Books from Ben Jonson's library at the Folger
Bibliography
Tannenbaum, Samuel Aaron. Ben Jonson (a Concise Bibliography)... New York, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1938. http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=37498 Herford & Simpson. Ben Jonson, ed. by C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson. Oxford: The Clarendon press, 1925-1952. http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=72856 McPherson, David. “Ben Jonson’s Library and Marginalia: An Annotated Catalogue,” Studies in Philology 71, no. 5 (December 1974): 1-106. Evans, Robert. “Ben Jonson’s Library and Marginalia: New Evidence from the Folger Collection,” Philological Quaterly 66 (1987): 521-528. Henry Woudhuysen’s annotations on Ben Jonson’s books, in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson, online database (subscription required). http://collation.folger.edu/2016/10/ben-jonsons-library/
McPHERSON MAIN CATALOGUE
Aleandro, Girolamo
Antiquae tabulae marmorae. Paris: Ex Officina Niuelliana, Sumptibus Sebastiani Cramoysi, 1617.
Call Number: N.5763.A3 Cage [not in Hamnet]. Cited in: McPherson, no. 4.
Ben Jonson’s signature and motto: Yes. Annotations: No. Curatorial file: No. Access: Yes.
Baudius, Dominicus
Morali et civilis sapientiae monita... Leiden: Typis J. Balduinis, apud L. Elzevirium, 1611.
Description: Title page only. Call Number: V.b.35 (11) http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=232917 Cited in: McPherson, no. 21.
Ben Jonson’s signature and motto: Yes. Annotations: N/A. Curatorial file: Yes. Access: Use as little as possible.
Casaubon, Isaac
Animadversionum in Athen[aei] dipnosophistas libri XV... Secunda editio... Lyon: Apud viduam A. de Harsy & P. Ravuaud, 1621.
Call Number: PA.3937.C3 1621 Cage [not in Hamnet]. Cited in: McPherson, no. 34.
Ben Jonson’s signature and motto: Yes. Annotations: Yes. Curatorial file: No. Access: No.
Caussin, Nicolas
De Symbolica Aegyptiorum sapientia... Cologne: Apud I. Kinckium, 1623.
Call Number: PJ.1093.C2 1623 [not in Hamnet]. Cited in: McPherson, no. 38.
Ben Jonson’s signature and motto: Motto only. Annotations: Yes. Curatorial file: No. Access: No.
Chaucer, Geoffrey
The Workes of our Ancient and Learned English poet, Geffrey Chaucer, Newly Printed ... London: Printed by Adam Islip, 1602.
Call Number: STC 5080 Copy 3, http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=162007 Cited in: McPherson, no. 39. Robert C. Evans, Philosophical Quaterly 66, p.526. Robert C. Evans, “Ben Jonson’s Chaucer,” English Literary Renaissance 19 (1989): 324-345.
Ben Jonson’s signature and motto: Motto only. Annotations: Yes. Curatorial file: No. Access: No.
Eustathius, Macrembolites
Ευσταθιου καθʹΥσμινιαν και Υσμινην δραμα. Eustathii de Ismeniae et Ismenes amoribus... Paris: Sumptibus Hieronymi Drouart, 1617.
Call Number: PA.5315.I7 1617 Cage [not in Hamnet]. Description: Inserted title-page supplied from another copy. It may have belonged to a sammelband now at the Houghton Library, Harvard (http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/005313565/catalog). Cited in: McPherson, no. 61.
Ben Jonson’s signature and motto: Yes. Annotations: Unknown. Curatorial file: No. Access: Use as little as possible.
Heinsius, Daniel
Danielis Heinsii Aristarchus Sacer... Leyden: Ex officinal B. & A. Elzevir, 1627.
Call Number: BS.2617.H4 Cage [not in Hamnet]. Cited in: McPherson, no. 75.
Ben Jonson’s signature and motto: Motto only. Annotations: Yes. Curatorial file: No. Access: Yes.
Maiolo, Simeone
Dies caniculares... Mainz: Impensis Ioannis Theobaldi, 1614.
Call Number: QH.41.M2 1614 Cage [not in Hamnet]. Cited in: McPherson, no. 110.
Ben Jonson’s signature and motto: Motto partly only. Annotations: No. Curatorial file: Yes. Access: Yes.
Maiolo, Simeone
Dierum Canicularium Tomus V. et VI. Mainz: Impensis Ioannis Theobaldi, 1614.
Description: Title page only. Call Number: Art vol. d59, 6AV [not in Hamnet]. Cited in: McPherson, no. 110-A. Freeman, Arthur. “Everyman and Others, Part I: Some Fragments of Early English Printing, and their Preservers,” Library 9 (2008): p. 288.
