CELM: Trinity College, Cambridge

Admissions and Admonitions Book 1560-1759

p. 42

• *RnT 600: Thomas Randolph, Document(s)

Randolph's autograph Latin subscription signed, 22 September 1629. 1629.

Facsimiles in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCVIII(a-e), and in IELM, II.ii (1993), Plate VIIId, after p. xxi.

p. 42

• *RnT 601: Thomas Randolph, Document(s)

Randolph's autograph Latin subscription signed, 23 March 1631[/2]. 1632.

Facsimiles in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCVIII(a-e), and in IELM, II.ii (1993), Plate VIIIe, after p. xxi.

p. 257

• *RnT 602: Thomas Randolph, Document(s)

Randolph's autograph Latin subscription signed, 9 April 1624. 1624.

Facsimiles in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCVIII(a-e); in Fredson T. Bowers, ‘A Possible Randolph Holograph’, The Library, 4th Ser. 20 (1939-40), 159-62 (facing p. 164); and in IELM, II.ii (1993), Plate VIIIa, after p. xxi.

Admissions 1635-1740

Admission Book of Scholars.

[unspecified page number]

• *MaA 568: Andrew Marvell, Document(s)

Marvell's autograph entry in the Admission Book of Scholars at Trinity College, Cambridge, 13 April 1638. 1638.

Facsimile in Kelliher, p. 23.

p. 15

• *DrJ 368: John Dryden, Document(s)

Dryden's autograph subscription, his signature ‘John Driden’, (the earliest known example of his hand), 18 May 1650. 1650.

Facsimile in Paul Hammond, ‘Dryden's Employment by Cromwell's Government’, TCBS, 8, part I (1981), 130-6 (Plate III). Partly on the basis of this signature, Hammond establishes the likelihood that Dryden was also the signatory to a receipt for £50 from Secretary Thurloe, dated 19 October 1657, in the National Archives, Kew (SP 18/180/95: reproduced in Hammond, plate I).

Admissions 1645-59

Admissions book.

p. 84

• *DrJ 369: John Dryden, Document(s)

Dryden's autograph subscription, the signature ‘Johannes Dryden Northamptoniensis’, 2 October 1650. 1650.

Facsimile in Paul Hammond, ‘Dryden's Employment by Cromwell's Government’, TCBS, 8, part I (1981), 130-6 (Plate IV). Partly on the basis of this signature, Hammond establishes the likelihood that Dryden was also the signatory to a receipt for £50 from Secretary Thurloe, dated 19 October 1657, in the National Archives, Kew (SP 18/180/95: reproduced in Hammond, plate I).

MS B. 11. 35

Copy of 101 Ordinances (or ‘Decrees’) ‘made by the Lord Chancello^r’, in a professional secretary hand, on nine folio leaves, bound with two other MSS (MSS B. 10. 41 and B. 11. 34), in quarter-vellum boards. Together with (ff. 9v-11r) ‘Additionall Rules’ in the same hand. c.1620s.

BcF 249.5: Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery

First published as Ordinances made by...Sir Francis Bacon Knight...being then Lord Chancellor For the better and more regular Administration of Iustice in the Chancery (London, 1642), beginning ‘No decree shall be reversed, altered, or explained, being once under the Great Seale...’. Spedding, VII, 755-74 (mentioning, on p. 757, having seen some ‘MSS and editions’ of this work but without specifying them or his copy-text).

MS B. 14. 22 (James 307)

A quarto composite volume of ecclesiastical tracts and sermons, in different hands, possibly associated with Lancelot Andrewes, 98 leaves, in quarter-calf marbled boards. Inscribed on the last page (f. 98v) by Andrewes's secretary ‘samMVel. WrIght of LonDon 1616’.

This MS discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 36r, 40v and 44v, in P.J. Klemp, ‘“Betwixt the Hammer and the Anvill”: Lancelot Andrewes's Revision Techniques in the Manuscript of His 1620 Easter Sermon’, PBSA, 89/2 (June 1995), 149-82.

ff. 15r-32r

• AndL 11: Lancelot Andrewes, Sermon 13 Of the Resurrection, Easter 1618, on 1 Corinthians xi. 16

Copy, in the neat mixed hand of Samuel Wright. c.1616.

First published as A Sermon on Easter Day (London, 1618). LACT, Sermons, II (1841), 404-28.

ff. 34r-47v

• AndL 12: Lancelot Andrewes, Sermon 14 Of the Resurrection, Easter 1620, on John xx. 11-17

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, possibly that of Samuel Wright. c.1616.

This MS recorded (but not collated) in Story, p. xlix.

First published as A Sermon on Easter Day (London, 1620). LACT, Sermons, III (1841), 3-22. Lancelot Andrewes, Sermons, ed. G.M. Story (Oxford, 1967), pp. 192-217.

ff. 62r-71r

• CoR 312: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale (‘Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled. Early 17th century.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.

ff. 83r-5v

• DnJ 4065: John Donne, The Courtier's Library, or Catalogus librorum aulicorum incomparabilium et non vendibilium

Copy, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, the heading with a side-note ‘J D.’, subscribed ‘D. D’. c.1620s.

This MS collated in Simpson, pp. 80-93.

First published in Poems (London, 1650). Edited, with an English translation, by Evelyn Mary Simposon (London, 1930).

f. 87r

• JnB 338: Ben Jonson, The Musicall strife. In a Pastorall Dialogue (‘Come, with our Voyces, let us warre’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed ‘Corbett’, with a stave of music by Nicholas Lanier. c.1620s-30s.

First published in The Vnder-wood (iii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 143-4.

f. 87v

• B&F 187: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Valentinian, V, ii, 13-22. Song (‘Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, subscribed ‘D^r Donn’. c.1620s-30s.

Edited from this MS in The Complete Poems of John Donne, D.D., ed. Alexander B. Grosart, 2 vols (privately printed, 1872-3), II, 246.

Dyce, V, 297. Bullen, IV, 302. Bowers, IV, 360-1.

MS B. 14. 49 (James 332)

An octavo devotional miscellany, 53 leaves (paginated 19-124), in contemporary vellum boards.

Donated by ‘Ed. Rud, S. T. P., Trin: Coll; Cant: Soc: 1717’.

pp. 104-10

• AndL 43.8: Lancelot Andrewes, A Prayer used by Andrewes before his Sermons

Copy, in a neat mixed hand, of ‘A Prayer vsed by y^e R.R.-L.A. before his Sermons’, beginning ‘That to what end the holy word of God was by him ordeined...’.

Edited from this MS in Klemp (col. 4).

Versions appear, as ‘The forme of Prayer used by Bishop Andrews after the opening of the Text’ and as ‘Another Exhortation to Prayer, used by Bishop Andrewes after his opening of the Text’, in Private Devotions (London, 1647), pp. 152-61, 161-6. These are edited and collated in P. J. Klemp, ‘Lancelot Andrewes's “Prayer before Sermon”: A Parallel-Text Edition’, Bodleian Library Record, 11 (1985), 300-19 (cols 2 and 3).

MS O. 1. 6 (James 1030)

A small folio MS written by Roger Gale (1672-1744), antiquary, correcting and amplifying Bale's Scriptorum, c.200 leaves. c.1700.

BaJ 26.8: John Bale, Scriptorum illustrium Maioris Brytanniae catalogus

First published in Basle, 1557. Reprinted in facsimile (Farnborough, 1971).

MS O. 1. 27 (James 1051)

A quarto volume of state papers and tracts, in an accomplished closely written secretary hand, i + 29 leaves, in modern quarter-vellum boards. c.1600.

f. 9v

• TiC 44: Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament (‘My prime of youth is but a frost of cares’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘verses made by Tichborne in y^e Tower two daies beefore his Deathe’.

This MS recorded in Hirsch.

First published in the single sheet Verses of Prayse and Joy Written Upon her Maiesties Preseruation Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes lamentation, written in the Towre with his owne hand, and an answer to the same (London, 1586). Hirsch, pp. 309-10. Also ‘The Text of “Tichborne's Lament” Reconsidered’, ELR, 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1987), between pp. 276 and 277. May EV 15464 (recording 37 MS texts). For the ‘answer’ to this poem, see KyT 1-2.

O. 1. 35 (James 1059)

A quarto verse miscellany, in a secretary hand, thirteen leaves (plus two blanks), bound with a slightly later miscellany of verse and prose in another hand on 38 further leaves, in quarter-vellum boards. c.1630.

ff. 1r-2v.

• MrJ 52: John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 (‘And art returned again with all thy faults’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Duke of B: retorne from the Isle of Rees’.

MS O. 1. 51 (James 1075)

Copy of Psalms 1-150, in an accomplished professional secretary hand, with some corrections in another hand, with a title-page, ‘The Psalms of David Translated into English Verse by That Noble and Virtuous Gent: S^r Philip Sydney’, 169 quarto leaves, in 17th-century calf gilt (rebacked). Late 16th century.

SiP 86: Sir Philip Sidney, The Psalms of David

This MS described in Ringler, p. 549.

Psalms 1-43 translated by Sidney. Psalms 44-150 translated by his sister, the Countess of Pembroke. First published complete in London, 1823, ed. S.W. Singer. Psalms 1-43, without the Countess of Pembroke's revisions, edited in Ringler, pp. 265-337. Psalms 1-150 in her revised form edited in The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, ed. J.C.A. Rathmell (New York, 1963). Psalms 44-150 also edited in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke (1988), Vol. II.

MS O. 2. 53 (James 1157)

A quarto notebook, 74 leaves. Late 15th century.

f. 66

• SkJ 41: John Skelton, The Recule ageinst Gaguyne of the Frenshe Nacyoun

Seven lines, beginning ‘How darest thou swere or be so bold also’.

Canon, L106, p. 30. A lost piece; doubtfully identified in Friedrich Brie, ‘Skelton-Studien’, ES, 37 (1907), 1-86 (pp. 31-2), with SkJ 41.

MS O. 2. 66 (James 1170)

Autograph copy, including the Prologue, Epilogue, and Induction, entitled ‘A GAME at CHESSE. by T. Middleton’, with two lines deleted on f. 10v, iv + 49 quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt. [1624].

