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Harley Roll AA 23
- Record Id:
- 040-003475078
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002404892
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100096748352.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100164918094.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley Roll AA 23
- Title:
- Expenses of John Tamworth, Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I, 1559-1569
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. [1]recto-[5]verso: An account of the expenses of John Tamworth (d. 1569), Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I, 1559-1569.
Decoration:
Large initials with cadels in black ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002404892
040-003475078 - Is part of:
- Harley Roll : Harley Rolls
Harley Roll AA 23 : Expenses of John Tamworth, Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I, 1559-1569 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002404892[0016]/040-003475078
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley Roll
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 roll
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100164918094.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1559
- End Date:
- 1569
- Date Range:
- 1559-1569
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 585 x 340 mm (f. [1]); 635 x 340 mm (f. [2]); 645 x 340 mm (f. [3]); 620 x 340 mm (f. [4]); 160 x 340 mm (f. [5]); 185 x 340 mm (wrapper).
Foliation: ff. [5] (+ a blank parchment wrapper); ff. [1]-[5] are unfoliated parchment membranes that form a roll; ff. [1]-[4] are placed on top of each other and are attached to each other by a white thread at their tops; f. [5] is attached to the lower part of f. [4], followed by a parchment wrapper.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: A parchment wrapper.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Office of the Keeper of the Privy Purse, produced the roll: an account of their expenses between 1559 and 1569.
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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Catalogue of Royal Rolls, Cotton Charters and Rolls, Sloane Charter and Rolls, and Harley Rolls [unpublished and undated handwritten catalogue in the British Library’s Manuscripts Reading Room], pp. 98-99.
Elizabeth Goldring and others, eds, John Nichols’s The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth I: A New Edition of the Early Modern Sources, 5 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), V: Appendix 16[Account of the Queen’s Purse, 1559-1569], ed. by Jayne Elisabeth Archer and trans. by Sarah Knight, pp. 244-55 [edition of the text].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)