Plays, masques, and entertainments by Jonson
(including lost works)
Collected poems by Jonson
Unollected poems by Jonson
Prose by Jonson
Titles not used in this edition
Works by Shakespeare
Other common abbreviations
Sigla for manuscripts
Sigla used for early printed editions
Other sigla and works cited
Plays, masques, and entertainments by Jonson
(including lost works)
Alch. | The Alchemist |
Althorp | A Particular Entertainment at Althorp |
Augurs | The Masque of Augurs |
Barriers | The Speeches at Prince Henry's Barriers |
Bart. Fair | Bartholomew Fair |
Beauty | The Masque of Beauty |
Blackness | The Masque of Blackness |
Bolsover | Love's Welcome at Bolsover |
Burse | The Entertainment at Britain's Burse |
Case | The Case Is Altered |
Cat. | Catiline His Conspiracy |
Cavendish Ent. | The Cavendish Christening Entertainment |
Challenge | A Challenge at Tilt |
Chlor. | Chloridia |
Christmas | Christmas His Masque |
Crookback | Richard Crookback (lost play) |
Cynthia | Cynthia's Revels, or The Fountain of Self-Love |
Devil | The Devil Is an Ass |
Dogs | The Isle of Dogs (lost play) |
East. Ho! | Eastward Ho! |
EMI (F) | Every Man In His Humour (folio version, 1616) |
EMI (Q) | Every Man In His Humour (quarto version, 1598) |
EMO | Every Man Out of His Humour |
Ent. Salis. | The Entertainment at Salisbury House (lost work) |
Epicene | Epicene, or The Silent Woman |
Fort. Isles | The Fortunate Isles and Their Union |
Gypsies | The Gypsies Metamorphosed |
(BUR) | Burley version |
(WIN) | Windsor version |
Gold. Age | The Golden Age Restored |
Haddington | The Haddington Masque |
Highgate | A Private Entertainment at Highgate |
Hot Anger | Hot Anger Soon Cold (lost play) |
Hym. | Hymenaei |
Hym. (Barriers) | The Barriers performed after the masque in Hymenaei |
Irish | The Irish Masque |
King's Ent. | Ben Jonson His Part of King James His Royal and Magnificent Entertainment |
Leg. Conv. | Leges Convivales |
Lord Mayor | The Lord Mayor's Speeches (lost work) |
Love Freed | Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly |
Love Rest. | Love Restored |
Lovers MM | Lovers Made Men |
Love's Tr. | Love's Triumph through Callipolis |
Mag. Lady | The Magnetic Lady, or Humours Reconciled |
May-lord | The May-lord (lost pastoral) |
Merc. Vind. | Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists at Court |
Merch. Adv. Ent. | The Merchant Adventurers’ Entertainment (lost work) |
Merch. Tayl. Ent. | The Merchant Taylors’ Entertainment (three songs) |
Mortimer | Mortimer His Fall |
Neptune | Neptune's Triumph for the Return of Albion |
New Inn | The New Inn, or The Light Heart |
News NW | News from the New World Discovered in the Moon |
Oberon | Oberon, The Fairy Prince |
Owls | The Masque of Owls |
Pan's Ann. | Pan's Anniversary, or The Shepherds’ Holiday |
Pleasure Rec. | Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue |
Plymouth | Page of Plymouth (lost play) |
Poet. | Poetaster, or His Arraignment |
Queens | The Masque of Queens |
Robert II | Robert II, The King of Scots (lost play) |
Royal Entry | Design for a Royal Entry (lost work) |
Sad Shep. | The Sad Shepherd, or A Tale of Robin Hood |
Sej. | Sejanus His Fall |
Silent Woman | See Epicene |
Span. Trag. Adds. | Additions to ‘The Spanish Tragedy’ |
Staple | The Staple of News |
Theobalds | An Entertainment of the King and Queen at Theobalds |
Time Vind. | Time Vindicated to Himself and to His Honours |
Tub | A Tale of a Tub |
Two Kings | The Entertainment of the Two Kings at Theobalds |
Vision | The Vision of Delight |
Volp. | Volpone, or The Fox |
Wales | For the Honour of Wales |
Welbeck | The King's Entertainment at Welbeck |
Collected poems by Jonson
Epigr. | Epigrams |
Forest | The Forest |
Und. | The Underwood |
Uncollected poems by Jonson
Apollo | Verses Over the Door at the Entrance into the Apollo (1619) |
Beaumont | From John Beaumont, Bosworth Field (1629), ‘On the Honoured Poems of His Honoured Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Baronet’ |
Breton | From Nicholas Breton, Melancholic Humours (1600), ‘In Authorem’ |
Brome | From Richard Brome, The Northern Lass (1632), ‘To My Old Faithful Servant … Master Richard Brome’ |
Brooke | From Christopher Brooke, The Ghost of Richard the Third (1614), ‘To His Friend the Author Upon His Richard’ |
Browne | From William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals (1616), ‘To My Truly-Beloved Friend’ |
Bulstrode | Epitaph on Cecilia Bulstrode, with Letter 11, to George Garrard (1609) |
Cavendish | Charles Cavendish to His Posterity |
Censure not | An Epistle to a Friend (‘Censure not sharply, then’) |
Chapman | From The Georgics of Hesiod, translated by George Chapman (1618), ‘To My Worthy and Honoured Friend’ |
Craven, Journey | To Master Ben Jonson in his Journey by Master Craven (1618) |
Craven, Answer | This Was Master Ben Jonson's Answer of the Sudden (1618) |
Crudities (Distichs) | ‘Certain Opening and Closing Distichs’, from Coryate's Crudities (1611) |
Crudities (Character) | ‘The Character’, from Coryate's Crudities (1611) |
Crudities (Acrostic) | ‘Acrostic’, from Coryate's Crudities (1611) |
Crudities (Certain Verses) | ‘Certain Verses Written upon Coryate's Crudities’, from Coryate's Crambe (1611) |
Detractor | To My Detractor J[ohn] E[liot] (1632) |
Dover | From Annalia Dubrensia (1636), ‘An Epigram to My Jovial Good Friend Master Robert Dover’ |
Drayton | From The Battle of Agincourt (1627), ‘The Vision of Ben Jonson on the Muses of his Friend Michael Drayton’ |
Expostulation | An Expostulation with Inigo Jones (1631) |
Farnaby | From Thomas Farnaby's edition of Juvenal, Persius, and Seneca (1612) |
Fletcher | From John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess (1609–10), ‘To the Worthy Author, Master John Fletcher’ |
Filmer | From Edward Filmer, French Court Airs (1629), ‘To My Worthy Friend, Master Edward Filmer’ |
Gil (or Gill) | An Answer to Alexander Gil (1632) |
Grace | A Grace by Ben Jonson Extempore before King James [in three versions] (1617–18) |
Horace, Art | Horace His Art of Poetry, Made English by Ben Jonson, with parallel Latin text, Horatius de Arte Poetica (1641) |
Husband | From The Husband (1614), ‘To the Worthy Author’ |
Inigo Marq. | To Inigo, Marquis Would-be: A Corollary (1631) |
Jane Ogle | To the Memory of That Most Honoured Lady Jane … Ogle (1625) |
Katherine Ogle | Epitaph on Katherine, Lady Ogle (1629) |
Lucan | A Speech out of Lucan (‘Just and fit actions, Ptolemy, he saith’) |
Mabbe | From James Mabbe, The Rogue (1622), ‘On the Author, Work, and Translator’ |
Martial | Martial, Epigram 10.47 translated (‘The things that make the happier life are these’) |
May | From Lucan's Pharsalia (1627), ‘To My Chosen Friend the Learned Translator of Lucan, Thomas May, Esquire’ |
Moon | A Song of the Moon (1633) |
Nashe | Elegy on Thomas Nashe, ‘Ad Carissimam Memoriam Thomae Nashi’ (1601) |
Ode (‘Come, leave’) | Ode to Himself (‘Come, leave the loathèd stage’) (1629) |
Ode (‘If men’) | Ode (‘If men and times were now’) |
Ode (LM) | Ode ‘ἔνϑουσιαστικὴ’ (‘Splendour! O more than mortal’), From Robert Chester, Love's Martyr (1601) |
Ode (Pancharis) | From Hugh Holland, Pancharis (1603), Ode ‘ἀλλεγοριϰκὴ’ (‘Who saith our times nor have, nor can’) |
Palmer | From Thomas Palmer, ‘The Sprite of Trees and Herbs’ |
Panegyre | A Panegyre on the Happy Entrance of James … to His First High Session of Parliament (1604) |
Parnassus | Fragments from England's Parnassus (1600) |
Phoenix | ‘The Phoenix Analysed’, From Robert Chester, Love's Martyr (1601) |
Rutter | From Joseph Rutter, The Shepherd's Holiday (1635), ‘To My Dear Son and Right Learned Friend, Master Joseph Rutter’ |
Shakes. Reader | ‘To the Reader’, From Mr William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (1623) |
Shakes. Beloved | ‘To the memory of my beloved, the author, Mr William Shakespeare’, From Mr William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (1623) |
Sir Inigo | To a Friend: An Epigram of Him (1631) |
Sociable Rules | Ben Jonson's Sociable Rules for the Apollo, trans. Alexander Brome |
Somerset | To the Most Noble, and Above His Titles, Robert, Earl of Somerset (1613) |
Song of Welcome | A Song of Welcome to King Charles (1633) |
Stephens | From John Stephens, Cynthia's Revenge (1613), ‘To His Much and Worthily Esteemed Friend the Author’ |
Sutcliffe | From Alice Sutcliffe, Meditations of Man's Morality (1634), ‘To Mistress Alice Sutcliffe, on Her Divine Meditations’ |
Tilting | A Speech Presented unto King James at a Tilting, in the Behalf of the Two Noble Brothers (1613) |
Wright | From Thomas Wright, The Passions of the Mind in General (1604), ‘To the Author’ |
Prose by Jonson
Discoveries | Discoveries (alternative titles: Timber; Explorata) |
Grammar | The English Grammar |
Informations | Informations to William Drummond |
Leg. Conv. | Leges Convivales |
