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Harley MS 6794/1
- Record Id:
- 040-002052646
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052646
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x000141
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6794/1
- Title:
- Collection of diplomatic reports
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-12r: description of the fortress of Malta, Italian.
ff. 13r-14v: fragment of liturgical manuscript, 2nd half of the 14th century, Latin.
f. 15r: epigrams of Sir Thomas Conyngesby (1550-1625).
ff. 16r-66r: report on the kingdom of Naples from the Venetian ambassador Aluigi Landi, 1529, Italian.
ff. 67r-124v: report on France and the succession to the French crown, 1589, Italian.
ff. 125r-126r: letter to Charles I Emmanuel (1562-1630), duke of Savoy, from Melchior Reviglione, Italian.
ff. 126v-154v: Report by Melchior Reviglione on the city of Naples, Italian.
ff. 155r-196r: Report by Giovanni Cornaro, Italian.
ff. 281r-293r: extracts from texts on professed religious, French.
ff. 294r-302r: extracts from texts on horsemanship, French.
ff. 303r-334v: text on national customs, 1676, French.
f. 335v: pen trials.
ff. 12v, 15v, 66v, 196v, 293v, 302v, 335r are blank.
ff. 197-280 are bound as Harley MS 6794/2.
Decoration:
Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including leaves and ivy; coloured initials in blue (ff. 13r-14v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052646", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6794/1: Collection of diplomatic reports" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052646 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6794/1 : Collection of diplomatic reports - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6802]/040-002052646
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French
Italian - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1575
- End Date:
- 1676
- Date Range:
- Late 16th century to 1676
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 265 x 190 mm (text space: 175 x 120 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1-196, 281-335 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 13 at the end and 9 blank leaves between ff. 334 and 335).
Script: Gothic (ff. 13r-14v) and Humanistic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house. Rebound in 1961.
Condition: Outer parts of leaves missing (ff. 1-2); text faded (ff. 14r-v); parts of leaves missing and damaged by water (ff. 46r-66r, 124r-v).
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England (ff. 13-14); Italy.
Provenance:
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, certain parts of this compilation inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley '16 Octobris 1725' (ff. 125r, 155r).
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), no. 6794.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)