MR 0799
A small quarto verse miscellany, including some thirty poems by Donne, in several hands, associated with the Inns of Court, with a 19th-century title-page, ‘A Collection of Original Poetry, written about the time of Ben: Johnson, qui ob. 1637’ and erroneously annotated ‘Chiefly in the Autograph of Dr. Donne Dean of St. Paul's’.67 pages (plus index). c.1614-25.
Later owned by Sir John Simeon, third Baronet, MP (1815-70); by Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-85), first Baron Houghton, author and politician, and by his son, Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Sotheby's, 22 July 1980, lot 585, to Quaritch.
Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Monckton Milnes MS’: DnJ Δ 63. Briefly discussed in Sir John Simeon, ‘Unpublished Poems of Donne’, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3, and, with selected collations, in Grierson (II, cix et passim). A complete set of photographs of the MS is in the British Library, RP 2031.
pp. 1-2
• DnJ 278: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)
Copy, headed ‘The widdow’, subscribed ‘finis J D:’.
This MS collated in Grierson.
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.
p. 2
• DnJ 1656.5: John Donne, The Indifferent (‘I can love both faire and browne’)
Copy of lines 1-9, headed in the margin ‘Sonnett:’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.
p. 2
• DnJ 1749.5: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘I am not able yonder beggar cryes’.
First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as ‘Zoppo’) and 10.
p. 3
• DnJ 2646.5: John Donne, The Prohibition (‘Take heed of loving mee’)
Copy of lines 17-24, untitled, here beginning ‘Loue & hate mee too’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 67-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 39-40. Shawcross, No. 47.
pp. 4-5
• DnJ 1239: John Donne, The Expostulation (‘To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.
This MS collated in Grierson.
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.
p. 6
• JnB 731.5: Ben Jonson, Sejanus his Fall
Copy of Sejanus's speech beginning, ‘Swell, swell my ioys and faint not to declare’ (V, 1-3, 6-24), headed in the margin ‘Sejanus Ben Jhons’.
First published in London, 1605. Herford & Simpson, IV, 327-486.
p. 8
• JnB 674.2: Ben Jonson, The Haddington Masque, lines 86 et seq. Song (‘Beauties, haue yee seene this toy’)
Copy, headed in the margin ‘A Cry for Cupidd B: J:’.
First published together with The Masques of Blackness and Beauty (London, [1608]). Herford & Simpson, VII, 243-63 (p. 252).
p. 10
• B&F 146.8: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song (‘Hence, all you vain delights’)
Copy of a variant, garbled version, beginning ‘Hence vaine delights as short’.
Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.
For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.
p. 11
• CwT 719: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Think not deare loue yt Ile reveale’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).
See also Introduction.
pp. 12-13
• PoW 55: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’
Copy, untitled.
First published, as ‘In praise of black Women; by T.R.’, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as ‘On a black Gentlewoman’. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as ‘On black Hair and Eyes’ and superscribed ‘R’; in The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as ‘on Black Hayre and Eyes’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.
pp. 14-16
• DnJ 710: John Donne, The Comparison (‘As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.
This MS collated in Grierson.
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.
pp. 16-18
• DnJ 72: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.
This MS or DnJ 72.5 collated in Grierson.
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.
pp. 18-21
• DnJ 2573.5: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.
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.
pp. 21-2
• DnJ 2355: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’
Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.
This MS collated in Grierson.
First published, as ‘Elegie VIII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as ‘Elegie VII’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.
pp. 23-7
• DnJ 397: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.
This MS collated in Grierson.
First published, as ‘Eleg. XII. The Bracelet’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as ‘Elegie XI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.
pp. 27-8
• JnB 428.5: Ben Jonson, A Satyricall Shrub (‘A Womans friendship! God whom I trust in’)
Copy of a 32-line version (plus one deleted line), headed ‘Satyre’.
Edited from this in Ioppolo.
