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Harley MS 271
- Record Id:
- 040-002046099
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046099
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x000220
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161515370.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 271
- Title:
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The true processe of Englysh polecie; Benedict Burgh, Parvus Cato, Cato Maior
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1*r-1*v:, 45r-45v: two leaves (possibly a bifolium) from an 11th-century missal, beginning on f. 1*r: 'Deus qui tribus pueris mitigasti' and f. 45r: 'Illo manducaret et ingressus domum pharisei discubuit'. The two leaves contain old foliation numbers in black ink: '49' (f. 1r) and '219' (f. 45v) (see Orchard, 'An eleventh-century Anglo-Saxon missal fragment' (1994)).
ff. 1r-25v: The true processe of Englysh polecie.
ff. 26r-26v: Benedict Burgh, Parvus Cato, beginning: 'When I advertise in my remembraunce'.
ff. 26v-44v: Benedict Burgh, Cato Maior, beginning: 'For thy that God is inwardli the witte', and ending: 'Explicit liber Catonis compositus per magistrum Benedictum Borh vicarious de Maldon in Essex'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046099", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 271: The true processe of Englysh polecie; Benedict Burgh, Parvus Cato, Cato Maior" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046099 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 271 : The true processe of Englysh polecie; Benedict Burgh, Parvus Cato, Cato Maior - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0270]/040-002046099
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100161515370.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1375
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 14th century-15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: paper (ff. 1-44); parchment (ff. 1*, 45).
Dimensions: 220 x 160 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 45 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); ff. 1* and 45 are parchment flyleaves.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
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.
Henry Savile of Banke (b. 1568, d. 16170, scholar (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 298).
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), p. 101.
Orchard, N., 'An eleventh-century Anglo-Saxon missal fragment', Anglo-Saxon England, 23 (1994), 283-89.
Wright, Cyril Ernest, 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. 131, 298.
Michael Gullick, ‘Fragments of some Anglo-Saxon service books in Norway and Sweden’, in Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and Connections, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story with Eleanor Jackson (Dublin: Four Courts, 2021), pp. 188-200 (p. 189 n. 10).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)