Royal Appendix MS 65

'THE HISTORY of the Israelites from the death of Saul to their carrying away captive into Babylon': a harmony of the books of Kings and Chronicles, made from printed texts with paste and scissors, notes and headings being inserted in manuscript. This is one of a series of harmonies made by Nicholas Ferrar and his family at their community of Little Gidding, co. Hunt., and was executed in 1637 at the request of Charles I and presented to him through Archbishop Laud (Nicholas Ferrar, his Household and his Friends, London, 1892, p. 190). The binding, however, does not correspond with John Ferrar's description of 'purple velvet and that most artificially gilt upon the velvet in an extraordinary manner', so that apparently the King had it re-bound. A full account of these harmonies (two of which are among the printed books in the King's Library) is given in op. cit. and in Archaeologia, li, p. 189.

Paper; ff. 105. 17 in. x 11 in. A.D. 1637. Dark leather binding with tooling (panel formed by eight equidistant lines parallel to the edge); initials C. R. on the back. Formerly kept among the printed books and afterwards numbered Add. MS. 5903. Not in the old catalogues.