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Harley MS 81
- Record Id:
- 040-002045909
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002045909
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x000106
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 81
- Title:
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Acts of the Privy Council under Henry VI, 1442-1461
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1v-74v: The 'Actes of Counsyll of Hary the sixte This tyme from the 26 of october in the 20 yeare [1442] of his Raigne to the 26 of July in the 24th yeare [1446]'; followed by further acts from 19 March 1447 to 9 August 1461; transcribed by John Claxton and Ralph Starkey.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002045909", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 81: Acts of the Privy Council under Henry VI, 1442-1461" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002045909 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 81 : Acts of the Privy Council under Henry VI, 1442-1461 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0080]/040-002045909
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1550
- End Date:
- 1624
- Date Range:
- 2nd half 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: 290 x 195 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 25* + 75 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 2 unfoliated blank leaves between f. 1* and f. 1; 1 unfoliated blank leaf between f. 19 and f. 20; each quire has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 10 August 1968. The previous binding (blind-tooled and -stamped brown leather) has been pasted on the insides of the upper and lower covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
John Claxton, transcribed and owned the manuscript: his inscription on f. 1*recto: ‘This booke written by me John Claxton’ [5x]; the original (probably Cotton MS Cleopatra F V) according to a note on f. 1v was in the hands of Sir Robert Cotton in 1622: ‘The origenall of this Booke is in the handes of Sir Robarte Cottone knight and Barronet Anno 1622’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 105)).
? ‘Simon Balles’, owned in the late 16th or early 17th century: his name inscribed on f. 1*recto (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
? ‘John [h]urn’, owned in the late 16th or early 17th century: his name inscribed on f. 1*recto (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
? ‘James’, owned in the early 17th century: his name inscribed on f. 1*recto (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
Ralph Starkey (d. 1628) of Darley Hall in Oulton, wrote and owned ff. 40v-74r: his name inscribed on f. 75r; his annotations throughout the manuscript (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 314).
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 131): recorded in his catalogues as A.479i.
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), p. 21.
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)