University of Illinois

Baldwin 2920a

And exemplum of William Cartwright, Comedies Tragi-Comedies, with other Poems (London, 1651).

Later owned by Professor T. W. Baldwin.

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• CaW 75: William Cartwright, The Lady-Errant

The printed text marked up as a promptbook for the Duke's Company, with copious cuts, emendations, entrances and exits, and other business.

Discussed and collated in Evans, with a facsimile of pp. 44-5 opposite p. 86. A complete facsimile of the promptbook in Edward A. Langhans, Restoration Promptbooks (Carbondale and Edwardsville), No. 17, pp. 339-80, and discussed pp. 52-3.

First published in Works (1651). Evans, pp. 89-161.

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• CaW 77: William Cartwright, The Ordinary

The printed text marked up as a promptbook for the Duke's Company, with copious cuts, emendations, entrances and exits, and other business, inscribed at the end with the Master of the Revels's license to act: ‘This Comedy, called the Ordinary the Reformations observed may bee Acted not otherwise January 15. 1671[/2]. Henry Herbert MR.’

Discussed and collated in Evans, with a facsimile of pp. 88-9 opposite p. 260. A complete facsimile of the promptbook in Edward A. Langhans, Restoration Promptbooks (Carbondale and Edwardsville), No. 16, pp. 295-338, and discussed pp. 50-1.

First published in Works (1651). Evans, pp. 269-351.

IUA01704

Exemplum inscribed ‘Bought at Venyse by Mr ffrancis Gherard For Daniel Oxenbridge & by hym sent to his good Freynd Mr John Milton in London p. ye Golden Lyon Thomas Whiteing Mr ye 19th: June 1643 In Lyvorne’. 1843.

MnJ 126: John Milton, Boiardo, S. Matteo Maria. Orlando Innamorato (Venice, 1608)

The inscription usually treated with scepticism. An argument in its defence in Leo Miller, ‘Milton's “Oxenbridge” Boiardo Validated’, Milton Quarterly, 23 (1989), 26-8.

IUA02706

A printed exemplum of the edition of 1611 with some MS corrections (on sig. A2). c.1611?

ChG 12: George Chapman, May Day

This item recorded in Welsh, p. 388.

First published in London, 1611. Edited by Robert F. Welsh in Urbana edition, Comedies, pp. 311-96.

IUA02707

An exemplum of the first printed edition, with extensive MS corrections. c.1613?.

ChG 15: George Chapman, The Memorable Masque

This item recorded in Blakemore Evans, pp. 559-60, and the corrections printed, pp. 592-3.

First published in London, [1613]. Edited by G. Blakemore Evans in Urbana edition, Comedies, pp. 557-94. Also in Stephen Orgel and Roy Strong, Inigo Jones: The Theatre of the Stuart Court, 2 vols (University of California Press, 1973), I, 253-63.

Post-1650 MS 0001

An octavo verse miscellany, 22 leaves plus numerous blanks, in calf. Late 17th century.

P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue, The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1280. Acquired from Quaritch, 23 July 1959. Formerly Uncat. MSS. Rochester, Commonplace book and 821 R58c.

A microfilm of the MS volume is in the British Library, M/573.

ff. [6r-9r]

• DoC 348: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell (‘Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age’)

Copy, headed ‘The E. of Rs farewell’.

First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being ‘probably by the Ld Dorset’ in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.

ff. [9r-12r]

• RoJ 319: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satyr against man by the Earl of Rochester’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning ‘All this with indignation have I hurled’) in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as ‘Satyr’. Love, pp. 57-63.

The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, ‘A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's “A Satyr against Reason and Mankind”’, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different ‘Answer’ poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

ff. [12v-13v]

• RoJ 589: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)

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.

ff. [13v-16v]

• DrJ 94: John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe (‘All humane things are subject to decay’)

This MS collated in California and in Vieth.

