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Harley MS 3684

Record Id:

040-002049516

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049516

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0000c1

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3684

Title:

Peter of Blois, 'Epistolarum collectio'

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-153v: Peter of Blois, 'Epistolarum collectio', beginning: 'Epistole magistri petri blesensis bathoniensis archidyaconi'; with a table of contents (ff. 1v-4r).

The manuscript contains additiona:

f. 153v: A letter in Dutch concerning a payment: '[...]nard poulmans ons goed vriend . Jan Hardy onse ghevader comende van Antwerpe heeft myn gheseit datee ghy hem niet ander ghegheven en hebt dan xxviij st. up den billet die ick uwen ghesonden hadde'; written in a late 16th- or early 17th-century hand.

f. 153v: A surgical/anatomical note in French, entitled: 'Division des veines: specialis / generalles'; added in the 17th century.

ff. 153v-154r: Latin sayings, partially erased, beginning: 'Quia si perdas famam servare memoriam qua semel amissa postea nullus eris'; written in the 15th century.

ff. 154r-154v: A leaf [bound upside down] from an account book in Middle French; written in the 15th century.

Decoration:

Large (5-line) puzzle initial in blue and red with pen-flourishing extending into the border in red highlighted with green wash (f. 1r). Plain (2- or 3-line) initials in red or blue. Capitals (1 -line) highlighted in red. Rubrics and paraphs in red. Underlining in red. With traces of original guidelines for the rubricator in the lower margin of leaves.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049516

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3684 : Peter of Blois, 'Epistolarum collectio'

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3686]/040-002049516

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Dutch
French
French, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1449

Date Range:

1st half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 290 x 210 mm (text space: 180 x 125 mm).

Foliation: ff. 154 (+ 2 unfoliated early modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 the end); f. 154 is a paper leaf from another manuscript that originally served as a flyleaf.

Script: Gothic cursive (Hybrida libraria).

Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of blind- and gilt-tooled mottled brown leather, attributable to Christopher Chapman.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Northern Netherlands.

Provenance:

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 Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 254 n. 5; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 254).

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. 1; see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright, 1966).

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. 3684.

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. 254 n. 5.

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. 254, 433.

Lena Wahlgren, The Letter Collections of Peter of Blois: Studies in the Manuscript Tradition, Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia, 68 (Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 1993), p. 194.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Peter of Blois, c 1130-1212,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000454801284,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/24572572

Places:

Northern Netherlands