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Harley MS 994
- Record Id:
- 040-002046823
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046823
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0001f4
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 994
- Title:
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Tracts and lists relating to the Holy Roman Empire
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-9v: ‘How Germany is Devyded into .10. Kresies, that is to say Circutes, And the names of all such Estates, as dwell in ech of them particulerly’.
ff. 9v-17v: ‘The yearly Contribution that Every member of the Romain Empire payeth, for Deffence Against the Turk, which Contribution is called in their Language Turkstewr’.
ff. 18r-19v: Lists with names of the four 'Pillars of the Romish Empire'; 'Landgraves'; 'Margueses'; 'Viscounts'; 'Erles'; 'Princely Erles'; 'Marshalls'; 'Princely Abbots'; 'Mountains'; 'Borowes'; 'Barons'; 'Knights'; 'Citties'; 'Villages'; 'Paysants'; 'Townshipps; 'Lordes'; 'Hunters';' Officers of the Dukedome of Suavia'; 'Servants'
ff. 20r-20v: ‘A note towching the vij Electors’.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 21r: Notes on payments for 3,701 horsemen and 17,393 footmen; added in the late 16th century.
Decoration:
Printed full-borders with foliate motifs on each page. The outline of a coat of arms with crest in grey ink or paint (f. 20r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046823", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 994: Tracts and lists relating to the Holy Roman Empire" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046823 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 994 : Tracts and lists relating to the Holy Roman Empire - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0994]/040-002046823
- 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:
- 1582
- End Date:
- 1582
- Date Range:
- 1582
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 155 x 95 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 21 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper leaf between f. 1* and f. 1; originally foliated as ‘353’-‘392’ [indicating that it was part of a larger manuscript].
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: Post-1600; bound together with Harley MSS 3347 and 5363.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Nuremberg.
Provenance:
William Smith (b. c. 1550, d. 1618), merchant, traveler, topographer, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary at the College of Arms, 1597-1618, wrote the manuscript at Nuremberg, where he was keeper of the Goose Inn, in 1582: according to a note added to f. 1*recto: ‘Written in Nurmberg the 20. December .1582. Per W.S.’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 307).
An unknown English owner [? T. F.]a t Nuremberg in 1595: added a note, perhaps with a monogram of his/her initials on f. 1*recto: ‘In Nurim[berg] the xviijth of Maye 1595 – [TF]’.
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. 501.
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. 389.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Nuremberg, Germany