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Harley MS 1862
- Record Id:
- 040-002047693
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047693
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000172
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1862
- Title:
- Oon of Foure; a treatise on the Ten Commandments, virtues and sins
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 7r-77v: Oon of Foure; a Middle English translation of Clement of Llanthony's Gospel Harmony Unum ex Quattuor, beginning: 'heer bigynneþ a prolog in to o booc maad of þe foure gospelis: Clement a preest of þe chirche of lantony gaderde alle þe sentences of þe foure gospeleris in to o storie'.
ff. 79r-204r: An untitled and anonymous Middle English theological treatise with chapters on the Ten Commandments, virtues and sins, in 166 Chapters, beginning: 'Hou god made alle þingis: In þe begynnyng god made of noȝt hevene and erþe for soþe þe erþe was holwȝ and voide'.
The manuscript contains various additions:
ff. 1-3v: 'þe table upon þe temporal . and upon the propre sanctorum . and upon þe comyn sanctorum . of Gospells þat ben raad in þe chirche þoruȝ þe ȝeer and houȝ þei schulle be founde in þis booke'; added in the 15th century.
f. 3v: An untitled list of the books of the New Testament enumerating their chapters, in Latin; added in the 15th century.
f. 4r (unfoliated parchment leaf): A faded or effaced Middle English text on the Passion (largely legible with UV light): '[...] alle and seiden | ȝyve not him þis but barabas | barabas was a hardi þeef : þat for manslauȝte was put in presoun and þanne toke pilate ihesu and scourgede [...] before þe iewes [...] þere yvel will were fillid in þe betinge of ihesu | and knyȝtis foldynge a crowne of þornes puttiden upon cristis heed and cloþide him in a cloþ of purpur: þat his blood shalde lesse [sic, omitting: 'be seen']'; added in the 15th century.
f. 4r (foliated paper pastedown): A note in English: 'The agreement of the iii Evangylys after Saynt Jerame. Serch the Concordans of Saynt Jerame in the Latyne Bybylls, of that Work'; added in the (?) 16th century.
ff. 5v-6r: A table entitled: 'Houȝ a man may fynde in this book þe dominicall Gospelles aftir Salesbury'; added in the 15th century.
ff. 78r-78v: A table for the theological treatise on ff. 79r-204r: 'þe table of sentences and matieris of holi writ'; added in the 15th century.
Decoration:
18 partial or three quarter bar borders in red and blue with blue initials with red pen-flourishing (ff. 7r, 11v, 15r, 19r, 30v, 37r, 42v, 48v, 55r, 64r, 68v, 74v, 79r, 83v, 86v, 87r, 88v, 90r). Large (3-line) initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Running headers in red. Rubrics in red. Corrections in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047693", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1862: Oon of Foure; a treatise on the Ten Commandments, virtues and sins" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047693 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1862 : Oon of Foure; a treatise on the Ten Commandments, virtues and sins - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1864]/040-002047693
- 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; tears throughout the manuscript are circumscribed by holes where repair thread has been removed, but the tears in f. 101 and f. 171 are still sewn with brown thread.
Dimensions: 270 x 190 (205 x 140 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 32* + 205 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. 1* and f. 205 are parchment leaves that originally served as flyleaves; ff. 1-3 are added paper leaves; and ff. 4-6 are added parchment leaves; f. 4 is a paper pastedown pasted onto an unfoliated parchment leaf; f. 32* is a parchment leaf; modern foliation in pencil throughout, but ff. 79-204 also feature 15th-century foliation ('1'-'127').
Collation: Quaternions with a few added leaves (ff. 1*, 1-6, 78); indicated by horizontal catchwords, and quire and leaf signatures; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather binding with the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the outside covers; rebound on 10 November 1958.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
'ffelde', 16th century: their name inscribed on f. 205r: 'Ex dono ffelde' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 150).
Francis Russell (b. c. 1527, d. 1585), 2nd earl of Bedford: his name inscribed on f. 1*recto and f. 7r: 'Franciscus Comes Bedfordie, 1566' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 290).
Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), Old English scholar and librarian: acquired from him by Harley according his catalogue record for this manuscript: ‘Bought of me’ (see Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), II, p. 270; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 344).
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. 270-71 (no. 1862).
Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments with the Apocryphal books, 4 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1850), I, p. xlii (no. 21).
Edward Maunde Thompson, Wycliffe Exhibition in the King’s Library (London: Clowes, 1884), pp. 19-20 (no. 21).
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. 150, 290, 341.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Clement of Llanthony, Prior of Llanthony Priory and theologian, d. after 1176,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000454520968 - Places:
- England