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Harley MS 557
- Record Id:
- 040-003781170
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-003781170
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100115802126.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 557
- Title:
- Copy of a Letere wrytten by a Master of Artes of Cambridge
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-81r: The ‘Copy of a Letere wrytten by a Master of Artes of Cambridge, to his frend in London, concerning some talke past of late betweene twoe worshipfull and grave men, about the presente state and some proceedinges of my Lord of Leicester and his frends in England, Conceved, spoken and published with most earnest Protestacion of all dutifull good will and affection toward her most excellente Majestie and the Relme; for whose good it is made common to many’.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. i recto: A title, ‘Leicester’s Common Wealth’, added in the (?) 19th century.
f. 82v: An excerpt of Psalm 25: 'Bonté, seurté, souvenance, sont du Seigneur les sentiers’; added in the 17th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-003781170", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 557: Copy of a Letere wrytten by a Master of Artes of Cambridge" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-003781170 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 557 : Copy of a Letere wrytten by a Master of Artes of Cambridge - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7831]/040-003781170
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1575
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 215 x 180 mm.
Foliation: ff. i + 82 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning); f. i is a paper leaf; all quires have been mounted onto paper guards.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Library in-house; re-bound together with Harley MS 3364 in 1985.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Ralph Starkey (d. 1628) of Darley Hall in Oulton: his initials inscribed on f. i recto (with a price: ':Mbs') and f. 1r with the date 1584; and f. 84r in a scribal signature (see see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), p. 331; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 314).
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton: recorded in his catalogues as X.113 (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), p. 331; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 131).
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (d. 1722), 3rd baronet and grandson of the former: inherited and later sold the D’Ewes library to Robert Harley on 4 October 1705 for £450.
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. 350.
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1966), p. 331.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 382.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England