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Harley MS 3709
- Record Id:
- 040-002049541
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049541
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0000da
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3709
- Title:
- Peter of Blois, Epistolarum collectio
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-135r: Peter of Blois, Epistolarum collectio.
The manuscript contains several later additions:
ff. 111v-112v: An index of theological subjects added by an early 16th-century hand that also made marginal annotations throughout the manuscript.
ff. 113r-116v: A (?) list of contents of the letters of Peter of Blois in Latin; added in the late 16th or early 17th century. The added paper leaves also feature other items, including an English excerpt about the death of Thomas Becket, attributed to the historian John Stow [Stowe] (b. 1524/5, d. 1605), followed by a Latin draft indenture with an obligation for 'Henerito' Gatward of Whitwell ['Withell alias Wigell'], Herftordshire, to Johannes Tabram of Wicken, Cambridgeshire, undated (f. 114r); and a draft indenture in Latin and English of an obligation for Timothy Larrett [or Lawett] of Wicken, Cambridgeshire to Christopher Root of the same village, dated to the year 1613, signed below with the note 'Read and Sealed' (f. 115r).
ff. 135v-136v: A previously unidentified letter by Cardinal Gui Foulques (the later Pope Clement IV), papal legate on a diplomatic mission in England between 1262 and 1264: 'Gwydo miseracione divina Gabinensis Episcopus apostolice sedis legatus'; faded and illegible at the end [edited from another manuscript in Heideman, Papst Clemens IV (1906), p. 228 and further (no. 29)]; added by a late 13th- or early 14th-century hand.
Decoration:
Puzzle initial with pen-flourishing extending into the margins in blue and red (f. 1r). Initials in red with pen-flourishing in blue, or in blue, with pen-flourishing in red. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049541", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3709: Peter of Blois, Epistolarum collectio" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049541 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3709 : Peter of Blois, Epistolarum collectio - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3711]/040-002049541
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1250
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment; paper (ff. 113-116 only).
Dimensions: 230 x 155 mm (text space: 155 x 100/105 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 136 (1 unfoliated early modern paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 at the end).
Collation: Gatherings mostly of 12, with horizontal catchwords in the lower right corner of the last verso of each gathering.
Script: Gothic, written below top line.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of blind- and gilt-tooled brown leather, attributable to Thomas Elliott.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
An unknown owner: perhaps their shelfmark (the Roman numeral 'XXVIII') on f. 1r.
'Johannes Elyngham', (?) 15th century: his name inscribed in the upper margin of f. 134v: 'Johannes Elyngham mena[...]' (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
John Hare (b. c. 1668, d. 1720), of Snetterton, county Norfolk, fellow of the College of Arms: donated to Robert Harley on 12 August 1718, as inscribed by Harley's librarian, Humfrey Wanley, on f. 1r: ‘Donum Joannis Hare Arm. Foedalis titulo Richmond. 12 die Augusti A.D. 1718’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 179).
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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 54.
Joseph Heidemann, Papst Clemens IV, I: Das Vorleben des Papstes und sein Legationsregister, Kirchengeschichtliche studien, 6:4 (Münster: Schöning. 1903), pp. 228 and further (no. 29).
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), pp. 198-99.
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. 179, 433.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Clement IV, Pope, c 1195-1268,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000364519496,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/227434221
Peter of Blois, c 1130-1212,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000454801284,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/24572572 - Places:
- England