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Harley MS 3860
- Record Id:
- 040-002049696
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049696
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000173
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100057740115.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3860
- Title:
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History of the Kings of England and Scotland; L'estoire des Sept Sages de Rome; Le Château d'amour;Manuel des Péchés; Housebondrie
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r-22r: Brevis historia Regum Angliae et Scotiae usque ad Henricum III (a brief history of the Kings of England and Scotland up to Henry III);
ff. 23r-47r: Anonymous, L'estoire des Sept Sages de Rome (version A).
ff. 48r-61v: Robert Grosseteste, Le Château d'amour.
ff. 61r-77v: William of Waddington, Manuel des Péchés (books VII and VIII).
ff. 77v-82v: Walter de Henley, Housebondrie (imperfect), a treatise in prose on rural economy.
Decoration:
Geneaological diagrams of English and Scottish kings in brown, red, and yellow with busts of kings and queens and crowns (ff. 12r-18r). Tinted drawing of Locrini, Kambrini, and Albanactis and a puzzle initial in red and blue (f. 3r). A depiction of Robert Grosseteste, bishop of Lincoln (f. 48r). Large puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours (ff. 48, 61v). Large initials in blue with red and blue pen-flourishing. Plain initials in blue or red. Rubrics in red. Paraphs in red or blue. Marginal drawings in brown, yellow and red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049696", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3860: History of the Kings of England and Scotland; L'estoire des Sept Sages de Rome; Le Château d'amour;Manuel des Péchés; Housebondrie" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049696 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3860 : History of the Kings of England and Scotland; L'estoire des Sept Sages de Rome; Le Château d'amour;Manuel des Péchés;… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3852]/040-002049696
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- A parchment codex, 82 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100057740115.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
French, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1324
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: parchment.
Dimensions: 270 x 160 mm (text space: 195 x 120 mm).
Foliation: ff. 82 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Tan leather with gold-tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England (Durham?)
Provenance:
Mainly 15th century-additions of pen trial (ff. 1r-2v).
Signatures of 'Edwardus' (f. 1v-2r).
The Benedictine cathedral priory of St Cuthbert, Durham: 'no internal evidence but on the basis that it belonged to Sir Thomas Tempest' (according to Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
Thomas Tempest (d. 1692), 4th baronet, county Durham, in his library: inscribed, 'Sr Tho. Tem. Baronet' (f. 3r); bequeathed to his daughter, Jane.William Widdrington, 4th baron Widdrington (b. 1678, d. 1743), husband of Jane (d. 1714), disposed of Tempest’s medieval manuscript collection to the Harleian Library after her death (Doyle, ‘Library of Sir Thomas Tempest’, 1984).
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 Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
- 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), no. 3860.
Harry Leigh Douglas Ward and John Alexander Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), II (1893), pp. 199-206 and III, pp. 296-97.
Killis Campbell, The Seven Sages of Rome: edited from the manuscripts with introduction, notes and glossary (Boston: Ginn and Company, 1907), p. xxxii, n. 1.
J. Murray, Le Chateau d'Amour de Robert Grosseteste (Paris: Edouard Champion, 1918), p. 25.
Emile Jules Arnould, Le Manuel des Péchés. Etude de littérature religieuse anglo-normande, XIIIe siècle (Paris: Droz, 1940), pp. 385-86.
S. Harrison Thomson, The Writings of Robert Grosseteste (Cambridge: University Press, 1940), pp. 152-55.
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. 142, 325.
Mauricette Berne, 'The Manuscript Tradition of Versions A, L, and C of the French Seven Sages : Problems and Solutions', Society of the Seven Sages, Newsletter, 3, 1977.
A. I. Doyle, 'The Library of Sir Thomas Tempest: Its Origins and Dispersal', in Studies in Seventeenth-Century English Literature, History and Bibliography, ed. by G. A. M. Janssens and F. G. A. M. Aarts (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1984), pp. 83-93.
Matthew Sullivan, 'Historical Notes on Some Readers of the Manuel des Péchés and its Middle English Descendants' Scriptorium: Revue internationale des Études relatives aux manuscrits, 46 (1992) 84-86 (p. 84).
Matthew Sullivan, 'A Brief Textual History of the Manuel des Péchés, Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 93 (1992) 337-45 (p. 342).
'Les sept sages de Rome: An On-Line Edition of French Version A from All Manuscripts', ed. by Hans R. Runte (2006), manuscript Ha, http://myweb.dal.ca/hrunte/FrenchA.html#ed [accessed 07.11.16].
Mary Speer and Yasmina Foehr-Janssens, Le Roman des Sept Sages (Paris: Honore Champion, 2017), [on the text of Les Sept Sages].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)