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Harley MS 1030

Record Id:

040-002046859

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046859

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000218

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1030

Title:

A historical and religious miscellany

Scope & Content:

This miscellany consists of four different parts.

Part one (ff. 1-6) is in English and was written in the 17th century.

Part two (ff. 7-72) is in English and was written in the 17th century.

Part three (ff. 73-85) is in French and was written in 1598.

Part four (ff. 86-92) is in English and was written in the 17th century.

Contents:

ff. 1r-6v: A historical tract in French on the origin of France and history of the French kings.

ff. 7r-25r: Five English letters, beginning: ‘Greatly would the latter part of your letter have troubled mee, had I not bin long since resolved not to yield my self’.

ff. 26r-72r: Notes from Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, His Divine Weekes and Works; as translated by Josuah Sylvester.

f. 73r: The opening of a letter in French, beginning ‘Madamoyselle, Le plus grand honneur’; above ‘Omnia vincit amor’.

ff. 74r-77r: ‘Brevet du Roy de France pour la seurete des affaires de fes Subjects de la Religion Reformee Donne a Nantes le dernier d'Avril 1598'.

ff. 77r-78v: ‘Formulaire d'attestation pour ceux aux queles le Roy accordera les gouvernemens'.

ff. 79r-79v: ‘Brevet pour la somme de quarente cinq mille escus pour lentrenement des pasteurs et professurs en Theologie soubz le titre d' affaires secretes [3 Avril 1598]’.

f. 80r: ‘Distribution des 4s mille escus […] octroies par le Roy suivant le Contenu en brevet […]; faicte au Synode de Montpellier et departye a chacune Province’.

ff. 80v-81r: ‘Formulaire du puvoir, que donneront doresenavant, les Provinces aux Deputes qu'elles envoyeront en l'Assemblee - Extraict de quelques Articles de l'Assemblee de Chastelleaud’.

ff. 82r-84v: ‘De la Governement de l'Estat de France

ff. 85r-85v: ‘De la Maison du Roy’.

ff. 86v-92r: An extract from a book about Martin Luther in English.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046859

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1030 : A historical and religious miscellany

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1030]/040-002046859

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1598

End Date:

1699

Date Range:

1598-17th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 225 x 170 mm.

Foliation: ff. 92 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 7 between f. 72 and f. 73; 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves between f. 6 and f. 7; 1 between f. 85 and f. 86. ff. 74-85 originally were foliated as ‘1-12’; ff. 86-92 as ff. ‘1-19’ [erased].

Script: 16th- and 17th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1635, d. 1699), Bishop of Worcester: according to Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 316.

Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; inherited his father’s collection; 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), pp. 513-14.

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:

England