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Harley MS 5437
- Record Id:
- 040-002051283
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051283
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0003be
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5437
- Title:
- Walter of Châtillon, Alexandreis
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1-96: Walter of Châtillon, Alexandreis.
Text omitted by the scribe on f. 90v was supplied by a late 14th-century reader on ff. 95v-96.14th- and 15th-century marginal notes.
Decoration:
Puzzle initial in blue and red with pen-flourishing in red and purple (f. 1r). Initials alternating in red and blue with pen-flourishing in red and purple. Paraphs alternating in blue and red. Rubrics and colophon (f. 94v; partly erased) in red. Verse initials highlighted in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051283", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5437: Walter of Châtillon, Alexandreis" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051283 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5437 : Walter of Châtillon, Alexandreis - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5439]/040-002051283
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 225 x 160 (160 x 90/95) mm.
Foliation: ff. 96 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).
Script: Semi-humanistic.
Collation: i-v 8 (ff. 1-40), vi 6 (ff. 41-46), vii-xi 8 (ff. 47-86), xii 10 (ff. 87-96), all mounted on guards.
Horizontal catchwords within decorated frames.
Binding: BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1966.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northeastern Italy, perhaps Padua or the Veneto.
Provenance:
Raphael Dandero of Barcelona: inscriptions relating to the purchase of the manuscript from his library at Barcelona in 1529 (ff. 1r, 96v; see Wright, Fontes (1972)).An 18th-century inscription in Italian relating to the presence of the manuscript in a (Jesuit ?) college at L'Aquila (Umbria) (f. 1r).Andrew Hay (d. 1754?), dealer: sold to Edward Harley on 13 July 1723 (see Wright and Wright, Diary (1966), Wright, Fontes (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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley, ‘13 die Julij, AD 1723’ (f. 1r; see Wright and Wright, Diary (1966)). 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.
- Information About Copies:
- Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts: https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808-12), III (1808), no. 5437.
Harry L. D. Ward and John A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), 1: H. L. D. Ward (1883), p. 103.
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. 248 n. 6.
Cyril E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 123, 183, 457.
Galteri de Castellione, Alexandreis, ed. by Marvin L. Colker, Thesaurus Mundi, 17 (Padua: Antenore, 1978), p. xxxiv.
Telfryn Pritchard, ‘Three Oxford Alexandreis Manuscripts’, Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 34 (1980), 261-68 (p. 268).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)