BIB_ID
126758
Accession number
MA 1581.14
Creator
Ellis, Henry, 1777-1869.
Display Date
London, 1819 May 10.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.6 x 18.6 cm
Notes
Joseph Planta was the principal librarian of the British Museum from 1799 until his death in 1827. Henry Ellis (in 1819, secretary to the trustees of the Museum) succeeded Planta as principal librarian.
This copy was enclosed with Planta's letter to George Beaumont regarding the manuscripts under discussion, written May 11, 1819. Planta's letter is cataloged separately as MA 1581.13. This item is identified as a copy on the top of the first page, and the location of the original is unknown.
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall and to other members of the Beaumont family.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Beaumont gifts to the British Museum, no. 2).
This copy was enclosed with Planta's letter to George Beaumont regarding the manuscripts under discussion, written May 11, 1819. Planta's letter is cataloged separately as MA 1581.13. This item is identified as a copy on the top of the first page, and the location of the original is unknown.
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall and to other members of the Beaumont family.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Beaumont gifts to the British Museum, no. 2).
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Saying that he has reviewed the two parcels of manuscripts that Sir George Beaumont sent to the Museum for his inspection and that he has selected seven items for possible acquisition; describing them as consisting of folio, octavo and quarto volumes, primarily on vellum, and including books on the monastery at Christ Church, Canterbury, and other monasteries, a tenth century copy of the Latin Gospels, a volume containing treatises by Seneca, another containing Robert Persons's "Memorial for the Reformation of England" and other items; saying that the other books offered by Beaumont are "Medical, or Books of some Clergymans Notes, a Sermon, &c. and to the best of my judgement and belief not worth any body's keeping."
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