*MiT 14: Thomas Middleton, A Game at Chess

Edited from this MS in Bald.

Facsimile pages in Bald, facing p. 34; in Harper, p. 1; in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCIV(a); in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 54; in IELM, I.i (1980), Facsimile XXVII, p. 342; in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 219; in Grace Ioppolo, Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood (London & New York, 2006), p. 172; and in Oxford Middleton, pp. 1780 and 1791.

First published in London, [1625]. Bullen, VII, 1-136. Edited by R.C. Bald (Cambridge, 1929) and by J.W. Harper (London, 1966). An ‘early form’ in Oxford Middleton, pp. 1779-1824, with a ‘later form’ on pp. 1830-85.

MS O. 3. 12 (James 1184)

Copy, in a single hand, of a complete transcript made by Douglas's secretary, Matthew Geddes, with glosses added probably in another hand, 329 folio leaves, in contemporary leather on boards, with remains of clasps. c.1515?

DoG 3: Gavin Douglas, Virgil's Aeneid (‘Lawd, honour, praysyngis, thankis infynyte’)

Inscribed ‘Johannes Danyelston Rector a Dysert’.

Edited from this MS in Coldwell, and described I, 96-7 (where it is mistakenly stated that this copy is in Geddes's hand and that the marginal commentary in the first part of the poem is in Douglas's hand). A facsimile example (the caption making the same mistake) in DLB, vol. 132, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. First Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1993), p. 116. Also discussed, with a facsimile of f. 4r on p. 192, in Jane Griffiths, ‘Exhortations to the Reader: the Glossing of Douglas's Eneados in Cambridge, Trinity College MS O.3.12’, EMS, 15 (2009), 185-97.

First published, as The xiii Bukes of Eneados of the famose Poete Virgill, London, 1553. Edited, as Virgil's Æneid Translated into Scottish Verse by Gavin Douglas, by David F.C. Coldwell, 4 vols, STS 3rd Ser. 30, 25, 27, 28 (Edinburgh & London, 1957-64).

MS O. 3. 33 (James 1205)

An index of Leland's sources for his Collectanea, probably compiled by Thomas Gale (1635?-1702), Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge, Dean of York, antiquary, c.200 folio leaves. Late 17th century.

LeJ 48: John Leland, Collectanea [Other transcripts and extracts]

MS O. 4. 2 (James 1233)

A folio volume comprising two works in the same professional secretary hand, the second (ff. 14r-123v) Sir John Hayward's Edward VI, 123 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Early 17th century.

Arms of Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), natural philosopher and courtier, stamped in gilt on both covers.

ff. 1r-13v

• DaS 39: Samuel Daniel, A Breviary of the History of England

Copy, headed ‘The life of William the first written by S^r Walter Raleigh’.

First published (from a MS ‘found in the Library of a Person of High Quality’) as An Introduction to a Breviary of the History of England with the Reign of King William the I, ascribed to Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1693). Works of Sir Walter Ralegh (Oxford, 1829), VIII, 509-37. Daniel's probable authorship discussed in Rudolf B. Gottfried, ‘The Authorship of A Breviary of the History of England’, SP, 53 (1956), 172-90, and in William Leigh Godshalk, ‘Daniel's History’, JEGP, 63.1 (1964), 45-57.

MS O. 4. 52 (James 1502)

Copy of twenty-one Essays by Bacon, in a professional secretary hand, on ten folio leaves, in modern morocco. Early 17th century.

Inscription in pencil (f. 1r) ‘J. Payne Collier / Maidenhead’: i.e. owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger. Bookplate of William Aldis Wright, MP, 1901.

Described in Kiernan, pp. lvi-lvii.

ff. 1r-6r, 7v-10r

• BcF 206: Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral

Copy of twenty Essays.

Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).

ff. 6v-7r

• BcF 279: Francis Bacon, Short Notes for Civil Conversation

Copy, headed ‘Digested notes of Ciuill Conuersation’.

First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, VII, 105-10. Spedding notes (VII, 107) Basil Montagu's reference to an unspecified MS in the British Museum, but he could not find it.

MS O. 5. 21 (James 1302), (20)

A large folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 198 pages, in quarter-vellum boards.

pp. 175-6

• RaW 728.26: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1618, i n a secretary hand, docketed ‘These notes in y^e margin, are out of m^r O. Bands book, viz. at y^e end of Rob: Monachus’. c.1620s.

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.

pp. 177-82

• RaW 807: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

Copy, in a secretary hand, with annotations in a later hand.

Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For a relevant discussion, see Anna Beer, ‘Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh’, MP, 94/1 (August 1996), 19-38.

p. 183

• RaW 95: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, in a secretary hand, with a lengthy preamble about Ralegh's conduct before his execution, concluding ‘Going out of the prison, he gave certeyne verses in English to his Keeper, w^ch bycause they seme not to rellish an astonished invention, I thought good here to annexe them: His last verses’, the text followed by ‘answers’.

First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as ‘These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse’). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

MS O. 5. 25 (James 1306)

Copy of most of the first three volumes of Leland's autograph MS, transcribed by Thomas Gale (1635/6-1702), Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge, Dean of York, antiquary, 198 folio leaves. Late 17th century.

LeJ 67: John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Other transcripts and extracts]

This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxix.

MSS O. 10. 6, 7 (James 1458-9)

Copy, in two hands, with additions and indexes by Thomas Gale (1635/6-1702), Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge, Dean of York, antiquary, 242 folio leaves (plus index and interleaves), bound in two volumes. Late 17th century.

LeJ 53: John Leland, Commentarii de scriptoribus Britannicis

First published in Oxford, 1709, ed. A. Hall, 2 vols. Edited, as De uiris illustribus/ On Famous Men, with an English translation, by James P. Carley, assisted by Caroline Brett (Oxford, 2010).

MS O. 10. 25 (James 1477)

Copy of parts of the Collectanea, c.300 folio leaves. Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Ex quibusdam Collectionibus Joh. Lelandi penes Henr. S^t George Eg. Aur. Regem Armorum cognom: Norroy A^o. 1677’. c.1677.

ff. 1r-25r et passim

• LeJ 49: John Leland, Collectanea [Other transcripts and extracts]

Copy of a portion of the Collectanea, transcribed from Leland's autograph MS (LeJ 17), with annotations in a different ink, followed by various extracts from the Collectanea in another hand, with an index at the end.

passim

• LeJ 88: John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Other transcripts and extracts]

Extracts.

MS R. 3. 4 (James 583)

A composite collection of working literary papers by Milton, predominantly autograph, partly in the hands of amanuenses (including Jeremie Picard and Cyriack Skinner), on 47 pages, comprising one group of 25 large leaves c.12¼ x 7½ inches) bound with two leaves c.8½ x 6¾ inches), some leaves torn or frayed and probably now lacking a few present in the original collection; containing various drafts and fair copies of nineteen poems, two dramatic works, and some notes and drafts in prose, much of this material probably based on (lost) earlier drafts. The papers were arranged in their present form in 1736 by Charles Mason and Thomas Clarke, Fellows of Trinity College. The MS cannot be dated precisely, but has been traditionally thought to begin in 1632, though it has been argued that it may date later, with earlier work transcribed not before 1637. Milton's autograph contributions end probably in 1652, with additions in other hands continuing probably until the late 1650's (when Picard was known to be associated with Milton: see further below). c.1630s-[70s?].

This MS possibly among the MSS given to Trinity College in 1691 by Sir Henry Newton Puckering (though not recorded in the 1697 catalogue of that collection), but it might instead derive from Daniel Skinner, who owned some of Milton's papers; who was a B.A. and minor fellow of the College in 1674 and became a major fellow in 1679.

Cited by editors as the ‘Trinity MS’. A complete facsimile, with transcript, in Poems (1972). Earlier complete facsimiles published in an edition by W.A. Wright (Cambridge, 1899), in the Illinois Edition of Milton's Complete Poetical Works, 1943-8 (I, 381-455; II, 12-29), and by the Scolar Press (Menston, 1970). Facsimile examples in Sotheby, Ramblings (1861); in Masson, I, after p. 780; in The Cambridge Manuscript of Milton, ed. F.A. Patterson (New York, 1933); in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LII; in Carey & Fowler, after p. 234; in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 47; and in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 59.

Discussed in Edmund Gosse, ‘The Milton Manuscripts at Trinity’, Atlantic Monthly, 85 (1900), 586-93; in Laura Lockwood, ‘Milton's Corrections to the Minor Poems’, MLN, 25 (1910), 201-5; in Allan H. Gilbert, ‘The Cambridge Manuscript and Milton's Plans for an Epic’, SP, 16 (1919), 172-6; in David Harrison Stevens, ‘The Order of Milton's Sonnets’, MP, 17 (1919-20), 25-33; in James Holly Hanford, ‘The Arrangement and Dates of Milton's Sonnets’, MP, 18 (1920-1), 475-83; in Columbia, I, ii, 408-11; in W.R. Parker, ‘Some Problems in the Chronology of Milton's Early Poems’, RES, 11 (1935), 276-83; in John S. Diekhoff, Milton's Craftsmanship as Revealed by the Revisions of the Poems of the Trinity College Manuscript (unpub. Ph.D. diss., case Western Reserve University, 1937); in John S. Diekhoff, ‘Milton's Prosody in the Poems of the Trinity Manuscripts’, PMLA, 54 (1939), 153-83; in John S. Diekhoff, ‘Critical Activity of the Poetic Mind: John Milton’, PMLA, 55 (1940), 116-18; in Maurice Kelley, ‘Addendum: The Later Career of Daniel Skinner’, PMLA, 55 (1940), 116-18; in John S. Diekhoff, ‘The Trinity Manuscript and the Dictation of Paradise Lost’, PQ, 28 (1949), 44-52; in Helen Darbishire, ‘The Chronology of Milton's Handwriting’, SCN, 11, No. 4 [Supplement] (Winter 1953), 11; in Maurice Kelley, ‘Milton's Later Sonnets and the Cambridge Manuscript’, MP, 54 (1956), 20-5; in John T. Shawcross, ‘Speculation on the Dating of the Trinity MS of Milton's Poems’, MLN, 75 (1960), 11-17; in Maurice Kelley, ‘Daniel Skinner and Milton's Trinity College Manuscript’, N&Q, 222 (May-June 1977), 206-7; in [John Shawcross] in A Milton Encyclopedia, VIII (1980), 92-3; in Masahiko Agari, ‘A Note on Milton's Trinity MS’, ELN, 22 (1984), 23-6; in William B. Hunter, ‘A Bibliographical Excursion into Milton's Trinity Manuscript’, Milton Quarterly, 19 (1985), 61-71; and elsewhere.

pp. 1-3

• *MnJ 56: John Milton, Arcades

Autograph draft, perhaps transcribed from an earlier draft, the pages mutilated, headed ‘Part of a maske’, a title added by Milton afterwards ‘Arcades / Part of an Entertainement at’ [lacking rest of title].

