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Stowe MS 309
- Record Id:
- 040-001953111
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001952775
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000493.0x00034b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163541969.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 309
- Title:
- Allegorical political drawings
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r–2v: Allegorical designs in colours, relating to political events in the reigns of Kings James I and Charles I. The designs include a man (Charles I?) lying in bed, a street seene, the Pope and others burning, a procession, a man carrying a bust of Charles I, the demolition of a house, a man praying before a crucifix, together with five signboards.
The first of these signboards shows a lion issuing from a wood, with the date 1628 in one corner, and, above, the initials G. H. on either side of a shield of arms, with the text, 'Now the axe is laid to the root of the tree'. The second has an anchor and shears, the royal arms and Prince of Wales's feathers, the date 1623 and the initials N. F.; the third, an anchor and sheep, the arms of London and of the Merchant Taylors' Company, 1619, and the initials B. W.; the fourth, a sun, with the date 1625, H. W.; the fifth, a clock, with the date 1628, with the initials I. V.
On f. 1r is a monogram made up of the letters C. N. F. G.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Stowe Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001952775
036-001952833
037-001953069
040-001953111 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ms 1-1085 : Stowe Manuscripts
Stowe MS 54-310 : CLASS IV.HISTORY.
Stowe MS 268-310 : SECT. VI.-POLITICAL TRACTS, COLLECTIONS, CARICATURES, ETC.
Stowe MS 309 : Allegorical political drawings - Hierarchy:
- 032-001952775[0004]/036-001952833[0006]/037-001953069[0042]/040-001953111
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Stowe Ms 1-1085
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100163541969.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1628
- End Date:
- 1628
- Date Range:
- 1628
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment and paper (flyleaves).
Dimensions: 320 x 250 mm.
Foliation: ff. 2 + 34 modern flyleaves (1 at the beginning and 33 at the end.)
Binding: British Museum binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham.
Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1797, d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos; sold in 1849 to Lord Ashburnham.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham.
Purchased from the 5th Earl of Ashburnham by the British Museum in 1883, together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts.
- Publications:
- Catalogue of the Stowe Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1895-1896), I, p. 363.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)