First published (in an incomplete 24-line version) in The Vnder-wood (xx) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 171-2. Complete 32-line version first published in Grace Ioppolo, ‘The Monckton-Milnes Manuscript and the “Truest” Version of Ben Jonson's “A Satyricall Shrubb”’, Ben Jonson Journal, 16 (May 2009), 117-31 (pp. 125-6). Some later texts of this poem discussed in Peter Beal, ‘Ben Jonson and “Rochester's” Rodomontade on his Cruel Mistress’, RES, NS 29 (1978), 320-4. See also Harold F. Brooks, ‘“A Satyricall Shrub”’, TLS (11 December 1969), p. 1426.
p. 29
• DnJ 3349.5: John Donne, To Mr T.W. (‘At once, from hence, my lines and I depart’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206-7. Milgate, Satires, p. 62. Shawcross, No. 117.
pp. 29-30
• DnJ 3327.5: John Donne, To Mr T.W. (‘All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 203-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 59-60. Shawcross, No. 114.
pp. 30-1
• DnJ 3298.5: John Donne, To Mr Rowland Woodward (‘Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.
pp. 31-2
• DnJ 3472.5: John Donne, To Sr Henry Wootton (‘Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.
p. 32
• DnJ 3504.5: John Donne, To Sr Henry Wotton (‘Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules’)
Copy of lines 1-24.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.
p. 33
• DnJ 3411.5: John Donne, To Sr Edward Herbert, at Julyers (‘Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 193-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 80-1. Shawcross, No. 140.
pp. 34-6
• DnJ 1876: John Donne, A Letter to the Lady Carey, and Mrs Essex Riche, From Amyens (‘Here where by All All Saints invoked are’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 221-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 105-7. Shawcross, No. 142.
p. 36
• DnJ 3536: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 189-90. Milgate, Satires, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 134.
p. 37
• DnJ 312.5: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘D’.
First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.
p. 40
• DkT 36.8: Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall (‘The Queene was brought by water to White Hall’)
Copy, headed ‘On ye Death of Q Eliz:’.
First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, ‘Poems by William Camden’, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.
p. 41
• BrW 4.5: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘Behold, O God, in rivers of my tears’
Copy, in a formal pattern, headed ‘Prayer’, here beginning ‘Behold o God INRIvers of my teares’ and subscribed ‘Will Browne seruiens Com Pembrock’.
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 4-5.
p. 42
• HoJ 333: John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob (‘Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet wthstood’)
Copy, in double columns, headed in the margin ‘Love’, here beginning ‘Love whose powr & might’.
Osborn, p. 301.
p. 43
• DnJ 515: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Hee is made who eur sayes’.
This MS collated in Grierson.
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.
pp. 46-7
• DnJ 3714.8: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie’, subscribed ‘J D’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
p. 47
• HoJ 33: John Hoskyns, Absence (‘Absence heare my protestation’)
Copy, headed ‘A Poeme:’.
First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), pp. 428-9. Osborn, No. XXIV (pp. 192-3).
p. 49
• JnB 714.5: Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song (‘If I freely may discouer’)
Copy, headed ‘Qualities for a Louer’.
p. 49
• DnJ 3678.5: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)
Copy of lines 19-27, headed in the margin ‘Womens Tears’ and here beginning ‘Hither with Cristall glasses louers come’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.
pp. 50-1
• DnJ 3923: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)
Copy, subscribed ‘J D:’.
This MS collated in Grierson.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.
pp. 51-2
• DnJ 755.5: John Donne, Confined Love (‘Some man unworthy to be possessor’)
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J D’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.
p. 52
• DnJ 2933.5: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)
Copy, headed in the margin ‘A Songe’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.
pp. 53-4
• DnJ 2521: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie’, subscribed ‘D:’.
This MS collated in Grierson.
First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as ‘Elegie XVI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.
p. 56
• ShW 86.8: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Extract, headed in the margin ‘In Juliett & Romeo’, comprising a version of Romeo's speech in Act I, scene v, lines 44-51, here beginning ‘Oh shee doth teach the torches to burne bright’, and, with a stage diection ‘taking her by ye hand’, lines lines 93-6, here beginning ‘Yf I pfane wth my unworthyest hand’.
First published in London, 1597.
pp. 58-9
• DnJ 2060.5: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.
p. 60
• DnJ 1815.5: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow (‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’)
Copy, headed in the margin ‘Shadow’.
First published, as ‘Song’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.
p. 61
• JnB 192.5: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body (‘Sitting, and ready to be drawne’)
Copy, headed ‘The Bodie:’, as by ‘B Johnson’.
First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).
p. 62
• MiT 4.5: Thomas Middleton, Petition to King James (‘A harmless game raised merely for delight’)
Copy of an eight-line version, headed ‘to ye Kinge / Middletons Verses who was comitted to ye Fleet for ye play called the ‘Game at chess’’.
First published in Edward Capell, The School of Shakespeare, III (London, [1780]), p. 31. Bullen, I, lxxxiii. A Game at Chesse, ed. R.C. Bald (Cambridge, 1929), p. 166. Oxford Middleton, p. 1895.
p. 63
• DrM 36.5: Michael Drayton, The Cryer (‘Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre’)
Copy, in double columns, untitled.
First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.
p. 63
• ShJ 64: James Shirley, Riddle on Love (‘Who can define this all thing nothing loue’)
Copy of a fourteen-line poem, headed ‘Riddle on Love’, subscribed ‘Sherly’.
Unpublished.
p. 64
• DnJ 451.5: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)
Copy, headed in the margin ‘Woman’, subscribed ‘D.’.
First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.
p. 64
• DnJ 972.5: John Donne, E. of Nottingham (‘I Earle of Nothing=am, am iustly soe’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Stringer and in Variorum.
First published, and attributed to Donne, in Gary A. Stringer, ‘Donne's Epigram on the Earl of Nottingham’, John Donne Journal, 10 (1991), 71-4. Variorum, 8 (1995), p. 276.
p. 65
• DnJ 1374.5: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)
Copy, headed in the margin ‘Flea’, subscribed ‘D.’
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.
p. 67
• DnJ 72.5: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)
Copy of lines 1-26, headed ‘Elegie Jocos:’.
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.
MR 0840
A folio volume of of state letters and tracts, in several professional secretary hands, the letters on pp. 877-1039 arranged under genre headings (‘Aduise’, ‘Aunsweares’, ‘Comendatory’, etc.), 1039 pages, in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked). c.1595-1620s.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist and book collector. Sotheby's, 14 December 1976, lot 47, to Hofmann & Freeman. Then owned by Peter Beal, London. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 88, with a facsimile example.
A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, RP 2102.
pp. 1-58
• BcF 135: Francis Bacon, Certain Observations made upon a Libel published this present year, 1592
Copy, with some corrections in another hand.
A tract beginning ‘It were just and honourable for princes being in war together, that howsever they prosecute their quarrels...’. First published in Resuscitatio, ed. W. Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VIII, 146-208.
A letter to M. Critoy, Secretary of France, c.1589, ‘A Letter on the Queen's religious policies’, was later incorporated in Certain Observations made upon a Libel, and first published in Cabala, sive scrinia sacra (London, 1654), pp. 38-41.
For the Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (also known as Cecil's Commonwealth), the ‘Libel’ that Bacon answered, see RaW 383.8.
pp. 63-100
• BcF 320: Francis Bacon, Of Tribute, or Giving What is Due
Copy of the complete entertainment, in a professional secretary hand, with corrections in another hand, headed ‘Tribuit or Givinge that wch is due’; inscribed in the second hand ‘printed by F B. in edibus Georgij fistuli’.
Edited from this MS in Vickers.
