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Harley MS 1619

Record Id:

040-002047449

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002047449

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x00007e

LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1619

Title:

Collection of theological and historical treatises, including an English translation of Aristotle's Politics

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. 1r: Notes in English, concerning the price of a hide of land, and the foundations of colleges in Oxford, Cambridge and Westminster.

f. 2r: Definition of 'Abacus'.

ff. 2r-2v: 'Twelfe steppes that a Christian may stride towards heaven, and being in the first may think him self a good Christian, yet except he stride the 13th, he shall misse heaven oute and fale into the fire of hell forever'.

ff. 3r-4r: 'The heavenlie and spirituall beads of a Christian to be meditated on, and said over in whole or in part everie day, for the godlie governing and reforming of our thoughts, words, and deeds, respecting god, our selves, and others, and therfore consisteth of ten vowes, having ten precepts for eache, as the earthlie beads have stones, wherby we may encrease in knowledge, and confort of a godlie life, and be readie for a godlie death in Christ our saviour'.

f. 5r: A tract on William the Conqueror, with a 'catalog of such noblemen, lords, and gentlemen, as came into this land with william conquerour, out of william Tailleur [Guillaume Talleur, publisher of the anonymous Chroniques de Normandie at Rouen in 1487] that wrott the chronicles of Normandy'.

f. 6t: A crossed out text, headed 'Liber 1. De Theologia Cap. 1', beginning: ''Theologia, est scientia veritatis que est de deo, ad recte beateque vivendum'; which appears to be taken from Dudley Fenner (b. c. 1558, d. 1587), Sacra theologia (Geneva, 1585).

ff. 6r-34r: Account in English of the creations of the English nobility from the Conquest to Sir Henry Norres, who was made Lord Norries by Queen Elizabeth I in 1572.

ff. 34v-37r: Account in English of the marriages and heiresses to the English nobility.

f. 38r: A note on the title of Philip II, King of Spain ( r. 1556-1598), beginning: 'Philip by the grace of god king of Castile'.

ff. 39r-143r: Aristotle, Politics (English translation).

ff. 144r-155r: An untitled English account of the history of Syria, Palestine and Egypt, from the death of Alexander the Great to Herod, son of Antipater; collected from various authors and referring to the prophecies of Daniel.

ff. 156v-162v (bound upside down): 'Nesesarye notes for the beter understandinge of the varietye of tydes by the cource of the mone'.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002047449

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1619 : Collection of theological and historical treatises, including an English translation of Aristotle's Politics

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1620]/040-002047449

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:

1567

End Date:

1590

Date Range:

c 1572-c 1585

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 365 x 245 mm (text space: 290-315 x 160-170 mm).

Foliation: ff. 10* + 15* + 16* + 18* + 18** + 20* + 22* + 25* + 95* + 163 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); ff. 10* + 15* + 16* + 18* + 18** + 20* + 22* + 25* + 95* are strips of paper; ff. 7, 18 are smaller paper leaves; 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf after ff. 5; 12 after f. 38; 9 after f. 143; 12 after f. 155; 3 after f. 162; fragment of the former spine (with an inscription in gold: 'Aristotle Politicks') has been pasted on f. [iv]recto.

Collation: Each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.

Script: 16th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the outside covers; re-bound on 18 July 1968. The former binding (blind-stamped and -tooled brown leather) has been pasted on the inside covers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Walter Wilson, owned in the 17th century: his name inscribed in a donation inscription on f. 1r: 'Jacobus Fullerton ex dono Walteri Wilson' (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

James Fullerton, owned in the 17th century: his name inscribed in a donation inscription on f. 1r (see above); and 10 times on f. 163v as 'James Fullerton' and 'Jacobus Fullerton' (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

? 'John Breten', (?) 17th century: his name inscribed in a verse on f. 1r: 'John Bret[e]n is my name / and with my pen I wrat [the same]' (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

? Anne Bedford, (?) 17th century: her name inscribed in a verse on f. 163v: 'Ane Bedford is my name / and with my blode I write the same' (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

? 'R.W.[?N] Holland', (?) 17th century: their name inscribed on f. 163v (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

? 'Edmond Borke', (?) 17th century: his name inscribed twice on f. 163v (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

Henry Worsley (b. 1675, d. 1747), scholar and manuscript collector, envoy at the Court of Portugal (1714-21) and governor of Barbados (1721-31); donated by him to Robert Harley together with other manuscripts from Worsley's collection (now Harley MSS 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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 161.

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)

Names:

Aristotle, philosopher, 384 BC-322 BC
Fenner, Dudley, Church of England clergyman and Calvinist theologian, c 1558-1587,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000081359381

Places:

England