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- Record Id:
- 040-002024666
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002024628
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001443.0x0003cc
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100152721368.0x000001
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- Add MS 33769
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John Norden, 'An Exact Description of Essex'
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph presentation copy with manuscript map of Essex (f. 3), by John Norden, cartographer (c. 1547-1625). With a dedicatory address to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565-1601), whose arms and quarterings are emblazoned on f. 4. Presented by John Norden ‘in the interims of the fittes of my longe and chargeable sicknes’ (f. 28r).
f. 2r Title page: ‘An Exact Discription of Essex by John Norden 1594’.
f. 3r Coloured map: ‘Essex’, ‘Iohannes Norden deliniauit, Anno. 1594’.
f. 4r Arms and quarterings of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565-1601).
ff. 5r-6r Dedicatory address: ‘To the Right Honorable my most Singuler good Lorde and Master Roberte Earle of Essex and Ewe Lorde Ferrers of Chartley, Bourgchuer and Lovaine, Mr of the horse to her Majesty, one of her Majesty’s moste honorable Prevye Counsell and of the moste noble order of the Garter knight.’
ff. 7r-13v Description of Essex: beginning ‘Essex called of the Saxons Eastseax is parcell of that parte of Brittaine wher Ptolomey placed the Trmoantes or Trinobantes, who inhabited also Middlesex and parte of Hertfordshire.’
ff. 14r-23r ‘An Alphabeticall table of the townes, parishes, & hamletes, conteyned in the mappe.’
ff. 23r-25v ‘An Alphabeticall table of the moste of the auncient howses: and howses, and halles of name, within Essex and their present possessors. I can not saye (in all) their absolute owners’
ff. 26r-27r ‘A Table of Suche Halles, for the moste parte, as have name of the parishes wherin they are. And the moste of theire present possessors.’
ff. 27r-28r ‘Men of accoumpte whose howses are in townes, or so scituate, as they can not well be sett downe in the mappe.’
f. 28r ‘A note of suche places, as were Monastaries, Abbeis, Priories, & suhe like: in the time of superstition, within Essex’
Decoration: pen-flourishing; interlaced strapwork with gold and colours (f. 2r); large initial with foliate decoration (f. 7r); tinted drawings: saffron flower (f. 8r); arms of the Earl of Essex (f. 16v); arms of Henry Marney, 1st Baron Marney (c. 1447-1623) (f. 18r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002024628
040-002024666 - Is part of:
- Add MS 33733-33791 : Grenville Manuscripts
Add MS 33769 : John Norden, 'An Exact Description of Essex' - Hierarchy:
- 032-002024628[0038]/040-002024666
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1594
- End Date:
- 1594
- Date Range:
- 1594
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 242 x 384mm.
Foliation: ff. iv + 28.
Binding: Post-1600. Armorial binding of Thomas Grenville.
Script: Decorative italic script, with Roman lettering for emphasis.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Rev. Daniel Lysons, antiquary (1762-1834): his sale, 17 March, 1828, lot 636.
Bequeathed to the British Museum by Sir Thomas Grenville, politician and book collector (1755-1846).
- Information About Copies:
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British Library Add MS 31853, ff. 9-18. Copy with a dedicatory address to Queen Elizabeth I, 1595.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 326 (1). Copy with a dedicatory address to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (b. 1520/1, d. 1598), 1594.
Essex Record Office, D/DMs P1. A draft copy, 1594.
British Library Egerton MS 2644: contains letters from the Privy Council and Lord Burghley concerning the manuscript, 1594 (ff. 45, 49).
- Publications:
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E.M.J. Campbell, ‘The Beginnings of the Characteristic Sheet to English Maps’, in ‘Landmarks in British Cartography’, The Geographical Journal, 128 (1962), 411-15.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum, 1894), p. 106.
Henry Ellis, ed., Speculi Britanniæ Pars: an historical and Chorographical Description of the County of Essex, by John Norden, 1594, Camden Society edition (London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1840).
F.G. Emmison and R.A. Skelton, ‘The Description of Essex by John Norden, 1594’, The Geographical Journal, ,123 (1957), 37-41.
J.T. Payne and H. Foss, Bibliotheca Grenvilliana (London: William Nicol, 1842-48), vol. 2, p. 446.
Edward Lynam, ‘English Maps and Map-Makers of the Sixteenth Century’, The Geographical Journal, 116 (1950), 7-25.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)