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Harley MS 149
- Record Id:
- 040-002045977
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002045977
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x000166
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 149
- Title:
- Dives et Pauper; Jacques Legrand, The Book of Good Manners; Cena domini; The Gospel of Nichodemus; Miracles of Christ; Legend of the Vernicle; A tretyse betwene Saynt Petre and Symon Magus; The Obyte of Pylat; The decollacyoun of Saynt Petre and Saynt Poule; Signs before Doomsday
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-182v: Dives et Pauper, imperfect at the beginning.
ff. 183-252r: Jacques Legrand (Jacobus Magnus), The Book of Good Manners.
ff. 252v-255v: A Middle English treatise entitled Cena domini.
ff. 255r-263r: The Gospel of Nicodemus in Middle English.
ff. 263r-279r: Miracles of Christ (‘Serteyn storyes of thynges done aftyr hys Passyon’).
ff. 276r-279r: Legend of the Vernicle (part of the Healing of Tiberius).
ff. 279r-280v: A tretyse betwene Saynt Petre and Symon Magus (part of the Healing of Tiberius).
f. 280v: The Obyte of Pylat (part of the Healing of Tiberius).
f. 280v: The decollacyoun of Saynt Petre and Saynt Poule (part of the Healing of Tiberius).
f. 281r: Signs before Doomsday (5 signs), Latin and Middle English.
The manuscript contains a number of additions:
f. 1*recto: A note about the manuscript added in 1802.
f. 2*recto: An unfinished title-page, added by Sir Simonds D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650).
ff. 118v-19r: Medicinal recipes (‘Take the cropps of tyme’), imperfect due to cropping of page; added in the 16th century.
f. 182*r: The opening of a bond ‘Noverint universi per presentes’, added inthe 15th century.
f. 281v: A Latin note about the feast of St Peter, imperfect due to cropping of page; added in the 15th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002045977", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 149: Dives et Pauper; Jacques Legrand, The Book of Good Manners; Cena domini; The Gospel of Nichodemus; Miracles of Christ; Legend of the…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002045977 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 149 : Dives et Pauper; Jacques Legrand, The Book of Good Manners; Cena domini; The Gospel of Nichodemus; Miracles of Christ; Legend of… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0148]/040-002045977
- 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:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 275 x 210
Foliation: ff. 1* + 2* + 182* + 281 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves and 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); f. 1* and f. 2* are paper leaves; f. 182 is a parchment leaf; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 2*recto; 1 bibliographical notes); each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
‘John w[o]r[m]’, owned ff. 182*-[283] in the 15th century: his name inscribed on f. 283v.
Henry Savile of Banke (b. 1568, d. 1617), collector of manuscripts, owned ff. 1-182: listed in his catalogue as no. 46; notations throughout the manuscript are almost certainly in his and his father’s hands (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 298).
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 131): acquired ff. 1-182 in 1624 for 6s, and ff. 183-281 in 1625 for 3s; added a title-page (unfinished) on f. 2*recto; additions in his hand throughout the manuscript; recorded in his catalogues as A.163, C.202, C.227, B.55.
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.
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.
- Publications:
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Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: The British Library, 2005), nos 497.55/5, 1206.55/5, 3397.55/5, 3967.55/5, 4074.22/5, 4204.55/5.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), p. 44.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 373.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Jacques Legrand, c. 1360-c. 1425