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Harley MS 416
- Record Id:
- 040-002046244
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046244
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x000341
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163436787.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 416
- Title:
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Works and correspondence belonging to John Foxe, the martyrologist, vol. 1
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-220v: The first of a set of volumes with collections of works and correspondence belonging to the martyrologist John Foxe (b. 1516/17, d. 1587), including a letter of the German Protestant reformer Urbanus Rhegius (b. 1489, d. 1541) to a 'German Lady' translated into English; original letters to King Henry VIII (1529-1530), original letters by Lady Jane Grey, John Knox, and Thomas Bentham; a copy of a letter from Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, to Charles I from the Tower of London, dated 4 May 1641.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046244", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 416: Works and correspondence belonging to John Foxe, the martyrologist, vol. 1" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046244 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 416 : Works and correspondence belonging to John Foxe, the martyrologist, vol. 1 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0415]/040-002046244
- 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_100163436787.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1524
- End Date:
- 1646
- Date Range:
- c 1529-c 1641
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 205-325 x 155-220 mm.
Foliation: ff. 73* + 240 (+ 6 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); ff. 63, 92-94, 125 are paper strips; ff. 76, 114 have paper foldouts at their lower margins; red wax seals on ff. 178v, 193r [remains], 221v, 223v, 226v, 231v [2x, covered with paper], 236v; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [v]recto (bibliographical notes) and f. [245]recto (notes on exhibitions).
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Brown mottled leather with the Harleian bookplate gold-stamped on the outsides of the upper and lower covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
John Foxe (b. 1516/17, d. 1587), martyrologist: his papers throughout the manuscript (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 157).
John Strype (b. 1643, d. 1737), historian and biographer, owned until 1709: purchased from him by Humfrey Wanley for the Harleian Library (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 321).
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. 236-40.
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. 379.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)