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Harley MS 2284
- Record Id:
- 040-002048115
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048115
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000318
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163536001.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2284
- Title:
- Account book of the Great Wardrobe from the reign of Henry VIII (8-12 Henery VIII)
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1*recto-53r: An account book of the Great Wardrobe from the 8th to the 12th years of the reign of King Henry VIII, with a title inscription on a parchment leaf (f. 1*recto): ‘The boke of Delyveraunce and Discharge of the kinges standyng warderobe of his Robes within the towre of London newe made anno RR. Henrici Octaavi viijvo’; each section has been inspected and signed by King Henry VIII himself.
Decoration:
1 large initial with cadels in black ink in the title inscription on f. 1*recto; large black initials with minor penwork decoration throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048115", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2284: Account book of the Great Wardrobe from the reign of Henry VIII (8-12 Henery VIII)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048115 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2284 : Account book of the Great Wardrobe from the reign of Henry VIII (8-12 Henery VIII) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2286]/040-002048115
- 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_100163536001.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1516
- End Date:
- 1521
- Date Range:
- 1516-1521
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 350 x 250 mm.
Foliation: ff. 53 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. 1* is a small parchment leaf pasted onto a blank paper leaf; 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 2 and f. 3; f. 3 and f. 4; f. 5 and f. 6; f. 10 and f.11; f. 15 and f. 16; f. 22 and f. 23; f. 26 and f. 27; f. 39 and f. 40; f. 42 and f. 43; f. 44 and f. 45; f. 48 and f. 49; f. 49 and f. 50; f. 50 and f. 51; 2 between f. 14 and f. 15; f. 28 and f. 29; f. 29 and f. 30; f. 38 and f. 39; f. 43 and f. 44; f. 46 and f. 47; 3 between f. 8 and f. 9; f. 9 and f. 10; f. 47 and f. 48; f. 52 and f. 53; 4 between f. 1 and f. 2; 5 between f. 24 and f. 25; f. 25 and f. 26; 6 between f. 30 and f. 31; f. 36 and f. 37; 7 between f. 11 and f. 12; 8 between f. 13 and f. 14; 11 between f. 12 and f. 13; 13 after f. 53; 1 unfoliated parchment strip on f. 1r; parchment tabs on ff. 1, 2, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 25, 30, 31, 40, 48, 50, 53; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [67]verso (note of examination); each quire has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound in 1984.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
James Worsley (b. before 1500, d. 1538), Groom to the Wardrobe, ancestor of Sir Robert Worsley: according to an introduction on f. 1r, the deliverances recorded in the manuscript were made by him.
Sir Robert Worsley (b. 1669, d. 1747), 4th Baronet, of Appuldurcombe, Isle of Wight: according to Humfrey Wanley (Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), II, pp. 641-42), he donated the manuscript to the Harleian Library (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 362).
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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ’13 die Februarij, A. D. 1723/4’ (f. 1r).
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), pp. 641-42.
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. 406.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)