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Harley MS 7390
- Record Id:
- 040-002053244
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002053244
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x000398
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163610831.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7390
- Title:
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Account book of the Steward of William Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-124v: The account of the Steward of William Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath, of weekly expenses for several years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1 February 1566/7-2 October 1580).
The manuscript contains an addition:
ff. 125r-125v: A medieval end-leaf, traken from a 15th-century English missal or other liturgical manuscript (featuring blue initials with red penwork decoration).
ff. 1v, 125v: Notes about payments; added in the 16th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002053244", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 7390: Account book of the Steward of William Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002053244 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 7390 : Account book of the Steward of William Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7400]/040-002053244
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100163610831.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: paper; parchment (ff. 1, 125).
Dimensions: 295 x 200 mm.
Foliation: ff. 125 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper stub between f. 21 and f. 22; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown (bibliographical notes) on f. [iv]recto; each quire has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; rebound on 28 July 1966.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
William Bourchier (b. 1557, d. 1623), 4th earl of Bath in 1561: his Steward’s accounts, 1 February 1566/7-2 October 1580 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 78).
‘John Sa[...] Lan’, owned in the 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 1r (faded).
Bryan Brampton, county Herefordshire, family seat of the Harleys: sent to London by Edward Harley in 1725 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 80-81).
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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ’16 October 1725’ (f. 2r).
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. 529.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 474.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)