CELM: Yale

Gen MSS Vol. 87

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, 159 quarto leaves (plus 23 blanks), in contemporary calf. Early 17th century.

MrT 68: Sir Thomas More, Cresacre More's Life of Sir Thomas More

Bookplate of Sir John Percivale, Bt, of Burton, Co. Cork, Ireland, dated 1702. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 13141.

First published c.1626.

Gen MSS Vol. 214

A quarto volume of five university Latin plays, in a single italic hand, 326 pages, in contemporary calf. Early 17th century.

Acquired from C.A. Stonehill Inc, New Haven.

item 5

• AlW 267: William Alabaster, Roxana

Copy, with a title-page, ‘Argumentum’ and Dramatis Personæ, on 43 pages.

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.

Gen MSS Vol. 229

A quarto volume of transcripts by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector, of letters to Jacob Tonson, copied ‘from the originals in the possⁿ. of Will^m. Baker, Esq^re’, 143 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum. Late 18th century.

p. 11

• CgW 77: William Congreve, Letter(s)

Copy of Congreve's letter to Jacob Tonson, [from Tunbridge], 12 August 1693.

p. 12

• CgW 80: William Congreve, Letter(s)

Copy of Congreve's letter to Jacob Tonson, 20 August 1695.

p. 15

• CgW 88: William Congreve, Letter(s)

Copy of Congreve's letter to Jacob Tonson, from London, 1 July 1703.

p. 17

• CgW 111: William Congreve, Letter(s)

Copy of Congreve's letter to Jacob Tonson, 8 August 1723.

pp. 35-7

• VaJ 31: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Copy of Vanbrugh's undated letter to Jacob Tonson. c.1703-1719?.

pp. 39-42

• VaJ 27: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Jacob Tonson, from London, 13 July 1703.

pp. 43-6

• VaJ 29: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Jacob Tonson, from London, 30 July 1703.

p. 47

• VaJ 314: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to an unnamed person, beginning ‘I have just now been with Ld Carlisle...’, undated. c.1720s.

pp. 49-52

• VaJ 292: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Jacob Tonson, from London, 1 July 1719.

pp. 53-5

• VaJ 299: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Jacob Tonson, from Whitehall, 5 November 1719.

pp. 57-62

• VaJ 302: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Jacob Tonson, from Whitehall, 29 November 1719.

pp. 63-5

• VaJ 308: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Jacob Tonson, from Whitehall, 31 December 1719.

pp. 67-9

• VaJ 311: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Jacob Tonson, from London, 18 February 1719/20.

pp. 71-4

• VaJ 340: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Jacob Tonson, from London, 18 June 1722.

pp. 75-8

• VaJ 374: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Jacob Tonson, from London, 12 August 1725.

pp. 79-81

• VaJ 380: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Jacob Tonson, from Greenwich, 25 October 1725.

pp. 121-3

• BeA 54: Aphra Behn, Letter(s)

Copy of Behn's letter to Jacob Tonson, undated.

p. 124

• BeA 63: Aphra Behn, Document(s)

Copy of Behn's bond relating to Zachary Baggs, 1 August 1685.

Gen. MSS Vol. 264

A quarto volume comprising two works, 119 leaves. Early-mid-17th century.

Formerly MS Vault Shelves/Cavendish.

ff. 1r-90r

• CvG 56: George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey

Copy.

Sylvester, No. 30.

First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).

ff. 91r-119v

• MrT 69: Sir Thomas More, Cresacre More's Life of Sir Thomas More

Copy of the last three chapters.

First published c.1626.

Gen MSS 273, Izaak Walton Collection

A detached autograph inscription by Walton, ‘ffor Mada[m] Jed Maynard, my very good cozen. I:W.’. Mounted as part of a design by Thomas Gosden for the title-page of an edition of The Compleat Angler — accompanied by a printed proof impression of this design and a detached signature of Charles Cotton (above its facsimile). 17th century.

*WtI 39: Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler (London, 1653)

Formerly MS Osborn Vault Shelves Walton.

Gen. MSS Vol. 335

A fair copy of unpublished ‘Memoirs of the Life and Death of M^rs. Alice Thornton...Collected from Mrs. Thornton's Manuscripts, And other authentic documents, By her G. G. Grandson Thomas Comber, A.B. Vicar of Creech - S^t. Michael, Somersetshire, And Editor of the Memoirs of Thomas Comber D. D. Dean of Durham [1799]’, including passages and quotations from MSS of her Autobiography, on 172 octavo pages, with a title-page and two pages of notes, followed (on twelve further pages) by ‘A Brief Sketch’ of the life of Alice Thornton's father Christopher Wandesford (1592-1640), Lord Deputy of Ireland. c.1800.

ThA 7: Alice Thornton, The Autobiography of Mrs Alice Thornton

First published, [edited by Charles Jackson], Surtees Society, 62 (1875 [for 1873]).

Gen MSS Vol. 339

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in at least two cursive hands, written largely on rectos only, unfoliated, c.90 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1700.

Inscribed inside the lower cover ‘Will Graves/Memoranda’. Thomas Thorpe, ‘Catalogue of upwards of fourteen hundred manuscripts’ (1836). Afterwards owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9621. Sotheby's, 17 May 1897 (Phillipps sale), lot 627. Donated in 1937 by Leicester Bradner. Formerly MS Vault, Section 10, Drawer 3 Commonplace book.

ff. [2r-27r]

• SuJ 145: John Suckling, An Account of Religion by Reason

Copy, headed ‘A discourse presented to y^e Earle of Dorset by S^r John Suckling’.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published, with a separate title-page, in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 168-80.

f. [35r]

• MaA 95: Andrew Marvell, Bludius et Corona (‘Bludius, ut ruris damnum repararet aviti’)

Copy.

First published in Thompson (1776), I, xxxix. Margoliouth, I, 178. Lord, p. 249. Smith, p. 414, with English translation.

For the English version, which accompanies many of the MS texts, see MaA 253-80.

f. [35r-v]

• MaA 273: Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown (‘When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd’)

Copy, untitled.

First published as a separate poem in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, I, 78. Lord, p. 193. Smith, p. 414.

This poem also appears as lines 178-85 of The Loyal Scot (see MaA 191-8 and Margoliouth, I, 379, 384).

For the Latin version, which accompanies many of the MS texts, see MaA 85-97.

f. [35v]

• MaA 274: Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown (‘When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd’)

Second copy.

First published as a separate poem in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, I, 78. Lord, p. 193. Smith, p. 414.

This poem also appears as lines 178-85 of The Loyal Scot (see MaA 191-8 and Margoliouth, I, 379, 384).

For the Latin version, which accompanies many of the MS texts, see MaA 85-97.

f. [35v]

• MaA 96: Andrew Marvell, Bludius et Corona (‘Bludius, ut ruris damnum repararet aviti’)

Second copy.

First published in Thompson (1776), I, xxxix. Margoliouth, I, 178. Lord, p. 249. Smith, p. 414, with English translation.

For the English version, which accompanies many of the MS texts, see MaA 253-80.

f. [42r]

• BuS 0.9: Samuel Butler, Hudibras (‘Sir Hudibras his passing worth’)

Extract.

Part I first published in London, ‘1663’ [i.e. 1662]. Part II published in London, ‘1664’ [i.e. 1663]. Part III published in London ‘1678’ [i.e. 1677]. the whole poem first published in London, 1684. Edited by John Wilders (Oxford, 1967).

MS 363

Copy, in a formal accomplished secretary hand, with a title-page decorated in gilt and colours ‘The Life, Araignment, and Death, of the famous learned, Sir Thomas More Knight: Somtymes Lord Chauncellor of England’, with a later note about More's death on the rear endpaper dated 1679, ii + 73 quarto leaves, in contemporary limp vellum gilt, with remaining holes for ties. Early 17th century.

MrT 108: Sir Thomas More, William Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More

Bookplates of Edward May and Alexander Murray of Broughtoun Esqr. Inscribed in pencil (f. ii^v) ‘Ap. 10. 1723 Collat. & perfect. P. J. Wright’. Later owned by W. Fagg, London. Christie's, 9 December 1965, lot 202, to C.A. Stonehill.

This MS mentioned (as ‘now belonging to Mr. Fagg’) in Hitchcock, pp. xxvi and p. 2.

First published in London, 1626. Edited, as The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, written by William Roper Esquire, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (EETS, London, 1935).

MS 370

A largely autograph quarto notebook of heraldic and genealogical material, including matter relating to the claims for the barony of Abergavenny (1598-9), with inserted leaves in a later hand, c.280 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1598-1600s.

*CmW 166: William Camden, Collectanea

Once owned by the St George family of heralds. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13160. Sotheby's, 28 June 1965, lot 40, to Traylen, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue. Charles W. Traylen, sale catalogue No. 66, item 9. Acquired from C.A. Stonehill in 1967. Bookplate of Albert H. Childs (his fund).

Discussed in William Huse Dunham, Jr., ‘William Camden's Commonplace Book’, YULG, 43 (1969), 139-56. A microfilm is in the Parliamentary Archives, Historical Collections No. 249.

MS 394

Autograph MS of three dialogues, 24 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum. Namely ‘Religio’ (ff. 2r-10r), ‘De philosophia: Quid considerandum?’ (ff. 11v-17r), and Qu[estion]: ‘Whatt is moste Necessary in a Common-welth to be Considered’ (ff. 19r-24v), with a signed dedication to Lord North, probably Dudley, third Baron North (1581-1666) (f. 1r); the title-page (f. ii) inscribed ‘Auspicante Jehovah. Auxilium memoriae Liber. Nicolai Bretoni, opus, non minus sibi Laboriosum, quam Lectori studioso frustuosum’. [1597-1626].

*BrN 111: Nicholas Breton, Auspicante Jehovah, Auxilium memoriae Liber

Probably in one of the sales of North papers in the 1930s and perhaps purchased by Messrs Bernard Halliday, of Leicester. Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 13 November 1968, lot 20, to C.A. Stonehill.

Facsimile of the dedication in the Parke-Bernet sale catalogue. Facsimile of f. 5r in IELM, I.i (1980), Facsimile IV (p. 103).

Unpublished.

MS 566

Copy, complete in 17 folios apparently in original vellum binding (though the title-page also includes the title of Ralegh's ‘Discourse of...War’). Early-mid-17th century.

RaW 610: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse of the Invention of Ships, Anchors, Compass, &c.

Formerly Lincolnfield MS 41 at Petworth House, Sussex, this MS recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 304.

An epistolary tract addressed to Prince Henry, beginning ‘That the ark of Noah was the first ship because the invention of God himself...’. First published, as ‘Upon the first Invention of Shipping’, in Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 317-34.

MS 621

A folio volume of tracts, in various hands, iv + 107 leaves. c.1590s.

From the library of the Tollemache family, of Helmingham Hall, Suffolk. Acquired in 1980 from Laurence Witten Rare Books, Southport, Connecticut.

ff. 79v-81r

• BcF 545: Francis Bacon, A Letter of Advice to the Queen (1584)

Copy.

Advice beginning ‘Most Gracious Soveraign and most worthy to be a Soveraign / Care, one of the natural and true-bred children of unfeigned affection...’. First published in The Felicity of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1651), pp. 121-56. Spedding, VIII, 43-56.

Gen MSS Vol 642

Autograph fair copy signed, with one correction or revision, headed ‘An Elegy upon y^e death of that hopefull, and learned gentleman Henry Lord Hastings, who died of y^e small Pox’, on the rectos of two conjugate folio leaves. c.1649.

*CnC 18: Charles Cotton, An Elegy upon the Lord Hastings (‘Amongst the Mourners that attend his Herse’)

Formerly MS Vault Shelves/Cotton.

Facsimiles of the second page in Parks, p. 21, and in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile IX, after p. xxiv.

First published in Richard Brome, Lachrymae Musarum (London, 1650). Poems (1689), pp. 655-6. Beresford, pp. 246-7. Buxton, pp. 128-9.

Gen MSS Misc Group 1218, Item F-1

Copy, on six pages of four folio leaves. Late 17th century.

BuS 4: Samuel Butler, To the Happy Memory Of the most Renown'd Du-Val (‘'Tis true, to compliment the Dead’)

First published in London, 1671. Thyer (1759), I, 145-54. Lamar, pp. 97-103.

Gen MSS Misc Group 2315, item F-1

An indenture between the playwright's father, Daniel Wycherley, and Thomas Lyster, also signed by William Wycherley, 30 September 1696. 1696.

*WyW 31: William Wycherley, Document(s)

Maggs's sale catalogue No. 570 (Spring 1932), item 488. Sotheby's, 18 June 1934, lot 519, and 21 July 1936, lot 337.

Gen MSS Misc Group 2759, Item V-1

A folio volume of 65 poems by Edmund Waller, in a professional hand, an anonymous poem in a different style of hand on pp. 104-6, and three poems by others added in yet another, probably Scottish, hand on pp. 2 and 106-9, 110 pages, in contemporary red morocco gilt, with the armorial bookplate of the Earl of Breadalbane. c.1640s.

The first page inscribed ‘The Book belongeth to Jⁿ Campbelly [i.e. John Campbell] Janwarie: 3: 1657’ in a hand probably responsible for a couplet on p. 110. The volume may have belonged originally to Sir John Campbell, tenth Laird of Glenorchy (d. 1686), and evidently owned by his son, John Campbell (1635-1717), first Earl of Breadalbane, one of the most powerful of the Highland chiefs, who on 17 December 1657 married Lady Mary Rich (grand-daughter of Penelope Rich, Sidney's ‘Stella’; Lady Mary's father being Henry, first Earl of Holland who was executed by Parliament in 1649). The Earls of Breadalbane were also related to Waller's friend, Lady Isabella Thynne. Later owned, in 1927, by John Grant Jr, and in 1934 by Roswell G. Ham (1891-1983), scholar. Bearing an early pressmark and sold at some time by Sanders & Co., Oxford. Formerly MS Vault Sect. 10, Drawer 3, Waller Poems.

The MS exhibited at the Bodleian Library, 16-28 June 1930: see Proceedings & Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Cited in IELM, II.i (1993) as the ‘Breadalbane MS’: WaE Δ 5.

pp. 3-4

• WaE 120: Edmund Waller, The Miser's Speech. In a Masque (‘Balls of this metal slacked At'lanta's pace’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 111.

pp. 4-6

• WaE 567: Edmund Waller, To My Lord Northumberland, upon the Death of his Lady (‘To this great loss a sea of tears is due’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 31-2.

pp. 6-8

• WaE 561: Edmund Waller, To my Lord Admiral, of his late Sickness and Recovery (‘With joy like ours, the Thracian youth invades’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Lord Admirall of his late Sicknes and Recovery imediatly after his Ladies Death, his Brother being sicke too’.

First published in Thomas Carew, Poems, 2nd edition (London, 1642). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 33-5. The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, 1949), pp. 200-1.

pp. 8-9

• WaE 355: Edmund Waller, On the friendship betwixt two Ladies (‘Tell me, lovely, loving pair!’)

Copy, headed ‘Of the friendship betwixt Sacharissa & Amorett’.

First published, as ‘On the Friendship betwixt Sacharissa and Amoret’, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 60-1.

pp. 9-10

• WaE 87: Edmund Waller, ‘Go, lovely Rose’

Copy.

First published, as ‘On the Rose’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 128. Setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).

pp. 10-12

• WaE 472: Edmund Waller, Thyrsis, Galatea (‘As lately I on silver Thames did ride’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 40-2.

pp. 13-21

• WaE 33: Edmund Waller, The Battle of the Summer Islands (‘Aid me, Bellona! while the dreadful fight’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 66-74.

pp. 21-3

• WaE 80: Edmund Waller, For Drinking of Healths (‘And is antiquity of no more force!’)

Copy of the 34-line version, headed ‘An Answere to one that did write against Healths’.

First published, in an 18-line version beginning at line 7, ‘Let Bruits, and Vegetals that cannot think’, in Workes (1645). A 34-line version first published in Thorn-Drury (1893), pp. 89-90. Thorn-Drury (1904), I, 89-90.

pp. 23-6

• WaE 694: Edmund Waller, Upon the Death of my Lady Rich (‘May those already cursed Essexian plains’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 37-40.

p. 26

• WaE 635: Edmund Waller, To the Queen Mother of France, upon her Landing (‘Great Queen of Europe! where thy offspring wears’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 35-6.

pp. 27-33

• WaE 262: Edmund Waller, Of the Danger His Majesty (being Prince) escaped in the Road at Saint Andrews (‘Now had his Highness bid farewell to Spain’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 1-7.

pp. 33-4

• WaE 201: Edmund Waller, Of His Majesty's Receiving the News of the Duke of Buckingham's Death (‘So earnest with thy God! can no new care’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 11-12.

pp. 35-6

• WaE 615: Edmund Waller, To the King, on his Navy (‘Wher'er thy navy spreads her canvas wings’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 15-16.

Spence Series VIII, Derby Anecdotes, Box 8, Folder 278

A document signed by Congreve, to John Warner, 23 November 1716. 1716.

*CgW 123: William Congreve, Document(s)

MS Vault More

More's prayer book. 1534-35.

The MS as a whole

• *MrT 46: Sir Thomas More, Prayer Book

More's prayer book, comprising two incomplete printed books (a Latin Book of Hours, 1530, and a liturgical Latin Psalter, 1522), bound together and containing his autograph annotations, including the English prayer known as ‘A Godly Meditation’; used and probably annotated by More while he was a prisoner in the Tower of London (17 April 1534 - 6 July 1535, but before 12 June 1535 when he was denied writing materials).

Published in facsimile as Thomas More's Prayer Book, ed. Louis L. Martz and Richard S. Sylvester (New Haven & London, 1969). Facsimile examples also in The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: A Guide to its Collections (New Haven, 1974), Plate XI; in J.B. Trapp and Hubertus Schulte Herbrüggen, ‘The King's Good Servant’: Sir Thomas More 1477/8-1535 (National Portrait Gallery, London, 1977), p. 117; and in A Thomas More Source Book, ed. Gerard B. Wegemer and Stephen W. Smith (Washington, DC, 2004), pp. 172-3, 269.

• *MrT 25: Sir Thomas More, Devout Instructions, Meditations and Prayers

Autograph marginalia in More's Prayer Book denoting his arrangement of verses of the Psalms to form what was eventually his ‘deuoute prayer, collected oute of the psalmes of Dauid’ (beginning ‘Domine quid multiplicati sunt qui tribulant me?’), probably written while he was a prisoner in the Tower of London.

Workes (1557), pp. 1408-16; Yale, Vol. 13, pp. 214-25. The annotated pages reproduced in Thomas More's Prayer Book (Yale, 1969), and see pp. xxxi-xxxiv; discussed in Yale, Vol. 13, p. clviii et seq.

Devout Instructions &c. first published in Workes (London, 1557), pp. 1405-18. Yale, Vol. 13, with English translation.

• *MrT 26: Sir Thomas More, Devout Instructions, Meditations and Prayers

Autograph of More's English ‘godly meditacion’ (beginning ‘Gyve me thy grace good lord...’) inscribed in his Prayer Book probably while he was a prisoner in the Tower of London.

Workes (1557), p. 1416-17. Edited from this MS in Yale, Volume 13, pp. 226-7. This MS reproduced, with a transcript, in Thomas More's Prayer Book (Yale, 1969), pp. 3-21, 185-7. Also discussed, with facsimile examples, in G. Marc'hadour, ‘A Godly Meditation’, Moreana, No. 5 (1965), 53-72.

Devout Instructions &c. first published in Workes (London, 1557), pp. 1405-18. Yale, Vol. 13, with English translation.

MS Vault Shelves Shakespeare

Copy of the full text, with an ornate title-page. Copy of the full text, with an ornate title-page: ‘Macbeth A Tragedy As it is now acted at the Dukes Theatre 1674’; pp. 1-8, 11-15, 22-63 predominantly in a single hand with corrections, deletions and additions, some on pasted-in slips, in three other hands; the title-page and dramatis personae added in another hand, and later additions (supplying missing text) in a modern bookseller's hand; probably copied for the most part from Davenant's foul papers in preparation for a promptbook, 65 large folio pages (plus blanks), in contemporary marbled boards. c.1664-74.

DaW 94: Sir William Davenant, Macbeth

Afterwards owned by Sir William Turner (d.1692), philanthropist, of Kirkleatham, Yorkshire. Acquired in 1948, at the sale of the library of Turner's Hospital and Free School, by Seven Gables Bookshop, New York, and annotated then by Alexander Schultze.

Edited from this MS (with facsimiles of ff. 1, 2, 24, 30v and 34v, between pp. 74 and 79) in Spencer.

First published in London, 1673. Dramatic Works, V, 295-394. Edited by Christopher Spencer (New Haven, 1961).

1742 Library. 3.2.3

A printed exemplum with Sandys's autograph motto and signature on the title-page. Early 17th century.

*SaG 58: George Sandys, Plato. Opera omnia quae exstant. Marsilio Ficino interprete (Lyons, 1590)

Later in the library of Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753), Bishop of Cloyne.

Recorded in Rogers, p. 370.

1974 +3

Presentation exemplum of the first edition (1693). With Dryden's autograph inscription ‘For his true Friend Mr [Tho: Monson deleted] from the Authour’, three autograph alterations in the text of the prefatory Discourse of Satire (pp. ii, xxii), and a total of seventeen additional lines of verse written in the margins of Juvenal's Satire VI (pp. 96, 100. 102, 105-6), in an unidentified contemporary hand [?Monson's]. c.1693.

*DrJ 173: John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (‘Still shall I hear, and never quit the Score’)

Owned before 1930 by the Marquess of Lansdown. Sotheby's, 3 July 1973, lot 258. Formerly 1974 +40.

The MS additions recorded and discussed in California.

First published (‘…together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus’) in London, ‘1693’ [i.e. 1692] (as ‘By Mr. Dryden, and Several other Eminent Hands’, Dryden's contribution being the prefatory ‘Discourse concerning Satire’ and Satires I, III, VI, X and XVI). Kinsley, II, 599-740 (Dryden's contributions). California, IV, 2-252 (Dryden's contributions). Hammond, IV, 3-137.

1975 380

An exemplum with Ralegh's signature, ‘W Ralegh’ (struck through), on the title-page (part way down on either side) and his autograph motto, ‘Medium Medijs’, at the bottom. c.1583.

RaW 1037: Sir Walter Ralegh, Tasso, Torquato. Rime, e prose. Parte prima (Ferrara, 1583)

Also inscribed ‘L. Berard’. Bookplate of Charles Bruce (1682-1747), third Viscount Bruce of Ampthill, dated 1712.

1975 2318

Copy, subscribed in another flourished hand (possibly autograph) ‘Henry: Kinge: mee fecit’, on a leaf bound in a printed exemplum of Solis Britannici perigaeum, sive Itinerantis Caroli auspicatissima periodus (Oxford, 1633). c.1633.

KiH 782: Henry King, Upon the King's happy Returne from Scotland (‘So breakes the Day, when the Returning Sun’)

From the Tollemache Library of Helmingham Hall. Sotheby's, 14 June 1965, lot 213, with a facsimile of the subscription in the sale catalogue.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 81-2.

1977 +422

Exemplum of Jonson's printed Workes (London, 1616) belonging to Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65), which was possibly made up from printing-house remnants. c.1635.

sig. 3X3^r

• JnB 498.5: Ben Jonson, To Iohn Donne (‘Who shall doubt, Donne, where I a Poet bee’)

Copy in the hand of Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65) on a ‘missing’ sheet in his exemplum of Jonson's Workes.

Discussed in Mark Bland, ‘William Stansby and the Production of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16’, The Library, 6th Ser. 20 (1998), 1-33 (pp. 20-3), with a facsimile (p. 21).

First published in Epigrammes (xcvi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 62.

sig. 3 X 3^r

• JnB 511.5: Ben Jonson, To Sir Henrie Savile (‘If, my religion safe, I durst embrace’)

Copy of the last twenty lines in the hand of Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65), on a sheet in his exemplum of Jonson's Workes.

Discussed in Mark Bland, ‘William Stansby and the Production of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16’, The Library, 6th Ser. 20 (1998), 1-33 (pp. 20-3), with a facsimile (p. 21).

