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Harley MS 6395
- Record Id:
- 040-002052244
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052244
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x0002ef
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6395
- Title:
- Jests and curious stories of Nicholas L’Estrange
- Scope & Content:
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A book of 606 jests and anecdotes compiled by Nicholas L’Estrange (1604-1655), with unnumbered additions in a different hand. Anecdotes from L’Estrange’s own knowledge are identified by the initials S.N.L., while others are attributed to friends and relatives, including his brothers, Hamon L'Estrange and Sir Roger L'Estrange, his father and mother, and members of the Norfolk gentry. There is a name index of sources for the jests and anecdotes, followed by a number of epitaphs.
The last two jests numbered 605-606 are in a different hand, as are the unnumbered jests and the final joke on f. 93.
Contents:
ff. 1-84: Jests and anecdotes numbered 1-606.
ff. 85-88: Additional jests and anecdotes in a different hand, unnumbered.
ff. 89-91v: Index of contributors of the jests and anecdotes.
f. 92: ‘Epitaphs &c.’
f. 93: A joke in French, dated 7e Juillet 1692, in a different hand.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052244", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6395: Jests and curious stories of Nicholas L’Estrange" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052244 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6395 : Jests and curious stories of Nicholas L’Estrange - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6400]/040-002052244
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1630
- End Date:
- 1659
- Date Range:
- 1630s-1650s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 177 x 135 mm.
Foliation: 93 folios
Binding: British Museum binding.
- Custodial History:
- 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.
- Finding Aids:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 6395.
- Publications:
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H F Lippincott, ed. ‘Merry Passages and Jeasts’: a Manuscript Jestbook of Sir Nicholas Le Strange (Salzburg, 1974).
Heather Wolfe, ‘Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and the "Latin" spoons in L'Estrange's jest book’ https://shakespearedocumented.folger.edu/resource/document/shakespeare-ben-jonson-and-latin-spoons-lestranges-jest-book [webpage]. Accessed 31/8/2022.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- l'Estrange, Nicholas, 1st Baronet, of Hunstanton, 1604-1655
- Related Material:
- Add MS 4464 ff. 46-57 includes extracts from this MS (Thomas Birch MSS)