Gabriel Harvey (1552/3–1631)

Verse

De Republica Ordinanda. Ad summos Aulæ, Vrbis, prouinciarumque magistratus (‘Curas partiri communes arte decenti’)

Twenty lines, first published in Relle (1972), p. 408.

*HvG 1

Autograph, subscribed ‘Axiophilus’. c.1586-93.

In: Six printed works bound together, once owned by Gabriel Harvey.

Edited from this MS in Relle.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Lect 26, Lect 26 (1) sig. P3v.

‘O heauenlie Medcin, Panacea high’

Eight lines, first published in Relle (1972), p. 407.

*HvG 2

Autograph, subscribed ‘Axiophilus’. c.1586-93.

In: the MS described under HvG 1.

Edited from this MS in Relle.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Lect 26, Lect 26 (1) sig.O3r.

Odiosa procrastinatio, ad Meipsum (‘Vitæ tela breuis prohibet spem nectere longam’)

Four quatrains, first published in Relle (1972), p. 408.

*HvG 3

Autograph, subscribed ‘Axiophilus’. c.1586-93.

In: the MS described under HvG 1.

Edited from this MS in Relle.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Lect 26, Lect 26 (1) sig. P2v.

‘Sumtyme my booke is vnto me A God’

Moore Smith, as ‘Gabriel Harvey at Pembroke Hall’, pp. xv-xvi. Edward George Harman, Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Nashe (London, 1923), pp. 27-8.

*HvG 4

Autograph verses.

In: Gabriel Harvey's letterbook, 104 quarto leaves. Late 16th century.

Edited from this MS in Moore Smith and in Harman, pp. 27-8.

British Library, Sloane MS 93, ff. 65r-6r.

Xaipe vel Gratulatio Valdinensis ad...Dom...Burgleium

A Latin ‘gratulatio’ to Lord Burghley, including a 14-line address by the poet, beginning ‘E loquar, an sileam? breue tempus postulat altrum’; an address to Burghley, beginning ‘Te quoque Carminibus iussit Prudentia dudum’; and then a series of epigrams.

*HvG 5

Autograph fair copy, the presentation MS to Lord Burghley, in Harvey's roman hand, entitled ‘Gabrielis Harueij Xaipe, uel Gratulatio Vandinensis, ad Honoratissimum, clarissimumque uirum, Dominum Burgleium, magnum Angliæ Thesaurarium, summumque Acadeniæ nostræ Cantabrigiensis Cancellarium; Audleianis ædibus vna cum Regia ipsa Maiestate, reliquisque Nobilibus honorificentissime exceptum’, signed ‘Gabriel Haruejus’, on nine quarto leaves.

In: A quarto composite volume of MS tracts, 192 leaves, in modern red morocco. Among collections of John Strype (1643-1737), ecclesiastical historian and biographer, incorporating papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

Moore Smith, p. 79. Stern, p. 243.

British Library, Lansdowne MS 120, ff 179r-87r.

Miscellaneous Manuscripts and Letters

Commonplace Books

*HvG 6

Harvey's autograph commonplace book, in Latin and English, very closely written, with his extracts from innumerable books reflecting his literary, classical, linguistic and other interests.

In: An octavo commonplace book compiled by Gabriel Harvey, 52 leaves.

Later owned by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector (his note on f. 1r). Sotheby's, 20 June 1885 (Crossley sale), lot 3002.

Selections of this MS edited in Moore Smith, pp. 87-109.

British Library, Add. MS 32494, ff. 1r-52r.

Commonplace Book fragment

*HvG 7

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

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.

University of Illinois, Pre-1650 MS 0150.

Letterbook

*HvG 8

Autograph letterbook, comprising drafts in a largely cursive italic hand, including an account of the attempted seduction of his sister by a lascivious nobleman, headed (f. i) ‘Gabrielis Harvæi epistolæ æc.’, bearing dates between 1573 and 1578. c.1573-78.

In: the MS described under HvG 4. Late 16th century.

Edited by Edward John Long Scott, Camden Society, NS 33 (1884). Moore Smith, p. 79. Stern, p. 243. Discussed in Edward George Harman, Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Nashe (London, 1923), chapter 1, and, with three facsimile examples, in James Nielson, ‘Reading between the Lines: Manuscript Personality and Gabriel Harvey's Drafts’, SEL, 33 (1993), 43-82. Facsimile examples in Greg, Engliah Literary Autographs, Plates LXXI (f, g).

The account relating to his sister discussed, and its modelling on George Gascoigne's The Adventures of Master F. J. established, in Katherine Wilson, ‘Revenge of the Angel Gabriel: Harvey's “A Nobleman's Suit to a Country Maid”’, in The Anatomy of Tudor Literature, ed. Mike Pincombe (Aldershot, 2001), 79-89.

British Library, Sloane MS 93, ff. 1r-104r.

Letter(s)

*HvG 9

Autograph letter signed by Harvey, to the Earl of Leicester, from Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 24 April 1579.

In: Composite volume of papers.

Recorded in E.M. Tenison, Elizabethan England, Vol. V (1936), p. 152, n. 1.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Dudley Papers, Vol. 2, ff. 202r-3v.

*HvG 10

Autograph letter signed by Harvey, in Latin, to Lord Burghley, from Cambridge, 2 April 1579. 1579.

In: A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 220 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

Recorded in Moore Smith, pp. 35-6.

British Library, Lansdowne MS 28, ff. 180r-1v.

*HvG 11

Autograph letter signed (‘Gabriel Haruejus’), in Latin, to Lord Burghley, from Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 14 June 1580. 1580.

In: A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 220 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

Facsimile examples in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plates LXXI (a, b), and in Alfred Fairbank and Bruce Dickins, The Italic Hand in Tudor Cambridge (London, 1962), Plate 22a.

British Library, Lansdowne MS 30, f. 163r-v.

*HvG 12

Autograph letter signed by Harvey, to Lord Burghley, 15 February ‘1585’. 1585.

In: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in various hands.

Recorded in Moore Smith, pp. 46-8. Facsimile examples in Greg, Englisj Literary Autographs, Plate LXXI (d, e).

British Library, Lansdowne MS 42, ff. 160r-1v.

HvG 13

Copy of a letter by Harvey, to Thomas Hatcher, [c.1577].

In: A folio volume of transcripts made by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary, 472 pages plus a tipped-in letter, in reversed calf. MS Baker 36. Late 17th-early 18th century.

Cambridge University Library, Mm. 1. 47 , p. 107-8.

*HvG 14

Autograph letter signed by Harvey, to Sir Robert Cecil, 8 May 1598. 1598.

Edited in HMC, Salisbury, VIII (1899), pp. 160-1. Moore Smith, pp. 72-4.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 61/5.

*HvG 15

A deposition by ‘Gabriel Harvey of Walden...Essex Doctor of the lawe aged threeskore and thirteene yeres or thereaboutes’, at Saffron Walden, 12 April 1626. 1626.

Recorded in Eccles, pp. 61-2.

National Archives, Kew, REQ 2/414/157, in boxes 1-157.

Printed Books and Manuscripts with Harvey's Inscriptions or Marginalia

Alciato, D. Andrea. Ad rescripta principum commentarii, de summa trinitate. Sacrosanct. eccl. aedendo. in ius vocando. Pactis. Transactionibus. His accessit euisdem de quinque pedum praescript. lib. I (Lyons, 1532)

*HvG 16

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 199.

Bodleian, Douce A subt. 75(3).

Alciato, D. Andrea. De verborum significatione libri quatuor. Eisdem, in tractatum eius argumenti veterum JureconsultoR, Commentaria (Lyons, 1530)

*HvG 17

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, pp. 198-9.

Bodleian, Douce A subt. 75(2).

Alciato, D. Andrea. Paradoxorum, ad Pratum, lib. VI. Dispunctionum, lib. IIII. In treis libros Cod. lib. III. De eo quid interest, liber unus. Praetermissorum, lib.II. Declamatio una. De stip. divisionib. Commentariolus (Basle, 1531)

*HvG 18

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 199.

Bodleian, Douce A subt. 75(1).

Alkindus, Jacobus. Alkindus De Temporum Mutionibus, sive de imbribus, nunquam antea excussus. Nunc vero, per D. Io. Hieronymum a Scalingiis, emissus (Paris, 1540)

*HvG 19

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 199.

British Library, C.60.O.8.

[Anon.] An Abstract, of Certaine Acts of Parlement: of certaine her Majesties Injunctions: of certaine Canons, Constitutions, and Synodals provinciall, established & in force, for the peaceable government of the Church, within her Majesties Dominions and Counries, for the most part heretofore unknowen and unpractized ([London, 1583?])

*HvG 20

Autograph signature on the title-page, Latin mottos on A2v and the last blank page, and a few pencil markings.

In: A quarto volume comprising three printed works owned by Gabriel Harvey, bound together in contemporary vellum.

Stern, p. 241.

Durham Cathedral Library, G.111.33, item 2.

[Anon.]. The Book of King Solomon called the Key of Knowledge

*HvG 21

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

In: A folio composite volume of tracts and papers relating to magic and witchcraft, in various hands, 197 leaves, in modern red morocco.

Probably in the library of John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, afterwards of his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician (his sale, 1759, lot 397, to Joseph Ames. Ames's sale, 1760, lot 357, to Snelling. Henry White sale, 1902, lot 1408.

Moore Smith, p. 80. Stern, p. 242.

British Library, Add. MS 36674, item 1.

[Anon.]. Calendarium Gregorianum Perpetuum (Antwerp, 1583)

*HvG 22

Autograph annotations, signed on the title-page ‘GabrielisHaruey 1583’, his notes opposite dated ‘1587’, an octavo in contemporary limp vellum. 1583-7.

