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Harley MS 6155

Record Id:

040-002052003

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002052003

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x00036e

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 6155

Title:

Robert Glover, Disceptationes de Regnorum Juribus

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Disceptationes aliquot Christianorum – principium, de regnorum principatuumque iuribus & titulis, hæc nostra memoria invicem contendentium’.

f. 1*verso: A table of contents, entitled: ‘Disceptationum Catalogus’.

f. 1r: A preface by Robert Glover (b. 1543/1544, d. 1588), Somerset Herald, dedicating his work to Robert Dudley (b. 1532, d. 1588), 1st Earl of Leicester, dated to 1581.

ff. 1v-6r: Antiquum ius regum Angliæ ad regnum et coronam Franciæ, ab hodiernis Francorum regibus eorumque prædecessoribus, iam diu usurpatis.

ff. 6v-11r: Francorum regum de Neapolitano regno adversus Arragonenses et Austriacos principes, gravis contentio.

ff. 11v-12v: De Danorum regno: Lotharingicis ducibus ex primogenituræ legibus, contra hodiernos reges id sibi vendicantibus.

ff. 14r-15r: De Portugallorum regni iure controversia, inter Philippum Hispaniarum regem, Ducissam Brigantiæ et alios.

ff. 15v-19v: De Mediolanensi ducatu contentiones: Gallis pro suo contra Sfortianos et Austriacos de iure vendicantibus.

ff. 20v-23r: Nivernorum ducum ius publicatum ad ducatos Brabantiæ, Lotharingiæ et Limburgi, et ad dominium Antverpiæ, ab Austriacis principibus usurpatos.

Decoration:

1 full-page coat of arms in colours of the Kingdom of Naples (House of Trastámara) on f. 6v; and 1 of the Duchy of Nevers (House of Valois-Burgundy) on f. 20v. The arms of England on f. 1v; Denmark on f. 11v; and Milan on f. 15v have been cut out, and replaced with blank paper, causing loss of text on their versos. Family trees with names in green roundels and relationship lines in red ink (ff. 4v-6r, 8r-8v, 9v, 11r, 12v, 14v-15r, 17r, 19r, 19v, 23r). 1 large (8-line) initial [imitating printed initials] outlined in black ink in a black frame with foliate penwork decoration in black ink (f. 1r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002052003

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 6155 : Robert Glover, Disceptationes de Regnorum Juribus

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[6159]/040-002052003

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1581

End Date:

1581

Date Range:

1581

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: paper.

Dimensions: 485 x 280 mm.

Foliation: ff. 23 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); f. 13 is a modern blank paper leaf replacing a missing leaf.

Script: 16th-century script.

Binding: British Museum-in-house. Green morocco half leather binding with marbled paper and the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers; gilt fore-edge.

Custodial History:

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.

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), pp. 332-33.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England