Add. MS 57555
Largely autograph notebook of Ralegh's, iii + 173 quarto leaves (including many blanks), in contemporary vellum, with traces of green silk ties. c.1603-18.
Later owned by Frederick North (1766-1827), fifth Earl of Guilford, colonial governor; then, in 1830, by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector (Phillipps MS 6339. Sotheby's, 24 June 1935 (Phillipps sale), lot 144, to (Sir) Walter Oakeshott (1903-87), schoolmaster. Sotheby's, 30 November 1971, lot 526, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.
Entire MS
• *RaW 728: Sir Walter Ralegh, Notebook
A largely autograph notebook, with some pages in the hands of two amanuenses, compiled during Ralegh's imprisonment in the Tower of London; containing a glossary of geographical notes (used for his History of the World), several annotated ink and watercolour maps, a list of his books, and a poem, partly arranged under letters of the alphabet.
This MS described by Walter Oakeshott (with a facsimile example) in ‘An Unknown Raleigh MS’, The Times (29 November 1952), p. 7; in The Queen and the Poet (London, 1960) (with facsimile examples facing pp. 119, 223); and in ‘Sir Walter Ralegh's Library’, The Library, 5th Ser. 23 (1968), 285-327 (with facsimile examples after p. 288, but plates I and II are not in Ralegh's hand). Facsimile examples also in Philip Edwards, Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1953), facing p. 97; John Winton, Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1975), facing p. 288; and Petti, English Literary Hands, Nos. 47-8.
f. 172v
• *RaW 200: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Now we have present made’
Autograph, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Oakeshott; in George Seddon, ‘A Newly Discovered and Unknown Poem in Sir Walter Raleigh's Autograph’, ILN (28 February 1953), p. 330 (with a facsimile), and in Walter Oakeshott, The Queen and the Poet (London, 1960), pp. 205-6 (with a facsimile facing p. 141). Facsimiles also in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 12, p. 24, and of last two stanzas in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 48.
First published in Walter Oakeshott, ‘An Unknown Ralegh MS’, The Times (29 November 1952), p. 7. Rudick, No. 23, pp. 46-7.
Add. MS 57804
A large square-shaped folio composite volume of letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 188 leaves, mounted on guards. Correspondence of George Grenville (1712-70), Treasurer of the Navy, First Lord of the Admiralty and Chancellor of the Exchequer, his wife Elizabeth, and his brother Richard Temple-Grenville (1711-79), Earl Temple, First Lord of the Admiralty and Lord Privy Seal.
Sotheby's, 7 November 1972.
f. 31v
• CgW 27.5: William Congreve, Letter to Viscount Cobham (‘Sincerest Critick of my Prose, or Rhime’)
Copy, in double columns, subscribed ‘sent to my Ld Cobham in a letter from Bath 24 August 1728’, in a letter (ff. 31r-2v) by George Grenville to his brother Richard (who was Lord Cobham's nephew and heir), written from London, 19 March 1728/9.
Edited from this MS in Descriptions of Lord Cobham's Gardens at Stowe (1700-1750), ed. G.B. Clarke, Buckinghamshire Record Society, 26 (1990), pp. 24-7.
First published, as ‘Of Improving the Present Time’, London, 1729. Summers, IV, 177-8. Dobrée, pp. 400-2. McKenzie, II, 486-8.
See also CgW 30.
Add. MS 58214
A tall folio volume of pedigrees, apparently taken from heraldic visitations of Kent, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Oxfordshire in 1574-86, iii + 77 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards. In several largely secretary hands, one predominating, with coats of arms and other devices drawn in trick, bearing occasional additions and annotations in Camden's italic hand, including full pages ff. 5r, 30r, 33r, 37r, 39v, 75v-6r. Late 16th century.
*CmW 144: William Camden, Collectanea
Afterwards owned by the St George family of heralds. Bookplate of Sir George Nayler (1764-1831), Garter King of Arms. Sotheby's, 25 July 1832 (Nayler sale), lot 131, to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector (Phillipps MS 9781). Sotheby's, 26 June 1974 (Phillipps sale), lot 2882, with a facsimile of f. 30r in the sale catalogue.
