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Harley MS 216
- Record Id:
- 040-002046044
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046044
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0001d1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 216
- Title:
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Collection of numismatic and heraldic texts
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-236v: A numismatical work, recording coins in Belgium from 1500-1600.
The manuscript contains several additions:
f. 1*recto: Sayings in Latin and Greek, beginning 'Nummus vincit, nummus regnat, nummus imperat universis', added in the 17th century by 'Robert Appletont'.
f. 2*recto: A title-page: Chronologia Numismatica Ex Variis Nummis Aureis, Argenties, Aeneis etiam chartaceis, per totum Belgium ab anno Domini 1500 usque in hodiernum diem a diversis Principibus, Regulis, et Rebuspublicis cusis; collecta, et explanata per Ioan-Franciscum Petitæum urbis et ditionis Bethuniæ apud Atrebates Graplarium [London, 1624]; '1624' has been altered from '1604'.
ff. 3*recto-3*verso: A Latin letter by a Dutch owner for his/her sister in order to dedicate it to a Palatine, added in the 17th century.
ff. 238r-240r: Lists of nobles, earls, and their matches and marriages (English), added in the 17th century.
ff. 242r-270r: Blazons of the Arms of the English Nobility during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I (English), added in the 17th century.
Decoration:
1 printed image of James VI and I (f. 2*verso); numerous printed images of coins throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046044", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 216: Collection of numismatic and heraldic texts" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046044 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 216 : Collection of numismatic and heraldic texts - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0215]/040-002046044
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1595
- End Date:
- 1605
- Date Range:
- c 1600
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 195 x 150 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1*-4* + 83* + 270 + 145* + 157* + 186* (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning); 3 unfoliated paper leaf between f. 3* and f. 4*; ff. 1*-4* are f. 83* is a paper strip; ff. 145*, 157* and 186* have been pasted against their previous leaves; 1 unfoliated paper stub between f. 2* and f. 3*; f. 185 and f. 186.
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. Blind-tooled brown leather with remnants of clasps.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium).
Provenance:
An unknown 17th-century owner from the Netherlands: inscribed Dutch text, in which the owner addresses their sister, on f. 3*recto : 'Mijn lieve zuster, zoot u goet dunckt zo moghdy dit werck, den Palsgrave dediceren, in uwen name, gelyck ick hier sulcx doe, ofte anders [? ur] datmen u sal raden'; and f. 3*verso [untranscribed]; added the Latin text on ff. 3*recto-3*verso.
'Robert Appleton', probably Robert Appleton of Preston, owned after 1624: his name inscribed on f. 1*recto (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 52).
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 A.579 and B.176.
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. 69.
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. 375.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)