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Harley MS 454
- Record Id:
- 040-002046282
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046282
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0003a7
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 454
- Title:
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Diary and accounts of Sir Humphrey Mildmay
- Scope & Content:
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Folio manuscript volume containing the diary and expenses of Sir Humphrey Mildmay of Danbury, Essex.
Contents:
- f. 1: Memorandum acknowledging receipt of money, signed by Jane Mildmay and Cisilya Mildmay, wife and daughter of Sir Humphrey Mildmay.
- f. 2: Accounts of his son, John Mildmay, 1642.
- f. 3: An inscription of Peter Le Neve, 1696, and other notes.
- ff. 4-107: Diary of Sir Humphrey Mildmay, 3 July 1633-9 May 1652.
- ff. 108-184v (upside down): Starting from the end of the book are the accounts of Sir Humphrey Wanley, showing his daily expenses, 21 January 1631-22 July 1652.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046282", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 454: Diary and accounts of Sir Humphrey Mildmay" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046282 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 454 : Diary and accounts of Sir Humphrey Mildmay - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0453]/040-002046282
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1631
- End Date:
- 1652
- Date Range:
- 1631-1652
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 295 x 175 mm.
Foliation: 184 folios.
Binding: British Library binding.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
This manuscript previously belonged to Peter Le Neve, whose name has been inscribed by Humfrey Wanley at the front of the volume.
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 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 (1694-1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Finding Aids:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), Volume I
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A study of the sources of the Harleian collection of manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 219-221, 240
- Publications:
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Ralph, Philip Lee, Sir Humphrey Mildmay: Royalist Gentleman (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1947)
St. John Mildmay, Herbert Alexander, A Brief Memoir of the Mildmay Family (London, 1913), pp. 77-101
Collier, John Payne, The History of English Dramatic Poetry (London: George Bell and Sons, 1879), Vol. I-II
Bentley, G. E., Jacobean and Caroline Stage (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1948), Vol. II, pp. 673-681
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Mildmay, Humphrey, Sir, Justice of the Peace and High Sheriff of Essex, b 1592