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Harley MS 504
- Record Id:
- 040-002046333
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046333
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00000a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 504
- Title:
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Sermons by various authors including Geoffrey Babio du Louroux
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 13r-20v: Various sermons (13r-19v) and verses (ff. 20r-20v).
ff. 21r-163v: Sermons by various authors including Geoffrey Babio du Louroux.
The manuscript contains later additions:
ff. 1r-3v: Various notes in 14th/15th-century hands.
ff. 4r-4v: 'De 12 signis solis' in a 15th-century hand.
ff. 5r-12v: A theological tract in a 14th-century hand.
Decoration:
Numerous initials in blue or red with penwork decoration in the alternate colour. Some simple initials in red or blue. Rubrics in red. Initials in red, frequently with penwork decoration in brown ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046333", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 504: Sermons by various authors including Geoffrey Babio du Louroux" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046333 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 504 : Sermons by various authors including Geoffrey Babio du Louroux - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0504]/040-002046333
- 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:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 190 x 125 mm (written space: 130/140 x 90/100 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 163 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end ; f. 1* is a paper flyleaf); threaded bookmarks.
Script: Gothic (written below the top line (ff. 13-20) and above the line (21-163).
Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound in 1968; traces of wooden boards of a previous binding (f. 1).
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England or France.
Provenance:
Possible ownership inscriptions, now removed or erased (the lower margin of f. 21 is cut; erased inscriptions on ff. 1v, 13r.).
Added quire of smaller dimensions (165 x 120) containing sermons in a ?14th-century hand (ff. 5r-12v).
Added texts on medicine (f. 1v), 'De modo scribendi certa vocabula' (ff. 2r-3v), 'De xii signis solis' (f. 4r-4v), 14th/15th centuries.
John Thring (?) (d. by 1484), principal of St Mildred Hall, Oxford and, among others, keeper of the Warwick chest: inscribed, 15th century: 'Trada(tur) m(agistro) Joh(ann)i Thryng' (f. 1v), (see Watson 1966, p. 222 n. 34; cf. A. B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to A.D. 1500, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957-1959), III, p. 1871).
Sir Richard St George (b. 1554/5, d. 1635), herald: inscribed 'Liber Ricardi St george Norroy Regis armorum / fero et spero' (f. 4v); acquired by Sir Simonds D'Ewes from Sir Richard St George, his son, Sir Henry St George the elder (b. 1581, d. 1644), or his grandson, Sir Henry St George the younger (b. 1625, d. 1715), along with 9 other manuscripts (see Watson 1962 and Wright 1972, pp. 292-293).
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. 504.
Andrew G. Watson, 'Sir Simonds D'Ewes's Collection of Charters, and a note on the Charters of Sir Robert Cotton', Journal of the Society of Archivists 2 (1962), 247-54 (p. 252, n. 33).
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A228.
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 131, 293, 328.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England
France