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Add MS 39849
- Record Id:
- 040-002059701
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002059699
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001215.0x000339
- LARK:
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 39849
- Title:
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Will of Sir John Fastolf
- Scope & Content:
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Volume two of two volumes, the other being Additional MS 39848.
Contents:
A copy of the will of Sir John Fastolf, dated 3 November 1459, based on the draft will of the same date, Additional MS 27444, ff. 60r-67v and written in the same hand as the corrections to this manuscript. Three clauses at the end, not in Additional MS 27444, are found in Additional MS 22927. A fourth clause states that this will was composed by Fastolf himself, revised from his earlier will, dated 14 June, 1459 (now Oxford, Magdalen College, Fastolf paper 65).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002059699
040-002059701 - Is part of:
- Add MS 39848-39849 : Paston letters: Sir John Fastolf's will and papers relating to his family
Add MS 39849 : Will of Sir John Fastolf - Hierarchy:
- 032-002059699[0002]/040-002059701
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 39848-39849
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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One parchment folio, folded and bound in a codex.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_39849 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1459
- End Date:
- 1459
- Date Range:
- 1459
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: volume: 520 x 315 mm (folded parchment folio containing will: 1200 x 520 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1, folded into two (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 40 at the end (there are digital images of 3 of the 40 flyleaves at the end: the first and the final two)).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: BM/BL in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
William Paston (b. 1653/4, d. 1732) 2nd Earl of Yarmouth, by descent through the Paston family.
The Reverend Francis Blomefield (d. 1752), historian of Norfolk, his notes in Additional MS 39848.
William Oldys (b. 1696, d. 1761), herald and antiquary of London, in his collection of historical papers: a printed note in Additional MS 39848, f. 70v.
John Ives (b. 1751, d. 1776), herald and antiquary of Suffolk, antiquary and herald of Great Yarmouth, his sale, 5 March, 1777, lot 503.
Richard Gough (b. 1735, d. 1809), historian and antiquary, his sale, 5 April 1810, lot 4241.
John Scott, bookseller, sold by him to Joseph Haslewood: a note in Additional MS 39848, f. [ii] recto.
Joseph Haslewood (b.1769, d. 1833), bibliographer and antiquary, in his sale, 16 December, 1833, lot 1317.
Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, in his catalogue of 1836, no 954.
Sir Thomas Phillips (b. 1792, d. 1872), antiquary and bibliophile, bought by him from Thomas Thorpe, his manuscript no 9735, inscribed on ff. i verso and ii recto, his sale, Sotheby's, London, 6 June, 1919, lot 671: a note in Additional MS 39848. Bought by the British Museum.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Original Letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III... , ed. by John Fenn, 5 vols (London, Robinsons, 1787-1823), vols I and II (1787).
The Paston Letters, 1422-1509 A.D., ed. by James Gairdner, 4 vols (Westminster, 1900-1901); 6 vols (London and Exeter, 1904), III, no. 385.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1916-1920 (London: British Museum, 1933), pp. 217-18.
H.S. Bennett, The Pastons and their England: Studies in an Age of Transition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1937) , [on the Paston letters].
Colin Richmond, The Paston family in the fifteenth century, 3 vols (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996-2001) I, Fastolf's Will [on the text].
Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century, ed. by Norman Davis, 3 vols, Early English Text Society, Supplementary Series, 20-22 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), I, no. 54; III, p. lxxx, [an edition of the text of Additional MS 22927, with notes and additional bibliography].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)