Stern, pp. 240-1.

National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 526 A.

[Anon.] Certaine straung visions, or apparitions of memorable note. Anno 1567.

*HvG 23

Autograph annotations and marginalia. 1567.

In: the MS described under HvG 21.

Moore Smith, p. 80. Stern, p. 242.

British Library, Add. MS 36674, item 4.

[Anon.]. De generibus ebriosorum, et ebrietate vitanda [n.p., n.d.]

*HvG 24

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 240.

Balliol College, Oxford, 700. a.20(2).

[Anon.]. An excellent, perfect, and an approved medicine and waie to helpe and cure the stone in the raines [n.d.]

*HvG 25

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 240.

British Library, C.60.O.10(3b).

[Anon.]. Institutions, or Principal Grounds of the Laws and Statutes of England, newly corrected and amended (London, n.d.)

*HvG 26

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

W.C. Hazlitt. Moore Smith, p. 80. Stern, p. 240 (as ‘whereabouts unknown’). Owned and recorded in Thomas W. Jones's list of 1854 in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.

Untraced, [Institutions volume].

[Anon.]. The Lawes and Statutes of Geneva...Translated out of Frenche into Englische, by R. Fills. B.L. (London, 1562)

*HvG 27

Harvey's exemplum. Late 16th century.

Owned and recorded in Thomas W. Jones's list of 1854 in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.

Untraced, [Lawes of Geneva volume].

[Anon.]. A Meruaylous discourse vpon the lyfe, deedes and behauiours of Katherine de Medicis, Queene mother [translated from the French] (‘Heydelberge’ [i.e. London], 1575)

*HvG 28

Harvey's exemplum. Late 16th century.

Owned and recorded in Thomas W. Jones's list of 1854 in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.

Untraced, [Katherine de Medicis volume].

[Fitzherbert, A.]. In this booke is contained the office of Shiriffes, Bayliffes of liberties, Escheatours, Constables, and Coroners, and sheweth what everyone of them may do by vertue of theyr offices, drawen out of bookes of the common lawe and of the Statutes (London, 1560)

*HvG 29

Printed exemplum bearing Harvey's signature and date ‘1579’ on the title-page, occasional autograph annotations, and a full autograph page by him at the end relating to Parliament. The volume was once Library of Congress KD7290 .F57132 1579, but was destroyed probably in the late 1980s. A microfilm is Library of Congress, Microfilm 85/10017 LL. 1579.

Probably the exemplum of The Office of Sheriff (London, printed by Thomas Marsh, undated) owned and recorded in Thomas W. Jones's list of 1854 in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.

Stern, p. 213 (recording the volume as ‘whereabouts unknown’).

Untraced, [Fitzherbert volume].

[Anon.]. These Oiles, Waters, Extractions, or Essence Saltes, and other Compositions; are at Paules wharfe ready made to be solde, by John Hester, practisioner in the arte of Distillation; who will also be ready for a reasonable stipend, to instruct any that are desirous to learne the secrets of the same in few dayes [n.d.]

*HvG 30

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 241.

British Library, C.60.O.6.

[Anon. Treatise on Magic]

*HvG 31

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

In: the MS described under HvG 21.

Moore Smith, p. 80. Stern, p. 242.

British Library, Add. MS 36674, item 2.

[Anon.]. A Vow or Spectacle of Vanity, a sober and Serious Moral Lesson comprized in an Hundred Excellent Versys as well for Matter, as stile very notable

*HvG 32

Harvey's MS of a poem subscribed ‘Incerti Authoris 1584’. 1584.

Owned and recorded in Thomas W. Jones's list of 1854 in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.

Untraced, [Vow or Spectacle of Vanity MS].

Aphthonius, the Sophist. <Greek> Aphthonii Sophistae Praeludia. Cum interpretatione Rodolphi Agricolae Phrysii ([Paris?], 1543)

*HvG 33

Signed by Harvey. Late 16th century?

Stern, p. 200.

St John's College, Cambridge, Aa.3.30.

Aristotle. Aristotelis de Arte Dicendi Libri Tres...a Petro Victorio correcti & emendati. Ildem Latinate donati per Hermolaum Barbarum (Paris, 1549)

*HvG 34

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

In the library of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.

Stern, p. 200.

The Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall, [no shelfmark].

Aristotle. Organvm Aristotelis. Porphyrii Isagoge. Aristotelis Categoriae; De interpretatione; Analyticorvm priorum libr. II; Posteriorum totidem; Topicoru lib. VIII; Elenchorum Sophisticorum libr. II (Paris, 1562)

*HvG 35

Autograph signature and annotations. Late 16th century.

Inscribed ‘E. Gordon Ch. Ch.’: i.e. Edward Gordon, matric. Christ Church, Oxford, in 1785. Sotheby's, 3 August 1858 (Samuel Weller Singer sale).

Stern, p. 200 (recorded as ‘whereabouts unknown’). Discussed in Carl T. Berkhout, ‘Gabriel Harvey's Lost Aristotle’, N&Q, 245 (December 2000), 432-3.

University of Arizona, Tucson, PA 3893 07 1562.

Barnaud, Nicholaus. Dialogus quo multa exponuntur quae Lutheranis et Hugonotis Gallis acciderunt. Orange (1573)

*HvG 36

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 201.

All Souls College, Oxford, S.R. 63 c.2(1).

[Billerbege, Frauncis]. Most Rare and straunge Discourses, of Amurathe the Turkish Emperor that nowe is (London, [1584?])

*HvG 37

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Formerly STC 3060 Houghton *70.83

Stern, p. 202

Harvard, *EC H2623 Zz584t.

Blagrave, John. The Mathematical Jewel, shewing the making, and most excellent use of a singuler Instrument so called: in that it performeth with wonderfull dexteritie, whatsoever is to be done, either by Quadrant, Ship, Circle, Cylinder, Ring, Dyall, Horoscope, Astrolabe, Sphere, Globe...The use of which Jewel...leadeth...through the whole Artes of Astronomy, Cosmography, Geography, Topography, Navigation, Longitudes (London, 1585)

*HvG 38

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 202.

British Library, C.60.O.7.

Blundevill, Thomas. The foure chiefest Offices belonging to Horsemanship, That is to saie, The office of the Breeder, of the Rider; of the Keeper; and of the Herrer (London, 1580)

*HvG 39

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 202.

British Library, C.175.i.4.

Boccatius, Joannes [Decembrio, Pier Candido]. Compendium Romanae historiae, oppido quam succinctum, & jam primum in lucem editum (Strassburg, 1535)

*HvG 40

Autograph annotations and marginalia. Late 16th century.

Stern, p. 203.

Pembroke College, Cambridge, I.CII.102.

Bonetus de Lates. Hebrei medici Provenzalis Annuli per eum compositi super astrologiam utilitates incipiunt (Paris, 1527)

*HvG 41

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 203.

British Library, 533.k.1(2).

Bourne, William. A Regiment for the Sea, Containing verie necessarie matters for all sorts of men and travailers; whereunto is added an Hydrographicall discourse touching the five several passages to Cattay; written by William Borne. Newlie corrected and amended by Thomas Hood; who hath added a new Regiment, and Table of declination (London, [1592])

*HvG 42

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 203.

British Library, C.60.f.8(1).

Braunschweig, Hieronymus von. A most excellent and perfecte homish apothecarye, or homely physick booke for all the grefes and diseases of the bodye (Cologne, 1561)

*HvG 43

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 204.

British Library, C.60.O.10(3).

Bruele, Gualterus. Praxis medicinae theorica, et empirica familiarissima (Antwerp, 1585)

*HvG 44

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 204.

British Library, C.60.O.11(1).

[Buchanan, George]. Ane admonition direct to the trew Lordis mantenaris of the Kingis Graces Authoritie M.G.B....accordyng to the Scottish copie Printed at Strivilyng by Robert Lekpreuik (London, 1571)

*HvG 45

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 204.

British Library, G.5443.(1).

[Buchanan, George] Ane Detectioun of the duinges of Marie Queene of Scottes, touchand the murder of hir husband, and hir conspiracie, adulterie, and pretensed mariage with the Erle Bothwell. And ane defence of the trew Lordis, mainteineris of the Kingis Graces actioun and authoritie. Translatit out of the Latin quhilke was written by G.B. [London, 1571]

*HvG 46

Autograph annotations on the final blank page, occasional marginalia, and Harvey's signature (‘gabrielhauejus’) on the title-page, an octavo in later morocco. c.1572.

Item 123 in an unidentified sale catalogue. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.

Stern, pp. 204-5.

Princeton, RHT 16th-12.

[Buchanan, George]. De Maria Scotorum Regina, totaque eius contra Regem coniuratione; foedo cum Bothuelio adulterio; nefaria in maritum crudelitate & rabie, horrendo insuper & deterrimo eiusdem parricidio: plena, & tragica plane Historia [London, 1571]

*HvG 47

Autograph annotations on the final blank page, occasional marginalia, and Harvey's signature (‘Gabrielis Harvey’) on the title-page, an octavo in later leather. c.1571.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 3 March 1845, lot 818, and 15 June 1858, lot 778. Puttick & Simpson's, 14 July 1862, lot 130; 16 June 1863, lot 365; and 14 May 1866, lot 1311. W. H. Robinson's sale catalogue No. 77 (1948), item 75, with a facsimile of the title-page in the catalogue.

Stern, p. 205. Recorded in W. Carew Hazlitt, ‘Gabriel Harvey’, N&Q, 3/10 (10 November 1866), p. 371.

Princeton, RHT 16th-11.

