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Harley MS 177

Record Id:

040-002046005

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046005

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x000192

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 177

Title:

Gerald of Wales, Expugnatio Hibernica

Scope & Content:

ff. 2r–84r: Gerald of Wales, Expugnatio Hibernica. Abbreviated text, α-recension, omitting most non-historical content.

Decoration:

Numerous marginal drawings in brown ink of animals, birds, fish, people, hybrid creatures, and a dog chasing a rabbit (f. 11v). 2 puzzle initials in red and brown with pen-flourishing in the same colours (ff. 2r, 7v). Plain initials in red, some large, some small. Capitals marked in red. Catchwords emerge from open mouths (ff. 11v, 23v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046005

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 177 : Gerald of Wales, Expugnatio Hibernica

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0176]/040-002046005

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:

1300

End Date:

1340

Date Range:

Early 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 160 × 120 mm (written area 120 × 85 mm).

Foliation: ff. 85 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation: one (f. 1, a singleton), i¹⁰ (ff. 2–11), ii–iii¹² (ff. 12–35), iv¹⁰ (ff. 36–45), v–vi¹² (ff. 46–69), vii¹⁶ (ff. 70–85). Catchwords.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house, rebound 29 November 1966.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England or Ireland. Gives some English renderings of Irish names, but includes a note on f. 57r in an insular minuscule hand. Dimock (1867: xxxvi) suggests it was written by an English settler in Ireland.

Provenance:

Robyn Rede: his name inscribed in the 15th century, ‘Omnibus est nomen sed non est omnibus omen. / Omnibus adde modum modus est pulcherima uertus. Robyn Rede’. (f. 84v).

Inscriptions, 15th century (f. 85v).

Pen trials, 16th century (ff. 84v–85r).

Sir Richard St George (b. c. 1555, d. 1635), Norroy King of Arms 1607, Clarenceux King of Arms 1623: his ownership inscription (f. 1v).

Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright 1972).

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 (Watson 1966, no. A856).

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), no. 177.

Topographia Hibernica et Expugnatio Hibernica, vol. 5 of Giraldi Cambrensis opera, ed. by James F. Dimock, Rolls Series, 21 (London: Longman, 1867), pp. xxxv–xxxvi, https://archive.org/details/giraldicambrensi05gira.

Andrew G. Watson, 'Sir Simonds D'Ewes's Collection of Charters, and a note on the Charters of Sir Robert Cotton', Journal of the Society of Archivists, 2 (1962), 247-54 (p. 252, n. 33).

Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A856.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 131, 284, 293.

Catherine M. Rooney, 'The manuscripts of the works of Gerald of Wales' (unpublished PhD thesis, Cambridge, 2005), http://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/244876.

Robert Bartlett, Gerald of Wales: A Voice in the Middle Ages (Stroud: Temple, 2006), p. 175.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Gerald of Wales, author and ecclesiastic, ?1146-1223,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000457817353,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/219992833