MS 194
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.
Other title: A parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham.
England, approximately 1634 - 1641.
1 volume (32 leaves) : paper ; 16 x 13 cm.
Title taken from caption to text on fol. [2]r.
Published in 1641 under the title A parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham.
Date of production taken from Beal's Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts, 1450-1700.
Folios are unnumbered. Only 17 folios bear text.
Pages ruled in ink.
Additional headings within the text: Cæcill (fol. 14r); Vere (fol. 16r); Worcester (fol. 16v); Conclusion (fol. 17r).
In a seventeenth century hand on fol. [1]v: By Sir Henry Wotton Knt. Provost of Eton College.
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.
Booksellers' catalogue entry adhered to front cover.
Inscription on leaf adhered to front flyleaf: d.d. E.L. Vaughan 1899. Vaughan was assistant master at Eton.
Previous shelfmark: Bk.8.1.
Beal, Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, WoH 280.
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.
Essex, Robert Devereux, 1566 - 1601 Earl of, Biographies.
Vaughan, E. L. (Edward Littleton) former owner.
Bateman, William, 1787 - 1835 former owner.
England
eng
B46641