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Harley MS 875
- Record Id:
- 040-002046704
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046704
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00017d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161517859.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 875
- Title:
- William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1*recto-1*verso: a title ‘VERBA (?) [LATINA]’.
f. 1*verso: Latin excerpts (partially legible) from an etymological dictionary. One excerpt (‘Delubra diceba[n]t[ur] [ve]t[er]es templa fontes h[aben]cia in quibus an[te] i[n]g[re]ssu[m] [diluebantur] un[de] diceban[tur] delubra a diluendo i[n] q[ui]b[us] p[e]cc[at]ores diluu[n]t[ur] et rege[neratur] p[er] bap[tismum] Et d[ic]u[ntu]r a delendo vel a dilue[n]do sic[ut] dic[tu]m est’) can be found verbatim in William Brito [Guillaume le Breton]’s Expositiones Vocabulorum Biblie or Summa Britonis.
ff. 1r-22v: William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman, imperfect.
Decoration:
Small red initials. A drawing of a woman in light brown ink added to the margin of f. 10v and f. 14r.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046704", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 875: William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046704 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 875 : William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0875]/040-002046704
- 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_100161517859.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- -9999
- End Date:
- -9999
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 255 x 170 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 22 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 11 at the end); f. 1* is a paper frame with a strip of parchment; 1 unfoliated paper leaf between f. 16 and f. 17; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [ii]recto (bibliographical notes);
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian: in 1707, Robert Harley bought Harley MSS 665-904; 939-951; and 964-1038 for £ 175 (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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Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: The British Library, 2005), no. 1459/6A.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), p. 466.
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)