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Harley MS 3973
- Record Id:
- 040-002049810
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049810
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0001e5
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3973
- Title:
- History of the foundation of the priory of Weihsanktpeter in Regensburg
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-87r: History of the foundation of the priory of Weihsanktpeter in Regensburg.
Decoration:
Inhabited initial in colours with hybrid creatures and pen-flourishing forming a three-sided border including foliate motifs, a green parakeet, and medallions with grotesques (f. 1r). Puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours extending along the text (f. 2v). Initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour. Coloured initials in red or blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049810", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3973: History of the foundation of the priory of Weihsanktpeter in Regensburg" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049810 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3973 : History of the foundation of the priory of Weihsanktpeter in Regensburg - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3966]/040-002049810
- 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:
- 1325
- End Date:
- 1374
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 14th century-3rd quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 330 x 235 mm (text space: 230 x 170 mm).
Foliation: ff. 87 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 7 unfoliated blank ruled parchment leaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated blank ruled parchment leaf and 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Collation: Mainly in quires of 8. Quire marks (Roman numerals on the verso of the last leaf of each quire).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown mottled calf with gold fillets and blind tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Southern Germany (Regensburg).
Provenance:
The Benedictine priory of Weih Sankt Peter, Regensburg, affiliated with the abbey of St James the Great in Bavaria): in a similar style, format and hand to Harley MS 3971, which contains the poem 'Karl der Grosse und die schottischen Heiligen', in Middle High German (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 284).
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 the Harleys on 20 January 1721/2 (see 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 ‘20 die mensis Januarij 1721/22’ (f. [iii]recto).
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. 100.
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. 138 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. 253-54, 284.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Regensburg, Germany