MS 22
A tall folio volume of several works, in accomplished hands, with rubrication, on vellum throughout, 146 leaves, in old calf gilt (rebacked). 15th century.
Once in the library of John, first Baron Lumley (c.1533-1609), collector.
MS 61
A tall folio composite volume of papal bulls and other works, in accomplished hands, on vellum throughout, 147 leaves, in later calf gilt (rebacked). 15th century.
ff. 119r-42v
• *BaJ 37: John Bale, Plurimorum Paparum bullae de privilegiis concessis fratribus Carmelitis
Bale's autograph annotations on ff. 128-9.
Unpublished?
MS 117
Copy of the complete translation, in accomplished secretary hands, with rubrication, with an explicit ‘Heir endit ye buke of Virgill Writtin be the hand of Johanne mudy wt Maist thomas bellenden...Clerke and endit ye 2o febry Anno xlvo’, 426 folio leaves, in old calf (rebacked).
DoG 6: Gavin Douglas, Virgil's Aeneid (‘Lawd, honour, praysyngis, thankis infynyte’)
Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘Edmund Ashefeyld 1596’.
This MS collated in Coldwell and described I, 98-9.
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 179
A folio composite volume of treatises, in various hands, 313 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked).
ff. 199v-243r
• MrT 85: Sir Thomas More, Ro. Ba.'s Life of Sir Thomas More
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed (f. 201r) ‘The Life of Syr Thomas More Somtymes Lord Chancellour of England’, with (f. 199r) a preliminary dedication ‘To my deare and tres-deare friend R R’ subscribed ‘B R’, and a dedication (ff. 199v-200v) ‘To the courteous Reader’, subscribed ‘Ro: Ba:’. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in Christopher Wordsworth. Edited principally from this MS in Hitchcock & Hallett., described, p. xii, and with a facsimile of p. 5 as frontispiece.
A life of More written in 1599, possibly by Robert Basset (1574-1641), of Devon, a zealous Catholic and kinsman of More: see Andrew Breeze, ‘Sir Robert Basset and The Life of Syr Thomas More’, N&Q, 249 (September 2004), 263. The work first published in Christopher Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical History, vol. II (London, 1839). Edited, as The Lyfe of Syr Thomas More Sometymes Lord Chancellor of England, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock and P.E. Hallett (EETS, London, 1950).
ff. 246r-313v
• CvG 35: George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, headed ‘Thomas Wolsey late Cardinall his life and deathe, Written by George Cavendishe his Gentleman Vsher’, inscribed (f. 313v) ‘my book. Ano: 1598. / Pe: Manwood / wrytten by my man Rich J / borrowed ye oryginall of Mr Iohn Burrowes, & John Stowe’: i.e. referring to Sir Peter Manwood (1571-1625), judge and antiquary, and John Stow (1524/5-1605), London historian. 1598.
Sylvester, No. 19.
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).
MS 192
A 14th-century small folio MS of Philippus Roboti, De gestis Carmelitarum, and its translation by Thomas Bradley (Scrope), Bishop of Dromore), in two accomplished hands, with rubrication, 153 leaves, in later calf (rebacked).
f. 43v
• *BaJ 5: John Bale, Catalogus episcoporum ex Carmelitarum ordine prodeuntium
An autograph list by Bale of English and Irish Carmelite bishops, 29 lines. Early 16th century.
This MS recorded in McCusker, The Library (1936), 153 (No. 80). A transcript of this list made in March 1655/6 by Sir James Ware (1594-1666) is in the Bodleian (MS Rawl. B. 479, f. 74v), and a transcript made by Henry Wharton (1664-95) is at Lambeth Palace (MS 590, p. 148).
Unpublished.
MS 246
Copy, almost entirely in a single professional secretary hand, untitled and unascribed (inscribed by a later reader as ‘collected by Sr Robt. Cotton, & publish'd by Will. Prynn’), imperfect, lacking the first half, here beginning with the reign of Henry IV, 265 folio leaves (plus blanks), originally foliated 300-572, 574, in old calf (rebacked). Early-mid-17th century.
CtR 270: Sir Robert Cotton, An Exact Abridgement of the Records in the Tower of London, from the reign of Edward the Second unto Richard the Third, of all the Parliaments holden in each King's reign
First published, as ‘Collected by Sr. R. Cotton’, in London, 1657. Probably collected rather by William and Robert Bowyer, Keepers of the Records in the Tower, and revised and edited by William Prynne.
MS 250
A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, relating to Elizabethan voyages, in various hands, 475 leaves, in modern calf.
The first item inscribed (f. 1r) ‘This boke ys myn / Iohn fford’. Among papers of the Carew family.
ff. 73r-154v
• CvG 36: George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘The liefe and death of Cardinall Wolsey’. Late 16th century.
Sylvester, No. 20.
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. 185r-91r
• EsR 139: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology
Copy, in a 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.
ff. 315r-37v
• RaW 676: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Discovery of Guiana
Copy of an early version, with a dedication (f. 315r) to Charles Howard and Sir Robert Cecil in a neat italic hand, the main text (ff. 316r-36r) closely written in a probably professional secretary hand, with sidenotes (on ff. 320v, 321v, 322v, 325v, 326v) in an italic hand, probably Cecil's, untitled, but endorsed in a later hand (f. 337v) ‘sir Wallter Ralleghes dyscourse: of his first voyadg to Guiana’. c.1596. c.1596.
Edited from this MS in Lorimer.
A tract, with ‘To the Reader’ beginning ‘Because there haue been diuers opinions conceiued of the golde oare brought from Guinana...’, the main text beginning ‘On Thursday the 6. of Februarie in the yeare 1595. we departed England...’. First published as The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empire of Guiana (London, 1596). Works (1829), VIII, 377-476. Edited by V. T. Harlow (London, 1928). Edited by Joyce Lorimer (Aldershot, 2006).
f. 338v
• ElQ 107: Queen Elizabeth I, On the Sailing of the Azores Expedition, July 1597
Copy, in a formal secretary hand, headed in an italic hand somewhat resembling Ralegh's ‘A prayer made by the queene at the departure of the fleet’, on the second page of ‘A iournall of all the particularities that fell out in the voyadge vnder the Chardge of the tow lls generally’ (partly in the same italic hand and occupying ff. 338r-73r).
This MS cited in Selected Works.
Beginning ‘O God, All-maker, Keeper, and Guider, inurement of thy rare-seen, unused and seld-heard-of goodness...’. Collected Works, Prayer 39, pp. 426-7. Autograph Compositions, pp. 104-5. Selected Works, Prayer 5, pp. 257-9.
MS 251
A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, 407 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half-morocco.
ff. 212r-19r
• CtR 363: Sir Robert Cotton, A Relation of the Proceedings against Ambassadors who have miscarried themselves, etc. ...[27 April 1624]
Copy, in a professional mixed hand, untitled, inscribed later ‘Two Discourses of Sr Rob. Cotton ye 2d not printed wth his posthuma’. c.1624-30s.
Tract, addressed to George, Duke of Buckingham, beginning ‘In humble obedience to your Grace's Command, I am emboldned to present my poor advice...’. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 1-9.
ff. 220r-9v
• CtR 481: Sir Robert Cotton, That the Kings of England have been pleased usually to consult with their Peeres in the great Councell, and Commons in Parliament, of Marriage, Peace, and Warre. Written...Anno 1611
Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, subscribed ‘Rob. Cotton’. c.1620s.
Tract beginning ‘To search so high as the Norman Conquest...’. First published, as The Forme of Governement of the Kingdome of England collected out of the Fundamental Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdome, London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [11]-39.
