Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 202
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- English MS 202
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- Date
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- 16th century
- Language
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- English
- Title
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- Robert Hassall - Commonplace Book
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- Robert Hassall (15..-16..?)
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- Author
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- Hassall, Robert
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- John Leche
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- Former owner
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- Leche, John
- John Leche
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- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)
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- Former owner
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- Babbington, Thomas
- Thomas Babbington,
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- Coella Lindsay Ricketts (1859-1941)
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- Former owner
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- C. L. Ricketts
- Ricketts, C. L.
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- Description
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- Extent:
78 folios (78+iii) Leaf height: 305 mm, width: 210 mm.
Binding:
Simple brown leather binding.
Decoration:
Rubrication
Headings are in bold ink throughout.
Manicules
Manicules appear in some sections.
Acquisition:
Donated to the John Rylands Library by C. L. Ricketts in December 1922.
Data Source(s):
Description based on Moses Tyson, Hand-List of the Collection of English manuscripts in The John Rylands Library (1928), p.185.
Subject(s):
Commonplace books--Great Britain; Literature and history--England--History--16th century; Genealogy--Early works to 1800; Manners and customs--History; Manners and customs--Poetry; Kent (England); Chester (England)
Abstract:
Robert Hassall - Commonplace Book, sixteenth century English Manuscript. Contemporary copy with entries relating to the history and customs of Kent; the names of the Mayors and Sheriffs of Chester (1326-1612), with notes; many pieces of verse, notes on legal proceedings, etc. Later hands insert notes on the pedigree of the family of Leche of Carden, 1584-1711, etc.
Material:
Paper
Provenance:
John Leche, former owner.
Thomas Babbington, former owner.
Condition:
Slight water damage.
Additions:
There is an inscription by John Leche, former owner on one of the flyleaves.'Found at Carden 1885 and rebound 1886. J.H.Leche, Carden Park, Chester'.
Technique(s):
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
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- England
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- England, Sherborne?
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- England, Bury St. Edmunds?
- England, Tewkesbury?
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- England, Peterborough?
- England, Mercia?
- England, Canterbury, Christ Church?
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- England, Winchester?
- England, Oxford?
- Flanders (possibly executed in England)
- England and Netherlands
- England, Canterbury?
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- England, Salisbury?
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- German (but made in England)
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- England. Peterborough (?) or Lincoln (?)
- Hereford?, England
- England, Durham ?
- England, Durham?
- England, probably Durham
- England, Oxford (?)
- England, possibly Oxford
- England (?Oxford)
- England, Durham (?)
- England, London/Westminster
- Unknown, possibly London and Cambridge
- Royal Chancery, London; Cambridge
- England?
- England (II)
- I. England
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