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Harley MS 4083
- Record Id:
- 040-002049920
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049920
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000253
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4083
- Title:
- Fratre Anthonio Hispano, Ecclesiasticos admonens ad residentiam et fidelem dispensationem suorum beneficiorum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-25v: Fratre Anthonio Hispano, a monk of the Mount of Olives, Ecclesiasticos admonens ad residentiam et fidelem dispensationem suorum beneficiorum.
Decoration:
2 large initials in gold on red and blue grounds (ff. 1v, 2r). 26 large plain initials in red or blue (ff. 2v, 3r, 4v, 5v, 6v, 7r, 8r, 8v, 9r, 9v, 11v (x 2), 13r, 13v, 14v, 15v, 16r, 17v (x 2), 18v, 20v, 21v (x 2), 22r, 22v, 23r). Rubrics in red. Paraphs in red or blue. Some capitals marked in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049920", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4083: Fratre Anthonio Hispano, Ecclesiasticos admonens ad residentiam et fidelem dispensationem suorum beneficiorum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049920 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4083 : Fratre Anthonio Hispano, Ecclesiasticos admonens ad residentiam et fidelem dispensationem suorum beneficiorum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4076]/040-002049920
- 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:
- 1425
- End Date:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- Middle of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 200 x 135 (150 x 95) mm.
Foliation: ff. 25 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. Mottled brown leather with gold tooling; gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy.
Provenance: Conyers Middleton (b. 1683, d. 1750), Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1706, head librarian of the University Library at Cambridge (1721-50); sold on 20 February 1724/5 (Wright, Fontes (1972)).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 Februarij, A.D. 1724/5’ (f. 1r). 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: Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, http://www.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. 4083.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 336 n.3.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 239.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)