GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-001503
TitleTheological and miscellaneous tracts and papers
ShelfmarkHarley MS 364
Creation Dateca. 1560 - 1630
RepositoryBritish Library
Contents NoteA composite volume of theological and miscellaneous tracts and papers in various hands. Notable items include an English translation of The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli and theological notes in the hand of Paul Dewes (1567-1630).
Material FeaturesFolio. Modern half crushed morocco gilt.
Provenance
AcquisitionThe Harleian Library was founded by Robert Harley, First Earl of Oxford (1661–1724). According to Cyril Ernest Wright, Robert Harley ‘was primarily interested in English historical and political material and in volumes of sermons and theological controversy, sharing in the latter the taste of his Harley ancestors’. See Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani (London, 1972), p. xxxiv.
Source of DataA Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum (1808), Vol. I, p. 211; CELM; Hannah Yip.
Other NoteThis manuscript is cited in Alessandra Petrina, Machiavelli in the British Isles: Two Early Modern Translations of The Prince (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009).
Sermon Reports Contained
GEMMS record createdJune 17, 2021
GEMMS record last editedJuly 20, 2021