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Harley MS 54
- Record Id:
- 040-002045882
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002045882
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0000df
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 54
- Title:
- Roger of Howden, Chronica
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-37v: Roger of Howden [Hoveden] (d. 1201/2), Chronica [895-1121]; here with the title (in a later hand) ‘Hystoria Saxonum et Anglorum’; beginning ‘In exordio huius operis genealogiam regum Norhtanhimbrorum libet demonstrare’.
Decoration:
Small red initials throughout. Manicules in brown ink on ff. 31v, 32v and 36r. A decorated run-over symbol on f. 34r.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002045882", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 54: Roger of Howden, Chronica" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002045882 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 54 : Roger of Howden, Chronica - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0053]/040-002045882
- 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:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1224
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 285 x 205 mm.
Foliation: ff. 37 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); all quires have been mounted onto paper guards.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound in 1968; the previous binding has been pasted on the insides of the upper and lower covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
John Dee (b. 1527, d. 1609), mathematician, astrologer and antiquary: his 'Jupiter-sign' on f. 1r [4x] (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 126).
Patrick Saunders (fl. late 16th century), friend of John Dee: inscribed f. 9r: ‘An old Anonimus chronicle of England ab anno 895 ad 1121’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 297).
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); acquired in 1625 for 1s 6d from the library of John Dee; recorded in his catalogues as A.913, E.74 and B.131.
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.
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), p. 14.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 371.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)