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Harley MS 171
- Record Id:
- 040-002045999
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002045999
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x00017c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 171
- Title:
- Apocalypse (in Wycliffe translation), with commentary
- Scope & Content:
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f. 1r: Alchemical recipe to ‘ze [see] the secrets of secrets & frest & last as ye may se in planyttes and in planephiffres’.
ff. 2r–109r: Commentary on the Apocalypse of John in the Wycliffite translation, with biblical passages alternating with commentary in a continuous sequence.
ff. 110r–111v: Folded fragment from Gregory the Great, Homily 26, written in Caroline minuscule with red pen-flourishing (10th century), used as a flyleaf.
Decoration:
2 large initials in gold and blue with brown and red pen flourishing (ff. 2r, 4v). Smaller initials in blue, some with red decoration. Capitals marked with stroke of red. Paraph marks in red or blue. Quire signatures with penwork decoration (e.g. f. 97v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002045999", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 171: Apocalypse (in Wycliffe translation), with commentary" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002045999 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 171 : Apocalypse (in Wycliffe translation), with commentary - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0170]/040-002045999
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1375
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter 14th century-1st quarter 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 155 × 105 mm (written area 100 × 60 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 111 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning followed by 1 unfoliated parchment leaf + 1 unfoliated parchment leaf between f. 1 and f. 1* + 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Collation: Mostly quires of 8, with catchwords and quire signatures.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum. Marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Various inscriptions (ff. 1r, 2r, 109r, and in margins); 15th century.
Mathew Goodryk: inscribed with his name, early 16th century (f. 109v).
David Norkin of Ria' Riall; early 16th century (initials 'D.N.' on f. 109; name on f. 109v).
Names 'Richard' and ?'Johnny'; ?17th century (f. 1*).
Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright 1972): probably bought with another manuscript in 1644 for 10s. (see Watson 1966).
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.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 171.
A Fourteenth Century English Biblical Version Consisting of a Prologue and Parts of the New Testament Together with some Introductory Chapters on Middle English Biblical Versions, ed. by Anna Paues (Cambridge: University Press, 1902), pp. xxi-xxx [xxiv-xxv, xxviii].
Class Catalogue of Manuscripts, Nr. 75 (B): Bibles, Commentaries, etc., [unpublished; British Library Manuscripts Reading Room], f. 435r.
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), pp. 56-62, 199, 260, no. A853.
J. Burke Severs, A Manual of the Writings in Middle-English 1050-1500, (The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1970), II, p. 547.
Walter Sauer, Die Mittelenglische Übersetzung der Apokalypse mitt Kommentar (Version B), [Heidelberg: unpublished doctoral dissertation, 1971], pp. XIII-XXI.
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 131, 167, 258.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)