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Harley MS 7028
- Record Id:
- 040-002052882
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052882
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x00022d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7028
- Title:
- Account of St John’s House and St John’s College, Cambridge
- Scope & Content:
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An account of St John’s House and St John’s College, Cambridge, with occasional accounts of University affairs and private colleges which communicated with the old House or College, collected 1707.
Volume 1 of the collection of Thomas Baker (1656-1740), of St John’s College, Cambridge.
Preliminary matter at the front of the volume:
- Deed of gift of volumes from Thomas Baker to Lord Harley. Also an inventory of 21 volumes, and a further assignment of two other volumes.
- Three verses, dated ‘Feb. 12 die meo natali’ as follows: Fundatrix vota. A Latin hexastic; ‘To my founder upon his Picture when taken in Colors’; ‘Upon myself, and to my God’.
- A preface by Thomas Baker with an account of the origin of his undertaking to write a history of his College.
The title page is dated 1707.
Includes printed broadside: Orders to be observ'd by all Students in the University at the Approach and during the Continuance of His Majesty here, signed W. Grigg, Vice-Chancellor, Oct. 5th 1717
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052882", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 7028: Account of St John’s House and St John’s College, Cambridge" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052882 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 7028 : Account of St John’s House and St John’s College, Cambridge - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7038]/040-002052882
- 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:
- 1707
- End Date:
- 1717
- Date Range:
- 1707-1717
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 330 x 220 mm.
Foliation: 217 folios.
Binding: British Museum binding.
- Custodial History:
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Purchased by Edward Harley from the collection of Thomas Baker of St John’s College, Cambridge.
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 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 (1694-1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Finding Aids:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 7028.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972) p. 60-61.
Frans Korsten, A Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Baker (Cambridge, 1990).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Baker, Thomas, scholar and antiquarian, 1656-1740