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Harley MS 295
- Record Id:
- 040-002046123
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046123
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x000258
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163608142.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 295
- Title:
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An English collection of letters concerning Spain and the Spanish Netherlands
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-261v: A large collection of papers relating to Spain, Portugal, the Spanish Netherlands, and England’s affairs and trade with these regions; originals and transcripts in English, French, Italian and Latin dated to 1518-1623, including letters to Sir Thomas Walsingham, Cardinal Wolsey, King Henry VIII, and Queen Elizabeth I, and a draft of a treaty for the marriage between Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII in 1509.
Decoration:
A sketch of a carriage in brown ink (f. 259v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046123", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 295: An English collection of letters concerning Spain and the Spanish Netherlands" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046123 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 295 : An English collection of letters concerning Spain and the Spanish Netherlands - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0294]/040-002046123
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100163608142.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
French
Italian
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1518
- End Date:
- 1623
- Date Range:
- 1518-1623
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 300-355 x 205-225 mm.
Foliation: ff. 165* + 182* + 256* + 259* + 260* + 261 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 13 and f. 14; f. 107 and f. 108; f. 172 and f. 173; f. 238 and f. 239; and f. 255 and f. 256; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 72r; red wax seals on ff. 179v and 185v [covered with paper]; f. 189 has a paper foldout at its lower margin; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [ii]recto (bibliographical notes); each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: 16th- and 17th-century scripts.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
John Dee (b. 1527, d. 1609), mathematician, astrologer, and antiquary: his hand is on items 42, and 59-60 [the items are as listed in the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), I, pp. 168-73] (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), p. 324; but not listed under his entry in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 126-28).
Ralph Starkey (d. 1628) of Darley Hall in Oulton, owned the manuscript: items 61-71 are in his hand, which also occurs on items 2-5, 16-17, 22, 51, 80, 89, 91-93, 96-98, 100, 104-105, and 107 [the items are as listed in the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), I, pp. 168-73] (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), p. 324); acquired from him in 1628 by Sir Simonds D’Ewes (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: his hand is on ff. 20v (item 5), 125v (item 52), 150r (item 63), 176r (item 73), 180r (item 75), 192r (item 83), 249r (item 102), and 259 (item 106) [the items are as listed in the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), I, pp. 168-73]; listed in his catalogues as X.55 (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), p. 324; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 131).
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), pp. 168-73.
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. 377.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)