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Harley MS 1685

Record Id:

040-001961886

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001961886

MDARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1685

Title:

Gariopontus, Passionarius Galeni

Scope & Content:

Gariopontus, Passionarius Galeni (ff. 1r-143v);

Chronology of important events in British history from the Creation to the reign of Edward III (ff. 143v-144r).

The manuscript also includes: added prayers (ff. 9v, 12v); Figurae Divisionis relating to complexions dominated by humours (f. 103r); a charm against fever (f. 137r, margin).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Harley Science Project

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001961886

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1685 : Gariopontus, Passionarius Galeni

Contains:

Harley MS 1685, ff 1r-143v : Gariopontus, Passionarius Galeni
Harley MS 1685, ff 143v-144r : Chronology of important events in British history from Creation to the reign of Edward III

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1687]/040-001961886

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

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Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1150

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

1150-1399

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment codex. f. 26 with large old parchment repair on fore edge.

Dimensions: 240 x 150 mm (text space: 165 x 80 mm).

Foliation: ff. vii + i* + i + 144 (f. i possibly a fragment of one of the two original pastedowns).

Colation: i-xviii⁸ (first and last leaves of quire xviii detached), flesh sides out and two contiguous sets of signatures in lower margin of last versos, the first (ff. 1-96, gatherings i-xii) alphabetical, the second (ff. 97-136, gatherings xiii-xviii) in Roman numerals.

Layout: Pricked (on rectos, but mostly trimmed away) and ruled (single bounding lines) in ink for single column of 32 lines, with dedicated ruling for title on f. 17. Text above top line.

Script: ff. 1r-143v: Protogothic; written in dark brown ink by two scribes: - a) ff. 1-96v; - b) ff. 97-144v; ff. 143v-144r: Gothic cursive (Anglicana).

Binding: British Museum binding with Harley arms and motto gilt-tooled at centre of covers; rebound in 1967. Traces of two metal fastenings of a previous binding.

Custodial History:

Origin: France.

Provenance:

Additions, corrections, marginal and interlinear glosses, in Latin and French, in 13th/14th-century hands, including a rough drawing of a head (f. 16r).

Henry Worsley (b. 1675, d. 1747), scholar and manuscript collector, envoy at the court of Portugal (1714-21) and governor of Barbados (1721-31); donated by him to Robert Harley together with other manuscripts from Worsley's collection (now Harley 1585-1747, 1811, 1812) (see Wright 1972).

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. 1685.

L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, rev. ed. (London, 1963; The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication, 29; with supplements in 1965 and 1968), p. 850I; its electronic edition on CD-ROM (Ann Arbor, MI, 2000), no. 16386.

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, pp. xix-xx.

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. 361.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)