The Devonshire Manuscript/Witnesses

Witnesses to The Devonshire Manuscript (British Library Add. MS 17492)

Arundel-Harington MS
Arundel-Harington MS c. late 16th century. The Arundel-Harington Manuscript is a verse miscellany originally comprised of 228 leaves, now 145, prepared by, or for, John Harington of Stepney and his son Sir John Harington of Kelston. 55 of the Arundel-Harington poems are attributed to Wyatt.

A Boke of Balettes
A Boke of Balettes Wyatt, Sir Thomas. A Boke of Balettes. [Anon.] W. Copland, 1549.

BL Additional MS
BL Additional MS 4797 16th and 17th centuries. 138 ff. A composite manuscript with two Elizabethan poems in the first gathering of vellum leaves.

BL Egerton MS
BL Egerton MS 2,711 c. 1550. This manuscript is a collection of 123 poems, of which one is copied twice, entered before 1558. Nineteen were added in Elizabethan hands. Twenty-five poems and corrections in three others are in Sir Thomas Wyatt’s hand. One poem and some revisions of Wyatt’s poems are in Nicholas Grimald’s hand from c. 1549. Seventy-three of the entries from before 1558 are signed with “TV,” “VT,” or “Tho,” possibly in Wyatt’s hand. A sixteenth century hand has signed fifteen other poems with “Wyatt.” The MS, without Grimald’s additions, was copied for and partly by Wyatt before 1542 as a collection of Wyatt’s poems.

BL Harley MS
BL Harley MS 7333 c. 1510s-1520s. 129 ff. The Henry VIII MS is a collection of 109 vocal and instrumental pieces. Probably compiled after 1513 by Sir Henry Guilford, Controller of the King’s Household, its English songs have settings for three or four voices by Henry VIII, Kempe, Doctor Cooper, William Cornysh, T. Farthyng, Wyllyam Daggere, Rysbye, J. Lloyd, Pygott, and unnamed composers.

Bodleian Library
Bodleian Library, Rawl. poet. 108 c.1570. 84ff. Possibly transcribed by the Eleanor (Eliner) Gunter who signs her name on f.84v, as many poems throughout are subscribed E. G. This manuscript is an anthology of dance steps, recipes, and miscellaneous verse in English and Latin.

Corpus Christi College
Corpus Christi College, 168 c. 1558-78. 120 ff. This manuscript is an anthology of Richard Cox, Bishop of Ely, in Latin and English.

The Courte of Venus
The Courte of Venus. Newly and diligently corrected with many proper Ballades newly amended The Courte of Venus. Newly and diligently corrected with many proper Ballades newly amended. 1563. STC 24650.2: French edition.

Magdalene College Pepys MS
Magdalene College Pepys MS 2553 c. 1570-1586. This manuscript is also known as the Maitland Folio.

Marquess of Bath
Marquess of Bath MS 258 Sixteenth century. 147 ff. The poems by Chaucer, Lydgate, and others were transcribed in the first quarter of the sixteenth century with additions from the Elizabethan period.

National Library of Scotland Advocates
National Library of Scotland Advocates 1.1.6 c. 1568. Transcribed by George Bannatyne. The manuscript contains poems by Chaucer and Henryson.

Plimpton
Plimpton 276 c. 1554 and 1592. 81 ff. A miscellany in prose and verse, this manuscript was once owned by Anne Bower. It includes entries by Agnes and Willaim Brightman, William Sommer, Philip Symonson, and Richard Johnson.

Songes and Sonettes
Songes and Sonettes, written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other Howard, Henry, Early of Surrey. STC 13860. See also: STC 13861, STC 13862.

Trinity College MS
Trinity College MS 160 16th century. A composite volume. The first two parts contain a lament of the virgin and Peter Idley’s Instructions. Both of these are from the fifteenth century. The third part, comprised of ff. 57-186, is the Blage MS, which is a verse miscellany compiled by John Mantell from c. 1534-41, and George Blage from c. 1545-48.

University of Pennsylvania Latin MS
University of Pennsylvania Latin MS 35 15th-16th centuries. This manuscript contains Latin sermons by John Felton from the mid-15th century. The poem on the front flyleaf was entered in the early 16th century.

The workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed
The workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed, with dyuers workes whiche were neuer in print before STC 5068. See also: STC 5069, STC 5074.