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.

f. [16v]

• RoJ 506: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To the Postboy (‘Son of a whore, God damn you! can you tell’)

Copy, headed ‘To A Postboy: E: of R:’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

First published, in shortened form, in Johannes Prinz, Rochesteriana (Leipzig, 1926), p. 56. Vieth, pp. 130-1. Walker, p. 103. Love, pp. 42-3.

ff. [17r-19r]

• RoJ 104.55: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids (‘Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second’)

Copy.

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. [19r-20r]

• RoJ 495: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To Love (‘O Love! how cold and slow to take my part’)

Copy, headed ‘Ovid: Amor: lib. 2d. Eleg: 9’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 35-7. Walker, pp. 49-50. Love, pp. 12-13.

Post-1650 MS 0168

Copy of the last 69 lines, untitled, beginning ‘Let Virtuoso's in five years be writ’, on a single quarto leaf; imperfect, lacking the beginning. Probably extracted from a quarto MS volume of Poems on Affairs of State. c.1678-80s.

DrJ 93: John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe (‘All humane things are subject to decay’)

Later owned by Dobell.

This MS collated in California, in Blakemore Evans, and in Vieth.

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.

Post-1650 MS 0191

Fragment of a verse miscellany, possibly of Scottish provenance. Late 17th century.

Acquired from Stonehill, 30 June 1945. Formerly Uncat. MSS. Rochester's Censures.

pp. 209-12

• RoJ 33: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book (‘Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes’)

Copy, headed ‘Rotchestrs censures of the poets’.

This MS recorded, as ‘Illinois MS. 30 Je 45 Stonehill’, in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.

Pre-1650 MS 0150

Fragment of a small octavo autograph commonplace book compiled by Gabriel Harvey, five leaves, in half-morocco. c.1584.

*HvG 7: Gabriel Harvey, Commonplace Book fragment

Bookplates of Frederick William Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector, and of Thomas Jefferson McKee (1840-99), New York lawyer and collector. Anderson Galleries, New York, 2-3 December 1901 (McKee sale, Part IV), lot 2960, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue. Afterwards owned by George Clifford Thomas (1839-1909), Philadelphia financier and collector. Bookplate also of John Gribbel (1858-1936), Philadelphia financier and collector. Parke Bernet, 7-8 May 1945 (Gribbel sale, Part Four), lot 240, to Stonehill Books, New Haven.

Stern, p. 243 (as ‘whereabouts unknown’). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Alvan Bregman, ‘A Gabriel Harvey Manuscript Brought to Light’, The Book Collector, 54, No. 1 (Spring 2005), 61-81.

Pre-1650 MS 0158

Copy, in a professional hand, on 35 folio leaves. c.1630s.

SaG 6: George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon Job (‘In Hus, a land which near the sun's uprise’)

Formerly in the Kensington Palace library of Augustus Frederick (1773-1843), Duke of Sussex, sixth son of George IIII. Sale of the Duke of Sussex's library, at Evans's (Sotheby's), 31 July 1844, lot 462, to Thorpe. Owned in 1845 by George Livermore, of Dann Hill, Cambridge. Mass. Livermore sale in Boston, 1894, lot 2095. Sold 27 December 1941 by Dobell. Formerly Uncat. MSS, Bible OT, Job, English, attrib. G. Sandys.

This MS described (as ‘an original transcript’) and extensively quoted in Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, Bibliotheca Susseriana. A Descriptive Catalogue...of the Manuscripts and Printed Books contained in The Library of His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex...in Kensington Palace, Volume I, Part 1 (London, 1827), item 1.

First published in A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638). Hooper, I, 1-78.

Pre-1650 0163

A commonplace book. c.1648.

unspecified page numbers

• DrJ 267.7: John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards

Extracts.

First published in London, 1667. California, IX (1966), pp. 1-112.

Pre-1650 MS 0177

A small quarto miscellany, in various hands, possibly compiled in part by one William Leigh, in modern leather. c.1650.

Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘Buckley 1772’. Acquired in 1950 from P.M. Mill. Formerly MS Leigh, William (?), comp., Commonplace Book (ca. 1650).

This volume offered in Maggs's sale catalogue No. 640 (1937), item 302.

pp. 4-5

• LoR 40: Richard Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison. Song (‘When Love with unconfined wings’)

Copy, headed ‘Captaine Lovelace, to his Althea from Prison’.

