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Harley MS 222
- Record Id:
- 040-002046050
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046050
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0001d7
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 222
- Title:
- Herman de Valenciennes, Bible historiale
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r, 128v: Fragments of a 14th-century charter issued in England, used as endleaves. Written in Anglicana; includes the names 'Alex', 'Wilhelm ?Gasy', 'Jacobo de Bermynghem', and mentions London.
ff. 2r–227v: Herman de Valenciennes, Bible historiale.
Decoration:
Large initials in gold and colours, some painted over earlier initials (ff. 2r, 9r, 10r, 40v, 44r, 48r, 54v, 56v, 58r, 87r, 118r). The flourishing includes a hybrid creature (f. 118r). Numerous smaller initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046050", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 222: Herman de Valenciennes, Bible historiale" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046050 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 222 : Herman de Valenciennes, Bible historiale - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0221]/040-002046050
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1280
- End Date:
- 1280
- Date Range:
- 1280
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 240 × 145 mm (written area 180 × 90 mm).
Foliation: ff. 128 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).
Script: Gothic, written by a Robert (colophon, f. 127v).
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France.
Provenance:
Written by Robert in 1280: colophon, 'Hi finist le Genesi. et de la morte nostre dame sainte marie. et Robert lescriuain lescrit a son cos demeine. et fud parfait a la nunciacione nostre dame en lan de grace m. cc. et iiijˣˣ.’ (f. 127v).
Large initial in gold and colours (f. 2r) and 'champ' initials crudely painted over earlier initials (probably in red and blue ink) (ff. 9r, 10r, 40v, 44r, 48r, 54v, 56v, 58r, 87r, 118r), 14th century.
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, 3 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I, no. 222.
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A247.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), no. 631.
Mise en page et mise en texte du livre manuscrit, ed. by Henri-Jean Martin and Jean Vezin (n. pl.: Cercle de la Librairie-Promodis, 1990), p. 238.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Herman de Valenciennes, poet, Late 12th century