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Harley MS 6220
- Record Id:
- 040-002052068
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052068
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x0003af
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6220
- Title:
- Instructyons yeven by the king of England to his trustie and welbeloved son Arthur shewinge howe they shall order themselves when they shall come to the presens of the olde Queene of Naples and the younge Queene her daughter
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r-6r: A treatise entitled ‘Instructyons yeven by the king [of] England to his trustie and welbeloved son [Arthur] shewinge howe they shall order themselves when they shall come to the presens of the olde Queene of N[aples] and the younge Queene her daughter’.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 1r: A title-page by Ralph Starkey: ‘A commysion with Articles Directede Howe A mariag should be Treated of in the behalfe of Prince Arthure - :R:ST: 1615’.
f. 2r: A note on the original manuscript from which this manuscript was copied, beginning: ‘The names of the ambassadors to whom these Instructions were addressed by Henry VII are [etc.]’; by (?) Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873).
f. 2v: A comment on the title-page: ‘The Title added by R. St. [i.e. Ralph Starkey] in 1615 is evidently erroneous as the mission was not an account of Prince Arthur, but of the King himself, see Lord Bacon’; by (?) Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052068", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6220: Instructyons yeven by the king of England to his trustie and welbeloved son Arthur shewinge howe they shall order themselves when they…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052068 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6220 : Instructyons yeven by the king of England to his trustie and welbeloved son Arthur shewinge howe they shall order themselves when… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6224]/040-002052068
- 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:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 290 x 205 mm.
Foliation: ff. 7; f. 2 is a small paper strip; each bifolium or 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 6215-6219, 6221-6233.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
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)