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Harley MS 4782

Record Id:

040-002050625

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050625

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00012c

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4782

Title:

Account of the household expenses of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-196v: Account of the household expenses of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury (b. c. 1522, d. 1590), at Handsworth, 21 December 1588-6 March 1590.

The manuscript contains an addition:

ff. 1*recto-1*verso, 197r-197v originally formed a single parchment leaf from a late 12th- or early 13th-century Bible written in 2 columns, containing fragments of respectively 2 Samuel 6-7 and 2 Samuel 9-10 (ff. 1*recto-1*verso); Exodus 32-33 and Exodus 30 (ff. 197r-197v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050625

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4782 : Account of the household expenses of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4781]/040-002050625

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:

1588

End Date:

1590

Date Range:

1588-1590

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper; parchment (ff. 1* and 197).

Dimensions: 440 x 170 mm.

Foliation: ff. 1* + 197 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 at the end); ff. 1* and 197 are parchment leaves from a medieval manuscript; 43 unfoliated blank paper leaves between f. 68 and f. 69; f. 130 has a paper foldout; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [i]recto (bibliographical notes).

Script: 16th-century script.

Binding: Post-1600. Marbled paper binding.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury (b. c. 1522, d. 1590): the manuscript contains his household expenses recorded by William Turner, Clerk of the Kitchen; his name inscribed on f. 196v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 323).

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.

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. 448.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England