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Harley MS 6363
- Record Id:
- 040-002052212
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052212
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x0002cf
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6363
- Title:
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A description of London; with a list of mayors and sheriffs from 1190-1588
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-52r: A ‘Breeff Description of the Famous Cittie of London Capitall Cittie of this Realme of England et caetera Anno 1588’.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 53r: Notes about London, beginning: ‘Shoreditch Place otherwise called Inglerowe’; added in the 17th century.
Decoration:
The arms of London (Argent a cross gules, in the first quarter a sword in pale point upwards of the last) in colours (f. 1r). The arms of the merchant and livery companies of London in colours (ff. 16v-19r). 1 large red initial with the arms of St Katharine's by the Tower inside the letter (f. 24v). 1 large initial outlined in brown ink (f. 26r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052212", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6363: A description of London; with a list of mayors and sheriffs from 1190-1588" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052212 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6363 : A description of London; with a list of mayors and sheriffs from 1190-1588 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6368]/040-002052212
- 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:
- 1588
- End Date:
- 1588
- Date Range:
- 1588
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 195 x 155 mm.
Foliation: ff. 53 ( + 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); f. 53 is a
paper strip pasted onto a blank paper leaf.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: Post-1600. Gold-stamped and –tooled brown leather.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
William Smith (b. c. 1550, d. 1618), merchant, traveller, topographer, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary at the College of Arms, 1597-1618, wrote the manuscript in 1588: according to a note on f. [iii]verso (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 307).
‘I. M. S’ [possibly John Murray of Sacombe], owned the manuscript in the 17th century: these initials inscribed on f. [i]verso (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 291).
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. 360.
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)