Harley MS 161 - Tracts and papers

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 41
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1172)
Title
Tracts and papers
Shelfmark
Harley MS 161
Creation Date
1620 - 1628
Repository
Contents Note

A collection of tracts, speeches, petitions, and letters, relating chiefly to parliamentary affairs, bound together for the most part in chronological order. This manuscript will be useful for scholars who are interested in the impeachment of Roger Maynwaring, whose printed sermons came under scrutiny by Parliament. See ODNB (Article: 18011) for more information.

Material Features

Folio.

Acquisition

The 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 Wright, p. xxxiv.

Source of Data (Contributor name)

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum (1808), Vol. I, pp. 51-53; Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani (London, 1972); Hannah Yip.

GEMMS record created
July 1, 2019
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024