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Harley MS 526, ff 38r-57v
- Record Id:
- 041-003252195
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046355
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026969257.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100061362409.0x000003
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 526, ff 38r-57v
- Title:
- Anonymous Vita Ædwardi Regis (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2421)
- Scope & Content:
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This item contains the sole surviving copy of the Vita Ædwardi, a life of Edward the Confessor (b. c 1003, d. 1066) written by an anonymous author with sections in prose and verse. The text is imperfect, possibly missing two folios each from the first and last quire.
Decoration: Painted initials of varying sizes and various decoration throughout.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046355
041-003252195 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 526 : Bede, Vita Sancti Cuthberti metrica (BHL 2020); Vita Venerabilis Bedae (BHL1069); Vita Ædwardi Regis (BHL 2421); fragment of Aelred…
Harley MS 526, ff 38r-57v : Anonymous Vita Ædwardi Regis (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2421) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0526]/040-002046355[0003]/041-003252195
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 19 folios, part of a parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_526 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1095
- End Date:
- 1105
- Date Range:
- c 1100
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment and ink, with paper guards around all four edges of the parchment folios.
Dimensions: parchment only approximately 185 x 125 mm; text approximately 150 x 70 mm.
Script: Protogothic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Christ Church, Canterbury, c 1100: script seems similar to those used in manuscripts associated with Christ Church (see Barlow, Life (1992), lxxix).
Provenance:
? The Benedictine abbey of Westminster: Westminster had a copy of the Vita Ædwardi by 1085, where it served as a source for the history of Westminster (Prologus de constructione Westmon) by Sulcard (fl. c 1080). However, it is not clear that this manuscript was the copy in question (see Barlow, Life (1992), xxxvi-xxxvii).
? early 16th century additions: inscribed 'For Dr Bancroft' (f. 57v), possibly to be identified with Richard Bancroft (bap. 1544, d. 1610), archbishop of Canterbury (see Barlow, Life (1992), lxxix).
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Henry Richards Luard, The Lives of Edward the Confessor, Rolls Series (London: Longman, 1858), pp. xxi, 389-435 [includes edition].
Marc Bloch, 'La vie de Saint Édouard le Confesseur par Osbert de Clare', Analecta Bollandiana, 41 (1923), 5-131 (pp. 9-10, 17-45).
Shirley A. Brown, 'The Bayeux Tapestry: History and Propaganda', in The Anglo-Saxons: Synthesis and Achievement, ed. by J. Douglas Woods and David A. E. Pelteret (Waterloo, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1985), p. 15.
Frank Barlow, The Life of King Edward who Rests at Westminster: Attributed to a Monk of Saint-Bertin, 2nd edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992) [includes edition and translation].
Richard Gameson, 'English Manuscript Art in the Late Eleventh Century: Canterbury and its Context', in Canterbury and the Norman Conquest: Churches, Saints and Scholars, 1066-1109, ed. by Richard Eales and Richard Sharpe (London: Hambledon Press, 1995), 95-144 (p. 114).
Richard Gameson, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1999), p. 106.
Antonia Gransden, Historical Writing in England, c. 500-1307 (London: Routledge, 1996, repr. 2008), p. 60.
Domenico Pezzini, The Translation of Relgious Texts in the Middle Ages: Tracts and Rules, Hymns and Saints' Lives (Berne: Peter Lang, 2008), p. 335.
Henry Summerson, 'Tudor antiquaries and the Vita Ædwardi regis', Anglo-Saxon England, 38 (2009), 157-84 (pp. 157-59, 161, 163-64, 166-67).
Richard Gameson, 'The Earliest English Royal Books', in 1000 Years of Royal Books and Manuscripts, ed. by Kathleen Doyle and Scot McKendrick (London: The British Library, 2013), pp. 3-36 (pp. 22, 32 n. 61).
Nicholas Vincent, 'The Great Lost Library of England's Medieval Kings', in 1000 Years of Royal Books and Manuscripts, ed. by Kathleen Doyle and Scot McKendrick (London: The British Library, 2013), pp. 73-112 (p. 103 n. 12).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)