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Harley MS 750

Record Id:

040-002046579

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046579

MDARK:

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LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 750

Title:

Theological tracts collected by James Wedderburn

Scope & Content:

Volume of theological collections made by James Wedderburn (1585-1639), Bishop of Dunblane.

Preliminary matter:

f. 1*v: inscription cut from old binding pasted on verso of folio 1*.

f. 2*r: flyleaf inscribed with Latin religious epigram (‘Deus initium negoti, finis Deus’), proverb, and short verse, with pen trials of names (John, Thomas, James, Ramsay, Thomson).

f. 2*v: contents list.

Main contents include:

ff. 1-2: King James Bible translators and rules. Title: ‘An Order agreed upon for translation of the Bible’. Table of companies and scholars allocated to translate different books of the Bible (f. 1r-1v). Translation rules ‘The Rules to be observed in Translation’ (f. 1v-2).

ff. 3-21: Notes on New Testament books in Greek and Latin.

ff. 22v-24r: ‘Ex Libro Anglice scripto contra novae Disciplinae Patronos’.

ff. 24r-26r: ‘Ex Isaaci Casauboni Com[m]entario ad Theophrasti characteres’.

ff. 26r-27r: Extracts from Antoine de la Faye’s Life of Theodore Beza (De vita et obitu clariss. viri, D. Theodori Bezae Vezelii, 1606), headed: ‘Ex Antonij Faij ύπομνημαζιω de Vita et Obitu Theodori Bezae’.

ff. 27r-55v: Extracts from Scaliger, Brissonius, Casaubon and others.

ff. 55v-61v: Extracts from the letters of Augerius Burbequius, leader of the legation to Turkey, headed ‘Ex Augerii Gisleni Burbequii D legationis Turcicae Epi[sto]lis 4or Hanoviae 1605’.

ff. 62v-75r: Tract headed: ‘Some things to be considered of any one who living in the Communion of the Church of England where he was borne & bred, and discerning the grosse Errors & superstitions that be in the moderne Romane Church, is not withstanding, strongly mooved to leave the one and betake himself to the other as the only Catholique, without which there can be no Salvation’.

ff. 76v-77: Extracts from Antonio Beccadelli’s Life and sayings of King Alfonso V, headed: ‘Antonius Panormita de dictis et factis Alfonsi Regis Aragonum’.

ff. 78-81: ‘Quaestiones duae discussae in Schola Theologica Oxonii 6 die June 1632’.

ff. 82-85: Lancelot Andrewes, Judgment of the Lambeth Articles, headed ‘Articuli Lambethani’.

ff. 86-90: 'Quinque sunt Articuli in Belgia controversi'.

ff. 91-102: ‘Dr Overall to Mr Wotton: an Aunswear to certaine doubtes remaining, concerning the Ceremonies of the Church’.

ff. 103-108r: Dr John Richardson on predestination, headed ‘Richardsoni de Praedestinatione’.

ff. 108v-128: Dr Overall lecture on taking up his regius professorship at Cambridge: ‘Dr Overalli, dum regij Professoris munus Cantabrigiae obiret’.

ff. 129-133v: Theses proposed by Dr Overall when he was made Doctor of Theology: ‘Quaestiones propositae a D. Jo[hanne] Overall[o] in Publicis Comitijs, quando Theologiae Doctor effectus est’.

ff. 134v-138: Dr Overall’s lecture on seeking the regius professorship: ‘Praelectio D.D. Overalli cum Regij Professoris munus in Sacra Theologia peteret post D.D. Whitakerum’.

ff. 139-144r: ‘Mr [Joseph] Meade; In a Letter to a friend [...] concerning Holiness’.

ff. 144v-149: ‘Oratio Academicis appropriata’.

f. 150: ‘Touching the Supremacie & Headship of the Church’ by Dr John Cosins.

ff. 151-159: Letter by Christopher Potter (1591-1646), Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford, clearing himself of the imputation of Arminianism, etc. Dated 7 July 1629.

ff. 160-167: Alphabetical indexes.

ff. 168-172r: ‘Omnes Infantes baptizati sine dubio iustificantur’, by Samuel Ward (1572–1643), Professor of Divinity. Cambridge University Commencement disputation on justification of all baptised infants, 1629.

ff. 172v-173v: Richard Corbet (1582-1635), Bishop of Norwich, address to his clergy about the repair of St Paul’s Church, 1634. Abridged version, headed ‘D. C. B. of N: to his Clergie’.

ff. 174v-175v: ‘Contra Usuram’.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046579

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 750 : Theological tracts collected by James Wedderburn

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0750]/040-002046579

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1600

End Date:

1640

Date Range:

Early 17th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 255 x 220 mm.

Foliation: 1*-2*, 1-175 folios.

Binding: British Museum binding, 1965.

Custodial History:

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 (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.

Former owner: Edward Stillingfleet (1635-1688), Bishop of Worcester.

Former owner: James Wedderburn (1585-1639), Bishop of Dunblane: written and owned by him,

Finding Aids:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 750.

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. 316, 350.

Publications:

Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, ed. Peter Beal, online: https://celm-ms.org.uk/repositories/british-library-harley-1.html#british-library-harley-1_id694707 [accessed 18 November 2022]

Sir Thomas More, Epigrammata. 262. De fele et mvre (‘Muscipula exemptum feli dum porrigo murem’) f. 27v: CELM MrT 12
Sir Thomas More, Epigrammata. 160. Altervm de Eodem [Abyngdon, the Singer] (‘Hic iacet Henricus, semper pietatis amicus’) f. 27v: CELM MrT 9.5
Lancelot Andrewes, Judgment of the Lambeth Articles ff. 82r-5r: CELM AndL 32.5
Richard Corbett, A speech made by Doctor Corbet Bpp of Norwich to the Clergie of his Diocesse about theire Benevolence for the repayre of St Paules Church London [29 April] Anno domini 1634 ff. 171r-3r: CELM CoR 770.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)