Add. MS 58215
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).
ff. 7r-9r
• KiH 325: Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind (‘Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum. Facsimile of first page in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 26 June 1974, p. 116.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.
f. 9v
• KiH 279: Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset (‘Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere’)
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on the truly Noble Richard Earle of Dorsett’.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.
ff. 13v-14r
• CoR 333: Richard Corbett, A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 (‘My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine’)
Copy.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 63-5.
f. 15r
• DaJ 182: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)
Copy, headed ‘On a Child’ and here beginning ‘As carefull Nurses in their bed's doe lay’.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
ff. 15v-17r
• CwT 617: Thomas Carew, Psalme 104 (‘My soule the great Gods prayses sings’)
Copy, here ascribed to ‘Dor: Dunne’.
First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in his Select Psalmes of a New Translation (London, 1655), pp. 4-6 [unique exemplum in the Huntington]. Hazlitt (1870), pp. 181-4. Dunlap. pp. 139-42. Edited from Lawes in Scott Nixon, ‘Henry Lawes's Hand in the Bridgewater Collection: New Light on Composer and Patron’, HLQ, 62 (1999), 233-72 (pp. 265-6).
f. 17r
• BrW 159: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow (‘Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd’)
Copy.
First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.
f. 22v
• StW 793: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)
Copy.
First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).
ff. 23v-24r
• KiH 174: Henry King, An Elegy Upon Prince Henryes Death (‘Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sure’)
Copy, headed ‘On prince Henry. An Elegie’; c.1625-30s.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 65.
f. 24r-v
• KiH 191: Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. (‘I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne’)
Copy, headed ‘On Sr. Walter Rawleigh’.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 66.
f. 25r-v
• KiH 669: Henry King, The Surrender (‘My once Deare Love. Happlesse that I no more’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 146-7.
ff. 26r-7r
• KiH 712: Henry King, To his unconstant Freind (‘But say, thou very Woman, why to mee’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 142-4.
ff. 27v-9r
• KiH 315: Henry King, An Essay on Death and a Prison (‘A Prison is in all things like a Grave’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 139-42.
ff. 29v-31v
• KiH 797: Henry King, The Woes of Esay (‘Woe to the worldly men, whose covetous’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum, pp. 220-1.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 136-9.
ff. 32r-42r
• CoR 298: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale (‘Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two’)
Copy, headed ‘Dor. Corbett's Northerne Journey’.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.
ff. 42v-4r
• CoR 63: Richard Corbett, The Distracted Puritane (‘Am I madd, o noble Festus’)
Copy.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 56-9.
ff. 44v-6r
• CoR 145: Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox (‘Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true’)
Copy.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning ‘O thou deformed unwomanlike disease’, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.
f. 50r-v
• JnB 166: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body (‘Sitting, and ready to be drawne’)
Copy, headed ‘The Body. Vpon mris. Ven: S:’.
First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).
ff. 51r-3v
• JnB 204: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind (‘Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone’)
Copy.
Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.
ff. 67r-8r
• KiH 101: Henry King, By Occasion of the young Prince his happy Birth. May 29. 1630 (‘At this glad Triumph, when most Poëts use’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 73-5.
f. 68r
• JnB 67: Ben Jonson, An Epigram on the Princes birth (‘And art thou borne, brave Babe? Blest be thy birth’)
Copy.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 237-8.
f. 69r
• CoR 521: Richard Corbett, On the Birth of the Young Prince Charles (‘When private men get sonnes they gette a spoone’)
Copy.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 86.
f. 74r
• KiH 426: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published, as ‘Man's Miserie, by Dr. K’, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.
f. 74r
• KiH 520: Henry King, Sic Vita (‘Like to the Falling of a Starr’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 148-9.
f. 74v
• KiH 110: Henry King, The Defence (‘Why slightest thou what I approve?’)
Copy, imperfect at the end.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.
f. 75r
• KiH 358: Henry King, The Farwell (‘Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp’)
Copy of the last four lines; imperfect, lacking all the beginning, subscribed ‘R. Dorset’.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.
See also B&F 121-2.
f. 77r
• CoR 573: Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett (‘What I shall leave thee none can tell’)
Copy.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 88.
ff. 80r-1v
• CwT 197: Thomas Carew, An Elegie upon the death of the Deane of Pauls, Dr. Iohn Donne (‘Can we not force from widdowed Poetry’)
Copy.
