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Harley MS 706

Record Id:

040-002046535

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046535

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0000d4

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 706

Title:

De celebrantibus matrimonia clandestina seu prohibita in ecclesiis oratoriis vel capellis; Pope Boniface VIII, Liber Sextus Decretalium; Guido de Baysio, Commentary on the Liber Sextus Decretalium (fragment)

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. 1r: De celebrantibus matrimonia clandestina seu prohibita in ecclesiis oratoriis vel capellis.

ff. 1v-2v: Latin notes (unidentified), featuring an excerpt from Johannes Andreae, Super arboribus consanguinatis et affinitatis.

f. 3v: A table of contents.

f. 3v: Latin verses, beginning ‘Condicio sexus etas discrecio fama’; including a verse on the symbols of the four Evangelists, beginning: ‘Forma Johannis avis, vitulus lucas, leo marchus’.

ff. 4r-24r: Pope Boniface VIII, Liber Sextus Decretalium.

f. 25v: Latin notes (unidentified).

ff. 26r-150v: Pope Boniface VIII, Liber Sextus Decretalium; with gloss.

ff. 151r-153v: Guido de Baysio, Commentary on the Liber Sextus Decretalium; fragment.

f. 154r: Latin notes (unidentified).

Decoration:

The manuscript features three parts with different styles of decoration: Part 1 (ff. 4r-24r) features a large blue initial with red penwork decoration and pen-flourishing (f. 4r); and plain small blue and red initials throughout. Part 2 (ff. 26r-150v) features large blue or red initials in frames with partial (one-sided or three-sided) foliate borders, in blue, red and gold (ff. 26r [2x], 75v, 90r, 115v, 116v); large and small blue initials with red penwork decoration, some featuring foliate, anthropomorphic, zoomorphic and hybrid figures inside their letters; and small (one-line) plain initials in blue or red throughout; anthropomorphic figures in brown ink have been added to glosses on f. 74r. Part 3 (ff. 151r-153v) features 1 large puzzle initial with partial (one-sided) borders in blue and red; and small blue initials with red penwork decoration throughout.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046535

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 706 : De celebrantibus matrimonia clandestina seu prohibita in ecclesiis oratoriis vel capellis; Pope Boniface VIII, Liber Sextus…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0706]/040-002046535

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:

1300

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 390 x 240 mm.

Foliation: ff. 1* + 154 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); each quire has been mounted onto a paper guard; 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 55 and f. 56; f. 80 and f. 81; f. 103 and f. 104; f. 116 and f. 117.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 10 November 1968.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

An unknown 16th-century English owner: added prayers to f. 71v: ‘God have mercy unto us, and here us and doue us not forgete whan we doue caulle one the’ (see also f. 128v).

‘Mr Jonson’ (fl. 17th century), bookseller in Little Britain, owned until 1662/3: according to Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 207, an inscription on f. 1*recto indicates that it was bought of him in March 1662/3; this inscription is no longer visible or was erroneously identified.

Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1635, d. 1699), Bishop of Worcester: his manuscripts were bought for £175 in 1707 by Robert Harley (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 316).

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), p. 421.

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. 385.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)