Harvard University, MS Lat 260

Metadata

DS ID:

DS10851

Shelfmark:

MS Lat 260

Title:

The statuts and ordynicys of the most noble ordre of saynte George named the gartier

Author:

Order of the Garter

Order of the Garter WIKIDATA

Date:

1542.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

eng

English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 26 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 23 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Black, William Henry, 1808-1872

William Henry Black WIKIDATA

Hertford, Edward Seymour, Earl of, 1537-1621

Edward Seymour WIKIDATA

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Charles Sumner WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in a bastard secretary hand in England with two coats of arms of Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford (ff. 1r-v) and decorated initials.
Bound in original brown calf with a stamped border showing the royal English arms.
In a protective tray case, 25 cm.
Written for Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford and later 1st Duke of Somerset; belonged to William Henry Black; his sale, London, 28 July 1873, no. 759, to Pickering.
Bequest of Charles Sumner, 1874.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Order of the Garter

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990094050410203941/catalog

Holding Institution:

Harvard University