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Harley MS 1866
- Record Id:
- 040-002047697
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047697
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000176
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1866
- Title:
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Excerpts from Textus Roffensis, in a modern facsimile by Elizabeth Elstob
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-9v: Excerpts from Textus Roffensis, including a copy of King Æthelberht's charter of the foundation or endowment of the church of Rochester (bearing the date ‘4 kal. Maias, indictione 7’), a facsimile on parchment made by Elizabeth Elstob.
Decoration:
1 large historiated initial 'R'(egnante) with Christ and a dragon (f. 9r).
Display script in various colours (ff. 1r, 8r). Large plain initials in various colours (ff. 2r, 4v, 6r).
Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047697", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1866: Excerpts from Textus Roffensis, in a modern facsimile by Elizabeth Elstob" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047697 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1866 : Excerpts from Textus Roffensis, in a modern facsimile by Elizabeth Elstob - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1868]/040-002047697
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_1866 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1719
- Date Range:
- 1700-1719
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 260 x 180 mm (text space: 185 x 105 mm).
Foliation: ff. 9 (+ 1 unfoliated paper and 3 parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 27 paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Imitative protogothic, written by Elizabeth Elstob.
Binding: Post-1600. Mottled brown leather with gold tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
The manuscript was written by the Old English scholar Elizabeth Elstob (b. 1683, d. 1756). Humfrey Wanley paid her 5 guineas on 7 October 1719 for producing this facsimile and one other (see Welbeck Wanleyana, Misc. no. 68; British Library, Add MS 70487 (formerly Loan MS 29/260); and Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 144).
Provenance:
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), II (1808), no. 1866.
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. 144.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)