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Harley MS 40
- Record Id:
- 040-002045868
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002045868
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0000cd
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 40
- Title:
- Martinus Polonus, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r–51r: Martinus Polonus, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum.
ff. 51r–53r: Notes on the planets.
Decoration:
Large puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours including ivy leaves (ff. 1, 8v, 29v). Numerous smaller initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraphs in alternating red or blue. Capitals marked in red ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002045868", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 40: Martinus Polonus, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002045868 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 40 : Martinus Polonus, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0039]/040-002045868
- 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:
- 1330
- End Date:
- 1370
- Date Range:
- Mid 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 275 × 170 mm (written area 190 × 105 mm)
Foliation: ff. 53 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end). Ff. 52 and 53 are unruled parchment leaves.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Marbled paper over boards, leather spine.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Robert Ivory (d. 1392), 'frater' and 'Magister Provincialis' of the Carmelites, London: inscription recording the gift of the manuscript to the convent, ‘De dono Reuerendi magistri prouintialis fratris Roberti yuory conuentus londoniarum’ (f. 1r).
Carmelite convent, London: 14th-century inscription recording the gift of the manuscript by Robertus Yvory to the convent, and pressmark 'S 9m (f. 1).
Added annotations, 14th century (ff. 51r-v, 52, 53).
Inscribed press mark '34.A.1', post-medieval (f. 1).
Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright 1972). 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.
- 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. 40.
The Friars’ Libraries, ed. by K.W. Humphreys, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 1 (London: British Library, 1990), p. 185.
Wolfgang-Valentin Ikas, Martin von Troppau (Martinus Polonus), O.P. (d. 1278) in England: Überlieferungs- und wirkungsgeschichtliche Studien zu dessen Papst- und Kaiserchronik, Wissensliteratur im Mittelalter, 40 (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2002), pp. 44, 59, 65, 79.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by Neil R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 124.
Anna-Dorothee von den Brincken, ‘Studien zur Überlieferung der Chronik des Martin von Troppau (Erfahrungen mit einem massenhaft überlieferten historischen Text), Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters, 41, 2 (1985), 460-531 (p. 529).
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A463.
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, 226, 367.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)