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Carew, Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 71-4.
f. 82r
• CoR 193: Richard Corbett, An Epitaph on Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls (‘Hee that would write an Epitaph for thee’)
Copy, headed ‘On the same’ [i.e. John Donne].
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 89.
ff. 82v-3v
• KiH 768: Henry King, Upon the Death of my ever Desired Freind Dr. Donne Dean of Paules (‘To have liv'd Eminent, in a degree’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in John Donne, Deaths Duell (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 76-7.
f. 84
• MsP 21.2: Philip Massinger, The Fatal Dowry, IV, ii, 51-8. Song (‘Courtier, if thou needs wilt wiue’)
Copy, headed ‘Choyce of a Wife’.
First published, as by ‘P. M. and N[athan] F[ield]’, in London, 1632. Edwards & Gibson, I, 13-95 (p. 71).
ff. 92r-3v
• ShJ 109: James Shirley, Vpon the Princes Birth (‘Fair fall their Muses that in well-chim'd verse’)
Copy, here beginning ‘Wellfare their Muses that wth well climbe verse’
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 7-8.
f. 94r-v
• KiH 532: Henry King, Silence. A Sonnet (‘Peace my Hearte's blabb, be ever dumbe’)
Copy, headed ‘Sonnet’.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 159.
ff. 95r-7r
• KiH 229: Henry King, An Elegy Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus (‘Like a cold Fatall Sweat which ushers Death’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in The Swedish Intelligencer, Third Part (London, 1633). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 77-81.
f. 101r-v
• KiH 212: Henry King, An Elegy Upon the Bishopp of London John King (‘Sad Relick of a Blessed Soule! whose trust’)
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy’.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 172-3.
f. 103r-v
• WoH 88: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)
Copy of a six-stanza version, untitled.
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.
ff. 105r-6v
• KiH 153: Henry King, An Elegy Occasioned by Sicknesse (‘Well did the Prophet ask, Lord what is Man?’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 12-15]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 174-7.
f. 107r-v
• KiH 164: Henry King, An Elegy Upon Mrs. Kirk unfortunately drowned in Thames (‘For all the Ship-wracks, and the liquid graves’)
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie upon a Lady vnfortunately drowned in the Thames’.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 96-7.
ff. 108r-9r
• KiH 221: Henry King, An Elegy Upon the immature losse of the most vertuous Lady Anne Riche (‘I envy not thy mortall triumphes, Death!’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 93-5.
ff. 109v-10v
• KiH 388: Henry King, The Legacy (‘My dearest Love! When Thou and I must part’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 170-2.
f. 111r-v
• KiH 146: Henry King, The Dirge (‘What is th' Existence of Man's Life?’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 177-8.
f. 112r-v
• KiH 477: Henry King, Paradox. That it is best for a Young Maid to marry an Old Man (‘Fair one, why cannot you an old man love?’)
Copy.
This MS (erroneously cited for The Pink) recorded in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 180-2.
ff. 113r-14v
• KiH 475: Henry King, Paradox. That Fruition destroyes Love (‘Love is our Reason's Paradox, which still’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 182-5.
ff. 172v-171v rev.
• MyJ 31: Jasper Mayne, ‘Wert thou an ancient Corse of a grey head’
Copy.
f. 174v rev.
• BrW 200: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)
Copy.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, ‘Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha’, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.
f. 174v rev.
• CwT 897: Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie (‘Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
ff. 176v-175r rev.
• RnT 346: Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet (‘I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare’)
Copy, headed ‘On an vnhandsome Gentlewoman, that sang very sweetly’ and here beginning ‘Sweet Lesbia's voice I chanc'd to heare’.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 115-17. Davis, pp. 92-105.
ff. 182r-181r rev.
• StW 71: William Strode, A Dialoge on the Calott (‘Why Shoomaker, how ist I pay to You’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Callot’.
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 150-3.
ff. 186r-182v rev
• BrN 52.2: Nicholas Breton, The Passion of a Discontented Minde (‘From silent night, true register of mones’)
Copy, headed ‘The Copie of those verses that ye Earle of Essex made before his Death in ye Towre’.
First published in London, 1601. Attributed to Breton in Robertson, pp. xcii-xcviii, but see also Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 613-15. Printed and firmly attributed to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, in The Poems of Edward De Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, ed. Steven W. May, Studies in Philology, 77, No. 5 (Early Winter 1980), pp. 49-59 (No. 11) and pp. 94-106.
ff. 188v-186v rev.
• CoR 219: Richard Corbett, An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… (‘The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on’)
Copy, headed ‘a godly exhortation...’ and here ascribed to ‘John Harris of Christchurch’.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 52-6.
An exemplum of Poëtica Stromata at Christ Church, Oxford, has against this poem the MS marginal note ‘None of Dr Corbets’ and an attribution to John Harris of Christ Church.
ff. 190v-189r rev.
• HoJ 60: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)
Copy.
Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of ‘Doubtful Verses’ in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.
Add. MS 58435
Autograph volume of poems by Robert Sidney, with his revisions, 46 quarto leaves, in 19th-century black morocco gilt. Written for Sidney' wife, Barbara (née Gamage), but inscribed by him (f. 1r) ‘For the Countess of Pembroke’ (his sister).
Bookplate of Warwick Castle. Tipped-in letter about the MS by W. Blott to H.J. Cooke, 24 January 1848. Item 794 in an unidentified sale catalogue.
f. 2r
• *SiR 27: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 1 (‘Yow purest stars, whose neuer dijng fyres’)
Autograph, with a revision.
Croft, pp. 128-9.
ff. 2v-3r
• *SiR 9: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 1 (‘O eyes, o lights deuine’)
Autograph, with a revision.
Croft, pp. 130-3.
f. 3v
• *SiR 28: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 2 (‘The pains wch I vncessantly susteine’)
Autograph, with a revision.
Croft, pp. 134-5.
f. 4r
• *SiR 29: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 3 (‘Beauties born of the heauens, my sowles delight’)
Croft, pp. 136-7.
f. 4v
• *SiR 30: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 4 (‘These purest flames, kindled by beauties rare’)
Autograph.
Croft, pp. 138-9.
ff. 5r-6v
• *SiR 4: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Pastoral 2: Shepherd, Nymph (‘Shepherd, iffaith now say how wel’)
Autograph, with revisions.
Croft, pp. 140-7.
ff. 7r-8v
• *SiR 10: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 3 (‘Loue not who haue not lou'd’)
Autograph, with a revised line.
Croft, pp. 148-55.
f. 9r
• *SiR 31: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 5 (‘Of trauailes past oft when I thincking ame’)
Autograph, with a revision.
Croft, pp. 156-7.
f. 9v
• *SiR 32: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 6 (‘When rest locks vp the treasures of delight’)
Autograph, with a revision.
Croft, pp. 158-9.
f. 10r
• *SiR 33: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 7 (‘The hardy Captein vnusde to retyre’)
Autograph.
Croft, pp. 160-1.
f. 10v
• *SiR 34: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 8 (‘If that her worth I kowld as wel forget’)
Autograph.
Croft, pp. 162-3.
f. 11r
• *SiR 35: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 9 (‘Oft had I past the ioies and greefs in loue’)
Autograph.
Croft, pp. 164-5.
ff. 11v-12v
• *SiR 11: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 4 (‘My sowle in purest fyre’)
Autograph, with a revision.
Croft, pp. 166-71.
f. 13r
• *SiR 36: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 10 (‘Shee whoe I serue to wryte did not despyse’)
Croft, pp. 172-3.
ff. 13v-15r
• *SiR 1: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, A crown of sonnets, but unfinished (‘Thogh the most parfet stile kannot attaine’)
Autograph, with revisions.
A sequence of sonnets numbered ‘11’, ‘2 Sonnet. 12’, ‘3 Sonnet 13’, ‘4 Son: 14’, and ‘5 Son:’, subscribed ‘The rest of the 13 sonnets doth want.’ Croft, pp. 174-81.
f. 15v
• *SiR 12: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 5 (‘If those deuotions now noe more’)
Autograph, with a revision.
Croft, pp. 182-3.
ff. 16r-18v
• *SiR 13: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 6 Lady. Pilgrim. (‘Yonder comes a sad pilgrim’)
Autograph, with revisions.
Croft, pp. 184-95.
f. 19r
• *SiR 37: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 15 (‘Yow that haue power to kil, haue wil to saue’)
Autograph, with revisions.
Croft, pp. 196-7.
ff. 19v-20r
• *SiR 5: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Pastoral 7 (‘Lysa sweet Nymph did sit’)
Autograph, with revisions.
Croft, pp. 198-201.
f. 20v
• *SiR 38: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 16 (‘Most fayre when first wth pleasd but cursed eyes’)
Autograph, with revisions.
Croft, pp. 202-3.
f. 21r
• *SiR 39: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 17 (‘The endless Alchymist, wth blinded will’)
Autograph, with revisions.
Croft, pp. 204-5.
ff. 21v-2r
• *SiR 6: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Pastoral 8 (‘Shepheard, why doest thow so looke still on mee’)
Autograph, with revisions.
Croft, pp. 206-9.
f. 22v
• *SiR 40: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 18 (‘Most faier: The feeld is yowrs: now stay yor hands’)
Autograph, with a revision.
Croft, pp. 210-11.
f. 23r
• *SiR 41: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 19 (‘When other creatures all each in theyr kinde’)
Croft, pp. 212-13.
f. 23v
• *SiR 42: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 20 (‘Shine on fayre stars: giue comfort to these eyes’)
Autograph, with revisions.
Croft, pp. 214-15.
f. 24r
• *SiR 43: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 21 (‘Alas why say yow I ame ritch? when I’)
Autograph, with a revision.
Croft, pp. 216-17.
f. 24v
• *SiR 44: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 22 (‘On vnknown shore, wth wether hard destrest’)
Autograph.
Croft, pp. 218-19.
f. 25r
• *SiR 45: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 23 (‘Absence what floods of plaints gainst thee would ryse’)
Autograph.
Croft, pp. 220-1.
f. 25v
• *SiR 46: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 24 (‘Canst thow turn from the haue of thy rest’)
Autograph.
Croft, pp. 222-3.
f. 26r
• *SiR 47: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 25 (‘Yow that take pleasure in yowr cruelty’)
Autograph, with revisions.
Croft, pp. 224-5.
f. 26v
• *SiR 48: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 26 (‘Ah deerest lims my lifes best ioy and stay’)
Autograph, with revisions.
Facsimile of this page in Croft, p. [117].
Croft, pp. 226-7.
f. 27r-v
• *SiR 7: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Pastoral 9 (‘Day wch so bright didst shyne, how darck art thow?’)
Autograph, with revisions.
Croft, pp. 228-31.
f. 28r-v
• *SiR 14: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 10 (‘Yow whoe fauor doe enioy’)
Autograph, with a revision.
Croft, pp. 232-5.
f. 29r
• *SiR 49: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 27 (‘Falshood: how long did I yowr stings endure’)
Autograph.
Croft, pp. 236-7.
f. 29v
• *SiR 50: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 28 (‘Ayre wch about these wanton leaues dost play’)
Autograph, with revisions
Croft, pp. 238-9.
f. 30r
• *SiR 51: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 29 (‘Yowr hate to mee, must needs bee violent’)
Autograph, with a revision.
Croft, pp. 240-1.
f. 30v-1v
• *SiR 15: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 11 (‘Thowghts vnto mee so deer’)
Autograph, with revisions
Croft, pp. 242-7.
f. 32r-v
• *SiR 16: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 12 To a french Tune Ou estes vous allez mes belles amourettes (‘Since now those fayre eyes doe shyne in theyr cleer light’)
Autograph, written sideways up the length of the page, with revisions.
Croft, pp. 248-51.
f. 33r
• *SiR 52: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 30 (‘Absence I cannot say thou hyd'st my light’)
Autograph, with revisions.
Croft, pp. 252-3.
f. 33v
• *SiR 53: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 31 (‘Forsaken woods, trees wth sharpe storms opprest’)
Autograph.
Croft, pp. 254-5.
f. 34r
• *SiR 54: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 32 (‘All yow fayre minds whome chois or destiny’)
Autograph, with a revision.
