Item 1 (Front matter, Title), fol. 1r

The works of the Lady Anne Southwell December 2 1626

[The volume opens with this heading at the top of the first folio. The first folio is preceded by a modern endpaper and two modern flyleaves.]

Item 1 (Front matter), fol. 1r

[A later hand has written the manuscript reference, MS Ashmole 51, centred. Another hand has written the number 6933, presumably an earlier reference number. The page is otherwise blank.]

Item 1 (Front matter), fols. ir-iiiv

[Modern pastedown and three blank modern flyleaves. On fol. ir, shelfmark.]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown, four endpapers, and one flyleaf

[On the front pastedown, '98g' is written with pencil in the bottom left corner of the page. Four folios have been added during binding. At the top centre of the first endpaper, in typescript, is "SLOANE MS. 2486" . The remaining endpapers are blank, as is the flyleaf.]

Item 2.1 (Front matter), fol.1r

[A large signature is faintly visible near the centre of the page, reading "John Collins". Beneath the autograph, "MS 2325" has been crossed out, and below that, beside "MS. A.", the number 559 has been crossed out and the number 2486 written below it, followed by "XII G".]

Item 1 (Front matter), Fol. 1

[Bookplate identified by Kathryn King as belonging to Anne-Charlotte de Crussol de Florensac, Duchesse d'Aiguillon, after her marriage to Armand-Louis du Plessis-Richelieu (1683-1750). The plate bears the name of the engraver Antoine Aveline (1691-1743). ( King, , Magdalen Manuscript, 1; King, , Jane Barker, Exile, 127n). King states that this French provenance might be seen to lend "marginal support" to the idea that this manuscript was indeed the presentation copy (King, , The Magdalen Manuscript, 15).]

[verso blank]

Item 2 (Front matter), Fol. [1a] (unfoliated)

[An unnumbered folio. BL catalogue number 21,621 appears at top of recto. "Purchased at Sotheby's/21 Nov. 1856/ Lot 255" hand-written in middle of recto.]

[verso blank]

Item 3 (Front matter), Fol. 2

[A small piece of paper pasted into the centre of the recto with the following written on it: "Coll: of unpublished/M.S. Poems by Jane/Barker authoress of/ Poetical Recreations/ See page 8. dedication & autograph".]

[verso blank]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown

[The inside front cover carries the signature of W.D. Macray (1826-1916), Librarian at the Bodleian, and the date 1886. Notes by Macray about Barker and about the provenance of the manuscript have been fixed into the front of the volume. Written in an unidentified hand above Macray's signature are the lines: "Curst is that kingdome where there Reigns a man/that can not ere he will, wills what he can". Above these lines are written "o/o/o Br". Pasted onto the inside front cover there is also printed information from the catalogue of James Crossley's library.]

Item 1 (Front matter), pastedown-fol.[v](v)

[Blank pastedown. On fol. [i](r), a British Library form citing one printed notice of the manuscript. Fols.[ii]-[v] blank.]

Item 1 (Front matter), fols i r-v

[On the verso of this flyleaf Butler has written the following inscription, ""Katherine Butler Given me by my Father May 1693""]

[Fol. i r is blank.]

Item 1 (Front matter), flyleaves

[The volume opens with a marbled pastedown and a marbled flyleaf. The verso of this flyleaf and the next page contain some provenance information. Including the marbled flyeaf, there are 9 blank leaves at the beginning of the volume. Then a cropped version of the first flyleaf of the original miscellany has been pasted onto a leaf. The verso of this flyleaf contains the inscription "" Anne Cornwaleys her booke"" with several flourishes. The name "Sam: Lysons" has been written beside this cropped, tipped in leaf. The recto of the following leaf, also tipped in, contains a family tree written by Samuel Lysons indicating familial links between the second son of the 11th Earl of Oxford and Anne Cornwallis. The name ""IOHN VERE"" has been written on the following leaf, a leaf that is otherwise blank, probably by Lysons.]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown - front flyleaf r

[These are marbled and blank except for a Hertfordshire Record Office stamp and the volume's call number written in pen on the pastedown.]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown - front flyleaf r

[These are marbled and blank, except for a Hertfordshire Record Office stamp and the volume's call number on the pastedown.]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown-front flyleaf r

[Blank except for a Hertfordshire Record Office stamp and the volume's call number on the pastedown.]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown-front flyleaf

[Blank except for a Hertfordshire Record Office stamp and the volume's call number on the pastedown.]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown

[Blank except for a Hertfordshire Record Office stamp and the volume's call number.]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown

Date and an incomplete note

his no small bug

...

