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Harley MS 1002

Record Id:

040-002046831

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046831

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1002

Title:

A collection of grammatical texts

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-12r: Formula, a tract in Latin verse on the concords explained in English prose.

f. 12*r: the first line of Castrianus.

ff. 13r-29v: a treatise on the construction used with the eight parts of speech.

f. 30r: a note on the construction of interest and oportet.

ff. 31r-48v, 65r-81r: a treatise on orthography, arranged alphabetically.

ff. 72r-72v: a number of late 15th-century English texts accompanied by Latin translations

f. 75r: a sentence in English and Latin, probably used as a translation exercise.

f. 80v: grammatical notes.

ff. 81v-82r: verses on St Katherine illustrating rhetorical figures noted in the margin.

f. 82v: grammatical notes.

ff. 83r-93v: John Leylond, De Declinationibus.

f. 94r: grammatical notes and verses.

ff. 94v-95v: Robert Grosseteste, De Mendicantibus.

ff. 96r-96v: grammatical notes and verses.

ff. 97r-110v: a treatise on accent and the figures of speech, in verse and prose.

ff.111-112r: Liber Catonis.

ff. 112r-113r: Robert Grosseteste, De Civilitate Morum.

ff. 113r-113v: Distigius, only the first 39 lines.

ff. 114r-116r: Bursa Latini.

f. 116v: Os facies mentum, a list of names of the parts of the human body in Latin verse with English gloss.

ff. 117r-137r: Verbale, a treatise comprising parts of conjugations of Latin verbs with English interpretations.

ff. 137v-138v: Latin synonymous words with English equivalents.

ff. 139r-154r: Nominale, lists of nouns classified by their meanings with English equivalents.

ff. 154v-161v: A treatise on heteroclite nouns.

ff. 161r-161*v: verses and a note.

ff. 162r-163r: Miscellaneous grammatical rules for Latin composition.

ff. 163r-163v: scribbles and notes.

ff. 164r-165v: A treatise on adverbs.

ff. 166r-167v, 168r-175v: A list of synonymous Latin words arranged alphabetically by their English equivalents.

ff. 176r-181v: John of Garland, Dictionarius.

ff. 182r-183v: Boethius, De Disciplina Scholarium.

ff. 184r-185v: Avianus, Fables.

ff. 185*r-185*v: various notes.

ff. 186r-187v: miscellaneous notes.

ff. 188r-195v: a treatise on the figures of speech, following Eberhard of Bethune's Grecismus.

ff. 199r-200v: a verse treatise with prose commentary on monosyllabic nouns.

ff. 201r-202v: Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale.

ff. 203r-203v: scribbles in English and Latin.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046831

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1002 : A collection of grammatical texts

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1002]/040-002046831

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1450

End Date:

1510

Date Range:

Mid 15th century - early 16th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment and paper.

Dimensions: approx. 220 x 180 mm.

Foliation: ff. 1* + 12* + 60* + 161* + 167* + 185* + 203 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end).

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester: owned by him. 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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 502.

Thomson, David, A Descriptive Catalogue of Middle English Grammatical Texts (New York: Garland, 1979), pp. 239-53.

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

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)