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Harley MS 525
- Record Id:
- 040-002046354
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046354
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00001f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161516611.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 525
- Title:
- The Seege of Troy; Robert of Cisyle; Speculum Gy de Warewyke
- Scope & Content:
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The manuscript's former binding is now stored separately as Harley MS 525/1.
Contents:
ff. 1r-34v: The Seege of Troye [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3139; for an edition, see Seege or Batayle of Troye, ed. by Barnicle (1927)]; beginning: ‘Sithyn that god this worlde wroghte’; ending: ‘Seyth alle amen for charite. Explicit the Seege of troye’.
ff. 35r-43v: Robert of Cisyle [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 2780; for editions of the text from another manuscript, see French and Hale, Middle English Metrical Romances (1930), pp. 933-46; and Foster, Amis and Amiloun, Robert of Cisyle, and Sir Amadace (1997), pp. 89-110]; beginning: ‘Princis proude þat bene in preesse’; ending: ‘That cryst boughte for alle his Amen’.
ff. 44r-53r: Speculum Gy de Warewyke [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 1101; for an edition, see Speculum Gy de Warewyke, ed. by Morrill (1898)]; beginning: ‘[H]erkenithe alle vn to my speche’; beginning: ‘Amen . Amen for seynte charyte. Explicit speculum Gy . de warewy[k] secundum Alquinum . heremite’.
Decoration:
Blue initials red pen-flourishing of 2, 3, and 4 lines. Space and guide letters have been left by scribe 2 for coloured initials of a similar kind (in Speculum Gy de Warewyke), but these were never completed.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046354", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 525: The Seege of Troy; Robert of Cisyle; Speculum Gy de Warewyke" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046354 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 525 : The Seege of Troy; Robert of Cisyle; Speculum Gy de Warewyke - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0525]/040-002046354
- 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_100161516611.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Middle
- 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: Parchment.
Dimensions: 210 x 160 mm (150 x 90 mm).
Foliation: ff. 54 (+ 6 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 2 unfoliated paper pastedowns on f. [v]recto (bibliographical references); 1 on f. [vi]recto (bibliographical notes); 2 unfoliated parchment stubs between f. 1 and f. 2; 1 between f. 15 and f. 16; f. 35 and f. 36; and f. 46 and f. 47; each quire has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: Gothic cursive. There are two scribes: scribe 1, ff. 1r-43v (Seege of Troye and Robert of Cisyle); scribe 2, ff. 44r-53r (Speculum Gy de Warewyke).
Binding: British Library in-house: re leather with the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers; re-bound in 1985.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England, East Midlands.
Provenance:
The dialect suggests an origin in the East Midlands (see Seege or Batayle of Troye, ed. by Barnicle (1927), p. x).
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st Baronet, antiquary and politician: inscribed his name on f. 1r: 'Ro: Cotton' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 112-13.
Sir Thomas Cotton, (1594-1662), 2nd Baronet; inherited the library of his father Sir Robert Cotton.
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 (?) A.890.
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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Joan Baker, 'Editing the Middle English Romance Robert of Sicily: Theory, Text, and Method', TEXT: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies, 10 (1998), 161-80, (pp. 166-67, 174-79).
The Seege or Batayle of Troye, ed. by Mary Elizabeth Barnicle, Early English Text Society, Original Series, 172 (London: Oxford University Press, 1927), pp. ix-x, xx-xxiv.
Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: British Library, 2005), nos. 1104, 3139, 2780.
Carleton Brown and Rossell Hope Robbins, The Index of Middle English Verse (New York: Columbia University Press, 1943), nos. 1104, 3139, 2780.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-1812), I (1808), p. 341.
Edward E. Foster, Amis and Amiloun, Robert of Cisyle, and Sir Amadace, TEAMS, 2nd edn, (Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan University, 1997), pp. 89-110.
Walter Hoyt French and Charles Brockway Hale, Middle English Metrical Romances (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1930), pp. 933-46.
Gisela Guddat-Figge, Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Middle English Romances, Münchener Universitäts-Schriften Philosophische Fakultät Texte und Untersuchungen zur Englischen Philologie, ed. by Helmut Gneuss and Wolfgang Weiss, 4 (Munich: Fink, 1976), no. 44.
Gosta Hofstrand, The Seege of Troye: A Study in the Intertextual Relations of the Middle English Romance the 'Seege or Batayle of Troye', Lund Studies in English, 4 (Lund: Gleerup, 1936), pp. vii-xv, 121-40.
Speculum Gy de Warewyke, ed. by Georgiana Lea Morrill, Early English Text Society, Extra Series, 75 (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1898).
The Seege of Troye, ed. by Charles Henry Adams Wager (New York: Macmillan, 1899).
H. L. D. Ward and J. A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), I (1883), pp. 84, 765.
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. 381.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)