Letters | Letters, those by Jonson, identified by number; those by other authors, to him or concerning him, by alphabetical letter |
Titles not used in this edition
- An Entertainment at the Blackfriars = H&S’s title for CWBJ’s A Cavendish Christening Entertainment
- Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden = H&S’s title for CWBJ’s Informations to William Drummond of Hawthornden
- Hue and Cry After Cupid = Gifford’s title for The Haddington Masque
- The Key Keeper = title used for 2002 edition of CWBJ’s The Entertainment at Britain’s Burse
- The Penates = Gifford’s title for A Private Entertainment . . . at Highgate
- The Satyr = Gifford’s title for A Particular Entertainment . . . at Althorp
Works by Shakespeare
Ado | Much Ado About Nothing |
Ant. | Antony and Cleopatra |
AWW | All's Well That Ends Well |
AYLI | As You Like It |
Cor. | Coriolanus |
Cym. | Cymbeline |
Err. | The Comedy of Errors |
Ham. | Hamlet |
1H4 | The First Part of King Henry the Fourth |
2H4 | The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth |
H5 | King Henry the Fifth |
1H6 | The First Part of King Henry the Sixth |
2H6 | The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth |
3H6 | The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth |
H8 | King Henry the Eighth |
JC | Julius Caesar |
John | King John |
LLL | Love's Labour's Lost |
Lear | King Lear |
Luc. | The Rape of Lucrece |
Mac. | Macbeth |
MM | Measure for Measure |
MND | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
MV | The Merchant of Venice |
Oth. | Othello |
Per. | Pericles |
R2 | King Richard the Second |
R3 | King Richard the Third |
Rom. | Romeo and Juliet |
Shr. | The Taming of the Shrew |
STM | Sir Thomas More |
Temp. | The Tempest |
TGV | The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
Tim. | Timon of Athens |
Tit. | Titus Andronicus |
TN | Twelfth Night |
TNK | The Two Noble Kinsmen |
Tro. | Troilus and Cressida |
VA | Venus and Adonis |
Wiv. | The Merry Wives of Windsor |
WT | The Winter's Tale |
Other common abbreviations
EMode | Early Modern English |
ME | Middle English |
NA | National Archives |
OE | Old English |
PRO | Public Record Office |
SD, SDs | stage direction(s) |
SH, SHs | speech heading(s) |
Sigla for manuscripts
Most of the manuscript sigla below are based on those used in Peter Beal's Index of English Literary Manuscripts (London and New York, 1980). Please see Beal's list for fuller information about the identification and location of these sources. The indicator ‘rev.’ in this list signifies reverse numbering, necessary to distinguish from the regular numbering going from the other end. Square brackets are supplied in some instances to indicate that the page numberings thus marked are not actually written in the MS.
BLa82 | British Library, Add. MS 30982, ff. 58v–59 |
BLh55 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, f. 42 |
BLh17 | British Library, Harley MS 6927, f. 63 |
BLh31 | British Library, Harley MS 6931, f. 58–58v |
BLs92 | British Library, Sloane MS 1792, ff. 119v–120 |
Democritie | [William Drummond], Democritie / A Labyrinth of Delight. / or / Work preparative for his apology of Democritus. National Library of Scotland, MS 2060 (Beal DrW 353) |
Folger Letterbook | Folger, MS V.a.321 |
Hawthornden | National Library of Scotland, Hawthornden MSS, vol. 9 |
JnB 0.5 | Berkeley Castle Muniments General Series Miscellaneous Papers 31/10 |
JnB 1 | Edinburgh University Library, MS H.-P. Coll. 401, f. 73v |
JnB 2 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 239/18, pp. 3–4 |
JnB 3 | Yale, Osborn MS b 104, p. 116 |
JnB 4 | Folger, MS V.a.245, f. 70v |
JnB 4.5 | Yale, Osborn MS b 200, p. 15 |
JnB 5 | Untraced. Formerly owned by Richard Heber (1773–1833); printed from his transcript of this MS in John Payne Collier, ‘Ben Jonson and Alexander Gill’, The Athenaeum, No. 1957 (29 April 1865), pp. 587–8 |
JnB 6 | Untraced. Formerly owned by John Payne Collier (1789–1883). Printed in J. P. Collier, An Old Man's Diary (London, 1871–2), part ii, p. 13 |
JnB 7 | Untraced. In a heraldic miscellany compiled by John Cooper, a clerk of Sir Christopher Hatton's, c. 1632–43. Later Phillips MS 13185; Sotheby's, 29 October 1975, Lot 78 (unsold) |
JnB 8 | British Library, Add. MS 15227, f. 89 |
JnB 9 | New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 2 |
JnB 10 | Yale, Osborn MS b 197, pp. 186–7 |
JnB 11 | British Library, Harley MS 6057, f. 4v |
JnB 11.5 | University of Texas at Austin, MS (Killigrew, T.) / Misc./B, ff. 51v–52 |
JnB 12 | Aberdeen University Library, MS 29, p. 176 |
JnB 13 | Bodleian, MS Don. d. 58, f. 26v |
JnB 14 | Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. f. 25, fol. 64v |
JnB 15 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 116, f. 50v |
JnB 16 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 199, p. 74 |
JnB 17 | British Library, Add. MS 15117, f. 17v |
JnB 18 | British Library, Add. MS 19268, f. 14 |
JnB 19 | British Library, Add. MS 29481, f. 21 |
JnB 20 | British Library, Sloane MS 1792, f. 92 |
JnB 21 | British Library, Department of Printed Books, C. 39, a. 37, ff. 9v–10 |
JnB 22 | Cambridge University Library, MS Dd. 6. 43, f. 25v |
JnB 23 | Christ Church, Oxford, MS Mus. 87, ff. 4v–5 |
JnB 23.5 | Clark Library, Los Angeles, C6967M4 [1639] Bound, ff. [13v–14] |
JnB 24 | Folger, MS V.a.103, Part I, f. 31v |
JnB 25 | Folger, MS V.a.170, pp. 30–1 |
JnB 26 | New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4175, No. xlix |
JnB 27 | University of Nottingham, Portland MS, Pw V 37, p. 64 |
JnB 27.5 | Library of Robert S. Pirie, New York, Frendraught MS, p. 19 |
JnB 28 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 240/7, p. 90 |
JnB 29 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 243/4, p. 9 |
JnB 30 | Trinity College, Dublin, MS 412, f. 31v |
JnB 31 | Westminster Abbey, MS 41, f. 88v |
JnB 32 | Yale, Osborn MS b 205, f. 73 |
JnB 33 | Yale, Osborn MS b 213, p. 65b |
JnB 34 | Huntington, HM 46323, f. 3 rev. |
JnB 35 | Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 483, Bassus, p. 201 |
JnB 36 | Bodleian, MS Ashmole 38, p. 84 |
JnB 37 | British Library, Add. MS 10309, f. 57v |
JnB 38 | British Library, Add. MS 25707, f. 63 |
JnB 38.5 | British Library, Add. MS 56279, f. 24 |
JnB 39 | Folger, MS V.a.96, ff. 51v–52 |
JnB 40 | Folger, MS V.a.124, f. 43v |
JnB 41 | Folger, MS V.a.322, p. 128 |
JnB 42 | Harvard, fMS Eng 626, f. 78v |
JnB 43 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 239/23, pp. 35–6 |
JnB 44 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 240/2, pp. 81–2 |
JnB 44.5 | Yale, Osborn MS b 104, p. 115 |
JnB 45 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, ff. 34v–35 |
JnB 46 | British Library, Add. MS 27406, f. 110 |
JnB 47 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, f. 54v |
JnB 48 | Bodleian, MS Mus. b. 1, f. 48v |
JnB 49 | Folger, MS V.a.96, ff. 38v–39 |
JnB 50 | Harvard, fMS Eng 626, ff. 66v–67 |
JnB 51 | Harvard, MS Eng 703, f. 34 v |
JnB 52 | Huntington, HM 172, f. 25–25v |
JnB 53 | West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds, MX 237, f. 54v |
JnB 54 | Leicestershire Record Office, DG. 7/Lit. 2, f. 260v |
JnB 55 | Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R. 3. 12 (James 592), p. 242 |
JnB 56 | Edinburgh University Library, MS Dc. 7. 94, ff. 7v–9v |
JnB 57 | Huntington, HM 904, ff. 137–9 |
JnB 58 | Trinity College, Dublin, MS 877, ff. 176–7v |
JnB 59 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, f. 193 |
JnB 60 | Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 14, f. 48 |
JnB 61 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 26, f. 10v |
JnB 62 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 84, f. 61 |
JnB 63 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 147, p. 232 rev. |
JnB 64 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 160, f. 12v |
JnB 65 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 206, p. 57 |
JnB 66 | British Library, Add. MS 19268, f. 18v |
JnB 67 | British Library, Add. MS 58215, f. 68 |
JnB 68 | British Library, Egerton MS 2421, f. 16v |
JnB 69 | British Library, Egerton MS 2725, f. 35 |
JnB 70 | Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 79, f. 46 |
JnB 71 | Edinburgh University Library, MS Dc. 7. 94, ff. 6v–7 |
JnB 72 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 239/27, p. 225 |
JnB 73 | Trinity College, Dublin, MS 877, ff. 169v–170 |
JnB 74 | British Library, Harley MS 6057, f. 20 |
JnB 74.5 | British Library, Harley MS 6383, f. 76–76v |
JnB 75 | Edinburgh University Library, MS Dc. 7. 94, f. 14–14v |
JnB 76 | Folger, MS V.a.276, Part II, f. 43–43v |
JnB 77 | Folger, MS V.a.322. pp. 7–8 |
JnB 78 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, f. 192v |
JnB 79 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, f. 193 |
JnB 80 | Edinburgh University Library, MS Dc. 7. 94, f. 6v |
