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Harley MS 211
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- 040-002046039
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- 040-002046039
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- Harley MS 211
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Pastoral manual
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ff. 1r–3v: Versicles and psalms, ‘Hic incipiunt quindecim psalmi.’
ff. 3v–15v: ‘Matutine beate uirginis marie per totum annum.’
ff. 16r–18r: ‘Ad completorium.’
f. 18r: Invocation of the Trinity, ‘Deus pater in primo folio ✠ deus filius in secundo filio ✠ deus spiritus sanctus in tercio folio ✠Eternus pater in primo folio ✠ Eternus filius in secundo filio ✠ Eternus spiritus sanctus in tercio folio ✠In mensus pater in primo folio ✠ In mensus filius in secundo filio ✠ In mensus spiritus sanctus in tercio folio ✠’
f. 18v: ‘Manus Meditacionis’, a diagram of a hand showing a mnemonic system for prayer.
ff. 19r–28v: ‘Vespere defunctorum’.
ff. 28v–34r: ‘Commemoratio Defunctorum’.
ff. 35r–46v: Richard Lavenham, A Litil Tretys on the Seven Deadly Sins (edited from this manuscript, van Zutphen 1956); a 14th-century addition.
f. 47r–65r: Tractate on the Ten Commandments in Middle English: ‘Heer begynnyþ þe ten commaundementis of god. We scholde besyen vs to lerne þe sone of god … Explicit tractatus de x. mandatis.’
ff. 65r–69r: Order for the visitation of the sick, in Middle English. ‘Heer mayst thou serue to visyte the sek man or woman. & how thou shalt conforte hem in her sekness. and ȝiff they drawe to the deth, what thow schalt seyn to hem. My dere son. or dawhter in god. it semyth þat thow heyest the faste in the wey fro this liff to godward. … Explicit visitacio informorum.’
f. 69v–84v: Tractate on the seven deadly sins in Middle English: ‘Hic incipit tractatus de septem peccatis mortalibus. Sinne owȝte to be fledde …’
f. 85r: Carmelite hymn to the prophet Elijah, ‘Gaude gemma prophetarum / Decusque carmelitarum …’, a 15th-century addition.
f. 85v: Charm for staunching blood, ‘For to stanche bloode a good charme provyd. God þat was in betthleem borne and baptysed was in the water of flam Iordane …'. Listed in L. E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd ed. (Ann Arbor, MI, 2006 = eVK2), no. 2058.00. Addition of the late 15th century.
ff. 86r–100v: Treatise on the vices and virtues in Middle English, ‘Contra superbia. Medycyne for pryde is mekenesse. For ryȝt as pride is the werst of synnys …’. Biblical references written in the margins.
ff. 100v–101r: Note on penance, ‘Penawnce is for to by …’.
f. 101v: Days of pardon granted to the visitors of the ‘chapel of oure lady in the see. in þe diocese of Ely.’
ff. 102r–103*v: Robert Grosseteste, De modo confitendi: ‘Modus siue forma confitendi secundum dominum Robertum episcopum lincolnie. Qualiter informandus est confitens. Primo dicat sacerdos confitenti.’
f. 104r: Three medical recipes for the stone in Middle English: 'A souereyn medycyne for þe stone. Take the sede of smallach þe seede of Alysawnder þe seede of rede fenell …' eVK2, no. 6277.00). Addition of the late 15th century.
f. 104v–108v: Confessionale, ‘Ut ex compendiosa leccione possit occurere penitenti quocumque gradu constituto quid debeat in confessione …’, working through each of the seven deadly sins, including a confessional formula on sloth (ff. 106r–106v; edited by Wenzel 1960: 198–99).
f. 109r–v: Form for confession, ‘Confiteor tibi domine deus omnipotens. quia ego peccator peccaui nimis coram te et coram angelis tuis. …’
f. 109v: ‘Hanc Oracionem sequentem composuit beatus Augustinus, affirmans quod qui flexis genibus cotidie deuoto dixerit non morietur in peccato mortali. Aspice ad me infelicem pietas immensa …’.
ff. 110r–116v: Penitential office, with a litany (ff. 114r–115r).
