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Harley MS 2307
- Record Id:
- 040-002048138
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048138
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x00032f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2307
- Title:
- A view of Devonshire, by Thomas Westcote
- Scope & Content:
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History and topographical account of Devonshire by ThomasWestcote (c 1567-c 1637). Published as A View of Devonshire 1630, ed. George Oliverand Pitman Jones (1845). Manuscript includes marginal notes, additions, andcorrections. The author’s postscript apology for the work, addressed ‘To thegenerous reader’, also includes corrections.
f. 1: Flyleaf inscription gives date of addition to Harleian Library, ’17 May 1715’, with a biographical note on the author, and describes the manuscript as ‘not the original, but an imperfect copy’.
ff. 4-5: List of sheriffs of Devon.
ff. 6-263: Description of Devon.
ff. 264-270: Author’s apology, addressed ‘To the generousreader’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048138", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2307: A view of Devonshire, by Thomas Westcote" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048138 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2307 : A view of Devonshire, by Thomas Westcote - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2309]/040-002048138
- 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:
- 1625
- End Date:
- 1635
- Date Range:
- c 1630
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 300 x 220 mm.
Foliation: 270 folios.
Binding: British Museum post-1600 binding.
- Custodial History:
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The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 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 (1694-1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), 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.
Former owner: Robert Burscough or Bourscough (1651-1709) prebendary of Exeter 1701, Archdeacon of Barnstaple 1703 (Wright, Fontes Harleiani; Diary of Humfrey Wanley, I, p. 11, note 6).
- Finding Aids:
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Edward Bernard, Catalogi Manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae (Oxford, 1697), no. 9174.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 2307
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972).
- Publications:
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Thomas Westcote, A View of Devonshire 1630, with a pedigree of most of its gentry (1845)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)