MS. 1932. 001
A folio verse miscellany, in possibly several rounded hands, written from both ends, 112 leaves, in contemporary calf. Early 18th century.
Acquired from Robinson, 1932. Formerly fC7346M3 [17-- ] Bound.
ff. [31r-6v], [1v rev.]
• DrJ 387: John Dryden, Extracts
Extracts from several works by Dryden, including his versions of Chaucer and Boccaccio, Alexander's Feast and The Flower and the Leaf.
f. [59v]
• TaJ 127: Jeremy Taylor, Extracts
Extract, concerning Plato and Aristippus, subscribed ‘d Dr Taylor B - Down & Coner’.
MS. 1942. 002
Copy, in a neat italic hand, with a title-page ‘A Short View of The Raigne of King Henry The third’, 56 duodecimo leaves (on rectos only, plus blanks), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked). c.1630.
CtR 409: Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England
Bookplates of John Towneley Esqr, and Aldenham Noyse Nares. Purchased from Dawson, 1942. Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Henry H. Gibbs / St Dunstans 1883’. Formerly C 8515M3 S559 [16--] Bound.
Treatise, written c.1614 and ‘Presented to King James’, beginning ‘Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms...’. First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).
MS 1945.003
Copy of a commentary on Hudibras by the Rev. Zachary Grey (1688-1766), writer, in a neat rounded hand, on pp. 21-71 in a large quarto volume of ii + 76 pages, in old calf. With a title-page: ‘Critical, Historical, and Explanatory Notes upon Hudibras by Way of Supplement to the Two Editions published in the Years 1744 and 1745. By Zachary Grey. LL D. To which is prefixed A Dissertation upon Burlesque Poetry [&c.]...1752’. 1752.
BuS 17: Samuel Butler, Editorial and Copyright Papers
Inscribed inside the cover ‘M A Slaney’.
Grey's notes on Hudibras derived from William Warburton (1698-1779), Bishop of Cloucesters, who was not pleased with his use of them in Grey's edition of the work in 1744-5. His ‘supplement’ was published in 1752.
MS. 1948. 003
An octavo verse miscellany, in probably a single neat hand, with a two-page index at the end, 143 pages, in limp vellum. Early 18th century.
Formerly P7455M1 [1712?] Bound.
pp. 42-4
• MaA 6: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Soul and Body (‘O who shall, from this Dungeon, raise’)
Copy, subscribed ‘Marvell. Miscell. Poems. p. 12’.
First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 21-6. Smith, pp. 63-4.
pp. 44-7
• MaA 31: Andrew Marvell, The Garden (‘How vainly men themselves amaze’)
Copy, subscribed ‘Marvell. Misc. Poems. p. 48’.
First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 51-3. Smith, pp. 155-9.
pp. 70-3
• MaA 26: Andrew Marvell, Eyes and Tears (‘How wisely Nature did decree’)
Copy, subscribed ‘Marvell. Miscell. Poems. p. 8’.
First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 15-17. Lord, pp. 8-10. Smith, pp. 51-3.
pp. 73-4
• MaA 48: Andrew Marvell, Musicks Empire (‘First was the World as one great Cymbal made’)
Copy, subscribed ‘Marvell. Misc. Poems. p. 47’.
First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 50-1. Smith, pp. 150-1.
pp. 74-84
• MnJ 23.7: John Milton, Paradise Lost (‘Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit’)
Extracts.
First published in London, 1667. Columbia, II. Darbishire I. Carey & Fowler, pp. 417-1060.
See also MnJ 67.
pp. 84-5
• WaE 214: Edmund Waller, Of Love (‘Anger in hasty words or blows’)
Copy, headed ‘Love’, subscribed ‘Waller. Poems. p. 72’.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 87-8.
pp. 85-6
• WaE 605: Edmund Waller, To Phyllis (‘Phyllis! why should we delay’)
Copy, headed ‘Wooing’, subscribed ‘Waller to Phyllis. Poems. p. 75.’
First published, as ‘The cunning Curtezan’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 84.
p. 86
• WaE 322.8: Edmund Waller, On a Girdle (‘That which her slender waist confined’)
Copy, headed ‘Girdle’, subscribed ‘Waller. Poems. f. 93’.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 95.
pp. 86-7
• WaE 548: Edmund Waller, To Mr. Henry Lawes, who had then newly set a song of mine in the year 1635 (‘Verse makes heroic virtue live’)
Copy, headed ‘Setting Songs’, subscribed ‘Waller. To Mr Henry Lawes, who had then newly set a song of mine in the Year 1635. Poems. p. 176’.
