MS 3119
Bale's autograph annotations in his composite volume of seven MS fragments written in the 12th to15th centuries, 206 vellum leaves. Comprising: (ff. 1r-24v) Wireker's Speculum and three short poems on the Fall of Troy; (ff. 25r-52v) the Chronicle of Martinus Polonus; (ff. 53r-4r) a list of Pictish and Scottish kings; (ff. 55v-121v) a series of largely Franciscan texts; (ff. 144r-75v) part of a MS from Ramsey Abbey containing the Historia tripartita of Cassiodorus, lives of saints, &c; and (ff. 176r-205r) Thomas Rudborne, Chronica. Early 16th century.
*BaJ 40: John Bale, Wireker, Nigel. Speculum stultorum, &c.
Sotheby's, 28 November 1973, lot 610, to Kraus. Description and facsimile example in the sale catalogue, pp. 102-8 and plate 29.
This volume probably corresponds to items 27, 48-9, 57, 77-8, 133, 152-3, 170-3 in the list in McCusker, The Library (1936), 149-62, but is not there recorded.
Unpublished?
MS 4855
Copy; quarto. described in the Phillipps catalogue as ‘Sir Walter Raleigh's Discourse on Spain. 1602’. 17th century.
RaW 675: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a War with Spain, and of the Protecting of the Netherlands
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.
[no shelfmark]
RaW 1065: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Life and Death of Mahomet
Unlocated Phillipps MS 8455, sold at Sotheby's 15 June 1896, Lot 982, to W. Flower.
A treatise beginning ‘Most writers accord that Mahomet which name in the Arabique signifies Indignation or Furie...’. First published in London, 1637, with a dedication to Carew Ralegh. This is a synopsis of a translation (or a translation of a synopsis) of a work by Miguel de Luna: see Lefranc (1968), pp. 65-6.
MS 4888
Copy.
KiT 20: Thomas Killigrew, Letter about the possessed Nuns of Tours, from Orleans, 7 December 1635
Christie's, 29 May 1986, lot 200.
Letter, to Lord Goring, beginning ‘Being thus far from London...’. Published in European Magazine, 43 (1803), 102-6. Edited in J. Lough and D. E. L. Crane, ‘Thomas Killigrew and the Possessed Nuns of Loudun: The Text of a Letter of 1635’, Durham University Journal, 78 (1986), 259-68.
MS 7420
Camden's extensive autograph annotations, additions and revisions in a volume of heraldic collections, c.200 pages. Comprising visitations of Devon, Dorset and Suffolk, with pedigrees (including Sir Walter Ralegh's on f. 66r) and coats of arms drawn in trick, &c, mainly in two scribal hands, with some notes also in the hand of Henry St George the Elder (1581-1644).
*CmW 171: William Camden, Collectanea
Sotheby's, 14 December 1976, lot 49, to Maxwell.
[unnumbered]
A printed exemplum with Wycherley's autograph inscription ‘For ye fayrest Lady in Kent, Mrs Jane Twisden…’. c.1704.
*WyW 49: William Wycherley, Miscellany Poems (London, 1704)
Puttick & Simpson's, 10 July 1861, lot 679; Sotheby's, 18 June 1962, lot 743, to Holloway. Anderson Auction Company, New York, 1 May 1911 (Robert Hoe sale, Part II), lot 3526, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue. This volume is also recorded in Phillipps MS 8101, a 19th-century MS ‘Catalogue of Books and Pamphlets being part of the Library of Sir Roger Twysden Bart of Roydon Hall in the 17th Century’, a catalogue preserved at the University of Salford.
MS 8455
A quarto volume of tracts. Mid-17th century?
Sotheby's, 15 June 1896, lot 982, to W. Flower.
item 1
• RaW 682: Sir Walter Ralegh, Instructions to his Son and to Posterity
Copy.
