The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 26068

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9957

Shelfmark:

mssHM 26068

Title:

Discours de la Foy, copied by Esther Inglis

Scribe:

Inglis, Esther, 1571-1624

Esther Inglis WIKIDATA

Place:

Edinburgh

Edinburgh TGN

Date:

1591

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

French and Latin

French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 52 : paper ; 151 x 100 mm

Former Owner(s):

Ellys, Richard, Sir, approximately 1674-1742

Sir Richard Ellys, 3rd Baronet WIKIDATA

Gifford, Andrew, 1700-1784

Andrew Gifford WIKIDATA

Bristol Baptist College

Bristol Baptist College WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Discours de la Foy copied (but possibly not written?) by the calligrapher Esther Inglis in Edinburgh, 1591, for Queen Elizabeth. Discours de la Foy in 40 6-line stanzas; possibly not complete as the advertissement (f. 50v) mentions "certain nombre de vers, les uns en Anglois, les autres en françois," and there are now none in English.
Span folios: ff. 1-52 (f. 52 pasted to f. 51). Support: Paper. Watermark(s): Grapes, Heawood 2153, Antwerp 1598, and a Crown atop an unidentifiable device, hidden in the gutter on f. i only. Layout: Collation beginning with f. ii: 12 24 34(replacement leaf attached to stub of original 3rd leaf) 42 5-124 136 142(+ a leaf pasted to 2nd leaf). Catchwords in the inside lower margin on the verso of...
Decoration: 2-line initials in black, most with flourishing, begin stanzas.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/20/2012.
Belonged to Sir Richard Ellys, whose library was described in the transactions of the Gentlemen's Society at Spalding, 24 June 1742 (unpublished). Given by his niece, Mrs. Lloyd of Wympole Street, to Sir Richard's chaplain, Andrew Gifford, who noted the circumstances on f. ii verso; his armorial bookplate on the front pastedown with a pressmark added in ink, "B.d.1." Bequeathed by Gifford with...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Faith

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862189

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:53271/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens