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Harley MS 1587
- Record Id:
- 040-002047417
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047417
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x00005e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1587
- Title:
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Collection of school texts compiled by William Ingram
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a collection of school texts compiled by a student named William Ingram, in Canterbury around 1480.
ff. 1r-45r: An alphabetical word-list in Latin and English, beginning: 'Nomina altilli[u]m et diuersarum rerum'.
ff. 46v-50r: Vocabulary lists of nouns, adverbs and prepositions in Latin and English.
ff. 51r-62r: Latin grammatical notes with illustrative Latin verses and English glosses, analysing and commenting on Latin sentences.
ff. 62v-64r: Rules in Latin for conjugating the verb 'esse'.
ff. 54v-95r: Notes on Latin syntax: how to construct clauses, illustrated by model sentences in Latin and occasionally also in English.
ff. 96r-117v: ‘Differential verses’ in Latin, a common teaching format of the day in which words of similar form but different meanings are grouped together in verses for memorising.
ff. 118r-120v: The 15th-century Latin poem Castrianus, a courtesy poem written for boys at Winchester or Eton Colleges.
ff. 121r-188r: Extracts from the Graecismus of Evrard de Béthune (d. c. 1212) on the eight parts of speech, beginning at Chapter 9, transcribed by ‘Adam’ in 1396 (f. 188r).
ff. 189r-200r, 203v-214r: A copybook in which lines of Latin have been carefully written out repeatedly, with elaborate capital letters, in alphabetical order.
ff. 200v-201r: Four whole or partial letters in English, probably exemplars of how to write letters.
The manuscript contains later additions:
ff. 188v, 188*r-v, 201v-203r, 214v: pen-trials.
Decoration:
Various types of rubrication in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047417", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1587: Collection of school texts compiled by William Ingram" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047417 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1587 : Collection of school texts compiled by William Ingram - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1588]/040-002047417
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1396
- End Date:
- 1485
- Date Range:
- 1396-c 1480
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: paper.
Dimensions: 200 x 130 mm.
Foliation: ff. 214 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 4 blank original paper leaves between ff. 95-96, 11 between ff. 50-51; 3 stubs between ff. 120v-121r.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Canterbury.
Provenance:
?Adam: wrote ff. 121-188, his name inscribed on f. 188r.
William Ingram (b. c. 1460, d. c. 1533), monk of Christ Church Canterbury: inscribed with his name (ff. 15r, 188v), see Orme, 'School exercises', 112-14. William wrote the entire manuscript, with the exception of ff. 121-188 (see above), which he acquired and included in the manuscript.
?The Benedictine cathedral priory of Christ Church Canterbury: owned by it after William Ingram's death c. 1533.
Henry Worsley (d. 1747), 2nd son of Sir Robert Worsley, 3rd Baronet of Henry Worsley (b. 1675, d. 1747), scholar and manuscript collector, envoy at the Court of Portugal (1714-21) and governor of Barbados (1721-31): donated by him to Robert Harley together with other manuscripts from Worsley's collection (now Harley 1585-1747, 1811, 1812) before December 1712.
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, 1808-1812), II (1808), pp. 145-46.
N. R. Ker (ed.), Medieval Libaries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books (London, 2nd edn., 1964), p. 36.
Nicholas Orme, 'School exercises from Canterbury, c. 1480', Archaeologia Cantiana, 131 (2011), 111-27 (pp. 112-14).
Cyril E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 202, 361.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Ingram, William, c 1460-c 1533
- Places:
- Canterbury, England