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Harley MS 7626
- Record Id:
- 040-002053482
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002053482
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000984.0x000255
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7626
- Title:
- The Endowment and Orders of Walter Sherington’s Chantry, founded in St Paul’s Church, London
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-12v: The Endowment and Orders of Walter Sherington’s Chantry, founded in St Paul’s Church, London; the chantry of Walter Sherington (b. 1431, d. 1442), chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, was founded by his executors for two chaplains to pray for his soul and for the good estate of King Henry VI in a chapel in St Paul's Church, London.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 1r (upper margin): A note in English: 'This MS is printed by Mr Hearne in the HIstory of Glastonbury. page 163'; added in the 18th century in (?) the Harleian Library.
Decoration:
5 large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing (ff. 1r, 2r, 9r, 10v, 11v). Marginal notations and rubrics in red. Paraphs in red or blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002053482", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 7626: The Endowment and Orders of Walter Sherington’s Chantry, founded in St Paul’s Church, London" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002053482 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 7626 : The Endowment and Orders of Walter Sherington’s Chantry, founded in St Paul’s Church, London - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7638]/040-002053482
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1457
- End Date:
- 1505
- Date Range:
- 1457-c 1500
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 340 x 230 mm (text space: 230 x 145 mm).
Foliation: ff. 12 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 ruled parchment leaves and 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Collation: Indicated by horizontal catchwords.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Marbled pasteboards; leather spine.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
South-East England (London).
Provenance:
The date 1457 is cited in the preface and at the end of the manuscript, on f. 1 and f. 12v.
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. 540 [no. 7626].
R. Rawlinson, The History and Antiquities of Glastonbury. To which are added (1.) The Endowment and Orders of Sherington’s Chantry, founded in Saint Paul’s Church, London. (2.) Dr Plot’s Letter to the Earl of Arlington concerning Thetford. To all which pieces (never before printed) a preface is prefix’d and an appendix subjoin’d by the publisher, T. Hearne (Oxford: Hearne, 1722), pp. 163-223.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- London, England
Southern England