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Harley MS 2290
- Record Id:
- 040-002048121
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048121
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x00031e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2290
- Title:
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Robert Persons, Leicester's Commonwealth
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-49v: Robert Persons [Parsons] (b. 1546, d. 1610), Leicester's Commonwealth (1584).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048121", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2290: Robert Persons, Leicester's Commonwealth" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048121 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2290 : Robert Persons, Leicester's Commonwealth - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2292]/040-002048121
- 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:
- 1584
- End Date:
- 1605
- Date Range:
- 1584-c 1600
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 335 x 215 mm.
Foliation: ff. 49 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 1r (Harleian pressmarks); each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: Post-1600. Maroon half leather binding with the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
John Robartes (b. 1606, d. 1685), 1st Earl of Radnor in 1679: sold at the shop of James Woodman in Covent Garden on 2 May 1721 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 286-87).
James Woodman (d. 1728), bookseller at Russel St. Covent Garden: handled the sale of the Earl of Radnor’s library on 2 May 1721; purchased by Harley, and inscribed by Humfrey Wanley on f. 1r: ‘One of Woodmans 6 Curious MSS’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 358-59).
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 ‘4 May 1721’ (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), p. 643.
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)
- Names:
- Persons [Parsons], Robert, Jesuit, 1546-1610
- Places:
- England