The fovndation of the Vniversitie of Cambridge. : With a catalogue of the principall founders, and special benefactors of the Colledges, Pulike Schooles and Librarie, nowe in the same. And the names of the present Masters and Fellowes of euerie particular Colledge. Together with the number of Magistrates, Gouernours, and Officers thereunto belonging, and the total number of students therein being. Collected Anno: 1617.
Scott, John, active 1618
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1618
Materials
Place of origin
Cambridge
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3039657
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 1, [1], 2-56, [7] p., bound : ill., col. coats of arms ; 28 cm. Pencil tick on front free endpaper verso. Pencil note below bookplate of Charles Chauncy in hand of Lord Fairhaven [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]: "see page 33"; on p. 33 a pencil cross marks "Charles Chauncey" in list of benefactors to Trinity College. Ink notes on page preceding title page: "A to -"; "pd. 1"3.-" and "2.12.6". Original page numbers trimmed in binding. Ephemera: loosely inserted: (1) twentieth-century exhibition caption; (2) typescript catalogue card; (3) manuscript note on scrap paper, noting locations of other copies of the manuscript in Cambridge Colleges; (4) typescript description of this copy, presumably copied from a bookdealer's catalogue. Provenance: Eighteenth-century Jacobean armorial bookplate (Franks 5654): 'Charles Chauncy M.D.' [i.e. Charles Chauncy (1706 -1777). His library passed to his brother Nathaniel, and both libraries were sold by Leigh & Sotheby on 15 April 1790]. Nineteenth?-century anonymous crest bookplate of the Earls of Derby (Franks 27891 or 27892). Twentieth-century pictorial crest bookplate: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Historic shelfmarks: "93. A." on the Earls of Derby bookplate [pencil]; "Knowsley Library N. S.1 No. 3", with "Front" added above, on front free endpaper verso [ink, in a nineteenth-century hand, all except "Front" crossed through in pencil; Knowsley Hall is the family seat of the Earls of Derby]. Binding: Seventeenth-century full calf (rebacked, nineteenth?-century); blind and gilt fillets to form a panel design; gilt-stamped centrepiece on upper and lower boards: coat of arms of the University of Cambridge; sewn onto recessed cords; green morocco spine label, gilt lettered: 'Foundation of the University of Cambridge'; gilt rolled board edges; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Scott, John, active 1618, author