Bd.w.C4689.2
Copy, entitled ‘Clevelands Petition to His Highnesse Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector of England Scotland & Ireland’, subscribed ‘John Cleaveland’, on pages at the end of a printed exemplum of Poems by J. C. ([London,], 1653), an octavo, in half-calf marbled boards. c.mid-1650s.
ClJ 257: John Cleveland, Petition to the Protector
The printed title-page inscribed ‘John Varney’.
A petition to Cromwell dated [February ‘1656’]. Published in Poems, Characters, and Letters. By J. C. ([London], 1658). Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 142-6.
C3666 copy 1
Exemplum of Dr Walter Charleton, Chorea Gigantum (London, 1663). c.1663.
Inscribed name of Gervas Hammond, Jun. Formerly in the John Dryden Collection of Percy J. Dobell (1876-1956), bookseller.
The volume as a whole
• DrJ 299.3: John Dryden, Charleton, Walter. Chorea Gigantum (London, 1663)
A printed exemplum with Walter Charleton's presentation inscription ‘For my learned and obliging friend, Mr. John Driden’.
sig. b2r-v
• DrJ 199: John Dryden, To my Honour'd Friend, Dr Charleton, on his learned and useful Works. and more particularly this of Stone-Heng, by him Restored to the true Founders (‘The longest Tyranny that ever sway'd’)
Five MS corrections in the text of Dryden's commendatory poem (? in Charleton's hand).
This text collated in California. Recorded in Kinsley. Recorded in Osborn, p. 247, where it is stated (probably erroneously) that the corrections ‘are undoubtedly in Dryden's hand’ rather than Charleton's.
First published in Walter Charleton, Chorea Gigantum (London, 1663). Kinsley, I, 32-4. California, I, 43-4. Hammond, I, 71-4.
D326 copy 2
An exemplum of the printed octavo edition of 1651, bound with an exemplum of The Seventh and Last Canto of the Third Book of Gondibert (1685), which is dedicated to Charles Cotton, the last page of the first item bearing a MS memorandum to Cotton in a cursive hand, probably made by the publisher, commenting on the unpardonable mistakes in the printing of the work (where the printer ‘hath printed nonsense’) and in Cotton's commendatory poem in the second item. A composite volume that may have belonged to Cotton and evidently has some connection with him. It is not certain, however, that the MS memorandum relates to this exemplum of the 1685 edition, since it refers to MS corrections in all seven stanzas of Cotton's poem and in seventeen stanzas of Davenant's poem which do not correspond with corrections made there. c.1685.
CnC 174: Charles Cotton, Davenant, Sir William. The Seventh and Last Canto of the Third Book of Gondibert (London, 1685)
Bookplate (in first item) of ‘Samuel Chandler Gent.’, and book-label of ‘M. J. Naylor, D.D.’ Item 73 in an unidentified sale catalogue and item 251 in a Pickering & Chatto catalogue.
Discussed in James G. McManaway, ‘The “Lost” Canto of Gondibert’, MLQ, 1 (1940), 63-78 (pp. 65-6).
D339.2
Proof-sheet, with a printer's corrections, of four pages in the first edition of Part I (1656), comprising sigs. D1v, D2r, D3v and D4r, in an exemplum of that edition. c.1656.
DaW 107: Sir William Davenant, The Siege of Rhodes, Parts I and II
This sheet discussed, with a facsimile, in Ann-Mari Hedbäck, ‘The Printing of The Siege of Rhodes’, SN, 45 (1973), 68-79.
First published (First Part) in London, 1656. The expanded version in two parts published in London, 1663. Dramatic Works, III, 231-365. Edited by Ann-Mari Hedbäck (Studia Anglistica Upsaliensia 14, Uppsala, 1973).
D347
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’.
pp. 1-2
• DrJ 168: John Dryden, Prologue to the University of Oxon. Spoken by Mr. Hart, at the Acting of the Silent Woman (‘What Greece, when Learning flourish'd, onely Knew’)
Copy, headed ‘Prologue spoke to the University of Oxford by his Majts Servants 1673’.
First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 369-70. California, I, 146-7. Hammond, I, 277-9.
pp. 2-3
• DrJ 42: John Dryden, Epilogue [to the University of Oxon.], Spoken by the same [Mr. Hart] (‘No poor Dutch Peasant, wing'd with all his Fear’)
Copy, headed ‘The Epilogue spoken to the Vniversity of Oxford by his Mties Servants 1673’.
First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 370-1. California, I, 147-8. Hammond, I, 279-81.
pp. 4-5
• WoH 148: Sir Henry Wotton, A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth (‘O faithless world, and thy most faithless part’)
Copy, subscribed ‘H: W:’.
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.
pp. 5-6
• WoH 31: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)
Copy.
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).
pp. 6-8
• WoH 216: Sir Henry Wotton, A Description of the Country's Recreations (‘Quivering fears, heart-tearing cares’)
Copy.
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.
pp. 8-9
• BcF 28: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’
Copy, headed ‘The World’, subscribed ‘Ignoto’.
First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, ‘Bacon's Poem, “The World”: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems’, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.
p. 15
• ShJ 156: James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song (‘The glories of our blood and state’)
Copy of the dirge, headed ‘Song’.
Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).
p. 16
• StW 921: William Strode, Song (‘When Orpheus sweetly did complaine’)
Copy.
First published in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dobell, pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 79-80. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).
pp. 27-8
• ShJ 157: James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song (‘The glories of our blood and state’)
Copy of the dirge, untitled.
Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).
D2200
Autograph copy, headed ‘Damon To Alexis’, on one side of a quarto leaf bound into a printed exemplum of Drummond's Poems (octavo, London, 1656), interleaved with 19th-century annotations, in modern calf gilt. Bound together with a brief autograph letter signed by Drummond, to a lady, on a narrow slip of paper. c.1630.
DrW 30: William Drummond of Hawthornden, To S.W.A. (‘Though I haue twice beene at the Doores of Death’)
Inscribed (flyleaf) ‘Robert Clark: book Emp New[ ] Novemb 19 1669’; (title-page) ‘R. Baldwyn’ and ‘T Park’. Owned in 1820 by David Laing (1793-18780, scottish antiquary, collector and librarian. Bookplate of Winston Henry Hagen (1859-1918), New York lawyer and book collector.
First published in A Cypresse Grove ([Edinburgh?], 1612). Kastner, II, 106.
M2630, Copy 2
An exemplum of the printed edition of Cresacre More's Life of Sir Thomas More (London, 1642) copiously annotated by Charles, second Baron Stanhope of Harrington (1593-1675). c.1640s.
Once owned by Horace Walpole.
Discussed, with a facsimile page, in G.P.V. Akrigg, ‘The Curious Marginalia of Charles, Second Lord Stanhope’, in Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), pp. 785-801.
sig. M: Z2r
• WeJ 16: John Webster, The White Devil
Extract, by Stanhope, from Webster's ‘Epistle to the Reader’ in The White Devil.
Quoted in Akrigg, p. 799.
First published in London, 1612. Lucas, I. Cambridge edition, I, 139-254.
MS H.a.1
Copious autograph annotations and marginalia throughout, signed by Harvey on the title-page, a small quarto in vellum. 1566.
*HvG 73: Gabriel Harvey, Erasmus, Desiderius. Parabolae, Sive Similia...Cum vocabularum liquot non ita vulgarium explicatione (Basle, 1565)
Stern, p. 211. Facsimile of the annotated title-page in DLB, Vol. 281, British Rhetoricians and Logicians 1500-1660. Second Series, ed. Edward A. Malone (Detroit, 2003), p. 121.
MS H.a.2(1)
Copious autograph annotations and marginalia throughout, on pages 321-431 of the printed text, lacking the previous pages and a title-page, an octavo bound (as ff. 1r-56r) with two other works in modern morocco gilt. [1580].
*HvG 66: Gabriel Harvey, Domenichi, Lodovico. Facetie, motti, et burle, di diversi signori et persone private (Venice, 1571)
Stern, p. 209.
MS H.a.2(2)
Copious autograph annotations and marginalia, on pages 432-60 of the printed text, lacking a title-page, an octavo bound (as ff. 56v-72v) with two other works in modern morocco gilt. [1580].
*HvG 143: Gabriel Harvey, Porcacchi, Thomaso. Motti Diversi Raccolti per Thomaso Porcacchi; Et aggiuntovi alle Facetie di M. Lodovico Domenichi (Venice, 1574)
Stern, p. 230. Facsimile of f. 72v, the last page of Harvey's notes, in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 134.
MS H.a.2(3)
Copious autograph annotations and marginalia, signed by Harvey on the title-page and dated ‘1580’, dated at the end (f. 208v) ‘1590’, an octavo bound (as ff. 73r-211r) with two other works in modern morocco gilt. 1580-90.
*HvG 98: Gabriel Harvey, Guicciardini, Lodovico. Detti et Fatti Piacevoli, et Gravi; Di Diversi Principi, Filosofi, Et Cortigiani, Raccolti Dal Guicciardini; Et Ridotti A Moralita (Venice, 1571)
Stern, p. 218. Facsimile of f. 73r, the annotated title-page, in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 135. Facsimile of p. 162 in Wilson, Plate I after p. 346.
JC 158 B7 1612 Cage
Autograph annotations (together with annotations by others).
*CmW 117: William Camden, Boccalini, Traiano. De ragguagli di Parnaso (Venice, 1612)
PA4274 A2 1600 Cage
Autograph annotations and marginalia, a small volume (c.12 x 6 cm), in contemporary calf. c.1600.
*HvG 142: Gabriel Harvey, Pindar. Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia. Caeterorum Octo Lyricorum carmina, Alcaei, Sapphus, Stesichori, Ibyci, Anacreontis, Bacchylidis, Simonidis, Alcmanis. Nonnulla etiam aliorum. Editio IIII Graecolatina, H. Steph. quorundam interpretationis locorum; & accessione lyricorum carminum locupletata. Paulus Stephanus. 1600
Stern, p. 230.
PA 8547 L7P7 1576 Cage
Printed exemplum once bound with SpE 65 and SpE 64.8 and probably also once owned by Spenser.
SpE 64.5: Edmund Spenser, Lotichius, Petrus. Poëmata (Leipzig, 1576)
PQ 4621 D3 M4 1566a Cage
Various autograph annotations and marginalia, signed by Harvey on the title-page and the date altered from 1576 to 1579, an octavo also containing his annotated Thieste out of the original ‘Quattro tragedie’, lacking the original Hecuba and Iphigenia, in modern brown morocco gilt. 1579.
*HvG 65: Gabriel Harvey, Dolce, Lodovico. Medea Tragedia (Venice, 1566)
Item 307 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Corresponding to one of Harvey's volumes whose annotations are copied in the octavo MS in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.
Stern, p. 209.
PQ 4634 S7 P53 1560 Cage
Harvey's autograph signature on the title-page of the Libro Secondo, an octavo in later dark blue morocco. c.1560?.
*HvG 158: Gabriel Harvey, Straparola da Caravaggio, Gio. Francesco, Le notti...nelle quali si contengono le Favole, con i loro Enimmi da dieci donne, & da duo giovani raccontate (Venice, 1560)
Sold by the British Museum as a duplicate in 1804.
Stern, p. 236.
PQ 1921 A7 Cage
A printed exemplum bearing on the flyleaf the signature ‘John Driden’, an octavo in contemporary vellum. The signature is identical to that found in DrJ 370 [on the receipt of 1657 in the National Archives for payment by Secretary Thurloe]. The name ‘Jean Driden’ also appears on the title-page in different lettering. Mid-late 17th century.
*DrJ 299.8: John Dryden, Scudéry, Georges de. Alaric, ou Rome vaincue (Paris, 1655)
Almost certainly from the library of Dryden's friend and protégé William Congreve (items 32 and 579 in the catalogue of Congreve's library edited by John C. Hodges in 1955). Sotheby's, 4 June 1930 (Duke of Leeds library sale), lot 574. In the Dryden Collection of Percy John Dobell (1871/2-1956).
Recorded in Osborn.
PQ 4638 A881b Cage
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.
WoH 108.5: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)
Bought by Bisset in Aberdeen in 1781.
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.
PROMPT 2d Folio T.N.
Pages 255-75 from a Shakespeare Second Folio (1632), marked up for use as a promptbook for an unidentified theatre production. Late 17th century?.
ShW 106.5: William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, and in the Warwick Castle Library.
Shattuck, p. 469 (No. 1).
First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).
PROMPT 3d Folio Com. Err. Smock Alley
Pages 85-100 from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), marked up for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. c.1670s.
ShW 40.8: William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.
Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VIII (Charlottesville, VA, 1996).
First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).
PROMPT 3d Folio 1 Hen.IV Smock Alley
Pages 355-6 from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), being a fragment of a promptbook marked up for use by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. c.1680s.
ShW 49.2: William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.
PROMPT 3d Folio Hen.VIII Smock Alley
Pages 541-68 from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), marked up for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. c.1670s.
ShW 50.5: William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.
Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VIII (Charlottesville, VA, 1996).
By Shakespeare and John Fletcher. First published in the First Folio (1623), as The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth. Cited in 1613 by the title All is True.
PROMPT 3d Folio Lear Smock Alley
Pages 761-88 from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663).
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.
pp. 761-87
• ShW 53.8: William Shakespeare, King Lear
Pages 761-87 marked up for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. c.1670s.
Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VIII (Charlottesville, VA, 1996).
First published in London, 1608.
p. 788
• ShW 72.4: William Shakespeare, Othello
Page 788, the first page of Othello, a fragment of a promptbook used by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.
For the rest, see ShW 72.5.
First published in London, 1622.
PROMPT 3d Folio Mac. Smock Alley
Pages 711-28 (misbound) from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), marked up in several hands for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. Lacking p. 729, which is in Edinburgh University Library: see ShW 59.5. c.1670s.
ShW 59.2: William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.
Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. V (Charlottesville, VA, 1970).
First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).
PROMPT 3d Folio M.W.Smock Alley
Pages ‘36’ [i.e. 39]-60 (but lacking pp. 53-6) from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), and marked up as a promptbook for the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. For a MS supplying the text for the missing leaves, see Folger MS V.b.240 (ShW 65). c.1670s.
ShW 64.8: William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.
Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VIII (Charlottesville, VA, 1996).
First published in London, 1602.
PROMPT 3d Folio Oth. Smock Alley
Pages 789-817 (but lacking p. 788 and pp. 795-800) from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), marked up for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. For the missing page 788, see ShW 72.4. c.1670s.
ShW 72.5: William Shakespeare, Othello
Loter owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.
Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VI (Charlottesville, VA, 19??)
First published in London, 1622.
