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Harley MS 5201

Record Id:

040-001615698

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001615698

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x0000e2

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5201

Title:

Astrological miscellany

Scope & Content:

The manuscript is composed of three parts produced in different periods and locations that originally formed independent manuscripts (ff. 1r-83v; 84r-146v; 147r-183v).

Contents:

Pars oculi sacerdotis (ff. 1r-50v);

Notes in English and Latin (ff. 51r-52v);

Verba secundum modum alphabeticum, a list of Latin verbs divided according to their conjugations (ff. 53r-73v);

Dubia sacre scripture secundum magistrum Pencrith (ff. 74r-80v);

Notes in Latin and English (f. 80v);

Benedictiones ante prad. in vigilia pasche (ff. 81v-82r);

A note in Latin (f. 82v);

Johannes Lichtenberger, Pronosticatio in latino (ff. 84r-146r);

Psalter (fragment) with a calendar page for November/December (ff. 148r-184v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Harley Science Project

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001615698

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5201 : Astrological miscellany

Contains:

Harley MS 5201, ff 1r-50v : Pars oculi sacerdotis
Harley MS 5201, ff 51r-52v : Notes in English and Latin
Harley MS 5201, ff 74r-80v : Dubia sacre scripture secundum magistrum Pencrith
Harley MS 5201, ff 53r-73v : Verba secundum modum alphabeticum
Harley MS 5201, f 80v (item 1) : A note in Latin
Harley MS 5201, f 80v (item 2) : A note in English
Harley MS 5201, ff 81v-82r : Benedictiones ante prad. in vigilia pasche
Harley MS 5201, f 82v : A note in Latin, 'A sentencia excomunicationis'
Harley MS 5201, ff 84r-146r : Johannes Lichtenberger, Pronosticatio in latino
Harley MS 5201, ff 148r-184v : Psalter (fragment)

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5201]/040-001615698

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

183 folios.

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Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1150

End Date:

1524

Date Range:

1150-1524

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment codex.

Dimensions: 200 x 140 mm (text space: ff. 1r-83v: 160 x 110 mm; ff. 84r-146v: 140 x 100 mm; ff. 147r-183v: 145 x 90 mm).

Foliation: ff. vii + 184.

Script: ff. 1r-83v: Gothic cursive. Catchwords; ff. 84r-146v: Gothic. Colophon [possibly an integral part of the text and not a scribe's colophon]: 'Emendatum denuo presagium hoccine impressioni quoque iterum deditum anno domini MCCCCXCII [1492] octava die mensis Junii, in inclita urbe maguntina [Mainz], cum carminibus Pindari preclarissimi Poetae...' (f. 146r). Catchwords and quire signatures; 147r-183v: Protogothic. Catchwords.

Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding. Rebound in 1968.

Custodial History:

Origin: Part I (ff. 1r-83v): England; Part II (ff. 84r-146v): Germany, W. (possibly Mainz); Part III (ff. 147r-183v): England

Provenance:

Part II (ff. 84r-146v): Humbert Archier, 16th century: his name inscribed (ff. 118r, 146r, the latter partially effaced).

Part III (ff. 147r-183v): The Augustinian priory of the Holy Sepulchre, Thetford, Norfolk, founded by William de Warenne, the 3rd earl of Warenne and Surrey around 1139: ownership inscription, 'Titulus monasterii sancti sepulchri de thetfordi ordinis sancti Augustini', 15th-century (f. 147r); and possibly its pressmark, 'A N' (f. 147r).

All parts:

John Batteley (b. 1647, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John Batteley on 5 November 1723

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 Novembris, A.D. 1723’ (ff. 1r, 147r).

Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish 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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 5201.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 263 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. 53, 66-67, 326.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)