Manuscript, on paper, in several mid-seventeenth-century cursive hands, containing a collection of poems mainly by sixteenth- and seventeeth-century English and Scottish authors, divided into six "Books of Verse." Thomas Carew is represented by 17 poems; John Donne by 5 poems; Ben Jonson by 3 poems; and John Cleveland by 2 poems. The volume also contains poems by other authors, including Francis Beaumont, Sir Edward Dyer, George Etherege, Thomas Lodge, Walter Raleigh, Philip Sidney, William Strode, Aurelian Townshend, and Edmund Waller. There are also many anonymous and unattributed poems, including epitaphs, lyrics, epigrams, and satires; ballads such as "Chevy Chase" and "Fair Rosamund"; the comic poem "Speech of a Fife Laird"; and an early version of "Auld Lang Syne."
Description:
Annotated in ink on front flyleaf in an eighteenth-century? hand: 12. shill., Annotated in pencil on front flyleaf in a modern hand with auction information and a note: This volume contains what appears to be the earliest appearance of "Auld Lang Syne" on p. 247., Annotated on front pastedown in contemporary hand: With some original new poesie., Binding: contemporary calf, paneled in blind; compartmented spine., Ownership inscription under title on title page: Frendraught legi., and Previously owned by James Crichton, 2nd Viscount Frendraught. Ex libris Thomas Fraser Duff. Ex libris Robert S. Pirie. Purchased from Richard Linenthal (Sotheby's New York sale, 2015 December 3-4, lot 816) on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2015.
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland--Poetry, Songs, English--Early works to 1800, and Songs, Scots--Early works to 1800
Ballads, English--Early works to 1800, Ballads, Scots--Early works to 1800, English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700, English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700, Epigrams, English--Early works to 1800, Epitaphs--Early works to 1800, Satire, English--Early works to 1800, Scottish literature--To 1700, and Scottish poetry--To 1700
Autograph manuscript of a collection of about 250 primarily light, satirical, or amatory English poems by various authors. In addition to twelve poems by Robert Herrick, primarily on love, the manuscript also contains poems by Thomas Carew, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Sir John Harington, Michael Drayton, George Wither, and others, as well as 17 poems in Latin. Other items include several pieces relating to Cambridge University and Suffolk, as well as numerous bawdy poems, drinking songs, political and religious verse satires, epigrams, and epitaphs both humorous and serious. Titles of these poems include An epitaph on Luce Morgan; Upon the Parliament 1624; A Puritan and A Papist; and several poems on Prince Charles' and the Duke of Buckingham's journey to Spain in 1623. Also in the manuscript is a copy of the love poem titled ""Shall I die?,"" attributed to Shakespeare in a Bodleian manuscript. At the end of the manuscript are notes and verses in later hands.
Description:
Disbound and separated into 21 folders., Marbled endpapers. Binding: full calf; blind-tooled cover., and Written on flyleaf: "Tobias Alston his booke," several times, as well as other names, including "Henricus Glisson" and "Harris Norton." In a later hand, "E L John Whitehead."
Subject (Name):
Alston, Tobias, 1620-ca. 1639, Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628, Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?, Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649, Donne, John, 1572-1631, Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631, Harington, John, 1589-1654, Herrick, Robert, 1591-1674, Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, University of Cambridge--Poetry, and Wither, George, 1588-1667
Subject (Topic):
Bawdy poetry--England, English poetry--17th century, English wit and humor, Epigrams, English, Epitaphs, English, Latin poetry, Love--Poetry, Political satire, English--17th century, Songs, English--17th century, Verse satire, English, and Women--Conduct of life