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Harley MS 3437
- Record Id:
- 040-002049268
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049268
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0003a1
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163608682.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3437
- Title:
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William Teshe, Poem on the Order of the Garter for Queen Elizabeth I
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
William Teshe, Verses on the Mottoes of the Queen, sixteen of the Knights and the Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, 1582 [presentation copy for Queen Elizabeth I].
Decoration:
Coats of arms of the members, in colours and gold surrounded by the garter and combined with the Latin or French motto corresponding to the arms written on a scroll and occasionally the emblem (ff. 2r, 3r, 4r, 5r, 6r, 7r, 8r, 9r, 10r, 11r, 12r, 13r, 14r, 15r, 16r, 17r, 18r, 19r). Numerous initials in gold and brown ink with cadels. Double ruling in gold framing the text block on all rectos.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049268", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3437: William Teshe, Poem on the Order of the Garter for Queen Elizabeth I" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049268 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3437 : William Teshe, Poem on the Order of the Garter for Queen Elizabeth I - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3438]/040-002049268
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100163608682.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1582
- End Date:
- 1582
- Date Range:
- 1582
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 240 x 165 mm.
Foliation: ff. 20 (+ 3 unfoliated parchment leaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 unfoliated blank parchment leaf between f. 1 and f. 2.
Script: Gothic (ff. 1r, 6r, 15r, and 20r only) and Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. Red velvet in a red leather slipcase; gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
William Teshe (fl. 1580s), composed, wrote and painted the manuscript in 1582: his name inscribed in a colophon on f. 20r: ‘Gulielmus Tesheus Composuit, scripsit, et pinxit: Anno Domini 1582’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 326); Sloane MS 1832 contains A Booke Contaning Divers Sortes of hands prepared by 'Wylliam Teshe of the Citye of Yorke' for Queen Elizabeth I (1580).
Elizabeth I (b. 1533, d. 1603), Queen of England: dedicated to her by William Tesche (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 143).
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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 26.
Nicholas Harris Nicolas, History of the Order of Knightood of the British Empire of the Order of the Guelphs of Hanover and of the Medals, Clasps, and Crosses Conferred for Naval and Military Services, II (London: Pickering, 1842), Appendix H, pp. xxix-xxxviii [edition of the text].
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. 428.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)