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Harley MS 3813
- Record Id:
- 040-002049646
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049646
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000142
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165168329.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3813
- Title:
- Account of the counties of England, Ireland and Scotland, with engraved maps by Pieter van den Keere
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-188v: Account of the counties of England, Ireland and Scotland, written in English, with printed and coloured maps of counties (with their names in Latin and English) engraved by the Flemish engraver Pieter van den Keere ['Peter Kerius'] (b. 1571, d. c. 1646) in 1599.
Decoration:
Full-page engraved maps with colours on ff. 4v, 8v, 12v, 16v, 20v, 27v, 32v, 39v, 45v, 56v, 60v, 64v, 69v, 78v, 81v, 90v, 94v, 98v, 102v, 106v, 109v, 113v, 116v, 120v, 123v, 127v, 131v, 135v, 139v, 146v, 149v, 153v, 158v, 165v, 171v, 178v, 183v.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049646 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3813 : Account of the counties of England, Ireland and Scotland, with engraved maps by Pieter van den Keere - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3804]/040-002049646
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_3813 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 145 x 190 mm (text space: 115 x 135 mm).
Foliation: ff. 188 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper with bibliographical notes after f. [iii]; 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf after ff. 3, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 26, 44, 50, 55, 59, 63, 72, 77, 89, 93, 97, 101, 105, 112, 119, 126, 130, 134, 138, 142, 145, 152, 170; 2 after ff. 52, 80 ,108, 122; and 3 after f. 84.
Collation: Each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Script: Cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; rebound on 28 September 1966.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
'Jeff. May [or: 'Man']', 17th century: his name inscribed on ff. 139r and 156r (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
James Newton (fl. 1725), bookseller: sold to Harley with other manuscripts on 19 October 1725 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 251).
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 '19 October 1725' (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:
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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. 83.
Thomas Chubb, J. W. Skells, H. Beharrell, The Printed Maps in the Atlases of Great Britain and Ireland: A Bibliography 1579-1870 (London: The Homeland Association, 1927).
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. 251.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)