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Harley MS 1197/2
- Record Id:
- 040-004255329
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-004255329
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100149251953.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1197/2
- Title:
- Treatise against Catholic doctrines; statutes, Letters Patent and charters relating to Canterbury; Charles Horn, poem in praise of Edmund Grindal; Johannes Vossius, Encomium in laudem Thomae Wolsey
- Scope & Content:
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The second of two volumes that comprise Harley MS 1197. The first volume is Harley MS 1197/1.
A composite manuscript that consists of four parts that were produced separately in England in the 16th century.
Part 1 (ff. 204v-317v) was written in the 1530s-1540s; Part 2 (ff. 318r-384v) was written around 1575-1600; Part 3 was written around 1575-1583; Part 4 was written around the mid 16th century.
Contents:
Part 1:
ff. 204v-317v: Treatise against Catholic doctrines from the time of King Henry VIII; written in Latin and English.
Part 2:
ff. 318r-340v: 'Statuta Ecclesiae Cathedralis ac Metropoliticae Cantuariensis ab Henrico VIII'.
ff. 341r-346r: 'Iniunctiones per Reverendissimum in Christo Patrem ac dominum Matheum Cantuariensem Archiepiscopum in Visitatione sua, Decano, et Canonicis Ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensis traditae et in Capitulo promulgate, Septembris 7o Anno domini millesimo quingentesimo Septuagesimo 3 [1573]'.
ff. 347r-351r: 'Incorporatio Ecclesiae Cathedralis et Metropoliticae Christi Cantuariensis per Regem Henricum VIII 8 die Aprilis, anno regni sui 32'.
ff. 352r-367v: Letters Patent of King Henry VIII for the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral and City of Canterbury.
ff. 368r-373r: Letters Patent of King Henry VIII concerning lands and manors in Essex, dated 9 March 1545/6.
ff. 374r-377r: Agreement made between the Prior and monastery of Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury, on the one hand, and the Mayor of Canterbury, on the other hand, dated 20 May 1515.
ff. 378r-383v: 'Composicio inter dominum Bonifacium Archiepiscopum Cantuariensem et Priorem et Conventum Ecclesiae Cristi Cantuariensis'; dated to 1259.
f. 384v: Copy of the Oath of Allegiances and Supremacy to Queen Elizabeth I.
Part 3:
ff. 386r-401r: Charles [Carolus] Horn, Greek and Latin poems dedicated to Edmund Grindal (1575-1583), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Part 4:
ff. 402r-413v: Johannes Vossius, Encomium in laudem Thomae Wolsey, beginning: 'Incomium [sic] in laudem Reverendissimi in Christo patris et domini domini Thome miseratione divina tituli sancte Cecilie sacrosancte Romane ecclesie presbiteri Cardinalis Eboracensis, Archiepiscopi, Anglie primatis et cancellarij Apostolice sedis non solum nati sed etiam ad excellentissimum in Christo principem et dominum dominum Henricum octavum deo gracia'.
Decoration:
1 large miniature of the arms of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in colours and gold inside a gold frame (f. 402r). 1 large (3-line) foliate initial in yellow (imitation gold) against a red ground and with partial (3-sided) scatter borders in colours (f. 403r). 1 large (2-line) gold initial in a red frame (f. 402r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-004255329", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1197/2: Treatise against Catholic doctrines; statutes, Letters Patent and charters relating to Canterbury; Charles Horn, poem in praise of…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-004255329 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1197/2 : Treatise against Catholic doctrines; statutes, Letters Patent and charters relating to Canterbury; Charles Horn, poem in praise… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7912]/040-004255329
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1525
- End Date:
- 1605
- Date Range:
- c 1530-c 1600
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper; parchment (f. 402 only).
Dimensions: 195 x 145 mm (text space: 170 x 115 mm)
Foliation: ff. 204-413 (+ 3 unfoliated flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf after f. 146 and 1 after f. 383; continuously foliated with Harley MS 1197/1.
Collation: Each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; rebound on 26 November 1964.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Thomas Wolsey, royal minister, archbishop of York, cardinal (b. c. 1470, d. 1530), owned ff. 402-413: his arms and an encomium by John Voss dedicated to Wolsey inscrbed on Harley MS 1197, f. 402r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 358).
Robert Hare of Bocking Hall and Bruisyard, county Suffolk (b. c. 1530, d. 1611), owned ff. 402-413; antiquary and benefactor of Cambridge University; owned eleven manuscripts now at Trinity Hall, Cambridge: his name ('Roberti Hare') and the date 1563 [? 1583] inscribed on Harley MS 1197/2, f. 402r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 179).
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), II (1808), pp. 595-96 (no. 1197).
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 179, 358.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), p. lii.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England