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Harley MS 545

Record Id:

040-002046374

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046374

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000033

LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 545

Title:

A collection of English historical texts, largely translated and copied by John Stow

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. 1*recto: A title-page by Sir Simonds D’Ewes: ‘Robert of Avesburie Keeper of The Reigster of the Court of Canterburie his historie of King E.3 Concerning his marveilous geste and wonderfull victories’.

f. 2r*recto: A table of contents, added by Sir Simonds D’Ewes.

ff. 1r-40v: Robert of Avesbury, Historia de Mirabilibus Gestis Edwardi III [translated into English and copied by Stow].

f. 41v: Robert of Avesbury, ‘Nomina interfectorum in praelio iuxta Peyters commisso inter dominum Edwardum primogenitum regis Angliae principem wallie et Regem Francie Johannem xix die mensis septembris A.D. millesimo CCCmo lvj etcaetera’ [copied by Stow].

f. 42v: A legenda for the letters ‘a’-‘d’ that another 16th-century hand has added to the list of names on f. 41v, beginning: ‘A: The names of them that were taken in the battall floeng [sic] the said day and yere’ [copied by another 16th-century hand].

ff. 43r-87v: Robert of Torigni, Chronica [copied by another 16th-century hand].

ff. 88r-110v: Extracts from the works of Ralph Niger and Ralph of Coggeshall [copied by Stow].

ff. 111r-112r: Exoniensis Ecclesie Historiola [copied by Stow].

ff. 112v-114v: 'A Catalog of the bishops of Excester' [copied by Stow].

ff. 115r-117v: Extracts from William Rishanger [copied by Stow].

ff. 118r-122r: Extracts from John of Trokelowe [copied by Stow].

ff. 122v-123r: Extracts from ‘Henry de Blandford of St Albans’ [copied by Stow].

ff. 124r-127r: Extracts ‘out of an adissyon to flores historiarum some tyme belongynge to donstaple priorye’ [copied by Stow].

f. 127v: A list of 'names of the order of Knights of the gartar made at windsore the yere that Sigismount Kynge of Rome and Emperour of almayne was in England: the yeare of Kynge henry the fifthe reygninge’ [copied by Stow].

ff. 128r-130r: ‘The history in some part of Sir John burley Knyght of the Gartar in Edward the thirds dayes' [copied by Stow].

ff. 131r-132r: Chronicle of Tewkesbury Abbey [copied by Stow].

f. 133r: 'The parishes in england taken owt of mastar gofreys office - The parishes in england taken out of the mapps that are now printed' [copied by Stow].

ff. 133v-134r: The history of the 'Gwyldhall of Esterlins [...] in london [of] the marchaunts of almayne' [copied by Stow].

ff. 134v-135r: ‘A remembraunce of the first battayle at seint Albons’ [coped by Stow].

ff. 135r-136v: ‘The answer by the kynge to the duke of yorke’ [copied by Stow].

ff. 136v-138v: ‘The complayntes of the comons of kent and cawses of thassemblye on the blacke hethe of Jak Cade theyr capitayne anno 1450’ [copied by Stow].

f. 138*recto: A title-page by Sir Simonds D’Ewes: ‘Extracts of out the Chronicle of Adam Murymouth Chanon of London Ab A.D. 1303 anno xxxi. E. i. ad annum usque 1337 annum xi. E. 3.; together with a continuation of the saied Chronicle Ab A.D. 1337 anno xi. E. 3. ad annum usque 1381 annum 5. Regis R. 2.; A quodam Anonymo; Transcribed by John Stow the Chronicles with his owne hand’.

ff. 139r-151r: ‘Noates taken out of Adam Merimowthes continuation who begynnethe the yere at mychelmas’ [copied by Stow].

ff. 151v-167r: ‘A contynuatyon of the tymes folowynge; by an auctor unknown, he begineth the yere at Christmas’ [copied by Stow].

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046374

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 545 : A collection of English historical texts, largely translated and copied by John Stow

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0545]/040-002046374

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:

1500

End Date:

1599

Date Range:

16th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 210 x 155 mm.

Foliation: ff. 1* + 2* + 138* + 167 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 46 and f. 47; and f. 138 and f. 138*; f. 41 is a paper foldout.

Script: 16th- and 17th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

John Stow [Stowe] ( b. 1524/5, d. 1605)), chronicler and antiquary: translated and written by him (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 319).

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): his title-pages on f. 1*recto and f. 138*recto; listed in his catalogues as A.450xi.

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), p. 348.

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.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England