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Harley MS 6503
- Record Id:
- 040-002052352
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052352
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x00001b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6503
- Title:
- Historical writings of Jerome, Isidore of Seville, Bede, and others
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-26v: Jerome, Liber de viris illustribus (Book of Illustrious Men).
ff. 26v-27r: Jerome, Letter 47, to Desiderius.
ff. 28r-41r: Gennadius of Massilia, De viris illustribus (On Illustrious Men).
ff. 42r-51r: Isidore of Seville, De viris illustribus (On Illustrious Men).
ff. 51r-56v: Ildefonsus, De viris illustribus (On Illustrious Men).
ff. 57r-71v: Isidore of Seville, De ortu et obitu patrum (On the Works and Deaths of the Church Fathers).
ff. 72r-84v: Isidore of Seville, Chronica maiora (Great Chronicle).
ff. 85r-v: Extracts from Sigebert and William of Malmesbury on Bede, and from Vicentius, Speculum pastoralis (The Shepherd’s Mirror).
ff. 85v-122v: The Venerable Bede, De temporum ratione (On the Reckoning of Time).
ff. 27v, 41v are blank.
Horizontal catchwords.
Decoration:
20 initials in blue with reserved lines and red penwork decoration or pen-flourishing, some large, some mid-size (ff. 1r, 2v, 25r, 28v, 42r, 51r, 57r, 57v, 67v, 72r, 73v, 85r, 87r, 88r, 89v, 92r, 95r, 101r, 117r, 120v). Plain initials in red or blue, some with reserved lines. Rubrics in red. Paraphs in blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052352", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6503: Historical writings of Jerome, Isidore of Seville, Bede, and others" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052352 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6503 : Historical writings of Jerome, Isidore of Seville, Bede, and others - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6508]/040-002052352
- 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:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1449
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 240 x 160 mm (text space: 140 x 95 mm).
Foliation: ff. 122 (+ 6 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 unfoliated parchment and 6 paper flyleaves at the end, and 1 unfoliated leaf between ff, 27 and 28 and after f. 122).
Script: Semi-humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. Tan leather with gold tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy.
Provenance:
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Edward Harley on 22 June 1726 (Diary 1966; Wright 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 ‘22 die Junij, A.D. 1726’ (f. 1*r).
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), II (1808), no. 6503.
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. 339 n. 1.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 162.
Carmen Codoñer Merino, El 'De viris illustribus' de Ildefonsus de Toledo, estudio y edición crítica (Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca, 1972) [as 'B'].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)