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Harley MS 156
- Record Id:
- 040-002045984
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002045984
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x00016d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 156
- Title:
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William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum; Chronicle of Thomas Rudburne Monke of Winchester
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-184v: William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum; translated into English.
ff. 185r-279r: ‘The Chronicle of Thomas Rudburne Monke of Winchester'; translated into English.
The manuscript contains later additions:
f. 279v: Doodles of antropomorphic and zoomorphic figures; a ‘Sator Square’; added in the 16th or 17th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002045984", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 156: William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum; Chronicle of Thomas Rudburne Monke of Winchester" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002045984 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 156 : William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum; Chronicle of Thomas Rudburne Monke of Winchester - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0155]/040-002045984
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1524
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 310 x 210 mm.
Foliation: ff. 279 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); 4 unfoliated paper leaves between f. 184 and f. 185
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: Post-1600.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Thomas Audley (b. 1488, d. 1544), Baron Audley of Walden 1538: his name inscribed on ff. 1, 13, 102v, 184v, and 279v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 55-56).
? ‘Thomas Anderson’ owned in the 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 1r.
? ‘Coniers Southwell’, owned in the 16th century: his name inscribed on ff. 1r and 279v.
? ‘Richard Johnson’, owned in the 16th: his name inscribed on f. 3r.
? ‘Sir Herbert (?) James’, owned in the 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 185.
? ‘John Jefferson’, owned in the 16th century or 17th century: his name inscribed on f. 78r.
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); probably inherited the manuscript; Audley’s wife Margaret was daughter of Sir Thomas Barnardiston, whose great-great-great-granddaughter Anne was D’Ewes’s first wife; recorded in his catalogues as ? H.201 and B.65.
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. 46.
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. 373.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)