Letter 5

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Manuscripts Entirely or Largely in Buc’s hand

• British Library Cotton Tiberius E.x: “History of Richard III”

  Damaged in Cotton fire of 1731 (see Eccles, 474, note 1); edited by Kincaid.

• British Library MS Lansdowne 310: Buc’s transcription of materials from Doomsday Book and other materials relating to Plantagenet barons.

• Bodleian Library MS Eng. misc. b. 106 (acquired 1972). “A Commentary on the Book of Domus Dei (Doomsday)”

• Bodleian Library MS Arch. Selden. B. 66 (purchased 14 February 1938).

  Described in Bodleian catalogue as a draft of “The baron, or the magazine of honor” with other papers. Not previously known to Buc scholars.

• British Library Cotton Julius F.xi, ff. 88-98.

  Series of leaves, largely in Buc’s hand. Includes a Latin eulogy of Philip Sidney, ff. 93v-4.

• British Library Cotton Titus C.i, f. 35v; entitled “Constabularius Anglie. Iustitiarius Anglie.”

  Another of the discourses in the collection bears the date 27 November 1602; but also a citation from Selden, who was born only 1584. Printed in Hearne, Collection of Curious Discourses (1773), ii, 88.

Manuscript(s) Annotated by Buc (except letters and play texts)

• British Library MS Cotton Cleopatra D.iv: “Glastonbury Chronicle” (annotated by Buc, with his initials ff. 139v, 182).

• Huntington Library MS 473; an “album,” much like a modern autograph album, with various signatures, including Buc’s.

Letters in Buc’s Hand (except Revels Office scraps)

• Cecil Papers, ix, 190 (70/73); 1 June 1599; letter to Robert Cecil.

• British Library Cotton Julius C.iii, ff. 47-8; 24 March 1605 (1606?); letter to Sir Robert Cotton.

• Cecil Papers, xxi, 135 (127/165); 29 September 1609; letter to Robert Cecil.

• British Library Harley 6850, f. 258; 1 July 1611; letter to Dudley Norton, Lord Treasurer.

  Letter actually sent is CSPD 1611-18, p. 52 (PRO SP14/65/2). Reproduced by Greg, “Three Manuscripts,” plate III; and Stamp, plate XXIV.

• CSPD 1611-18 (PRO SP14/81/12); 10 July 1615; letter to Mr. Paquier.

• CSPD 1611-18 (PRO SP14/83/36) [f. 59]; 16 November 1615; letter to Sir Thomas Studder.

• British Library Cotton Julius C.iii, ff. 49-50; 10 March 1621; letter to Sir Robert Cotton.

• Maidstone, Kent, Centre for Kentish Studies, County Hall, U269/1/OE106 [formerly ON 854, p. 468]; 12 December 1621; letter to Sir Lionel Cranfield.

Letters from Revels Office scraps

• British Library Cotton Tiberius E.x (“History of Richard III”), ff. 260v, 65 (perhaps not in Buc’s hand), 34v (not in Buc’s hand), 207v, 90v, 203v, 72v, 226v, 222v, 43v, 14v, 189v, 190v.

  Photographic facsimiles and transcriptions in Marcham; folios given in order selected by Marcham.

Letters or Reports Annotated by Buc

• British Library Cotton Otho E.ix, ff. 349-50 (old foliation 319-20), letter dated 1596 from Cadiz.

• British Library Cotton Galba D.xii, f. 330 (account of Cadiz mission): instructions ff. 334-5; report f. 335.

Play Manuscripts Corrected and/or Licenced by Buc

• British Library Lansdowne 807, ff. 29-56 (modern pencil numbering): “The Second Maiden’s Tragedy”, 31 October 1611; reproduced by Greg, English Literary Autographs, 1550-1650 (1910), fig. IX.

  The Second Maiden’s Tragedy, ed. Anne Lancashire, Revels Plays (Manchester: Manchester and Johns Hopkins UP, 1978), includes photographs of ff. 56 and 56v (frontispiece), f. 52b (opp. p. 8), and f. 55b (opp. p. 9)

• British Library Add. 18653: “Sir John van Olden Barnavelt”, c. August 1619; reproduced by Greg, English Literary Autographs, 1550-1650 (1910), fig. VII.

Book of the Revels 1611-12:

• PRO AO3/908, no. 14, ff. 1-4v (Stamp, plates xi-xviii)

  Signed G. Buc on f. 4.

Revels Office scraps (except letters)

• British Library Cotton Tiberius E.x (“History of Richard III”), ff. 197v (Hand A), 70v (Hand A), 247 (Hand B), 211v (Hand A).

  These four lists are in two different hands, neither of them Buc’s; Buc, however, has annotated the first and possibly the fourth list. Photographic facsimiles and transcriptions in Marcham; folios given in order selected by Marcham.

• Bodleian Library MS Eng. misc. b. 106, facing p. 486.

  Entirely in Buc’s hand. Transcribed by A. N. Kincaid, “A Revels Office Scrap Deciphered,” N&Q, n.s. 19 (December, 1972), 461-3. Kincaid’s transcription of the last words in the third line, “Duorff Bob”, and his interpretation of these words as”Dwarf Bob” (an entertainer) are almost certainly mistaken.

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