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===[[name::Alexander]] [[name::EVESHAM]] d.[[date of death::1592]]===

====Biographical Note====
Brother of the sculptor [[family::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====
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*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), [https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-3098312 lot 62].
*Information from Richard J. Moll.
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