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Harley MS 1203
- Record Id:
- 040-002047032
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047032
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0002c5
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1203
- Title:
- Apocalips of Jesu Crist, with commentary; Wycliffite tracts on verses in the Gospel of Matthew
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-63v: A Middle English translation of the ‘Norman Apocalypse’ (earlier than and independent from the Wycliffite Bible), known as Apocalips of Jesu Crist, with commentary (Version B).
ff. 64r-91r: A Wycliffite tract on verses in the Gospel of Matthew, beginning: 'Attendite a falsis prophetis qui veniunt ad vos in vestimentis ovium intrinsecus autem sunt lupi rapaces'.
ff. 91r-119v: A Wycliffite tract on verses in the Gospel of Matthew, entitled: 'Exposicio evangelij m[atthei]. 24. Regressus ihesus de templo'.
Decoration:
Partial floral border with a large (5-line) gold initial in a blue, green, and red frame (f. 1r). 1 large (3-line) gold initial in a blue and purple frame with floral extensions (f. 64r). 1 large (6-line) puzzle initial in red and blue (f. 2v). Large initials in blue with red and/or purple pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue. Horizontal catchwords in simple penwork frames.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047032", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1203: Apocalips of Jesu Crist, with commentary; Wycliffite tracts on verses in the Gospel of Matthew" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047032 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1203 : Apocalips of Jesu Crist, with commentary; Wycliffite tracts on verses in the Gospel of Matthew - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1203]/040-002047032
- 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:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 185 x 125 mm (125 x 80 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 53* + 119 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); f. 53* is a parchment leaf; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown (bibliographical notes) on f. [iii]recto.
Collation: Indicated by horizontal catchwords in frames with minor decoration in brown ink.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 15 June 1965.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), Anglo-Saxon scholar, palaeographer, and librarian of Robert and Edward Harley, earls of Oxford: his ownership inscription on f. 3r: 'Liber Humfredi Wanley' (see the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), I. p. 587; and Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 343).
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. 597.
A Fourteenth Century English Biblical Version Consisting of a Prologue and Parts of the New Testament Together with Some Introductory Chapters on Middle English Biblical Versions, ed. Anna Paues (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1902), pp. xxi-xxx [xxiv-xxviii].
Edward Maunde Thompson, Wycliffe Exhibition in the King’s Library (London: Clowes, 1884), no. 66.
James H. Morey, Book and Verse: A Guide to Middle English Biblical Literature (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000), p. 352.
Anne Hudson, Lollards and Their Books (London: The Hambledon Press, 1985), pp. 175-76, 178-79, 250.
Walter Sauer, Die mittelenglische Übersetzung der Apokalypse mit Kommentar (Version B) (unpublished doctoral thesis, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University, 1971).
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. 343.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England