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Harley MS 5340

Record Id:

040-002051186

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051186

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5340

Title:

A notebook containing memoranda concerning ethics, law, logic, metaphysics and theology

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-63r: A notebook containing memoranda concerning ethics, law, logic, metaphysics and theology

The manuscript contains a few later additions:

ff. 2*recto, 57r-57v: Fractions, entitled: ‘Valuation of Fractio[n]’; added in the late 16th or 17th century.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051186

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5340 : A notebook containing memoranda concerning ethics, law, logic, metaphysics and theology

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5342]/040-002051186

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:

1575

End Date:

1599

Date Range:

4th quarter of the 16th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 130 x 85 mm.

Foliation: ff. 1*-2* + 63 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 at the end); ff. 1* and 2* are paper leaves; 3 unfoliated paper leaves between f. 51 and f. 52.

Script: 16th-century script.

Binding: Post-1600. Gold-stamped and –tooled brown leather with the remnants of two clasps.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

‘I. M.’, owned in 1592: initials and date inscribed on f. 1*recto: ‘I. M. 1592 June’ (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

‘J. M.’, assumedly the John Martin whose name is noted on the inside of the upper cover [and perhaps the same John Martin who, according to Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 235, owned Harley Ms 622], owned in 1595: initials and date inscribed on f. 1*recto: ‘J. M. 1595 [?] 7 [octo]ber’ (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

‘Jo[hannes] Lethiculier’: his name inscribed on the inside of the upper cover; probably received the manuscript from ‘J. M’, as is suggested by the accompanying note: ‘From J[oh]n Martin’ (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 261.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England