Collections made by James Bowen
MS. Gough Shropshire 4
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Collections made by James Bowen
Shelfmark
MS. Gough Shropshire 4
Summary
Collections made by James Bowen, a painter and undertaker of Shrewsbury (d. 1774: his printed trade-card is in Gough Shropshire 2, p. 744; 18, p. 41) and his son John, for a history of Shropshire and especially Shrewsbury: 'Transcripts and extracts from originals, with ... other fragments of antiquity', collected from about 1740 to 1768 by James Bowen, to further his design of publishing the Antiquities of the county.
They are miscellaneous and in no order, and cannot be shortly described: a few documents are of the 17th century: at fol. 176 is a S.W. Prospect of Ludlow Castle, 1771, by John Bowen: at fol. 174 is a facsimile of an early charter relating to Llanlugan nunnery.
Date
Written chiefly in the third quarter of the 18th century, partly by J. Bowen
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On paper
Physical extent
176 Leaves
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Collection contents
Shropshire
Collections made by James Bowen
