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Harley MS 5128

Record Id:

040-002050972

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050972

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000287

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5128

Title:

Dictionary of canon law

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-438v: A dictionary of canon law, beginning: 'Quoniam memoria hominum labilis'.

Decoration:

2 large initials in pink, green, and blue with floral and foliate motifs (ff. 1r, 53v). 1 large historiated initial in colours (f. 65v). 15 large initials in red, some with simple floral or geometric motifs (ff. 202r, 221v, 226v, 232v, 261r [2x], 272r, 291r, 300r, 313r, 359r, 361r, 379v, 410v, 422r). The initials occur at the beginning of each section of the dictionary: A, B, C, etc., but the initial 'D' on f. 138v has been cut out. Smaller plain initials in red. 1 plain intial in blue (f. 1r). Rubrics in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050972

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5128 : Dictionary of canon law

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5128]/040-002050972

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:

1450

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

2nd half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 220 x 145 mm (text space: 160 x 95 mm).

Foliation: ff. 438 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end).

Collation: Indicated by catchwords and leaf signatures.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house: green half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Southern Germany or Austria.

Provenance:

The Franciscan monastery of Sancta Maria Annunciata, Varese (near Lake Como): their ownership inscription on f. 430v and bookstamp with their initials S.M.A.V. (Sancta Maria Annunciata Varisii) on ff. 1r and 438v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1966), p. 335; Watson, Review of Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1973), p. 608).

Conyers Middleton (b. 1683, d. 1750), Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1706, head librarian of the University Library at Cambridge (1721-50); sold to Edward Harley on 25 February 1724/25 (Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 343 n. 3; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 239).

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 ‘25 die mensis Februarii, A.D. 1724/25’ (f. 1r).

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), no. 5128.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 343 n. 3.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 239, 335.

Andrew G. Watson, Review of Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts..., in Journal of the Society of Archivists, 4 (1973), 603-09 (p. 608).

Cyril Ernest Wright, 'Manuscripts of Italian Provenance in the Harleian Collection in the British Museum: Their Sources, Associations and Channels of Acquisition', in Cultural Aspects of the Italian Renaissance. Essays in Honour of Paul Oskar Kristeller, ed. by C. H. Clough (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1976), pp. 462-84 (p. 471).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Austria, Europe
Northern Italy