MS 581, No. 437
Autograph note requesting E. Grigsby to pay Lancelot Keate the dividend on Southerne's South Sea Stock, 19 February 1713[/14?]. 1714.
*SuT 7: Thomas Southerne, Letter(s)
Edited in Jordan & Love, I, p. xxxiii (n 90).
MS 1692
Drummond's printed exemplum of William Alexander, Monarchicke Tragedies (London, 1607). c.1607.
f. iiir
• *DrW 270: William Drummond of Hawthornden, To the Author (‘Whiles dark, unknowne, neglected your Glorie’)
Autograph, inscribed on a flyleaf.
First published in Fogle (1952), p. 75.
passim
• *DrW 347: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Alexander, William. The Monarchicke Tragedies (London, 1607)
Extensive autograph annotations.
See also DrW 270.
MacDonald, Library of Drummond, No. 698 (and see p. 34).
MSS 2053-5
Autograph rough drafts, bound in three folio volumes in 19th-century calf gilt.: Vol. I (James I-II), iii + 229 leaves, mostly on rectos only, dated 1633; Vol. II (James III), 352 leaves, mostly on rectos only, 1642-3; Vol. III (James IV-V), 390 leaves, mostly on rectos only, dated 1623, 1639 and 1644. 1633-44.
*DrW 314: William Drummond of Hawthornden, The History of the Five Jameses, Kings of Scotland
Among the working papers and collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vols I-III.
These drafts discussed in Thomas I. Rae, ‘The historical writing of Drummond of Hawthornden’, SHR, 54, 1 (April 1975), 22-62.
First published as The History of Scotland (London, 1655). Works (1711), pp. 1-116.
MSS 2053-67
RaW 384.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, An epitaph on the Earl of Leicester (‘Here lyes the noble warryor that never bludyed sword’)
Miss Latham notes (p. 172) that Sir Walter Scott quoted the epitaph in Kenilworth (1821), his text deriving from a copy among the Drummond Papers, most of which are now in the National Library of Scotland (MSS 2053-67).
First published as introduced ‘...yet immediately after his [Leicester's] death, a friend of his bestowed vpon him this Epitaphe’ and beginning ‘Heere lies the woorthy warrier’, in Richard Verstegan, A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (London, ‘1592’), p. 54, which is sometimes entitled Cecil's Commonwealth: see E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172, who notes that the epitaph was quoted, from a text among William Drummond's papers, in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821). Rudick, No. 46, p. 120.
MSS 2056-7
Fair copy or later drafts, with a title-page ‘The Historie of the Lives and Raignes of five Kinges of Scotland by William Drummond of Hawthornden’, in two folio volumes, in 19th-century calf gilt. Vol. IV (James I-III), 320 leaves; Vol. V (James IV-V), 234 leaves, both volumes mainly in the italic hand of an amanuensis, with Drummond's autograph revisions and additions; Vol. V, ff. 1r-74r (James IV) entirely autograph. c.1644-9.
*DrW 315: William Drummond of Hawthornden, The History of the Five Jameses, Kings of Scotland
Among the working papers and collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vols IV-V.
These MSS discussed in Rae. A speech in MS 2057, ff. 202-8, printed in MacDonald (1976), pp. 174-8.
First published as The History of Scotland (London, 1655). Works (1711), pp. 1-116.
MS 2058
A folio composite volume of autograph drafts by Drummond, on different folio sizes of paper, 319 leaves, chiefly on rectos only, in 19th-century calf gilt. c.1635-1644.
Among the working papers and collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VI.
ff. 1r-39r
• *DrW 351.8: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Letter(s)
A series of autograph draft letters by Drummond.
ff. 42r-87r
• *DrW 319: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Irene
Autograph first draft, with revisions, inscribed at the end ‘This copie of Irene is uerie imperfite and not to be made use of’, the work dated 22 September 1638.
First published in Works (1711), pp. 163-73.
ff. 89r-133r
• *DrW 320: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Irene
Autograph second draft, with revisions, the work dated September 1638.
First published in Works (1711), pp. 163-73.
ff. 136r-47r
• *DrW 321: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Irene
Autograph third draft, with revisions, described (f. 47v) as ‘Second Coppie’, lacking the title and incomplete; [1638].
First published in Works (1711), pp. 163-73.
ff. 149r-88v
• *DrW 322: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Irene
Autograph fourth draft, the final version, dated 1638.
Extracts from this MS edited in MacDonald (1976), pp. 179-99.
First published in Works (1711), pp. 163-73.
ff. 190r-5v
• *DrW 339: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Queries of State
Autograph first draft.
First published in Works (1711), pp. 177-8.
ff. 197r-202r
• *DrW 340: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Queries of State
Autograph second draft, with deletions.
First published in Works (1711), pp. 177-8.
ff. 205r-9r
• *DrW 341: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Queries of State
Autograph draft, the final version.
First published in Works (1711), pp. 177-8.
ff. 211r-26r
• *DrW 331: William Drummond of Hawthornden, The Magical Mirror
Autograph draft, the final version, imperfect, lacking the final page, dated 1 April 1639.
First published in Works (1711), pp. 174-6.
ff. 227r-32v
• *DrW 329: William Drummond of Hawthornden, The Magical Mirror
Autograph first draft, with revisions; incomplete.
First published in Works (1711), pp. 174-6.
ff. 233r-9v
• *DrW 330: William Drummond of Hawthornden, The Magical Mirror
Autograph second draft, with revisions, incomplete.
First published in Works (1711), pp. 174-6.
ff. 242r-8r
• *DrW 326: William Drummond of Hawthornden, The Load-Star
Autograph draft, with one section deleted.
First published in Works (1711), pp. 183-4.
ff. 260r-318r
• *DrW 346: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Skiamachia
Autograph draft, dated 10 January ‘1643’.
First published in Works (1711), pp. 190-205.
MS 2059
A folio composite miscellany of verse and prose, compiled entirely by William Drummond, 403 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt. c.1606-14.
Among the working papers and collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VII.
The MS as a whole
• *DrW 352: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Ephemeris
Drummond's autograph miscellany entitled ‘Ephemeris’, containing lists of books, extracts from various authors, and other miscellaneous material.
ff. 6v, 36r-8r, 39r-42r, 236v-91v
• SiP 104: Sir Philip Sidney, The New Arcadia
Substantial prose extracts from Books I-V and 19 of the poems (Nos. 3, 8, 9 [lines 121-37]. 10 [lines 67-85, 89-96], 21, 25, 27, 40, 41, 43, 46, 52, 54, 59, 60, 65, 69, 72 [lines 1-20], 75 [lines 79-93], in an irregular order), untitled, transcribed from a printed edition.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 560.
The unfinished revised version of Arcadia (the ‘New Arcadia’) first published in London, 1590. Edited, as The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The New Arcadia), by Victor Skretkowicz (Oxford, 1987).
f. 23v
• *DrW 148: William Drummond of Hawthornden, In Sr. P. d. R. (‘Great Paragon, of Poets richest Pearle’)
Autograph copy.
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 268. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 113-14.
f. 23v
• *DrW 222: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Silenus to King Midas (‘The greatest Gift that from their loftie Thrones’)
Autograph copy, untitled, in Drummond's miscellany ‘Ephemeris’; c. 1606-14.
First published in Poems (1656). Kastner, II, 186. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 113-14.
f. 29r
• DaS 12: Samuel Daniel, Delia. Sonnet LIIII (‘Care-charmer Sleepe, sonne of the sable night’)
Copy, here beginning ‘Care-charming slep sone of the sable nyt’.
This MS recorded in David Laing, ‘A Brief Account of the Hawthornden Manuscripts…’, Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 4 (1831), 57-116 (p. 70).
Grosart, I, 72-3. Sprague, p. 33, as Sonnet XLV.
f. 208r-v
• DkT 41: Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore, Part I
Extracts, headed ‘The converted Curtezan’, apparently transcribed from the edition of 1605.
First published in London, 1604. Bowers, II, 1-130.
f. 209r-v
• ChG 7: George Chapman, All Fools
Extracts, transcribed from the edition of 1605.
First published in London, 1605. Edited by G. Blakemore Evans in Urbana edition, Comedies, pp. 227-309.
ff. 209v-10v
• MiT 34: Thomas Middleton, Your Five Gallants
Extracts transcribed from the first edition.
First published in London, 1607. Bullen, III, 121-245. Edited by C. Lee Colgrave (New York, 1979). Oxford Middleton, pp. 597-635.
f. 214r
• DkT 47: Thomas Dekker, Westward Ho
Extracts, apparently transcribed from the edition of 1607.
First published in London 1607. Bowers, II, 311-403.
ff. 221r-2v
• MiT 21: Thomas Middleton, A Mad World, My Masters
Extracts transcribed from the edition of 1608.
