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Add MS 34064
- Record Id:
- 032-002025030
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- 032-002025030
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000054.0x000118
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100162924571.0x000001
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- Add MS 34064
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Verse miscellany, 1596-1653
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Miscellany of verse by Nicholas Breton, Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser and other anonymous writers. In several hands, principally transcribed from Brittons Bowre of Delights (1591), The Arbor of Amorous Devises (1597), and The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (1593). With anonymous poems on the death of one Margaret Wiseman (d. 1653), by her brother.
f. 1r: Notes of ownership, including ‘Anthonie Babingtonn of warringtonn’, dated 1596, and ‘Roger Wright me possidett / ex dono Henerici fratrie Meo’.
f. 2r-2v: Anonymous poem beginning ‘When nature fell to studie firste to frame a daintie peece’. Titled in the margin ‘Elizabeth Regina’.
ff. 2v-3r: Nicholas Breton, ‘A sweete Pastorall’. Copy titled ‘A pastorall’, beginning ‘Good muse rocke me asleepe’.
f. 3r-3v: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘The pretie Turtle dove, that with no litle moane’.
f. 3v: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘Goe muse unto the bower, whereas the mistress dwelles’.
f. 4r: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘Never thinke upon anoye’.
f. 4v: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘From the heavnes there hath descended’. Attributed to ‘E[d]ward Spencer’ in a different hand and ink.
f. 5r-5v: Nicholas Breton, ‘Bretons resolucon’. Untitled copy beginning ‘If beawtie did not blinde the eies it were a blessed thinge to see’.
f. 5v: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘Poets come all and eche one take a penn’.
ff. 5v-6r: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘What ailes mine eyes, or are my wittes bestrought’.
f. 6r: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘When fate decreeth’. In double columns.
f. 6v: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘The feildes are grene the springes growes on a pace’.
f. 7r: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘Oh Eies leave of your weepinge’.
f. 7v: Walter Ralegh, untitled poem beginning ‘Those eies that holde the hande of every harte’.
f. 8r-8v: Nicholas Breton, ‘A pastorell of Phillis and Coridon’. Untitled copy beginning ‘One a hill there growes a flower’.
ff. 8v-9r: Nicholas Breton, untitled poem beginning ‘Faire, fairer then the fairest’.
ff. 9r-10r: Nicholas Breton, ‘Choridons dreame’. Copy beginning ‘Fast by a fountaine sweete and clere’.
f. 10r-10v: Nicholas Breton, ‘Choridons Supplication’. Copy beginning ‘Sweete Phillis if a sillie swaine’.
ff. 10v-11r: Nicholas Breton, ‘Sir Ph: Sydneys Epitaph’. Copy beginning ‘Deepe lamenting losse of treasure’.
ff. 11v-12r: Nicholas Breton, ‘A Sheepheards dream’. Untitled copy beginning ‘A sillie Shepp[er]de lately sate’.
f. 12r-12v: Nicholas Breton, untitled poem beginning ‘Sitting late with sorrow sleepinge’.
f. 13r: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘Wytt whether will you’.
f. 13v: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘Tyme is but shorte, and shorte the course of tyme’.
f. 14r-15r: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘Sorrow come sitt thee downe and sighe and sobb thy fill’.
f. 15r: Anonymous poem titled ‘The somme of the former in 4 lynes’, beginning ‘Grace, vertue, valure, witt, experience, lerning, love’.
f. 15r-15v: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘Upon a deintie hill sumtime’.
f. 16r: Nicholas Breton, ‘Phillida and Coridon’. Untitled copy beginning ‘In the merrie moneth of may’.
ff. 16v-17r: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘At my harte there is a paine’.
f. 17r: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘Who takes a frende and trusts him not’.
ff. 17v-18r: Nicholas Breton, ‘Astrophell his Song of Phillida and Coridon’. Untitled copy beginning ‘Faire in a morne, oh fairest morne, was never morne so faire’.
f. 18r: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘Lett me goe seeke some solitarie place’.
f. 18r-18v: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘In time of yor when shepp[er]ds dwelt’.
f. 19r: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘Poetes laie downe your pennes, let fancy leave to faine’.
f. 19v: Anonymous poem titled ‘Quatuor elementa’, beginning ‘The Aire with swete my sences doe delight’.
f. 20r: Anonymous poem titled ‘A Sonett upon this worde in truth spoken by a Lady to her Servaunte’, beginning ‘In truth is trust, distrust not then my truthe’.
