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Harley MS 270

Record Id:

040-001942392

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001942392

MDARK:

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ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 270

Title:

Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Vie de Saint Thomas Becket; Matthaeus Platearius (attributed), Liber de simplici medicina or Circa instans

Scope & Content:

The volume is made up of two separate manuscripts (ff. 1r-122v, 123r-149v), as follows:

Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Vie de Saint Thomas Becket (ff. 1r-122v);

Matthaeus Platearius (attributed), Liber de simplici medicina or Circa instans (ff. 123r-149v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Harley Science Project

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

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040-001942392

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 270 : Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Vie de Saint Thomas Becket; Matthaeus Platearius (attributed), Liber de simplici medicina or…

Contains:

Harley MS 270, ff 1r-122v : Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Vie de Saint Thomas Becket
Harley MS 270, ff 123r-149v : Liber de simplici medicina or Circa instans attributed to Matthaeus Platearius

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0269]/040-001942392

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

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Languages:

Anglo-Norman
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1175

End Date:

1249

Date Range:

1175-1249

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 202 x 140 (text space: ff. 1r-122v: 125 x 80 mm; ff. 123r-149v: 155 x 113 mm).

Foliation: ff. v + 149. Previous flyleaves from a 12th-century biblical commentary on Zacharias now detached and mounted in Additional MS 38651 as ff. 37-44 (ff. 37-40 were ff. 1*-8* in the present manuscript, ff. 41-44 were ff. 150-157).

Collation: i-xiv⁸ and xv¹⁰ (ff. 1r-122v: with quire numerical signatures on last versos), xvi⁸, xvii^10-1 (tenth excised), xviii⁸, xix².

Layout: ff. 1r-122v: pricked and ruled in lead point (double vertical bounding lines) for single columns of 25 lines, text above top line; ff. 123r-149v: pricked and ruled in lead point and ink (single vertical bounding lines) for double columns of 41-43 lines, text above top line.

Script: ff. 1r-122v: Protogothic; ff. 123r-149v: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England, S.

Provenance:

Part 1: ff 1r-122v:

Numerous inscriptions in a fourteenth-century hand (e.g., ff. 50r, 66r, 76r, 86r, 88r, 92r, 97v, 105r, 117r, 122v), some with Surrey place names (ff. 66r, 92r, and 97v), many with drafts of a grant of land and mostly mentioning the name Thomas Denmars (unidentified).

Ownership inscription?, effaced (f. 122v).

Part 2: ff. 123r-149v

'Merton.', inscribed in a 13th or 14th-century hand, f. 123.

Parts 1 and 2: Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright 1972): his inventory, Additional MS 22918: ms 103.

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), I, no. 270.

Francisque Michel, Rapports au Ministre (Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1839), pp. 149-51.

La vie de Saint Thomas le Martyr, ed. by Emmanuel Walberg (Lund: C. W. K. Gleerup, 1922), p. CXIII ('MS H').

La vie de Saint Thomas le Martyr, ed. by Emmanuel Walberg (2nd edn Paris: Librairie ancienne, 1936), p. XIV ('MS H').

Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A931.

C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 131.

Ian Short, 'An Early Draft of Guernes' Vie de Saint Thomas Becket', Medium Aevum, 46 (1977), 20-34 (p. 21).

R. J. Dean and M. B. M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature. A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, Occasional Publications Series, 3, 1999), p. 283, no. 508

La vie de Saint Thomas de Canterbury, ed. and trans by Jacques T.E. Thomas, 2 vols (Louvain: Peeters, 2002), I, 26 ('MS H').

Delbert Russell, 'The Campsey Collection of Old French Saints' Lives: A Re-examination of its Structure and Provenance,' Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relatives aux manuscrits, 57 (2003), 51-83 (p. 75).

Maria Careri, Christine Ruby and Ian Short, Livres et écritures en français et en occitan au XIIe siècle: Catalogue illustré (Rome: Viella, 2011), no. 37.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)