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Harley MS 153
- Record Id:
- 040-002045981
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002045981
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x00016a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 153
- Title:
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Rithmus de Sancto Goderico; Reginald of Durham; Vita et Miracula Sancti Godrici
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-3v: Rithmus de Sancto Goderico.
ff. 4r-74v: Reginald of Durham, Vita et Miracula Sancti Godrici; including St Godric’s hymn to the Virgin Mary (f. 26r) and St Godric’s prayer (f. 31r) in early Middle English.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. [iii]verso: A note with historical events in the year 1110: Henry I's bethrothal of his daughter Matilda to Henry V; the translation of St Oswine of Deira's relics to Tynemouth Priory; and the beginning of St Godric of Finchale's heremitical life; extracted from a copy of a chronicle by Johannes Beverus [John of London, John Le Bever] (d. c. 1311), a Benedictine monk of Westminster (‘Johannis Beveri Monachi Westmonast[erii] Chronica MS fol. 33.b.’); inscribed by Sir Simonds D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650).
ff. 75r-76r: Short tracts about rites and prayer performed by the clerk 'J. L.' in a church (‘the parish Church of S.’) in the county of Nottinghamshire, dated to 1684.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002045981", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 153: Rithmus de Sancto Goderico; Reginald of Durham; Vita et Miracula Sancti Godrici" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002045981 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 153 : Rithmus de Sancto Goderico; Reginald of Durham; Vita et Miracula Sancti Godrici - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0152]/040-002045981
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Undetermined
- Start Date:
- 1585
- End Date:
- 1684
- Date Range:
- c 1590-1684
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 330 x 215 mm.
Foliation: ff. 76 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper leaf between f. 74 and f. 75; an unfoliated loose paper strip with a 17th-century Latin text between f. 23 and f. 24; ff. 75 and 76 are smaller leaves (295 x 290 mm).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post 1600. British Museum in-house: re-bound on 5 April 1967.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
A late 16th-century English scribe: copied ff. 1r-74.
A scribe from Nottinghamshire, in 1684: copied ff. 75r-76r.
An unknown English owner, owned in the 16th or 17th century: wrote ‘Vita God[e]rici Heremiti’ on a strip of parchment now on f. 1r.
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): inscribed by D’Ewes’s hand on f. [iii]verso and his number ‘30’ on f. 2r; the manuscript is recorded in his catalogues as A.290 and B.64.
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 598/2, 2988/8.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), p. 45.
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)