First published in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, I, 19-20.
p. 88
• WaE 744: Edmund Waller, ‘While I listen to thy voice’
Copy, headed ‘Singing’, subscribed ‘Waller. Poems. p. 78’.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 127. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
pp. 88-92
• DeJ 45: Sir John Denham, News from Colchester (‘All in the Land of Essex’)
Copy, headed ‘Certain Carnal Passages Betwixt a Quaker & a Colt at Horsly near Colchester in Essex’.
First published as A Relation of a Quaker [1659]. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 91-4.
MS. 1950. 024
A quarto verse miscellany, the first 21 pages in a small mixed hand, the rest (including a book catalogue dated 1675) in one or two later hands, 33 pages (plus numerous blanks), in old calf. Inscribed (p. 1) ‘ffran: Wyrley’, possibly the principal compiler, whose name is also subscribed to several poems. c.1636-77.
Also inscribed (f. ii) ‘Michaell Keepis. anno Dom: 1636 ffebruarie. 13th. Me tenet’. Later Phillipps MS 9311. Bookplate of Wyrley Birch. Purchased from Peter Murray Hill, 1950. Formerly S4975M1 [1636-75] Bound.
p. 1
• HeR 154: Robert Herrick, Mistresse Elizabeth Wheeler, under the name of the lost Shepardesse (‘Among the Mirtles, as I walkt’)
Copy, headed ‘A louers contemplation of his mris’ and here beginning ‘Amongst ye Myrtills as I walk'd’.
First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 106-7. Patrick, p. 147. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).
p. 4
• DaW 55: Sir William Davenant, Song. The Souldier going to the Field (‘Preserve thy sighs, unthrifty Girle!’)
Copy, headed ‘To his mrs when readie for a voyage’, subscribed ‘Will: Dauenant’.
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 175-6.
p. 7
• CwT 899: Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie (‘Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face’)
Copy, headed ‘Of a mrs’.
First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
p. 8
• PeW 181: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable (‘Why should Passion lead thee blind’)
Copy of a version headed ‘Of a Coy young Lady’ and beginning ‘Oh! why should passion quell my mind’.
First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 202. Poems (1660), p. 76, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as possibly by Walton Poole.
p. 9
• DnJ 205: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)
Copy, headed ‘To a scornful mrs.’, subscribed ‘Dr Donne’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.
p. 9
• StW 802: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)
Copy, untitled.
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).
p. 10
• DnJ 3206: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)
Copy, headed ‘An inuitation of his mrs to bedd’, subscribed ‘Dr Donne’.
First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as ‘Elegie XIX. Going to Bed’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.
The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, ‘Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's “To his mistress going to bed”’, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.
p. 11
• StW 290: William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe (‘Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill’)
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewomans blistred lipp’, subscribed ‘mr Strode’.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.
p. 12
• CoR 576: Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett (‘What I shall leave thee none can tell’)
Copy, headed ‘To his sonne Vincent on his birth he being .3. yeeres old’, subscribed ‘Dr Corbett Bishopp of Oxford’.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 88.
p. 12
• StW 1393: William Strode, Ad Filiolum Vincentium, in ipsius Natalem 10ime: Novembris, Anno aetatis 3to. 1630 (‘Scit nemo quid Opum Tibi relinquam’)
Copy, headed ‘The same in latine’, subscribed ‘mr Strode’.
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349. In MS sources the poem is invariably preceded by the English poem by Richard Corbett on his son, of which Strode's poem is a Latin translation (see CoR 560-83).
pp. 13-14
• FoJ 2.5: John Ford, To ye memory of ye late excellent Poet John ffletcher (‘Heere needs noe Marble to adorne this Hearse’)
Copy, subscribed ‘John fford’.
Edited from this MS in Vickers and in Maule. Complete facsimile in Maule, pp. 138-9.
First published in English Renaissance Literary Criticism, ed. Brian Vickers (Oxford, 1999), No. 31, pp. 541-5, and in Jeremy Maule, ‘“To the memory of the late excellent Poet John Fletcher”: A New Poem by John Ford’, EMS, 8 (2000), 136-59.
p. 15
• KiH 446: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)
Copy, headed ‘Of mortality’, subscribed ‘Dr Henry King’.
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.
pp. 15-16
• CwT 111: Thomas Carew, The Complement (‘O my deerest I shall grieve thee’)
Copy, headed ‘To his mrs’, subscribed ‘Dr Corbett’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.
p. 16
• HeR 205: Robert Herrick, A Pastorall upon the birth of Prince Charles, Presented to the King, and Set by Master Nicholas Laniere (‘Good day, Mirtillo. And to you no lesse’)
Copy, headed ‘An Eclogue on ye birth day of Prince Charles’, subscribed ‘Phil: Massenger’.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 85-7. Patrick, pp. 120-1.
p. 17
• CwT 81: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)
Copy, headed ‘The commendation of a mrs’.
First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.
p. 17
• CwT 1241.2: Thomas Carew, A Health to a Mistris (‘To her whose beautie doth excell’)
Copy, here ascribed to ‘Richard Clarke’.
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dunlap. p. 192. Possibly by Richard Clerke.
p. 18
• CwT 1250.1: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)
Copy, headed ‘A contention betwixt loue and abstinence’.
First published, as ‘The Rapture, by J.D.’, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.
pp. 19-21
• CwT 650: Thomas Carew, A Rapture (‘I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come’)
Copy, headed ‘A rapture to a mrs’, subscribed ‘Thomas Carew’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.
pp. 24-7
• RnT 78: Thomas Randolph, An Eglogue occasion'd by two Doctors disputing upon predestination (‘Ho jolly Thirsis whither in such hast?’)
Copy, headed ‘An Eclogue’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph. Il Pastor fido’.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 101-4.
pp. 28-30
• KiH 157: Henry King, An Elegy Occasioned by Sicknesse (‘Well did the Prophet ask, Lord what is Man?’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye recouery of a dangerous sickenesse’, subscribed ‘Doct: Hen: Kinge’.
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.
p. 30
• DaJ 191: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)
Copy, headed ‘On a child dying soone after's birth’ and here beginning ‘As carefull Mothers vnto sleepe will lay’.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
p. 30
• CwT 279: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a ffly’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
p. 30
• HeR 84: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)
Copy, headed ‘On a perjur'd man’.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).
p. 32
• StW 1282: William Strode, Jack on both Sides (‘I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes’)
Copy, untitled.
First published, as ‘The Church Papist’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as ‘The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed’ by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, ‘The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading’, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
MS. 1951. 012
Autograph fair copy, with revisions, on 265 octavo pages (plus blanks), in contemporary brown calf (rebacked). The first poem of ‘The First Century’ headed ‘Julea Pallmer September 28 1671’, the poems bearing dates thereafter up to 21 June 1672, ‘The Second Century’ from 22 June 1672 to 21 July 1673; each poem throughout with a separate heading. c.1673 or later.
*PaJ 1: Julia Palmer, Centuries (‘Blessed spirit, doe thou endite’)
A flyleaf inscribed by Julia Palmer ‘1671’ and ‘I leave this Book to Mr Joseph Bisco senior [i.e. the apothecary Joseph Biscoe (1637-1718)], if he out Live me otherwiss. I Leave itt to Mr James pitson Apothicary’ [i.e. Biscoe's apprentice, b.c.1658, Master of the Society of Apothecaries in 1723-4] and signed by her. Acquired by the Clark Library in 1951. Formerly P1745 M1 P744 1671-3 Bound.
Edited from this MS in Burke and Clarke.
A sequence of 199 devotional poems, untitled but effectively arranged as two ‘centuries’ (the first omitting a poem 62, the second omitting a poem 88 but with two poems numbered 96). First published as The ‘Centuries’ of Julia Palmer, ed. Victoria Burke and Elizabeth Clarke (Nottingham, 2001).
MS. 1959. 003
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
Cantus 2: ff. 34, 51
• CmT 221: Thomas Campion, ‘What if a day, or a month, or a yeare’
Copy, in a musical setting.
Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, ‘The Authorship of “What if a Day”, and its Various Versions’, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, ‘“What if a Day” — An Examination of the Words and Music’, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.
See also CmT 239-41.
Cantus 3: ff. 35, 52
• WoH 92: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)
Copy, in a musical setting, here beginning ‘Yow minor 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.
Cantus 7: ff. 37, 53-4
• SuH 21: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, ‘If care do cause men cry, why do not I complaine?’
Copy, in a musical setting.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Padelford, No. 28, pp. 80-2. Jones, pp. 14-16.
Cantus 70: ff. 74, 86-7
• NaT 12: Thomas Nashe, Verses from ‘Astrophel and Stella’ (‘If flouds of teares could clense my follies past’)
Copy of two versions, in a musical setting by John Dowland.
This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 480-2.
First published in ‘Poems and Sonets of sundrie other Noble men and Gentlemen’ appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). McKerrow, III, 396 (in poems of doubtful authorship). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 104-5.
Cantus 86: ff. 77, 88
• PeW 284: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Song (‘Say pretty wanton, tell me why’)
Copy, in a musical setting, here beginning ‘Come pretty wanton tell me why’.
Poems (1660), pp. 73-4, superscribed ‘P.’.
Cantus 129: ff. 151, 148
• WrM 2: Lady Mary Wroth, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, Song. 2. (‘All night I weepe, all day I cry, Ay mee’)
Copy, in a musical setting.
A shortened version of this song appears in Wit's Recreations (London, 1645). Roberts, Poems, [P14] (pp. 93-4). Pritchard, p. 35.
MS. 1980.002
A quarto booklet of Advice to Painter poems, in a probably professional stylish italic hand, with a few corrections in another hand, 24 leaves, the first numbered ‘40’, in modern quarter-calf marbled boards. Late 17th century.
Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1242. Owned by Arthur A. Houghton Jr. (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 11 June 1980 (Houghton sale), lot 302, to Maggs. Formerly M3915M3 S445 [16—] Bound.
This MS recorded in Osborne.
ff. 2r-6v
• MaA 335: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter (‘Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight’)
Copy, as ‘the last Worke of Sr John Denham’, numbered item ‘40’.
Facsimile of f. 2r in Christie's sale catalogue for 11 June 1980 (. sale), lot 302 (Plate 20).
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.
The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, ‘Two New Poems by Marvell?’, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, ‘The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter’, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.
ff. 8r-14r
• MaA 373: Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter (‘Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love’)
Copy, numbered item ‘41’.
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.
See discussions of the disputed authorship of this poem, as well as of the ‘Second Advice’, cited before MaA 314.
ff. 15r-17r
• MaA 404: Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter (‘Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before’)
Copy, headed ‘New Instructions Or the Fourth Advice to a Painter’, numbered item ‘42’.
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.
ff. 19r-21r
• MaA 428: Andrew Marvell, The Fifth Advice to a Painter (‘Painter, where was't thy former work did cease?’)
Copy, headed ‘Additional Instructions. Or The Fifth Advice to the Painter’, numbered item ‘43’.
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 146-52, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 35-6, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.
ff. 22r-4r
• MaA 132: Andrew Marvell, Clarindon's House-Warming (‘When Clarindon had discern'd beforehand’)
Copy, numbered item ‘44’.
First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir John Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 143-6. POAS, I, 88-96. Lord, pp. 144-51. Smith, pp. 358-61.
MS. 1986. 004
A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat mixed hand, inscribed on p. 44 'march 24 Finis 1673', ii + 51 pages, in modern morocco gilt. c.1673.
Sotheby's, 26 June 1986 (Lionel Robinson sale), lot 110, to Maggs. Subsequently sold to Zeitlin & Verbrugge, Los Angeles. Formerly Temp MSS. Bound.
Complete photocopies of this MS in the British Library, RP 3341.
pp. [45-51]
• RoJ 337: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)
Copy of lines 1-173, untitled.
First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning ‘All this with indignation have I hurled’) in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as ‘Satyr’. Love, pp. 57-63.
The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, ‘A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's “A Satyr against Reason and Mankind”’, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different ‘Answer’ poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).
MS. 2002. 003
An octavo volume comprising a copy, in a single cursive hand, of ‘Balkerress his Memoirs Anent The Revolutione’, 111 pages, in contemporary calf. c.1700s.
Purchased from Krown & Spellman.
p. 111
• DrJ 222.2: John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Viscount Dundee (‘O Last and best of Scots! who didst maintain’)
Copy, headed ‘Dr Draidens Translatione’, following ‘Elegy By Doctor Pitcairn On The Viscount of Dundee’ (beginning ‘Ultime Scotonim potuit quo sospite salvo’).
First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1777. California, III, 222. Hammond, III, 219.
FMS. 2008. 003
MS of a play, in a rounded probably professional hand, with some textual corrections and alterations in a second hand, with extensive cuts and deletions affecting some 77 lines on pp 3-7, 36-8, with a title-page and list of dramatis personæ, vi + 64 folio pages (plus blanks), in vellum boards. c.1702.
GiC 1: Charles Gildon, A Restoration Defeated: The Loves of Titus and Teraminta
Formerly in the library of the Parker family, Earls of Macclesfield, at Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire. Sotheby's, 13 March 2008 (Macclesfield sale Part XI), lot 4004.
A facsimile page in Sotheby's sale catalogue, p. 115. A CD of the MS in the British Library, RP 9297.
