Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??

Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...

Harley MS 423

Record Id:

040-002046251

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046251

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x000348

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100155074072.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 423

Title:

John Foxe's papers, Volume 8

Scope & Content:

The eighth volume of papers belonging to John Foxe (1516/17–1587), martyrologist. Bought from John Strype (1643–1737), historian and biographer.

f. 1r-1v: Paper on the mind and exposition of Martin Bucer, on Matthew 18[.7] (‘Woe be to the World, because of Offences’).

ff. 2r-9v: Paper on the power and authority of the church in doctrine. ‘The 15 Chapter’ (see Bucer, De Regno Christi).

ff. 10r-11v: Paper on the order with which Christ governs his church. ‘The 14 Chapter’ (see Bucer, De Regno Christi).

ff. 12r-33r: Treatise on faith and justification. Attributed to Sir Richard Moryson, and possibly in his hand.

ff. 34r-55v: Treatise on the creed, ‘endeavouring to move from every Article therof the Real Presence in the Sacrament’. Incomplete.

ff. 56r-71v: Part of a discourse on ‘the Carnal eating of Christ’. Possibly part of the above treatise (ff. 35r-55v).

ff. 72r-129r: ‘De Miraculis beatissimi illius militis xiii Henrici VI. Regis Angliae, Libri duo: rogatu Domini Johannis Morgan (alias dicti Younge) tunc Decani Capelle Collegialis Castri de Wyndesore: modo (1503, aut 1504)’. Latin.

ff. 129*r-147r: ‘Expostulatio Jesu Christi cum humano genere; auctore Joanne Fox, qui Libellum Nicolao Rydleyo Episcopo Londoniensi nuncupavit’. Latin.

ff. 148r-200r: Unfinished treatise on the lives of the saints. Translated by Edward Lee, later Archbishop of York, while ambassador at the court of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. 1522. The titles are:

• ff. 148r-150v: ‘The lief of oone paule by heraclides’.

• ff. 151r-154v: ‘The paradyse or garden of heraclides, Eremite, bisshop of palestine’.

• ff. 154v-160v: ‘Of a virgin in name oonlie, ande was no virgin’.

• f. 160v-161v: ‘Of Apollonius’, a merchant.

• f. 162r-162v: ‘Of Macharius’, a young man.

• ff. 162v-164r: ‘Of sancte Nathanael’.

• ff. 164r-172v: ‘Of ij great holie men either of them called macharius’.

• ff. 172v-175r: ‘Of Moses the Aegyptian’.

• f. 175r-175v: ‘Of paule the monke’.

• ff. 175v-178v: ‘Of Chronius the preste of Nytra’.

• ff. 179r-180r: ‘Of pachomius’.

• ff. 180v-181r: ‘Of Stephan’.

• ff. 181r-182v: ‘Of Valenc’.

• ff. 182v-183r: ‘Of heron’.

• ff. 183v-184r: ‘Of ptolomeus’.

• f. 184r-184v: ‘Of a virgine of Hierusalem’.

• ff. 184v-185v: ‘Of helie’, a monk.

• ff. 185v-186r: ‘Of piannon a virgine’.

• ff. 186v-188v: ‘Of pachomius’, of ‘Thebais’.

• ff. 188v-189r: ‘Of the women of the Tabitamenses [Thebenmensiotis]’.

• ff. 189r-190r: ‘Of anoodr virgine’.

• ff. 190v-192v: ‘Of John [of Lyeus]’.

• ff. 192v-193v: ‘Of possidansius’.

• ff. 193v-196v: ‘Of Serapion’.

• ff. 196r-199r: ‘Of Evagius the Deacon’.

• ff. 199r-200r: ‘Of pior’.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

[{ "id" : "040-002046251", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 423: John Foxe's papers, Volume 8" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046251

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 423 : John Foxe's papers, Volume 8

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0422]/040-002046251

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100155074072.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)

Thumbnail:

Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1500

End Date:

1699

Date Range:

16th century-17th century

Era:

Place of Origin:

England.

Access:

Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.

Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.

Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.

If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.

This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.

User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 325 x 222 mm.

Foliation: ff. xi + 200.

Binding: Post-1600. British Museum.

Script: Secretary.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

John Foxe (1516/17–1587), martyrologist: former owner.

John Strype (1643–1737), historian and biographer: former owner, until 1709 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani, pp. 157, 321).

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661–1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689–1741), 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 (1694–1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715–1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 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: Eyre and Strahan, 1808–12), vol. 1, pp. 248-49.

Bucer, Martin, ‘De Regno Christi’, in Melanchthon and Bucer, ed. Wilhelm Pauck (Philadelphia: Westminster John Knox Press, 1969).

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: British Museum, 1972), pp. 157, 321.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names: