By Meg Hixon
Title: Steevens, George. Excerpts from The Sowdon of Babylon, after 1750
ID: 01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0044
Creator: Steevens, George (1736-1800)
Extent: 1.0 Volume
Date Acquired: 10/28/1949
Languages: English,Middle(1100-1500) [enm]
This volume (11 pages) contains excerpts from the 15th-century English romance The Sowdon of Babylon, copied by George Steevens (1736-1800), an English scholar and literary editor. The final excerpt, written on a separate piece of paper and pasted in, appears to be in a different hand.
Walter Wilson Greg purchased the excerpts, already bound into a single volume, from James Tregaskis in 1897. Greg added a brief preface with information on the manuscripts' provenance, noting former ownership by Richard Heber and Sir Thomas Phillipps.
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Acquisition Source: Stechert
Related Materials: MS 140, Robert Garrett Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts (Princeton University Library)
Finding Aid Revision History: Revised by Meg Hixon (November 2016) and Dana Miller (December 2023).
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