Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??
Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...
Harley MS 1927
- Record Id:
- 040-002047758
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047758
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x0001b3
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100155071505.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1927
- Title:
-
Poems by the Chester arms-painters Thomas Chaloner and Randle Holme
- Scope & Content:
-
Contents:
ff. 1r-53v: A collection of English poems and Latin sayings by Thomas Chaloner (d. 1598), dated to 1575-1577.
ff. 54r-120v: A collection of English poems and notes by Randle Holme I (b. 1570/71, d. 1655), dated to 1616-1638. One poem on ff. 60v-61r (‘The Songe called the Buttned smock’) is signed by ‘Edward Cowley – 1621’. One leaf (ff. 71r-71v) features printed text, containing chapters XXII-XXV of John Heywood's An hundred epigrammes (London: Berthelet, 1550).
The manuscript contains a few additions:
ff. 1*recto-3*verso, 121r-123v: Fragments of an English document referring to ‘John Manley’; written in the 16th century. Other fragments of the same document, featuring the name of ‘Henry Manley’, appear to have been used as flyleaves for Harley MS 2088 (ff. 1* and 50). This manuscript was also owned by Thomas Chaloner and the Holme family.
Decoration:
1 half-page allegorical drawing of a man holding an anchor and a burning heart, representing Hope and Love in black ink (f. 74v). Small drawings in black ink illustrating poems on ff. 65v-68v, 76v, 103r, 103v. Two small stamps on f. 76v. Two large initials (‘F’ and ‘P’) outlined in brown ink with poems written inside them on ff. 72v-73r.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047758", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1927: Poems by the Chester arms-painters Thomas Chaloner and Randle Holme" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047758 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1927 : Poems by the Chester arms-painters Thomas Chaloner and Randle Holme - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1929]/040-002047758
- 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_100155071505.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1575
- End Date:
- 1638
- Date Range:
- 1575-1638
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.
Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.
Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.
This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.
- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 205 x 130 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1*-3* + 123 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); ff. 54-120 are red coloured leaves; small white paper pastedowns onto ff. 59v-61r, 70v, 72v, 73r; f. 71 is a smaller paper leaf with a printed text pasted onto f. 72r; each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard
Script: 16th- and 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house: gold-tooled black binding with the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower margins.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Thomas Chaloner (d. 1598), of Bridge Street, Chester, painter, poet, antiquary, actor, wrote ff. 1r-53v between 1575-1575; inscribed his name throughout this part of the manuscript (not listed under his entry in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 100-101).
Randle Holme I (b. 1570/71, d. 1655), herald, apprentice of Thomas Chaloner, and mayor of Chester (1633), wrote ff. 54r-120v between 1616-1638: inscribed his name throughout this part of the manuscript (not listed under his entry in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 194-95).
Holme family of Chester, arms painters and antiquaries: bought from them by Robert Harley in 1710 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 194-95).
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. 354.
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. 404.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)