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Harley MS 77
- Record Id:
- 040-002045905
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002045905
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0000fa
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 77
- Title:
- Registrum brevium
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-222v: Registrum brevium.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002045905", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 77: Registrum brevium" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002045905 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 77 : Registrum brevium - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0076]/040-002045905
- 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:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 295 x 220 mm.
Foliation: ff. 222 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment leaf between f. 205 and f. 206; 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 32 and f. 33; f. 47 and f. 48; f. 51 and f. 52; and f. 213 and f. 214; 1 unfoliated parchment strip pasted on f. [iv]verso; all quires have been mounted onto paper guards.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 3 November 1967.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
William Burde, owned in 1483: his name inscribed on a parchment strip pasted on f. 1*verso: ‘Constat Willelmo burde 1483’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 87).
William Birde, owned in 1578: his name inscribed on f. 3r: ‘William Birde’, with a coat of arms; his motto and name inscribed on f. 222v: ‘Non iacet in molli veneranda scientia lecto - William Birde 1578’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 73); according to John Harley (private communication, 3 August 2019), probably the same 'William Birde' who signed a copy of Anthony Fitzherbert's La nouvelle natura brevium at Belton House, Belton, Lincolnshire.
Christopher Byrd, owned in 1606: his name inscribed on f. 222v: ‘Christophers Byrds Booke Anno domini 1606’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 91); almost certainly the son (bap. 1569, d. c. 1615) of the composer William Byrd (b. 1539 or 1540, d. 1623): according to John Harley (private communication, 3 August 2019; correcting McCarthy and Harley, 'From the Library of William Byrd' (2009), p. 25), his signature is identical to a signature found together with the composer's signature in A caueat for France at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
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); possibly recorded in his catalogues as A.323 and B.48 (or Harley MS 5).
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. 20.
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.
Kerry McCarthy and John Harley, 'From the Library of William Byrd', The Musical Times, 150:1909 (2009), 17-30 (p. 25).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)