Collection of dramatic and poetical works [manuscript], compiled ca. 1600-1620.
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637. Christmas his masque.; Sansbury, John, 1576-1610. Periander.; Melville, Andrew, 1545-1622. Antitamicamicategoria.; Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621.; Eedes, Richard, 1555-1604. Iter boreale.; Corbet, Richard, 1582-1635. Secundum iter boreale.; Romain, Adrien, 1561-1615. Parvum theatrum urbium.; Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.; Campion, Edmund, Saint, 1540-1581.; Edwards, Thomas (Poet); Haydock, Richard, active 1588-1605. Oneirologia.; Reynolds, John, 1584-1614, attributed name.; Herbert, George, 1593-1633. Musae responsoriae.; Cholmondeley Library, former owner.
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Collection of dramatic and poetical works [manuscript], compiled ca. 1600-1620.
Variant title
Folger card catalog title: Dramatic and poetical miscellany, 1567-1620
Description
15 v. in 1 box : ill.
Associated name
Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621.
Eedes, Richard, 1555-1604. Iter boreale.
Corbet, Richard, 1582-1635. Secundum iter boreale.
Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.
Campion, Edmund, Saint, 1540-1581.
Edwards, Thomas (Poet)
Reynolds, John, 1584-1614, attributed name.
Cholmondeley Library, former owner.
Eedes, Richard, 1555-1604. Iter boreale.
Corbet, Richard, 1582-1635. Secundum iter boreale.
Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.
Campion, Edmund, Saint, 1540-1581.
Edwards, Thomas (Poet)
Reynolds, John, 1584-1614, attributed name.
Cholmondeley Library, former owner.
Scope and content
Contains a compilation of plays, poems, epigrams, sermons and discourses ranging in dates from 1567 to 1620, with each work written in a different hand.
Plays include: Antitamicamicategoria / by Andrews Melville, 1604 (v.1, leaves 2-5); Boot and spur, ca. 1615 (v. 2, leaves 19-23); Risus Anglicanus, 1614-1618 (v. 3, leaves 24-43v); A Christmas Messe, 1619 (v. 9, leaves 105-115v); Heteroclitanomalonomia, 1613 (v. 10, leaves 119-133); Periander / by John Sansbury, 1608 (v. 11, leaves 134-157v); Christmas his showe, an abridgment of Ben Jonson's play, Christmas his Masque, 1615 (v. 13, leaves 168-174v); Gigantomachia, or, Work for Jupiter, ca. 1615 (v. 15, leaves 186-200).
Poems include: Iter boreale / by Richard Eedes, ca. 1584 (v. 7, leaves 83-91v); Secundum iter boreale / by Richard Corbet, ca. 1620 (v. 8, leaves 93-99v); Convivium Philosophicum, about a festive gathering, 1611 (v. 15, leaf 183) and an untitled English version attributed to John Reynolds (v. 15, leaf 184).
Other works include: Musae responsoriae, Latin epigrams / by George Herbert, 1620-1622 (v. 1, leaves 7-17v); Funeral sermon of Thomas White / by Edmund Campion, (v. 4, leaves 44-46); Oneirologia, or, A briefe discourse of the nature of dreames / by Richard Haydock, 1605 (v. 5, leaves 47-63); Reasons for a subsidy attributed to Dr. Andrew Willet, 1617 (v. 6, leaves 71-80v); Especiall notes concerning her Majesties Navie, attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh, [possible early version of "Excellent observations and notes, concerning the Royal Navy." First published in Judicious and selected essays / by H. Moseley, 1650, (see Modern Philology, 85, no. 1 (August 1987), 12-26)] (v. 12, leaves 161-165v); A discourse touching a marriage between Prince Henry of England and a daughter of Savoye / [by Sir Walter Raleigh], ca. 1611 (v. 14, leaves 175-182v); Urbium Italicarum descriptio Thomas Edwardi Angli, [differs from version published in Adrianus Romanus' Parvum Theatrum Urbium, 1595] (v. 15, leaf 185).
