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Harley MS 1648

Record Id:

040-002047478

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002047478

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x00009b

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1648

Title:

Tabula de Utilitate Orationis Dominicae; Bona et Utilis Tabula Fidei Christianae

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-7r: Tabula de Utilitate Oracionis Dominice, a diagrammatic commentary on the Lord's Prayer, beginning: 'Dicit Pater noster tanquam caput omnium orationum evidenter approbatur' [Bloomfield, Incipits (1979), no. 8834; including this manuscript, and listing 4 other copies in English manuscripts].

ff. 7v-8r: Bona et Utilis Tabula Fidei Christiane, a list of items relating to moral theology, including: 'Septem Virtutes Principales; Septem Peccata Mortalia, et Septem Virtutes contrarie Septem Peccatis Mortalibus; Septem Opera Misericordie ad Corpus pertinencia; Septem Opera Misericordie ad Animam pertinencia; Septem Sacramenta Ecclesie; Septem Peticiones contente in oracione Dominica; Septem Dona Spiritus Sancti; Duo Principalia Mandata Legis; Decem Mandata Legis; Quinque Sensus Corporis; Quatuor Consilia Christi ad que tenentur Viri perfecti; Octo Beatitudines Justorum; Septem Dotes Hominis glorificati; Principalia Gaudia Paradisi; Pene Principales Inferni; Septem Etates hominis; Sex Etates Mundi; Indumenta Spiritualia Anime; Spirituale Anime Nutrimentum' [several other copies of the same list survive in Dutch and German manuscripts].

Decoration:

Theological diagrams in red and brown. Initials in red, some large, some small. Rubrics in red. Paraphs in red. Capitals marked in yellow.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002047478

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1648 : Tabula de Utilitate Orationis Dominicae; Bona et Utilis Tabula Fidei Christianae

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1649]/040-002047478

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:

1400

End Date:

1449

Date Range:

1st half of the 15th century

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 420 x 285 mm (text space: 350 x 255 mm; f. 7 in 2 columns).

Foliation: ff. 8 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 30 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown (with the Harleian shelfmark ‘1647’ [‘7’ corrected to ‘8’ in brown ink] printed on it) pasted on f. 1r

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house.

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. 166 (no. 1648).

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.

Morton W. Bloomfield, Incipits of Latin Works on the Virtues and Vices, 1100-1500 A.D., Including a Section of Incipits of Works on the Pater Noster (Cambridge, Mass.: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1979), no. 8834.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England