Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 202

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Shelfmark
  • English MS 202
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Date
  • 16th century
Language
  • English
Title
  • Robert Hassall - Commonplace Book
Agent
Description
  • 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
Place
  • Preferred form
    • England (United Kingdom)
    Original form
    • England
    Other form
    • Angleterre
    • Angleterre (?)
    • Angleterre.
    • Angleterre ?
    • Anglaterra
    • Inglaterra
    • Engeland
    • Angleterre (Salisbury ?)
    • Anglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • Inglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • England (Salisbury?)
    • [Oxford?]
    • [England]
    • England, Norwich?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's Abbey?
    • England, Cornwall?
    • England, St. Albans?
    • England, North?
    • England, York?
    • England, Witham?
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • England, Reading or Leominster
    • England, Cirencester?
    • England, Sherborne?
    • England, Worcester?
    • England, Bury St. Edmunds?
    • England, Tewkesbury?
    • England, East Anglia?
    • England, Peterborough?
    • England, Mercia?
    • England, Canterbury, Christ Church?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's?
    • England, Winchester?
    • England, Oxford?
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • England and Netherlands
    • England, Canterbury?
    • England, West Midlands?
    • England, London?
    • England, Crowland?
    • England, Wessex?
    • England, Reading?
    • England, Northeast?
    • England, Southeast?
    • England, Ely?
    • England, Winchester or Hereford?
    • England, Salisbury?
    • England, Oxford or Salisbury
    • German (but made in England)
    • England, South East (?)
    • 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
    • Engeland (?)
    • England (II)
    • I. England
    • [Engeland]
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