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Harley MS 2293
- Record Id:
- 040-002048124
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048124
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000321
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2293
- Title:
- Discourse on geomancy dedicated to King James II
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1v-57r: A discourse on geomancy dedicated to King James II (r. 1685-1688), beginning: 'Most Gratious and Dread Soveraigne, before I can discover the Inchanted Island the Garment Shem and Iapheth cast over the Father of Mankind when they went backwards must be taken of And the vaile of the Temple that Rent at Christs suffering but since is peect and drawn must be put by. Then Light and truth will appear, and plainly it will be seen and Read in the Book of nature why Men of Religion pretending Holyness have been the greatest Enimies to your Majestie your Royall prodecessors and church of Christ and how the Evill spirit of discord of Fire and water since Adams fall hath Ruled the world'. The treatise contains sections and figures, including: 'Paradice or the Garden of Heaven which is Planted with Trees of divers Naturs'; 'The Angells of the Tropiqes and othe Equanoctialls Joyned in Spirit'; and 'A Figure of the Three Kingdoms of the great world that the spirit Etternal and Infinite is the soule of Christ on the Cross of his Pasion was in human Nature the visable Representation of it to Man the little World Image of the great'.
Decoration:
Full-page tinted drawing in colours and gold with 3 circular diagrams relating to geomancy (f. 10v). Half-page tinted drawing in colours and gold (f. 2v). Illustration on the dedication page in colours and gold (f. 1v). 5 circular diagrams (ff. 5r, 5v, 6r, 7v, 8v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048124", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2293: Discourse on geomancy dedicated to King James II" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048124 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2293 : Discourse on geomancy dedicated to King James II - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2295]/040-002048124
- 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:
- 1680
- End Date:
- 1700
- Date Range:
- c 1685-1700
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment and paper.
Dimensions: 335 x 220 mm (text space: 300 x 165 mm).
Foliation: ff. 57 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning).
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. Gold-tooled white leather binding with wrapper; marbled endpapers with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on white paper pastedowns on the inside covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
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. 643.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England