Owner: Bridgewater, John Egerton

Description: Shelfmark label on upper pastedown

Transcription: 50/B=7

Source: Buchanan, George, 1506-1582, Georgij Buchanani ... poëmata quæ supersunt omnia, emendatiora , Salmurij 1621

Institution: Oxford, Bodleian Library Shelfmark: Broxb. 12.9 Location: Front pastedown

Type: Old shelfmark

Notes: English binding, early 17th century. Vellum over thin pasteboard; gold-tooled fillets and large lion rampant holding in its forepaws an arrow, point on ground, with an earl’s coronet (John Egerton, Earl of Bridgewater); gold-tooled fillets on spine; traces of blue silk ties (missing); red sprinkled textblock edges.

Last Edited: 2018/06/05 00:00:00