1675

[

This is the entire entry.

The pastedown also contains a Hertfordshire Record Office stamp and the volume's call number.

Torn stumps indicate that at least two leaves have been removed between the pastedown and fol.[1].

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown - fol.[1r]

[

Blank except for a Hertfordshire Record Office Stamp and the volume's call number on flyleaf v.

The pastedown and flyleaf r are marbled.

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown-fol.[1v]

[

Blank except for a Hertfordshire Record Office stamp and the volume's call number on the pastedown.

There are two flyleaves in between the pastedown and fol.[1].

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown

[Blank except for the volume's call number in pencil.]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown - front flyleaf v

[Blank except for a Hertfordshire Record Office stamp and the volume's call number on the flyleaf v. The pastedown and flyleaf r are marbled.]

Item 1 (Front matter), pastedown - fol.[1r]

[Blank except for a Hertfordshire Record Office stamp and the volume's call number on the marbled pastedown.]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown - front flyleaf [recto]

[Marbled and blank, except for a Hertfordshire Record Office stamp and the volume's call number on the pastedown.]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown

[

Blank except for a Hertfordshire Record Office stamp and the volume's call number.

There is some printed matter visible beneath the pastedown.

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown

[Elizabeth Richardson's daughter (Hand D) has signed the front pastedown: "Eliza: Cornwalleies Boocke". There are also three notes in pencil: " "Lo.sa.c"" (perhaps a code for a price), ""Ashburnham 1861 not in Catalogue" " (for a discussion of this see provenance below), and " "Ashburnham"".]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown and fols.[i-ii]

[On the pastedown "MS. 906" is written in red ink. The two flyleaves are blank.]

Item 1 (Front matter), fols i r, 1r-v

[On the front pastedown is the inscription "" John Biddulph 1821"". On the flyleaf some provenance information has been written in pencil: " "Ledbury Park"" (probably the estate where John Biddulph, owner of the manuscript in 1821, had the manuscript), ""on appro less 10%"" and " "Elizabethan Commonplace Book ???? on approval."" A Latin inscription has been written on the first folio, ""Sum Annae Denton & amicorum"" [translation: I am Anne Denton's and her friends']. This, and the few words beside it (""Anno domini"" and ""Anno Aetat"") may be in Anne Denton's hand. A second hand has written the date 18 February in the top left corner, beside Denton's title, and (in Latin) the dates of birth and death of Anne Denton (she was born on All Saints' Day, 1 November 1548, and died on 29 October 1566, aged 18). This same hand has written that John Willison of Ledbury was born on the annunciation of the Virgin (25 March) 1544 and died 21 June 1553 That second hand has also written ""the"" beneath the inscription about John Willison, whom the hand notes as aged 10 and a half (but really nine). The bottom two-thirds of the page is blank.]

[Fol. 1v is blank.]

Item 1 (Front matter), [Ar-v]

[Note on pastedown in John Egerton's hand gives a list of dates beginning 7.7.1669 when sections were transcribed, mostly likely into the lost quarto fair copy. [Av] in John Egerton's hand: "Meditations on the Seuerall Chapters of the Holy Bible, by the Right Honble: Elizabeth Countesse of Bridgewater, who died the 14th: of June, in ye Yeare of Our Lour, 1663." This title is followed by subheadings: "Meditations on the Seuerall Chapters of ye Old Testament", "Meditations on the Booke of Genesis. / On the 1st: Chapter of Genesis." etc. through Exodus chapter 3.]

Item 1 (Front matter), pastedown

[Shelfmark and (incorrect) attribution to "Frances (Stanley) Egerton" on pastedown. Blank leaf follows.]

Item 1 (Front matter)

[Information on the first four leaves of this manuscript has been omitted.]

Item 1 (Front matter),

[Flyleaf blank; pencil note at top of flyleaf verso: "Collated .AG", pencil note at base: "$646.b."]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown-fol.1v

[Old paper pastedown, on the outer edges of which are stuck marbled strips. On the marbled strip, a small modern exhibition sticker. On the plain paper part of the pastedown, old and new Bodleian shelfmarks. Old paper flyleaf (i), on the verso of which is in modern pencil "7 Sept 1533", the date of Elizabeth's birth. Fol. 1 is the first vellum leaf, blank except for ruling.]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown, fols. i-iir

[Front pastedown and fol. i r, marbled endpapers, with Newberry Library bookplate on front pastedown. Fols. i v and ii r blank apart from librarians' annotations on fol. i v.]

