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Harley MS 2321
- Record Id:
- 040-002048152
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048152
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x00033d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2321
- Title:
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Francis of Mayrone, De Indulgentiis (Sermones de sanctis et varii); Sermon on the Syon Pardon; Tract on the Pardon of Assisi; Menardus Monchus, Generalis et compendiosa librorum bibliae notitia; Martin of Troppau, Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum; Mirabilia urbis Romae; Gregory the Great, De cura pastorali (excerpts); collection of Latin tracts; John de Foxton, Liber Cosmographiae (excerpts); Latin poems; Speculum Monachorum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-15v: Francis of Mayrone, De Indulgentiis (Sermones de sanctis et varii); ending ‘explicit sermo Francisci de Maronis de indulgenciis’.
ff. 17r-62r: A Middle English sermon on the Syon Pardon.
ff. 62v-63v: A Middle English tract on the Pardon of Assisi.
ff. 65r-88v: ‘Menardus Monachus’, Generalis et compendiosa librorum bibliae notitia; dedicated to Jacobus of Eisenach [Jacobus de Ysenaco]; ending ‘ Explicit Breviarium tocius veteris et novi testamenti’.
ff. 89r-97v: Martin of Troppau, Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum, except beginning: ‘Post passionem Christi anno sequenti beatus Petrus apostolus filius johannis de provincia galilee’; ff. 93r-94v have been misbound and contain excerpts from John de Foxton, Liber Cosmographiae.
ff. 99r-122v: Mirabilia urbis Romae, beginning ‘In Italia in principio Tusciae situatur urbs Romae’; followed by pilgrimage routes between England and Rome.
ff. 123r-130v: Gregory the Great, De cura pastorali (excerpts); followed by theological-biblical quotations on ff. 129r-130v.
ff. 131r-138v: A collection of Latin tracts, including a tract on the location of saints, beginning ‘In primis sacrum corpus beate marie in Valle Josaphat fuit sepultum’ (another shorter version is in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 427); descriptions of Christ (De statura et qualitate Christi) and the Virgin Mary; the genealogy of St Anne; Mirabilia anglie, hibernie, et Orientalis, beginning ‘Venera admirabile est nomine dei in universa terra’; notes for a chronicle, beginning ‘[A]nno ab orbe condito ad urbem rome conditam’ (also in Kopenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Ny Kgl. S. 172 8o).
ff. 139r-144v: John de Foxton, Liber Cosmographiae (excerpts) followed by a chronicle, beginning ‘Licet per apostolos et alios Christi discipulos in cunctis mundi partibus ab exordio fidei Christiane’.
ff. 145r-168v: A collection of Latin verses, organised according to the alphabet, beginning ‘[A]dam primus homo dampnavit secula pomo’.
ff. 169r-174v: A composite Latin poem, containing a prologue, De professione monachorum, a poem on the Josephus problem, Golias ad sacerdotes; ending in Middle English: ‘leet [t]y wirke þy word passe for bost makyth [t]y fame lasse’; and ‘Explicit exhortacio bona ad sacerdotes’.
ff. 175r-183r: Speculum Monachorum, beginning ‘Nec sis vinosus caneas neque deliciosus [ab]stinencia’; ending with a colophon in which the author identifies himself as John Matthew and dedicates his work to Nicholas Frome, Abbot of Glastonbury.
The manuscript contains a number of additions:
ff. 1*recto-2*verso: Sayings and verses in Latin and English, added in the 16th century.
f. 16r: A verse in a late 16th-century hand ‘No fault of myne but fraude of thyne’.
f. 63v: A copy of the title-page of the 1585 edition of Francis Coster [Franciscus Costerus], ‘Piarum Et Christ[ianarum] Institutionum Libri Tres In Usum Sodalitatis B. Mariae Virginis’, added in a late 16th-century hand.
f. 64r: Extracts from St Augustine of Hippo, in a late 16th-century hand.
ff. 97v-98r: Latin quotations, including ‘O munde immunde vtinam ita immundus esses ut me non tangeres aut ita mundus ut me non contaminares’ (also in the Prick of Conscience); added in the late 16th century.
f. 130r: Late 16th-century verse, ‘I finde by prooffe who puttes his truste / in woomens hartes and handes / pursues the wyndes and plowes the duste and sowes his seade and sandes’.
f. 130v: Late 16th-century text written length-wise.
ff. 145r-150v: Marginal notations in Latin and English, added in the 16th century.
ff. 183v-184r: Sayings in Latin and English, added in various 16th-century hands.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048152", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2321: Francis of Mayrone, De Indulgentiis (Sermones de sanctis et varii); Sermon on the Syon Pardon; Tract on the Pardon of Assisi; Menardus…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048152 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2321 : Francis of Mayrone, De Indulgentiis (Sermones de sanctis et varii); Sermon on the Syon Pardon; Tract on the Pardon of Assisi;… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2323]/040-002048152
- 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: 155 x 115 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 2* + 184 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end); f. 1* and f. 2* originally were parchment flyleaves; all quires have been mounted onto paper guards.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house: re-bound on 2 February 1956.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
An English scribe ‘G’, wrote the manuscript around the mid 15th century: f. 84v: ‘Deos gracias quod G’; the reference to the death of Thomas Fishbourne, the confessor general of Syon Abbey, on f. 34v provides a terminus ante quem of 1431; the colophon on f. 183r dates the poem to 1441.
‘E. Pallmeri’ [? Edward Pallmer], owned in the 1570s: his name and the year 157[.] inscribed on f. 2*verso: ‘Omne boni dei omne mala [...] dono E. Pallmeri anno [...] 157[.]’
‘Thomas Limerick’, owned in 1580: his name inscribed on f. 1*verso: ‘Liber est meus / Testis est deus/ Thomas Lemiricke / AD 1580’ ; f. 1*recto: ‘Limerick’ (2x); f. 184r: ‘Limericke’ (5x).
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 as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘5 die Novembris, A.D. 1723’ (f. 1r).
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. 653-54.
Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: The British Library, 2005), nos. 34.8/4, 1174.5/1, 1400/4, 1867.5/1, 3318.8/3, 4079.6/4.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)