MS 332
Copy, in a professional angular secretary hand, with some rubrication, with a title-page or introductory rubric ‘Heir begynnis ane liill dialog betuixt experience and ane Courteoure of the miserabill estait of ye Warld compilit be Schir dauid lindesay of the mont knicht, Lionn king of armis Quhilk is diuidit in foure partis as estir followis begun on thurisday ye 11 of Junij 1556’, including (ff. 1r-3r) ‘The Epistill’ and (ff. 3r-7r) ‘The Prolog’, i + 132 small folio leaves, in old calf (rebacked). 1556.
LiD 6: Sir David Lindsay, Ane Dialog betuix Experience and Ane Courteour of the Miserabyll Estait of the Warls (The Monarche) (‘Into that Park I sawe appeir’)
This MS described in Hamer, IV, 5-8, and partly collated, III, 233 et seq.
First published [in St Andrews or Edinburgh, c.1554]. Hamer, I, 197-386.
MS 374
A quarto composite volume of sermons, in several hands, ii + 272 leaves, in old calf (rebacked).
Once owned by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, manuscript collector, with (f. [iiv] his table of contents.
ff. 91r-109v
• AndL 7: Lancelot Andrewes, Sermon 5 At Sundry Times, &c., preached at Whitehall, 23 november 1600, on Jeremiah 23.6
Copy, in a secretary hand. Early 17th century.
First published in XCVI Sermons (London, 1629). LACT, Sermons, V (1843), 104-26.
MS 494
A quarto composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 310 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked).
ff. 285r-306r
• DaS 37: Samuel Daniel, A Breviary of the History of England
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with an added title-page (f. 280r) in an italic hand with title subscribed in another hand ‘Or rather an encomium of W: Conq: By Sr Walter Ralegh’, to which is added (and deleted) ‘Anonimus’. c.1620.
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 510
Copy, in several professional secretary hands, subscribed ‘finys 1596: E: S:’, 111 quarto leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. 1596-early 17th century.
SpE 59: Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland
This MS collated in Variorum.
First published in Sir James Ware, The Historie of Ireland (Dublin, 1633). Variorum, Prose Works (ed. Rudolf Gottfried), pp. 39-231.
Spenser's authorship of this ‘View’ is generally accepted, especially in light of the comparable views about Ireland in The Faerie Queene. A cautionary note about authorship is sounded, however, in Jean R. Brink, ‘Constructing the View of the Present State of Ireland’, Spenser Studies, 11 (1994), 203-28; in her ‘Appropriating the Author of The Faerie Queene: The Attribution of the View of the Present State of Ireland and A Brief Note of Ireland to Edmund Spenser’, in Soundings of Things Done: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of S.K. Heninger, Jr., ed. Peter E. Medine and Joseph Wittreich (Newark, Delaware, 1997), 93-136. See also, inter alia, Andrew Hadfield, ‘Certainties and Uncertainties: By Way of Response to Jean Brink’, Spenser Studies, 12 (1998), 197-202, and Jean R. Brink, ‘Spenser and the Irish Question: Reply to Andrew Hadfield’, Spenser Studies, 13 (1999), 265-6.
MSS 528b
MS 577
A quarto composite volume of ecclesiastical and state letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 315 pages, in later black morocco gilt. Collected by, and partly in the hand of, William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Among collections of Henry Wharton (1664-94), William Sancroft's chaplain (in 1688-9).
pp. 113-15
• AndL 25: Lancelot Andrewes, Form for Consecrating Church Plate
Copy, in a small neat italic hand, headed ‘A coppie of the forme vsed by the Lo: Bishop of Elye in Consecrating the newe Church plate of the Cathedrall Church of Worcr’. Mid-17th century.
Edited from this MS in LACT.
First published in LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. 159-63.
pp. 211-12
• AndL 34: Lancelot Andrewes, The Manner of Induction prescribed by Bishop Andrewes
Copy, in an italic hand, headed ‘The Manner of Induction præscribed by ye R: Reud Lancelot Andrewes Bp of Chichester, Ely & Winchester’. Mid-17th century.
Edited from this MS in LACT.
First published in LACT, Minor Works (1854), p. 164.
MS 585
A folio composite volume of ecclesiastical papers, in various hands, 831 pages, in modern half-calf marbled boards. Compiled by Henry Wharton (1664-95).
Among collections of Henry Wharton (1664-94), William Sancroft's chaplain (in 1688-9).
p. 45
• BrT 15.5: Sir Thomas Browne, Repertorium, or Some Account of the Tombs and Monuments in the Cathedrall Church of Norwich 1680
Extracts.
First published in Posthumous Works (London, 1712). Wilkin, IV, 1-31. Keynes, III, 121-43.
See also BrT 21 and BrT 36.
p. 115
• LeJ 85: John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Other transcripts and extracts]
Extracts, in a mixed hand, headed ‘Collectanea Lelandi. 4o. vol. 2’, transcribed from Leland's autograph MS in the Bodleian Library.
p. 120
• LeJ 46: John Leland, Collectanea [Other transcripts and extracts]
Extracts, in a mixed hand, headed ‘Archiva A Lelandi Collectanea / vol. 4. in fol. / vol. 7. in 4o’, transcribed from Leland's autograph MS in the Bodleian Library.
MS 595
A duodecimo volume of state and ecclesiastical letters and papers, in a single hand, 222 pages, in later black morocco gilt. In the hand of William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, the first page (f. [ir] inscribed ‘Z / Sylloge Epistolarum quarundam insignium, aliorumque aliquot Monumentorum, facta manu RRP. Wilhelmi Sancroft. Archiepi Cantuar. Accesserunt Orationes eiusdem nonnulla in Academiâ Cantabrig. habitæ’. Mid-late 17th century.
Among collections of Henry Wharton (1664-94), Sancroft's chaplain (in 1688-9).
pp. 7-9
• MrT 53: Sir Thomas More, Letter to a Monk
Copy.
Yale, Vol. 15, pp. 197-311, in Latin, with an English translation.
pp. 29-36
• ClE 149: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Letters to the Duke of York and the Duchess of York
Copy.
Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.
These were first published in Two Letters written by…Edward Earl of Clarendon…one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.
p. 93
• CoR 792: Richard Corbett, Letter(s)
Copy, in the hand of William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, manuscript collector, of a letter by Corbett, in Latin, to Archbishop Ussher, from Cassington, ‘die Julij novisso’ [1 July, no year]. Mid-17th century.
p. 94
• HlJ 28: Joseph Hall, Episcopal Admonition, Sent in a Letter to the House of Commons, April 28, 1628
Copy, headed ‘Bp hall of Exeter his Letter to the Comons House in Parlamt. 1628’.
See HlJ 17-30.
pp. 99-101
• ClJ 254: John Cleveland, Letter to the Earl of Westmorland
Copy.
Published in Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 149-53.
MS 619
A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 208 leaves, in morocco stamped in gilt on each cover ‘MMM’.
Among papers of George Carew (1555-1629), Earl of Totnes, soldier and administrator.
f. 188r-v
• BcF 388: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
Copy of ‘The Lo: Chancillor Sr ffrancis Bacons reporte to the lls concerning the staple of wooll in Irelande Julij 22 1616’, in a professional secretary hand, on a folio leaf. c.1616.
MS 649
Two folio guardbooks of 166 state letters, in various hands, 515 leaves, in modern half-calf marbled boards.
Volume III of the papers of Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), political intelligencer, subsequently among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Vol. I, ff. 60r, 94r, 113r
• BcF 628: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
Copies of letters by Francis Bacon, probably in the hands of amanuenses. 1593-1600s.
