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Harley MS 28
- Record Id:
- 040-002045856
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002045856
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0000bb
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100152158736.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 28
- Title:
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Indenture between King Henry VII, John Islip, abbot of Westminster, the abbot of St Albans, and the mayor and commonalty of London
- Scope & Content:
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Quadripartite indenture made between King Henry VII, John Islip, abbot of Westminster, the abbot of St Albans and the mayor and commonalty of London in 20 Henry VII (r. 1485–1509), for an anniversary to be observed there.
Decoration:
Attributed to the 'Flamboyant artist' (see Scott, 'Manuscripts for Henry VII, his Household and Family', 2007). Large historiated initial enclosing the arms of the king of England supported by a dragon and a greyhound combined with a full panel border in colours and gold with acanthus leaves and the emblems of the king, the portcullis and the red rose (f. 1r). Smaller initials in gold on a red or blue panel.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002045856", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 28: Indenture between King Henry VII, John Islip, abbot of Westminster, the abbot of St Albans, and the mayor and commonalty of London" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002045856 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 28 : Indenture between King Henry VII, John Islip, abbot of Westminster, the abbot of St Albans, and the mayor and commonalty of London - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0027]/040-002045856
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100152158736.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1504
- End Date:
- 1505
- Date Range:
- 1504-1505
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper and parchment.
Dimensions: 320 × 230 mm (written area 130 × 100 mm).
Foliation: ff. 18 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated parchment leaf at the beginning + 8 unfoliated thick paper flyleaves at the end). The upper edge of all leaves is cut in a wavy line as a chirograph.
Collation: i, ii8 (ff. 1–8), ii8+2 (ff. 9–18; 17, 18 added).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright 1972). 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).
Inscribed in pencil, 'Four Tomes Tome 1' (f. [iv]), and pressmark 'N. 28' (f. 1), ?18th century.
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 Cavendish, née 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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808–12), I (1808), p. 4.
Kathleen Scott, 'The Illustration and Decoration of the Register of the Fraternity of the Holy Trinity at Luton Church, 1475-1546', in The English Medieval Book: Studies in Memory of Jeremy Griffiths, ed. by A. S. G. Edwards, Vincent Gillespie and Ralph Hanna (London: British Library, 2000), pp. 155–83 (p. 183 n. 58).
Kathleen L. Scott, 'Manuscripts for Henry VII, his Household and Family', The Cambridge Illuminations: The Conference Papers, ed. by Stella Panayotova (London-Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2007), p. 282.
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A336.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, pp. xviii–xix.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 131.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)