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Harley MS 232

Record Id:

040-002046060

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046060

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 232

Title:

A miscellany of theological and ecclesiastical tracts

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-5v: A selection of draft indentures relating to different ecclesiastical properties.

f. 7v: Pseudo-Ignatius, First Epistle to St John the Evangelist.

f. 7v: Pseudo-Ignatius, Second Epistle to St John the Evangelist.

f. 7v: Pseudo-Ignatius, Epistle to the Blessed Virgin Mary, including her reply.

ff. 8r-14v: Evangelium Nicodemi, imperfect.

ff. 14v-16r: De quattuordecim partibus beatitudinis (The Fourteen Parts of Blessedness), Chapter 5 of Alexander of Canterbury's Dicta Anselmi (Sayings of Anselm).

ff. 16v-20v: Constitutions of John of Straford, Archbishop of Canterbury.

ff. 21r-38v: Pope Gregory the Great, Liber Regulae Pastoralis (Book of the Pastoral Care), fragment.

f. 38v: A dialogue on the Ages of Man, in Anglo-Norman French.

ff. 39r-82r: Isidore of Seville, Sententiae (I.6-III.62), imperfect.

ff. 83v-84r: Augustine of Hippo, Sermo de Incarnatione.

ff. 84r-8vr: Pseudo-Augustine of Hippo, Contra Judaeos, Paganos, et Arianos: Sermo de Symbolo, Caput XI-XVII, followed by extracts from other patristic authors.

ff. 87r-88r: Evangelium Nicodemi, imperfect.

f. 89v: Instructions for prayers to be said daily after each of the seven Pater Noster, in Anglo-Norman French.

ff. 6r-7r, 82v-83r, 88v-89r are blank.

Decoration:

Numerous initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046060

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 232 : A miscellany of theological and ecclesiastical tracts

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0231]/040-002046060

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Anglo-Norman
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 240 x 160 mm (written space: 180/190 x 120/140 mm).

Foliation: ff. 89 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and + 4 at the end).

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house. Brown leather, gold-tooled, and gold-stamped with Harleian armorial plate on the upper and lower covers; marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

William Bocher, unidentified owner: inscribed with his name , 'Wille[l]mus Bocher' in a 15th-century hand (f. 21v).

Sir Simonds D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton: the manuscript foliated in his hand (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), p. 321; 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 form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London, 1808–12), I (1808), no. 232.

Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), p. 321 (no. X38).

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A study of the sources of the Harleian collection of manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1972), pp. 74, 131.

Richard W. Clement, 'A Handlist of Manuscripts Containing Gregory's Regula Pastoralis', Manuscripta, 28:1 (1984), 33-44 (p. 41).

De quatuordecim partibus beatitudinis (The Fourteen Parts of Blessedness), ed. Aby vril Henry and D. A. Trotter, Medium Aevum Monographs, n.s. 17 (Oxford: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, 1994), p. 4.

Ruth J. Dean & Maureen B. M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman Text Society, Occasional Publications Series, 3 (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999), pp. 380, 446-47.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Places:

England