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Harley MS 7651

Record Id:

040-002053509

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002053509

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000984.0x000290

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 7651

Title:

John [Hans] Engelbrecht, A true Relation of a Vision of Heaven and Hell

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-23r: John [Hans] Engelbrecht, ‘A true Relation of a Vision of Heaven and Hell; That is: How God hath awaked and raised mee John Engelbrecht from Death, and when my body was dead, stiff and cold (the which is known to many people in Brunswick) the same in a short time became againe stronge alive, and that without the using of any food, drinck, or physic. And how my Body being dead, the Holy Ghost hath carried my soul before Hell, and let it smell there the Stinck of Hell, and let her heare, how the Damned cry and lament in the Darkenes, smoak and fume, unto a warning to all the wicked. And how he afterward hath carried my soule into Heaven and shewed unto mee the glorie thereof, unto a Comfort of all the afflicted, and what order I received there to tell the people of the world’; Signed by ‘John Anglebright of Brunswick a servant of Jesus Christ, and to all men in the World’; perhaps based on the translation by Francis Okely published in 1780.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002053509

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 7651 : John [Hans] Engelbrecht, A true Relation of a Vision of Heaven and Hell

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[7665]/040-002053509

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1780

End Date:

1805

Date Range:

1780-c 1800

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 245 x 180 mm.

Foliation: ff. 23 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end)

Script: 18th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 23 March 1964.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

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.

Acquired by the British Museum with the Harleian Manuscripts in 1753, but not placed with that collection. Found among refuse and accessioned as Additional 5002, the item was subsequently identified as a Harleian Manuscript and re-numbered Harley 7651.

Former Internal References:

Add MS 5002

Publications:

The British Library’s annotated copy of A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. [542].

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England