f. 20r: Anonymous poem titled ‘Againe upon the same subject’, beginning ‘Truthe shewes her selfe is secrett of her truste’.
f. 20v: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘Ah poore conceite, pull downe delight, thy pleasant daies are donne’.
ff. 20v-21v: Nicholas Breton, untitled poem beginning ‘Some men will saie there is a kinde of muse’.
ff. 21v-22r: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘Oh that desire colde leave to live, that longe hath lookt to die’.
f. 22r-22v: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘Yf heavne and earthe were bothe not fullie bente’.
ff. 22v-23r: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘When Authors wryte god knowes what thinge is true’.
f. 23r-23v: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘All my sences stand amazed’.
f. 23v: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘all my witte hath will enwrapped’.
f. 24r: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘will it never better be?’
f. 24v: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘Pawse a while my prittie muse’.
f. 25r: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘Looke not to longe upon thes lookes, that blindes the overlooker sore’.
f. 25r: Nicholas Breton, ‘Amoris Lachrimae: For the Death of Sir Philip Sidney’. Untitled copy of the last two stanzas, beginning ‘Perfecc[io]n peerles, vertue without pride’.
f. 25v: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘Poure downe poore eyes, the teares of true distres’.
ff. 25v-26r: Nicholas Breton, untitled poem beginning ‘Choridon unhappie Swaine’.
f. 26r: Anonymous untitled poem beginning ‘Goe muse unto thy bower wheras thy mesteris dwelles’.
f. 27r-27v: Philip Sidney, ‘Old Arcadia, Second Eclogues, no. 27’. Copy titled ‘The scyrmish betwixt Reasons and Passion’, transcribed from the 1593 edition of The Old Arcadia. Beginning ‘Rou rebell vile, come to thy master yealde’. With marginal note ‘For patience reade passion’.
ff. 27v-28r: Philip Sidney, ‘Old Arcadia, Book II, no. 15’. Copy titled ‘An old man fallen in Love with a yonge maiden’, transcribed from the 1593 edition of The Old Arcadia. Beginning ‘Lett not old-age disgrace my high desire’.
f. 28r: Philip Sidney, ‘Old Arcadia, Book II, no. 16’. Copy titled ‘Another’, transcribed from the 1593 edition of The Old Arcadia. Beginning ‘Since soe myne eies, be subject to your sight’.
f. 28r: Philip Sidney, ‘Old Arcadia, Book I, no. 2’. Copy titled ‘Another’, transcribed from the 1593 edition of The Old Arcadia. Beginning ‘Transformd in shew, but more transformd in mynd’.
f. 28v: Philip Sidney, ‘Old Arcadia, Book II, no. 14’. Copy titled ‘Another’, transcribed from the 1593 edition of The Old Arcadia. Beginning ‘In vaine myne eies, you laboure to amend’.
f. 28v: Philip Sidney, ‘Old Arcadia, Book II, no. 21’. Copy titled ‘Another’, transcribed from the 1593 edition of The Old Arcadia. Beginning ‘Over these brookes (thinkinge to ease myne eies)’.
f. 29r: Philip Sidney, ‘Old Arcadia, Book III, no. 47’. Copy titled ‘The answere to the former verses’, transcribed from the 1593 edition of The Old Arcadia. Beginning ‘Doe not disdaine, o strayght – upraysede pyne’.
ff. 29r-31r: Philip Sidney, ‘Old Arcadia, Book III, no. 62’. Copy titled ‘Another’, transcribed from the 1593 edition of The Old Arcadia. Beginning ‘What tonge can her perfetions tell?’
ff. 31r-33r: Edmund Spenser, ‘The Ruines of Time’. Copy of several extracts, from line 183-572, titled ‘Another’. Beginning ‘It is not longe since these two eies beheld’.
f. 33r-33v: Anonymous poem titled ‘Another’, beginning ‘My heavie eies, still fixed on the ground’.
ff. 33v-35r: Edmund Spenser, ‘Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubberds Tale’. Copy of several extracts, from line 353-659, titled ‘The Ruines of Tyme’. Beginning ‘And now the Fox, had gotten him a gowne’.
f. 35v: Anonymous poem titled ‘Uppon the flowrdeluce in Oxford’. Beginning ‘A fellowe comminge to the towne’.
ff. 36r-40v: Libel known as the ‘Bashe libel’. Titled ‘A spightfull lybell entred by the parties whome it concerned into the records of Chancerie’. Beginning ‘I knowe not howe it comes to passe’.
f. 40v: Anonymous poem titled ‘Tandem si’, beginning’ At length coms oft to late’.
