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Harley MS 2318
- Record Id:
- 040-002048149
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048149
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x00033a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2318
- Title:
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Arthur Capell's prayers and devotional texts
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1v: ‘Made by Docter Willet of Barle and by him sent to Sir Arthure Capell in his long sicknes’.
ff. 2r-7v: ‘A frughtfull exhortation to a sicke person to prepare against his end’.
ff. 8r-10r: ‘A prayer for one that is sick’.
ff. 11r-13v: English prayers with biblical citations.
ff. 14r-15r: ‘Morning prayer’.
ff. 15v-16r: A confession.
ff. 16v-17r: Meditations.
ff. 18r-22r: ‘A Short Catechisme’.
f. 23r: ‘The glory of a christian’;written in a later hand; excerpted from Samuel Bolton (b. 1605/6, d. 1654), Church of England clergyman and college head
f. 23r: ‘The linckes of breeding sinn’; written by the same later hand.
ff. 24r-45v: A treatise about the council summoned by King Philip III of Spain at which Count Condamar, who had been recalled from England, reported of his intrigues in England, 1618; written by the same later hand.
f. 46r: Latin and English proverbs.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048149", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2318: Arthur Capell's prayers and devotional texts" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048149 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2318 : Arthur Capell's prayers and devotional texts - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2320]/040-002048149
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1595
- End Date:
- 1638
- Date Range:
- c 1600-1638
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 155 x 100 mm.
Foliation: ff. 2* + 48; f. 1* is missing; 1 unfoliated parchment stub between the inside cover and f. 2*; and 1 between f. 48 and the outside cover; 3 unfoliated blank paper leaves between f. 2* and f. 1; 1 between f. 13 and f. 14; 2 between f. 24 and f. 25; and 89 between f. 45 and f. 46
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: Post-1600. Gold-tooled brown leather binding with Queen Anne Boleyn’s and Queen Elizabeth I’s falcon badge gold-stamped on the outsides of the upper and lower covers, flanked by the initials ‘E’ and ‘C’. Red-speckled fore-edge.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Arthur Capell (d. 1632) of Little Hadham, knight and sheriff of Hertfordshire, owned after 1614: his name (‘Arthurus Capell’) written on f. 2*recto; the date 1614 of the letter addressed to Capell by Willett in the copy of the letter and prayers of Harley MS 2318, ff. 2-10 is preserved in Sloane MS 159, ff. 375-382. The binding features a badge that was used by Queen Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I, originally flanked by Arthur Capell’s initials; the initial ‘E’ was stamped over the ‘A’ at a later date, presumably in order to adapt the book for Elizabeth Capell, wife of Arthur’s grandson Arthur (? b. 1610, d. 1649), 1st Baron Capell of Hadham (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 95-96).
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 Harley, 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.
- 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. 652-53.
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)
- Places:
- England