First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 70-1. (1930), pp. 78-9. Thomas Clayton, ‘Some Versions, Texts, and Readings of “To Althea, from Prison”’, PBSA, 68 (1974), 225-35. A musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).

p. 9

• CwT 914: Thomas Carew, Song. Perswasions to enjoy (‘If the quick spirits in your eye’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

pp. 9-10

• CwT 868: Thomas Carew, Song. Eternitie of love protested (‘How ill doth he deserve a lovers name’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 23-4.

p. 17

• WiG 8: George Wither, The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet (‘Shall I wasting in despair’)

Copy, headed ‘A songe of Ben: Jonsons’, followed (p. 18) by ‘Withers paralel to Ben Jonson’ (beginning ‘Shal I my affection slacke’).

First published in Fidelia (London, 1615). Sidgwick, I, 138-9. A version, as ‘Sonnet 4’, in Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), pp. 854-5. Sidgwick, II, 124-6.

For the ‘answer’ attributed to Ben Jonson, but perhaps by Richard Johnson, see Sidgwick, I, 145-8, and Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 439-43. MS versions of Wither's poem vary in length.

pp. 20-1

• WoH 247: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy, headed ‘A contempt of ye world’.

First published, as ‘a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by Dr. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will’, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.

p. 22

• DnJ 322: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)

Copy of a six-stanza version, headed ‘One to his Love’.

First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.

p. 29

• StW 1329: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)

Copy, headed ‘An answer of Dr Corbet to his Mrs who ask'd him why the rose was red and ye Lylly white’.

First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

pp. 43-5

• KiH 160: Henry King, An Elegy Occasioned by Sicknesse (‘Well did the Prophet ask, Lord what is Man?’)

Copy, headed ‘A Coppy of verses composed on the frailty of man’.

First published in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 12-15]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 174-7.

p. 82

• KiH 456: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)

Copy, headed ‘Verses compos'd one the ffrailty of mans life Made by J:H.’.

First published, as ‘Man's Miserie, by Dr. K’, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.

Pre-1650 MS 0183

Copy, headed ‘Of Robert Deuerux Earle of Essex and George Villers Duke of Buckingham’, 63 small quarto pages, in contemporary calf. c.1634-41.

WoH 285.8: Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham

Acquired from King, 2 September 1943. Formerly Uncat. MSS. Wotton.

First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).

821.08/C737/17—

A duodecimo miscellany of chiefly Restoration verse and drama, including thirteen poems by Waller and also extracts from 45 poems by Donne, the greater part in a single neat hand (also responsible for Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 4146), 241 pages (plus blanks). c.1690-1700.

Inscribed (on front pastedown and f. 133r) by one Peter Save and, in 1743, by one Joseph Butler.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Save MS’: WaE Δ 13.

ff. 31v-2v

• DrJ 2.9: John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (‘In pious times, e'r Priest-craft did begin’)

Extracts.

First published in London, 1681. Kinsley, I, 215-43. California, II, 2-36. Hammond, I, 450-532.

ff. 32v-40r

• BuS 1.8: Samuel Butler, Hudibras (‘Sir Hudibras his passing worth’)

Extracts.

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).

f. 46v

• DnJ 280.8: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)

Copy of lines 33-42, headed ‘For Age’.

First published, as ‘Elegie. The Autumnall’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as ‘Elegie IX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.

f. 46v

• DnJ 642.5: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)

Copy of lines 35-6, 5-6, 15-16, headed ‘For Age’.

First published, as ‘Elegie III’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as ‘Elegie III’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.

f. 46v

• DnJ 2429.5: John Donne, Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford (‘Faire soule, which wast, not onely, as all soules bee’)

Copy of lines 15-24, headed ‘Night’.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 271-9. Shawcross, No. 153. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 66-74. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 177-82.

f. 46v

• DnJ 2576.5: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)

Copy of lines 13-14, headed ‘For Age’.

First published, as ‘Elegie IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as ‘Elegie IV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.

ff. 47v-8

• WaE 618: Edmund Waller, To the King, on his Navy (‘Wher'er thy navy spreads her canvas wings’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Kings Navy’.