First published in London, 1608. Bullen, III, 247-359. Edited by Standish Henning (London, 1965). Oxford Middleton, pp. 417-51.
ff. 226r-7v
• HrJ 15: Sir John Harington, Orlando Furioso (‘Of Dames, of Knights, of armes, of loves delight’)
Extracts.
First published in London, 1591. Edited by Robert McNulty (Oxford, 1972). Printed and manuscript exempla discussed in Gerard Kilroy, ‘Advertising the Reader: Sir John Harington's “Directions in the Margent”’, English Literary Renaissance, 41/1 (Winter, 2011), 64-110.
See also HrJ 22, HrJ 243.
ff. 292r-4r, 295v-6r
• SiP 21: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets
Copy of sonnets 8 (lines 1, 4-10), 9 (lines 1-7), 10 (lines 1-4), 11 (lines 1-8), 12 (lines 7-9, 16), 15, 16, 17 (lines 11-12, 14-15, 17-20, 27-45, 48-52), 18 (lines 3-4, 13-14,), 19 (lines 3-4, 6), 21, 22 (lines 9-10, 62-3, 65-8), 23 (lines 16-20, 25-6, 29-32), 24 (lines 6-7, 12-13, 15-16, 22-7), 26 (lines 16-22, 27-33), 27, 30 (lines 4-6, 12-16, 23-6), 31, transcribed from a printed edition.
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 560.
First published in Arcadia (London, 1598). Ringler, pp. 133-62.
ff. 294v-5r, 296v-9v
• SiP 217: Sir Philip Sidney, The Lady of May
Substantial extracts, transcribed from a printed source.
This MS recorded in Ringler, pp. 361, 560 and in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 20.
First published in Arcadia (London, 1598). Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 21-32. The verse portions in Ringler, pp. 3-5.
ff. 344r-8v
• MrJ 8: John Marston, The Fawn
Extracts, transcribed from one of the editions of 1606.
First published as Parasitaster, or the Fawn (London, 1606). Bullen, II, 105-229. Edited by Gerald A. Smith (London, 1965).
ff. 352r-3r
• PlG 3: George Peele, The Hunting of Cupid
Extracts from Peele's lost ‘Pastoral’, here beginning ‘On the snowie browes of albion. sweet woodes sweet running’.
Drummond's extracts (91 lines) first published from this MS in The Works of George Peele, ed. Alexander Dyce, 2 vols (London, 1828). Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in W.W. Greg, ‘The Hunting of Cupid, a lost play by George Peele’, Collections, I, parts IV and V, Malone Society (Oxford, 1911), 307-14. Edited from this MS in Prouty, I, 204-7.
See PlG 3-7.
ff. 358v-9r
• DaS 54: Samuel Daniel, Tethys Festival
Extracts, comprising various phrases and the two songs ‘If ioy had other figure’ and ‘Are they shadowes that we see?’, transcribed from the edition of 1610.
First published in London, 1610. Grosart, III, 301-23. Stephen Orgel and Roy Strong, Inigo Jones: The Theatre of the Stuart Court, 2 vols (University of California Press, 1973), I, 190-201.
Drummond includes this work in his list of ‘bookes red anno 1609 be me’ (National Library of Scotland, MS 2059, f. 361r).
MS 2061
A folio composite volume of autograph verse and prose drafts by Drummond, in different folio sizes of paper, 178 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt. Early 17th century.
Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. IX.
f. 59r
• *DrW 32: William Drummond of Hawthornden, To Sr. W.A. (‘Like Sophocles (the hearers in a trance)’)
Autograph copy of an untitled version beginning ‘Whidder braue sprit like Sophocles thou pranse’.
Printed from this MS in Kastner, II, 371.
First published in Sir William Alexander, Doomes-Day (Edinburgh, 1614). Kastner, II, 161.
f. 77r
• *DrW 335: William Drummond of Hawthornden, [Note on Painters and Poets]
A brief autograph note.
Edited from this MS in Paganelli.
First published in Paganelli (1968), pp. 330-1.
f. 128r
• *DrW 337: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Of Impresas
Autograph.
First published in Works (1711), pp. 228-31.
f. 131r
• *DrW 307: William Drummond of Hawthornden, A dedication of some poems to Craigmiller
Autograph, the title added in a later hand.
Edited from this MS in Paganelli.
First published in Paganelli (1968), pp. 327-8.
ff. 136v-7r
f. 140r
• *DrW 77: William Drummond of Hawthornden, The creed (‘How is the Creed thus stollen from vs away?’)
Autograph draft; c. 1619.
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 244.
f. 143r
• *DrW 318: William Drummond of Hawthornden, In praise of the allegorie in poesie
Autograph draft of a brief essay.
Edited from this MS in Paganelli.
First published in Paganelli (1968), pp. 331-2.
ff. 144v-5r
• *DrW 309: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the geneologie of the house of Drummond
Autograph draft.
Unpublished.
ff. 147r
• *DrW 317: William Drummond of Hawthornden, In praise of letters
Autograph draft of a brief essay.
Edited from this MS in Paganelli.
First published in Paganelli (1968), pp. 332-3.
ff. 148r-9r
f. 151r
ff. 159r-60r
• *DrW 308: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Discourse in commendation of kinglie government
Autograph draft; 1626.
Unpublished.
ff. 174r-3r, 175r-8r
• *DrW 305: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Bibliotheca Edinburgena Lectori
Two autograph drafts.
First published in Works (1711), p. 222.
MS 2066
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, partly in Drummond's hand, including papers of his uncle William Fowler, in various paper sizes, viii + 81 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt. Early 17th century.
Among the working papers and collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. XIV.
ff. 70v, 71v
• *DrW 338: William Drummond of Hawthornden, [Of the Country of Amauria]
Autograph drafts, untitled, on a full sheet of paper, written on the back of an answer to a bill of complaint dated 17 June 1605.
Unpublished.
MS 2092
A folio composite guardbook of miscellaneous verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, v + 107 leaves, mounted on guards. Compiled in part by Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), Scottish antiquary.
f. 78r
• DoC 29: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Ballad by the Lord Dorset when at Sea (‘To all you ladies now at land’)
Copy, in a neat hand, headed ‘Song’, on one side of a folio leaf, once folded as a letter. Late 17th century.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published as a broadsheet [1664? no exemplum extant]. Songs [1707?]. Old Songs [1707?]. Harris, pp. 65-8.
MS 2197
Autograph oblong quarto MS, on rectos only, iv + 21 leaves (165 x 198mm.), in contemporary blind-stamped vellum. In various styles of hand, with pen and ink decoration.
*InE 54: Esther Inglis, Specimens of various styles of writing [I]
Presented by Hugh Stuart of Allanbank to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 24 April 1828.
Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 5 (pp. 31-2), with facsimiles of ff. 9r and 7r as Plates 5 and 6 (between pp. 42 and 43).
Alphabets and moral sentences in English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish.
MS 2201
A quarto composite volume of verse and prose manuscripts, in several hands, 165 leaves. Including (ff. 104-35) a late 17th-century quarto verse miscellany in a small mixed hand, possibly compiled by an Oxford University man.
ff. 108r-9v
• RoJ 328: 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, headed ‘A Satyr agt. Mankind. By the E. of Rochester’. c.1685.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
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).
f. 114r
• RoJ 523: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Translation from Seneca's ‘Troades’, Act II, Chorus (‘After death nothing is, and nothing, death’)
Copy, with the original Latin verses, headed ‘Senec. Tragoed. in Troade. Act 2. Chor...Translated by the E. of Rochester thus’.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe. Collated in Walker.
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’.
f. 122r
• RoJ 233: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons (‘If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold’)
Copy. c.1685.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among ‘Poems Possibly by Rochester’. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.
ff. 128v-31r
• DrJ 213: John Dryden, To Sir Godfrey Kneller (‘Once I beheld the fairest of her Kind’)
Copy, as ‘By Mr. Dryden’.
First published in The Annual Miscellany: for the Year 1694 (London, 1694). Kinsley, II, 858-63. California, IV, 461-6. Hammond, IV, 344-55.
f. 132r
• ShJ 165: 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 ‘Reflections on our Mortal State. By Mr James Shirley’.
Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).
MS 2202
A quarto volume comprising four tracts, 78 leaves.
ff. 23r-72r
• MeE 2: Elizabeth Melville, Ane Godlie Dreame (‘Upon ane day as I did mourne full soir’)
Copy, headed ‘A Godly Dream, compyled by Elizabeth Melvill, Lady Culross, Younger, at the request of a friend...1686’. Early 18th century.
First published in Edinburgh, 1603.
MS 2688
A folio composite volume of speeches and proceedings in the House of Commons in 1640-42, in various hands, vi + 1237 pages, rebound in two volumes, in modern quarter-calf. c.1640s.
Among the collections of George Neilson (1858-1923), Scottish historian and antiquary.
pp. 1044-59
• WaE 794: Edmund Waller, Speech in the House of Commons, 22 April 1640
Copy, headed ‘Mr Wallers Speech in the House of Comons, Ao. 1640’. c.1642.
Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 307.
A speech beginning ‘I will use no preface, as they do who prepare men to something to which they would persuade them...’ First published in two variant editions, as A Worthy Speech Made in the house of commons this present Parliament 1641 and as An Honorable and Learned Speech made by Mr Waller in Parliament respectively (both London, 1641). In Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), pp. 306-8. It is doubted whether Waller actually delivered this speech in Parliament, though ‘He may have prepared and circulated the speech in manuscript to impress contemporaries’.
MS 5443
Copy, on ten quarto leaves. Early 17th century.
EsR 242: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1
MS 5444
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603, on sixteen quarto leaves. Early 17th century.
RaW 728.235: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)
Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, ‘“The Great Day of Mart”: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603’, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.
MS 5448
An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics in a single secretary hand, 30 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum gilt, with modern ties. c.1630.
Inscribed inside the front cover ‘Ro Carre of Ferniehurst (1669)’, later fourth Lord Jedburgh. Initials ‘L. A. K.’ stamped on the cover possibly denoting his wife, Lady Ann Ker.
ff. 3r-4r
• CmT 229: Thomas Campion, ‘What if a day, or a month, or a yeare’
Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting, untitled.
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.
f. 5r
• CmT 198: Thomas Campion, ‘Do not, O do not prize thy beauty at too high a rate’
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
First published in Robert Jones, Ultimum Vale (London, 1605). Davis, p. 477. Doughtie, pp. 205-6.
ff. 9v-10r
• LoT 8: Thomas Lodge, An Ode (‘Now I find thy lookes were fained’)
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled, here beginning ‘Now I sie thy lucks ar fained’.
First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Phillis: Honoured with Pastorall Sonnets, Elegies, and amorous delights (London, 1593). Gosse, II, (p. 58). The song-version beginning ‘Now I see thy looks were feigned’ first published in Thomas Ford, Musicke of Sundrie Kindes (London, 1607).
f. 13r
• CmT 15: Thomas Campion, Canto Tertio (‘My Love bound me with a kisse’)
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
First published (first strophe) among ‘sundry other rare Sonnets of diuerse Noble men and Gentlemen’ appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). Robert Jones, Second Booke of Songs and Ayres (London, 1601). Davis, p. 9. Doughtie, p. 151.
f. 14v
• ShW 108.2: William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II, iii, lines 41-6, 49-54. Song (‘O mistress mine, where are you roaming?’)
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
The Clown's song.
MS 5736
A folio composite volume, comprising two independent tracts, in three hands, 80 leaves, in old vellum.
The first item (ff. 2r-21v), Asser's De rebus gestis Aelfredi in a late 16th-century roman hand, inscribed (f. 2r) ‘M Patterson’ and ‘Lumley’: i.e. John, first Baron Lumley (c.1533-1609), collector. The volume later belonging to the Carr (or Ker) family, Marquesses of Lothian, at Newbattle Abbey.
ff. 22r-80r
• *DaS 43: Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England. Appendix
Copy of ‘The Appendix to the Collection of the Historie of England’, comprising transcripts of numerous historical documents, in the italic and secretary hands of possibly two amanuenses, with the title (f. 22r) and two headings (on ff. 31r, 37r) in Daniel's own hand. c.1618.
Probably a working copy of part of the ‘Appendix’ which Daniel discusses in his ‘Certaine Aduertisements to the Reader’ [1618] and which the preliminary notice of a special licence granted to Daniel mentions as ‘hereafter too bee printed’, but which remained unpublished.
Extracts from this MS (‘The Kerr Manuscript’), with facsimile examples, in Pitcher, Brotherton MS (1980).
MS 5740
A folio composite volume, comprising two tracts in different hands, 28 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
Bookplate of the Carr (or Ker) family, Marquesses of Lothian.
ff. 3r-14r
• FeO 95: Owen Felltham, A Brief Character of the Low-Countries
Copy, in a professional mixed hand, headed ‘Three weekes observation of States Countries Especiallie Holland’. c.1630s-40s.
This MS discussed in Van Strien.
First published as Three Monethes observation of the low Countries especially Holland by a traveller whose name I know not more then by the two letters of J:S: at the bottome of the letter. Egipt this 22th of Jannuary (London, 1648). Expanded text printed as A brief Character of the Low-Countries under the States. Being three weeks observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants... (for Henry Seile: London, 1652).
MS 5743
A quarto volume of antiquarian tracts on Parliament, in a single professional secretary hand, 90 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1620s-30s.
ff. 40r-5v
• CmW 85: William Camden, Of the Antiquity of Parliaments in England
Copy, headed ‘The Antiquitie of Parliaments’, subscribed ‘W: Camden’.
A tract beginning ‘That there were such like assemblies as parliaments now are, before the Romans arrival here...’. First published in Sir John Doddridge et al., The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquaries...touching...the High Court of Parliament in England (London, 1658). Hearne (1771), I, 303-6.
MS 5767
A quarto volume of 39 sermons, including (ff. 2r-56v) eight by Donne, in probably a single minute predominantly italic hand, 204 leaves (plus inserted material), in modern half-calf. 3 August-11 September 1624.
Owned in 1820 by one ‘Frs. Watts, Linc. Inn’. Afterwards owned by David Laing (1793-1878); by Augustus Jessop (1823-1914), and, after 1898, by the ninth Marquess of Lothian. Presented in 1950 by the Special Trustees of Newbattle Abbey.
Described in Potter & Simpson, I, 38-41.
ff. 11r-17r
• DnJ 4008: John Donne, Sermon preached February 21 [1618/19], on Matthew 21.44
Copy, subscribed ‘5o Idus Aug:’.
This MS collated in Potter & Simpson.
First published in Six Sermons (Cambridge, 1634). Fifty Sermons (London, 1649), No. 35. Potter & Simpson, II, No. 8, pp. 180-96.
ff. 18r-22v
• DnJ 4017: John Donne, Sermon preached at Lincoln's Inn [January 30, 1619/20], on John 5.22
Copy.
This MS collated in Potter & Simpson.
First published in Six Sermons (Cambridge, 1634). Fifty Sermons (London, 1649), No. 12. Potter & Simpson, II, No. 15, pp. 311-24.
ff. 24r-27r
• DnJ 4021: John Donne, Sermon preached at Lincoln's Inn [the evening of January 30, 1619/20], on John 8.15
Copy.
This MS collated in Potter & Simpson.
First published in Six Sermons (Cambridge, 1634). Fifty Sermons (London, 1649), No. 13. Potter & Simpson, II, No. 16, pp. 325-34.
ff. 28r-32v
• DnJ 4013: John Donne, A Sermon of Valediction at my going into Germany, at Lincoln's Inn, April 18, 1619, on Ecclesiastics 12.1
Copy, subscribed ‘3 Aug: 19. / 1624/’.
This MS collated in Potter & Simpson.
First published in XXVI Sermons (London, 1661), No. 19. Potter & Simpson, II, No. 11, pp. 235-49.
ff. 34r-8r
• DnJ 4038: John Donne, Sermon preached at Lincoln's Inn, on Colossians 1.24
Copy, subscribed ‘3o Calend: Sextilis’.
This MS collated in Potter & Simpson.
First published in Fifty Sermons (London, 1649), No. 16. Potter & Simpson, III, No. 16, pp. 332-47.
ff. 39r-44r
• DnJ 4026: John Donne, Sermon preached at Whitehall, April 30, 1620, on Psalms 144.15
Copy.
This MS collated in Potter & Simpson.
First published in LXXX Sermons (London, 1640), No. 74. Potter & Simpson, III, No. 2, pp. 73-90.
ff. 45r-50r
• DnJ 4030: John Donne, Sermon preached before the King at Whitehall, February 16, 1620/21, on I Timothy 3.16
Copy.
This MS collated in Potter & Simpson.
First published in XXVI Sermons (London, 1661), No. 4. Potter & Simpson, III, No. 9, pp. 206-24.
ff. 51r-6v
• DnJ 4004: John Donne, Sermon preached at Lincoln's Inn [spring or summer, 1618], on Psalms 38.9
Copy, subscribed ‘11o Septemb 1624’.
This MS collated in Potter & Simpson.
First published in the 1921 facsimile of the Dowden Sermons MS (see DnJ 4002). Potter & Simpson, II, No. 6, pp. 144-63.
MS 5831
A quarto volume of state tracts and papers, in a single professional secretary hand, with (f. 2r) a formal title-page ‘A Missellany Or Collection of Seuerall things 1625’, and (ff. 3r-4r) a table of contents, 194 leaves, in contemporary vellum. 1625.
ff. 15r-61r
• BcF 71: Francis Bacon, An Advertisement touching the Controversies of the Church of England
Copy, as ‘Written by Sr: Francis Bacon’.
