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Harley MS 5118
- Record Id:
- 040-002050962
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050962
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00027d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5118
- Title:
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Expositio in IV libri Regum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-193r: Expositio in IV libri Regum, a commentary on the Old Testament books of Kings.
The manuscript contains later additions:
ff. 1*r-3*v, 195r-198v: Hitherto unidentified fragments of the Summa logicae et philosophiae naturalis that John Dumbleton (d. ? 1349), a natural philosopher and fellow of Merton College, Oxford, wrote in the 1340s, opening with the work's section on signification (Part I, 'De signi catione termini, chapter 2), beginning: 'Capitulum 2 in quo [...] cum igitur termini nec in voce [...] in scripto ex natura [...] significant ut probatum est restat exprimere qualiter termini significant [...] voce'. The work has survived in 21 manuscripts.
f. 194r: A previously unidentified indenture in the name of William Alcock, priest and dean of the chantry college at Irthlingborough (founded in 1388 and dissolved in 1547), regarding the receipt of payment from John Wilford, alderman of the City of London, for leases of land, dated 13 April 1539: 'Thys byll mayd the xiij day off Apprill in the xxxth yer of our soverand lord kyng henry viij wytnesse that I wylliam Alcok clark deane of the coleage off Irtyllyngbowrge hathe recevyd the day off makyng ther off // off master John wilfforthe alderman off the Citey of london xli sine ten pondes in party off payment // of a more [? somme] for sertene leassus wiche leassus the sayd deane and hys bretherne haythe grauntyd to the sayd master John wilfforthe as dowthe [m...] by ther owne hand wryttyng in paper'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050962", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5118: Expositio in IV libri Regum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050962 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5118 : Expositio in IV libri Regum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5118]/040-002050962
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper; parchment (ff. 1*-3*, 196-198).
Dimensions: 220 x 140 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 2* + 3* + 198 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); ff. 1*-3*, 196-198 are parchment leaves of another manuscript.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600; gold-tooled mottled brown leather.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
William Alcock, dean of the chantry college at Irthlingborough (founded in 1388 and dissolved in 1547), in 1539: a draft or copy of an indenture in his name has been added to f. 194r (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
W. Newman, unidentified 16th-/17th-century owner: inscribed with his name on f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 251).
Robert Burscough (b. 1651, d. 1709), archdeacon of Barnstaple: acquired from him for the Harley library (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 87).
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 forms 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. 248.
Wright, Cyril Ernest, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 87, 251.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England