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Add MS 8254

Record Id:
032-002029117
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002029117
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000050.0x000263
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8254
Title:

UNIVERSAL HISTORY; late 17th cent. French and Latin. Universal history from Creation to the late 17th cent., inc. ‘L’histoire est une narration veritable et iuditieuse’, expl. (f. 123v) ‘3o Eleonore Marie de Neubourg née [date cancelled and illegible]’. The text covers biblical history (ff. 1-7v), ancient history from the Chaldaeans, Assyrians and Babylonians to the fall of the Western Roman Empire (ff. 8-83), the Eastern Empire, 5th cent. to 1453 (ff. 83v-105v), the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1664 (ff. 106-111) and the Western Empire from Charlemagne to the reign of Leopold I, d. 1705 (ff. 111v-123v). Followed by: a history of the papacy from Peter to Innocent XI (ff. 124-156v); the final 26 prophecies of St. Malachy (f. 157); a history of the Counts and Dukes of Savoy (ff. 157v-158v); a history of the Kings of France (ff. 159-162); and a ‘general history’ in verse (ff. 163-171), inc. ‘L’histoire est un narré qui marchant d’age en age’, expl. ‘Cesar en appelle en vainqueur’, covering Old Testament history and ancient history from the Chaldaeans to the Roman Republic. Apparently identifiable with Mattei MS. 39 in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 14. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. Mirror-image of ‘678’ in upper right corner of front fly-leaf, apparently offset from the pastedown of an earlier binding. Purchased from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot unknown.

Paper; ff. 171. Contemporary pagination in ink '2-379', beginning on f. 1v. 200 x 140mm. 18th cent. brown calf binding, with gold tooling around edges of upper and lower covers and along edges of boards, and blind-tooling on turn-ins. Brown marbled end-papers, edges of text block mottled green and red.

Scope & Content:

Bindings ITALIAN: Brown calf with gold tooling and blind-tooling: 18th cent.

Chronicles: Universal history: late 17th cent: Fr. and Lat.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002029117
Is part of:
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Hierarchy:
032-002029117
Container:
not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
French
Latin
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1660
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Era:
CE
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Custodial History:

Mattei Library: Owned (MS. 39), late 18th cent.

Robert Harding Evans, bookseller: Purchased from, 8 Dec. 1830.

Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford: Owned, bef. 1828.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Evans, Robert Harding, bookseller and auctioneer, 1777-1857
Mattei Library
North, Frederick, 5th Earl of Guilford, politician and colonial administrator, 1766-1827,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000034584770