BIB_ID
294780
Accession number
MA 1475.1-17
Display Date
1573-1671.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1953.
Description
1 v. (17 items), bound : ill. (ports.) ; 42.7 cm
Provenance
Percy Clinton Sidney Smythe, sixth Viscount Strangford and Baron Penhurst (bound with doublures bearing his arms in 1837 or later); by descent to his granddaughter Mrs. P.M. Russell (Philippa Augusta Maria Baillie Russell), and sold by her (London, Sotheby's, 30 May 1927, lot 533) to Quaritch; purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1953.
Summary
Collection consists of the autograph manuscript of Sir Philip Sidney's Defence of the Earl of Leicester (MA 1475.1) and 16 additional documents relating to the Sidney family (MA 1475.2-17). Documents are cataloged individually in 17 records (MA 1475.1-17); see related records for more information.
Housed in
Red cloth drop-spine box (46 cm)
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