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Harley MS 331
- Record Id:
- 040-002046159
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046159
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x00029c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 331
- Title:
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Collection of sermons
- Scope & Content:
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The manuscript's former binding is stored separately as Harley MS 331/1.
Contents:
ff. 1r-99v: A collection of 25 Latin sermons, including Christus passus est pro nobis by Henry Chambron and Redde rationem vilicationis tuae by Thomas Wimbledon; intersected with theological notations.The sermons feature Middle English verse: a dialogue between the Virgin Mary and her Son on the Cross (f. 96r); a Middle English quatrain, beginning ‘Mercy and treuthe togyddur han mette’ (f. 44r); Middle English words and sentences: ‘lecherows losel · þe devel’ (f. 19v); ‘Wyde opunes’ (f. 44r); a marginal annotation in Middle English, beginning: ‘ffor þe schadew of þe vyne’ (f. 63r); ‘hevy and lyt and of gret myt in gostly syt’ (f. 70r); ‘Anglice crist in hy passion’ (f. 80r); ‘brest for sorow’ and ‘of feyþe’ (f. 94v); ‘in ese of þis world (f. 98r).
f. 81v: Arabic numerals (‘1’-‘99’).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046159", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 331: Collection of sermons" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046159 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 331 : Collection of sermons - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0330]/040-002046159
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 215 x 150 mm.
Foliation: ff. 186 (+ 7 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [104]verso (bibliographical notes); all quires have been mounted onto paper guards
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
English scribes affiliated with a university: see the opening address on f. 79r: ‘Reverendi magistri patres atque domini’.
‘Thomas Chamburleyne’, owned in the 15th or 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 14r.
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): recorded in his catalogues as A.944 and (?) B.232.
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.
- Publications:
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Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: The British Library, 2005), nos 14/3, 2156.55/1.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), p. 201.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 378.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
- The manuscript's former binding is stored separately as Harley MS 331.