Castiglione, Baldassare. The Courtyer of Count Baldessar Castilio; divided into foure bookes. Very necessary, and profitable for yonge Gentilmen, and Gentilwomen, abiding in Court, Palace, or Place; done into Englyshe by Thomas Hoby (London, 1561)

*HvG 48

Copious autograph annotations and marginalia, as well as underlinings, signed on the title-page ‘Gabrielis Harueij’ and ‘gabrielharuey, 1572’, a note by him on the penultimate page dated ‘1580’, in a quarto volume, in modern morocco gilt. 1572-80.

Booklabel of Louis H. Silver.

Stern, pp. 205-6.

Newberry Library, Chicago, Case Y 712. C27495.

Castiglione, Baldessare. Il Libro del Cortegiano (Venice, 1541)

*HvG 49

Autograph annotations and marginalia, with signature ‘Gabriel Arvejo’. Late 16th century?

Owned in April 1904 by the Rev. Walter Begley, 24 Greencroft Gardens, Hampstead.

Moore Smith, p. 81. Stern, p. 205.

Untraced, [Begley volume].

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The woorkes of our antient and lerned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed (London, 1598)

*HvG 50

Autograph signature, dated 1598, and copious annotations. Including (f. 422v) Harvey's celebrated comment: ‘The younger sort takes much delight in Shakespeares Venus & Adonis, but his Lucrece, & his tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, haue it in them, to please the Wiser sort.’ c.1598.

Inscribed ‘E Libris Tho: Dromore 1782’: i.e. by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Bookplate of Thomas Millington, of Gosfeild Hall, Essex.

This volume recorded and the annotations discussed in James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Memoranda on the Tragedy of Hamlet (1879), p. 46; in Moore Smith, pp. viii-xii; and in Stern, p. 206.

British Library, Add. MS 42518.

[Cheke, Sir John?]. Totus mundus jn maligno politus (‘Complain we may much is amisse’)

First published in Songs and Sonnetts (1587).

*HvG 51

Copy (f. 1r-2r) of an anonymous poem, in a small neat secretary hand, beginning ‘Complaine we may, much is a miss’, the heading in Harvey's hand, followed on f. 3r by five lines in his hand beginning ‘Who can persuade, where treson is aboue reson’, headed ‘Sir John Cheek’, subscribed with the signature ‘Gabriel Harvey’.

In: A quarto MS, partly drawn up by Gabriel Harvey, i + 4 leaves, in marbled boards. Late 16th century.

Stern, p. 243.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet 82, ff. 1v-3r.

Chytraeus, David. De tribus nostrae aetatis Caesaribus Augustis, Carolo V, Ferdinando I, Maximiliano II, orationes (Wittenberg, 1583)

*HvG 52

Autograph annotations.

Auction sale by F. O. Beggi, 17 March 1864, lot 357.

Stern, p. 206.

Untraced, [Beggi volume].

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. M. Tul. Ciceronis ad C. Trebatium Iurisconsultum Topica; Audomari Talaei praelectionibus explicata, ad Carolum Borbonium Cardinalem Vindocinum (Paris, 1550)

*HvG 53

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, pp. 206-7.

All Souls College, Oxford, a-11-4(3).

Cicero. M. Tullii Ciceronis Epistolae Ad Atticum. Ad M. Brutum, Ad Quinctum Fratrem, Cum correctionibus Pauli Manutii (Venice, 1563)

*HvG 54

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 207.

British Library, C.60.f.9.

Corro, Antonio de. The Spanish Grammer; with certeine Rules teaching both the Spanish & French tongues...With a dictionarie adioyned vnto it, of all the Spanish wordes cited in this booke...By John Thorius (London, 1590)

*HvG 55

Autograph signature and annotations. Including three lines on the flyleaf opposite the title page; ‘Percyuals Bibliotheca Hispanica. 1591.’ and ‘gabrielisharueij...GH’ on the title-page; occasional underlining; five lines of notes in Latin on linguistic matters signed ‘gabrielharuejus: 1590’ on the last page, and a ten-line list of books in Spanish, Latin and English headed by the motto ‘Poco y bueno’ on a final blank; the book a quarto in modern brown morocco gilt, the pages cropped. 1591.

The annotations printed and discussed in Caroline Brown Bourland, ‘Gabriel Harvey and the Modern Languages’, HLQ, 4 (1940-1), 85-106 (pp. 95-7). Stern, p. 207.

Huntington, RB 53880.

Corrozet, Giles [translator]. The Images of the Old Testament; Lately expressed, set forthe in Ynglishe and Frenche, with a playn and brief exposition (Lyons, 1549)

*HvG 56

Autograph signature and annotations. Including ‘GH.’, ‘gabrielis harueij. 1580’, and ‘Sallust, du Bartas, the only braue Poet in this sacred vein’ on the title-page; various underlinings; ‘Hetherto the ancient Originals, before the Histories of the Kinges’ (E5r), notes on Solomon (Gr3r), and notes on Judith (K2r-v), the book, which includes 94 woodcuts after Hans Holbein, a quarto in modern brown morocco gilt. 1580.

Sale of the library of George Hibbert (1757-1837), merchant and book collector (16 March, 4 and 25 May 1829), lot 8666.

The annotations printed and discussed in Caroline Brown Bourland, ‘Gabriel Harvey and the Modern Languages’, HLQ, 4 (1940-1), 85-106 (p. 106). Stern p. 239.

Huntington, RB 56974.

[Cosin, Richard]. An Answer to the two fyrst and principall Treatises of a certaine factious Libell, put foorth latelie, without name of Author or Printer, and without approbation by authoritie, under the title of An Abstract of certeine Acts of Parlemement: of certaine hir Majesties Injunction, of certeine Canons, &c. (London, 1584)

*HvG 57

Autograph annotations in pencil and ink on five pages of the rear flyleaves and occasional notes and markings chiefly in pencil elsewhere.

In: the MS described under HvG 20.

Stern, p. 207.

Durham Cathedral Library, G.111.33, item 3.

[Cosin, Richard]. An Apologie for the Sundrie Proceedings by Jurisdiction Ecclesiasticall, of late times by some chalenged, and also diversly by them impugned...against proceedings ex Officio, and against Oathe ministred to parties in causes criminall (London, 1593)

*HvG 58

Autograph signature and date 1593 on the title-page, pencil and ink notes on front pastedown and two front flyleaves, occasional underlinings, and other annotations in margins and borders. 1593.

In: the MS described under HvG 20.

Stern, pp. 207-8.

Durham Cathedral Library, G.111.33, item 1.

Davies, Richard. A funerall sermon preached the xxvi. day of november...at the buriall of the right honourable walter earle of essex and ewe (London, 1577)

*HvG 59

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 208.

St John's College, Oxford, A. 1. 25.

Demosthenes. Gnomologiae, sive sententiae collectaneae et similia ex Demosthenis orationibus et epistolis, in certa virtutum ac vitiorum capita, collectae per J. Loinum. Divi Gregorii sententiarum spiritualium libri tres J. Lango interprete. Arithmologia ethica, sententiae morales certis numeris comprehensa...a J. Camerario conversae (Basle, [1552])

*HvG 60

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 208. Discussed in Walter Colman, ‘Gabriel Harvey's Holograph Notes in his Copy of Gnomologiae’, in Elizabethan and Modern Studies, ed. J. P. Vander Motten (Ghent, 1985), pp. 57-65.

British Library, C.45.a.9.

Des Pres, François. Recueil de la diversité des habits, qui sont de present en usage tant es pays d'Europe, Asie, Affrique & Illes Sauvages. Le tout fait après le naturel (Paris, 1567)

*HvG 61

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, pp. 208-9.

Arthur E. Vershbow, [no shelfmark].

Dicsone, Alexander. Alexandri Dicsoni Arelii De vmbra rationis & iudicij, siue de memoriæ virtute prosopopoeia (London, ‘1583’ [i.e. 1584])

*HvG 62

Harvey's exemplum, lacking the title-page. c.1584.

Owned and recorded (as ‘Alexand Dicson Artificiosa Memoriæ’) in Thomas W. Jones's list of 1854 in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.

Untraced, [Dicsone volume].

[Dionysius Periegetes]. The surveye of the world, or situation of the earth, so much as is inhabited...First written in Greeke by Dionise Alexandrine, and now englished by Thomas Twine (London, 1572)

*HvG 63

Autograph annotations and marginalia, in an octavo printed text, bound with other items in contemporary vellum (detached). c.1572-80s.

Stern, p.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, EL 1 .A2e, item 1.

Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos. Accesserunt priori editioni V. Cordi (Frankfurt, 1549)

*HvG 64

Autograph signature and annotations. Mid-late 16th century.

Later in the library of James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Sotheby's, 11 June 1885 (Crossley sale), lot 890.

Untraced, Harvey Dioscorides.

Dolce, Lodovico. Medea Tragedia (Venice, 1566)

*HvG 65

Various autograph annotations and marginalia, signed by Harvey on the title-page and the date altered from 1576 to 1579, an octavo also containing his annotated Thieste out of the original ‘Quattro tragedie’, lacking the original Hecuba and Iphigenia, in modern brown morocco gilt. 1579.

Item 307 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Corresponding to one of Harvey's volumes whose annotations are copied in the octavo MS in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.

Stern, p. 209.

Folger, PQ 4621 D3 M4 1566a Cage.

Domenichi, Lodovico. Facetie, motti, et burle, di diversi signori et persone private (Venice, 1571)

*HvG 66

Copious autograph annotations and marginalia throughout, on pages 321-431 of the printed text, lacking the previous pages and a title-page, an octavo bound (as ff. 1r-56r) with two other works in modern morocco gilt. [1580].