PROMPT 3d Folio Tim. Smock Alley
Pages 667-688 from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), comprising an unmarked text of Timon of Athens, but with a MS cast list for a production of Julius Caesar at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. The rest of the (probably marked up) text of Julius Caesar was destroyed by fire at the Shakespeare Memorial Library, Birmingham, in 1879. c.1670s.
ShW 51.5: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.
Shattuck, p. 172 (No. 1)
First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).
PROMPT 3d Folio T.N. Smock Alley
Pages 255-75 from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), marked up for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. c.1670s.
ShW 106.8: William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.
Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VIII (Charlottesville, VA, 1996).
First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).
PROMPT 3d Folio Wint. T. Smock Alley
Pages 277-303 from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), with cuts made for use at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. c.1670s.
ShW 108.7: William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.
Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VIII (Charlottesville, VA, 1996).
First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).
S3486 copy 3
Autograph presentation inscription, ‘For the noble hands of Sr Edmund Boyer. from his most humble servant Ja: Shirley’, in a printed exemplum of Six New Playes (London, 1653), an octavo in 19th-century goatskin.
*ShJ 213: James Shirley, Shirley, James. Six New Playes (London, 1653)
The front cover stamped in gilt ‘S. E. S. 1884’: i.e. Sewallis Evelyn Shirley, MP, JP (1844-1904). From the library of the Shirley family at Ettington Hall, Warwickshire. Quaritch's sale catalogue ‘of English Literature’ (August-November 1884), item 22263.
S3486 copy 4
Exemplum of the first edition with over 250 MS annotations and markings and a new final couplet, in three hands, prepared for use as a promptbook by the King's Company at the Bridges Street Theatre. In an octavo volume, Shirley's Six New Playes (London, 1653), in contemporary sheep (rebacked). c.1669-70.
ShJ 191: James Shirley, The Sisters
Inscribed (title-page) ‘Will: Norman’ and his blind-stamped initials and date ‘1655’ on the covers. Formerly at Sion College, London (ARC K 55.2 /SH 6). Sotheby's, 13 June 1977, lot 61.
This item recorded in Gifford & Dyce, V, 354. Discussed in Montague Summers, ‘A Restoration Prompt-Book’, TLS (24 June 1920), p. 400; in Summers, The Restoration Theatre (London, 1934), with a facsimile of p. 13 facing p. 142; in Edward A. Langhans, ‘The Restoration Promptbook of Shirley's The Sisters’, Theatre Annual, 14 (1956), 51-65, with six facsimile examples; in Sotheby's sale catalogue for 13 June 1977, lot 61, with a facsimile example. A complete facsimile is in Edward A. Langhans, Restoration Promptbooks (Carbondale & Edwardsville, 1981), pp. 133-62 (and discussed, pp. 28-30).
Langhans records an exemplum of the first edition of the play at the University of Chicago containing a transcript of the annotations in the present exemplum made by the editor William Gifford (1756-1826).
First published in Six New Playes (London, 1652). Gifford & Dyce, V, 353-424.
STC 837 copy 2
An autograph presentation epistle by Ascham to William Parr, Earl of Essex, on three pages in an exemplum of the first printed edition of Toxophilus. 1545.
*AsR 3.4: Roger Ascham, Ascham, Roger. Toxophilus (London, 1545)
Later owned by Bertram Ashburnham (1797-1874), fourth Earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex. Donated to the Folger in February 1947 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1953), Philadelphia bookseller, collector and scholar, and by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1979), Pennsylvania businessman and collector.
STC 1118.2 copy 1
An exemplum of the 1604 edition with the unprinted pages supplied in MS: i.e. sigs E1v-E2r, E3v-E4r in one secretary hand, and F1r-F3r in another, a quarto in modern vellum boards. c.1604.
BcF 131.2: Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the Better Pacification and Edification of the Church of England
Sotheby's, 1941 (W.M. Safford sale).
First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, ‘The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604)’, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.
STC 1118.2 copy 2
An exemplum of the 1604 edition with the unprinted pages supplied in MS: i.e. sigs E1v-E2r, E3v-E4r in one secretary hand, and F1r-F4r in another, a quarto in modern brown morocco gilt. Inscribed on the title-page: ‘this booke is not [in] print, only foure s[heets] was printed and the bishop of Lond[on] called it in a[nd] would not suf[fer more] to be printed, [that] wch was not [printed] I got in writt[en] hand as you see’. c.1604.
BcF 131.4: Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the Better Pacification and Edification of the Church of England
Sotheby's, 1941 (W. M. Safford sale).
First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, ‘The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604)’, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.
STC 1163 copy 1
An exemplum of a reissue of the first edition (1620), a folio in contemporary limp vellum bearing Bacon's boar crest in gilt. 1620.
BcF 658: Francis Bacon, Bacon, Francis. Instauratio magna (London, 1620)
STC 2207
Bacon's exemplum of The Holie Bible (2 vols, Douai, [1609-10]). Inscribed on the first title-page ‘Liber Francisci Bacon ex dono Richardi Chamberlayne Armigeri’: i.e. presented to Bacon by Richard Chamberlayne, Clerk of the Court of Wards and Liveries. c.1610.
BcF 671: Francis Bacon, Douai-Reims Bible
Later owned by Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire, book collector, and by Sir M.R.H. Wilson, Bt.
This volume is discussed in Edwin Eliott Willoughby, ‘Bacon's Copy of a Douai-Reims Bible’, The Library, 5th Ser. 3 (1948-9), 54-6.
STC 4496 copy 1 vol. 1
Copy, in a mixed hand, subscribed ‘Ben: Jonson’, on the recto of the engraved portrait in a printed exemplum of William Camden's Annales (London, 1615). An early copy of Jonson's inscription, which was carved on a monument in a church largely destroyed in the Fire of London (1666). c.1623.
JnB 764: Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Robert Jermyn of Rushbrooke in St. Margaret's, Lothbury, 1623
The volume inscribed sum ‘ex libris Edwardi Worsælij...’. Armorial bookplate of Henry Labouchere, MP (1798-1869), Baron Taunton, politician.
Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson, VIII, 661. Facsimile in Mark Bland, ‘Jonson, Biathanatos and the Interpretation of Manuscript Evidence’, SB, 51 (1998), 154-82 (p. 166), where it is mistakenly treated as if autograph.
STC 4507 copy 2
Autograph inscription, ‘Gulielmus Camden, in amicitiae symbolum D. D. L. M.’, in a printed exemplum of Britannia (London, 1600). c.1600.
*CmW 13.168: William Camden, Britannia
Inscribed Thomas Thomson.
First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.
STC 4508 copy 1
Autograph presentation inscription by Camden to William Beecher, on the title-page in a printed exemplum of Britannia (London, [1607]), a folio in calf gilt. c.1607.
*CmW 13.169: William Camden, Britannia
Quaritch, sale catalogue 230 (May 1904), item 373.
First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.
STC 4547
Two folio leaves of MS verse, in double columns, in a neat roman hand, at the end of a printed exemplum of Thomas Campion's The First Booke of Ayres (London, [1613?]) bound with The third and fourth booke of Aires (London, [1617]), in panelled calf. Mid-17th century.
Sotheby's, 16-19 June 1930, lot 326, to Quaritch. From the library of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).
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• CwT 713.5: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).
See also Introduction.
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• HeR 155.5: Robert Herrick, Mistresse Elizabeth Wheeler, under the name of the lost Shepardesse (‘Among the Mirtles, as I walkt’)
Copy, untitled.
