Of houshold stuff : the 1601 inventories of Bess of Hardwick
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Of houshold stuff : the 1601 inventories of Bess of Hardwick
Classmark: Bedford Collection C353
Related people: Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Hardwick Talbot, Countess of, 1527?-1608; Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Hardwick Talbot, Countess of, 1527?-1608; Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Hardwick Talbot, Countess of, 1527?-1608
Publisher: National Trust
Publication city: London
Date(s): 2001
Language: English
Size and medium: 71 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/737711
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019990693405181
Description
Includes bibliographical references (page 71).
Acknowledgments -- The 1601 inventories of Chatsworth and the two halls at Hardwick / Santina M. Levey -- A short commentary on the Hardwick inventory of 1601 / Peter K. Thornton -- The inventories: Chatsworth, Hardwick Old Hall, Hardwick New Hall -- Plans of the new hall -- Glossary -- Bibliography.
Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, more famously known as Bess of Hardwick, became one of the most influential women of the Elizabethan age. This book presents a record of the contents of the three houses she lived in.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection C353: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: V/1.
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