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Syon Abbey : the library of the Bridgettine nuns and their peregrinations after the Reformation: PB 930722

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Titles

Syon Abbey : the library of the Bridgettine nuns and their peregrinations after the Reformation

Maker(s)

Author: De Hamel, Christopher
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: Smith Settle Limited

Categories

Description

An essay by Christopher De Hamel ; with the manuscript at Arundel Castle

The manuscript at Arundel Castle is a petition from the exiled nuns of Syon to the Infanta Maria of Spain, c.1623, here printed in the original Spanish with an English translation

158 p : col. ill ; 29 cm

Place(s) associated

  • Otley

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Unknown (1993)

Dating

Production date: AD 1991

Note

"Privately printed at Smith Settle, Otley, for the members of the Roxburghe Club. Of two hundred copies made, fifty are for presentation." Museum has number 100. Quarter bound in blue leather with blue cloth sides; top edge of pages gilt.

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 930722
Primary reference Number: 118492
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 September 2012 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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