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A Gallery of Manuscript Images
Compiled Spring 2012 by Nazenin Ozkan Carpenter
with assistance from Tracy McLawhorn and Danielle Lake
As Peter Beal notes, “probably more transcripts of Donne’s poems were made than of the verse of any other British poet of the 16th and 17th centuries” (Index 245), and the plenitude of scribal copies of particular poems (Beal cites 4,019) is paralleled by the number of individual manuscripts in which they appear. The current incarnation of the DV sigla list cites 248 such artifacts, which embody the handwriting of approximately that same number of copyists. Elsewhere on this site we present full digital facsimile editions not only of four printed volumes—the 1633 Poems (A), the 1635 Poems (B), the 1669 Poems (G), and the 1654 Letters—but also of the O’Flahertie (H6), Westmoreland (NY3), St. Paul’s (SP1), Dolaucothi (WN1), and Lady Carew holograph (O15) MSS; editions of the Dublin I (DT1) and Cambridge Balam (C2) MSS are underway. The gallery of images here presented is intended to further acquaint users with some of the material conditions under which Donne’s poems circulated among his earliest readers.
In accordance with fair-use practices, representation of each of the artifacts included in the gallery is limited to a thumbnail and a PDF file containing one to four full-page images. Each thumbnail is a hyperlink that brings up the associated PDF file with a click of the mouse, and the thumbnails are arranged in alphabetical order by DV siglum. In addition, each thumbnail is subscribed with the page or folio numbers of the included images and, where the materials exist, with a hyperlink to a bibliographical description (“bib. desc.”) of the artifact and to a first-line index (“FLI”) of it.
The microfilm images here employed are drawn primarily from a collection bequeathed to the Variorum project by the late John T. Shawcross, and the PDF scans were made by students working under the guidance of Mary Farrington at Texas A&M University and Tracy McLawhorn at East Carolina University over the past several years. HTML coding and image preparation for the gallery was carried out by Nazenin Ozkan Carpenter at East Carolina University in the spring and fall of 2012, with assistance from Tracy McLawhorn. A major structural change was effected by Liz Grumbach at Texas A&M University in 2013. Additional artifacts, bibliographical descriptions, and first-line-indexes will be added to the gallery as they become available.
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AF1, Title p., pp.406-07 | AU1, p. 28 | B2, ff. 48v-49 | B3, f. 55v | B6, ff. 157v-58 | ||
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B7, ff. 17v-18 | B8, f. 10 | B11, f. 132r-v | B13, f. 12r-v | B14, f. 125r-v | ||
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B15, f. 368 | B16, ff. 26v-28 | B17, ff. 39v-40 | B18, f. 316r-v | B19, f. 47r-v | ||
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B20, f. 38 | B21, f. 20r-v | B22, f. 13v | B23, f. 17r-v | B24, f. 25 | ||
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B25, ff. 104v-05 | B26, ff. 47v-48 | B27, f. 22r-v | B28, ff. 113v-14 | B29, f. 155r-v | ||
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B30, ff. 262v-63 | B31, ff. 253, 254 | B32, ff. 107v-108 | B33, f. 96r-v | B34, ff.117v-18 | ||
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B35, ff. 33v-34 | B36, ff. 41-42 | B38, f. 13r-v | B40, f. 106r-v | B41, f. 68v | ||
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B42, ff. 102-03 | B43, ff. 53v-54 | B44, ff. 11v-12 | B45, ff. 33, 34 | B46, f. 25r-v | ||
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B47, f. 121r-v | BD2, pp. 26, 40 | BD3, ff. 11v-12 | BR1, pp. 48-49 | C1, ff. 1-2 | ||
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C2, f. 29r-v | C3, pp. 62-63v [rev.] | C4, f. 7r-v | C5, f. 61r-v | C6, pp. 1, 3 | ||
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C8, ff. 74v-75 | C9, Title p., f. 117v | C10, pp, 16-19 | C11, f. 1 | CE1, ff. 3-4 | ||
