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Harley MS 1004
- Record Id:
- 040-002046833
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046833
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0001fe
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1004
- Title:
- Ranulph Higden, Speculum Curatorum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-196r: Ranulph Higden, Speculum Curatorum, imperfect at the beginning (the first quire is missing).
The manuscript contains several additions:
f. 1*verso: A note on Higden and this manuscript, added in the 17th century
f. 196r: A satirical poem on bishops (‘casus episcopales’), beginning ‘ffaciens incestum deflorans aut homicida’; written in the 15th century.
f. 196r: A note, beginning 'Quare a diebus pascalibus usque ad pentecosten dicuntur tantum singulis diebus tres psalmi et tres benedictiones’; written in the 15th century.
ff. 197r-197v: A fragment from an English text with Latin additions, including the note ‘hurley be thys delyverd in goodely haste’; written in the 16th century.
ff. 198r-198v: A fragment of a Benedictional or Pontifical, including a ‘Benedictio peregrinorum’; a medieval endleaf, written in the 12th century.
f. 199v: A Latin saying, ‘Nec caret scrupulo societatis occulte qui manifesto facinori desinit obviare’; added in the 15th century.
f. 200r: A Latin saying, ‘Res est grata senem juveniliter esse iocosum / Carius est juvenem moribus esse senem’; added in the 15th century.
Decoration:
Small blue initials with red penwork decoration. Cadels, some with anthropomorphic faces (e.g. ff. 18r, 20r, 22r, 25r, 28r, 28v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046833", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1004: Ranulph Higden, Speculum Curatorum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046833 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1004 : Ranulph Higden, Speculum Curatorum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1004]/040-002046833
- 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:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 235 x 165 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 200 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); f. 1* is a paper leaf; f. 1 is a thin parchment strip; f. 197 is a paper strip f. 198 is a parchment fragment; a parchment strip has been pasted on f. 105v; 1 unfoliated parchment strip between f. 7 and f. 8; f. 10 and f. 11; f. 125 and f. 126; f. 126 and f. 127; f. 127 and f. 128; and f. 140 and f. 141; parchment varies in size due to low quality; all quires have been mounted onto paper guards.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 17 February 1964.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Thomas Ines [or Ives], owned in the 15th century; his name inscribed on f. 1v: ‘Ex dono Thomas Ines ora pro eo’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 202).
? Johannes Grey [or 'Grene'], owned in the 15th century: his name inscribed on f. 196v: ‘Ego Joh[ann]es Gre [y] rene’.
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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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), p. 502.
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. 389.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)