STC 7045
A copy of some 24 poems by Donne, with other material, in a single neat hand, transcribed and emended from the 1669 edition of the Poems, headed ‘Additions to Dr. Donne in ye Edition, 1669 8vo’, 80 quarto pages (pp. [407-86]), bound with a printed exemplum of Donne's Poems (1633), a number of which bear MS emendations and additions in the same hand. Late 17th century.
The printed title-page inscribed ‘H. Mapletoft’: ?perhaps Hugh Mapletoft (d.1731), rector of All Saints, Huntingdon, who was related to the Ferrar family, George Herbert's friends. Later owned by Augustus Jessopp (1823-1914), schoolmaster and historical writer, who gave it on 25 August 1895 to Sir Edmund Gosse (1849-1928), writer. Sotheby's, 30 July 1928, lot 36, to Edwards.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Mapletoft Volume’: DnJ Δ 68 (before its present location was known). Briefly recorded in William E. McCarron and Jack M. Shuttleworth, ‘A Newly Recovered Donne First Edition’, Seventeenth Century News, 37 (1979), 72. Its MS Donne contents listed in Ernest W. Sullivan II, ‘Updating the Donne Listings in Peter Beal's Index of English Literary Manuscripts’, John Donne Journal, 6 (1987), 219-34.
pp. 5, 6, 10, 12, 14, 19, 21, 25, 27
• DnJ 1666.5: John Donne, Infinitati Sacrum. 16 Augusti 1601 Metempsychosis (‘I sing the progresse of a deathlesse soule’)
MS emendations to the printed text.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 293-316. Milgate, Satires, pp. 25-46. Shawcross, No. 158.
p. 28
• DnJ 774.5: John Donne, La Corona (‘Deigne at my hands this crown of prayer and praise’)
MS emendations to the printed text.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 318-21. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 1-5. Shawcross, No. 160.
pp. 44-5
• DnJ 1696.5: John Donne, Jealosie (‘Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die’)
MS emendations to the printed text.
First published, as ‘Elegie I’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 79-80 (as ‘Elegie I’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 9-10. Shawcross, No. 11.
p. 47
• DnJ 642.3: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)
MS emendations to the printed text.
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. 49-51
• DnJ 2576.3: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)
MS emendations to the printed text.
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.
p. 51
• DnJ 1547.3: John Donne, His Picture (‘Here take my picture. though I bid farewell’)
MS emendations to the printed text.
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.
p. 52
• DnJ 1049.5: John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. (‘Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way’)
MS emendations to the printed text.
First published, as ‘Elegie VI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 287. Gardner, Elegies, p. 26 (as ‘A Funeral Elegy’). Variorum, 6 (1995), p. 103, as ‘Elegia’.
pp. 55-6
• DnJ 2356.3: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’
MS emendations to the printed text.
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.
p. 56
• DnJ 3086.2: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)
MS emendations to the printed text.
First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.
p. 67
• DnJ 1086.3: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)
MS emendations to the printed text.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.
p. 75
• DnJ 3299.5: John Donne, To Mr Rowland Woodward (‘Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe’)
MS emendations to the printed text.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.
p. 79
• DnJ 3537.5: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right’)
MS emendations to the printed text.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 189-90. Milgate, Satires, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 134.
pp. 79, 81
• DnJ 3358.5: John Donne, To Mr T.W. (‘Hast thee harsh verse, as fast as thy lame measure’)
MS emendations to the printed text.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 205. Milgate, Satires, pp. 60-1. Shawcross, No. 115.
p. 85
• DnJ 3542.3: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘T' have written then, when you writ, seem'd to mee’)
MS emendations to the printed text.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 195-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 95-8. Shawcross, No. 138.
p. 89
• DnJ 3565.5: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford. On New-yeares day (‘This twilight of two yeares, not past nor next’)
MS emendations to the printed text.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 198-201. Milgate, Satires, pp. 98-100. Shawcross, No. 139.
