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Harley MS 3435

Record Id:
040-002049266
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002049266
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00039f
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3435
Title:
Account of the 1623 papal conclave; legal documents concerning taxes
Scope & Content:

This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were written separately.

The first part (ff. 1-130) contains an Italian account of the 1623 papal conclave in which Urban VIII was elected.

The second part (ff. 131-161r) contains legal documents concerning taxes, dating to 1465-1466.

Contents:

Part 1:

ff. 1r-130v: Account of the conclave held at the death of Pope Gregory XV in which Pope Urban VIII was elected: 'Fatte secondo l'antica consuetudine l'essequie al morto Pontefice Gregorio Quinto decimo, li Cardinali', with the title: 'Conclave di Urbano VIII, 1623'.

Part 2:

ff. 131r-161r: Collection of legal documents on taxes with the notary signatures of 'Laurentius de Mulinarijs'; 'Ludovicus Dordonibus'; 'Daniel Palmanus'; 'Ludovicus Dordonus', and 'Franciscus de Lacu', apostolic notary; dating to 1465-466.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-002049266
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 3435 : Account of the 1623 papal conclave; legal documents concerning taxes
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[3436]/040-002049266
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
1 volume
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Italian
Latin
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1465
End Date:
1623
Date Range:
1465-1623
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper (ff. 1-130); parchment (ff. 131-161).

Dimensions: 240-245 x 180-185 mm (text space: 200 x 130 [ff. 1-130]; and 185 x 140 mm [ff. 131-161]).

Foliation: ff. 162 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [ii]recto (Harleian shelfmarks); 1 unfoliated parchment leaf after f. 133; f. 161 is a strip of parchment; 1 unfoliated parchment leaf after f. 161.

Script: 17th-century cursive (ff. 1-130); and Humanistic cursive (ff. 131-161).

Binding: British Museum in-house; gold tooled brown speckled leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; speckled fore edges on ff. 1-130.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Italy.

Provenance:

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: Harley purchased this manuscript on January 18, 1723/4 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, pp. 237 n. 7, 256 n. 1; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 254).

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 ’18 die Januarij, A.D. 1723/4’ (f. [ii]recto and f. 131r).

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. 26.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, pp. 237 n. 7, 256 n. 1.

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. 254.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Places:
Italy