| Bibliography: | A single scribal hand. Some permeation of ink, though not affecting legibility. Bookplates of Richard Towneley of Towneley Hall, Lancashire, and William Horatio Crawford of Lakelands Cork, also a leather label with the initials 'AHA'. Sold by 'Houghton'; see Christie's note in archival envelope. Binding and condition: occasional light stains and some minor tears, bound in limp vellum. Preserved in a red morocco slipcase. Bound with: 'A Breviate of the Gettinge of Irelande and of the Decaye of the Same'. One of nineteen copies (none autographed) known to survive. No single manuscript is accepted as the definitive one. D4 AR398 |
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