Shelfmark
MS 173
Author
Title
Gesta Iudicum Israeliticorum. manuscript.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Boxley, Kent, 1580s?-1598?.
Physical description
1 volume (16 leaves) : paper ; 17 x 11 cm.
Note
A poem in hexameter on the deeds of the Israelites composed by George Case (father of Thomas Case, the presbyterian minister) and dedicated by him to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex.
Note
Includes a Latin elegy entitled 'Canticum Deboræ' with verse numbers in the right margin.
Note
Title taken from caption heading.
Note
Date of production inferred from the period of Essex's political prominence.
Note
Written in an italic hand.
Note
Occasional marginal notes.
Note
Final three leaves are blank.
Note
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College beneath text on recto of fol. [1].
Note
Previous shelfmarks: Bl.a.2, Bo.7.2, Bl.5.3.
Note
M.R. James suggests this manuscript came from Henry Wotton (1568-1639, Provost of Eton).
Citation/references note
M.R. James, 173.
Binding
Late 20th or early 21st century mid brown sprinkled calf; blind tooled double and single fillet concentric frames with small fleurons at the corners; blind tooled double fillet on spine; blind tooled twist fillet on board edges; fresh endpapers.
Subject
Bible Paraphrases Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Essex, Robert Devereux, 1566 - 1601 Earl of, dedicatee.
Added entry--name
Wotton, Henry (), 1568 - 1639 Sir, donor.
Added entry--place
England Kent
Language code
lat
Identifier
B46561