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Harley MS 64

Record Id:

040-002045892

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002045892

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0000ed

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 64

Title:

Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum; Epistola ad Henricum regem; a transcript of Henry of Huntingdon, Epistola ad Walterum de contemptu mundi; Abbreviationes de Saeculis aetatibus et temporibus; Chronica Sancti Albani ab Adamo usque ad Martyrium Sancti Albani; Canonizatio beati Petri Martyris, ordinis Praedicatorum, sub Innocentio III; Pope Alexander IV, Bulla de Solenni Celebratione Festi in Memoriam Petri Martyris Instituti; The Excommunication of the English barons by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1251; Letters by Pope Alexander IV and others; An account of the canonization of St Francis in 1227 and the translation of his remains in 1270; An account of the canonization of St Antony of Padua in 1232; The miracles of St Eadburge.

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-112v: Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum (version 5, redactions A and B), including several sections transcribed in a 16th-century hand (ff. 89r-112v).

ff. 113r-135r: Henry of Huntingdon, Epistola ad Henricum regem.

ff. 136r-145r: A transcript of Henry of Huntingdon, Epistola ad Walterum de contemptu mundi.

ff. 146r-149v: Abbreviationes de Saeculis aetatibus et temporibus.

ff. 150r-162r: Chronica Sancti Albani ab Adamo usque ad Martyrium Sancti Albani, beginning: 'Adam annorum cxxx genuit Seth'.

ff. 163r-165r: Canonizatio beati Petri Martyris, ordinis Praedicatorum, sub Innocentio III.

ff. 165r-166r: Pope Alexander IV, Bulla de Solenni Celebratione Festi in Memoriam Petri Martyris Instituti.

ff. 166r-167r: The Excommunication of the English barons by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1251.

ff. 167r-169v: Letters by Pope Alexander IV and others.

ff. 169v-170r: An account of the canonization of St Francis in 1227 and the translation of his remains in 1270.

f. 170r: An account of the canonization of St Antony of Padua in 1232.

ff. 170r-171v: The miracles of St Eadburge.

Decoration:

Numerous initials in red and blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002045892

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 64 : Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum; Epistola ad Henricum regem; a transcript of Henry of Huntingdon, Epistola ad Walterum…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0063]/040-002045892

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:

1250

End Date:

1299

Date Range:

2nd half of the 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 275 x 200 mm.

Foliation: ff. 1* + 171 (+ 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); 3 unfoliated parchment stubs between f. 26 and f. 27; 1 between f. 29 and f. 30; f. 37 and f. 38; f. 41 and f. 42; f. 43 and f. 44; 6 between f. 71 and f. 72; 3 between f. 161 and f. 162.

Script: Protogothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound in 1968.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

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.213 and B.127.

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), p. 16.

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. 372.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Henry of Huntingdon, Archdeacon of Huntingdon, c 1088–c 1157,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000117650972,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/57425612

Places:

England