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Harley MS 229
- Record Id:
- 040-002046057
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046057
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0001de
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 229
- Title:
- Chronicle of Evesham Abbey; Ivo of Chartres, Epistolae
- Scope & Content:
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A composite manuscript, the first section (ff. 1–47) from the mid 14th century and the second (ff. 50–136) from the late 11th or early 12th century.
ff. 1r–47v: Chronicle of Evesham Abbey.
ff. 50r–136r: Ivo of Chartres, Epistolae, imperfect at the end, with occasional marginal glosses.
Decoration:
ff. 1–47: Puzzle initial in red and green with penwork decoration in green extending into the margin (f. 1r). Initials in green or red with penwork decoration in red and/or green extending into the margins with foliate design and faces. Small initials in red or green. Rubrics in red, occasionally with cadel. Paraphs in red or green highlighted in red.
ff. 50–136: Large initial in blue with penwork decoration in red and green (f. 50r). Initials in red, green or blue, with foliate decoration from f. 106r onwards. Occasional outlining of the marginal glosses in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046057", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 229: Chronicle of Evesham Abbey; Ivo of Chartres, Epistolae" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046057 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 229 : Chronicle of Evesham Abbey; Ivo of Chartres, Epistolae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0228]/040-002046057
- 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:
- 1060
- End Date:
- 1370
- Date Range:
- Late 11th century-Mid 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 230 × 155 mm (written area 180 × 105 mm).
Foliation: ff. 2* + 137 (f. 1* and the preceding unfoliated leaf and ff. 48-49 are bifolia inserted by d'Ewes; f. 2* is an original flyleaf; + one unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning, 6 early modern parchment and one modern paper at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive (ff. 1–47); protogothic (ff. 50–136).
Binding: Post-1600. D'Ewes's binding of gilt-tooled brown calf with his armorial stamp at the centre of the covers; with traces of catches and clasps.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
ff. 1–47: The Benedictine abbey of St Mary and St Ecgwine at Evesham, Worcestershire: 15th-century ownership inscription 'liber monasterii beate marie sancti Egwine Eueshamme' (ff. 2*r-v). ? Thomas Wellesta (?) Reichard, unidentified, 16th century: his name (f. 47v).
ff. 50–136: Marginal notes and maniculae added by medieval readers. Thomas Dackomb (b. 1496, d. c.1572), rector of Colbrooke, Winchester; his inscription 'Liber d(omp)ni Thome dakcomb 1550' (f. 50) and marginal notes (ff. 50-62; see Watson 1963).
Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright 1972): his MS. no. 4 (f. 50) with his foliation; titles and table of contents added by him (ff. 1*r-v, 49; see Watson 1966); bound for him together with Harley 326 for 5s in 1643 (Harley 7660, f. 51; see Watson 1966).
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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- Publications:
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Edward Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ in unum collecti, cum indice alphabetico, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, 1697), II, p. 387, no. 10023.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 229.
Andrew G. Watson, 'A Sixteenth-Century Collector, Thomas Dackomb, 1496-c. 1572', The Library, 18 (1963), 204-17 (pp. 206, 209, 213 no. 8).
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by Neil R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 81.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. xviii, n. 3.
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), nos. A226, H118, B163.
Cyril E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 122, 131, 147, 375.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Egwin, Evesham, Worcestershire, ? 995-? 1539