Identity area
Reference code
Crewe MS/49
Title
Transcript of the will of King Henry VII, with an engraving
Date(s)
- c. 1750 and 1622 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 volume (31 x 20 cm), containing 50 leaves. The print is pasted to the verso of the front free endpaper. Bound, in the words of the sale catalogue, in ‘rich old blue morocco’, with ‘paned and tooled sides’.
Context area
Name of creator
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
A cutting from a sale catalogue containing a description of this MS is pasted inside the front cover, as is the armorial bookplate of Robert, Earl of Crewe. The catalogue entry dates the MS to about 1750, adding that it is ‘Evidently an Official Copy,… read more
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Transcript of the will of King Henry VII, with an engraved portrait of him by John Payne from Francis Bacon’s Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh (1622). On the front of the book is stamped ‘Hen. VIIth’s Will’.
System of arrangement
Paginated i–iv, 1–96.
Conditions of access and use area
Language of material
- English
Access points
Name access points
- Henry VII (1457–1509), King of England (Subject)