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Harley MS 831
- Record Id:
- 040-002046660
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046660
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000151
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100153853216.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 831
- Title:
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George Puttenham, An Apology or True Defence of Her Majesty's Honourable and Good Renown
- Scope & Content:
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f. 1r: 'An apologie, or true defence of her Maiesties honor and good renowne against all such as haue unduelie sought or shall seek to blemish the fame, with any injustice, crueltie, or other unprincely behaviour in any parte of her Maiesties proceedings against the late Scotish Queene, Be it for her first surprince, imprisonment, process, attaynder or death. By very firme reasons, authorities, & examples, proveing that her Maiestie hath done nothing in the said action against the rules of honor: or armes or otherwise, not warrantable by the law of God & of Man Written by George Puttenham to the service of her maiestie & for large satisfaction of all such persons both princely & private, who by ignorance of the case, or partiallitie of mind shall happen to be irresolute & not well satisfyed in the said cause’
f. 1v: notes by a 17th-century reader on the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. The treatise begins on f. 2r.
This work was edited by the Camden Society in 1867, using the manuscript now held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046660 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 831 : George Puttenham, An Apology or True Defence of Her Majesty's Honourable and Good Renown - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0831]/040-002046660
- 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_100153853216.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1640
- Date Range:
- Early 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 305 x 194 mm.
Foliation: ff. 69 + 13 (old pagination pp. 137).
Binding: British Museum binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Edward Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester and theologian (1635–1699).
Robert Harley bought Stillingleet's manuscripts in 1707.
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. 453.
‘A Justification of Queene Elizabeth in relation to the Affaire of Mary Queene of Scottes’, in Accounts and Papers relating to Mary Queen of Scots, ed. Allan J. Crosby and John Bruce, Camden Society, 93 (1867), pp. 67–134.
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), p. 316.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)