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Title

A breif information of ye affaires of ye Palatinate ... etc.

Authors

• Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626,
• Bacon, Nathaniel, 1593-1660

Other related names

• Hunton, Joseph, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1064
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4170141
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4170141

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

ca. 1634-1799

Place

England

Summary

A bound collection of three 17th-century English protestant polemical and religious works, with a fourth religious work added in the 18th century. The first work is Nathaniel Bacon's Fearefull estate of Francis Spira, first published in 1638; the second is Happiness reveal'd, a religious tract first published in 1752 and written on the blank pages between the first and third works and continuing on the margins of the third and fourth works; the third is an untitled treatise on Song of Solomon 5.6-7 in a 17th-century hand; and the fourth, which comprises nearly half the volume, is A briefe information of the affaires of the Palatinate, published in 1624 and attributed to Thomas Scott after appearing in his collected works published later that year.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for volume from title page for predominant component work (f. 59r).
   

Extent

110 leaves : 199 x 153 (135 x 112) mm. bound to 205 x 162 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 110 + i (contemporary paper); second work paginated (1-10, beginning at f. 35v, upper left corners) then foliated (11-36, upper left recto); [1-110], modern pencil foliation, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary 17th-century English calf, covers with gilt ornament (rebacked, preserving some of original spine).

Layout

First and third works written in 21 lines; fourth work written in 19-21 lines; margins ruled in red ink, now faded; catchwords at bottom right corner of each page for first, third, and fourth works.

Script

First and third works written in same 17th-century cursive hand; fourth work written in a second 17th-century cursive hand; second work in an 18th-century cursive hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Joseph Hunton, Maye the 3 1634 (note, f. 1r).
   
• Sold by Christopher Edwards (Berkshire, England), 2007.
   

Subjects topical

• Anti-Catholicism--England
• Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Polemics
• Tracts (documents)
• Manuscripts, English--17th century
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — A relation concerning Frauncis Spyra, f. 2r
• fol. 35v — Happiness reveal'd, f. 35v
• fol. 40r — Treatise on Song of Solomon 5.6-7, f. 40r
• fol. 59r — A breif information of ye affaires of ye Palatinate wch consists of foure principall heads, f. 59r