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Harley MS 338

Record Id:

040-002046166

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046166

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0002c3

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 338

Title:

English historical collection, mainly written by Sampson Erdeswick and John Joscelin

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. 1*recto: A request to John Stow for drawing the descent of Herleva by Henry Savile of Banke (b. 1568, d. 1617).

ff. 1*verso-1r: Notes on the descent of Herleva [Arlette], mother of William the Conqueror; by Sampson Erdeswicke (d. 1603).

ff. 2r, 3r, 4r: Notes on the charter and seal of John de Cumberford, 5th year of the reign of Richard II; followed by other notes on charters.

f. 3v: Part of a Solfège.

f. 4v: Notes on payments, dated 1593.

f. 5r: ‘The Names of them that are wittnesses to mr John Starkey his Conveyaunce are here underwritten 1611’; and notes on payments.

f. 5v: Coats of arms in brown ink (perhaps of the witnesses on f. 5r); notes on payments.

f. 6r: Linea Ricardo de Erdeswyke facta 1602.

ff. 7r-12r: Sampson Erdeswicke (d. 1603), Extracts from charters relating to the families of Cholmundeleghe, Toste Lostoke, Holford, Vernon, with drawings of seals.

ff. 13v-14r: Sampson Erdeswicke, Extracts from charters relating to the families of Dutton and Chelde, with drawings of seals.

ff. 15r-16r: Sampson Erdeswicke, Extracts from charters relating to the family of Cholmundelege, with drawings of seals;

ff. 16v-18v: Sampson Erdeswicke, List of Judges of Chester [1206-37 Elizabeth I]

ff. 19r-19v: Sampson Erdeswicke, List of sheriffs of Chester [23 Henry III-38 Henry VI].

ff. 20v-27r: Sampson Erdeswicke, Extracts from charters relating to the family of Venables, with drawings of seals.

ff. 28v-29r: Sampson Erdeswicke, Extracts, perhaps from the Chester Domesday Book.

ff. 29v-32v: Sampson Erdeswicke, Extracts from charters relating to various Cheshire families.

ff. 33r-49v: John Joscelin , 'A short Cronicle of England, or rather an Index to a larger one' [Edward II-Henry VII]

ff. 50r-52v: John Joscelin, 'A fewe historicall Notes taken owt of a boke maynteyning the quene of Scottes title the author of which wold seeme contrarye to the purpose of the booke to be a true Englyshe man’.

Decoration:

Coats of arms and drawings of seals in brown ink.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046166

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 338 : English historical collection, mainly written by Sampson Erdeswick and John Joscelin

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0337]/040-002046166

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:

1585

End Date:

1611

Date Range:

c 1590-1611

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 245 x 165 mm.

Foliation: ff. 1* + 52 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. 1* and f. 1 are part of the same sheet of paper that has been folded mounted onto a paper guard, also features a fold-out; ff. 2-5 are paper fragments mounted onto a paper guard; 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 5 and f. 6; f. 12 and f. 13; f. 18 and f. 19; f. 27 and f. 28; f. 30 and f. 31; and f. 37 and f. 38; 2 between f. 32 and f. 33; 4 between f. 49 and f. 50; and 8 between f. 6 and f. 7.

Script: 16th-century script.

Binding: Post-1600.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

John Stow [Stowe] (b. 1524/5-1605), historian: his note on ff. 1*recto, 1v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 319).

Sampson Erdeswick [Erdeswicke] (b. c. 1538, d. 1603), historian, owned ff. 1r-32v: written by him (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 146).

John Joscelin [Joscelyn] (b. 1529, d. 1603), Old English scholar and Church of England clergyman, owned ff. 33-52: notes written by him (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 207)

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 as X.71.

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), p. 338.

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. 378.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England