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Harley MS 303
- Record Id:
- 040-002046131
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046131
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x000260
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165167720.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 303
- Title:
- Patents granted to Anne Boleyn as Marquess of Pembroke
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a series of patents granted by Henry VIII (r. 1509–1547), King of England, to Anne Boleyn as Marquess of Pembroke. It was made for her after she was created Marquess of Pembroke on 1 September 1532, but before she became Queen of England in March 1533. The parchment, silk and gold of the document cost 18 shillings, equivalent to a month's wages for a craftsman (see Henry VIII (2009), no. 138).
Another manuscript made for Anne Boleyn is now Harley MS 6561.
Contents:
ff. 1-35v: Patents granted to Anne Boleyn as Marquess of Pembroke, between September 1532 and March 1533.
Decoration:
1 large historiated initial in colours and gold enclosing the imperial falcon of Anne Boleyn, followed by display script in gold (f. 1r). 'Champ' initials in colours and gold (ff. 2r, 3r, 4r, 13r, 15v, 17r, 23v, 24r, 31r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046131", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 303: Patents granted to Anne Boleyn as Marquess of Pembroke" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046131 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 303 : Patents granted to Anne Boleyn as Marquess of Pembroke - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0302]/040-002046131
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165167720.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1532
- End Date:
- 1533
- Date Range:
- 1532-1533
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 370 x 270mm (text space: 240 x 165mm).
Foliation: ff. 35 (+ 4 unfoliated paper and 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 1 ruled unfoliated parchment leaf, 2 parchment flyleaves and 4 paper flyleaves at the end); f. [v] and [38] are former pastedowns.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England, S. E. (probably London).
Provenance:
Made for Anne Boleyn (b. c. 1500, d. 1536), Queen of England, second consort of Henry VIII, after she was created Marquess of Pembroke on 1 September 1532, but before she became queen in March 1533: her heraldic device of an imperial falcon (f. 1r) (see Carley, The Books of King Henry VIII (2004), pp. 125-26).
The Old Royal Library: 1542 Westminster inventory no. 99 (f. 1r).
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).
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 (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), no. A344).
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.
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- Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/
- 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), no. 303.
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A344.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, pp. xviii-xix.
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. 75, 131.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by James P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: British Library, 2000), p. 178.
James P. Carley, The Books of King Henry VIII and His Wives (London: British Library, 2004), pp. 125-26, pl. 112.
Henry VIII: Man and Monarch, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 138.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)