Genre: Verse

The Folger Shakespeare Library: MS V.b.198
Miscellany containing poetry, prose, and notes (1587-1636)
(author, occasional scribe)


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. poet. 154
Presentation verse manuscript (1689)
(Author, Scribe)Mary Astell


British Library: Add. MS 21621
A Collection of Poems Referring to the times (?early 1701)
(Author)Jane Barker
(Scribe)William Connock


Magdalen College Library: MS 343
Poems on several occasions (c. 1700-1704)
(Author)Jane Barker


Berkeley Castle: Berkeley Manuscripts General Series, Miscellaneous Papers 31/15
Petrarchan sonnets ([Elizabethan period])
(Author, translator) Elizabeth Carey


Houghton Library: Houghton MS Am 1007
Meditations Divine and Moral (after 1672)
Anne Bradstreet (Author)
Short entry.


Huntington Library: MS EL 35/B/62
"The Vision", a poem on Ashridge and the history of members of the Bridgewater family (1699)
Marie Burghope (Author, scribe)


Beinecke Library: MS b.233
Poetry and drama (mid 17th c.)
Lady Jane Cavendish (Author)
Short entry.


Bodleian Library: MS Rawlinson poet. 16
Miscellany ()
Lady Jane Cavendish ( Author)
Lady Elizabeth Brackley ( Author)
Short entry.


Folger Library: MS V.a.89
Leaves from a verse miscellany of court poetry (c. 1580-c. 1595)
Anne Cornwallis (owner)


British Library: MS Egerton 607
Prayers, Meditations, and Devotional Pieces (before 1663)
Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater ( Author)


Bodleian Library: MS e. Mus. 55
Translation of Seneca (16th c.)
Princess Elizabeth (I) ( Translator)
Short entry.


Bodleian Library: MS Add. C. 92
Royal letters and poems, 1526-1609 ( Early 16th c.)
Elizabeth I (Author)
Mary I (Author)
Mary, Queen of Scots (Author)
Short entry.


Beinecke Library: MS b.226
Miscellany ()
Dorothy (Frances) Feilding (Compiler)
Short entry.


Huntington Library: Huntington MS HM 904
Poetical Miscellany (before 1656)
Constance Aston Fowler (scribe)


Beinecke Library: MS pb 110
Miscellany of poems by Edmund Waller and other contemporary poets (1684)
(compiler) Elisabeth Moyle Gregor (Compiler, scribe)


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. poet. 25
Sidney Psalms (Late 17th century)
Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (Author)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 12048
Sidney Psalms
Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (Author)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 12047
Sidney Psalms
Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (Author)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 46372
Sidney Psalms (Late 16th century)
Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (Author)
Short entry.


National Library of Wales: Peniarth MS 374B
Sidney Psalms (18th century)
Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (Author)
Short entry.


Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge: MS O.1.51
Psalms (Late 16th century)
Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (Author)
Short entry.


Trinity College Library: MS R.3.16
Psalms
Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (author)
Short entry.


Bibliotheque de la Sorbonne: MS 1110
Sidney Psalms (Early 17th century)
Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (Author)
Short entry.


Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: MS 2844
Martha Hodges (and others)'s book of cookery and medical receipts, plus religious extracts and poems (c.1675-1725)
Martha Hodges (Compiler)
Short entry.


Edinburgh University Library: MS Laing III. 444
Poems compiled by or for Lucy Davies (c. 1630)
Lucy Davies (later Hastings) ( Compiler)
Short entry.


Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 2
Elegies (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson


British Library: Add. MS 19333
De Rerum Natura ( early mid 17th c.)
Lucy Hutchinson ( Translator)


Beinecke Library: MS fb. 100
Order and Disorder (late 17th c.)
Lucy Hutchinson (Author)
Short entry.


Berlin State Library: MS Lat. oct. 14
Tetrasticha selecta historiae Geneseos (1606)
(Scribe)Esther Inglis


Bibliotheque Nationale: MS francais 14849
Proverbs (1601)
(Scribe)Esther Inglis


Newberry Library: Wing MS ZW 645.K292
Les Quatrains du Sieur de Pybrac (1607)
Esther Inglis (Scribe)


British Library: Add. MS 19633
Transcription by Esther Inglis of Guy du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac's Quatrains (1 January, 1615)
Esther Inglis (Scribe)
Full entry.


British Library: Add. MS 22606
Transcription by Esther Inglis of Guy du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac's Quatrains (27 June, 1617)
Esther Inglis (Scribe)
Full entry.


British Library: MS Harl. 4324
Les Quatrains de Guy de Faur (1614)
Esther Inglis ( Transcriber)
Short entry.


Bodleian Library: MS Bodl. 987
Transcription by Esther Inglis of Guy du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac's Quatrains (21 June 1617)
Esther Inglis (Scribe)
Full entry.


Royal Library: Thott 323
Transcription by Esther Inglis of Guy du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac's Quatrains (September 1606)
Esther Inglis (Scribe)
Full entry.


Royal Library: Gl. Kgl. Saml. 3380
Psalms (1624)
(Scribe) Esther Inglis


Edinburgh University Library: MS Laing III. 439
Les Quatrains du Sieur de Pybrac ()
Esther Inglis ( Scribe)
Short entry.


