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Harley MS 107
- Record Id:
- 040-002045935
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002045935
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x000124
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058107225.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 107
- Title:
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Ælfric, Grammar and Glossary; grammatical dialogue
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-71v: Ælfic, Grammar and Glossary, imperfect;
ff. 71v-72v: A grammatical dialogue on declensions;
f. 72v: A short text beginning, ‘[Christu]s regnat. Crist rixað', ending, 'Imperator. Casere’;
f. 72v: A Latin glossary of names of birds (20 lines) and fish (2 lines) (f. 72v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002045935", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 107: Ælfric, Grammar and Glossary; grammatical dialogue" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002045935 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 107 : Ælfric, Grammar and Glossary; grammatical dialogue - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0106]/040-002045935
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058107225.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1025
- End Date:
- 1074
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: binding 285 x 220 (folio: 270 x 185mm; text space: 210 x 145mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 73 (+ 1 unfoliated parchment leaf after f. 1* + 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).
Script: Anglo-Saxon minuscule.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound in 1970.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England, S. E. (Kent?).
Provenance:
? Kent: evidence of the Old English spelling (see Ker, Catalogue (1957), no. 227).
? 14th century: text in Latin added (f. 1* r-v).
17th-century: a parchment leaf with a portion of a charter or deed in Latin added (f. 73).
Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, and antiquary: owned (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 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 (see Watson, Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), p. 304).
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.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I, no. 107.
N. R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), no. 227.
Peter Clemoes, ‘The Chronology of Ælfric’s Works’, in The Anglo-Saxons: Studies in Some Aspects of their History and Culture, presented to Bruce Dickins, ed. By Peter Clemoes, (London: Bowes & Bowes, 1959) pp. 212-47 [on the text].
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. B225, p. 58 n. 285.
Julius Zupitza, Ælfric’s Grammatik und Glossar, Text und Varianten, erste abteilung (Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1880, reprinted with preface by Helmut Gneuss, 1966). [edition of the text].
Luke M. Reinsma, Ælfric, An Annotated Bibliography , Garland Reference Library, 617, (New York: Garland, 1987) pp.183-90 [on the text].
Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge, A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), no. 414.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)