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Harley MS 846
- Record Id:
- 040-002046675
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046675
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000160
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 846
- Title:
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A book on offices in and the making of a military camp
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: ‘Office of the most Charge Apperteyning unto A Campe withe declaracyon of the Generall dewtyes incidente unto Every of the tem Enseweth’.
ff. 2r-5v: ‘Office of the Highe Marshall in the ffyellde or Campe with the dewtyes belongyng’.
ff. 6r-8v: ‘Offyce of the Provest Marshall in the ffeillde or Campe with the dewtye pertiening to the same’.
ff. 9r-10r: ‘Office of the Master of thordynaunce in the ffyellde or Campe as followeth’.
ff. 11r-12v: ‘Office of the Seriaunte Maior in the fellde or Campe with the dewtyes perteigning to the ssame [sic]’.
ff. 13r-14r: ‘Office of the lieuetenante of the horsemen in the ffield or Campe with the dewtie perteining to the same’.
ff. 15r-15v: 'Office of the Scoute Master in the filde or campe wythe the dewtie appertayninge to the same'.
ff. 16r-21r: ‘Declaration of certain order of battailes as heare after ensewethe’.
ff. 22r-23v: A treatise of ‘certaine orderes howe a campe oughte to be piched [sic]’.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 1*recto: An inscription ‘Nov[ember] 1661 at the shop [? our agent] Mr Littlebury’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046675", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 846: A book on offices in and the making of a military camp" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046675 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 846 : A book on offices in and the making of a military camp - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0846]/040-002046675
- 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:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 310 x 200 mm.
Foliation: 1* + 23 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 13 unfoliated blank leaves after f. 23; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 1*recto.
Script: 16th-century.
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 6 February 1964.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
? Robert Littlebury (fl. 1650s), bookseller of Little Britain: an inscription on the paper pastedown on f. 1*recto perhaps includes a reference to the sale of the manuscript by Littlebury to Stillingfleet in 1661.
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:
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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. 455.
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. 387.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)