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CH1, f. 1 | CJ1, ff. 37v-38 | CJ2, pp. 112-113 | CT1, pp. 32-33 | DT1, ff. 35v-36 | ||
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DT2, ff. 238v-39 | EE1, ff. 1-2 | ES1, pp. 157-58 | EU2, pp. 6-7 | EU3, f. 88r | ||
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F1, f. 1 | F2, ff. 39v-40 | F3, pp. 42-43 | F4, ff. 31v-32 | F5, ff. 24-25 | ||
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F6, ff. 32v-33 | F7, f. 66r-v | F8, ff. 2v-3 | F9, p. 20 | F10, Title p., ff. [3-4] | ||
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F11, ff. 12r-13v | F12, pp. 12-13 | F14, ff. 44v-45v | F15, pp. 149-50 | F16, ff. 194v-95 | ||
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F17, pp. 80-81 | F18, ff. 9v-10 | F19, p. 43 | F20, ff. 5v-6 | F21, Title p., ff. 3v-4 | ||
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H1, f. 67r-v | H2, f. 37r-v | H3, Title p., f. 20r-v | H4, f. 37r-v | H5, ff. 203v-204 | ||
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H6, ff. 17v-18 | H7, Title p., pp. 130-31 | H8, ff. 41v-42 | HH1, Scribe A, f. 23r-v | HH1, Scribe B, f. 106r-v | ||
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HH2, p. 50 | HH3, ff. 25v-26 | HH4, pp. 170-71 | HH5, Title p., f. 27r-v | HH6, f. 183v [rev.] | ||
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HH7, ff. 3v-4 | HR1, f. 1v | IU1, pp. 22-23 | IU2, f. 51r-v | LA1, ff. 12v-13 | ||
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LM1, f. 18r-v | LP1, f. 1 | LR1, ff. 279v-280 | LR2, pp. 15-16 | MC1, pp. 101-02 | ||
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NP1, pp. 22-25 | NP3, ff. 115-16v | NT1, ff. 19v-20 | NY1, pp. 54-55 | NY2, pp. 104-07 | ||
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NY3, ff. 16v-17 | O1, ff. 55v-60 | O2, ff. 29v-30 | O3, pp. 14, 63 | O4, ff. 73r-v | ||
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O5, f. 7 | O6, ff. 20v-21 | O7, ff. 95v-96 | O8, ff. 55v-57 | O9, ff. 7v-8 | ||
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O10, ff. 37v-38 | O11, ff. 4v-5 | O12, pp. 6-7 | O13, f. 42v | O14, f. 9v | ||
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O15, Single Leaf | O16, ff. 29v-30 | O17, pp. 30-33 | O18, ff. 45v-46 | O19, pp. 100-03 | ||
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O20, f. 112r-v | O21, Title p., pp. 72-73 | O22, ff. 16v-18 | O23, pp. 112-15 | O24, Title p., pp. 30-31 | ||
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O25, pp. 57-58 | O26, pp. 220-21 | O27, pp. 195-94 [rev.] | O28, ff. 8v-9 | O29, ff. 91v-93 | ||
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O30, f. 40r-v | O31, ff. 59-58v [rev.] | O32, ff. 107v-08 | O33, ff. 51-52 | O34, ff. 215-14v [rev.] | ||
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O35, f. 16v | O36, f. 51 | O37, ff. 74v-75 | O38, pp. 14-15 | O39, f. 152v | ||
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O40, ff. 81v-82 [rev.] | O41, pp. 58-59 | O42, f. 95r | O43, ff. 3v-5 | O45, f. 44v | ||
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O46, f. 1v | OJ1, pp. 201-02 | OQ1, f. 198 | OX1, pp. 114-17 | OX2a-c, ff. 21, 22 | ||
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P2, single leaf | PT1, f. 2 | PT2, f. 1 | RU1, f. 1r-v | SA1, pp. 73-74 | ||
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SN1, ff. 9v-10 | SN2, f. 165 | SN3, ff. 31v-32 | SN4, ff. 47v-48 | SN5, f. 30v | ||
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SP1, ff. [45v-46] | TM1, Title p., pp.36-37 | TT1, f. 47 | TT2, f. 24 | VA1, ff. 6v-7 | ||
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VA2, Title p., ff. 17v-18 | VA3, ff. 77v-78 | WA1, ff. 14-15, 30v-31 | WB1, pp. 42-45 | WC1, pp. 8-9 | ||
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WN1, pp. 6-7 | WN2, pp. 20-21 | WN3, ff. 4v-5 | WN4, pp. 444-43 rev. | WN5, pp. 66-67 | ||
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WN6, f. 150r-v | Y1, pp. 2-3 | Y2, pp. 305-06 | Y3, pp. 52-53 | Y4, pp. 194-97 | ||
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Y5, pp. 27-30 | Y6, pp. 91-92 | Y7, ff. 32v-33 | Y8, f. 1 | Y9, f. 120 | ||
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