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Harley MS 1733
- Record Id:
- 040-002047564
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047564
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x0000f1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1733
- Title:
- Miscellaneous tracts
- Scope & Content:
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Various tracts formerly belonging to Henry Worsley, bound together. Bound in a different order from that described in the printed catalogue of 1808, and re-foliated.
ff. 1-10*: Some law cases, with notes. In law French. Folios 1 and 10* are parchment wrappers (formed of manuscript waste, namely a legal document relating to Richard Savage and Winchester College), numbered ‘No. 5’.
ff. 11-21: Sermon on 1 Peter 3:15 (Latin). With a preliminary unnumbered folio headed ‘Col. Worsley No. 6. 1733’ etc.
f. 22: Calculation of excises and other income that had been granted to the King by Parliament, 23 April 1677.
ff. 23-31: Tract on holding a Court Leet, or Court Baron? (Court of Quarter-Sessions?), with the charge to the jury, oaths to be taken by several officers, and other matters.
ff. 32-39: Notes from two books in a single hand:
- Notes from a history of the Kings of France (ff. 32-33).
- Notes from Sir Walter Ralegh’s History (ff. 34-39).
ff. 40-71: A treatise of Gods purposes towards his reasonable creatures.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047564", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1733: Miscellaneous tracts" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047564 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1733 : Miscellaneous tracts - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1735]/040-002047564
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
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 and parchment.
Dimensions: 235 x 180 mm.
Foliation: 1-10, 10*, 11-24, 24*, 25-29, 29*, 30-71 folios (total 74 folios).
Binding: Leather binding with gold tooling, and the initials ‘M.B.’ (Museum Brittanicum) gold stamped on the front board.
- Custodial History:
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Former owner: Henry Worsley, Governor of Barbados (d. 1747) (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 360).
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.
- 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. 1733.
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)