Shelfmark
MS 278
Author
Title
Commentarij rerum Cantabrigiæ gestar[um] cum sereniss[ima] Regina Elizabeth in illam academiam venerat. manuscript / NR.
Varying form of title
Other title: Commentarij rerum Cantabrigiæ gestarum cum serenissima Regina Elizabeth in illam academiam venerat.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Cambridge?, England, 1564 August 5.
Physical description
1 volume (71 leaves) : paper ; 21 x 16 cm.
Note
Contains account by Nicholas Robinson of Queen Elizabeth's visit to Cambridge including a detailed list of the founders, benefactors, eminent graduates and then members of the majority of the Cambridge colleges, with an outline of the plans to be adopted, as well as the orations, etc. of the participants.
Note
Caption title on recto of first folio of main text.
Note
Place of production inferred from the subject matter; date of production taken from caption title.
Note
Leaves bearing main text have been foliated in pencil.
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Margins ruled with pencil throughout.
Note
Written in a professional hand.
Note
An abbreviated version of this text is British Library Harley MS 7037: another version is at the Folger Library, V.a.176.
Note
Annotation on second flyleaf: Dedit Coll[egi]o Etonensi Tho. Evans eiusdem Coll[egi]i socius 1730.
Note
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on second flyleaf.
Note
Previous Eton shelfmarks: MS 166, Bo.6.5, Bl.6.21a, BL.7.25.
Binding
Late 17th century dark brown sprinkled calf; blind tooled double fillet border with swag-and-tear roll along spine edge; gold tooled roll on board edges; gold tooled double fillet and rosette ornament on spine; five raised bands; green and red sprinkled edges.
Subject
Elizabeth, 1533 - 1603 I, Queen of England
Subject
Subject
Cambridge Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Evans, Thomas former owner.
Added entry--place
England Cambridge
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B46736