Vol. II, ff 346, 347, 409, 410, 411, 432, 449
• BcF 629: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
Letters by Francis Bacon, partly autograph, chiefly in hands probably of amanuenses. c.1600s.
MS 650
A volume of state papers and correspondence, including original letters by Francis Bacon.
Volume IV of the papers of Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), political intelligencer, subsequently among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
f. 346r
• PeM 12: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Letter(s)
Copy of a letter by the Countess of Pembroke, to Sir Edward Wotton, 1594. 1594.
Edited in Collected Works, II, 286-7.
MS 652
A volume of state papers and correspondence.
Volume VI of the papers of Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), political intelligencer, subsequently among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
ff. 38r-9v
• *CoH 170: Henry Constable, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed, to Anthony Bacon, 6 October 1595. 1595.
ff. 278r-9v
• CoH 171: Henry Constable, Letter(s)
A letter by Constable, to the Earl of Essex, in a secretary hand, sent on to Anthony Bacon, endorsed ‘Lo of Essex & H. Constable to my / 7 December. 1595 at paris’. 1595.
MS 655
A folio guardbook of state letters, mainly addressed to Anthony Bacon, in various hands, 241 leaves, in modern half-calf marbled boards.
Volume IX of the papers of Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), political intelligencer, subsequently among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
f. 112r-v
• SoR 50: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Decease release. Dum morior orior (‘The pounded spice both tast and sent doth please’)
Copy, in a neat secretary hand, with corrections or emendations in a different ink, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Des vers de mr Sothwell de la Reyne d'Escosse l'an 1596, receus au mois de Feuurier’ and ‘Sa vertu m'attire’.
This MS recorded in Brown, p. lxxx, but not collated. Described in Louise Imogen Guiney, Recusant Poets (London & New York, 1938), p. 247.
First published in St. Peter's Complaint, and other Poems. by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817). Brown, pp. 47-8.
MS 660
A folio guardbook of state letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 288 leaves, in modern half-calf marbled boards.
Volume XIV of the papers of Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), political intelligencer, subsequently among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
ff. 161r-2v
• *CoH 172: Henry Constable, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed, to Anthony Bacon, from Rouen, 8 January 1596[/7]. 1597.
MS 661
A folio guardbook of state letters and papers, in various hands, 284 leaves, in modern half-calf marbled boards.
Volume XV of the papers of Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), political intelligencer, subsequently among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
f. 260r
• ElQ 255: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Rebuke to the Polish Ambassador, Paul de Jaline, July 25, 1597
Copy, in a professional italic hand, headed ‘Responsio Reginæ Angliæ ad Legatu Poloniæ’, on one page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Responce de la Reyne a L' Ambassadeur pollonois. le mois d'aoust 1597’, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1597.
Beginning ‘Oh quam decepta fui: Expectaui Legationem tu vero querelam, mihi adduxisti...’, in Autograph Compositions, pp. 168-9. An English version, beginning ‘O how I have been deceived! I expected an embassage, but you have brought to me a complaint...’, in Collected Works, Speech 22, pp. 332-4.
MS 703
A tall folio guardbook of letters and state papers, in various hands, 128 leaves, in later half-morocco.
Volume X of Papers of the Talbot family, Earls of Shrewsbury, subsequently among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
f. 74r-v
• *CoH 169: Henry Constable, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed, to the Earl of Shrewsbury, from France, 7 September 1591. 1591.
MS 708
A tall folio composite volume of letters, in various hands, 231 leaves.
Volume XV of Papers of the Talbot family, Earls of Shrewsbury, subsequently among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
f. 125r-v
• *CoH 174: Henry Constable, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed, to the Earl of Shrewsbury, frpm the Tower, 14 May 1604. 1604.
MS 711
A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 296 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
Among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
ff. 10r-42r
• HkR 19: Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book VIII
Copy, in the italic hand of William Woodhouse, public notary, headed ‘Mr Hooker's 8th Book’. Late 16th-early 17th century.
This MS collated in Keble (see I, xlv) and in Houk.
First published in an incomplete form (with Book VI) in London, 1648. Some additions published in Nicholas Bernard, Clavi Trabales (London, 1661), and in John Gauden's ‘complete’ edition of the Polity (London, 1662). Keble, III, 326-455 (and pp. 456-60 for a passage found in MSS but not in the first edition, possibly part of a Sermon on Civil Disobedience). Edited by Raymond Aaron Houk, Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity Book VIII (New York, 1931). Folger edition, Volume III, pp. 315-448.
ff. 151r-2r
• RoJ 104.38: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids (‘Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second’)
Copy, in a professional italic hand, in double columns, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.
See Vivian de Sola Pinto in ‘“The History of Insipids”: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell’, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.
ff 153r-4r
• DrJ 95: John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe (‘All humane things are subject to decay’)
Copy, in a professional italic hand, headed ‘Mac Flecknoe / A Satyr’, on two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1678-80s.
First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 265-71. California, II, 53-60. Hammond, I, 313-36.
The text also discussed extensively in G. Blakemore Evans, ‘The Text of Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case for Authorial Revision’, Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 85-102; in David M. Vieth, ‘Dryden's Mac Flecknoe’, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (1953), 32-54; and in Vinton A. Dearing, ‘Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case Against Editorial Confusion’, Harvard Library Bulletin, 24 (1976), 204-45. See also David M. Vieth, ‘The Discovery of the Date of MacFlecknoe’ in Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, ed. René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro (Oxford, 1979), pp. 71-86.
ff. 213r-96v
• HoH 45: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A Copy of the last instructions which the Emperor Charles the Fifth gave to his son Philip before his death translated out of Spanish
Copy, complete with a Dedication to the Queen subscribed ‘Henrie Howarde’, in a single professional secretary hand. Early 17th century.
Inscribed (f. 213r) ‘Nathaniell Darby his Booke ffeb: ye 22th in the year of our Lord god 1701/2’.
An unpublished translation of a suppositious work, supposed (but unlikely) to be Charles V's instructions to his son Philip II, which was circulated in MS in 16th-century Europe and published in Spanish in Sandoval's Life of Charles V (1634). An Italian translation in MS was presented to James VI by Giacomo Castelvetro between 1591 and 1595 and is now in the National Library of Scotland (MS Adv. 23. I. 6): see The Works of William Fowler, ed. H.W. Meckle, James Craigie and John Purves, III, STS 3rd Ser. 23 (Edinburgh, 1940), pp. cxxvii-cxxx, and references cited in The Basilicon Doron of King James VI, ed. James Craigie, II, STS, 3rd Ser. 18 (Edinburgh, 1950), pp. 63-9. A quite different translation was published as The Advice of Charles the Fifth...to his Son Philip the Second (London, 1670).
Howard's translation, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, was allegedly written when he had been more than twelve years out of the Queen's favour [? in the early 1590s]. The Dedication begins ‘If the faithful Cananite of whom we read in the holy writ...’; the main text begins ‘I have resolved (most dear son) to come now to the point...’, and ends ‘...to proceed in such a course as prayers may second your purposes. Sanctae Trinitati, &c.’
MS 718
Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, lacking a title, 83 folio pages, in contemporary vellum. End of 16th-early 17th century.
LeC 65: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth
Among the collectionss of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
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 772
A quarto volume of tracts, in a single hand, 331 pages, in old half-calf. Early 17th century.
p. 1-4
• AlW 260: William Alabaster, (3) A Defence of the Answers to Mr: Alablaster's Four Demands against a Treatise Intituled The Catholic's Reply upon Bedal's Answer to Mr: Alablaster's four Demands
A tract apparently by William Bedell, with a dedication to Ambrose Jermyn dated 25 February 1604/5.
p. 16 et seq.
