PR 2338. A68 1638
Copy, in at least two hands, headed ‘A Paraphrase Vpon The Song of Solomon By George Sandys Anno 1637’, on eight folio leaves, bound with a printed exemplum of A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638). c.1637-43.
SaG 27: George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon the Song of Solomon (‘Join thy life-breathing lips to mine’)
This MS discussed in Davis, loc. cit., pp. 334-5 et seq.
First published in London, 1641. Hooper, II, 335-56. Dedicatory verses ‘To the Queen’ first published in A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1676). Hooper, II, 338.
PR 3461. F8A65. 1659a
Copy of the complete work, probably transcribed from a printed edition, on 77 octavo pages, the title-page dated ‘London. 1659’.
FuT 5: Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Bad times
A flyleaf inscribed, apparently by the transcriber ‘For Mrs Sut[?] Lloyd. May. 5. 1701 from your...’. This MS possibly that sold by John Wilcox, London, in the Peter Le Neve sale on 19 March 1730/1, lot 60.
First published in Exeter, 1645, and in London, 1645.