First published in Epigrammes (xcv) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 61-2.

sig. 3 X 3^r-v

• JnB 410.5: Ben Jonson, On the new Motion (‘See you yond' Motion? Not the old Fa-ding’)

Copy in the hand of Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65), headed ‘xcviii’, on a sheet in his exemplum of Jonson's Workes.

Discussed in Mark Bland, ‘William Stansby and the Production of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16’, The Library, 6th Ser. 20 (1998), 1-33 (pp. 20-3), with a facsimile of the first four lines (p. 21).

First published in Epigrammes (xcvii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 62-3.

sig. 3 X 3^v

• JnB 517.5: Ben Jonson, To Sir Thomas Roe (‘Thou hast begun well, Roe, which stand well too’)

Copy in the hand of Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65), headed ‘xciii’, on a sheet in his exemplum of Jonson's Workes.

Discussed in Mark Bland, ‘William Stansby and the Production of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16’, The Library, 6th Ser. 20 (1998), 1-33 (pp. 20-3).

First published in Epigrammes (xcviii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 63.

sig. 3 X 3^v

• JnB 548.5: Ben Jonson, To the same (‘That thou hast kept thy loue, encreast thy will’)

Copy in the hand of Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65), on a sheet in his exemplum of Jonson's Workes.

Discussed in Mark Bland, ‘William Stansby and the Production of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16’, The Library, 6th Ser. 20 (1998), 1-33 (pp. 20-3).

First published in Epigrammes (xcix) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 63-4.

sig. 3 X 4^r

• JnB 406.5: Ben Jonson, On Play-wright (‘Play-wright, by chance, hearing some toyesI'had writ’)

Copy in the hand of Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65), on a sheet in his exemplum of Jonson's Workes.

Discussed in Mark Bland, ‘William Stansby and the Production of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16’, The Library, 6th Ser. 20 (1998), 1-33 (pp. 20-3).

First published in Epigrammes (c) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 64.

sig. 3 X 4^r-v

• JnB 316.8: Ben Jonson, Inviting a Friend to Svpper (‘To night, graue sir, both my poore house, and I’)

Copy in the hand of Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65), on a sheet in his exemplum of Jonson's Workes.

Discussed in Mark Bland, ‘William Stansby and the Production of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16’, The Library, 6^th Ser. 20 (1998), 1-33 (pp. 20-3).

First published in Epigrammes (ci) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 64-5.

sig. 3 X 4^v

• JnB 499.5: Ben Jonson, To Mary Lady Wroth (‘How well, faire crowne of your faire sexe, might hee’)

Copy of the first two lines in the hand of Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65) on a sheet in his exemplum of Jonson's Workes.

Discussed in Mark Bland, ‘William Stansby and the Production of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16’, The Library, 6^th Ser. 20 (1998), 1-33 (pp. 20-3).

First published in Epigrammes (ciii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 66-7.

sig. 3 X 4^v

• JnB 554.5: Ben Jonson, To William Earle of Pembroke (‘I doe but name thee Pembroke, and I find’)

Copy in the hand of Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland (c.1603-65) on a sheet in his exemplum of Jonson's Workes.

Discussed in Mark Bland, ‘William Stansby and the Production of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16’, The Library, 6^th Ser. 20 (1998), 1-33 (pp. 20-3).

First published in Epigrammes (cii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 66.

1977 2355

A printed exemplum with Davenant's autograph inscription ‘For the right Ho^ble. [Martha] the Countesse of Munmouth’. c.1651.

*DaW 151: Sir William Davenant, Gondibert (4to, London, 1651)

Inscribed ‘Margaret Simeon 1700’. Bookplate of Thomas Weld. Maggs, sale catalogue No. 640 (1937), item 357, with facsimile of the inscribed flyleaf and title-page.

1977.1079

An exemplum signed by Cotton on the title-page. Mid-late 17th century.

*CnC 183: Charles Cotton, Léry, Jean de. Histoire d'un voyage faict en la terre du Brésil (Geneva, 1580)

Recorded in Parks, p. 15.

1983 219

Three possibly autograph corrections, supplying omitted words on sig. B2^v, B4^r and D1^r. In an exemplum of the quarto edition of 1653, in contemporary calf.

*DeJ 9: Sir John Denham, Cooper's Hill (‘Sure there are Poets which did never dream’)

Inscribed on the front paste-down ‘Charles Hurt jun: Wirksworth: May: 7: 1823’. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1027 (1982), item 55.

An apparently unique recorded exemplum of this edition was isted in Quaritch's catalogue No. 1027 (1982), with a facsimile of the title-page.

First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 62-89. O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks.

1984 + 145

A printed exemplum, inscribed in the hand of the book's editor Simon Grynaeus (1493-1541) ‘Thomas More lib. ex dono authoris’, and inscribed by More himself ‘Tho More, Eq.’ c.1532.

*MrT 50: Sir Thomas More, Novis orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum (Paris, 1532)

Also inscribed by Gennaro Cejannelli and Bartolomeo Diana, and once in the monastery of San Domenico, Bologna.

