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Harley MS 7353
- Record Id:
- 040-002053207
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002053207
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x000372
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7353
- Title:
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Typological life and genealogy of King Edward IV
- Scope & Content:
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Five pairs of large colour miniatures, pairing an event of Edward's career on the right with its biblical type or precedent on the left, including an allegorical representation of Edward's success and the fulfilment of all prophecies.
At the foot, a genealogical tree of Edward IV, including kings in the form of a tree of Jesse, with Henry III reclining at the bottom, and Edward IV and Henry VI emerging as opponents at the top.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002053207", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 7353: Typological life and genealogy of King Edward IV" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002053207 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 7353 : Typological life and genealogy of King Edward IV - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7363]/040-002053207
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 roll
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_7353 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1461
- End Date:
- 1475
- Date Range:
- 1461-c 1470
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Format: parchment.
Dimensions: 1760 × 535 mm.
Foliation: Unfoliated. 3 membranes.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Roll, unbound.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Possibly from Blackfriars, Gloucester. Records King Henry III's foundation of the house (see discussion in Sutton and Visser-Fuchs, Richard III’s Books (1997), p. 139).
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, ed. by Robert Nares and others, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808–12), no. 7353.
John Warkworth, Chronicle, with notes by J. O Haliwell (London: Camden Society, 1839), p. 62.
Charles L. Kingsford, English Historical Literature in the Fifteenth Century (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913; repr. New York: Franklin, 1972), p. 165.
Anthony Cheetham, The Life and Times of Richard III (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1972), pl. on p. 13.
Alison Allan, 'Yorkist Propaganda: Pedigree, Prophecy and the "British History" in the Reign of Edward IV', in Patronage, Pedigree and Power in Later Medieval England, ed. by Charles Ross (Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1979), pp. 171-92.
Kathleen L. Scott, ‘Design, Decoration and Illustration’, in Book Production and Publishing in Britain 1375-1475 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 31-64 (p. 59 n. 47).
A. J. Pollard, Richard III and the Princes (UK: Alan Sutton, 1991), p. 40.
Anne F. Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs, Richard III’s Books: Ideals and Reality in the Life and Library of a Medieval Prince (Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 1997), pp. 138, 197 n. 37, pls 64, 66.
Raluca Radulescu, 'The Political Mentality of the English Gentry at the End of the Fifteenth Century', in New Europe College Yearbook, 8 (2000-2001), 355-89 (p. 369).
Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, L'ombre des ancêtres: essai sur l'imaginaire médiéval de la parenté (Paris: Fayard, 2000), pp. 325, 399, n. 7.
Sonja Drimmer, 'A Political Poster in Late Medieval England: British Library, Harley MS 7353', in Harlaxton Medieval Studies Volume XXX, Performance, Ceremony and Display in Late Medieval Britain: Proceedings of the 2018 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. by Julia Boffey (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2020), 333-59.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)