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Title: [Accounts and memoranda].
Creator: Fauconberg, Thomas Belasyse, Earl, 1627-1700.
Date Created and/or Issued: [1667-1699]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript. Written in several different contemporary hands.
Scope/Content: Account and memoranda book of Thomas Belasyse, Earl of Fauconberg, for the period 1667-1699. This volume contains inventories, accounts and medical remedies written in several different hands, possibly those of Belasyse and his stewards Arthur Palmer and William Turner. Accounts and inventories document Belasyse's movements across Europe, to his diplomatic post in Venice, his activities as a landowner and the scale of his possessions and financial dealings. Inventories include listings of paintings by masters like Titian, Tintoretto and Giorgione being shipped to England, linens being shipped to Venice and the contents of his stables. Accounts list the names and amounts due from tenants as well as purchases and contracts with others.
Condition: Bound in original full vellum with metal clasps and blind tooling.
Type: text
Form/Genre: inventories
Account books
Notebooks
Extent: [210] p., bound ;23 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1m89g
MS.1960.012
Language: English
eng
Subject: Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800.
Place: England
Provenance: At bottom of rear paste-down endpaper in pencil: Newburgh Priory Library, Oct 1924.
Location: CLUW

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