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Harley MS 69
- Record Id:
- 040-002045897
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002045897
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0000f2
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100166747779.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 69
- Title:
- The booke of certaine triumphes
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-63v: A large collection of tracts, letters, and notes in English and French concerning court affairs and entertainment, jousting and the bearing of coats of arms, known as ‘The booke of certaine triumphes’.
Decoration:
Full-, half-, and quarter-page drawings of knights jousting and combatting in brown ink on ff. 19r-21v, 21v-24v. A quarter-page drawing of an enthroned king (Richard II) surrounded by noblemen (f. 25r) in brown ink. Coats of arms in pencil or brown ink, tricked, on ff. 2r, 4v, 55v, and 56r.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002045897", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 69: The booke of certaine triumphes" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002045897 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 69 : The booke of certaine triumphes - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0068]/040-002045897
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100166747779.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1575
- End Date:
- 1624
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 285 x 190 mm.
Foliation: ff. 63 ( + 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 18 and f. 19; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown (bibliographical notes) on f. [i]recto; each leaf is mounted onto a paper guard and has a white paper strip attached to its outer margin.
Script: 16th- or 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Ralph Starkey (d. 1628) of Darley Hall in Oulton, owned in 1615: inscribed his name on f. 1r: ‘Ralph Starkey. .1617.’; ff. 74v-64v are in his hand; acquired from him in 1628 by Sir Simonds D’Ewes (Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 314).
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 131): recorded in his catalogues as A.333 and B.38.
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.
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), pp. 17-19.
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. 372.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)