Ben Jonson’s signature and motto: Signature only. Annotations: Unknown. Curatorial file: Yes. Access: Yes.
Martialis
M. Val. Martialis epigrammaton libri. Animaduersi, emendati et commentariolis luculenter explicati... London: Excudebat Felix Kingstonius impensis Gulielmi Welby, 1615.
Call Number: STC 17492 Copy 1, http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=164370 Cited in: McPherson, no. 119. Robert C. Evans, Philosophical Quaterly 66, p. 527. Wrong call number, Copy 2 instead of Copy 1.
Ben Jonson’s signature and motto: Yes. Annotations: Yes. Curatorial file: No. Access:
Martialis
M. Valerij Martialis Epigrammatum libri XV… Paris : Apud Claudium Morellum, via Iacobaea, ad insigne fontis, 1617.
Call Number: 259- 336f, http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=129590
Cited in:
McPherson, no. 120.
Ben Jonson’s signature and motto: Signature only. Annotations: Yes. Curatorial file: Yes. Access: Yes.
Martialis
M. Val. Martialis nova editio : ex museo Petri Scriverij. Leiden: Apud Ioannem Maire, 1619.
Call Number: PA.6501.A2 1619 Cage, http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=188340 Cited in: McPherson, no. 121.
Ben Jonson’s signature and motto: Yes. Annotations: Yes. Curatorial file: No. Access: Yes.
Mulcaster, Richard
Positions Wherin Those Primitive Circumstances Be Examined... London : By Thomas Vautrollier for Thomas Chare [i.e. Chard], 1581.
Call Number: STC 18253 (http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=164686) Cited in: McPherson, no. 133.
Ben Jonson’s signature and motto: Signature only. Annotations: No. Curatorial file: No. Access: Yes.
Norris, Sir John, and Francis Drake
Ephemeris expeditionis Norreysij & Draki in Lusitaniam. London: impensis Thomæ Woodcocke, apud signum Ursi nigri [Printed by Thomas Orwin], 1589.
Call Number: STC 18653, http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=164882 Cited in: McPherson, no. 134. Robert C. Evans, Philosophical Quaterly 66, p. 524. Wrong call number, 18563 instead of 18653.
Ben Jonson’s signature and motto: Signature only. Annotations: None of Jonson. Curatorial file: No. Access: Yes.
Ockland, Christopher
Anglorum prælia ab anno Domini, 1327... London: apud Radulphum Nuberie, ex assignatione Henrici Bynneman typographi [H. Bynneman], 1582.
Call Number: STC 18773 copy 1, http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=165510 Cited in: McPherson, no. 135. Robert C. Evans, Philosophical Quaterly 66, p. 524-525.
Ben Jonson’s signature and motto: Yes. Both partially cut. Annotations: Yes. Curatorial file: No. Access: Yes.
Panciroli, Guido
Notitia utraque Dignitatum, cum Orientis, tum Occidentis... Lyon : Ex officina Q.H. a Parta, apud Io. De Gabiansi, 1608.
Call Number: DG.81,P2 1608 Cage [not in Hamnet]. Cited in: McPherson, no. 157. Robert C. Evans, Philosophical Quaterly 66, p. 526.
Ben Jonson’s signature and motto: Yes. Annotations: No. Curatorial file: No. Access: No.
Scriverius, Petrus
M. Val Martialis nova editio. Ex Museo Petri Scriverii. Leyden: Apud Joannem Maire, 1619.
Description: Half title-page only of the part intituled J. Gruteri ad Martialem notae. Call Number: Z.e.7, fol. 23, http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=233293 Cited in: McPherson, no. 170. Robert C. Evans, Philosophical Quaterly 66, p. 527.
Ben Jonson’s signature and motto: Signature. Motto partly erased. Annotations: Unknown. Curatorial file: Yes. Access: No.
Selden, John
Johannis Seldeni J.C. De Diis Syris Syntagmata II... London: Bibliopolarum corpori excudebat Guilielmus Stansbeius, 1617.
Call Number: STC 22167.2, http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=166816 Cited in: McPherson, no. 172. Robert C. Evans, Philosophical Quaterly 66, p. 527-528. Bland, Mark. “Jonson, Biathanatos and the Interpretation of Manuscript Evidence,” Studies in Bibliography 51 (1998), 154-82, at p. 165. Ben Jonson’s signature and motto: Yes. Annotations: Yes. Curatorial file: No. Access: Yes.
Tarchaniota Marullus, Michael
Poetae tres Elegantissimi... Paris: Apud Iacobum Du-puys, 1582.
