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Harley MS 5087
- Record Id:
- 040-002050931
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050931
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00025e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163608751.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5087
- Title:
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Edward VI's letters and declamations
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r–30v: ‘Epistolae Edouardi principis illustrissimi quas suopte marte composuit & scripsit anno aetatis sue nono.’ Forty-three letters written by Edward to Henry VIII, Katherine Parr, his sisters Mary and Elizabeth, his tutor Richard Cox, Edward Seymour, and the King of Poland’s envoy. The manuscript also contains six declamations written by Edward from June to July 1549.
ff. 1–2v: Five letters from Edward VI to Richard Cox, 24 March 1546, Hartford; 11 March 1546, Hartford; 2 April 1546, Hartford; 9 April 1546, Hartford, and 3 May 1546, Hunsdon.
ff. 2v–3r: Letter from Edward VI to his sister Mary, 8 May [no year], Hunsdon.
f. 3r: Letter from Edward VI to Katherine Parr, 11 May 1546, Hunsdon.
ff. 3r–v: Letter from Edward VI to Henry VIII, 2 June 1546, Hunsdon.
ff. 3v–4r: Letter from Edward VI to Katherine Parr, 10 June 1546, Hunsdon.
ff. 4r–v: Letter from Edward VI to his sister Mary, 29 May 1546, Hunsdon.
ff. 4v–5r: Letter from Edward VI to Henry VIII, 10 June 1546, Hunsdon.
ff. 5r–6r: Three letters from Edward VI to Richard Cox, 3 June 1546, Hunsdon; 28 June 1546, Hunsdon, and 13 June 1546, Hunsdon.
ff. 6v–7r: Two letters from Edward VI to Henry VIII, 4 July 1546, Hunsdon and 4 August 1546, e domo tua palustri.
ff. 7r–v: Letter from Edward VI to Katherine Parr, 12 August 1546, e domo Palustri.
f. 7v: Letter from Edward VI to Richard Cox, 20 August 1546, Hatfield.
f. 8r: Letter from Edward VI to Henry VIII, 4 September 1546, Hatfield.
ff. 8r–9r: Two letters from Edward VI to Richard Cox, 7 and 13 September 1546, Hatfield.
f. 9r: Letter from Edward VI to Katherine Parr, 20 September 1546.
f. 9v: Letter from Edward VI to Henry VIII, 22 September 1546.
ff. 9v–10r: Letter from Edward VI to his sister Mary, 26 September 1546.
ff. 10r–v: Letter from Edward VI to Henry VIII, 7 November 1546, Hatfield.
ff. 10v–11r: Letter from Edward VI to his sister Mary, 7 November 1546, Hatfield.
f. 11r: Letter from Edward VI to Katherine Parr, 20 September 1546, Hatfield.
f. 11v: Letter from Edward VI to his sister Elizabeth, 5 December 1546.
f. 11v: Letter from Edward VI to his sister Mary, 10 January 1547, Hartford.
f. 12r: Letter from Edward VI to Katherine Parr, 10 January 1547, Hartford.
f. 12v: Letter from Edward VI to Henry VIII, 10 January 1547, Hartford.
f. 13r: Letter from Edward VI to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 24 January 1547, Hartford.
f. 13v: Letter from Edward VI to the Bishop of Chichester, 5 January 1547, Hartford.
f. 14r: Letter from Edward VI to Katherine Parr, 7 February 1547, from the Tower.
f. 14v: Letter from Edward VI to his sister Mary, 10 January 1547, from the Tower of London.
ff. 14v–15r: Letter from Edward VI to his sister Elizabeth, 8 February 1547, from the Tower.
ff. 15r–v: Letter from Edward VI to Katherine Parr, 30 May [no year].
ff. 15v–16r: Letter from Edward VI to [Edward Seymour], Earl of Hertford, 9 June [no year], St James’s.
f. 16v: Letter from Edward VI to [Edward Seymour], Duke of Somerset, 24 August [no year], Hampton Court Palace.
f. 17r: Letter from Edward VI to the King of Poland’s envoy, 9 September [no year], Hampton Court Palace.
ff. 17r–v: Letter from Edward VI to [Edward Seymour], Duke of Somerset, 12 September [no year], Hampton Court Palace.
ff. 17v–18r: Letter from Edward VI to Katherine Parr, 19 September [no year], Oatlands.
f. 18r: Letter from Edward VI to [Edward Seymour], Earl of Hertford, no date.
ff. 19r–30v: Six orations by Edward.
ff. 19r–20v: 23 June 1549.
ff. 20v–22r: 30 June 1549, ‘An prescentia rerum sit vtilis.’
ff. 22v–24r: 7 July 1549.
ff. 24r–26r: 13 July 1549.
ff. 26r–27v: 21 July 1549.
ff. 27v–30v: 28 July 1549, ‘Dulce bellum inexpertis.’
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050931", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5087: Edward VI's letters and declamations" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050931 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5087 : Edward VI's letters and declamations - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5087]/040-002050931
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100163608751.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1546
- End Date:
- 1553
- Date Range:
- 1546-1553
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 298 x 210 mm.
Foliation: ff. 30 + 4 endleaves (2 parchment and 2 paper).
Binding: Original gold-tooled vellum binding, stamped with the arms of England and France quarterly.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
King Edward VI of England (1537–1553).
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661–1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689–1741), 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 (1694–1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715–1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 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. 245.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A study of the sources of the Harleian collection of manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 143.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)