Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Eng 717

Source

Harvard University Library

Library

Houghton Library, Harvard University

Shelfmark

• MS Eng 717

Biblissima authority file

• https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q252870

Date

• 1626

Language

• English

Title

• Cavalry
• The cavallarie or knowledge belonging to a captaine of horse / G. M. : manuscript, [ca. 1626]

Agent

• Preferred form

  • Gervase Markham (1568?-1637)

  Role

  • Creator

  Original form

  • Markham, Gervase (1568?-1637)

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q253068

Description

• Physical Description:
  1 v. (38 leaves) ; 15 cm.

  Summary:
  Tactics and tables of prices for arms and armor. Tables appear to relate to the action initiated by the Privy Council, 1626 July 11.

  Notes:
  Written in at least two unidentified hands in a mixed script.
  Attributed to Markham because of the "G. M." on the title page and the similarity to his The souldiers grammar (1626).
  Bound in contemporary limp vellum.
  MS Eng 717. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

  Subjects:
  Cavalry drill and tactics -- Early works to 1800
  Military art and science -- Early works to 1800
  Military weapons -- England
  Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649 -- Early works to 1800

  Form / Genre:
  Vellum bindings (Binding)-England-17th century.

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]
  • see more

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  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q27376

Rights

• Houghton Library, Harvard University
  Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Library Preservation, 2008. Copy digitized: Houghton Library: MS Eng 717

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