Croft, pp. 256-7.
f. 34v
• *SiR 55: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 33 (‘Fayrest of fayre, on whome the heaues bestow’)
Autograph.
Croft, pp. 258-9.
f. 35r
• *SiR 56: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 34 (‘Wth how wyde iawes would I my poison drinck’)
Autograph.
Croft, pp. 260-1.
ff. 35v-6r
• *SiR 17: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 13 (‘Vpon a wretch, that wastes away’)
Autograph.
Croft, pp. 262-5.
f. 36v
• *SiR 57: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Sonnet 35 (‘Time cruel time how fast pass yow away’)
Autograph, with a revision.
Croft, pp. 266-7.
f. 37r
• *SiR 60: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Vpon a Snufkin (‘Goe happy furres the hands preserue’)
Autograph.
Croft, pp. 268-9.
f. 37r
• *SiR 59: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Translated out of Spanish (‘Shee whome I loued, and loue shall still’)
Autograph.
Croft, pp. 268-9.
f. 37v
• *SiR 58: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Translated out of Seneca (‘Yow vnto whome hee that rules sea and land’)
Autograph.
Croft, pp. 270-1.
f. 37v
• *SiR 3: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, In another place (‘So when wthout all noyse of mee’)
Autograph.
Croft, pp. 270-1.
f. 38r-v
• *SiR 8: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Pastoral 14 (‘What a change is this I see’)
Autograph, with revisions.
Croft, pp. 272-5.
f. 39r-v
• *SiR 18: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 15 (‘Heauen if any heauen there is’)
Autograph, with a line deleted.
Croft, pp. 276-9.
f. 40r-1r
• *SiR 2: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Elegy 16 (‘Fayrest of Venus greate posteritee’)
Autograph.
Croft, pp. 280-5.
f. 41r
• *SiR 19: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 17 (‘The Sun is set, and masked night’)
Autograph.
Croft, pp. 284-5.
f. 41v
• *SiR 20: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 18 (‘How oft sayd I, delaies are death’)
Autograph, with revisions.
Croft, pp. 286-7.
f. 42r
• *SiR 21: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 19 (‘Sun bee hencefourth from shyning parted’)
Autograph.
Croft, pp. 288-9.
ff. 42v-3r
• *SiR 22: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 20 (‘Senses by vniust force banisht’)
Autograph, with revisions.
Croft, pp. 290-3.
f. 43v
• *SiR 23: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 21 (‘So did the morning crymson ryse’)
Autograph.
Croft, pp. 294-5.
f. 44r-v
• *SiR 24: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 22 (‘But alas why do yow nowrish’)
Autograph.
Croft, pp. 296-9.
f. 45r-v
• *SiR 25: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 23 (‘Greefs sent from her whome in my sowle I bless’)
Autograph.
Croft, pp. 300-3.
f. 46r-v
• *SiR 26: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Song 24 (‘Absence I fled to thee’)
Autograph, with two revisions.
Croft, pp. 304-7.
Add. MS 59678
Copy in two scribal hands; used by William Caxton; imperfect, now consisting of part of Chapter VIII until near the end of Chapter CLXXII; 473 leaves, folio. c.1470-83.
MaT 1: Sir Thomas Malory, Morte D'Arthur
Once owned by one Richard Followell, probably a member of the Fowlwell or Fellwell family of Litchborough, Northamptonshire, tenants to a branch of the Malory family.
Edited from this MS, with three facsimile pages, in The Works of Sir Thomas Malory, ed. Eugène Vinaver, 3 vols (Oxford, 1947; 2nd edition revised, 1967); facsimile edition of the MS in The Winchester Malory: A Facsimile, introduced by N.R. Ker, EETS 884 (Oxford, 1976). Discussed extensively in Lotte Hellinga and Hilton Kelliher, ‘The Malory Manuscript’, BLJ, 3 (1977), 91-113. Facsimile of f. 45r in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 1, p. 4.
First published by William Caxton (London, 1485). The Works of Sir Thomas Malory, ed. Eugene Vinaver (Oxford, 1947); 2nd edition, revised (Oxford, 1967); 3rd edition, revised by P.J.C. Field, 3 vols (Oxford, 1990).