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Harley MS 534

Record Id:

040-002046363

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046363

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000028

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 534

Title:

Arnold of Bonneval, De operibus sex dierum; De sex verbis Domini in cruce; Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-30r: Arnold of Bonneval, De operibus sex dierum.

ff. 31r-49v: Arnold of Bonneval, De sex verbis Domini in cruce.

ff. 49v-53r: Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons.

Decoration:

1 large initial in red and blue on a light brown ground, with penwork decoration and reserved designs (f. 31r). 2 initials in red and blue with penwork decoration (ff. 1r, 27v). Initials in red or blue, frequently with penwork decoration in the alternate colour or in both colours. Rubric in red (f. 1r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046363

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 534 : Arnold of Bonneval, De operibus sex dierum; De sex verbis Domini in cruce; Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0534]/040-002046363

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:

1124

Date Range:

Last quarter of the 12th century or 1st quarter of the 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 220 x 140 mm (written space: 170 x 90 mm).

Foliation: ff. 54 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Script: Protogothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Blind-tooled brown leather over wooden boards, gold-tooled edges of the binding; rebacked in 1969.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England or France.

Provenance:

At least by the 14th century, the manuscript formed part of a larger volume. The first part was acquired by Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631) in/before 1621 and is now Cotton MS Vespasian D XIX, ff. 83-163. The part which now forms Harley MS 534 was acquired by Sir Simonds D'Ewes in 1625; six further leaves are in Harley MS 536 (see Watson, The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke (1969); The Friars' Libraries (1990)).

Added texts, 13th century (ff. 53v-54v).

The Austin Friars, York: recorded in their library catalogue, dated 1372 (see The Friars' Libraries (1990), A8.104).

Added text, ?15th century (f. 54).

Henry Savile, of Banke (b. 1568 d. 1617), collector of manuscripts: nos 137b-d in his library catalogue (see Gilson, 'The Library of Henry Savile (1906-1908); Watson, The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke (1969)).

Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)): acquired by him in 1625 for 3 s.; inscribed the title on a paper leaf which is now attached to f. [i]; no. A924 in his library catalogue (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966)).

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, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (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:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts: https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=4854&CollID=8&NStart=534

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 534.

J. P. Gilson, 'The Library of Henry Savile, of Banke', Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 9 (1906-1908), 127-210 (p. 64 [no. 137b-d]).

C. H. Talbot, ‘A List of Cistercian Manuscripts in Great Britain’, Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought and Religion, 8 (1952), 402-18 (p. 407).

Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A924.

Andrew G. Watson, The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke (London: Bibliographical Society, 1969), p. 45 [137b-d].

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, 298.

The Friars' Libraries, ed. by K. W. Humphreys, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 1 (London: British Library, 1990), pp. 30-31 (A8.104).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Arnold of Bonneval, d c 1157,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000021550774,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/55444954
Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbot of Clairvaux, ?1090-1153,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120962264,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/59875293
D’Ewes, Simonds, 1st Baronet, diarist and antiquary, 1602-1650,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083393524,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12656415
Savile, Henry, collector of manuscripts, 1568-1617,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000010591546

Places:

England
France

Related Archive Descriptions:

Cotton MS Vespasian D XIX, ff 83–163