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Harley MS 417
- Record Id:
- 040-002046245
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046245
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x000342
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100155073128.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 417
- Title:
- The second of two volumes of works and letters belonging to the martyrologist John Foxe
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-220v: The second of two volumes [the first volume is Harley MS 416] with collections of works and correspondence belonging to the martyrologist John Foxe (b. 1516/17, d. 1587). It includes an account of the life and death of Thomas Cranmer, featuring a printed leaf (ff. 92r-92v) with the title: ‘A declaracion of the reverent father in god Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury, condempnyng the untrue and flaunderus reporte, off some which have reportid that he should sett up the masse at Canterbury, at the first coming off the quene to her raygne 1553’ – ‘Imprynted 1557’, with an inscription that, according to another note, was written in ‘Bishop Grindals hand’ [Edmund Grindal, Bishop of London (1559), Archbishop of York (1570) and Canterbury (1575)]. The papers, some of which which feature different pressmarks, are dated to 1547-1575.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046245 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 417 : The second of two volumes of works and letters belonging to the martyrologist John Foxe - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0416]/040-002046245
- 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_100155073128.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1547
- End Date:
- 1575
- Date Range:
- 1547-1575
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 330-340 x 220-230 mm.
Foliation: ff. 48* + 84* + 94* + 214* + 220 (+ 7 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 6 at the end); f. 84 is a paper fragment with a French text mounted onto a paper leaf; f. 92 is a small leaf with printed text, mounted onto a paper guard; each leaf or bifolium has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- 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. 240-42.
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)