BRINDLEY (Harold Hulme, F.S.A., 1865-1944, Zoologist and Antiquarian)

2 Typed Letters signed, to 'My dear Alan', commenting that "the Glasgow University Court seems to be able to depart from their Calendar in a fashion not possible to us", they have brought forward their Science and Medicine exams a week, "so I go north to-morrow" but as a result will be back for the 'Old Boys' Feast' at St. John's College, turning to "the miniature of K. Edward ii & Q. Isabel arriving at Dover", according to "Mrs Ashdown's excellent 'British Costume' ... the apparently heart-shaped dress worn by the Queen" might well have been "temp. Hen vi ... as well as temp. Edw. iv ... but then the horned h[ead] d[ress] ... lasted for 40 years after 1420 ... there are so many differently attired people in the ship", he refers to various hats and bonnets, but since "all this is too vague as between 1460 and 1480" he is writing to de la Roncière "to ask the date they ascribe to this MS. at the B[ibliothèque] N[ationale]. I think that all the miniatures to Froissart (1338-1410) were done ... say 50 years, after his day ... here we have people who lived in 1307 dressed for 1470", he spells out the family's plans for the Norfolk Broads, "It is excellent that you are going to Cley ... So of course you must come and sail in TERN" (9 June 1932), "I hope that de la Roncière tells you what you want to know ... the B.N. is the only place where they know about" the date of the M.S., "looking up 'Phylactère' ... I see in this MS. application it is [French] 'a little piece of parchment', 'strip bearing an inscription, found on medieval and Renaissance monuments'. Yes, we will give Norman a chance of handling 'Tern' " (20th June 1932), together 4 sides 4to., 25 Madingley Road, Cambridge, 9th-20th June

Brindley was a University Demonstrator in Zoology, Cambridge, 1926-1935, Vice-President of the Navy Records Society 1921-1925, Head of the Seal Room at the National Maritime Museum, 1935, and wrote on medieval murals, animal variation and nautical archaeology.

Item Date:  1932

Stock No:  14865      £95

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