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Harley MS 488
- Record Id:
- 040-002046316
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046316
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0003c9
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 488
- Title:
- Robertus de Tumbalena, Commentary on the Song of Songs; Rule of St Benedict
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-52r: Robertus de Tumbalena (Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St Vigor of Bayeux), Commentary on the Song of Songs.
ff. 52r-84r: Rule of St Benedict
Decoration:
1 initial in gold (f. 1r). 1 initial in green with penwork decoration in green and red (f. 54v). Some large and several smaller initials in blue, red or green. Display script in red or blue for letters following three large initials (ff. 1r, 52r). Rubrics in red, blue or brown. Biblical text in red (ff. 1v-2v). Rough profile head in brown ink (f. 56v, margin).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046316", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 488: Robertus de Tumbalena, Commentary on the Song of Songs; Rule of St Benedict" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046316 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 488 : Robertus de Tumbalena, Commentary on the Song of Songs; Rule of St Benedict - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0487]/040-002046316
- 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:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1149
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 180 x 105 mm (text space: 135 x 65 mm)
Foliation: ff. 84 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the end).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600 Harleian binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England, S. W. (Winchester?).
Provenance:
Inscribed, 15th century 'Precium vjs viijd' (f. 84).
Paper label inscribed, late 16th century, 'Expositio in Cant. 85' (pasted on f. [iii]recto).
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.
- 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. 488.
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A855.
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 131.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Benedict of Nursia, Saint, Abbot of Montecassino, 480-c 547,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000455425858,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100179656
D’Ewes, Simonds, 1st Baronet, diarist and antiquary, 1602-1650,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083393524,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12656415
Robert, of Tumbalena, Abbot of St Vigor - Places:
- Winchester, England