The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssEL 35 C 39

Metadata

DS ID:

DS9817

Shelfmark:

mssEL 35 C 39

Title:

Psalms in English

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1600 and 1615

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

English

English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. ii + 120 : paper ; 186 x 294 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Paper.
Script: Secretary.
Layout: 1-46 5-64 76 84 9-186 192 2016. Catchwords usually in the lower right corner of the recto and verso of each leaf. 29-40 lines of verse, frame ruled in brownish-red ink.
Watermark(s): Post, similar to Heawood 3499, dated 1617, and Grapes similar to Heawood 2101, in Rochester, and to Heawood 2106, England 1622.
Span folios: ff. 1-120v.
Assigned Date: s. XVIIin.
Former pressmark, 11637.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/22/2012.
Inscribed on f. i, s. XVII, the name "Henry Platt" and, in the same hand, "Foelix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum" [Walther, Initia 6345]. Also on f. i, the pressmark "P:2." in the hand of John Egerton (1579-1649), 1st Earl of Bridgewater, corrected to "P:2./7." by the second Earl (1622-86); and, in modern pencil, "6711" corrected to "11637." The current Bridgewater pressmark, "35 C 39...

Keyword:

Poems

watermarks

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862048

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens