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Add MS 34805

Record Id:

032-002087799

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002087799

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000052.0x0003b7

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Add MS 34805

Title:

"HADASSAH: or the History of Queene Hester; Sunge, in a sacred and serious Poeme: and divided into 10 Chapiters. By Francis Lenton, Gent: The Queens Ma^tiesPoet: Together with the Translation, and Illustration, of the 83. psalme . . . . 1638." Dedicated "to the worshipfull and worthy of honour, the prudent, pious and courteous Thomas Coteel, Esquire " (the name partly obliterated), whose arms, in colour, are on f. 3 b. The poem, which was never published, begins "When the stiffneck't and stubborne Isralites." Paper; ff. 84. XVIIth cent. In contemporary binding of darkbrown morocco, tooled. A description of this and of two other copies is in W. Carew Hazlitt's Collections and Notes, 1867-76 (1876), p. 255 ; whence it appears that Mr. [Richard] Heber procured this MS. at Mr. Thomas Hill's sale in 1811. See Heber's sale-cat. 1836, part xi., lot 724. Book-plate of F. W. Cosens, F.S.A. (sale-cat. 1890, lot 214). Small Quarto.

Scope & Content:

Poetry: "Hadassah, or the History of Queen Esther," by F. Lenton: 1638.

Francis Lenton, Poet: Hadassah, or the History of Queen Esther: 1638.

Esther: "Hadassah, or the History of Queen Esther," by F. Lenton: 1638.

Thomas Coteel: dedicated to: in 1638.

Frederick William Cosens, FSA: Book-plate: 19th cent.

Bookplates: Cosens (Frederick William): 19th cent.

Bindings ENGLISH: Tooled morocco,: 17th cent and 18th cent.

includes:

f. 3 b Thomas Coteel: Arms: 1638.
f. 176 John Dobedé, of Exning Hall: Letter to the 4th Lord Hardwicke: 1852.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002087799

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-002087799

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1600

End Date:

1699

Date Range:

17th century

Era:

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Custodial History:

Thomas Hill: Owned: in 1811.

Richard Heber, MP, of Hodnet Hall, county Shropshire: Owned: early 19th cent.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Cosens, Frederick William, book collector, 1819-1889,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118776956
Coteel, Thomas
Dobedé, John, judge, fl 1798-1852
Esther
Heber, Richard, MP, of Hodnet Hall, county Shropshire
Hill, Thomas, of Add MS 34805
Lenton, Francis, Poet