JnB 81 | Trinity College, Dublin, MS 877, f. 170 |
JnB 82 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, f. 39 |
JnB 83 | British Library, Harley MS 6057, f. 20v |
JnB 84 | Edinburgh University Library, MS Dc. 7. 94, ff. 13v–14 |
JnB 85 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, f. 40 |
JnB 86 | Edinburgh University Library, MS Dc. 7. 94, f. 13–13v |
JnB 87 | Folger, MS V.a.276, Part II, f. 42v |
JnB 88 | Folger, MS V.a.322, p. 4 |
JnB 89 | Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. f. 9, pp. 12–13 |
JnB 90 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 31, ff. 23v–24 |
JnB 91 | Yale, Osborn MS b 148, p. 5 |
JnB 92 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, ff. 31–4 |
JnB 93 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 31, ff. 18v–20v |
JnB 94 | British Library, Harley MS 4064, ff. 243v–245v |
JnB 95 | Folger, MS V.a.219, fol. 34v (Nos. 18, 19) |
JnB 96 | Worcester College, Oxford, MS 58, Adjunct, p. [12] |
JnB 97 | Folger, MS V.a.219, ff. 33v–34 (Nos. 8–12) |
JnB 98 | Worcester College, Oxford, MS 58 Adjunct, p. [13] |
JnB 99 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. B. 20, f. 42v |
JnB 100 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, f. 42v |
JnB 101 | University of Nottingham, Portland MS, Pw V 37, pp. 232–6 |
JnB 102 | The Houghton Library, Harvard, Lowell MS 1455 |
JnB 103 | Bodleian, MS Ashmole 38, p. 187 |
JnB 104 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 31, f. 36–36v |
JnB 105 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 116, f. 55v |
JnB 106 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 160, f. 25v |
JnB 107 | British Library, Add. MS 33998, f. 33–33v |
JnB 108 | British Library, Egerton MS 2230, f. 35v |
JnB 109 | British Library, Harley MS 4064, f. 261v |
JnB 110 | British Library, Harley MS 6057, f. 33v |
JnB 111 | British Library, Stowe MS 962, f. 90v |
JnB 112 | Chetham's Library, Manchester, Mun. A4. 15, p. 162 |
JnB 113 | Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 493, f. 94 |
JnB 114 | Folger, MS V.a. f96, f. 76 |
JnB 115 | Harvard, MS Eng 966.5, f. 87 |
JnB 116 | Huntington, EL 6893, f. 26–26v |
JnB 117 | Huntington, HM 198, Part II, f. 113v |
JnB 118 | Cambridge University Library, Add. MS 8468, f. 49v |
JnB 119 | National Library of Scotland, MS 2060 (Hawthornden vol. VIII), f. 164 |
JnB 120 | Pierpont Morgan Library, MA 1057, p. 94 |
JnB 121 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 1083/16, p. 274 |
JnB 122 | Bodleian, MS Ashmole 38, p. 168 |
JnB 123 | Bodleian, MS Don. e. 6, f. 24 |
JnB 123.8 | Folger, MS V.a.275, p. 156 |
JnB 124 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 1092, f. 267v |
JnB 125 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 117, f. 269 rev. |
JnB 126 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 153, f. 20 |
JnB 127 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 160, f. 25v |
JnB 128 | British Library, Add. MS 15227, f. 97v |
JnB 128.5 | British Library, Add. MS 29492, f. 38v |
JnB 129 | British Library, Harley MS 6057, f. 30v |
JnB 130 | British Library, Lansdowne MS 777, f. 60 |
JnB 131 | British Library, Stowe MS 962, f. 91v |
JnB 131.5 | Leeds University, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 20, B, p. 126 |
JnB 132 | West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds, MX 237, f. 92v |
JnB 132.5 | University of Nottingham, Portland MS, Pw V 30, p. 343 |
JnB 132.8 | Folger, MS V.a.275, p. 156 |
JnB 133 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 239/27, p. 357 |
JnB 134 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 1083/16, p. 275 |
JnB 135 | St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423), f. 8v |
JnB 136 | Trinity College, Dublin, MS 877, f. 257 |
JnB 136.5 | Yale, Osborn MS b 200, p. 100 |
JnB 136.8 | Yale, Osborn MS fb 143, p. 34 |
JnB 137 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, f. 55 |
JnB 138 | British Library, Sloane MS 1792, ff. 61–2 |
JnB 139 | Folger, MS V.a.170, pp. 224–6 |
JnB 140 | Folger, MS V.a.262, pp. 42–3 |
JnB 141 | Pierpont Morgan Library, MA 1057, pp. 11–12 |
JnB 142 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 239/18, pp. 4–5 |
JnB 142.5 | Yale, Osborn MS fb.230 |
JnB 143 | Bodleian, MS Ashmole 38, p. 171 |
JnB 144 | Folger, MS V.a.161, pp. 20–1 |
JnB 145 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, f. 176v–179v |
JnB 146 | National Library of Wales, NLW. MS 5390D, pp. 504–2 rev. |
JnB 147 | Folger, MS V.a.219, f. 34–34v (Nos. 13–17) |
JnB 148 | Folger, MS X.d.246 |
JnB 149 | Worcester College, Oxford, MS 58 Adjunct, pp. [11–12] |
JnB 150 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 117, f. 276v rev. |
JnB 151 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, f. 35v |
JnB 152 | Aberdeen University Library, MS 29, pp. 82–3 |
JnB 153 | Bodleian, MS Ashmole 38, pp. 5–6 |
JnB 154 | Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 176, f. 17 |
JnB 155 | Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 50, f. 111–111v |
JnB 156 | Bodleian, MS Firth e. 4, pp. 73–4 |
JnB 157 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 26, f. 16 |
JnB 158 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 142, f. 16v |
JnB 159 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 160, ff. 110v–111 |
JnB 160 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 166, pp. 85–6 |
JnB 161 | Bradford Central Library, Hopkinson MSS, Vol. 34, p. 130 |
JnB 162 | British Library, Add. MS 22582, f. 2–2v |
JnB 163 | British Library, Add. MS 25303, f. 75v |
JnB 164 | British Library, Add. MS 25707, ff. 152v–153 |
JnB 165 | British Library, Add. MS 30259, ff. 1–2 |
JnB 166 | British Library, Add. MS 58215, f. 50–50v |
JnB 167 | British Library, Harley MS 3511, ff. 49v–50 |
JnB 168 | British Library, Sloane MS 1446, f. 91–91v |
JnB 169 | British Library, Sloane MS 1792, f. 56–56v |
JnB 170 | British Library, Stowe MS 962, ff. 146v–147 |
JnB 171 | Edinburgh University Library, MS Dc. 7. 94, ff. 14v–15 |
JnB 172 | Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 436, pp. 8–9 |
JnB 173 | Folger, MS V.a.96, ff. 41–2 |
JnB 174 | Folger, MS V.a.125, Part I, f. 26 |
JnB 175 | Folger, MS V.a.170, pp. 159–60 |
JnB 176 | Folger, MS V.a.322, pp. 8–9 |
JnB 177 | Harvard, fMS Eng 626, ff. 67v–68 |
JnB 178 | Harvard, MS Eng 703, ff. 59r–v |
JnB 179 | Huntington, HM 172, ff. 26v–7 |
JnB 180 | Huntington, HM 198, Part I, pp. 54–5 |
JnB 181 | West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds, WYL 156/237 |
JnB 182 | Leicestershire Record Office, DG. 9/2796, pp. 38–40 |
JnB 183.5 | London Metropolitan Archives, ACC/1360/528, f. [13v rev.] |
JnB 183 | University of London Library, MS 304, ff. 276v–277 |
JnB 184 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 239/18, p. 3 |
JnB 185 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 239/23, pp. 80–2 |
JnB 186 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 243/4, pp. 124–5 |
JnB 187 | National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, pp. 128–9 |
JnB 188 | Trinity College, Dublin, MS 877, ff. 197v–198 |
JnB 189 | Trinity College, Dublin, MS 877, ff. 228v–229 |
JnB 190 | Westminster Abbey, MS 41, f. 34–34v |
JnB 191 | Wolf MS. The Family Album, Glen Rock, PA, pp. 91–2 |
JnB 192 | Yale, Osborn MS b 205, ff. 87–8 |
JnB 192.5 | Meisei University, Tokyo, ‘Crewe MS’, p. 61 |
JnB 193 | Untraced; formerly owned by Henry Arthur Bright (1830–84). Printed in Poems from Sir Kenelm Digby's Papers, in the Possession of Henry A. Bright, Roxburghe Club (London, 1877), pp. 21–2 |
JnB 194 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, ff. 36–7 |
JnB 195 | Aberdeen University Library, MS 29, pp. 83–5 |
JnB 196 | Bodleian, MS Ashmole 38, p. 5 |
JnB 197 | Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 50. ff. 111v–112v |
JnB 198 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 160, ff. 111–12 |
JnB 199 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 166, pp. 86–9 |
JnB 200 | Bradford Archives, 32D86/34, pp. 130–2 |
JnB 201 | British Library, Add. MS 25303, ff. 76–7 |
JnB 202 | British Library, Add. MS 25707, ff. 153–4 |
JnB 203 | British Library, Add. MS 30259, ff. 2–4v |
JnB 204 | British Library, Add. MS 58215, ff. 51–53v |
JnB 205 | British Library, Harley MS 3511, ff. 50–51v |
JnB 206 | British Library, Harley MS 6057, f. 21v |
JnB 207 | British Library, Sloane MS 1446, ff. 89v–90 |
JnB 208 | British Library, Sloane MS 1792, ff. 56v–58 |
JnB 209 | British Library, Stowe MS 962, ff. 177v–179 |
JnB 210 | Edinburgh University Library, MS Dc. 7. 94, ff. 15–16 |
JnB 211 | Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 436, pp. 9–11 |
JnB 212 | Folger, MS V.a.96, ff. 42–4 |
JnB 213 | Folger, MS V.a.170, pp. 160–3 |
JnB 214 | Folger, MS V.a.322. pp. 9–11 |
JnB 215 | Harvard, fMS Eng 626, ff. 68v–69v |
JnB 216 | Harvard, MS Eng 703, f. 59v |
JnB 217 | Huntington, HM 172, ff. 27–28v |
JnB 218 | Huntington, HM 198, Part I, pp. 55–6 |
JnB 219 | West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds, WYL 156/237, ff. 45v–6 |
JnB 220 | Leicestershire Record Office, DG. 9/2796, pp. 40–5 |
JnB 220.5 | London Metropolitan Archives, ACC/1360/528, ff. [14–15v rev.] |
JnB 221 | University of London Library, MS 304 [no page references; poem is at end] |
JnB 222 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 239/23, pp. 82–5 |
JnB 223 | National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, pp. 129–30 |
JnB 224 | Westminster Abbey, MS 41, ff. 34v–35v |
JnB 225 | Wolf MS. The Family Album, Glen Rock, PA, pp. 92–3 |
JnB 226 | Untraced; formerly owned by Henry Arthur Bright (1830–84). Printed in Poems from Sir Kenelm Digby's Papers, in the Possession of Henry A. Bright, Roxburghe Club (London, 1877), pp. 23–5 |
JnB 227 | National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 444C, p. 17 |
JnB 228 | British Library, Add. MS 30259, ff. 4v–10v |
JnB 229 | Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 37, pp. 80–6 |
JnB 230 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, ff. 43–6 |
JnB 231 | Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 14, ff. 22v–24 |
JnB 232 | Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 14, f. 78 |
JnB 233 | Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 97, pp. 71–6 |
JnB 234 | Bradford Central Library, Hopkinson MSS, Vol. 17, ff. [13v–14] |
JnB 235 | British Library, Add. MS 21433, ff. 97–102v |
JnB 236 | British Library, Add. MS 25303, ff. 94–8 |
JnB 237 | British Library, Harley MS 3910, ff. 61v–64v |
JnB 238 | British Library, Sloane MS 1792, ff. 101–4v |
JnB 239 | British Library, Stowe MS 962, f. 238–42 |
JnB 240 | Edinburgh University Library, MS Dc. 7. 94, ff. 2–5 |
JnB 241 | Folger, MS V.a.97, pp. 156–61 |
JnB 242 | Folger, MS V.a.276, Part II, ff. 43v–44 |
JnB 243 | University of Leeds, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. q. 11, No. 51 |
JnB 244 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 239/22, ff. 39–42v |
JnB 245 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 239/27, pp. 17–24 |
JnB 246 | Westminster Abbey, MS 41, ff. 63–65v |
JnB 247 | Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Leeds, MD 59/22 Packet B/1 |
JnB 248 | Huntington, EL 8729, ff. 42–3v |
JnB 249 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, ff. 174v–175v |
JnB 250 | British Library, Add. MS 23070, ff. 29–30v |
JnB 250.5 | British Library, Harley MS 6383, ff. 73–5 |
JnB 251 | Folger, MS V.a.96, ff. 90v–93v |
JnB 252 | Folger, MS V.a.322, pp. 11–14 |
JnB 253 | Folger, MS X.d.245 (a–b) |
JnB 253.5 | London Metropolitan Archives, ACC/1360/528, ff. [32r–33v rev.] |
JnB 254 | University of Nottingham, Portland MS, Pw 2V 154 |
JnB 255 | Trinity College, Dublin, MS 877, ff. 178–80 |
JnB 256 | Bodleian, MS Ashmole 38, p. 62 |
JnB 257 | Bodleian, MS Ashmole 38, p. 117 |
JnB 258 | Bodleian, MS Aubrey 8, f. 55 |
JnB 259 | Bodleian, MS Malone 19, p. 138 |
JnB 260 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 26, f. 1v |
JnB 261 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 160, f. 175v |
JnB 262 | Folger, MS V.a.162, f. 58 |
JnB 263 | Harvard, MS Eng 686, f. 38v |
JnB 264 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 1083/16, pp. 181–2 |
JnB 265 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, ff. 37v–38v |
JnB 266 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 31, ff. 28–29v |
JnB 267 | British Library, Harley MS 4064, ff. 250–251v |
JnB 268 | Bodleian, MS Don. e. 6, f. 18v |
JnB 269 | St Paul's Cathedral, MS 52. D. 14 |
JnB 270 | National Archives of Scotland, GD18/4312, f. 1 |
JnB 271 | Bodleian, MS Ashmole 36/37, f. 257 |
JnB 272 | Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 176, f. 8 |
JnB 273 | Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 50, f. 113 |
JnB 274 | Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. fol. 25, f. 19v |
JnB 275 | Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. f. 27, p. 66 |
JnB 276 | Bodleian, MS Firth e. 4, p. 51 |
JnB 277 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 172, f. 74v |
JnB 278 | British Library, Add. MS 11811, f. 31 |
JnB 279 | British Library, Add. MS 15227, f. 96v |
JnB 280 | British Library, Add. MS 19268, f. 4v |
JnB 281 | British Library, Add. MS 22603, f. 49–49v |
JnB 282 | British Library, Add. MS 33998, f. 14–14v |
JnB 283 | British Library, Egerton MS 2725, f. 112v |
JnB 284 | British Library, Stowe MS 961, f. 69v |
JnB 285 | British Library, Stowe MS 962, f. 144 |
JnB 286 | Cumbria Record Office MSS, D&C Music, Box B1, Altus, p. 8; Bassus, p. 8 |
JnB 287 | Derbyshire Record Office, D258/10/15, p. 9 |
JnB 288 | Edinburgh University Library, MS Dc. 7. 94, f. 17v |
JnB 289 | Folger, MS V.a.162, f. 90 |
JnB 290 | Folger, MS V.a.170, p. 76 |
JnB 291 | Folger, MS V.a.245, f. 55v |
JnB 292 | Folger, MS V.b.43. f. 9v |
JnB 293 | Harvard, fMS Eng 626, f. 73 |
JnB 294 | Harvard, MS Eng 966.5, f. 139v |
JnB 295 | Harvard, MS Eng 966.7, f. 32 |
JnB 296 | Huntington, HM 198, Part I, p. 53 |
JnB 297 | Cambridge University Library, Add. MS 8447 [f. 28; no page numbers] |
JnB 298 | Cambridge University Library, Add. MS 8468, f. 113 |
JnB 299 | West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds, MX 237, f. 34 |
JnB 300 | Pierpont Morgan Library, MA 1057, p. 132 |
JnB 301 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 1083/16, p. 291 |
JnB 302 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 1083/17, p. 15 |
JnB 303 | St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423), f. 7v |
JnB 304 | National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, p. 75 |
JnB 305 | Yale, Osborn MS b 197, p. 59 |
JnB 306 | Yale, Osborn MS b 205, f. 73v |
JnB 307 | Untraced; formerly owned by Henry Arthur Bright (1830–84). Printed in Poems from Sir Kenelm Digby's Papers, in the Possession of Henry A. Bright, Roxburghe Club (London, 1877), pp. 23–5 |
JnB 308 | Bodleian, MS Ashmole 36/37, f. 48v |
JnB 309 | Bodleian, MS Don. c. 54, f. 3v |
JnB 310 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 239/23, pp. 201–2 |
JnB 311 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 23, p. 158 |
JnB 311.5 | British Library, Add. MS 29372, p. 142 |
JnB 311.8 | British Library, Add. MS 29427, f. 70v |
JnB 312 | British Library, Egerton MS 2013, f. 57v |
JnB 312.5 | British Library, Egerton 3665 ff. 507v–508 |
JnB 312.8 | Christ Church, Oxford, MSS 423–28 |
JnB 313 | Harvard, MS Eng 703. f. 63–63v |
JnB 314 | Bodleian, MS Tenbury 1018, f. 31 |
JnB 315 | British Library, Harley MS 6917, f. 84–84v |
JnB 316 | Folger, MS V.a.276, Part II, ff. 20v–21v |
JnB 316.3 | Yale, Osborn MS b 356, pp. 309–11 |
JnB 316.5 | Yale, 1977+ 422, sig. 3X4–3X4v |
JnB 317 | Rosenbach Museum, MS 239/18, p. 5 |
JnB 318 | Bodleian, MS Aubrey 6, f. 69 |
JnB 319 | Dulwich College, Alleyn Papers, Vol. I, No. 135. f. 259 |
JnB 320 | British Library, Harley MS 791, f. 59v |
JnB 321 | Folger, MS V.a.276, Part II, f. 42–42v |
JnB 322 | Bodleian, MS Don. c. 57, f. 48v |
JnB 323 | Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 53, f. 2v |
JnB 324 | Bodleian, MS Mus. b. 1, f. 81 |
JnB 325 | Bodleian, MS Mus. Sch. C. 142 |
JnB 326 | British Library, Add. MS 15227, f. 88v |
JnB 327 | British Library, Add. MS 25707, ff. 4v–5 |
JnB 328 | British Library, Add. MS 30982, ff. 37v–38 |
JnB 329 | British Library, Sloane MS 1446, f. 55 |
JnB 330 | British Library, Stowe MS 962, ff. 207v–208 |
JnB 331 | Chetham's Library, Manchester, Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2217 |
JnB 332 | Folger, MS V.b.43, ff. 28v–29 |
JnB 333 | Harvard, fMS Eng 626, f. 80–80v |
JnB 334 | West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds, MX 237, f. 23 |
JnB 335 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 239/23, pp. 30–1 |
JnB 336 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 1083/17, ff. 109v–110 |
JnB 337 | St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), f. 53–53v |
JnB 338 | Trinity College, Cambridge, MS B. 14. 22 (James 307), f. 87 |
JnB 339 | Trinity College, Dublin, MS 877, ff. 187v–188 |
JnB 340 | Owned by Rosemary Williams, London, Stoughton MS, pp. 101–2 |
JnB 341 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, f. 42 |
JnB 342 | Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 50, f. 131v |
JnB 343 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 142, f. 43v |
JnB 344 | British Library, Add. MS 30982, ff. 58v–59 |
JnB 345 | British Library, Harley MS 6917, f. 63 |
JnB 346 | British Library, Harley MS 6931, f. 58–58v |
JnB 347 | British Library, Sloane MS 1792, ff. 119v–120 |
JnB 348 | Edinburgh University Library, MS Dc. 7. 94, ff. 16v–17 |
JnB 349 | Folger, MS V.a.97, p. 127 |