Unpublished five-act verse tragedy. The revised version published as The Patriot, or The Italian Conspiracy (London, ‘1703’) [i.e. 1702].
fB6915 M3 014 1655
A formal copy, in an accomplished mixed hand, entitled ‘Observations Politicall and Civill’, with a dedicatory epistle to Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector, in Latin, subscribed ‘Johes Bolles’, dated 22 October 1655, iv + 122 + iii folio leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. 1655.
RaW 1049: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Cabinet-Council: containing the Chief Arts of Empire and Mysteries of State
Acquired from Peter Murray Hill, 1951.
A treatise beginning ‘A Commonwealth is a certain sovereign government of many families...’. First published, attributed to Sir Walter Ralegh in John Milton's preface ‘To the Reader’, as The Cabinet-Council [&c.] (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 35-150.
Widely circulated in MSS as Observations Political and Civil. The various attributions include ‘T.B.’, for whom Thomas Bedingfield (early 1540s?-1613), translator of Machiavelli, is suggested in Ernest A. Strathmann, ‘A Note on the Ralegh Canon’, TLS (13 April 1956), p. 228, and in Lefranc (1968), p. 64.
fBX1750 .D93E 1630*
Exemplum of the edition of 1630, with additions. c.1630.
CaE 39: Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, The Reply of the most Illustrious Cardinall of Perron, to the Answeare of the most Excellent King of Great Britaine
Recorded in Wolfe, p. 12.
Lady Falkland's translation of a controversial tract by Jacques Davy (1556-1618), Cardinal of Perron. First published in Douai, 1630. Most exempla coming into England were destroyed by command of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury. Most surviving presentation exempla include an autograph poem ‘To the Queenes most Excellent Maiestie’ (‘'Tis not your faire out-side (though famous Greece’), which is edited in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (New York, 1988), pp. 59-60.
MS C 591L 1671 April 3
Copy, here dated 3 April 1671. Late 17th century.
ClE 145: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Letters to the Duke of York and the Duchess of York
Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.
These were first published in Two Letters written by…Edward Earl of Clarendon…one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.
C749 1719 June 4
An assignment of money to William Lowndes, signed by Congreve, 4 June 1719. 1719.
*CgW 130: William Congreve, Document(s)
Recorded in Hodges, Letters, p. ix.
C6967M4 [1639] Bound
A folio songbook, in at least two secretary hands, dated on the first page ‘June the ffirst 1639’, 25 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. c.1639.
Bookseller's label of Kenneth Mummery, Bournemouth.
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• StW 859: William Strode, Song (‘Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye’)
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled, here beginning ‘Keepe on yor: vaile & hide yor: eie’.
First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.
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• HeR 153: Robert Herrick, Mistresse Elizabeth Wheeler, under the name of the lost Shepardesse (‘Among the Mirtles, as I walkt’)
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled, here beginning ‘Amongst the mirtles as I walkt’.
First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 106-7. Patrick, p. 147. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).
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• CwT 911: Thomas Carew, Song. Perswasions to enjoy (‘If the quick spirits in your eye’)
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, untitled.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).
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• HeR 163.5: Robert Herrick, Not to love (‘He that will not love, must be’)
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 102-3. Patrick, pp. 142-3. See also Louise Schleiner, ‘Herrick's Songs and the Character of Hesperides’, ELR, 6 (1976), 77-91 (pp. 83-5).
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• HeR 225.5: Robert Herrick, To Pansies (‘Ah cruell Love! must I endure’)
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 74. Patrick, p. 107.
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• HeR 236: Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to make much of Time (‘Gather ye Rose-budd while ye may’)
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, untitled.
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 84. Patrick, pp. 117-18. Musical setting by William Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).
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• HrE 11.5: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Echo in a Church (‘Where shall my troubled soul, at large’)
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 47-8.
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• JnB 23.5: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph (‘See the Chariot at hand here of Love’)
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, untitled, here beginning ‘Haue you seene the white lillye growe’.
First published (all ten poems) in The Vnder-wood (ii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 131-42 (pp. 134-5). Lines 11-30 of poem 4 (beginning ‘Doe but looke on her eyes, they do light’) first published in The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-113 (London, 1631).
fC6977M1 [1730?] Bound
Verse miscellany. c.1700.
[no page number]
• WaE 719: Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same (‘We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim’)
Copy on a single folio leaf loosely inserted.
First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As ‘Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C.’ in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.
For the ‘answer or construction’ by William Godolphin, see the Introduction.
fC6978M3 [17—] Bound
A folio album of miscellaneous manuscripts and photographs, c.70 items, in modern quarter-calf marbled boards.
item [4]
• DrJ 81: John Dryden, Lines on Milton (‘Three Poets, in three distant Ages born’)
Copy, headed ‘Dryden's Epigram on Homer Virgil & Milton’, on one side of a single oblong octavo leaf, the text followed on the verso by ‘A Parody of This Epigram’ beginning ‘Three English Laureats in one Age were born’. c.1700s.
