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Egerton MS 1651
- Record Id:
- 032-001982529
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001982529
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000053.0x000087
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163602718.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 1651
- Title:
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Poems by Erasmus
- Scope & Content:
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Collection of epigrams by Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1467–1536), humanist scholar and reformer. Containing a dedicatory epistle addressed to Prince Henry, later Henry VIII (1491–1547), king of England and Ireland.
With an epigram by Robert Gaguin (1433-1501), French-Flemish humanist, poet, prosodist and historian.
f. 1r-1v: Letter from Erasmus to Prince Henry, headed ‘Generosissimo duci Henrico Herasmus’. 1499. Latin.
ff. 1v-5r: Poem titled ‘In laudem angelorum’. With subsections headed ‘De Michahele’, ‘Gabrielis laus’, ‘Raphahelis laus’, and ‘De angelis in genere’. [Paris, before 1496].
f. 5r-5v: Poem titled ‘Hendecasillabum carmen’ addressed to Robert Gaguin. [Paris, c. 1495].
ff. 5v-6r: Poem titled ‘Epigramma [Roberti] Ga[guini]’. [Paris, c. 1495].
f. 6r-6v: Poem titled ‘In Gauginum et Faustum Herasmus’. [Paris, c. 1495].
ff. 6v-7r: Poem titled ‘Carmen extemporale [in Skeltonem]’. [England, 1499].
f. 7r-7v: Poem titled ‘In castigationes Vincentii contra Malleoli castigatoris deprivationes’. [Paris, 1496].
f. 7v-8r: Poem titled ‘Ad Gaguinum de suis rebus’. [Spring 1496].
f. 8r-8v: Poem titled ‘Contestatio salvatoris ad hominem sua culpa pereuntem carminis futuri rudimentum’. [England, 1492].
ff. 8v-10r: Poem titled ‘In dive Anne laudem Rithmi Iambici’. [1497-1499].
f. 10r: ‘Ad Skeltonum carmen ex tempore’. The first three lines of ‘Carmen extemporale’ above (ff. 6v-7r). Followed by the annotation ‘ut habetur’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001982529
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001982529
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100163602718.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1499
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 1499
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 280 x 190 mm.
Foliation: ff. xii + 10.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum.
Script: Secretary.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Benjamin Heywood Bright, antiquary (1787-1843): former owner, his sale 18 June 1844 (Lot 151).
Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851), bookseller: former owner, purchased for £2, 11 shillings.
Charles Frederick Molini (1789-1860), bookseller: former owner.
Purchased by the British Museum, 1854. From the Farnborough Fund.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum 1854-1875, vol. 2 (London, 1877), p. 837.
Allen, P.S., H.M. Allen and H.W. Garrod, eds., Opus Epistolarum Des. Erasmi Roterodami, 12 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1906-1958).
Carlson, David R., ‘Erasmus, Revision, and the British Library Manuscript Egerton 1651’, Renaissance and Reformation, vol. 15, no. 3 (1991), 199-232.
Carlson, David R., English Humanist Books: Writers and Patrons, Manuscript and Print, 1475-1525 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993), pp. 87-92.
Garrod, H.W., ‘Erasmus and his English Patrons’, The Library, 5th series, 4, no. 1 (1949), 1-13.
‘Poems from the Egerton MS 1651’, in Erasmi Opuscula: A Supplement to the Opera Omnia, ed. with introductions and notes by Wallace K. Ferguson (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1933), pp. 25-31.
Reedijk, Cornelius, ed., The Poems of Desiderius Erasmus (Leiden: Brill, 1956).
Vredeveld, Harry, ‘Towards a Definitive Edition of Erasmus’s Poetry’, Humanistica Lovaniensia, 37 (1988), 115-74.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)