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Harley MS 4660

Record Id:

040-002050503

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050503

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0000b2

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4660

Title:

Miscellaneous collection of transcriptions of Old English charters and the Narratio de Sanctis qui in Anglia quiescunt; fragments of a Latin work on the Old English language

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. 1r: A catalogue of fifteen charters held at Worcester Cathedral, entitled: ‘Cartarum aliquod pervetustarum quae extant in Archivis Ecclesiae Cathedralis Wirogn; Apographa’; ending with the note: ‘Harum Cartarum nulla exhibetur in Monastico Anglicana’.

f. 1v: A transcription of a charter, entitled: ‘De Wulstano Hemmingus monachus monastici Angl. Tom Io p. 135b’, copied from ‘Hemming's Cartulary’ in Cotton MS Tiberius A XIII.

f. 2r: A catalogue of 92 charters in the ecclesiastical archives of Worcester, made by the antiquary William Dugdale (b. 1605, d. 1686), entitled: ‘Catalogus Caratrum Antiquarum in Archivis Ecclesiae Wigorn. repertarum A.D. 1643 per Mrum Will[iam] Dugdale’.

ff. 3r-12r: Full transcriptions of twelve charters in Latin and Old English that are listed in the catalogue on f. 1r, the first one is entitled: ‘Carta lacera Ætheltredi merc. Regis circa A.D. 692'.

ff. 14r-14v: ‘I have collated these fragments with Ordoricus Vitalis and where the various reading will importe Mr Camden reading I note it referring to the page and line which y marked in the Margin’.

ff. 15r-18v: A transcription of the Narratio de Sanctis qui in Anglia quiescunt from a manuscript at Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, by the Anglo-Dutch scholar Franciscus Junius (b. 1591, d. 1677), entitled: ‘Incertus Author de Sanctis in Anglia Sepultis Descriptus a Domino Junio ex Manuscripto Collegij Corporis Christi Cantabrigiae, et habetur voluminis 284. pag. 147’, beginning: ‘Hic narratur de Sanctis qui in Angliae regione quiescunt In nomine Domini nostri Jesu Christi’.

ff. 19r-20v: Fragments of a Latin work on the Old English language, featuring comparisons of Old English words with Belgian, Cimbrian, Danish and Gothic, with Cimbrian written in runes.

ff. 21r-21v: Transcription of a charter in which Coenwulf, king of Mercia, grants land near Chart Sutton, Kent, to Earl Swithnoth in 814, in Latin and Old English.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050503

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4660 : Miscellaneous collection of transcriptions of Old English charters and the Narratio de Sanctis qui in Anglia quiescunt; fragments of…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4659]/040-002050503

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Danish
Dutch
English
English, Old
Germanic languages

Scripts:

Latin
Runic

Start Date:

1638

End Date:

1705

Date Range:

c 1643-c 1700

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 245 x 185 mm (ff. 1-12); 190-210 x 160-170 mm (ff. 13-22).

Foliation: ff. 22 (+ 1 unfoliated blank paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown in the lower margin of f. 1r (inscribed with pencil: ‘Eccles His’; in ink: ‘Ancient Charters’; and with a printed Harleian shelfmark); each leaf or bifolium has been mounted onto a separate paper guard.

Script: 17th-century script; imitative Anglo-Saxon vernacular minuscule.

Binding: British Museum in-house; black half leather binding with the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the outside covers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

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.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 186.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Dugdale, William, Knight, antiquary and herald, 1605-1686,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121356602
Junius, Franciscus, the younger; philologist and antiquary, 1591-1677,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000354791971

Places:

England