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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• GrJ 5.3: John Grange, ‘A Lover once I did espy’
Copy, untitled.
First published, in a musical setting, in Playford, Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (1652), I, 12. Poems (1660), pp. 86-7, beginning ‘A Restless Lover I espy'd’, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’, and in Krueger's Appendix II list of poems by John Grange.
STC 4987 copy 1
A garbled version of two lines adapted from II, 2, lines 55-6 (‘Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan)’, here beginning ‘he is a foole that scann’, inscribed at the end of a printed exemplum of George Chapman's An Humorous dayes mirth (London, 1599). In the hand of Thomas Bentley who ‘owes this booke’. Early 17th century.
ShW 77.5: William Shakespeare, Pericles
This MS recorded in Katherine Duncan-Jones, Ungentle Shakespeare (London, 2001), pp. 205, 302-3.
First published in London, 1609.
STC 9326
An exemplum of the first edition, a folio in contemporary calf bearing (the remains of) Bacon's boar crest in gilt. c.1618.
BcF 675: Francis Bacon, The Statutes at large...until the sixteenth yeere of the Raigne of...Iames (London, 1618)
STC 9697
Printed exemplum, in brown calf, inscribed ‘Edm Waller’, ‘Theophilus Ashton’, and ‘Jo: Kelynge’. Mid-late 17th century.
*WaE 866: Edmund Waller, Barnewal, Robert. Les Reports de les cases conteinus in les ans vint primer, et apres in temps del roy Henry le siz (London, 1601)
Bookplate of William Thomas Smedley (1851-1934), Baconian.
STC 11072 copy 2
An exemplum of the printed edition of 1640, with neatly written directions made apparently for use at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, a quarto in modern half-calf. c.1670s-80s.
B&F 153.5: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Night-Walker
Bookplate of Frederick Andrew Inderwick, Q.C. (1836-1904), of the Inner Temple.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in A. Stevenson, ‘The Case of the Decapitated Cast or The Night-Walker at Smock Alley’, Shakespeare Quarterly, 6 (1955), 275-96.
First published in London, [1640]. Bowers, VII, 532-611, ed. Cyrus Hoy.
STC 11163 copy 3
An exemplum of the first first edition of 1629, with extensive MS deletions for performance, numbered on the title-page ‘2097’. Late 17th century.
FoJ 7.5: John Ford, The Lover's Melancholy
Discussed in Clifford Leech, ‘A Projected Restoration Performance of Ford's The Lover's Melancholy?’, MLR 56 (1961), 378-81.
First published in London, 1629. Dyce, I, 1-106. Bang, pp. 1-86.
STC 11247 copy 1
Autograph annotations and marginalia, in blue goatskin. 1572.
*HvG 82: Gabriel Harvey, Foxe, John. De Christo crucifixo concio (London, 1571)
Later owned by The Rev. John Brand (1744-1806), antiquary and topographer; Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; William Henry Miller, MP (1789-1848), of Britwell Court, Burnham, Buckinghamshire; Quaritch's, 1920; and Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).
Stern, p. 214.
STC 12772.3 copy 1, Bd w STC 12774.2 copy 1 and STC 12779
Autograph marginal additions and annotations by Harington in a large paper exemplum of one of the octavo editions of 1596, in modern red morocco gilt. c.1596.
*HrJ 318: Sir John Harington, The Metamorphosis of Ajax
Once owned by John, first Baron Lumley (c.1533-1609), collector, and later by The Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857, antiquary and book collector. Bookplates of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector; E. M. Cox; and Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).
This item (the ‘Lumley-Folger’ copy) collated in Donno, with a facsimile of the title-page as frontispiece.
First published in London, 1596. Edited by Elizabeth Story Donno (New York, 1962).
STC 12772.3 copy 2 Bd. w STC 12774.2 copy 2 and STC 12781.2
Autograph marginal additions and annotations by Harington in an imperfect exemplum of one of the octavo editions of 1596, the missing first part (‘A New Discourse’) supplied from an exemplum of the third edition (1814) and two pages missing from the ‘Appolgie’ supplied in MS in a roman hand, in old russia. c.1596.
*HrJ 319: Sir John Harington, The Metamorphosis of Ajax
Inscribed in 1813 by Robert Nares (1753-1829), philologist. Bookplates of J. Knight and John William Cole. Label of James Camden Hotten (1832-73), bookseller, writer and publisher.
This item (the ‘Nares-Folger’ copy) collated in Donno.
First published in London, 1596. Edited by Elizabeth Story Donno (New York, 1962).
STC 12908 copy 2
Autograph annotations and marginalia, inscribed ‘Ex dono Jo. ffratris’. c.1588.
*HvG 104: Gabriel Harvey, Harvey, John. A discoursive Probleme concerning Prophesies, How far they are to be valued, or credited, according to the surest rules, and directions in Divinitie, Philosophie, Astrologie, and other learning: Devised especially in abatement of the terrible threatenings, and menaces, peremptorily denounced against the kingdoms, and states of the world, this present famous yeere, 1588, supposed the Greatwoonderfull, and Fatal yeere of our Age (London, 1588)
Leighton sale, May 1918, lot 1235. From the library of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).
Stern, p. 220.
STC 13287
Twenty quarto leaves containing extracts from the 1576 edition of Heywood's Woorkes, in a single secretary hand, bound at the end of a printed exemplum of that edition, in modern black calf gilt. c.1577-1600.
HyJ 1: John Heywood, A dialogue conteynyng the number of thê effectuall prouerbes in the English tounge
Later owned by George Spencer (1766-1840), Marquess of Blandford and fifth Duke of Marlborough, book collector, of White Knights, near Reading; George Hibbert (1757-1837), West India merchant; T. D. C. Graham; M. Ogle & Son, Glasgow, booksellers; McLeish, sale catalogue No. 114, item 161.
First published London, 1546. Milligan, pp. 17-101. Ed. Rudolph E. Habenicht (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1963).
STC 14753 copy 1
Verse inscribed in a printed exemplum of Ben Jonson's Workes, Vol. I (London, 1640), a folio, in modern panelled calf gilt. In the hand of The Rev. John Genest (1764-1839), theatre historian, whose signature dated 1 August 1784 appears on a flyleaf. c.1784.
Acquired from G. A. Baker, 1929.
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• JnB 549.5: Ben Jonson, To the worthy Author M. Iohn Fletcher (‘The wise, and many-headed Bench, that sits’)
Copy, headed ‘To Mr John Fletcher upon his Faithful Shepherd’.
First published in John Fletcher, The Faithfull Shepheardesse (London, [1609?]). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 370-1.
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• BrW 212.5: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on the Cs of Peme. Sister to Sir P. Sidney’ and here beginning ‘Underneath this marble herse’.
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.
STC 15447
Thomas Nashe's scribbled italic signature and annotations on both sides of the title-page and pp. 130, 132, in a printed exemplum of John Leland, Principum Ac illustrium aliquot & eruditorum in Anglia virorum Encomia (London, 1589). Including the quotations ‘Che sara sara deuinynitie adie’ (cp. Faustus, I, i, 74-5) and ‘studie in indian silke’ (cp. Faustus, I, i, 117-18). c.1589-1601.
MrC 20: Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
Later in the library of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).
These annotations printed, with facsimile examples, in Paul H. Kocher, ‘Some Nashe Marginalia concerning Marlowe’, MLN, 57 (1942), 45-9.
