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Harley MS 532

Record Id:

040-001615892

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001615892

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x000141

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 532

Title:

A poem addressed to Queen Elizabeth I, A Discourse of the Buisines of Ambyona in Anno Domini 1624, and other texts

Scope & Content:

Contents:

1. A poem addressed to Queen Elizabeth I, Hymnus pastoralis in laudem serenissimae Reginae Elizabethae, ex Anglico sermone in Latinum traductus (ff. 1r-4r);

2. Correspondence between Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland and Sir Francis de Vere (ff. 6r-9v);

3. A Discourse of the Buisines of Ambyona in Anno Domini 1624 (ff. 11r-44r);

5. An abbreviated chronicle, The History of the reigne of King Henry the 8th, King Edward, Queen Mary and part of Queen Elizabeth (ff. 45r-48r);

6. Edward II's confirmation of William the Conqueror's charter for the priory of St Mary, Andover, Hampshire, and of a charter for St Martin's, Dover (ff. 49r-52r);

7. A letter to John Dee describing the destruction of Dunwich (Suffolk) by the sea in 1573 (ff. 53v-60r);

8. Francis Bacon, A breefe Discourse touching the happy Union of the Kingdoms of Engand and Scotland (ff. 61r-64v);

9. The order and form of the entry of Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, into Canterbury before the intronization of William Wharham as archbishop of Canterbury on 9 March 1504 (ff. 65r-72r);

10. A list of provinces subjected to Isabella-Clara-Eugenia, Infante of Spain, and Archduke Albert of Austria (ff. 73r-82r);

11. A list of the Knights of the Golden Fleece, beginning with Archduke Albert of Austria (f. 83v);

12. A list of foundry offences made in January 1587 (ff. 83r-95r);

13. Horatius Dolabella, Puritanus, vel nec omne, nec ex omni. Sive Apologia pro Puritanis et Novatoribus Universis (ff. 96r-114v);

14. A Puritans Grace before Meat and Grace after Meat (ff. 115r-115v);

15. George Rawe, Description of the river Ems from the sea to Emden (ff. 116r-121r);

16. John Dee, Epilogismus calculi diurnus planetarum tum longitudinis (ff. 122v-128r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Harley Science Project

Hierarchy Tree:

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032-002045828
040-001615892

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 532 : A poem addressed to Queen Elizabeth I, A Discourse of the Buisines of Ambyona in Anno Domini 1624, and other texts

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Record Type (Level):

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Extent:

1 volume

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Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1500

End Date:

1699

Date Range:

16th century-17th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 220 x 170 (text space: ff. 1r-4r: 180 x 85 mm; ff. 5r-9v: 170 x 130 mm; ff. 11r-44r: 165 x 12 mm; ff. 45r-48r: 170 x 115 mm; ff. 49r-52r: 160 x 95 mm; 53v-60r: 185 x 130 mm; ff. 61r-64v: 185 x 125 mm; ff. 65r-72r: 200 x 130 mm; ff. 73r-82r: 190 x 110 mm; f. 82v: 170 x 125 mm; ff. 83r-95r: 190 x 130 mm; ff. 96r-115v: 170 x 130 mm; ff. 116r-121r: 175 x 125 mm; ff. 122v-128r: 185 x 155 mm).

Foliation: iv + 128.

Script: Cursive.

Binding: British Museum binding. Rebound in 1876.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

ff. 53r-60v:

John Stow(e) (b. c. 1525, d. 1605), chronicler and antiquary (see Wright 1972).

ff. 122r-128v:

John Dee (b. 1527, d. 1608), mathematician and astrologer: written in his hand (see Wright 1972).

ff. 65r-72v:

Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton: ff. 65r-72v include D'Ewes's number '63' at the beginning (see Watson 1966).

Sir Simonds D’Ewes (d. 1722), 3rd baronet and grandson of the former: inherited and later sold the D’Ewes library to Robert Harley on 4 October 1705 for £450 (see Watson 1966).

All parts:

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.

Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d.1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 532.

Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), p. 331.

C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 127, 131, 319.

Ben Lowe, Imaging Peace: A History of Early English Pacifist Ideas, 1340-1560 (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University, 1997), p. 301.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)