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Harley MS 6523
- Record Id:
- 040-002052372
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052372
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x00002f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6523
- Title:
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Textus Roffensis and Ælfric of Eynsham, Interrogationes Sigewoulfi Presbiteri, in modern facsimiles by Elizabeth Elstob
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains two modern facsimiles of Textus Roffensis (The Tome of Rochester), an Old English legal text that survives in only a single manuscript (now Rochester Cathedral Library, MS. A.3.5), and Interrogationes Sigewulfi Presbiteri (Questions of Sigewulf the Priest), a vernacular translation and adaptation of Alcuin's Quaestiones in Genesim (Questions on Genesis) by Ælfric of Eynsham (b. c. 955, d. c. 1010).
The facsimiles were made by the Old English scholar Elizabeth Elstob (b. 1683, d. 1756). Another of Elstob's facsimiles housed at the British Library is now Harley MS 1866, which also contains excerpts from Textus Roffensis.
Contents:
ff. 1r-56r: Textus Roffensis, in a modern facsimile by Elizabeth Elstob.
ff. 57r-61r: Ælfric of Eynsham, Interrogationes Sigewulfi Presbiteri, in a modern facsimile by Elizabeth Elstob.
ff. 56v and 61v are blank.
Decoration:
Large initials in red or green, a few in yellow or purple. Smaller initials in red, green or purple. Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052372 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6523 : Textus Roffensis and Ælfric of Eynsham, Interrogationes Sigewoulfi Presbiteri, in modern facsimiles by Elizabeth Elstob - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6528]/040-002052372
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1749
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 18th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 240 x 170 mm (written space: 185 x 110 mm) (ff. 1-56 only); 200 x 135 mm (written space: 120 x 75 mm) (ff. 57-61 only).
Foliation: ff. 61 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 parchment and 3 paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Imitation insular minuscule, written by Elizabeth Elstob.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound in 1968. Brown half-leather binding, with the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
The manuscript was written by Elizabeth Elstob (b. 1683, d. 1756), Old English scholar, and later donated to the Harley Collection (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 144-45).
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.
- Information About Copies:
- Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.
- 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), no. 6523.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 144-45.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Elstob, Elizabeth, calligrapher and Old English scholar, 1683-1756
Ælfric of Eynsham, Abbot of Eynsham, c 955-c 1010,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118377445,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/262214286 - Places:
- England