ff. 117r–118r: ‘Oracio de Sancta Trinitate. Sanctus sanctus sanctus dominus deus sabaoth. Sancta trinitas et infiuisa unitas. pater et filius et spiritus sanctus. domine deus omnipotens. eterne. et ineffabilis. sine fine atque inicio. quem vnum in trinitate. …’
f. 118r–v: ‘Oracio deuota de Sancta trinitate. Miserere nobis domine …’
f. 118v–120r: ‘Oracio B. Augustini de S. Trinitate. Domine deus omnipotens …’
ff. 120r–121r: ‘Quicumque hanc oracionem beati Gregorii in honore sancte trinitatis et beate Marie Virginis ac omnium sanctorum cotidie decantauerit dimittentur ei peccata sua in hoc seculo et in futuro. De S. Trinitate.’
ff. 121r–122r: ‘Oracio bona et deuota ad sanctam Trinitatem.’
f. 122r–v: ‘Oracio deuota ad sanctam Trinitatem.’
f. 122v: ‘Oracio deuota ad sanctam Trinitatem et ad omnes sanctos.’
ff. 122v–123r: ‘Oracio deuota ad patrem omnipotentem.’
f. 123r: ‘Oracio ad filium.’
f. 123r: ‘Oracio ad spiritum sanctum.’
f. 123r: ‘Oracio ad sanctam Trinitatem.’
ff. 123v–124r: ‘Confessio bona ad sanctam Trinitatem.’
f. 124v: ‘Oracio ad dominum ihesum cristum.’
ff. 125r–126r: ‘Oracio ad dominum ihesum cristum.’
ff. 126r–127v: ‘Oracio ad dominum ihesum cristum.’
ff. 127v–128r: ‘Oracio ad dominum ihesum cristum.’
f. 128r–v: ‘Oracio ad dominum ihesum cristum.’
ff. 128v–129r: Berengar of Tours, verse prayer, ‘Oracio ad dominum ihesum cristum contra insidias malorum spirituum. Iuste iudex ihesu criste rex regum et domine …’
ff. 129r–130r: ‘Oracio venerabilis Bede presbiteri de septem verbis cristi in cruce pendentis. quam oracionem quicumque cotidie devote flexis genibus dixerit nec dyabolus nec malus homo ei nocere poterit. nec sine confessione morietur. et per triginta dies ante obitum suum videbit gloriosam virginem mariam in auxilium sibi preparatam.’
ff. 130r–133r: Prayers to Christ, ‘Quicunque hanc oracionem sequentem per circulum unius anni deuote frequentauerit de eius progenie xv. anime de purgatorio liberabuntur …’
ff. 133r–134r: ‘Oracio bona et deuota de humanitate cristi’, in verse.
ff. 134r–135r: ‘Hec oracio sequens tam sancta est quod siquis eam flexis genibus coram cruce veneranda deuote dixerit. quicquid legittime pecierit sine dubio impetrabit.’
ff. 135r–136r: ‘Quicumque hec arma domini nostri ihesu cristi inspexerit habebit sex milia annorum indulgencie …’, with illustrated ‘arms’ of Christ showing his wounds and prayers.
f. 136v: ‘Oracio deuota ad sanctam crucem.’
ff. 136v–137r: ‘Oracio bona ad sanctam crucem.’
f. 137r: ‘Oracio bona ad sanctam crucem.’
f. 137r–v: ‘Item ad crucem.’
ff. 137v–138v: ‘Oracio deuota ad ymaginem crucifixi.’
f. 138v: Ad sanctam Iohannem Evangelistam.
f. 138v: Oracio ad Deum.
f. 138v: Oracio ad elevacionem Corporis cristi.
f. 139r: Oracio poli elevacionem Corporis cristi.
f. 139v: Omnibus hanc Oracionem dicentibus, inter elevacionem Eukaristie, et tercium Agnus Dfii, duo millia annorum Venie coneeduntur, per Dnm Papam Bonifacium.
f. 139v: Oracio pro recipiente Corporis cristi.
f. 139v: Oracio poll elevacionem Corporis cristi.
f. 140v: Oracio devota ad dominum ihesum cristum.
