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Letters and original manuscripts of or relative to the members of the royal house of Tudor : autograph manuscripts.

BIB_ID
238531
Accession number
MA 1254-1255
Description
84 items
Notes
For a full list of contents, briefly described, see De Ricci census. Fuller descriptions are available in individual catalog records and in a typed catalog by the dealer J. Pearson & Co., from whom Pierpont Morgan bought the collection; the Pearson catalog is available in the reference collection (call number: 916 P3t).
Housed in two bound volumes when purchased from Pearson. Some items were removed in 1920, cataloged, and housed in the Rulers of England sequence. The volumes were subsequently disbound and the uncataloged material was cataloged in 2024.
Collection also includes portraits of individuals represented or referenced in the documents; these items have been cataloged individually.
Summary
A collection including documents and letters of English royalty (and their families and subjects) from the accession of Henry VII in 1485 to the death of Elizabeth in 1603.