MS A. v. 4
A quarto composite volume of Robert Southwell's autograph papers, in various paper sizes, 64 leaves, in modern binding. c.1580.
On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.
Described in McDonald, pp. 12-14.
ff. 1r-3v
• *SoR 336: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Notae theologicae
Autograph notes of a treatise on dogmatic theology.
This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 12.
Unpublished.
ff. 4r-8r
• *SoR 292: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Poëma de Assumptione B.M.V. (‘Cum caelum et tellus, et uasti machina mudi’)
Autograph draft, signed ‘Robertus Southwellus’.
Edited from this MS in Grosart. Facsimile of part of f. 8r in Grosart (4to edition), facing p. 84.
First published in Grosart (1872), pp. 191-9.
ff. 14r-18r
• *SoR 289: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Filij Prodigi porcos pascentis ad Patre Epistola (‘Si tam longinquis rogites quis scripsit ab oris’)
Autograph draft.
Edited from this MS in Grosart.
First published in Grosart (1872), pp. 199-205.
f. 22r
• *SoR 284: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Ad deu in aff. Elegia (‘Tu tacitas nosti lachrimas tu saucia cernis’)
Autograph draft.
Edited from this MS in Grosart.
First published in Grosart (1872), p. 212.
f. 22r-v
• *SoR 285: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Ad S. Catherina uirg. et mar (‘Tu Catherina mei solatrix vnica luctus’)
Autograph draft.
Edited from this MS in Grosart.
First published in Grosart (1872), p. 213.
f. 22v
• *SoR 291: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, In renouationem uotorum festis Natalis Domini (‘Vita uenit uitae cu uotis obuius ito’)
Autograph draft.
Edited from this MS in Grosart.
First published in Grosart (1872), p. 214.
ff. 22v-3r
• *SoR 290: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, In festum pentecostes Ao D. 1.5.80. 21. Maij (‘Postquam tartarei spolijs ditatus Auerni’)
Autograph draft, dated 21 May 1580.
Edited from this MS in Grosart.
First published in Grosart (1872), pp. 214-15.
f. 26r-v
• *SoR 286: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Elegia 7 (‘Ex luctu populus redditur ipse chalybs’)
Autograph draft of the last part of what would have been ‘Elegia 7’, imperfect, lacking the beginning.
Edited from this MS in Grosart.
First published in Grosart (1872), pp. 206-7.
ff. 26v-7v
• *SoR 287: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Elegia 8 (‘Dic vbi nunc quod amo est! vbinam quod semper amavi?’)
Autography draft.
Edited from this MS in Grosart.
First published in Grosart (1872), pp. 208-10.
f. 27v
• *SoR 288: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Elegia 9 (‘Quid conclamato iacis irrita vota sepulchro?’)
Autograph draft; imperfect, lacking the ending.
Edited from this MS in Grosart.
First published in Grosart (1872), pp. 21-11.
f. 28r-34r
• *SoR 335: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Meditoes in aduentu
Autograph theological notes.
This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.
Unpublished.
f. 36r-v
• *SoR 334: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Meditatio
Autograph draft of a meditation beginning ‘Omnia te in cruce dereliquerunt…’.
This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.
Unpublished.
f. 37r
• *SoR 321: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A Soliloquy
Autograph copy of a Euphuistic prose recollection, beginning ‘Alas whre doe I lament his losse…’.
Edited from this MS in Trotman.
First published in Trotman (1914), pp. 69-70.
ff. 39r-40r
• *SoR 338: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Precatio
Autograph draft of a prayer beginning ‘O dulcissime et suauissime Jesu…’.
This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.
Unpublished.
f. 41r-v
• *SoR 326: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Ad omnia accomodata precatio
Autograph draft of a prayer beginning ‘O dulcissime Jesu Christe ecce nuc venit occasio…’.
This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.
Unpublished.
ff. 42v-3r
• *SoR 327: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Ante Missam precatio
Autograph draft of a prayer beginning ‘Cum tu dulcissime Jesu temetipsum spinis coronatu…’.
This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.
Unpublished.
ff. 41v-2r
• *SoR 328: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Ante orationem precatio
Autograph draft of a prayer beginning ‘Cum tu amatisse Jesu humanam natura assupteris…’.
This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.
Unpublished.
ff. 43r-4r
• *SoR 329: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Ante studia precatio
Autograph draft of a prayer beginning ‘O benignissime Jesu qui vt ignaros viam salutis doceres…’.