f. 140v: Item, Oracio devota ad elevacionem Corporis cristi.
f. 141r: Oracio ad Elevacionem Corporis Domini.
f. 141r: Ad S. Veronicam, Oracio.
f. 141v: Oracio beati Ambrosii, ante Missam dicenda.
f. 144r: Oracio, sive Gratiarum Actio, ad dominum ihesum cristum.
f. 144v: Dns Papa Benedicius xn. Ordinis Cislerciensis, composuit Oracionem sequentem; et conceslit omnibus vere confeslis et contritis, eam infra Mislarum Solemnia devote dicentibus, tot dies Indulgentiarum, quot fuerunt Vulnera in Corpore cristi. Summa vero vulnerum cristi fuerunt quinque Millia, 300, & 20.
f. 145v: Orationes superstitiosae, pro defensione in Proelio pro Victoria, &c.
f. 146r: Edmund of Pontigny, Orationes. ‘Oracio S. Edmundi Episcopi, qualibet Node, et summo Mane dicenda.’
f. 146v: Sententia Absolutionis Peccatorum, tara super Clericum, quam super Laicum, in Articulo Mortis pronuntianda.
f. 147v: Anni Indulgentiae quotidie recitantibus Psalterium B. V. M arise, concessi.
f. 147v: Preces ad Jhum Xpm. A prayer in Middle English verse on f. 147v is listed in J. Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, Index, no. 1758.5/1.
f. 147v: Versiculi ad S. Albanum.
f. 148r: Oracio ad B. V. Mariam.
f. 149r: Oracio ad B. Mariam.
f. 150r: Oracio devota ad B. Virginem.
f. 150v: Laudes B. V. Mariae.
f. 151v: Oracio ad B. V. Mariam.
f. 152r: Oracio devota ad B. Virginem.
f. 152v: Oracio ad Jstm Xpm.
f. 152v: ‘Quicunque hec vii. Gaudia in honore B. M. V. semel in dic dixerit; 100 dies Indulgienciarum optinebit a Dno Papa Clemente, qui hec septem Gaudia proprio flilo composuit.’
f. 153v: Letania B. V. Mariae.
f. 156r: ‘Quicunque hanc Oracionem cotidie dixerit, genuflectendo, videbit gloriosam Virginem Mariam in ejus succursu contra Demones. Et edam hec Oracio. est tam sancta, quod per eam quedam Monialis lasciva redempta fuit a Dyabolo per preces S. Marie Virginis.’
f. 157r: ‘Quicunque istam Oracionem B. Bernardi per 30 dies, vere Confessus et Contritus B. Virgini devote dixerit, pro quacunque re poslibili pecierit, proculdubio sciet se impetraturum, et sunt quamplures Indulgence concesle eam Legentibus.’
f. 158v: Orado devota de B. V. Maria.
f. 159v: Oracio ad Beatam Virginem. Metrice.
f. 160r: Oracio.
f. 160v: Oracio ad B. Virginem, et ad S. Johannem Evangelistam.
f. 161r: Oracio ad B. Virginem. Metrice.
(ff. 163–169 are later additions.)
f. 163r: Preces nonnullae ad BVM.
f. 163v: Orado Metrica ad BVM.
f. 164r: Eiaculationes ad BVM.
f. 165v: Si homo fuerit in Paupertate, Vel Tristicia, vd Angustia, vel in Mortali Peccato, aut in auacunque Necessitate; eat ad Ecclesiam, et Genu flectet coram Cruce, et dicat cum Devodone, has Oradones sequerites.
f. 166v: Memoria Lacrime Jhu, propter quam, qui coddie dixerit, bona fide. Lumine Oculorum non privabitur.
f. 167r: Oraciones ad Gaiibrielem Archangelem. ib. Ordo ad includendum Hominem vel Feminam.
f. 170r: De S. Michaele. Oratio.
f. 170r: Oracio ad proprium Angelum.
f. 170r: Oracio.
f. 170v: Ad proprium Angelum.
f. 170v: Ad proprium Angelum.
f. 170v: Oracio.
f. 171r: Oracio ad proprium Angelum, omni mane dicenda.
f. 171r: Oracio.
