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Harley MS 50

Record Id:

040-002045878

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002045878

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0000db

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 50

Title:

Glossed Gospel of Mark

Scope & Content:

Glossed Gospel of Mark, incipit: 'Marcus evangelista dei et petri in baptismate filius'

Decoration:

Large puzzle initials in blue and red with red and blue pen-flourishing (ff. 1r, 2r). Small initials in red or blue. Paraphs in brown. Marginal decoration in brown, including of a bird (f. 36r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002045878

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 50 : Glossed Gospel of Mark

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0049]/040-002045878

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1150

End Date:

1199

Date Range:

2nd half of the 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 275 x 195 mm (text space: 210 x 145 mm).

Foliation: ff. 49 (+ 23 unfoliated flyleaves: 1 paper and 1 parchment leaf at the beginning, and 1 parchment and 20 paper leaves at the end; f. 49 is a parchment flyleaf).

Script: Protogothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house binding. Rebound in 1953.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England, North.

Provenance:

The Augustinian priory of St Mary, Bridlington, Yorkshire: list of books attributed to Bridlington priory on the basis of the number and prominent position given to works of Robert of Bridlington, Prior of Bridlington (c. 1150-1160), and their correspondence to titles noted at Bridlington by John Leland in c. 1536-1540 (see Ker 1964 and Webber and Watson 1997), late 12th or early 13th century (f. 48v); erasure, perhaps of an ownership inscription (f. 1r).

Added draft annal for 1454 recording the battle of Stamford Bridge between Thomas Percy, 1st Baron Egremont, and Sir John Neville, and mentioning (as the only account) the death of John Salvin of Danffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, 15th century (f. 49v).

Henry Savile of Banke, Yorkshire (b. 1568, d. 1617), collector of manuscripts: no. 54 in his library (see Watson 1969).

Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st Baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton: inscribed 'Symonds D'Ewes' (f. 1v); probably his marginal notes (f. 2r); acquired by him in 1625 for 3s.; included in his inventory (Add. MS 22918), his account book for the years 1618-1627 (Cotton Charter XVI 13), and in Edward Bernard, Catalogi manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, 1697), II, no 226 (see Watson 1966).

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.

Administrative Context:

England, North.

Information About Copies:

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-1812), I, no. 50.

J. P. Gilson, ‘The library of Henry Savile, of Banke’, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 9 (1906–1908), 127–210 (p. 165).

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. 12 [with additional bibliography].

Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), nos A325, B226, C201.

A.G. Watson, The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke (London: Bibliographical Society, 1969), p. 29, no. 54.

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. 83, 131, 298.

Registrum Anglie de libris doctorum et auctorum veterum, ed. by Richard H. & Mary A. Rouse, and R.A.B. Mynors, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 2 (London 1991), p. 204.

The Libraries of the Augustinian Canons, ed. by Tessa Webber and Andrew Watson, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 6 (London: 1997), p. 9, no. A4.

Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Manuscripts in Northumbria in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2003), pp. 184-86.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

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