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Harley MS 185
- Record Id:
- 040-002046013
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046013
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x00019a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 185
- Title:
- Latin verse and prose by Simonds D’Ewes, with some goods inventories of Paul D’Ewes
- Scope & Content:
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Various Latin poetic works, essays, and exercises written by Simonds D’Ewes as a boy, with some Greek. Includes a section of inventories of household goods in the hand of his father, Paul D’Ewes (ff. 39-44).
Contents:
- f. 1: Decorative title page for Acta Apostulorum, a Latin poem on the Acts of the Apostles in hexameters, by Simonds D’Ewes, dated 27 August 1615.
- f. 2: Short Latin verses.
- ff. 3-10: ‘De Actis Apostolorum Carmina per Simonde Dewieum composita’. Acts of the Apostles in Latin verse written by Simonds D’Ewes at the age of 13. Dated 1615.
- f. 11: Greek vocabulary list.
- ff. 12-23r: ‘Isocratis Oratio ad Demonicum’ with index.
- ff. 24-27: ‘Oratio Isocratis ad Nicoclem’.
- ff. 28-38: Latin odes by Simonds D’Ewes, with a preface, addressed to King James I.
- ff. 39-44: Inventories of goods, in the hand of Paul D’Ewes, father of Simonds D’Ewes, possibly of property at Stow Hall, dated from March 1617 to October 1618. The goods include linen, plate, brass, pewter, curtains, carpets, furniture, beds, bedding, dairy vessels, brewing vessels, armour, Miss D’Ewes apparel and wearing linen.
- ff. 45-46: Short passages in Greek and Latin in the hand of Simonds D’Ewes.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046013 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 185 : Latin verse and prose by Simonds D’Ewes, with some goods inventories of Paul D’Ewes - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0184]/040-002046013
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1615
- End Date:
- 1618
- Date Range:
- 1615-1618
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 147 x 95 mm.
Foliation: 46 folios; blank folios unnumbered.
Binding: British Museum binding.
- 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. 185.
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. 219.
- 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
d'Ewes, Paul, clerk, 1567-1631