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English historical collection : [manuscript]

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Description: ff. 1v-179v: [Historical compilation]: Rubric: De orbis indagacione facta per Iulium Cesarem. Incipit: Ex olim senatus consulto censuit Iulius Cesar. Explicit: in Scotia tunc existens dicti Regis Camisiam postmodum domino papa ut dicitur deferebat. [ff. 175v-179v blank].
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [between 1440 and 1460]
Call number: mssHM 19960
Provenance: On f. iiii, a note in a fifteenth century hand reads: "Cronice Regum Anglie de diversis historiografis per dominum Iohannem Wigornensem Comitem sparsim collecte. Sheldwych. De orbis indagatione, divisione et descriptione per Iulium Cesarem in provincias et regiones factus; inter quas his liber maxime de Regno Anglorum et Regibus eiusdem similiter A Bruto usque in Annum decimum sextum henrici sexti que magna famosa et rara sunt declarat." On f. iiii verso, "Sheldwych" signs a chronology list: "Anno ante christum Mo Co venit Brutus in Angliam . . . Henricus VI etatis XVIII eodem incepit regnare que nunquam vidit patrem suum nec pater suus eum. Sheldwych"; on f. 1, a note in another hand refers to Plutarch; an erased note on f. 179v, barely legible under ultra-violet light, ends with the name "Iohannes." Said to have belonged to the Scottish antiquary and historian, George Chalmers, whose books passed to his nephew and upon the latter's death were sold at auction by Evans, 27 September 1841, and 7 March and 10 November 1842; this manuscript not identified in these sales. Owned by the antiquary John Sidney Hawkins and sold by Fletcher, 8 May 1843; the sale and a description of the book's contents are mentioned in The Chronicles of the White Rose of York (London 1843) 192-93. Sold to Sir Thomas Phillipps, whose number 11301 is on f. ii in modern pencil below his name, the Middle Hill stamp, and the date 1843. Phillipps sale, Sotheby's, 11 November 1946, lot 134; acquired by the Huntington Library in 1960 from Bernard Rosenthal, Special Offer Catalogue 17 (n.d.) n. 214.

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