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Harley MS 4780
- Record Id:
- 040-002050623
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050623
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00012a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4780
- Title:
- Wardrobe accounts of King Edward IV from 18 April to 29 September 1480
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-59v: Wardrobe accounts of King Edward IV from 18 April to 29 September 1480, beginning: 'The Parcelles of the Accomptes of Peers Courteys whome the kinges highnesse and goode grace hath assigned and ordeigned by his high commaundement to rule gouverne and kepe his grete warderobe within his Citee off London and all his goodes and stuff beyng within the ssame unto his mooste honourable use safly for to kepe'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050623", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4780: Wardrobe accounts of King Edward IV from 18 April to 29 September 1480" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050623 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4780 : Wardrobe accounts of King Edward IV from 18 April to 29 September 1480 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4779]/040-002050623
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1480
- End Date:
- 1480
- Date Range:
- 1480
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 430 x 320 mm.
Foliation: ff. 59 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [i]recto (bibliographical notes); parchment tabs on ff. 6r, 7r, 14r, 19r, 29r, 37r, 41r, 44r, 55r, 58r; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [i]recto (bibliographical notes).
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: Post-1600; red Morocco leather with gold-stamped and -tooled borders on the outside covers, with gold-stamped royal crowns in their corners; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origins:
England.
Provenance:
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.
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. 204.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England