Scope and Contents A Collection of Ancient Scottish Poems, chiefly by William Dunbar and Sir Richard Maitland, with a few by Kennedie, Stewart, and Hudsone: transcribed by John Reidpeth, apparently from the folio MS. of Sir R. Maitland in the Pepysian Library. On the first blank leaf is written, 'A me Joanne Reidpeth, septimo decembris inchoat. 1622. finis 1623’. Below this is 'Ex libris magistri Cristopheri Cokburne.' The contents are as follows; the titles being taken from the printed editions, except when...

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Begins 'The stronger is the forte which forreyne foes assayle ...'. With a prologue.

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Contains sonnets, love songs, dedications, etc., chiefly in French. Many of the sonnets are addressed to Flemish ladies by the owner, and other pieces to himself by different scholars of his acquaintance. The dates are generally about 1580.

Scope and Contents Contains: (a) 'Come poetry, and with you bring along…' (song) by Abraham Cowley; (b) 'The history of Æneas and Dido's love, translated out of ye fourth booke of Virgill, by Mr Sydny Godolphin', beginning 'Meanwhile the queene fanning a secret fire…'; '(c) 'Dr Donne's Farewell to the world', beginning 'Farewell you gilded follyes, pleasing troubles ...' (printed in Walton's 'Compleat angler', 1653, and elsewhere, but not now attributed to Donne; Herbert Grierson, 1912, called the present...

Scope and Contents (1) ‘A short historical account of the Cistercian order, and the several offices and performances of such persons as profess the monastical state in the same’, by ‘René Guybert, formerly a professed monk in the above-said Cistercian order’; (2) ‘The oration of Sr Roberte Bell for succession; (3) Extracts from various manuscripts concerning the Cathedral church at Norwich; (4) Extracts from various manuscripts relating to Norwich; (5) (a) names of the scholars elected from Westminster School...

Scope and Contents By the original paging 66 pages appear to have been lost, unless 36 out of order at the end were some of these. Other pages have been torn out. They do not appear to have been missing when the manuscript was catalogued for John Moore. Contents: (1) ‘The king’s [Charles I] message to parliament’; (2) ‘The answer of the howse of commons, 14th March 1625’; (3) ‘The king’s majestie’s replie to the said answer of the howse of commons made to them the 15 of March, 1625; (4) speeches of the king...

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(1) 'A conference held in the castell of Ste Angelo by the pope, the emperor and the king of Spaine', beginning (the pope being the speaker) 'Welcome dear sonne unto our courte of Rome'. The work was edited, with prefatory matter of his own, by John Taylor the water poet in 1631, under the title 'The suddaine turne of fortune's wheele'; (2) 'David's sins, 1 Sam. xxi', a poem, beginning 'In Juda and Jerusalem ...'.

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The first part consists of a number of rough pictorial capitals in the order of the alphabet, with five or six lines of letterpress appended to each. The title page is embellished. The second part is entitled 'Chansons, anno MCCCCC,XCIX'; among others are 'Nien liedeken', relating to 'Wilhelmus van Nassau'.

Scope and Contents Contains odes, ‘New Year’s gifts’, sonnets, epigrams, riddles, etc. The pieces which are dated range between the years 1581 and 1612. The following title occurs at f. 10: ‘Gulielmi Pagetti versiculi quos ex suo cerebro depromptos Aviæ [i. e. to his grandmother] officii et anni testificandi causa obtulit calendis Januarii A. D. 1584, annos nato 12 dies 14’. The William Paget thus referred to was in all probability the 4th baron of the name, who died in 1629. Other traces of him are...

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(1) ‘A relation of divers occurrenses as they happened about the beginninge of kinge James his reign, composed by an unknown author’ (see MS Dd.03.86, no. 4); (2) miscellaneous English poetry, comprising sonnets, elegies, satires, etc; the only mark of authorship is at the foot of an elegy (f. 65): ‘Sir Edwarde Harbort on the prince’, alluding perhaps to Prince Henry, who died 6 November 1612.

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Typescript copies (two top copies, one carbon copy) of three poems by John Riley: 'A Conversation', 'Two Photographs' and 'A Picture: an Historical Perspective'. With a photocopy of a photograph of Pamela Collins, and a note by Rosemary Chorley regarding Pamela Collins and John Riley, written on a printout of Riley's Wikipedia entry.