BO48.Ep2.*G446.Copy 1

An exemplum inscribed on a flyleaf by Cotton to Colonel Wodcastle. c.1670.

*CnC 157: Charles Cotton, Cotton, Charles. The History of the Life of the Duke of Espernon [trans. from Guillaume Girard] (London, 1670)

‘Gift of J. Ogden Bulkley’.

Facsimile of the inscription in Parks, p. 17.

BO48.Ep2.*G446.Copy 2

An exemplum inscribed on the verso of the title-page by Cotton to Charles Agard. c.1670.

*CnC 158: Charles Cotton, Cotton, Charles. The History of the Life of the Duke of Espernon [trans. from Guillaume Girard] (London, 1670)

Facsimile of the inscription in Parks, p. 17.

EC + 13

A printed exemplum containing (on p. 5) Jonson's presentation inscription to his ‘Amicissimo...Francis Yong’.

*JnB 759: Ben Jonson, Workes (1616)

Later owned by John Dent (c.1761-1826), politician and book collector. Sotheby's, 25 April 1827 (Dent sale, Part 2), lot 309. Bookplate of William Gott. Henry Sotheran & Co., sale catalogue Bibliotheca Pretiosa, [1907], item 277, with a facsimile of the inscribed contents page. Donated by Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911.

Facsimile of the inscribed page in Stephen Parks, The Elizabethan Club of Yale University and Its Library (New Haven & London, 1986), p. 143.

Eliz 191

An exemplum of the printed quarto edition of 1599, lightly marked up with stage cues. 17th century?

ShW 86.9: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Signed on the title-page by George Steevens (1736-1800), literary editor and scholar. Initials ‘G. D.’ in gilt on the red leather cover.

Recorded in Shattuck, p. 411, No. 1.

First published in London, 1597.

If M81 +S529

Exemplum of the second edition (London, 1529). With MS annotations and emendations apparently made by William Rastell, used as the printer's copy of this work in Rastell's edition of More's Workes (1557). c.1557.

MrT 35: Sir Thomas More, The Supplication of Souls

Armorial bookplate of Henry Cunliffe.

This item discussed in Yale, Vol. 12, p. xlviii, with facsimile examples after p. 320. See J.K. Moore, Primary Materials (1992), p. 32.

First published in London, 1529. Yale, Vol. 7, pp. 109-228.

All exempla of the two editions of 1529 bear a MS correction, evidently made in the printer William Rastell's workshop, on sig h2^v: see Ralph Keen, A Correction by Hand in More's Supplication, 1529, Moreana, Vol. 20 (February 1983), 100.

Ih D718 C633H Copy 2

An exemplum of the 1669 edition of Donne's Poems, with numerous annotations and markings in the hand of S.T. Coleridge and in another hand.

DnJ 4167: John Donne, Poems

Once owned by Charles Lamb.

Described and the annotations edited in The Collected Works of Samuel Coleridge, Vol. 12: Marginalia II, ed. Kathleen Coburn et al. (London & Princeton, 1984), pp. 213-43, with a facsimile page facing p. 239.

Ih. J738. 640E. Copy 2

An exemplum signed ‘Izaak Walton’ on the title-page. Mid-17th century.

*WtI 183: Izaak Walton, Jonson, Ben. Execration against Vulcan (London, 1640)

Ih. Sa57. Zz 596

A printed exemplujm with Sandys's autograph motto and signature on the title-page. Early-mid-17th century.

*SaG 56: George Sandys, Petronius. Satyricon: cum notis & observationibus variorum (Leiden, 1596)

Donated in 1896 by Eugene Davenport Alexander.

Recorded in Rogers, p. 370.

lh Sp 617m

A printed exemplum of the edition of 1617, with copious virulently hostile MS comments in the margins by a reader, quite possibly the target of the pamphlet, Joseph Swetnam (d.1621), in preparation for an intended (but not published) answer. c.1617.

SpR 1: Rachel Speght, A Mouzell for Melastomus

First published in London, 1617.

Ij C829 681 Copy 3

An exemplum inscribed by Walton ‘Izaak Walton, given me by M^r. Cotton. August 30, 1681’ and with Walton's copious corrections or emendations (notably on pp. 26, 37, 40-1, 48-9, 63, and 66). 1681.

*WtI 146: Izaak Walton, Cotton, Charles. The Wonders of the Peake (London, 1681)

Sotheby's, 20 December 1838 (the Rev. H. S. Cotton sale), lot 72, to Bagster. According to a 19th-century note in an exemplum of this edition in Derby Central Library (4810), Walton's exemplum came from ‘the library of J. C. Grove Esq. sold at Leighs 1794’: i.e. Leigh & Sotheby's, 10 February 1794 (library of William Chafin Grove, of Zeals, Wiltshire), lot 1354, to [Richard] Heber.

