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Harley MS 975
- Record Id:
- 040-002046804
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046804
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0001e1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 975
- Title:
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A devotional manuscript
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-22r: A treatise on the Passion, beginning: 'Whan learned wryters take in hande to persuade any person unto a good and godly thynge they use two reasons cheefly'.
f. 22v: A ‘prayer of the passion of our lorde Jhesus chyrste which sayncte austen used’.
f. 23r: A ‘devoute prayer to god the father for hys delyverance that is in syn’.
ff. 24r-90r: A theological treatise structured around questions and answers, beginning 'ys ther any thyng so necessarye to man as is the grace of god?’.
f. 91v: A saying: ‘your wordes are good and holy but your dedes are full of foly’.
ff. 92r-94r: A catechetical treatise, beginning ‘These things folowing is every Christian man and woman holden and bound to learne and conne to theyre power in way to theyre salvation'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046804", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 975: A devotional manuscript" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046804 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 975 : A devotional manuscript - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0975]/040-002046804
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 190 x 135 mm.
Foliation: ff. 94 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); 21 blank leaves between f. 90 and f. 91.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
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).
Sir Joseph Jekyll (bap. 1662, d. 1738), lawyer and politician, brother-in-law of Somers: a note dated 1738 by James West that it was purchased from him (f. 1r).
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. 487.
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. 388.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)