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Royal MS 17 A XLIV
- Record Id:
- 041-003419954
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100062855489.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165176526.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 17 A XLIV
- Title:
- A Poem on Curiosity
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
A poem without rhyme, perhaps a very literal translation ? from Italian or Spanish of a poem on 'Curiosity' or 'The Curious Man', incipit: 'Perchaunce hit might bee best to shun at all that home'.
This manuscript is bound together with Royal MS 17 A xlii (82 folios) and Royal MS 17 A xliv, (12 folios).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-003419953
041-003419954 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 17 A XLII-XLIV : The Sworne Book of Honorius and other texts
Royal MS 17 A XLIV : A Poem on Curiosity - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[0000]/040-003419953[0002]/041-003419954
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- Part of Royal MS 17 A XLII-XLIV
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165176526.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1650
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 185 x 140 mm (text space: 155 x 110 mm).
Script: Cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): a modern shelfmark on a parchment flyleaf f. [iv]; presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Bound together with Royal MS 17 A XLII and Royal MS 17 A XLIII in 1966.
- Publications:
- George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Royal and Kings Collection , 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), II, p. 224.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)