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Harley MS 364

Record Id:

040-002046192

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046192

MDARK:

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Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 364

Title:

Anselm of Canterbury, Epistolae; transcripts of charters from the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI; English translation of Niccolò Machiavelli, Il Principe; 'Of Predestinacion and the Providence of God'; English translation of Pierre Boitel's Défaite du faux amour par l'unique des braves de ce temps;Paul D'Ewes, theological discourses

Scope & Content:

This manuscript is a large composite miscellany, consisting of historical papers and literary works that were copied separately at different periods of time from the late 16th to the early 18th century.

Contents:

f. 1r: A tract, entitled: 'Howe a man shal be armed at his ease when he shall fight a ffoote'.

f. 1r: A tract, entitled: 'To arme a man'.

f. 1r: A tract, beginning: 'Memorandum that in the yeare of oure Lord 1480 and the xx yeare of our soveraigne Lord kyng Edward the forthe one St martynes daye was borne my Ladye Bridget and Christened one the morowe [of] St Martynes daye'.

f. 2r: Accounts of miraculous events, creatures, and objects in England, beginning: 'In England certayne kynd of spyrytes appeare which they call grant in the lyknes of a colt with sparkynge eyes which spryte so oft as it appereth it betokeneth fyre and looke where any greate fyre is there the nyght before it comonly appereth causyng all the dogges wheresoever it walketh to wake and barke at it'.

f. 2v: Latin account of the construction of Trinovantum (London) by Brutus.

ff. 4r-6r: Short history of Kent.

f. 6v: 'The kyndome of Sussex or South Saxons'.

ff. 7r-7v: Latin account of the kings of the Heptarchy.

ff. 8r-11v: 'Roberti Talbotti opus quoddam continens annotationes in eam partem Itinerarij Antonini quae ad Britanniam pertinet' [title on f. 11v; with a note by Humfrey Wanley, Keeper of the Harleian Library, on f. 8r: 'hic Tractatus incipit ad fol. 11.b'].

ff. 12r-16r: Anselm of Canterbury, Epistolae (fragments); written in the late 16th century.

ff. 17r-36v: Transcripts of charters from the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI in English and Latin.

ff. 37r-39v: 'The Copies of thevydencis off Barlestone in the countie of Stafforde'.

ff. 40r-41v: 'The Copies of thevydencis off Hengrave in the countie of Suffolk'.

ff. 42r-42v: 'The Copies of thevydencis of Colson Bassett in the countie of Notingham'.

ff. 43r-45r: 'The Copies of thevydencis of Thornebury in the countie of Gloucestre'.

ff. 45*verso-45**verso: Title inscriptions for the previous items: 'Carta de Thronbury' [sic] and 'The Chartre Thornebury'; and other inscriptions, including: 'Here lies Queene Maries Nurse'.

ff. 46r-103v: English translation of Niccolò Machiavelli, Il Principe [The Prince]; written in the late 16th century.

ff. 104r-109v: Niccolò Machiavelli, 'An Exhortation to delivre Italye from the Barbarians'; and dedication letter of 'The Prince' to 'Noble Prince Lawrence sonne of Peter de Medices'.

ff. 110r-143r: 'Of Predestinacion and the Providence of God'.

ff. 144r-152r: 'Orders, Rules, and directions concluded, appointed, and agreed uppon by us the Justices of the Peice within the Countie of Suffolk assembled at our generall Sessions of Peace holden at Bury the xxijth daie of Aprill in the xxxjth yeare of the raigne of our sovearaigne Lady the Queens Majestie for the punishinge and suppressinge of Rages vacabondes, Idle loyteringe and Lewde persons which doe or shall hereafter wander and goe aboute within the Hundreths of Thinge cum Bury, Blackborne, Thedwardstree, Cosford, Babinghe, Risbridge, Lackford, and the halfe hundreth of Exminge in the said Countie of Suffolk contrary to the Lawes in that case made and provided'.

ff. 153r-162v: Imperfect theological treatise in English; perhaps a translation of Cyprian, Liber de Unitate Ecclesiae.

ff. 163r, 163r-164v: 'An entretis of Saint Ciprian against [...] hereticque'; imperfect and possibly the first page of the previous item.

ff. 165r-170v: John Phillip, Account of the murder of George Saunders by George Browne on 25 March 1573, beginning: 'The vj daye of march about viij of the Clock in the morning Anno 1573'.

ff. 171r-171v: 'A Bull from Belzebub, wherein the most fatherlye admonisheth his soon the Pope and instructeth him how he should behave himself in governinge the Sea of Rome and the Whole World Joannis 8'.

ff. 172r-174v: Letter by 'Lucifer the Prince of Darknes, Governour of the dreadfull deep Dominium, Duke of Hell, Kinge of the infernall Lake, and Chief president of the place of eternall torture' to 'the hie universall Bishop, all the children of our kyngdome and all overseeres of al our late Synagoge [etc.]'; ending: 'Yeoven at the centre of the earth on our darke Pallore in the presence of the whole congregation of deviles assembled to this speciall purpose at our dreadfull consistory under the feorfull charrecter of our seale for the more effectuall avouchinge and perpetuall ratyfyeng of thes presents - Farfarellus - Catabriga our Secretary'.

ff. 175r-178r: Notes concerning Civil, Canon and Common Law.

ff. 179r-185r: English translation of Pierre Boitel's Défaite du faux amour par l'unique des braves de ce temps (1617): 'The overthrow of false love by the only brave of these days. departed by the same to the execution of so heroicall an action in the absence of Mars, Hercules, Mercury apollo and Nestor Gods fugitive from heaven of the Invention of P. Boitell, Lord of Gaubertin dedicated to the Lord of Vitry, Marshall of France'.

ff. 186r-201v: Paul D'Ewes (b. 1567, d. 1631), theological discourses in English.

ff. 202r-207v: Geometrical drawings and calculations; written in the 17th century or early 18th century.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 364 : Anselm of Canterbury, Epistolae; transcripts of charters from the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI; English translation of…

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1575

End Date:

1724

Date Range:

4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 18th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: Leaves of different sizes that have been mounted to fit a volume measuring 330 x 205 mm.

Foliation: ff. 45* + 45** + 207 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); ff. 45* and 45** are inserted paper leaves; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [iii]recto (bibliographical notes).

Script: 16th- and 17th-century cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled green half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Ralph Starkey (d. 1628) of Darley Hall in Oulton, owned and partially written by him: partially written in his hand, e.g. see ff. 1r, 46r, 163r-163v, 175r-178r (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), pp. 155, 327; and Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 314).

Sir Simonds D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton: recorded in his catalogues as X.79 (ff. 1-11); [?]A.952 (ff. 12-16); X.79 (ff. 17-45); A.442 (ff. 46-109); X.79 (ff. 110-203); perhaps a reference to him on f. 45**verso: 'Doctor Duwes S[er]mon farendel the Lord of Bridgewater […] 7 December 1619'; ff. 186r-201v are in the hand of Paul D’Ewes, Simonds D’Ewes’s father (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), 155, 215, 327; 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; according to a receipt in Additional MS 70478 (Portland Papers) [formerly Loan 29/254 packet 2] (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (1966), pp. 60, 91 n. 308; Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. xviii n. 3).

'Johnsons', (?) 17th century: his name inscribed above the first of the transcripts of charters on ff. 17r-36 (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

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. 211.

Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), pp. 60, 91 n. 308, 155, 215, 327.

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, p. xviii n. 3.

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. 131, 314.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Anselm of Canterbury, Saint, Abbot of Bec and Archbishop of Canterbury, c 1033-1109,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121451191,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100187025
Cyprian of Carthage, Saint, Bishop of Carthage, c 200-258,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000453789033,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100179090
Machiavelli, Niccolò, Italian writer and political theorist, 1469-1527

Places:

England