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A copy, in would-be facsimile, of Domesday, so far as it relates to Norfolk, Written in about 1610-1620 by J Bradshaw (?)

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MS. Gough Norfolk 1
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A copy, in would-be facsimile, of Domesday, so far as it relates to Norfolk: at p. 317 are various papers relating to this volume and to Domesday. Peter Le Neve believed this to be the copy made in the time of James i by John Bradshaw, deputy chamberlain of the Exchequer, for Thomas Howard, earl of Arundel.

Dates

  • Creation: Written in about 1610-1620 by J Bradshaw (?)

Extent

350 pages

Language of Materials

  • Latin

Shelfmark

MS. Gough Norfolk 1

Other Finding Aids

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. II, no. 18055

Custodial History

Owned successively by the earl of Arundel (?), sir Symonds D'Ewes (?), Peter Le Neve in 1699, Thomas Martin of Palgrave, and John Ives of Great Yarmouth in 1772 ('Bibliothecæ Ivesianæ' on the binding), at whose sale, 4 March 1777, Gough bought it. It is probably no. 3533 - in Bernard's Catalogus MSSum (1697), tom. ii, pars 1, among Le Neve's MSS.

Physical Facet

On parchment, binding, rough leather about 1773

Dimensions

12 7/8 × 9 3/4 in.

Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

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