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Harley MS 6624

Record Id:

040-002052473

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002052473

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x000094

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 6624

Title:

Certeine godlie and devoute Praires, for the Dailie exercise, of the vertuouse and wel disposed Christian

Scope & Content:

Contents:

pp. 1-88: A collection of ‘Certeine godlie and devoute Praires, for the Dailie exercise, of the vertuouse and wel disposed Christian’; beginning: ‘To the right honourable and his singuler good lorde, the Lorde Marques of Northamton etcaetera his humble oratoure T. Paulfreiman, wisheth the favoure of almightie god’; ending with a prayer for Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603).

pp. 89-92: An index of ‘The places of the severall prayers’.

The manuscript contains an addition:

ff. iv recto-iv verso, v recto-v verso: Fragments of Iacobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea; written in the 13th century.

Decoration:

Initials in black ink with calligraphic decoration throughout the manuscript.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002052473

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 6624 : Certeine godlie and devoute Praires, for the Dailie exercise, of the vertuouse and wel disposed Christian

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[6629]/040-002052473

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1558

End Date:

1603

Date Range:

1558-1603

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper; parchment (ff. iv and v).

Dimensions: 150 x 100 mm.

Foliation: ff. i-v + ‘46’ + vi (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 at the end); no foliation, but only pagination throughout the manuscript (‘1’-‘92’); 1 unfoliated paper leaf between f. iii and f. iv (f. iiia); and 1 between f. ‘46’ [p. 92] and f. v (f. ‘46a’); f. i is a paper leaf pasted on the inside of the upper cover; f. ii and f. vi are paper labels gold-stamped with the Harleian coat of arms pasted onto the insides of the upper and lower covers; f. iii is a paper leaf between f. [i] and f. iiia; and f. iv and f. v are parchment fragments mounted onto paper leaves

Script: 16th-century script.

Binding: Post-1600; gold-tooled and –stamped brown leather binding.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Thomas Palfreyman (? d. 1589), author: according to the introduction of the manuscript, calligraphically wrote and presented the manuscript to William Parr, Marquess of Northampton (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 271).

William Parr (b. 1513, d. 1571), Marquess of Northampton: according to the introduction, the manuscript was written for him (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 269).

John Hall, owned in the early 17th century: his name inscribed on f. iii recto: ‘ex dono Johannis Hall’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 177).

John Clayton, owned in the early 17th century: his name inscribed (2x) on f. iii recto: ‘Johannis Clayton’ and ‘John Clayton’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 105).

‘JMS.’ [? John Murray (b. 1670, d. 1748) of Sacombe, Hertfordshire], owned in the late 17th or early 18th century: monogram written on f. iii verso; the same initials also feature in other Harleian manuscripts (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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 380.

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. 468.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Jacobus de Voragine, chronicler and archbishop of Genoa, c 1230-1298