Copy of Andrew Melville's Anti-tami-cami-categoria and George Herbert's Musae responsoriae

Folger bibliographic ID: 270914
Folger call number: FILM Fo. 236.10
Folger holdings ID: 357040
Accession Number: cs2203

Copy of Andrew Melville's Latin poem criticizing the liturgy of the Anglican church as beholden to Roman Catholic worship and attacking both Oxford and Cambridge for passing resolutions hostile to the Puritans at the beginning of James I's reign (leaves 2r-5r). Followed by a series of 37 epigrams by George Herbert countering Melville's attack with a defense of the Church of England, statement of his opposition to Puritanism, and loyal addresses to James I and Charles, Prince of Wales (leaves 7r-17v)

General notes

In Latin Andrew Melville's Pro supplici, or Anti-tami-cami-categoria was written in 1603/4 and was circulated in manuscript before being published in 1620 in Parasynagma Perthense et iuramentum Ecclesiae Scoticanae et A.M. Antitamicamicategoria (STC 4361). George Herbert may have begun work on his epigrams while a student at Westminster School, although it appears most of these epigrams were written between 1620 and 1622 (i.e. after Herbert's appointment as university orator at Cambridge and between the publication of Melville's work and his death). Musae responsoriae circulated in manuscript while Herbert was at Cambridge but was not published until 1662 James Duport, dean of Peterborough, included it in Ecclesiastes Solomonis (Wing V669) Caption title on leaf 2: Pro supplici Evangelico[rum] Ministroru[m] in Anglia ad Serenissimu[m] Regem contra larvatam geminae Academiae Gorgonem apologia sive Anti-tami-cami-categoria / authore A.M (leaf 2r) Running title on leaves 3-5: A. Melvini / Anti-tami-cami-categoria Bound with 16 other manuscript works in the 18th century; repaired and separated into 15 booklets, some with multiple works, in 1993 (J.a.1 (1-15)). Modern pencil foliation added before separation: [2], 18 Sold in sale of Marquess of Cholmondeley Library (Sotheby Sale, 17-20 March, 1925, no. 450) Purchased from Maggs, 1932 (cat. 569, no. 204) Also available on microfilm and as a digital reproduction

Extended title: Copy of Andrew Melville's Anti-tami-cami-categoria and George Herbert's Musae responsoriae between 1620 and 1622?
Alternate titles: Pro supplici Evangelicorum Ministrorum in Anglia ad Serenissimum Regem contra larvatam geminae Academiae Gorgonem apologia sive Anti-tami-cami-categoria

Church of England Puritans

subject: Church of England
former owner: Cholmondeley Library