JnB 350 | West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds, MX 237, f. 64 |
JnB 351 | Yale, Osborn MS b 200, pp. 247–8 |
JnB 352 | National Archives of Scotland, GD18/4312 |
JnB 353 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, f. 47v |
JnB 354 | Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 50, f. 118 |
JnB 355 | Edinburgh University Library, MS Dc. 7. 94, f. 17–17v |
JnB 356 | Folger, MS V.a.96, f. 51–51v |
JnB 357 | Folger, MS V.a.322, pp. 127–8 |
JnB 358 | Harvard, fMS Eng 626, f. 78–78v |
JnB 359 | Huntington, HM 172, f. 32v |
JnB 360 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 239/23, pp. 34–5 |
JnB 361 | Bodleian, MS Ashmole 36/37, f. 166 |
JnB 362 | British Library, Egerton MS 2026, f. 67v |
JnB 363 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 31, ff. 8v–9 |
JnB 364 | British Library, Harley MS 4064, f. 237–237v |
JnB 365 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 31. ff. 20v–21 |
JnB 366 | Edinburgh University Library, MS Dc. 7. 94, ff. 5v–6v |
JnB 367 | (a ghost) |
JnB 368 | Bodleian, MS Ashmole 38, pp. 80–1 |
JnB 369 | Corpus Christi College, Oxford MS 328, ff. 45v–46 |
JnB 370 | Bodleian, MS Firth e. 4, pp. 30–5 |
JnB 371 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 65, ff. 38v–40v |
JnB 372 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 166. pp. 83–5 |
JnB 373 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 209, ff. 11–12 |
JnB 374 | Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 79, ff. 28v–31 |
JnB 375 | Edinburgh University Library, MS Dc. 7. 94, ff. 18–19 |
JnB 376 | Folger, MS V.a.152, pp. 77–8 |
JnB 377 | Folger, MS V.a.170, pp. 184–7 |
JnB 378 | Folger, MS V.a.322, pp. 170–81 |
JnB 379 | Huntington, HM 198, Part I, pp. 114–16 |
JnB 379.5 | Isle of Wight Record Office, Cromwellian Commonplace book |
JnB 380 | St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), ff. 1–2 |
JnB 380.5 | Trinity College, Dublin, MS 877, ff. 279v–71v |
JnB 381 | Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce 5363 (Pressmark Dyce 25.A.97) |
JnB 382 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 31, ff. 7v–8v |
JnB 383 | British Library, Egerton MS 923, ff. 19–20 |
JnB 384 | British Library, Harley MS 4064, ff. 236–7 |
JnB 385 | Huntington, HM 198, Part II, ff. 5v–6 |
JnB 386 | Christ Church, Oxford, MS 184, f. 40–40v |
JnB 387 | Worcester College, Oxford, MS 58 Adjunct, p. [13] |
JnB 388 | British Library, Add. MS 27406, f. 74v |
JnB 389 | Folger, MS V.a.275, p. 133 |
JnB 390 | Bodleian, MS Ashmole 47, f. 45v |
JnB 391 | New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S288, p. 79 |
JnB 392 | Bodleian, MS Don. e. 6, f. 23 |
JnB 393 | Folger, MS V.a.180, f. 97 |
JnB 394 | Bodleian, MS Ashmole 47, f. 46–46v |
JnB 395 | Bodleian, MS Don. e. 6, f. 22 |
JnB 396 | British Library, Sloane MS 1489. f. 35v |
JnB 397 | Folger, MS V.a.339, f. 230 |
JnB 398 | Folger, MS V.a.345, p. 282 |
JnB 399 | National Library of Scotland, MS 2060 (Hawthornden vol. VIII), f. 238 |
JnB 400 | Worcester College, Oxford, MS 58 Adjunct, p. [10] |
JnB 401 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 239/22, f. 25 |
JnB 402 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 1083/15, f. 86v |
JnB 403 | Worcester College, Oxford, MS Adjunct, p. 10 |
JnB 404 | Bodleian, MS Ashmole 47, ff. 45v–46 |
JnB 405 | New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S288, p. 79 |
JnB 406 | Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office, ER 93/2, f. 157v |
JnB 406.5 | Yale, 1977+ 422, sig. 3X4 |
JnB 407 | Bodleian, MS Ashmole 47, f. 45v |
JnB 408 | Huntington, HM 198, Part II, fol. 118v |
JnB 409 | New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S288, p. 79 |
JnB 410 | Folger, MS V.a.219, f. 33 (No. 4) |
JnB 410.5 | Yale, 1977+ 422, sig. 3X3–3X3v |
JnB 411 | Bodleian, MS Ashmole 38, p. 67 |
JnB 411.5 | British Library, Add. MS 73087, f. 231 |
JnB 412 | Bodleian, MS Ashmole 47, f. 45 |
JnB 413 | Bodleian, MS Don. c. 54, f. 3v |
JnB 414 | Bodleian, MS Don. c. 54, f. 11 |
JnB 415 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 117, f. 164v rev. |
JnB 416 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 160, f. 34v |
JnB 416.5 | British Library, Add. MS 11811, f. 3v |
JnB 417 | British Library, Add. MS 15227, f. 8v |
JnB 417.3 | British Library, Stowe MS 962, f. 166 |
JnB 417.5 | Folger, MS V.a.103, Part I, f. 77 |
JnB 417.8 | John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Rylands English MS 410, f. 21 |
JnB 418 | West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds, MX 237,f. [82dv] |
JnB 419 | Leicestershire Record Office, DG. 7/Lit. 2, f. 288A |
JnB 420 | New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S288, pp. 78–9 |
JnB 421 | University of Nottingham, Portland MS, Pw V 37, p. 180 |
JnB 422 | Trinity College, Dublin, MS 877, f. 243 |
JnB 422.5 | Yale, Osborn MS b 197, p. 36 |
JnB 423 | Folger, MS X.d.246 |
JnB 424 | National Library of Wales, NLW. MS 5390D, p. 504 rev. |
JnB 425 | Bodleian, MS Ashmole 38, p. 155 |
JnB 426 | British Library, Add. MS 18220, f. 103 |
JnB 427 | Folger, MS V.a.125, Part I, f. 54 |
JnB 428 | West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds, MX 237, f. 52v |
JnB 428.3 | London Metropolitan Archives, ACC/1360/528, f. [23–23v rev.] |
JnB 428.5 | Meisei University, Tokyo, ‘Crewe MS’, pp. 27–8 |
JnB 429 | Merton College, Oxford, MS D. 1. 2, f. 144 |
JnB 430 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 239/18, p. 5 |
JnB 430.5 | Formerly National Library of Ireland, MS Collection List 17; currently untraced |
JnB 430.8 | Christ Church, Oxford MS Mus. 736–8, f. 5 |
JnB 431 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, f. 53–53v |
JnB 432 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, f. 52v |
JnB 433 | Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 14, f. 75v |
JnB 434 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 954, f. 44 |
JnB 435 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 209, f. 34 |
JnB 436 | British Library, Add. MS 44963, f. 10 |
JnB 437 | British Library, Harley MS 3511, ff. 60v–61 |
JnB 438 | Edinburgh University Library, MS H.-P. Coll. 401, f. 73 |
JnB 439 | National Library of Scotland, MS 2060 (Hawthornden vol. VIII), f. 238 |
JnB 440 | University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell / White 25, f. 42v |
JnB 441 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 239/18, p. 49–50 |
JnB 442 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 1083/16, pp. 55–6 |
JnB 443 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 31, f. 7 |
JnB 444 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 172, f. 2 |
JnB 445 | British Library, Add. MS 10309, f. 117 |
JnB 446 | British Library, Add. MS 15117, f. 20v |
JnB 447 | Edinburgh University Library, MS H.-P. Coll. 401, f. 73 |
JnB 448 | Folger, MS V.a.262, p. 101 |
JnB 449 | Folger, MS V.a.339, f. 191v |
JnB 450 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 1083/17, ff. 91v–92 |
JnB 451 | Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 14, f. 21 |
JnB 452 | Bodleian, MS Firth e. 4, p. 25 |
JnB 453 | British Library, Add. MS 22602, f. 2v |
JnB 454 | British Library, Add. MS 25707, f. 69v |
JnB 455 | British Library, Harley MS 3511, f. 61 |
JnB 456 | British Library, Sloane MS 1446, f. 54v |
JnB 457 | British Library, Stowe MS 962, f. 235 |
JnB 458 | Edinburgh University Library, MS H.-P. Coll. 401, f. 73v |
JnB 459 | Folger, MS V.a.125, Part I, f. 43 |
JnB 460 | Folger, MS V.a.262, pp. 39–40 |
JnB 461 | Folger, MS V.a.275, p. 156 |
JnB 462 | Folger, MS V.a.345, p. 286 |
JnB 463 | Folger, MS V.b.43, f. 25v |
JnB 464 | National Library of Scotland, MS 2059 (Hawthornden vol. VIII), f. 238 |
JnB 465 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 1083/16, p. 56 |
JnB 466 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 1083/17, f. 108 |
JnB 467 | Trinity College, Dublin, MS 877, f. 272 |
JnB 468 | Owned by Rosemary Williams, London, Stoughton MS, p. 100 |
JnB 469 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 31, f. 18–18v |
JnB 470 | British Library, Harley MS 4064, f. 243–243v |
JnB 471 | Bodleian, MS Ashmole 38, p. 103 |
JnB 472 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, f. 47v |
JnB 473 | Bodleian, MS Don. e. 6, f. 22v |
JnB 474 | Huntington, EL 8729, f. 44 |
JnB 475 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, f. 176 |
JnB 476 | British Library, Add. MS 23070, f. 31 |
JnB 477 | British Library, Harley MS 6057, f. 19 |
JnB 477.5 | British Library, Harley MS 6383, ff. 75v–76 |
JnB 478 | Folger, MS V.a.96, f. 94–94v |
JnB 479 | Folger, MS V.a.322, p. 15 |
JnB 480 | Folger, MS X.d.245(a) |
JnB 480.5 | London Metropolitan Archives, ACC/1360/528, f. [34–34v rev.] |
JnB 481 | University of Nottingham, Portland MS, Pw 2V 154 |
JnB 482 | Trinity College, Dublin, MS 877, f. 178 |
JnB 483 | Corpus Christi College, Oxford MS 327, f. 32v |
JnB 484 | British Library, Add. MS 44963, f. 9v |
JnB 485 | Bodleian, MS Don. e. 6, f. 22v |
JnB 486 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 26, f. 1v |
JnB 487 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 1083/16, p. 282 |
JnB 487.5 | King's College, Cambridge, Hayward Collection, H. 11. 13, f. [30] |
JnB 488 | Huntington, EL 8729. ff. 43v–44 |
JnB 489 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, f. 176 |
JnB 490 | British Library, Add. MS 23070, ff. 30v–31 |
JnB 491 | British Library, Harley MS 6057, f. 18v |
JnB 491.5 | British Library, Harley MS 6383, f. 75–75v |
JnB 492 | Folger, MS V.a.96. ff. 93v–94 |
JnB 493 | Folger, MS V.a.322, pp. 14–15 |
JnB 494 | Folger, MS X.d.245(a) |
JnB 494.5 | London Metropolitan Archives, ACC/1360/528, f. [34 rev.] |
JnB 495 | University of Nottingham, Portland MS, Pw 2V 154 |
JnB 496 | Trinity College, Dublin, MS 877, f. 180–180v |
JnB 497 | Bodleian, MS Ashmole 47, f. 45v |
JnB 498 | New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S288, p. 80 |
JnB 498.5 | Yale, 1977 + 422, sig. 3X3 |
JnB 499 | Folger, MS V.a.219, f. 33 (No. 1) |
JnB 499.5 | Yale, 1977 + 422, sig. 3X4v–3X5 |
JnB 500 | Bodleian, MS Don. e. 6, f. 23v |
JnB 501 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, f. 173v |
JnB 502 | Bodleian, MS Ashmole 38, p. 82 |
JnB 503 | Edinburgh University Library, MS Dc. 7. 94, f. 13 |
JnB 504 | Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 144/266 |
JnB 505 | Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 144/266 |
JnB 506 | Folger, MS V.a.219, f. 33 (No. 3) |
JnB 507 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 31, ff. 12v–13 |
JnB 508 | British Library, Harley MS 4064, ff. 240v–241 |
JnB 509 | British Library, Lansdowne MS 740, f. 127v |
JnB 510 | Folger, MS V.a.219, f. 33 (No. 2) |
JnB 511 | Worcester College, Oxford, MSS 6.13, ff. [3, 5] |
JnB 511.5 | Yale, 1977 + 422, sig. 3X3 |
JnB 512 | British Library, Add. MS 23229, f. 87 |
JnB 513 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 31, ff. 34–6 |
JnB 514 | British Library, Harley MS 4064, ff. 257–9 |
JnB 515 | Worcester College, Oxford, MSS 6.13, f. [5v] |
JnB 516 | Folger, MS V.a.219, f. 33v (No. 5) |
JnB 517 | Worcester College, Oxford, MSS 6.13, f. [5] |
JnB 517.5 | Yale, 1977 + 422, sig. 3X3v |
JnB 518 | Folger, MS V.a.219, f. 33v (No. 7) |
JnB 519 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 239/18, p. 54 |
JnB 520 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, ff. 180–181v |
JnB 521 | Bodleian, MS Ashmole 36/37, ff. 49–50 |
JnB 522 | Edinburgh University Library, MS Dc. 7. 94, ff. 9v–11v |
JnB 523 | Folger, MS V.a.322, pp. 16–19 |
JnB 524 | St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), ff. 23–25v |
JnB 525 | Bodleian, MS Ashmole 38, p. 74 |
JnB 526 | British Library, Harley MS 6057, f. 19v |
JnB 527 | Edinburgh University Library, MS Dc. 7. 94, f. 5–5v |
JnB 528 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, f. 54 |
JnB 529 | British Library, Dept of Printed books, C.28.m.11 |
JnB 530 | Bodleian, MS Ashmole 36/37, f. 159v |
JnB 531 | Edinburgh University Library, MS Dc. 7. 94, ff. 11v–12 |
JnB 532 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, f. 173 |
JnB 533 | Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 50, f. 58–58v |
JnB 534 | Edinburgh University Library, MS Dc. 7. 94, f. 12–12v |
JnB 535 | Folger, MS E.a.6, f. 6–6v |
JnB 536 | Folger, MS V.a.322, pp. 4–5 |
JnB 537 | West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds, MX 237, f. [82v] |
JnB 537.5 | London Metropolitan Archives, ACC/1360/528, f. [1v rev.] |
JnB 538 | St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), ff. 37v–38 |
JnB 539 | St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423), f. 19v |
JnB 540 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, f. 174 |
JnB 541 | Folger, MS V.a.276, Part II, f. 44v |
JnB 542 | Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 14, f. 42 |
JnB 543 | Bodleian, MS Firth c. 4, f. 71 |
JnB 544 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 31, f. 7–7v |
JnB 545 | British Library, Add. MS 10309, f. 117v |
JnB 546 | Edinburgh University Library, MS H.-P. Coll. 401, f. 73 |
JnB 547 | Folger, MS V.a.345. pp. 286–7 |
JnB 548 | Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 1083/16, pp. 53–4 |
JnB 548.5 | Yale, 1977 + 422, sig. 3X3v |
JnB 549 | Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Leeds, MS 312 |
JnB 550 | Folger, MS V.a.306, f. 12 |
JnB 551 | Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office, ER 93/2, f. 157v |
JnB 552 | Bodleian, MS Ashmole 47, f. 44v |
JnB 553 | Folger, MS V.a.219, f. 33v (No. 6) |
JnB 554 | New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S288, p. 78 |
JnB 554.5 | Yale, 1977 + 422, sig. 3X4v |
JnB 555 | British Library, Add. MS 18040, f. 10 |
JnB 558 | Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. d. 3, f. 80 |
JnB 563 | Folger, Ms J.a.1, ff. 166–74v |
JnB 564 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, ff. 46v–47 |
JnB 565 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 160, ff. 173–4 |
JnB 566 | Huntington, HM 198, Part I, pp. 60–1 |
JnB 566.5 | Yale, Osborn MS b 197, pp. 132–4 |
JnB 571 | Christ Church, Oxford, MS Mus. 439, pp. 38–9 |
JnB 573 | Edinburgh University Library, MS H.-P. Coll. 401, f. 36 |
JnB 574 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, ff. 48–52v |
JnB 574.5 | National Archives, Kew, SP 14/44/62 |
JnB 574.8 | Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 144/267, 144/273, 140/114 |
JnB 575 | All Souls College, Oxford, MS 155, ff. 319–21 |
JnB 575.5 | British Library, Add. MS 27407, ff. 127–8v |
JnB 576 | British Library, Add. MS 34218, ff. 23v–24 |
JnB 576.5 | National Archives, Kew, SP 9/51/41–2 |
JnB 577 | Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 140, 140/110–11a |
JnB 578 | Folger, MS X.d.475 |
JnB 579 | Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 144, 144/271 |
JnB 580 | Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 144, 144/272 |
JnB 581 | British Library, Egerton MS 2877, f. 162v rev. |
JnB 606 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, f. 192 |
JnB 611 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, ff. 2–30 |
JnB 612 | Huntington, HM 741 |
JnB 613 | National Archives, Kew, SP 14/122/58 |
JnB 614 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 172, f. 78–78v |
JnB 676 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, ff. 194–198v |
JnB 679 | Bodleian, Tenbury MS 1018, ff. 36v–37v |
JnB 680 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, ff. 199–202 |
JnB 683 | British Library, Royal MS 17 B. XXXI |
JnB 685 | British Library, Royal MS 18 A. XLV |
JnB 688 | Bodleian, Tenbury MS 1018, f. 36 |
JnB 689 | Bodleian, Tenbury MS 1018, ff. 37v–38 |
JnB 691 | A copy of Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue, in the hand of Ralph Crane, owned by the Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth, Derbyshire |
JnB 692 | Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. d. 3, ff. 41v–42 |
JnB 701 | British Library, Add. MS 24665, ff. 59v–60 |
JnB 702 | British Library, Add. MS 53723, f. 7 |
JnB 710 | New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, no. 25 |
JnB 715 | Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 50, f.120v |
JnB 716 | Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 97, p. 215 |
JnB 718 | Bodleian, MS Mus. b. 1, ff. 137v–138 |
JnB 719 | British Library, Add. MS 25707, f. 67 |
JnB 735 | British Library, Harley MS 4955, ff. 40v–41 |
Ord26 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. D.261 |
Pudsey MS | A miscellany compiled by Edward Pudsey. Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. d. 3, f. 80. See JnB 558 |
Sibbald | Ben Jonsiana / Informations be Ben Johnston / to W. D. when he came to Scotland upon foot / 1619 / Certain Informations and manners of Ben Johnson's to W. Drumond [transcribed by Sir Robert Sibbald], Adversaria, NLS Advocates MS. 33.3.19, ff. 25v–31 (Beal DrW 303–4) |
WoH 56 | Bodleian, MS Don c. 57, f. 29v–20 |
WoH 57 | Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 147, pp. 96–7 |
WoH 58 | Bodleian, MS Tanner 465, f. 61v |
WoH 58.5 | In a duodecimo miscellany compiled by ‘T. E.’, a member of St John's College, Oxford, c. 1655. Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 232/14, pp. 78–77 rev. |
YoOO | Yale, Osborne MS 200, p. 24 |
Sigla used for early printed editions
Benson12mo. | The 1640 duodecimo: Q. Horatius Flaccus, His Art of Poetry, Englished by Ben Jonson, with Other Works of the Author Never Printed Before. London: John Benson, 1640 |
Benson Q | The 1640 quarto: Ben Jonson's Execration against Vulcan, with Divers Epigrams by the Same Author to Several Noble Personages in this Kingdom, Never Published Before. London: John Benson, 1640 |
D1 | The text of Gypsies Metamorphosed, as originally printed by John Benson in the 1640 duodecimo, Q. Horatius Flaccus,His Art of Poetry, including the section partially preserved in the cancelled leaves that survive uniquely in the Cambridge University Library copy |
D2 | That part of the text of Gypsies Metamorphosed on the sheets printed by Benson for insertion in the 1640 duodecimo |
F1 | The first folio: The Works of Benjamin Jonson. London, 1616 |
F2 | The second folio: The Works of Benjamin Jonson. London, 1640–1. Further divided, when a more nuanced citation is needed, as: |
F2 (1) | The 1640 reprint of the 1616 folio |
F2 (2) | The plays printed in 1631 and issued in 1640 (Bart. Fair, Devil, and Staple) |
F2 (3) | The plays, masques, and poems printed for the first time in 1641 (Bolsover, Christmas, Vision, Lovers MM, all poems in The Underwood, Horace His Art of Poetry, Pleasure Rec., Wales, News NW, Pan's Ann., Gypsies, Augurs, Time Vind., Neptune, Owls, Fort. Isles, Love's Tr., Chlor., Mag. Lady, Tub, Welbeck, Grammar, Mort., Sad Shepherd, and Discoveries) |
F3 | The third folio: The Works of Ben Jonson. London, 1692 |
Ff | Readings common to 1616 and 1640–1 folios |
O | Any octavo edition of an individual work |
Q | Any quarto edition of an individual work |
Readings common to whatever quartos are cited |
Other sigla and works cited
1641 | The Devil Is an Ass: A comedy acted in the year 1616 by His Majesty's Servants / The Author: Ben Jonson. London, 1641. A special printing of the play that was printed alone in 1641 because the stock had run low. |
1655 | William Drummond of Hawthornden, The History of Scotland. London 1655 |
1716 | The Works of Ben Jonson. 6 vols. Jacob Tonson's edition. London: Walthoe et al., 1716 |
1729 | Ben Jonson's Plays. 2 vols. Dublin, 1729 |
1738 | ‘O rare Ben Jonson!’ … Favourite and Celebrated Comedies of … Ben Jonson. 1738 |
1738, Bart. Fair | Bartholomew Fair. A Comedy Acted in the Year 1614 by the Lady Elizabeth's Servants. … The Author Ben Jonson. London: D. Midwinter etc., 1738–9 |
Abbott | E. A. Abbott, A Shakespearian Grammar. London: Macmillan, 1886 |
Alden | Carroll Storrs Alden (ed.), Bartholomew Fair. Yale Studies in English. New York: H. Holt, 1904 |
Anon (1905) | Anon, ‘Pageants’, Macmillan’s Magazine, 92 (1905), 452–8 |
Arber | Edward Arber, A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1554–1640 A.D. Birmingham, 1894 |
Ayres | Philip Ayres (ed.), Sejanus His Fall. Revels Plays. Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 1990 |
B&G | W. F. Bolton and Jane F. Gardner (eds.), Catiline. Regents Renaissance Drama Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1972 |
Barish | Jonas A. Barish (ed.), Sejanus. The Yale Ben Jonson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965 |
Beaurline | Lester A. Beaurline (ed.), Epicoene; or, The Silent Woman. Regents Renaissance Drama Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1966 |
BEL | Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Belvoir version |
Bentley, JCS | G. E. Bentley, The Jacobean and Caroline Stage. 7 vols. Oxford, 1941–8 |
BHP, Plate | Silver-gilt platen in the Chapel in Burghley House with Und. 30 on its underside |
Bodenham | John Bodenham, Bel-Vedere, or the Garden of the Muses. London, 1600 |
Breton | Nicholas Breton, Melancholic Humours. London, 1600 (Used in collations only.) |
Briggs | W. D. Briggs, ed., Sejanus. Boston: D. C. Heath, 1911 |
Brockbank | Philip Brockbank (ed.), Volpone. London: Benn, 1968 |
Brome (1632) | Richard Brome, The Northern Lass, A Comedy. London, 1632 |
Brome (1661) | Alexander Brome, Songs and Other Poems. London, 1661 (Used in collations only.) |
Brome | Alexander Brome, Songs and Other Poems. The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. London, 1664 (Used in collations only.) |
Brooke | C[hristopher] B[rooke], The Ghost of Richard the Third, London, 1614 |
Brooke and Paradise | C. F. T. Brooke and N. B. Paradise, (eds.) English Drama, 1580–1642. Boston: D. C. Heath, 1933 |
Browne | William Browne, Britannia’s Pastorals. The Second Book. London, 1616 |
Bullen | Arthur Henry Bullen (ed.), The Works of John Marston. 3 vols. London: J. C. Nimmo, 1887; rpt. Hildesheim, 1970 |
BUR | Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Burley version |
Butler, Plays | Martin Butler (ed.), Selected Plays of Ben Jonson vol. 2. Plays by Renaissance and Restoration Dramatists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989 |
Cain | Tom Cain (ed.), Poetaster. Revels Plays. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995 |
Campbell | Gordon Campbell (ed.), The Alchemist and Other Plays. Oxford: World's Classics, 1995 |
Castelain | Maurice Castelain (ed.), Discoveries, a critical edition with an introduction and notes on the true purport and genesis of the book. Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1906 |
Chalfant, 1978 | Fran C. Chalfant, Ben Jonson's London: A Jacobean Placename Dictionary. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1978 |
Chambers, ES | E. K. Chambers, The Elizabethan Stage. 4 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1923 |
Chapman | George Chapman, The Georgics of Hesiod. London, 1618 |
Chetwood | W. R. Chetwood, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Ben Jonson … to which are added, two comedies … The Widow and Eastward Ho. Dublin, 1756; New York: Garland, 1970 |
Chicago | Chicago Acting Edition of ‘The Case Is Altered’. With introduction by Frederick Ives Carpenter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1902 |
Collier | Robert Dodsley, A Select Collection of Old Plays, ed. John Payne Collier, with additional notes and corrections by Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist, and John Payne Collier. 12 vols. London: Septimus Prowett, 1825–7 |
Cook, Volpone | David Cook (ed.), Volpone. London: Methuen, 1967 |
Cook, Alchemist | Elizabeth Cook (ed.), The Alchemist. New Mermaids. London: A & C Black, 1991 |
Cornwall | Barry Cornwall [i.e. Bryan Waller Procter] (ed.), The Works of Ben Jonson. London, 1838 [William Gifford's 1816 text, with an introduction by Procter] |
Counsell | Colin Counsell (ed.), Bartholomew Fair. Drama Classics for the Royal Shakespeare Company. London: Nick Hern, 1977 |
Crambe | Thomas Coryate, Coryats Crambe, or His Colwort Twice Sodden, and Now Served in with Other Macaronic Dishes, as the Second Course to His Crudities. London, 1611 (Used in collations only.) |
Creaser | John Creaser (ed.), Volpone. Medieval and Renaissance Series. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1978 |
Crudities | Thomas Coryate, Coryate's Crudities Hastily Gobbled up in Five Months’ Travels. London, 1611 (Used in collations only.) |
CSPD | Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series |
CSPV | Calendar of State Papers, Venetian Series |
Cunliffe | John W. Cunliffe (ed.), Eastward Ho, in Representative English Comedies, ed. Charles Mills Gayley. 4 vols. New York and London: Macmillan, 1907–36 |
Cunningham | See G/C, or Gifford/C |
Democritie | See entry in manuscript sigla, above |
Dent | R. W. Dent, Proverbial Language in English Drama Exclusive of Shakespeare, 1495–1616. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984 |
de Vocht | Henry de Vocht (ed.), Volpone. Materialien zur Kunde des älteren englischen Dramas, n.s. XIII. Louvain: Uystpruyst, 1937 |
DNB | The Dictionary of National Biography |
Dodsley | Robert Dodsley (ed.), A Select Collection of Old Plays. 12 vols. London: printed for R. Dodsley, 1744 |
Donaldson, OA | Ian Donaldson (ed.), Ben Jonson. Oxford Authors. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1985 |
Donaldson, OPL | Ian Donaldson (ed.), Ben Jonson. Oxford Poetry Library. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995 |
Donaldson, OSA | Ian Donaldson (ed.), Poems of Ben Jonson. Oxford Standard Authors. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1975 |
Dover | Robert Dover, Annalia Dubrensia. London, 1636 (Used in collations only.) |
Drayton (1627) | Micheal Drayton, The Battle of Agincourt. London, 1627 (Used in collations only.) |
Drollery | Westminster Drollery. London, 1671 |
Dryden (1716) | John Dryden, The Second Part of Miscellany Poems. London, 1716 |
Duncan | Douglas Duncan (ed.), Bartholomew Fair. Fountainwell Drama Texts. Edinburgh, 1972 |
Dutton | Richard Dutton (ed.), Epicene, or The Silent Woman. Revels Plays. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003 |
Edmondes | Clement Edmondes, Observations upon Caesar's Commentaries. London, 1609 |
EMEDD | Early Modern English Dictionaries Database, now the Lexicons of Early Modern English; see LEME |
EP | Robert Allot (ed.), England's Parnassus: Or the Choicest Flowers of Our Modern Poets, with Their Poetical Comparisons. London, 1600 |
