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Harley MS 1055

Record Id:

040-002046884

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046884

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000231

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1055

Title:

Funeral poems for Sir James Weston, Baron of the Exchequer

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. 1r: A title page: ‘Honors Monument: Or Faire vertues Record – In perpetuall Remembrance of the Generous worthy and Religious Sir James Weston Baron of the Eschequier etceterae’.

ff. 2r-3v: A letter to the recipient of the manuscript, entitled: ‘The Epistle Dedicatory – To the Right Vertuous, worthy, and Religious Gentelman, the Exact Patterne and Mirror of all vertue [added: ‘Mr N: Bacon Esquire’]’.

ff. 4r-5r: An epitaph for James Weston (d. 1633) entitled: ‘An Accrostique Epitaphe upon the noble name and Immortall Honor and Memory of the most worthy, Vertuous and Religious Sir James Weston, Baron of the Eschequier etcaetera lately deceased’.

f. 5v: ‘The Honorable Achievement and Armoriall Enseigne of the Religious, and Judicious Gentleman, Sir James Weston Knight, and one of the worthy Barons of his Majesty Exchequer etcaetera’; imperfect.

ff. 6r-7r: A poem on transitory life, entitled: ‘An Embleme of Mortality: Erected upon the Death of the truely worthy and vertuous Gentleman Sir James Weston, Baron of the Exchecquier etcaetera’.

ff. 8v-9r: The ‘Achievement of the hopefull, honorable, and vertuous young Gentlewoman [...] Grand Child and Herie to the honorable, Worthy, and Religious, Sir James Weston Knight: one of the Barons of his Majesty Exchequier’.

ff. 10r-10v: A poem on Sir James Weston, entitled: ‘Sir James Weston, Baron of the Eschequier His Soule’s farewell to the body’.

ff. 11r-12v: A poem on Sir James Weston, entitled: ‘To the honored name and Memory of Sir James Weston Knight one of the Barons of his Majesty Exchequir etcaetera’.

ff. 13r-33v: A poem on Sir James Weston, entitled: ‘True Worth’s Memoriall: A Monument of Remembrance Erected, To the immortall Memory of the late truely vertuous Religious and worthy gentleman, Sir James Weston, Knight – One of the Barons of the Exchequer, who departed this miserable and transitory Life at his chamber in the Temple, the 10 December 1633’.

f. 34r: An unfinished poem, entitled: ‘Sir James Weston, Baron of the Exchequer’.

f. 36r: A conclusion in Latin, French and English: ‘In being borne we die, we festch form Death / Our second life for in this world our Breath / Of Life is but a common Death, the Grave / Doth bound, and end, the Life , that here we have’.

Decoration:

The name of James Weston written in yellow (imitation gold) initials in the margins of ff. 4v-5r. The coat of arms Sir James Weston (f. 7r); and that of his grandchild of Sir James Weston (f. 9r) in colours and gold.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046884

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1055 : Funeral poems for Sir James Weston, Baron of the Exchequer

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1055]/040-002046884

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:

1633

End Date:

1633

Date Range:

1633

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 240 x 195 mm.

Foliation: ff. i + 36 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end); ff. 1v and 9v have been painted black.

Script: 16th-century script.

Binding: Post-1600. Marbled paper binding.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Nicholas Bacon (d. 1641), son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, husband of Anne Weston, daughter of Sir James Weston: his name inscribed in a dedicatory letter on f. 2r (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

John Spicer (fl. early 17th-century): appears to have owned the manuscript (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 311).

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), p. 525.

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. 390.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England