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Harley MS 6018
- Record Id:
- 040-002051866
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051866
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x00021d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100132824609.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6018
- Title:
- A catalogue of the manuscripts and printed books of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r-146r: A catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631): ‘Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Roberti Cottoni - 1621’. The heading and a number of later entries are in the hand of Robert Cotton (see Tite, The Early Records (2003), p. 10 ns 53 and 54).
ff. 147r-151v, 152v-190r: Notes on printed books and manuscripts lent to diverse persons by Sir Robert Cotton and Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, his son, with confirmations of receipt by some of these persons, dated to 1606-1653. Includes a note by Jacob Chaloner (b. 1586, d. 1631), son of Thomas Chaloner, heraldic painter, confirming that Robert Cotton shall have ‘the Red booke of the garter’ (f. 156r).
The manuscript contains a few later additions:
ff. i recto-iii recto: An index of shelfmarks in the Cottonian library; added in the (?) 18th or 19th century.
f. 1r: Notes in pencil and ink regarding Cottonian books and manuscripts, with a paper pastedown containing the inscription: ‘The Rectorye of Hartinton Comitatu Derby: Quere to what Nunnerye it belonged’; written in the 17th century.
f. 2r: Two paper pastedowns with notes on Cottonian manuscripts; written in the 17th century.
f. 152r: References by Sir Frederic Madden (1801-1873), Keeper in the Department of Manuscripts at the British Museum, to other notes and receipts: ‘See MS Cotton Appendix XLV.13. for Memoranda of the Manuscripts lent by Sir Thomas Cotton, from 1637 to 1661 – F.M.’; Also in MS Add. 15761 a List of the Cartularies in the Cottonian Collection and notes of those lent in 1638 – F.M.’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051866", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6018: A catalogue of the manuscripts and printed books of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051866 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6018 : A catalogue of the manuscripts and printed books of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6022]/040-002051866
- 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_100132824609.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1621
- End Date:
- 1653
- Date Range:
- 1621-1653
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 305 x 190 mm.
Foliation: ff. iii + 191 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 2 small unfoliated paper leaves (bibliographical notes) mounted onto paper guards between f. [iii] and f. i; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown (with notes) on f. 1r; 2 (with notes) on f. 2r; 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 2 and f. 3; f. 4 and f. 5; f. 124 and f. 125; 2 between f. 126 and f. 127; 9 between f. 146 and f. 147; 1 between f. 149 and f. 150; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [195]verso (notes of examination); ff. i-iii, 74, 132, 142, 153, 165-169, 171, 177, 181, 183-186, 188-189 are smaller paper leaves or strips of paper; each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: the manuscript contains a catalogue of his manuscripts (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 112-13); his hand throughout the manuscript.
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. 311.
Colin G. C. Tite, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: The British Library, 2003), pp. 10-11 (description), 31-73 (edition), 244 (Annex 2b), and passim.
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. 463.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)