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Harley MS 5127
- Record Id:
- 040-002050971
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050971
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000286
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5127
- Title:
- Tracts on the characters of princes and notable persons; a history of tenures in England
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r-62r: ‘Breife Characters, and Descriptions of Some Moderne Princes and other Persons and the time of their Birth and Death. Also, A Short glance upon their Conditions, Qualities, and Fortunes – Collected out of severall Authors – By R.D.’; beginning with ‘Ferdinand the 2nd Emperour of Germany’ and ending with ‘Mounsieur Villeroy the famous Gran Minister of State in France’ [Nicolas de Neufville (b. 1543, d. 1617), seigneur de Villeroy].
ff. 63r-63v: A table of contents for the preceding work.
ff. 64r-103r: ‘A Briefe Memoriall of some Remarkables – The First Part’; with reference to the year 1639 on f. 79r; and the birthday of King Charles II in 1630 on f. 89r.
ff. 104r-145v: ‘A Briefe Memoriall of some Remarkables – The Second Part’.
ff. 146r-152r: ‘Of Severall Sorts of Tenures by which diverse Mannors and other Lands were held in former Times in England – Observed out of Cambdens [William Camden] Britannia and others’.
ff. 153r-157r: ‘Of Honourary Titles in England, the time of their first Creation, the Persons first honour’d there with, and the fformes and Ensignes belonging thereto’.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
ff. 1r-2r: ‘A Computation of fforrain Coines within the English’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050971 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5127 : Tracts on the characters of princes and notable persons; a history of tenures in England - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5127]/040-002050971
- 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:
- 1645
- End Date:
- 1655
- Date Range:
- c 1650
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 220 x 170 mm (text space: 180 x 135 mm)
Foliation: ff. 157 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf after f. 152; ff. 1-2 are smaller leaves.
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: Post-1600: gold-tooled brown speckled leather with the initials 'M.B.' (Museum Brittanicum) gold stamped on the upper cover.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
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, inscribed as usual by their librarian.
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. 248.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England