• AlW 256: William Alabaster, (1) Alabaster's Four Demands and Bishop Bedell's Answer to them
Unpublished ‘Four Demands’ by Alabaster and ‘Answer’ by William Bedell (1571-1642), Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh.
MS 806
A collection of state tracts and verse, in various professional hands (including the ‘Feathery Scribe’), now bound in two volumes, Vol. I comprising 249 leaves (plus blanks), Vol. II 247 leaves (plus blanks), each in modern half-morocco gilt.
Among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 349 (No. 75).
Vol. I, ff. 166v-71v
• FaE 1.2: Edward Fairfax, Eclogue IV: Eglon and Alexis (‘Whilst, on the rough, and Heath-strew'd Wilderness’)
Copy, in a rounded italic hand, with prefatory verses (four lines in Latin beginning ‘Et Phoebum, castasque doces, Fairfaxe, Sorores’ and four lines in English beginning ‘Apollo, and the Muses taught by thee’), imperfect, lacking the first five stanzas, here beginning at line 31, ‘Sufficeth to each Man his owne mishap’. Mid-late-17th century
Edited from this MS and discussed in N.L. Green, ‘Edward Fairfax's Fourth Eclogue: Lost and Found’, RES, NS 52, No. 207 (August 2001), 331-40.
First published in Elizabeth Cooper, The Muses Library (London, 1737), pp. 364-76. Lea & Gang, pp. 654-64. The premiminary verses published in Atterbury Correspondence, III, 255-69.
Vol. II, ff. 24r-36v
• RaW 558: Sir Walter Ralegh, Apology for his Voyage to Guiana
Copy, in two italic hands, a supplied title-page in another hand ‘The Apologie of Sr Walter Raleigh for his Voyage to Guaiana’, with notes along the margin of f. 26r by a reader, inscribed on the first page ‘[?Gri]ffith M.A. / 1664’. Mid-17th century.
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.
Vol. II, f. 24v
• WoH 40.2: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)
Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, written, with the page reversed, in a copy of Ralegh's Apology. Mid-17th century.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).
Vol. II, ff. 83r-98r
• CtR 417: Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A Short view of the Raigne of Kinge Henry the third’, unascribed. c.1620s.
Treatise, written c.1614 and ‘Presented to King James’, beginning ‘Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms...’. First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).
MS 827
Copy, in several cursive hands, 89 quarto leaves, in limp vellum. c.1600.
MrT 77: Sir Thomas More, Nicholas Harpsfield's Life of Sir Thomas More
This MS collated in Hitchcock & Chambers and described, pp. xv-xvi.
First published, edited by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock and R.W. Chambers, as The life and death of Sr Thomas Moore. knight, sometymes Lord high Chancellor of England...by Nicholas Harpsfield (EETS, London, 1932).
MS 838
A small quarto volume of five academic Latin plays, in several non-professional hands, 127 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked). c.1630s.
Among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
item 3
• AlW 265: William Alabaster, Roxana
Copy, in possibly several secretary and italic hands, lacking a title-page (probably excised), on nineteen leaves, subscribed ‘finis Roxana Allablastuire’.
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.
MS 841
A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous verse and prose, in various hands, 24 items, unfoliated, in old calf (rebacked).
Among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
item 8
• MnJ 16.8: John Milton, Lycidas (‘Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more’)
Copy of a Latin translation, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘Lycidas Miltoni...1637’ and beginning ‘Rursus odoratæ myrti, laurique virentes’), on both sides of seven quarto leaves. c.1637.
Recorded in Shawcross, Bibliography, No. 410.
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.
No. 13
• EsR 140: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology
Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed ‘Apology of ye old Earl of Essex’, on 21 quarto leaves. Early 17th century.
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.
No. 15
• OvT 51: Sir Thomas Overbury, Observations in his travailes
Copy, in two professional secretary hands, headed ‘Sr Thomas Overbury his Observacons vpon the state of the 17 Provinces and of France; and first vpon that of the Provinces vnited’, on fourteen quarto leaves (plus five blanks). Early 17th century.
A tract beginning ‘All things concurred for the rising and maintenance of this State...’. First published as Sir Thomas Overbvry his Observations in his Travailes vpon the State of The Xvii. Provinces as they stood Anno Dom. 1609 (London, 1626). Rimbault, pp. 223-30. Authorship uncertain.
MS 932
A tall folio composite volume of state papers and tracts, in various hands and paper sizes, 89 items, unfoliated, in later black morocco gilt.
Volume IV of the collections of Edmund Gibson (1669-1748), Bishop of London.
No. 85
• HaG 37: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Maxims of the Great Almansor
Copy of 33 maxims, in a professional rounded hand, on seven folio pages, being the first of a series of three sets of ‘Observations on Government, or certain Maxims of State, with Moral Reflections’, and dated 1692; the text followed (pp. [8-10] by fourteen supplementary maxims by Charles Montagu, dated 1695, and then (pp. [10-16]) by 44 maxims by John, Lord Somers, dated 1697. c.1700.
This MS collated in Brown, I, 398-401.
First published, anonymously, under the heading The following Maxims were found amongst the Papers of the Great Almanzor…[&c] (London, 1693). Foxcroft, II, 447-53. Brown, I, 292-5.
MS 933
A tall folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 127 items, unfoliated, in old black morocco gilt.
Volume V of the collections of Edmund Gibson (1669-1748), Bishop of London.
No. 4
• EsR 141: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology
Copy, closely written in a cursive secretary hand, on both sides of seven folio leaves, somewhat faded, once folded as a letter or packet. 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.
No. 56
• *DrJ 336: John Dryden, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, with a postscript by his wife, to his sons, 3 September [1697]. 1697.
Ward, Letter 47.
No. 88
• MaA 561: Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)
Copy of a letter by Marvell, [to William Popple], from London, 15/17 July 1676. c.1676.
Margoliouth, II, 346-8.
No. 118
• BcF 308: Francis Bacon, A Device to Entertain the Queen at Essex House, 17 November 1595
Copy of five speeches, of the Squire (twice), Hermit, Soldier, and Statesman, in a professional secretary hand, on all pages of of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves. c.1595.
Edited from this MS in Birch and in Spedding (where it is erroneously described as autograph).
First published in Letters, Speeches &c. of Francis Bacon, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1763). Spedding, VIII, 378-86. Probably written partly by the Earl of Essex, partly by his secretariat, including Bacon. See The Poems of Edward De Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, ed. Steven W. May, Studies in Philology, 77, No. 5 (Early Winter 1980), pp. 88-90, and Paul E.J. Hammer, ‘Upstaging the Queen: the Earl of Essex, Francis Bacon and the Accession Day celebrations of 1595’, in The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque, ed. David Bevington and Peter Holbrook (New York & Cambridge, 1998), pp. 41-66.
MS 936
A tall folio composite volume of letters and papers of Francis Bacon, in various hands and paper sizes, with a fourteen-leaf table of contents, 282 items, unfoliated, in old black morocco gilt. Volume VIII of the collections of Edmund Gibson (1669-1748), Bishop of London.
Nos 1-2
• *BcF 199: Francis Bacon, A Discourse touching Intelligence and the Safety of the Queen's Person
Two fragments of autograph rough drafts, the first endorsed ‘The first copye of my discourse touchinge the safatye of the Qs person’ and once folded as a letter or packet; the second on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘The first copy or fragmts of a discors touching intelligence and ye safty of the Qs person’. [1594].
These fragments, the first beginning ‘The first remedy in my poor opinion...’, the second beginning ‘These be the principal remedies...’, edited in Spedding.
