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Egerton MS 944
- Record Id:
- 032-001984013
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001984013
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000057.0x000033
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165897305.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 944
- Title:
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Lord Henry Howard (later Earl of Northampton), 'Regina Fortunata'
- Scope & Content:
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'Regina Fortunata' is a Latin treatise composed by Lord Henry Howard, afterwards Earl of Northampton, about the year 1576. This is evidently a presentation copy to Queen Elizabeth I. It is written fair in the italic hand of a scribe (this seems more likely than it is in Howard's own hand), with red ruled lines. It has a dedication to the Queen and a full-length coloured portrait of her as frontispiece. The dedication to the Queen is in gilt (black ink, except for Howard's initials and the word 'Maiestatis', is used in the passage beneath in which he presents himself as a most faithful subject) and the words 'Regina Fortunata', which appears at the head of the treatise and on the running heads are also gilt.
Contents:
f. 1r: Dedication.
f. 1v: Full-length coloured drawing of Queen Elizabeth I seated with crown, sceptre and orb, and in her lap a book with the words 'Pax tibi ancilla mea'.
ff. 2r-74v: Text of 'Regina Fortunata'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-001984013", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Egerton MS 944: Lord Henry Howard (later Earl of Northampton), 'Regina Fortunata'" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001984013
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001984013
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165897305.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1571
- End Date:
- 1581
- Date Range:
- c 1576
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 195mm x 135mm (writing area: 120mm x 75mm).
Foliation: ff. 74 (plus one unfoliated paper flyleaf at the front and one unfoliated paper flyleaf at the back).
Script: 16th-century italic hand.
Binding: Pre-1600(?). White leather, with gold tooling on front, back and spine; leather ties. This is very possibly the original binding, though the coat of arms of the Farnborough Family is gold-stamped on the front and back (probably a much later stamp, from the 1840s). unless the family had owned it before Farrer acquired it). On the spine are the British Museum's own labels on the title, press mark and that it was an Egerton MS and bought from the Farnborough Fund. However, there is also a title there in gold leaf, possibly in a 16th-century hand, very faded (so the case-endings are a little uncertain, and the British Museum labels may have hidden a word): 'Elizabetham Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Reginam'. The fore-edge and upper and lower edges of the leaves, probably original to the volume, are gauffered gilt, with stamped flower motifs.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
On first flyleaf, noted as bought of H. Farrer, 23 Jul 1842. (Farrer is possibly Henry Farrer, dealer in art and curiosities, Mark Wilfred Westgarth, 'The Emergence of the Antique and Curiosity Dealer, 1815-c. 1850: the Commodification of Historical Objects', 3 vols [University of Southampton Ph.D. thesis, 2006], III.22-23).
Bought by the British Museum with the Farnborough Fund, 1842. The Fund was £3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761, d. 1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829), founder of the collection.
- Publications:
- Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1841-1845 (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1850), [under 1842], p. 106
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)