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Harley MS 5259
- Record Id:
- 040-002051103
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051103
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00030a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5259
- Title:
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Gesta Romanorum; Raymond of Peñafort, Summa de matrimonio (excerpts); allegorical tract on the Zodiac; tract on the lineage from David to Christ; The Life of St Katherine of Alexandria (Middle English)
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-125v: Gesta Romanorum; featuring three Middle English couplets on f. 60v.
f. 125v: A notes on the duty of confession, excerpted from the Summa de matrimonio (Compendium on Marriage) of Raymond of Peñafort.
f. 125v: A Latin text on the allegorical meaning of the signs of the Zodiac,
f. 125v: A Latin text on the lineage from David to Christ.
ff. 126r-138r: The Life of St Katherine of Alexandria (Middle English prose), beginning ‘Here begynneþ þe lyfe of þe gloriouse virgyine and mayde Seynt katerine whiche life was writen of athan[i]sius’; ending with a Latin couplet beginning: ‘O Katherina pia Christi completa sopia’.
Decoration
1 puzzle initial in blue and red with red penwork decoration and pen-flourishing, the latter forming partial (three-sided) borders (f. 1r); small blue initials with red penwork decoration and pen-flourishing throughout.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051103", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5259: Gesta Romanorum; Raymond of Peñafort, Summa de matrimonio (excerpts); allegorical tract on the Zodiac; tract on the lineage from…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051103 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5259 : Gesta Romanorum; Raymond of Peñafort, Summa de matrimonio (excerpts); allegorical tract on the Zodiac; tract on the lineage… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5259]/040-002051103
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 235 x 170 mm.
Foliation: ff. 138 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end); the lower margins of ff. 28, 29, 57, 65, 67, 70, 94, 107, 110, 112, 115, 116, 118, 121, have been removed; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown (bibliographical notes) on f. [iii]recto.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
An unknown 17th-century owner: added an instruction to 122r: ‘Deliver this to Mr H[arges] [...] Mr Nathaniel [T]ed’.
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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Harry Leigh Douglas Ward and John Alexander Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), III (1910), pp. 521-28.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 256.
Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: The British Library, 2005), nos 2238.5/1, 3081/14, 3322.3/1.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)