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Add MS 12049
- Record Id:
- 040-002041756
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002041530
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000451.0x0002e8
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100151952990.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 12049
- Title:
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Sir John Harington, Collection of poetry and prose
- Scope & Content:
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Collection of poetry and prose, principally by Sir John Harington (c. 1517–1582), courtier and writer. With a dedication to Prince Henry dated 19 June 1605.
ff. 1r-2r: Letter On the provenance of the volume from Henry Foss, book dealer, to Joseph Haslewood (1769–1833), bibliographer and antiquary. 23 November 1825. With a note by Samuel Butler (1774–1839), headmaster and bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.
ff. 3r-9r: Newspaper clippings concerning the volume. EU Hood [Joseph Haslewood], ‘Fly Leaves No. XXXV’, Gentleman's Magazine (February 1827), pp. 119-21 (ff. 3r-7r); and ‘Fly Leaves No. XXXVIII’, Gentleman's Magazine (August 1827), p. 128 (ff. 8r-9r).
ff. 10r-12v: Notes on the purchase and contents of the volume, possibly by Henry Foss.
ff. 13r-14v: Unattributed notes on the contents of the volume.
f. 15r: Title page, 19th century: ‘Epigrams and Poems by Sir John Harington Knight. The author’s own MS: p. 194. Several pieces unpublished’.
f. 16r: Sir John Harington, ‘My Lady Rogers Epitaph’, beginning ‘Death to make vawnt of his propestrows powre’.
f. 16r: Sir John Harington, untitled poem beginning ‘Lynus when hee is fresh which is but seeld’.
f. 16v: Two lines beginning ‘Sit simplex humilis confessio pura fidelis’.
f. 17r: Francis Harington, untitled poem beginning ‘Si Reges et Reginae sunt Roma tuorum’. With an English translation beginning ‘Perfidious Rome if Kings and Queenes are your Tutors’.
f. 18r-18v: Sir John Harington, autograph draft of a letter to Prince Henry. [1606].
f. 19r: Sir John Harington, ‘To James the VI king of Skotland. The dedicacion of the copy sent by Cap. Hunter’, beginning ‘Joy to present hope of future ages’.
ff. 19v-118v: Sir John Harington, 409 epigrams. With two coloured manicules with differing hand gestures pasted in the margins (f. 64). One page of 19th-century notes (f. 85v).
f. 96v: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, ‘A translation of the Earl of Surreys out of Martiall directed by him to one Maister Warner’, begininng ‘Warner the things for to attayn’.
f. 118v: Sir John Harington, autograph draft of a letter to Richard Langley. 3 December 1602.
ff. 119r-122r: Latin and English verses by Francis Harington, beginning ‘Carmine prima mihi primo dicetur Eliza’ (f. 119r); ‘Maxima cui magnam credit regina sigillum’ (f. 119r); ‘Inclite quem comitem foecunda Salopia novit’ with English translation (ff. 119v-122r).
f. 123r: Untitled poem beginning ‘Tu qui regalis conrrorotulator es aulae’.
f. 123v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Me caruit totis bis septum absente diebus’.
ff. 123v-124r: Untitled biblical paraphrase beginning ‘Josua deuictos cum iam prope senserat hostes’.
f. 124r: Sir John Harington, poem beginning ‘I near desearvd that gloriows name of Poet’.
ff. 125r-129r: Sir John Harington, ‘A new yeeres guifte sent by Sir John Haryngton of Bathe in the county of Somerset Knight to the Kings Majesty of Scotland. Anno 1602. and in the xliiii yeer of Queen Elisabeth’. Beginning ‘A dark lantern composed of fowr mettles’.
f. 129v: Sir John Harington, ‘A gratulatory Elegy of the peaceable entry of King James gev’n to his Majesty at Burlegh 1603’, beginning ‘Come triumphe enter, Church, courte, citty, towne’.
ff. 129v-130r: Sir John Harington, ‘An Elegy written at the same tyme for the wellcome of Queen Ann into England’, beginning ‘Great Queen belov’d and blest in heav’n and earth’.
f. 130r-130v: Sir John Harington, ‘The authors farwell to his Muse written at Eaton 1603 the 14th of Aprill’, beginning ‘Musa jocosa, meos solari assueta dolores’.
ff. 131r-146v: Index of first lines.
f. 147r: Poem titled ‘In Tabaco’, beginning ‘A: giig, gyda miig’.
f. 147r: Poem beginning ‘Qua larva? quo ricta oris? quo denique fumo’ With an English translation.
f. 147v: Untitled poem beginning ‘Qui mihi discipulus, puer es cupis atque doceri’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002041530
040-002041756 - Is part of:
- Add MS 11828-12117 : Collection belonging to the late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D., Lord Bishop of Lichfield.
Add MS 12049 : Sir John Harington, Collection of poetry and prose - Hierarchy:
- 032-002041530[0220]/040-002041756
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 11828-12117
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100151952990.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1610
- Date Range:
- c. 1605
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 194 x 146 mm.
Foliation: ff. xxxv + 147.
Binding: Post-1600. Olive morocco by Lewis with the stamp of Samuel Butler (1774–1839), headmaster and bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.
Script: Secretary, italic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Lieutenant Harington of Charmouth near Bridport, grandson of Henry Harington (1727–1816), composer and physician: former owner.
Henry Foss, book dealer: former owner.
Joseph Haslewood (1769–1833), bibliographer and antiquary: former owner, purchased for 50 guineas.
Samuel Butler (1774–1839), headmaster and bishop of Coventry and Lichfield: former owner. His sale, 1841 (Lot 612).
Acquired by the British Museum in 1841.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1841-1845 (London: British Museum, 1850), p. 29.
‘Add MS 12049’, Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, ed. Peter Beal, online: http://www.celm-ms.org.uk/repositories/british-library-additional-10000.html [accessed 20 March 2019].
Bibliotheca Butleriana: a catalogue of the library of the late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, Lord Bishop of Lichfield (London: Payne and Foss, 1841), p. 53.
A.S.G. Edwards, ‘Surrey's Martial Epigram: Scribes and Transmission’, English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, 12 (2005), 74-82.
Henry Harington, ed. Nugae Antiquae, 2 vols (London and Bath: Printed for W. Frederick, at Bath and sold by J. Robinson and Roberts, and J. Dodsley, 1769-75).
Gerard Kilroy, ed. The Epigrams of Sir John Harington (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009).
The Letters and Epigrams of Sir John Harington together with The Prayse of Private Life, ed. Norman Egbert McClure (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1930).
R.H. Miller, ‘Unpublished Poems by Sir John Harington’, English Literary Renaissance, 14 (1984), 148-58.
R.H. Miller, ‘Sir John Harington’s “A Supplie or Addicion to the Catalogue of Bishops to the Yeare 1608”: Composition and Text’, Studies in Bibliography, 30 (1977), 145-61.
Henry Howard, The Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, ed. Frederick Morgan Padelford (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1920).
Jason Scott-Warren, Sir John Harington and the Book as Gift (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)