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

See also WaE 765.

f. 48r

• WaE 242: Edmund Waller, Of My Lady Isabella, Playing on the Lute (‘Such moving sounds from such a careless touch!’)

Copy, headed ‘Playing on ye Lute’.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 90.

f. 48v

• DnJ 74.8: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy of lines 3-8, 15-16, 23-8, 37-8, 55-6, headed ‘Beautie’.

First published as ‘Elegie II’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as ‘Elegie II’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.

ff. 48v-9r

• DnJ 714: John Donne, The Comparison (‘As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still’)

Copy of lines 19-22, 25-6, 31-4, 15-18, 27-8, headed ‘Beautie’.

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as ‘Elegie VIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.

ff. 49r-v, 67v

• DnJ 1337.5: John Donne, The First Anniversary (‘When that rich Soule which to her heaven is gone’)

Copy of lines 115-22, 125-6, 129-30, 143-6, 175-6, 305-8 and (on f. 67v) 305-8 again, headed ‘Decay o' Mans Age’.

First published in An Anatomie of the World (London, 1611). Grierson, I, 229-45. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 7-17.

f. 49v

• DnJ 2877.5: John Donne, The second Anniversary. Of the Progresse of the Soule (‘Nothing could make me sooner to confesse’)

Copy of lines 9, 12-13, 17-18, headed ‘Decay o' Mans Age’.

First published in London, 1612. Grierson, I, 251-66. Shawcross, No. 157. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 41-56. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 25-37.

ff. 49v, 67v.

• DnJ 1338.5: John Donne, The First Anniversary. A Funerall Elegie (‘'Tis lost, to trust a Tombe with such a guest’)

Copy of lines 51-4, 59-60, and (on f. 67v) 51-4 again, headed ‘Decay o' Mans Age’.

First published in An Anatomie of the World (London, 1611). Grierson, I, 245-8. Shawcross, No. 156. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 35-8.

f. 50v

• DnJ 334.5: John Donne, ‘Batter my heart, three person'd God. for, you’

Copy of lines 12-14, untitled.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. X’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 328 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XIV’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 11. Shawcross, No. 171. Variorum, 7, Pt 1 (2005), pp. 18, 25.

f. 51r

• DnJ 874: John Donne, The Dampe (‘When I am dead, and Doctors know not why’)

Copy of lines 1-8, untitled.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 63-4. Gardner, Elegies, p. 49. Shawcross, No. 71.

f. 51r

• DnJ 1269: John Donne, The Extasie (‘Where, like a pillow on a bed’)

Copy of lines 1-20, untitled.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 51-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 59-61. Shawcross, No. 62.

f. 51r

• DnJ 1239.5: John Donne, The Expostulation (‘To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true’)

Copy of lines 66-70, untitled.

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 108-10 (as ‘Elegie XV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 94-6 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 22. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 369-70.

f. 51v

• DnJ 515.5: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)

Copy of lines 23-30, untitled.

Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.

f. 51v

• DnJ 991.5: John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 (‘Unseasonable man, statue of ice’)

Copy of lines 39-40, untitled.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 131-44. Shawcross, No. 108. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 10-19 (as ‘Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset’). Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 133-9.

f. 51v

• DnJ 1547.5: John Donne, His Picture (‘Here take my picture. though I bid farewell’)

Copy of lines 5-10, untitled.

First published as ‘Elegie V’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as ‘Elegie V’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.

f. 51v

• DnJ 2470.5: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’

Copy of lines 14-19, untitled.

