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Harley MS 79

Record Id:

040-001882351

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001882351

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000162

LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 79

Title:

Statuta Angliae; Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus

Scope & Content:

The manuscript is composed of two parts (ff. 1r-26r and 27r-46v) and includes:

1. Correspondence relating to Osney Abbey at Oxford, 1302 (ff. 1r-1v);

2. Statuta Angliae (ff. 2r-26r);

3. Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus (ff. 27r-46r).

4. Medical recipes (f. 46v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Harley Science Project

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001882351

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 79 : Statuta Angliae; Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus

Contains:

Harley MS 79, ff 1r-1v : Correspondence relating to Osney Abbey at Oxford
Harley MS 79, ff 2r-26r : Statuta Angliae (Vetera Statuta)
Harley MS 79, ff 27r-46r : Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus
Harley MS 79, f 46v : Medical recipes

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0078]/040-001882351

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

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Languages:

Anglo-Norman
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

1300-1499

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: parchment.

Dimensions: 307 x 205 mm (text space: ff. 2r-26r: 230 x 130-136 mm (first gathering), and 225 x 133-137 mm; ff. 27r-46r: 257-260 x 139-145 mm).

Foliation: ff. v + 46. Modern foliation in pencil ff. 1-46 (f. 26v ruled but blank; f. 46v originally blank). Composite volume, compiled from two manuscripts (ff. 2r-26r and ff. 27r-46r), preceded by one single leaf (f. 1) on guard; f. 27r-46r: lacking two leaves after f. 29 and four leaves after f. 34; original repairs (ff. 31, 39) of parchment flaws; first leaves (ff. 27-32) damaged and with old repairs. Two sets of old foliation in black ink, both added after the loss of leaves following f. 29: (a) alphabetical 'a-h, n-z' in lower margin; (b) in Arabic numerals '734-749, 790-796' in upper margin, repeating no. 735, and omitting nos. 750-789.

Collation: ff. 2r-26r: i-ii¹²+ f. 26, with flesh sides out and horizontal catchwords in lower margin of last versos, at the left of the vertical bounding lines; ff. 27r-46r: i^8-2 (fourth and fifth missing; ff. 27-32), ii^8-4 (third, fourth, fifth and sixth missing after f. 34; ff. 33-36), iii¹⁰ (ff. 37-46), with flesh sides out and no catchwords.

Layout: ff. 2r-26r: Ruled (double bounding lines) in lead point for single columns of 44-46 lines; the two original gatherings are followed by a single leaf (f. 26) added later, with pricking and different ruling, script and paragraph marks. Text written below top line; ff. 27r-46r: Ruled (single bounding line) in ink for double columns of 54-60 lines. Text written above bounding line.

Script: ff. 2r-26r: Gothic cursive (English documentary hand Cursiva Anglicana), written in brown ink; ff. 27r-46r: Gothic cursive (Italian), written in brown ink.

Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding with marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

ff. 1r-26v: England;

ff. 27r-46r: Italy.

Provenance:

Sir William Waad (b. 1546, d. 1623), diplomat: signed with his name (f. 27r).

Added medical recipes, 15th century (f. 46v).

Erased inscription including the date 1418 (f. 46v).

Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton: Identifiable as one (probably the last) of the five copies of the Magna Carta and English Statutes which are listed in the library catalogue of Sir Simonds D'Ewes: this last copy has the same press-mark as a copy of Albertus Magnus' work: see Additional MS 22918, f. 41r, and Watson 1966.

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 1966).

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), II (1808), no. 79.

D. W. Singer, Catalogue of Latin and Vernacular Alchemical Manuscripts in Great Britain and Ireland, dating from before the XVI Century (Brussels, 1931), II, p. 744, no. 1111, liii.

Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A919 and A915.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. xviii n. 3.

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. 131, 339, 372.

W. Fauser, SJ, Die Werke des Albertus Magnus in ihrer Handschriftlichen Überlieferung. Teil I: Die echten Werke / Codices manuscripti operum Alberti Magni. Pars I Opera genuina (Münster Westfalen, 1982) [Alberti Magni..., Opera omnia…, Tomus subsidiarius I], p. 71.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)