Harley MS 479 - The Journal of John More

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 46
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1178)
Title
The Journal of John More
Shelfmark
Harley MS 479
Creation Date
1641 - 1641
Repository
Contents Note

This volume comprises the journal of John More, Esq. compiled in 26 June-18 August 1641. The journal chiefly relates to parliamentary matters.

Material Features

An oblong duodecimo volume. Nineteenth-century binding.

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

British Library online catalogue; Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani (London, 1972); A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum (1808), Vol. I, p. 325; Maija Jansson, ed., Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament, Vol. I (Rochester, NY and Suffolk, 2000), pp. xli-xlii; Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London, 1966), p. 329; Hannah Yip.

Sermons Contained
GEMMS record created
July 5, 2019
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024