First published, as ‘Elegie VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as ‘Elegie VI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.

f. 51v

• DnJ 2722.5: John Donne, Sapho to Philaenis (‘Where is that holy fire, which Verse is said’)

Copy of lines 13-14, untitled.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 124-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 92-4 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 24. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 409-10.

f. 51v

• DnJ 3389.5: John Donne, To Mrs M.H. (‘Mad paper stay, and grudge not here to burne’)

Copy of lines 21-4, 47-8, untitled.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 216-18. Milgate, Satires, pp. 88-90. Shawcross, No. 133.

f. 51v

• DnJ 3542.5: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘T' have written then, when you writ, seem'd to mee’)

Copy of lines 7-8, untitled.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 195-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 95-8. Shawcross, No. 138.

f. 51v

• DnJ 3968.5: John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture (‘I fixe mine eye on thine, and there’)

Copy of lines 1-3, untitled.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.

f. 52r

• DnJ 29.5: John Donne, Aire and Angels (‘Twice or thrice had I loved thee’)

Copy of lines 2-4, untitled.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.

f. 52r

• DnJ 1301.5: John Donne, ‘Father, part of his double interest’

Copy of lines 13-14, headed ‘Pious things’.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. XII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XVI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 173. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 6, 12, 26, 110 (in four sequences).

f. 52r

• DnJ 942.5: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee’)

Copy of lines 7-20, headed ‘Wak't by a Lady’.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.

f. 52r

• DnJ 1471.5: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)

Copy of lines 19-21, untitled.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.

f. 52r

• DnJ 2122.5: John Donne, Loves growth (‘I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure’)

Copy of lines 11-14, untitled.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.

f. 52r

• DnJ 3121.5: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)

Copy of lines 11-13, untitled.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.

f. 52r

• DnJ 3681.5: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)

Copy of lines 19-22, untitled.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.

f. 52r-v

• DnJ 1984.8: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)

Copy of lines 6-11, 23-4, headed ‘Wak't by a Lady’.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.

f. 59r

• DnJ 1086.8: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)

Copy of lines 41-2, headed ‘Pious things’.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.

f. 59r

• DnJ 1429.5: John Donne, Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward (‘Let mans Soule be a spheare, and then, in this’)

Copy of lines 17-18, headed ‘Pious things’.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 336-7. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 185.

f. 59r

• DnJ 1561.5: John Donne, A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany (‘In what torne ship soever I embarke’)

Copy of lines 26-8, headed ‘Pious things.’

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 352-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 48-9. Shawcross, No. 190.

f. 59r

• DnJ 1946.8: John Donne, The Litanie (‘Father of Heaven, and him, by whom’)

Copy of lines 89-90, headed ‘Pious things.’

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.

f. 59r

• DnJ 2707.5: John Donne, Resurrection, imperfect (‘Sleep sleep old Sun, thou canst not have repast’)

Copy of lines 5-6, headed ‘Pious things’.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 333-4. Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 28. Shawcross, No. 182. The MS texts discussed in Lara M. Crowley, ‘A Text of “Resurrection. Imperfect”’, John Donne Journal, 29 (2010), 185-98.

f. 59r

• DnJ 3046.5: John Donne, ‘Spit in my face you Jewes, and pierce my side’

Copy of lines 11-14, headed ‘Pious things’.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 327 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 168.

f. 59r

• DnJ 3505.5: John Donne, To Sr Henry Wotton (‘Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules’)

Copy of lines 39-40, headed ‘Pious things’.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.

f. 59r

• DnJ 3944.5: John Donne, ‘Wilt thou love God, as he thee! then digest’

Copy of lines 13-14, headed ‘Pious things’.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. XI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XV’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 11. Shawcross, No. 172.

f. 60r

• DnJ 2752.3: John Donne, Satyre I (‘Away thou fondling motley humorist’)

Copy of lines 15-22, 35-6, 41-4, 71-6, headed ‘Empty Fop’.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.

f. 60r

• DnJ 2785.5: John Donne, Satyre II (‘Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate’)

Copy of lines 47-52, 57-8, headed ‘Empty Fop’.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.

f. 60r

• DnJ 2814.5: John Donne, Satyre III (‘Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids’)

Copy of lines 45-8, untitled.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.

f. 67v

• DnJ 1026.5: John Donne, Elegie on Mris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)

Copy of lines 13-16, untitled.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.

f. 69r

• WaE 298: Edmund Waller, Of the Misreport of her being Painted (‘As when a sort of wolves infest the night’)

Copy, headed ‘The Scandall’.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 50.