Call Number: PA.8547.M56 1582 Cage Copy 2 [not in Hamnet]. Cited in: McPherson, no. 186.
Ben Jonson’s signature and motto: Motto only. Annotations: No. Curatorial file: No. Access: No.
Terentianus, Maurus
Terentiani Mauri... de litteris, syllabis, pedibus, et metris tractatus... Paris : Apud Simonem Colinaeum, 1531.
Call Number: PA.6754.T6 1531 Cage [not in Hamnet]. Cited in: McPherson, no. 188.
Ben Jonson’s signature and motto: Yes. Annotations: Yes. Curatorial file: No. Access: No.
Valerius, Maximus
Valerii Maximi dictorum factorumque memorabilium libri ix... Antwerp: Ex officina Christophori Plantini, Architypographi Regii, 1574.
Call Number: 266691, http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=264017 Cited in: McPherson, no. 192.
Ben Jonson’s signature and motto: Signature only. Motto cut out. Annotations: No. Curatorial file: No. Access: Yes.
DOUBTFUL ATTRIBUTIONS
Mirandula, Octavianus Illustrium Poetarum Flores, per Octavianum Mirandulam collecti, et in locos communes digesti. Lyons: Apud Ioannem Tornaesium, 1579.
Call Number: PA.6121.A2 1579a Cage Copy 2 [not in Hamnet]. Cited in: McPherson, Doubtful Attributions, no. 3.
Ben Jonson’s signature and motto: Signature only. Annotations: No. Curatorial file: No. Access: Yes.
Weever, John
The Mirror of Martyrs, or the Life and Death of That Thrice Valiant Capitaine, and Most Godly Martyre Sir Iohn Old-castle Knight Lord Cobham. London: Printed by V[alentine] S[immes] for William Wood, 1601.
Call Number: STC 25226, http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=164055 Cited in: McPherson, Doubtful Attributions, no. 7.
Ben Jonson’s signature and motto: No. Annotations: No. Curatorial file: No. Access: Yes.
SPURIOUS ATTRIBUTIONS
Plutarch The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes, Compared Together by That Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer, Plutarke of Chæronea. London : by Richard Field for Bonham Norton, 1595
Call Number: STC 20067 copy 4, http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=162221 Cited in: McPherson, Spurious Attributions, no. 5. Robert C. Evans, Philosophical Quaterly 66, p. 527.
Ben Jonson’s signature and motto: No. Annotations: None by Jonson. Curatorial file: No. Access:
Terence
Aelii Donati grammatici clarissimi in sex P. Terentii Afri Comoedias examinata interpretation. Venice: Impressum quidem est opus hoc per Jacobum Gallicu[m] mira arte ac diligentia, 1476.
Call Number: INC T59, http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=90684 Cited in: McPherson, Spurious Attributions, no. 7.
Ben Jonson’s signature and motto: No. Annotations: None by Jonson. Curatorial file: No. Access: Yes.
BOOKS NOT LISTED IN McPHERSON NOR CWBJ
Lipsius, Justius De militia romana libri qvinqve : commentarivs ad Polybivm. Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, 1598.
Call Number: U35.L5 1598. [not in Hamnet]. Motto and signature: No. Annotations: Yes. Curatorial file: No. Access: No.
Camden, William
Annales rerum Anglicarum, et Hibernicarum, regnante Elizabetha, ad annum salutis M. D. LXXXIX. Guilielmo Camdeno authore. London: Typis Guilielmi Stansbij, impensis Simonis Watersoni, ad insigne Coronæ in Cœmeterio Paulino, 1615.
Call Number: STC 4496 copy 1 vol.1, http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=161946 Cited in: Gants, David L. “The Application of Digital Image Processing to the Analysis of Watermarked Paper and Printers’ Ornament Usage in Early Printed Books,” New Ways of Looking at Old Texts II: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 1992-1996, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, Ariz., 1998): 133-147.
Ben Jonson’s signature and motto: No. Annotations: Yes. Curatorial file: No. Access: Yes.
Petrarca, Francesco
Francisci Petrarchae opera quae extant omnia. Basel: Per Sebastianum Henricpetri, 1581
Call Number: PQ.4475.A1 1581 Cage [not in Hamnet]. Cited in: McPherson, no. 140: Martin and Evans believe that this Folger copy is identical with the Charterhouse one. Robert C. Evans, Philosophical Quaterly 66, p. 526. Martin, Christopher. “Retrieving Jonson’s Petrarch,” Shakespeare Quaterly 45 (1994): 89-92.
Ben Jonson’s signature and motto: Yes Annotations: No. Curatorial file: Yes. Access: Yes.