Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

A letter of advise, sent by an antient counceller of State unto Kinge Charles against the seditious libelling of Tom Tell Truth, and other pamphletters of that nature

Authors

• Baltimore, George Calvert, Baron, 1580?-1632

Call number

Ms. Codex 229
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580609
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580609

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

English

Origin

Date

ca. 1640

Place

England

Summary

A letter of advise, in seven chapters, with a list of contents (f. 2r). When published in 1643 (Wing B611), this work was attributed to George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore. This volume also includes another tract, Whether England hath received any benefit by preserving the quarrel of the Hollanders ... (f. 49r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r); title of second work from caption title (f. 49r).
   

Extent

52 leaves : 306 x 190 (222 x 110) mm. bound to 315 x 205 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii (18th-century paper) + 52 + ii + (18th-century paper); [1-52]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century calf, rebacked.

Script

Written in two different cursive hands.

Provenance

• Bookplates pasted inside upper cover: Auxilium meum a domino, Th. Mostyn 1744; A domino auxilium meum [unidentified, 19th century].
   
• Acquired, 1952.
   

Subjects topical

• Pamphleteers--England--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover