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Harley MS 985

Record Id:

040-002046814

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046814

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0001eb

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 985

Title:

John [of] Hoveden [Howden], Philomela; an anonymous treatise on mortal sins

Scope & Content:

This composite manuscript consists of two parts.

Part 1 (ff. 1r-43v) contains a copy of John [of] Hoveden [Howden] (d. 1275), Philomela, which was copied in the 4th quarter of the 14th century.

Part 2 (ff. 44r-77v) contains an anonymous treatise on mortal sins, which was copied in the 1st quarter of the 15th century.

Part 1:

ff. 1r-43r: John [of] Hoveden [Howden], Philomela.

Part 21:

ff. 44r-77r: An anonymous Latin treatise on mortal sins, beginning: 'Crebro a quodam requisitus Nobili . N. sagaci , humili , et devoto'. The manuscript contains an addition:

ff. 1*r-2*v, 78r-79v: Glossa ordinaria; written in the (?) 14th century.

f. 77v: A description of the manuscript's contents: 'Contenta : videlicet philomena . Item tractatus quoniam et quot modus potest mortaliter precari inter coniugatores'; added in the (?) 14th century. Decoration:

Part 1 (ff. 1r-43v):

Added arms in brown ink of Robert Steward, prior of Ely (f. 43r). Plain initials in red or blue. Rubrics in red.

Part 2 (ff. 44r-77v):

No decorative elements. Space left for an initial (f. 44r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046814

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 985 : John [of] Hoveden [Howden], Philomela; an anonymous treatise on mortal sins

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0985]/040-002046814

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:

1375

End Date:

1424

Date Range:

4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 180 x 115 mm (text space: 150 x 105 mm, in 2 columns) [ff. 1-42]; 175 x 120 (text space: 125 x 75 mm) [ff. 44-77].

Foliation: ff. 1*-2* + 79 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); ff. 1*r-2*v, 78r-79 are parchment leaves from another manuscript; 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 43 and f. 44; 1 unfoliated modern paper pastedown (bibliographical notes) on f. [ii]recto.

Collation: Indicated by leaf signatures in both Part 1 and Part 2; and catchwords in frames of black ink in Part 2.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house; Gold-tooled black half leather binding; marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Robert Steward [alias Welles] (d. 1557), prior and dean of the Benedictine cathedral priory of Ely: his arms painted on f. 43r, inscribed: 'arma d[omi]ni Roberti Steward prioris Elien[sis'] (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 145, 316).

Augustine Steward (d. 1597), student at Trinity College Cambridge (1557-58); admitted to Inner Temple, 1564: the arms on f. 43r may have been added by him (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 315-16).

Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 316).

Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired 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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), p. 499 [no. 985].

Clemens Blume, 'John Hovedens Nachtigallenleid über die Liebe unseres Erlösers und Königs Christus' in Hymnologische Beiträge, 4 vols, ed. by Clemens Blume and Guido Maria Dreves (Leipzig: Reisland, 1897-1930), IV, pp. v-103.

Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by Neil Ripley Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 78.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 145, 315, 316.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Hoveden [Howden], John, Franciscan friar, d 1275,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000110760917

Places:

England