A tract beginning ‘It is but ignorance if any man find it strange that the state of religion (especially in the days of peace) should be exercised...’. First published as A Wise and Moderate Discourse concerning Church-Affaires ([London], 1641). Spedding, VIII, 74-95.
ff. 102r-5r
• BcF 715: Francis Bacon, An Essay of a King
Copy, headed ‘Character of a Kinge’.
Essay, beginning ‘A king is a mortal god on earth...’. Spedding, VI, 595-7 (discussed pp. 592-4).
ff. 174r-87r
• CtR 90: Sir Robert Cotton, A Breife Abstract of the Question of Precedencie between England and Spaine: Occasioned by Sir Henry Nevill the Queen of Englands Ambassador, and the Ambassador of Spaine, at Calais Commissioners appointed by the French King...
Copy, unascribed.
Tract, relating to events in 1599/1600, beginning ‘To seek before the decay of the Roman Empire...’. First published in London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [73]-‘79’ [i.e. 89].
MS 6489
Autograph folio MS of religious meditations and expostulations about prayer, including her ‘Mothers Will to her vnborne child att Pitfirane beeing writt when I was with Child of my deare Betty 1656’, ii + 259 pages, in contemporary vellum wrappers within modern quarter-leather. Inscribed on a vellum slip as belonging to the library at Pitfirrane, having been brought away by the Rev. Dunbar Halknett. c.1650-56.
*HaA 2: Anne, Lady Halkett, Meditations
Probably Ballard's ‘fifth book’.
Selections from most of the original 21 volumes published from 1701 onwards. See the discussion in Margaret J.M. Ezell, ‘Anne Halkett's Morning Devotions: Posthumous Publication and the Culture of Writing in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain’, in Print, Manuscript & Performance, ed. Arthur F. Marotti and Michael D. Bristol (Columbus, Ohio, 2000), 215-31. Substantial selections from the known extant volumes published in Trill (2007).
MS 6490
Autograph octavo MS of ‘Ocationall Meditations’, dating from 1658/9 to 1660, ii + 380 pages, in brown calf (rebacked). c.1659-60.
*HaA 3: Anne, Lady Halkett, Meditations
Probably Ballard's ‘sixth book’. Selectively edited from this MS in Trill, pp. 1-12.
Selections from most of the original 21 volumes published from 1701 onwards. See the discussion in Margaret J.M. Ezell, ‘Anne Halkett's Morning Devotions: Posthumous Publication and the Culture of Writing in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain’, in Print, Manuscript & Performance, ed. Arthur F. Marotti and Michael D. Bristol (Columbus, Ohio, 2000), 215-31. Substantial selections from the known extant volumes published in Trill (2007).
MS 6491
Autograph quarto MS of ‘Ocationall Meditations’, some inscribed ‘All these were at London 1660 & 1663’, v + 326 pages, in modern brown calf. c.1660-63.
*HaA 4: Anne, Lady Halkett, Meditations
Probably Ballard's ‘seventh book’. Selectively edited from this MS in Trill, pp. 15-24, with a facsimile of the first page of the MS on p. 14.
Selections from most of the original 21 volumes published from 1701 onwards. See the discussion in Margaret J.M. Ezell, ‘Anne Halkett's Morning Devotions: Posthumous Publication and the Culture of Writing in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain’, in Print, Manuscript & Performance, ed. Arthur F. Marotti and Michael D. Bristol (Columbus, Ohio, 2000), 215-31. Substantial selections from the known extant volumes published in Trill (2007).
MS 6492
Autograph quarto MS of ‘occasional meditations’, including ‘Select Contemplations’ and her ‘Instructions to my Son & only Child Robert Halket’, including a meditation on the death of her husband, 24 September 1670, ‘begun the first Monday in Januery in the yeare 1667/8’ and dating up to 1670/1, xxi + 352 pages, in later brown calf gilt. c.1668-71.
*HaA 5: Anne, Lady Halkett, Meditations
Probably Ballard's ‘ninth book’. Edited selectively from this MS in Trill, pp. 27-41, with a facsimile of p. 83 on p. 26.
Selections from most of the original 21 volumes published from 1701 onwards. See the discussion in Margaret J.M. Ezell, ‘Anne Halkett's Morning Devotions: Posthumous Publication and the Culture of Writing in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain’, in Print, Manuscript & Performance, ed. Arthur F. Marotti and Michael D. Bristol (Columbus, Ohio, 2000), 215-31. Substantial selections from the known extant volumes published in Trill (2007).
MS 6493
Autograph large quarto MS of ‘Occasional Meditations by The Widows Mite’, ‘begun June the 23 1673’ up to at least September 1674, 338 pages, in contemporary calf (rebacked). c.1673-74.
*HaA 6: Anne, Lady Halkett, Meditations
Probably Ballard's ‘tenth book’. Selectively edited from this Ms in Trill, pp. 43-9, with a facsimile of p. 279 on p. 42.
Selections from most of the original 21 volumes published from 1701 onwards. See the discussion in Margaret J.M. Ezell, ‘Anne Halkett's Morning Devotions: Posthumous Publication and the Culture of Writing in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain’, in Print, Manuscript & Performance, ed. Arthur F. Marotti and Michael D. Bristol (Columbus, Ohio, 2000), 215-31. Substantial selections from the known extant volumes published in Trill (2007).
MS 6494
Autograph quarto MS of meditations, ‘Begun June 20 1676’ until at least 26 November 1678, ii + 380 pages, in contemporary brown calf (rebacked). c.1676-78.
*HaA 7: Anne, Lady Halkett, Meditations
Probably Ballard's ‘twelfth book’. Recorded in Trill, p. 197.
Selections from most of the original 21 volumes published from 1701 onwards. See the discussion in Margaret J.M. Ezell, ‘Anne Halkett's Morning Devotions: Posthumous Publication and the Culture of Writing in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain’, in Print, Manuscript & Performance, ed. Arthur F. Marotti and Michael D. Bristol (Columbus, Ohio, 2000), 215-31. Substantial selections from the known extant volumes published in Trill (2007).
MS 6495
Autograph quarto MS of meditations, including ‘Joseph's Trialls and Triumph’, ‘Begun Monday the 10 of february 1678/9’ and ‘Ended Saturday the 5 of Nouember 1681’, iii + 506 pages, in contemporary brown calf. c.1679-81.
*HaA 8: Anne, Lady Halkett, Meditations
Probably Ballard's ‘thirteenth book’. Recorded in Trill, p. 197.
Selections from most of the original 21 volumes published from 1701 onwards. See the discussion in Margaret J.M. Ezell, ‘Anne Halkett's Morning Devotions: Posthumous Publication and the Culture of Writing in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain’, in Print, Manuscript & Performance, ed. Arthur F. Marotti and Michael D. Bristol (Columbus, Ohio, 2000), 215-31. Substantial selections from the known extant volumes published in Trill (2007).
MS 6496
Autograph quarto MS of meditations, including ‘Meditations vpon the Booke of Ionah’, dated (p. ii) ‘21 Jan 1683/4’ and, inside the rear cover, ‘Ended June 27 1685’, ii + 378 pages, in contemporary brown calf. c.1684-85.
*HaA 9: Anne, Lady Halkett, Meditations
Probably Ballard's ‘fifteenth book’ (but lacking the 136-page continuation to 1686). Recorded in Trill, p. 197.
Selections from most of the original 21 volumes published from 1701 onwards. See the discussion in Margaret J.M. Ezell, ‘Anne Halkett's Morning Devotions: Posthumous Publication and the Culture of Writing in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain’, in Print, Manuscript & Performance, ed. Arthur F. Marotti and Michael D. Bristol (Columbus, Ohio, 2000), 215-31. Substantial selections from the known extant volumes published in Trill (2007).
MS 6497
Autograph quarto MS of meditations, dated (p. i) ‘24 Jan 1686/7’ and, inside the rear cover, ‘ended May 18 1688’, vii + 392 pages, in contemporary brown calf. c.1687-88.
*HaA 10: Anne, Lady Halkett, Meditations
Probably Ballard's ‘sixteenth book’. Selectively edited from this MS in Trill, pp. 145-63, with a facsimile of p. 280 on p. 144.
Selections from most of the original 21 volumes published from 1701 onwards. See the discussion in Margaret J.M. Ezell, ‘Anne Halkett's Morning Devotions: Posthumous Publication and the Culture of Writing in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain’, in Print, Manuscript & Performance, ed. Arthur F. Marotti and Michael D. Bristol (Columbus, Ohio, 2000), 215-31. Substantial selections from the known extant volumes published in Trill (2007).
MS 6498
Autograph quarto MS of meditations, including meditations on Exodus and 1 Samuel, dated (p. i) ‘21 May 1688’ and, inside the rear cover, ‘March 17 1689/90’, v + 372 pages, in contemporary brown calf. c.1688-90.
*HaA 11: Anne, Lady Halkett, Meditations
Probably Ballard's ‘seventeenth book’. Recorded in Trill, p. 197.
Selections from most of the original 21 volumes published from 1701 onwards. See the discussion in Margaret J.M. Ezell, ‘Anne Halkett's Morning Devotions: Posthumous Publication and the Culture of Writing in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain’, in Print, Manuscript & Performance, ed. Arthur F. Marotti and Michael D. Bristol (Columbus, Ohio, 2000), 215-31. Substantial selections from the known extant volumes published in Trill (2007).
MS 6499
Autograph quarto MS of meditations, ‘begun June 24 1690’ and ‘ended 22th of May 1692’, iv + 370 pages, in contemporary brown calf (rebacked). c.1690-92.
*HaA 12: Anne, Lady Halkett, Meditations
Probably Ballard's ‘eighteenth book’. Recorded in Trill, p. 197.
Selections from most of the original 21 volumes published from 1701 onwards. See the discussion in Margaret J.M. Ezell, ‘Anne Halkett's Morning Devotions: Posthumous Publication and the Culture of Writing in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain’, in Print, Manuscript & Performance, ed. Arthur F. Marotti and Michael D. Bristol (Columbus, Ohio, 2000), 215-31. Substantial selections from the known extant volumes published in Trill (2007).
MS 6500
Autograph quarto MS of meditations, including ‘Of Watchfullnesse’, ‘Begun Sunday the 28th of January 1693/4’ and dating as late as ‘Sunday 7th of Aprill 1695’, iii + 375 pages, in contemporary brown calf. c.1694-95.
*HaA 13: Anne, Lady Halkett, Meditations
Probably Ballard's ‘nineteenth book’. Selectively edited from this MS in Trill, pp. 165-72, with a facsimile of p. 320 on p. 164.
Selections from most of the original 21 volumes published from 1701 onwards. See the discussion in Margaret J.M. Ezell, ‘Anne Halkett's Morning Devotions: Posthumous Publication and the Culture of Writing in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain’, in Print, Manuscript & Performance, ed. Arthur F. Marotti and Michael D. Bristol (Columbus, Ohio, 2000), 215-31. Substantial selections from the known extant volumes published in Trill (2007).
MS 6501
Autograph quarto MS of meditations, ‘Begun Thursday the 21 of May 1696’ and dating up to ‘11 Feb. 1696/7’, vii + 373 pages, in contemporary brown calf (rebacked). c.1696-97.
*HaA 14: Anne, Lady Halkett, Meditations
Probably Ballard's ‘twentieth book’. Selectively edited from this MS in Trill, pp. 175-85, with a facsimile of p. 267 on p. 174.
Selections from most of the original 21 volumes published from 1701 onwards. See the discussion in Margaret J.M. Ezell, ‘Anne Halkett's Morning Devotions: Posthumous Publication and the Culture of Writing in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain’, in Print, Manuscript & Performance, ed. Arthur F. Marotti and Michael D. Bristol (Columbus, Ohio, 2000), 215-31. Substantial selections from the known extant volumes published in Trill (2007).
MS 6502
Autograph quarto MS of meditations, ‘begun 4 Jan. 1697/8’ and dating up to 1699, iii + 314 pages, in contemporary brown calf with metal clasps. c.1698-99.
*HaA 15: Anne, Lady Halkett, Meditations
Probably Ballard's ‘twenty first book’. Selectively edited from this MS in Trill, pp. 187-96, with a facsimile of p. 262 on p. 186.
Selections from most of the original 21 volumes published from 1701 onwards. See the discussion in Margaret J.M. Ezell, ‘Anne Halkett's Morning Devotions: Posthumous Publication and the Culture of Writing in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain’, in Print, Manuscript & Performance, ed. Arthur F. Marotti and Michael D. Bristol (Columbus, Ohio, 2000), 215-31. Substantial selections from the known extant volumes published in Trill (2007).
MS 6503
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers.
Among papers chiefly of the Halkett, Wedderburn and Murray families, of Pitfirrane House, Fife.
ff. 98r-139r
• HaA 27: Anne, Lady Halkett, Editorial papers
Papers of John Gough Nichols (1806-73), printer and antiquary, relating to his edition of the Autobiography. c.1870s.
MS 8187
A folio composite volume of prose and verse principally on religious matters, in several hands and paper sizes, 342 leaves, in contemporary brown calf (rebacked), with traces of metal clasps.
Inscribed names (f. 318v) ‘Samuel Brett’ and (f. 342v) ‘John Stewart’. Presented in 1965 by James Thin, Edinburgh bookseller.
ff. 236r-7r
• SiP 158.5: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book III, No. 62 (‘What toong can her perfections tell’)
Copy, in a small predominantly italic hand, untitled. Mid-late 17th century.
Ringler, pp. 85-90. Robertson, pp. 238-42.
MS 8874
Autograph calligraphic MS, vi + 4 leaves + 284 pages (90 x 60 mm.), in contemporary maroon velvet elaborately embroidered with silver thread. A presentation MS, a New Year's Gift to King James VI of Scotland and I of England, with a prose Dedication to him in French, in small Roman and italic scripts, with colour and gold decoration, a miniature (of King David), and a small coloured self-portrait. 1 January ‘1615’: 1614/15.
*InE 41: Esther Inglis, [Psalms] Les Pseaumes de David. Escrits a Londres par Esther Inglis pour son dernier adieu, ianvier, I. 1615
Later owned by Lord Northbourne. Sotheby's, 13 June 1933, lot 401. Later owned by E. Parsons & Sons. Purchased in 1954 from Tregaskis.
Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 42 (pp. 71-2), with a facsimile of pages 248-9 as Plate 29 (between pp. 42 and 43).
A French translation of the Psalms, with headings in Latin.
MS 9447 (Panmure 10)
A music book.
ff. 138r-40r
• NaT 7.9: Thomas Nashe, ‘Monsieur Mingo for quaffing doth surpass’
Copy of the song, in a musical setting.
First published, as ‘The Song’, in Nashe's ‘Pleasant Comedie’ Summers last will and Testament (London, 1600). McKerrow, III, 264. EV 14798.
MS 9450
A quarto book of vocal music, the lyrics largely in a single secretary hand, varying in size, 79 leaves, in modern dark green morocco. Inscribed (f. 45r) ‘REdwards book’: i.e. compiled by Robert Edwards (1616-96), minister of Murroes Parish, though originally belonging to his father, Alexander, merchant of Dundee. c.1635-70.
Owned in 1687 by Robert Edward's son Alexander (1651-1708). Panmure No. 11 among the Panmure Music Books gathered mainly by Lady Jean Campbell, second Countess of Panmure, and her sons James Maule, fourth Earl of Panmure, and Harie Maule. Subsequently preserved by their descendants, Earls of Dalhousie.
f. 12r
• CmT 2: Thomas Campion, ‘As by the streams of Babilon’
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book I, No. xiv. Davis, p. 74.
ff. 22v-3r
• CmT 103: Thomas Campion, ‘There is a Garden in her face’
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
First published in Robert Jones, Ultimum Vale (London, 1605). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [1617]), Book IV, No. vii. Davis, pp. 174-6. Doughtie, p. 212.
f. 35r
• CmT 59: Thomas Campion, ‘If Love loves truth, then women doe not love’
Copy of the first two lines, in a musical setting, untitled.
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xi. Davis, p. 146.
f. 42r
• CmT 230: Thomas Campion, ‘What if a day, or a month, or a yeare’
Copy of the incipit only, here ‘Quhat if a day’, in a musical setting, untitled.
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.
f. 46r
• CmT 231: Thomas Campion, ‘What if a day, or a month, or a yeare’
Copy of the incipit only, here ‘What if a day’, in a musical setting, untitled.
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.
MS 9931, f. 21
Autograph letter signed by Drayton, to William Drummond of Hawthornden, 22 November 1620. 1620.
*DrM 76: Michael Drayton, Letter(s)
Edited, with a facsimile, in Bent Juel-Jensen, ‘Michael Drayton and William Drummond of Hawthornden: A Lost Manuscript Letter Rediscovered’, The Library, 5th Ser. 21 (1966), 328-30. Facsimile also in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XII, p. 9.
MS 16500
A quarto formal miscellany of mainly Scottish verse and prose, almost entirely in a single secretary hand, with rubrication, another hand on ff. 137-50 inscribed ‘per M G Myll’, with contemporary and later lists of contents, imperfect, lacking a number of pages with poems recorded in the lists of contents, v + 304 leaves, each window mounted in a 19th-century folio guardbook in brown calf gilt. Compiled by the Edinburgh notary John Asloan (fl. c.1494-c.1532). c.1515-30.