Stern, p. 209.

Folger, MS H.a.2(1).

Duarenus, Franciscus. De Sacris Ecclesiae Ministeriis Ac Beneficiis Libri VIII. In quibus quicquid ad plenam Iuris Pontificij cognitionem necessarium est, breviter ac dilucide explicatum continetur (Paris, 1564)

*HvG 67

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, pp. 209-10.

Trinity College, Cambridge, L.12.112(1).

Duenarus, Franciscus. F. Duareni Jurisconsulti Clarissimi Praelectiones In Tit. Ad Leg. Falc. D. in celebri Biturig. academia habitae anno 1555. Opera Leontii Beriaci I.C. (Paris, 1561)

*HvG 68

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 210.

Trinity College, Cambridge, L.12.112(2).

[Du Faur, Gui, Seigneur de Pibrac]. Ornatissimi cuiusdam viri, de rebus Gallicis, ad Stanislaum Eluidium Epistola. At Ad Hanc De Iisdem Rebus Gallicis Responsio ([Paris], 1573)

*HvG 69

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 210.

All Souls College, Oxford, S.R. 63 c.2(").

Du Ploiche, Pierre. A treatise in Englishe and Frenche, right necessarie, and profitable for all young Children (London, 1578)

*HvG 70

Autograph signature and annotations. Including ‘gabrielharuey. Ex dono Autoris, Monsieur du Ploiche’ and ‘The French A.B.C.’ on the title-page; minor underlining and occasional substantial marginal annotations, such as ‘A necessary Introduction...A paradox in lerning: quo plus, eo minus. Beginners must not leap ouer hastely, lest they ouerleape all. Apt & reddy pronunciation of ye Alphabet on weeks exercise’ (A2v) and ‘This, with ye first, will serue for good part of ye grammer. pronunciation, & ye verbs, perfectly learn'd: little othe[r] Grammer needith. My homagenral Dictionary, with daily reading, & speaking will soone supply ye rest’ (Hiijr); the motto ‘Poco, y bueno’ on A3r and ‘gabrielharuey.1580’ on Iivv; the book a quarto in modern brown morocco gilt, the pages cropped. 1580.

The annotations printed and discussed in Caroline Brown Bourland, ‘Gabriel Harvey and the Modern Languages’, HLQ, 4 (1940-1), 85-106 (pp. 94-5). Stern, pp. 10-11.

Huntington, RB 53922.

Eliot, John. Ortho-epia Gallica. Eliots First Fruits for the French: Enterlaced with a double new Inuention which teacheth to speake truely, speedily and volubly the French-tongue (London, 1593)

*HvG 71

Autograph signature and annotations. Including ‘G.H.’, ‘gabrielharuey. 1593.’ and ‘For ye French, & Spanish’ on the title-page; occasional marginal notes and underlining throughout, such as ‘A ready way to learne Language’ (p. 5), ‘ye Queenes Languages’ (p. 17), ‘The like Commendation of ye Queen in Florios First Fruits &c’ (p. 57), and (pp. 30-3) various references to ‘brave’ Virgil, Ariosto, Tasso (the last two ‘heroicall, & diuine Wittes: most braue, & souerain Poets next Homer & Virgil; still my two singular Types [the rest cropped]’), and Du Bartas (‘for ye maiesty of his heauenly matter, & diuine forms, a most-excellent, & singular Poet: the only Christian Homer to this day’); the book a quarto in modern brown morocco gilt, the pages cropped. 1593.

The annotations edited and discussed in Caroline Brown Bourland, ‘Gabriel Harvey and the Modern Languages’, HLQ, 4 (1940-1), 85-106 (pp. 99-102). Stern, p. 211.

Huntington, RB 60231.

[Eliot, John]. The Svrvay or Topographical Description of France: With a new Mappe, helping greatly for the Surueying of euery particular Country, Cittye, Fortresse, Riuer, Mountaine, and Forrest therein; Collected out of sundry approued Authors (London, 1592)

*HvG 72

Autograph signature and annotations. Including ‘GH. gabrielharuey.1592.’ on the title-page; occasional brief marginal notes and underlining; ‘gabrielisharueij, et amicorum. 1592’ on the verso of the last page, and brief references to ‘France. 1592’ and ‘Henrie 4.’ on a flyleaf; the book a quarto in modern brown morocco gilt. 1592.

The annotations printed and discussed in Caroline Brown Bourland, ‘Gabriel Harvey and the Modern Languages’, HLQ, 4 (1940-1), 85-106 (pp. 104-6). Stern, p. 211, where is mistakenly recorded the presence of ‘a folio leaf of MS. in Harvey's hand’, for which see HvG 00.

Huntington, RB 56973.

Erasmus, Desiderius. Parabolae, Sive Similia...Cum vocabularum liquot non ita vulgarium explicatione (Basle, 1565)

*HvG 73

Copious autograph annotations and marginalia throughout, signed by Harvey on the title-page, a small quarto in vellum. 1566.

Stern, p. 211. Facsimile of the annotated title-page in DLB, Vol. 281, British Rhetoricians and Logicians 1500-1660. Second Series, ed. Edward A. Malone (Detroit, 2003), p. 121.

Folger, MS H.a.1.

Euclid. Liber Primus Geometrie [translated by Boethius] (Paris, 1527)

*HvG 74

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 212.

British Library, 533.k.1.

Euripides, Hecuba & Iphigenia in Aulide...in latinam tralatae, Erasmo Roterdamo interprete. Eiusdem ode de laudibus Britanniae, Regisque Henrici septimi, ac regiorum liberorum eius, Eiusdem ode de senectutis incommodis (Venice, 1507)

*HvG 75

Autograph signature and annotations.

Corresponding to one of Harvey's volumes whose annotations are copied in the octavo MS in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.

Stern, p. 212.

Harvard, *EC.H263.Zz507e.

Fabricius Marcoduranus. Franc. M. Tulli Ciceronis Historia, per Consules descripta, & in annos LXIV distincta. Editio Secunda (Cologne, 1570)

*HvG 76

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 212.

Cambridge University Library, F157.d.1.1.

Firmin de Beauval. Firmini reportorium de mutatione Aeris; Tam Via Astrologica, quam metheorologica; pristino notori restitutum, per Phillippum Iollainum Blereium, cum scholiis eiusdem (Paris, 1539)

*HvG 77

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 213.

British Library, C.60.O.9.

Florio, John. Florio his first fruites: a perfect induction to the Italian and English tongues (London, 1578)

*HvG 79

Copious autograph annotations. Late 16th century.

Formerly Houghton *70-81.

Stern, p. 213. Discussed in Clifford Chalmers Huffman, ‘Gabriel Harvey on John Florio and John Eliot’, N&Q, 220 (July 1975), 300-2.

Harvard, *EC H2623 Zz578f.

Foorth, Joannes. Synopsis Politica (London, 1582)

*HvG 80

Copious autograph annotations by Harvey.

In: Two printed works owned and annotated by Gabriel Harvey, bound together in a single volume. Late 16th century.

Stern, pp. 213-14.

Saffron Walden Museum, SAFWM 1895.266, item 1.

Forman, Simon. An excellent booke of the arte of Magicke, first begoone the xxiith of Marche Anno Domini 1567

*HvG 81

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

In: the MS described under HvG 21.

Moore Smith, p. 80. Stern, p. 242.

British Library, Add. MS 36674, item 3.

Foxe, John. De Christo crucifixo concio (London, 1571)

*HvG 82

Autograph annotations and marginalia, in blue goatskin. 1572.

Later owned by The Rev. John Brand (1744-1806), antiquary and topographer; Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; William Henry Miller, MP (1789-1848), of Britwell Court, Burnham, Buckinghamshire; Quaritch's, 1920; and Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Stern, p. 214.

Folger, STC 11247 copy 1.

Freigius, Johannes Thomas. Ciceronianus. Joan. Thomae Freigii...Libri Decem (Basle, [1575])

*HvG 83

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 214.

Worcester College, Oxford, c.m.3(2).

Freigius, Johannes Thomas. Mosaicus; Continens Historiam Ecclesiasticam, 2494 annorum, ab orbe condito usque as Mosis mortem (Basle, 1583)

*HvG 84

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 214.

British Library, C.60.f.4.

Freigius, Johannes Thomas. Paratitla seu synopsis pandectarum juris civilis (Basle, 1583)

*HvG 85

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Recorded in 1979 as being in a ‘Private Collection, United States’.

Stern, p. 214.

Princeton, K623 .F745 1583.

Frontinus, Sextus Julius. The stratagemes, sleyghtes, and policies of warre gathered togyther, by S. Julius Frontinus, and translated into Englyshe, by Richard Morysine (London, 1539)

*HvG 86

Autograph annotations, signed ‘Gabriel Haruejus. 1580’. 1580.

Formerly Houghton Lf.18.54.8*.

Stern, p. 214. Facsimiles of of the annotated verso of the title-page and sig. avr in Wilson, Plates IIa and IV after p. 346.

Harvard, STC 11402.

Fulke, William. OYPANOMAXIA. Hoc est Astrologorum Ludus, Ad bonarum artium, & Astrologiae in primis studiosorum relaxationem comparatus, nunc primum illustratus (London, 1572)

*HvG 87

Autograph annotations, signed ‘Gabrielis Haruey’.

Formerly Houghton 24232.6.25*.

Stern, p. 215. Facsimile of the signed title-page in Wilson, Plate IIb after p. 346.

Harvard, STC 11445.5.

G., R. [title-page missing] (London, 1571)

*HvG 88

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 215.

British Library, G.5543(2).

Gascoigne, George. The Posies...Corrected, perfected, and augmented by the Authour (London, 1575)

*HvG 89

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, pp. 215-16.

Bodleian, Mal. 792(1).

Gascoigne, George. The Steele Glas. A Satyr compiled by George Gascoigne Esquire. Togither with the Complaint of Phylomene. An Elegie devised by the same Author (London, 1576)

*HvG 90

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Bodleian, Mal. 792(2).

[Gasser, Achilles Pirminus]. Historiarum, et Chronicorum Totius Mundi Epitome ([Basle?], 1538)

*HvG 91

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 216.

British Library, C.60.e.13.

Gaurico, Luca. Lucae Gaurici Geophonensis, Episcopi Civitatensis, Tractatus Astrologicus, In quo agitur de praeteritis multorum hominum accidentibus, per proprias eorum genituras ad unguem examinatis (Venice, 1552)

*HvG 92

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 216.

Bodleian, 4o Rawl. 61.

[Grafton, Richard]. A brief treatise conteinyng many proper Tables, and easie rules, verye necessarye and nedefull, for the use and commoditie of al people, collected out of certaine learned mens works (London, 1576)

*HvG 93

Autograph annotations and marginalia, in an octavo printed text, bound with other items in contemporary vellum (detached). c.1576.

Stern, p. 216.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, EL1 .A2e, item 3.

Grantham, Henry. An Italian grammar written in Latin by Scipio Lentul... turned into English by H. G. (1575)

*HvG 94

Harvey's exemplum.

Corresponding to one of Harvey's volumes whose annotations are copied in the octavo MS in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.

Untraced, [Italian grammar volume].

Greverus, Jodocus. Secretum, et alani Philosophi Dicta de Lapide Philosophico, item alia nonnulla eiusdem materiae pleraque jam primum editio a Justo a Balbian (Leyden, 1599)

*HvG 95

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 5 July 1858 (Bliss sale). Puttick & Simpson, 14 December 1893, lot 349.

Moore Smith, p. 86. Stern, p. 217 (as ‘wherabouts unknown’).

Untraced, [Bliss volume].

Guazzo, S. Stefano. La Civil Conversatione...Divisa in IIII. Libri (Venice, 1581)

*HvG 96

Autograph annotations. 1582.

Stern, p. 217. Discussed in Kirsty Cochrane, ‘A Civil Conversation of 1582: Gabriel Harvey's Reading of Guazzo’, AUMLA, 78 (November 1992), 1-28.

British Library, C.60.a.1(1).

Guazzo, S. Stefano. The Civile Conversation of M. Steeven Guazzo written first in Italian, and nowe translated out of French by George Pettie, devided into foure books (London, 1581)

*HvG 97

Autograph signature ‘Gabriel Harvey’ (deleted) on the title-page, a marginal annotation on sig. D4r, and some underlinings, in a quarto volume, in contemporary limp vellum. c.1581.

Stern, pp. 217-18. Discussed in Kirsty Cochrane, ‘A Civil Conversation of 1582: Gabriel Harvey's Reading of Guazzo’, AUMLA, 78 (November 1992), 1-28.

Newberry Library, Chicago, Case Y 712. G939.

Guicciardini, Lodovico. Detti et Fatti Piacevoli, et Gravi; Di Diversi Principi, Filosofi, Et Cortigiani, Raccolti Dal Guicciardini; Et Ridotti A Moralita (Venice, 1571)

*HvG 98

Copious autograph annotations and marginalia, signed by Harvey on the title-page and dated ‘1580’, dated at the end (f. 208v) ‘1590’, an octavo bound (as ff. 73r-211r) with two other works in modern morocco gilt. 1580-90.

Stern, p. 218. Facsimile of f. 73r, the annotated title-page, in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 135. Facsimile of p. 162 in Wilson, Plate I after p. 346.

Folger, MS H.a.2(3).

Harvey, Gabriel. Gabrielis Harvej Ciceronianus, Vel Oratio post reditum, habita Cantabrigiae ad suos Auditores (London, 1577)

*HvG 99

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 219.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, [no shelfmark].

Harvey, Gabriel. Gratulationum Valdinensium quatuor (London, 1578)

*HvG 100

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 219.

British Library, C.60.h.17(2).

*HvG 101

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, pp. 219-20.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, [no shelfmark].

Harvey, Gabriel. Ode Natalitia, Vel Opus Eius Feriae, quae S. Stephani protomartyris nomine celebrata est anno 1574. In memoriam P. Rami, optimi, et clarissimi viri (London, 1575)

*HvG 102

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 219.

British Library, Bagford 5990.

Harvey, Gabriel. Gabrielis Harveii Valdinatis; Smithus; vel Musarum Lachrymæ: Pro obitu Honoratissimi viri, atque hominis multis nominibus clarissimi, Thomæ Smithi, Equitis Britanni, Maiestatisque Regiæ Secretarij. Ad Gualterum Mildmaium, Equitem Britannum, & Consiliarium Regium (London, 1578)

*HvG 103

An annotation (f. 5r) probably in Harvey's hand, with various underlinings, and the initials ‘GH’ in a flourished hand on the title-page, in a small quarto, in modern cloth. Late 16th century.

Stern, p. 219.

Newberry Library, Chicago, Case Y 682. H25.

Harvey, John. A discoursive Probleme concerning Prophesies, How far they are to be valued, or credited, according to the surest rules, and directions in Divinitie, Philosophie, Astrologie, and other learning: Devised especially in abatement of the terrible threatenings, and menaces, peremptorily denounced against the kingdoms, and states of the world, this present famous yeere, 1588, supposed the Greatwoonderfull, and Fatal yeere of our Age (London, 1588)

*HvG 104

Autograph annotations and marginalia, inscribed ‘Ex dono Jo. ffratris’. c.1588.

Leighton sale, May 1918, lot 1235. From the library of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Stern, p. 220.

Folger, STC 12908 copy 2.

Hill, Thomas. The Schoole of Skil: Containing two Bookes: the first, of the Sphere, of heaven...The second, of the Sphericall Elements, of the celestiall Circles (London, 1599)

*HvG 105

Autograph signature, annotations and underlining. 1599.

Stern, pp. 220-1.

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Thordarson T 1972.

Holyband, Claudius [Desainliens, Claude]. The pretie and wittie historie of Arnalt & Lucenda with certen rules and dialogues for the learner of the Italian tong (London, 1575)

*HvG 106

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 221.

British Library, C.60.a.1(2).

Hood, Thomas. The marriners guide, set forth in forme of a dialogue, wherein the use of the plaine sea card is briefly and plainely delivered (London, 1592)

*HvG 107

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 221.

British Library, C.60.f.8(2).

Hopperus, Ioachim. In veram Iurisprudentiam Isagoges ad filium Libri octo (Cologne, 1580)

*HvG 108

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 221.

British Library, C.60.e.14.

Howard, Henry. A Defensative against the Poyson of supposed Prophesies (London, 1583)

*HvG 109

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Formerly Houghton STC 13858.2.

Stern, p. 222.

Harvard, STC 13858 (B).

Huggelius, Joannes Jacobus [Hugkel]. De Semeiotice Medicinae Parte, Tractatus: Ex probatis collectus authoribus, & in tabulae formam redactus (Basle, 1560)

*HvG 110

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 222.

British Library, C.60.O.10(2).

Humphrey, Laurence. Interpretatio Linguarum: seu de ratione convertendi & explicandi autores tam sacros quam profanos, Libri tres (Basle, 1559)

*HvG 111

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, pp. 222-3.

Trinity College, Cambridge, III.18.74.

[Hurault, Michel]. An Excellent Discovrse vpon the now present estate of France. Faithfvlly translated out of French, by E.A. [Edward Aggas] (London, 1592)

Stern, p. 223.

*HvG 112

Autograph signature and annotations. Including ‘gabrielharuey. 1592’, ‘giuen mee bie Mr Woolfe [the publisher], for a special rare Discourse’, and other annotations on the title-page and a twelve-line list of books on the verso; various marginal annotations throughout (some badly cropped); considerable underlining; and on the last page ‘gabrielharuey: this August: 1592. Il legere nutrica lo ingegno’; also, tipped-in a long folded sheet of paper with a tabulated list of duchies, provinces, peers, archbishoprics, and academies in France, endorsed ‘A compendious description of france / A proffitable Table’; the book a quarto in modern brown morocco gilt, the pages cropped. 1592.

The annotations printed and discussed in Caroline Brown Bourland, ‘Gabriel Harvey and the Modern Languages’, HLQ, 4 (1940-1), 85-106 (pp. 102-4). Stern, p. 223.

Huntington, RB 49490.

Isocrates. The Doctrinal of Princes made by the noble Oratour Isocrates, & translated out of Greke into Englishe by Syr Thomas Eliot knight (London, [1534])

*HvG 113

Some annotations in an italic hand, probably Harvey's, on sigs Biiiiv-[Bvr], C2v and C4v, as well as underlinings, but not signed by him, in a. small octavo, in later calf gilt. Late 16th century.

Evidently the ‘Oration of Isocrates to King Nicocles -- By Sir Thomas Eliot’, lacking title-page, owned and recorded in Thomas W. Jones's list of 1854 in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.

Newberry Library, Chicago, Case Y 642. I85.

James VI of Scotland. The Essayes of a Prentise in the diuine Art of Poesie (Edinburgh, 1585)

*HvG 114

Copious autograph annotations, inscribed ‘Gabriel Haruejus...Ex dono præstantissimi Doctoris Bartholomæi Clarci, Arcuum Decani’. c.1586-93.

In: the MS described under HvG 1.

Discussed in Relle (1972). Stern, p. 223.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Lect 26, Lect. 26 (1).

