BIB_ID
239886
Accession number
MA 664
Display Date
[1693?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (ca. 490 p.), bound ; 32.3 cm
Notes
"T.J.J. x 1893" written on rear free endpaper; "a+a+q" written on rear paste-down.
Bookplate of "Joannis Towneley de Towneley" on front paste-down; "Stamford 1693" written on front free endpaper.
Includes a table of contents at the front of the volume.
Items in this collection are described in 88 individual records.
Some page numbers are repeated.
Bookplate of "Joannis Towneley de Towneley" on front paste-down; "Stamford 1693" written on front free endpaper.
Includes a table of contents at the front of the volume.
Items in this collection are described in 88 individual records.
Some page numbers are repeated.
Provenance
Bookplate of John Towneley; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson, 1910.
Summary
A seventeenth-century copy of letters, speeches, and other documents from the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, with most letters from the time of Mary Stuart. Includes letters from Anne Boleyn; Charles I; Oliver Cromwell; Elizabeth I; Henry VI; Henry VII; Henry VIII; James I; William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury; Mary, Queen of Scots; Sir Walter Raleigh; Richard III; Sir Francis Walsingham; and others. Items are described in 88 records, with the location of each item identified by page number.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (35.3 x 24.7 cm)
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