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Harley MS 318
- Record Id:
- 040-002046146
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046146
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x00028f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 318
- Title:
- History and genealogy of the kings of Wessex, Essex, East Anglia, Northumbria, Mercia and England (to Henry VI)
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a diagrammatic history and genealogy of the kings of Wessex, Essex, East Anglia, Northumbria, Mercia and England (to Henry VI). The manuscript is bound with Harley MSS 1632 and 6270.
Henry VI (r. 1422, d. 1461), who married Margaret of Anjou in 1445, was in forced retirement from 1461. According to Scott (2000), this is the first known image of a king and queen of England before a devotional image.
Harley MS 6270 is a 16th-century copy of Thomas de la More's Life and Death of Edward II, translated from French into Latin, on paper and with no decoration.
Contents:
f. 1*r-8*v: History and genealogy of the kings of Wessex, Essex, East Anglia, Northumbria, Mercia and England (to Henry VI).
Decoration:
Coloured drawing with Henry VI, king of England, and his wife Margaret of Anjou accompanied by their patron saints George and Margaret kneeling before God holding Christ on the Cross (f. 8*v). Red, green and black ink are used for the vertical lines representing lineage, and names are enclosed in circles. Spaces for initials left blank.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046146", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 318: History and genealogy of the kings of Wessex, Essex, East Anglia, Northumbria, Mercia and England (to Henry VI)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046146 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 318 : History and genealogy of the kings of Wessex, Essex, East Anglia, Northumbria, Mercia and England (to Henry VI) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0317]/040-002046146
- 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:
- 1445
- End Date:
- 1461
- Date Range:
- 1445-1461
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 350 x 230 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1*-8* (Harley MS 318) + 16 (Harley MS 1632) + 1*-2* + 10 (Harley MS 6270) (+ 4 unfoliated paper leaves at the beginning and 15 at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright 1972).
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 1966).
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-III (1808), nos. 318, 1632 and 6270.
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Ilustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 16.
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. H149c.
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. xix-xx.
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. 131.
Kathleen Scott, 'The Illustration and Decoration of the Register of the Fraternity of the Holy Trinity at Luton Church, 1475-1546', in The English Medieval Book: Studies in Memory of Jeremy Griffiths, ed. by A. S. G. Edwards, Vincent Gillespie and Ralph Hanna (London: British Library, 2000), pp. 155-83 (pp. 167, 177, pl. 7).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England