ff. 40a-40b: Blank.
ff. 41r-47r: Nicholas Breton, ‘Amoris Lachrimae: For the Death of Sir Philip Sidney’. Copy titled ‘Amoris Lachrimae’, beginning ‘Emonge the woes of those unhappie wightes’. Subscribed in another hand ‘Amoris lachrmae for the death of Sir Phillip Sidney’.
f. 48r: Fragment of the poem below (ff. 49r-54v), beginning ‘From wordly cares’.
f. 49r: Erased fragment of the poem below (ff. 49r-54v), beginning ‘From worldly cares and wanton loves’.
ff. 49r-54v: Nicholas Breton, ‘Brittons Divinitie’. Untitled copy, beginning ‘From worldie cares, and wanton loves conceite’.
ff. 55r-56r: Poem titled ‘Upon Mr Pim’, elsewhere attributed to Clement Paman. Beginning ‘Proud Cinna, Cylla, Maxius make me roome’.
ff. 56r-57r: Anonymous poem titled ‘An elegie upon the death of my deare sister M.W. who died of a feavour the 7th of January An. Do. 1653’. Beginning ‘Tis not for want of love (Deare soule!) that I’.
ff. 57a-57e: Blank.
f. 58r-58v: Anonymous untitled poem, similar but not the same as above (ff. 56r-57r), beginning ‘Tis not for want of love (deare soule) that I’. With corrections.
f. 58v: Anonymous untitled poem, containing an acronym on the name ‘Margaret Wiseman’. Beginning ‘Mayth stranger know that this tombe hides from’s site’. With corrections.
f. 59r: Another copy of the poem above (f. 58v).
f. 59r: Anonymous poem titled ‘Her epitaph’, beginning ‘Natur’s bright starr has cast her gellee[?] heere’.
ff. 59v-60v: Notes and draft poems on anagrams of ‘Margaret Wiseman’. With corrections.
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1596
- End Date:
- 1653
- Date Range:
- 1596-1653
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 215 x 150 mm.
Foliation: ff. vi + 60.
Binding: Vellum.
Script: Secretary, italic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Anthony Babbington of Warrington: owned in 1596, his name on f. 1r.
Roger Wright: owned in 17th century, his name on f. 1r.
Henry Wright: owned in 17th century, his name on f. 1r.
Thomas Percy (1729–1811), writer and Church of Ireland bishop of Dromore: owner in 1765, his marginal notes.
F. W. Cosens (1819-1889), book collector: owner until 1890, his signature and bookplate on inside front cover.
Sold at Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), lot 50.
Purchased by the British Museum from Jarvis & Son, 15 June 1891.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum, 1894), p. 183.
'Additional MS 34064', Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, ed. Peter Beal, online: http://www.celm-ms.org.uk/repositories/british-library-additional-30000.html#british-library-additional-30000_id661780 [accessed 3 October 2019].
The Arbor of Amorous Devises (London: Richard Johnes, 1597).
Breton, Nicholas, The Works in Verse and Prose of Nicholas Breton, ed. Alexander B. Grosart, 2 vols (Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, 1879).
Breton, Nicholas, Brittons Bowre of Delights 1591, ed. Hyder Edward Rollins (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1933).
Breton, Nicholas, Poems by Nicholas Breton (not hitherto reprinted), ed. Jean Robertson (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1952).
Buck Jr., P.M., ‘Add MS. 34064 and Spenser’s “Ruins of Time” and “Mother Hubberd’s Tale”’, Modern Language Notes, 22 (1907), 41-46.
May, Steven W., and Alan Bryson, Verse Libel in Renaissance England and Scotland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 76-92.
Percy, Thomas, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 3 vols (London: J. Dodsley, 1765).
The Phoenix Nest (London: John Jackson, 1593).
Ralegh, Walter, The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Agnes M.C. Latham, revised edition (London: Routledge and Paul, 1951; reprinted 1962).
Ringler Jr., William A., ‘Bishop Percy’s Quarto Manuscript (British Museum MS Additional 34064) and Nicholas Breton’ Philological Quarterly, 54 (1975): 26-39.
Sidney, Philip, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (London: William Ponsonby, 1593).
Sidney, Philip, The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney, ed. William A. Ringler Jr. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1962).
Sidney, Philip, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The Old Arcadia), ed. Jean Robertson (Oxford: Clarendon, 1973)
Spenser, Edmund, Complaints (London: William Ponsonby, 1591).
Woudhuysen, H. R., Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts, 1558-1640 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1996).
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