Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878

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(lcsh) Manuscripts--Collectors and collecting
Book collecting
Administration of estates

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(lcsh) Manuscripts--Collectors and collecting
Book collectors
Landowners

found: Fortuna, A.M. Napoleone dalla Scuola militare alla Rivoluzione, 1983:p. vi (Bertram della casa di Ashburnham (1797-1878)) p. vii (Bertram Ashburnham)

found: LC manual auth. cd.(hdg.: Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, 4th earl of, 1797-1878; usage: Earl of Ashburnham, Bertram fourth Earl of Ashburnham, comte d'Ashburnham)

found: Martini, Francesco di Giorgio. Trattato di architettura, 1979-1994:volume 1, title page (Il Codice Ashburnham 361 della Biblioteca medicea laurenziana di Firenze) volume 1, page xii (Guglielmo Libri assigned it to Leonardo da Vinci and sold it and other manuscripts to Lord Ashburnham, who acquired it 23 April 1847; son of Lord Ashburnham sold collection)

found: Historic Hansard, 1803-2005, viewed online 20 November 2019(Mr Bertram Ashburnham; November 23, 1797-June 22, 1878; titles in Lords: Baron Ashburnham, Earl of Ashburnham, and Viscount St. Asaph, all October 27, 1830-June 22, 1878)

found: The National Archives website, 20 November 2019(Ashburnham, Bertram (1797-1878) 4th Earl of Ashburnham; collections include: diaries and correspondence (1822-1877) held by East Sussex Record Office, estate correspondence (1833-1850) held by Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch, and correspondence held at Cambridge University Library, University of Manchester Library) - https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F48760

found: Archives hub, viewed online 4 December 2019:Ashburnham Wycliffe Collection (Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham 1797-1878?; 3rd son of George, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham; educated at St John's College, Cambridge, then travelled extensively, collecting many examples of fine art in Italy and the East; when father died in 1830, succeeded him as 4th Earl of Ashburnham; for last 30 years of his life, settled down at the Ashburnham family estate in Sussex and set about the care of his collections and management of his estate; in 1840s, purchased 3 more-or-less complete libraries of manuscripts (the collections of Guglielmo Libri and Joseph Barrois, and the Stowe manuscripts of the Duke of Buckingham); a 4th collection of 251 choice manuscripts, acquired from various sources, he called his "Appendix'"; his eldest son and heir, Bertram, 5th Earl of Ashburnham, gradually dispersed the library by sale after his father's death; many manuscripts from the Libri and Barrois collections, which had been acquired in questionable circumstances, were restored to the Italian and French governments; the Appendix was sold to Henry Yates Thompson in 1897) - https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/d4b9005c-9d60-3096-97df-db357ae3175f

found: Wikipedia, 20 November 2019(Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham (23 November 1797-22 June 1878); British peer; 4th son of George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham; in 1830, succeeded father as Earl of Ashburnham, Viscount St. Asaph, and Baron of Ashburnham; bibliophile, amassed important collection of printed books and manuscripts; most manuscripts were acquired through 3 large purchases in the 1840s: in March 1847, bought 1923 manuscripts from Count Guglielmo Libri, who had stolen many of them, including 7th-century illuminated manuscript of Pentateuch from the library at Tours (was known as Tours Pentateuch, but since 1847 has been called the Ashburnham Pentateuch), manuscripts of Dante, and Napoleon's correspondence; in May 1849, purchased collection of 702 manuscripts from French collector Joseph Barrois (64 of them from 33 manuscripts stolen from Bibliothèque nationale); Ashburnham not suspected of knowingly purchasing stolen goods; declined to return them to rightful owners; in 1849, purchased collection of 996 manuscripts from library of Stowe House after bankruptcy of 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos; sons included Bertram, the 5th Earl of Ashburnham, who succeeded his father in 1878, and Thomas, the 6th Earl, who succeeded his brother in 1913 when the latter died without son; 5th Earl sold off the manuscript collections over more than 20 years, ending in 1901)

found: Wikidata, 20 November 2019(Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham (Q21855104); description: British peer; sex or gender: male; country of citizenship: United Kingdom; date of birth: 23 November 1797; date of death: 22 June 1878; occupation: bibliophile; position held: member of House of Lords) - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21855104