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Egerton MS 616
- Record Id:
- 032-001983666
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001983666
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000053.0x0002f4
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163573873.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 616
- Title:
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Letters relating to England and Spain
- Scope & Content:
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Original letters illustrative of the history of England and Spain, with a modern transcription of some of the letters on ff. 80r–94r.
ff. i–ii: Modern contents list.
ff. 1r–v: Letter in Latin and on parchment from Richard II to the King of Aragon [Peter IV], 26 August [c. 1386], Westminster.
ff. 2r–v: Letter in Latin from Henry VII to Francesco de Rojas, the Count de Salinas, and Pedro Carillo, Ambassadors of Spain in England, 15 August 1490, Eltham.
ff. 3r–v: Letter from Perkin Warbeck (signed Rychard) to Isabella, Queen of Castile, 8 Kalends September (25 August) 1493, Andermund.
ff. 4r–5r: Letter in Latin from Pietro Carmeliano of Brescia, Henry VII’s Latin secretary, to Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, 2 July 1496, London.
ff. 6r–v: Letter from Perkin Warbeck (signed Rychard off England) to Barnard de la Forse, 18 October [1496], Edinburgh.
ff. 7r–8r: Letter in Latin from Henry VII to Rodrigo Gonzalez de Puebla, Orator of Ferdinand and Isabella, 23 October l497, Exeter.
ff. 9r–10r: Letter from Elizabeth of York to Queen Isabella of Spain, 3 December 1497, Westminster.
ff. 11r–12r: Letter in Latin from Henry VII to Ferdinand and Isabella, 15 June 1499, Sheen.
ff. 13r–v: Letter in Latin from Elizabeth of York to Ferdinand of Spain, 1 August 1499, Hampton Court.
ff. 14r–16v: Two letters in Latin from Prince Arthur to Katharine of Aragon, then betrothed to him, 5 October 1499 and 1 November 1499, Ludlow.
ff. 17r–v: Letter in Latin from Arthur to Katharine, no date.
ff. 19r–21v: Two letters in Latin from Henry VII to Ferdinand and Isabella, 20 June 1500, Canterbury and 24 July 1500, Greenwich.
ff. 22r–v: Letter in Latin from Katharine to ?, 17 September 1500.
ff. 23r–24r: Letter in Latin from Henry VII to Ferdinand and Isabella, 15 December 1500, Abingdon.
ff. 25r–26v: Letter in Spanish from Doctor De Puebla to Ferdinand and Isabella, 11 July 1500, London.
ff. 27r–30v: Three letters in Spanish from Katharine of Aragon, as Princess of Wales, to Ferdinand and Isabella, 8 September 1505 and 22 April 1506.
ff. 31r–v: Letter in Spanish from Ferdinand to the Marquess of ?, 11 June 1510.
ff. 32r–37v: Two letters in Spanish from Katharine of Aragon, as Princess of Wales, to Ferdinand and Isabella, 17 July 1507 and 18 July [1507].
ff. 38r–39v: Letter in Latin from Henry VII to Don Miguel Almazan, Secretary of Ferdinand of Spain, 3 September 1507, Woodstock.
ff. 40r–41v: Letter in Latin from Henry VII to Ferdinand, 29 September 1507, Woodstock.
ff. 42r–v: Letter in Spanish from the Princess Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Low Countries, to Ferdinand, 30 April 1509, Malines.
ff. 43r–44v: Letter from Henry VIII to Margaret of Austria, 26 July 1509, Greenwich.
ff. 45r–46v: Letter in Spanish from Katharine of Aragon to Margaret of Austria, 29 July 1509.
ff. 47r–v: Letter in Italian from Prospero Colonna to Katharine of Aragon, 1 August 1509, Naples.
ff. 48r–v: Letter in Spanish from Katharine of Aragon to Margaret of Austria, 26 June [no year].
ff. 49r–50v: Letter in Latin on parchment from Ferdinand to Henry VIII, 13 August 1510, Montesson.