Also includes several pencil drawings, a note in shorthand and annotations.
Plays include: Antitamicamicategoria / by Andrews Melville, 1604 (v.1, leaves 2-5); Boot and spur, ca. 1615 (v. 2, leaves 19-23); Risus Anglicanus, 1614-1618 (v. 3, leaves 24-43v); A Christmas Messe, 1619 (v. 9, leaves 105-115v); Heteroclitanomalonomia, 1613 (v. 10, leaves 119-133); Periander / by John Sansbury, 1608 (v. 11, leaves 134-157v); Christmas his showe, an abridgment of Ben Jonson's play, Christmas his Masque, 1615 (v. 13, leaves 168-174v); Gigantomachia, or, Work for Jupiter, ca. 1615 (v. 15, leaves 186-200).
Poems include: Iter boreale / by Richard Eedes, ca. 1584 (v. 7, leaves 83-91v); Secundum iter boreale / by Richard Corbet, ca. 1620 (v. 8, leaves 93-99v); Convivium Philosophicum, about a festive gathering, 1611 (v. 15, leaf 183) and an untitled English version attributed to John Reynolds (v. 15, leaf 184).
Other works include: Musae responsoriae, Latin epigrams / by George Herbert, 1620-1622 (v. 1, leaves 7-17v); Funeral sermon of Thomas White / by Edmund Campion, (v. 4, leaves 44-46); Oneirologia, or, A briefe discourse of the nature of dreames / by Richard Haydock, 1605 (v. 5, leaves 47-63); Reasons for a subsidy attributed to Dr. Andrew Willet, 1617 (v. 6, leaves 71-80v); Especiall notes concerning her Majesties Navie, attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh, [possible early version of "Excellent observations and notes, concerning the Royal Navy." First published in Judicious and selected essays / by H. Moseley, 1650, (see Modern Philology, 85, no. 1 (August 1987), 12-26)] (v. 12, leaves 161-165v); A discourse touching a marriage between Prince Henry of England and a daughter of Savoye / [by Sir Walter Raleigh], ca. 1611 (v. 14, leaves 175-182v); Urbium Italicarum descriptio Thomas Edwardi Angli, [differs from version published in Adrianus Romanus' Parvum Theatrum Urbium, 1595] (v. 15, leaf 185).
Also includes several pencil drawings, a note in shorthand and annotations.
Language Note
In Latin and English.
Note
[1-2], 1-15, stub, 16, stub, 17-18, stub, 19-46, stub, 47-82, stub, 83-126, stub, 127-160, 2 stubs, 161-173, stub, 174-200, stub, 201-202 leaves.
Poems listed in the Folger card index of first lines.
Poems listed in the Folger card index of first lines.
Contents
Anti-tami-cami-categoria / by A. Melvinus
[Musae responsoriae / by G. Herbert]
Boot and spur
Risus Anglicanus
Funebris Oratio in obitum Thomae White Militis / by Edmund Campion
Oneirologia / by Richard Haydocke
Reasons and motives to induce the spiritualitye and temporalitie of this Kindome to graunt unto the Kings most excellent majestie a large subsidie / by Dr. Willet, 1617
Iter boreale by Richard Eeds
Secundum iter boreale by Dr. Corbet
A Christmas Messe, 1619
Heteroclitanomalonomia, 1613
Periander by John Sansburye
A tract concerninge the shipping of England / [by Sir Walter Raleigh]
Christmas his showe, 1615
A discourse touching a marriage betweene Prince Henry of England and a daughter of Savoye, 1611 / [by Raleigh]
Convivium Philosophicum tentum in clauso / by Rodolphus Colfabius Enaeacensus and English version
Urbium Italicarum descriptio / by Thomas Edwards
Gigantomachia.
