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Harley MS 836

Record Id:

040-002046665

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046665

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000156

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 836

Title:

The Last Enstructions which the Emperour Charles the fiveth gave to his soune Philippe before his death

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-61v: A ‘copie of the Last Enstructions which the Emperour Charles the fiveth gave to his soune Philippe before his death translated out of Spanish’; preceded by an introduction by Henry Howard (b. 1540, d. 1614), 1st Earl of Northampton, addressed to Queen Elizabeth I.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046665

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 836 : The Last Enstructions which the Emperour Charles the fiveth gave to his soune Philippe before his death

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0836]/040-002046665

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1550

End Date:

1599

Date Range:

2nd half of the 16th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 305 x 205 mm.

Foliation: ff. 63 (+ 1 unfoliated paper leaf at the beginning).

Script: 16th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house; bound together with Harley MS 6247.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

‘Thomas Puleston’, owned in the 16th century: a Latin verse inscribed by him ‘Per me Thomas Puleston’; his name inscribed twice more on f. 63v (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

‘Evan Williams’, owned in the late 16th or early 17th century: his memorandum on f. 62v: ‘Be itt knowne unto all men by thes presented that I Evan Williames of the Cittie of Exeter aknowledg my sallfe to bee indepted unto [the sayd] J[ohn] Turner Cittizne [sic] and draper of London the some of’; his surname inscribed on f. 63r; his name inscribed three times on f. 63v; household notes on f. 63v that refer to a purchase from ‘John Turner’ and appear to be in the same hand as the memorandum on f. 62v, are dated to 1611 (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

‘Raph Addisson’, owned in the (?) 17th century: his name inscribed on f. 63v (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1635, d. 1699), Bishop of Worcester: his manuscripts were bought for £175 in 1707 by Robert Harley (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 316).

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. 454.

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. 386.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)