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Harley MS 6219
- Record Id:
- 040-002052067
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052067
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x0003ae
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6219
- Title:
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The life and acts of William the Conqueror; fragment of a history of Scotland (1291); Metrical History of the Deposition of Richard II
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-4r: A tract on the acts of William the Conqueror, beginning: ‘These thynges whiche folow of the lyfe and actes of the gloryous William Duke of Normandye , and victoryous Kynge of Englande were detracted out of a certen auncyent boke of the monasterye of St Stephen of Cane [Abbey of Saint-Étienne, Caen], of whiche monasterye he sometymes was founder’.
ff. 5r-8r: A fragment of a history of Scotland, covering the year 1291; copied ‘out of a great boke of Record borowyd of mastar stevenson’.
ff. 9r-12v: An English translation of the Chronicque de la Traison et Mort de Richard II [Metrical History of the Deposition of Richard II].
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 1r: A title-page by Ralph Starkey: 'Thre severall Tracts one of the Acts of William Duke of Normandy; the 2. of Affaieres with Scotland; the .3. of the Distruction of .R. .2. - :R: ST: 1615'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052067", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6219: The life and acts of William the Conqueror; fragment of a history of Scotland (1291); Metrical History of the Deposition of Richard II" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052067 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6219 : The life and acts of William the Conqueror; fragment of a history of Scotland (1291); Metrical History of the Deposition of Richard II - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6223]/040-002052067
- 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:
- 1550
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 300 x 200 mm.
Foliation: ff. 12; each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 20 June 1966; bound together with Harley MSS 6215-6218, 6220-6233.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England; ? Scotland (ff. 5-8).
Provenance:
Ralph Starkey (d. 1628) of Darley Hall in Oulton, owned in 1615: his initials (:R:ST:) with the year 1615 on f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 314).
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. 344.
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. 465.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England
Scotland