Folger Library: MS V.a.91
Octonaries upon the vanity and inconstancy of the world (1600)
Esther Inglis (Scribe)
Short entry.


Folger Library: MS V.a.92
Octonaries upon the vanity and inconstancy of the world (1607)
Esther Inglis (Scribe)
Short entry.


Folger Library: MS V.a.93
Psalms (1599)
Esther Inglis (Scribe)
Short entry.


Folger Library: MS V.a.94
Psalms (1608)
Esther Inglis (Scribe)
Short entry.


Houghton Library: MS Typ. 212
Psalms (1606)
Esther Inglis (Scribe)
Short entry.


Houghton Library: MS Typ. 347
Quatrains de Guy de Faur (1615)
Esther Inglis (Scribe)
Short entry.


Houghton Library: MS Typ. 428
Argumenta singulorum capitum Geneseos per Tetrasticha (1608)
Esther Inglis (Scribe)
Short entry.


Houghton Library: MS Typ. 49
Synopsis of the Bible (1615)
Esther Inglis (Scribe)
Short entry.


Huntington Library: MS HM 26068
Discours de la Foy (1591)
Esther Inglis (Scribe)
Short entry.


Pierpont Morgan Library: MS 2149
Ecclesiasticus (1607)
Esther Inglis (Scribe)
Short entry.


Pierpont Morgan Library: MS W. 72
Octonaires sur la vanite et inconstance du monde (1615)
Esther Inglis (Scribe)
Short entry.


National Library of Scotland: MS Acc. 11821
Transcription by Esther Inglis of Rudolphus Gualterus's verse Paraphrases of the Book of Matthew (26 January 1607)
Esther Inglis (Scribe and artist)
Full entry.


National Library of Scotland: MS 20498
Ecclesiastes and Lamentations (1602)
Esther Inglis ( Scribe)
Short entry.


National Archives of Scotland: Dep. GD 18/4508
Cinquante Octonaires (1607)
Esther Inglis (Scribe)
Short entry.


Royal Library, Windsor Castle: No reference.
Cinquante Octonaires sur la vanite et inconstance de monde (1607)
Esther Inglis ( Scribe)
Short entry.


Beinecke Library: MS b.221
Spiritual journal (1643-1652)
Elizabeth Jekyll (Author)
Short entry.


Dr. Williams's Library: MS 24.178
The heavenly cloud now breaking (after 1681)
Jane Lead (Author)
Short entry.


British Library: Add. MS 17492
Miscellany (early 16th c.)
Margaret (Douglas) Howard (Scribe)
Mary (Howard) Fitzroy (Scribe)
Mary Shelton (Scribe)
Short entry.


Northamptonshire Record Office: Montagu of Boughton Correspondence vol 3 pp. 232-259
Poems and prayers of Anne Mountagu ()
Anne Mountagu (Author)
Short entry.


Beinecke Library: MS b.49
Devotional verse (1655-1668)
Elizabeth Newell (Compiler)
Short entry.


William Andrews Clark Memorial Library: MS P1745 M1 P744 1671-3 Bound
Two "Centuries" of Devotional Verse, 1671-1673 (1671-1673)
Julia Palmer (author, scribe)


Worcester College, Oxford: MS 6. 13
The 'Clarke Manuscript' of Katherine Philips' poems ()
Katherine Philips (Author)
George Clarke (Scribe)
Short entry.


Folger Library: MS V.b.231
Poetry (1670)
Katherine Philips (Author)
Short entry.


Brotherton Library, University of Leeds: Lt q 32
Poems, emblems and an unfinished romance ( 1655-1678)
Hester Pulter (Author)


Brotherton Library: MS Lt q 2
The sacred history (1669-1670)
(Author) Mary ?Roper


British Library: Add. MS 10037
Translations of the Sibyls' Prophecies of the Birth of Christ (1589)
Jane Seager (Translator, scribe and artist)


Houghton Library: fMS Eng. 602
Poems by Edmund Waller and others ()
A daughter of Edmund Waller (Compiler)
Short entry.


Bodleian Library: MS Eng. poet e. 31
Verse miscellany with additional recipes (1691-1706)
Octavia Walsh (Author, Scribe)


Beinecke Library: Osborn MS b.202
Hymns and Poems transcribed by Mary Webber, 1694 (After 1694)
(Compiler) Mary Webber


Folger Library: MS V.a.162
Verse miscellany (mid 17th c.)
Elizabeth Welden (Scribe)
Short entry.


Manuscripts and Special Collections, University of Nottingham: MS Portland PwV 31
Poems ()
Elizabeth Wilmot, Countess of Rochester (Author)
Short entry.


Northamptonshire Record Office: Finch-Hatton MS 283
Poems of Ardelia (c. 1700)
Anne Finch ("Ardelia") (Author)
Short entry.


Folger Library: MS N.b.3
Miscellany (c. 1685-c. 1702)
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (Author)
Short entry.


Beinecke Library: MS b.222
Devotional miscellany (c. 1662-1672)
Ursula Wyvill (Compiler)


National Archives of Scotland: GD56/157
Poetry and fragments by Dame Margaret Young (late 17th to early 18th c.)
Dame Margaret Young ( Author)
Short entry.