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Harley MS 1212
- Record Id:
- 040-002047041
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047041
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0002ce
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1212
- Title:
- Wycliffite New Testament, later version with the usual prologues and table of lections
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-14r: A ‘kalendar of lessouns pistlis and gospels of al þe ȝeer’.
ff. 15r-283r: Wycliffite New Testament, later version with the usual prologues and table of lections.
The manuscript contains a few later additions:
f. 1*recto: A biblical quotation: 'Rev. 12.5 She bare a knawe child and a male child'; added in the 16th or 17th century.
f. 1*recto: A reference: ‘Vide lixa in the manuscript dictionary a (?) kittelin (?) knaw’; added in the 17th century.
f. 284r: The Epistle to the Laodiceans, imperfect at the end; added by Richard Smith.
f. 285r: Added index of books, entitled: ‘tabula librorum’; added in the 16th century.
f. 285v: The pangram ‘Equore cum gelido’; added in the (?) 15th century.
Decoration:
Large puzzle initials in red and blue. Smaller blue initials with red pen-flourishing. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047041", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1212: Wycliffite New Testament, later version with the usual prologues and table of lections" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047041 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1212 : Wycliffite New Testament, later version with the usual prologues and table of lections - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1212]/040-002047041
- 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:
- 1415
- End Date:
- 1425
- Date Range:
- c 1420
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 210 x 140 mm (text space: 155 x 100 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 285 (+ 3 unfoliated paper and 1 parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment and 4 paper flyleaves at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment stub after f. [iv] and 1 after f. [286].
Collation: Each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound in 1971.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Richard Smith (b. 1590, d. 1675), book collector of Little Moorfields, London: his ownership inscription on f. [iv]verso: 'Ex bibliotheca Smithiana' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 307).
John Mould, 1682: added a note on Mr Smith signed by him and dated 1682 on f. 283v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 246).
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. 599 (no. 1212).
The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments with the Apocryphal Books, in the Earliest Versions Made from the Latin Vulgate by John Wycliffe and his Followers, ed. by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, 4 vols (Oxford: Clarendon, 1850), I, xli.
Edward Maunde Thompson, Wycliffe Exhibition in the King’s Library (London: Clowes, 1884), no. 53.
Matti Peikola, '"First is writen a clause of the bigynnynge therof": The Table of Lections in Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible', Boletin Millares Carlo, 24-25 (2005-06), pp. 343-78 (p. 369).
Matti Peikola, 'Tables of Lections in Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible', in Form and Function in the Late Medieval Bible, ed. by Eyal Poleg and Laura Light (Leiden: Brill, 2013), pp. 351-78 (p. 374).
Elizabeth Solopova, 'Index of Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible', in The Wycliffite Bible: Origin, History and Interpretation, ed. by Elizabeth Solopova (Leiden: Brill, 2016), p. 487.
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. 246, 307.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England