Item 2 (Front matter), fol. ii v

[Tipped-in scholarly note by a later owner, giving biographical details about Alexander Barclay (following Anthony Wood's Athenae Oxonienses), and describing his translation The Ship of Fools, specifying its derivation from the original German and from French and Latin translations. Inaccurately identifies the English text of this manuscript as Barclays's, ascribing only the new illustrations to "M. G.". Also notes provenance "Ex dono Amici Reverendi admodum T. Conolly Cowan".]

Item 1 (Front matter), fol. i r

[Two flyleaves. At the top of the first flyleaf is a note, in a later hand (Hand D), "p.115 v. / Pope's Lett[ers] Vol. 6 p.192, 3." Near the middle of the page, in a different hand, "Elisabeth Moyle her Book / Ex dono Sir Walter Moyle / 1684," followed by two or three letters, possibly "ana" or "ma." In a third hand, near the bottom of this page, "Mary Gregor her hand 1705" and "Mary Greg."]

Item 1 (Front matter), marbled endpaper, blank endpaper

[There is a marbled pastedown, then a marbled endpaper, the verso of which is blank but with three figures in pencil in the bottom left corner: " "402E"" and two crossed out: ""449.D."" and ""475.K6."" Perhaps these are coded prices. The second endpaper has the manuscript number stamped in ink at the top centre of the page (""32,376."") and in pen at the bottom the following inscription: ""Presented by W. J. Stuart Esq 15 July 1884.""]

Item 1 (Front matter), front flyleaf

[The unpaginated flyleaf contains two words written very faintly in what might be Halkett's hand: "Madm" and "Dear", plus the library's shelfmark written in pencil. The flyleaf is preceded by two modern endpapers.]

Item 2 (Front matter), p.i

[Small parchment sheet tipped onto a guard with the following note: "This Box contains various Old Manuscript volumns [sic] of "Lady Halkett's Meditations" - which belong to the Library at Pitfirrane. - They were brought away by the Rev.d Dunbar Halkett, but he, not having had the leisure to proceed with any steps which he might then have had in view regarding them, they, - together with some Memoranda etc respecting them, - are packed up to be returned to Pitfirrane. J.H.".]

Item 1 (Front matter), front flyleaf

[Flyleaf contains two pencil notes on recto: "ii + 380 pp." and the library shelfmark.]

Item 2 (Title page, Front matter), pp.i-ii

Occasional Meditations

[Beneath Halkett's autograph rubric is written in modern pencil "Occasional Meditations". The verso of the title page (p.ii) is blank except for the following note in modern pencil: "This appears to be 1658/9".]

Item 1 (Front matter), p.i

[Page i contains ""2qEs"" (possibly an abbreviation for a price) in ink and the library shelfmark in pencil. It is preceded by two blank modern endpapers.]

Item 2 (Front matter), p.ii

Notes

AHalkett

...

All these writ at London 1660 and 1663

[

This is the entire entry.

The note is written in darker ink than Halkett's name.

Item 2 (Notes, Front matter), p.ii

This book was begun in the first Monday in January in the year 1667/8

[This is written in a different ink, set apart like a title page.]

Item 1 (Front matter), p.i

begun June the 23 1673

[

In addition to Halkett's remark about the date, there are three notes in pencil: ""Vol. 5"", ""ix + 336 pp."" and ""Vol. X in Appendix to Life."" In red ink at the bottom of the page is written ""MS.6493"".

Page i is the front pastedown.

Item 1 (Front matter), p.i

Begun June 20 1676

[

A modern pastedown and two modern endpapers are followed by a flyleaf (p.i) that might be glued to a third endpaper for reinforcement. On p.i, after Halkett's note about the date, a later hand has written in pencil: ""iii + 380 pp."", ""Vol XII in Appendix to Life"", and ""MS. 6494"". On the front pastedown (which is the same stock of paper as the new blank endpapers) is written in red ink: ""Ms. 6494"".

The unpaginated verso of p.i is blank.

Item 1 (Front matter), p.i

Begun Monday the 10 of February 1678/9

[On this page, the front pastedown, Halkett has written the rubric twice. There are three notes in pencil: ""v + 506 pp."" and ""VOL. XIII in Appendix to Life:"" (the latter twice). At the bottom of the page ""MS. 6495"" is written in red ink.]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown

[Two notes in pencil: ""iii + 378 pp."" and ""Vol. XV in Appendix to Life"". ""MS. 6496"" is written at the bottom of the page in red ink.]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown

[

Three notes in pencil on front pastedown: ""vii + 392 pp."", ""Vol 8"" and ""Vol. XVI in Appendix to Life"". In red ink at the bottom of the page: ""MS. 6497"".

