BIB_ID
192864
Accession number
MA 4263
Creator
Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1615.
Display Date
[ca. 1640].
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Arthur G. Altschul and William S. Paley, 1985.
Description
1 item (ca. 230 p.), bound ; 19.4 x 15.3 cm
Notes
In Codrington's calligraphic hand.
Includes a dedicatory epistle to Sir Thomas Notte, "one of the gentlemen of the Privy Chamber of the King."
Possibly a presentation copy made for Sir Thomas Nott.
Includes a dedicatory epistle to Sir Thomas Notte, "one of the gentlemen of the Privy Chamber of the King."
Possibly a presentation copy made for Sir Thomas Nott.
Inscriptions/Markings
On flyleaf, in seventheeth-century hand: "this book was my Deare Mothers."
Summary
A translation by Robert Codrington, an English author and translator, of "The Memorialls of Queene Margaret"; this manuscript also includes an introductory translation of Ronsard's poem on Queen Margaret.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (20.8 cm)
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