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Manuscript material from the 5th Earl of Rosebery's library at the Durdans, Epsom.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10217-10241
Dates:
1657-1919.
Miscellaneous volume containing notes and studies on the Bible, together with a variety of astrological, historical and cosmographical writings.
File
Identifier: MS.8187
Scope and Contents
Also included are a quantity of amorous and other verse, some anecdotes, and an article on the 1st Marquess of Montrose. It may have been compiled by one Samuel Brett, otherwise unknown, whose name appears on folio 318 verso, but more probably by several people, there being several contemporary hands (in different inks) exhibited by the leaves, which vary in size, and which contain a number of unrelated watermarks.The volume was compiled in the latter half of the seventeenth...
Dates:
2nd half of 17th century.