Farnaby (1612) | Junii Juvenalis et Auli Persii Flacci satyrae, ed. T. Farnaby. London, 1612 |
Farnaby (1633) | Junii Juvenalis et Auli Persii Flacci satyrae, ed. T. Farnaby. Fourth edition. London, 1633 |
Ferrabosco | Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres. London, 1609 |
Five Plays | Five Plays by Ben Jonson. Oxford: World's Classics, 1953 |
Fletcher | John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess. London [c. 1609] |
Foakes | R. A. Foakes (ed.), Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue. In T. J. B. Spencer and Stanley Wells, eds., A Book of Masques, in Honour of Allardyce Nicoll. London: Cambridge University Press, 1967 |
G | William Gifford (ed.), The Works of Ben Jonson. 9 vols. London, 1816 |
Garrod | Horace, Opera, Edward Wickham and H. W. Garrod (eds). Oxford: Clarendon, 1901 |
G/C, or Gifford/C | The Works of Ben Jonson, with notes, critical and explanatory, and a biographical memoir, by William Gifford, with introduction and appendices by Lieut.-Col. F. Cunningham. 3 vols. London: John Camden Hotten; Chatto and Windus, 1871–2. Rev. 9 vols. London: Bickers and Son, Henry Sotheran and Co., 1875 |
Gollancz | Israel Gollancz (ed.), Timber, or Discoveries, being observations on men and manners. Temple Classics. London: J. M. Dent, 1898 |
Gossett | Suzanne Gossett (ed.), Bartholomew Fair. Revels Student Editions. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000 |
Greg, Gipsies | W. W. Greg, Jonson's Masque of Gipsies in the Burley, Belvoir, and Windsor Versions: An Attempt at Reconstruction. Oxford, 1952 |
Greg, Sad Shepherd | W. W. Greg (ed.), Ben Jonson's ‘Sad Shepherd’, with Waldron's Continuation. Materialien zur Kunde des älteren englischen Dramas. Louvain: A. Uystpruyst, 1905 |
Halliwell | J. O. Halliwell (ed.), The Works of John Marston. 3 vols. London: John Russell Smith, 1956 |
Happé, Devil | Peter Happé (ed.), The Devil Is an Ass. Revels Plays. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994 |
Happé, Mag. Lady | Peter Happé (ed.), The Magnetic Lady. Revels Plays. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000 |
Harris | J. H. Harris (ed.), Eastward Hoe. Yale Studies in English. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1926 |
Harrison, Discoveries | G. B. Harrison (ed.), Ben Jonson, Discoveries,1641, Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden, 1619. Bodley Head Quartos, 1923. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1966 |
Harrison, Arches | Stephen Harrison, The Arches of Triumph Erected in Honour of the High and Mighty Prince, James. London, 1604 |
Hart | H. C. Hart (ed.), The Works of Ben Jonson. 2 vols. London: Methuen, 1906 |
Hattaway | Michael Hattaway (ed.), The New Inn. Revels Plays. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984 |
H&S | C. H. Herford, P. Simpson and E. Simpson (eds.), Ben Jonson. 11 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925–52 |
Henslowe’s Diary | Henslowe’s Diary, ed. R. A. Foakes, 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002 |
Hibbard | G. R. Hibbard (ed.), Bartholmew Fair. New Mermaids. London: E. Benn; New York, Norton, 1977 |
HMC | Historical Manuscripts Commission, Report. |
Holdsworth | Roger Holdsworth (ed.), Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. New Mermaids. London: A & C Black; New York: Norton, 1979 |
Horsman | E. A. Horsman (ed.), Bartholomew Fair. Revels Plays. London: Methuen, 1960 |
Hunter, Poetry | William B. Hunter (ed.), The Complete Poetry of Ben Jonson. Garden City, N.Y: Anchor, 1963 |
Hussey | Maurice Hussey (ed.), Bartholomew Fair. New Mermaids. London: A & C Black, 1964 |
Jackson | Gabriele Bernhard Jackson (ed.), Ben Jonson: Every Man In His Humour. The Yale Ben Jonson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969 |
Jamieson | Michael Jamieson (ed.), Ben Jonson: Three Comedies: Volpone, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair. Penguin English Library. London: Penguin, 1966 |
Johnston, Poems | George Burke Johnston (ed.), Poems of Ben Jonson. The Muses’ Library. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1954 |
Keightley | Thomas Keightley, ‘Ben Jonson's Plays’. Notes and Queries, 4th series, II, 26 December 1868, 602–4 |
Kernan, Alch. | Alvin B. Kernan (ed.), The Alchemist. The Yale Ben Jonson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974 |
Kernan, Volp. | Alvin B. Kernan (ed.), Volpone. The Yale Ben Jonson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962 |
Kidnie | Margaret Jane Kidnie (ed.), Poetaster, or, The Arraignment; Sejanus His Fall; The Devil Is an Ass; The New Inn, or, The Light Heart. Oxford English Drama. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000 |
Kifer | Devra Rowland Kifer (ed.), The Staple of News. Regents Renaissance Drama Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1975 |
Knowles and Giddens | J. Knowles and E. Giddens (eds.), The Roaring Girl and City Comedies. Oxford: World’s Classics, 2001 |
Laing 1832 | David Laing, ‘Notes by William Drummond, of Conversations with Ben Jonson, at Hawthornden, in January 1619; from a Manuscript entitled “Informations be Ben Jonson to W. D. when he came to Scotland upon foot, 1619”’, Archaeologia Scotica: or, Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. 4, read 9 January 1832 (Edinburgh, 1857), 241–70 |
Laing 1842 | David Laing, Notes of Ben Jonson's Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden. January, M.DC.XIX (Shakespeare Society, 1842) |
Langbaine | Gerard Langbaine, An Account of the English Dramatick Poets. Oxford, 1691 |
LEME | Ian Lancashire, ed., Lexicons of Early Modern English. (Formerly Early Modern English Dictionaries Database, EMEDD.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009; http://leme.library.utoronto.ca |
Lever | J. W. Lever (ed.), Every Man In His Humour: A Parallel-Text Edition of the 1601 Quarto and the 1616 Folio. Regents Renaissance Drama Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1971 |
Levin | Harry Levin (ed.), Selected Works / Ben Jonson. New York: Random House, c.1938–9 |
Lindley | David Lindley (ed.), Court Masques: Jacobean and Caroline Entertainments, 1605–1640. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995 |
Linthicum | M. C. Linthicum, Costume in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1936 |
LM | Robert Chester, Love's Martyr: Or, Rosalins Complaint. London, 1601 (Used in collations only.) |
Loeb | The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press |
Mabbe | James Mabbe, The Rogue: or The Life of Guzman de Alfarache. London, 1622 |
Mares | F. H. Mares (ed.), The Alchemist. Revels Plays. London: Methuen, 1967 |
May (1627) | Thomas May, Lucan’s Pharsalia: Or the Civil Wars of Rome. London, 1627 (Used in collations only.) |
McPherson | David C. McPherson (ed.), Ben Jonson: Selected Works. New York, 1972 |
Miola | Robert S. Miola (ed.), Every Man In His Humour. Revels Plays. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000 |
Monthly Mag. | The Monthly Magazine, or, Britain Register. Vol. XLI. Part I for 1816. London. (Cavendish Christening Entertainment.) |
Monument | Monument of Sir Charles Cavendish at Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire |
Morley | John Morley (ed.), Ben Jonson, Masques and Entertainments. London, 1890 |
MP | John Dryden, The Sixth Part of Miscellany Poems. London, 1716 |
MSC | Malone Society Collections |
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Pancharis | Hugh Holland, Pancharis: the First Booke. London, 1603 (Used in collations only.) |
Panel | Painted wood panel in the former premises of Child and Co. recording the text of ‘Verses over the Door at the Entrance to the Apollo’ |
Parfitt, Poetaster | George Parfitt (ed.), The Poetaster [sic]. Nottingham Drama Texts. Nottingham, 1979 |
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PB | Parnassus Biceps. London, 1656 |
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Plate | See BHP |
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Potts | L. J. Potts (ed.), The Sad Shepherd. Cambridge Plain Texts. Cambridge, 1929 |
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VCH | Victoria History of the Counties of England |
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Waith | Eugene M. Waith (ed.), Bartholomew Fair. The Yale Ben Jonson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963 |
Waldron | F. G. Waldron (ed.), The Sad Shepherd. London, 1783 |
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Wilkins | H. B. Wilkins (ed.), Volpone. Oxford, 1906 |
WIN | Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Windsor version |
Winter | De Winter (ed.), The Staple of News. New York, H. Holt and Co., 1905 |
Wright (1604) | Thomas Wright, The Passions of the Mind in General. Corrected, Enlarged, and with Sundry New Discourses Augmented. London, 1604 (Used in collations only.) |