Shelfmark
MS 374
Author
Title
Skeleton collegii regalis cantab:, or a catalogue of all the provosts, fellows and scholars of the Kings College of the blessed virgin Mary and St Nicholas; in the university of Cambridge; since the foundation thereof, anno 1441 usque ad extremam anni 1750. by Antony Allen esqr;. manuscript.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London, England? 1750s?.
Physical description
4 volumes : paper ; 38 x 25 cm.
Note
Title-page title.
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Place and date of production inferred from the author's biography (see Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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The leaves of each volume bearing text have been paginated in a contemporary hand; the sequence is continuous across all the volumes.
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Written in black ink in italic hand. Ruled in pale red ink. Title-pages of each volume written in black and red ink.
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Index of names at the end of the final volume.
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The scribe may be Thomas Sibthorpe, Allen's junior clerk at Middle Temple, who was bequeathed £120 in Allen's will to transcribe two copies of the catalogue, one for his patron Arthur Onslow and one for King's. It is not clear if this is one of these copies, or an earlier copy.
Note
These four volumes are part of a five volume set, including a catalogue of the provost and fellows of Eton College (Eton MS 373).
Note
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on inside front board.
Binding
Contemporary dark brown sprinkled calf; gold tooled double fillet border; blind tooled floral roll on board edges; six raised bands; red sprinkled edges. Joint repairs to the first and third volumes.
Subject
Added entry--place
England London
Identifier
B49301