A treatise in ten chapters, beginning ‘There is nothing more becoming any wise man than to make choice of friends...’. First published in London, 1632. Works (1829), VIII, 557-70. Edited by Louis B. Wright in Advice to a Son (Ithaca, 1962), pp. 15-32.
MS 10666
Copy, allegedly neatly transcribed ‘From the Original Copy written with his own hand’, with pen-and-ink drawings, prefatory verses, a title-page and index, c.330 octavo pages. Mid-late 17th century.
FaE 9: Edward Fairfax, A Discourse of Witchcraft
Sotheby's, 8 June 1898, lot 430, to J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), of Richmond, Surrey, engineer and book collector. Sotheby's, 14 December 1993 (Fairfax sale), lot 15, to Spelman.
Facsimile examples in Sotheby's 1993 sale catalogue.
First published in Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 5 (London, 1858-9), No. 3, ed. R. Monckton Milnes. Edited by William Grainge as Daemonologia (Harrogate, 1882; reprinted in London, 1971).
MS 11936
A folio guardbook of state tracts and papers, in various hands, c.1160 pages (plus blanks), in half-morocco. c.1601-40.
Owned in 1709 by Browne Willis, MP, FSA (1682-1760), of Whaddon Hall, near Winslow, Buckinghamshire, antiquary. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 11936. Bookplate of W.A. Foyle (1885-1963), of Beeleigh Abbey, Essex, bookseller. Christie's, 12-13 July 2000 (W.A. Foyle sale, Part III), lot 317.
[unspecified page numbers]
• ElQ 303: Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601
Copy.
First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).
Version I. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we have heard your declaration and perceive your care of our estate...’. Hartley, III, 412-14. Hartley, III, 495-6. Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 337-40 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 11, pp. 84-92.
Version II. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me...’. Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).
Version III. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent...’. Hartley, III, 292-3 (second version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 342-4 (Version 3). STC 7578.
Version IV. Beginning ‘Mr Speaker, I well understand by that you have delivered, that you with these gentlemen of the Lower House come to give us thankes for benefitts receyved...’. Hartley, III, 289-91 (first version).
[unspecified page numbers]
• CtR 374: Sir Robert Cotton, A Relation of the Proceedings against Ambassadors who have miscarried themselves, etc. ...[27 April 1624]
Copy.
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.
[unspecified page numbers]
• CtR 442: Sir Robert Cotton, A Speech Delivered in the Lower House of Parliament Assembled at Oxford: In the first year of the Reign of King Charles [6 August 1625]
Copy.
Speech beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, Although the constant Wisdome of this House of Commons...’. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [271]-281.
[unspecified pages]
• CtR 133: Sir Robert Cotton, A Briefe Discovrse concerning the Power of the Peeres and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature
Copy.
Tract, the full title sometimes given as A Brief discourse prouinge that the house of Comons hath Equall power with the Peeres in point of Judicature written by Sr Rob: Cotton to Sr Edward Mountague Ano Dni. 1621, beginning ‘Sir, To give you as short an accompt of your desire as I can...’. First published in London, 1640. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [341]-351.
See also the Introduction.
MS 12385
Autograph folio volume of pedigrees of English families, with numerous coats of arms emblazoned or drawn in trick, 56 pages (plus blanks), in 19th-century half-morocco.
*CmW 168: William Camden, Collectanea
Once owned by the St George family of heralds. Sotheby's, 28 June 1965, lot 43, to Jantzen. Sotheby's, 21 July 1980, lot 3 (unsold). Sotheby's, 11 July 1983, lot 84, to Ferrers-Walker.
MS 13134
Camden's autograph additions (pp. 6, 7, 21, 25) in a volume of pedigrees of English and European noble families, with coats of arms drawn in trick, in the hand of Nicholas Charles, Lancaster Herald (d.1613), 32 pages.
*CmW 169: William Camden, Collectanea
Once owned by the St George family of heralds. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1612, unsold.
