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Harley MS 44
- Record Id:
- 040-002045872
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002045872
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0000d1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 44
- Title:
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Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, in the English translation by John Walton
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-102r: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, in the English translation by John Walton. Other manuscripts containing this English translation of Boethius's work are [Royal MS 18 A XIII and Harley MS 43.
Decoration:
Large gold initials in a blue and red frame with foliate feathering (ff. 2r, 2v, 5r, 34r, 59r, 60r, 83v); 1 with a one-sided bar border, ending in foliate feathering forming partial borders (f. 2r). Small gold initials in a blue and red frame throughout the manuscript (e.g., ff. 7v, 17v, 20r, 22r, 24v). Red paraphs. A few cadels.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002045872", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 44: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, in the English translation by John Walton" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002045872 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 44 : Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, in the English translation by John Walton - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0043]/040-002045872
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 270 x 185 mm (text space: 175 x 120 mm).
Foliation: ff. 102 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 29 and f. 30.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown mottled calf with gold fillets.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Henry Savile, of Banke (b. 1568, d. 1617), collector of manuscripts: no. 239 in his library catalogue (see Watson, The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke (1969), p. 62).
Francis Thorpe (bap. 1594, d. 1665), judge: his name inscribed on f. 102v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 328).
? Thomas Wy[se] [partly erased], owned in the 17th century: his name inscribed on f. 4r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 365).
Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani, (1972), p. 131); recorded in his catalogues as A.264 and E.155.
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, The Library of Sir Sidmond d'Ewes (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:
- Select digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
- 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. 44.
J. P. Gilson, 'The Library of Henry Savile, of Banke', Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 9 (1906-1908), 127-210 (no. 239).
Ian Johnson, ‘Placing Walton’s Boethius’ in Boethius in the Middle Ages, ed. by Hoenen, Maarten and Nauta (Leiden: Brill, 1997), pp. 217-42 [on the text].
Ian Johnson, ‘Walton’s Sapient Orpheus’, in Studies in the Vernacular Translations of De Consolatione Philosophiae, ed. by Alastair J. Minnis (Cambridge: Brewer, 1987), pp. 139-64 [on the text].
Chaucer’s Boece and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius, ed. by Alastair J. Minnis, Chaucer Studies, 18 (Cambridge: Brewer, 1993), pp. 26-27, 85, 186 [on the text].
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae Translated by John Walton, ed. by Mark Science, Early English Text Society, 170 (London: Boydell and Brewer, 1927) [edition of the text].
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A264.
Andrew G. Watson, The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke (London: Bibliographical Society, 1969), no. 239.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, pp. xviii-xix.
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 131, 298, 328, 365.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus, c 480-524/525,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122834442,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100218964 - Places:
- England