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Harley MS 1338
- Record Id:
- 040-002047167
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047167
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00034c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163602764.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1338
- Title:
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A collection of university determinationes, once including a fair copy of material relating to King Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-85v: A collection of university determinationes. It once included a fair copy of material relating to King Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047167", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1338: A collection of university determinationes, once including a fair copy of material relating to King Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047167 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1338 : A collection of university determinationes, once including a fair copy of material relating to King Henry VIII's marriage to… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1338]/040-002047167
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100163602764.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 290 x 200 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 85 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Pre-1600. Brown boards with patterned decoration and crowned Tudor rose.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
King Henry VIII of England (b. 1491, d. 1547): owned by him.
Magister Phesant, unidentified owner: inscribed with his name in a note recording the gift of the manuscript by him to Sir Francis Prujean (f. 1*r).
Sir Francis Prujean (b. 1593, d. 1666), president of the College of Physicians 1650-1654: inscribed with his name in anote recording the gift of the manuscript to him by Magister Phesant (f. 1*r).
Richard Smith (b. 1590, d. 1675), book collector: owned by him (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 307).
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 forms 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), II (1808), no. 1338.
Wright, Cyril Ernest, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 187, 275, 307.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)