This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.
Unpublished.
f. 44r-v
• *SoR 330: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Antequam cum externis aut etiam domesticis loquaris prec
Autograph draft of a prayer beginning ‘O bone Jesu qui semper meca es…’.
This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.
Unpublished.
ff. 44v-6r
• *SoR 337: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Precatio
Autograph draft of a prayer beginning ‘Domine Jesu Christe fateor me indignu esse qui oculos meos ad te attollam…’.
This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.
Unpublished.
ff. 50r-1v
• *SoR 170: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, [The] Peeter Playnt (‘That sturdy peter...an...did boaste’)
Autograph first draft of a verse translation of part of Luigi Tansillo's Le Lagrime di San Pietro.
Facsimiles of f. 50r in Brown, frontispiece, and in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 19, and of f. 51r in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 29.
First published in Grosart (1872). Transcribed more accurately in Mario Praz, ‘Robert Southwell's “Saint Peter's Complaint” and its Italian Source’, MLR, 19 (1924), 273-90. McDonald, pp. 144-7. Brown, pp. 103-7.
ff. 56r-60r, 62r
• *SoR 313: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Mary Magdalen's Funeral Tears
Autograph draft of an English translation by Southwell of a 13th-century Latin homily (formerly attributed to Origen), intended to be read as a sermon; here beginning ‘In this psent solemnity hauynge to speake in this audience of yr charityes…’, unfinished; a work later expanded into Mary Magdalen's Funeral Tears.
This MS discussed in Pierre Janelle, Robert Southwell the Writer (London, 1935), pp. 184-5. Facsimile of f. 56r in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XXIX (p. 498).
Marie Magdalens Funerall Teares first published in London, 1591. Facsimile edition of the exemplum in the Huntington Library published in New York, 1975.
f. 61r
• *SoR 236: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, ‘The shippe that fro the port dothe sayle’
Autograph fragment, comprising seven lines of verse (with revisions) preceded by the words ‘I goe…Amemmon’, on a single leaf also containing a transcript in a later hand.
Edited from this MS in McDonald.
First published in McDonald (1937), p. 159.
f. 61v
• *SoR 314: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Mary Magdalen's Funeral Tears
Autograph draft of the beginning of Southwell's English translation of the 13th-century Latin homily; here beginning ‘As she surpassed many in loue so she passed most christs oune disciplines in loyalty…’, unfinished, a work later expanded into Mary Magdalen's Funeral Tears.
Marie Magdalens Funerall Teares first published in London, 1591. Facsimile edition of the exemplum in the Huntington Library published in New York, 1975.
MS A. v. 27
A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.
Bearing the childish signature of ‘iereneme WalDegrave’ (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.
On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.
Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the ‘lost’ Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.
ff. 4r-18r
• SoR 305: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, An Epistle unto his Father (22 October 1589)
Copy.
This MS collated in Trotman and in Brown, Two Letters.
Epistle, beginning ‘In children of former ages it hath been thought so behooveful a point of duty...’. First published as ‘An Epistle of a Religious Priest unto his Father’ in A Short Rule of Good Life ([London?, 1596-7?]). Trotman, pp. 36-64. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 1-20.
ff. 20r-36r
• SoR 324: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Triumphs over Death
Copy, complete with dedicatory epistle, the ‘Epitaph on Lady Margaret Sackville’ and the Latin epitaph; c. 1592-1609.
This MS collated in Trotman.
First published in London, 1595. Trotman, pp. 1-35.
f. 38r-v
• SoR 295: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Author to his loving Cosen
Copy of the dedication of Southwell's poems.
This MS collated in Brown.
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.
f. 39r
• SoR 243: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, To the Reader (‘Deare eye that doest peruse my muses style’)
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 2.
ff. 39v-44v
• SoR 221: 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.
f. 45r
• SoR 13: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A childe my Choyce (‘Let folly praise that fancie loves, I praise and love that child’)
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 13.
ff. 45r-6r
• SoR 154: 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. 46r
• SoR 7: 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. 46v
• SoR 159: 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.
f. 47r-v
• SoR 231: 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. 47v-8r
• SoR 20: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Christs bloody sweat (‘Fat soile, full spring, sweete olive, grape of blisse’)
Copy.