f. 171r: Oracio ad omnes Angelos.
f. 171v: Oracio ad omnes Angelos Dei.
f. 171v: De S. Johanne Baptista.
f. 172r: De Innocentibus, Orationes.
f. 172r: Ad S. Petrum.
f. 172r: Ad B. Paulum Aposlolum, Orado.
f. 172r: De S. Andrea.
f. 172v: De S. Johanne Apostolo et Evangelista.
f. 172v: De S. Johanne Evangelisla.
f. 172v: De S. Johanne Baptista.
f. 173r: Orationes ad S. Johannem Baptistam.
f. 173v: Antiphona, de S. Theobaldo Abbate.
f. 173v: Antiphona et Oratio de S. Andrea Episcopo et Confeslbre.
f. 174r: Dislichon de Thoma Bradley, per N. S.
f. 174v: Antiphona, et Oratio de Patre Alberto.
f. 175r: Oratio ad S. Stephanum.
f. 175r: Memoria de S. Crislofero contra diversas Infirmitates.
f. 175v: Oratio de S. Crislofero.
f. 175v: Orationes de S. Georgio Martyre.
f. 175v: De S. Thoma Martyre & Pontifice.
f. 176v: Oratio de B. Thoma Apostolo; D. Thoma Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo; B. Thoma Monacho et Martyre Dovarie; B. Thoma Milite et Comite Lancastrie et Martyre; B. Thoma Herefordie Antistite & Confessore; B. Thoma de Aquino Doctore et Confessore.
f. 177r: Forma Absolutionis, in extremis.
f. 177v: Gratiarum Actio, ad Deum.
f. 178r: Antiphona et Oratio ad S. Nicholaum.
f. 178r: De S. Egidio.
f. 178v: De S. Leonardo.
f. 179r: Oratio ad B. V. M.
f. 180r: De S. Anna.
f. 180r: De S. Maria Magdalena.
f. 180v: De S. Katerina.
f. 180v: De S. Apollonia, pro dolore Dencium.
f. 181r: De S. Barbara.
f. 181v: Oracio devota ad xi. Millia Virginum.
f. 181v: De S. Margareta.
f. 182r: Orationes de SS. Maria Magdalena, Katerina, et Margareta.
f. 183v: Antiphona et Oratio de S. Ursula, et 11000 uirginibus.
f. 183v: Salutacio bona ad Dnm nrm Jscm Xpm.
f. 184r: Oratio ad omnes Sanctos Dei.
f. 184v: Oratio ad omnes Sandos Dei.
f. 185r: Oratio ante Psalteriurn.
f. 185r: Oratio sive Ejaculatio.
f. 185r: Hic incipit Psalteriurn B. Jeronimi. i. e. Excerpta ex Psalmis, quae pertinent ad xv. Psalmos in initio Codicis.
f. 190v: Devota et Sanda Litania.
f. 192r: De Fundatore sive Auctore Ordinis Catmelitani.
f. 193v: Verba superstiliosa recitanda, pro salute et protestione.
f. 193v: Nomina dei Hebraica.
f. 193r: Sequitur aliena manu, atq; supra 400 annorum vetustatem prae se ferente, Liber Proverbiorum Salomonis, seu potius Excerpta e Libris Parabolarum, Ecclesiastis, &c.
f. 191v: Adnotatio de Thoma Bradley Anachorita in Conventu Fratrum Carmelitarum Norwici; qui 1448 factus fuit Episcopus Dromorensis in Ybernia, et S. Romane Ecclesie Legatus.
ff. 193r–200v: Collection of biblical excerpts, 13th century, initials in red.
Decoration:
Large initials (1–3 lines) in red or alternating red and blue; rubrics in red. Devotional drawing representing the emblems of the Passion of Christ in red and brown on f. 135; a similar devotional image, now missing, was possibly glued onto f. 136 at the time of a later textual addition.
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Harley MS 211 : Pastoral manual - Hierarchy:
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1 volume
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- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1440
- Date Range:
- Early 13th century-Early 15th century
- Era:
- CE
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Material: parchment.
Dimensions: 195 × 130 mm (140–145 × 85–90 mm).