James VI of Scotland. His Majesties Poeticall Exercises at vacant houres (Edinburgh, [1591])

*HvG 115

Copious autograph annotations, signed ‘gabrielisharveij, et amicorum’. c.1591-3.

In: the MS described under HvG 1.

Discussed in Relle. Stern, p. 223.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Lect 26, Lect 26 (2-4).

Jovius, Paulus. Novocomensis Libellus de Legatione Basilii Magni Principis Moschoviae ad Clementem VII. Pontifex Max. (Basle, 1527)

*HvG 116

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Formerly Houghton *70-84.

Stern, p. 223.

Harvard, *EC H2623 Zz584t.

Justinian, D. Iustiniani Imp. Institutionum Libri IIII. Francisci Accursii glossis illustrati (Lyons, 1577)

*HvG 117

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 224.

Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 324.862.

La Place, Pierre de. Politique Discourses (London, 1578)

Lentulo, Scipio. An Italian Grammer; written in Latin by Scipio Lentvlo a Neopolitane: And Turned in Englishe: By H. G. [Henry Grantham] (London, 1575)

*HvG 119

Autograph signature and annotations. Including ‘Gabrielis Harveij...1579. mese Aprili’ on the title page; the motto ‘Poco y bueno’; some underlining and many brief marginal annotations throughout (often cropped); a substantial note on p. 155 referring to the ‘Excellent Comedies, & Tragedies following: full of sweet, & wise Discourse’ which were evidently once bound with this book; and (p. [56]) Gabriel Harueius. 1579...Vt de hac Terentij tralatione Sentirem honorificentius; fecit Aldi exquisita Editio; the book an octavo in modern dark brown morocco. 1579.

The annotations printed and discussed in Caroline Brown Bourland, ‘Gabriel Harvey and the Modern Languages’, HLQ, 4 (1940-1), 85-106 (pp. 91-4). Stern, p. 224.

Huntington, RB 62184.

Littleton, Sir Thomas. Littleton's Tenures in English (London, 1562)

*HvG 120

Harvey's exemplum. Late 16th century.

Owned and recorded in Thomas W. Jones's list of 1854 in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.

Untraced, [Littleton's Tenures volume].

Littleton, Sir Thomas. Littletons Tenures in Englishe (London, 1581)

*HvG 121

Autograph signature and annotations. 1584.

Recorded by W.C. Hazlitt. Moore Smith, p. 85. Stern, p. 225.

Facsimile of an annotated page in British Literary Manuscripts Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1981), No. 16.

Pierpont Morgan Library, f. S8a. PML 6254.

Livy, Titus. T. Livii Patavini Conciones cum argumentis et annotationibus Joachimi Perionii (Paris, 1532)

*HvG 122

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 225.

Worcester College, Oxford, c.m.3(3).

Livy, Titus. T. Livii Patavini, Romanae Historiae Principis, Decades Tres, cum dimidia; partim caelii secundi curionis industria, partim collatione meliorum codicum iterum diligenter emendatae...a Iodoco Badio Ascensio redacta (Basle, 1555)

*HvG 123

Copious autograph annotations.

Owned in 1990 by Lucius Wilmerding, Jr and on deposit at Princeton University.

Stern, p. 225 (as in a ‘Private collection, United States’). Discussed in Lisa Jardine and Anthony Grafton, ‘“Studied for Action”: How Gabriel Harvey Read his Livy’, Past and Present, No. 129 (1990), 1-78. Facsimile examples in Anthony T. Grafton, ‘Gabriel Harvey's Marginalia: New Light on the Cultural History of Elizabethan England’, Princeton University Library Chronicle, 52/1 (Autumn 1990, 21-4.

Princeton, Oversize PA6452 .A2 1555q.

Llwyd, Humphrey. The Breviary of Britayne...Contayning a learned discourse of the variable state, & alteration thereof; under divers, as wel natural; as forren princes, & conquerors...Writen in Latin by Humfrey Lhuyd of Denbigh...and lately Englished by Thomas Twyne (London, 1573)

*HvG 124

Autograph annotations and marginalia, an octavo bound with other items in contemporary vellum (detached). c.1573-80s.

Stern, pp. 224-5.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, EL1 .A2e, item 5.

Machiavelli, Niccolò. The Arte of Warre; written in Italian by Nicholas Machiavel; and set foorth in English by Peter Withorne, student at Graies Inne, with other like Martial feates and experiments; as in a Table in the ende of the booke may appeare ([London], 1573)

*HvG 125

Autograph annotations and marginalia. Late 16th century.

Quaritch's General Catalogue (1868), item 2228.

Stern, p. 226. W.C. Hazlitt. Moore Smith, p. 84. Stern, p. 226 (as in a ‘Private collection, United States’).

Princeton, U101 .M16 1573.

Machiavelli, Niccolò. The Arte of Warre written first in Italian by Nicholas Machiavell, and set forth in Englishe by Peter Withorne, studtent at Graies Inne...Newly imprinted with other additions (3 parts: 1573, 1574, [1574])

*HvG 126

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

W.C. Hazlitt (Bernard Quaritch Dictionary of Book Collectors, Part XIII, London, 1899), sub. Gabriel Harvey. Stern, p. 226 (as ‘whereabouts unknown’).

Untraced, [Machiavelli volume [II]].

Machiavelli, Niccolò. Princeps (Basle, 1580)

*HvG 127

Exemplum with Harvey's autograph marginalia, bound with Vindiciae contra tyrannos. Late 16th-early 17th century.

National Library of Wales, [Unspecified shelfmark].

[Meier, Georg, M.D. of Würtzburg]. In Judaeorum Medicastrorum calumnias, & homicidia; pro Christianis pia exhortatio. Ex Theologorum, & Juresconsultorum Decretis ([Speyer], 1570)

*HvG 128

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Harvey's annotations transcribed, with a facsimile of the annotated title-page and last page, in Frank Marcham, Lopez the Jew executed 1594: An Opinion by Gabriel Harvey (Harrow Weald, Middlesex, 1927). Stern, p. 227.

British Library, C.60.h.18.

Melanchthon, Philip. Selectarum Declamationum Philippi Melanthonis, quas conscripsit; & partim ipse in schola witebergensi recitavit, partim aliis recitandas exhibuit (Tomus Primus, Strasbourg, 1564)

*HvG 129

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Maggs's sale catalogue No. 505 (1928), item 1475, with a facsimile of the title-page as Plate LXII.

Stern, p. 227 (as in a ‘Private collection, United States’).

Princeton, PA8550 .D43 1564.

Mohammed II, Sultan. The Turkes Secretorie. Conteining his Sundrie Letters Sent to divers Emperours, Kings, Princes, and States; full of proud bragges, and bloody threatnings: With severall Answers to the Same, both pithie and peremptorie. Translated truly out of the Latine tongue (London, 1607)

HvG 130

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Formerly Houghton Ott.251.1.20.

Stern, pp. 227-8.

Harvard, STC 17996.

More, Sir Thomas. La Description de l'Isle d'Vtopie ov est comprins le Miroer des republicques du monde [trans. Jean le Blond] (Paris, 1550)

*HvG 131

Autograph signature (‘Gabrielis Harveij’) and inscription ‘Ex dono Edmundi Spenseri Episcopi Roffensis Secretarij’. c.1578.

Discussed, with a facsimile of the inscribed title-page, in D. M. Rogers, ‘Edmund Spenser and Gabriel Harvey: A New Find’, Bodleian Library Record, 12, No. 4 (April 1987), 334-7.

Bodleian, Douce M 382.

[Murner, T.]. A merye jeste of a man called Howleglas (London, [c.1528])

*HvG 132

Autograph annotations in a very imperfect exemplum, recording, inter alia, its gift to Harvey by Edmund Spenser in London, 20 December 1578. 1578.

Stern, p. 228.

Bodleian, 4o Z. 3 Art. Seld.

Mynsinger, Joachim. In Tres Libri II. Decretal, titulos, de probationib. de testib. & attest. & de fide instrument. commentarij (Helmstadt, 1582)

*HvG 133

Autograph signature (‘Gabrielis Harueij. 1582’). 1582.

Recorded in David McKitterick's review of Stern, The Library, 6th Ser. 3 (1981), 348-53.

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, H.4.312.

Napier, John. A description of the admirable table of logarithmes (London, 1618)

*HvG 134

Autograph signature. c.1618.

Pickering & Chatto, sale catalogue No. 281 (1933), item 71. Sotheby's, Honeyman sale, November 1980?, lot 2290.

G.C. Moore Smith, MLR, 28 (1933), 81. Stern, p. 228 (as ‘whereabouts unknown’). David McKitterick's review of Stern, The Library, 6th Ser. 3 (1981), 348-53.

Untraced, [Napier volume].

North, George. The Description of Swedland, Gotland, and Finland; the auncient estate of theyr kynges; the most horrible and incredible tiranny of the second Christiern, kyng of Denmarke, agaynst the Swecians; the poleticke attayning to the Crowne of Gostave, wyth hys prudent providyng for the same. Collected and gathered out of sundry laten Aucthors, but chieflye out of Sebastian Mounster (London, 1561)

*HvG 135

Autograph annotations and marginalia. 1574.

Inscribed (front pastedown) ‘Tho: Stukeley M.B.RSS. 1718. Ex dono amici plurimis aestimandi Maur. Johnson Ar.S.T.I.S’.

Stern, p. 229.

Folger, STC 18662.

