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Harley MS 26

Record Id:

040-002045854

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002045854

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0000b9

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 26

Title:

Speculum humanae salvationis

Scope & Content:

ff. 1r–60v: Speculum humanae salvationis (in verse), ‘Incipit prohemium. cuiusdam noue compilacionis’.

ff. 60v–61v: Added sermon on 2 Corinthians 6:2, in English, ‘Ecce nunc tempus acceptabile’.

Decoration:

Large initials in red. Capitals marked in red. Marginal annotations in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002045854

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 26 : Speculum humanae salvationis

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0025]/040-002045854

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1450

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

2nd half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 290 × 200 mm (written area 205 × 110 mm).

Foliation: ff. 61 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).

Collation: i^8–1 (ff. 1–7; 1st cancelled), ii–vi⁸ (ff. 8–47), vii⁶⁺¹ (ff. 48–54; 1st added), viii⁶ (ff. 55–60), viii¹ (f. 61; a singleton).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

John Nettleton, the elder (d. 1553) and the younger (d. c. 1597), of Hutton Cranswick, East Yorkshire (see Wright 1972).

Henry Savile, of Banke (b. 1568, d. 1617), collector of manuscripts: no. 47 in his library catalogue (see Gilson 1906-1908; Watson 1969; and Wright 1972).

Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright 1972).

Sir Simonds D’Ewes (d. 1722), 3rd baronet and grandson of the former: inherited and later sold the D’Ewes library to Robert Harley on 4 October 1705 for £450 (see Watson 1966).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.

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

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 26.

Veronica M. O'Mara, 'A Checklist of Unedited Late Middle English Sermons that Occur Singly or in Small Groups', Leeds Studies in English, 19 (1988), 141-66 (pp. 145, 156-57).

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. 131, 249, 298.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Related Material:

OCR-generated record (may contain errors) from A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London, Eyre and Strahan, 1808-1812), I (1808):

Codex membranaceus in fol. min. in que habentur,

1. Speculum Humanae Salvationis, Rhythmice scriptum.

Autorem agnoscit Fratrem quendam Amandum, Cottonianus Codex inscriptus Vesp. E. 1.

2. Homilia Anglice, in illam Apostoli Lectionem, Ecce nunc Tempus acceptabile. Cor. I.