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Harley MS 212

Record Id:

040-002046040

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046040

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0001cd

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 212

Title:

`Sir John Mandeville', Voyage d'outre mer

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains the popular 14th-century text Voyage d'outre mer by the supposed author 'Sir John Mandeville', commonly known as 'The Travels of Sir John Mandeville'. This 15th-century copy of the text belongs to group A of the so-called 'vulgate or insular version'.

Contents:

ff. 1r-107r: `Sir John Mandeville', Voyage d'outre mer (Mandeville's Travels).

Decoration:

Several initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing reaching down to the bas de page.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046040

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 212 : `Sir John Mandeville', Voyage d'outre mer

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0211]/040-002046040

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Anglo-Norman
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1375

End Date:

1424

Date Range:

4th quarter of the 14th century - 1st quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: parchment.

Dimensions: 190 x 130 mm.

Foliation: ff. 108 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

The Augustinian Priory of Bolton-in-Craven: inscribed with its note: 'Owr' der' lady gyue yame sonu yat wythdrauwys or wythholdys y^s boke fro ye lady house of Bollton' in Crauyn' for Rodes Borud(?) hyt yar'e (sic) anno regni regis henr' vj^ti iiij^to' (f. 107r).

Wylliam Cosain, unidentified owner: inscribed with his name in the bill dated 7 March 1547 (f. 108v).

John Dee (b. 1527, d. 1608), mathematician and astrologer: annotated by him (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 126).

Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st Baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton: owned by him (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 131.

Nycholas Mychell, an unidentified owner from Lancashire: inscribed with his name in the note dated 7 March 1547 (f. 107v).

John Ynglaynde of Otley, clothier: inscribed with his name in the note dated 7 March 1547 (f. 107v).

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, 1808–12), I (1908), p. 68.

Dean, Ruth J., & Maureen B. M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman Text Society, Occasional Publications Series, 3 (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999), p. 187.

Wright, Cyril Ernest, Fontes Harleiani: A study of the sources of the Harleian collection of manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1972), pp. 75, 112, 127, 131, 248, 366.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Mandeville, John, legendary author,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000110299577,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78770305

Places:

England