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Harley MS 3144

Record Id:

040-002048975

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048975

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0001ec

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3144

Title:

Collection of letters from Protestant reformers

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-54v: Collection of letters from Protestant reformers, entitled: 'Responsa Clarissimorum Germaniæ Theologorum ad propositam a G. Langæo Legato Regio de dissidijs in Religione Christiana componendis consultationem Ann. 1534 et 1535'; including the following items:

ff. 1r-2v: Philip Melanchthon (b. 1497, d. 1560), Letter to Gulielmus Bellaius Langaeus.

ff. 2v-10r: Philip Melanchthon, Letter 'ad quendam amicum de dissensionibus ecclesiasticis'.

ff. 10v-11r: Philip Melanchthon, Letter to Gulielmus Bellaius Langaeus.

ff. 11r-18v: Caspar Hedio (b. 1494, d. 1552), Letter 'ad amicum'.

ff. 18v-25v: 'Ar. Febenus', Letter to Johannes Sturmius [Sturm] (b. 1507, d. 1589).

ff. 25v-33v: Letter by Martin Bucer (b. 1391, d. 1551).

ff. 34r-45v: 'Confessio Schmalcaldie principibus ac confoederatis exhibita', signed by Martin Luther and other reformers.

ff. 45v-47v: Letter by Oswald Myconius (b. 1488, d. 1552) ['verbi apud Basileam .T.'].

ff. 47v-48v: Letter by 'Conradus Fricius'.

ff. 48v-49r: Letter by 'Bonifacius Vicceius Augustae'.

ff. 49r-51v: Letter by Heinrich Bullinger (b. 1504, d. 1575).

ff. 51v-52r: Letter by 'C. Veniasius' [added: 'Bonuvisius'].

f. 52v: Letter by 'Petrus ?Schman'.

f. 53r: Letter by 'Joannes ?Sugarus Phorcensis'.

ff. 53v-54v: Letter by 'Martinus Frechius'.

f. 54v: Letter by 'Thomas Basnerus'.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048975

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3144 : Collection of letters from Protestant reformers

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3145]/040-002048975

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:

1530

End Date:

1540

Date Range:

c 1535

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 330 x 215 mm (text space: 250 x 150 mm).

Foliation: ff. 54 (+ 8 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [vii]recto (featuring a title inscription in pencil and a printed Harleian shelfmark).

Collation: Indicated by catchwords (most versos).

Script: 16th-century cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled brown speckled leather with the initials 'M. B.' (Museum Brittanicum) gold stamped on the upper cover.

Custodial History:

Origin:

France.

Provenance:

Pierre Séguier (b. 1588, d. 1672), chancellor of France from 1635 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 300-01).

Andrew Hay (d. 1754?), book dealer: sold together with other manuscripts from the Séguier collection on 5 September 1720 (Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 182-83).

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 ‘5 Septembris, 1720’ (f. [vii] recto).

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), III (1808), p. 6.

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. 68 n. 1.

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. 182-83, 300-01.

Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum: Accedunt Alia Itinera: A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and Other Libraries, 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute; Leiden: Brill, 1963-1997), IV (1989), pp. 166-67.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Bucer, Martin, German Protestant reformer, 1491-1551,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000012117864X
Bullinger, Heinrich, Swiss Protestant reformer, 1504-1575,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109036374
Hedio, Caspar, German Protestant reformer, 1494-1552,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000072441623
Melanchthon, Philip, Reformation theologian, 1497-1560,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121400378

Places:

Germany