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Harley MS 6919
- Record Id:
- 040-002052771
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052771
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x0001be
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6919
- Title:
- William of Touris, Contemplacioun of Synnaris
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-49v: William of Touris, Contemplacioun of Synnaris. The seven poems, one for each day of the week, were published by Wynkyn de Worde in Westminster on 10 July 1499.
Decoration:
Initials in blue with foliate decoration in red and purple (ff. 2r, 17r, 30v, 45v). Puzzle or plain initials in purple (ff. 10r, 22r, 38v). 6 full-page engravings mostly signed 'F.R.L.' (ff. 1v, 9v, 21v, 29r, 37r, 44r), and one page fully printed in black (f. 16v), pasted onto blank pages. The engravings are possibly based on German or Flemish models (see Bennett, Devotional Pieces (1955), p. xxxv).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052771", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6919: William of Touris, Contemplacioun of Synnaris" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052771 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6919 : William of Touris, Contemplacioun of Synnaris - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6927]/040-002052771
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Scots
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1525
- End Date:
- 1549
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 16th century or 3rd quarter of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper. Watermark of a hand surmounted by a star, similar to Briquet, Les Filigranes, ed. by Stevenson (1968), no. 11209 (Madrid, 1547).
Dimensions: 205 x 150 mm (text space: 140 x 90 mm).
Foliation: ff. i + 49 (+ 4 paper unfoliated flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. i is a paper leaf before f. 1; 1 unfoliated paper stub after f. 1, 1 after f. 2, 1 after f. 13, and 1 after f. 30; 6 original blank but ruled leaves after f. 49 (ff. [49a]-[49f]); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [iv]recto (bibliographical notes); and 1 on f. [50]verso (note of examination).
Collation: Gatherings of 8, with quire signatures at the centre of the lower margin of the first recto and last verso of gatherings, with addition of 7 single leaves for the engravings; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Script: Gothic cursive (Secretary).
Binding: British Library in-house: red half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the outside covers. Rebound in 1985; the former 18th-century covers are kept separately.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Scotland.
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. In the Harleian collection the manuscript was bound together with Harley MS 7398A.
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 Starhan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 448.
J. A. W. Bennett, Devotional Pieces in Verse and Prose from MS Arundel 285 and MS Harleian 6919, Scottish Text Society, 3rd series, 23 (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1955), pp. ii-iii (as 'H'), xxxv, pp. 64-169 (edited from this manuscript).
C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes: Dictionnaire historique des marques du papier dès leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600, A Facsimile of the 1907 Edition with Supplementary Material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam: Paper Publications Society, 1968), no. 11209 (Madrid, 1547).
Joanna Martin, Kingship and Love in Scottish Poetry, 1424-1540 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), p. 127 n. 92.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Scotland