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Harley MS 5353
- Record Id:
- 040-002051199
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051199
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00036a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5353
- Title:
- Diary of John Manningham of the Middle Temple
- Scope & Content:
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Diary of John Manningham (c 1575-1622), while a student at the Middle Temple. The diary starts in January 1601/2 and continues to April 1603, with a break March-April 1602. It includes epigrams, sermon abstracts, anecdotes, witticisms, gossip, verse, extracts from books and poems, before and among the diary entries.
Notably, the diary includes the first account of a performance of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (f. 12v), and an anecdote about Shakespeare and Burbage (f. 29v); and an account of the illness and death of Queen Elizabeth.
ff. 1-4: Epigrams and devices.
ff. 5-9: Abstracts of sermons.
ff. 10-16: Diary entries dated 1 January 1601 – February 1601 [i.e. 1601/2].
ff. 17v-133: Diary entries dated May 1602-April 1603. With further abstracts from sermons, verses, remarks and extracts from poems, etc.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051199", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5353: Diary of John Manningham of the Middle Temple" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051199 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5353 : Diary of John Manningham of the Middle Temple - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5355]/040-002051199
- 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:
- 1602
- End Date:
- 1603
- Date Range:
- 1602-1603
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 155 x 130 mm.
Foliation: 133 folios.
Binding: British Museum binding, 1969.
- Custodial History:
- 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.
- Finding Aids:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 5353.
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. 232.
- Publications:
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John Bruce, Diary of John Manningham (Camden Society, 1868).
Robert Parker Sorlien, ed., The Diary of John Manningham of the Middle Temple, 1602–1603 (Hanover, NH, 1976).
Heather Wolfe, ‘John Manningham's Diary: earliest mention of Twelfth Night and a Shakespeare anecdote’ https://shakespearedocumented.folger.edu/resource/document/john-manninghams-diary-earliest-mention-twelfth-night-and-shakespeare-anecdote [Webpage]. Accessed 31/8/2022
British Library, ‘The Festival of Twelfth Night in John Manningham’s Diary’ https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-festival-of-twelfth-night-in-john-manninghams-diary [Webpage]. Accessed 31/8/2022.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- Harley MS 5353 f. 29v is inscribed in Unesco Memory of the World register, as part of the Shakespeare Documents collection. https://webarchive.unesco.org/web/20220331184501/http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/memory-of-the-world/register/full-list-of-registered-heritage/registered-heritage-page-8/the-shakespeare-documents-a-documentary-trail-of-the-life-of-william-Shakespeare. Accessed 31/8/2022
- Names:
- Manningham, John, lawyer and diarist, c 1575-1722,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/67668672