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Harley MS 2363
- Record Id:
- 040-002048194
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048194
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000367
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2363
- Title:
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De Etate quarundam domorum ordinis Cisterciensis; De inceptione quorundam ordinum; tracts pertaining to the Cistercians in Scotland; the proceedings of the Scottish parliament of James V; a chronicle of Scottish affairs down to 1556; anonymous verses on the Passion; ecclesiastical formulas
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1*v, 74r: fragments of an unidentified manuscript containing philosophical diagrams.
ff. 1r-1v: De Etate quarundam domorum ordinis Cisterciensis.
ff. 2r-2v: De inceptione quorundam ordinum.
ff. 3r-17r: Tracts pertaining to the Cistercians in Scotland.
ff. 18r-43v: The proceedings of the Scottish parliament of James V, 1532.
ff. 44r–60v: A chronicle of Scottish affairs down to 1556, written at the Abbey of Kinloss.
ff. 61r-62r: Anonymous verses on the Passion.
ff. 62v-72r: Ecclesiastical formulas.
[ff. 73r, 73v are blank].
Decoration:
Several initials in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048194", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2363: De Etate quarundam domorum ordinis Cisterciensis; De inceptione quorundam ordinum; tracts pertaining to the Cistercians in Scotland;…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048194 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2363 : De Etate quarundam domorum ordinis Cisterciensis; De inceptione quorundam ordinum; tracts pertaining to the Cistercians in… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2364]/040-002048194
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Gaelic
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: paper; parchment (ff. 1*, 74).
Dimensions: 155 x 100 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 74 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end).
Script: 16th century.
Binding: Post-1600.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Scotland.
Provenance:
The Cistercian abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin, Kinloss: the chronicle (ff. 44-60) has numerous references to the abbey.
'Dominus Johannes Smyth', monk of Kinloss: his name on a note: 'Dominus Johannes Smyth monachus á Kynloss qui hunc librum scripsit ... anno domini 1557 et [?] 17 decembris etatis vero sue 65 atque sepultus prope utrumque parentem ante ostium sacelle sanctorum laurentii et bernardi ubi ipse vivens sacrificare solebat' (f. 60v).
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 forms 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), pp. 668-69.
Ker, Neil R., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain. A List of Surviving Books, 2nd edn (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 106.
Wright, Cyril Ernest, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 210, 308.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)