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Harley MS 623

Record Id:

040-002046452

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046452

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000081

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 623

Title:

Excerpts from Domesday Book by Sir Simonds D’Ewes

Scope & Content:

Autograph manuscript volume, in folio.

Title inscribed on first folio: ‘Excerptiones ex utroque Tomo sive Volumine appellato Domesdei, augustissimo et omnium antiquissimo in Achivis Regni Angliae cimeliorum Recordo; a Domino Simonds D’Ewes De Stowhall in agro Suffolciensi. Equite durato et Baronetto propria sua manu et incredibili pene industria selecta.’

Contents:

f. 2: ‘Prolegomena’. An introduction to the work.
f. 5v: ‘Elenchus sive series Provincia’. An alphabetical index of the counties within the book. The folio references follow the original foliation.
ff. 6-9: Extracts relating to Kent.
ff. 10-12v: Extracts relating to Sussex.
ff. 13-15v: Extracts relating to Surrey.
ff. 16-21v: Extracts relating to Hampshire.
ff. 22-25v: Extracts relating to Berkshire.
ff. 26-29v: Extracts relating to Wiltshire.
ff. 30-33v: Extracts relating to Dorset.
ff. 34-36v: Extracts relating to Somerset.
ff. 37-39v: Extracts relating to Devon.
ff. 40-41v: Extracts relating to Cornwall.
ff. 42-44v: Extracts relating to Middlesex.
ff. 45-48v: Extracts relating to Hertfordshire.
ff. 49-53v: Extracts relating to Buckinghamshire.
ff. 54-57v: Extracts relating to Oxfordshire.
ff. 58-62v: Extracts relating to Gloucestershire.
ff. 63-65v: Extracts relating to Worcestershire.
ff. 66-69v: Extracts relating to Herefordshire.
ff. 70-83v: Extracts relating to Cambridgeshire.
ff. 84-86v: Extracts relating to Huntingdonshire.
ff. 87-91v: Extracts relating to Bedfordshire.
ff. 92-95v: Extracts relating to Northamptonshire.
ff. 96-98v: Extracts relating to Leicestershire.
ff. 99-101v: Extracts relating to Warwickshire.
ff. 102-103v: Extracts relating to Staffordshire.
ff. 104-106v: Extracts relating to Shropshire.
ff. 107-110v: Extracts relating to Cheshire.
ff. 111-112v: Extracts relating to Derbyshire.
ff. 113-115v: Extracts relating to Nottinghamshire.
ff. 116-117v: Extracts relating to Rutland.
ff. 118-120v: Extracts relating to Yorkshire.
ff. 121-125v: Extracts relating to Lincolnshire.
ff. 126-128v: Extracts relating to ‘Clamores’ in Yorkshire.
ff. 129-154v: Extracts relating to Essex.
ff. 155-196v: Extract relating to Norfolk.
ff. 197-217v: Extracts relating to Suffolk.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046452

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 623 : Excerpts from Domesday Book by Sir Simonds D’Ewes

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0623]/040-002046452

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1602

End Date:

1650

Date Range:

1st half of the 17th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 375 x 245 mm.

Foliation: 217 folios. Also contains the original pagination.

Binding: Post-1600 binding. The arms of Sir Simonds D’Ewes have been added to the inside covers.

Custodial History:

Provenance:

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:

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. 131-137

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

D’Ewes, Simonds, 1st Baronet, diarist and antiquary, 1602-1650,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083393524,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12656415