f. 69r-v

• WaE 193: Edmund Waller, Of her Passing through a Crowd of People (‘As in old chaos (heaven with earth confused)’)

Copy, headed ‘Passing thro' a Crowd’.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 51.

f. 69v

• WaE 230: Edmund Waller, Of Mrs. Arden (‘Behold, and listen, while the fair’)

Copy, headed ‘Singing’.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 91. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

See also WaE 759.

ff. 69v-70r

• WaE 366: Edmund Waller, On the Head of a Stag (‘So we some antique hero's strength’)

Copy, headed ‘Stags Horns’.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 110.

f. 70r-v

• WaE 176: Edmund Waller, Of her Chamber (‘They taste of death that do at heaven arrive’)

Copy, headed ‘The Chamber’.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 26.

f. 70v

• WaE 89: Edmund Waller, ‘Go, lovely Rose’

Copy, headed ‘Sending a Rose’.

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).

f. 71r

• WaE 504: Edmund Waller, To a Lady Singing a Song of his Composing (‘Chloris! yourself you so excel’)

Copy, headed ‘Singing A Song o' Mine’.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 105. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published, as ‘To the same Lady singing the former Song’, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

f. 71v

• WaE 449: Edmund Waller, Song (‘Say, lovely dream! where couldst thou find’)

Copy, headed ‘The Dream’.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 53-4.

f. 72r

• WaE 343: Edmund Waller, On the Discovery of a Lady's Painting (‘Pygmalion's fate reversed is mine’)

Copy, headed ‘Discovery o' Painting’.

First published, as ‘On a patch'd up Madam’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 99.

ff. 72v-3v

• WaE 622: Edmund Waller, To the King, upon His Majesty's happy Return (‘The rising sun complies with our weak sight’)

Copy, headed ‘The Kings Return’.

First published as a broadside (London, [1660]). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 35-9.

f. 73v

• WaE 474: Edmund Waller, To a Fair Lady, Playing with a Snake (‘Strange|! that such horror and such grace’)

Copy, headed ‘Playing with a Snake’.

First published, as ‘Of a fair Lady playing with a Snake’, in Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 47.

f. 74r-v

• WaE 123: Edmund Waller, The Night-Piece. or, A Picture drawn in the Dark (‘Darkness, which fairest nymphs disarms’)

Copy, headed ‘Pretty in ye dark.’

First published in Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 65-6.

f. 74v

• DnJ 2847.5: John Donne, Satyre IV (‘Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne’)

Copy of lines 18-20, 23-7, 30, 35-6, 73, 127-8, 198, 225-8, headed ‘A Pill’.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.

f. 75r

• DnJ 1665.5: John Donne, Infinitati Sacrum. 16 Augusti 1601 Metempsychosis (‘I sing the progresse of a deathlesse soule’)

Copy of lines 309-20, 328-32, 334-5, headed ‘Whale’.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 293-316. Milgate, Satires, pp. 25-46. Shawcross, No. 158.

f. 75v

• DnJ 569.8: John Donne, The Calme (‘Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage’)

Copy of line 24, headed ‘Storm’.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.

f. 75v

• DnJ 3086.5: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)

Copy of lines 25-8, 43-50, 62, 71-2, headed ‘Storm’.

First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.

f. 104r

• DrJ 250: John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part I, Act II, scene i, lines 198-232. Song (‘Beneath a Myrtle shade’)

California, XI, 51-2. Song in Kinsley, I, 130-2. Hammond, I, 238-9. Songs first published in Westminster-Drollery (London, 1671).

881 L71601 copy 1

An exemplum with Milton's autograph inscription on the title-page, ‘Sum ex libris Jo: Miltoni’, and his copious marginal annotations. c.1630s.

*MnJ 123: John Milton, Lycophron. Lycophronis Alexandra (Geneva, 1601)

Also inscribed ‘Nunc Josephi Wells & amicorum pre: 13s. 1634’. Once owned by Francis William Caulfield (1775-1863), second Earl of Charlemont. Sotheby's, 11 August 1865, lot 71. Bookplate of Birket Foster (1825-99), painter and illustrator. Sotheby's, 11 June 1894, lot 38, to Quaritch. Later owned by Adrian Van Sinderen of Brooklyn.

