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Add MS 52410
- Record Id:
- 032-002001917
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002001917
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000036.0x0003af
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 52410
- Title:
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Paston Letter: from John Gyn to William Paston I
- Scope & Content:
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Letter from John Gyn (or Gynn) to William Paston I, 5 February ?1436 (Davis, Paston Letters (2004), no. 425), probably written in the hand of John Gyn. It was originally folded and secured by a paper tag, of which a fragment remains, passed through slits and sealed. The seal, now lost, was octagonal with a merchant's mark, reproduced in Fenn, Original Letters, III, pl. xxiii, no. 3.
The letter is kept between the two halves of a folded paper leaf (ff. i and ii), with the label on f. i recto, 'Paston Letter Vol. 3. p. 28' (the number refers to Fenn's edition, Original Letters (1787-1823).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002001917
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002001917
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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A parchment folio
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_52410 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1436
- End Date:
- 1436
- Date Range:
- 1436
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper, with watermark of a bull's head and star, reproduced in Fenn, Original Letters, II, pl. viii, no. 2. Not in Briquet, Les Filigranes, 1461-1496.
Foliation: ff. ii + 1 (ff. i and ii are the two sections of a folded paper leaf enclosing f. 1).
Dimensions: Outer cover: 325 x 200 mm; parchment leaf: 120 x 295 mm.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: An unbound paper folio kept between a folded sheet of paper between two boards of stiff card, in brown paper wrapping.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
William Paston I (b. 1378, d. 1444), the letter is addressed to him.
William Paston (b. 1653/4, d. 1732), 2nd Earl of Yarmouth, by descent through the Paston family.
Peter le Neve (d. 1729), collector and antiquary, purchased by him from William Paston (see Gairdner, Paston Letters (1900) I, p. 4).
Reverend Francis Blomefield (d. 1752), historian of Norfolk, his notes in some of the Paston letters.
Thomas Martin (d. 1771), antiquary of Palgrave, acquired by him as executor of Peter le Neve and some letters in the collection annotated by him.
John Worth, chemist of Diss, sold by him in 1774 to John Fenn (see Gairdner, Paston Letters (1900) I, p. 6).
John Fenn (b. 1739, d. 1794), antiquary, owned, annotated and published by him.
John Frere (b. 1740, d. 1807), landowner and antiquary of Roydon Hall, brother-in-law of John Fenn and inheritor of his library.
John Hookham Frere (b. 1769, d. 1846), son of John Frere, probably taken by him to Holland House (see Davis, Paston Letters I, p. xxx).
The Earls of Ilchester, by descent, and seen in their library at Holland House in 1874 by Princess Marie Liechtenstein; removed to Melbury during the Second World War by Giles Stephen Holland Fox-Strangeways (b. 1874, d. 1959), 6th Earl, who showed it to Norman Davis, editor of the letters, in London in March, 1959 (see Davis, Paston Letters I, p. xxx).
Edward Henry Charles James Fox-Strangways (b. 1905, d. 1964), 7th Earl of Ilchester, in his sale, Sotheby's, London, 10 February,1964, lot 281. Bought by the British Museum for £580.
- Publications:
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Original Letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III..., ed. by John Fenn, 5 vols (London, Robinsons, 1787-1823), III, p. 28.
The Paston Letters, 1422-1509 A.D., ed. by James Gairdner, 4 vols (Westminster, 1900-1901), no. 38; 6 vols (London and Exeter, 1904), no. 52.
H.S. Bennett: The Pastons and their England: Studies in an Age of Transition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1937) [on the Paston letters].
David Stoker, '"Innumerable letters of good consequence in history": The Discovery and First Publication of the Paston Letters', The Library, 6th series 17 (1995), 107–55 [on the Paston letters].
The British Library Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts, 1956-1965, 2 vols (London: The British Library, 2000), I, Descriptions, p. 484.
Colin Richmond, The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century, 3 vols (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996-2001) [on the Paston letters].
Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century, ed. by Norman Davis, 3 vols, Early English Text Society, Supplementary Series, 20-22 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), I, p. xxx; II, no. 425.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)