CASTLE ASHBY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. I. 'The Banished Shepherdess', a pastoral drama in five acts; circa 1660. Another autograph version is in the Huntington Library. ff. ii+44. 295 x 200mm.
CASTLE ASHBY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. II. 'The Feast', a comedy in five acts; circa 1664. Another (scribal) version is in the Library of Worcester College, Oxford. Kept with Add. 60283. Heraldic bookplate of Charles, 3rd Marquess of Northampton, f. i. ff. vi+41. 300 x 195mm. includes: f. i Bookpl...
CASTLE ASHBY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. IV. Notebook comprising autograph fair copies and drafts of plays and poems; circa 1648. ff. i+85. 185 x 145mm. Lower cover of vellum. 1. ff. 1-31. Translation of Nicholas Caussin's Latin prose drama Hermenigildus (1620); n.d. 2. ff. 43-45. Drafts of satirical ...
CASTLE ASHBY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. V. Notebook comprising partly autograph fair copies of the Senecan translations also found in Add. 60276, ff. 49-81v. ff. 45. 305 x 200mm. Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the younger; philosopher and statesman: `Agamemnon' and `Hercules Furens' of Lucius Annaeus Seneca: ...
CASTLE ASHBY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. VI. Notebook comprising autograph drafts and scribal fair copies of plays and translations; after 1650 and 1655. ff. ii+40. 300 x 180mm. Vellum binding with two thongs. 1. ff. 5v-21v. The Mandrake, an adaptation of Machiavelli's prose comedy La Mandragola; afte...
CASTLE ASHBY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. VII. Notebook comprising a scribal fair copy with authorial corrections of [Leontius, King of Cyprus]; n.d. Slightly imperfect. ff. 32. 295 x 190mm.
CASTLE ASHBY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. VIII. Notebook comprising autograph draft of a five-act tragedy on the subject of Mariamne, first wife of Herod the Great; n.d. Imperfect. ff. 34. 295 x 185mm.
CASTLE ASHBY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. IX. Collection of autograph drafts of untitled dramas; n.d. Imperfect. ff. 77. 305 x 190mm. 1. ff. 3-46. Notebook comprising autograph fair copy of a five-act tragedy in blank verse on the Emperor Antonius Bassianus Caracalla. ff.47-72 are blank. 2. ff. 73-74....
CASTLE ASHBY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. X. Two autograph tracts; circa 1649-1650. ff. 39. 290 x 190mm. 1. ff. 1-19. The Martir'd Monarch, a history of the life and reign of Charles I; circa Feb. 1649 - June 1650. 2. ff. 39-39v. 'Address' recommending a general Act of Oblivion, etc.; circa early 1650.