Inscriptions include (ff. 40v, 166v) names of William Muray and William Leslie of Balquhaina; (flyleaf) ‘Alexander Boswel March 1730’ [later Lord Auchinleck], ‘R.W. Talbot [later fifth Lord Talbot de Malahide] from J. I Boswell June 29th 1882’, and ‘Talbot de Malahide [sixth Lord Talbot de Malahide] James Boswell March 1921’. Sold and recovered several times by the Boswell family before passing to the Talbot family. Purchased in 1966.
Commonly cited as the Asloan MS. Complete text edited in Craigie, Asloan MS. Discussed, with a table of contents, in Catherine van Buren, ‘John Asloan and his Manuscript: An Edinburgh Notary and Scribe in the Days of James III, IV and V (c.470-c.1530)’, in Stewart Style 1513-1542: Essays on the Court of James V, ed. Janet Hadley Williams (East Linton, 1996), 15-51.
ff. 210r-11v
• DuW 155: William Dunbar, The Sowtar and Tailyouris War (‘Nixt that a turnament wes tryid’)
Copy, headed ‘The Iustis betuix ye talyeour & ye sowtar’, subscribed ‘Q Dunbar’.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, The Asloan MS, II, 89-92. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 220.
Mackenzie, No. 58, pp. 123-6. Murdoch, II, 316-19. Ritchie, II, 295-8.
ff. 211v-12v
• DuW 46: William Dunbar, The Fenyeit Freir of Tungland (‘As yung Awrora, with cristall haile’)
Copy of lines 1-69.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, The Asloan MS, II, 92-4. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 212, and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 38, pp. 67-70. Murdoch, II, 333-7. Ritchie, II, 311-15. Bawcutt, I, 56-9.
ff. 236r-40r
• HnR 13: Robert Henryson, The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian. The Taill of the Uponlandis Mous, and the Burges Mous
Edited from this MS in Craigie, Asloan MS, II, 141-9 (with a facsimile of f. 236r). Collated in Wood.
Fox, pp. 9-19.
ff. 240r-2v
• DuW 74: William Dunbar, The Manere of the Crying of ane Playe (‘Harry, harry, hobbillschowe!’)
Copy of lines 1-165.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie and in Craigie, The Asloan MS, III, 149-54.
Mackenzie, No. 86, pp. 170-4. Murdoch, II, 337-41. Ritchie, II, 315-20.
ff. 247r-56v
• HnR 15: Robert Henryson, Orpheus and Eurydice (‘The nobilnes and grit magnificens’)
Copy of a 578-line version.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, Asloan MS, II, 155-74. Collated in Wood.
First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Wood, pp. 129-48. Murdoch, IV, 922-42. Ritchie, IV, 182-201. Fox, pp. 132-53.
ff. 290v-2r
• DuW 129: William Dunbar, Of the Passioun of Christ (‘Amang thir freiris, within ane cloister’)
Copy of lines 1-32, 41-96, headed ‘ye passioun of Ihesu’, subscribed ‘Q Dunbar’.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie and in Craigie, The Asloan MS, III, 242-5. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 226. Collated in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 80, pp. 155-9. Craigie, I, 229-34. Bawcitt, pp. 34-8, as ‘Ane Ballat of the passioun’.
f. 300v-1v
• DuW 150: William Dunbar, Ros Mary: Ane Ballat of Our Lady (‘Ros Mary, most of vertewe virginale’)
Copy.
Edited partly from this MS in Mackenzie. Edited in Craigie, The Asloan MS.
Mackenzie, No. 87, pp. 175-7. Craigie, The Asloan MS, II, 271-2.
ff. 303r-4v
• DuW 13: William Dunbar, Ane Ballat of Our Lady (‘Hale, sterne superne! Hale, in eterne’)
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Q Dunbar’.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie and in Craigie, The Asloan MS, and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 82, pp. 160-2. Craigie, The Asloan MS, II, 275-8. Bawcutt, I, 83-5.
MS 17800
A quarto verse miscellany. Early 18th century.
ff. 73r-5v
• BeA 16.8: Aphra Behn, A Paraphrase on the Lords Prayer (‘O Wondrous condescention of a God’)
Copy, as ‘by Mrs Ann Behn’.
First published, as ‘By Mrs. A. B.’, in Miscellany, Being a Collection of Poems By several Hands (London, 1685). Todd, No. 58, pp. 171-4.
MS 20498
Autograph quarto calligraphic MS, i + 23 + i leaves (170 x 130 mm.), in modern brown calf. A presentation MS to Archibald Campbell (1575-1638), seventh Earl of Argyll, Justice-General of Scotland, with a prose Dedication to him in French and Latin verses by Andrew Melvin, in numerous styles of script, with pen and ink arms, decoration, and (f. 5r) a self-portrait. 4 October 1602.
*InE 5: Esther Inglis, [Ecclesiastes] Le Livre de l'Ecclesiaste ensemble les Lamentations de Ieremie de la main d'Esther Anglois françoise, a Lislebourg en Ecosse, 1602
Christie's, 12 December 1986, lot 311, with a facsimile of the self-portrait in the sale catalogue.
Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 19 (pp. 48-9).
A French translation of Ecclesiastes and the Lamentations of Jeremiah in the Bible, with Latin and French verses including some to the Earl of Argyll by Melville and Johnston and some to Esther Inglis by them.
MS 25240
Autograph oblong octavo calligraphic MS, ii + 51 leaves (plus later blanks, 98 x 140 mm.), imperfect and with later interleaving, in late 17th-century red morocco gilt. A presentation MS, a New Year's Gift to Gilbert Talbot (1553-1616), seventh Earl of Shrewsbury, with a Dedication to him, in various styles of script, with colour and gold decoration. 1607.
*InE 16: Esther Inglis, [Octonaires de la Roche Chandieu] Cinquant Octonaires svr la vanite et Inconstance dv Monde. Dediez a Tresillvstre Seignevr Le Conte de Shrewsbvry, povr ses Estrennes l'an 1607. Escrit et Illvmine par Esther Inglis
Later inscriptions include records relating to the Mallone family (1673-1713) and the names of Robert John Allen (18th century) and Susanna O'Neill (19th century). Phillips, 11 November 1993, lot 599, with a facsimile of the title-page in the sale catalogue.
Verse ‘Octonaires’ in French by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu (1534-91), first published in Paris, 1586.
MS Acc. 6824
A quarto miscellany of verse and prose generally on affairs of state, in several hands, one neat hand predominating, vii + 701 pages, in contemporary blind-stamped calf with metal clasps. c.1690s.
Inscribed (f [ir]) ‘Tho: Mercer’. Later bookplate of Charles Gordon of Beldorny and Wardhouse. Sotheby's, 14 December 1976, lot 21.
pp. 164-5
• SeC 124: Sir Charles Sedley, Speeches
Copy of ‘The speech of Sr Charles Sidley In the howse of Commons January 1692/3’. c.1693.
Seven speeches in The Works of Sir Charles Sedley, [London, 1702], pp. 1-21 (second pagination). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 225-38.
p. 316
• RaW 166.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)
Copy, headed ‘The sowles Errand’.
First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.
This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, ‘Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine’, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's ‘answer’ to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.
p. 317
• WiG 23: George Wither, A Metricall Paraphrase vpon the Creede (‘Lord, at thy Mercy-seat, our selues we gather’)
First published in Workes (London, 1620). appended to Fidelia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 10 (1871), pp. 619-20.
p. 318
• ClJ 205: John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford (‘Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust’)
Copy, headed ‘Ane Epitaph on The E: of Strafford’.
First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as ‘Internally unlike his manner’. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among ‘Poems probably by Cleveland’. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).
pp. 371-4
• ClJ 90: John Cleveland, The Rebell Scot (‘How? Providence? and yet a Scottish crew?’)
Copy.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 29-32.
pp. 379-80
• ClJ 114: John Cleveland, Square-Cap (‘Come hither Apollo's bouncing Girle’)
Copy.
First published in The Character of a London-Diurnall, with severall select Poems by the same Author (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 43-5.
pp. 386-7
• ClJ 62: John Cleveland, The Hue and Cry after Sir John Presbyter (‘With Hair in Characters, and Lugs in text’)
Copy.
First published as a separate, 1649. Morris & Withington, pp. 45-7.
p. 465
• MoG 38: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)
Copy, headed ‘Ane Epitaph Uppon King James ye sixt Written by the Reverend Dr Morly CCC Oxon:’, here beginning ‘All who have eyes awak & weep’.
A version of lines 1-22, headed ‘Epitaph on King James’ and beginning ‘He that hath eyes now wake and weep’, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.
Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.
MS Acc. 7906
Copy, as ‘deliuered to his highenes by some of his Millitarie seruants’, 83 folio leaves. Early 17th century.
CtR 26: Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer made by Command of Prince Henry, to Certain Propositions of Warre and Peace
Formerly among the library of the Carr family, Marquesses of Lothian, at Newbattle Abbey.