First published in John Milton, Paradise Lost, 4th edition (London, 1688). Kinsley, II, 540. California, III, 208. Hammond, III, 200.
item [20]
• MaA 223: Andrew Marvell, The Statue at Charing Cross (‘What can be the Mistery why Charing Cross’)
Copy, in a cursive rounded hand, untitled, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Vpon setting up the Kings Statue at Charing Crosse a Satyr’, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Margoliouth, I, 199-201. POAS, I, 270-3. Lord, pp. 201-4. Smith, pp. 418-19.
item [23]
• MaA 241: Andrew Marvell, The Statue in Stocks-Market (‘As cities that to the fierce conquerors yield’)
Copy, in a probably professional italic hand, headed ‘Upon Sr Robt Vyners setting up the Statue &c’, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.
fD779L Bound [i]
A promissory note by Jacob Tonson to Dryden concerning his Fables, two copies, both signed as witness by Congreve, 20 March 1698/9. 1699.
*CgW 116: William Congreve, Document(s)
Sotheby's, 29 June 1925 (H. Clinton Baker sale), lot 787
Hodges, No. 66, p. 103.
fD779L Bound [ii]
Two copies of the contract between Dryden and Tonson for Dryden's Fables, both copies signed and witnessed by Congreve, 20 March 1698/9. 1689.
*DrJ 380: John Dryden, Document(s)
Edited in William Congreve: Letters & Documents, ed. John C. Hodges (London, 1964), No. 66.
D779L 16[53?] May 23 to Maddame Honor
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Honor Dryden (including verses: DrJ 196), from Cambridge, [3 or 23] May [1653? or possibly 1655?]. c.1653-5.
*DrJ 301: John Dryden, Letter(s)
Sotheby's, 25 April 1912, lot 36.
Ward, Letter 1. Edited, with a complete facsimile, in California, I (1956), after p. 8. Facsimile of the first page of text also in Kinsley, I, 5-6. NB. Ward supplies the date 23 May 1653? but states (p. 143) that ‘No figures are now visible, so that any date must be conjectural’ and see also California, I, 185-6. In the Sotheby's sale catalogue of 1912, the date is given as ‘May the third’.
D779L 16[53?] May 23 to Maddame Honor
Autograph verses contained in a letter from Dryden to his cousin, Honor Dryden, from Cambridge. [3 or 23] May [1653? or 1655?].
*DrJ 196: John Dryden, To Honor Dryden (‘For since t'was mine the white hath lost its hiew’)
Edied from this MS in Kinsley and in California (with complete facsimile). See No. 1 in list of letters in Introduction above.
First published in Gentleman's Magazine, 55.i (1785), 337. Kinsley, I, 5-6. California, I, 8-9. Hammond, I, 14-16 (with full text of the letter).
D779L [1682] to [Busby]
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to the Rev. Richard Busby, [1682]. 1682.
*DrJ 309: John Dryden, Letter(s)
Sotheby's, 18 November 1929, lot 157, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue.
Ward, Letter 8.
fD779L Bound [1695] [Apr.?] to J. Tonson
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Jacob Tonson, [c.April 1695]. 1695.
*DrJ 323: John Dryden, Letter(s)
Ward, Letter 32. A photograph is in Folger, C.c.1 (78).
fD779L Bound [1695?] Sept. 13 to J. Tonson
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Jacob Tonson, 13 September [1693]. 1693.
*DrJ 321: John Dryden, Letter(s)
Ward, letter 27. A photograph is in Folger, C.c.1 (77a).
fD779L Bound [1695] Oct. 29 to J. Tonson
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Jacob Tonson, 29 October [1695]. 1695.
*DrJ 326: John Dryden, Letter(s)
Ward, Letter 34.
fD779L [1695] [Dec.?] to J. Tonson
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Jacob Tonson, [c.November 1695]. 1695.
*DrJ 327: John Dryden, Letter(s)
Ward, Letter 35. A photograph is in Folger, C.c.1 (79).
fD779L [1695/6?] [Feb.?] to J. Tonson
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Jacob Tonson, [c.December 1695 to January 1695/6]. 1695-6.
*DrJ 328: John Dryden, Letter(s)
Ward, letter 36. A photograph is in Folger, C.c.1 (80a-b).
fD779L Bound 1697 July 6 to Tonson
Autograph letter signed by Dryden to Jacob Tonson, 6 July 1697. 1697.