This MS collated by editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972). Discussed in John T. Shawcross, ‘The Manuscript of “Arcades”’, N&Q, 204 (October 1959), 359-64, and in Cedric C. Brown, ‘Milton's “Arcades” in the Trinity Manuscript’, RES, NS 37 (1986), 542-9. Variously dated 1629-38 (and the second heading perhaps post-1640).

First published in Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 72-6. Darbishire, II, 159-62. Carey & Fowler, pp. 155-61.

pp. 4-5

• *MnJ 6: John Milton, At a solemn Musick (‘Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav'ns joy’)

Three autograph drafts: the first, headed ‘Song’, with extensive revisions and struck out, the page mutilated; the second, untitled, also with extensive revisions and struck out; the third, headed ‘At a solemn Musick’, a fair copy.

This MS collated in Columbia, in Daribishire, and in Carey & Fowler. A complete facsimile in Poems (1972). A facsimile example in Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby, English Poetical Autographs (London, 1938), p. 11. Discussed in P.L. Heyworth, ‘The Composition of Milton's At a Solemn Musick’, BNYPL, 70 (1966), 450-8.

First published in Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 27-8. Darbishire, II, 132-3. Carey & Fowler, pp. 161-5.

pp. 6-7

• *MnJ 68: John Milton, Letter(s)

Two autograph drafts of a letter by Milton to an unnamed friend (speculatively identified as his tutor Thomas Young), the first including Sonnet VII (MnJ 25). c.1633.

edited in Columbia, XII, 320-5, and in Yale, I, 318-21.

p. 6

• *MnJ 25: John Milton, Sonnet VII (‘How soon hath Time the suttle theef of youth’)

Autograph fair copy, untitled, contained in Milton's first draft of a letter to a friend (MnJ 68).

Edited from this MS in Columbia, XII, 322. Collated in Darbishire and in Carey & Fowler. Facsimiles in Poems (1972); in Sotheby, Ramblings, p. 14 and after p. 52; in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 11; in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 59. N.B. the poem does not appear in the second draft of the letter on p. 7 of the MS.

First published in Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 60-1. Darbishire, II, 149-50. Carey & Fowler, pp. 146-8.

p. 8

• *MnJ 20: John Milton, On Time (‘Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race’)

Autograph fair copy, original heading ‘[To be] set on a clock case’ later deleted and retitled ‘On Time’.

This MS collated in Columbia, in Darbishire, and in Carey & Fowler. Facsimile in Poems (1972).

First published in Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 25-6. Darbishire, II, 131. Carey & Fowler, pp. 165-6.

p. 8

• *MnJ 45: John Milton, Upon the Circumcision (‘Ye flaming Powers, and winged Warriours bright’)

Autograph fair copy.

This MS collated by editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972).

First published in Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 26-7. Darbishire, II, 132. Carey & Fowler, pp. 166-7.

p. 9

• *MnJ 26: John Milton, Sonnet VIII (‘Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms’)

Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, the original heading ‘On his dore when y^e Citty expected an assault’ deleted by Milton and retitled in his hand ‘When the assault was intended to y^e Citty’, the date ‘1642’ also added probably by Milton and deleted.

This MS collated by Editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972).

First published in Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 60-1. Darbishire, II, 150. Carey & Fowler, pp. 284-5.

p. 9

• *MnJ 27: John Milton, Sonnet IX (‘Lady that in the prime of earliest youth’)

Autograph draft, with revisions, untitled.

This MS collated by editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972). Generally dated 1642-5.

First published in Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 61. Darbishire, II, 150. Carey & Fowler, pp. 287-8.

p. 9

• *MnJ 28: John Milton, Sonnet X (‘Daughter to that good Earl, once President’)

Autograph draft, with revisions, headed ‘To y^e Lady Margaret Ley’.

This MS collated by editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972). Generally dated 1641-5.

First published in Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 61-2. Darbishire, II, 151. Carey & Fowler, pp. 286-7.

pp. 13-29

• *MnJ 57: John Milton, Comus

Autograph draft, possibly transcribed from an earlier draft, with extensive revisions, headed ‘A maske 1634’, a few words added in another hand.

Edited from this MS, with detailed discussion, in Sprott. Collated in Columbia; in Darbishire; and in Carey & Fowler. A complete facsimile in Poems (1972). Facsimile examples in Helen Darbishire, ‘The Chronology of Milton's Handwriting’, The Library, 4th Ser. 14 (1933), 229-35; in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LII; in Carey & Fowler, facing p. 235; in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 47. Discussed also in C.S. Lewis, ‘A Note on Comus’, RES, 8 (1932), 170-6; in John S. Diekhoff, ‘The Punctuation of Comus’, PMLA, 51 (1936), 757-68; and in John T. Shawcross, ‘Certain Relationships of the Manuscripts of Comus’, PBSA, 54 (1960), 38-56 (and pp. 293-4). The MS generally dated 1634-7.

First published, as A Maske presented At Ludlow-Castle, 1634, in London, 1637. Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 85-123. Darbishire, II, 171-203. Carey & Fowler, pp. 168-229. John Milton, The Masque of ‘Comus’. The Poem, originally called ‘A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, &c.’, ed. E.H. Visiak (Bloomsbury, 1937). John Milton, A Maske: The Earlier Versions, ed. S.E. Sprott (Toronto, 1973). Various texts also discussed in A Maske at Ludlow, ed. John S. Diekhoff (Cleveland, Ohio, 1968), [see esp. pp. 251-75].

pp. 30-4

• *MnJ 11: John Milton, Lycidas (‘Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more’)

Autograph draft, with revisions, beginning with untitled drafts of lines 1-14, 142-50 (deleted), 142-50 (again) and 58-63 (marked to be inserted in the later text), then a text of the whole poem headed ‘Lycidas [Novemb: 1637. deleted] / In this Monodie the author bewails a lerned freind unfortunatly drownd in his passage from Chester on the Irish seas 1637’.

This MS collated in Columbia and in Darbishire, and selectively in Carey & Fowler. Facsimiles in Poems (1972), and in Lycidas: 1637-1645 (Menston: Scolar Press, 1970). Facsimile examples in Darbishire, II, frontispiece; Sotheby, Ramblings, after p. 62; in Helen Darbishire, ‘The Chronology of Milton's Handwriting’, The Library, 4th Ser. 14 (1933), 229-35; and in Carey & Fowler, after p. 234. Discussed in C.F. Stone, III, ‘Milton's Self-Concerns and Manuscript Revisions in Lycidas’, MLN, 83 (1968), 867-81; and in Karen A. Young, ‘Lycidas’ from the Manuscript in the Library of Trinity College Cambridge, together with a Study of the Language of the Poem (unpub. M. Phil. thesis, University of Leeds, 1975). See also John T. Shawcross, ‘Establishment of a Text of Milton's Poems through a Study of Lycidas’, PBSA, 56 (1962), 317-31.

First published, among ‘Obsequies to the memorie of Mr. Edward King’, in Justa Edouardo King naufrago, ab amicis moerentibus, amoris (Cambridge, 1638). Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 76-83. Darbishire, II, 163-70. Carey & Fowler, pp. 232-54.

pp. 35-41

• *MnJ 67: John Milton, Samson Agonistes

Autograph notes on themes for projected tragedies, including ‘Paradise Lost’, ‘Abram from Morea, or Isack redeemd’, ‘Baptistes’, ‘Sodom Burning’, ‘Adam Unparadiz'd’, ‘Scotch stories’, themes from early British history, ‘Christus patiens’, and various other Biblical subjects.

Edited from this MS, as ‘Outlines for Tragedies’, in Columbia, XVIII, 228-45; and in Yale, VIII, 539-85. The notes relating to Paradise Lost edited in Carey & Fowler, pp. 419-21. Complete facsimiles in Poems (1972), and in Illinois, II, 12-29. Facsimile example in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LII. Discussed in Allan H. Gilbert, ‘The Cambridge Manuscript and Milton's Plans for an Epic’, SP, 16 (1919), 172-6; in William R. Parker, ‘The Trinity Manuscript and Milton's Plans for a Tragedy’, JEGP, 24 (1935), 225-32; in J. Milton French, ‘Chips from Milton's Workshop’, ELH, 10 (1943), 230-42; and in Audrey I. Carlisle, A Study of the Trinity College Manuscript, pages 35-41, and certain authors represented in Milton's Commonplace Book, in their relationship to Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (unpub. B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1952). The MS generally dated 1639-42.

First published in London, 1671. Columbia, I, Part 2, 330-99. Darbishire, II, 59-109. Carey & Fowler, pp. 330-402.

p. 43

• *MnJ 31: John Milton, Sonnet XII. On the same (‘I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs’)

Autograph draft, with revisions, headed ‘11 / On the [detraction crossed out] w^ch follow'd upon my writing certain treatises’.

This MS collated by editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972). Variously dated 1645-53.

First published in Poems &c. upon several Occasions (1673). Columbia, I, 62-3. Darbishire, II, 151-2. Carey & Fowler, pp. 293-5.

p. 43

• *MnJ 33: John Milton, Sonnet XIII. To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires (‘Harry whose tuneful and well measur'd Song’)

Autograph rough draft, with revisions, crossed out, headed ‘To my freind M^r Hen. Laws Feb. 9. 1645’.

