A pamflyt compiled of cheese, contayninge the differences, nature, qualities, and goodness, of the same
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Title: A pamflyt compiled of cheese, contayninge the differences, nature, qualities, and goodness, of the same
Classmark: MS 2289
Creator(s): Fisher, Clement (1539-1619)(author?); Bayley, Walter (1529-1593)(Former owner); Willoughby, Edward (16th century-16th century)(Former owner); Stephens, Marly (17th century-17th century)(Former owner)
Publication city: Warwickshire?
Date(s): c.1580
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 v. ([59] leaves: [i], [56], [ii])
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/v2gl3lyd
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/750167
Description
Manuscript in Secretary hand on paper containing 'A pampflyt compiled of cheese'. Decoration: Undecorated; page frames ruled. Collation: [A-P4]. With one initial and two final flyleaves. Each quire is signed with a running number, 1-14, top left of the text frame. Contents: Of creame and butter; Of the temperamente of the waterye parte of milke called wheye; Of the curdes or cheesye partes of milke; Of the diversitie of milke in ye cheese in this contreye; Of the difference in makinge cheeses; Of the difference of cheeses by the age and tyme in which they are kepte; Of the goodnes of cheese; Of the election of cheese; Of the vertues of cheese used as a medicine. The paper bears a watermark of the arms of the University of Paris, signed S[imeon] Nivelle, similar to Briquet 1845, found by Briquet on papers in use between 1580 and 1595. Leaf size: 171 mm x 107 mm. Text frame: 129 mm x 91 mm.
Features
Sixteenth-century full limp parchment; laced case binding, with three leather strips visible at hinges; single gilt fillet to form an outer border, then an inner border, with leafy tools to the corners of the inner panel; gilt lion rampant tool to centre of both covers; sewn onto five cord supports; spine smooth and decorated with double gilt fillets; originally tied, possibly with silk ties, now wanting; the front cover has been stapled with seven staples to hold the parchment turn-ins down.
Provenance
MS inscription on opening leaf: ‘When you have perused this idle worke I praye you returne yt to me agen which in performance of my promes and as a token of my good will I send you by the berer your brother, Auguste the 15th, Your assured frend, Cle Fyssher [i.e.: probably Clement Fisher of Packington in Warwickshire (c. 1539-1619)]. MS to fol. 57v: ‘Walter Bailie’ [i.e.: probably Walter Bayley (1529-1593)]. Sixteenth-century MS at head of fol. 1r: [Ed]ward Willughbi [...] amen. Seventeenth-century MS at foot of leaf 28v: Marly Stevlens [i.e.: Marly Stevens?]. Temporarily deposited at Derbyshire Record Office in the 1980s. Acquired by Brotherton Library at Dominic Winter auction 'Photographs, Autographs & Documents, British Royal Memorabilia', May 17, 2023, lot 165.
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