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Harley MS 3520 B

Record Id:
040-002049352
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002049352
MDARK:
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Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3520 B
Title:
Four seventeenth century manuscripts in Spanish, French and Latin
Scope & Content:

Contents:

  • ff. 1-69: Precendence of the Spanish at the Papal Court. Manuscript summary in Spanish on the precedence of the Spaniards before the French at the Papal Court, referring to several authors. Appears to be the epilogue of an unidentified book by Augustin de Cravaliz, amabassador for the Spanish King at the Papal Court, Rome.
  • ff. 70-121: ‘Les Nouvelles Lumieres pour la composition de l’Histoire de l’Eglise. Par Louis du Moulin, cydevant Professeur en Histoire, dans l’Université d’Oxford. 1680’. Draft of French work written in answer to Baronius’ Annales Ecclesiastici, with corrections and insertions. Various draft English titles appear on folios 70 (front cover: ‘A Modell to write the history of the Church in a new and a short way’), 118v, f. 119v, and f. 121 (inside back cover). The work by is referred to by Louis du Moulin in a letter to Robert Boyle, 21 March 1680 (now at the Bodleian Library, Boyle Letters, MS 2, fols 137–138; transcript available as part of Early Modern Letters Online https://doi.org/10.13051/ee:doc/boylroPC0050190a1c ).
  • ff. 122-129: ‘Quaesita Missionariorum Chinae seu Sinarum, Sacrae Congregationi de propaganda Fide exhibita; cum responsis [etc.], 1645’. Copy of a printed pamphlet (Rome, 1645). Extensive annotations on ff. 128v-129.
  • ff. 130-138. De Potestate Clavium. Address by Gilbert Sheldon on John 20.23. Starts: ‘In ea incidimus tempora.’ Titles inscribed on f. 138v: ‘De poestate Clavium. In Jo. 2.23. C[cio] D. Sh.’; and ‘C[on]cio R. D[octo]ris Sheldeni, de Pote[state] Clavium’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-002049352
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 3520 B : Four seventeenth century manuscripts in Spanish, French and Latin
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[3522]/040-002049352
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:
Languages:
French
Latin
Spanish
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
17th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 210 x 160 mm.

Foliation: ff. 1-103, 103*, 104, 104*, 104**, 105-117, 117*, 118-138.

Binding: British Museum binding, 1964.

Custodial History:

Former owner: Nathaniel Noel fl 1681-c1753, bookseller.

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, 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 under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Finding Aids:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), vol. 3, no. 3520A-B.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 253-5.

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