BIB_ID
130086
Accession number
MA 560
Creator
Palfreyman, Thomas, -1589?
Display Date
about 1570.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (42 leaves) : paper ; 15 cm (24mo)
Notes
Signed Thomas Pawlfreyman (leaf 4r); dedicated to Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick.
Collation: 1-5⁸ 6²: 42 leaves.
Watermark: armorial of University of Paris with name in banderole "S. Nivelle" for Siméon Nivelle, papermarker to the university and based in Troyes; Briquet 1837, dated 1560-70.
Another manuscript copy of this text in similar binding for Robert Dudley (brother of Ambrose), earl of Leicester, about 1580, see Henry Davis Gift, I: no. 43.
Collation: 1-5⁸ 6²: 42 leaves.
Watermark: armorial of University of Paris with name in banderole "S. Nivelle" for Siméon Nivelle, papermarker to the university and based in Troyes; Briquet 1837, dated 1560-70.
Another manuscript copy of this text in similar binding for Robert Dudley (brother of Ambrose), earl of Leicester, about 1580, see Henry Davis Gift, I: no. 43.
Provenance
Unidentified cipher (Dudley?): ABEMORS, in English royal garter (leaf 4v); Richard Heber, purchased from Tiphook in 1808, Bibliotheca Heberiana sale: Sotheby's, part XI, 10 Feb. 1836, lot 1035, to Thorpe, cat. [?] (1836), no. 957, purchased by: Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bibliotheca Phillippica sale, London, 19 June 1893, lot 180; Sotheby's London, 2 Dec. 1901, lot 1093, purchased by Pierpont Morgan.
Housed in
In gray cloth clamshell box.
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