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Harley MS 1730
- Record Id:
- 040-002047561
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047561
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x0000ee
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1730
- Title:
- Wycliffite sermons
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-105v: Wycliffite sermons in Middle English, imperfect. Set 5 (on the Sunday epistles) of the Wycliffite sermons, beginning with the First Sunday in Advent and ending incompletely in the sermon for the 22nd Sunday after Trinity.
The manuscript contains a few additions:
Marginal annotations in English by a mid-16th century reader throughout.
ff. 1*recto-*1verso: Fragment of an unidentified Latin prose work on grammar, badly damaged; written in the 15th century.
ff. 2*recto-5*verso: Verses on Latin grammar and proverbs, including verses that are also found in Alexander of Villedieu’s Doctrinale puerorum, and Antonio da Tempo's Summa et ars distaminis rithmici; written in the 15th century.
f. 3*verso (inner margin): A draft letter: ‘Right reverent ande the moste speciall mayster with all affections of my sorwyffull hert I recommende me unto your moste singuler effeccyoun’; written in the 15th century.
f. 6*recto: Fragment of an unidentified Latin prose work on grammar, with a possible reference to London: 'pluralia et [?in]telectu singularia ut londo[…]'; written in the 15th century.
f. 6*verso: Latin verses with 4 lines in Middle English verse: 'yf none but ware atte l[…] ylle / A man ware god and hende / But non ys no man wit owte lotte / but atte hende hat a bot'.
ff. 97r-105v: An unidentified Latin prose exposition on proverbs such as 'Crimen non metuit quem conscientiam non accusat'; featuring a section entitled: 'Inchoaciones proverbiorum super diversis materijs', with ff. 99-100 badly damaged; written in the 15th century.
f. 97r (lower margin): An added inscription in English: 'xl xj chapters in this boke'; added in the 16th century.
Decoration:
Initials in blue, some with red pen-flourishing (ff. 1-11v). Paraphs in blue and red. Rubrics in red with additional red underlining.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047561", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1730: Wycliffite sermons" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047561 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1730 : Wycliffite sermons - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1732]/040-002047561
- 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:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1449
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 230 x 155 mm (text space: 175 x 105 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1*-6* + 105 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); ff. 1*-6*, and ff. 97-105 are parchment leaves from other manuscripts that have been reused as flyleaves for this manuscript; ff. 100 and 101 are two fragments of the same leaf that have been joined together again with blank repair parchment; a red star is affixed on f. 32, which was used to mark display pages in an 1884 British Museum exhibition of Wycliffite writings.
Collation: Mostly in quires of 8; indicated by catchwords in red frames, quire and leaf signatures.
Script: Gothic hybrid
Binding: British Museum in-house; rebound in 1970.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
An unknown mid 16th-century owner or reader: added marginal annotations throughout the text
Henry Worsley (d. 1747), the second son of Sir Robert Worsley, 3rd baronet (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 Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, pp. xix-xx; and 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: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 191 (no. 1730).
Edward Maunde Thompson, Wycliffe Exhibition in the King’s Library (London: Clowes, 1884), no. 63.
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.
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.
Anne Hudson and Pamela Gradon, English Wycliffite Sermons (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983-1996), I, pp. 74-75
Anne Hudson, Lollards and Their Books (London: The Hambledon Press, 1985), p. 250.
Veronica O’Mara and Suzanne Paul, A Repertorium of Middle English Prose Sermons, 4 vols, Sermo 1 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007) Part 2: London, British Library (Arundel), to London, Westminster Abbey Library, p. 1087.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England