First published [in London, 1601?] (earliest extant edition London, 1604). Bowers, II, 121-271 (pp. 163-4). Tucker Brooke, pp. 139-229 (pp. 148-9). Gill et al., vol. II.
STC 15634
Autograph inscription ‘Sum Nicolai Vdulli Magnes amoris modestia 1525’, and annotations, a quarto in contemporary calf. 1525.
*UdN 15: Nicholas Udall, Linacre, Thomas. De emendata structura Latini sermonis libri sex (London, 1524)
Once owned by James Marble (fl. 1525-30s) and in 1537 by William Welden, both of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Later owned by William Herbert (1718-95), bibliographer and print seller; by Sir John Saunders Sebright, seventh Baronet, MP (1767-1846), of Beechwood, Hertfordshire (his sale 6 April 1807); by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; by Sir John Saunders Sebright, seventh Baronet, MP (1767-1846), of Beechwood, Hertfordshire; and in the Britwell Library of William Henry Miller, MP (1789-1848) and Samuel Christie Miller, MP (1810-89), at Burnham, Buckinghamshire. Britwell sale, 4 April 1927, lot 1139. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 493 (1927), item 591, with a facsimile of the title-page (Plate XLVI, facing p. 329).
Recorded in William L. Edgerton, Nicholas Udall (New York, 1965), pp. 31-2, 114. Juhász-Ormsby, No. 3.
STC 17163.2
Annotations in unidentified hands, unsigned. Late 16th century.
HvG 177: Gabriel Harvey, Machiavelli, Niccolò. I Sette Libri Dell'Arte Della Guerra Di Niccolo Machiavelli Cittadini, et Secretario Fiorentino ([London], 1587)
Stern, p. 268.
STC 17492 copy 1
An autograph letter in Latin signed by Jonson (Jonsonio tuo), to Richard Briggs (‘Amico summo D. Rich Briggesio’), dated 10 August 1623, inscribed in Jonson's printed exemplum of Martial's Epigrammaton libri, ed. Thomas Farnaby (London, 1615). Inscribed (sig. A2v) ‘Gulielmus Dauling: His Booke Anno Domini 1676’. Armorial bookplate and inscription of Bryan Faussett, 1772. 1623.
*JnB 743: Ben Jonson, Letter(s)
The letter first published in Gentleman's Magazine (1786), vol. lvi, part i, p. 378. Edited in Herford & Simpson, I, 215-16.
STC 17632 copy 2
Numerous autograph corrections in an exemplum of the quarto edition of 1624, in half green morocco on marbled boards. Separately rebound (by Gosse), but originally bound with seven other plays of Massinger (including unmarked exempla of The Fatal Dowry (1632) and The Maid of Honour (1632), known as the ‘Harbord volume’. c.1624-33.
*MsP 15: Philip Massinger, The Bondman
From the library of the Harbord family, of Gunton Park, Roughton, Norfolk, and sold in 1853. Bookplate of Sir Edmund Gosse (1849-1928), writer.
This item collated in Edwards & Gibson.
The Harbord volume variously described in: A.H. Cruickshank, Philip Massinger (Oxford, 1920), pp. 215-23; W.W. Greg, ‘More Massinger Corrections’, The Library, 4th Ser. 5 (1925), 59-91, reprinted in Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), pp. 120-48; Cruickshank, ‘Massinger Corrections’, The Library, 4th Ser. 5 (1925), 175-9; J.E. Gray, ‘Still More Massinger Corrections’, The Library, 5th Ser. 5 (1951), 132-9; A.K. McIlwraith, ‘The Manuscript Corrections in Massinger's Plays’, The Library, 5th Ser. 6 (1952), 213-16; and Edwards & Gibson, I, xxxii-xxxiii.
First published in London, 1624. Edwards & Gibson, I, 311-95.
STC 17634 copy 1
A few autograph corrections by Massinger, made chiefly to replace lines cut away by the binder, in an exemplum of the quarto edition of 1623, in half green morocco on marbled boards. Separately rebound (by Gosse), but originally bound with seven other plays of Massinger (including unmarked exempla of The Fatal Dowry (1632) and The Maid of Honour (1632), known as the ‘Harbord volume’. c.1623-33.
*MsP 18: Philip Massinger, The Duke of Milan
From the library of the Harbord family, of Gunton Park, Roughton, Norfolk, and sold in 1853. Bookplate of Sir Edmund Gosse (1849-1928), writer.
This item recorded in Edwards & Gibson, I, 207. Facsimile of the first page of text in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 186.
The Harbord volume variously described in: A.H. Cruickshank, Philip Massinger (Oxford, 1920), pp. 215-23; W.W. Greg, ‘More Massinger Corrections’, The Library, 4th Ser. 5 (1925), 59-91, reprinted in Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), pp. 120-48; Cruickshank, ‘Massinger Corrections’, The Library, 4th Ser. 5 (1925), 175-9; J.E. Gray, ‘Still More Massinger Corrections’, The Library, 5th Ser. 5 (1951), 132-9; A.K. McIlwraith, ‘The Manuscript Corrections in Massinger's Plays’, The Library, 5th Ser. 6 (1952), 213-16; and Edwards & Gibson, I, xxxii-xxxiii.
First published in London, 1623. Edwards & Gibson, I, 213-300.
STC 17636 copy 1
Over 80 autograph corrections by Massinger, in an exemplum of the quarto edition of 1632, in half green morocco on marbled boards. Separately rebound (by Gosse), but originally bound with seven other plays of Massinger (including unmarked exempla of The Fatal Dowry (1632) and The Maid of Honour (1632), known as the ‘Harbord volume’. c.1632-3.
*MsP 20: Philip Massinger, The Emperor of the East
From the library of the Harbord family, of Gunton Park, Roughton, Norfolk, and sold in 1853. Bookplate of Sir Edmund Gosse (1849-1928), writer.
This item collated in Edwards & Gibson.
The Harbord volume variously described in: A.H. Cruickshank, Philip Massinger (Oxford, 1920), pp. 215-23; W.W. Greg, ‘More Massinger Corrections’, The Library, 4th Ser. 5 (1925), 59-91, reprinted in Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), pp. 120-48; Cruickshank, ‘Massinger Corrections’, The Library, 4th Ser. 5 (1925), 175-9; J.E. Gray, ‘Still More Massinger Corrections’, The Library, 5th Ser. 5 (1951), 132-9; A.K. McIlwraith, ‘The Manuscript Corrections in Massinger's Plays’, The Library, 5th Ser. 6 (1952), 213-16; and Edwards & Gibson, I, xxxii-xxxiii.
First published in London, 1632. Edwards & Gibson, III, 401-88.
STC 17640.2 copy 1
Nearly 60 autograph corrections by Massinger in the first two acts, in an exemplum of the quarto edition of 1630, in half green morocco on marbled boards. Separately rebound (by Gosse), but originally bound with seven other plays of Massinger (including unmarked exempla of The Fatal Dowry (1632) and The Maid of Honour (1632), known as the ‘Harbord volume’. c.1630-3.
*MsP 32: Philip Massinger, The Picture
From the library of the Harbord family, of Gunton Park, Roughton, Norfolk, and sold in 1853. Bookplate of Sir Edmund Gosse (1849-1928), writer.
This item collated in Edwards & Gibson.
