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Harley MS 6504

Record Id:

040-002052353

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002052353

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x00001c

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 6504

Title:

Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Poetria nova

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-40r: Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Poetria nova.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. 40r: an inscription in a medieval hand on f. 40r: '[...] hic offert se et sivum librum Gulielmo ep[i]scop[o] nem[..]si[...]'.

Numerous added annotations throughout, mainly in 15th-century hands.

Decoration:

Large initial in colours with foliate decoration. Numerous smaller initials in red with purple penwork decoration or in blue with red penwork. Paraphs in red, blue or brown ink. Capitals marked in yellow. Catchwords with a brown yellow frame combined with a wash.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002052353

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 6504 : Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Poetria nova

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[6509]/040-002052353

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:

1375

End Date:

1424

Date Range:

4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 260 x 175 mm (text space: 200 x 90 mm).

Foliation: ff. 40 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); each quire is mounted on a paper guard.

Collation: In 4 quires of 10.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound on 1 July 1967.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Northern or Central Italy.

Provenance:

John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer: sold to Edward Harley on 22 June 1726 (Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 339 n. 1; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 162).

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 mensi Junij, A.D. 1726’ (f. 1r).

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. 371.

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.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Geoffrey of Vinsauf, fl 1200,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109199376

Places:

Central Italy
Northern Italy