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Harley MS 4788
- Record Id:
- 040-002050631
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050631
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000132
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4788
- Title:
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A history and genealogy of Germany
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-72v: A history of Germany, with accounts of its subdivisions and genealogies of its peerage, preceded by definitions of different political systems. The work is organised into eight parts, but ends abruptly at the beginning of the seventh part. Imperfect at the beginning due to loss of folios: f. 1 originally was foliated as f. ‘11’, and f. 2 as f. ‘22’.
Decoration:
A drawing of a commander of Prussia in colours (f. 54r), matching a description above it: ‘The Mrs must needs be gentlemen, and Dutchmen, And are Called great Commanders of Prussia. They weare a longe whit Cloke, with a blacke Crosse before’. A decorated title box in colours on f. 1r. Borders of red or green lines for titles and text. Escutcheons in pencil in the margins.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050631", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4788: A history and genealogy of Germany" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050631 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4788 : A history and genealogy of Germany - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4787]/040-002050631
- 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:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 435 x 280 mm.
Foliation: ff. 72 (+ 6 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 6 at the end).
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house. According to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 205, it was bound together with Harley MSS 6154 and 6165 in the Harleian Library.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
William Dethick (b. c. 1542, d. 1612), herald, perhaps wrote the manuscript: written in the same script as Harley MS 2287, which may have been written by Dethick, and similar in contents (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 130).
An unknown owner: inscribed their name on f. 72v, but now crossed out.
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:
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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. 205.
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. 464.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England