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Harley MS 3315
- Record Id:
- 040-002049146
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049146
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0002d7
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3315
- Title:
- Collection of Spanish state papers declaring the expenses of King Philip II of Spain
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a collection of tracts declaring the expenses of King Philip II of Spain (r. 1556-1598), with copied documents featuring the dates 1574-1577. The manuscript was originally bound in two volumes, and featured (now removed) a table of contents in English at the beginning of its the second part (see the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, III (1808), p. 16).
ff. 1r-188v: State papers, originally in two parts, containing (part 1): 'Gente de Guerra en Reynos de Castilla, y las fronteras, y la ysla de Menoraca y Yvica. I'; 'Galeras de España, Napoles, Sicilia, y particolares'; 'La gente de Guerra ordinaria que el Rey de España tiene en el estado de Milan, etc. Anno 1577'; 'Salarios que el Rey da en su casa, etc.'; 'Todas las Rentas que el Rey de España tiene en España, Napoles, Sicilia etc. Anno 1577'; 'De lo que se pratico y proveyo en Cortes para desemenar al Rey las Rentas reales'; 'Officios en la casa Real'; 'Orden que tienen en la governaçion de España'; and 'Embaxadores del Rey, & que ressiden en a Corte'; and (part 2): 'De los Confesos que su majestad tiene ensu Corte'; 'Chancelerias y audiencias reales'; 'Galeras de España, Napoles, Sicilia y Particulares'; 'Governacion de la Justicia'; 'De los Jueses de facas y de los derechos que los Yngleses pagan en Biscaya'; 'Los Reynos, Cividades, Cavalleros, Senores, etc.'; 'Las Audiencias Reales que hay en las Yndias'; 'Cedula y Orden que el Rey de España dio Anno 1575, etcaetera'.
The manuscript contains later additions:
ff. 188v-189v: Addional notes in Spanish, dated to 1632.
ff. 190r-190v: A parchment leaf with part of a sequence, featuring large plain initials alternating between blue and red ink, for Easter, beginning: 'Famem patitur dormit ac tristatur ac lavat discipulis pedes deus homo summus humilis'; and ending 'Favent igitur resurgenti Christo cuncta gaudiis flores segetes redivivo fructu vernant et'; with black nuemes on four-line staves in red ink; written in the (?) 15th century, clearly as part of a liturgical manuscript: at the top of f. 190v is written in red ink the folio number: 'cc. xxiiij.'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049146", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3315: Collection of Spanish state papers declaring the expenses of King Philip II of Spain" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049146 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3315 : Collection of Spanish state papers declaring the expenses of King Philip II of Spain - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3316]/040-002049146
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Spanish
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1572
- End Date:
- 1582
- Date Range:
- c 1577
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper; parchment (f. 190 only).
Dimensions: 350 x 215 mm (text space: approximately: 270 x 160 mm)
Foliation: ff. 190 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end).
Script: 17th-century cursive script; Gothic cursive (ff. 190r-190v).
Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; re-bound on 20 September 1966.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Spain.
Provenance:
Conyers Middleton (b. 1683, d. 1750), Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1706, head librarian of the University Library at Cambridge (1721-50); his sale, 20 February 1724/5 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 335, n. 4; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 239).
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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘20 Februarij, A.D. 1724/5’ (f. [iv]recto).
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), III (1808), p. 16.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 335, n. 4.
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. 239.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Spain, Europe