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Harley MS 5417
- Record Id:
- 040-002051263
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051263
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0003aa
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5417
- Title:
- Jean Poingdestre, Caesarea or A Discourse of the Island of Jersey in two Parts
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-44v: Jean Poingdestre (b. 1609, d. 1691), Caesarea or A Discourse of the Island of Jersey in two Parts: The First, An Accompt of It as It Is at Present; The second, Some Historical Observations Relating to Antiquity.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051263", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5417: Jean Poingdestre, Caesarea or A Discourse of the Island of Jersey in two Parts" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051263 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5417 : Jean Poingdestre, Caesarea or A Discourse of the Island of Jersey in two Parts - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5419]/040-002051263
- 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:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 220 x 165 mm.
Foliation: ff. 44 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 6 at the end); 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 1 and f. 2; and f. 2 and f. 3.
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: Post-1600. Gold-stamped red leather.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
James II (b. 1633, d. 1701), King of England: according to an inscription by Edward Harley on f. 1r: ‘This book did belong to King James - I had it from Coll. Graham’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 204).
James Graham (b. 1650, d. 1730): according to an inscription on f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 169-70).
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. 266.
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. 457.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England