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Harley MS 543

Record Id:

040-002046372

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046372

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000031

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 543

Title:

Collection of English historical texts

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-24v: Annals from the reign of Edward III.

ff. 25r-30v: Henry Knighton, Chronicon, excerpt about John Wycliffe.

ff. 31r-49r: A history with the title ‘The Historie of the arrivall of K. Edward IV. in England and the finall recoverie of his kingdomes from Henry VI. in Anno Domini 1471’; ending ‘here endethe the Arryvaile of Kynge Edward the Fowrthe, out of mastar flyghtwods book, Recordar of London’.

ff. 50r-91v: A history with the title ‘The History of Loys Duke of Orleans’.

ff. 93r-118r: Extracts from the history of ‘Philipp de Comines knight lord of Argenton’.

f. 118v: A list of qualities for different types of men, beginning ‘In a pore man fidelitie / In a yonge clerke humilitie / In a prelate sience’; followed by another list with maxims about men and women, beginning ‘The prelate prays for all / The emperour defends all / The plowman fedes all’.

f. 118v: A blazon of ‘Arthurs .6. banars’.

f. 118v: A calculation of ‘men slayne in the batayle between kynge harald, and william duke of normandy / 47944’; followed by other historical notes.

ff. 119r-119v: Excerpts about historical events, entitled ‘Noates taken owt of a Boke, borowyd of mastar Yorke Heralde in the monithe of octobar in anno 1579’.

ff. 199v-128r: A historical text entitled ‘The receyvinge and coronation of Lady Ann queene wyfe to Kynge Henry the VIII. Anno regni 25 Anno christi 1533’.

ff. 128r-130r: A historical text entitled ‘The Christeninge of the lady Elizabethe dowghtar to Kynge Henry the eyght the xxv yere of his reigne, Anno domini 1533’.

ff. 130r-130v: A historical text entitled ‘Creations at Bridwell, the xviij of June, the xvij yere of Henry the viij’; and ‘Creations at Lambithe, in the Archbyshope of Canterburys Place, the .v. yere of Henry the viij on candlemas day’; followed by other creations of nobility during the same reign.

ff. 131r-139r: A historical text entitled ‘The marriage of the Prince Charles Duke of Burgoyne, with Margaret, sustar to Kynge Edward the fowrthe, kynge of England’.

f. 140v: Notes concerning the coronation of Edward IV.

ff. 141r-143v: A fragment of the relation of the reception and entertainment of Philip King of Castile, by Henry VII in 1505.

f. 144r: A poem against the Earl of Suffolk, 1448, beginning ‘But Suthfolke Salesbury and Say’.

ff. 144r-151r: Letters of Edward IV, Henry VI, Queen Margaret and Prince Edward.

ff. 151r-152r: The ‘Speech of the Spekar of the Parliament to Henry the 6’, dated 1423.

ff. 152r-153r: Concerning the 2d. 3d. and 4th Parliaments of King Henry IV.

ff. 153r-161r: Articles between the English Commissioners and French towns (e.g. Calais) concerning their surrender, dated 1418-1425.

ff. 161r-163r: A historical text entitled ‘Articles of the Duc of Yorke agaynst the Byshope of Chichestar’; followed by his answer.

ff. 163r-163v: A historical text entitled ‘Answer of the Duke of Somerset to the Credence to him sent by the Kynge of Scots’: followed by the proceedings thereupon.

ff. 163v-164r: A historical text entitled ‘Replication agaynst the clayme of the Duke of Yorke’.

ff. 164r-168r: Articles of Ralph Nevile; the Commons of Kent; Commons of Yorkshire, dated 1459, 1460, and 1469.

ff. 168r-169v: A historical text entitled 'The manar and gwidynge of the erle of warwycke at aungiers, from the xv day of July to the iiij of August which day he departed from aungiers'.

ff. 169v-174r: Letters sent by the Duke of Carence and Earl of Warwick from France to the Commons of england (1470); and King Edward IV to the Duke of Clarence and Earl of Warwick; followed by other texts related to the Duke of Clarence and Earl of Warwick.

ff. 174r-174v: A historical text entitled 'The promesse of matrimonye, by loyes kynge of ffraunce for the Dolphen his sonne, unto Edward Kynge of England'.

ff. 175r-181r: A calculation of the loss of income from devastated and destroyed town and villages (Latin), made by Henry Beaumont (d. 1607) and Thomas Ardington, knights of the County of Leicester, and members of the Parliament.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046372

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 543 : Collection of English historical texts

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0543]/040-002046372

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:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 210 x 150 mm.

Foliation: ff. 181 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper leaf between f. 30 and f. 31; 2 between f. 49 and f. 50; 1 between f. 92 and f. 93.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

John Stow (b. 1524/1525, d. 1605), historian, wrote the manuscript: written in his hand (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 318).

Sir Simonds D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 131): ff. 1-30, and 50-181 are recorded in his catalogues as A.450.ix.

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), pp. 347-48.

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. 382.

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: The British Library, 2005), no. 556.5/1.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)