'Designatio de Easton-Piers in Com: Wilts. Per me (heu!) infortunatum Johannem Awbrey R.S. Socium ... Anno Domini 1669': a series of coloured views of Easton Piercy (in Kington-St.-Michael parish near Chippenham)
MS. Aubrey 17
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
'Designatio de Easton-Piers in Com: Wilts. Per me (heu!) infortunatum Johannem Awbrey R.S. Socium ... Anno Domini 1669': a series of coloured views of Easton Piercy (in Kington-St.-Michael parish near Chippenham)
Shelfmark
MS. Aubrey 17
Summary
Including the house, grounds, neighbourhood, and prospects, with a few notes interspersed, bound together in 1682. Aubrey's armorial book-plate is at fol. 2v.
Date
Written and drawn in 1669 by John Aubrey
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On paper.
Physical extent
22 Leaves
Custodial history
Manuscript acquired by the Bodleian Library ('G. 7').
Acquisition
Bequeathed by Aubrey to the Ashmolean in (?) 1691.
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Collection contents
'Designatio de Easton-Piers in Com: Wilts. Per me (heu!) infortunatum Johannem Awbrey R.S. Socium ... Anno Domini 1669': a series of coloured views of Easton Piercy (in Kington-St.-Michael parish near Chippenham)