A treatise beginning ‘Frames of Policy, as well as works of Nature, are best preserved from the same grounds...’., written in 1609. First published London, 1655. Also published as Warrs with Forregin Princes Dangerous to oyr Common-Wealth: or, reasons for Forreign Wars Answered (London, 1657); as An Answer to such Motives as were offer'd by certain Military-Men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect Arms more than Peace... (London, 1665); and as A Discourse of Foreign War (London, 1690).
MS Acc. 8861
A quarto composite volume of tracts, letters and sermons, in secretary hands, unfoliated, disbound. Mid-17th century.
ff. [9r-12v]
• RaW 593.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The prerogative of parliaments in England by Sr Walter Ralegh preserved to be now happily in thes: distracted tymes published’, imperfect, lacking the ending. Early-mid 17th century.
A treatise, with a dedicatory epistle to James I beginning ‘Those that are suppressed and hopeless are commonly silent ...’, the dialogue beginning ‘Now, sir, what think you of Mr. St. John's trial in the Star-chamber?...’. First published as The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (‘Midelburge’ and ‘Hamburg’ [i.e. London], 1628). Works (1829), VIII, 151-221.
MS Acc. 9769 19/6/1
A quarto volume, chiefly accounts of Scottish dignitaries, in a single hand, 88 leaves, in old vellum boards. c.1700.
Among the muniments of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, formerly in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester.
f. 80r
• DrJ 234: John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Viscount Dundee (‘O Last and best of Scots! who didst maintain’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie On the Visc: of Dundee, by Dr Pitcairn’.
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.
MS Acc. 9769 84/1/1
A copy of the verse Historie and Cronicles of Scotland by Robert Lindesay of Pitscottie, in a single professional secretary hand, x + 175 folio leaves, in contemporary reversed calf. c.1598.
Bookplate of Viscount Cholmondeley. Phillipps MS 3107. Owned in 1896 by John Scott, CB, of Halkshill. Among the muniments of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, formerly in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester.
ff. 83v-5r
• LiD 3: Sir David Lindsay, The Deploratioun of the Deith of Quene Magdalene (‘O Cruell Deith, to greit is thy puissance’)
Copy, as the XXVIII Chapter of the Cronicle.
Edited from this MS in Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, ed. A.J.G. Mackay, I, STS 42 (Edinburgh & London, 1899), 370-6, and described pp. lxxx-lxxxiv. Collated in Hamer, III, 119.
First published [Edinburgh, 1537]. Hamer, I, 105-12.
MS Acc. 9769 84/1/7
Copy, in a single professional rounded hand, on 84 of 90 folio leaves, in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.
HaG 12: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Character of a Trimmer
Fols 84v-90v containing, in a later hand, ‘A Catalogue of Books belonging To Patrick Viscount of Garnock. Kilbirny, 17 Apll. 1727’, and f. ir inscribed ‘This Book Belongs to Garnock’. Among the muniments of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, formerly in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester.
This MS collated in Brown, I, 345-96.
First published, ascribed to ‘the Honourable Sir W[illiam] C[oventry]’, in London, 1688. Foxcroft, II, 273-342. Brown, I, 178-243.
MS Acc. 11624
Autograph calligraphic MS, on vellum, on rectos only, 23 leaves (81 x 105 mm.), in contemporat calf gilt. A presentation MS, a New Year's Gift to Lucy Russell (née Harington) (1581-1627), Countess of Bedford, with a Dedication to her, in numerous styles of script, with colour and gold decoration and figures. 1 January 1605/6.
*InE 28: Esther Inglis, [Proverbs] Une Estreine pour tresillustre et vertueuse Dame la Contesse de Bedford, escrit et illuminé par moy Esther Inglis ce 1 de Janvier, 1606
Owned in 1679 by John Haywhite. Christie's, 22 July 1964, lot 259. Martin Breslauer, New York, sale catalogue No. 99, item 97. Afterwards owned by Harry Levinson (1965) and by Mr and Mrs Edwin P. Rome, Philadelphia (1966). Christie's, 3 June 1998, lot 25.
Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 22 (pp. 51-2), with a facsimile of the title-page as Plate 22 (between pp. 42 and 43). A facsimile page is also in Christie's 1998 catalogue.
Selections from a French translation of the Book of Proverbs in the Bible, with French verses by Esther Inglis to Lady Bedford.
MS Acc. 11821
Autograph calligraphic MS, on rectos only, ii + 30 leaves (97 x 145 mm.) in contemporary calf gilt. A presentation MS to William Douglas (d.1648), Earl of Morton, with a prose Dedication to him in English, in several styles of writing, with colour and gold decoration and figures. 26 January 1607.
*InE 56: Esther Inglis, [St Matthew's Gospel] Argumenta singulorum capitum Evangelii Matthaei Apostoli, per tetrasticha manu Estherae Inglis exarata Londini xxvi Ianuarii, 1607
Later owned by John Nimmo, factor of Boghall (1700); by Grizell Nimmo (1719), whose grand-daughter, Elizabeth Hogg, married into the Scott Moncrieff family; and by John Scott Moncrieff (1865).
Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 32 (p. 61), with facsimile examples (including the title-page) as Plates 21 and 23 (between pp. 42 and 43). A microfilm of this MS is also in the National Library of Scotland, Acc. 7633.
A verse summary of the Gospel according to St Matthew in twenty-eight stanzas in Latin.
MS Dep. 314/23
Music book compiled by Lady Margaret Wemyss, daughter of David, second Earl of Wemyss (1610-79), in contemporary vellum. c.1640s.
f. 1r
• CmT 67.8: Thomas Campion, ‘Now let her change and spare not’
Copy, in a musical setting.
First published in Francis Pilkington, First Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1605). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London [1617]), Book III, No. ii. Davis, pp. 134-5. Doughtie, pp. 216, 227.
f. 1v
• CmT 2.8: Thomas Campion, ‘Be thou then my beauty named’
Copy, in a musical setting.
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres [London. 1617], Book III, No. xix. Davis, p. 155.
f. 2r
• CmT 174.5: Thomas Campion, ‘Young and simple though I am’
Copy, in a musical setting.
Facsimile and transcription of this MS in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 482-3.
First published in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London [1617]), Book IV, No. ix. Davis, p. 177. Doughtie, p. 295.
f. 3r
• CmT 53.2: Thomas Campion, ‘If any hath the heart to kill’
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xxl. Vivian, pp. 185-6. Davis, p. 189.
f. 3r
• DrM 27.5: Michael Drayton, The Cryer (‘Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre’)
Copy.
First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.
f. 4r
• CmT 44.5: Thomas Campion, ‘Her fayre inflaming eyes’
Copy, in a musical setting.
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres [London. 1617], Book IV, No, xix. Davis, p. 187.
f. 5r
• CmT 47.5: Thomas Campion, ‘I must complain, yet doe enjoy my Love’
Copy, in a musical setting.
First published in John Dowland, Third Book of Aires (London, 1603). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London [1617]), Book IV, No. xvii. Davis, pp. 184-5. Doughtie, p. 179.
f. 6r
• CwT 455.5: Thomas Carew, Mediocritie in love rejected. Song (‘Give me more love, or more disdaine’)
Copy, in a musical setting.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 12-13. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
f. 6v
• CmT 18.5: Thomas Campion, ‘Come, O come, my lifes delight’
Copy, in a musical setting.
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres [London. 1617], Book III, No. xxiii. Davis, p. 160.
f. 7r
• CwT 848.5: Thomas Carew, Song. Conquest by flight (‘Ladyes, flye from Love's smooth tale’)
Copy, in a musical setting.
First published (complete) in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 15. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1653). The second stanza alone published in Samuel Pick, Festum Voluptatis (London, 1639), and a musical setting of it by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
f. 7r
• CmT 142.5: Thomas Campion, ‘Thus I resolve, and time hath taught me so’
Copy, in a musical setting.
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres [London. 1617], Book III, No. xxii. Davis, p. 159.
f. 7v
• CmT 18.8: Thomas Campion, ‘Come, O come, my lifes delight’
Copy, in a musical setting.
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres [London. 1617], Book III, No. xxiii. Davis, p. 160.
f. 8r
• CmT 87.5: Thomas Campion, ‘So sweet is thy discourse to me’
Copy, in a musical setting.
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres [London. 1617], Book IV, No. vi. Davis, p. 173.
f. 9v
• CmT 160.5: Thomas Campion, ‘Where shall I refuge seeke, if you refuse mee?’
First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xxi. Davis, p. 112.
f. 10r
• CmT 59.5: Thomas Campion, ‘If Love loves truth, then women doe not love’
Copy, in a musical setting.
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xi. Davis, p. 146.
f. 10v
• CmT 2.5: Thomas Campion, ‘Awake, thou spring of speaking grace, mute rest become not thee’
Copy, in a musical setting.
