Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Typ 212

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Harvard University Library
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Houghton Library, Harvard University
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  • MS Typ 212
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Date
  • 1606
Language
  • Latin
Title
  • Argumenta in librum Psalmorum Estheræ Inglis manu exarata Londini 1606 : manuscript, 1606
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Description
  • Physical Description:
    1 v. (100 leaves) ; 11 x 15 cm.

    Notes:
    Each Psalm is paraphrased in 4 lines. The writing is in a variety of small scripts by Esther Inglis, 1-4 Psalms per leaf (on the rectos only). Above the verses on each leaf has a drawing of a flower.
    The drawings and decorations everywhere in the ms. are in colors and gold paint.
    Bound in original brown calf, heavily stamped in gilt, with 2 ribbon ties.
    In a tray case, 13 cm.
    MS Typ 212. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

    Form / Genre:
    Penmanship specimen books-England-17th century.
    Calligraphy-England-17th century.

    Contents:
    Title page (f. 1r) -- crest of Sir Thomas Egerton, Lord Ellesmere (1v) -- dedications to Egerton in French (2r) and Latin (3r-8r, by Bartholomew Kello) -- Exhortatio ad argumenta Psalmorum legenda (9r) -- portrait of Esther Inglis (9v) -- verses in praise of Esther Inglis by Andrew Melville, Robert Rollock, and John Johnston (10r-12r) -- Pss. 1-150 in Latin verse (13r-99r) -- drawing with motto "vive la plume" (100r).

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    • 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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  • Houghton Library, Harvard University
    Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. Copy digitized: Houghton Library: MS Typ 212
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