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Harley MS 5021
- Record Id:
- 040-002050865
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050865
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00021c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5021
- Title:
- Bible (from Genesis to 2 Maccabees)
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-141v: Bible (from Genesis to 2 Maccabees).
Decoration:
1 historiated initial in gold and colours, with foliate motifs and grotesques (f. 2r). Display script in gold on pink and blue, for letters following the historiated initial (f. 2r), or in blue with some red, at the beginning of each of the other books (ff. 14v, 25r, 32r, 41v, 50v, 56v, 63r, 64v, 73v, 80v, 89r, 97r, 104r, 113v, 119v, 123r, 126r, 128v, 136r). Small initials in red or blue, occasionally with some penwork decoration or with pen-flourishing. Running headers and chapter numbers in alternate red and blue (added?). Rubrics and chapter numbers in red. Decorated marks in red, occasionally including bird heads (e.g. ff. 21v, 47r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050865", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5021: Bible (from Genesis to 2 Maccabees)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050865 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5021 : Bible (from Genesis to 2 Maccabees) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5021]/040-002050865
- 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:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1249
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 425 x 265 mm (written space: 250 x 135 mm) in 2 columns.
Foliation: ff. 141 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end; f. [iii] is a lifted paste-down).
Script: Gothic, written above top line.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house; traces of wooden boards, of 5 metal ?bosses, and of 1 of 2 metal clasps of a previous binding (f. [iii]).
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England or Netherlands, S.
Provenance:
Unidentified medieval owner: added notes by two medieval hands, including a name and a ?price (strip of parchment pasted on f. [iii]recto, f. [iv]verso).
Unidentified medieval owner: added crude drawing of a face (f. 52r).
John Batteley (b. 1647, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John Batteley (of the Court of Augmentations) on 5 November 1723.
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 ‘5 die Novembris, A.D. 1723’ (f. [iii]recto).
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. 5021.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, 263 n. 1.
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 67.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England
Southern Netherlands