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Harley MS 918

Record Id:

040-002046747

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046747

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0001a8

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 918

Title:

Theological miscellany

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains works and excerpts from various Protestant theologians. The inclusion of a work by William Twisse, published in 1632, provides a terminus post quem for the manuscript.

Contents:

ff. 1r-44v: Guillelmus Estius [Willem Hessels van Est], Domini Guillelmi Estii in quatuor Libros Sententiarum Commentaria; first published in 1615-1616 (Douai: Petrus Borremans); part II.

ff. 45r-53r: Excerpts from Martin Luther, De Servo Arbitrio.

f. 53v: A tract entitled: 'Out of another treatise concerning the former Epistle [of Luther to Erasmus]'.

ff. 54r-71r: Excerpts from Robert Bellarmine, De gratia et libero arbitrio.

ff. 71v-75r: Girolamo Zanchi, Tractatus de Redemptione.

ff. 75v-79v: Excerpts from John Calvin, Institutio Christianae Religionis.

ff. 79v-80v: Excerpts from John Duns [Duns Scotus], In quartum librum sententiarum.

ff. 80v-81v: Excerpts from Epiphanus, 'Latine de Manichaeis' [? Panarion].

ff. 82r-92v: Excerpts from the works of Augustine of Hippo.

ff. 92v-93v: Excerpts from William Crompton, Saint Austins Summes (1625); here entitled: ‘St Augustinus Summus or His Religion agreeable to ours’.

ff. 94r-94v: Excerpts from William Twisse, Vindicae Gratiae (1632).

The manuscript contains two additions:

ff. [ii]verso and f. [97]recto: Notes in French and Latin on paper pastedowns, probably the original flyleaves from before the manuscript was rebound.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046747

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 918 : Theological miscellany

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0918]/040-002046747

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:

1625

End Date:

1649

Date Range:

2nd quarter of the 17th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 145 x 90 mm.

Foliation: ff. 95 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); + 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [ii]verso and 1 on f. [97]recto.

Script: 17th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house; red speckled fore-edge.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

An unknown early modern owner: inscribed the Roman numeral ‘VII’ (? pressmark) on the manuscript's fore-edge.

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, inscribed as usual by their librarian.

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), p. 475.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England