Details

Other Title:

Whether England hath received any benefit by preserving the quarrel of the Hollanders.

Subjects:

Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, 1608-1657.
Pamphleteers -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Pamphleteers.
Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649.
Great Britain.
History.
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1625-1649.
International relations.
England.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Tracts (documents)
Manuscripts, English.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

English.

Summary:

A letter of advise, in seven chapters, with a list of contents (f. 2r). When published in 1643 (Wing B611), this work was attributed to George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore. This volume also includes another tract, Whether England hath received any benefit by preserving the quarrel of the Hollanders ... (f. 49r).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r); title of second work from caption title (f. 49r).
Foliation: Paper, ii (18th-century paper) + 52 + ii + (18th-century paper); [1-52]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Written in two different cursive hands.
Binding: 18th-century calf, rebacked.
Origin: Written in England, ca. 1640 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Bookplates pasted inside upper cover: Auxilium meum a domino, Th. Mostyn 1744; A domino auxilium meum [unidentified, 19th century].
Acquired, 1952.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 : Supplement A (1). Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 20-21 (Ms. English 33).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 229

OCLC:

155962896