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Harley MS 4557/2

Record Id:

040-004275657

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-004275657

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100151399117.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4557/2

Title:

Yearbooks of King Henry VI, 1432-1444, volume 2

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains the second part of a 2-volume set of the Yearbooks of King Henry VI from Michaelmas Term in the 11th year of his reign until Trinity Term in the 22nd year of his reign (1432-1444).

Contents:

ff. 238r-414r: Yearbooks of King Henry VI, comprising the 20th, 21st and 22nd years of his reign.

The manuscript contains a few later additions:

f. 415r: 'Memorandum that Mr Elyott hath my boke of Edwardes yeres […]'; added in the (?) early 16th century.

f. 416r: Notes on cases in French and Latin, beginning: '[…] en le taile ffait ffeffement en ffee'; added in the (?) early 16th century.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-004275657

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4557/2 : Yearbooks of King Henry VI, 1432-1444, volume 2

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[7917]/040-004275657

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
French, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1439

End Date:

1449

Date Range:

c 1444

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper; parchment (ff. 415-416 only).

Dimensions: 305 x 225 mm (text space: 235 x 150 mm).

Foliation: ff. 238-416 + iii-iv (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); ff. iii-iv are paper leaves at the end; 1 unfoliated parchment leaf after f. 4161 unfoliated modern paper pastedown on f. [v]verso (note of examination); continuously foliated with Harley MS 4557/1.

Collation: Each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Library in-house; red half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; rebound in 1986.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Robert Paynell, son of Henry Paynell of Belaugh, Norfolk, admitted to Gray's Inn in 1619: his signature on Harley MS 4557/1, f. 1r: 'Robert Paynell', followed by a title inscription in his hand; sold through Wilcox, a bookseller in Little Britain, to the Harleys in November 1721 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 271).

Wilcox, bookseller in Little Britain: sold the manuscript to the Harleys in November 1721 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. 122 n. 16; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 354).

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 ‘18 die Novembris, A.D. 1721’ (Harley MS 4557/1, 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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 175 [no. 4557].

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 122 n. 16.

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. 271, 354.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England