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Harley MS 220
- Record Id:
- 040-002046048
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046048
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0001d5
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 220
- Title:
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Miscellany of canon law, historical and pastoral works
- Scope & Content:
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f. 1r–v: ‘De materia oblationum’.
f. 2r: Verses on the monarchs of England.
ff. 2v–3r: Added table of contents and incipit to the constitutions of the Exeter synod.
ff. 4r–48v: Constitutiones of bishop Peter Quivil at the 1287 Exeter synod.
ff. 49r–58v: ‘Summula Sinodi Exoniensis diocesis.’
ff. 59r–70r: Letter of Pope Clement (also appearing in Liber extra 1.23.7), ‘De officio archidiaconi et eius visitacione sequitur Tractatus. Archidiaconus oculus episcopi appellatur. ut loco episcopi per episcopatum respiciens …’.
ff. 70v–71r: Liber extra 1.6.42, ‘Quia propter’.
ff. 72r–77r: Added notes in 16th-century hands: ‘The fifth Dole; siue Dec. Hundredi de Hertlond in Comitatu Devon’ (f. 72r); graces before and after dinner (f. 72v–73r); extracts from astronomical treatises, with an illustration of a comet (ff. 74v–75r); prophecies on England, Ireland, and Normandy (f. 76r); ‘De casibus reseruatur episcopo’, prophecies of Jean de Roquetaillade, verses on the nine deceptions (f. 76v).
Decoration:
Large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in red (f. 4r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs. Paraphs in red or blue. Some cadels in brown ink touched with yellow often including faces or animal heads (ff. 5r, 5v, 8v, 15r, 28r, 40v, 41v, 43r, 51v, 55v, 62v, etc.). Capitals marked in yellow. Catchwords often written on a scroll with pen-flourishing in brown.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046048", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 220: Miscellany of canon law, historical and pastoral works" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046048 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 220 : Miscellany of canon law, historical and pastoral works - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0219]/040-002046048
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1430
- End Date:
- 1470
- Date Range:
- Mid 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 240 × 165 mm (written area 150 × 105 mm).
Foliation: ff. 80 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated ruled parchment leaf after ff. 58 and 73 + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end). ff. 1* and 77 are former pastedowns; ff. 71v–73a are ruled leaves originally unwritten.
Collation: i4 (ff. 1*–3), ii–x8 (ff. 4–73*), xi4 (ff. 74–77).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house, rebound 25 April 1966.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Added texts, 15th century, in Latin entitled 'De materia oblac[i]on[u]m' and 'Anglia', list of contents 'Rubrice Sinodi Exon Diocesis', and other texts related to the synod (ff. 1-3v), texts concerning a comet which appeared in 1472 (not 1482, as stated in Catalogue 1808) referring to Henry Sutton, with a pen drawing of the comet (ff. 74v-75), and prophecies (ff. 76r-v).
Annotations throughout, 15th century, in the same hand as some of the additions preceding the text.
Erasures and additions in the list of saints to celebrate throughout the year, 15th century (f. 26r–v).
Nicholas Gosse, 15th century: sold by his executors as recorded in an inscription (f. 77r).Ricardus Helyer, magister, 'quondam Regestraride chancellario Barnestapulensi', created notary public in 1469: purchased from executors of Nicholas Gosse (inscription on f. 77r) and given by him to the Augustinian abbey of Hartland (inscription on f. 75r).
Augustinian abbey of St Nectan in Hartland, Devon: owned in the 15th-16th century, received as a gift from Ricardus Helyer (inscription on f. 75r), added text, ?16th century, entitled 'Devon hund. de Hertlond the vth Dole' (f. 72r).
Willelmus Lancaster (d. 1596), of Milverton, Somerset, notary public at Taunton, Somerset, and Justice of Barnstaple, Devon: inscriptions dated 1588 (ff. 75v, 77r).
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 (see Watson 1966).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.
- Information About Copies:
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Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.
- 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), no. 220.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 95.
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A245.
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, 168, 181, 186, 214-15.
Domenico Pezzini, The Translation of Religious Texts in the Middle Ages: Tracts and Rules, Hymns and Saints' Lives, Studies in Language and Communication, 69 (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2008) p. 341, n. 14.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Clement I, Saint, pope and theologian, 1st century
Quivil, Peter, Bishop of Exeter