Christopher Hatton 1605-1670
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Christopher HATTON, 1st Baron Hatton 1605-70
Biographical Note
Politician, antiquary.
Books
112 manuscripts from his celebrated collections were bought by the Bodleian Library after his death. Numerous monastic cartularies owned by him are now among the Cotton manuscripts in the British Library.
Characteristic Markings
Books with his armorial stamp survive.
Sources
- British Armorial Bindings.
- Foot, M. The Henry Davis gift vol 2, 1983, no.97.
- Maggs (catalogues of the London booksellers Maggs Bros) 1075 (1987)/33, 39.
- Philip, I. The Bodleian Library in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Oxford, 1983, 56-8.
- Pinto, D. The music of the Hattons, Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 23 (1990), 79-108.
- Pinto, D. Placing Hatton’s great set, Chelys 32 (2004), 1-20.
- Stater, Victor. "Hatton, Christopher, first Baron Hatton (bap. 1605, d. 1670), politician." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Wainwright, J. P. Musical patronage in seventeenth-century England, 1997.