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Harley MS 635

Record Id:

040-002046464

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046464

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 635

Title:

Simon Alcock, Tractatus de modo dividendi thema pro materia sermonis dilatanda; Thomas Waleys, De modo praedicandi; Augustine, Retractationes; and other theological works by Pelagius, William Woodford, John Wycliffe, Nicholas Radcliffe, Anselm of Canterbury, Jerome, John Chrysostom, Ambrose, Hugh of Saint-Victor, and Evagrius of Antioch

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-5r: Simon Alcock, Tractatus de modo dividendi thema pro materia sermonis dilatanda; two other copies of this work survive in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 52, ff. 102–108, and Oxford, Lincoln College, MS 101, item 2.

f. 5r: Jerome, Vita Malchi monachi captivi (prologue).

ff. 5r-5v: Notes on preaching.

ff. 6r-20r: Thomas Waleys, De modo praedicandi.

ff. 20r-55r: Augustine, Retractationes.

ff. 55v-63v: Pelagius, Liber de vita christiana.

ff. 63v-179r: William Woodford, Quaestiones LXXII de sacramento altaris [contra magistrum Johannem Wycliff].

ff. 179r-192v: William Woodford, Tractatus de adoracione vel veneracione ymaginum.

ff. 192v-198r: William Woodford, Tractatus de peregrinacionibus ad loca sancta et veneracione sanctarum reliquiarum.

ff. 198r-202v: William Woodford, De Oblacionibus fiendis in locis sanctorum et miraculis.

ff. 202v-205v: John Wycliffe, Confessio de Corpore Christi ('Opinio et Confessio Magistri Johannis Wycliff de Sacramento Eukaristie'); with a marginal note that a Doctor Nicholas Radcliffe, Archdeacon of St Albans, cited Wycliffe in a book against the errors concerning the Sacrament, entitled: 'Universis Christi fidelibus'

ff. 205v-210v: Nicholas Radcliffe, 'Inveccio Doctoris Nicholai Radeclyffe contra opinionem et errorem Johannis Wycliff'.

ff. 210v-212v: Anselm of Canterbury, Epistola de sacrificio Azimi et Fermentati.

ff. 212v-222v: Jerome, Epistola ad Eustochium filiam sancte Paule de virginitate servanda.

ff. 222v-225r: Jerome, Epistola ad Heliodorum episcopum exhortatoria.

ff. 225r-229r: Jerome, Epistola ad Nepotianum presbiterum de lapsu clericorum et monachorum et de vita clericorum et monachorum.

ff. 229r-231r: 'Invecciones devote beati Jeronimi facte fratribus suis monachis quorum abbas ipse extiterat quum preventus est mortis doloribus antequam spiritum exalavit'.

ff. 231r-232r: Tractatus de quattuor generibus confessionum.

ff. 232r-233v: John Chrysostom, Sermo de penitentia.

ff. 233r-234r: Ambrose, Epistola ad Sabinum ('In Epistola xxxiiij scripta Sabino').

ff. 234r-235r: Hugh of Saint-Victor, De substancia dilectionis.

ff. 235r-250v: Hugh of Saint-Victor, De institutione novitiorum ('Tractatus de Disciplina scolastica sive de institucione recte et honeste vivendi').

ff. 251r-253v: Jerome, Vita Sancti Pauli primi heremite.

ff. 253r-260v: Evagrius of Antioch, Vita sancti Antonii.

ff. 261r-262r: ? Pseudo-Jerome (here attributed), Vita sancti Frontonij monachi.

ff. 262r-265v: Jerome, Vita sancti Hylarionis monachi.

ff. 269v-271v: Evragius of Antioch, Vita sancti Antonii abbatis et Sermone de contemptu mundi; also including 'De differentiis bonorum et malorum Angelorum'.

ff. 271v-277r: An alphabetical index for the last text, and a full list of content in red ink.

Decoration:

Large initial in colours and gold with foliate feathering (f. 6r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046464

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 635 : Simon Alcock, Tractatus de modo dividendi thema pro materia sermonis dilatanda; Thomas Waleys, De modo praedicandi;…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0635]/040-002046464

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1449

Date Range:

1st half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 300 x 200 mm (text space: 205 x 125 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 2* + 125* + 277 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated ruled parchment leaf and 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); f. 1* is a former pastedown; f. 2* is a smaller parchment leaf with holes marked with rust. Providing a list of contents, it probably was originally on the front cover of the manuscript (the verso is blank); 1 unfoliated unruled and 3 unfoliated ruled parchment leaves after f. 2*; f. 1 is ruled but blank; f. 125* is a piece of parchment bound after f. 125 inscribed with missing text in the (?)same hand.

Collation: Indicated by leaf signatures; and (horizontal) catchwords.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled black half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England

Provenance:

Magister Johannes Malberthorp, Oxford, 15th century: his ownership inscriptoin on f. 1*verso: 'Liber M[agistri] Joh[annis] Malberthorp' and, at the end of some texts, the explicit is followed by his initials 'M. J. M.' (e.g., ff. 55, 176v). Possibly written by him, as the hand does not seem to differ from that of the scribe (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 232).

Sir Simonds D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton: recorded in his catalogues as A.326 and B.37; a partial table of contents in his hand on f. 1*verso and his number '15' at the top of f. 2r (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), p. 143; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), 131).

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; according to a receipt in Additional MS 70478 (Portland Papers) [formerly Loan 29/254 packet 2] (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (1966), pp. 60, 91 n. 308; Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. xviii n. 3).

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: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), pp. 392-93 (no. 635).

Mary Fuertes Boynton, 'Simon Alcok on Expanding the Sermon', Harvard Theological Review, 34 (1941), 201-16 [manuscript H].

Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), pp. 60, 91 n. 308, 143 (no. A326).

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, pp. xviii-xix.

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. 131, 232.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Places:

England