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Add MS 6239
- Record Id:
- 032-003442443
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003442443
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100075949233.0x0003be
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 6239
- Title:
- Volume of miscelaneous papers, including transcripts, notes and architectural sketches and plans, relating to: Sir John Gresham and Edward Rowe Mores.
- Scope & Content:
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A thin quarto volume of 11 pages, in which is:-
1. A transcript by Professor Ward of the printed Tract intitled “Sir Thomas Gresham his Ghost, Printed for William Ley, 1647” with a drawing of the figure in the title page. Pages 106b.
2. “Sketch of the old Royal Exchange and some adjoining buildings, taken from an antient map now in the possession of Dr Mead, being of the same sort (but more perfect) with that of Sir Hans Sloane, which was copied by Mr Vertue”. Folio 7.
3. “The site of Gresham house and gardens, from a plan of London, being a wooden print, in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane Baronet. Dated 1618, but supposed to have been first cut about the year 1560. Copyed by C.M. 1739” Folio 7b.
4. Memoranda relating to the births of the Gresham family, ‘ex cod. MS. penes Edo. Rowe Mores’, AM. 1754 (in More’s handwriting), folios 8-9b.
5. Memoranda by [Edward Rowe] Mores, touching the monuments of the Rowe family and a pedigree of his descent from Sir John Gresham, 1754. Folios 10b, 11.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003442443
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003442443
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume (of 11 pages)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Quarto format.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This catalogue description has been transcribed from the original [18th-19th-century] handwritten Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts and may contain inaccuracies. The handwritten catalogue is available in the Manuscripts Reading Room.