Harleian Library

[hahr-lee-uhn]

noun

1. a large library of manuscripts collected by the British statesman Robert Harley and his son and now housed in the British Museum.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Harleian Library¹

< New Latin Harleiānus of, belonging to (Robert) Harley; -an

Example Sentences

They are represented in this form in a MS. of the Harleian Library, on a banner per pale orange and yellow.

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It was borrowed in 1639/40, as it appeared, by an agent of the Marquis of Newcastle, for the purpose of production in some law-suit affecting his property; remained through the Civil War in his hands; fell subsequently into those of the Earl of Oxford, and was bought by Rawlinson from Osborne the bookseller, in whose sale-catalogue of the Harleian Library in 1743 it was numbered 20734.

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It is contained in a manuscript in the Harleian Library of the date, probably, of 1430 to 1435.

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No copy of Bynneman's edition has hitherto been discovered; a copy of that of 1567 was in the Harleian library.

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After the sale of Mr. Bridges's books, no event occurred in the bibliographical world, worthy of notice, till the sale of the famous Harleian Library, or the books once in the possession of the celebrated Harley, Earl of Oxford.

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