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Harley MS 1588
- Record Id:
- 040-002047418
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047418
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x00005f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1588
- Title:
- Reports of law cases from the reign of Queen Elizabeth
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-170r, 178r-192r: Reports of law cases from the 23rd until the 37th years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth; in English and Law French.
ff. 171r-177r: 'Cases hors del Curia Wardorum'.
ff. 192r-194r: Case between Lord Buckhurst and Justice Fenner, 40 Elizabeth I.
ff. 194r-198r: 'Certeine Notes sur Statut de 32 H. 8 de Rents'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047418", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1588: Reports of law cases from the reign of Queen Elizabeth" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047418 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1588 : Reports of law cases from the reign of Queen Elizabeth - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1589]/040-002047418
- 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:
- 1575
- End Date:
- 1605
- Date Range:
- c 1580-c 1600
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 205 x 150 mm (text space: 185 x 110 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 198 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); f. 1* is a paper leaf at the beginning; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 1*recto; 1 unfoliated modern paper pastedown on f. [200]verso (conservation notes).
Collation: Each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Script: 16th-century Gothic cursive (Secretary).
Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
'Mr Vivian', 17th century: their names inscribed (? by Worsley) on a paper pastedown on f. 1r: 'Baught of Mr Vivian or [? Benson]' (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
Henry Worsley (b.1675, d. 1741), scholar and manuscript collector, envoy at the court of Portugal (1714-21) and governor of Barbados (1721-31): donated to Robert Harley before December 1712 together with other manuscripts from his collection (now Harley 1585-1747, 1811, 1812) before December 1712 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 361).
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), II (1808), p. 146.
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. 361.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England