Miscellaneous classical extracts, [late 17th century]

Compiler
Kent, Anthony Grey, Earl of, 1645-1702 [Browse]
Format
Manuscript, Book
Description
0.6 linear ft. (1 archival box, 1 half-size archival box)

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Special Collections - Manuscripts RTC01 (no. 218) South 72, Browse related items Reading Room Request
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      Subject(s)
      Getty AAT genre
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      Compiled/​Created
      [late 17th century]
      Arrangement
      The extracts are organized by fascicle number (= subject), and their contents are accessed via the index in the first folder.
      Linking notes
      Forms part of the Robert Taylor Collection (RTC01).
      Summary note
      Consists of a collection of extracts drawn from classical writers on miscellaneous subjects, probably compiled by Anthony Grey, 11th Earl of Kent. Manuscript in ink, folio (leaves approx. 305 x 195mm; boards 330 x 230mm); ff. [448] plus two leaves of index (measuring 370 x 240mm, folded in half); written in a single hand over some period of time, and gathered into 69 fascicles of varying number of leaves (some of just 2 leaves, others of as many as 14, but most of 6 or 8), most of them sewn but all entirely uncut and never bound into a volume.
      In
      Robert H. Taylor collection of English and American literature, 1280s-1950
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