- Creator:
- Harris, Renatus, 1640?-1715?
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1685]
- Call Number:
- Osborn fc149
- Image Count:
- 19
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Bookplate: Ex libris Michael Gillingham; Arthur F. Hill, FSA., Document containing Harris's request for a decision in the competition between the organs built by himself and by Bernard Smith for the Temple Church. Harris defends his price, notes sabotage of the pipes and bellows, and proposes rules to govern the test of the organs., and Letter petitioning Jeffreys either to pay Smith for his organ or to allow him to remove it from the Temple Church.
- Description:
- Blanks not digitized., Bound with: Bernard Smith, ALS to "Lord Jeffreys, Baron of Wemm, Lord High Chancellor of England"., Pasted down on front free endpaper: two newspaper clippings concerning Renatus Harris, one labeled "The Times. Sept. 30th, 1932.", Spine title: "Renatus Harris and His Organ in the Temple Church.", and Tipped in: "An 18th Century Organ Builder's Proposal." Printed. Annotated: "From the October number of "The Organ," 1927."
- Subject (Name):
- Gillingham, Michael--Bookplate, Harris, Renatus, 1640?-1715?, Hill, Arthur F.--(Arthur Frederick),--1860-1939--Bookplate, Jeffreys, George Jeffreys,--Baron,--1644 or 5-1689, and Temple Church (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Organ (Musical instrument)--England and Organ builders--England
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Price and proposalls of Renatus Harris for his organ in the Temple Church, humbly offered to the Right Hon.ble the Lord High Chancellor of England and the two Hon.ble Societies of the Temple
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