Written in 1594. The complete discourse unknown. Spedding, VIII, 305-7.
No 218
• EsR 181: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Second Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland
Copy of a variant version, in a predominantly italic hand, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, the second leaf with possible signature partly torn away, the verso bearing a spot of red wax. c.1596.
Edited from this MS in The Works of Francis Bacon, ed. James Spedding et al. (London, (1857-74), IX, 16-18.
The letter lacking a date, beginning ‘My good Lord, The last I sent to your Lordship was so long...’. Spedding, IX, 16-18. This letter, probably by neither Essex nor Bacon, is related to one normally attributed to Fulke Greville and perhaps originally composed by Sir Thomas Bodley: see GrF 16-23.
No. 274
• *BcF 309: Francis Bacon, A Device to Entertain the Queen at Essex House, 17 November 1595
Fragments of Bacon's autograph draft, with revisions, including ‘The speech of ye Heremite or Philosopher’, on four pages of three folio leaves. [1595].
Edited from this MS in Spedding, VIII, 376-8. Facsimiles of the first page in IELM, I.i (1980), Facsimile II (p. 25), and in Brian Vickers, ‘The Authenticity of Bacon's Earliest Writings’, SP, 94/2 (Spring 1997), 248-96 (p. 267). Also discussed, with a facsimile page, in Gabriel Heaton, Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments (Oxford 2010).
Thomas Birch's transcript is in the British Library, Add. MS 4164, f. 167.
First published in Letters, Speeches &c. of Francis Bacon, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1763). Spedding, VIII, 378-86. Probably written partly by the Earl of Essex, partly by his secretariat, including Bacon. See The Poems of Edward De Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, ed. Steven W. May, Studies in Philology, 77, No. 5 (Early Winter 1980), pp. 88-90, and Paul E.J. Hammer, ‘Upstaging the Queen: the Earl of Essex, Francis Bacon and the Accession Day celebrations of 1595’, in The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque, ed. David Bevington and Peter Holbrook (New York & Cambridge, 1998), pp. 41-66.
MS 941
A tall folio composite volume of state and ecclesiastical letters and papers, in various hands, 185 itemns, unfoliated, in later black morocco gilt.
Volume XIII of the collections of Edmund Gibson (1669-1748), Bishop of London.
No 115
• RoJ 539: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells (‘At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head’)
Copy, in a probably professional hand, headed ‘Tunbridg waters’, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.
No 116
• RoJ 590: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)
Copy, in a probably professional hand, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.
MS 942
A folio guardbook of state letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 176 leaves, in old black morocco gilt.
Volume XIII of the collections of Edmund Gibson (1669-1748), Bishop of London.
Nos. 9 and 12
• BcF 622: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
Copies of two letters by Bacon to George Villiers, Marquess of Buckingham.
MS 943
A folio guardbook of ecclesiastical and state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 939 pages, in half black morocco gilt. Comprising mainly papers of William Laud (1573-1645), Archbishop of Canterbury.
p. 63
• HkR 41: Richard Hooker, A shorte note of sundrie vnsounde pointes of Doctrine at diuers times deliuered by Mr: Hooker in his publicke sermons
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘A short note of sundry vnsound points of Doctrine at diurs delured By Mr Hooker in his publicke sermons’, on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 16th century.
These statements edited in Keble I, 59-60, and in Folger edition, p. 282.
pp. 65-8
• AndL 39: Lancelot Andrewes, Notes on the Book of Common Prayer
Copy, in an italic hand, headed ‘IHS. Some few notes found in a Common prayer booke wch Bp Andrewes used, written with his owne hand’.
This MS described and collated in LACT.
First published in William Nicholls, A Comment on the Book of Common Prayer (London, 1710). LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. 141-58.
pp. 113-16
• BcF 489: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
Copy of Bacon's supplication on 22 April 1621, in a professional secretary hand, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, docketed probably in the italic hand of Archbishop Laud ‘The Defence of Francis Ld Viscount Verula made by himself to the Lords’. c.1621.
The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning ‘I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...’); 22 April 1621 (beginning ‘It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...’); and 30 April 1621 (beginning ‘Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...’), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.
MS 1027, f. 73r
Autograph letter signed by Vaughan, to the Commissioners of Sequestration in New Radnor, [1662]. 1662.
*VaH 2: Henry Vaughan the Silurist, Letter(s)
Edited in Martin, pp. 697-8.
MS 1041
A folio songbook, in at least two hands, 91 leaves (including numerous blanks), in calf gilt. c.1640s-50s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Ann Blount’ and ‘The Lady Ann Blount’.
A complete facsimile of this volume is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 11 (New York & London, 1987).
f. 5v
• StW 1362: William Strode, A Sonnet (‘Sing aloud, harmonious sphears’)
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
First published in John Banister, New Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1678). Dobell, p. 124. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
f. 7v
• CwT 757: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’)
Copy of the first stanza, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.
First published in a five-stanza version beginning ‘Aske me no more where Iove bestowes’ in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. ‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’).
For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, ‘Manuscript Evidence and the Author of “Aske me no more”: William Strode, not Thomas Carew’, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, ‘“Aske me no more” and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany’, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.
ff. 58v-62r
• KiH 366: Henry King, The Farwell (‘Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp’)
Copy, in a musical setting by Charles Coleman, untitled.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.
See also B&F 121-2.
ff. 75r-v, 74v
• ShJ 161: James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song (‘The glories of our blood and state’)
Copy of the dirge, in a musical setting by Edward Coleman, untitled.
Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).
MS 1106
A folio volume of 14th-century chronicles, in accomplished hands, with rubrication, in double columns, on vellum throughout, 123 leaves, in old blind-stamped calf.
Variously owned by Nicholas Brigham (d.1558), officer of the Exchequer and antiquary; William Darell (d.c.1580), clergyman and antiquary; Sir James Ware (1594-1666), antiquary and historian; Henry Hyde, second Earl of Clarendon (1638-1709), second Earl of Clarendon, politician; James Brydges (1674-1744), first Duke of Chandos, of Cannons, Middlesex, politician and patron of music; the Rev. Richard Widmore (1681-1764), historian and Librarian at Westminster Abbey; and (in January 1763) Thomas Secker (1693-1768), Archbishop of Canterbury.
No. 1
• *BaJ 35: John Bale, Matthew of Westminster. Flores historiarum
Autograph marginal annotations by Bale on ff. 3v, 6r.
This MS recorded in McCusker, The Library (1936), 150-1 (No. 26).
MS 1360
A quarto volume of four works by Thomas Traherne, in several hands, partly autograph, 473 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum. Inscribed in another hand on f. i ‘Why is this soe long detaind in a desk manuscript, yt if printed would be a Light to ye World, & a uniuersal Blessinge?’ c.1660s-70.
This MS identified by Jeremy Maule and announced in Denise Inge and Calum Macfarlane, ‘Seeds of Eternity: A New Traherne Manuscript’, TLS, 2 June 2000, p. 14. Discussed in Ross, I, xiv-xxii.
ff. 1r-14r
• *TrT 234: Thomas Traherne, [Inducements to Retiredness]
Autograph, untitled but introduced ‘In this Introduction ye pious Soul is Invited vnto Retiremt from ye World for ye better Introversion of Spirit to Considr & enioy those Divine Obiects heer prsented & delineated to it: For Everything Rests most Composedly in its Pper place & ye Soul of Man is not in its Pper place till it be sweetly disposed and Composed for Divine Enioyments’.
Edited from this MS in Ross, with a facsimile of f. 11r as Plate I on p. 4.