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‘La boutique doree des amateurs de la poesie, contenue en LXXIV exemples de la vie humaine avec beaucoup de sentences morales faites par quartrains, aussi plusieurs distiques si bien chrestiens que mouraux, par T. I., Haarlem, anno 1650’. The first piece ‘de la vie humaine’ is entitled ‘Comparaison du grand et du petit monde’, and begins ‘Si nous considerons ceste machine ronde ...’.

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A politico-religious poem, beginning 'Lorsque Phebus par voyes non obscures ...'.

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1. A leaf of eight lines, with an accompanying transcription. The leaf is signed 'Joannes Donne: ibidem Decanus. Sept. 27. 1623', and relates to John Donne, Dean of St Paul's.

2. A leaf from the Album Amicorum of Michael Corvinus. There is writing on the reverse in another hand, signed 'Johannes Donne 5 Octobr. 1633'. This relates to a different John Donne, possibly the Dean of Sion College. There are three accompanying pieces of related correspondence, 1939 and 1953.

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Comprises single items or small collections, chiefly correspondence, donated to or purchased by Cambridge University Library. Together with a number of items and fragments found in Cambridge University Library books and bindings.

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(1)-(2): Two letters from de la Mare, autograph and typescript signed, 30 December 1935 and 7 September 1942. (3)-(7): Five letters from Sassoon, autograph, 11 June 1938, 29 June 1954, 21 June 1955, 30 June 1956 and 18 July 1956.

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The vellum binding is taken from a treatise of c. 1200, in which occurs the rubricated heading 'De cognatione spirituali'.

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(1) ‘The earle of Leicester his common wealth’, by Robert Parsons; (2) ‘A short veiw of K. Henry the third his raigne, written by Sir Robt. Cotton 1624’; (3) ‘Bosworth feild: by J. B.’, a poem by Sir John Beaumont, bart., published 1629; (4) ‘A speach or argument made in the commons house of parliament at a generall committye of the whole house concerninge the new impositions uppon marchandize lately imposed wthout assent of p’iamt, and the right and lawfullness thereof. Ano 8 J. R.’

Scope and Contents (1) Copy of the will of King Henry VII, with some erasures on the last page; (2) ‘Pious meditations by Collyns’, beginning ‘Farewell worlde synce that no man may truste to the ...’, followed by nineteen couplets beginning ‘When I considere what is man, O Lord, I know of right ...’; (3) ‘To make a verye fyne perfume to avoyde the daunger of the place suspected of the plague’; (4) ‘This was the duke of Somersetts style wch he write [sic] to the Scottes after Mustleburrowe feilde; at whiche...

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The volume is commenced at both ends, and contains recipes, chiefly medical, a few verses in English, and a Latin oration in praise of Greek letters.

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Verse satire upon Roman Catholicism.

Scope and Contents (1) ‘Fratrum concordia sœua, sive Zeno tragœdia, R. P. I. S. anno 1631 acta’, beginning ‘Protasis, scen. prim.’, ‘Compesce murmur æris infausti tuba ...’; (2) ‘Ludit in humanis Divina potentia rebus: ultio divina, sive Leo Armenus, tragœdia’, beginning ‘Act. prim. scen. prim.’, ‘Auguste mundi rector Eoi Leo ...’; (3) short poems: (a) ‘Deliberatio Francisci Borgiæ de mundo linquendo’; (b) ‘Votum Telluris ad nascentem Christum’; (c) ‘Ad angelos ut S. Io. Baptistam paruulum in eremo inuisant’;...

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Twenty-one short poems on subjects chiefly connected with the life of Christ. On a flyleaf at the end is written 'Lent to Sir Henry Sidney 100£ the 11 of May, 1612'. Also Ἰωάννης Κνύεττος [i.e. Knyvett] τὁν βίβλον κρατεῖ.

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Short poems on various subjects. On f. 16 occurs the signature 'By me, A. Henley'. At the end of the volume are six pages of prose, with the title 'Notæ selectæ ex epistolis monsieur de Balzac quibusdam amicis'. See also MSS Dd.14.07 and Dd.14.17.

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Manuscript poems in English, c. 1620, with an index. The poems were possibly written by the amanuensis of Henry Percy, 9th Duke of Northumberland (1564-1632), Donne's friend and probably the former owner of the volume.