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Harley MS 33
- Record Id:
- 040-002045861
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002045861
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0000c6
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 33
- Title:
- William of Ockham, Dialogus
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r–2v and 189r–190v (flyleaves): Boniface VIII, Liber sextus, fragments: f. 1r–v, titles 7.7–8; f. 2r–v, titles 16–17; f. 189r–v, titles 7.3–7.7; f. 190r, titles 17–18; f. 190v, title 20. Bifolia from a 14th-century copy written in 2 columns, with initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or in red with purple pen-flourishing. ff. 1 and 190 were formerly pastedowns.
ff. 3r–185v: William of Ockham, Dialogus. A quire is missing between ff. 18 and 19, resulting in the loss of 1.2.30–1.4.27.
ff. 186r–188v: Alphabetical index.
Decoration:
Puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in both colours (f. 3r). Coloured initials in red or blue. Paraphs in red or blue. A few descenders and catchwords decorated with brown ink including heads and figures (e.g., ff. 35r, 50v, 130v, 147v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002045861", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 33: William of Ockham, Dialogus" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002045861 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 33 : William of Ockham, Dialogus - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0032]/040-002045861
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1444
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper and parchment. The outer and inner bifolia of each quire are made of parchment. Watermark of an anchor (e.g., f. [188c]), similar to C.M. Briquet, Les Filigranes: Dictionnaire historique des marques du papier dès leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600, A Facsimile of the 1907 edition with supplementary material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam: Paper Publications Society, 1968), no. 372 (dated 1423-25, Tonnerre) and 389 (dated to 1418, Estopey, and Troyes). Watermark of a cat (e.g. f. [188c]) similar to no. 3553 (dated to 1404, Troyes), 3554 (1409, Troyes) and 3556 (1417, Dijon). Another unidentified watermark is visible on f. 135; this page is an addition, written in a different hand.
Dimensions: 300 × 220 mm (written space 205 × 150 mm).
Foliation: ff. 190 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 6 unfoliated paper leaves and 1 unfoliated parchment leaf after f. 188 + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Collation: a2 (ff. 1–2); i–viii16 (ff. 3–130), ix16+1 (ff. 131–147; 5th added), x–xii16 (ff. 148–[188h]); b2 (ff. 189–190). Catchwords at the right of the foot of the last page of each quire. First half of each quire is lettered.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum, rebound 1956.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France, N or NE.
Provenance:
Humfrey, duke of Gloucester (b. 1390, d. 1447), prince, soldier, and literary patron), duke of Gloucester from 1414: label, probably originally affixed to the binding, with his arms and recording his gift to the library of the University of Oxford (f. 2r).
The Old Library of the University of Oxford, owned in 1444: pressmark on a pasted piece of parchment 'Q.15.' (f. 1) 'liber 207' (f. 2v), and inscription (f. 2r); identifiable with 'Dialogum Ocham, secundo folio libri Iesu tamquam' given by Humfrey in February 1444.
Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright 1972): inscribed title (ff. 1v and 2v) and '76' in his hand (f. 3). 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 Cavendish, née 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.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 33.
N. R. Ker, 'Chaining, Labelling, and Inventory Numbers of Manuscripts Belonging to the Old University Library', The Bodleian Library Record, 5 (1955), 176-80 passim.
B. L. Ullman, ‘Manuscripts of duke Humphrey of Gloucester’, in Studies in the Italian Renaissance, Storia e letteratura, 51 (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e letteratura, 1955), pp. 345-55 (p. 354) (first publ. in English Historical Review, 52 (1937), 670-72).
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 143.
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A209.
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. xviii-xix.
Duke Humfrey and English Humanism in the Fifteenth Century: Catalogue of an exhibition held in the Bodleian Library (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1970), no. 2 [exhibition catalogue, with additional bibliography].
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, 200, 263.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)