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Harley MS 192
- Record Id:
- 040-002046020
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046020
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0001a1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 192
- Title:
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Transcripts made by Simonds D'Ewes of the works of Lucius Annaeus Florus and Raphael Holinshed, and from Cotton MS Tiberius A XIII
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains transcripts that were made by the diarist and antiquary Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650) during his time at Cambridge (1618-1620).
Contents:
ff. 2r-29r: Excerpts from Lucius Annaeus Florus (b. c. 74, d. 103).
ff. 29v-33r: Pedigrees of the kings of early medieval England excerpted from Holinshed's Chronicles (1st edn in 1577) by Raphael Holinshed (b. c. 1525, d. 1580?), beginning: 'Mercia Regum stemma et successio collecta ex Holingsheadi Chronicorum Angliae 1o volumine a me Latino-versa'.
ff. 34r-34v: Excerpts from Cotton MS Tiberius A XIII, entitled: 'Ex MSo quodam pervetusto Saxonico, Libro Wigorniensis Ecclesiae, in Bibliotheca Cottoniana, volumine 357'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046020", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 192: Transcripts made by Simonds D'Ewes of the works of Lucius Annaeus Florus and Raphael Holinshed, and from Cotton MS Tiberius A XIII" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046020 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 192 : Transcripts made by Simonds D'Ewes of the works of Lucius Annaeus Florus and Raphael Holinshed, and from Cotton MS Tiberius A XIII - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7829]/040-002046020
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1618
- End Date:
- 1620
- Date Range:
- 1618-1620
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 120 x 70 mm.
Foliation: ff. 34 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 15 at the end); numerous unfoliated blank paper leaves between f. 33 and f. 34.
Binding: Post-1600. Original blind-tooled brown leather binding with the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on white paper on the insides of the upper and lower covers; red-speckled fore-edge.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Cambridge.
Provenance:
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton; written by D'Ewes when he was at Cambridge; inscribed his name on f. 1v; listed in his catalogues as A.958b xvi (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), p. 219; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 131-37).
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; according to a receipt in Additional MS 70478 (Portland Papers) [formerly Loan 29/254 packet 2] (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (1966), pp. 60, 91 n. 308; Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. xviii n. 3).
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. 62.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. xviii n. 3.
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), pp. 60, 91 n. 308, 219.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 131-37.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)