There is an unfoliated blank flyleaf at the beginning of the volume.

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown

[On the front pastedown are three notes in pencil: ""v + 372 pp."", ""Vol 9"", and ""Vol. XVII in Appendix to Life"". At the bottom of the pastedown is the MS number in red ink (""MS. 6498"").]

Item 1 (Front matter), flyleaf

[The volume has a modern pastedown and two modern endpapers, then a flyleaf, which was once the original front pastedown (indentations are visible). Four notes in pencil on verso of this flyleaf: ""iv + 370 pp."", ""Vol. 10"", ""Vol. XVIII in Appendix to Life"", and at the bottom of the page, ""MS. 6499"". The recto is blank and reinforced with later paper.]

Item 1 (Front matter), p.i

[

Page i is the front pastedown. On it Halkett has written ""Begun Sunday the 28th of January 1693/4"". Two notes in pencil: ""iii + 375 pp. "" and ""Vol. XIX in Appendix to Life"". In red pen at bottom of page: ""MS. 6500"".

There is an unfoliated blank flyleaf at the beginning of the volume.

The table of contents appears at the back of the volume. See msItem 75 below.

Item 1 (Front matter), flyleaf

[There is a modern pastedown and two modern endpapers at the beginning of the volume. These are followed by an unpaginated reinforced flyleaf (formerly the front pastedown), upon which there are two notes in pencil on the verso: ""vol 12"" and ""Vol. XX in Appendix to Life"".]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown

[On the front pastedown there are two notes in pencil: ""iii + 314 pp."" and ""Vol XXI in Appendix to Life"". In red at bottom of pastedown: ""MS. 6502"".]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown-fol.1.r-v

[bookplate of Richard Rawlinson and library annotations on front pastedown; fol. 1 blank]

Item 1 (Engraving, Front matter), fols i r-iii v

[Fols i r-ii r are blank. Fol. ii v contains a small Huntingdon bookplate, with the motto ""In veritate victoria"", and two lions holding up a cloth in a crowned shield with an animal head above it. On fol. iii r an engraving of Elizabeth Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon has been pasted. It depicts her in a cartouche, with angels crowning her. The words around the cartouche are ""Nuper Comitissae Huntingdon vera effigies Dominae Elizabethae."" The same engraving appears in her funeral sermon which was printed in 1635 (see biographical article). Fol. iii v is blank]

[Fols i r, i v, ii r, iii v are blank.]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown, fols i r-ii v

[On the front pastedown ""35/B8"" has been written, a Bridgewater collection shelfmark. On fol. i r are some further numbers and letters: ""W 4"", ""C 3"", and ""R:1./14."", probably former shelfmarks. Fols i v-ii v are blank.]

[Fols i v-ii v are blank.]

Item 1 (Front matter), fols i r-ii v

[Fol. i r is blank. Fols i v and ii r indicate that Ferdinando Davies presented the volume to Elizabeth Hastings, the wife of the seventh earl of Huntingdon, in 1676. Fol. i v contains the following note: ""May it please your Honour I think it is no presumption to present your Ladyship with the Collection of that Gallant Lady whose name you bear you may like them the better for that they were hers, however they are to be liked from her for that they direct the way to Paradise which is heartily desired here and hereafter to your Ladyship By Madam Your Honour's most humble servant Ferdinando Davys"" . Fol. ii r reads, ""These For the now Right Honourable Elizabeth Countess of Huntingdon July 20th 1676"". Fol. ii v is blank. A scrap page is included with the manuscript with the following note dated June 29, 1998: "This book is addressed to Elizabeth, Countess of Huntingdon, wife of Theophilus , 7t Earl in 1676. However, it was apparently collected by or for Elizabeth [Stanley] the wife of Henry the 5th Earl. Hence it was written much earlier than 1676, as she died in 1634. C. Patterson". Another note in a different hand adds, "Copy of Ellesmere MS 6871, book of private devotions collected by Elizabeth [Stanley], wife of Henry, 5th Earl of Huntingdon, in 1633."]

[Fols i r and ii v are blank.]

Item 1 (Front matter), fols i r-ii v

[Fols i r to ii v are blank and badly torn. The following information is written on a loose sheet inside the folder with the manuscript: ""Theology "Certain Collections of the Right Honble Elizabeth late Countess of Huntingdon for her owne private use." A small parchment-bound book of 59 written pages (the front cover, fly-leaves and first page torn) containing prayers, quotations from the scriptures and from Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Joseph Hall, Bishop of Norwich, Dr. A.H. [i.e. Arthur Hildersam, vicar of Ashby de la Zouch], etc. 17th century."" Additional loose sheets provide no information about the manuscript.]