The Harbord volume variously described in: A.H. Cruickshank, Philip Massinger (Oxford, 1920), pp. 215-23; W.W. Greg, ‘More Massinger Corrections’, The Library, 4th Ser. 5 (1925), 59-91, reprinted in Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), pp. 120-48; Cruickshank, ‘Massinger Corrections’, The Library, 4th Ser. 5 (1925), 175-9; J.E. Gray, ‘Still More Massinger Corrections’, The Library, 5th Ser. 5 (1951), 132-9; A.K. McIlwraith, ‘The Manuscript Corrections in Massinger's Plays’, The Library, 5th Ser. 6 (1952), 213-16; and Edwards & Gibson, I, xxxii-xxxiii.
First published in London, 1630. Edwards & Gibson, III, 193-287.
STC 17641 copy 1
Numerous autograph corrections and revisions by Massinger in an exemplum of the quarto edition of 1630, in half green morocco on marbled boards. Separately rebound (by Gosse), but originally bound with seven other plays of Massinger (including unmarked exempla of The Fatal Dowry (1632) and The Maid of Honour (1632), known as the ‘Harbord volume’. c.1630-3.
*MsP 34: Philip Massinger, The Renegado
From the library of the Harbord family, of Gunton Park, Roughton, Norfolk, and sold in 1853. Bookplate of Sir Edmund Gosse (1849-1928), writer.
This item collated in Edwards & Gibson.
The Harbord volume variously described in: A.H. Cruickshank, Philip Massinger (Oxford, 1920), pp. 215-23; W.W. Greg, ‘More Massinger Corrections’, The Library, 4th Ser. 5 (1925), 59-91, reprinted in Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), pp. 120-48; Cruickshank, ‘Massinger Corrections’, The Library, 4th Ser. 5 (1925), 175-9; J.E. Gray, ‘Still More Massinger Corrections’, The Library, 5th Ser. 5 (1951), 132-9; A.K. McIlwraith, ‘The Manuscript Corrections in Massinger's Plays’, The Library, 5th Ser. 6 (1952), 213-16; and Edwards & Gibson, I, xxxii-xxxiii
First published in London, 1630. Edwards & Gibson, II, 11-96.
STC 17642 copy 3
Numerous autograph corrections by Massinger in an exemplum of the quarto edition of 1629, in half green morocco on marbled boards. Separately rebound (by Gosse), but originally bound with seven other plays of Massinger (including unmarked exempla of The Fatal Dowry (1632) and The Maid of Honour (1632), known as the ‘Harbord volume’. c.1629-33.
MsP 37: Philip Massinger, The Roman Actor
From the library of the Harbord family, of Gunton Park, Roughton, Norfolk, and sold in 1853. Bookplate of Sir Edmund Gosse (1849-1928), writer. Inserted letter to Gosse by A.C. Swinburne discussing Massinger's corrections in the Harbord volume.
This item collated in Edwards & Gibson. Facsimile examples in W.W. Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), facing p. 128, and in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 187.
The Harbord volume variously described in: A.H. Cruickshank, Philip Massinger (Oxford, 1920), pp. 215-23; W.W. Greg, ‘More Massinger Corrections’, The Library, 4th Ser. 5 (1925), 59-91, reprinted in Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), pp. 120-48; Cruickshank, ‘Massinger Corrections’, The Library, 4th Ser. 5 (1925), 175-9; J.E. Gray, ‘Still More Massinger Corrections’, The Library, 5th Ser. 5 (1951), 132-9; A.K. McIlwraith, ‘The Manuscript Corrections in Massinger's Plays’, The Library, 5th Ser. 6 (1952), 213-16; and Edwards & Gibson, I, xxxii-xxxiii.
First published in London, 1629. Edwards & Gibson, III, 13-93.
STC 17876
Exemplum of the first edition (1602) with the text of the missing leaves H2 and H3 supplied in MS, probably transcribed from a promptbook, a quarto in vellum boards gilt. In the secretary hand of a professional scribe associated with the playhouse and also responsible for ChG 12.5, HyT 5, and a verse miscellany in the British Library, Add. MS 33998. c.1620s-30s.
MiT 6: Thomas Middleton, Blurt, Master-Constable
From the library of the Mostyn family, at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire.
This MS discussed, with a facsimile, in James G. McManaway, ‘Latin Title-Page Mottoes as a Clue to Dramatic Authorship’, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 28-36, reprinted in McManaway, Studies in Shakespeare, Bibliography, and Theater (New York, 1969), 55-66.
First published in London, 1602. Bullen, I, 1-98. This play is not now generally attributed to Middleton.
STC 18662
Autograph annotations and marginalia. 1574.
*HvG 135: Gabriel Harvey, North, George. The Description of Swedland, Gotland, and Finland; the auncient estate of theyr kynges; the most horrible and incredible tiranny of the second Christiern, kyng of Denmarke, agaynst the Swecians; the poleticke attayning to the Crowne of Gostave, wyth hys prudent providyng for the same. Collected and gathered out of sundry laten Aucthors, but chieflye out of Sebastian Mounster (London, 1561)
Inscribed (front pastedown) ‘Tho: Stukeley M.B.RSS. 1718. Ex dono amici plurimis aestimandi Maur. Johnson Ar.S.T.I.S’.
Stern, p. 229.
STC 19828
Waller's exemplum, inscribed ‘Edm: Waller’, a duodecimo in vellum boards.
*WaE 896: Edmund Waller, Pseudo-Phalaris. The Epistles of Phalaris, [trans. W. D.] (London, 1634)
Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. In the Britwell Court Library of William Henry Miller, MP (1789-1848), and Samuel Christie Miller, MP (1810-89), at Burnham, Buckinghamshire, and in the library of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937). Sotheby's, 15 March [?1926], lot 439. H.B. Quaritch, 23 March 1926.
STC 20641 Copy 3
A printed exemplum of the 1634 edition of Sir Walter Ralegh's Historie of the World copiously annotated by Charles, second Baron Stanhope of Harrington (1593-1675). c.1640s.
Discussed in G.P.V. Akrigg, ‘The Curious Marginalia of Charles, Second Lord Stanhope’, in Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), pp. 785-801.
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• CoR 19.5: Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge (‘It is not yet a fortnight, since’)
Copy by Stanhope of lines 3-6, here beginning ‘& vented hath a studdyed toy’.
Quoted in Akrigg, p. 796.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.
Some texts accompanied by an ‘Answer’ (‘A ballad late was made’).
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• ChG 8.5: George Chapman, Bussy D'Ambois
Copy by Stanhope of seventeen lines in Act V, scene iii: namely lines 215-26 beginning ‘O had I neeuer marryed but for forme’ and lines 264-70 beginning ‘Farewell Graue relicts of a compleat man’.
Quoted in Akrigg, p. 799.
First published in London, 1607.
STC 21725
Copy of an apparently early version, in a neat predominantly italic hand, headed ‘A Paraphrase upon Salomons song. Dedicated to the Queene. But not sufferd to be printed’, on six folio leaves, bound with a printed exemplum of A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638), in modern quarter calf on marbled boards. c.1637-43.
SaG 29: George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon the Song of Solomon (‘Join thy life-breathing lips to mine’)
Cropped inscription (sig. A1r) ‘Jones’. Bookplate of William Thomas Smedley (1851-1934), Baconian.
This MS discussed in Davis, loc. cit., pp. 335-6, 338-40.
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.
STC 22178 Copy 3
Lady Anne Clifford's exemplum of the second edition, with her autograph inscription on the title-page ‘I beegane, to ovrloke this Booke the 18 of Februarary and I did make an ende of reding, or over loking itt all over the first of Marche folloinge 1638’, with autograph annotations to the printed text and many corners turned down as bookmarks. 1638.
CdA 19: Lady Anne Clifford, Selden, John. Titles of Honor (London, 1631)
Afterwards owned by Sir Daniel Fleming (1633-1701), of Rydall Hall, Ambleside, Westmoreland, antiquary. Christie's, 27 February 1969 (Richard Le Fleming sale), lot 56, to Maggs.
Sample photocopies are in the British Library, RP 9354.
STC 22273 Fo.1 No.47
Proof sheet, with MS markings calling for nine corrections, of sig. vv3r (p. 333), in an exemplum of the First Folio (1623). c.1623.
ShW 70: William Shakespeare, Othello
Owned in 1902 by Maurice Jonas.
This item discussed, with facsimiles, in Charlton Hinman, ‘A Proof-Sheet in the First Folio of Shakespeare’, The Library, 4th Ser. 23 (1943), 101-7.
First published in London, 1622.
STC 22273 Fo.1 No.48
Proof sheet, with MS markings calling for five corrections, of sig. qq6v (p. 292), in an exemplum of the First Folio (1623). c.1623.
ShW 53: William Shakespeare, King Lear
Inscribed ‘Alice Stevenson 1723’; ‘Thomas Willson’ [c.1775]; and ‘17. Nov. 1807. John Cranch’ [the painter, 1751-1821]. Also owned by Walter T. Spencer (d.1936), London bookseller.
This item discussed, with a facsimile, in Charlton Hinman, ‘Mark III: New Light on the Proof-Reading for the First Folio of Shakespeare’, SB, 3 (1950-1), 145-53.
First published in London, 1608.
STC 22273 Fo.1 No.50
Proof sheet, with MS markings calling for two corrections, of sig. ff6r (p. 71), in an exemplum of the First Folio (1623). c.1623.
ShW 84: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Inscribed ‘Thomas Polwhele’ [fl.c.1700]. Later owned by Alexander Smith Cochran (1874-1929), founder of the Elizabethan Club at Yale.
This item discussed, with facsimiles, in Charlton Hinman, ‘The Proof-Reading of the First Folio Texts of Romeo and Juliet’, SB, 6 (1954), 61-70.
First published in London, 1597.
STC 22273, No. 23
A printed exemplum of the Shakespeare First Folio (London, 1623).
Once owned by Elizabeth Brockett.
fourth flyleaf verso
• ChM 3: Mary, Lady Chudleigh, To the Ladies (‘Wife and Servant are the same’)
Copy, inscribed in the volume. Early-mid-18th century.
This MS recorded in Ezell, pp. xvii-xviii.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (London, 1703). Ezell, pp. 83-4.
STC 22273 (Fragment)
A proof sheet, of four pages (sigs xx6r-xx7v, pp. 351-4), with MS markings calling for nineteen corrections on sig. xx6v (p. 352), extracted from an exemplum of the First Folio (1623), in a modern half morocco on marbled boards folder. c.1623.
ShW 36: William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
Later in the libraries of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector, and James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.
This item (first discovered by Halliwell-Phillipps) described, with facsimiles, in Edwin Eliott Willoughby, The Printing of the First Folio of Shakespeare (Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1932), and in Charlton Hinman, The Printing and Proof-Reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare, 2 vols (Oxford, 1963), I, 317-19 and facing p. 234.
Facsimiles also in S. Schoenbaum, Shakespeare The Globe & the World (Washington, DC, & London, 1979), p. 179, and in DLB, vol. 62, Elizabethan Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 330.
First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).
STC 22466, copy 3
Two MS versions of the last line, in a mixed hand. Here ‘Who euer heard a story of more woe / Then that of Juliet and her Romeo’ and ‘ffor neuer was there story of more woe / Then that of Juliet and her Romeo’, among other quotations inscribed in the italic hand of Richard Derham on the last page (verso of p. 45) of his printed exemplum of Nathaniel Shute, Corono Charitatis (London, 1626). 1627-9.
ShW 86.2: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Inscribed ‘Joh: Squire’ and ‘W. W. Radford 1871’. Later in the library of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).
First published in London, 1597.
STC 22540, copy 1
Copy, in the hand of Dorothy Wilde, inscribed in a printed exemplum of Sidney's Arcadia (London, 1593), sig. T4v. 1645.
OxE 21: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘When werte thow borne desyre?’
First published, as ‘Of the birth and bringing vp of desire’, subscribed ‘E. of Ox.’, in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). May, Poems, No. 11 (pp. 33-4). May, Courtier Poets, pp. 277-8. EV 30058.
STC 22957
A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.
Inscribed on the title-page ‘E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774’. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).
Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.
sig. A2r-A2v
• SoR 294: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Author to his loving Cosen
Minor MS corrections in the printed text.
Prefatory address, beginning ‘Poets by abusing their talents, and making the follies and fayninges of love...’. First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 1-2.
sig. A3r
• SoR 246: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, To the Reader (‘Deare eye that doest peruse my muses style’)
Minor MS corrections in the printed text.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 2.
pp. 1-34
• SoR 197: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Saint Peters Complaint (‘Launche foorth my Soul into a maine of teares’)
MS corrections in the printed text.
First published London, 1595. Brown, pp. 75-100.
p. 35
• SoR 153: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Mary Magdalens blush (‘The signs of shame that staine my blushing face’)
A minor MS correction in the printed text.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 32-3.
pp. 37-8
• SoR 140: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Marie Magdalens complaint at Christs death (‘Sith my life from life is parted’)
A minor MS correction in the printed text.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 45-6.
pp. 41-2
• SoR 55: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Fortunes Falsehoode (‘In worldly meriments lurketh much miserie’)
A MS correction in the printed text.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 65-6.
p. 43
• SoR 210: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Scorne not the least (‘Where wards are weake, and foes encountring strong’)
Three MS corrections in the printed text.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 69-70.
pp. 51-2
• SoR 115: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Losse in delaies (‘Shun delaies, they breede remorse’)
A minor MS correction in the printed text.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 58-9.
f. 1r-v
• SoR 195: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Saint Peters Complaynte (‘How can I live, that have my life deny'de?’)
Copy of lines 5-72, untitled and here beginning ‘O Sinne of sinnes, of evels the very woorst’, on the final blank leaf of the printed work.
Edited from this MS in McDonald (1937), pp. 141-3, and in Brown, pp. 29-31.
This version first published in McDonald (1937), pp. 141-3. Brown, pp. 29-31.
f. 2r
• SoR 267: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Conceptio B. Virginis sub porta aurea (‘A golden gate was her conceaving place’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.
First published in McDonald (1937), p. 42. Brown, p. 108.
f. 2r-v
• SoR 274: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Praesentatio B. Virginis (‘A glorious temple wrought with secret art’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.
First published in McDonald (1937), p. 43. Brown, pp. 108-9.
ff. 3r-10r
• SoR 225: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Sequence on the Virgin Mary and Christ (‘Our second Eve puts on her mortall shroude’)
Copy of the sequence of fourteen poems.
