Add MS 32380

1. "EIKON BASILIKE, the Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie [Charles I.] in his solitudes and sufferings": a copy probably made from the first printed edition of 164.8/9, immediately after its publication.

2. Ballads, thirty in number, some being genuine and some spurious. Their titles are given by, J. P. Collier in his New Particulars regarding the Works of Shakespeare, 1836; two of them, viz., "The Tragedie of Othello the Moore" (f. 111 b), and "The Inchanted Island" (f. 82 b), being descriptive of the same tales as Shakspeare's "Othello" and "Tempest." Both have been printed by J. P. Collier, the first in his New Particulars, etc., p. 49, and the second in his Further Particulars regarding Shakespeare and his Works, 1839, p. 56 ; and both of them, together with a third entitled "The Atheists Tragedie" (four stanzas of which were printed in New Particulars, p. 47), have been denounced as forgeries (see The Academy, vol. IX., 1876, p. 313; XXVII., 1885, p. 170). The ballads are, for the most part, written, reversing the book, on the verso sides of the leaves which were left blank by the transcriber of the Eikon Basilike. The writing is by a modern hand imitating one of the 17th century, and is of the same cast, and undoubtedly by the same hand, as various fabricated documents and entries, professing to be of the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries, and connected with the history of Shakspeare and the English stage, which have been interpolated among the MSS. at Bridgewater House and Dulwich College (see facsimiles in A complete view of the Shakspere Controversy, by C. M. Ingleby, LL.D., 1861). Paper; ff. 153. XVIIth and xixth centt. Small Quarto.

Poetry: Ballads, genuine and spurious, collected by J. P. Collier: 19th cent.

Charles I of England: Copy of the Eikon Basilike: circ. 1649.

includes:

• ff. 82 b, 111 b William Shakespeare: Mock ballads connected with Shakspeare's plays: 19th cent.