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Harley MS 868
- Record Id:
- 040-002046697
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046697
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000176
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 868
- Title:
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John Felton, Sermones
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-110v: John Felton (fl. 1431), Sermones.
ff. 111r-117v: A table of contents.
The manuscript contains a few additions:
ff. 1*, 2*, 123r, and 123v: End-leaves from a 14th-century missal, featuring music notation on bars in red ink; and small initials in blue or red with penwork decoration in the opposite colour.
f. 3*recto: A prayer ('Jhesus Nazarenus Rex Judeorum fili dei miserere mei Amen’); added in the 16th century.
f. 4*recto: A copy of the will (‘Copia probatum testamenti’) of ‘Johannis [de] decanatus de Basyngstoke’; dated to 26 May 1593.
f. 1v: A note about the manuscript’s index and John Felton by John Pitts (b. 1560, d. 1616), added in the 16th century.
f. 2r: A prayer (‘Jhesu Mercy Lady Helpe’); added in the 15th century.
ff. 118r-118v: An index of biblical references; added in the 16th century.
f. 119r: A practice sentence (6x): ‘Thys present lyf I ledy my lyf with owt ony med to me mad
f. 121r: A prayer (‘Misere piissime ihesu per Gloriosam’); added in the (?) 16th century.
f. 122r: A Latin note (untranscribed); added in the 16th century.
Decoration:
Large and small red initials throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046697", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 868: John Felton, Sermones" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046697 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 868 : John Felton, Sermones - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0868]/040-002046697
- 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:
- 1425
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century-4th quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper and parchment.
Dimensions: 265 x 215 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1*-5* + 123 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 4 unfoliated paper leaves and 1 unfoliated parchment leaf between f. 4* and f. 5*; 1 unfoliated parchment leaf and 4 unfoliated paper leaves between f. 119 and f. 120; 1 unfoliated parchment leaf between f. 120 and f. 121; 1 unfoliated paper leaf between f. 121 and f. 122; 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. [119a] and f. [119b]; ff. 1*, 2*, and 123 are end-leaves from a 14th-century manuscript; each quire has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 10 September 1965.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
? ‘W. G.’, owned in the 15th or 16th century: perhaps the initials of an owner inscribed on f. [119a]verso (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
John Myles, owned in the 15th or 16th century: his name inscribed in red ink on f. 110v: ‘Domin[us] Joh[an]n[u]s Myles A ffull goode Knyght [et]c[aetera]’ (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
An unknown English 16th-century owner: an inscription (upside down) in the lower margin of f. 120v may contain the name of an owner (? ‘Bryer’).
? John, Deacon of Basingstoke, owned in 1593: a copy of his will of f. 4*recto.
Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1635, d. 1699), Bishop of Worcester: his manuscripts were bought for £175 in 1707 by Robert Harley (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 316).
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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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), p. 464.
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. 387.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Felton, John, theologian and preacher, d 1434