This MS collated by editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972). Discussed in MacDonald Emslie, ‘Milton on Lawes: The Trinity MS Revisions’, in Music in English Renaissance Drama, ed. John H. Long (Lexington, 1968), pp. 96-102.

First published, as ‘To my friend Mr. Henry Lawes’, in Henry Lawes and William Lawes, Choice Psalms put into Musick for three voices (1648). Poems &c. upon several Occasions (1673). Columbia, I, 63. Darbishire, II, 152. Carey & Fowler, pp. 292-3.

p. 43

• *MnJ 34: John Milton, Sonnet XIII. To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires (‘Harry whose tuneful and well measur'd Song’)

Autograph fair copy, headed afterwards in the hand of an amanuensis ‘To M^r: Hen: Laws on the publishing of his Aires’.

This MS collated by editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972). Discussed in Emslie. Generally dated c.1653.

p. 44

• *MnJ 36: John Milton, Sonnet XIV (‘When Faith and Love which parted from thee never’)

Autograph rough draft, extensively revised and crossed out, with the deleted heading ‘On y^e religious memorie of M^rs Catharine Thomason my christian freind deceas'd 16 Decem. 1646’.

This MS collated by editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972).

First published in Poems &c. upon several Occasions (1673). Columbia, I, 63-4. Darbishire, II, 152-3. Carey & Fowler, pp. 298-9.

p. 44

• *MnJ 37: John Milton, Sonnet XIV (‘When Faith and Love which parted from thee never’)

Autograph fair copy, with revisions, untitled but numbered ‘14’.

This MS collated by editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972).

First published in Poems &c. upon several Occasions (1673). Columbia, I, 63-4. Darbishire, II, 152-3. Carey & Fowler, pp. 298-9.

p. 45

• MnJ 30: John Milton, Sonnet XI (‘A Book was writ of late call'd ‘Tetrachordon’’)

Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, untitled but numbered ‘12’.

This MS collated by editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972).

First published in Poems &c. upon several Occasions (1673). Columbia, I, 62. Darbishire, II, 151. Carey & Fowler, pp. 305-6.

p. 45

• MnJ 32: John Milton, Sonnet XII. On the same (‘I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs’)

Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, originally untitled but numbered ‘11’, subsequently headed in the hand of Jeremie Picard ‘these sonnets follow y^e. 10 in y^e. printed booke / On the detraccon which followed upon my writeing certaine treatises / 1 vid. ante’.

This MS collated in Columbia and in Darbishire. Facsimile in Poems (1972).

First published in Poems &c. upon several Occasions (1673). Columbia, I, 62-3. Darbishire, II, 151-2. Carey & Fowler, pp. 293-5.

p. 45

• MnJ 35: John Milton, Sonnet XIII. To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires (‘Harry whose tuneful and well measur'd Song’)

Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, headed ‘To M^r: H[en deleted]. Lawes on [the publishing of deleted] his Aires’.

This MS collated by editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972). Discussed in Emslie. Generally dated c.1653.

p. 46

• MnJ 38: John Milton, Sonnet XIV (‘When Faith and Love which parted from thee never’)

Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, untitled but numbered ‘14’.

This MS collated by editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972). Generally dated c.1653.

First published in Poems &c. upon several Occasions (1673). Columbia, I, 63-4. Darbishire, II, 152-3. Carey & Fowler, pp. 298-9.

p. 47

• *MnJ 29: John Milton, Sonnet XI (‘A Book was writ of late call'd ‘Tetrachordon’’)

Autograph rough draft, with extensive revisions, untitled but numbered ‘12’. Variously dated 1645-1653.

This MS collated by editors. Facsimile in Poems (1972).

First published in Poems &c. upon several Occasions (1673). Columbia, I, 62. Darbishire, II, 151. Carey & Fowler, pp. 305-6.

p. 47

• *MnJ 39: John Milton, Sonnet XV. On the Lord Gen. Fairfax at the seige of Colchester (‘Fairfax, whose name in armes through Europe rings’)

Autograph draft, numbered ‘15’, with the deleted heading ‘On y^e Lord Gen. Fairfax at y^e siege of Colchester’ and the marginal note ‘on y^e forcers of Conscience to come in heer turn over the leafe’.

Edited from this MS in Columbia; in Darbishire; and in Carey & Fowler. Facsimile in Poems (1972). Generally dated 1648-53.

First published, as ‘To my Lord Fairfax’, at the end of Edward Phillips's life of Milton prefixed to Letters of State, written by Mr. John Milton (London, 1694). Columbia, I, 64. Darbishire, II, 153. Carey & Fowler, pp. 321-3.

p. 47

• *MnJ 40: John Milton, Sonnet XVI. To the Lord Generall Cromwell May 1652 (‘Cromwell, our cheif of men, who through a cloud’)

Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, with revisions, numbered ‘16’ and with the deleted heading ‘To the Lord Generall Cromwell May 1652 / On the proposalls of certaine ministers at y^e Commtee for Propagation of the Gospell’.

Edited from this MS in Columbia; in Darbishire; and in Carey & Fowler. Facsimile in Poems (1972. Facsimile examples in A Treatise on Christian Doctrine, ed. Charles R. Sumner (London, 1825), after p. xviii, and in Miller, p. 292.

First published, as ‘To Oliver Cromwell’, at the end of Edward Phillips's life of Milton prefixed to Letters of State, written by Mr. John Milton (London, 1694). Columbia, I, 65. Darbishire, II, 153-4. Carey & Fowler, pp. 325-7.

p. 48

• MnJ 18: John Milton, On the new forcers of Conscience under the Long Parlament (‘Because you have thrown of your Prelate Lord’)

Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, with revisions, headed ‘On the forcers of Conscience’, with a deleted side-note, ‘to come in as directed in the leafe before’.

This MS collated in Columbia; in Darbishire; and in Carey & Fowler. Facsimile in Poems (1972). Variously dated between 1646 and 1653.

First published in Poems &c. upon several Occasions (1673). Columbia, I, 71. Darbishire, II, 157. Carey & Fowler, pp. 295-8.

p. 48

• MnJ 41: John Milton, Sonnet XVII. To Sr Henry Vane the younger (‘Vane, young in yeares, but in sage counsell old’)

Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, with revisions, numbered ‘17’ and with the deleted heading ‘To S^r Henry Vane the younger’.

Edited from this MS in Columbia and in Darbishire. Collated in Carey & Fowler. Facsimile in Poems (1972). Facsimile example in Miller, p. 296.

First published, and dated 3 July 1652, in G. Sikes, The Life and Death of Sir Henry Vane (1662). Edited, ss ‘To Sir Henry Vane’, at the end of Edward Phillips's life of Milton prefixed to Letters of State, written by Mr. John Milton (London, 1694). Columbia, I, 65-6. Darbishire, II, 154. Carey & Fowler, pp. 327-9.

p. 49

• MnJ 42: John Milton, Sonnet XXI (‘Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench’)

Copy of lines 5-14 (beginning ‘To day deep thoughts resolve with me to drench’), in the hand of an amanuensis (Cyriack Skinner), imperfect, lacking the beginning.

This MS collated in Columbia and in Darbishire. Discussed in Carey & Fowler. Facsimiles in Poems (1972), and in Darbishire, Early Lives, after p. xxvi. Generally dated c.1654-5.

First published in Poems &c. upon several Occasions (1673). Columbia, I, 67-8. Darbishire, II, 156. Carey & Fowler (as ‘Sonnet XVIII’), pp. 412-14.

p. 49

• MnJ 43: John Milton, Sonnet XXII. To Mr. Cyriack Skinner upon his Blindness (‘Cyriack, this three years day these eys, though clear’)

Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis (Cyriack Skinner), with revisions, untitled but numbered ‘22’.

Edited from this MS in Columbia; in Darbishire; and in Carey & Fowler. Facsimiles in Poems (1972), and in Darbishire, Early Lives, after p. xxvi. Generally dated c.1654-6.

First published, as ‘To M^r Cyriac Skinner Upon his Blindness’, at the end of Edward Phillips's life of Milton prefixed to Letters of State, written by Mr. John Milton (London, 1694). Columbia, I, 68. Darbishire, II, 156. Carey & Fowler, p. 414.

p. 50

• MnJ 44: John Milton, Sonnet XXIII (‘Methought I saw my late espoused Saint’)

Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis (Jeremie Picard), untitled but numbered ‘23’.

This MS collated in Columbia and in Darbishire. Facsimiles in Poems (1972); in Don M. Wolfe, Milton and His England (Princeton, 1971), p. 59; and in A Treatise on Christian Doctrine, ed. Charles R. Sumner (London, 1825), after p. xviii. Discussed in C.R. Dahlberg, ‘Milton's Sonnet 23 on his “Late Espoused Saint”’, N&Q, 194 (23 July 1949), 321. Generally dated c.1655-8.

First published in Poems &c. upon several Occasions (1673). Columbia, I, 68-9. Darbishire, II, 156-7. Carey & Fowler (as ‘Sonnet XIX’), pp. 415-16.

MS R. 3. 10 (James 590)

Copy, in a professional hand, the title-page added in another hand, 43 folio leaves. c.1665.

DrJ 268: John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards

Owned in 1665 by Elizabeth (d.1689), wife of Sir Henry Newton (afterwards Puckering) (1618-1701), who donated the MS in 1691.

This MS discussed in Fredson Bowers, ‘The 1665 Manuscript of Dryden's Indian Emperour’, SP, 48 (1951), 738-60, and, briefly, in California, IX, 381-3.

First published in London, 1667. California, IX (1966), pp. 1-112.

MS R. 3. 12 (James 592)

A folio volume of 121 poems by Donne and his Paradoxes and Problems, in a probably professional, predominantly italic hand (the scribe also probably responsible for the Dublin MS (I) (Trinity College, Dublin, MS 877); some poems by others added at the end (pp. 239-50) in other hands, 250 pages. c.1623-5.

