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Add MS 10308
- Record Id:
- 032-002108103
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002108103
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000042.0x00021c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165006650.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 10308
- Title:
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Poems of Sir Robert Ayton
- Scope & Content:
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Collection of poems in English and Scots by Sir Robert Ayton (1570–1638), poet and courtier. Collected by his nephew and executor, Sir John Ayton.
f. 1r: Title page, ‘Some fewe English and Scotts amorous Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, late Secretarye to the most Illustrious, Anna and Henrietta Mary, Queenes of greate Brittaine France and Ireland’.
f. 1v: Address to the ‘Courteous Reader’, signed by ‘S.J.A.’, i.e. John Ayton.
f. 2r-2v: Poem titled ‘Upon Love’. Beginning ‘There is noe worldly plea’.
f. 2v: Untitled poem beginning ‘I lov’d the once, I’le love noe more’.
f. 3r: Poem titled ‘The answer by the Author’. Beginning ‘Thou that lov’d once now loves noe more’.
f. 3v: Untitled poem beginning ‘When thou did thinke I did not love’.
ff. 3v-4r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Deare why doe you say you love’.
f. 4r: Untitled poem beginning ‘What meanes this Nyceness now of late’.
f. 4v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Why did I wrong my Judgment soe’.
ff. 4v-5r: Untitled poem beginning ‘I had feare to seeme untrue’.
f. 5r-5v: Untitled poem beginning ‘There is none, noe none but I’.
f. 5v: Untitled poem beginning ‘O that my tongue had been as dumbe’.
f. 6r-6v: Poem titled ‘Upon a Diamond cutt in forme of an hart sett with a Crowne above, and a blood dart peirceing it sent in a Newyearesgift’. Beginning ‘Thou sent to mee a hart was Crown’d’.
ff. 6v-7r: Poem titled ‘Upon platonik love’. Beginning ‘O that I were all soule that I might prove’.
f. 7r-7v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Lov’s like a game at Irish where the dye’.
f. 7v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Philo lov’d Sophia and she againe’.
ff. 8r-9r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Amintas on a summers day’.
f. 9r-9v: Untitled poem beginning ‘If high Excess of Irrelenting smart’.
ff. 9v-10r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Wrong not sweete Empress of my hart’.
f. 10r-10v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Will thou Remorsless faire’.
f. 10v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Can Eagles birds fly lower then there kinde’.
f. 11r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Then will thou goe and leave mee here?’
f. 11r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Unhappy eyes why did you gaze againe’.
ff. 11v-13v: Untitled poem beginning ‘When Diophantus knew’.
ff. 13v-16r: Untitled poem beginning ‘My hart Exhale thy greife’.
ff. 16r-18v: Untitled poem beginning ‘My temperate style at first’.
f. 18r: Untitled poem beginning ‘I bid farewell into the world and thee’.
f. 18v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Faire cruell Silvia since thou scorn my teares’.
f. 18v: Untitled poem beginning ‘To viewe thy beauty well if thou be wise’.
f. 19r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Religious Relicts of that ruynous place’.
f. 19r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Faire famous flood which sometyme did devyde’.
f. 19v: Untitled poem beginning ‘You hopes, you Bankerouts [bankrupts] of tyme and youth’.
f. 19v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Forsaken of all comforts but these two’.
f. 20r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Loe how the sailer in a stoymy night’.
f. 20r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Were those thine Eyes or Lightnings from above’.
f. 20v: Poem titled ‘Upon Mr Thomas Murrays fall’. Beginning ‘The other night from Court returning late’.
f. 20v: Untitled poem beginning ‘The old Records of annalized fame’.
f. 21r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Where Thebes staitely Towres did threate the skye’.
f. 21r: Poem titled ‘Upon the 5th of November’. Beginning ‘The mighty Mavors zealous to behold’.
f. 21v: Poem titled ‘Upon prince Henry his death to P. Charles’. Beginning ‘Admired Phoenix springing up a pace’.
f. 21v: Poem titled ‘Upon the Earle of Stirleans [William Alexander] Monarchical Tragedies’. Beginning ‘Well may the Program of thy tragick stage’.
f. 22r: Poem titled ‘Upon Mr Alexander Craigs poem’. Beginning ‘Why thought fond Greece to buyld a solid fame’.
f. 22v: Deleted fragment of a poem beginning ‘I saw fair Cloris walk alone’. Elsewhere attributed to William Strode.
f. 22v: Untitled Latin epigram on the Duke of Buckingham, beginning ‘Bukingamus, Io, maris est praefectus et idem’.
f. 22v: Latin poem annotated ‘Upon the Countess of Essex divorce’. Beginning ‘Legitimas quicunque undes traducere taedas’.
f. 23r: Untitled Latin poem, beginning ‘Ipsa ferens utero, costode tradita, culpa’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-002108103
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002108103
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165006650.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
Scots - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1638
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England, Scotland.
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condirion: Damaged by water.
Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 300 x 185 mm.
Foliation: ff. iv + 23.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum 1957.
Script: Italic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England, Scotland.
Provenance:
Sir John Ayton, nephew and heir of Sir Robert Ayton (1570–1638), poet and courtier: former owner.
Richard Heber (1774–1833), book collector: former owner, his sale February 1836 (lot 309).
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in 1836-1840 (London: British Museum, 1843) p. 29.
Gullans, C.B., ed. The Works of Sir Robert Ayton (The English and Latin Poems) (Edinburgh: Printed for the Scottish Text Society, 1963).
McDiarmid, M.P., ‘Some Versions of Poems by Sir Robert Aytoun and Sir William Alexander’, Notes & Queries, 202 (1957), 32-35.
Rogers, C., ed. The poems of Sir Robert Aytoun (Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1871).
Wardroper, John, Love and Drollery (London: Routledge, 1969), pp. 18, 88.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)