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Harley MS 512
- Record Id:
- 040-002046341
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046341
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000012
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 512
- Title:
- Bartholomeus Anglicus, Tractatus de naturis et proprietatibus
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r-88v: Bartholomeus Anglicus, Tractatus de naturis et proprietatibus.
The manuscript contains a number of 15th-century additions in Middle French:
f. 1r: François Villon, Ballade joyeuse des Taverniers.
f. 1r: A saying of Aristotle.
ff. 1v-2r: Sayings of Aristotle.
ff. 2v, 88v, 89v: Notes.
f. 81r: An excerpt from the Livre des histoires du miroer du monde [compared with the copy in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Fr. 328].
Decoration:
Large initials in red, or blue and red (puzzle initials) with penwork decoration in brown ink. Small red initials throughout.
The manuscript contains drawings in brown ink that were added at a later stage: f. 81v contains two drawings of the Madonna [and probably a third one outlined]; three illustrations of a book with two clasps (3x); f. 89r contains a drawing of the Annunciation, apparently copied from a Book of Hours as is suggested by the border decoration below the scene; f. 89v contains another drawing of the Annunciation, with a kneeling woman (a patron?) below it.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046341", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 512: Bartholomeus Anglicus, Tractatus de naturis et proprietatibus" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046341 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 512 : Bartholomeus Anglicus, Tractatus de naturis et proprietatibus - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0512]/040-002046341
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French, Middle
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: Paper.
Dimensions: 210 x 145 mm.
Foliation: ff. 89 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 25 June 1967.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? England or France.
Provenance:
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 131); D’Ewes number ‘41’ inscribed on f. 1r and f. 3r; recorded in his catalogues as A.872.
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.
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. 333.
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. 375.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)