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Harley MS 4906
- Record Id:
- 040-002050750
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050750
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0001a9
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4906
- Title:
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Jerome, De vita activa et contemplativa
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-145r: Jerome, De vita activa et contemplative.
Decoration:
Partial border in colours and gold with birds, acanthus and floral motifs, and a large decorated initial 'T' (f. 1r); probably originally a 3-sided border, which was partially cut away with the lower margin. Large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, some with green penwork decoration. Large initials in red with blue pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue. Rubrics in red or blue. Capitals marked in red. Added sketches of a woman in brown ink, anterior and posterior views (f. 144v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050750", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4906: Jerome, De vita activa et contemplativa" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050750 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4906 : Jerome, De vita activa et contemplativa - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4906]/040-002050750
- 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:
- 1475
- End Date:
- 1475
- Date Range:
- 1475
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 280 x 180 mm (text space: 180 x 125 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 145 (+ 2 unfoliated paper and 1 parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); a rectangular piece of parchment has been inserted between ff. 1-2; an initial on f. 47v has been excised; the lower margin of f. 92r has been cut off; the outer margin of f. 124r has been cut off.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound on 15 June 1964. Gilt and gauffered fore-edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Southern Netherlands (Ghent).
Provenance:
The Hieronymites of Ghent, owned in 1475: their ownership inscription in a colophon on f. 142v: 'Fratribus in Ganda [Ghent] liber hic iheronimianus [sic: 'iheronimianis']. Est Scriptus, Christo sit laus et gloria semper, 1475' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 161). On the scriptorium of the Hieronymites at Ghent, see Dhanens, 'Le Scriptorium des Hiéronymites a Gand' (1969), 361-79.
Petrus Paludanus, Carmelite friar of Bruges, owned in the 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 142v: 'Nunc vendiderunt heretici librum hunc apud Francos Rothomagensis [Rouen]; ut vendunt diabolo animas suas pro pecuniis. Quod testor ego Petrus Paludanus Flander. Brugen [Bruges]'; and 'Petrus Pauldanus Carmelita flander' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 265).
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), p. 218.
E. Dhanens, 'Le Scriptorium des Hiéronymites a Gand', Scriptorium, 23 (1969), 361-79.
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. 161.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), no. 819.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Jerome, Saint, c 345-420,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123213293,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95147024 - Places:
- Ghent, Belgium