First published in Ross, I (2005), 3-43.
ff. 21v-120r
• *TrT 238: Thomas Traherne, A Sober View if Dr Twisses his Considerations
Autograph draft, starting with eight lines (beginning ‘Christ died for ye whole World...’) and headed (f. 22r) ‘A Sober View of Dr Twisses his Considerations. Wth a compleat Disquisition of Dr Hammonds Letter to Dr Sanderson. And a Prospect of all their Opinions Concerning GODs Decrees’, with many deletions and underlinings and with sidenotes.
Edited from this MS in Ross, with a facsimile of f. 44r as Plate II on p. 47.
First published in Ross, I (2005), 45-230.
ff. 124r-8r
• *TrT 235: Thomas Traherne, The Kingdom of God
An untitled draft version, in an unidentified hand, of the first two chapters, headed ‘Cap. i Of GODS Kingdome: yt it is but one Monarchy, the Consisting of several Territories. A Digression concerning its Incomprhensibileness’, with deletions, revisions, sidenotes and much underlining in a second hand, inscribed ‘See after 24 leavs’, being a false start to the treatise entered in full later (TrT 236), ff. 126r-8r a fragment on love added by Traherne.
Edited from this MS in Ross, pp. 555-64 (and textual emendations listed pp. 565-6), with a facsimile of ff. 125v-6r on p. 556.
First published in Ross, I (2005), 253-503.
ff. 134r-44r
• *TrT 237: Thomas Traherne, Seeds of Eternity or The Nature of the Soul in which Everlasting Powers are Prepared
Autograph draft, with a title-page, with many deletions and revisions.
Edited from this MS in Ross, with a facsimile of ff. 140v-1r as Plate III on p. 232.
First published in Ross, I (2005), 232-52.
ff. 148r-366r
• *TrT 236: Thomas Traherne, The Kingdom of God
A working manuscript of the whole treatise, in two unidentified hands or variant of Traherne's hand, in 42 chapters, with sidenotes, and with numerous autograph deletions, revisions, and underlining.
Edited from this MS in Ross, pp. 253-503, with textual emendations listed on pp. 504-53.
First published in Ross, I (2005), 253-503.
ff. 274r-6r
• *TrT 1.5: Thomas Traherne, ‘A Wise Man will apply his Mind’
Autograph.
Untitled poem of fifteen octaves, at the end of Chapter XXVII of The Kingdom of God. First published
ff. 282v-3r
• *TrT 145.8: Thomas Traherne, ‘--ffor to Augment ye Wonder’
Autograph.
Untitled poem of five sestains, in the middle of Chapter XXVIII of The Kingdom of God. First published
ff. 245r-7r
• *TrT 171.5: Thomas Traherne, ‘Invisibles are not Diminishd by’
Autograph.
Untitled poem of 102 lines at the end of Chapter XXII in The Kingdom of God. Ross, pp. 373-5.
f. 300v
• *TrT 222.5: Thomas Traherne, ‘'Tis use alone’
Autograph.
Untitled poem of six lines near the end of Chapter XXXI of The Kingdom of God. Ross, p. 431.
ff. 313v-14r
• *TrT 120.5: Thomas Traherne, ‘Could they, my Soul, unless they him did pleas?’
Autograph.
Untitled poem of sixteen lines at the end of Chapter XXXIII of The Kingdom of God. Ross, p. 444.
f. 335r-v
• *TrT 223.5: Thomas Traherne, ‘True Reason answer all its Causes, Ends’
Autograph.
Untitled poem of 33 lines at the end of Chapter XXXVII of The Kingdom of God. Ross, pp. 446-7.
ff. 339r-40r
• *TrT 227.5: Thomas Traherne, ‘Who made it first? Whome did this Lovly Thing?’
Untitled poem of 93 lines, in Chapter ?? of The Kingdom of God. First published
f. 343v
• *TrT 149.5: Thomas Traherne, ‘The Great Creator and the King’
Autograph.
Untitled poem of ten lines in the middle of Chapter XXXIX of The Kingdom of God. Ross, p. 477.
ff. 349v-50r
• *TrT 193.5: Thomas Traherne, ‘Pure Bodies, or Pure Spirits we with ease’
Autograph.
Untitled poem of 40 lines in the middle of Chapter XL of The Kingdom of God. Ross, pp. 484-5.
f. 364r-v
• *TrT 145.5: Thomas Traherne, ‘ffor Man to Act as if his soul did see’
Autograph.
Untitled poem comprising fifteen lines, followed by ‘Again he saith’ and another fourteen lines (beginning ‘The Angels who are faithfull while they view’), towards the end (chapter XLII) of The Kingdom of God. First published
MS 1371
MS 2001
Autograph, with a dedicatory epistle to Francis Russell (1526/7-85), second Earl of Bedford, dated from Canterbury, 6 July 1561, and an epistle to the reader, with ff. 1-2 marked up for intended (though not executed) printing by John Day (1521/2-84), iv + 44 quarto leaves, in a vellum wrapper (a recycled 13th-century document). 1561.
*BaJ 26: John Bale, A retourne of James Canceller's raylinge boke upon hys owne heade
Among the Fairhurst Papers: i.e. state and ecclesiastical papers, many once belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury, acquired by John Selden, MP (1584-1654), lawyer and historical and linguistic scholar, and his executor Sir Mathew Hale (1609-76), judge and writer, which were found and purchased c.1939 by James Fairhurst (d.1999), of Oxford.
Facsimile of the first page in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 15 October 1963, lot 495. Facsimile of f. 22r in IELM, I.i (1980), Facsimile III, p. 55.
Unpublished.
MS 2006
A folio guardbook of ecclesiastical letters and tracts, in various hands and paper sizes, 287 leaves, in modern quarter-calf.
Among the Fairhurst Papers: i.e. state and ecclesiastical papers, many once belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury, acquired by John Selden, MP (1584-1654), lawyer and historical and linguistic scholar, and his executor Sir Mathew Hale (1609-76), judge and writer, which were found and purchased c.1939 by James Fairhurst (d.1999), of Oxford.
ff. 6r-8v
• HkR 49: Richard Hooker, Statement on the Hooker-Travers Controversy
Copy of a statement of doctrinal differences between Hooker and Walter Travers arising from a sermon delivered at The Temple in 1585, in an octavo booklet (occupying ff. 1r-31v, including blanks) almost entirely in a single secretary hand. Late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Folger edition, Volume V. One paragraph corresponds with the footnote in Keble, I, 61 (see HkR 45-6).
Yale, Vol. V, pp. 271-7.
ff. 9r-13r
• HkR 46: Richard Hooker, Notes of Mr Hookers Sermon
Copy of Hooker's account of his sermon on 28 March 1585, untitled, docketed (f. 9r) in the hand of Archbishop Whitgift ‘notes of Mr. Hookers sermon’, in an octavo booklet (occupying ff. 1r-31v, including blanks) almost entirely in a single secretary hand. Late 16th century.
This MS is a version of the account printed in Keble, I, 60-4. This MS collated in Folger edition, Volume V, with a facsimile of f. 9r on p. 275.
Hooker's account of what he preached in his Temple sermons on Habakkuk, beginning ‘I doute not but that god was mrcifull to thousandes of or fathers...’. Keble, I, 60-4.
ff. 13v-15v
• HkR 47: Richard Hooker, Hooker's vindication of his preaching in the Temple
Copy of an untitled passage by Hooker defending his doctrine and identifying some of his references in the Sermon on Justification (see HkR 3-5), beginning ‘I have bene greuouslye vsed openly/secretly and for boulstringe of Heresye...’, in an octavo booklet (occupying ff. 1r-31v, including blanks) almost entirely in a single secretary hand. Late 16th century.
