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Harley MS 4503

Record Id:

040-002050341

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050341

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000010

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4503

Title:

Jean le Coq (Johannes Gallus), Questiones

Scope & Content:

The manuscript includes Jean le Coq's Questiones, a collection of laws of the French Court of Parliament, with a title: 'Sequitur plurima notabilia que vidi pronunciari per arresta in curia parliamenti et alibi'(ff. 3r-151r), with a table of contents (ff. 154r-163v).

The front and back flyleaves are leaves taken from older manuscripts:

ff. 1r-2v: Two fragments of Justinian, Digestum vetus, with the glossa ordinaria of Accursius, 2nd quarter of the 13th century: ff. 1r-1v: incipit: 'exercitoribus poterit' (D.14.1.5.2); explicit: 'habes ex conducto' (D.14.2.10.1); ff. 2r-2v: incipit: 'datum eo tempore' (D.15.1.50 pr.); explicit: 'prestiterit manet actio' (D. 15.3.1.2).

ff. 164r-164v: A fragment of a poem, c. 1450, incipit: 'enfant trouve nouvois et eslevez'.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050341

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4503 : Jean le Coq (Johannes Gallus), Questiones

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4497]/040-002050341

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Paper codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1225

End Date:

1540

Date Range:

2nd quarter of the 13th century-Early 16th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper, except ff.1-2 and 164: parchment.

Dimensions: ff. 1-2: 290 x 200 mm (text space: 190 x 110 mm); ff. 3-163: 295 x 210 (text space: 185 x 135 mm); f. 164: 275 x 190 (text space: 190 x 75 mm).

Foliation: ff. 164 (+ 2 unfoliated modern flyleaves: 1 at the beginning and 1 at the end; and 2 unfoliated leaves after f. 153; ff. 1-2 and 164 are medieval parchment flyleaves).

Script: ff. 1-2: Protogothic; ff. 3-164: Gothic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600. Half binding with leather spine and marble paper covers.

Custodial History:

Origin: ff. 1-2: Italy or France; ff. 1-64: France.

Provenance:

Inscribed 'Babilonne' and 'Fouquet', 16th century (f. 163r).

Pierre Séguier (b. 1588, d. 1672), Chancellor of France from 1635, grandson of Pierre Séguier (b. 1504, d. 1580), président à mortier in the Parliament of Paris (1554 -1576).

Andrew Hay, perhaps to be identified with Andrew Hay who died on 24 Octobr 1754 according to Musgrave's Obituary (Add. MS 5744, f. 90v): acquired from him for the Harley Collection on 5 September 1720 with other manuscripts from the collection of Pierre Séguier (see Wright 1976 and Diary 1966).

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.

Administrative Context:

ff. 1-2: Italy or France; ff. 1-64: France.

Publications:

Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-1812), III (1808), no. 4503.

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. 68 n 1.

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. 183, 301.

Gero Dolezalek, Verzeichnis der Handschriften zum römischen Recht bis 1600: Materialsammlung, System und Programm für elektronische Datenverarbeitung, 4 vols (Frankfurt: Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte, 1972), I (unpaginated: referenced by manuscript number).

'Manuscripta iuridica' [Principal investigator: G. R. Dolezalek] (Max Plank Institute für europäische Rechtsgeschichte, 2012), http://manuscripts.rg.mpg.de/jhs/de/manuscript/details/2611 [accesed on 10 October 2012].

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Accursius, c 1185-1263,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000044513706X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/298540518
Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Portland, née Harley, collector of art and natural history specimens and patron of arts and sciences, 11 Feb 1715-17 Jul 1785,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115857160,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2356861
Harley, Edward, second earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, 2 Jun 1689-16 Jun 1741,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108078249,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/160524259
Harley, Henrietta Cavendish, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, née Holles, patron of architecture, 4 Feb 1694-9 Dec 1755,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000030125833,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/6045563
Harley, Robert, first Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, 5 Dec 1661-21 May 1724,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083423906
Hay, Andrew, dealer in antiquities, d. 1754
Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor, c 482-565,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120965924,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/88881722
Le Coq, Jean, advocate of the king to the Parliament of Paris, c 1350-c 1400
Séguier, Pierre, Duc de Villemor, Chancellor of France, 1588-1672