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Harley MS 847
- Record Id:
- 040-002046676
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046676
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000161
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 847
- Title:
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English poems and historical papers
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: An English poem by ‘W. C.’ to Henry Fradsham.
ff. 2r-35r: 'A Communicacion or Discourse of the Queenes highness Mariage debated betwixt some Gentlemen of the Court at Northhawt [crossed out: ‘Montharile’] in Essex and reported by syr Thomas Smythe knight to his neyghboure ffrancys W: [? Walsingham] Gentleman primo Aprilis Anno 1561’.
f. 35v: A poem ‘Of diligence out of Homere 2o Epist.’.
ff. 36r-49r: ‘Apocalipsis Golie Episcopi: The Revelation of Golias the Bisshoppe’.
ff. 49v: ‘The order of A campe or Armye Royall with the dutie of everie officer belonging to the same per R. Con. Milit. 1578’; with a colophon at the ending: ‘Here endethe the order of a Campe and Armye Royall together with the assault of anye towne or fort set downe by Sir Robert Constable knight in anno 1576’ .
ff. 64r-66r: 'An oration made at warwicke before Queen Elizabethe the eleventhe daie of Augusti n the fourtenthe yere of her highenes reigne by Edward Anglionbye esquire anno 1572’.
f. 66v: A poem 'Of Healthe';
f. 67r: 'A newe Married man to his unmaried frende, that reprehended him for marrienge so soone. Translated out of Frenche by W. C.'.
ff. 67v-95r: A treatise with 'Necessarye observacions and rules of the Italian tongue '.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 96r: An English poem: ‘Like as the shadowe flies awaye / when some Goethe out of sight / Even so by tyme our Life is spent / And put to suddaine flight’; added in the 16th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046676", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 847: English poems and historical papers" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046676 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 847 : English poems and historical papers - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0847]/040-002046676
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Italian - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1550
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 310 x 210 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 96 (+ 2 unfoliated paper leaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated paper leaf at the end); each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 17 February 1964.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
William Clerc [Clerk], owned in 1579: his ownership inscription on f. 1*recto and f. 96 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 105).
Henry Fradsham, owned after 1579: his ownership inscription on f. 1*recto; verses addressed to him as owner of this manuscript by W. C. on f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 157).
George Slye, owned in the 16th or 17th century: his name written on f. 96r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 306).
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), pp. 455-56.
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)
- Places:
- England