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Harley MS 697

Record Id:
040-002046526
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002046526
MDARK:
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LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 697
Title:

Council book for the province of Munster, Ireland

Scope & Content:

A council book containing official records for the province of Munster, Ireland.

Contents:

  • f. 1: Drawing of Queen Elizabeth I, within the initial 'E' of 'Emanuell'.
  • f. 2: Full title for the volume: 'The Councell booke for the province of Mounster, contayninge all the Actes, Recirdes and entries of that provinciall state, from the xxth daie of August 1601 forward'. Underneath is an index to the volume.
  • ff. 3-5: Two records from 1610.
  • ff. 6-52v: Orders, decrees, and concordations. 1601-1616.
  • ff. 53-111: Recognizances and Instructions. 1601-1621.
  • ff. 112-131v: Pledges and alterations of pledges, with petitions and letters from the Council of England. 1604-1649.
  • ff. 132-170v: Entries of commissions and letters of state. 1599-1614.
  • ff. 171-200v: Entries of proclamations and inhibitions by the Lord President and Council. 1601-1618.
  • ff. 201-203: 'Generall hoastinges and Rysinges oute'. 1616-1617.
  • f. 204: Record labelled 'XX September 1602'.
  • f. 205v: 'The Entry of officers for this journey'. 1602.
  • f. 206v: Record labelled 'XXI December 1601'.
  • f. 207v: Some short notes. 7 June 1603.
  • f. 208-208v: A medieval end-leaf. Part of a previous binding for this volume. Decretales Gregorii IX (fragment), written in the 14th century.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-002046526
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 697 : Council book for the province of Munster, Ireland
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[0697]/040-002046526
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:
1300
End Date:
1649
Date Range:
14th century-1649
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 430 x 280 mm.

Foliation: 1-70, 70*, 71-116, 116*, 117-208 folios.

Binding: British Museum binding.

Custodial History:

Provenance:

This manuscript previously belonged to Edward Stillingfleet.

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. 316-318

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Places:
Munster, Ireland