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Harley MS 548
- Record Id:
- 040-002046377
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046377
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000036
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 548
- Title:
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A collection of legal and administrative texts; a short tract in Anglo-Norman about calculating the day of Easter; measuring tables; Robert Grosseteste, Les Reules Seynt Roberd; a glossary of technical terms; several formularies; a list of English kings
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-18r: A miscellaneous collection of legal and administrative texts.
ff. 18r-19r: A short tract in Anglo-Norman about calculating the day of Easter.
ff. 19v-20v: Measuring tables.
ff. 21r-27v: Robert Grosseteste, Les Reules Seynt Roberd.
ff. 27v-29r: A glossary of technical terms.
ff. 29r-32r: Several formularies.
f. 32v-33r: A list of English kings from William I to Henry V.
f.33v: Various notes in several hands.
Decoration:
Highlighting and paragraph marks in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046377 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 548 : A collection of legal and administrative texts; a short tract in Anglo-Norman about calculating the day of Easter; measuring… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0548]/040-002046377
- 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:
- 1449
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 210 x 140 mm.
Foliation: ff. 33 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Sir Richard St. George (b. c. 1555, d. 1635), officer of arms at the College of Arms: inscribed with his name, title and motto (f. 1r).
Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st Baronet, diarist and antiquary: owned by him (Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 131).
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. 349.
Ruth J. Dean & Maureen B. M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman Text Society, Occasional Publications Series, 3 (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999), p. 215.
Cyril Ernest 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.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, c 1170-1253,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123212063,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/86920837