Ij W175. Zz652g

A printed exemplum, the work with a preface by ‘I.W.’, attributed to Walton, with Walton's autograph signature ‘Izaak Walton’ on the title-page and on a flyleaf. Mid-17th century.

*WtI 201: Izaak Walton, Skeffington, Sir John. The Heroe of Lorenzo, [trans. from Baltasar Gracian y Morales] (London, 1652)

Ij C829.Zz660g

A printed exemplum signed by Cotton on a flyleaf. Late 17th century.

*CnC 189: Charles Cotton, Quarles, Francis. Divine Fancies (London, 1660)

Bookplate of William, third Lord Byron. Inscribed by one J. Lee.

Recorded by W. C. Hazlitt in The Antiquary, 37 (1901), 89. Also recorded in Turner, p. 445 et seq.; in Dust, p. 21; and in Parks, p. 32.

Ij C829.Zz663t

An exemplum signed by Cotton, 1660. 1660.

*CnC 192: Charles Cotton, Recueil de diverses pièces (Cologne, 1563)

Recorded in Parks, pp. 15, 35.

Ij W175 661 copy 2

A printed exemplum inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Catherine Cotton. given mee by my Dearest Father’ and ‘Given mee T: Prise. by her Father, Ingenious M^r: Charles Cotton: 1687’. c.1661-87.

CnC 201: Charles Cotton, Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler, 3rd edition (London, 1661)

Sotheby's, 15 February 1932, lot 423, to Pickering, with a facsimile of the inscriptions in the sale catalogue. Bookplates of E. M. Cox and Samuel Lambert.

Ij W175 676 Copy 4

Copy of eleven stanzas, incomplete. Copy of eleven stanzas, incomplete, on four pages bound at the end of an exemplum of Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler (London, 1676). Late 17th century.

CnC 2: Charles Cotton, The Angler's Ballad (‘Away to the Brook’)

This MS recorded in Parks, p. 29.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 76-81. Beresford, pp. 73-6. Buxton, pp. 31-5.

Ij W175 Zz609D

An exemplum inscribed ‘Izaak Walton 1654’, with various autograph annotations, including an early draft of Walton's dedication to George Morley, Bishop of Winchester, of his The Life of Dr. Sanderson (1678). Late 17th century.

*WtI 151: Izaak Walton, Daniel, Samuel. Civile Wars (London, 1609)

Ij W175. +Zz617

Walton's exemplum. Early 17th century.

*WtI 178: Izaak Walton, Hooker, Richard. Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie (London, 1617)

IIj W175 Zz672

Walton's exemplum. c.1672.

WtI 130: Izaak Walton, Ashmole, Elias. The Institution, Laws & Ceremonies of the most Noble Order of the Garter (London, 1672)

Ij W175 Zz673h

An exemplum inscribed ‘Izaak Walton. given me by M^r [Robert] paulet [publisher]. Feb. 13° 1673’. 1673.

*WtI 173: Izaak Walton, Hales, John. Golden Remains (London, 1673)

Lmd96 + 700e

A composite volume of printed Oxford verse. Early-mid-18th century.

Once owned by Falconer Madan (1851-1935), librarian and bibliographer.

pp. 340-1, 344

• CgW 32: William Congreve, A Pindarique Ode Humbly Offer'd to the Queen On the Victorious Progress of Her Majesty's Arms, under the Conduct of the Duke of Marlborough (‘Daughter of Memory, Immortal Muse’)

Copy, in a neat hand, headed ‘To the Queen, on the victorious Progress of her Majesty's Arms under the Conduct of the Duke of Marlborough. A Pindaric Ode. By Mr Congreve’, on three folio blank pages of printed pamphlets dated 1713-14.

First published in London, 1706. Summers, IV, 82-91. Dobrée, pp. 335-41. McKenzie, II, 419-23.

Me65 D925 +R4G 1630

Exemplum of the edition of 1630, with Lady Falkland's autograph verses under the engraved portrait of du Perron, her autograph sonnet to Queen Henrietta Maria, and her autograph corrections and additions in the printed text. c.1630.

*CaE 42: Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, The Reply of the most Illustrious Cardinall of Perron, to the Answeare of the most Excellent King of Great Britaine

Recorded in Wolfe, p. 12. The autograph poem ‘To the Queenes most Excellent Maiestie’ (‘'Tis not your faire out-side (though famous Greece’) edited from this MS in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (New York, 1988), pp. 59-60.

Lady Falkland's translation of a controversial tract by Jacques Davy (1556-1618), Cardinal of Perron. First published in Douai, 1630. Most exempla coming into England were destroyed by command of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury. Most surviving presentation exempla include an autograph poem ‘To the Queenes most Excellent Maiestie’ (‘'Tis not your faire out-side (though famous Greece’), which is edited in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (New York, 1988), pp. 59-60.

Zd 1270

Exemplum of the first edition, first issue [1647], with seven MS corrections probably made in the printing house. [1647].

DnJ 4056: John Donne, Biathanatos

This item discussed in Sullivan, SB, 28 (1975), 268-76.

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).