University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Roll 1594

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2109

Shelfmark:

Ms. Roll 1594

Title:

An inventary of all and singular the goodes and chattells and debtes of John Ffox, late of Chacumbe in the countie of Northampton, gentleman deceased : taken the seventeene daie of Januarie, anno domini a thousand five hundred ninetie twoo /

Author:

Ward, Richard, 16th century

Richard Ward WIKIDATA

Place:

Drayton or Chacombe

Drayton TGN

Date:

[1593]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

English, with a few words in Latin

English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 roll (3 membranes) : parchment ; 250 x 13.5 cm

Note:

Ms. roll.
Decoration: Larger calligraphic letters at the beginning of the roll and introducing the rooms listed on the first membrane.
Title from caption title.
Script: Written in a secretary hand.
Origin: Probably written at the manor house at Drayton (Gedge) in Oxfordshire, or in Chacombe, Northamptonshire, 17 January 1593 (year given in document as 1592, since the new year then began March 1).
Sold by Samuel Gedge Ltd. (Mundesley, England), cat. 10 (2011), no. 38.

Keyword:

scrolls (information artifacts)

estate inventories

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, English

History

Inheritance and succession

House furnishings

Fox, John, 16th century

Early works

England--Drayton (Oxfordshire)

England

England--Northamptonshire

Sixteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9950083903503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3m344/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania