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Harley MS 419
- Record Id:
- 040-002046247
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046247
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x000344
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163529562.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 419
- Title:
- A volume of treatises and letters on theological matters belonging to the martyrologist John Foxe
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-179r: A volume of treatises and letters on theological matters belonging to the martyrologist John Foxe, including 16th-century letters to Cardinal Wolsey and King Henry VIII.
The manuscript also features some early materials, including:
a chronicle of England going up to 1337 [possibly from this period or slightly later] (ff. 28r-47v);
a collection of 15th-century texts related to Henry V (ff. 55r-63v), including letters by Pope Martin to Henry V concerning privileges granted to Syon Abbey, dated to 15 September 1417; a license for the dean of Hospital Chapel to hear confession of the king and his followers; a portable altar for the king; and Arthur, constable de Richemont, as prisoner of Henry V (1415-1420);
fragments of an English life of a French priest who shared ideas with the Protestants, perhaps from about 1500 (ff. 64r-67v).
The latest item in the manuscript is a tract relating the lease of the parson or prebendary of the parsonage of Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire, going from John Foxe up to 1680. The manuscript ends with a list of the headings for a history on papal encroachments upon princes.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046247", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 419: A volume of treatises and letters on theological matters belonging to the martyrologist John Foxe" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046247 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 419 : A volume of treatises and letters on theological matters belonging to the martyrologist John Foxe - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0418]/040-002046247
- 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_100163529562.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1345
- End Date:
- 1685
- Date Range:
- c 1350-c 1680
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 265-330 x 180-225 mm.
Foliation: ff. 179 (+ 6 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); ff. 153-159, and 166 are small paper strips; 1 wax seal [covered with paper] on f. 153r; each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: Gothic; 16th- and 17-century scripts.
Binding: British Museum in-house; mottled brown leather with a foliate border and the Harleian armorial 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: obtained the manuscript from John Foxe; 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. 242-44.
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)