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Harley MS 473
- Record Id:
- 040-002046301
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046301
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0003ba
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 473
- Title:
- John Dee, Notes on a journey in Chester and Wales made in 1574
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1*recto-26v: John Dee, Notes on a journey in Chester and Wales made in 1574.
The manuscript contains two additions:
f. 1*recto: A title: ‘Certaine verie rare observations of Chester and some parts of Wales with divers Epitaphes Coat armours and other monuments verie orderlie and labouriouslie gathered together’; added by Sir Simonds D'Ewes.
ff. 27r-27v: An endleaf from a 13th-century legal text; the off-set of a religious medieval text on f. 27v.
Decoration:
Coats of arms and drawings of landscapes in brown ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046301", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 473: John Dee, Notes on a journey in Chester and Wales made in 1574" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046301 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 473 : John Dee, Notes on a journey in Chester and Wales made in 1574 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7815]/040-002046301
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1575
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper; and parchment (f. 27).
Dimensions: 150 x 100 mm.
Foliation: 1* + 27 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 6 unfoliated paper leaves between f. 24 and f. 25; 1 unfoliated folded paper pastedown on f. [i]recto; and 1 paper pastedown on f. [ii]recto (notes on the manuscript).
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
John Dee (b. 1527, d. 1609), mathematician, astrologer, and antiquary: his hand throughout (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 127).
? John Prise [or ap Rhys] (b. 1501/2, d. 1555), administrator and scholar, visitor of monasteries, owned f. 27: his name and those of his (?) family members inscribed on f. 27r: ‘My good Cozen [J]ane Prise’; ‘Sir John Prise maryed MS [...]’; ‘Grigory Prise’ (on him see Ker, ‘Sir John Prise’ (1955), pp. 1-24 [without this manuscript]; not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist and antiquary (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 131): added a title-page to 1*recto; recorded in his catalogues as M.64.
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (d. 1722), 3rd baronet and grandson of the former: inherited and later sold the D’Ewes library to Robert Harley on 4 October 1705 for £450.
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), p. 324.
Neil R. Ker, ‘Sir John Prise’, The Library: Fifth Series, 10:1 (1955), pp. 1-24.
F. Noble, 'The identification of Dr. John Dee as the author of Harleian MS. 473 from its Radnorshire references.', Transactions of the Radnorshire Society, 26 (1956), pp. 40-42.
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. 380.
R. J. Roberts, 'John Dee and the Matter of Britain', Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, (1991), pp. 129-43, at 135-38.
Daniel Huws, A Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Sources c.800-c.1800, 3 vols (Aberystwyth: The National Library of Wales and University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, 2022), I, p. 672.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)