[Musae responsoriae / by G. Herbert]
Boot and spur
Risus Anglicanus
Funebris Oratio in obitum Thomae White Militis / by Edmund Campion
Oneirologia / by Richard Haydocke
Reasons and motives to induce the spiritualitye and temporalitie of this Kindome to graunt unto the Kings most excellent majestie a large subsidie / by Dr. Willet, 1617
Iter boreale by Richard Eeds
Secundum iter boreale by Dr. Corbet
A Christmas Messe, 1619
Heteroclitanomalonomia, 1613
Periander by John Sansburye
A tract concerninge the shipping of England / [by Sir Walter Raleigh]
Christmas his showe, 1615
A discourse touching a marriage betweene Prince Henry of England and a daughter of Savoye, 1611 / [by Raleigh]
Convivium Philosophicum tentum in clauso / by Rodolphus Colfabius Enaeacensus and English version
Urbium Italicarum descriptio / by Thomas Edwards
Gigantomachia.
Publications about material
For a discussion of the contents, see Studies in Bibliography, XII (1959), 117-130, and Malone Society, Collections, XIV (1988); the latter has editions of Boot and Spur, A Christmas Mass, Heteroclitanomalonomia and Gigantomachia. These last three plays were also edited by D.L. Russell in Stuart Academic Drama, 1987. Boot and spur was edited by R.S. Thomson in English Literary Renaissance, XVIII (1988), 275-293, and Risus Anglicanus was reproduced in facsimile in Renaissance Latin Drama in England. Second series, 6 (1988).
A Christmas Messe (v. 9): Fooles and Fricassees: Food in Shakespeare's England / edited by Mary Anne Caton, with an essay by Joan Thirsk. Washington, DC, 1999, p.
Oneirologia (v. 5): To sleep, perchance to dream : a commonplace book / [edited by] Carole Levin and Garrett Sullivan, with Steven Galbraith and Heather Wolfe. Washington, DC : Folger Shakespeare Library, c2009.
A Christmas Messe (v. 9): Fooles and Fricassees: Food in Shakespeare's England / edited by Mary Anne Caton, with an essay by Joan Thirsk. Washington, DC, 1999, p.
Oneirologia (v. 5): To sleep, perchance to dream : a commonplace book / [edited by] Carole Levin and Garrett Sullivan, with Steven Galbraith and Heather Wolfe. Washington, DC : Folger Shakespeare Library, c2009.
Provenance
Cholmondeley Library (bookplate).
Formerly Folger MS 2203.1.
Formerly Folger MS 2203.1.
Exhibited
A Christmas Messe (v. 9): Exhibited: Fooles and Fricassees: Food in Shakespeare's England, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., September 10-December 30, 1999.
Oneirologia (v. 5): Exhibited: To Sleep, Perchance to Dream, curated by Carole Levin and Garrett Sullivan, Folger Shakespeare Library, February 19-May 30, 2009.
Oneirologia (v. 5): Exhibited: To Sleep, Perchance to Dream, curated by Carole Levin and Garrett Sullivan, Folger Shakespeare Library, February 19-May 30, 2009.
Includes
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637. Christmas his masque.
Sansbury, John, 1576-1610. Periander.
Melville, Andrew, 1545-1622. Antitamicamicategoria.
Romain, Adrien, 1561-1615. Parvum theatrum urbium.
Haydock, Richard, active 1588-1605. Oneirologia.
Herbert, George, 1593-1633. Musae responsoriae.
Boot and spur.
Christmas Messe.
Heteroclitanomalonomia.
Gigantomachia.
Risus Anglicanus.
Convivium Philosophicum.
Urbium Italicarum descriptio.
Sansbury, John, 1576-1610. Periander.
Melville, Andrew, 1545-1622. Antitamicamicategoria.
Romain, Adrien, 1561-1615. Parvum theatrum urbium.
Haydock, Richard, active 1588-1605. Oneirologia.
Herbert, George, 1593-1633. Musae responsoriae.
Boot and spur.
Christmas Messe.
Heteroclitanomalonomia.
Gigantomachia.
Risus Anglicanus.
Convivium Philosophicum.
Urbium Italicarum descriptio.
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J.a.1
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