GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-001657
TitleBurghley Papers
ShelfmarkLansdowne MS 23
Creation Dateca. 1570 - 1580
RepositoryBritish Library
Contents NoteA folio composite volume of state letters and papers.
Material FeaturesIn various hands bound in 19th-century half-morocco. 204 ff. plus blanks.
ProvenanceThe ‘Burghley Papers’, Lansdowne MSS 1-122, are the papers of and relating to William Cecil, Lord Burghley.
AcquisitionThis collection belonged to William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne (1737-1805) and was purchased for the British Museum with a parliamentary grant in 1807.
Source of DataCatherine Evans
Other Note
Sermons ContainedSermon on Romans 12:2 -- No. 45, ff. 91 - 92. Sermon on John 14:23 -- No. 46, ff. 93 - 97
Sermon Reports Contained
GEMMS record createdJuly 14, 2022
GEMMS record last editedJuly 14, 2022