Poems vi & xii first published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Poems i-v, vii-xi first published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Poems xiii & xiv first published in The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W. B. Turnbull (London, 1856). Brown, pp. 3-12.
ff. 10r-11r
• SoR 158: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, New heaven, new warre (‘Come to your heaven you heavenly quires’)
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 13-15.
f. 11r-v
• SoR 11: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The burning Babe (‘As I in hoarie Winters night’)
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 15-16.
f. 12r-v
• SoR 163: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, New Prince, new pompe (‘Behold a silly tender Babe’)
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 16-17.
ff. 12v-13r
• SoR 235: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Sinnes heavie loade (‘O Lord my sinne doth over-charge thy brest’)
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 17-18.
ff. 13v-14
• SoR 24: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Christs bloody sweat (‘Fat soile, full spring, sweete olive, grape of blisse’)
Copy of a 36-line version.
First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 18-19.
ff. 14r-15v
• SoR 31: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Christs sleeping friends (‘When Christ with care and pangs of death opprest’)
Copy.
First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 19-21.
ff. 15v-17v
• SoR 85: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Josephs Amazement (‘When Christ by growth disclosed his descent’)
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 21-3.
ff. 17v-19v
• SoR 69: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A holy Hymne (‘Praise, O Sion, praise thy Saviour’)
Copy, headed ‘St. Thomas of Aquines hymne read on Corpus Christi daye: Lauda Sion Salvatorem’.
First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 23-6.
ff. 19v-20v
• SoR 169: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Of the Blessed Sacrament of the Aulter (‘In paschall feast the end of auncient rite’)
Copy.
First published as ‘The Christians Manna’ in S. Peters Complaint and Saint Mary Magdalens Fvnerall Teares ([St Omers], 1616). Brown, pp. 26-8.
ff. 20v-2r
• SoR 188: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, S. Peters afflicted minde (‘if that the sicke may grone’)
Copy.
First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, p. 31.
ff. 22r-3v
• SoR 204: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, S. Peters remorse (‘Remorse upbraids my faults’)
Copy.
First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 33-5.
ff. 23v-4v
• SoR 44: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Davids Peccavi (‘In eaves, sole Sparrowe sits not more alone’)
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 35-6.
ff. 24v-8r
• SoR 175: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A Phansie turned to a sinners complaint (‘Hee that his mirth hath lost’)
Copy, headed ‘Diars fancie turned to a sinners complaint’.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 36-40.
ff. 28r-9v
• SoR 253: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A vale of teares (‘A vale there is enwrapt with dreadfull shades’)
Copy.
First published in Moeoniae, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 41-3.
ff. 29v-31r
• SoR 180: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The prodigall childs soule wracke (‘Disankerd from a blisfull shore’)
Copy.
First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 43-5.
ff. 31v-2r
• SoR 133: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Mans civill warre (‘My hovering thoughts would flie to heaven’)
Copy.
First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 49-50.
ff. 32r-3r
• SoR 96: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Life is but Losse (‘By force I live, in will I wish to die’)
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 50-1.
f. 33r-v
• SoR 218: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Seeke flowers of heaven (‘Soare up my soule unto thy rest’)
Copy.
First published in Moeoniae, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 52.
f. 34r
• SoR 74: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, I dye alive (‘O life what lets thee from a quicke decease?’)
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 52-3.
ff. 34r-5r
• SoR 259: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, What joy to live? (‘I wage no warre yet peace I none enjoy’)
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 53-4.
f. 35r-v
• SoR 102: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Lifes death loves life (‘Who lives in love, loves least to live’)
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 54-5.
ff. 35v-6v
• SoR 5: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, At home in Heaven (‘Faire soule, how long shall veyles thy graces shroud?’)
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 55-6.
ff. 36v-7v
• SoR 90: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Lewd Love is Losse (‘Misdeeming eye that stoupest to the lure’)
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 62-3.
ff. 37v-8r
• SoR 61: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, From Fortunes reach (‘Let fickle fortune runne her blindest race’)
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 66-7.
ff. 38v-9v
• SoR 49: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Decease release. Dum morior orior (‘The pounded spice both tast and sent doth please’)
Copy.
First published in St. Peter's Complaint, and other Poems. by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817). Brown, pp. 47-8.
ff. 39v-40v
• SoR 80: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, I dye without desert (‘If orphane Childe enwrapt in swathing bands’)
Copy.
First published in St. Peters Complaint, and other Poems. by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817). Brown, pp. 48-9.
ff. 40v-1v
• SoR 122: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Loves Garden grief (‘Vaine loves avaunt, infamous is your pleasure’)
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 64.
ff. 41v-2r
• SoR 276: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Ubi est Deus meus? (‘Alas I live without my life’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.
First published in McDonald (1937), pp. 49-50. Brown, p. 109.
f. 42r-v
• SoR 273: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Optima Deo (‘Behold how first the modest Rose doth prie’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.
First published in McDonald (1937), p. 50. Brown, p. 110.
ff. 42v-3r
• SoR 277: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Unworthy receaving (‘I freeze in fire, I thirst amiddest the crystal streames’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.
First published in McDonald (1937), pp. 50-1. Brown, p. 110.
f. 43r-v
• SoR 262: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Beatus vir qui non abiit etc (‘O happie wight that hath not raun'gd astray’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.
First published in McDonald (1937), p. 51. Brown, pp. 110-11.
ff. 43v-4v
• SoR 275: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, S. Peters complaint (‘How can I live, that have forsaken life’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.
First published in McDonald (1937), pp. 51-2. Brown, pp. 111-12.
ff. 44v-5r
• SoR 283: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The virgin Mary to Christ on the Crosse (‘What mist hath dimd that glorious face’)
Copy of a version headed ‘Our Ladie to Christ upon the Crosse’.
Edited from this MS in Brown, pp. 112-13.
First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 71-2.
f. 45r-v
• SoR 264: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Christes answere (‘Withdraw thy tender eies a while’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.
First published in McDonald (1937), p. 53. Brown, p. 113.
ff. 45v-6r
• SoR 263: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Christ upon the Crosse to man (‘Behold I fainte and fade away’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Brown, pp. 113-14.
First published (from this MS) in McDonald (1937), pp. 53-4.
f. 46r-v
• SoR 268: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Man to the wound in Christs side (‘O pleasant port, O place of rest’)
Copy, headed ‘To the wound in Christes side’.
First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 72-3.
ff. 46v-9v
• SoR 265: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Complaint of the B. Virgin having lost her Sonne in Hierusalem (‘How may I live, since that my life is gone?’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.
First published in McDonald (1937), pp. 54-7. Brown, pp. 114-17.
f. 49v
• SoR 261: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Annuntiation altered from that before (‘Spel Eva backe, and Ave shall you find’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.
First published in McDonald (1937), pp. 57-8. Brown, p. 117.
f. 50r-v
• SoR 278: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Upon the Image of death (‘Before my face the picture hangs’)
Copy.
First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 73-4.
ff. 51r-68v
• SoR 267.7: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A Foure-fold Meditation: of the foure last things (‘O wretched man, which louest earthlie thinges’)
Copy, headed ‘Memorare novissima a tua, et in æternum non peccatis / A Poëme of the contempt of the world, and an exhortation to præpare to die, made by Philip Earle of Arundel after his attaindour’.
First published, as ‘By R: S. The author of S. Peters complaint’, in London, 1606. The poem is more commonly ascribed to Philip Howard (1557-95), first Earl of Arundel, Catholic Saint, with whom Southwell was acquainted (see McDonald, pp. 6-7, 121-2). EV17760.
STC 25900b
A printed exemplum presented to John Raven (d.1636), Royal Physician, formerly including Wither's autograph verses to him (WiG 29). c.1635.
WiG 44: George Wither, A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne (London, 1634-5)