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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Life of Cardinal Wolsey :
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- Production date
- [between 1590 and 1610]
- Call number
- mssHM 182
- Provenance
- The first owner may have been Henry Farley, whose name is stamped on the covers, possibly to be identified with the Henry Farley listed in the British Library catalogue of printed books with 3 titles pertaining to St. Paul's, 1616-22; see W. Dugdale, The History of St. Paul's Cathedral in London (London 1658) p. 134 for a reference to Henry Farley engaged in raising funds to repair the church. Owned by Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk (1765-1842), and sold by him as a duplicate to Samuel Weller Singer (1783-1858) before 1825. Thorpe Cat. (1836) n. 201 to Sir Thomas Phillipps; his MS 9796. Phillipps sale, Sotheby's, 6 June 1898, lot 1145 to Baker. In A Catalogue of Shakespeareana (London 1899) 1:73-74 n. 147, a collection formed by the London bookseller J. Pearson; the collection sold in 1906 to Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935) of Providence, Rhode Island. Sold by Perry to A. S. W. Rosenbach in 1919. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