Owned in the mid-late 17th century by ‘E. Puckering’ (signed f. 1r), probably a man but possibly Elizabeth (d.1689), wife of Sir Henry Newton (afterwards Puckering) (1618-1701), by whose bequest the MS came to Trinity College in 1691 (this Lady Elizabeth being the daughter of Thomas Murray (1564-1623), tutor to Prince Charles).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Puckering MS, DnJ Δ 13. A note by Henry Bradshaw states that this MS was collated in 1861 and 1863 by the Rev. T.R. O' Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector.

pp. 1-2

• DnJ 42: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published as ‘Elegie II’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as ‘Elegie II’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.

pp. 3-4

• DnJ 3281: John Donne, To M^r Rowland Woodward (‘Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.

pp. 4-5

• DnJ 3453: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wootton (‘Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well’)

Copy, headed (cropped by binder) ‘[J]o: D. to M^r H: W.’

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.

pp. 6-7

• DnJ 684: John Donne, The Comparison (‘As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as ‘Elegie VIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.

pp. 8-10

• DnJ 2548: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as ‘Elegie IV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.

pp. 10-12

• DnJ 618: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie III’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as ‘Elegie III’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.

pp. 12-13

• DnJ 2330: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie VIII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as ‘Elegie VII’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.

pp. 13-15

• DnJ 252: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie. The Autumnall’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as ‘Elegie IX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.

pp. 15-16

• DnJ 954: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Image of her whom I love’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 95 (as ‘Elegie X’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 58. Shawcross, No. 35.

pp. 16-17

• DnJ 426: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.

pp. 17-18

• DnJ 3098: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.

pp. 18-19

• DnJ 1795: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow (‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Song’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.

pp. 19-20

• DnJ 3722: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.

pp. 21-2

• DnJ 2442: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’

Copy; headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as ‘Elegie VI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.

pp. 22-3

• DnJ 1828: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.

pp. 23-4

• DnJ 3615: John Donne, The triple Foole (‘I am two fooles, I know’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.

pp. 24-6

• DnJ 1061: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.

pp. 27-9

• DnJ 1005: John Donne, Elegie on M^ris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie vpon the death of Mistress Bulstrod’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.

pp. 29-30

• DnJ 1444: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.

pp. 30-1

• DnJ 484: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.

p. 32

• DnJ 3650: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)

Copy, headed ‘Twittnam Garden’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.

pp. 33-4

• DnJ 2195: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in F. G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as ‘Elegie XX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.

pp. 35-7

• DnJ 1095: John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred (‘Language thou art too narrow, and too weake’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 284-6 (as ‘Elegie. Death’). Shawcross, No. 151 (as ‘Elegie: Death’). Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 61-3. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 146-7.

pp. 37-8

• DnJ 818: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.

pp. 38-9

• DnJ 1958: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)

Copy, headed ‘Mummy’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.

pp. 39-41

• DnJ 581: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.

pp. 41-2

• DnJ 2035: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.

pp. 43-4

• DnJ 3897: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)

Copy of a five-stanza version, headed ‘Loues Legacies’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.

p. 45

• DnJ 2527: John Donne, The Paradox (‘No Lover saith, I love, nor any other’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69-70. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 38-9. Shawcross, No. 77.

pp. 46-7

• DnJ 2909: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.

p. 48

• DnJ 658: John Donne, Communitie (‘Good wee must love, and must hate ill’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.

p. 49

• DnJ 3981: John Donne, Womans constancy (‘Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.

p. 50

• DnJ 1352: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.

pp. 51-3

• DnJ 1252: John Donne, The Extasie (‘Where, like a pillow on a bed’)

Copy, headed ‘Extasie’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 51-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 59-61. Shawcross, No. 62.

p. 54

• DnJ 1997: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.

p. 55

• DnJ 1393: John Donne, The Funerall (‘Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.

pp. 56-60

• DnJ 2131: John Donne, Loves Progress (‘Who ever loves, if he do not propose’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.

pp. 61-2

• DnJ 343: John Donne, The Blossoms (‘Little think'st thou, poore flower’)

Copy, headed ‘The Blossome’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 59-60. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 87-8. Shawcross, No. 68.

pp. 63-4

• DnJ 3165: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as ‘Elegie XIX. Going to Bed’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.

The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, ‘Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's “To his mistress going to bed”’, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.

p. 65

• DnJ 176: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.

pp. 66-8

• DnJ 3482: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wotton (‘Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.

pp. 69-70

• DnJ 2609: John Donne, The Primrose (‘Upon this Primrose hill’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 61-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 88-9. Shawcross, No. 69.

pp. 70-1

• DnJ 3312: John Donne, To M^r T.W. (‘All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire’)

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 203-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 59-60. Shawcross, No. 114.

pp. 71-2

• DnJ 3355: John Donne, To M^r T.W. (‘Hast thee harsh verse, as fast as thy lame measure’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 205. Milgate, Satires, pp. 60-1. Shawcross, No. 115.

p. 72

• DnJ 3363: John Donne, To M^r T.W. (‘Pregnant again with th' old twins Hope, and Feare’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206. Milgate, Satires, p. 61. Shawcross, No. 116.

p. 73

• DnJ 3337: John Donne, To M^r T.W. (‘At once, from hence, my lines and I depart’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206-7. Milgate, Satires, p. 62. Shawcross, No. 117.

pp. 73-4

• DnJ 3231: John Donne, To M^r C.B. (‘Thy friend, whom thy deserts to thee enchaine’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 208. Milgate, Satires, p. 63. Shawcross, No. 120.

p. 74

• DnJ 3303: John Donne, To M^r S.B. (‘O Thou which to search out the secret parts’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 211. Milgate, Satires, pp. 66-7. Shawcross, No. 124.

pp. 75-6

• DnJ 3222: John Donne, To M^r B.B. (‘Is not thy sacred hunger of science’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 212-13. Milgate, Satires, pp. 67-8. Shawcross, No. 126.

pp. 76-7

• DnJ 3258: John Donne, To M^r R.W. (‘If, as mine is, thy life a slumber be’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 209-10. Milgate, Satires, pp. 64-5. Shawcross, No. 122.

pp. 77-8

• DnJ 3250: John Donne, To M^r I.L. (‘Of that short Roll of friends writ in my heart’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 212. Milgate, Satires, p. 67. Shawcross, No. 125.

pp. 78-9

• DnJ 3241: John Donne, To M^r I.L. (‘Blest are your North parts, for all this long time’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 213-14. Milgate, Satires, pp. 68-9. Shawcross, No. 127.

pp. 79-80

• DnJ 3415: John Donne, To Sir H.W. at his going Ambassador to Venice (‘After those reverend papers, whose soule is’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 214-16. Milgate, Satires, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 129.

pp. 81-2

• DnJ 3430: John Donne, To S^r Henry Goodyere (‘Who makes the Past, a patterne for next yeare’)

Copy, headed ‘To S^r. H:G. mouing him to trauell’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 183-4. Milgate, Satires, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 130.

pp. 83-4

• DnJ 3398: John Donne, To S^r Edward Herbert, at Julyers (‘Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee’)

Copy, headed ‘To S^r. E: H:’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 193-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 80-1. Shawcross, No. 140.

pp. 85-7

• DnJ 3376: John Donne, To M^rs M.H. (‘Mad paper stay, and grudge not here to burne’)

Copy, headed ‘To M. M. H’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 216-18. Milgate, Satires, pp. 88-90. Shawcross, No. 133.

pp. 87-9

• DnJ 2711: John Donne, Sapho to Philaenis (‘Where is that holy fire, which Verse is said’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 124-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 92-4 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 24. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 409-10.

pp. 90-1

• DnJ 1676: John Donne, Jealosie (‘Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie I’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 79-80 (as ‘Elegie I’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 9-10. Shawcross, No. 11.

pp. 91-3

• DnJ 2496: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as ‘Elegie XVI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.

pp. 93-4

• DnJ 1525: John Donne, His Picture (‘Here take my picture. though I bid farewell’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published as ‘Elegie V’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as ‘Elegie V’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.

pp. 94-6

• DnJ 2385: John Donne, A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day, Being the shortest day (‘'Tis the yeares midnight, and it is the dayes’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 44-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 84-5. Shawcross, No. 82.

p. 96

• DnJ 718: John Donne, The Computation (‘For the first twenty yeares, since yesterday’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69. Gardner, Elegies, p. 36. Shawcross, No. 76.

pp. 96-7

• DnJ 909: John Donne, The Dissolution (‘Shee is dead. And all which die’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 64. Gardner, Elegies, p. 86. Shawcross, No. 72.

p. 98

• DnJ 3950: John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture (‘I fixe mine eye on thine, and there’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.

pp. 98-9

• DnJ 1700: John Donne, A Jeat Ring sent (‘Thou art not so black, as my heart’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 65-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 38. Shawcross, No. 73.

pp. 99-101

• DnJ 2079: John Donne, Loves exchange (‘Love, any devill else but you’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 34-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 46-7. Shawcross, No. 55.

pp. 101-2

• DnJ 1315: John Donne, A Feaver (‘Oh doe not die, for I shall hate’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 21. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 61-2. Shawcross, No. 44.

pp. 102-3

• DnJ 1637: John Donne, The Indifferent (‘I can love both faire and browne’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.

pp. 104-6

• DnJ 3773: John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window (‘My name engrav'd herein’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.

pp. 106-7

• DnJ 12: John Donne, Aire and Angels (‘Twice or thrice had I loved thee’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.

p. 108

• DnJ 2101: John Donne, Loves growth (‘I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.

pp. 109-10

• DnJ 923: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.

p. 110

• DnJ 2628: John Donne, The Prohibition (‘Take heed of loving mee’)

Copy of stanzas 1-2.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 67-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 39-40. Shawcross, No. 47.

pp. 110-11

• DnJ 109: John Donne, The Anniversarie (‘All Kings, and all their favorites’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 24-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 71-2. Shawcross, No. 48.

p. 112

• DnJ 855: John Donne, The Dampe (‘When I am dead, and Doctors know not why’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 63-4. Gardner, Elegies, p. 49. Shawcross, No. 71.

pp. 113-14

• DnJ 2686: John Donne, The Relique (‘When my grave is broke up againe’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 62-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 89-90. Shawcross, No. 70.

