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Harley MS 1610

Record Id:

040-002047440

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002047440

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000075

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1610

Title:

Collection of religious and grammatical texts

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-13v: Theological commonplaces.

ff. 14r-15r: 'Regulae accentuandi'.

ff. 15r-15v: Part of a Latin vocabulary.

ff. 16v-17r: 'De constructione verborum'.

ff. 17v-18r: Grammatical notes.

ff. 18v-19r: Poem on St Margaret.

ff. 19r, 20r: Tracts on grammar, begininng: 'Ut pateat verborum declinacio'.

f. 19v: Notes; added in the 14th century.

f. 20v: Theological tract, beginning: 'Qui missas propter pecunias haurendas multiplicant Symonis maliciam'.

ff. 21r-26r: 'Objectiones contra Donatum'.

ff. 26r-40v: 'Regimina confirmata per Pretianum [Priscianum] de Constructionibus'.

ff. 41r-45r: Treatise on calculations of the ecclesiastical calendar, including verses such as: 'Ter quinos domini quociens potes aufer ab anno'.

f. 45r: Short Latin verses.

ff. 45v-46v: Distigius with interlinear gloss, beginning: 'Cespitat in falleris yppus blacta que supinus / Glossa velut temeto labat emus et in fatuato'

ff. 46v-47v: Merarius, beginning: 'Nerarum nuper scintillant'.

f. 48r: Latin verses; largely written upside down.

Decoration:

Marginal images in red of hybrid creatures, including a hound chasing a hare (f. 15r). Puzzle initial in red and blue (f. 41r). 1 large initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours (f. 21r). Smaller initials in red and/or brown. Capitals marked in red. Rubrics in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002047440

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1610 : Collection of religious and grammatical texts

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1611]/040-002047440

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

14th century

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 185 x 125 mm (text space: 140 x 105, in 2 columns; ruled in ink).

Foliation: ff. 48 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 at the end); f. 48 is a parchment leaf that originally served as a flyleaf.

Script: Gothic and Gothic cursive; written by more than one scribe.

Binding: Post-1600; Mottled brown leather with gold tooling and the initials 'M.B.' (Museum Brittanicum) gold stamped on the outside upper cover.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

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 MSS 1585-1747, 1811, 1812) before December 1712 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 361).

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 150 (no. 1610).

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. 361.

G. L. Bursill-Hall, A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts, Grammatica Speculativa: Sprachtheorie und Logik des Mittelalters, 4 (Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1981), p. 116, no. 115.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England