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Harley MS 3822/4
- Record Id:
- 040-004065935
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-004065935
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100139487008.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3822/4
- Title:
- Copper engraving of the royal site of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid
- Scope & Content:
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This engraving is part of a 3-volume set of Thesoro chorographico de las Espannas, a diary of a journey through Spain and Portugal in the years 1599 and 1600, undertaken by Diego Cuelbis of the city of Leipzig, and a friend named Joel Koris, who accompanied him. The diary is written in Spanish and also features numerous pen-and-ink drawings of antiquities, inscriptions, views of cities and engravings embedded within the text. This engraving originally was f. 150, but was probably removed because of its large size.
This roll comprises f. 150 of the original manuscript. Harley MS 3822/1 is now ff. 1-290; Harley MS 3822/2 is now ff. 291-537; Harley Ms 3822/3 is now ff. 538-673. The manuscript's original flyleaves are now bound separately as Harley MS 3822/5.
Contents:
f. 150r: Copper engraving of the royal site of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg, Cologne, 1572.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-004065935", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3822/4: Copper engraving of the royal site of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-004065935 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3822/4 : Copper engraving of the royal site of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7868]/040-004065935
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 roll
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Spanish
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1572
- End Date:
- 1572
- Date Range:
- 1572
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 300 x 530 mm.
Foliation: 1 leaf.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Germany (Cologne).
Provenance:
James Scott (b. 1671, d. 1732), Scottish MP, Envoy Extraordinary to Poland, Minster to Prussia, owned the manuscript: presented it to Robert Harley on 25 January 1725/6, through Thomas Johnson, bookseller at The Hague (see note on f. 1*r; Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 403 n. 6; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 299).
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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley, ‘25 die Januarii 1725/6’ (f. 1r).
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. 84.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1725, p. 203 n. 6.
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. 299.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Cologne, Germany
Germany - Related Material:
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The first, second and third volumes of this manuscript are now Harley MSS 3822/1, 3822/2, and 3822/3. The manuscript's original flyleaves are now bound separately as Harley MS 3822/5.