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Harley MS 1061
- Record Id:
- 040-002046890
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046890
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000237
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1061
- Title:
- A record of the trial of the divorce of King Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-16v: A record of the trial of the divorce of King Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves; signed by ‘Ricardus Watkyns’; ‘Anthonius Huse’; and ‘Thomas Argall’ with their notarial signatures.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 2*recto: Notes about two manuscripts (including Harley MS 1061), including: ‘Mr Dudly his booke written in the Tower io H 7’; added in the 16th century.
Decoration:
1 large calligraphically decorated initial and display initials with penwork decoration in black ink (f. 1r); 1 small calligraphically decorated initial in black ink on f. 16r.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046890", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1061: A record of the trial of the divorce of King Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046890 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1061 : A record of the trial of the divorce of King Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1061]/040-002046890
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1545
- End Date:
- 1555
- Date Range:
- c 1550
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 280 x 210 mm.
Foliation: ff. 16 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper leaf between f. 2* and f. 1; numerous blank leaves after f. 16.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: Post-1600.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
John Anstis the elder (b. 1669, d. 1744), herald and antiquary: his note of donation to Harley inscribed on f. 1*recto: ‘Viro Amplissimo Reoberto Harley DD Johannes Anstis’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 50-52).
Hum[phrey] Dyson (d. 1632): his name inscrbed on f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 143).
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. 528.
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)