Copy of John Donne's Satyres I and II, 1590s [manuscript], ca. 1627-1632.
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Title
Copy of John Donne's Satyres I and II, 1590s [manuscript], ca. 1627-1632.
Uniform title
Poems. Selections
Description
14 leaves ; 19 x 15 cm
Organization and arrangement
Part I: Satyres, list of poems (7 leaves); Part II: legal precepts (7 leaves)
Associated name
Donne, John, 1572-1631. author.
Murhouse, Mr., active 1632.
Murhouse, Mr., active 1632.
Scope and content
Part I contains: John Donne's first two Satyres, originally written in the 1590s, was among the first of his poems to circulate in manuscript. This manuscript copy was most likely made after Donne's death in 1631 and before the first edition of Donne's Poems (London, 1633, STC (2nd ed.), 7045). Also includes a list of 30 poems "lent to Mr. Murhouse" dated 7 December 1632.
Part II (reverse text at end of Part I) contains: five legal precepts, "The forme of an Order for a Basterd Child," "A precept for one that refuseth to p[er]forme an order for a Bastard Child," "A precept for one that is gone away with Child and it is doubted that shee hath murdered the child," and two concerning robbery.
Part II (reverse text at end of Part I) contains: five legal precepts, "The forme of an Order for a Basterd Child," "A precept for one that refuseth to p[er]forme an order for a Bastard Child," "A precept for one that is gone away with Child and it is doubted that shee hath murdered the child," and two concerning robbery.
Note
Inscribed: "Johannes Hall me jure tenet September 5th 1627" (probably John Hall of Gray's Inn, who worked for Sir Walter Rudston (1597-1650) in the 1630s.
First line of Satyre I: "Away thou changeling motley humorist" (leaves 1r-3v). First line of Satyre II: "Sir though (I thanke god for it) I doe hate" (leaves 3v-6r).
Described in Sotheby's (London) 12 December 2002 catalog, lot 191.
First line of Satyre I: "Away thou changeling motley humorist" (leaves 1r-3v). First line of Satyre II: "Sir though (I thanke god for it) I doe hate" (leaves 3v-6r).
Described in Sotheby's (London) 12 December 2002 catalog, lot 191.
Publications about material
List of poems edited and annotated in Peter Beal, "An Authorial Collection of Poems by Thomas Carew: The Gower Manuscript," English Manuscript Studies 10 (2000), appendix 2, pp. 181-183.
Provenance
Manuscript descends from Rudston family of Hayton, East Yorkshire.
Formerly Folger MS Add 1209.
Formerly Folger MS Add 1209.
Source of acquisition
Acquired from Quaritch, February 2003.
Exhibited
Exhibited: The Curatorial Eye: Discoveries from the Folger Vault, curated by Folger Shakespeare Library staff, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., June 13-August 29, 2009.
Washington, D.C. Folger Shakespeare Library 2015. The Age of Lawyers. Opening: Statyres.
Washington, D.C. Folger Shakespeare Library 2015. The Age of Lawyers. Opening: Statyres.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
X.d.580
Folger accession
MS Add 1209