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Harley MS 3822/5
- Record Id:
- 040-002049658
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049658
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x00014d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3822/5
- Title:
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Fragments of letter and account books of German merchants
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-26v: Fragments of a letter-book of a Leipzig merchant (?) relating to consignments of goods, including cloth, wine, etc, 10 March-2 August 1545.
ff. 27r-48r: Fragments of a cloth (?) merchant's account book; no dates except a few months and days.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. i recto: A note on the manuscript added at the British Museum, beginning: 'Harley MS 3822*: The following leaves were found in the original binding of Harley MS. 3822 and had been pasted together to form stiffening boards for the upper and lower covers [etc.]'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049658", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3822/5: Fragments of letter and account books of German merchants" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049658 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3822/5 : Fragments of letter and account books of German merchants - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3814]/040-002049658
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1545
- End Date:
- 1605
- Date Range:
- 1545-c 1600
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 130 x 190 mm.
Foliation: i + 48 (+ 1 unfoliated blank paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 at the end); f. i is a modern paper leaf with typed text; 1 unfoliated moden paper pastedown on f. [49]recto (note of foliation).
Collation: Each leaf has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers.
- Custodial History:
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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:
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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. 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:
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The first, second, and third volumes of this manuscript are now Harley MSS 3822/1, 3822/2, and 3822/3. An engraving from this manuscript (f. 150) is now Harley MS 3822/4.