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Harley MS 2303
- Record Id:
- 040-002048134
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048134
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x00032b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100155071702.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2303
- Title:
- The Prevarication of Holy Church Libertyes
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-3r: Henry Tichborne, dedication to King James II, beginning: ‘To the Kings most Excellent Majestie These Humbly Presented: The Virtues of your most Illustrious Ancestors have in all Ages since Christianity inlightned our Horizon, and been the Glory of so many Princes as have descended from them, in so much that it hath not only filled all Europe with heroes, but the Universall Church with Heureuxes: nor is there any place on which the Sun shines which is not equally Illustrated by the Gloryes of your Family as by the Brightness of its Rayes’. ’
ff. 4r-117r: An untitled English treatise with Latin quotations, which is entitled ‘The Prevarication of Holy Church Libertyes’ in Stowe MS 113 [containing a late 17th-century copy without the dedication to King James II], here beginning: ‘The lawfullness of the Marriage of King Henry the 8th with Queen Catharine, and the Severall Impediments that Annulled the same with Anne Bullen, The true Cause of the English Schisme, and the Reformation thereupon’.
Decoration:
Marginal ruling throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048134", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2303: The Prevarication of Holy Church Libertyes" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048134 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2303 : The Prevarication of Holy Church Libertyes - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2305]/040-002048134
- 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_100155071702.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1675
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 310 x 200 mm.
Foliation: ff. 117 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 1 and f. 2; marbled paper endleaves; the upper right corner of f. [ii] has been torn off.
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: Black gold-stamped and -tooled Morocco leather; re-backed at the British Museum.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
‘H[enry] Tichborne’ [perhaps Henry Tichborne (bap. 1624, d. 1689), third baronet, and Catholic]: owned the manuscript: his name inscribed below the dedicatory epistle to King James II at the beginning of the manuscript (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 329 for a reference to Henry Tichborne, without an identification).
James II (b. 1633, d. 1701), King of England (r. 1685-1688): as suggested by the dedicatory letter (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 204).
Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie, acquired from him by Humfrey Wanley for the Harleian Library on 13 August 1724: according to Humfrey Wanley’s Diary and his note on f. 1r: ‘13 August 1724’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 255).
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:
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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. 540.
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)