The monastery : autograph manuscript, [1819-1820].

Record ID: 
131794
Accession number: 
MA 444
Author: 
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description: 
1 item (ca. 222 p.), bound ; 28.1 cm
Notes: 

Preceded by a printed sheet with the running title "Synonymous Terms or Phrases / used in the Scriptures" (2 p.).

Summary: 

Written on the rectos and with corrections and additions on some versos of 222 leaves. Collated with the first edition and complete except for quotations at the head of several chapters and 1 p. at the end of vol. 3.

Housed in: 
Blue cloth drop-spine box (29.9 cm)
Binding: 
Green leather; title tooled in gilt on spine.
Provenance: 
Given by Sir Walter Scott to Archibald Constable in 1823; his sale (London, Evans, 1831) to Thorpe for Richard Heber; his sale (19 February 1836) to Thorpe for Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps ms. 8327); purchased for Pierpont Morgan at the sale of the Phillipps estate (April 1904).