*DrJ 333: John Dryden, Letter(s)
Ward, Letter 43. A photograph is in Folger, C.c.1 (81).
fD779L Bound [1697?] [Dec.?] to Tonson
Autograph letter signed by Dryden to Jacob Tonson, [c.December 1697]. 1697.
*DrJ 339: John Dryden, Letter(s)
Ward, Letter 48. A photograph is in Folger, C.c.1 (82).
D779L 1698 Nov 23 to [Mrs Steward, Cotterstock]
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elizabeth Steward, 23 November 1698. 1698.
*DrJ 345: John Dryden, Letter(s)
Henry Sotheran's sale catalogue of autograph letters [1904], item 250.
Ward, Letter 54.
D779L 1699 Feb. 18
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elizabeth Steward, [18] February [1698/9]. 1699.
*DrJ 352: John Dryden, Letter(s)
Facsimile example in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 21 July 1983, lot 19. Photocopy in British Library, RP 2539.
fD779L [1699] July 11 to [Mrs. Stewart, Cotterstock].
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elizabeth Steward, 11 July [1699]. 1699.
*DrJ 356: John Dryden, Letter(s)
Ward, Letter 60. A photograph is in Folger, C.c.1 (83a-b).
fD779L 1699 Aug. 5 to [Mrs. Stewart, Cotterstock]
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elizabeth Steward, 5 August 1699. 1699.
*DrJ 358: John Dryden, Letter(s)
Later owned by F.W. Joy. Sotheby's, 27 May 1887, lot 128.
Ward, Letter 63. Facsimile in Charles John Smith, Historical and Literary Curiosities (London, 1847), No. 32.
D779M2 P96 [ca.1693]
Verse by Dryden, in a predominantly italic hand, on an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1693.
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• DrJ 126: John Dryden, Prologue [to Marriage A-la-Mode] (‘Lord, how reform'd and quiet we are grown’)
Copy, headed ‘Prologue to Marriage A-la-Mode’.
This MS discussed, with a reduced facsimile of the first page, in Alan Roper, ‘Old Scenes, New Wit in a Recently Acquired Manuscript’, The Clark Newsletter, No. 3 (Fall 1982), 3-4. Collated in Hammond.
First published in Convent Garden Drolery (London, 1672). Marriage A-la-mode (London, 1673). Kinsley, I, 144-5. California, XI, 225-6. Hammond, I, 246-9. See also Paul Hammond, ‘The Prologue and Epilogue to Dryden's Marriage A-la-Mode and the Problem of Covent Garden Drolery’, PBSA, 81 (1987), 155-72.
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• DrJ 23: John Dryden, Epilogue [to Marriage A-la-mode] (‘Thus have my Spouse and I inform'd the Nation’)
Copy, headed ‘Epilogue’.
This MS collated in Hammond.
First published in Covent Garden Drolery (London, 1672). Marriage A-la-mode (London, 1673). Kinsley, I, 145-6. California, XI, 315-16. Hammond, I, 249-50. See also Paul Hammond, ‘The Prologue and Epilogue to Dryden's Marriage A-la-Mode and the Problem of Covent Garden Drolery’, PBSA, 81 (1987), 155-72.
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• DrJ 278: John Dryden, Marriage A-la-mode, Act I, scene i, lines 3-18. Song (‘Why should a foolish Marriage Vow’)
Copy of the song sung by Doralice and Beliza, headed ‘First Song’.
First published in London, 1673. California, XI (1978), pp. 219-316 (pp. 228-9). Kinsley, I, 146-7. Hammond, I, 251.
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• DrJ 280: John Dryden, Marriage A-la-mode, Act IV, scene ii, lines 47-67. Song (‘Whil'st Alexis lay prest’)
Copy, headed ‘Second Song’.
California, XI, 285-6. Kinsley, I, 147. Hammond, I, 251-3.
G8455M3 G934
MS of critical, historical and explanatory notes upon Hudibras by way of supplement to the two editions published in the years 1744 and 1745 by the editor Zachary Grey (1688-1766), ‘…to which is prefixed A dissertation upon burlesque poetry by the late learned and ingenious Montagu Bacon…1752’ c.1752.
BuS 16: Samuel Butler, Editorial and Copyright Papers
MS K92 M4 F 222 [c.1710] Bound
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.
WoH 219.5: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)
Item 132 in an un identified sale catalogue. Purchased in 1967 from Otto Haas.
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.
M3835M3 L651 [1674-6] Bound
An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single predominantly italic hand, 102 leaves (plus sixteen blanks), in contemporary calf. Compiled probably by one Thomas Martin (inscribed on the first page ‘Thomæ Martin Lib’ and including correspondence of ‘T M’). c.1674-6.
