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Harley MS 3299

Record Id:

040-002049130

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049130

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0002c7

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3299

Title:

Memorandum book of the city of Ghent, containing statutes and annals, a tax register, and lists of aldermen

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-46r: Statutes and Annals of the city of Ghent; 223 articles mostly written in Middle Dutch, but also featuring a few items in Middle French, including an introduction to an indentury by Guy of Dampierre (b. c. 1226, d. 1305), Count of Flanders, on f. 1r: 'Nous Guis, quens de Flanders et marchis de Namur, faisons scavoir a tous que nous de tant comme en nostre demaine a le prijere et a le requeste dou commun et des bones gens de la ville de gand'.

ff. 47r-65v: A tax register for Flanders In Middle Dutch and Middle French [Oudburg, 1408], beginning: 'Dit es een register omme ghereedelic te wetenne So welken tiden dat cost last ofte subvercien commen up tghemeene land van vlaendren hoe men die taxeren ende omme setten sal up elke poort ende elke casselrie'.

ff. 66v-67r: A copy of a document concerning a dispute between two woodworking guilds ('houtbrekers' and 'zagers') [1425], beginning: 'Alze van den ghescille ende ghedinghe dat gheweest es tusschen den deken van den hautbrekers metgaders zijnen ghezwornen ghesellen over ende in den name van den goeden lieden van den selven ambachte an deen zijde Ende den dekin van den saghers metgaders metgaders [sic] zijn ghezwoernen ghesellen over ende inden name vna den goeden lieden van den vors ambachte an dander zijde'. ff. 68r-104v: Lists of aldermen (schepenen) of the city of Ghent, between 1301 and 1446 (written in different hands, and added up to 1446); with notes concerning an archery tournament on f. 103r, beginning 'In dit scependom was een scietspel'.

Decoration:

Large (7-line) blue and purple initials in a gold frame with ivy extending into the margins on three sides, with two coats of arms of the city of Ghent in the inner margin, and a blue tree in the outer margin with a scroll inscribed 'his privilegiarium datum', possibly added (f. 1r). 2 large (4-line) initials in blue and purple ink (ff. 34v, 36v). 4 large (2-line) initials in red with purple pen-flourishing on f. 1r; and (2-line)initials in red, occasionally with reserved lines, throughout. Capitals (1 line) highlighted in red. Some ascenders decorated with faces in brown ink (e. g., ff. 36v, 38r, 41r). Rubrics and paraphs in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049130

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3299 : Memorandum book of the city of Ghent, containing statutes and annals, a tax register, and lists of aldermen

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3300]/040-002049130

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Dutch, Middle
French, Middle

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1449

Date Range:

1st half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 290 x 215 mm (text space: 205 x 135 mm, partly in 2 columns).

Foliation ff. 104 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 2 unfoliated parchment leaves at the beginning + 3 partly ruled blank parchment leaves and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); 10 unfoliated blank parchment leaves after f. 46, 26 partly ruled blank leaves after f. 67

Collation: Indicated by horizontal catchwords.

Script: Gothic and Gothic cursive: written in several hands.

Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Southern Netherlands (Ghent).

Provenance:

The city archives of Ghent, now Belgium: probably owned by the city of Ghent from the 1st half of the 15th century (1446 is the date of the last entry on f. 104v), arms of the city of Ghent on f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 161).

Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie: sold to Edward Harley on 18 January 1723/4 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 253-54).

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 ‘18 die Januarij, A.D. 1723/4’ (f. [ii]).

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. 15 [no. 3299].

A. Fayen, Les cartulaires concernant la Belgique conservé à la bibliothèque du musée britannique à Londes, Bulletin de la Commission royale d’histoire de Belgique, 5e serie, 9:3 (1899), p. 4.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 255 n. 11.

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. 161, 253-54.

Deutsche Handschriften in England, ed. by Robert Priebsch, 2 vols in 1 vol (Hildesheim: Olms, 1979, first publ. Erlangen: Junge, 1896-1901), II: Das British Museum mit einem anhang über die Guildhall-Bibliothek, no. 25.

Anne-Laure Van Bruaene, De Gentse memorieboeken als spiegel van stedelijk historisch bewustzijn (14de tot 16de eeuw), Verhandelingen der Maatschappij voor Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde te Gent, 22 (Ghent: Maatschappij voor Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde, 1998), pp. 367-70 [detailed catalogue record].

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Ghent, Belgium
Southern Netherlands