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Harley MS 3769
- Record Id:
- 040-002049601
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049601
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000116
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3769
- Title:
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Wilhelm Horborch, Decisiones Romanae Rotae novae
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a copy of Decisiones Romanae Rotae novae (New decisions of the Roman Rota), a summary of decisions made by the Roman Rota concerning canon law between 1376 and 1381, written by the German canonist Willhelm Horborch (b. 1320, d. 1384).
Contents:
ff. 1r-v, 251r-v: fragments from an account book, written in French, originally used as parchment flyleaves.
ff. 2r-216v: Wilhelm Horborch, Decisiones Romanae Rotae novae.
ff. 217r-250v: an unidentified text in Latin, also relating to canon law.
Decoration:
1 large puzzle initial with penwork decoration in blue, red and black (f. 1r). Initials and paraphs in blue or red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049601", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3769: Wilhelm Horborch, Decisiones Romanae Rotae novae" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049601 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3769 : Wilhelm Horborch, Decisiones Romanae Rotae novae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3770]/040-002049601
- 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:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 280 x 205 mm (written space: 180 x 125 mm).
Foliation: ff. 251 (+ 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf after f. 216 and 2 after f. 250 + 1 early modern paper flyleaf at the end).
ff. 1 and 251 are former parchment flyleaves.
Collation: Gatherings of 12.
Signature in the lower right corner of the rectos in the first half of the gatherings. Horizontal catchwords within decorated frames in the lower right corner of the last verso.
Script: Gothic hybrid.
Binding: Post-1600. Foucault's armorial binding of gilt-tooled mottled pig skin.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Southern France.
Provenance:
Inscribed, 'Bougi', with the name 'Iohannes Bougi' recurring in verses above (f. 250v).
The Benedictine abbey of St Peter, Moissac, Tarn-et-Garonne, France: possibly identifiable as no. 136 in the 17th-century inventory of the its library (see Dufour, 'La composition de la bibliothèque de Moissac' (1981), pp. 176, 203, 212).
Nicolas Joseph Foucault (b. 1643, d. 1721), marquis de Magny, statesman and archaeologist: his armorial binding and book-plate with the legend 'EX BIBLIOTHECA / NICOLAI JOSEPH FOUCAULT / COMITIS CONSISTORIANI' with his arms [sable] a lion rampant, dexter, crowned [argent], as supporters two lions [argent]; a couronne de marquis surmounting the shield (front pastedown; see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 155).
Thomas Ballard (fl. 1698-1725), bookseller and book auctioneer in London; his sale, 20 February 1720/21, lot 25, bought for Edward Harley through Nathaniel Noel (see Diary (1966), p. 89 n. 7; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 62).
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.
- Information About Copies:
- Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808-12), III (1808), no. 3769.
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. 89 n. 7.
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. 62, 155, 435.
Jean Dufour, 'La composition de la bibliothèque de Moissac a la lumière d'un inventaire du XVIIe siècle nouvellement découvert', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 35 (1981), 175-226 (pp. 187, 203, 212).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Ballard, Thomas, bookseller, fl 1690-1725
Foucault, Nicholas Joseph, Marquis de Magny, Councillor of State, 1643-1721
Horborch, Wilhelm, German canonist, 1320-1384,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000082625434,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/72460386 - Places:
- Southern France