p. 96
• DnJ 3349.8: John Donne, To Mr T.W. (‘At once, from hence, my lines and I depart’)
MS emendations to the printed text.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206-7. Milgate, Satires, p. 62. Shawcross, No. 117.
p. 115
• DnJ 3584.5: John Donne, To the Countesse of Salisbury. August. 1614 (‘Faire, great, and good, since seeing you, wee see’)
MS emendations to the printed text.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 224-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 107-10. Shawcross, No. 145.
pp. 136-8
• DnJ 1158.5: John Donne, Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne (‘The Sun-beames in the East are spred’)
MS emendations to the printed text.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 141-4. Shawcross, No. 106. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 3-6. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 87-9.
p. 140
• DnJ 2429.3: John Donne, Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford (‘Faire soule, which wast, not onely, as all soules bee’)
MS emendations to the printed text.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 271-9. Shawcross, No. 153. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 66-74. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 177-82.
pp. 162-3
• DnJ 1594.5: John Donne, An hymne to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton (‘Whether that soule which now comes up to you’)
MS emendations to the printed text.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 288-90. Shawcross, No. 154. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 74-5. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 220-1.
p. 168 [198]
• DnJ 3708.3: John Donne, The undertaking (‘I have done one braver thing’)
MS emendations to the printed text.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.
p. 186
• DnJ 2306.8: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)
MS emendations to the printed text.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.
p. 190
• DnJ 312.7: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)
MS emendations to the printed text.
First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.
p. 204
• DnJ 605.5: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)
MS emendations to the printed text.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.
p. 222
• DnJ 679.5: John Donne, Communitie (‘Good wee must love, and must hate ill’)
MS emendations to the printed text.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.
p. 226
• DnJ 756.5: John Donne, Confined Love (‘Some man unworthy to be possessor’)
MS emendations to the printed text.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.
p. 302
• DnJ 2536.5: John Donne, The Paradox (‘No Lover saith, I love, nor any other’)
MS emendations to the printed text.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69-70. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 38-9. Shawcross, No. 77.
pp. 321-2
• DnJ 1782.5: John Donne, The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the most part according to Tremelius (‘How sits this citie, late most populous’)
MS emendations to the printed text.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 354-67. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 35-48. Shawcross, No. 187.
p. [407]
• DnJ 2394.5: John Donne, ‘O might those sighes and teares return againe’
MS copy.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. III’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 323 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. III’). Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 176. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 6, 12, 104 (in three sequences).
p. [407]
• DnJ 3150.5: John Donne, ‘Thou hast made me, And shall thy worke decay?’
MS copy, headed ‘In the Holy Sonnets to be inserted pag: 32’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 322 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. I’). Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 12-13. Shawcross, No. 174. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 5, 11, 103 (in three sequences).
pp. [407-8]
• DnJ 1604.5: John Donne, ‘I am a little world made cunningly’
MS copy.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. V’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 324 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. V’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 13. Shawcross, No. 175. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 8, 14, 105 (in three sequences).
p. [408]
• DnJ 1610.5: John Donne, ‘If faithfull soules be alike glorifi'd’
MS copy.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VIII’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 325 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. VIII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 14. Shawcross, No. 177.
pp. 408-9
• CoH 109.5: Henry Constable, To our blessed Lady (‘In that (O Queene of queenes) thy byrth was free’)
MS copy.
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 5. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J. C. Grierson (2 vols, Oxford, 1912), I, 427. Grundy, p. 185.
pp. [409-10]
• DnJ 3709.5: John Donne, Upon the translation of the Psalmes by Sir Philip Sydney, and the Countesse of Pembroke his Sister (‘Eternall God, for whom who ever dare’)
MS copy.
First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 348-50. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-5. Shawcross, No. 191.
pp. [411-13]
• DnJ 3371.5: John Donne, To Mr. Tilman after he had taken orders (‘Thou, whose diviner soule hath caus'd thee now’)
MS copy.
First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 351-2. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 189.
pp. [413-14]
• DnJ 1565.5: John Donne, Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse (‘Since I am comming to that Holy roome’)
MS copy.
