Fair copy of poems by Henry King, Bishop of Chichester, with his corrections and additions ff. 9v, 23-5, 40, 49, 53v, 55v-7v, 65v. Includes a sermon on 1 Chronicles 29:15 (ff. 87v-105v). Ff. 5-57v are Thomas Manne's hand.
109 leaves. Black morocco.
Owned by J. Wilson in the eighteenth century and William Pickering in the nineteenth century.
Purchased from Hodgson's, 12 July 1928, lot 227.
Jeanne Shami; Bodleian Library New Summary Catalogue, vol. 2.
The poems are printed in Poems (London, 1657) except the four epigrams on ff. 54-55. Also printed in Poems and Psalms, ed. John Hannah (Oxford 1843). Described in The Poems of Henry King, ed. Margaret Crum (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965), pp. 48-53.
Sermon on 1 Chronicles 29:15 -- ff. 88r-105v