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Harley MS 1703
- Record Id:
- 040-002047534
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047534
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x0000d3
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100155071025.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1703
- Title:
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William Forrest, Poems
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-3v: A ‘Prologe in the warke followinge’.
ff. 3v-22v: A ‘Treatyse uppon the Salutation of the moste gloryous virgyn Marye, and that all praysinges that eaver hathe beene saide of her (After the sayinge of saincte Augustyne) are farre Insuffycient to her worthynes, and honoure: as heere maye appeeare to the meeke christian Reader’.
ff. 22v-24r: ‘Of blessed Dyonyse the Aryapogyte; desyred of sayncte John thevangeliste: to helpe, that hee myght see the vyrgyn marye (then lyvynge) for the love hee had to Chryste, her moste gloryous soone, and howe in beholdynge her: hee had such myraculous Admyration: that hee neaver after: durste bee desyrous to see her Agayne, whiche hystory shall after ensue: as wee have founde yt wryten in the latyn tounge’.
ff. 24r-41r: ‘Ignatius, Dyscyple to Saincte John thevangeliste, wrote to the vyrgin Marye: and of her Answeare unto hym Agayne, Of whiche Epystle and Answeare theare shall followe heere the Examples, As wee doo fynde them leste unto us in wrytinge, leste yt myght bee thought: wee saye suche thinges of our owne Imagynation’.
ff. 41v-56v: ‘An Hystorye myraculous, howe the ffeaste of the Conception of the gloryous vyrgyn Mary: was begoone: in the tyme of the noble Kynge Wyllyam the Conquerour’.
ff. 56v-59r: The ‘sayinge / or Sermon / of the excellent Gretian, John Damacene: in thassumption of the moste gloryous vyrgin Marye, mother of God’.
ff. 59r-61v: The ‘sayinge and Approving of the moste famous Clarke, and blessed may hierome: concernynge Thassumption of the moste gloryous virgin Marye, mother of Chryste’.
f. 62r: ‘Vox Patris coelestis ad sacram virginem predictam in eius migratione a Corpore mortali: in hiis verbis prorumpeus’.
ff. 62v-63r: The ‘Cantycle before: ensuynge heere in englische verse’.
ff. 63r-64r: ‘Uppon the Angelyke salutation (As yt weare) an Elucydation’.
ff. 64v-66r: ‘Uppon the Anteme: Salve Regina’.
ff. 66r-67v: ‘To the gloryous vyrgyne maryne: to helpe Agaynste the Adversarye’.
ff. 67v-70r: ‘A Reason I Aske, the Vyrgyn Marye: Whye not to have the Name of a Ladye’.
ff. 70r-72v: ‘To eaverye Member: A veneratyon, of the moste gloryous vyrgin Marye: At eache: to be sayde, the Salutatyon: dwe unto that celestyall Ladye’.
ff. 72v-73v: ‘To Place, wheare eaver is peace and rest: Maria Virgo: Assumpta Est’.
ff. 73v-76r: ‘To the gloryous vyrgin Marye: to shewe her helpe: to Peters Navye’.
ff. 76r-78r: An untitled prayer to the Virgin Mary.
ff. 78r-79r: An untitled poem of praise to the Virgin Mary.
ff. 79r-82r: An untitled poem of praise to the Virgin Mary.
ff. 82v-85v: A poem on 'Misericordia et Veritas obviaverunt sibi, Justicia et Pax osculate sunt'.
ff. 85v-86v: A poem 'To geve god thankes: and oure ladye, in some kynde phreise: noe harme therebye’.
ff. 87r-88r: An untitled poem on the Virgin Mary.
ff. 88v-89r: An untitled ballad in praise of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child.
ff. 89v-91v: An untitled poem in praise of Mary Magdalene.
ff. 91v-95r: An untitled poem on the martyrdom of St Katherine of Alexandria [dated 1581].
ff. 95v-96r: A poem on the words 'Non ultra sapere quam oportet'.
ff. 96v-98r: An untitled poem on 'life comminge'.
ff. 98v-100r: An untitled poem on 'how each degree ought spende theire time'.
ff. 100r-100v: A ‘dyttye or sonet made by the lorde vaus in time of the noble queene Marye rpresentinge the Image of deathe’.
ff. 100v-101v: An untitled poem on death.
ff. 102r-103r: An untitled poem on contrition for sin.
ff. 103r-106r: A 'treatise for the ffrydayes faste'.
ff. 106r-107v: A 'wittye bodye takinge pause ere hee would enter wedlocke lawes'.
ff. 108r-109r: A 'discription of a most noble Ladye [Queen Mary I], advowed by John Heywoode'.
ff. 109v-111r: An untitled poem on the grace of God.
ff. 111v-113r: An untitled poem on 'feleecitee'.
ff. 113r-113v: An untitled poem on the love of Christ for mankind.
ff. 113v-116r: An untitled poem on the gifts of God.
ff. 116r-117r: An untitled poem on 'Faith, hoape, Chartiee'.
ff. 117r-118r: An untitled poem on the words 'Sine Fide impossibile est placere Deo'.
ff. 118v-126r: Translations of psalms.
ff. 127v-132r: A poem on the words 'De omini Verbo otioso reddes rationem’.
ff. 132r-153r: The legend of Theophilus of Adana; signed: ‘ffinis – 27 Octobris 1572, Per me Guilelmum forrestum’.
f. 153r: A note on the legend of Theophilus of Adana: ‘To confirmation of this historye / the catholicke church of Antiquyte / sounge in prayse of the glorious Ladye / Tu, Theophilum: reformans gratiae / God, her Son, wolde her: magnifyed to be / whose freindes: to David, honorable weare / Then, who so specyall: as Christys mother’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047534", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1703: William Forrest, Poems" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047534 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1703 : William Forrest, Poems - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1705]/040-002047534
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100155071025.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1572
- End Date:
- 1572
- Date Range:
- 1572
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 275 x 200 mm.
Foliation: ff. 153 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper stub between f. [iii] and f. 1; and f. 83 and f. 84.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
William Forrest (fl. 1530-1576), Roman Catholic priest and poet, completed the manuscript on 27 October 1572 and owned it: his name and this date inscribed in a colophon on f. 153 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 155).
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 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 361-62).
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), II (1808), pp. 176-77.
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. 400.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)