BIB_ID
337017
Accession number
MA 1620.1-2 and 1621
Display Date
1524-1540.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund with special assistance of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne and Alfred Ogden, 1955.
Description
1 box (3 items), unbound ; 35.5 cm
Notes
Guy Morillon was at this time secretary to the Emperor Charles V.
Provenance
MA 1620: From the collection of Abraham Ortelius; by descent to his nephew Ja. Colius Ortelianus; in the possession of the Dutch Reformed Church, Austin Friars, London in 1924; purchased on the Fellows Fund with the special assistance of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne and Alfred Ogden, 1955. MA 1621: From the collection of Abraham Ortelius; by descent to his nephew Ja. Colius Ortelianus; in the possession of the Dutch Reformed Church, Austin Friars, London in 1924; purchased on the Fellows Fund with the special assistance of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne and Alfred Ogden, 1955.
Summary
Collection consists of two letters from Desiderius Erasmus to Guy Morillon (MA 1620.1-2) as well as one letter from French scholar Guillaume Budé, also to Morillon (MA 1621). Items in the collection have been cataloged individually; see related records for more information.
Housed in
Black quarter leather drop-spine box (35.5 cm)
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