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Harley MS 6882
- Record Id:
- 040-002052734
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052734
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x000199
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6882
- Title:
- Geographical description of the four parts of the world and of the state and trade of the countries therein; prophecies of Paul Grebner
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a description of the world in English and an account of the prophecies of Paul Grebner (fl. b. c. 1563, d. 1582) that were most likely written between c. 1625 and c. 1650. The manuscript also includes a late Elizabethan indenture that has been folded and added to create flyleaves for the manuscript.
Contents:
ff. 1r-56r: Geographical description of the four parts of the world and of the state and trade of the countries therein, written in English, and beginning with the heading: 'Europe, Africk, Asia & America'.
f. 56r: A recipe 'To make good Inke'.
ff. 57r-57v: An account of the prophecies of Paul Grebner (fl. b. c. 1563, d. 1582), as recorded in a manuscript at Cambridge, Trinity College: 'The Prophesie of Pauls Grebnerus who was heare […] with Queene Elizabeth, Anno 1582: and presented her with a fayer Historie of Eruope, heare and there limming [sic] in water colors, some principall passages. Doctor Nevel the then Clerke of the Closett, being in favour with the Queene, obteyned this Book of her, & bestowed it on the Librarie of Trinity Colledg in Cambridg, where it hath bine published to the View of all Persons, until about 5 or 6 yeares agoe: by much perusing & ill handling, it was much slurred & defaced'.
The manuscript contains a few additions:
f. 58v: An instruction for catching carps: 'To take the Carpe: take a bowe net, take 1 loafe of white bred, drye it as hard as ye cann, dip it in aqua vite well & dip it again [in] aqua vite but not to make it soft, then dip it in tarr & so put it into the net & lay it all night in the pond'; added in the 17th century.
ff. 59v-60v: A fragment of an indenture between 'Wolstan Dixie of Market [Bosworth, Leicestershire]' and 'Thomas Chancey alias Giles of the same towne'; also mentions of a 'Richard Thornton alias Tisall of Osbarston [Osbaston, Leicestershire], with the signature of 'Thomas Chauncy' on a parchment pastedown on f. 60r; and followed by the note: 'Sealed, signed and delivered in the presence of us: Nathaniel Wood, Edward Squier, John Morton'; written in English and dated 1601. The 'Wolstan Dixie' in the document is probably Sir Wolstan Dixie (b. c. 1576, d. 1650) of Market Bosworth, Sheriff of Lecestershire (1614-1615).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052734 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6882 : Geographical description of the four parts of the world and of the state and trade of the countries therein; prophecies of… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6890]/040-002052734
- 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:
- 1620
- End Date:
- 1655
- Date Range:
- c 1625-c 1650
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper; Parchment (ff. 59 and 60 only).
Dimensions: Leaves of 205 x 150 mm, mounted on paper guards to fit a volume measuring 205 x 175 mm (text space: 200 x 135 mm).
Foliation: ff. 60 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 at the end); ff. 59 and 60 are parchment leaves; 1 unfoliated parchment pastedown on f .60r; and 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [61]recto (note of foliation).
Sript: 17th-century cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house; purple half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; according to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 445, the manuscript was bound together with Harley MS 6540 in the Harleian Library.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
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.
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. 445.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)