[Fols i r-ii v are blank.]

Item 1 (Front matter), fols 1r-2v

[Fols 1r to 2v are blank. There is a typed note at the front of the manuscript on separate sheet: ""Common Place Book [? of Countess of Huntingdon] Notes of Sermons, etc., and religious meditations. Temp. Jas. I."". A question mark is written after the date in pencil. Another sheet with same information on it, written in pencil, also exists.]

[Fols 1r-2v are blank.]

Item 1 (Front matter), p. 1

Mannuscript No 1

Translation of Virgils Aeneid

331a

[Scribblings]

Item 1 (Front matter), [i]-1r

[At the bottom left corner of fol. [i]v, which may be a pastedown, is written "A. 5 6" , and above that "S. 665. a.". Fol. [ii] is blank. At the top of fol. [iii]r is the British Library number "19,333", and below that, the note of purchase: "Purchased of Messrs Boone | 8th Jany. 1853. | (Arley Castle Sale, Lot 1056)." At the top of the page is the British Museum stamp.]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown - p. iii

[

There are various notes in the front of the manuscript. On the front pastedown is the reference "No 6", possibly written by Julius Hutchinson senior (see DD/Hu 1, labelled as Manuscript 1). Also on the pastedown is the phrase "Written by Lucy the Wife of Col Hutchinson, being a History of his life, particularly of his conduct in the Great Rebellion" (again possibly written by Julius Hutchinson), and a more modern pencil note "Lucy Hutchinsons Original MS. Life of Colonel Hutchinson, with additional matter that has not been printed."

On p. i (in pencil) is the shelf-mark "DDHU/4". Page ii has the stamp "RESTORED BY MALTBY OXFORD" in the bottom left corner. On pp. iii and [485] there is the stamp "Corporation of Nottingham Art Museum". On p. iii (in pencil) is the note "NCM 1922-71". (See provenance).

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown-fol. i

[Newberry Library bookplates denoting Hamill bequest, on front pastedown]

Item 3 (Front matter), fol. 1v

[Leaf blank apart from Newberry Library stamp]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown-fol. i v

[Front pastedown and flyleaf. Blank apart from Newberry Library stamp on front pastedown.]

Item 3 (Front matter), fol. 1v

[Blank apart from Newberry Library stamp and cataloguers' annotations.]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown-unfoliated flyleaf ([i]r)

[Blank pastedown, to which a small piece of orange card has been stuck. On the recto of the front flyleaf (fol. [i]r) are shelfmarks in ink and pencil, and, in ink, a note of purchase: "Purch.d of John Wade 31. Aug.1853." Verso of fly-leaf (fol. [i]v) is blank.]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown-unfoliated flyleaf ([i]v)

[A blank modern pastedown followed by a modern flyleaf, blank except for the shelfmark on its recto. Old paper begins with fol. 1. On fol. 1, shelfmark and "Archer Rylands 1814 Purch.d at Dr. Bliss's sale 21 Aug. 1858. Lot 201.", verso blank. Fol. 2 blank.]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown-fol.3v

[Shelfmarks on front pastedown, offset on fol.1r (verso blank). On fol.2r "Liber Bibliothecae Bodleianae Ex Dono Edovardij Hall. Coll Exo. Soc: Art. Baccal:. 1638." Fols 2v-3v blank.]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown

[The front pastedown is an unidentified battle scene with cannons, cavalary and infantry.]

Item 1 (Front matter), Front pastedown-unnumbered flyleaf (fol.[ii]v)

[Shelfmarks on pastedown, followed by a blank flyleaf (fol.[i]).]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown, two endpapers, two flyleaves

[The pastedowns and the endpapers are vellum. Typescript on the verso of the first endpaper reads "B.M. PICKERING". At the top centre of the second flyleaf, typescript identifies the manuscript as "27,467", and two-thirds down the page a notation in black ink indicates that the manuscript was "Transferred from Dept: of Printed Books 6 Oct.1866". On the verso of this flyleaf, in the bottom right corner, "27467" is written in pencil.]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown, three endpapers

[The lower left corner of the front pastedown contains three series of numbers, the first two crossed out: 214A, 106a, 109a. On the first endpaper, at the top of the page, is the typescript identification "ADD.MS.4378". The remaining leaves are blank.]

