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Harley MS 943
- Record Id:
- 040-002046772
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046772
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0001c1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 943
- Title:
- Notebook of Richard Symonds in France and Italy
- Scope & Content:
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One of several notebooks used by Richard Symonds, royalist soldier and antiquary, during his visit to Italy 1649-1651. This notebook, which covers a period from November 1648, before the journey, to December 1651, consists of notes on personal affairs, his travel in France and Italy, with observations of the places, people, customs and religious observance, notes on churches, and lists of books, prints and drawings acquired.
Contents:
- ff. 1v-2r: Table of contents.
- ff. 3-20: Notes on family, financial and property matters, lists of books and property for safekeeping, and medicinal recipes.
- ff. 21-29: Financial arrangements, dates and expenditure for the journey to France.
- ff. 30v-45: Account of the journey in France, and observations on France, the Louvre (ff. 37-38), Paris (ff. 39v-40v), lists of books and maps (f. 41v-42v), French books worth buying (f. 44v-45r).
- ff. 46v-70: Observations on French customs, buildings, army, and religious observance.
- ff. 71-92r: Similar observations on the journey from to Italy by way of Savoy.
- ff. 93v-98v: ‘Discourses’ and ‘Observations’.
- ff. 99v-100r: ‘Voyage from Alexandria to Genoa’ [Alessandria to Genova].
- ff. 100v-110v: Lists of prints and drawings purchased in Rome, 1650-1651.
- ff. 110v-111v: Books purchased in Italy and France.
- ff. 112v-117: ‘Books, Stamps & other things bought at Bologna, Venice & Padoa, June 1651’.
- f. 119: Financial arrangements made in Italy, namely a loan from Thomas Knightley, Rome, 10 April 1651, and promissory note for money borrowed from Joseph Kent, consul in Venice.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046772", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 943: Notebook of Richard Symonds in France and Italy" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046772 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 943 : Notebook of Richard Symonds in France and Italy - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0943]/040-002046772
- 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:
- 1648
- End Date:
- 1651
- Date Range:
- 1648-1651
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 145 x 80 mm.
Foliation: 121 folios; blank folios unnumbered. Original pagination by author: 1-281.
Binding: British Museum binding.
- Custodial History:
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Formerly owned by Edward Stillingfleet (1635-1699).
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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), vol. 1, no. 943.
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.
- Publications:
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Anne Brookes, Richard Symonds in Rome, 1649-1651 (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Nottingham, 2000)
H. Ogden, and O. Ogden, ‘A Seventeenth-Century Collection of Prints and Drawings', in Art Quarterly, xi, 1948, pp. 42-73
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Symonds, Richard, royalist and antiquary, 1617-1660
- Related Material:
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The other notebooks compiled by Symonds during his time in France and Italy are Harley MS 942, Egerton MS 1635, Egerton MS 1636, and Add MS 17919 in the British Library, and Bodleian Library Rawlinson MS D 121.