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Harley MS 570
- Record Id:
- 040-002046399
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046399
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00004c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100155076150.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 570
- Title:
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John Norden, Speculum Britannae
- Scope & Content:
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A draft autograph manuscript, first published in 1593, with significant alterations, as Speculum Britanniae. The first parte an historicall, & chorographicall discription of Middlesex. This was the beginning of a projected series of county maps of England that was never completed.
This manuscript features the architectural descriptions that were almost entirely omitted in the printed version. It was dedicated to Elizabeth I and William Cecil, and has extensive marginal annotations in Cecil's hand.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046399", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 570: John Norden, Speculum Britannae" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046399 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 570 : John Norden, Speculum Britannae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0570]/040-002046399
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100155076150.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1591
- End Date:
- 1593
- Date Range:
- 1591-1593
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 232 x 214 mm.
Foliation: ff. 43.
Binding: British Museum binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
William Cecil, first Baron Burghley (1520/21–1598).
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (1602–1650).
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert 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.
- 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. 352.
Elizabeth Goldring, Faith Eales, Elizabeth Clarke and Jayne Elisabeth Archer (eds), John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth I: A New Edition of the Early Modern Sources, Volume V (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), Appendix 6, pp. 125–40. A revised edition of Nichols' extracts published in 1788.
John Norden, Speculum Britanniae.The first parte an historicall, & chorographicall discription of Middlesex (London: Eliot's Court Press, 1593).
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), p. 174.
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. 99, 131, 258.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)