Item 1 (Front matter), fols.1r-5v

[Fols. 1r-v, 2v, 3v-5r, are blank. A brief biographical note on Anne Ley, with a quotation from Proverbs 31:30, in her husband's hand occurs on fol. 2r. Underneath is Joseph Hunter's signature, and the earlier catalogue number 'Phillipps MS 17400'. On fol. 3r, a later italic hand has provided the title, 'A Common Place Book, and Collection of Poems, Letters, Sermons, Tracts, &c', adding 'This seems to have belonged to the Reverend Roger Ley, Curate of St. Leonard Shoreditch in Charles I's time'. On fol. 5v, is the inscription 'Joseph Hunter Bath 1825. The Gift of Benjamin Heywood Bright'.]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown, pp. i-iv

[Front pastedown and p. i: library stamp and annotations. Pp. ii-iv blank apart from ink smudges, and pagination on p. iii.]

Item 1 (Front matter), inside front cover, p. 1

[On the inside front cover is a bookplate from the Royal College of Physicians on which is stamped ""Royal College of Physicians withdrawn from Library"". Sir Geoffrey Keynes has written ""Keynes [196]"" in pencil on that bookplate, and ""Ex Dono Geoffrey Keynes"" on a small square bookplate. On the recto of the first folio (p. 1) is a large signature of Mary Browne, Elizabeth Lyttelton's younger sister. Also on this page is a later signature, ""Jas [presumably James] Dods"" and the shelfmarks ""MS 749"" and ""1240"".]

Item 1 (Front matter), Pastedown

[Bookplate of William Arthur Sixth Duke of Portland.]

Item 2 (Front matter), flyleaf

[Recto has note in pencil top right "PwV23". Verso blank.]

Item 3 (Front matter), fol. 1

[Blank page.]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown, fols i r-iii v

[On the front pastedown a page from a catalogue is tipped in, advertising the manuscript as costing 18 pounds 18 shillings. On that catalogue description the following reference has been written in pencil: ""Case 36 no 26"". Beneath that tipped in page is another label from another sales catalogue, partially visible. Also on the front pastedown is a drawing of a lion rampant with a name below it, that of Peter Murray Hill, the bookseller who sold it to the Clark Library in 1951 for fifteen pounds. Some additional markings in pen and pencil appear on the pastedown, indicating previous reference numbers (""2597"", the Phillipps reference number, see below), prices (""15"" pounds and a code for that price), dates (""1671-2-3"") and names (""Julea Palmer""). On the first flyleaf (fol. i r) Palmer has written ""Julea Palmer"", with Palmer underlined, the date (""71 1671""), and the phrase ""not I"" followed by 13 shorthand symbols. Beneath that she has written the following inscription, ""I Leaue ys Book to Mr Joseph Bisco senior. if he out Liue me otherwiss. I Leaue itt to Mr James pitson Apothicary"". Above this seventeenth-century material a later hand has written ""Palmer"" in pencil, and Sir Thomas Phillipps has written the shelfmark of ""Phillipps MS 2597"", indicating that it was once in his collection.]

[Fols i v-iii v are blank.]

Item 1 (Front matter), pp. i-ii

[

This leaf is unpaginated. On p. i (recto), in the top left corner, Thomas Phillips's catalogue number for the manuscript is written in pencil: " M H C / 14937 Ph". Then a different, likely earlier, hand has written " Poetry by Sir Edward Dering 2: Bt: / He died Anno Domini 1685". This incorrect attribution is then crossed out, and underneath is written: "Mrs Phillips' Poems (?Orinda)". This latter attribution is in the same hand as that of the inside pastedown, on which "Phillips (Mrs) Poems" is written. Clearly, the manuscript was originally thought to be a Dering holograph. P. ii (verso) is blank.

Item 1 (Front matter), pp. i-ii

[

The opening page of the manuscript, unpaginated, is written in three different hands. The first (likely eighteenth- or nineteenth-century) hand notes: "These poems were written by a person of the name of Philipps as appears by the ode on the death of his or her firstborn child, contained in this volume". Underneath this note Thomas George Kidd has written his name in Hebrew. Underneath these symbols, a third, nineteenth-century hand (likely that of a librarian) has written: "This MS. contains 119 leaves / 20. Novr. 1824". Finally, the signature in English of Thomas George Kidd occurs, followed by "Norfolk dij[m?] Regio". The verso is blank. This cover is extremely worn, torn and discoloured.

Item 1 (Front matter), front flyleaf - fol. 2v

Item 1.2 (Front matter), fol.1r

Hadassas Chaste Fancies. Being the fruit of solitary and many of them sad hours

Marvell not my names concealed In being hid it is revealed

[The hand is probably Pulter's.]

