The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 117

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DS ID:

DS9862

Shelfmark:

mssHM 117

Title:

The Psalmes of David metaphrased into verse by the noble, learnead & famous gent. Sr. Philip Sidney Knight

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1600 and 1615

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

English

English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: pages 322 : paper ; 140 x 192 mm

Former Owner(s):

Hayley, William, 1745-1820

William Hayley WIKIDATA

Bright, Benjamin Heywood

Benjamin Heywood Bright WIKIDATA

Corser, Thomas, 1793-1876

Thomas Corser WIKIDATA

Huth, Henry, 1815-1878

Henry Huth WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from rubric.
Support: Paper.
Script: Secretary.
Layout: 1-1312 146(-5). Catchwords in the lower right margin of the recto and verso of each leaf. 22-28 lines of verse.
Watermark(s): Pot, similar to Heawood 3631.
Span folios: pp. 1-322.
Other Decoration: On p. 1, upper margin, an ornamental border in brown ink with the IHS monogram and simple scrolls.
Assigned Date: s. XVIIin.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 3/8/2012.
Belonged in 1789 to the poet William Hayley (1745-1820); his signature on f. iii verso, but not traced in his 1821 or 1844 sales. Owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright, although, due to rebinding (?), no ownership marks present; his sale, Sotheby's, 18 June 1844, pt. II, n. 242 to Wilson. Later owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser (1793-1876), although, again, no ownership marks survive; his sale...

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Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862093

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:53332/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens