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Harley MS 4789
- Record Id:
- 040-002050632
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050632
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000133
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161516224.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4789
- Title:
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Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-286v: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa; imperfect at the end.
Decoration:
Historiated initial with author portrait (damaged or erased) in colours and gold combined with a full foliate bar border (f. 1r). Large initial in colours and gold with foliate decoration extending into the margin to form a partial border or between the columns, at the beginning of each book (ff. 1v, 4v, 10r, 19r, 26r, 51v, 63v, 86r, 102v, 111v, 120v, 141r, 151v, 180v, 230v, 276v). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or in gold with dark blue/grey or purple pen-flourishing including foliate motifs. Paraphs in blue with red penwork decoration or in gold with dark blue/grey penwork decoration.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050632", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4789: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050632 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4789 : Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4788]/040-002050632
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100161516224.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 405 x 305 mm (text space: 285 x 200 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 286 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: South-East England (? London).
Provenance:
? ‘Edward Leke’, owned in the 16th century: his name inscribed next to a Latin saying on f. 164r: ‘By me your said frende edwarde leke’.
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:
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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. 4789.
Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 6, 2 vols (London: Miller, 1996), I, p. 71 n. 33.
On the Properties of Things: John Trevisa's Translation of 'Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum', ed. by M. C. Seymour, 3 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975-1988), I-II (1975), Siglum 'D'; III (1988), pp. 18-19.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)