pp. 114-15

• DnJ 2363: John Donne, Negative love (‘I never stoop'd so low, as they’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 66. Gardner, Elegies, p. 56. Shawcross, No. 74.

pp. 115-16

• DnJ 3833: John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping (‘Let me powre forth’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.

pp. 116-18

• DnJ 3804: John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke (‘I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.

p. 119

• DnJ 1191: John Donne, The Expiration (‘So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published, in a musical setting, in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 68. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 36-7. Shawcross, No. 75.

pp. 119-20

• DnJ 3694: John Donne, The undertaking (‘I have done one braver thing’)

Copy, headed ‘Platonique Loue’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.

p. 121

• DnJ 740: John Donne, Confined Love (‘Some man unworthy to be possessor’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.

p. 122

• DnJ 2283: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)

Copy, untitled, under a general heading ‘Songs w^ch were made to certaine Aires w^ch were made before’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.

p. 123

• DnJ 2993: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.

p. 124

• DnJ 294: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.

p. 125

• DnJ 1476: John Donne, Hero and Leander (‘Both rob'd of aire, we both lye in one ground’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 83. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

p. 125

• DnJ 2650: John Donne, Pyramus and Thisbe (‘Two, by themselves, each other, love and feare’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 84. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

p. 125

• DnJ 2375: John Donne, Niobe (‘By childrens births, and death, I am become’)

Copy, under a general heading ‘Epigrammes’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 85. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

p. 125

• DnJ 524: John Donne, A burnt ship (‘Out of a fired ship, which, by no way’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 86. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as ‘Nave arsa’) and 10.

p. 125

• DnJ 1273: John Donne, Fall of a wall (‘Vnder an undermin'd, and shot-bruis'd wall’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 87. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6 (untitled), 7 (as ‘Caso d'vn muro’), and 10 (as ‘Fall of a Wall’).

p. 126

• DnJ 1732: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as ‘Zoppo’) and 10.

p. 126

• DnJ 1883: John Donne, A licentious person (‘Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.

p. 126

• DnJ 149: John Donne, Antiquary (‘If in his Studie he hath so much care’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 93. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled and beginning ‘If, in his study, Hamon hath such care’), 8 (as ‘Antiquary’), and 11.

p. 126

• DnJ 2261: John Donne, Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus (‘Like Esops fellow-slaves, O Mercury’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 96. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.

p. 126

• DnJ 2587: John Donne, Phryne (‘Thy flattering picture, Phryne, is like thee’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 97. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.

p. 126

• DnJ 2398: John Donne, An obscure writer (‘Philo, with twelve yeares study, hath beene griev'd’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 98. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6 (untitled), 9 and 11.

p. 127

• DnJ 1717: John Donne, Klockius (‘Klockius so deeply hath sworne, ne'r more to come’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 99. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6, 9 and 11.

p. 127

• DnJ 2666: John Donne, Raderus (‘Why this man gelded Martiall I muse’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 103. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 9 and 11.

pp. 127-30

• DnJ 1147: John Donne, Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne (‘The Sun-beames in the East are spred’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Shawcross, and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 141-4. Shawcross, No. 106. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 3-6. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 87-9.

pp. 131-40

• DnJ 980: John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 (‘Unseasonable man, statue of ice’)

Copy, complete with the 11-poem ‘Epithalamion’, headed ‘Eclogue Induceing an Epithalamion at the Marriage of the E: of S:’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Shawcross, and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 131-44. Shawcross, No. 108. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 10-19 (as ‘Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset’). Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 133-9.

pp. 141-81

• DnJ 4070: John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems

Copy of ten Paradoxes and seventeen Problems.

This MS discussed by Evelyn Simpson in RES, 10 (1934), 416. Betagraph of the watermark in p. 241 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks’, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 238).

Eleven Paradoxes and ten Problems first published in Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes (London, 1633). Twelve Paradoxes and seventeen Problems published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Two more Problems published in 1899 and 1927 (see DnJ 4073, DnJ 4089). Twelve Paradoxes and eighteen Problems reprinted in Paradoxes and Problemes by John Donne (London, 1923). Twelve Paradoxes (Nos XI and XII relegated to ‘Dubia’) and nineteen Problems (No. XI by Edward Herbert) edited in Peters.

pp. 183-93

• DnJ 1929: John Donne, The Litanie (‘Father of Heaven, and him, by whom’)

Copy, headed ‘A Letanie’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.

pp. 193-5

• DnJ 1416: John Donne, Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward (‘Let mans Soule be a spheare, and then, in this’)

Copy, headed ‘Goodfriday Made as I was rideing westward that daye’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 336-7. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 185.

pp. 195-7

• DnJ 783: John Donne, The Crosse (‘Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I’)

Copy, headed ‘Of the Crosse’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 331-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 26-8. Shawcross, No. 181.

p. 198

• DnJ 2703: John Donne, Resurrection, imperfect (‘Sleep sleep old Sun, thou canst not have repast’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 333-4. Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 28. Shawcross, No. 182. The MS texts discussed in Lara M. Crowley, ‘A Text of “Resurrection. Imperfect”’, John Donne Journal, 29 (2010), 185-98.

p. 199

• DnJ 1552: John Donne, A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany (‘In what torne ship soever I embarke’)

Copy, headed ‘A Hymne to Christ’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 352-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 48-9. Shawcross, No. 190.

p. 200

• DnJ 1571: John Donne, A Hymne to God the Father (‘Wilt thou forgive that sinne where I begunne’)

Copy, headed ‘To Christ’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 369 (and variant text p. 370). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 193. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 26, 110 (in four sequences).

pp. 201-23

• DnJ 1662: John Donne, Infinitati Sacrum. 16 Augusti 1601 Metempsychosis (‘I sing the progresse of a deathlesse soule’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 293-316. Milgate, Satires, pp. 25-46. Shawcross, No. 158.

pp. 224-7

• DnJ 764: John Donne, La Corona (‘Deigne at my hands this crown of prayer and praise’)

Copy of the sequence of seven sonnets.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 318-21. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 1-5. Shawcross, No. 160.

pp. 227-8

• DnJ 217: John Donne, ‘As due by many titles I resigne’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. I’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 322 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. I’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 6. Shawcross, No. 162. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 5, 11, 21, 103 (in four sequences).

p. 228

• DnJ 2479: John Donne, ‘Oh, my blacke Soule! now thou art summoned’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. II’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 323 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. IV’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 163. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 21, 104 (in three sequences).

ff. 228-9

• DnJ 3137: John Donne, ‘This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. III’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 324 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. VI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 164. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 22, 105 (in three sequences).

p. 229

• DnJ 232: John Donne, ‘At the round earths imagin'd corners, blow’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 325 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. VII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 165. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 8, 14, 22, 106 (in four sequences).

pp. 229-30

• DnJ 1618: John Donne, ‘If poysonous mineralls, and if that tree’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. V’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. IX’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 166. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 9, 15, 23, 107 (in four sequences).

p. 230

• DnJ 882: John Donne, ‘Death be not proud, though some have called thee’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. X’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 167. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 23, 107 (in four sequences).

pp. 230-1

• DnJ 3042: John Donne, ‘Spit in my face you Jewes, and pierce my side’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 327 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 168.

p. 231

• DnJ 3880: John Donne, ‘Why are wee by all creatures waited on?’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VIII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 327 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 10. Shawcross, No. 169.

pp. 231-2

• DnJ 3868: John Donne, ‘What if this present were the worlds last night?’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. IX’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 328 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XIII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 10. Shawcross, No. 170.

p. 232

• DnJ 330: John Donne, ‘Batter my heart, three person'd God. for, you’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. X’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 328 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XIV’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 11. Shawcross, No. 171. Variorum, 7, Pt 1 (2005), pp. 18, 25.

pp. 232-3

• DnJ 3937: John Donne, ‘Wilt thou love God, as he thee! then digest’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. XI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XV’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 11. Shawcross, No. 172.

p. 233

• DnJ 1294: John Donne, ‘Father, part of his double interest’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. XII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XVI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 173. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 6, 12, 26, 110 (in four sequences).

pp. 236-7

• DnJ 1588: John Donne, An hymne to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton (‘Whether that soule which now comes up to you’)

Copy, preceded (p. 235) by Donne's prose letter to Hamilton, both subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Shawcross, and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 288-90. Shawcross, No. 154. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 74-5. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 220-1.

p. 239

• KiH 89: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) ‘A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds’ (‘Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee’). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

p. 242

• JnB 55: Ben Jonson, The Dreame (‘Or Scorne, or pittie on me take’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in The Vnder-wood (xi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 150-1.

p. 242

• KiH 584: Henry King, Sonnet (‘I prethee turne that face away’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

Musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (Oxford, 1659).

p. 243

• B&F 70: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Love's Cure, III, ii, 118-225. Song (‘Turn, turn thy beauteous face away’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, IX, 105-95 (p. 149). Bowers, III, 12-93, ed. George Walton Williams (p. 48). This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).

pp. 244-6

• RnT 358: Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet (‘I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare’)

Copy, in a cursive predominantly italic hand, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.

This MS collated in Fredson T. Bowers, ‘A Possible Randolph Holograph’, The Library, 4th Ser. 20 (1939-40), 159-62, with a facsimile of p. 246 facing p. 164. Also collated in Davis. Facsimile in Georges Borias, ‘Randolph's Praeludium’, Cahiers Elisabéthains, 29 (1986), 53-76 (after p. 54).

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 115-17. Davis, pp. 92-105.

pp. 247-50

• KiH 349: Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind (‘Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie’.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.

MS R. 3. 16 (James 596)

Copy of Psalms 1-150, in an accomplished professional hand, some initials decorated, with a title-page, ‘The Psalmes of Dauid metaphrased into sundry Kindes of verse, By the noble & famous gent: Sir Philip Sidney Knight’, 302 folio pages, in old calf. Late 16th-early 17th century.

SiP 87: Sir Philip Sidney, The Psalms of David

Subscribed (p. 302) ‘I haue perused this Metaphrase of the Psalmes by that Worthy, whose happy meditations may yield others content, and, a precedent worthy imitation, Which I desire may be published in Print. John Langley.’ Donated in 1664 by W. Lynnet, STB, Fellow, whose name is stamped in gilt on the front cover.

