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Egerton MS 2711
- Record Id:
- 032-001984767
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001984767
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000057.0x0002be
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- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 2711
- Title:
- Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt
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An album consisting primarily of fair copies of the poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt.
ff. 2r–3v: Sir John Harington, Miscellany.
f. 4r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Behold, love, thy power how she dispiseth!’.
f. 4r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘What vaileth trouth? or, by it, to take payn?’.
ff. 4v–5r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Caesar, when that the traytour of Egipt’.
f. 5r–v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘The Longe love, that in my thought doeth harbar’.
ff. 5v–6r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Alas the greiff, and dedly wofull smert’.
f. 7r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘But sethens you it asaye to kyll’.
f. 7v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Who so list to hounte I know where is an hynde’.
f. 7v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘The restfull place, Revyver of my smarte’.
ff. 8r–10v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Myne olde dere En''mye, my froward master’.
f. 11r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Was I never, yet, of your love greeved’.
f. 11v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Eche man me telleth I chaunge moost my devise’.
f. 12r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘ffarewell, the rayn of crueltie!’.
f. 12v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Yf amours faith, an hert vnfayned’.
f. 13r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Ffarewell, Love, and all thy lawes for ever’.
f. 13v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘My hert I gave the not to do it payn’.
f. 14r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘ffor to love her for her lokes lovely’.
f. 14v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘There was never ffile half so well filed’.
f. 15r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Helpe me to seke for I lost it there’.
f. 15v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Yf it be so that I forsake the’.
f. 16r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Thou hast no faith of him that hath none’.
f. 16v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Goo burnyng sighes Vnto the frosen hert!’.
f. 17r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘It may be good, like it who list’.
f. 17v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Resound my voyse, ye woodes that here me plain’.
f. 19r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘In faith I wot not well what to say’.
f. 19v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Som fowles there be that have so perfaict sight’.
f. 20: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Bicause I have the still kept fro lyes and blame’.
f. 20v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘I fynde no peace and all my warr is done’.
f. 21r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Though I my self be bridilled of my mynde’.
f. 21v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘My galy charged with forgetfulnes’.
f. 22r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Auysing the bright bemes of these fayer Iyes’.
f. 22v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Ever myn happe is slack and slo in commyng’.
f. 23r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Love and fortune and my mynde, remembre’.
f. 23v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘How oft have I, my dere and cruell foo’.
f. 24r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Like to these vnmesurable montayns’.
f. 24v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Madame, withouten many wordes’.
f. 25r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Ye old mule that thinck your self so fayre’.
ff. 25v–26r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Such happe as I ame happed in’.
f. 26v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘They fle from me that sometyme did me seke’.
f. 27r–v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘There was never nothing more me payned’.
f. 28r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Patience, though I have not’.
f. 28v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Patiens for my devise’.
f. 29r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Ye know my herte, my ladye dere’.
f. 29v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Who hath herd of suche crueltye before?’.
f. 30r–v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘If fancy would favour’.
f. 31r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Alas madame for stelyng of a kysse’.
f. 31v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘What no, perdy, ye may be sure!’.
f. 32r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘The wandering gadlyng in the sommer tyde’.
f. 32v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘The lyvely sperkes that issue from those Iyes’.
f. 33r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Ryght true it is, and said full yore agoo’.
f. 33v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘What nedeth these thretning wordes and wasted wynde?’.
f. 33v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘What wourde is that that chaungeth not’.
f. 34r–v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘At moost myschief’.
f. 35r–v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Marvaill no more, all tho’.
f. 36r–v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Where shall I have at myn owne will’.
f. 37r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘She sat and sowde that hath done me the wrong’.
f. 37v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘A Robyn’.
f. 38r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Suche vayn thought as wonted to myslede me’.
f. 38v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Tho I cannot your crueltie constrain’.
f. 39r–v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘To wisshe and want and not obtain’.
f. 40r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Some tyme I fled the fyre that me brent’.
