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Harley MS 614
- Record Id:
- 040-002046443
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046443
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000078
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161517067.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 614
- Title:
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Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-242r: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa.
Decoration:
1 historiated initial of St Christopher carrying the Christ Child with a bar-border and sprays with foliate motifs in gold and colours (f. 5r). 2 decorated initials in gold on pink and blue with sprays in green and gold extending into the margins (ff. 1r, 5r). Numerous initials in blue with pen-flourishing in red. Rubrics and running headers in red. Paraphs in red. Highlighting of initials in yellow.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046443", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 614: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046443 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 614 : Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0614]/040-002046443
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100161517067.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 415 x 290 mm (text space: 310 x 190 mm, in two columns; ff. 1-4v in three columns).
Foliation: ff. 242 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); the right margins of f. 73 and f. 208 have been cut off; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown (bibliographical notes) on f. [iv]recto.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Western England.
Provenance:
The manuscript was probably written not long after 1398, when John Trevisa completed his translation: Kathleen Scott has identified the border artist in other manuscripts, including Oxford, Oriel College, MS 75, dated c. 1405-1415 (see Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490 (1996), II, p. 127).
Thomas Mannoke (Thomas Mannock of Wormingford, Essex?), 15th/16th century: his name inscribed in the draft of an indenture on f. 242v: 'Nov[er]int univ[er]si p[er] p[re]sentes me Thoma[m] Mannoke (...)' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 232).
Unidentified early modern owners: added Latin and English notes to f. 43r, 54v, and a Latin saying to f. 242v: ‘hunc qui constripsit profecto mortuus olim in timeres versa est putrida [..]ro sua’.
Patrick Saunders (fl. late 16th century), associate of John Dee: his name inscribed on f. 1r: ‘P. Saundars’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 297).
John Dee (b. 1527, d. 1609), mathematician, astrologer, and antiquary: added notes (ff. 121v, 122v, 242); acquired from him in 1626 for 15s. by Sir Simonds D'Ewes (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 127).
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); recorded in his catalogues as A.314, E.77, and B.77
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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Klaus Bitterling, 'Zwei bisher unbeachtete Fragmente der Mittelenglischen Übersetzung von Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De rerum proprietatibus', Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 78 (1977), 47-56.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I, no. 614.
Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 6, 2 vols (London: Miller, 1996), I, p. 71 n. 33, II, p. 127.
On the Properties of Things: John Trevisa's Translation of 'Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum', ed. by M. C. Seymour, 3 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975-1988), I-II (1975), Siglum 'H'; III (1988), pp. 24-25.
Andrew G. Watson, 'An Identification of Some Manuscripts Owned by Dr. John Dee and Sir Simonds D'Ewes', The Library, 13 (1958), 194-98 (p. 196).
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A.314.
Andrew G. Watson, 'Sir Robert Cotton and Sir Simonds D'Ewes: An Exchange of Manuscripts', The British Museum Quarterly, 25 (1962), 19-24 (p. 21).
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. 127, 131, 232, 297, 383.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)