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Harley MS 6635
- Record Id:
- 040-002052484
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052484
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x00009f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100162925654.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6635
- Title:
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Poem on King James VI and I’s right of succession
- Scope & Content:
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A decorative presentation copy of an anonymous English poem on the right of succession of King James VI and I. With a prose dedicatory address signed ‘A.H. Boreabritannus’. The poem was originally composed in 1595; this copy dates from 'manye yeares' later (f. 2v).
ff. 1r-5r Dedicatory address ‘To all honorable gentlemen true servitors and faithfull followers and attendantes on the highe and Mighty prynce James by the grace of god Kinge of great Brittain France and Ireland. AH wisheth as they deserve’. Beginning ‘Gentlemen to bee inexorable in a request honorable and Lawfull, is more then Churlishe’.
ff. 5v-23v Poem of 222 lines, in stanzas, titled ‘The memoriall of his ould Mrs’. Beginning ‘Livinge, dyenge, strivd for lyfe’. The poem describes the death of Mary, Queen of Scots, and argues in support of the succession of King James VI and I.
Decoration: pen flourishing.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052484", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6635: Poem on King James VI and I’s right of succession" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052484 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6635 : Poem on King James VI and I’s right of succession - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6640]/040-002052484
- 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_100162925654.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1595
- End Date:
- 1595
- Date Range:
- 1595
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 98 x 149mm.
Foliation: ff. lv + 24.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum.
Script: Secretary; italic.
- Custodial History:
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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 (London: British Museum, 1808), vol. 3, p. 381.
John Nichols, ed. The Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities of King James the First (London: J.B. Nichols, 1828), vol. 1, p. xl.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)