University of California, Berkeley, BANC MS UCB 50

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS12623

Shelfmark:

BANC MS UCB 50

Title:

Account book, 1541-1595, kept by Humphrey Wellys, Staffordshire, England

Author:

Wellys, Humphrey

Humphrey Wellys WIKIDATA

Date:

1541-1595

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

English and Latin

English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 180 leaves : paper ; 207 x 147 (30-180 x 95-130) mm. bound to 212 x 154 mm.

Note:

Document contains household records for the Wellys family of Staffordshire, England. Blind-stamped binding displays initials "H.B."
Ms. document.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, fol. ii + 180 (foliated 1-168 in modern pencil with 9 unfoliated leaves between fol. 26 and 27, 3 unfoliated leaves between fol. 166 and 167); 1-46 5-814 910 10-146 154 ( -1) 1612 176 ( -1) 186 1912 204 216.
Layout: Variable throughout document.
Script: Written in a cursive script by 2 hands: fol. 1-125, 160-168: hand of Humphrey Wellys; fol. 126-159: hand of Robert Wellys.
Binding: 16th cent. Blind-stamped calf, paneled; 2 medallion portraits with the initials "H.B." between them; 4 raised bands; binding reinforcements of cut parchment leaves on front and back inside covers.
Origin: Written in Staffordshire between 1541 and 1595. See contents note.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 50.
Former shelfmark: Ac 541.
Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS HF5616 E5S2.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Account books

History

account books

Sources

Contemporary bindings

Real property

Manuscripts, Renaissance

England--Staffordshire

Manuscripts, English

California--Berkeley

Institutional Record:

https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991035087859706532

IIIF Manifest:

https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/nanna/proxy/iiif/manifest/228895/

Holding Institution:

University of California, Berkeley