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Harley MS 2326

Record Id:

040-002048157

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048157

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000342

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2326

Title:

Tristram Tirwhyt's council on military leadership and rules of war for Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-8r: A dedicatory letter by Tristram Tirwhyt to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, beginning: ‘To the right honourable and his speciall good Lorde, Robert Erle of Leicester, Baron of Denbigh, of the moste noble orders of the Garter, and St Michael knight, one of the Quenes maiesties most honourable privie Councellors’; dated 2 November 1577.

ff. 9r-10v: Psalm 94 (‘Deus ultionum’) in English.

ff. 12r-37r: Council for a general or lieutenant, beginning: ‘Of foure thinges verie mete to be in a generall or Lieutenant wourthie to be noted’.

ff. 38r-42r: ‘Generall Rules of Warre, taken out of Vegetius’.

ff. 43r-48v: A treatise with ‘piethie advertisements, and Councells, which I have collected, into sentences, for your Lord to reade, when your good Leysure, maie so permytt’.

The manuscript contains a few later additions:

f. 1*recto: A memorandum: ‘Mr James [? Nu]ttley in the Temple had Mr John Sparks his will and Inventory’; added in the 17th century.

ff. 1*verso-3*recto, 42v, 49r-: Latin proverbs; added in the 17th century.

ff. 50v-51v: Sketches of coats of arms (tricked) in brown ink; added in the (?) 17th century.

f. 51r: Two lists of items, including handkerchiefs, caps, bands, and cuffs; added in the 17th century.

Decoration:

The arms of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, circumscribed by the Garter with its French motto, drawn in brown ink (f. 3*verso).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048157

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2326 : Tristram Tirwhyt's council on military leadership and rules of war for Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2328]/040-002048157

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1577

End Date:

1577

Date Range:

1577

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 150 x 100 mm.

Foliation: ff. 1*-3* + 51 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper stub between f. 35 and f. 36; and 1 between f. 49 and f. 50; each quire has been mounted onto a paper guard.

Script: 16th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 4 March 1964.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Tristram Tirwhyt [Tyrwhyt], perhaps the Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, in 1579 with the same name, but describing himself as ‘a Soldier’ in Harley MS 2326 (f. 6r): wrote the manuscript and signed it with this name: ‘From Moones Antry in Devonshire the Second of November 1577 – Your Lordships moste bounden ever at commandement, Tristram Tirwhyt’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 329).

Robert Dudley (b. 1532/3, d. 1588), earl of Leicester, courtier and magnate, owned from 1577: the manuscript is dedicated to him and features his arms on f. 3*verso (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 139).

Alex[ander] Parker, owned in the 17th century: his ownership inscription on f. 1*recto: ‘Alex. Parker ejus Liber’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 267).

Thomas Baker (b. 1656, d. 1740), nonjuring Church of England clergyman and antiquary (deprived of his fellowship at St John's, Cambridge in 1717): presented the manuscript to Harley on 23 December 1719 according to a note [? by Humfrey Wanley] on f.1*recto: ‘Given by the Reverend & Learned Mr Thomas Baker Senior of St John’s College in Cambridge, 23 December 1719’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp 60-61).

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. 655.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 60-61, 139, 239, 267.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England