Foliation: ff. 202, numbered 1–200 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end). Foliation repeats nos. 103 and 121 (ff. 103*, 121*).
Collation: i8 (ff. 1–8), ii10 (ff. 9–18), iii–iv8 (ff. 19–34); v12 (ff. 35–46); vi–vii8 (ff. 47–62; quire vii numbered ‘viii’), viii6+1 (ff. 63–69; 7th added), ix–xii8 (ff. 70–101; quire x numbered ‘xi’); xiii2 (ff. 102–103; numbered ‘xiiii’), xiv6 (ff. 103*–108), xv–xx8 (ff. 109–155), xxi8–1 (ff. 156–162, 8th cancelled); xxii8–1 (ff. 163–169, 1st cancelled); xxiii–xxiv8 (ff. 170–185; numbered ‘xxiiii–xxv’), xxv8–1 (ff. 186–192; numbered ‘xxvi’; 8th cancelled); xxvi8 (ff. 193–200). Some catchwords and quire/leaf signatures (e.g. ff. 1–4, 55–58).
Script: Gothic and gothic cursive. English bookhands by a number of scribes. The main scribe has been identified as Roger Albon or Alban (d. after 1461), genealogist, copyist, and Carmelite friar, who also copied Harley MS 3138, Stowe MS 8 and possibly Stowe MS 38 (Edden 1995: 101 n. 3; Sharpe 1997: 580; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). Last text (ff. 193-200v) written in the early 13th cent. in a protogothic textualis.
Binding: British Museum, rebound in 1875; with use of the Harleian covers of brown morocco over the original bevelled wooden boards, gilt-tooled with the Harley arms and motto; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Written mainly by Roger Alban (or Roger of St Albans, d. after 1461), chronicler and Carmelite friar, (see Sharpe 1997). A number of added inscriptions suggest a continued connection with Norwich and the Carmelite convent (ff. 69r, 166v, 174r, 191v; see Ker 1964).
Provenance:
Thomas de Bradley Scrope (d. 1492), an anchorite in the Carmelite convent at Norwich: suffrages for him (ff. 174r, 191v).
Thomas Waterpytte (d. 1508), prior of the Carmelite convent at Norwich, c. 1486-1508: given by him to Richard Cake (f. 166v; see Watson 1966).
Richard Cake or Coke, probably identifiable with the rector of Bradfield, co. Norf., c. 1503-1512: given to him by Thomas Waterpytte (f. 166v; see Watson 1966).
George Canay, monk at Norwick: late 15th or early 16th century, his ownership inscriptions, 'Iste codex pertinet ad me dompne Georgium Canay / monacum [Norwycensis]' and 'ad me dompne George iste liber pertinet' (f. 69r; see Watson 1966).
? Elizabeth mad (?): late 16th or early 17th century, her name in Gothic display script with decorated initial ink (f. 176v).
Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Watson 1966, Wright 1972): although not listed in any of his catalogues (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 Add. 70478 (formerly Loan 29/254 packet 2); Watson 1966; Wright and Wright 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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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 211.
C. H. Talbot, ‘A List of Cistercian Manuscripts in Great Britain’, Traditio, 8 (1952), 402-18 (pp. 408, 411).
A Litil Tretys on the Seven Deadly Sins by Richard Lavenham, ed. by Johannes P.W.M. van Zutphen (Rome: Institutum Carmelitanum, 1956).
S. Wenzel, The Sin of Sloth: Acedia in Medieval Thought and Literature (Chapel Hill, 1960), pp. 198-199.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by Neil R. Ker, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: The Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 139.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. xviii n. 3.
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), p. 321 no. [X 37].
Siegfried Wenzel, The Sin of Sloth: Acedia in Medieval Thought and Literature (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1967), pp. 232 n. 99, 233 n. 110.
Cyril E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 80, 92, 94, 131, 259, 349, 374.
Valerie Edden, 'Marian Devotion in a Carmelite Sermon Collection of the Late Middle Ages', Mediaeval Studies, 57 (1995), 101-29 (p. 101 and n. 3).
Richard Sharpe, A Handlist of the Latin Writers of Great Britain and Ireland before 1540, Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin, 1 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1997), p. 580.
