Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??

Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...

Harley MS 6360

Record Id:

040-002052209

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002052209

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x0002cc

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100155076557.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 6360

Title:

Astrological texts; texts on high treason

Scope & Content:

This composite manuscript consists of two separate parts. The first part (ff. 3r-31r) contains astrological texts copied in the 16th century; the second part (ff. 4r-133r) contains texts concerning high treason that were most likely copied in the late 16th century.

Contents:

ff. 3r-8v: Astrological tables for the months of a year.

f. 9r: An astrological table with prognostications based on the Zodiac.

ff. 10r-10v: Astrological notes and tables: ‘Tabula qualitatum duocim signorum zodiaci’; and ‘Planetae dominantes [et] duodecim signa zodiaci’.

f. 11v: An English astrological tract, entitled ‘Question: Ascendens’.

ff. 12r-13v: A Latin and English astrological tract, entitled: ‘De furtis et rebus ablatis’.

ff. 14r-15v: An English-Latin astrological tract, entitled: ‘Pro facies signorum in septima domo naturam furis dignoscere’.

ff. 16r-21v: English astrological tracts for finding stolen items, entitled: ‘Quomodo iudicandum per 12 domos coeli’.

ff. 26r-29r: English astrological tract for determining the outcome of sickness and the hour of death; with a reference to ‘Guidonem Bonatum pa: 57’.

f. 30v: An English astrological tract ‘For Lendinge of mony’.

f. 31r: An English astrological tract ‘for common bargins’.

ff. 32r-100v: An English tract referring the ‘Statute of 13 Elizabeth’, entitled: 'The case of a present title to an estate in Norfolke’; including an event dated to 25 August in the 23rd year of the reign of Elizabeth I (1580).

ff. 101r-131v: An English treatise, entitled: ‘The Anatomy of Highe Treason: Described and defined for the necessarie defense of the Royall person estate and dignitie and of publique libertie from all traiterous practises and attempts by Comon Lawe’.

f. 132r: Questions regarding high treason and the ‘Statute of 13 Elizabeth’.

f. 132v: English notes on historical examples of treason.

f. 133r: A Latin note.

The manuscript contains a few later additions:

f. 1r: The coat of arms of the Spelman family, followed by a poem: ‘En tibi Spilmannae veneranda insignia gentis /Haec dedit, haec virtus, sustinuisse studet’; added by Sir Henry Spelman (b. 1563/4, d. 1641). f. 2r: A Latin poem, enttiled 'In laudem Cl. Ptolomaei librum, et Hier. Cardani de indiciis'; copied by Sir Henry Spelman.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

[{ "id" : "040-002052209", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6360: Astrological texts; texts on high treason" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002052209

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 6360 : Astrological texts; texts on high treason

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[6365]/040-002052209

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_100155076557.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)

Thumbnail:

Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1500

End Date:

1649

Date Range:

16th century-1st half of the 17th century

Era:

Access:

Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.

Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.

Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.

If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.

This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.

User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 205 x 155 mm.

Foliation: ff. 133 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 21 unfoliated paper flyleaves between f. 2 and f. 3; 4 between f. 8 and f. 9; 8 between f. 21 and f. 22; 11 between f. 25 and f. 26; and 13 between f. 29 and f. 30.

Script: 16th-century script.

Binding: Post-1600; marbled paper binding.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

Sir Henry Spelman (b. 1563/4, d. 1641), historian and antiquary: his coat of arms (with the motto: ‘Quand Dieu Vouldra’) and name inscribed on f. 1r: ‘Henricus Spelman Cantabrigiensis’; and f. 2r: ‘quod H. Spelman’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p.

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), p. 360.

Linda Levy Peck, 'Beyond the Pale: John Cusacke and the Language of Absolutism in Early Stuart Britain', The Historical Journal, 41:1 (1998), 121-49.

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. 466.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England