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Harley MS 6907
- Record Id:
- 041-003440842
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046221
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100075468458.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6907
- Title:
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'A Ballad To the Tune of a Begging we will go' by Matthew Prior
- Scope & Content:
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A ballad by Matthew Prior, poet and diplomat, in the hand of his secretary Adrian Drift.
First line: 'That, I'm an humble Pris'ner'.
The date given on f. 1, '1715', likely refers to the date the events recorded in the ballad took place, when Matthew Prior was in prison after being impeached.
This manuscript is bound with Harley MS 393 and Harley MS 4659.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046221
041-003440842 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 393, 4659 and 6907 : Three poetic manuscripts
Harley MS 6907 : 'A Ballad To the Tune of a Begging we will go' by Matthew Prior - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0392]/040-002046221[0003]/041-003440842
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1710
- End Date:
- 1720
- Date Range:
- c 1715
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 340 x 220 mm.
Foliation: 4 folios.
Binding: British Museum binding.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 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 (1694-1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Finding Aids:
- A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), Volume III
- Publications:
- Wright, H. Bunker, and Deborah Kempf Wright. ‘An Autobiographical Ballad by Matthew Prior.’ The British Library Journal (vol. 18, no. 2, 1992), pp. 163-170
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Drift, Adrian, diplomat and secretary to Matthew Prior, 1676-1737
Prior, Matthew, poet and diplomatist, 1664-1721