Richard Copsey, 'Alban, Roger (d. after 1461)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/23965.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Alban, Roger, genealogist copyist and Carmelite friar, d after 1461
Berengar of Tours, Archdeacon of Angers, c 1000-1088,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000062365823,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/89270968
Canay, George, monk at Norwich
Coke, Richard, Rector of Bradfield Norfork, fl 1503-1512
D’Ewes, Simonds, 1st Baronet, diarist and antiquary, 1602-1650,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083393524,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12656415
Richard of Lavenham Lavyngham], Prior of the Carmelites at London, fl 1399-1403,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000079733872
Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, c 1170-1253,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123212063,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/86920837
Scrope, Thomas, Bishop of Dromore, d 1492
Waterpytte, Thomas, Prior of the Carmelite of Norwich, d 1508 - Related Material:
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Previous description, funded by the Wellcome Trust:
Theological Compilation; first half of the 15th cent. and early 13th cent., with late 15th-cent. additions. Latin and Middle English. Copies. The MS. may have been written for the use of the Carmelites of Norwich and contains a large collection of offices, religious treatises, prayers and litanies mentioning Carmelite and English saints. It includes (ff. 35-46v) A Litil Tretys, a brief tract in Middle English on the seven deadly sins by Richard Lavenham [Lavyngham] (fl. 1399-circa 1403), prior of the Carmelite convent at London, philosopher and theologian: for the text see R. Lavenham, O. Carm., A Litil Tretys on the Seven Deadly Sins, edited … from MS. Harley 211 in the British Museum, with variants from thirteen other copies, ed. J. P. W. M. van Zutphen (Rome, 1956); L. M. Carruthers, 'Where did Jacob's Well Come From? The Provenance and Dialect of MS Salisbury Cathedral 103', English Studies, 71 (1990), p. 340; L. M. Carruthers, 'Richard Lavynham and the Seven Deadly Sins in Jacob’s Well', Fifteenth-Century Studies, 18 (1991), pp. 17-32; J. Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London, 2005), nos. 621.5/6, 879.5/6, 4110.5/6. This text is copied on a single gathering that was possibly added to the MS. at a later stage, perhaps at the same time as the last gathering (ff. 193-200v) which contains a collection of biblical excerpts in Latin copied in the early 13th cent. A confessional formula in Latin on sloth found on ff. 106-106v is published in S. Wenzel, The Sin of Sloth: Acedia in Medieval Thought and Literature (Chapel Hill, 1960), pp. 198-199, Appendix D; a prayer in Middle English verse on f. 147v is listed in J. Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index …, cit. above, no. 1758.5/1. Late 15th-cent. annotations and additions are also present throughout and include a medical charm (f. 85v; item 1) and four medical recipes (f. 104; item 2). The cataloguing of the MS. was funded by the Wellcome Trust and only the additional charm and medical recipes are itemised in the description. A connection with Norwich and the Carmelite convent rather than the Benedictine cathedral priory, is suggested by suffrages (ff. 174, 191v) for Thomas [Bradley] Scrope (d. 1492), anchorite in the Norwich Carmelite convent and bishop of Dromore in Ireland from 1448 (see Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). Another note (f. 166v), 'doctoor waterpytte dedit Ricardo Cake / istud librum', records the gift of the MS. by Thomas Waterpytte (d. 1508), prior of the Norwich convent circa 1486-1508, to Richard Cake or Coke, rector of Bradfield, co. Norf., 1503-1512. Owned in the 15th-16th cent. by George Canay, monk at Norwich, his ex-libris on f. 69r, 'Iste codex pertinet ad me dompne Georgium Canay / monacum [Norwycensis]' and 'ad me dompne George iste liber pertinet'. The name 'Elizabeth / mad' in ornate late 16th- or 17th cent. characters on f. 176v. Possibly entered the Harleian collection with the purchase in 1705 of the collection of Sir Simonds D'Ewes, first baronet (1602-1650), diarist and antiquary: see A. G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London, 1966), [X37]. For the purchase of the D'Ewes library by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, on 4 Oct. 1705, see Add. 70478 (formerly Loan 29/254, packet 2), Portland Papers, receipt of payment from D'Ewes to Wanley; Watson, The Library…, cit. above, pp. 60, 91 n. 308; C. E. Wright and R. C. Wright, The Diary of Humfrey Wanley, i (London, 1966), p. xviii n. 3. For the provenance, see also Medieval Libraries of Great Britain. A List of Surviving Books, ed. N. R. Ker (London, 1941; revised ed. 1964), p. 139; C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani (London, 1972), pp. 80, 92, 94, 131, 259, 349, 374. Passed on to Harley's son, Edward (1689-1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts. Bequeathed with Edward's library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish Holles (1694-1755), during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), duchess of Portland. Sold with the other Harley manuscripts 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 Harleian manuscripts became part of the collections of the British Library on its establishment in 1973. Harley shelfmarks '36.B.13 / 211' in light and dark brown ink and '15 / I B' in pencil (f. i). The MS. is described in detail in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (London, 1808-1812), i, pp. 66-68; see also R. Lavenham, O. Carm., A Litil Tretys…, cit. above, pp. xxxiii-xxxvi, with pl. (f. 46v).
