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Harley MS 41
- Record Id:
- 040-002045869
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002045869
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0000ce
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100155073085.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 41
- Title:
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Description of royal ceremonies and related accounts, during the reigns of Edward IV, Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII
- Scope & Content:
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f. 1r: The names of the knights of the Bayn [i.e. Bath] made at the creation of Thomas Grey as Lord Marquis of Dorset in 1475.
ff. 2r–11v: The receiving, conveying and coronation of Anne Boleyn.
f. 12r: A sketch of the seating plan at Anne Boleyn's coronation. Anne is depicted wearing a closed crown, holding a sceptre in each hand and sitting under a cloth of estate. Thomas Cranmer is to her left in the image.
ff. 13r–14v: Memoranda concerning preparations for Anne's coronation.
ff. 15r–15v: The order in proceeding from the Tower of London to Westminster for Anne's coronation.
ff. 16r–16v: The charges of those made Knights of the Bath, with the charges of the officers of the king's house (hold?).
ff. 17r–17v: Rewards and payments made by John Leigh of Stockwell, Surrey, when he was made a knight of the Bath at Prince Arthur's marriage to Katharine of Aragon.
f. 18r: The knights of the Bath made at Prince Arthur's marriage to Katharine of Aragon. Printed in Anstis, Observations Introductory to an Historical Essay Upon the Knighthood of the Bath, no. 60, pp. 46–47.
f. 18v: The knights of the carpet made at Prince Arthur's marriage to Katharine of Aragon.
ff. 19r–24r: The manner of making knights of the Bath ('The maner of makynge of knyghts after the custome of Englonde in tyme of peace and at the coronacion// That ys to saye knyghtes of the Bath//').
ff. 24r–24v: 'The charges of the knyghtes of the bayne'.
f. 25r: Names of the nobility who were present in the chamber (on the right and the left) when Prince Edward, Edward IV's son, was made a knight of the Bath.
f. 25v: Knights of the Bath made at the marriage of Richard of Shrewsbury (b. 1473, d. c. 1483), Duke of York, and Anne de Mowbray (b. 1472, d. c. 1481), 8th Countess of Norfolk (daughter and sole heir of John, Duke of Norfolk), 15 January 1478.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002045869", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 41: Description of royal ceremonies and related accounts, during the reigns of Edward IV, Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002045869 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 41 : Description of royal ceremonies and related accounts, during the reigns of Edward IV, Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0040]/040-002045869
- 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_100155073085.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1540
- Date Range:
- Early 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 281 x 232 mm.
Foliation: ff. viii + 25.
Binding: British Museum binding 1967.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
William Colbarne (d. 1567), York Herald – name and office on f.[1*v]. Perhaps initially intended as a presentation manuscript for Henry Grey, son of Thomas Grey.
Sir Richard St George (c. 1555–1635) Norroy King of Arms 1607; Clarenceaux King of Arms 1623, owned in 1618 (f.1v: 'liber Ricardi St georg militis 1618').
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (1602–1650).
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661–1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689–1741), 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 (1694–1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715–1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 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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John Anstis, Observations Introductory to an Historical Essay Upon the Knighthood of the Bath (London: James Woodman, 1725), no. 60, pp. 46–47.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808–12), I (1808), p. 12.
Susan Doran (ed.), Henry VIII: Man and Monarch (London: British Library, 2009), no. 149, p. 153.
Richard H. Osberg, 'Humanist Allusions and Medieval Themes: The "Receyving" of Queen Anne, London, 1533', in Richard Utz and Tom Shippey (eds), Medievalism in the Modern World: Essays in Honour of Leslie J. Workman (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998), pp. 27–41.
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), p. 318.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A study of the sources of the Harleian collection of manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 107, p. 131, p. 293.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)