Eton College

Copy, in a single professional hand, with a title-page decorated in colours, The Life, araignment, and death, of the famous learned, Sir Thomas More Knight, Somtimes Lord Chauncellor of England, i + 74 quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt with traces of ties.

With (f. 2r]) a dedication To the worshipfull louer, and cherisher of learning M^r Simon Gearing, subscribed William Hill.

Late 16th-early 17th century.

Inscribed (f. i^r) Hunc Liber perlegi Ottuell Meverell and (f. 1v) Dedit Collegio Etonensi Franciscus Goode A.M. 1731.

This MS mentioned in Hitchcock, p. 2.

A possibly autograph MS, in an angular italic hand, of a series of nine Latin poems by J. P. Lotichius (1598-1669), German physician, i i + 17 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt with traces of green silk ties.

Lotichius's presentation copy to Wotton, all the poems concerning Wotton (with whom he stayed in Venice in 1618), and with a dedication to Illustriss^mum et Excellentiss^mum. virum DN. ON. Henricum Wottonium Anglo-Cantianum.

c.1620s.

With a tipped-in letter by Logan Pearsall Smith, from Oxford, 10 March 1914.

One of the poems published in Lotichius's Poemata (Frankfurt, 1620).

A small quarto volume of state tracts, in a single secretary hand, i + 17 leaves (plus fourteen blanks), with much seepage of ink, in contemporary limp vellum gilt.

c.1634-41.

Bookplate of William Bateman. Item 231 in an unidentified sale catalogue and lot 1770 in a sale of 1893. Inscribed by E.L. Vaughan, assistant master, 1899.

Copy, the text in a single professional cursive secretary hand, with (f. iv^r) a title-page in the hand of another cursive secretary hand, iv + 340 folio leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

Entitled A large and excellent discourse of the Estate of Christendome Written by an unknowne Author about the yeare of o^r Lord 1594. and 35^th of the Raigne of Queen Elizab. Contayning many secrett Passages and hidden Histories of the time both past and present, With much Varietie of other good matter both historicall and Politicall.

c.1620s-30s.

Bookplates of Sheppard Frere, of John Frere, and of J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), of Richmond Surrey, engineer and book collector. Loosely inserted autograph note signed by Logan Pearsall Smith (who thought the MS was Wotton's original manuscript), presenting it to Eton College, 24 March 1941.

Copy, in a closely written secretary hand, subscribed Si^r Henry Wotton, seven quarto leaves (plus blanks), in modern half green morocco.

c.1634-41.

MS 22 in the library of the Shirley family, Ettington Park, Stratford-upon-Avon. Sotheby's, 29 April 1947, lot 346. Presented in September 1847 by John Hely-Hutchinson, of Chippenham Lodge, Ely.

Autograph inscription Sum Nicolai Vdalli. 1550.

1550.

Also inscribed Boughton June ii^th 1663 [? Boughton House, Northamptonshire, seat of the Montagu family]. Afterwards owned by Joseph Bromehead (1797); by John Blancket; and by John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), Baron Keynes, economist, who donated it to Eton College in 1903.

Juhász-Ormsby, No. 12.

Autograph inscription Sum Nicolai Vdalli. 1538 and annotations in Greek, bound with an uninscribed octavo edition of Euripides (1524).

1538.

Donated in 1751 by John Reynolds (d.1758), Fellow of Eton College.

Juhász-Ormsby, No. 9.