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Harley MS 452
- Record Id:
- 040-002046280
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0003a5
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 452
- Title:
- Year book of King Henry VI for the first 11 years of his reign
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r-234v: The Year Book of King Henry VI for the first 11 years of his reign; the 5th, 6th and 8th years have been removed.
The manuscript contains a few additions:
ff. 1r-1v, 236r-236v: St Augustine of Hippo, De Civitate Dei; fragments from a 14th-century manuscript.
f. 2v: A list of the reigns of English kings, from Henry III to Henry VII; added in the 15th century.
ff. 24r-24v: Notes added in the (?) 17th century; with an address to ‘Mr Edward Heanden’ written in 16th-century script.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046280", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 452: Year book of King Henry VI for the first 11 years of his reign" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046280 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 452 : Year book of King Henry VI for the first 11 years of his reign - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0451]/040-002046280
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1425
- End Date:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper and parchment.
Dimensions: 295 x 210 mm.
Foliation: ff. 236 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment leaf between f. 23 and f. 24; 1 unfoliated paper leaf between f. 71 and f. 72; and f. 211 and f. 212; f. 235 is a parchment strip mounted onto a paper guard; f. 1 and f. 236 are parchment endleaves originating from another manuscript.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Sir John Baker (? after 1538): his name inscribed on f. 1v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani, pp. 59-60).
John Scutt, owned in the 17th century: his name inscribed on f. 1v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 299).
Edward Henden, Serjeant-at law and Baron of the Exchequer 1639: his name and motto ‘Salus mea Christi hostia’ written on f. 1v; with a note recording the gift by John Scutt (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 186); his name inscribed in an address ‘To the Right Worshipfull Mr Edward Heanden Esquire att his housse in Rolvende [Rolvenden, Kent]' on f. 24v.
Peter Le Neve (b. 1661, d. 1729), Rouge Croix Pursuivant 1690: given by him to Harley; his name added by Harley on f. 1r: ‘Mr Le Neve’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani, pp. 219-21).
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), III (1808), p. 320.
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. 380.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)