Nowell, Alexander. Catechismus (London, 1571)

Olaus Magnus. Historia de gentibus Septentrionalibus, earumque diversis statibus, conditionibus, moribus, ritibus, superstitionibus, disciplinis, exercitiis, regamine, victu bellis, stricturis, instrumentis, ac mineris metallicis, et rebus mirabilibus; nec non universis pene Animalibus in Septentrione de gentibus, eorumque nativa...Auctore Olao Magno Gotho, Archiepiscopo Upsalense, Suetiae, et Gothae Primate (Rome, 1555)

*HvG 137

Autograph annotations.

W. H. Robinson's sale catalogue No. 55 (1935), item 51.

Stern, p. 229 (as in a ‘Private collection, United States’).

Princeton, Oversize DL45 .0438 1555q.

[Olendorpius, Joan.]. Loci Communes Juris Civilis. Ex mendis tandem, & barbarie, in gratiam studiosorum utiliter restituti. Addita sunt Praesumptionum fere omnium, quae in foro frequentantur. Exempla; cum Joan. Oldendorphii Epistola nuncupatoria (Lyons, 1551)

*HvG 138

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 229.

British Library, Bagford 5991.

Ovidius, Publius. Metamorphoses...argumentis quidem soluta oratione; ennarationibus autem & allegoriis elegiaco versu accuratissime expositae; summaque; diligentia ac studio illustratae, per M. Johan. Sprengium Augustan. (Frankfurt, 1563)

*HvG 139

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Formerly Houghton A1447.5.10.

Stern, p. 230.

Harvard, *EC H2623 Zz563o.

Perceval, Richard. Bibliotheca Hispanica. Containing a Grammar; with a Dictionarie in Spanish, English, and Latine...the Dictionarie being inlarged with the Latine by the advise of Master Thomas Doyley, Doctor in Physicke (London, 1591)

*HvG 140

Autograph signature and annotations. Including ‘gabrielharuejus’ and ‘Corranus Spanish, & French Grammer: translated by M. Thorius’ on the title-page of one part; ‘GH. Huc meum Dictionarium Homogeneum, propriè, et merè Hispanicum’ on the title-page of the second part; with occasional markings; several lines on the last page, including the reference ‘Copia de Carta de su Maiestad al Dugur de Alua, en recommendacion del Doctor Gemma Frisio. In fine Cosmoiriticæ, Cornelij Gemmæ, Medici celeberrimi’; the book a quarto in modern brown morocco gilt, the pages cropped. c.1591.

The annotations printed and discussed in Caroline Brown Bourland, ‘Gabriel Harvey and the Modern Languages’, HLQ, 4 (1940-1), 85-106 (pp. 97-9). Stern, p. 230.

Huntington, RB 56972.

[Pergaminus, Nicolaus]. The Dialoges of Creatures Moralysed: Applyably and edificatyfly, to euery mery and iocounde mater, of late tr. out of Latyn into our Englysshe tonge (Antwerp, 1535)

*HvG 141

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Discussed in Gregory Kratzmann, ‘An Addition to the Catalogue of Gabriel Harvey's Library: The Dialoges of Creatures Moralysed’, N&Q, 227 (October 1982), 413-15.

University of Queensland, Brisbane, PA8310. D5 1535.

Pindar. Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia. Caeterorum Octo Lyricorum carmina, Alcaei, Sapphus, Stesichori, Ibyci, Anacreontis, Bacchylidis, Simonidis, Alcmanis. Nonnulla etiam aliorum. Editio IIII Graecolatina, H. Steph. quorundam interpretationis locorum; & accessione lyricorum carminum locupletata. Paulus Stephanus. 1600

*HvG 142

Autograph annotations and marginalia, a small volume (c.12 x 6 cm), in contemporary calf. c.1600.

Stern, p. 230.

Folger, PA4274 A2 1600 Cage.

Porcacchi, Thomaso. Motti Diversi Raccolti per Thomaso Porcacchi; Et aggiuntovi alle Facetie di M. Lodovico Domenichi (Venice, 1574)

*HvG 143

Copious autograph annotations and marginalia, on pages 432-60 of the printed text, lacking a title-page, an octavo bound (as ff. 56v-72v) with two other works in modern morocco gilt. [1580].

Stern, p. 230. Facsimile of f. 72v, the last page of Harvey's notes, in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 134.

Folger, MS H.a.2(2).

Quintilian, M. Fabius. M. Fabii Quintiliani Oratoris eloquentissimi, Institutionum oratorium Libri XII (Paris, 1542)

*HvG 144

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 231.

British Library, C.60.l.11.

Ramus, Joannes. Oikonomia seu Dispositio Regularum utriusque Juris in Locos Communes brevi interpretatione subiecta: quae commentarii & locorum communium Joannis Rami Jureconsulti ad easdem Regulas, instar sit Enchiridij (Cologne, 1570)

HvG 145

Copious autograph annotations by Harvey.

In: the MS described under HvG 80. Late 16th century.

Stern, p. 232.

Saffron Walden Museum, SAFWM 1895.266, item 2.

Ramus, Petrus. P. Rami, Regii Eloquentiae, et Philosophiae Professoris, Ciceronianus; ad Carolum Lotharingum Cardinalem (Paris, 1557)

*HvG 146

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 232.

Worcester College, Oxford, c.m.3(1).

[Rowlands, Richard]. The Post of the World. Wherein is contayned the antiquities and originall of the most famous cities in Europe. With their trade & traficke, with their wayes and distance of myles, from country to country. With the true and perfect knowledge of their coynes, the places of their Mynts: with al their Martes and Fayres. And the Raignes of all the kings of England (London, 1576)

*HvG 147

Autograph annotations and marginalia, in an octavo printed text, signed and dated by Harvey ‘1580’, incorporating (with separate title-page) The Post for diuers partes of the world, bound with other items in contemporary vellum (detached). c.1580s.

Stern, p. 233.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, EL1 .A2e, item 2.

Saa, Jacobus à. De Navigatione Libri Tres (Paris, 1549)

*HvG 148

Autograph signature and copious annotations, bound with other works.

Sotheby's, 9 June 1980, lot 25, to Kraus. Kraus's sale catalogue No. 186 (1991), item 79.

Recorded in David McKitterick's review of Stern, The Library, 6th Ser. 3 (1981), 348-53. Facsimile of the signed title-page in the Sotheby's sale catalogue.

Princeton, SC4.2.14 [item 1].

Sacchi de Platina, Bartholomaeus. Platinae hystoria de Vitis pontificum periucundae, diligenter recognita: & nunc tamen integro impressa (Paris, [c.1505])

*HvG 149

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 233.

Cambridge University Library, Rel.d.50.2.

Sacrobosco, Joannes de. Libellus de Anni Ratione (Paris, 1550)

*HvG 150

Autograph signature and substantial annotations, bound with other works. Late 16th century.

Sotheby's, 9 June 1980, lot 25, to Kraus. Kraus's sale catalogues No. 164 (1983), item 143, and 186 (1991), item 79.

Recorded in David McKitterick's review of Stern, The Library, 6th Ser. 3 (1981), 348-53.

Princeton, SC4.2.14 [item 2].

Sacrobosco, Joannis de. Textus de Sphaera...Introductoria Additione...commentarioque, ad utilitatem studientium philosophiae Parisiensis Academiae illustratus, Cum compositione Annuli astronomici Boneti Latensis: Ex Geometria Euclidis Megarensis (Paris, 1527)

*HvG 151

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, pp. 233-4.

British Library, 533.k.1.

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)

*HvG 152

Autograph annotations. c.1590-3.

In: the MS described under HvG 1.

Stern, p. 234.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Lect 26, Lect 26 (6).

Saluste du Bartas, Guillaume de. The Triumph of Faith [trans. J. Silvester] (London, 1592)

*HvG 153

Copious autograph annotations, signed ‘gabrielharvey. gh.’ c.1592-3.

In: the MS described under HvG 1.

Discussed in Relle. Stern, p. 234.

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Lect 26, Lect 26 (5).

Sepulveda, Joannes Genesius de. De Correctione Anno Mensiumque Romanorum (Venice, 1547)

*HvG 154

Autograph signature and annotations, bound with other works. Late 16th century.

Sotheby's, 9 June 1980, lot 25, to Kraus.

Recorded in David McKitterick's review of Stern, The Library, 6th Ser. 3 (1981), 348-53.

Princeton, SC4.2.14 [item 3].

Simlerus, Josias. Epitome Bibliothecae Conradi Gesneri, conscripta primum a Conrado Lycothene Rubeaquensi: nunc denuo recognita & plus quam bis mille authorum accessione (qui omnes asterisco signati sunt) locupletata: per Josiam Simlerum Tigurinum (Zurich, 1555)

*HvG 155

Autograph annotations.

Formerly Houghton A1447.3.100F.

Stern, p. 235. Facsimile of f. 68r in Wilson, Plate III after p. 346.

Harvard, f*EC H2623 Zz555g.

Sleidanus, Johannes. De statu Religionis Et Reipublicae, Carolo Quinto Caesare, Commentarii Varia Ac Multiplici Rerum Utilissimarum Cognitione Referti (Frankfurt-on-Main, 1568)

*HvG 156

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

In 1979 in the ‘Collection of Virginia F. Stern, New York’.

Stern, pp. 235-6.

Untraced, [Sleidanus volume].

Smith, Sir Thomas. De recte & emendata Linguae Anglicae Scriptione, Dialogus, Thoma Smitho Equestris ordinis Anglo authore (2 parts, Paris, 1567). De Recta & Emendata Linguae Graecae Pronuntiatone...ad Vintoniensen Episcopum Epistola (Paris, 1568)

*HvG 157

Autograph signatures and annotations.

Formerly owned by Lucius Wilmerding, Princeton.

Stern, p. 236 (as in a ‘Private collection, United States’).

Princeton, PE1137 .A2 S53 1568.