The third and fourth speeches first published in Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon, ed. Robert Stephens (London, 1734). Spedding, VIII, 123-43. A defective text of the whole entertainment, with missing text conjecturally supplied, published as A Conference of Pleasure, composed for some festive occasion about the year 1592 by Francis Bacon, ed. James Spedding (London, 1870). Full text edited in Francis Bacon: A Critical Edition of the Major Works, ed. Brian Vickers (Oxford, 1996), pp. 22-51.
pp. 881-4
• ElQ 193: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Close of the Parliamentary Session, March 15, 1576
Copy of Version I, in a professional secretary hand.
First published (from a lost MS) in Nugae Antiquae, ed. Henry Harington (London, 1804), I, 120-7.
Version I. Beginning ‘Do I see God's most sacred, holy Word and text of holy Writ drawn to so divers senses...’. Hartley, I, 471-3 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 13, pp. 167-71. Selected Works, Speech 7, pp. 52-60.
Version II. Beginning ‘My lords, Do I see the Scriptures, God's word, in so many ways interpreted...’. Hartley, I, 473-5 (Text ii).
pp. 884-5
• ElQ 158: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech to a Joint Delegation of Lords and Commons, November 5, 1566
Copy of a version, in a professional secretary hand.
First published in J.E. Neale, ‘Parliament and the Succession Question in 1562/3 and 1566’, EHR, 36, No. 144 (October 1921), 497-520 (pp. 514-17).
Version I. Beginning ‘If the order of your causes had matched the weight of your matter...’. Hartley, I, 145 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 9, pp. 93-4 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 5, pp. 45-6.
Version II. Beginning ‘If the order had been observed in the beginning of the matter...’. Hartley, I, 146-9 (Text ii). Collected Works, Speech 9, pp. 94-8 (Version 2).
pp. 946-8
• ElQ 129: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Answer to the Commons' Petition that she Marry, January 28, 1563
Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
Beginning ‘Williams, I have heard by you the common request of my Commons...’. First published (from a lost MS) in Nugae Antiquae, ed. Henry Harington (London, 1804), I, 80-3. Hartley, I, 94-5. Collected Works, Speech 5, pp. 70-2. Selected Works, Speech 3, pp. 37-41.
pp. 1000-3
• WyT 430: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Thomas Wyatt to his son (15 April 1537)
Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
Letter beginning ‘In as mitch as now ye ar come to sume yeres of vnderstanding...’, dated from Paris 15 April. Muir, Life & Letters, pp. 38-41.
pp. 1003-7
• WyT 439: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Thomas Wyatt to his son (Autumn 1537)
Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
Letter beginning ‘I doubt not but long ere this time my lettres are come to you...’, subscribed ‘From Valedolide the xxiiith of June’. Muir, Life & Letters, pp. 41-4.
pp. 1028-35
• SiP 183: Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled and incomplete (a leaf skipped between pp. 1030 and 1031), under the classification ‘Aduise’.
Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 31.
First published in Scrinia Caeciliana: Mysteries of State & Government (London, 1663) and in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (London, 1663). Feuillerat, III, 51-60. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 46-57.
This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), Chapter 4, pp. 109-46 (with most MSS catalogued as Nos 1-37, with comments on their textual tradition, in Appendix IV, pp. 274-80).
[Cavendish MS]
Copy, largely in the cursive secretary hand of John Stow (1524/5-1606), London historian, 145 leaves.
CvG 37: George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
Alan Thomas, sale catalogue No. 41 (1980), item 57. Afterwards owned by Colin Franklin, bookdealer.
Recorded in Edwards (No. 4).
First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).
[Shakespeare 1640]
A printed exemplum of Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-Speare. Gent. (London, 1640), with extensive MS emendations and alterations throughout in an unidentified hand. Late 17th century.
ShW 129: William Shakespeare, Miscellaneous
Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1027, ‘English Poetry before 1701’ (1982), item 192, with a facsimile opening facing p. 64.