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Harley MS 2309
- Record Id:
- 040-002048140
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048140
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000331
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2309
- Title:
- Wycliffite Gospels in the later version
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-107v: Wycliffite Gospels in the later version, imperfect, lacking Matthew 1.20-8.26 and John 20.28 to the end.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 1*recto: A note: 'Agrees with no. 272. Mark 1 differs in Royal Lib. 1. C. VIII'; probably written around the time of the 1884 British Museum exhibition, where Harley MS 272 (a later version of the Wycliffite New Testament) as well as Royal MS 1 C VIII (a later version of the Wycliffite Bible) were also shown.
Decoration:
Blue initials with red pen-flourishing at the beginning of each chapter. Chapter numbers in roman numerals along the margins.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048140", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2309: Wycliffite Gospels in the later version" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048140 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2309 : Wycliffite Gospels in the later version - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2311]/040-002048140
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Middle
- 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; paper (f. 1* only).
Dimensions: 165 x 130 mm (text space: 150 x 100 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 107 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); f. 1* is a paper leaf; 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 98 and f. 99.
Collation: (ff. 1-2 are both singletons) + i - xii8 (ff. 3-98) + xiii10 -1 (ff. 99-107; 1st leaf cancelled, probably blank); each quire has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound on 31 August 1964.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Richard Dychar, 16th century: his ownership inscription on ff. 104r, 104v, and 106v: 'Rychard Dychar wos thys boke' and his first name in an inscription on f. 105r: 'Rychard Roger'; his annotations are visible on ff. 19v, 25v, 45v, 46r, 65r, 87r, and 89r (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716), bookseller and antiquary: sold to Edward Harley (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 59).
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, inscribed by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley 'Brought in by my Lord Harley 28 Febr. 1714/5. Bought of Mr. Bedford' (f. [iv]recto).
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: (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 649 [no. 2309].
E. M. Thompson, Wycliffe Exhibition in the King’s Library (London: Clowes, 1884), no. 55.
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. 59.
Elizabeth Solopova, 'Index of Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible', in The Wycliffite Bible: Origin, History and Interpretation, ed. by Elizabeth Solopova (Leiden: Brill, 2016), p. 488.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England