University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Roll 1594

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2109

Shelfmark:

Ms. Roll 1594

Title:

An inventary of all and singular the goodes [and] chattells and debtes of John Ffox, late of Chacumbe in the countie of Northampton, gentleman deceased; taken the seventeene daie of Januarie, anno d[omi]ni a thousand five hundred ninetie twoo /

Inventory

Author:

Ward, Richard, 16th century

Richard Ward WIKIDATA

Place:

Drayton or Chacombe

Drayton TGN

Chacombe TGN

Date:

1593

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

English, with a few words in Latin

English WIKIDATA

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 roll (3 membranes) : parchment ; 250 x 13.5 cm

Note:

Ms. roll.
Title from caption title.
Script: Written in a secretary hand.
Decoration: Larger calligraphic letters at the beginning of the roll and introducing the rooms listed on the first membrane.
Origin: Probably written at the manor house at Drayton (Gedge) in Oxfordshire, or in Chacombe, Northamptonshire, 17 January 1593 (year given in document as 1592, since the new year then began March 1).
Sold by Samuel Gedge Ltd. (Mundesley, England), cat. 10 (2011), no. 38.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

estate inventories

scrolls (information artifacts)

Manuscripts, English

Inheritance and succession

England

Early works

Sixteenth century

Fox, John, 16th century

House furnishings

History

England--Northamptonshire

England--Drayton (Oxfordshire)

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9950083903503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3m344/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania