The first of two volumes of Gibson's collections for his edition of William Camden's Britannia (London, 1695)
MS. Eng. b. 2042
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
The first of two volumes of Gibson's collections for his edition of William Camden's Britannia (London, 1695)
Shelfmark
MS. Eng. b. 2042
Summary
Covers Bedfordshire-Kent, consisting of notes by Gibson and correspondence and notes, addressed mainly to Gibson or to the printers Awnsham Churchill and Abel Swall, from many other contributors (a list of whom is to be found in Gibson's preface to the printed edition) interleaved with the relevant portions of Philemon Holland's 1637 edition of Camden.
Includes (fols. 106 and 108a) the earliest known English brass rubbing, taken from Macclesfield parish church, of Roger Legh and his wife (Mill Stephenson, A List of Monumental Brasses in the British Isles (London, 1926), Cheshire, Macclesfield I, p. 69).
Date
1695
Language
English
Physical extent
490 Leaves
Custodial history
Bookplate of St. Paul's Cathedral Library and James Cecil Dalton.
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Collection contents
Archive of Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London, and his descendants
Collections for Camden's Britannia
The first of two volumes of Gibson's collections for his edition of William Camden's Britannia (London, 1695)