f. 40r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘He is not ded that somtyme hath a fall’.
f. 40v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘The furyous gonne in his rajing yre’.
f. 41r–v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘My hope, Alas, hath me abused’.
f. 42r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘What deth is worse then this’.
f. 42v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Th''enmy of liff, decayer of all kynde’.
ff. 42v–43r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Ons as me thought fortune me kyst’.
ff. 43v–44r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘My lute, awake! perfourme the last’.
ff. 44v–45r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘If chaunce assynd’.
f. 45r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Nature, that gave the bee so feet a grace’.
f. 45v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘I have sought long with stedfastnes’.
f. 46r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Lyke as the Swanne towardis her dethe’.
f. 46v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘In eternum I was ons determed’.
f. 47r–v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Syns ye delite to knowe’.
ff. 47v–48r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Hevyn and erth and all that here me plain’.
f. 48v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Comfort thy self my wofull hert’.
f. 49r–v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Myne owne John Poyntz, sins ye delight to know’.
f. 50r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Desire, alas, my master and my foo’.
f. 50r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Venemus thornes that ar so sharp and kene’.
ff. 50v–52v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘My mothers maydes when they did sowe and spynne’.
f. 53r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘To cause accord or to aggre’.
f. 53v–4: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Though this thy port and I thy seruaunt true’.
f. 54r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Vnstable dreme according to the place’.
f. 54v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘In dowtfull brest, whilst moderly pitie’.
f. 54v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Off Cartage he that worthie warrier’.
f. 55r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Processe of tyme worketh such wounder’.
f. 55v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘After great stormes the cawme retornis’.
ff. 56r–57v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘A spending hand that alway powreth owte’.
f. 58r–v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘All hevy myndes’.
f. 59r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘To seke eche where, where man doth lyve’.
f. 59v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘O goodely hand’.
ff. 60r–62r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Lo what it is to love!’.
f. 62r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘I lede a liff vnpleasant, nothing glad’.
f. 62v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘And if an Iye may save or sleye’.
ff. 62v–3: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Yf in the world ther be more woo’.
f. 63r–v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Th''answere that ye made to me, my dere’.
ff. 63v–64v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Most wretchid hart most myserable’.
f. 64v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘You that in love finde lucke and habundance’.
f. 65r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘And if an Iye may save or sleye’.
f. 65v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Psalm 37. Noli emulare in maligna (‘Altho thow se th''owtragius clime aloft’)
f. 66r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘fful well yt maye be sene’.
f. 66r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Prove wythr I do chainge, my dere’.
f. 66v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘If waker care if sodayne pale Coulour’.
ff. 67v–68v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘So feble is the threde that doth the burden stay’.
f. 69r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Tagus, fare well, that westward with thy stremes’.
f. 69r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Off purpos Love chase first for to be blynd’.
f. 69v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘What rage is this? What furour of what kynd?’
f. 70r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘From thowght to thowgt from hill to hill love doth me lede’.
f. 70r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Vulcane bygat me. Mynerua me taught’.
ff. 71r–72r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Letter to his son (15 April 1537), beginning ‘In as mitch as now ye ar come to sume yeres of vnderstanding …’, dated Paris, 15 April.
ff. 72v–73r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Letter to his son (Autumn 1537), beginning ‘I doubt not but long ere this time my lettres are come to you …’, subscribed ‘From Valedolide the xxiiith of June’.
f. 85v: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, ‘The greate Macedon, that out of Persy chased’.
ff. 86–98v: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Penitential Psalms (‘Love to gyve law vnto his subiect hertes’), autograph, lacking lines 100–51 (lines 26–80 in Psalm 6).
ff. 100r–101r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Jopas’ Song (‘When Dido festid first the wandryng Troian knyght’).
ff. 104r–107r: Sir John Harington, Metrical paraphrases of the Seven Penitential Psalms, 6, 32, 38, 51, 102, 130, and 143 (‘Right happie hee that neither walked hath’), c.1609.
