Janus: W.Y. Ottley: Collections on armour

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.2736	Henry Bradshaw: Notes on printed books and manuscripts in the library of Lincoln Cathedral
MS Add.2737	Henry Bradshaw: Notes on printed books and manuscripts at Burghley House, Stamford
MS Add.2738	Henry Bradshaw: Notes on printed books and manuscripts in the Bibliotheque Nationale, St Genevieve's and other Parisian libraries
MS Add.2740.1	Household accounts, apparently compiled for the court of Saxony
MS Add.2740.2	Pater Costerus; Satire upon Roman Catholicism
MS Add.2742	W.Y. Ottley: Collections on armour
MS Add.2744.1	Annotations on M. Amyraldus 'Specimen Andimadverionum in Exercitationes de Gratia universali'
MS Add.2744.10	Notes on the library of Kings Hall compiled from muniments in Trinity College
MS Add.2744.11	Elegiacs addressed to Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey
MS Add.2744.12	Fragments of a flyleaf containing 4 lines of verse in lowland Scottich dialect
MS Add.2744.13	Theological notes
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W.Y. Ottley: Collections on armour

Title	W.Y. Ottley: Collections on armour
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.2742
Creator	Ottley, William Young, 1771-1836
Covering Dates	1828–1835
Extent and Medium	1 volume; paper
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

William Young Ottley (1771-1836), writer on art and collector

Includes letters to Ottley, memoranda and extracts from various publications and manuscripts and drawings and tracings.

Sold at the Hirst Sale, Sotheby's, 21 Dec. 1887, lot 2513. Purchased by Library at Hepper & Son auction, Leeds, 12 June 1891, lot 78.

Rustat Benefaction.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, W.Y. Ottley: Collections on armour, MS Add.2742

Index Terms

Armour

Ottley, William Young (1771-1836) writer on art and collector

Manuscripts/MS Add.2742 contains:

S. R. Meyrick: 2 holograph letters to Ottley.

15 Nov 1828–13 Jun 1829

Memoranda on and extracts. Memoranda on and extracts from C. A. Stothard, Monumental Effigies; J. S. Colman, Brasses of Norfolk; S. R. Meyrick, On Armour; R. Gough, Sepulchral Monuments; N. H. Nicholas, Testamenta Vetusta and History of the Battle of Agincourt; T. Kerrich, 'MS Collections on Armour' (British Library Add. MSS 6728-31). Includes holograph letters of Maria Callcott (12 Apr. 1829) and F. Hotham (4 July [1829]) to Ottley and numerous drawings and tracings.

1829–1835