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Harley MS 42

Record Id:

040-002045870

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002045870

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0000cf

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 42

Title:

William of Woodford, Determinationes IV contra libellum Iohannis Wyclif in materia de religione; Quaestiones LXXII de sacramento altaris; De causis condemnationis XVIII articulorum damnatorum Iohannis Wyclif

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 2*r-2*v: a leaf from an unidentified 13th-century English antiphonary with musical notation for the Feast of All Saints, beginning: 'hora dominus vester' and ending: 'Benedicite dominum omnes electi eius'.

ff. 3*r-3*v: a leaf from an unidentified 12th-century missal including the service for Palm Sunday, beginning: 'humani generis de celo descendit' and ending 'ut sic in hac morta[litate]'.

ff.1r-88v: William of Woodford (d. 1397), Quaestiones LXXII de sacramento altaris.

ff. 89r-124v: William of Woodford, Determinationes IV contra libellum Iohannis Wyclif in materia de religione.

ff. 125r-169v: William of Woodford, De causis condemnationis XVIII articulorum damnatorum Iohannis Wyclif.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002045870

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 42 : William of Woodford, Determinationes IV contra libellum Iohannis Wyclif in materia de religione; Quaestiones LXXII de…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0041]/040-002045870

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: parchment.

Dimensions: 260 x 190 mm.

Foliation: ff. 3* + 169 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 parchment flyleaf and 3 paper flyleaves at the end); f. 1* is a paper leaf.

Script: Gothic cursive; Protogothic (ff. 2-3).

Binding: Post-1600.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

Bridgettine abbey of St Saviour, St Mary the Virgin, and St Bridget, Syon: its library mark 41' (f. 1*r).

William Catysby (d. 1510), priest of Syon: his name on the former book-labels pasted on fol. 1*r.

W. P., unidentified 16th/17th-century owner: inscribed with the initials (f. 1r).

Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st Baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright 1972): owned by him (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 131).

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 forms 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), I (1808), p. 12.

Ker, Neil R., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain. A List of Surviving Books, 2nd edn (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 185.

Wright, Cyril Ernest, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 98, 131, 264, 322-23.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Woodford, William, Franciscan friar and theologian, d. in or after 1397,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000036725688X,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/231025895