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Harley MS 526

Record Id:

040-002046355

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046355

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000020

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100060440765.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 526

Title:

Bede, Vita Sancti Cuthberti metrica (BHL 2020); Vita Venerabilis Bedae (BHL1069); Vita Ædwardi Regis (BHL 2421); fragment of Aelred of Rievaulx's Vita Sancti Edwardi regis and confessoris (BHL 2423) and the papal commissioners' report on St Hugh of Lincoln and Avalon; Vita Adae et Evae

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains five parts:

Bede's verse Vita S Cuthberti (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2020), copied in northern France at the end of the 9th century (ff. 1-27);

a vita of Bede, copied in France or England in the first half of the 12th century (ff. 28-36v);

the only surviving, imperfect copy of the Vita Ædwardi Regis, from England in the first half of the 12th century (ff. 38-57);

a 13th-century fragment of the end of Ailred of Rievaulx's vita of Edward the Confessor and a copy of the papal commissioners' report on the miracles of Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln (ff. 58-67v);

Vita Adae et Evae, copied in England in the 14th century (ff. 68-77).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046355

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 526 : Bede, Vita Sancti Cuthberti metrica (BHL 2020); Vita Venerabilis Bedae (BHL1069); Vita Ædwardi Regis (BHL 2421); fragment of Aelred…

Contains:

Harley MS 526, ff 1r-27v : Bede, Vita Cuthberti Metrica (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2020)
Harley MS 526, ff 28r-37v : Vita Venerabilis Bedae (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 1069)
Harley MS 526, ff 38r-57v : Anonymous Vita Ædwardi Regis (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2421)
Harley MS 526, ff 58r-67v : Fragment of Ailred of Rievaulx's Vita S Edwardi Regis et Confessoris (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2423) and the…
Harley MS 526, ff 68r-77v : Vita Ade et Evae

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0526]/040-002046355

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100060440765.0x000001

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Languages:

English, Old
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

0890

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

late 9th-14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment, paper, and ink.

Dimensions: 225 x 180 mm.

Foliation: ff. 77 + 58* + 67* (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end; 58* and 67* are added early modern leaves).

Script: Caroline minuscule, Protogothic, Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600.

Custodial History:

Provenance:

Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary: he inscribed 'Edit' per Henricum Canisium in Antiquis Lectionibus: sed vetustissimum hoc exemplar et optimi usus' (f. 27v). His number 5 is on f. 1; his number 43 is on f. 28r; signature is on f. 67*r; and his title page is f. 58.

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, Library (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.

Information About Copies:

Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, ed. by A.N. Doane and others, 10 (Binghamton, New York, and Tempe, Arizona, 2003), no. 264b.

Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 526.

Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A246 (ff. 1-27), A938 (ff. 28-37), A253 (ff. 38-77).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)