The text is an examination of the confessions of the conspirators in the plot against Queen Elizabeth and the role of Mary Queen of Scots in the conspiracy.
Description:
Bound in a parchment bifolium from an early thirteenth century English Latin manuscript of the Digest of Justinian, Cursive script., Imperfect: mutilated with some loss of text., On the front of the vellum wrapper is the name ""John Rigbye barrister, Cliffordes Ynne."", Pages not numbered consecutively., Several blank pages throughout., and The margins contain the glossa ordinaria of Accursius, as well as some later commentary in an Anglicana script.
Subject (Name):
Accursius, glossator, ca. 1182-ca. 1260, Babington, Anthony, 1561-1586, Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603, and Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587
Added title page, engraved, has imprint: London : W. Pickering ; New-York : C.H. Peabody, 1831., Herman Melville's copy with his manuscript notes. Won by Melville at the Albany Academy in August 1831 as the 1st premium in the 2d class in the 4th dept. Melville's name stamped on the cover in gold and label from Albany Academy awarding him the book on inside front cover. Verses in Melville's hand on front and back fly-leaves. Markings in another hand also., and Imperfect: added title page and frontispiece wanting; p. 179-180 wanting.
Publisher:
C.H. Peabody,
Subject (Name):
Melville, Herman,--1819-1891--Ms. notes and Melville, Herman,--1819-1891--Ownership
Mexican citizen and Texas gazette (San Felipe, Tex.)
Description:
Continued by: Texas gazette and Brazoria commercial advertiser. and Sometimes published as: Mexican citizen with its own volume and number, [Mar. 17-May 26, 1831].
Autograph: Thomas Sutker booke., Bound with: Taylor, John. An arrant thiefe. London, 1622., Signatures: A-B⁸ (A1, blank?, wanting; b8 blank)., and The principall occasions why this merry poeme was written: 4 p. at end (in prose).
Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689 Chapman, S. (Samuel), fl. 1721-1728 Chetwood, W. R. (William Rufus), d. 1766 Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Young, Edward, 1683-1765
Published / Created:
1721
Call Number:
Osborn pc315
Image Count:
42
Description:
Actor's rehearsal copy, with actors' names written in manuscript on Dramatis Personae and msanuscript staging notes and sections marked "omit". and Imperfect: half-title page wanting.
Publisher:
Printed for W. Chetwood at Cato's-Head in Russel-Street Covent-Garden and S. Chapman at the Angel and Crown in Pall-Mall