First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 368-9. Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 192.
pp. [419-22]
• DnJ 1503.5: John Donne, His parting from her (‘Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night’)
MS copy.
First published, in a 42-line version as ‘Elegie XIIII’, in Poems (London, 1635). Published complete (104 lines) in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 100-4 (as ‘Elegie XII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 96-100 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 21. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 332-4 (with versions printed in 1635 and 1669 on pp. 335-6 and 336-8 respectively).
pp. [422-3]
• DnJ 1713.5: John Donne, Julia (‘Harke newes, o envy, thou shalt heare descry'd’)
MS copy.
First published, as ‘Eleg. XV’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 104-5 (as ‘Elegie XIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 100-1 (among her ‘Dubia’). Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 435, among ‘Dubia’. Not in Shawcross.
pp. [423-5]
• DnJ 3144.5: John Donne, ‘This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint’
MS copy.
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).
pp. [425-7]
• DnJ 2148.5: John Donne, Loves Progress (‘Who ever loves, if he do not propose’)
MS copy.
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. [428-31]
• DnJ 3574.5: John Donne, To the Countesse of Huntington (‘That unripe side of earth, that heavy clime’)
MS copy.
First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 417-21 (in his appendix of spurious poems, but accepted into the canon in his edition of 1929). Milgate, Satires, pp. 81-5 (Donne's authorship discussed pp. 293-4). Shawcross, No. 131.
pp. [436-7]
• DnJ 2521.5: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)
MS copy.
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. [437-8]
• DnJ 1141.5: John Donne, Epitaph on Himselfe. To the Countesse of Bedford (‘That I might make your Cabinet my tombe’)
MS copy.
First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 291-2. Milgate, Satires, p. 103. Shawcross, No. 147.
pp. [440-1]
• DnJ 3708.5: John Donne, The undertaking (‘I have done one braver thing’)
MS copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.
pp. [442-3]
• DnJ 1287.5: John Donne, Farewell to love (‘Whilst yet to prove’)
MS copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 70-1. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 82-3. Shawcross, No. 79.
pp. [444-5]
• DnJ 1815.7: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow (‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’)
MS copy.
First published, as ‘Song’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.
p. [460]
• DnJ 30.5: John Donne, Amicissimo, & meritissimo Ben Jonson. In Vulponem (‘Qvod arte ausus es hic tuâ, Poeta’)
MS copy.
First published prefixed in Ben Jonson, Volpone (London, 1607). Grierson, I, 398. Variorum, 8 (1995), 217.
pp. [414-17]
• DnJ 312.8: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)
MS copy.
First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.
pp. [461-9]
• DnJ 4065.1: John Donne, The Courtier's Library, or Catalogus librorum aulicorum incomparabilium et non vendibilium
MS copy.
First published in Poems (London, 1650). Edited, with an English translation, by Evelyn Mary Simposon (London, 1930).
p. [469]
• DnJ 3602.5: John Donne, Translated out of Gazæus, Vota Amico facta. fol. 160 (‘God grant thee thine own wish, and grant thee mine’)
MS copy.
First published in Poems (London, 1650). Grierson, I, 400. Variorum, 8 (1995), 232.
p. [472]
• DnJ 3237.5: John Donne, To Mr George Herbert, with one of my Seal(s), of the Anchor and Christ (‘Qvi prius assuetus Serpentum fasce Tabellas’)
MS copy.
First published in Poems (London, 1650). Grierson, I, 398-9.
p. [473]
• DnJ 3237.8: John Donne, To Mr George Herbert, with one of my Seal(s), of the Anchor and Christ (‘A Sheafe of Snakes used heretofore to be’)
MS copy.
First published in Poems (London, 1650). Grierson, I, 399-400.
pp. [475-7]
• DnJ 3859.5: John Donne, Variety (‘The heavens rejoyce in motion, why should I’)
MS copy.
First published in Poems (1650). Grierson, I, 113-16. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 104-6 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 23. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 393-4.
Probably by Nicholas Hare (1582-1622), Clerk of the Court of Wards and Liveries.