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- Western Manuscripts
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- Egerton Manuscripts
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- Languages:
- English
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1530
- End Date:
- 1539
- Date Range:
- 1530s
- Era:
- CE
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Foliation: ff. 140.
Script: Poems copied by three amanuenses, with corrections and revisions in the hands of Sir Thomas Wyatt and Nicholas Grimald.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Sir Thomas Wyatt (b. c.1503, d. 1542), poet and ambassador.
Provenance:
Sir Thomas Wyatt (b. in or before 1521, d. 1554), soldier and rebel: inherited from his father.
John Harington (b. c.1517, d. 1582), courtier and writer. Imprisoned with the younger Wyatt at the Tower of London, who appears to have passed on the book.
Sir John Harington (bap. 1560, d. 1612), courtier and writer. Annotated as a commonplace book. The book remained in the Harington family, being annotated by several unidentifiable members of the family.
Henry Harington (1727–1816), composer and physician. Borrowed from him in 1809 by George Frederick Nott (1768–1841), Church of England clergyman and literary editor, for his edition of Wyatt; he refers to the book as ‘Harington MS No. 1’.
Bernard Quaritch, sale of January 1889 to the British Museum.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years MDCCCLXXXVIII–MDCCCXCIII (London: British Museum, 1894), pp. 459–60.
Daalder, Joost, ‘Are Wyatt’s Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?’, English Studies, 69 (1988), 205–23, https://doi.org/10.1080/00138388808598570.
Daalder, Joost, ‘The Significance of the “Tho” Signs in Wyatt’s Egerton Manuscript’, Studies in Bibliography, 40 (1987), 86–100, https://jstor.org/stable/40371860.
Harrier, Richard C., The Canon of Sir Thomas Wyatt’s Poetry (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975).
Hayes, Albert McHarg, ‘Wyatt’s Letters to His Son’, Modern Language Notes, 49 (1934), 446–49, https://doi.org/10.2307/2911749.
Hughey, Ruth, ‘The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents’, The Library, 4th ser., 15 (1935), 388–444, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/s4-XV.4.388.
Lathrop, H. B., ‘The Sonnet Forms of Wyatt and Surrey’, Modern Philology, 2 (1905), 463–70, https://doi.org/10.1086/386655.
Powell, Jason, The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).
Powell, Jason, ‘Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt’s Verse’, English Manuscript Studies, 1100–1700, 15 (2009), 1–40.
Powell, Jason, ‘Thomas Wyatt’s Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad’, Huntington Library Quarterly, 67 (2004), 261–82, https://doi.org/10.1525/hlq.2004.67.2.261.
Schmutzler, Karl E., ‘Harington’s Metrical Paraphrases of the Seven Penitential Psalms: Three Manuscript Versions’, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 53 (1959), 240–51, https://doi.org/10.1086/pbsa.53.3.24299709.
Shrank, Cathy, ''Finding a Vernacular Voice: The Classical Translations of Sir Thomas Wyatt'', in The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English literature, ed. by Rita Copeland. 5 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012- ), I, 800-1558 (2016), pp. 583-600 (pp. 585, 594-95, 597-98, 600).
Southall, Raymond, ‘The Nature and Significance of Rhythm in the Poetry of Sir Thomas Wyatt (with Transcripts of Two Principal Manuscripts)’ (unpublished PhD thesis, University of Birmingham, 1961), http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/3144/.
Southall, Raymond, ‘The Date of Wyatt’s Psalms’, English Studies, 71 (1990), 496–500, https://doi.org/10.1080/00138389008598719.
Warnicke, Retha M., ‘The Eternal Triangle and Court Politics: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and Sir Thomas Wyatt’, Albion, 18 (1986), 565–79, https://doi.org/10.2307/4050130.
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- Discovering literature: Shakespeare and Renaissance, (online), 30 April 2016-
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