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Harley MS 3345/2
- Record Id:
- 040-004060545
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-004060545
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100134828887.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3345/2
- Title:
- Statutes of the Order of Knights of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (Knights Hospitaller), volume two
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 241r-488v: Statutes of the Order of Knights of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem [Knights Hospitaller] in the time of Grand Master Claude de la Sengle (r. 1553-1557). Edited by Didacus Rodiguez [probably copied from the 1556 publication of the same work]. Written in Latin, and featuring the French motto: Espoire me conforte'.
The manuscript is the second part of two volumes. The first part is Harley MS 3345/1.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-004060545", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3345/2: Statutes of the Order of Knights of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (Knights Hospitaller), volume two" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-004060545 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3345/2 : Statutes of the Order of Knights of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (Knights Hospitaller), volume two - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7845]/040-004060545
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1551
- End Date:
- 1561
- Date Range:
- c 1556
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 160 x 115 mm (text space: 120 x 80 mm).
Foliation: ff. '248' (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); the 248 paper leaves of this manuscript have been foliated continuously with Harley MS 3345/1 as ff. 241-288; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [490]verso (conservation notes).
Collation: Indicated by catchwords; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Library in-house; red half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside cover; re-bound in 1984.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France.
Provenance:
'Lecomte' [unidentified owner, but there was a Flemish family of this name, a branch of which settled in France; the Bibliotheca Belgica of of Antonius Sanderus (1641-1644) lists manuscripts belonging to the Lecome family], owned the manuscript: according to Cyril Ernest Wright, this family's name was written in the manuscript (Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 217), but this name has not been found in re-cataloguing; perhaps it was written on a pastedown on the inside covers of the previous binding, which was removed in 1984.
Pierre Séguier (b. 1588, d. 1672), chancellor of France from 1635 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 300).
Andrew Hay (d. 1754?), book dealer: sold together with other manuscripts from the Séguier collection on 5 September 1720 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. 68 n. 1; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 183).
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 ‘5 Septembris, 1720’ (Harley MS 3345/1, f. 1*recto).
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), III (1808), p. 18.
Joseph Delaville Le Roulx, 'Les statuts de l'ordre de l'Hôpital de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem', Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes, 48 (1887), 341-56 [without this manuscript].
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 68 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), pp. 217, 183, 300.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- France