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Harley MS 4828
- Record Id:
- 040-002050671
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050671
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00015a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4828
- Title:
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Treatise on the conduct of soldiers in war
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-32r: 'This boke Intictualled to the Practysed Soldiers for Remembraunce and to the unexpert for Instruckc[ion] Touching the noble [? art of ] the wars set on […] hand [...] B […]'. Beginning: 'When the prince of the lande is moved to the Warres and hath chosen his lyfftenaunt general'. The treatise includes instructions for training, conduct, punishments, marching, making camp, and lists of 'Rankes of men'; ending with a 'breyff Remembraunce touching the necessary ffurnyshing of a horssmen to the ffillde'.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 1*recto: Latin and French mottoes: 'Spes audaces Adiuvat', 'Curia Romana non captat ouem sine lana', and 'Esperance Aide le hardi'; added in the 16th century.
f. 33r: 'Lord thow […] defend from the sutyll sort of thos […] wych frentshyp me […] and at my secret foes - I Constable'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050671", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4828: Treatise on the conduct of soldiers in war" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050671 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4828 : Treatise on the conduct of soldiers in war - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4827]/040-002050671
- 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: 290 x 200 mm (text space: 230 x 150 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 33 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. 1* and f. 1 are torn paper leaves (with loss of text) that have been repaired with blank paper.
Collation: Each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; re bound on 17 January 1967.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
'Densell Hollys', 16th century: their name inscribed on f. 1*recto.
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, p. 209.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England