Aurum reginæ; . or A compendious tractate, and chronological collection of records in the Tower, and Court of Exchequer concerning queen-gold: evidencing the quiddity, quantity, quality, antiquity, legality of this golden prerogative, duty and revenue of the queen-consorts of England. The several oblations, fines out of which it springs both in England and Ireland; the Queens officers in the Exchequer to receive, collect, account to her for it, with their patents; [...] With an addition of some records concerning our royal mines of gold and silver, and four patents of K. Henry the 6. by authority of Parliament, for finding the philosophers stone, [...] By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolns-Inne, keeper of his Majesties records in the Tower of London.
William Prynne (1600-1669)
Category
Books
Date
1668
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3049667
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],138,[2]p. . 4to. Running number: 1372. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript initial on front endleaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Ellys] with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "δ¹" [i.e. delta¹ = Greek number 4¹]. Nineteenth-century(?) inscription on front endleaf: "j5". Binding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf over boards (worn) with single blind fillet border and additional double blind lines parallel to spine; blind roll pattern on board edges; recessed supports; smooth spine (worn; rebacked at foot); no pastedown; three thongs laced in; endleaf at both ends; blue marbled edges. Repaired at Cambridge 1955.
Makers and roles
William Prynne (1600-1669), author