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Shelfmark

MS 194

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Title

Of Robert Devereux Earle of Essex and George Villiers Duke of Buckingham some obseruationes by way of parallel: in the times of their estates and favoures. manuscript.

Varying form of title

Other title: A parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham.

Publication, distribution, etc.

England, approximately 1634 - 1641.

Physical description

1 volume (32 leaves) : paper ; 16 x 13 cm.

Note

Title taken from caption to text on fol. [2]r.

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Published in 1641 under the title A parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham.

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Date of production taken from Beal's Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts, 1450-1700.

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Folios are unnumbered. Only 17 folios bear text.

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Pages ruled in ink.

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Additional headings within the text: Cæcill (fol. 14r); Vere (fol. 16r); Worcester (fol. 16v); Conclusion (fol. 17r).

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In a seventeenth century hand on fol. [1]v: By Sir Henry Wotton Knt. Provost of Eton College.

Note

Engraved armorial bookplate of William Bateman of Middleton by Youlgrave, Derbyshire (1787-1835 or his grandson). Note from M.R. James that this item was lot 1770 in the sale of 1893.

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Booksellers' catalogue entry adhered to front cover.

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Inscription on leaf adhered to front flyleaf: d.d. E.L. Vaughan 1899. Vaughan was assistant master at Eton.

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Previous shelfmark: Bk.8.1.

Citation/references note

Beal, Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, WoH 280.

Binding

Contemporary limp parchment; gold tooled single fillet frames; inner frame has death's head lozenge tools at corners; gold stamped centrepiece of skeleton with dart, lily and hourglass; three stitched bands.

Subject

Subject

Essex, Robert Devereux, 1566 - 1601 Earl of, Biographies.

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Added entry--place

England

Language code

eng

Identifier

B46641
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