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Harley MS 1604
- Record Id:
- 040-002047434
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047434
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x00006f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1604
- Title:
- History and theology tracts
- Scope & Content:
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Composite volume of historical extracts relating to Westminster Abbey, notes on the history of England, and theological tracts. Contents:
f. 1: Notes on the building of Westminster Abbey by Henry III, taken from the history of Thomas Walsingham. Latin.
ff. 2-4: Account of the founding of the convent at Kilburn by Abbot Herbert of Westminster. From a register of Cenobius of Westminster, in the Cotton library. Headed ‘Prima fundatio monialium de Kylborne, per Abbatem Westmonasterij Herebertum’. Latin.
ff. 5-13: Further information on the founding and dedication of Westminster from various Cotton manuscripts. Headed ‘De fundatione huius Abbatiae Westmonasterij & dedicatione ejusdem’ . Latin.
ff. 14-19: Short notes relating to the history of England from the conquest to the reign of Richard II.
ff. 20-40: ‘Discursus de Confessione Fidei fundamentalis’. Addressed to John Forbes, by John Durie. Dated Stockholm, 16 Kalends March 1637. Latin.
ff. 41-50: Draft of part of an answer to an anabaptist writer. Starts ‘My deare Allie’.
ff. 51-55: ‘Observations upon a Report of ye grand Imposters by some affirmed to have been of late years Uttered & published in print’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047434", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1604: History and theology tracts" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047434 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1604 : History and theology tracts - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1605]/040-002047434
- 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:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 215 x 185 mm.
Foliation: 55 folios.
Binding: British Museum in-house binding 1973.
- Custodial History:
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The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 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 (1694-1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), 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.
Former owner: Henry Worsley, Governor of Barbados (d. 1747) (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 360)
- Finding Aids:
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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. 1604.
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. 360.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)