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Harley MS 462

Record Id:

040-002046290

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046290

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0003af

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 462

Title:

Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea

Scope & Content:

ff. 1r–23r: Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea (selections, in several different hands).

In the 17th century, the manuscript was bound as one volume with Harley MS 459–461 and Harley MS 463 (see table of contents in Harley MS 459, f. 2v).

Decoration:

Some sections open with a two-line initial in red or green.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046290

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 462 : Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0461]/040-002046290

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:

1260

End Date:

1340

Date Range:

Late 13th century-Early 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 300 × 200 mm (text space variable: ff. 1r–5v: 220 × 145 mm; ff. 6r–23v: 250 × 170 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 23 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the begining and 25 at the end; f. 1* is a modern paper flyleaf).

Collation: i^12-1 (ff. 1–11; 1 folio excised after f. 11); ii¹²(ff. 12–24). Quire signatures (a letter 'b', f. 12).

Script: Gothic cursive; written by several hands.

Binding: British Museum, rebound 17 January 1967.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

(?) The Augustinian priory of St Mary and St John the Baptist, Lanthony (Secunda), Gloucestershire: Harley MS 460 includes a library catalogue of 1380.

Peter Le Neve (b. 1661, d. 1729), Richmond herald (1704) and Norroy King of Arms (1704), antiquary: inscribed ‘Liber Petri Le Neve Norroy 1704 (f. 1*r); bought from him by Robert Harley in 1704 (Wright 1972).

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, née Cavendish 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.

Administrative Context:

England.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 460.

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. 108.

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. 215-16, 219.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Portland, née Harley, collector of art and natural history specimens and patron of arts and sciences, 11 Feb 1715-17 Jul 1785,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115857160,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2356861
Harley, Edward, second earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, 2 Jun 1689-16 Jun 1741,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108078249,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/160524259
Harley, Henrietta Cavendish, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, née Holles, patron of architecture, 4 Feb 1694-9 Dec 1755,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000030125833,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/6045563
Harley, Robert, first Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, 5 Dec 1661-21 May 1724,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083423906
Jacobus de Voragine, chronicler and archbishop of Genoa, c 1230-1298
Le Neve, Peter, herald and antiquary, 1661-1729
The Augustinian priory of St Mary and St John the Baptist, Lanthony Secunda, Gloucestershire, 1137-1539

Related Archive Descriptions:

Harley MS 459
Harley MS 460
Harley MS 461
Harley MS 463