Harvard University, MS Typ 16

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10926

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 16

Title:

A treatice concerninge the nauie of England; written in anno 1570 by John Mountgomery with an addicion therto made by the said author in an.o 1589

Author:

Montgomery, John, active 1555-1590

John Montgomery WIKIDATA

Date:

circa 1589

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

eng

English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 35 leaves, bound ; 21 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Lyell, James P. R. 1871-

James Lyell WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in a secretary hand in brown ink with shoulder-headings.
Colored drawings are: a warship (frontispiece, fol. 2v), a strawberry plant (title page, 3r), mermaid (5v), turtle (18v), sea-monster (19r), a galley (19v), honeysuckle (34r).
Binding in black morocco tooled in blind by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, incorporating the original vellum back cover, gilt with an acorn device.
Bookplates of James P. R. Lyell and the Spanish Armada Collection of Thomas W. Lamont '92. Given by Thomas W. Lamont, 1939.

Keyword:

Drawings

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Great Britain

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990095110780203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:3499173

Holding Institution:

Harvard University