Copy of Metempsychosis, or, The progresse of the soule, 1601 [manuscript], ca. 1625.

Copy of Metempsychosis, or, The progresse of the soule, 1601 [manuscript], ca. 1625.

Metempsychosis

Dr. Donnes' Metempsychosis with Certaine select dialogues of Lucian and The tale of the favorite

[17] leaves, 100, 110-111, [2] p.

Text appears on unnumbered leaves at the beginning of the volume, leaves [3r] to [16v]. Variant readings from the first printed version of 1633.

Also contains Certain select dialogs of Lucian, in English (not Hiches' or Mayne's translations), p. 1-100; The fable of San Foy, incomplete, p. 100, and Concerning tragedy, a later piece, ca. 1750, laid in after p. 111. Scrap of paper inserted opposite p. 52, with a verse satirizing lawyers.

Title on title page (leaf 2r): Dr. Donnes' [Metempsychosis] with Certaine select Dialogues of Lucian and The Tale of The Fauorite. (Metempsychosis appears in Greek letters on title page).

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Crowley, Lara, "Cecil and the Soul: Donne's Metempsychosis in its Context in Folger Manuscript V. a. 241." English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700, 13 (2007), p. 47-76.
For value of this manuscript see Grierson, Donne's poetical works, II, lxxxii, and Gosse, Life and letters of Donne, I, p. 140-141.

Phillipps manuscript -- Gosse manuscript.
Formerly Folger MS 410819.

Phillipps, T. Phillipps manuscripts, 18640

Lucian, of Samosata. Dialogues. Selections. English.
The fable of San Foy.

V.a.241

410819