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Harley MS 159
- Record Id:
- 040-002045987
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002045987
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x000170
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 159
- Title:
- Parliamentary journal for 1623-1624, with other papers
- Scope & Content:
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Manuscript parliamentary journal compiled for Simonds D’Ewes, with preliminary pages constructed from a printed broadside, and two folios of unrelated notes.
f. 1: Fragment (from an earlier flyleaf?) with manuscript Latin quotations on bravery in adversity and honourable defeat, from Tacitus, William of Newbury, and Cicero.
ff. 2-8: Printed broadside (A true platforme and manner of the sitting in the lower house of Parliament, 3rd ed. [1624?]), cut and pasted on the folios, as follows:
- f. 2: Title page for manuscript volume constructed from title of the broadside (A true platforme and manner of the sitting in the lower house of Parliament, 3rd ed. [1624?]), with manuscript addition below ‘A Journal allsoe of the same Parliament, very perfect, being adjoined’.
- ff. 3-4: Woodcut of the House of Commons sitting in the former St Stephen’s Chapel in the Palace of Westminster, on 12 February 1623/4.
- ff. 5-8: The names of members.
f. 9: ‘The Kings speech in the parliament house on Thursdaie xix Februarij 1623’.
ff. 10-136: Parliamentary journal for 1623-1624, compiled for Simonds D’Ewes, and partly in his hand.
ff. 137-138: Rough notes on Marcus Valerius Corvinus from Livy’s history of Rome.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002045987", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 159: Parliamentary journal for 1623-1624, with other papers" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002045987 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 159 : Parliamentary journal for 1623-1624, with other papers - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0158]/040-002045987
- 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:
- 1623
- End Date:
- 1624
- Date Range:
- 1623-1624
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 325 x 200 mm.
Foliation: i-ii + 138 folios.
Binding: British Museum binding, 1949.
- Custodial History:
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Former owner: 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.
- Finding Aids:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), vol. 1, no. 159.
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. 131.
A G Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), p. 239-240.
- Publications:
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Another copy of A true platforme and manner of the sitting in the lower house of Parliament bound in Harley MS 158 (digitised at BL https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/image-of-the-house-of-commons-from-true-platforme). Another copy of of A true platforme and manner of the sitting in the lower house of Parliament at The National Archives, State Papers Domestic SP14/159 item 61.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- D’Ewes, Simonds, 1st Baronet, diarist and antiquary, 1602-1650,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083393524,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12656415