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Harley MS 5752
- Record Id:
- 040-002051599
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051599
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000112
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5752
- Title:
- Collectio Epithetorum ex Publii Virgilli Maronis; Jean de Bussières, Flosculi Historiarum Delibati (English translation)
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-80v: Collectio Epithetorum ex Publii Virgilli Maronis (Latin); written in the 16th century.
ff. 81v-95r: Jean de Bussières (b. 1607, d. 1678), Flosculi Historiarum Delibati (first published in 1649); an English translation of the universal history divided into fifteen epochs, but only going up to the ninth epoch, and ending with the 3942th year after Creation; here entitled ‘Collectiones et[caetera] Jo[hannes] Bussieres Flosc[uli] Historic[i]’; written in the 17th century.
f. 96r: A collection of notes about ‘Famous things to be observed’; beginning ‘The 1536 Year of this Periods, is the beginning of the 120 Years of penitence’; written in the 17th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051599", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5752: Collectio Epithetorum ex Publii Virgilli Maronis; Jean de Bussières, Flosculi Historiarum Delibati (English translation)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051599 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5752 : Collectio Epithetorum ex Publii Virgilli Maronis; Jean de Bussières, Flosculi Historiarum Delibati (English translation) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5755]/040-002051599
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 16th century-17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 145 x 90 mm.
Foliation: ff. 96 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 at the end); each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard; ff. 81-96 have been bound upside down and in reverse.
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
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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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 293.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)