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Harley MS 3725
- Record Id:
- 040-002049557
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049557
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0000ea
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3725
- Title:
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Chronicles of Hailes and Aberconwy abbeys
- Scope & Content:
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Composite volume: ff. 2–37 and ff. 38–81 were produced at different times, but it is likely that the latter was intended as a supplement to the first part, since the layout is identical.
f. 1r: Modern note on Aberconway and Hailes.
ff. 2r–31v: Chronicle of England, beginning, ‘Scibens Orosius ad beatum Augustinum cum quo concordant plures alii’ (unfinished).
f. 32r: Added notes in a later hand, including a plea for a drink, printed in Secular Lyrics, p. 229 (Index of Middle English Verse, no. 1608).
ff. 33r–37v: Notes on the foundation of Hailes Abbey.
ff. 38r–40v: Notes on the month of January, beginning, ‘In terra laboris et promissionis erat olim’.
ff. 40v–65v: Cartulary chronicle of the Aberconwy Abbey, including copies of a few royal charters, and lists of the possessions of Aberconwy and Strata Florida Abbeys.
ff. 66r–81v: Lunationes et somnia or Somnia Danieli, beginning, ‘The furst day of the mone Adam / Owre fore fader to the world came’ (Index of Middle English Verse, no. 3341).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049557", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3725: Chronicles of Hailes and Aberconwy abbeys" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049557 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3725 : Chronicles of Hailes and Aberconwy abbeys - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3726]/040-002049557
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1460
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- Late 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 215 × 135 mm.
Foliation: ff. 81 (+ 3 modern flyleaves at the beginning and end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Hailes, Gloucestershire.
Provenance:
Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin, Hailes, Gloucestershire. David Winchcombe, monk of Hailes, became abbot of Aberconwy in 1482: he might have taken the book with him to Aberconwy, where the later section was added, or the Aberconwy Chronicle could have been compiled at Hailes.
Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin, Aberconwy, Carnarvonshire.
Roger Jones (fl. 1540s): memoranda relating to his marriage (1546) and the births of his children (1547, etc.) inscribed (f. 65v).
? Fabian Phillips (17th century), lawyer in Wales: inscribed (f. 11v).
John Batteley (d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: acquired from him 5 November 1723, according to inscription by Humfrey Wanley (f. 2r).
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, ed. by Robert Nares and others, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808–12), iii, 56.
William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, ed. by John Caley, Henry Ellis, and Buckeley Bandinel, 6 in 8 vols (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1817–30), v, 686–87.
Henry Ellis, ‘Register and Chronicle of the Abbey of Aberconway’, in The Camden Miscellany, vol. 1, Camden, o.s., 39 (London: Camden Society, 1847), pp. 1–23, https://archive.org/details/camdenmiscell01camduoft.
Carleton Brown and Rossell Hope Robbins, The Index of Middle English Verse (New York: Columbia University Press, 1943), http://archive.org/details/middleeng00brow.
Max Förster, ‘Vom Fortleben antiker Sammellunare im Englischen und in anderen Volksprachen’, Anglia, 67 (1944), 1–171.
Rossell Hope Robbins, ed., Secular Lyrics of the 14th and 15th Centuries, 2nd edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955), p. 229.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 66, 207, 276.
Lauren Means, Medieval lunar astrology: a collection of representative Middle English texts (Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 1993), p. 16.
Nicholas Vincent, The Holy Blood: King Henry III and the Westminster Blood Relic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), p. 137.
David Stephenson, The Aberconwy Chronicle (Cambridge: Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge, 2002).
Daniel Huws, Medieval Welsh Manuscripts (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000), pp. 276–77 and n. 29.
G.R.C. Davis, Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain and Ireland, ed. by Claire Breay, Julian Harrison, and David M. Smith, 2nd edn (London: British Library, 2010), no. 2.
Daniel Huws, A Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Scribes, c.800-c.1800, 3 vols (Aberystwyth: The National Library of Wales and University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, 2022), I, p. 684.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Batteley, John, Archdeacon of Canterbury; antiquary, 1646-1708
Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin, Hailes, Gloucestershire, 1246-1539