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Harley MS 3822/1

Record Id:

040-002049657

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049657

MDARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3822/1

Title:

Diego Cuelbis, Thesoro chorographico de las Espannas (volume 1)

Scope & Content:

This manuscript is the first of three volumes of Thesoro chorographico de las Espannas, a diary of a journey through Spain and Portugal in the years 1599 and 1600, undertaken by Diego Cuelbis of the city of Leipzig, and a friend named Joel Koris, who accompanied him. The diary is written in Spanish and also features numerous pen-and-ink drawings of antiquities, inscriptions, views of cities and engravings embedded within the text.

This volume comprises ff. 1-290 of the work. Harley MS 3822/2 contains ff. 291-537; Harley MS 3822/3 contains ff. 538-673; and Harley MS 3822/4 contains f. 150. The manuscript's original flyleaves are now bound separately as Harley MS 3822/5.

Contents:

ff. 1r-290v: Diego Cuelbis, Thesoro chorographico de las Espannas.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. 1*r: A note from Thomas Johnson, bookseller at The Hague, to Robert Harley, concerning his purchase of the manuscript; dated November 1725: 'For the Right Honourable The Earl of Oxford - This Ms. Description of Spain, brought from Germany by Mr Scott, late Envoy at the Courts of Poland and Prussia, is by his order transmitted for his Lord's Library by his Lord - Most obedient and most huble servant Thomas Johnson Bookselleer at the H[…]'.

Decoration:

Full-page drawings of maps, cities, architecture, coats of arms, and Latin inscriptions (ff. 3r, 8v, 8*recto, 21v, 21*recto, 24v, 24*recto, 45v, 45*recto, 57v, 57*recto, 81v, 89r, 91r, 127r, 137r, 176v, 176*recto, 185v, 192v, 193r, 207r, 227r, 231r, 236v, 239v, 249v, 249*recto, 251r, 269v)

Small drawings in black ink 111r, 111v, 112r, 112v, 125r, 186r, 225r, 242r, 258r, 269v.

Display script in black ink with capitals in red ink on title pages throughout the manuscript, outlined in black ink and coloured with red ink or with gold (f. 157v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049657

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3822/1 : Diego Cuelbis, Thesoro chorographico de las Espannas (volume 1)

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3813]/040-002049657

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin
Spanish

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1600

End Date:

1624

Date Range:

1st quarter of the 17th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Dimensions: 115 x 190 mm (text space: 85 x 140 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 8* + 21* + 24* + 45* + 57* + 176* + 249* + 290 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 unfoliated blank leaf after ff. 27, 137 and 186; ff. 1*, 8*, 21*, 24*, 45*, 57*, 176* and 249* are inserted, mounted paper leaves; 1 unfoliated paper strip between f. [i] and f. 1 (bibliographical notes).

Script: 17th-century secretary hand.

Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the upper and lower covers; gilded edges; rebound October 1957. The previous binding (gold-tooled brown leather with a foliate motif gold stamped at the centre) has been pasted on the inside upper cover.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Germany (possibly Leipzig).

Provenance:

James Scott (b. 1671, d. 1732), Scottish MP, Envoy Extraordinary to Poland, Minster to Prussia, owned the manuscript: presented it to Robert Harley on 25 January 1725/6, through Thomas Johnson, bookseller at The Hague (see note on f. 1*r; Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 403 n. 6; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 299).

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, ‘25 die Januarii 1725/6’ (f. 1r).

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. 84.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1725, p. 203 n. 6.

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. 299.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Germany

Related Material:

The second and third volumes of this manuscript are now Harley MS 3822/2 and Harley MS 3822/3. An engraving from this manuscript (f. 150) is now Harley MS 3822/4. The manuscript's original flyleaves are now bound separately as Harley MS 3822/5.