ff. 51r–52v: Letter in Latin from James IV of Scotland to Ferdinand, kal. July 1512, Edinburgh.
ff. 53r–v: Letter in Latin from Thomas Grey, Marquess of Dorset, to Ferdinand, 14 July [1512].
ff. 54r–v: Letter in Latin from Henry VIII to Ferdinand, 6 October 1512, Greenwich.
ff. 55r–v: Letter in Spanish from John II d'Albret, King of Navarre, to the Queen of Castile, 27 July [no year], Pamplona.
ff. 56r–v: Abstract of intelligence in Spanish from England, sent by Bernard de Mesa, Bishop of Elne, Ambassador there, 6–12 October 1517.
ff. 57r–v: Letter in Spanish from Catharine, Queen of Navarre to the King of Castile.
ff. 58r–v: Letter in Italian from Isabella, Queen of Naples, to the King of Spain, 17 February [no year].
ff. 59r–v: Letter in Spanish from Don Alvaro de Luna to the Secretary of the King of Spain [no date].
ff. 60r–v: Declaratoria de la Cesarea Magestad [Charles V] contra la herexia de Martin Lutero y sus sequaces, 19 April 1521.
ff. 61r–v: Letter in Latin from Philippe Villiers de Lisle-Adam, Grand Master of Rhodes, to Charles V, 26 June 1522, Rhodes.
ff. 62r–63v: Letter in Italian from Cardinal Giovanni Angelo de' Medici to the Bishop of Arras [Antoine Perrenot, afterwards Cardinal de Granvelle,] 11 December 1557, Rome.
ff. 64r–65v: Letter in Spanish from Don Juan of Austria to Don Fernando Carrillo, 18 April 1650, Messina.
ff. 66r–69v: Two letters in Latin from Charles II of England to Don Luis Mendez de Haro, Count-Duke of Olivares, 15 June 1652, Paris.
ff. 70r–71v: Letter in French from Charles, Duke of Lorraine to Don Luis de Haro [son of the Duke of Olivares], 22 May 1657.
f. 72r: Letter in French from James, Duke of York to ?, 24 May 1657, Brussels.
ff. 73r–74v: Letter in French from Charles II to [Don Luis de Haro?], 16 November 1659, Hondarribia (Fuentarabia).
f. 75r: Letter in Italian from Emanuel Filiberto Amadeo of Savoy, Prince of Carignano, to Philip IV of Spain, 10 April 1660, Turin.
ff. 76r–77v: Letter in French from Charles II to Don Luis de Haro?, 4 March 1661, London.
ff. 78r–79v: Letter in French from the Duke of Ormond to Don Luis de Haro, 18 April 1662, Whitehall.
ff. 80r–81v: Modern transcription of the letter on ff. 29r–30v (letter from Katharine of Aragon to Ferdinand and Isabella).
ff. 82r–83v: Modern transcription of the letter on ff. 32r–33v (Katharine of Aragon to Ferdinand and Isabella).
ff. 84r–89r: Modern transcription of the letter on ff. 34r–37v (Katharine of Aragon to Ferdinand and Isabella).
f. 90r: Modern transcription of the letter on ff. 22r–v (Katharine of Aragon to ?)
ff. 91r–94r: Modern transcription of the letter on ff. 49r–50v (Ferdinand to Henry VIII).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001983666
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001983666
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100163573873.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
French
Italian
Latin
Spanish - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1381
- End Date:
- 1662
- Date Range:
- c 1386-1662
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper and parchment.
Dimensions: 350 x 260 mm.
Foliation: ff. ii + 94 + 18 (modern endleaves).
Binding: British Museum binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Netherlands, England, France, Italy and Spain.
Provenance:
'Purchased of Mr Gayangos in 1836 and Nov. 1837' (i.e. Pascual de Gayangos y Arce, 1809–1897.)
Bought by the British Museum using the Bridgewater Fund [£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (1756–1829), founder of the collection.]
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1835–1840 (London: British Museum Trustees, 1843), pp. 54–55.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)