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
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- 1606
- Language
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- Latin
- Title
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- Argumenta in librum Psalmorum Estheræ Inglis manu exarata Londini 1606 : manuscript, 1606
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- Esther Inglis (1570?-1624)
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- Calligrapher
- Original form
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- Inglis, Esther (1571-1624)
- Other form
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- Esther Inglis
- Inglis, Esther
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- Thomas Egerton (1540?-1617)
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- Dedicatee
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- Ellesmere, Thomas Egerton Baron (1540?-1617)
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- Preferred form
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- William Augustus White (1843-1927)
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- Former owner
- Original form
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- White, William Augustus (1843-1927)
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- Description
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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)
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- England
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- 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
- England?
- England (II)
- I. England
- [Engeland]
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- Rights
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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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