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Harley MS 4138
- Record Id:
- 040-002049975
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049975
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x00029c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4138
- Title:
- English translation of Bernardino de Mendoza's Theorica y Practica de la Guerra
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r, 4r-228r: English translation of Bernardino de Mendoza (b. c. 1540, d. 1604), Theorica y Practica de la Guerra [1595], here entitled: 'The Theorick and Practick of warre written for the Prince Don Phillip of Spayne by Don Bernardino de Mendosa'; perhaps the English translation out of Castilian by Sir Edward[e] Hoby that was published in 1597.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 3r: Note on the the borrowing of (?) this manuscript from Robert Harley (b. 1579, d. 1656) by John Marigold.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049975", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4138: English translation of Bernardino de Mendoza's Theorica y Practica de la Guerra" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049975 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4138 : English translation of Bernardino de Mendoza's Theorica y Practica de la Guerra - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4131]/040-002049975
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1595
- End Date:
- 1635
- Date Range:
- c 1600-c 1630
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 305 x 200 mm (text space: 230 x 145 mm).
Foliation: ff. 228 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); f. 3 is a smaller paper leaf; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [230]verso (conservation notes).
Collation: Indicated by catchwords; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Library in-house; brown half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; re-bound in 1984.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Brampton Bryan, county Herefordshire, family seat of the Harleys: a note on f. 3r, dated 16 January 1635, records the borrowing of (?) this manuscript from Robert Harley (b. 1579, d. 1656): 'Received of Sir Robert Harley for preaching in the parish church of Brompton, during the vacancy the Summe of foure pounds, I say receaved by mee John Marigold'; with on the reverse: 'Mr Marigolds receipt for 4l'; sent up to London by Edward Harley after Robert Harley's death, and received in the Harleian Library on 16 October 1725 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), p. 386 n. 10; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 81).
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 ‘16 October 1725’ (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, p. 120.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 386 n. 10.
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. 81.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander, diplomat, and author, c 1540-1604,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066321203 - Places:
- England