This MS described in Ringler, p. 549.

MS R. 3. 17 (James 597)

A manuscript volume principally of ‘The Romance of Earl Raymond of Poitiers’. 15th century.

[vellum flyleaf]

• SkJ 37: John Skelton, Masteres Anne

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Skeat.

Canon, R66, p. 21. Edited in The Romans of Partenay, ed. Walter W. Skeat, EETS 22 (London, 1866), p. vi.

MS R. 5. 1 (James 695)

Copy, headed ‘An account of such Service as was enioyned by your Mat^ys Commission to me and others concerning y^e present state of your Nauy’, incomplete, unsigned, 16 folio leaves, bound with other tracts. Early 17th century.

CtR 5: Sir Robert Cotton, An Accompt of such Service as was enioyed by your Ma^ts. Comission to me and others concerninge the p^rsent State of your Navy

An official report by the Navy Commission, to James I, produced principally by Cotton, with corrections by Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton. Unpublished?

Cf also HoH 94.

MS R. 5. 5 (James 699)

A folio composite volume of letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 86 items, in quarter-calf marbled boards. The letters chiefly to Anne Sadleir, of Standon, some to her husband.

Donated by Anne Sadleir in 1669.

No. 45

• *KiH 809: Henry King, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed, to Mrs Anne Sadleir, from London, 14 August 1661. 1661.

Ciited in Crum, p. 21. Edited in Hobbs, Correspondence, p. 143.

No. 47

• *HlJ 137: Joseph Hall, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed, to Anne Sadleir, from Higham, 23 April [no year].

No. 78

• CoA 151: Abraham Cowley, Prologue to the Guardian (‘Who says the Times do Learning disallow?’)

Copy, headed ‘The Prologue & Epilogue to the Comedy acted before the Prince in Trinitye Colledge spoken by the Author S^r Cowley. March: 1642’, on the second page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1642.

This MS collated in Wiley.

First published, under the pseudonym ‘Francis Cole’, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Waller, I, 31-2 (and II, 161). Autrey Nell Wiley, ‘The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian’, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).

MS R. 5. 8 (James 702), (III)

Copy of 101 Ordinances, together with fifteen additional Ordinances, in a professional secretary hand, on eleven folio leaves, bound with two unrelated manuscripts, in modern boards. c.1620s.

BcF 250: Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery

MS R. 5. 9 (James 703)

Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, with a modern title-page (otherwise untitled), 142 folio pages (plus blanks), in later calf. Late 16th-early 17th century.

LeC 74: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

Inscribed (f [i^r]) ‘Ed: Rud S.T.B. Trin: Coll: Cant: Soc: 1712’.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.

MS R. 5. 12 (James 707)

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 270 leaves (including some blanks), in quarter-calf marbled boards.

ff. 142r-9r

• EsR 247: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

Copy.

ff. 155v-6v

• EsR 310: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution

Copy, in a secretary hand. c.1620s.

Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.

ff. 160v-4v

• RaW 728.265: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)

Copy of Ralegh's Arraignment in 1603.

ff. 164v-71v, 175v-7v

• RaW 983: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of letters by Ralegh, to his wife, in 1603; to Sir Robert Carr; and to Winwood. 17th century.

ff. 172r-7v

• RaW 566: Sir Walter Ralegh, Apology for his Voyage to Guiana

Copy, in a secretary hand. c.1620s.

A tract beginning ‘If the ill success of this enterprise of mine had been without example...’. First published in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 477-507. Edited by V. T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 316-34.

ff. 200r-8v

• BcF 84: Francis Bacon, Apology in Certain Imputations concerning the late Earl of Essex

Copy, in a secretary hand, subscribed ‘An: Dom: 1623. Octob: 20: per Eduardum Sadleir’. 1623.

First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 139-60.

ff. 208v-12v

• BcF 110: Francis Bacon, A Brief Discourse touching the Happy Union of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland

Copy, the title in a large secretary hand, the rest in a roman hand, subscribed ‘An: Dom: 1623: Octob: 24. per me Edwardu Sadleir’. 1623.

A tract beginning ‘I do not find it strange (excellent King)...’. First published in London, 1603. Spedding, X, 90-9.

MS R. 5. 13 (James 708)

A folio composite volume of state and legal tracts, in various hands.

Item 3

• BcF 95.5: Francis Bacon, Arguments of Law. The Arguments on the Jurisdiction of the Council of the Marches

Copy of the arguments by Bacon and others, with second copies of two of the arguments, in three professional secretary hands, 41 folio pages. c.1608-9.

Spedding, VII, 567-611.

MS R. 5. 15 (James 710)

A folio composite volume of tracts and state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, c.281 pages, in quarter-calf marbled boards.

Item 2

• CtR 94: 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, in a secretary hand, on twenty folio pages. Early 17th century.

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].

item 5

• RaW 1075: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Military Discourse

Copy, in a secretary hand, 48 pages. Early 17th century.

A treatise beginning ‘Forasmuch as in every doubtfull and questionable matter, it is familiar and common amongst men to be diverse...’. First published in London, 1734. It was probably written by Sir Thomas Wilford (1541-1601?), or possibly by Sir Francis De Vere or Nathaniel Boothe. See Lefranc (1968), pp. 64-5.

MS R. 5. 18 (James 713)

A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in several hands, 121 leaves, in 17th-century calf.

With a later title-page (f. [iii^r]), ‘Leycesters Common-wealth...Together with other Political Papers written or Collected by M^r Beaupre Bell...De Beauprè Hall in Com: Norf: 1726’. Inscribed inside the front cover by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary, ‘Sept. 1. 1733. This MS. belongs to Beaupré Bell Junior, Esq. Tho: Hearne’.

ff. 1r-47r

• LeC 75: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

Copy, in at least two secretary hands. Late 16th-early 17th century.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

ff. 69r-72r

• EsR 177: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, First Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘A lre written by the Earle of Essex to the Earle of Rutland touching the direction of his travell Januarie 1594’. c.1595-1600s.

The letter, dated from Greenwich, 4 January [1596], beginning ‘My Lord, I hold it for a principle in the course of intelligence of state...’.

First published, as ‘The Late E. of E. his aduice to the E. of R. in his trauels’, in Profitable Instructions; Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 27-73. Francis Bacon, Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 106-10. Spedding, IX, 6-15. W.B. Devereux, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), I, No. xciii.

Essex's three letters to Rutland discussed by Paul E.J. Hammer in ‘The Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholars’, SP. 91/2 (Spring, 1994), 167-80, and in ‘Letters of Travel Advice from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Rutland: Some Comments’, PQ, 74/3 (Summer 1995), 317-22. It is likely that the first letter was written substantially by Francis Bacon.

ff. 107r-16v

• EsR 145: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology

Copy, in an accomplished professional secretary hand. c.1600s.

First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.

MS R. 5. 20 (James 715)

A folio composite volume of antiquarian papers, in various hands and paper sizes. c.1603-23.

Donated by John Hacket (1592-1670), Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.

The contents of this MS listed in Montague Rhodes James, The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, II (Cambridge, 1901), pp. 423-6.

The volume as a whole

• *CmW 161: William Camden, Collectanea

A volume of antiquarian papers, compiled by, and largely in the hand of, William Camden, comprising drafts of antiquarian tracts and other writings, as well as historical notes, lists, jottings, and other material, including James I's licence to print Britannia.

[unspecified pages]

• *CmW 3: William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha

Autograph draft plan of the Annales, in double columns, on thirteen leaves, also (later) a rudimentary index to them. c.1623.

Part I (to 1589) first published in London, 1615. Parts I-II (to 1603) published in Leiden, 1625-7.

[unspecified pages]

• *CmW 15: William Camden, Memorabilia de seipso

Autograph autobiographical notes, on one page. c.1622.

First published in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 85-6.

[unspecified pages]

• *CmW 17: William Camden, Regni regis Jacobi I annalium apparatus

Autograph, on 45 leaves. c.1623.

Thomas Smith's own exemplum of his edition of 1691 with his MS additions to these Annales, is in the Bodleian, 4° Rawl. 204.

First published in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 1-85.

[unspecified pages]

• *CmW 61: William Camden, Kings of Arms

Unfinished autograph draft of an untitled essay addressed to James I concerning the ‘proiect of Armes’; two pages. c.1603-23.

An unpublished tract beginning ‘Most gratious and dread Soueraigne According to the Greek Adage...’.

[unspecified pages]

• *CmW 112: William Camden, The Title of Baron

Autograph draft, untitled and here beginning ‘If such an inhaerent Excellency, retentive facultie, and inseperabilitie of titles had beene known in former ages…’, on seven pages.

An unpublished tract beginning ‘Whether the title of a Baronie brought into a familie w^ch afterward is invested with an Earledom...’.

MS R. 7. 15 (James 753)

Autograph volume of writings by John Bale, 174 quarto leaves. c.1552-7.

Donated in 1667 by William Corker, AM, Fellow.

The MS as a whole

• *BaJ 23: John Bale, Opus Ioannis Lelandi, de illustribus uiris Anglice nationis, epitomatum, ac plerisque in locis emendatum et auctum

Autograph MS of Bale's epitome of Leland's Commentarii de scriptoribus Britannicis (LeJ 50-3), with autograph notes on papal history (material for Acta Romanorum pontificum) and other extracts.

This MS recorded and discussed in Davies, p. 237 (xvi); in McCusker (1942), pp. 108-9; and in Fairfield, pp. 163-4

This version unpublished.

ff. 3r-5r

• LeJ 5: John Leland, Poemata

Copy of five of Leland's Latin epigrams, the first beginning ‘Druydes, genus hominum tum antiquissimi nominis’, in the hand of John Bale.

Many of Leland's Latin epigrams published in Principum, ac illustrium aliquot & eruditorum in Anglia virorum, encomia, trophaea, genethliaca & epithalamia, ed. Thomas Newton (London, 1589). Reprinted in Joannis Lelandi...collectanea, ed. Thomas Hearne, 3rd edition (London, 1774), V, 79-167.

