sr: Henry Wotton, of ye State of Christendome’. 1st half 17th century.
WoH 301
Copy, in two professional secretary hands (changing over on p. 180), 292 small folio leaves, in contemporary vellum with remains of ties. Ascribed to Wotton in a title-page added in a later hand. c.1620s-30s.
Owned in the 18th century by the Marquess of Lothian. Anderson Galleries, 27 January 1932, lot 30. Booklabel of Donald S. Stralem, New York collector.
Facsimile page in Anderson Galleries sale catalogue.
WoH 301.5
A brief synopsis, in a cursive mixed hand, headed ‘The Author of the State of Christendome supposed to be Sir Hen Wotton in the sixteenth and following pages...’. Mid-17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various professional hands, 248 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
WoH 302
A brief synopsis of part of the work, in Drake's hand, headed ‘notes from a Discourse of the State of Christendom in ye yeare 1589’, inscribed in the margin ‘Lent me by Mr Stansby August the 10th 1633’.
In: An octavo commonplace book, in several hands, 198 leaves, in contemporary calf with traces of ties. Compiled in part by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.1630s-48.
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).
Table Talk
First published in Pearsall Smith (1907), II, 489-500 (his Nos. 35-145).
WoH 303
Copy of a series of anecdotes and sayings, evidently by Wotton, in the hand of William Parkhurst, with pencil markings in the margin, untitled.
In: the MS described under WoH 1.
Edited from this MS in Pearsall Smith. His Nos. 1-34, on ff. 255v-6r, are not by Wotton.
WoH 304
A series of untitled notes, anecdotes and sayings, similar in nature to WoH 303 (including references to Venice and to ‘Sr H: W.’), also in the hand of William Parkhurst. c.1610.
In: A quarto composite volume of chiefly ecclesiastical tracts and papers, in various hands, 218 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
Various contents inscribed by Wanley with dates of accession to the Harley Library from ‘16 October 1725’ (including f. 154r) to ‘20 October 1725’.
Unpublished.
Books and Manuscripts Owned or Inscribed by Wotton
Brahe, Tycho. Astronomiae instauratae mechanica (Wandesburg, 1598)
*WoH 305
Autograph formal inscription in a hand-coloured printed exemplum once owned by Brahe himself and presented by Wotton to the Bodleian Library. 1633.
Originally owned by Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), Danish astronomer, and inscribed by him to Marino Grimani (1532-1605), Doge of Venice.
Wotton's inscription edited in Pearsall Smith, II, 347.
Cartwright, Thomas. Confutation of the Rhemish Translation...of the New Testament (1618)
Casaubon, Isaac. Ad Polybii historiarum (Paris, 1617)
*WoH 307
Wotton's inscribed and signed exemplum of the printed edition.
Later in the Oxford library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.
De' Fonti della Lingva Toscana Ragionamento d'Orazio Lombardelli senese, Tranqvillo Vmoroso
A treatise by Lombardelli on the Tuscan language, addressed to Wotton and written for him in 1592 when he was in Italy. Later published as I Fonti Toscani (1598).
*WoH 308
A MS treatise in Italian, in a professional italic hand, v + 80 quarto leaves, in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked). An autograph letter signed by Wotton (f. 1v) presenting the MS to Sir Maurice Barkley, MP, 19 April 1597, explaining that the MS had been written for him in Siena and left in the hands of a gentleman of Naples in Geneva from whom he had just received it. c.1592-4.
Bookplate of Dr Thomas Morell, FRS, FSA (d.1784), who presented it 31 May 1781.
Eutichius. Ecclesiæ suæ origines (London, 1642)
Lotichius, J. P. Musæ Admirantes
WoH 309
A possibly autograph MS, in an angular italic hand, of a series of nine Latin poems by J. P. Lotichius (1598-1669), German physician, i i + 17 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt with traces of green silk ties. Lotichius's presentation copy to Wotton, all the poems concerning Wotton (with whom he stayed in Venice in 1618), and with a dedication to ‘Illustrissmum et Excellentissmum. virum DN. ON. Henricum Wottonium Anglo-Cantianum’. c.1620s.
With a tipped-in letter by Logan Pearsall Smith, from Oxford, 10 March 1914.
One of the poems published in Lotichius's Poemata (Frankfurt, 1620).
Portus, Franciscus. Rhetorici Græci (Geneva, 1570)
*WoH 310
Wotton's signed and inscribed exemplum of the printed edition.
Later owned by the Rev. John Mitford (1781-1859), literary scholar. Sotheby's, 17 December 1859 (Mitford sale), lot 1611, to MacPherson.
Wotton, Sir Henry. The Elements of Architecture (London, 1624)
See WoH 259.1-259.8.
Miscellaneous
Document(s)
*WoH 311
A full-page autograph inscription in a roman script, addressed to ‘My auncient frend’, signed ‘Henry Wotton’ and dated ‘At Cassels 26.of January. 1602’. 1602.
In: The liber amicorum of Captain Francis Segar, brother of Sir William Segar (c.1564-1633), Garter King of Arms, including signed inscriptions in numerous English and continental hands and various arms emblazoned in colours, 121 quarto leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1599-1611.
Later owned by James Bindley, FSA (1737-1818), book collector. His sale, London, 7 December 1818, I, item 362, to Triphook. Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 14. Sale in London 1865 of the library of Dr Henry Wellesley (1794-1866), Oxford College head and connoisseur, sold to Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. A.H. Huth sale, London, 1918, VII, item 6680, to Sabin. Then owned by G. Wells and sold at Anderson's Galleries, New York, 17 February 1919, lot 894, to G.D. Smith.
Will
WoH 312
Copy of Wotton's last will and testament, dated 1 October 1637.
In: the MS described under WoH 260.
WoH 313
Copy of Wotton's last will and testament, dated 1 October 1637.
In: the MS described under WoH 16. Mid-late 17th century.
WoH 314
Copy of Wotton's last will and testament, in in a professional secretary hand, undated.
In: the MS described under WoH 24.