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Harley MS 4687
- Record Id:
- 040-003453890
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-003453890
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100081187675.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4687
- Title:
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A history of Scotland
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-134v: A history introduced as ‘the eight book of the Chronicles of Scotland, and of the deides & acts of R. James the Second, & quat happed in his tyme’.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 1r: A description of the manuscript, ‘This Book is a continuation of Hector Boethius’s History of Scotland written by Robert Lindsay of Piscotties being assisted and Instructed by Patrick Lord Lindsay of the Byris, Sir Andrew Wood of Largo, Sir David Lindsay, King at Arms and some others’; added in the 17th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-003453890", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4687: A history of Scotland" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-003453890 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4687 : A history of Scotland - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7807]/040-003453890
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Scots
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1550
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 300 x 190 mm.
Foliation: ff. 134 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + at the end); all quires have been mounted onto paper guards.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; the manuscript has been bound together with Harley MSS 145 and 848.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Scotland.
Provenance:
‘John Innes’, owned in the 16th century: his ownership inscription on f. 54r: ‘This book pertainis to John Innes’.
‘Alexander Gordon’, owned in the 16th century: his ownership inscription on f. 122r: ‘This book pertayned to me Alex[ander] gordone’.
? ‘Lodowick Burnet (?) Foster’, owned in the 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 134v (with that of ‘Alexander Burnet’) below it.
‘Alexander Boss’, owned in the 16th century: his ownership inscription on f. 134v: ‘This book perteinet to me Alexander Boss’ [3x].
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. 187.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)