The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 160

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9595

Shelfmark:

mssHM 160

Title:

Heroica eulogia

Author:

Bowyer, William

William Bowyer WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Beau-Chesne, Jehan de

John de Beauchesne WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

1567

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

eng

English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff 1-150 volumes : parchment ; 236 x 326 mm

Former Owner(s):

Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909

Robert Hoe III WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Binding: Bound in modern calf stamped in dark brown to form a panel of 5-petalled flowers and a border of arabesques.
Written in England in 1567, with calligraphic passages copied by John de Beauchesne, as the presentation copy from William Bowyer to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Sale of Thomas Jett, London, 11 May 1731, n. 19. Was in the Tixall Library of Sir F. A. T. Clifford Constable of Aston Hall; his sale, Sotheby's, 6 November 1899, lot 90 to B. F. Stevens. Belonged to Robert Hoe: Cat. (1909) pp...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

coats of arms

miniatures (paintings)

Eulogies

Bowyer, William

Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, 1532?-1588

Anti-clericalism

Heraldry

Dudley family

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1822817

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:44975/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens