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Harley MS 422
- Record Id:
- 040-002046250
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046250
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x000347
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163529926.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 422
- Title:
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Papers of John Foxe relating to Protestant and Catholic persecutions in England
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-172v: A collection of papers relating to Protestant and Catholic persecutions in 16th-century England, including the second and third debates of the Jesuit Edmund Campion (b. 1540, d. 1581) at the Tower of London in 1581 (ff. 136r-173v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046250", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 422: Papers of John Foxe relating to Protestant and Catholic persecutions in England" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046250 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 422 : Papers of John Foxe relating to Protestant and Catholic persecutions in England - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0421]/040-002046250
- 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_100163529926.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1531
- End Date:
- 1581
- Date Range:
- 1531-1581
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 305-310 x 200-205 mm.
Foliation: ff. 37* + 101* + 140* + 172 (+ 6 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); ff. 101* and 140* are paper strips; 1 unfoliated paper strip between f. 86 and f. 87 (featuring a note on the use of f. 87 for a ‘Biblical Exhibition 9th February 1911 – Returned January 1912’); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [176]verso (note of repairs); each leaf 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:
William Carter (b. in or before 1549, d. 1684), recusant printer: owned the Campion debates on ff. 136r-173v (see Holleran, A Jesuit Challenge (1999), p. 225).
Richard Topcliffe (b. 1532, d. 1604), interrogator and torturer of Catholics: seized the account of the Campion debates from William Carter (see Holleran, A Jesuit Challenge (1999), p. 225).
John Foxe (b. 1516/17, d. 1587), martyrologist: obtained the account of the Campion debates from Richard Topcliffe (see Holleran, A Jesuit Challenge (1999), p. 225); 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. 247-48.
James V. Holleran, A Jesuit Challenge: Edmund Campion's Debates at the Tower of London in 1581 (New York: Fordham University Press, 1999), p. 225.
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)