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres [London. 1617], Book III, No. xiii. Davis, p. 148.
f. 11r
• CmT 62.5: Thomas Campion, ‘If thou longst so much to learne (sweet boy) what 'tis to love’
Copy, in a musical setting.
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xvi. Davis, p. 151.
f. 14r
• GrJ 61: John Grange, ‘Not that I wish my Mistris’
Copy.
First published in Wits Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. V7v. John Playford, Select Ayres and Dialogues (1652), Part II, p. 28. Poems (1660), pp. 79-81, unattributed. Prince d'Amour (1660), p. 123, ascribed to ‘J.G.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as by John Grange.
f. 15r
• CmT 204.5: Thomas Campion, ‘Long have mine eies gaz'd with delight’
Copy.
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. x. Davis, pp. 455-6.
f. 16r
• SuH 20.5: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, ‘If care do cause men cry, why do not I complaine?’
Copy.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Padelford, No. 28, pp. 80-2. Jones, pp. 14-16.
MS Dep. 329
Autograph draft passages for Drummond's history, on four pages in two pairs of conjugate folio leaves (one pair a letter sent to him on 5 March ‘1634’). c.1635.
*DrW 315.5: William Drummond of Hawthornden, The History of the Five Jameses, Kings of Scotland
Later owned by Sir James H. Williams-Drummond, Bt.
First published as The History of Scotland (London, 1655). Works (1711), pp. 1-116.
MS Wod Fol XXV, No. 63
A letter by Urquhart, to Robert Douglas, Moderator of the General Assembly, the text in the hand of an amanuensis and signed by Urquhart, from ‘Chanonrie of Ros’, 14 November 1649. Among the working papers and collections of Robert Wodrow (1679-1734), ecclesiastical historian. 1649.
*UrT 7: Thomas Urquhart, Letter(s)
Edited in Jack & Lyall, p. 43.
MS Wod Fol. XXVIII
A folio composite volume of ecclesiastical and state papers from 1586 to 1709, in several hands, 228 leaves, rebound in two volumes in modern cloth.
Among the working papers and collections of Robert Wodrow (1679-1734), ecclesiastical historian.
ff. 7r-8v
• EsR 243: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1
Copy of the arraignment on 28 February 1600/1, in a mixed hand, endorsed in italic ‘Essex and Southamptouns arreigment’. Early 17th century.
f. 219r
• AlW 166: William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant (‘Bella inter geminos plusquam civilia fratres’)
Copy, headed ‘By Doctor Alabaster who had made tryall of both religiones ane Epigram, upon doctor [R]einold his turning protestant by his brothers argumts and his brother William who being convinced by the reasons of his said brother be came a virulent and violent papist’. Early 17th century.
First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, p. 12-13 (No. XVI).
f. 219r
• AlW 180: William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant (‘In poyntes of faith some undermyning jarres / betwixt two brothers kindled rebell warrs’)
Copy of a translation, headed ‘The same englished’, following AlW 166, and here beginning ‘In poyntes of faith some undermyning jarres / betwixt two brothers kindled rebell warrs’. Early 17th century.
A translation of Alabaster's Latin poem by Peter Heylyn, first published in his Cosmographie (1652), p. 257.
MS Wod. Oct. XXXI
An octavo composite volume of twelve items, in various hands, 265 leaves.
Among the working papers and collections of Robert Wodrow (1679-1734), ecclesiastical historian.
f. 142r et seq.
• RoK 3: Katherine Ross, Memoirs or spiritual exercises of Mrs Ross
Copy of autobiographical writings and meditations by Katherine Ross, transcribed after her death, followed by similar autobiographical writings by her sister Jean Collace, including meditations on Ross's death. c.1697-1734.
First published in Edinburgh, 1735.
MS Wod. Qu. XXIX
A quarto composite volume of verse and prose, in various largely secretary hands, one predominating, 269 leaves, in modern quarter-calf on marbled boards.
Among the working papers and collections of Robert Wodrow (1679-1734), ecclesiastical historian.
f. 11r
• MeE 3: Elizabeth Melville, A Sonnet sent To Blackness To Mr John Welsh By ye Lady Culross (‘My Dear Brother wt courage Bear ye crosse’)
Copy in Wodrow's hand, dated on f. 10r ‘1605 or 1606’, copied on a blank page of a letter addressed to him, on two conjugate octavo leaves, dated 30 November 1715. 1715.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Early Metrical Tales, ed. David Laing (London, 1826). Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (New York, 1988), pp. 33-4. Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Works, ed. D. Richardson (London, 1996), p. 169.
MS Wod. Qu. XXXVI
A quarto composite volume of papers relating to Presbyterian dissent, in various hands and paper sizes, 268 leaves., in modern half-calf marbled boards. c.1717.
Among the working papers and collections of Robert Wodrow (1679-1734), ecclesiastical historian.
f. 260r
• RoJ 217.4: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons (‘If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold’)
Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘On Romes pardons by the E. of Rochester’, endorsed ‘32 / 1679 / Rochester / Rymes on poperie’. Late 17th century.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among ‘Poems Possibly by Rochester’. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.
Bute 73
Exemplum of the printed quarto edition of 1599 containing an original proof-sheet, the outer forme of sheet G (sigs G1r, G2v, G3r, G4v) with proof corrections, in modern half-calf.
ChG 11: George Chapman, An Humorous Day's Mirth
In the Bute Collection of English Plays purchased in April 1956 from Major Michael Crichton-Stuart of Falkland.
This item reproduced and discussed in Akihiro Yamada, ‘A Proof-Sheet in An Humorous Day's Mirth (1599) printed by Valentine Simmes’, The Library, 5th Ser. 21 (1966), 155-7. Also discussed in James P. Hammersmith, ‘Early Proofing: The Evidence of Extant Proof-Sheets’, AEB, 7 (1983), 188-215 (pp. 197-9). Recorded in Holaday, p. 60, and in Jan Moore, p. 69.
First published in London, 1599. Edited by Allan Holaday in Urbana edition, Comedies, pp. 59-130.
Bute 414
Imperfect exemplum of the printed quarto edition of 1593 with the text of some damaged leaves (sigs B2r-v, H1v, L3v) supplied in MS, transcribed from the edition of 1599, in modern half-calf. ?early 18th century.
PlG 23: George Peele, Edward I
In the Bute Collection of English Plays purchased in April 1956 from Major Michael Crichton-Stuart of Falkland.
This item recorded in Yale, III, 445.
First published in London, 1593. Edited by Frank S. Hook in Prouty, II, 1-212.
Bute 559
Exemplum of the printed quarto edition of 1640 with MS annotations, recording exits, stage directions, actors' cues, and lines or passages to be cut, apparently prepared as a prompt-book for use by an English theatrical company, in modern half-calf. Mid-late 17th century.
ShJ 184: James Shirley, Love's Cruelty
In the Bute Collection of English Plays purchased in April 1956 from Major Michael Crichton-Stuart of Falkland.
This item discussed in G. Blakemore Evans, ‘New Evidence on the Provenance of the Padua Prompt-Books of Shakespeare's Macbeth, Measure for Measure, and Winter's Tale’, SB, 20 (1967), 239-40. On other early prompt-books, see ‘Prompt-books’ in the Introduction for William Shakespeare.
First published in London, 1640. Gifford & Dyce, II, 189-267.
H.28.e.7(5)
Copious annotations in two hands, in an exemplum of the printed quarto of 1631. Late 17th century.
MrJ 8.8: John Marston, The Insatiate Countess
These annotations discussed in Albert H. Tricomi, ‘Counting Insatiate Countesses: The Seventeenth-Century Annotations to Marston's The Insatiate Countess’, HLQ, 62/1-2 (2001), 107-22.
First published in London, 1616. Edited by Giorgio Melchiori (Manchester, 1984). The play probably drafted by Marston and completed by William Barksted and perhaps Lewis Machin.
H.S. 1
An exempum signed ‘Izaak Walton’ on the title-page. c.1676.
*WtI 127: Izaak Walton, The Universal Angler, 5th edition (London, 1676)
Probably the Alfred Denison exemplum sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1933, lot 231.
Facsimile of the title-page in Jonquil Bevan, ‘Some Books from Izaak Walton's Library’, The Library, 6th Ser. 2 (1980), 259-63 (Plate II).
H.S. 6
An exemplum with Walton's autograph corrections. c.1658.
WtI 66: Izaak Walton, The Life of John Donne (London, 1658)
1. 81 (2)
An exemplum of the first printed edition (London, 1676) with a MS cast list and prompt notes, evidently relating to the visit by members of the King's Company to Edinburgh in 1679-80. 1679-80.
EtG 123.4: Sir George Etherege, The Man of Mode, or Sir Fopling Flutter
Discussed in Edward A. Langhans, ‘An Edinburgh Promptbook from 1679-80’, Theatre Notebook, 37 (1983), 101-4.
First published in London, 1676. Brett-Smith, II, 181-288.