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Harley MS 6526
- Record Id:
- 040-002052375
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052375
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x000032
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6526
- Title:
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Collection of grammatical works
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: 'The forme to construe' a sentence out of one language into another.
ff. 2r-3r: 'Annotationes in Ciceronis officia'.
ff. 4r-41v: 'Phrases ex Terentiij'; with English commentary; inscribed 'Andriae finis' on f. 24r.
ff. 42r-43r: 'Annotationes de Fabula'.
ff. 44r-45v: 'De artibus liberalibus'.
ff. 46r-51r: 'De Grammatica'.
ff. 53r-53v: 'Proverbiorum Collectio'; with English commentary.
ff. 54r-55v: 'Spudeus et Philoponus interloquutores'; with an English translation; imperfect.
ff. 58r-66v: 'Quaestiones Etymologicae in tyrunculorum usum e Grammatices rudimentis exerptae ab Johanne Brunsverdo Grammatico' [i.e. John Brownsword or Brunswerd].
ff. 67v-78v: 'Quaestiones syntacticae constructionis a Johanne Brunsverdo Grammatico selectae'.
ff. 79r-93v: Grammatical notes in English.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052375", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6526: Collection of grammatical works" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052375 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6526 : Collection of grammatical works - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6531]/040-002052375
- 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:
- 1570
- End Date:
- 1630
- Date Range:
- c 1575-c 1625
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: Leaves 205 x 150 mm, mounted to fit a volume measuring 205 x 170 mm.
Foliation: ff. 93 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); f. [i] is a transparent paper leaf; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [95]verso (conservation notes).
Collation: Each leaf has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Script: 16th-century Gothic cursive (Secretary).
Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside cover; part of the old binding (marbled paper) and the old spine (inscribed in gold: 'Miscellan. Philolog.') have been pasted on the inside of the upper cover.
- 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:
- A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 373.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England