The Babington Plot

Published/Created:

England
1586

Physical Description:

i + 22 + i ff. [46 p. + wrapper]
color
31 cm. (manuscript), 35 cm. (wrapper)

Related Links:

https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.osborn.fa10.htm

Notes:

Cursive script.
Bound in a parchment bifolium from an early thirteenth century English Latin manuscript of the Digest of Justinian
The margins contain the glossa ordinaria of Accursius, as well as some later commentary in an Anglicana script.
On the front of the vellum wrapper is the name ""John Rigbye barrister, Cliffordes Ynne.""
Imperfect: mutilated with some loss of text.
Several blank pages throughout.
Pages not numbered consecutively.

Abstract:

The text is an examination of the confessions of the conspirators in the plot against Queen Elizabeth and the role of Mary Queen of Scots in the conspiracy.

Topics:

Babington Plot, 1586
Digesta. English & Latin

Topics:

Accursius, glossator, ca. 1182-ca. 1260
Babington, Anthony, 1561-1586
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587

Language:

English
Latin

Genre:

Annotations
Autographs
Bifolia
Government records
Legal documents
Manuscripts
Marginalia
Testimonies

Format:

Text

Content Type:

Archives or Manuscripts

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Digital:

The Osborn Collection

Call Number:

Osborn fa10

Orbis Record:

9398677

Orbis Barcode:

39002093929041

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection

oid pointer:

1151697

Extent of digitization:

Complete work digitized.

OID:

2040015

PID:

digcoll:3500833