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Harley MS 1641
- Record Id:
- 040-002047471
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047471
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000094
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100162921244.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1641
- Title:
- Accounts of Sir Thomas Heneage, Treasurer of the Queen’s Chamber, 1585-1586
- Scope & Content:
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Accounts made by Sir Thomas Heneage (b. in or before 1532, d. 1595), courtier and Treasurer of the Queen’s Chamber. From the Feast of St Michael, 27 Elizabeth I, to the Feast of St Michael, 28 Elizabeth I, i.e. 29 September 1585-29 September 1586.
f. 1r: Title: ‘Sommes of money Receyved by Sir Thomas Henneage Knight Treasurer of her Majesty’s Chamber and by him defrayed and disbursed Accomptinge from the Feast of St. Michaell Tharkanngell Anno xxvii R Re Eliz. untill the Feast of St Michaell Tharkanngell Anno xxviii Regne Eliz. thenn next after conteyninge onne whole yeer’.
ff. 1r-39r: Charges, payments and accounts, 29 September 1585-29 September 1586.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047471", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1641: Accounts of Sir Thomas Heneage, Treasurer of the Queen’s Chamber, 1585-1586" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047471 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1641 : Accounts of Sir Thomas Heneage, Treasurer of the Queen’s Chamber, 1585-1586 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1642]/040-002047471
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume. Bound with Harley MS 1642.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100162921244.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1585
- End Date:
- 1586
- Date Range:
- 29 September 1585-29 September 1586
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 449 x 290 mm.
Foliation: ff. vii + 39.
Binding: Post 1600. British Museum. Bound with Harley MS 1642.
Script: Secretary.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Henry Worsley (b. 1675, d. 1747), scholar and manuscript collector, envoy at the Court of Portugal (1714-21) and governor of Barbados (1721-31): former owner (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 399).
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 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 (London: British Museum, 1808), vol. 2, p. 166.
Cyril E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani : a study of the sources of the Harleian collection of manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 399.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)