Helps for Students of History, No. 17
Helps for Students of History, No. 17

Helps for Students of History, No. 17

The Wanderings and Homes of ManuscriptsI take my stand before the moderate-sized bookcase which contains the collection...
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Helps for Students of History, No. 17

Helps for Students of History, No. 17

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Helps for Students of History, No. 17

Helps for Students of History, No. 17

$107.60 $53.77
Author: James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes),1862-1936
Format: eBook
Language: English
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The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts

I take my stand before the moderate-sized bookcase which contains the collection of MSS.[4] belonging to the College of Eton, and with due care draw from the shelves a few of the books which have reposed there since the room was built in 1729. The first shelf I lay hands upon contains some ten large folios. Four of them are a single great compilation, beginning with a survey of the history of the world and of the Roman Empire, and merging into the heraldry of the German noblesse. It was made, we find, in 1541, and is dedicated to Henry VIII. Large folding pictures on vellum and portraits of all the Roman Emperors adorn the first volume. It is a sumptuous book, supposed to be a present from the Emperor Ferdinand to the King. How did it come here? A printed label tells us that it was given to the college by Henry Temple, Viscount Palmerston, in 1750 (he had previously given it to Sir Richard Ellys on whose death Lady Ellys returned it: so much in parenthesis). Then, more by luck than anything else, I find mention of it in the diary of Thomas Hearne, the Oxford antiquary; his friend Thomas Jett, F.R.S., owned it and told him about it in 1722: he had been offered 100 a volume for it; it was his by purchase from one Mr. Stebbing. It was sold, perhaps to Palmerston, at Jett's auction in 1731. The gap between Henry VIII. and Stebbing remains for the present unfilled. So much for the first draw. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 28187
Author: James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)
Release Date: Feb 25, 2009
Format: eBook
Language: English

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