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Harley MS 2355

Record Id:

040-002048186

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048186

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x00035f

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2355

Title:

Collection of legal and theological texts and sermons

Scope & Content:

The manuscript is composed of three parts which originally constituted independent volumes:

Part 1: ff. 1*r-59r: A miscellany of legal texts and sermons with a table of contents listing each item.

Part 2: ff. 60r-71v: Jordan of Saxony, De superbia.

Part 2: ff. 72r-134v: Interpretation of Latin words.

f. 135 is a paper flyleaf including 17th or 18th century notes in English.

f. 136 is a fragment of a leaf from an early 14th-century English scientific manuscript, incipit: 'Comentator octavo physicorum comento primo dicit' (f. 136r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048186

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2355 : Collection of legal and theological texts and sermons

Contains:

Harley MS 2355, ff 1*r-59v : Miscellany of legal texts and sermons
Harley MS 2355, ff 60v-71*v : Jordan of Saxony, De superbia
Harley MS 2355, ff 72r-134v : Interpretation of Latin words

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2356]/040-002048186

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:

1150

End Date:

1340

Date Range:

2nd half of the 12th century-Early 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 175 x 120 mm (text space: ff. 1r-59v: 150 x 100 mm; ff. 60r-69v: 125 x 90 mm; ff. 72-134v: 130 x 80 mm).

Foliation: ff. 136 + 1* + 71* (+ 7 unfoliated paper flyleaves: 3 at the beginning and 4 at the end; f. 1* is a parchment flyleaf; ff 70, 71 and 71* are parchment flyleaves [cf. Part 2]; f. 135 is a paper flyleaf and f. 136 is parchment leaf used formerly as a pastedown). Quires of Part 3 (ff. 72r-134v) are numbered

Script: ff. 1r-59v and 72r-134v: Protogothic, written above top line; ff. 60r-71v and 136r: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house binding. Rebound in 1966.

Custodial History:

Origin:

ff. 1*r-59v: England.

ff. 72r-134v: England or France.

Provenance:

Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), Prebendary of Exeter in 1701, Archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, Rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold by his widow on 17 May 1715 to Robert Harley, along with other manuscripts (see Wright 1972; Diary 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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘17 Maii 1715’ (f. 1*r).

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.

Administrative Context:

England; ff. 1*r-59v and ff. 72r-134v: England or France.

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-1812), II (1808), no. 2355.

Pierre Legendre, ‘Miscellanea Britannica’, Traditio 15 (1959) 491-97 (pp. 491-92 n 2).

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 11 n. 6.

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. 88.

André Gouron, ‘Un traité écossais du douzième siècle: l’ordo Ulpianus de edendo', The Legal History Review, 78 (2010), 1-13 (pp. 1, 3, 10).

‘Manuscripta juridica’ [Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek] (Max-Planck Institute fur europaische Rechtsgeschichte, 2012),

http://manuscripts.rg.mpg.de/jhs/de/manuscript/details/2597 [accessed on 30 01 2013].

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Portland, née Harley, collector of art and natural history specimens and patron of arts and sciences, 11 Feb 1715-17 Jul 1785,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115857160,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2356861
Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbot of Clairvaux, ?1090-1153,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120962264,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/59875293
Burscough, Robert, Church of England clergyman, 1650/51-1709
Harley, Edward, second earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, 2 Jun 1689-16 Jun 1741,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108078249,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/160524259
Harley, Henrietta Cavendish, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, née Holles, patron of architecture, 4 Feb 1694-9 Dec 1755,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000030125833,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/6045563
Harley, Robert, first Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, 5 Dec 1661-21 May 1724,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083423906
Jordan of Saxony, Master General of the Dominican order, c 1190-1237
Ratramnus, Monk of the monastery of Corbie, d. c 870,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000383234875