Unpublished.
MS 2014
A folio guardbook of ecclesiastical tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 224 leaves, in modern quarter-calf marbled boards. Among the Fairhurst Papers: state and ecclesiastical papers, many once belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury, acquired by John Selden, MP (1584-1654), lawyer and historical and linguistic scholar, and his executor Sir Mathew Hale (1609-76), judge and writer, purchased c.1939 by James Fairhurst (d.1999), of Oxford.
Sotheby's, 15 October 1963, lot 502.
ff. 1r-46r
• HkR 20: Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book VIII
Copy of part of Book VIII, headed in the margin ‘Lib. 8: v: 9. Eccle: pols:’. c.1630s.
First published in an incomplete form (with Book VI) in London, 1648. Some additions published in Nicholas Bernard, Clavi Trabales (London, 1661), and in John Gauden's ‘complete’ edition of the Polity (London, 1662). Keble, III, 326-455 (and pp. 456-60 for a passage found in MSS but not in the first edition, possibly part of a Sermon on Civil Disobedience). Edited by Raymond Aaron Houk, Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity Book VIII (New York, 1931). Folger edition, Volume III, pp. 315-448.
MS 2076
Copy, in two or more professional secretary hands, iii + 34 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum wrapper within modern cloth boards. [1592-1607].
BcF 147: Francis Bacon, Certain Observations made upon a Libel published this present year, 1592
Inscribed (f. iir) ‘Thomas Brudenell de Deen: 1607’: i.e. Thomas Brudenell (c.1583-1663), first Earl of Cardigan, who has also annotated the first page in brown ink, including inserting the word ‘erroneous’ between ‘Certayne’ and ‘Observacons’ in the heading.
Sotheby's, 20 February 1967, lot 241.
A tract beginning ‘It were just and honourable for princes being in war together, that howsever they prosecute their quarrels...’. First published in Resuscitatio, ed. W. Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VIII, 146-208.
A letter to M. Critoy, Secretary of France, c.1589, ‘A Letter on the Queen's religious policies’, was later incorporated in Certain Observations made upon a Libel, and first published in Cabala, sive scrinia sacra (London, 1654), pp. 38-41.
For the Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (also known as Cecil's Commonwealth), the ‘Libel’ that Bacon answered, see RaW 383.8.
MS 2086
A folio volume comprising a collection of apothegms and anecdotes, in a single hand, 90 pages, in modern quarter-calf marbled boards. Entirely in the hand of William Rawley (c.1588-1667), Bacon's chaplain, amanuensis, and editor. c.1626-41.
Formerly MS 1034.
pp. 1-83 passim
• BcF 86: Francis Bacon, Apothegms New and Old
Rawley's copies of some apothegmes possibly transcribed from Bacon's papers, as well as various anecdotes about him.
Selected apothegms edited from this MS in Spedding and in Kiernan, pp. 647-51.
A collection of Bacon's Apothegmes first published in London, 1625. An enlarged collection published in Resuscitatio, 2nd edition (London, 1661). Further enlarged in Spedding, VII, 111-86. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 209-78, 647-52.
pp. 17, 28
• DnJ 4172: John Donne, Extracts
Brief reported sayings and opinions of Donne on religious matters.
p. 21
• CoR 808: Richard Corbett, Extracts
Brief notes on a sermon by Corbett.
MS 2858
A folio volume of state and antiquarian tracts and letters, in two or more professional hands, with a table of contents at the end, ii + 227 leaves, in modern cloth. c.1630.
Mostyn MS 139 (Old Catalogue MS 53), from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Hollywell, Flintshire, and maintained by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) and his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). Sotheby's, 13 July 1920, lot 72, to Sumner.
Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 352.
ff. 1r-15v
• RaW 673: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a War with Spain, and of the Protecting of the Netherlands
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘written and directed vnto Kinge James the first yeare of his raigne 1602’, annotated by a reader (f. 1r) ‘A Manuscript of Spaine Netherlands, &c.’ and (f. 15v) ‘The state of things is now much altered betweene ffrance, spaine, the netherlands and vs’[plus two heavily deleted lines].
A tract addressed to James I and beginning ‘It belongeth not to me to judge whether the king of Spain hath done wrong to the Netherlands...’. First published in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 299-316.
ff. 103v-5v
• HoH 15: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Abatements nowe in beinge: or to be verie shortlie vppon the Marryage of the Lady Elizabeth to the Counte Pallatyne of the Rhine, Anno 1613: and otherwise ffor the kings Bennifitt
Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
A tract beginning ‘By the bestowing of my La Eliz. grace and after hir grace shall be settled...’. Unpublished?
ff. 166v-71r
• SiP 180.93: Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter of Advice to Robert Sidney
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A Letter written by Sr Phillip Sidney to a brother of his touchinge the direction of his travell’.
A letter beginning ‘My most deere Brother. You have thought unkindness in me, I have not written oftner unto you...’. First published in Profitable Instructions. Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 74-103. Feuillerat (as Correspondence No. XXXVIII), III, 124-7.
MS 2872
A tall folio guardbook of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 208 leaves.
ff. 59r-70v
• EsR 142: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology
Copy, in two professional secretary hands, on twelve folio leaves, frayed and slightly imperfect. c.1600.
One in a group of papers here relating to Essex and his rebellion bought at Sotheby's, 20 February 1978, lot 137.
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 3201
A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 259 leaves, in later brown morocco gilt. Papers of the Talbot family, Earls of Shrewsbury.
Formerly in the College of Arms, MS Talbot K.
ff. 43r-4v
• DaJ 297: Sir John Davies, An Entertainment at Harefield
Copy of the farewell speech of Place, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Place attired in black giues the Queene these at farewell’, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘The Copie of a Speeche deliuered to her Matie at her departure from Haruile the L: Keepers house’, once folded as a letter or packet and sent by Sir George Savile to the Earl of Shrewsbury, August 1602. 1602.
Edited from this MS in Edmund Lodge, Illustrations of British History, Biography and Manners, 2nd edition (London, 1838), No. ccciii, pp. 560-1.
The fullest text of what are taken to be the extant portions of the Entertainment at Harefield, 31 July-2 August 1602, is edited in The Complete Works of John Lyly, ed. R. Warwick Bond (Oxford, 1902), I, 491-504, where it is suggested that probably the prose and the Mariner's song were written by Lyly and the rest chiefly by Davies (see I, 534-5). Krueger, following Grosart, accepts the prose too as Davies's (see Krueger, pp. 409-11). It is argued that ‘Davies probably wrote all of the Harefield entertainment’ in Gabriel Heaton, Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments (Oxford, 2010), pp. 100-16.
MS 3202
A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands. Papers of the Talbot family, Earls of Shrewsbury.
Formerly in the College of Arms, MS Talbot L.
f. 259r
• *PeM 26: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed, to the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury, from the Savoy, 29 September 1604. 1604.
Edited in Collected Works, II, 296-7 (No. XV), and also in Margaret P. Hannay, ‘Unpublished Letters by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke’, Spenser Studies, 6 (1986), 165-90 (pp. 183-4).
MS 3203
A folio guardbook of letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 593 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.
Volume M of the Talbot Papers, formerly owned by the College of Arms.
ff. 61r-2v
• *HrJ 368: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed, to Gilbert Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, [from Greenwich, July 1602]. 1602.
McClure, No. 25, pp. 94-5, where it is edited from Edmund Lodge, Illustrations of British History, Biography, and Manners, 3 vols (London, 1791), II, 552-4.
ff. 85r-6v
• *HrJ 370: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed, to the Earl of Shrewsbury. Undated.
ff. 204r-5v
• *HrJ 375: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed, to Gilbert Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, 11 March 1603/4. 1604.
