Add MS 24195

ff. 1r–84v: A volume of King James I and VI's poems and sonnets, corrected by his own hand, entitled (f. 2r) 'All the kings short poesis that ar not printed'. Tables of contents, with corrections and additions, are entered at both the beginning and end of the volume. The general title, tables of contents, some of the headings of the poems, and the sonnets at ff. 6r–v, ff. 44r–45v, are written by Prince Charles, afterwards Charles I.

Two of the sonnets, ff. 43r–v, one of them on the frost of 1616, are in the handwriting of Thomas Cary [or Carewe], whose signature is found on the fly leaf at the beginning. Some of the poems are crossed out, with the note that they are already printed.

In the original vellum binding, with the words 'Domine salvum fac regem' stamped in gold on both covers. On f. ii the name Charles [the Prince] is written twice, and on the fly-leaves are the signatures of Thomas Cary, James Leuiston [Livingstone, Earl of Calendar], and Doctor John Craig.

f. 1r: Pen trials, including the signatures of Thomas Cary and James Leuiston [Livingstone, Earl of Calendar].

ff. 2v–3r: Contents list.

ff. 4r–30r: Poems under the heading 'Amatoria.'

ff. 4r–9v: Sonnets.

f. 4r: 'A complaint against the contrary Wyndes that hindered the Queene to com to Scotland from Denmarke.'

f. 4v: 'O cruell Cupide what a rutheles rage.'

f. 5r: 'As on the wings of your enchanting fame' (entitled 'To the Queene.')

f. 5v: 'That blessed houre when first was broght to light' (entitled 'To the Queene, Anonimos.')

ff. 6r–v: 'Two sonnes to her M[aies]tie to shew the difference of Stiles', in the hand of Prince Charles. The first begins 'although Madame I ought not to refuse'; the second 'But what Madame & shall I then denie.'

f. 7r: 'The Cheuiott hills doe with my state agree.'

f. 7v: 'As man, a man am I composed all.'

f. 8r: 'If he that lackes the light may iustlie mone.'

f. 8v: 'come fruictfull thoughts that fertill euer flowes.'

f. 9r: 'Although that crooke crawling Vulcan lie.'

f. 9v: 'O womans witt that wauers with the winde.'

ff. 10r–v: 'Constant Loue in all Conditions.'

ff. 10v–12v: 'A Dier at her Maiesties desyer.'

f. 13r: 'My Muse hath made a willfull lye I grante.'

ff. 14r–16r: 'A complaint of his mistressis absence from Court.'

ff. 16v–24v: 'A dreame on his Mistris my Ladie Glammes.'

ff. 25r–27r: 'A Satire against Woemen.'

ff. 27v–29r: 'Song 1.'

ff. 29r–30r: 'Song 2.'

ff. 31r–51v: Poems under the heading Miscellanea.

f. 31r: 'The azured vault, the christall circles bright.'

f. 31v: 'A sonnet on Mr Pa. Adamsons paraphrase of Job' (crossed out).

f. 32r: 'A sonnet on Ticho Brahe.'

f. 32v: 'Another on the same.'

f. 33r: 'Another on the same.'

f. 33v: 'A sonnet on Du Bartas.'

f. 34r: 'What heauen doth furnish thee such learned skill.'

f. 34v: 'O diuin du Bartas, disciple d' Vranie' (crossed out).

f. 35r: 'A sonnet on Mr W. Fullers translation of Petrarchs triumphe of loue.'

f. 35v: 'An Epitaphe on Sr Philip Sidney.'

f. 36r: 'An epitaphe on John Shaw.'

f. 36v: 'Votum.'

f. 37r: 'A Sonnet to Chanceller Maitlane' (John Maitland, Lord Maitland of Thirlestane, Lord Chancellor of Scotland, 1590.)

f. 37v: 'An epitaph on Montgomrie.'

f. 38r: 'A Sonnet on the moneth of May.'

f. 38v: 'An aenigme of sleepe.'

f. 39r: 'A sonnet when the King was surprised by the Earle Bothwell.'

f. 39v: 'Another on the same.'

f. 40r: 'Alle kinde of wronge allace it now aboundes' (crossed out).

f. 40v: 'A Sonnet painting out the perfect poet' (crossed out).

f. 41r: 'A Sonnet to the reader prefixed to the treatise of the arte of poesie' (crossed out).

f. 41v: 'O mightie Gods since I with pen and poets art' (crossed out).

f. 42r: 'Apollo nixt assist me to a part' (crossed out).

f. 42v: 'O mightie sonne of Semele the faire' (crossed out).

f. 43r: 'A Sonett on Sr William Alexanders harshe vearses after the Ingliche fasone.'

f. 43v: 'A Sonet against the could that was in January 1616.'

f. 44r: 'Not orientall Indus cristall streames', in the hand of Prince Charles.

f. 44v: 'Faire famous Isle, where Agathocles rang', in the hand of Prince Charles.

f. 45r: 'Vpon occasion of some great disorders in Scotland.'

f. 45v: Another copy of the sonnet on f. 31v.

ff. 46r–49v: 'An admonition to the Master poet to be warr of great bragging hereafter, lest he not onlie slander him selfe; bot also the whole professours of the art.'

ff. 49v–50v: 'Ex Lucano libro quinto.'

ff. 51r–v: 'Song. the first verses that euer the King made.'

ff. 52r–61r: Poems under the heading Fragmenta.

ff. 52r–55v: 'An epithalamion vpon the Marques of Huntlies marriage.'

ff. 56r–57r: 'The beginning of his Maiesties jurnei to Denmarke; neuer ended.'

ff. 57v–59v: 'A pairt of du Bartas first day.'

ff. 60r–61r: 'The beginning of Mr du Bartas Eden.'

ff. 62r–63v: The confession of John Hamilton the Jesuit, and James I's confutation (Latin).

ff. 64r–66r: A letter from Sir Walter Lindsay, on the church of Rome, with James's answer.

ff. 66v–67r: Allegorical account of James's visit from Iris and Mercury.

ff. 67v–68r: Fragment of a letter in French from James to Guillaume de Salluste, Sieur du Bartas, no date.

f. 68v: Copy of a letter from James to Lord Chancellor Maitland; sent with the sonnet on f. 37r.

ff. 69r–70r: Fragment of a copy of letter in French from James to Philippe de Mornay, Sieur du Plessis-Marly, October 1611, Theobalds.

ff. 71r–76v: Fragment of James's letter to Pierre Du Moulin, senior, Prebendary of Canterbury, 16 December 1611, Royston.

f. 77r: Copy of a letter in Italian from Doctor [Jacopo Antonio] Marta to King James, 19 February 1612, Padua.

f. 77v: Copy of a letter in Spanish from Philip III to the Presidents of Councils, 23 October 1612.

ff. 78r–v: Copy of the decree placing the 'Controversia Anglicana de Potestate Regis et Pontificis' by Martin Becanus on the Index Expurgatorius, 3 January 1613 (Latin).

ff. 79r–81v: Short discourse on the validity of the papacy of Clement VIII.

ff. 82v–83r: Index.

f. 84v: More pen trials, the lines 'Heere lyes whom to euen by her death and end/ Apollo did a longer lyfe her send', and the signature of Doctor John Craig.