Shelfmark
MS 282
Author
Title
Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College by Thomas Gray. Founded by Henry VI A.D.1440. manuscript.
Publication, distribution, etc.
England 1916.
Physical description
31, [8] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Note
Material: membrane (thick vellum) interleaved with white silk.
Note
Decoration: opening initials in gold incorporating intricate floral borders; all leaves within gold and richly illuminated borders including fine watercolour landscapes scenes featuring Eton College.
Note
Includes an account of the foundation and early history of Eton College (pp. 14-31).
Note
On p. [6] at the end of the volume: ' This manuscript... was designed, written out, and illuminated by Alberto Sangorski'.
Note
Date from p. [6] at the end of the volume.
Note
On p. [8] at the end of the volume: ' Supplied by John & Edward Bumpus, Ltd. London'.
Note
White silk between pages.
Citation/references note
Manuscript note in MS 932 (interleaved copy of James catalogue).
Provenance
Manuscript note on the verso of the third front flyleaf: 'In memory of Theodore Hamilton Beit Second Liutenant 1st Royal Dragoons who died in 1917 and of the happy years he spent at Eton, from 1912 to 1916 this book is presented to the College Library by his father Otto Beit.'
Binding
Contemporary light blue morocco; covers with gilt strapwork forming a frame enriched at the four corners with three lily-flowers of onlaid green and white morocco; Eton College coat of arms within a gold almond-shaped centrepiece; five raised bands on spine with gold titling and gold fillets; gold rolls and fillets in the turn-ins with inlaid white silk; the fisrt and the last endpapers covered with white silk; three additional flyleaves at the beginning and end of the volume. In a dark blue box with the same centrepiece outside, and white silk and velvet inside.
Copy-specific note
Manuscript note describing the item inserted in the box.
Subject
Gray, Thomas, 1716 - 1771 Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College.
Subject
Subject
Poetry England History
Added entry--name
Sangorski, Alberto, 1862 - 1932 illuminator.
Added entry--name
Beit, Otto, 1865 - 1930 donor.
Added entry--name
Beit, Theodore Hamilton, 1898 - 1917 associated name.
Added entry--name
J. & E. Bumpus bookseller.
Added entry--place
Great Britain England
Language code
eng
Identifier
B52608