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Harley MS 1029
- Record Id:
- 040-002046858
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046858
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000217
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1029
- Title:
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Mass lectionary from the Wycliffite Bible
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a Mass lectionary with readings from the Gospels and Epistles in Middle English. These have been taken from the so-called ‘Early Version’ of the Wycliffite Bible.
Contents:
f. [1a]verso: A lection from Mark 8.
ff. 2r-153v: Temporale, beginning ‘Here byginnyþ the gospels and þe epistlis of alle þe fettis in þe ȝeer stondyng by ordir as þei ben redde inþe messe buk after þe use of salsbery’.
ff. 154r-202r: Sanctorale, beginning ‘Here bigynneþ þe proper sanctorum’.
ff. 202v-212r: Feast of the Holy Trinity, beginning ‘Here bygynneþ the commemoracioun of þe trinite’.
Decoration:
Large and small red initials throughout.
The manuscript contains a few additions:
f. 1*verso: A note: ‘The eight of July lase in the year of our Lord god 1330’, added in the (?) 16th century.
f. 2*recto: A title: ‘The Epistells and Ghospells in Englyshe’, added in the 16th century.
f. 2*recto: A note (‘memorandum’) about the version of the Bible contained in the manuscript with reference to Harley MSS 272 and 2309, added in the 17th or 18th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046858", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1029: Mass lectionary from the Wycliffite Bible" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046858 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1029 : Mass lectionary from the Wycliffite Bible - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1029]/040-002046858
- 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:
- 1490
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 1490s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 240 x 170 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 2* + 213 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment strip pasted on f. 1v (f. [1a]); all quires have been mounted onto paper guards.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound in 1972.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
‘T. Smythe’, owned in the 16th century: his name written on f. 213r and his initials (‘T.S.’) on f. 1*verso and f. 2r; perhaps added the title on f. 2*recto (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 308).
Richard Southwell (fl. 1562), knight, owned in the 16th century: his name (erased) on f. 2r: 'Sapit qui sustinet R. [Southwell]' (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)); also owned a 14th-century liturgical manuscript, now Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 1523; this manuscript contains the same motto and the following note: 'Ex dono Edmondi Wymondam militis amico suo Ricardo Southwell militi xo die Septembris 1562’.
? Henry Worsley (d. 1747), owned in 1608: the name ‘worse[ley]’ with the date date ‘Marcij 31o 1608’ inscribed on f. 2*recto.
Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian: bought by Edward Harley in 1707 (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. 513.
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)