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Posted:
07 Feb 2018
| (old shelfmark **A.81) | |
|---|---|
| Language: | English, with occasional Latin |
| Origin: | England |
| Date: | 18th / 19th c. |
| Material: | Paper. Watermarks: GR; Britannia within crowned oval frame (same watermarks founding MS 82) |
| Physical Description: | 28 folios (foliated (by cataloguer) i – ii, 1 – 24, iii – iv), 198 x 158 (ca. 180 x 140) mm, unruled |
| Rubric: | 25 Septembris 1586 |
| Incipit: | Upon Sunday the twenty fifth of September was the Scottish Queen brought from Churley in Staffordshire to the castle of Fotheringhay in the county of Northampton |
| 2o folio: | coarse of it |
| Explicit: | The concourse of people was so many thousands, and after dinner the nobles departed away, everyone towards his own home. |
| Contents: | Fols. 1r – 23r, Account of the trial, execution and burial of Mary, Queen of Scots |
| Script: | Documentary cursive |
| Decoration: | None |
| Provenance: | Old shelf-mark ‘D. 6. 43’, almost erased, inside upper cover; George Edward Larman (1895 – 1961); his bequest, 1961 |
| Binding: | 19th c., quarter blue leather and marbled paper over paste boards |
| Notes: | The text appears to be copied from the contemporary account by Robert Wynkfield. |
| Bibliography: | |
| © Trinity Hall, Cambridge |
