Manuscript Commonplace Book

Item author: Brian Fairfax
Item date: 1683 - 86
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 5,546
Item date acquired: 1988
Item institution: Edinburgh University Library
Town/City: Edinburgh

93 quarto leaves, partly a notebook of Biblical quotations and prayers, but also containing accounts of the Fairfaxes and the Careys (his wifes family) during the civil war and Fairfaxs own involvement in the Restoration, and subsequent life as an Equerry of Charles II

Item Provenance
Fairfax library passed to Robert Fairfax of Leeds Castle who sold it to Francis Child of Osterley Park 1756. Collection dispersed in 1885. Sothebys July 1988, Lot 314