The Harleian Library, Harley Collection, Harleian Collection and other variants (Latin: Bibliotheca Harleiana) is one of the main "closed" collections (namely, historic collections to which new material is no longer added) of the British Library in London, formerly the library of the British Museum.
The collection comprises 7,660 manuscripts, including 2,200 illuminated manuscripts,[1] more than 14,000 original legal documents; and more than 500 rolls. It was assembled by Robert Harley (1661–1724) and his son Edward (1689–1741). In 1753, it was purchased for £10,000 by the British government. Together with the collections of Sir Robert Cotton (the Cotton library) and Hans Sloane (the Sloane library) it formed the basis of the British Museum's collection of manuscripts, which were transferred to the new British Library in 1973.[2]
The collection contains illuminated manuscripts spanning the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance. There are important early British manuscripts, many from Western Europe, and several Byzantine manuscripts in Greek and other languages.
^Laura Nuvoloni. The Harleian Medical Manuscripts(PDF). published by The British Library. Retrieved 2015-07-26.
^British Library. "History of the Harley Library".
The HarleianLibrary, Harley Collection, Harleian Collection and other variants (Latin: Bibliotheca Harleiana) is one of the main "closed" collections...
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1753 also incorporated the Cotton library and the Harleianlibrary. These were joined in 1757 by the Royal Library, assembled by various British monarchs...
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(Beowulf, Judith) British LibraryHarleian Collection List of manuscripts in the Cotton library "Cotton Manuscripts". British Library. Archived from the original...
Oxford, for whom he undertook his major work. As an addition to the HarleianLibrary, Tudway from 1714 copied a representative set of compositions for the...
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Robert and Edward Harley. He was the first keeper of the HarleianLibrary, now the Harleian Collection. Wanley was born at Coventry on 21 March 1671/2...
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in eleven manuscripts, such as those in the Cotton library, the Harleianlibrary, and the library of the faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh. The purest...
(1974). "The Catherwood Map of Jerusalem". The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress. 31 (3): 150–160. JSTOR 29781591. Berger, Pamela (7 June 2012)...
the Collection of Sir Hans Sloane; the Cotton Library, assembled by Sir Robert Cotton; the HarleianLibrary, the collection of the Robert Harley, 1st Earl...
Edition), Pan Macmillan, 2011. p.589 Harley, Edward (1747). A Copious and exact Catalogue of Pamphlets in the HarleianLibrary, etc. Few MS. notes. p. 81....
collector Sir Hans Sloane and the Cotton library, assembled by the antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton; the HarleianLibrary, the collection of the Robert Harley...
called the Stanzaic Morte Arthur or Stanzaic Morte (formerly also the Harleian Morte Arthur) to distinguish it from another Middle English poem, the Alliterative...
Scholar, and the HarleianLibrary". British Library. Retrieved 26 October 2020. "Elizabeth Elstob, Old English scholar, and the HarleianLibrary". blogs.bl...
full descriptions in the catalogue. The sources range in time from the Harleian manuscript (1450) to the Ledall Roll (first half 1600s) The most obvious...
Annales Cambriae. A Translation of Harleian 3859; PRO E.164/1; Cottonian Domitian, A 1; Exeter Cathedral Library MS. 3514 and MS Exchequer DB Neath,...
held by the Bodleian Library, Society of Antiquaries of London, College of Arms, Cambridge University Library and HarleianLibrary collections. Among them...
now held in the British Library, which include many copies of heraldic visitations. College of Arms Media related to Harleian Society at Wikimedia Commons...
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