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Record Id:

032-002108217

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032-002108217

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ark:/81055/vdc_100000000042.0x000370

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Add MS 10422

Title:

Robert Southwell, S.J., Collection of poetry and prose

Scope & Content:

Collection of works by Robert Southwell, writer, Jesuit, and martyr (1561-1595).

f. 1r: To the Reader (‘Deare eye that dost peruse my muses style’).

f. 2r: The conception of [Our Lady] (‘Our second Eve puts on her mortall shroud’).

f. 2v: [Our] Ladies Natuitie (‘Joy in the rising of our orient starr’).

f. 3r: Our Ladies Spousals (‘Wyse did shee liue, yet virgin did shee die’).

f. 3v: Our Ladies Salutators (‘Spell Eva bbacke, and Ave, shall yow finde’).

f. 4r: The Visitacion (‘Proclaymed Queene and Mother of a god’).

f. 4v: The Natiuitie of Christe (‘Beholde the father is his daughters soone’).

f. 5r: The Circumcision (‘The head is lancd to worke the bodies cure’).

f. 5v: The Epiphanie (‘To blase the risinge of this glorious Sunne’).

f. 6r: The Presentacion (‘To bee Redeemde the worldes Redeemer broughte’).

f. 6v: The flighte into Egipt (‘Alas our daye is forcd to fly by night’).

f. 7r: Christes returne out of Egipte (‘When death and hell theyr right in Herode clame’).

f. 7v: Christes Chyldhode (‘Till twelue yeares age, how Christ his childhod spent’).

f. 8r: The death of our Ladie (‘Weepe livinge thinges of Life the mother dies’).

f. 8v: The Assumption of our Ladie (‘If synne bee captive grace must fynde release’).

f. 9r: A childe my choyce (‘Let folly prayse that phancy loues, I prayse & loue that childe’).

ff. 9v-10v: Newe heauen new Warre (‘Come to your heaven you heavenly quyres’).

f. 10v: The burning babe (‘As I in hoarie winters night stoode shivering in the snowe’).

f. 11r: New prinnce new pompe (‘Behoulde a seelie tender babe’).

ff. 11v-12v: Sinnes heauye loade (‘O Lorde my synnes doth overcharge thy brest’).

ff. 12v-13r: Christes bloudie sweat (‘Fat soyle full springe sweet olive grape of blesse’).

ff. 13r-14r: Christes sleeping friendes (‘When Christe with care and pangues of death opprest’).

ff. 14r-16r: Josephes amazement (‘When Christe by groath disclosed his descent’).

ff. 16r-17r: Saint Thomas of Aquines hymne redd on Corpus Christi day, Lauda Syon Sal. (‘Prayse O Syon prayse prayse thy Saviour’).

ff. 17v-19r: Of the blessed Sacrament of the Altere (‘In Paschall fest the ende of auncient rite’).

ff. 19v-21r: Saint Peters Complaynte (‘How can I live that have my life denied’).

f. 21r: Saint Peters afflicted mynde (‘If that the sicke may grone’).

ff. 21v-22r: Marie Magdalens blushe (‘The signes of shame that stayne my blushing face’).

ff. 22r-23r: Saynt Peters remorse (‘Remorse vpbrayde my faultes’).

ff. 23v-24r: Davids Peccavi (‘In cave sole sparrowe sittes not more alone’).

ff. 24r-26v: Maister diers phansie turned to a synners Complaynte (‘Hee that his mirth hath loste’).

ff. 26v-28v: A vale of teares (‘A vale there is enwrapt with dreadfull shades’).

ff. 29r-30r: The prodigall childes soule wracke (‘Disankerd from a blissfull shore’).

ff. 30v-31r: Marie Magdalens complaynt at Christs death (‘Sith my life from life is parted’).

ff. 31v-32r: Decease release Dum morior Orior (‘The pounded spise both tast and sent doth please’).

ff. 32v-33r: I die without desert (‘If Orphane chylde enwrapte in swathinge bandes’).

ff. 33r-33v: Mans civill warre (‘My hoveringe thoughtes would fly to heaven’).

ff. 34r-34v: Life is but Losse (‘By force I live in will I wishe to die’).

f. 35r: Seeke flowers of Heaven (‘Soare upp my sowle unto thy rest’).

f. 35v: I die alive (‘O Life what lettes thee from a quicke decease’).

ff. 36r-36v: What joye to live (‘I wage no warre yet peace I none enjoye’).