Parchment; ff. i (paper)+202. Modern foliation in pencil '1-200' (ff. 1-202, followed here, repeating nos. 103 and 121; f. 183 blank; ff. 18v, 85-85v, 101v, 104, 146v-147v, 163-163v, 174-174v, 176v-177v, 183v, 191v-192v originally blank; ff. 164-169 are later additions, of which ff. 164v-165, 166 blank). Secundo folio (f. 2) 'sicut consolati'. circa 195 x 130mm. Gatherings tightly bound, possibly: i8, ii10, iii-iv8, v12, vi-vii8, viii6+1 (seventh added), ix-xii8, xiii-xvi2, xvii-xxiii8, xxiv4, xxv2, xxvi-xxix8, with horizontal catchwords and occasional quire signatures (see ff. 1-4, 55-58 etc). Ruled in ink in various patterns for single columns of 30-39 lines, first lines mainly below top line. Written in dark brown ink in formal (Gothica semitextualis libraria) and cursive (littera cursiva media - Anglicana and secretary) English bookhands by a number of scribes. The main scribe has been identified as Roger Albon or Alban (d. after 1461), genealogist, copyist, and Carmelite friar, who also copied Harley 3138, Stowe 8 and possibly Stowe 38. See V. Edden, 'Marian Devotion in a Carmelite Sermon Collection of the Late Middle Ages', Mediaeval Studies, 57 (1995), p. 101 and n. 3; R. Sharpe, A Handlist of the Latin Writers of Great Britain and Ireland before 1540 (Turnhout, 1997; Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin, 1), p. 580; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Last text (ff. 193-200v) written in the early 13th cent. in a protogothic textualis. Large initials (1-3 lines) in red or alternating red and blue; rubrics in red. Devotional drawing representing the emblems of the Passion of Christ in red and brown on f. 135; a similar devotional image, now missing, was possibly glued onto f. 136 at the time of a later textual addition. British Library binding with use of the Harleian covers of brown morocco over the original bevelled wooden boards, gilt-tooled with the Harley arms and motto.
Contents relating to medicine as follows:
1. f. 85v. Charm for staunching blood, verse; late 15th cent. Middle English. Title 'Ffor to stanche bloode a good charme provyd', inc. 'God þt was in Betthleem borne and baptysed was in / the water of flam Jordane'. Listed in L. E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd ed. (Ann Arbor, MI, 2006 = eVK2), no. 2058.00, but not in J. Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index …, cit. above. Keywords: charms; verse.
2. f. 104. Three medical recipes for the stone; late 15th cent. Middle English. Title 'A souereyn medycyne for þe stone', inc. 'Take the sede of smallach þe seede of Alysawnder þe seede / of rede fenell'. Listed in eVK2, no. 6277.00. Keywords: recipes, medical; genital and urinary disorders.
Theology LATIN: Prayers and Devotions: Theology ENGLISH: Roger Alban, genealogist, copyist and Carmelite friar; d. after 1461: Theological collection , copied by Roger Alban: first half 15th cent.: Lat. and Enm.