MS R. 7. 22 (James 758)

A formal copy of the report of the Committee appointed by King James I to inspect the Navy, seventeen leaves, bound with another tract. Early 17th century.

CtR 6: Sir Robert Cotton, An Accompt of such Service as was enioyed by your Ma^ts. Comission to me and others concerninge the p^rsent State of your Navy

An official report by the Navy Commission, to James I, produced principally by Cotton, with corrections by Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton. Unpublished?

Cf also HoH 94.

MS R. 7. 23* (III) (James 762)

A quarto MS, in the calligraphic roman hand of an amanuensis, with decoration, 23 leaves, imperfect, the margins chewed by rodents, in contemporary vellum gilt. A presentation copy to Prince Henry, with his illuminated arms and a title-page, the dedication signed by Gorges (‘A Gorges’) and dated 1610. 1610.

*GgA 128: Sir Arthur Gorges, A Breife Discourse tending to y^e wealth, and strength of this Kingdome of Greate Brittayne

One in a collection of volumes presented to Prince Henry, donated in 1691 by Sir Henry Puckering.

This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 672.

Unpublished.

MS R. 7. 30 (James 772)

Copy, in a secretary hand, 156 octavo pages, in quarter-vellum boards. With a title-page and lengthy preamble, ‘The royal antiquity and Princely Divinity of Royall Queene Eliza both drawne forth of the Originall Manuscript written w^th hir Ma^tes owne hand shortly after hir Coming to y^e goum^t ... Neuer yet Published But penned by hir Ma^tie for hir owne priuate vse and Contentment’. Early 17th century.

ElQ 72: Queen Elizabeth I, The royal antiquity and Princely Divinity of Royall Queene Eliza

Modern bookplate of Henry Puckering.

A treatise, beginning ‘When Princes come to their gouernment...’, allegedly written by the Queen's own hand. Unpublished.

MSS R. 7. 32, 33 (James 774)

Copy, entitled ‘A Dedication to S^r. Phillip Sidney’ and in eighteen chapters, bound in two duodecimo volumes, each in a different hand, 75 and 60 leaves respectively, each in leather gilt. First half of 17th century.

GrF 26: Fulke Greville, Life of Sir Philip Sidney

Modern bookplate of Henry Puckering.

This MS collated in Grosart and in Smith.

Generally entitled A Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney. First published in London, 1652. Grosart, IV, 1-224. Edited by Nowell Smith (Oxford, 1907). Gouw, pp. 3-135.

MS R. 17. 10 (James 996)

A folio composite volume of academic Latin plays, in modern half-calf.

Donated in 1897 by W. Aldis Wright, M.A., Vice-Master.

ff. 40r-52v

• AlW 266: William Alabaster, Roxana

Copy, in a small non-professional hand, subscribed ‘Authore D^re Alabaster collegij quonda Trinitatis socio’. Early 17th century.

First acted at Trinity College, Cambridge c.1595?. First published in London, 1632. A translation by Dana F. Sutton put online in 1998 by the University of California at Irvine.

Adv. a. 1. 4

Dryden's printed exemplum, containing his copious autograph corrections, glosses and annotations, on some 68 pages. His annotations occur in The Faery Queene (pp. 16, 24, 33-4, 41, 47, 62-4, 69, 73, 81, 88-91, 95, 99, 103-4, 129-30, 143, 154, 156-7, 161, 167, 169, 172-3, 177, 191, 202-3, 212, 217, 221, 223, 227, 239, 248-50, 253-6, 269, 271-2, 281, 288, 296, 298, 300, 307, 312, 314-15, 335), Prosopopoia (p. 6), The Shepheardes Calender (pp. 9, 39, 42), Colin Clouts come home againe (p. 57), Amoretti (p. 92) and Muiopotmos (p. 173). Late 17th century.

*DrJ 300: John Dryden, Spenser, Edmund. The Works Of that Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser (London, 1679)

Inscribed on the flyleaf by Jacob Tonson: ‘The corrections made in this Book are of mr Drydens own hand writing J Tonson’.

This volume discussed in Osborn, pp. 241-5.

Capell W. 1

Copy, written on the last leaf (Gg 4^v) of a printed exemplum of Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Late 16th century.

SuH 42: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, ‘Marshall, the thinges for to attayne’

This item recorded in Rollins, II, 150.

First published at the end of Book III in William Baldwin, A treatise of Morrall phylosophye (London, 1547/8). Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Padelford, No. 41, p. 94. Jones, pp. 34-5.

The texts discussed in J.M. Evans, ‘The Text of Surrey's “The Meanes to Attain Happy Life”’, N&Q, 228 (1983), 409-11; in W.D. McGaw, ‘The Text of Surrey's “The Meanes to Attain Happy Life” -- A Reply’, N&Q, 230 (December 1985), 456-8; and in A.S.G. Edwards, ‘Surrey's Martial Epigram: Scribes and Transmission’, EMS, 12 (2005), 74-82.

C.9.161¹

Exemplum of the printed edition of 1604 with the unprinted pages supplied in MS. c.1604.

BcF 130.5: Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the Better Pacification and Edification of the Church of England

Facsimile of sigs D4^v-[E1^r] in Serjeantson and Woolford, p. 146.

First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, ‘The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604)’, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.

K.1.97

MS extracts, on pp. [219-20] in an exemplum of the first printed edition, second issue [1647]. Mid-17th century?

DnJ 4058.5: John Donne, Biathanatos

First published in London, [1647]. Reprinted in facsimile, ed. J.W. Hebel (New York, 1930). Edited by Michael Rudick and M. Pabst Bettin (New York, 1982) and by Ernest W. Sullivan II (Newark, NJ, 1984).

L.12.112(1)

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 67: Gabriel Harvey, Duarenus, Franciscus. De Sacris Ecclesiae Ministeriis Ac Beneficiis Libri VIII. In quibus quicquid ad plenam Iuris Pontificij cognitionem necessarium est, breviter ac dilucide explicatum continetur (Paris, 1564)

Stern, pp. 209-10.

L.12.112(2)

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 68: Gabriel Harvey, Duenarus, Franciscus. F. Duareni Jurisconsulti Clarissimi Praelectiones In Tit. Ad Leg. Falc. D. in celebri Biturig. academia habitae anno 1555. Opera Leontii Beriaci I.C. (Paris, 1561)

Stern, p. 210.

III.18.74

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 111: Gabriel Harvey, Humphrey, Laurence. Interpretatio Linguarum: seu de ratione convertendi & explicandi autores tam sacros quam profanos, Libri tres (Basle, 1559)

Stern, pp. 222-3.

VI.4.4

MS verses on a flyleaf in a printed exemplum of Ralegh's The History of the World (London, 1621), a folio in contemporary calf. c.1620s-30s.

Inscribed (f. [i^r]) ‘Ed: Rudd Trin: Coll: Cant: 1700’.

f. [ii^r]

• RaW 449.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, The passionate mans Pilgrimage (‘Giue me my Scallop shell of quiet’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r Walt^r Raleigh his pilgrimage’.

First published with Daiphantvs or The Passions of Loue (London, 1604). Latham, pp. 49-51. Rudick, Nos 54A, 54B and 54C (three versions, pp. 126-33).

This poem rejected from the canon and attributed to an anonymous Catholic poet in Philip Edwards, ‘Who Wrote The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage?’, ELR, 4 (1974), 83-97.

f. [ii^r]

• RaW 95.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, in double columns, headed ‘When Kinge James the firste sente sente [sicWorde to S^r Walther Ralegh that he shod dy. he called for a pen & wrote these verses’.

This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

VI.18.2

Copy, in a cursive hand, untitled, on the verso of the final flyleaf (f. 77v) in a printed exemplum of Caxton's Dictes or Sayeingis of the Philosophres (London, 1477). Mid-late 16th century.

SkJ 7.8: John Skelton, Manerly Margery Mylk and Ale (‘Ay, besherewe yow, be my fay’)

This MS edited and discussed, with a facsimile, in A.S.G Edwards and Lynne R. Mooney, ‘A New Version of a Skelton Lyric’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 10 (1994), 507-10 and Plate 12.

Canon, C37, p. 11. First published in Sir John Hawkins, A General History of the Science and Practice of Music (London, 1776), III, 2. Dyce, I, 28-9. Scattergood, pp. 35-6.

Trinity College, Cambridge

Admissions and Admonitions Book 1560-1759

Admissions 1635-1740

Admissions 1645-59

MS B. 11. 35

MS B. 14. 22 (James 307)

MS B. 14. 49 (James 332)

MS O. 1. 6 (James 1030)

MS O. 1. 27 (James 1051)

O. 1. 35 (James 1059)

MS O. 1. 51 (James 1075)

MS O. 2. 53 (James 1157)

MS O. 2. 66 (James 1170)

MS O. 3. 12 (James 1184)

MS O. 3. 33 (James 1205)

MS O. 4. 2 (James 1233)

MS O. 4. 52 (James 1502)

MS O. 5. 21 (James 1302), (20)

MS O. 5. 25 (James 1306)

MSS O. 10. 6, 7 (James 1458-9)

MS O. 10. 25 (James 1477)

MS R. 3. 4 (James 583)

MS R. 3. 10 (James 590)

MS R. 3. 12 (James 592)

MS R. 3. 16 (James 596)

MS R. 3. 17 (James 597)

MS R. 5. 1 (James 695)

MS R. 5. 5 (James 699)

MS R. 5. 8 (James 702), (III)

MS R. 5. 9 (James 703)

MS R. 5. 12 (James 707)

MS R. 5. 13 (James 708)

MS R. 5. 15 (James 710)

MS R. 5. 18 (James 713)

MS R. 5. 20 (James 715)

MS R. 7. 15 (James 753)

MS R. 7. 22 (James 758)

MS R. 7. 23* (III) (James 762)

MS R. 7. 30 (James 772)

MSS R. 7. 32, 33 (James 774)

MS R. 17. 10 (James 996)

Adv. a. 1. 4

Capell W. 1

C.9.1611

K.1.97

L.12.112(1)

L.12.112(2)

III.18.74

VI.4.4

VI.18.2

C.9.161¹