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Harley MS 53
- Record Id:
- 040-002045881
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002045881
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0000de
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 53
- Title:
- Brut chronicle; a genealogy of the kings of Britain
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-11v: a genealogy of the kings of Britain from Adam to Henry VI
ff. 14r-164v: the Brut chronicle.
The manuscript contains later additions:
f. 1r-1v: various verses and pen-trials.
[ff. 12r-13r are blank].
Decoration:
1 full-page coat of arms and motto ascribed to the Stokes family with red, yellow and blue (f. 13v); genealogy of the kings of Britain with red lines and roundels decorated with crowns in yellow; 1 initial decorated with heraldic motifs (arms of England) in red and blue (f. 14v);
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002045881", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 53: Brut chronicle; a genealogy of the kings of Britain" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002045881 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 53 : Brut chronicle; a genealogy of the kings of Britain - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0052]/040-002045881
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: paper.
Dimensions: 280 x 210 mm.
Foliation: ff. 164 (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive: Gothic textura (f. 14r).
Binding: Post-1600.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
William Chancy, an unidentified 16th-century owner: inscribed with his signature in a 16th-century hand (ff. 1v, 12r, 12v).
A Hulbrigge, an unidentified 16th-century owner: inscribed with his or her name in a 16th-century hand (f. 162v).
Anthonye Smythe, an unidentified 16th-century owner: inscribed with his or her name in a 16th-century hand (f. 49r).
?The Stokes Family: the 16th-century coat of arms ascribed to them (f. 13v).
Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st Baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton: owned by him (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 131).
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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Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (The British Library: London, 2005), pp. 130, 137, 237.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), p. 14.
Wright, Cyril Ernest, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 101, 131, 200, 308, 319.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)