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Harley MS 6902
- Record Id:
- 040-002052754
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052754
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x0001ad
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6902
- Title:
- Henry Goldingham, The Garden Plot
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-18v: Henry Goldingham (fl. 2nd half of the 16th century), The Garden Plot. An allegorical poem dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, with an introduction, beginning: 'Madam in regarde of your magestres mild govermente over your subiectes'; and beginning: 'The pleasant tyme that dyd intise me out, from Iresome house to groves and gallant felldes / the swete delyghts that bade me ronne aboute / to see and smell what Joyfull somere yeldes / Contendide so my mynde wythe rare delight / as what I hsae I am inforste to wrytt'.
The manuscript contains a few later additions:
f. 1*recto: Inscriptions by Richard Heynes (see Custodial History); written in the late 16th or early 17th century.
Decoration:
Small red initials at the beginning of each new stanza.
3 quarter- and half-page sketches in pencil, illustrating the poem, of four women (f. 17r), and a woman picking roses (ff. 17v, 18r). Empty spaces at the tops of ff. 6r-16v suggest that more drawings were planned.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052754", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6902: Henry Goldingham, The Garden Plot" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052754 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6902 : Henry Goldingham, The Garden Plot - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6910]/040-002052754
- 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:
- 1575
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper; parchment (f. i* only).
Dimensions: 275 x 210 mm (text space: 235 x 120 mm).
Foliation: ff. i* + 18 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 8 at the end); f. i* is a parchment leaf.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled brown speckled leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
An unknown woman, owned in the late 16th or early 17th century: according to a memorandum on f. 1*recto (see below).
Richard Heynes, owned in the late 16th or early 17th century: his memorandum on f. 1*recto: 'Memorandum […] […]rowther is the true owner of this booke for [saie the] Richard Heynes for she lent it me the saide Richarde Heynes after longe entretye made for it and therefore shee shall staye the longer without il, unles shee doe entreate me asmuch for yt as I did her. But yf shee reade the same I wish her not to be offendid'; followed by two inscriptions: 'God save all those that wish me well / and the other I betake to the devell of hell', and 'For he that loveth me without faine / I with my last wish love him againe - Richarde Heynes'.
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, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 447.
Henry Goldingham, The Garden Plot, An Allegorical Poem, Inscribed to Queen Elizabeth, ed. by Francis Wrangham (London: Maurice, 1825).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England