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Harley MS 1806

Record Id:

040-002047637

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002047637

MDARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1806

Title:

Richard Rolle, The Middle English Prose Psalter with Latin Canticles

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-151v: Richard Rolle, the Middle English Prose Psalter, imperfect at the beginning in Psalm 1.1, incipit: 'to hym dey of body and soul.'

ff. 152r-170v: Canticles in Middle English with Latin headings including the Old Testament Canticles and Magnificat in Richard Rolle's translation (ff. 152r-161r and 166r-167r), with other Canticles of Lollard origin (ff. 161r-166r and 167r-170v) (see Ogilvie-Thompson, Index, 2007).

ff. 170v-172v: Added (2nd half of the 15th century) 'De informatione simplicium sacerdotum' extracted from John Pecham, Lambeth canons of 1291, chapter 9, 'Ignorantia sacerdotum'; for the edition see Councils and Synods with Other Documents Relating to the English Church, II: 1205–1313, ed. by F. M. Powicke and C. R. Cheney (Oxford, 1964), pp. 900-05; incipit: 'Ignorantia sacerdotum.'

Decoration:

8 puzzle initials in colours and gold (ff. 29r, 43v, 58r, 72v, 91v, 107r, 121r, 152r). Large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or in red with purple pen-flourishing. Smaller initials in red with purple penwork decoration, or in blue with red penwork decoration. Smaller plain initials in red or blue. Marginal drawing in red ink of an animal (f. 167v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002047637

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1806 : Richard Rolle, The Middle English Prose Psalter with Latin Canticles

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1808]/040-002047637

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:

1440

Date Range:

Early 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 240 x 175 mm (text space: 195 x 135 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 172 (+ 8 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves: 4 at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Collation: all quires on mounts: i^8-1(ff. 1-7, first leaf excised; f. 7 is now attached to quire ii); ii-xx⁸ (ff. 8-159); xxi⁸⁺¹(ff. 160-168; f. 167 is added); xxii⁴(ff. 169-172).

Script: Gothic and Gothic cursive (ff. 170v-172v).

Binding: British Museum in-house binding. Rebound in 1965.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

John Hixon of Ellington, co. Cambridge, his will made on 27 August 1462 'In die sancti Rufi martiris anno domini millesimo cccc^mo lxii^o ego Johannes hyxon de Elynton comitatu huntyndon...', requesting his burial at the cemetery of All Saints in Ellington, mentioning bequests to his son John, his daughter Margaret Cutte and her husband John, and naming the executor William Cutte (f. 172v).

John Colynd, his will made on 2 May 1493, requesting his burial in the chapel of St Michael, at the church of St Mary, Leighton Bromswold, co. Cambridge, mentioning bequests for the fabric fund of Lincoln Cathedral, the church of Sotwe, and a chapel of St Desiderius in Barham (f. 172v)

Mr Noble: inscribed, 'Bought of Mr. Noble' (f. 1*).

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.

Administrative Context:

England.

Information About Copies:

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 1806.

Edward Maunde Thompson, Wycliffe Exhibition in the King’s Library (London: Clowes and Sons, 1884), no. 14.

Hope Emily Allen, Writings Ascribed to Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole and Materials for his Biography (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1927), p. 172.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museu (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 253.

S. J. Ogilvie-Thomson, The Index of Middle English Prose: Handlist XVI: Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in the Laudian Collection, Oxford (Cambridge: Brewer, 2000), pp. 21, 22, 38.

S. J. Ogilvie-Thomson, The Index of Middle English Prose: Handlist VIII: Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in Oxford College Libraries (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2007), pp. 42, 45.

Ralph Hanna, The English Manuscripts of Richard Rolle: A Descriptive Catalogue (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 2010), pp. 100-01.

Herbert Schendl, Laura Wright, Code-Switching in Early English (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2011) pp. 313-14.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

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