ff. 36v-37r: Lifes death loves lyfe (‘Who lives in love, loves best to live’).

ff. 37r-38r: At home in heaven (‘Fayre soule how longe shall veyles thy graces shroude’).

ff. 38r-38v: Looke home (‘Retired thoughtes enjoye their owne delighte’).

ff. 38v-39r: Tymes goe by tournes (‘The lopped tree in tyme may growe agayne’).

ff. 39v-40r: Losse in delaye (‘Shunne delayes they breed remorse’).

ff. 40v-41v: Loves servile lott (‘Love mistrese is of manie myndes’).

ff. 41v-42v: Lewde love is losse (‘Misdeeminge eye stoapest to the lure’).

ff. 42v-43v: Loves gardine greife (‘Vayne loves avaunt infamous is your pleasure’).

ff. 43v-44r: Fortunes falsehood (‘In worldlie merimentes lurketh much miserie’).

ff. 44v-45r: From fortunes reach (‘Lett fickle fortune runne her blyndest race’).

ff. 45r-46v: Content and riche (‘I dwell in graces courte’).

ff. 46v-47r: Scorne not the least (‘Wher wardes are weake and foes encountring stronge’).

ff. 47r-64v: Saint Peters Complaint (‘Launch foorth my soule into a maigne of teares’), including ‘The Author to the reader’, ff. 47r-47v (‘Deare eye that daynest to lett fall a looke’).

ff. 65r-82r: Letter from Robert Southwell, S.J., to his father. Titled ‘To the Worshipfull his verie good father Master R.S. his dutifull sonne R.S. Wisheth all happinese’ (‘In Children of former ages, it hath beene thought’).

ff. 83r-84r: Letter from Robert Southwell, S.J., to his father. Titled ‘A letter writen to his brother’ (‘Understandinge that you were resolved upon a course’).

ff. 84v-85r: Letter from Robert Southwell, S.J., to an unknown recipient. Titled ‘A letter writen by P.B. to his Coosyn W.R.’ (‘I knowe not how to write, because I knowe not to whome to write’).

ff. 86r-109r: The Triumphs over Death (‘If it bee a Blessinge of the vertuous to mourne’), including: ‘The Author to the Reader’, ff. 86r-86v (‘If the Athenians erected an Alter to an unknowne god’); a Latin epitaph, f. 108r (‘Clara ducum soboles, superis nova sedibus hospes’); and an epitaph on Lady Margaret Sackville, f. 109r (‘Of Howardes stemm a glorious branch is dead’).

f. 110v: Verses in a 17th century hand with the names ‘William Wartters’, ‘Thomas’, and ‘Marmaduke Bishoppe’:‘Let them bestow on every wind a limb’ elsewhere attributed to James Graham, 1st marquess of Montrose (1612-1650); Ausonius, On the Ages of Living Things, from Hesiod (‘Ter binos deciesque novem super exit in annos’); ‘Cum foderit fero castum Lucritia’.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 volume

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Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1590

End Date:

1615

Date Range:

Late 16th century-Early 17th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 196 x 144 mm.

Foliation: ff. v + 110.

Binding: Post-1600. British Museum.

Script: Professional secretary hand, varied with titles in an Italian hand and ornamented with flourishes. Corrections in two later hands (f. 10v) and notes in other hands (ff. 107v, 110v).

Damage to the outer margins of ff. 1-2.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Richard Heber (1774-1833): his sale, 19 February 1836, lot 1447.

Information About Copies:

Copies of these poems can be found in the following manuscripts:

British Library, Harley MS 6921;

Stonyhurst College, MS. A. v. 27;

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Poet. e. 113;

Washington DC, Folger Shakespeare Library, STC 22957.

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in 1836-1840 (London: British Museum, 1843) p. 36.

Peter Beal, 'Additional MS 10422', Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, online: http://www.celm-ms.org.uk/repositories/british-library-additional-10000.html#british-library-additional-10000_id650000 [accessed 21 December 2018].

Nancy Pollard Brown, ed. Two Letters and Short Rules of a Good Life (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, [1973]).

James H. McDonald and Nancy Pollard Brown, eds. The Poems of Robert Southwell, S.J. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967).

John William Trotman, ed. The Triumphs Over Death by The Ven. Robert Southwell, S.J. (London: The Manresa Press, 1914).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Southwell, Robert, Jesuit; of Add MS 10422