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Harley MS 4000
- Record Id:
- 040-002049837
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049837
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000200
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100162925596.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4000
- Title:
- An epistolary discourse in defence of the Protestant religion
- Scope & Content:
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f. 1r: Note suggesting that this work came from the Queen's closet due to the markings E R A F H ('Elizabetha Regina Angliae Franciae Hiberniae') on the original vellum binding that has been pasted onto f. 2r and f. 77v.
ff. 3r–4r: An explanation of the contents, written in the same hand as the note. The writer suggests that the author of the treatise was a Scotsman who had travelled in Europe, who wrote shortly after the murder of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (that is, 1567, not 1562 as stated on f. 3r).
ff. 4r–76r: An undated and untitled epistolary discourse in French addressed to Elizabeth I, in defence of the Protestant religion and against Mary, Queen of Scots.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049837", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4000: An epistolary discourse in defence of the Protestant religion" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049837 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4000 : An epistolary discourse in defence of the Protestant religion - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3993]/040-002049837
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100162925596.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
French, Middle - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1562
- End Date:
- 1572
- Date Range:
- c 1567
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 226 x 169 mm.
Foliation: ff. 77 + 2 (endleaves).
Binding: British Museum binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Possibly Scotland or England.
Provenance:
Possibly Elizabeth I, Queen of England (1533–1603).
John Holles (1672–1711), 4th Earl of Clare 1689, Duke of Newcastle, 1694: his bookplate on f. 1v.
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.
- 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. 102.
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. 193.
An edition of this work is currently in preparation.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)