Alexander Evesham d.1592
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Alexander EVESHAM d.1592
Biographical Note
Brother of the sculptor Epiphanius Evesham.
Books
Evesham was the copyist/owner of two manuscripts in the British Library: Harley MS 214 (Robert Cooke's English Baronage) and Harley MS 615 (Robert Cooke's Visitations of Hereford and other counties), and the owner/compiler of College of Arms MS A9 (a heraldic commonplace book). He owned a copy of Ranulph Higden's Polychronicon, (Southwark, Peter Treveris, 1527), the current location of which is unknown.
Characteristic Markings
His inscription are in the two Harley manuscripts, and the copy of Higden has a purchase inscription, dated 1590.
Sources
- A Catalogue of The Harleian Manuscripts, I.68 and I.390.
- Campbell, L. and Steer, F., A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the College of Arms, 183-4, 478-9.
- Christie's, The Library of Abel E. Berland (sale catalogue Oct. 2001), lot 62.
- Information from Richard J. Moll.