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Harley MS 2260
- Record Id:
- 040-002048091
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048091
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000300
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2260
- Title:
- William of Nassington [Nassyngton], Speculum Vitae
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-183v: William of Nassington [Nassyngton], Speculum Vitae (Mirror of Life); Middle English translation with marginal headings in Latin; imperfect at the beginning (DIMEV 423-29).
Decoration:
Numerous 2-line initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs. Capitals highlighted in yellow. A face in brown ink and highlighted in yellow is drawn in the ascending loop of a letter on f. 88r. Paraph marks in red or blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048091", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2260: William of Nassington [Nassyngton], Speculum Vitae" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048091 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2260 : William of Nassington [Nassyngton], Speculum Vitae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2262]/040-002048091
- 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:
- 1375
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 260 x 165 mm (text space: 200 x 100 mm).
Foliation: ff. 183 (+ 6 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house: gold-tooled brown leather with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the outside covers; marbled endleaves.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin:
Lincolnshire.
Provenance:
Written in Lincolnshire: based on Middle English dialect features (see ‘LP 198’ in eLALME: A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English).
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:
-
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 595.
'London, British Library Harley 2260', in The Digital Index of Middle English Verse [accessed 24 February 2020].
‘LP 198’, in eLALME: A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English [accessed on 24 February 2020]).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- William of Nassington [Nassyngton], d 1354
- Places:
- Eastern England
Lincolnshire, England