First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 18-19.
ff. 48r-9r
• SoR 27: 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. 49r-50v
• SoR 81: 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. 50v-1v
• SoR 65: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A holy Hymne (‘Praise, O Sion, praise thy Saviour’)
Copy, headed ‘Saint Thomas of Aquines Hymne read on corpus christy daye. Lauda Sion saluatorem’.
First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 23-6.
ff. 51v-3r
• SoR 165: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Of the Blessed Sacrament of the Aulter (‘In paschall feast the end of auncient rite’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Brown, pp. 26-8.
First published as ‘The Christians Manna’ in S. Peters Complaint and Saint Mary Magdalens Fvnerall Teares ([St Omers], 1616). Brown, pp. 26-8.
ff. 53r-4v
• SoR 191: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Saint Peters Complaynte (‘How can I live, that have my life deny'de?’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.
This version first published in McDonald (1937), pp. 141-3. Brown, pp. 29-31.
f. 54v
• SoR 184: 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.
f. 55r-v
• SoR 149: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Mary Magdalens blush (‘The signs of shame that staine my blushing face’)
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 32-3.
ff. 55v-6r
• SoR 200: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, S. Peters remorse (‘Remorse upbraids my faults’)
Copy.
First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 33-5.
f. 56v
• SoR 40: 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. 57r-8v
• SoR 171: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A Phansie turned to a sinners complaint (‘Hee that his mirth hath lost’)
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 36-40.
ff. 59r-60r
• SoR 249: 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. 60v-1r
• SoR 176: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The prodigall childs soule wracke (‘Disankerd from a blisfull shore’)
Copy, in the hand of a second scribe responsible only for corrections elsewhere in the MS.
First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 43-5.
ff. 61v-2r
• SoR 136: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Marie Magdalens complaint at Christs death (‘Sith my life from life is parted’)
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 45-6.
f. 62r-v
• SoR 45: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Decease release. Dum morior orior (‘The pounded spice both tast and sent doth please’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Brown, pp. 47-8.
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.
f. 62v-3r
• SoR 76: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, I dye without desert (‘If orphane Childe enwrapt in swathing bands’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Brown, pp. 48-9.
First published in St. Peters Complaint, and other Poems. by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817). Brown, pp. 48-9.
f. 63v
• SoR 129: 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.
f. 64r-v
• SoR 92: 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.
ff. 64v-5r
• SoR 214: 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. 65r
• SoR 70: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, I dye alive (‘O life what lets thee from a quicke decease?’)
Copy.
Facsimile of stanza 3 of this MS in Grosart (quarto edition), facing p. 84. For an account of Grosart's misreadings, see Pierre Janelle, Robert Southwell the Writer (London, 1935), pp. 304-5.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 52-3.
f. 65r-v
• SoR 255: 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.
ff. 65v-6
• SoR 98: 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. 66r-7r
• SoR 1: 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.
f. 67r-v
• SoR 106: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Looke home (‘Retyred thoughts enjoy their owne delights’)
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 57.
f. 67v
• SoR 237: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Time goe by turnes (‘The lopped tree in time may grow againe’)
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 57-8.
f. 68r-v
• SoR 111: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Losse in delaies (‘Shun delaies, they breede remorse’)
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 58-9.
ff. 68v-9v
• SoR 124: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Loves servile lot (‘Love mistris is of many mindes’)
Copy.
Lines 1-48 first published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Lines 49-76 published in 2nd edition (1595). Brown, pp. 60-2.
ff. 69v-70v
• SoR 86: 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. 70v-1r
• SoR 118: 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.
f. 71r-v
• SoR 51: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Fortunes Falsehoode (‘In worldly meriments lurketh much miserie’)
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 65-6.
f. 72r
• SoR 57: 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. 72v-3v
• SoR 34: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Content and rich (‘I dwell in grace's courte’)
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 67-9.
ff. 72v-4r
• SoR 206: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Scorne not the least (‘Where wards are weake, and foes encountring strong’)
Copy.
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 69-70.
MS B. vi. 1
Transcript of an early copy which was allegedly transcribed from ‘ye Originall … written wth Mr. Robert Southwells owne hand’ and with a dedication by the early copyist to Lady Beauchamp, vii + 408 quarto leaves (plus later index and blanks). Early 19th century.
SoR 339: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Hundred Meditations of the Love of God
On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.
Edited from this MS in Morris. Described in McDonald, pp. 15-16.
An English translation of Diego de Estella's Meditaciones devotissimas del amor de Dios. First published in London, 1873, ed. John Morris, S.J.