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Harley MS 321

Record Id:

040-001615171

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001615171

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x0002ba

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 321

Title:

Scientific miscellany

Scope & Content:

The manuscript includes miscellanous texts, mainly on astronomy:

ff. 1r-1v: title page and tables of contents.

ff. 2r-14r: calendar from 1387 to 1462 (Calendarium minus and calendarium majus).

f. 15r: astronomical table, entitled 'Tabula lune, ad faciendum eius gradum omni die'.

ff. 16r-16v: 'Divisio temporum secundum auctores antiquos'.

ff. 16v-17r: John Somer (Johannes Somer), Canon minoris calendarii.

ff. 17r-18r: John Somer (Johannes Somer), Canon maioris calendarii.

ff. 18r-19r: 'Declarationes Abbatis Sancti Albani super kalendarium regine'.

ff. 19r-23r: 'De corporibus celestis'.

f. 23r: 'Canon annuli perpetui'.

ff. 23v-24r: Computistic diagram with explanatory text.

ff. 24v-28r: Simon Bredon, Nomina instrumentorum astrolabii, sive Astrolabii declaratio et usus.

f. 28v: 'Notabilia de etatibus mundi'.

f. 28v: 'Tractatus de sphera'.

f. 28v: 'De coniunctione et eclipsi planetarum'.

f. 29r: 'De praefagio future constitutionis aerae'.

f. 29r: 'De motu lune'.

ff. 30r-33v: 'Descriptio machine mundane cum situ et figuris corporum eam constituentium ac eorundem motus'.

ff. 34r-36r: Marbodus Redonensis, Liber lapidum.

f. 37v: Notes about lunar months.

Decoration:

ff. 2r-14r: diagrams in dark blue and red of solar and lunar eclipses.

f. 24r: computistic diagram, tinted with yellow wash.

f. 29r: diagram in brown and yellow of the movements of the moon.

Small initials, in red or blue, with pen-flourishing in red.

Plain initials in red. Paraphs in red or blue. Capitals marked in red.

Sketch of an initial 'D' in brown ink (f. 29v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Harley Science Project

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001615171

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 321 : Scientific miscellany

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0320]/040-001615171

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

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Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1377

End Date:

1605

Date Range:

c 1382-1605

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment and 1 paper leaf (f. 1r).

Dimensions: 230 x 160 mm (text space: 190 x 125 mm).

Foliation: viii + 37 (f. 37 is a parchment flyleaf; f. 1 is a paper flyleaf).

Collation: Gatherings of 8, except i¹⁴and iii⁶, mounted on guards.

Script: Gothic (Textura) and Gothic cursive (Anglicana Formata, Anglicana)

Binding: British Museum binding. Rebound in 1967. The covers of a previous gold-tooled brown leather binding are pasted inside the present ones.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England, Central (Oxford).

Provenance:

John Stow (b. 1524/25, d. 1605), antiquary: inscribed with his name (f. 21r).

William Camden (b. 1551, d. 1623), antiquary: added list of contents and titles in his hand (f. 1r).

Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, and antiquary.

Sir Simonds D’Ewes (d. 1722), 3rd baronet and grandson of the former: inherited and later sold the D’Ewes library to Robert Harley on 4 October 1705 for £450 (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), p. 60).

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.

Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish 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), I (1808), no. 321.

Lynn Thorndike, ‘Eclipses in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries’, Isis, 48 (1957), 51-57 (p. 52).

Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), pp. 211-12, A.930.

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. 93, 131.

K.V. Snedegar, 'The Works and Days of Simon Bredon, a Fourteenth-Century Astronomer and Phisician', in Between Demonstration and Imagination: Essays in the History of Science and Philosophy presented to John D. North, ed. by Lodi Nauta and Ario Vanderjagt (Leiden: Brill, 1999), pp. 285-309 (p. 306).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)