Manuscripts
Discours de la Foy, copied by Esther Inglis : [manuscript]
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- Description
- ff. 1-51: [Discours de la foy]. Rubric: Discours de la Foy. Escrit a Lislebourg par Esther Langlois, Françoise M D XCI. Incipit: A treshaute et puissante Princesse Elizabeth Roine d'Angleterre et cetera, Madame, combien que ie soye peu exercée ... De votre Majestie La treshumble, tresobeissante et tresaffectionnée servante a Jamais, Esther Langlois, Fille Françoise. Explicit: de pouvoir a Jamais vous faire treshumble service. Huius ipsius Libelli Prosopopoeia, Filia me scripsit mandante vtroque Parente/ Exilii calamo taedia discutiens.
- Date
- [1591]
- Call number
- mssHM 26068
- Provenance
- Belonged to Sir Richard Ellys, whose library was described in the transactions of the Gentlemen's Society at Spalding, 24 June 1742 (unpublished). Given by his niece, Mrs. Lloyd of Wympole Street, to Sir Richard's chaplain, Andrew Gifford, who noted the circumstances on f. ii verso; his armorial bookplate on the front pastedown with a pressmark added in ink, "B.d.1." Bequeathed by Gifford with the remainder of his library to the Bristol Baptist College in 1784; their later bookplate and 2 pressmarks, "Z.e.39" and "Z.h.10," on the front pastedown. See Ker, MMBL 2:186-201 for the manuscripts retained by the Baptist College; this one sold, Sotheby's, 11 December 1961, lot 176, to the Huntington Library.
- Restrictions
- RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
- Dimensions
- 151 x 100 mm
- Associated people
- Inglis, Esther, (1571-1624,)
- Ellys, Richard, (approximately 1674-1742,)
- Gifford, Andrew, (1700-1784,)
- Elizabeth (1533-1603.)
- Associated organizations
- Bristol Baptist College,
- Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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