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Harley MS 5210
- Record Id:
- 040-002051054
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051054
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0002d9
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5210
- Title:
- Jacobus de Varagine, Legenda aurea
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-252v: Jacobus de Varagine [Voragine], Legenda aurea, beginning with an introduction: 'Universum tempus presentis vite in quatuor distinguitur [tempora] scilicet in tempus deviationis, renovationis sive revocationis, reconciliationis et peregrinationis'; followed by a table of contents (ff. 1r-2r); imperfect, breaks off before the end of the legend of St Pelagius.
Decoration:
2 large (4- to 6-line) initials in colours with foliate motifs (ff. 1r, 2r). Large (2-line) red initials with blue pen-flourishing and blue initials with red pen-flourishing. Small plain initials in blue or red. Capitals highlighted in red. Display script used for headings, consisting of capitals highlighted in red in frames of penwork decoration in brown ink. Rubrics in red. Roman numerals in red. Paraphs in red or blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051054", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5210: Jacobus de Varagine, Legenda aurea" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051054 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5210 : Jacobus de Varagine, Legenda aurea - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5210]/040-002051054
- 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:
- 1350
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 200 x 135 mm (text space: 135 x 100 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 252 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Collation: Indicated by catchwords.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; rebound on 25 May 1967.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Northern Italy.
Provenance:
An unknown late medieval or early modern owner: their erased or faded (? name/signature) inscription on f. 252v.
Frater Johannes Baptista, priest of Puppio in Porcinas, 16th century: according to a memorandum of his purchase of the manuscript for 60 solidi from an unnamed person on f. 252v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 63).
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Edward Harley on 22 June 1726 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 340 n. 4; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 162).
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 ‘22 die Junij, A.D. 1726’ (f. [iiii]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. 5210.
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. 340 n. 4.
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. 63, 162.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Jacobus de Voragine, chronicler and archbishop of Genoa, c 1230-1298
- Places:
- Northern Italy