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Harley MS 6926
- Record Id:
- 040-002052778
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052778
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x0001c5
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6926
- Title:
- Thomas Legge, Ricardus Tertius
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1*verso: A title inscription: 'Richardus Tertius' with the name 'Tobi [?]Huite'
ff. 2r-24r: Thomas Legge (c. b. 1535, d. 1607), 1 Ricardus Tertius.
ff. 24v-37r: Thomas Legge, 2 Ricardus Tertius.
ff. 46v, 48r-79v: Thomas Legge, 3 Ricardus Tertius.
f. 79v: A colophon: 'Henry Lacy Coll. Trin. Camb. 1586. Turpissima est defatigatio quarendi cum id quod quaeratur sit pulcherimum AER'.
The manuscript contains a few later additions:
f. 1**recto: A note by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, on the manuscript's authorship: 'Henry Lacey, whose name is at the end, with the date 1586, was only the trans[?criber.] The author of this Play was Dr Thomas Legge of Caius College Cambridge in 1579. Another transcript of it made in 1588 is in MS Harl. 2412. It has been edited by Mr Banon Field from a copy in Emanuel College Cambridge, F.M.'.
f. 1*recto: A title inscription: 'A Latin Play of Richard 3rd by Henry Lacy of Trinity College Cambridge 1586'; added in the (?) 17th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052778", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6926: Thomas Legge, Ricardus Tertius" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052778 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6926 : Thomas Legge, Ricardus Tertius - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6934]/040-002052778
- 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:
- 1586
- End Date:
- 1586
- Date Range:
- 1586
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 200 x 145 mm (text space: 175 x 85 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1** + 1* + 2* + 3* + 73 (+ 2 unfoliated blank paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown (with a printed Harleian shelfmark and a subject category inscribed in pencil: 'Philol [...]') on f. [74]verso.
Collation: Each leaf has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled purple half leather with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the outside covers; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Cambridge.
Provenance:
Henry Lacy of Cambridge, Trinity College, copied the text in 1586: according to his colophon on f. 79v.
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. 449.
British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue, ed. by Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson, 9 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012-2018), II: 1567-1589 (2012), pp. 224 [664], 228 [no. 665], 231 [no. 666: F].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Legge, Thomas, Master of Caius College, Cambridge,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109684136 - Places:
- England