| Document Reference | Pw V 61 |
| Title | Bound volume containing 78 letters from John Povey to Sir Robert Southwell; 1687-1705 |
| Date | 1687-1705 |
| Extent | 156 ff |
| Level | Item/file |
| Access Conditions | Microfilm surrogate available - readers may be required to use the microfilm in the first instance. |
| Content Description | Individual entries are described under references Pw V 61/1-78. |
| Volume bears the title 'Autograph letters to Sir Robert Southwell' and '1687-1705' gold stamped on the spine. |
| 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 |
| Descriptive Features | For details of the watermark evidence of the items which appear in this volume see individual entries.
One of a set of eight folio volumes which share binding characteristics. Bound in tan leather; upper and lower covers plain but with four thin fillet lines close to the edges, the outer two gold stamped and the inner blind stamped. A delicate blind tooling is applied to the outer edges of the fold back leather around the pastedowns. Spine is divided into six equal panels from head to tail, gold stamped with double fillet lines dividing the panels. Title is gold stamped on second and third block of the spine. Marble paper is used for paste downs and end papers, and modern wove paper for flyleaves and for interleaving the manuscripts which are tipped in with paste. See Pw V 51-53, 60, 62, 67, 68 for other volumes in the set. See also for close similarities Pw V 63-66, Pw V 73. |
| Related Material | Identified in a set with Pw V 61, both in binding style, provenance (Phillipps MS) and general subject content. |
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Persons
| Code | PersonName | Dates of existence |
| NA73432 | Povey; John (-1705); Mr; clerk of the Privy Council and commissioner for the sick and wounded under William III | -1705 |
| NA1128 | Southwell; Robert (1635-1702); Sir; diplomat | 1635-1702 |