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PwV - Literary Manuscripts in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection, 16th-19th centuries
Document Reference
Pw V 100
Title
Volume containing survey of Portsmouth docks by the Surveyor of his Majesty's Navy; 1698
Date
1698
Extent
49 ff
Level
Item/file
Language
English
ReprodnNote
Volumes from Pw V cannot be photographed by readers with their own camera or device, but reprographic copies can be supplied for educational and private study purposes only.
Physical Description
Folio volume
41 foliated folios including 4 large, folded drawings bound after the text do not include 4 front and 4 back unfoliated blank folios.
Condition
Leather at head and tail of spine has started splitting.
Descriptive Features
Watermark: Seven Provinces lion within crowned, double rimmed circle, approx. 90 x 75 mm.
Countermark: Letters HD, 14 x 34 mm
Watermark: Arms of Amsterdam, lions standing on ornate double bars, with monogram JB below the double bars, 108 x 108 mm, (pasted drawings, ff 38, 40 and 41)
Countermark: Letters PDB, 12 x 48 mm
Watermark: Strasbourg lily, i.e. fleur de lis within shield and insignia 4WR suspended from the shield, 135 x 68 mm (pasted drawings)
Countermark: Letters CDG, 12 x 34 mm
Professional fair copy in cursive script
Brown calf on pasteboards, gold stamped with a double panel in the centre of upper and lower covers; concentric panels are enmarked by double fillets lines; inner panel has a delicate floral roll of flowers, leaves and buds around its inner border; outer panel has an ornamental floral stamped on its 4 outer corners; there is a double fillet lines on outer borders of both covers; edges of binding are gold stamped with a fine scroll roll; spine is divided into 7 panels, which are enmarked by gold stamped double fillet lines; at head of spine a black leather label is gold stamped with letters 'a.s.', a similar black leather label at tail of spine is gold stamped with letter 'D' and numbers '1495'.
Watermark
Lion
Arms of Amsterdam
Strasbourg lily
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