Poems Breathed forth by the Hadassas Rt. Hon.

[In main scribal hand.]

[

This folio has various inscriptions in different hands. There are also some ill formed illegible letters on the page which looks like a child practising handwriting.

"Honor I have I want no heartly pelt and what I wright it is to plese my Sleft" is in an unknown hand.

"an.Dom.1667. Lady H. P. was 71 years old Lady Hester Pulter dyed the latter end of March or beginning of April 1678 aged 83. for by Cottered Register, it appears, she was buryed the 9th of April, 1678." In eighteenth-century antiquary's hand. He is following the chronology of the poem on fol. 88v (item 67), 'Made when my spirits were sunk very low with sickness and sorrow. May 1667 I being seventy one years old'. Her age is probably mistranscribed here - she was probably 60. The poem more likely to be correct is on fol. 48r is dated 1647, when she says that she is 40 years old.

[Fol. 1v is blank.]

Item 124 (Front matter), fols. [167v-165r]

[This is a reversed section. Actual foliation (from back)fols. ir-2r]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown-fol. i r

[blank]

Item 31 (Front matter), pastedown-fol. i r rev

[ Newberry bookplate (pastedown) and stamp (fol. ir rev)]

Item 1 (Front matter), pastedown

[Marbled pastedown (not contemporary) has bookplate of Cholmeley Dering Esq., with motto "Terrere nolo timere nescio". Slip stuck in "414 B. MS Poem W A700" (in pencil and ink).]

Item 2 (Front matter), flyleaf

[Bookplate on the recto of the later (marbled) flyleaf: "The University of Leeds Brotherton Collection Purchased." On the verso is the note "M17", and below it "MS Lt. q 2 (BIBLE)" ]

[Between the flyleaf and fol. [i] is a stub.]

Item 3 (Front matter), fol. [i]

[Several signatures of owners: from the top, "Cholmeley Dering 1807"; "Elizabeth Roopers book 1692" (this scribbled out in pencil but still clearly visible); "John Harrison 1923"; "William Jones, Hafod, Ruthin" [this typed and stuck in on a slip of paper]. Descriptive note: "Bible Poetical MS. 1670."]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown-fol. [i]v

[Blank pastedown and flyleaf.]

Item 1 (Front matter), fols i[r]-iii[v]

[The first three folios contain a number of items. On the first folio is a proverb in a seventeenth-century hand and a list of contents in a later hand. On that verso is a Latin couplet, a prose note on jointure, and a recipe. The next folio (probably the verso of second leaf, of which the recto is blank, though it is not completely clear from the microfilm) contains a signature and description of a funeral monument pasted in. And the final folio (probably the recto), written in the same hand as the table of contents, notes the identity of the compilers.]

Item 1.1 (Sententia, Front matter), fol. i r

A proverb

He who makes himself a sheep, becomes a prey to the wolf

[This is the whole text of the item.]

Item 1.2 (Contents list, Notes, Front matter), fol. i r

Table of contents and a note on the scribes of the manuscript by a later hand

Contents

1. Tillotson's sermon before the king, April 1672. Fol. 1 to 45.

...

and notes on a sermon of Bishop Cumberland (see overleaf)

[The writer of the table of contents (Hand C) lists the four items which were written in the first hand (msItems 2, 4, 5.1, 5.2). Beneath the table of contents the writer has noted that the first hand in the manuscript (fols 1r-63r) was a clergyman acquainted with Dr. Burton (see item 4), and that the second hand, which has written from fols 64r to the end of the manuscript, was the daughter of the first scribe. The later hand (Hand C) notes that the daughter compiled her material between 1692 and 1696 and characterizes her contribution as follows, "The last being extracts, philosophical, moral, and religious, from ancient and contemporary authors, with two more of Dr. Tilloston's sermons, and notes on a sermon of Bishop Cumberland"]

Item 1.3 (Couplet, Front matter), fol. i v

A Latin couplet

Cum alio loquere vel semihora, et mirum est, nisi sui ipsius commendationem audias

[This is the whole text of the item.]

Item 1.4 (Notes, Front matter), fol. i v

A prose note on jointure

if a jointure run to the heirs of her body by you to be begotten

...

then a fine will bar your own heirs

[Beneath this item is written "£7", possibly an amount paid for the manuscript at one time.]

