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Harley MS 6253
- Record Id:
- 040-002052101
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052101
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x0003d0
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100153852960.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6253
- Title:
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Nicholas Harpsfield's Life of Sir Thomas More
- Scope & Content:
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Harpsfield's Life of More was written during Queen Mary I's reign and dedicated to More's son-in-law William Roper, who supplied him with notes. The dedication is signed N. H: L: D. (Nicholas Harpsfield, f. 5*v).
ff. 2*v–109r: 'The life and death of Sir Thomas Moore knight, sometymes Lord high Chancellor of England.'
The manuscript contains four engraved portraits, which also feature in the Baziliologa (1618): More, by the sculptor Renold Elstrack (f. 2*v); Henry VIII, by Francis Delaram (f. 65*r); Anne Boleyn, by Elstrack (f. 71*r); and Mary I by Delaram (f. 109r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052101", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6253: Nicholas Harpsfield's Life of Sir Thomas More" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052101 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6253 : Nicholas Harpsfield's Life of Sir Thomas More - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6257]/040-002052101
- 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_100153852960.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1640
- Date Range:
- Early 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 302 x 202 mm.
Foliation: ff. 109 + 6.
Binding: British Museum binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
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, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808–12), III (1808), pp. 346–47.
Nicholas Harpsfield, The life and death of Sr Thomas Moore. knight, sometymes Lord high Chancellor of England, ed. Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock and introd. R. W. Chambers (London: Oxford University Press, 1932).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)