Ferrar MS 1476
A reply written in 1623 to a petition of grievances by colonists of the Somer Islands, a reply which (according to Company records) ‘Mr Deputy [viz. John Ferrar] & Mr Hobbs’ were nominated to make on behalf of the Virginia Company, the MS in an unidentified hand and unsigned. Among the Ferrar papers. 1623.
HbT 175: Thomas Hobbes, Document(s)
This MS discussed in Noel Malcolm, ‘Hobbes, Sandys, and the Virginia Company’, Historical Journal, 24 (1981), 297-321, as representing, ‘in part at least, the earliest surviving work of Thomas Hobbes’.
Lect 26
Six printed works bound together, once owned by Gabriel Harvey.
Lect. 26 (1)
• *HvG 114: Gabriel Harvey, James VI of Scotland. The Essayes of a Prentise in the diuine Art of Poesie (Edinburgh, 1585)
Copious autograph annotations, inscribed ‘Gabriel Haruejus...Ex dono præstantissimi Doctoris Bartholomæi Clarci, Arcuum Decani’. c.1586-93.
Discussed in Relle (1972). Stern, p. 223.
Lect 26 (1) sig.O3r
• *HvG 2: Gabriel Harvey, ‘O heauenlie Medcin, Panacea high’
Autograph, subscribed ‘Axiophilus’. c.1586-93.
Edited from this MS in Relle.
Eight lines, first published in Relle (1972), p. 407.
Lect 26 (1) sig. P2v
• *HvG 3: Gabriel Harvey, Odiosa procrastinatio, ad Meipsum (‘Vitæ tela breuis prohibet spem nectere longam’)
Autograph, subscribed ‘Axiophilus’. c.1586-93.
Edited from this MS in Relle.
Four quatrains, first published in Relle (1972), p. 408.
Lect 26 (1) sig. P3v
• *HvG 1: Gabriel Harvey, De Republica Ordinanda. Ad summos Aulæ, Vrbis, prouinciarumque magistratus (‘Curas partiri communes arte decenti’)
Autograph, subscribed ‘Axiophilus’. c.1586-93.
Edited from this MS in Relle.
Twenty lines, first published in Relle (1972), p. 408.
Lect 26 (2-4)
• *HvG 115: Gabriel Harvey, James VI of Scotland. His Majesties Poeticall Exercises at vacant houres (Edinburgh, [1591])
Copious autograph annotations, signed ‘gabrielisharveij, et amicorum’. c.1591-3.
Discussed in Relle. Stern, p. 223.
Lect 26 (5)
• *HvG 153: Gabriel Harvey, Saluste du Bartas, Guillaume de. The Triumph of Faith [trans. J. Silvester] (London, 1592)
Copious autograph annotations, signed ‘gabrielharvey. gh.’ c.1592-3.
Discussed in Relle. Stern, p. 234.
Lect 26 (6)
• *HvG 152: Gabriel Harvey, Saluste du Bartas, Guillaume de. A Canticle of the victorie obteined by the French King, Henrie the Fourth, at Yvry [trans. J. Silvester] (London, 1590)
Autograph annotations. c.1590-3.
Stern, p. 234.