The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 26341

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9959

Shelfmark:

mssHM 26341

Title:

Historical miscellany

Scribe:

Nowell, Laurence, 1530-approximately 1570

Laurence Nowell WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1540 and 1565

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 104 : paper ; 160 x 208 mm

Former Owner(s):

Lambarde, William, 1536-1601

William Lambarde WIKIDATA

Note:

Historical miscellany written in England presumably by 1565 (date on the cover) by the antiquary Laurence Nowell.
Span folios: ff. 1-104v (+ f. 36 bis, blank, thus omitted in contemporary foliation). Support: Paper. Watermark(s): Fleur-de-lis, Heawood 1445, Schieland 1526-65; on ff. 73-88, Pot, somewhat similar to Briquet 12517, Puys-Notre-Dame 1589. Layout: Collation beginning with contemporary flyleaf: 1-94 106 11-184(through f. 72) 19-224(through f. 88) 23-264 272(contemporary flyleaves). 25-35 long...
Lower margins badly damaged by damp and mold; repaired, 1982.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/20/2012.
Left by Laurence Nowell with his friend, the antiquary William Lambarde, when Nowell left England for the Continent in 1567 (see R. M. Warnicke, "Note on a Court of Requests Case of 1571," English Language Notes 11 (1973-74) 250-56). N. 3 in the list of Nowell-Lambarde manuscripts printed by J. Nichols, Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica (London 1780-95) 1:510-12, at the time in the...

Keyword:

miscellanies

manuscripts (documents)

Great Britain

France--Normandy

Europe--Mercia (Kingdom)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862191

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51748/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens