Saint-Omer Folio and Thomas Nevill

Topic: Saint-Omer Folio and Thomas Nevill

Overview

Line Cottegnies's article on the Saint-Omer Folio is now staged from the Sent-email audit. It is potentially useful for First Folio provenance and later Nevill-family reception, but it must be kept separate from evidence about Henry Neville (1563-1615) unless a direct family/provenance bridge is established.

1. Verified Sourced Facts

• Cottegnies studies the Saint-Omer First Folio in the context of the library in which it survived.

• The Sent-email context flagged the article because of the Thomas Nevill donation, a Nevill signature associated with the Folio context, and the presence of political/scientific books in the Saint-Omer library setting.

• Cottegnies states that the Saint-Omer Folio belonged to two sets of books in its original library milieu: books signed Nevill and donated in 1736, and books stamped with the letters P S.

• Cottegnies identifies a group of books donated to the College library in 1736 by a Thomas Nevill and reports that several bear the same Nevill signature found in the Folio context.

• Cottegnies discusses possible Nevill/alias candidates, including Father Edmund Sales alias Nevill and Edward Scarisbrick, but the identification of the precise Thomas Nevill remains an open question.

• This is a later provenance/reception topic. It is not direct evidence that Henry Neville owned or annotated the Saint-Omer Folio.

2. Ken Feinstein Twitter and Blog Information

• No Ken Feinstein Twitter/blog material is isolated in this packet at present. The relevance note comes from the user's Sent-email context marking the item as "extremely important."

3. Quoted Source Text

• “books signed ‘Nevill’ and donated in 1736”
• “books stamped with the letters ‘P S’”
• “donated to the College library in 1736 by a ‘Thomas Nevill’”
• “the Nevill signature found in the Folio”

4. Citations

• Cottegnies, Line. “The Saint-Omer Folio in its Library.” Cahiers Elisabethains, vol. 93, no. 1, 2017, pp. 13-32. First-pass staged PDF: 0184767817697285_Cottegnies_Saint_Omer_Folio.pdf. Second-pass staged PDF: Cottegnies-SaintOmerFolio-2017.pdf.

5. Notes on Access

• This packet is deliberately conservative. It catalogs the staged Cottegnies article without making a Henry Neville authorship claim from it.
• The close extraction now supports using this packet for later Nevill-family/Folio provenance, but not for Henry Neville (1563-1615) ownership.
• The next useful step is identifying precisely which Thomas Nevill donated the 1736 book group and whether that person connects genealogically to the Billingbear/Abergavenny lines relevant to the book.