Straparola da Caravaggio, Gio. Francesco, Le notti...nelle quali si contengono le Favole, con i loro Enimmi da dieci donne, & da duo giovani raccontate (Venice, 1560)

*HvG 158

Harvey's autograph signature on the title-page of the Libro Secondo, an octavo in later dark blue morocco. c.1560?.

Sold by the British Museum as a duplicate in 1804.

Stern, p. 236.

Folger, PQ 4634 S7 P53 1560 Cage.

Talon, Omer. Audomari Talaei Academia. Eiusdem in Academicum Ciceronis fragmentum explicatio. Item in Lucullum Commentarii; cum indice copiosissimo eorum, quae in his continentur, ad Carolum Lotharingum Cardinalem Guisianam (Paris, 1550)

*HvG 159

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 236.

All Souls College, Oxford, a-11-4 (1)&(2).

Terence, P. Le Comedie di Terentio Volgari; di nuovo ricorette, et a miglior tradottione ridotte (Venice, 1546)

*HvG 160

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 237.

Harvard, *EC H2623 Zz654t.

Thomas, William. The Historie of Italie (London, 1561)

*HvG 161

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Formerly Houghton *70-82.

Stern, p. 237.

Harvard, *EC H2623 Zz584t.

Turler, Jerome. The Traveiler...divided into two Bookes. The first conteyning a notable discourse of the maner and order of traveiling oversea, or into straunge and forein Countreys. The second comprehending an excellent description of the most delicious Realme of Naples in Italy (London, [1575])

*HvG 162

Autograph annotations and marginalia, in an octavo printed text, bound with other items in contemporary vellum (detached). 1578.

The title-page bears Harvey's inscription ‘Ex dono Edmundi Spenserij, Episcopi Roffensis Secretarij, 1578’.

Stern, p. 237.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, EL1 .A2e, item 4.

HvG 163

An exemplum. This work is bound in the middle of a composite volume of printed pamphlets. 1575.

Owned and annotated by Spenser's friend Gabriel Harvey and the title-page bears Harvey's inscription, ‘Ex dono Edmundi Spenserij, Episcopi Roffensis Secretarij, 1578’.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, 1003/28.

Tusser, Thomas. Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie, as well for the Champion, or open countrie, as also for the woodland, or Severall, mixed in everie Month with Huswiferie (London, 1580)

*HvG 164

Autograph annotations and marginalia, a quarto volume in later vellum. 18 August 1580.

Sotheby's, 21 March 1966, to ‘Rathbone’. Sotheby's, 3 July 1973, to Francis Edwards.

W.C. Hazlitt. Moore Smith, p. 85. Stern, pp. 237-8.

Robert S. Pirie, New York, [Harvey Five Hundred Pointes].

Valerius Maximus. Valerii Maximi Dictorum factorumque memorabilium exempla (Paris, 1544)

*HvG 165

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 238.

Cambridge University Library, Adv.d.8.1.

Vigelius, Nicolaus. Iuris Civilis Totius Absolutissima Methodus (Basel, 1561)

*HvG 166

Autograph signature (‘Gabrielis Harueij. 1580. Mense Aprile’) and annotations. 1580.

Recorded in David McKitterick's review of Stern, The Library, 6th Ser. 3 (1981), 348-53.

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, H.6.121.

[Von Hutten, Ulrich, et al.]. Duo Volumina Epistolarum Obscurorum Virorum, ad D.M. Ortui Gratium, Attico lepore referta; denuo excusa & a mendis repurgata ([Rome], 1570)

*HvG 167

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern, p. 238.

Balliol College, Oxford, 700.a.20 (1).

Whitehorne, Peter. Certeine wayes for the ordering of Soldiours in battelray, and setting of battayles, after divers fashions with their maner of marching: and also Fugures of certayne new plattes for fortification of Townes: And moreover, howe to make Saltpeter, Gunpowder, and divers sortes of Fireworkes (London, 1573)

*HvG 168

Autograph annotations and marginalia. Late 16th century.

Stern, p. 238.

Ministry of Defence Library, [unspecified shelfmark].

Wilson, Sir Thomas. The Art of Rhetorike, for the use of all suche as are studious of Eloquence (London, 1567)

*HvG 169

Autograph annotations and marginalia, in a quarto printed text, bound with another work by Wilson in contemporary calf. c.1567-80s.

Stern, pp. 238-9.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, EL1 .W753a 567, item 1.

Wilson, Sir Thomas. The Rule of Reason, conteinyng the Arte of Logike (London, 1567)

*HvG 170

Autograph annotations and marginalia, including notes in apparently two other secretary hands on ‘Syr Thomas Mores Jestes’, in a quarto printed text, bound with another work by Wilson in contemporary calf.

Stern, p. 239.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, EL1 .W753a 567, item 2.

Xenophon. Xenophontis Philosophi et Historici Clarissimi Opera, Quae Quidem Graece extant, omnia; partim jam olim, partim nunc primum, hominum doctissimorum diligentia, in latinam linguam conversa; ac multi quam ante accuratius recognita. Quorum elenchum versa pagella reperies (Basle, 1545)

*HvG 171

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Stern p. 239.

Bodleian, 90. C. 19.

Printed Books with Annotations Doubtfully or Erroneously Attributed to Harvey

Cardanus, Hieronymus. Hieronymi Castellionei Cardani Medici Mediolanensis de malo recentiorum medicorum medendi usu libellus (Venice, 1536)

*HvG 172

Annotations in an unidentified hand, unsigned.

Stern, p. 265.

British Library, 1038.e.4.

Gemma Frisius. Gemmae Frisii Medici Ac Mathematici De Astrolabo Catholico Liber quo latissime patentis Instrumenti multiplex usus explicatur, & quicquid uspiam rerum Mathematicarum tradi possit continetur (Antwerp, 1556)

*HvG 173

Annotations in an unidentified hand, unsigned. Late 16th century.

Stern, p. 267.

British Library, 531.f.8.

Guarini, Battista. Il Pastor Fido. Tragicomedia Pastorale (1591)

HvG 174

Occasional annotations, in an unidentified minute italic hand, unsigned, pages 1-226 of a small sextodecimo, in modern cloth. c.1591.

Inscribed on the title-page ‘Nathaniel F. Moore’.

Attributed to Gabriel Harvey in Stern, p. 217, with a facsimile of sig, H9v in Plate F after p. 148, but the annotations are not in his hand. See P.J. Croft's review of Stern in RES, NS 32 (1981), pp. 442-6 (p. 443).

Columbia University, New York, B851G93 U5 1591 [STC 12414].

Hart, John. An Orthographie, conteyning the due order and reason, howe to write or paint thimage of mannes voice, most like to the life or nature (London, 1569)

*HvG 175

Annotations in unidentified hands, unsigned. c.1570.

Facsimile of this volume published by the Scolar Press, Menston, 1960). Annotations attributed to Harvey by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary. Stern, p. 218. Not in Harvey's hand. See P.J. Croft's review of Stern in RES, NS 32 (1981), pp. 442-6 (pp. 443-4).

National Library of Australia, Canberra, RB ALS 584.

Jonson, Ben. The Workes of Benjamin Jonson (London, 1616)

HvG 176

Inscribed ‘G. H: pretiu i9s’, but not in Harvey's hand and lacking annotations. c.1620.

Bookplate of ‘Heathcote of Hursley Barnet’. Inscribed ‘From the library of Norton Perkins November 11, 1925’. Formerly Houghton 14426.4F*.

Stern, pp. 223-4

Harvard, fSTC 14751 v. 1.

Machiavelli, Niccolò. I Sette Libri Dell'Arte Della Guerra Di Niccolo Machiavelli Cittadini, et Secretario Fiorentino ([London], 1587)

HvG 177

Annotations in unidentified hands, unsigned. Late 16th century.

Stern, p. 268.

Folger, STC 17163.2.

Philbert de Vienne. Le Philosophe De Court (Paris, 1548)

HvG 178

Inscription in an unidentified hand, unsigned.and marginalia. Mid-late 16th century.

Stern, p. 269.

British Library, 231.k.40.

Ptolemy. La Geografia di Claudio Ptolomeo Alessandrino, Con alcuni comenti & aggiunte fattevi da Sebastiano Munstero Alamanno, Con le tavole...aggiuntevi di Messer Jacopo Gastaldo Piamontese cosmographo, ridotta in volgare Italiano da M. Pietro Andrea Mattiolo Senese medico Eccelentissimo (Venice, 1548)

*HvG 179

Annotations in an unidentified hand, unsigned.

Annotations attributed to Harvey in Stern, p. 231, but questioned in P.J. Croft's review of Stern in RES, NS 32 (1981), pp. 442-6 (p. 444).

Charles Tanenbaum, New York, [no shelfmark].

[Puttenham, George]. Arte of English Poesie (London, 1589)

HvG 180

Annotations in an unidentified hand, unsigned. c.1590s-1600s.

Stern, p. 269.

Bodleian, 4o P.21 Art.

Tasso, Torquato. Aminta Favola Boschereccia (1591)

*HvG 181

Occasional annotations, including one and a half pages of notes at the end, in a minute italic hand, unsigned, pages [227]-[300] of a small sextodecimo, in modern cloth. c.1591.

Inscribed on the initial title-page of the volume ‘Nathaniel F. Moore’.

Annotations attributed to Gabriel Harvey in Stern, p. 237, with a facsimile of one page in Plate F after p. 148, but the annotations are not in his hand. See P.J. Croft's review of Stern in RES, NS 32 (1981), pp. 442-6 (p. 443).

Columbia University, New York, B851G93 U5 1591 [STC 12414].