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Harley MS 6035
- Record Id:
- 040-002051883
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051883
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x00022e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100153852746.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6035
- Title:
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Journal of Sir Francis Walsingham's office, 1583-1585
- Scope & Content:
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Journal or memorandum book of Sir Francis Walsingham, principal secretary of state (c. 1532-1590). In the hands of Sir Francis Walsingham, Francis Mylles, Thomas Lake, Robert Beale, and others.
f. i: Parchment fragment: ‘A leiger took out of the Secretaries office 1583’.
ff. 1r-118v: Daily memoranda of public business, correspondence, daily schedules, and appointments, by date. Covering the period from 25 March 1583 to 3 December 1585, apart from August and September 1583.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051883", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6035: Journal of Sir Francis Walsingham's office, 1583-1585" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051883 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6035 : Journal of Sir Francis Walsingham's office, 1583-1585 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6039]/040-002051883
- 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_100153852746.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1583
- End Date:
- 1585
- Date Range:
- 1583-1585
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper; parchment.
Dimensions: 188 x 248mm.
Foliation: ff. xiii + 118.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum.
Script: Secretary; italic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Sir Francis Walsingham, principal secretary of state (c. 1532-1590): former owner.
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 (London: British Museum, 1808), vol. 3, p. 312.
Florence M.G. Evans, The Principal Secretary of State (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1923).
Charles T. Martin, ed., Journal of Sir Francis Walsingham from December 1570 to April 1583, Camden Miscellany 6 (London: Printed for the Camden Society: 1871).
Conyers Read, Mr Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth (Oxford: Clarendon, 1925), vol. 3, p. 452.
Mark Taviner, ‘Robert Beale and the Elizabethan Polity’ (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of St. Andrews, 2000).
Hsuan-Ying Tu, ‘The Pursuit of God’s Glory: Francis Walsingham’s Espionage in Elizabethan Politics, 1568-1588’ (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of York, 2012).
Elizabeth Williamson, ‘Archival practice and the production of political knowledge in the office of Sir Francis Walsingham’, in Praktiken der Frühen Neuzeit (Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2015).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)