Craig, pp. 49-50.
ff. 210r-11v
• *HrJ 376: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed, to Gilbert Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, 12 March 1603/4. 1604.
Craig, pp. 50-1.
f. 249r
• HrJ 415: Sir John Harington, Document(s)
A summary of a law suit involving Harington, in a professional hand. 1604.
f. 285r
• *HrJ 377: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed, to Gilbert Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, [31 March 1604]. 1604.
McClure, No. 36, p. 112, where it is edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.
f. 493r-v
• *CoH 175: Henry Constable, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed, to the Countess of Shrewsbury, from the Fleet Prison, 9 February 1607[/8]. on one folio leaf. 1608.
f. 495r
• *CoH 176: Henry Constable, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed, to the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the Fleet Prison, 9 February 1607[/8]. 1608.
Facsimile of this letter in Grundy, frontispiece.
MS 3205
A folio guardbook of letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 160 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.
Volume O of the Talbot papers, formerly owned by the College of Arms.
ff. 92r-3v
• *CoH 177: Henry Constable, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed, to the Countess of Shrewsbury, [1608], on two conjugate quarto leaves. [1608].
Lodge (1838), II, 498.
f. 94r-v
• *CoH 179: Henry Constable, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed, to the Countess of Shrewsbury, from France, [1608], on a single folio leaf. [1608].
Lodge (1838), II, 499.
MS 3707
An octavo volume of theological works, in two or more predominantly italic hands, written from both ends, 189 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by David Baxter. Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 3. Formerly Cambridge University Library MS Add. 7976.
pp. 1-21
• AndL 35: Lancelot Andrewes, Manuductio ad theologiam polemicam
Copy of notes on the scriptures, in Latin, unascribed.
Unpublished.
ff. 132r-189r rev.
• AndL 5: Lancelot Andrewes, Sermons for Christmas and Easter
Copy of six sermons, probably preached at Court before Queen Elizabeth between 1588 and 1603.
Unpublished.
ff. 11v-131r
• AndL 6: Lancelot Andrewes, Westminster Lectures
Copy of twelve lectures on the Elements and Grounds of Religion, probably preached to schoolboys at Westminster when Andrewes was Dean there between 1601 and 1605.
Unpublished.
MS 3708
Copy of a version of Preces privatae, partly in Latin, partly in English, in two hands, xvi + 126 pages, in old reversed calf. Prepared by Gilbert Sheldon (1598-1677), Archbishop of Canterbury, for the Shirley family of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, when he was chaplain there, pages 1-75 in his hand; pages 77-126 in another, formal mixed, hand and including (p. 119) prayers for Sir Seymour Shirley (1647-67) when he was a boy. c.1656.
AndL 47: Lancelot Andrewes, Preces privatae
Item 597 in a sale catalogue of Messrs Bull and Auvache, London. Bookstamp and inscription of William H. Wade-Gery, Bushmead, Willesden. Afterwards owned by David Baxter. Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 4. Formerly Cambridge University Library MS Add. 7977.
This MS the most complete version known and including much unpublished material. Facsimile of two pages in Sotheby's sale catalogue.
First published in an English translation as The Private Devotions, ed. Humphrey Moseley (London, 1647). Selections of the original Greek and Latin version published in Verus Christianus, ed. David Stokes (Oxford, 1668). A more comprehensive version published as Preces privatae, Graece et Latine, ed. John Lamphire (London, 1675). Translated by F. E. Brightman as The Preces Privatae of Lancelot Andrewes (London, 1903).
MS ARC L 40.2/L 40
A folio composite volume of mathematical, theological, and other tracts and papers, in several hands, ff. 235r-67r in a single formal secretary hand, 267 leaves, in old half-calf marbled boards. c.1616-28.
Formerly in the library of Sion College, London.
ff. 235r-42v
• FlP 16: Phineas Fletcher, Venus and Anchises: Brittain's Ida (‘In Ida Vale (who knowes not Ida Vale?)’)
Copy of a version with two new introductory stanzas beginning ‘Thirsil (poore ladd) whose Muse yet scarcely fledge’.
Edited from this MS in Seaton, with a facsimile of f. 235r as the frontispiece. Facsimile of f. 235r also in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 136.
First published, as Brittain's Ida, ascribed to Edmund Spenser, [London], 1628. Boas, II, 343-63. Elizabethan Minor Epics, ed. Elizabeth Story Donno (London, 1963), pp. 305-24.
ff. 243r-7r
• FlP 2: Phineas Fletcher, Epithalamium (‘harke gentle sheppeardes that on Norwiche plaines’)
Edited from this MS in Seaton.
First published in Seaton (1926), pp. 21-9.
ff. 249r-50r
• FlP 13: Phineas Fletcher, To Mr. Jo. Tomkins (‘Thomalin my lief, thy musick strains to heare’)
Copy, headed ‘Non invisa Cano’.
Edited from this MS in Seaton, pp. 30-2.
First published in The Purple Island (Cambridge, 1633). Boas, II, 233-5.
ff. 251r-4v
• FlP 9: Phineas Fletcher, Piscatorie Eclogues. IV (‘Chromis my joy, why drop thy rainie eyes?’)
Copy, headed ‘Ecloga. Thelgon. Chronis’.
Edited from this MS in Seaton, pp. 33-41.
Boas, II, 192-8.
ff. 255r-9r
• FlP 11: Phineas Fletcher, Piscatorie Eclogues. VI (‘A fisher-boy that never knew his peer’)
Copy, headed ‘Ecloga. Thomalin. Thirsil’ and here beginning ‘A gentle boye whoe never knew his peere’.
Edited from this MS in Seaton, pp. 42-54.
Boas, II, 205-12.
ff. 260r-3r
• FlP 8: Phineas Fletcher, Piscatorie Eclogues. II (‘Myrtil, why idle sit we on the shore?’)
Copy of stanzas 5-25, headed ‘Ecloga. Thomalin. Thirskill’ and here beginning ‘Thirsil what wicked Chaunce or luckeles starre’.
Edited from this MS in Seaton, p. 55-64.
First published in The Purple Island (Cambridge, 1633). Boas, II, 180-6.
ff. 264r-7r
• FlP 10: Phineas Fletcher, Piscatorie Eclogues. V (‘The well known fisher-boy, that late his name’)
Copy, headed ‘Ecloga. Algon. Daphnis. Nicaea’.
Printed from this MS in Seaton, pp. 65-76.
Boas, II, 199-204.
FM1/3B, f. 149r
Milton's faltering post-blindness autograph signature (‘John Milton’) on his Marriage Licence Allegation declaring his intended third marriage to Elizabeth Minshull, 11 February 1662/3. 1663.
*MnJ 108: John Milton, Document(s)
Edited, with a facsimile tracing of the signature, in Masson, VI, 475. Edited in Columbia XVIII, 421. Facsimile in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile IIId, after p. xxi.
ZZ 1624.5
Inscribed presentation volume. Exemplum of the printed edition of 1624 inscribed by Wotton to George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, on the blank page facing the title-page, ‘To the Most Reverend Father in God / the ArchBishop of Caunterburie / his Grace &c / I humbly present this poore / pamphlet with the Authors / long and true deuotion. / Henry Wotton’; also with the errata on p. 123 crossed out and the relevant corrections made in ink in the text, including on p. 88 a twelve-line ‘Note omitted in the presse’ added in the margin in a small neat hand. c.1624.
*WoH 259.8: Sir Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture
First published in London, 1624.