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mei/00204810 Douce 206. [00204810]

Oxford, Bodleian Library (GB) : Douce 206.

ISTC No.ih00267000
AuthorHigden, Ranulphus
TitlePolycronicon. Tr: John Trevisa. With the continuation 1357-1460 by William Caxton
Imprint[Westminster] : William Caxton, [between 2 July and 8 October 1482]
Format
Languageeng
SubjectHistory
Keywordsreligion; translation; collection
Periodmedieval

Description of Copy

Copy Id00204810
Holding InstitutionOxford, Bodleian Library (GB)
ShelfmarkDouce 206.
NoteBodInc-Id: H-121(2)
Other Identifiertih00267000 (TextInc)

Provenance 1600

Time period - 1600
Provenance nameClifford, Eleanor (d.1547), 2nd Countess of Cumberland, - 1547 née Brandon, daughter of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk; her husband is said to have possessed a good library; see DNB; J. W. Clay, `The Clifford Family', Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 18 (1905), 354-411, at 386; Hugh Clifford, The House of Clifford from before the Conquest (Chichester, 1987), 89; for bibliography on the house in general see Barbara English, The Great Landowners of East Yorkshire 1530-1910 (Howden, 2000), 238-9.
NoteProvenance: Eleanor Clifford, Countess of Cumberland (†1547).

provenance 1501 - 1600

timeperiod1501 - 1600
noteWinningeton, Margaret (sixteenth century); inscription on 411v: 'Ellenor clyfford' and 'Margaret Wynnyngetone'.

provenance 1701 - 1900

placenameLondon (Geonames ID: 2643743)
areae-uk-en
timeperiod1701 - 1900
ownerDouce, Francis (1757-1834), 1757 - 1834 (, ) Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, bequeathed his collection to the Bodleian Library; see Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by Francis Douce to the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1840); Macray 326; Craster 15-16; `Francis Douce 1757-1834', BQR 7 (1934), 359-84; Munby, Connoisseurs, esp. 35-56; David Rogers, `Francis Douce's Manuscripts: Some Hitherto Unrecognized Provenances', in Studies in the Book Trade in Honour of Graham Pollard (Oxford, 1975), 315-40; Douce Legacy; P. R. Harris, A History of the British Museum Library 1753-1973 (London, 1998), ad indicem; I. G. Philip, `The Bodleian Library', in Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part I, ed. M. G. Brock and M. C. Curthoys, The History of the University of Oxford, 6 (Oxford, 1997), 585-97, at 593.
noteFrancis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate.

Provenance 1602 -

PlaceOxford (Geonames ID: 2640729)
Areae-uk
Provenance nameOxford, Bodleian library, 1602 - [Corporate body] (University, No characterisation/lay)

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  00204810

Oxford, Bodleian Library (GB) : Douce 206.

ISTC No.ih00267000
AuthorHigden, Ranulphus
TitlePolycronicon. Tr: John Trevisa. With the continuation 1357-1460 by William Caxton
Imprint[Westminster] : William Caxton, [between 2 July and 8 October 1482]
Format
Languageeng
SubjectHistory
Keywordsreligion; translation; collection
Periodmedieval

Description of Copy

Copy Id00204810
Holding InstitutionOxford, Bodleian Library (GB)
ShelfmarkDouce 206.
NoteBodInc-Id: H-121(2)
Other Identifiertih00267000 (TextInc)

Provenance 1600

Time period - 1600
Provenance nameClifford, Eleanor (d.1547), 2nd Countess of Cumberland, - 1547 née Brandon, daughter of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk; her husband is said to have possessed a good library; see DNB; J. W. Clay, `The Clifford Family', Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 18 (1905), 354-411, at 386; Hugh Clifford, The House of Clifford from before the Conquest (Chichester, 1987), 89; for bibliography on the house in general see Barbara English, The Great Landowners of East Yorkshire 1530-1910 (Howden, 2000), 238-9.
NoteProvenance: Eleanor Clifford, Countess of Cumberland (†1547).

provenance 1501 - 1600

timeperiod1501 - 1600
noteWinningeton, Margaret (sixteenth century); inscription on 411v: 'Ellenor clyfford' and 'Margaret Wynnyngetone'.

provenance 1701 - 1900

placenameLondon (Geonames ID: 2643743)
areae-uk-en
timeperiod1701 - 1900
ownerDouce, Francis (1757-1834), 1757 - 1834 (, ) Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, bequeathed his collection to the Bodleian Library; see Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by Francis Douce to the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1840); Macray 326; Craster 15-16; `Francis Douce 1757-1834', BQR 7 (1934), 359-84; Munby, Connoisseurs, esp. 35-56; David Rogers, `Francis Douce's Manuscripts: Some Hitherto Unrecognized Provenances', in Studies in the Book Trade in Honour of Graham Pollard (Oxford, 1975), 315-40; Douce Legacy; P. R. Harris, A History of the British Museum Library 1753-1973 (London, 1998), ad indicem; I. G. Philip, `The Bodleian Library', in Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part I, ed. M. G. Brock and M. C. Curthoys, The History of the University of Oxford, 6 (Oxford, 1997), 585-97, at 593.
noteFrancis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate.

provenance

placenameOxford (Geonames ID: 2640729)
areae-uk

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