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Harley MS 1654
- Record Id:
- 040-002047485
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047485
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x0000a2
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1654
- Title:
- Account book for the wages of artificers and labourers paid by the Board of Ordnance, January 1572-December 1573
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1*recto: A title inscription: ‘The Booke of wages of Artificers Woorkmen and Laborers in theoffice of thordinaunce anno xvito’.
ff. 1r-53v: Accounts for wages paid to artificers and labourers by the Board of Ordnance, Tower of London, for the months of January-March 1572, and April-December 1573. Each monthly account is signed by four officers of the Board, including: ‘Wyllyam Jorden’, ‘Richard Boillande’, ‘Brian Hogge’; beginning: ‘The Wages of Artificers and Laborers woorkinge in Thoffice of her maiesties Ordinaunce at the Tower of London and els where belonginge to the same within the saide moneth of Januarie Anno regni domine nostre Elizabethe nunc Regine xvto’; and ending with ‘Summa Totalis of all the wages and Provisions conteyned in the 12 Moonthes aforesaid: m. l. vj c. viij li. xvij. s. ij. d. ob. q.’.
Decoration:
Large initials with cadels in black ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047485", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1654: Account book for the wages of artificers and labourers paid by the Board of Ordnance, January 1572-December 1573" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047485 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1654 : Account book for the wages of artificers and labourers paid by the Board of Ordnance, January 1572-December 1573 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1656]/040-002047485
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1572
- End Date:
- 1573
- Date Range:
- 1572-1573
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper; parchment (f. 1*).
Dimensions: 385 x 275 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 53 (+ 3 unfoliated blank paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); f. 1* is a parchment strip that has been mounted onto a paper leaf; 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 4 and f. 5, f. 8 and f. 9, f. 12 and f. 13, f. 16 and f. 17, f. 25 and f. 26, f. 29 and f. 30.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather binding with the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the outside covers; re-bound in 1967.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
The Board of Ordnance, Tower of London, written and signed by its officers: its accounts for wages paid to artificers and labourers.
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 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. 167.
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:
- London, England