MS 13185
A folio heraldic notebook and miscellany compiled by John Cooper, a clerk of Sir Christopher Hatton (1605?-70), and relating in part to the latter's Book of Seals, 83 leaves, in contemporary vellum boards. c.1632-43.
Dawson's sale catalogue No. 200 (1969), item 24. Sotheby's, 29 October 1975, lot 78 (unsold).
f. 75r
• JnB 7: Ben Jonson, An Answer to Alexander Gil (‘Shall the prosperity of a Pardon still’)
Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnson against Gill’.
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 410-11.
[unspecified pages]
• RnT 403: Thomas Randolph, Upon the report of the King of Swedens Death (‘I'le not believe 't. if fate should be so crosse’)
Copy, headed ‘Uppon the Rumour of the King of Sweden's death uncertainly reported in November & December 1632’.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 94-5.
MS 13773
Grant(s) of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms.
CmW 197: William Camden, Document(s)
Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1623 (withdrawn).
MS 13778
Autograph emblazoned grant(s) of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms, in a composite volume of heraldic collections, c.80 folio pages in all (plus blanks), in Middle Hill boards. 16th-17th century.
CmW 189: William Camden, Document(s)
Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1626 (withdrawn).
MS 13788
Autograph items by Camden in a large composite volume of heraldic MSS comprising about 250 items (plus blanks and indexes).
*CmW 170: William Camden, Collectanea
Successively owned and augmented by Richard Lee, Clarenceux King of Arms (d.1597), Nicholas Charles, Lancaster Herald (d.1613), Camden, and the St Georges. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1624, unsold.
MS 18428
An octavo miscellany, compiled by Johann Michael Wansleben (1635-79). c.1661.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 18428. Sotheby's, 28 June 1965, lot 61, to Miss [Winifred] Myers. Probably the Phillipps volume sold at Sotheby's 29 April 1903, lot 529, to Dobell.
[unspecified page numbers]
• HaJ 2: James Harrington, The Commonwealth of Oceana
Extracts.
First published in London, 1656. Toland, pp. 31-211. Pocock, pp. 155-359.
[unspecified page numbers]
• HaJ 3: James Harrington, The Prerogative of Popular Government
First published, in two parts, in London, 1657-8. Toland, pp. 213-357. Pocock, pp. 389-566.
[unnumbered (Fairfax)]
MS volume of various Italian poems and other pieces, ‘said to be the autograph of Edward Fairfax, entitled “Armada, Raccolta di Pasquinate Diverse in Diverse Lingue Scritte”’. c.1610.
*FaE 10: Edward Fairfax, Armada, Roccolta di Pasquinate Diverse
Once in the library of James I and afterwards among the papers of the Fairfax family.
Sotheby's, 8 June 1898 (Phillipps sale of Fairfax MSS), lot 390, to Ellis.
[no shelfmark]
An octavo miscellany, possibly compiled by one Ralph Parr. 17th century?
Later owned by the Rev. John Brand (1744-1806), antiquary and topographer, and by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 May 1897 (Phillipps sale), lot 238.
[unspecified page numbers]
• RnT 236.5: Thomas Randolph, On the Fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge (‘Lament, lament, ye Scholars all’)
Copy.
First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.
[unnumbered (R. Cotton)]
Copy, item 52 in a folio volume, in contemporary binding.
CtR 132.5: Sir Robert Cotton, A Briefe Discovrse concerning the Power of the Peeres and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature
Covers bearing arms of the Russel family, Earls of Bedford, Woburn Abbey. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue for 1831, item 4236. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector.
Tract, the full title sometimes given as A Brief discourse prouinge that the house of Comons hath Equall power with the Peeres in point of Judicature written by Sr Rob: Cotton to Sr Edward Mountague Ano Dni. 1621, beginning ‘Sir, To give you as short an accompt of your desire as I can...’. First published in London, 1640. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [341]-351.
See also the Introduction.