Contents include Clio, or, The first muse in 9 eclogues in honour of nine virtues, dedicated to Richard, Viscount Wenman, of Thame Park, Oxfordshire, "as it was in his dayes intended" (and thought to be in Basse's hand). Also, Urania, the woman in the moone, dedicated to Wenman's daughter, Lady Penelope Dynham (which supersedes an earlier dedication to Henry, Prince of Wales), and The metamorphosis of the wallnut-tree of Borestall, in an epilogue and 3 cantos, betweene Jasper & Jefferye, both written in a copperplate hand
Notes
General notes
Title from title page
Manuscript title page, in imitation of a printed title page, continues "dat frondem fronti. singula Musa meae, 1653; Imprinted at Oxford &ct : Are to be sold &ct," although the manuscript remained unpublished until 1870
Pen and ink wash illustration of Colliden, Laurinella and Wilkin and sheep on leaf 8v
Poems listed in the Folger index of first lines
Bound with: The state of innocence by John Dryden [manuscript], ca. 1677 (leaves 77-98 in modern foliation)
Purchased from Rosenbach, 1942
Bookplates of W.K. Bixby, Frederick Cosens (armorial bookplate with motto 'Sub Robore Virtus' circling lion, over Maltese cross), and Frederick Locker on inside front cover
Formerly Folger MS 421118.2
Printed for the first time as The pastorals, and other workes of William Basse : never before imprinted / edited by J.P.C. [i.e. John Payne Collier], London : T. Richards, [1870]
19th century binding
Also available on microfilm
Acquired from A.S.W. Rosenbach in 1942
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2002. "The pen's excellencie" : treasures from the manuscript collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (p. 128)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2006-2007. Technologies of Writing in the Age of Print
Also known as
Extended title: The pastorals and other workes of William Basse never before imprinted 1653
Related names
author: Basse, William, -approximately 1653
former owner: Wenman, Richard Wenman, Viscount, 1572 or 1573-1640
former owner: Dynham, Penelope, Lady, active 17th century
former owner: Cosens, F. W. (Frederick William), 1819-1889
former owner: Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1821-1895
former owner: Bixby, William K. (William Keeney), 1857-1931
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