Inscribed at the beginning and end ‘For Mr John Souter at Mr John Merttins at Cushione Court in Broadstreet London’, ‘For Mr John Sowter at Mr John Merttins at his hous on Garlick hil next door to yeGreyhound Taverne’, and ‘Mr Nicholas Holoway at ye golden Ball in Nicholas lane London’.
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• DrJ 250.2: John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part I, Act IV, scene ii, lines 122-49. Song (‘Wherever I am, and whatever I doe’)
Copy of the song, untitled.
California, XI, 69-70. Kinsley, I, 132-3. Hammond, I, 239-40.
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• RoJ 63: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee (‘As some brave admiral, in former war’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.
f. [34r]
• RoJ 512.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Translation from Seneca's ‘Troades’, Act II, Chorus (‘After death nothing is, and nothing, death’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 150-1. Walker, p. 51. Love, pp. 45-5, as ‘Senec. Troas. Act. 2. Chor. Thus English'd by a Person of Honour’.
N523M1 1667
Copy, in a professional mixed hand, headed ‘New Instruccons for the painter’, on all four pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once part of a larger MS and paginated 655-[658]. Late 17th century.
MaA 405: Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter (‘Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before’)
? complete. ends ...which most the Dutch or Parlt they fear. check text.
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.
*PR2336.R3 A1.1664
An exemplum signed ‘Charles Cotton’ on the title-page. c.1664.
*CnC 190: Charles Cotton, Randolph, Thomas. Poems, 5th edition (London, 1664)
Inscribed ‘M Tilz Bodley Bookshop 1946.’
Recorded in Parks, p. 15.
PR 2338. P21
Copy on six folio leaves bound with a printed exemplum of A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638). c.1637-43.
SaG 28: George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon the Song of Solomon (‘Join thy life-breathing lips to mine’)
This MS recorded in Davis (1955), pp. 250, 289.
First published in London, 1641. Hooper, II, 335-56. Dedicatory verses ‘To the Queen’ first published in A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1676). Hooper, II, 338.
*PR 2448/H71
Exemplum of the printed quarto edition of 1599 with six MS corrections. Early 17th century.
ChG 10: George Chapman, An Humorous Day's Mirth
This item recorded in Holaday, p. 62.
First published in London, 1599. Edited by Allan Holaday in Urbana edition, Comedies, pp. 59-130.
*fPR3433 E5Z7 1819 v. 1 C. 2
Autograph note, headed ‘A Catalogue for Tryals’, on both sides of a quarto leaf. Partly laid-down on the flyleaf of a printed exemplum of Volume I of Memoirs illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, ed. William Bray (2nd edition, London, 1819), with a note in William Upcott's hand, dated 22 May 1840, stating that that the leaf had belonged to Elysium Britannicum. Late 17th century.
*EvJ 78: John Evelyn, Elysium Britannicum
Dawson's sale catalogue No. 208 (1960s), item 80.
This MS recorded in Keynes, p. 236.
Intended to be Evelyn's magnum opus on horticulture, this work remained unfinished: see Keynes, p. 236. Edited by John E. Ingram, as Elysium Britannicum, or the Royal Gardens (University of Pennsylvania, 2001).
fPR 3669.R253
Copy of lines 174-96. Added at the end of a printed broadside of the poem.
RoJ 314.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)
First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning ‘All this with indignation have I hurled’) in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as ‘Satyr’. Love, pp. 57-63.
The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, ‘A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's “A Satyr against Reason and Mankind”’, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different ‘Answer’ poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).
*PR3699.S9Z4d
A folio volume in contemporary calf (rebacked), signed on the title-page ‘Charles Cotton’ and ‘Catherine Cotton 1682’. c.1650-82.
*CnC 196: Charles Cotton, Stapleton, Sir Robert. De Bello Belgico. The History of the Low-countrey Warres...by Faminianus Strada; in English by Sr. Rob. Stapylton Kt (London, 1650)
Also inscribed on flyleaves ‘Philip Barnes Ejus Liber 1721’ and ‘William Barnes’.
Recorded in Parks, p. 15.
W198M1 [1658]
Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed ‘Upon the Death of ye Illustrious Oliver September ye 3d: 1658’, on one side of an unbound folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1658.
WaE 719.5: Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same (‘We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim’)
First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As ‘Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C.’ in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.
For the ‘answer or construction’ by William Godolphin, see the Introduction.
W 937M3/5797
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 298: Sir Henry Wotton, 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.