The annotations discussed in Sotheby, Ramblings, pp. 110-11, and, in considerable detail, in Harris Francis Fletcher, ‘John Milton's Copy of Lycophron's Alexandra in the Library of the University of Illinois’, Milton Quarterly, 23/4 (December 1989), 129-66. Ediited in Columbia, XVIII, 320-5. Facsimile examples in Kelley and Atkins, SB, 17 (1964), 77-82. Recorded in Hanford No. 3, and in Boswell, No. 941.

X881 H215 1544

An exemplum with Milton's autograph inscription on the flyleaf, ‘Jo. Milton pd pre: 5s 1637’. c.1637.

*MnJ 122: John Milton, Heraclides of Pontus. Allegoriae in Homeri fabulas de dijs (Basel, 1544)

Maggs's sale catalogue Mercurius Britannicus, No. 100 (January 1947), item 71.

Discussed in Harris Fletcher, ‘Milton's Copy of Gesner's Heraclides’, 1544, JEGP, 47 (1948), 182-7. Facsimile examples in Sotheby, Ramblings, after p. 124 (Plate XVII [bis], No. i, item 4), and in Kelley and Atkins, SB, 17 (1964), 77-82. Recorded in Hanford No. 6; in Columbia, XVIII, 577; in LR, I, 304; and in Boswell, No. 746.

Uncat. MSS, Bible OT. Song of Solomon, English. Paraphrase by George Sandys

Copy, in a professional hand, on ten quarto leaves. c.1630s-40s.

SaG 29.5: George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon the Song of Solomon (‘Join thy life-breathing lips to mine’)

Inscribed (twice) on the last blank page ‘James Halsteede’. Sold 27 December 1941 by Dobell.

First published in London, 1641. Hooper, II, 335-56. Dedicatory verses ‘To the Queen’ first published in A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1676). Hooper, II, 338.

Uncat. MSS. Joseph Hall. two Sermons [etc.]

A MS volume of sermons, 48 folio leaves (plus 5 blanks). In a semi-calligraphic hand, in black and red ink, by or associated with one Henry Feilde. c.1620s.

Sold by Winifred Myers, 21 December 1949.

ff. [7r-10v]

• HlJ 61: Joseph Hall, Sermon on Psalms 68.1

Copy, headed ‘The Text Eexurgat Deus disipetur mimici Let god arise let his Enemyes Bee Scattered ooop Psalme 68: 1:’ and beginning ‘My Texte is the Kings Motto...’, ascribed to Joseph Hall.

Unpublished sermon, beginning ‘My Text is the King's Motto...’.

Verses OT, 221.52 B47 1629

A formal copy of all 150 Psalms, in a professional hand, with decorated initial majuscules, 248 folio pages, in leather gilt. c.1630.

SiP 76.8: Sir Philip Sidney, The Psalms of David

Inscribed (on front and rear pastedowns) ‘W Corke[?] New Coll: Oxon’ and ‘W Croke[?] Coll Nov. Oxon. 1762’. Sold 2 January 1942 by Dobell.

Psalms 1-43 translated by Sidney. Psalms 44-150 translated by his sister, the Countess of Pembroke. First published complete in London, 1823, ed. S.W. Singer. Psalms 1-43, without the Countess of Pembroke's revisions, edited in Ringler, pp. 265-337. Psalms 1-150 in her revised form edited in The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, ed. J.C.A. Rathmell (New York, 1963). Psalms 44-150 also edited in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke (1988), Vol. II.

[no shelfmark]

Copy of lines 1-8, 17-24, headed ‘An Address to Vulcan’, with a musical setting. Late 17th century.

RoJ 553: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Drinking a Bowl (‘Vulcan, contrive me such a cup’)

This MS cannot now be located, unless Vieth's reference to it is mistaken. It appears to be identical with RoJ 552.

This MS recorded (as ‘Illinois MS. 20 D 43 Ellis’) in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 52-3. Walker, pp. 37-8. Love, pp. 41-2, as Nestor.