The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 162
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9883
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 162
- Title:
- Arcadia
- Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- between 1585 and 1599
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 180 : paper ; 205 x 302 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878
Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928
White, William Augustus, 1821-1898
- Note:
- Title from printed catalog.
Support: Paper.
Script: Secretary.
Layout: Apparently in bifolia or in single leaves. Catchwords in the lower right corner of the text on the recto and verso of each leaf. 37-45 long lines; very faint vertical bounding lines, perhaps by folding.
Watermark(s): 2 types of Pot, similar to Briquet 12746, Holland 1556 and Briquet 12671, Neuburg 1555, and a coat of arms similar to Heawood 445, Venice 1598.
Contemporary foliation, skipping the numbers 51-52 and 119 (no loss of text) and showing the lack of the first 6 leaves, 7-189; refoliated in 1981, 1-180. Some damage especially to the edges; partially repaired.
Assigned Date: s. XVIex.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/16/2012.
On f. 78v (formerly f. 86v), an otherwise blank leaf, the name Robert Walker; a man of this name was treasurer to Sir Henry Sidney, 1575-ca. 1581 and appears in the Sidney family records until 1583. Possibly to be identified with lot 259 in the sale of Thomas Martin of Palgrave, by Baker and Leigh, London, 18 May 1774. Belonged to the Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878); in his "Appendix," n... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862114
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:53357/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
