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Harley MS 3675

Record Id:
040-002049507
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002049507
MDARK:
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LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3675
Title:
Mattheus Palmerius, De temporibus; Jacobus Rotarius, Historia
Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-48r: Mattheus Palmerius (d. 1475), De temporibus.

ff. 51r-69v: Jacobus Rotarius, (b. c. 1398, d. 1479), prior of the Augustinian priory of Corsendonk at Oud-Turnhout, Historia.

Decoration:

Full border in orange and purple ink with 1 large initial in red with orange and purple penwork decoration and 1 large initial in red with blue penwork decoration (f. 1r). Partial border in orange and purple ink with 1 large initial in red with orange and purple penwork decoration (f. 1v). 1 large initial in red with blue penwork decoration and 1 large initial in red with purple penwork decoration (f. 2r). Large plain initials in red ink (ff. 51r-69r). Paraphs in red. Capitals marked in red.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-002049507
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 3675 : Mattheus Palmerius, De temporibus; Jacobus Rotarius, Historia
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[3677]/040-002049507
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:
1494
End Date:
1494
Date Range:
1494
Era:
CE
Access:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 295 x 205 mm (text space: 205 x 145/60 mm).

Foliation: ff. 69 (+ 10 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + numerous unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather with gold-tooling.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Sint-Truiden [St Trond], Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium).

Provenance:

Johannes Ympens: his scribal colophon on f. 48r: 'Hactenus Mathei palmerii florentini anno 1494 februarii 20o scriptum et completum in valle sancte lucie [the convent of Augustinian canonesses, Luciendaal, St. Trond] per Jo. Ympens. Deo gratias'; and dated on f. 69v: 'Finit Deo gratias semper Anno 1494'. According to Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts (1979), no. 776, the scribe may be the Augustinian canon regular of Sint-Maartensdal at Leuven (Louvain) who was the prior from 1497 to 1500.

John Chamberlayne (b. 1666, d. 1723), son of Edward Chamberlayne (b. 1616, d. 1703): sale of his library conducted by Daniel Browne, bookseller at the Black Swan and Bible Without-Temple-Bar, on 11 March 1723/4 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 85, 101).

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 ‘11 die Martii, A.D. 1723/4’ (f. 1r) and notes in his hand, 'Jacobi Rotarii. Vid. Valer. Andreae Bibl. Belg. p. 434' (f. 52r); 'vid. Valer. Andreae, p. 434' (f. 69v).

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. 51 [no. 3675].

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. 281 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. 85, 101.

Andrew G. Watson, 'Harley manuscripts' [Review of Fontes Harleiani], Journal of the Society of Archivists, 4:7 (1973), 603-09 (p. 604).

Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The BritishLibrary, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), no. 776.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Palmerius, Mattheus, Florentine humanist, c 1405-1475,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121365568
Rotarius, Jacobus, Prior of Augustinian priory of Corsendonk at Oud-Turnhout, c 1398-1479
Places:
Sint-Truiden, Belgium