Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??
Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...
Harley MS 3603
- Record Id:
- 040-002049435
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049435
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000070
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3603
- Title:
- Ecclesiastical documents and histories
- Scope & Content:
-
A composite manuscript of ecclesiastical documents and histories.
ff. 1r-5v: Berengarius of Fredoli, Liber de excommunicatione et interdicto (Book of Excommunication and Interdict), abridged version of part of Chapter II, imperfect, nos 16-36, beginning mid-sentence.
ff. 6r-7v: Clement V, Vox in excelso (A voice on high), the papal bull abolishing the Templars, given at Vienne, 22 March 1312.
ff. 8r-47v: Martinus Polonus, Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum (Chronicle of Popes and Emperors).
ff. 48r-119v: Pietro della Vigna, Letters.
ff. 120r-125r: ordinations of a church council at Lyon, beginning imperfectly.
f. 125v: pen trialling and doodles, 1st half of the 15th century.
1 parchment stub before f. 1 and 2 paper stubs between f. 119 and 120.
Leaf signatures.
Decoration:
Large initial in blue with reserved lines and pen-flourishing in red including a hybrid creature (f. 8). Initials in blue or red with pen-flourishing in the other colour. Paraphs in red or blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049435", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3603: Ecclesiastical documents and histories" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049435 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3603 : Ecclesiastical documents and histories - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3605]/040-002049435
- 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:
- 1375
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 14th century or 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.
Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.
Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.
This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.
- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 285 x 220 mm (text space: 210 x 160 to 230 x 175 mm).
Foliation: ff. 125 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown mottled calf with gold fillets and blind tooling.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin:
Italy.
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, 87-88; 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.
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), no. 3603.
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), pp. 87-8.
Wolfgang-Valentin Ikas, Martin von Troppau (Martinus Polonus), O.P. (d. 1278) in England: Überlieferungs- und wirkungsgeschichtliche Studien zu dessen Papst- und Kaiserchronik, Wissensliteratur im Mittelalter, 40 (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2002), p. 58.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)