Item 1.5 (Receipt, Front matter), fol. i v

A recipe

To make syrup of cloves

to six hundred of cloves put a pint of water well boiled

...

and to a pint of juice put a pound of sugar bottle it up when it is cold

Item 1.6 (Front matter), fols ii r-v

A signature and clipping from a book pasted in

[Signature at top of page of Chas [i.e. Charles] Rogers, possibly the same hand as that which has written the table of contents, i.e. Hand C. Clipping from a book pasted in, describing the funeral monuments of Thomas Truesdale (d. 1700) and his two wives, Elizabeth (d. 1683) and Jane (d. 1704). The latter is assumed to be the second hand in the manuscript.]

[Fol. ii r is blank (see overview to msItem 1 for uncertainty) .]

Item 1.7 (Notes, Front matter), fols iii r-v

A note by Hand C on the scribes of the manuscript

[Hand C notes that the first 63 leaves were written by an unknown person who knew Dr. Burton, and that the rest was written by his daughter who was married to a Mr. Truesdale. The hand also notes the monument to Thomas Truesdale in All Saint's Church in Stamford, Lincolnshire.]

[Fol. iii v is blank (see note to item 1 for uncertainty).]

Item 1 (Front matter), pp. i-xviii

[On p. i, is the signature of Roger Twysden, eldest son of Lady Anne Twysden. This manuscript's titlepage occurs on p. xv, in Sir Roger Twysden's hand: "Certain comfortable places of Scripture and three prayers collected and made by my dear and noble mother the Lady Anne Twysden who died at her house in East Peckham the 14th of October 1638. Roger Twysden". Pp. i-xvi, otherwise blank, are ruled in brown-red ink across all four sides of the page. Pp. xvii-xviii are blank and unruled, from a different paper stock.]

Item 1 (Front matter)

[Sale catalogue description affixed to front pastedown.]

Item 1 (Front matter)

[on the front pastedown, four numbers written sideways as a sum: i.e. these four numbers on top of each other, with line beneath them: 12, 14, 14, 10. Near the top of the page, written in library staff's pencil: "Box 12 #17 / b 202 / poems pp 91-97 indexed."]

Item 1 (Title page, Front matter), fols i r-ii v

[On the front pastedown a later hand has written 6 lines in black ink which have been crossed out and are now illegible. The pastedown also contains ""D.S."" in faint ink and ""Dep 314/23"" in pencil. The first flyleaf (fol. i) contains doodles and pen trials plus Margaret Wemyss's name written three times, including in this inscription: ""Be me margarat Wymes vith my hand 1644"" . Fol. i v is blank. Fol. ii r contains the following set out as a title page (where the slashes indicate new lines): ""A Booke/ Containing some pleasant aires/ of Two, Three, or fowre voices/ Collected out of diverse Authors/ Begunne june 5 1643"". Margaret has signed her name below this: ""Mris Margarit Weemys"". Fol. ii v is blank, and there is an unfoliated blank leaf after fol. ii.]

[Fols i v and ii v are blank, and there is an unfoliated blank leaf after fol. ii.]

Item 1 (Front matter), pastedown-fol. [ii]v

[Blank modern pastedown and two blank modern flyleaves.]

Item 1 (Front matter), pastedown-fol. [ii]v

["C" in pencil on top pastedown. Two blank flyleaves.]

Item 1 (Front matter), pastedown-fly 2

[Pastedown with shelfmark in pencil and two flyleaves. Fragmentary second pastedown visible under first pastedown. On the verso of the second flyleaf a note: 'Misbound. Place pp 1-94 after 191-end.']

Item 1 (Front matter), fols. 1r-3v

[The first folio has a passage of shorthand symbols, the manuscript's shelfmark, and is dated 16 July 1720. The second folio (which is pasted in) provides a biographical note on the compiler, unsigned, but attesting to having seen her in person. This biographical note is likely authored by someone close to John Warburton, who sold the manuscript to Edward Harley in the 1720s. The title page (see msHeading) occurs on fol. 3r.]

Item 1 (Front matter), front pastedown

[Modern notes of shelfmarks etc. as follows: "Box 58 # 11"; "b 222"; bookplate with the motto ("Pax in Bello") and arms of the Osborne family (Dukes of Leeds).]

[The flyleaf following has been torn out.]

Item 2 (Front matter), fol. 1r [p. 1]

A Copy of a Book that was writ by my Ever Deare Sister Wyvills owne hands

[A later hand has written "Ursula Wyvill sister to Sir Christopher Wyvill See DNB vol 63, p278". This note is incorrect - Ursula was the wife of Sir Christopher (see biography). Another hand has written "AC 1775" (see note on provenance).]

[fol. 1v is blank]