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Harley MS 399
- Record Id:
- 040-002046227
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046227
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x000330
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 399
- Title:
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Pseudo-Aristotle, Secreta Secretorum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-72v: Pseudo-Aristotle, Secreta Secretorum.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046227", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 399: Pseudo-Aristotle, Secreta Secretorum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046227 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 399 : Pseudo-Aristotle, Secreta Secretorum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0398]/040-002046227
- 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:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 220 x 160 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 74 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end); f. 1* is a parchment leaf; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [ii]recto (bookplate) and f. 74 (with the number ‘6874’ printed).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 26 June 1967.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? England.
Provenance:
Blomf[ield], owned in 1597: his name inscribed on f. 1*recto: ‘Mr Blomf July 29 1597’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 74).
Richard Amadas (d. ? 1629), rector of Hallingbury Magna in Essex (his will, dated to 18 December 1626, was proved on 26 June 1629): his name-signature (‘Richarde Amadas’) is inscribed on f. 1r; previously unnoticed and not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 379; also owned Cotton MS Titus D XVI, Cotton MS Vespasian D XI, and Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff.4.42. Amadas is likely to have passed the manuscript on to his wife (unidentified); in his will (Greater London Record Office, DL/C/420/-) he bequeaths ‘all my bokes that I have’ to his wife (see Oates, Cambridge University Library (1986), p. 347).
? Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire: suggested by the bookplate of ‘Robert Harley of Brampton Castle’ pasted on f. [ii]recto (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 81).
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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), p. 404.
John Claud Trewinard Oates, Cambridge University Library: A History from the Beginnings to the Copyright Act of Queen Anne (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 346-47.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 379.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)