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Harley MS 1647
- Record Id:
- 040-002047477
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047477
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x00009a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163604708.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1647
- Title:
- Thomas Busshe, A ledger book for expenses made for the construction of Sandgate Castle by Henry VIII (Volume 1)
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1*recto: ‘The fyrst. the iide. iiide. iiiith. vth. vith. viith. viiith. and the .ixth. boke of the leger of the Workes of the Kynges Castell at Sandgate in the tyme of Thomas Corkes and Rychard Keys Esquyres Commyssioners there [...]’.
f. 2*recto: A Latin inscription: ‘Castrum domini et Regis de Sandegate’.
ff. 1r-176r: Thomas Busshe, Clerk of the Ledger, A ledger book for expenses made for the construction of Sandgate Castle by Henry VIII, 30 March-7 December 1540 [covering parts of the 31st and 32nd years of Henry VIII’s reign]; each part has been signed by an officer.
Decoration:
Large and medium initials with cadels in black ink, some with penwork decoration and human faces in throughout the manuscript. The large initials at the beginning of different books also feature architectural elements, knotwork and hybrid figures. The decorated initial on f. 111r features an architectural element containing the name of ‘Thomas Busshe’; the initial on f. 141r the initials ‘RS’ and ‘RK’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047477", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1647: Thomas Busshe, A ledger book for expenses made for the construction of Sandgate Castle by Henry VIII (Volume 1)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047477 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1647 : Thomas Busshe, A ledger book for expenses made for the construction of Sandgate Castle by Henry VIII (Volume 1) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1648]/040-002047477
- 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_100163604708.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1540
- End Date:
- 1540
- Date Range:
- 1540
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 410 x 250 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 2* + 176 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 36 and f. 37, and f. 88 and f. 89; 5 between f. 110 and f. 111; 2 between f. 140 and f. 141; f. 158 and f. 159; 4 between f. 170 and f. 171; f. 1* is a parchment leaf; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [i]recto (bibliographical notes); each quire has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound in 1968.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Henry Worsley (b. 1675, d. 1741), scholar and manuscript collector, envoy at the court of Portugal (1714-1721) and governor of Barbados (1721-1731): donated to Robert Harley before December 1712 together with other manuscripts from his collection, now Harley 1585-1747, 1811, 1812 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 361-62).
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), I (1808), p. 166.
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. 399.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)