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Harley MS 1710
- Record Id:
- 040-002047541
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047541
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x0000da
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1710
- Title:
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A Lectionary, in the earlier Wycliffite version
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-166v: A Lectionary, in the earlier Wycliffite version.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 166r: 'Omnibus omnia non mea / Sompnia dicere possum'; added in the (?) 15th century.
Decoration:
1 puzzle initial in red and blue, with pen-flourishing in purple and red, extending in a full border in red and blue (f. 2r). Small initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraph marks in blue. Decorated catchwords.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047541", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1710: A Lectionary, in the earlier Wycliffite version" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047541 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1710 : A Lectionary, in the earlier Wycliffite version - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1712]/040-002047541
- 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:
- 1385
- End Date:
- 1405
- Date Range:
- c 1390 - c 1400
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 261 x 195 mm (text space: 200 x 135 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 166 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaf after f. 1; and 3 after f. 164; ff. 1 and 165-166 are medieval parchment flyleaves.
Collation: i2 (ff. 1-[1*]), ii-xx8 (ff. 2-161), xxi6 (ff. 162-164[***]), xxii (165-66).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound on 4 March 1964.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
South-East England (London).
Provenance:
Roger Lyne, chantry priest of St Swithin's, London Stone, City of London: his ownership inscription on f. 1r: 'Thys booke was sir Roger[s] lyne chantre prest of / saynt swythyns at london stone' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 230).
Francis Wilstropp of Yorkshire, living in 1564 inscribed his name on f. 1r: '.oxala. / Francys Wylstrop.' (for the tentative identification, see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 364).
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 (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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Strahan, 1808-12), II, no. 1710.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, pp. xix-xx.
Mary Dove, The First English Bible: The Text and Context of the Wycliffite Versions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 65-66, fig. 4.
Francis A. Gasquet, 'The Pre-Reformation English Bible', in The Old English Bible and Other Essays (London: Nimmo, 1897), 102-55 (p. 152).
Elizabeth Solopova, 'A Wycliffite Bible Made for a Nun of Barking', Medium Ævum, 85:1 (2016), 77-96 (p. 92 ns 1 and 5).
E. M. Thompson, Wycliffe Exhibition in the King’s Library (London: Clowes, 1884), no. 31.
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. 230, 361, 364.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- London, England