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Harley MS 315

Record Id:

040-002046143

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046143

MDARK:

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ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 315

Title:

The Canterbury Passionale; a text on the Eucharist refuting John Wycliffe; verses and a fragment from the cartulary of St Swithun's, Winchester; a fragment from the accounts of the royal wardrobe of Edward II

Scope & Content:

Contents:

This manuscript includes four parts made at different times:

ff. 1r-39v: a fragment of the third volume of the Canterbury Passionale, containing Osbern's Vita Sancti Dunstani and Eadmer's Vita Sancti Anselmi originally bound with Cotton Nero MS C VII, ff. 29r-79r, and Harley MS 624, ff. 84r-143v; 1st half of the 12th century.

ff. 40r-45v: a text on the Eucharist refuting John Wycliffe; 1st half of the 15th century.

ff. 46r-47v: a bifolium with verses and a fragment from the cartulary of the Benedictine priory of St Swithun's, Winchester; 1st quarter of the 14th century.

ff. 48r-49v: a fragment from the accounts of the jewellery contained in Edward II's royal wardrobe, citing in particular the treasurer,Walter Reynolds (d. 1327), John of Drokenesford (Droxford) (d. 1329), keeper of the wardrobe (between 1295-1307) and Ingelard Warley, keeper of the wardrobe (between 1309-1311 and 1312-1314); 1309.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046143

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 315 : The Canterbury Passionale; a text on the Eucharist refuting John Wycliffe; verses and a fragment from the cartulary of St…

Contains:

Harley MS 315 ff 1r-39v : Fragment of the Canterbury Passionale
Harley MS 315 ff 40r-45v : A text on the Eucharist refuting John Wycliffe, imperfect
Harley MS 315 ff 46r-47v : Verses and a fragment from the cartulary of St Swithun's priory, Winchester
Harley MS 315 ff 48r-49v : A fragment from the accounts of the royal wardrobe (Edward II)

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0314]/040-002046143

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

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Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1100

End Date:

1449

Date Range:

1st half 12th century-1st half 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 385 x 270 mm

I. ff. 1r-39v: text space: 310 x 200 mm in two columns.

Foliation: ff. 49 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Script: ff. 1r-39v: Protogothic; ff. 40r-45v: Gothic; ff. 46r-47v: Gothic cursive; ff. 48r-49v: Gothic semi-cursive.

Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house.

Custodial History:

ff. 1r-39v

Origin:

England, S. E. (the cathedral priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Canterbury).

Provenance:

?John Dee (b. 1527, d. 1609), mathematician, astrologer, and antiquary (see Watson, 'An identification of some manuscripts owned by John Dee ' (1958), 195).

ff. 40r-45v

Origin:

England

ff. 46r-47v

Origin:

England, S. W. (the Benedictine cathedral priory of Sts Peter, Paul and Swithun, Winchester).

Provenance:

Nicholas of Tarente (d. 1309), prior of the Benedictine cathedral priory of Sts Peter, Paul, and Swithun, Winchester from 1305 to 1309, his ownership inscription, 'Ns Tarante prior', and note recording his gift of a now missing manuscript to the priory: 'liber ecclesie Sancti Swithuni Wynton ex dono fratris Nicholai de tarente' (f. 46r).

The Benedictine cathedral priory of Sts Peter, Paul and Swithin, Winchester: inscription cited above.

Thomas Dackomb (b. 1496, d. c. 1572), rector of Colbrooke, Winchester: (see Watson, 'A sixteenth century collector' (1963)).

ff. 48r-49v

Origin:

England. Written at King Edward II's court.

The whole manuscript

Provenance:

Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton: inserted catchwords at the end of each folios (ff. 1, 2, 3 passim) (see Watson, The library of Sir Simonds d'Ewes (1966), no. E72).

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.

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I, no. 315.

Neil R. Ker, 'Membra Disiecta, Second Series', British Museum Quarterly, 14 (1939-40), 79-86 (pp. 83-85).

Charles Reginald Dodwell, The Canterbury School of Illumination 1066-1200 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954), p. 123.

Felix's Life of Saint Guthlac , ed. by Bertram Colgrave (Cambridge: University Press, 1956), p. 32.

Andrew G. Watson, 'An Identification of some Manuscripts owned by Dr. John Dee and Sir Simonds D'Ewes', The Library, 5th series, 13 (1958), 194-98 (p. 195).

The Life of St Anselm Archbishop of Canterburyby Eadmer, ed. by Richard William Southern (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962), p. xxiii (as ‘D’).

Andrew G. Watson, 'A Sixteenth-Century Collector, Thomas Dackomb, 1496- c. 1572', The Library, 18 (1963), 204-17 (pp. 206, 213-14).

Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by Neil R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 36, 200.

Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. E72.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 94-95, 122, 127, 131, 324.

D. J. Sheerin, 'An Anonymous Verse Epitome of the Life of St Anselm', Analecta Bollandiana, 92 (1974), 109-24 (p. 109).

Claus Michael Kauffmann, Romanesque Manuscripts 1066-1190 Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 3 (London: Harvey Miller, 1975), no. 22.

François Avril and Patricia Danz Stirnemann, Manuscrits enluminés d’origine insulaire VIIe-XXe siècle (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1987), p. 23.

Richard Gameson, ‘The Romanesque Crypt Capitals of Canterbury Cathedral’, Archaeologia Cantiana, 110 (1992), 17-48 (p. 34 n. 27).

Richard Gameson, The Earliest Books of Canterbury Cathedral: Manuscripts and Fragments to c. 1200 (London: Bibliographical Society, 2008), pp. 227-47.

Exhibitions:

Hearing Voices: Suffering, Inspiration and the Everyday, Palace Green Library, Durham, 5 November 2016 - 26 February 2017
This is a Voice, Wellcome Collection, London, 14 April 2016 - 31 July 2016

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)