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Harley MS 2327

Record Id:

040-002048158

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048158

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000343

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2327

Title:

Manual of religious instruction for an English Catholic family

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-25r: 'The maner how to make our Confession which is accustomed to bee don everie eight daye'; with detailed instructions on how to examine one’s conscience according to deadly and capital sins.

ff. 25v-36r: 'Of the manner of the preparing of anyone unto the receving the most holie sacrament of the Eucharist'.

ff. 36v-40r: 'The forme and manner of hearing the sacred masse'.

ff. 40r-41v: 'A forme and manner of profitable hearing the word of god'.

ff. 41v-51r: 'Of prayer and meditation'.

ff. 51r-54v: 'Of processions'.

ff. 54v-56v: 'Of the misteries of the Rosarie'.

ff. 56v-58v: 'A breefe explication of our Lordes Prayer'.

ff. 58v-59v: 'An exposition of the salutation of the Angell'.

ff. 59v-61r: 'Of the ringing unto the salutation of the Angell'.

ff. 61r-62r: 'A forme and maner of bestowing the eveninge at bedd tyme'.

ff. 62r-63v: 'A forme and manner of rysing in the morninge'.

ff. 63v-64r: 'A morning and a evening prayer for the unlerned sort'.

ff. 64r-81v: A hebdomadal meditation on the Passion.

f. 82r: 'The Second booke of godly and Christian Institutions'.

ff. 82r-90v: 'Remedies unto the Keeping of the Catholike and Christian Faith'; with the following inscription on 86r: ‘untill this yere of the wryting hereof being 1576’.

ff. 90v-92r: 'Remedies against the Custome of Swearing'.

ff. 92r-94r: 'Touchinge the honour of our parentes and superioures'.

ff. 94r-95v: 'Remedies against the Synne of detraction'.

ff. 95v-105v: 'Remedies against the Seven Deadly Sins'.

ff. 105v-106v: 'Meanes to gett humilitie of hert'.

ff. 106v-108r: 'Meanes unto patiens'.

ff. 108r-109v: 'Meanes to obteyne the true ioye of hert'.

ff. 110r-118r: 'A treatise defending the Catholic Church against Protestantism'.

ff. 119r-134v: 'The Rule of the Socyetye of the moste Blessed Vyrgyn Mary'; mentioning an indulgence of the German theologian Kaspar Gropper (b. 1519, d. 1594), apostolic nuncio (1576).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048158

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2327 : Manual of religious instruction for an English Catholic family

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2329]/040-002048158

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1576

End Date:

1576

Date Range:

1576

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions:150 x 95 mm (text space: 135 x 80 mm).

Foliation: ff. 134 (+ 6 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end)

Script: 16th-century cursive script.

Binding: British Museum in-house; gold tooled brown speckled leather with the initials 'M. B.' (Museum Britannicum) gold stamped on the upper cover.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

'Ravens', owned in the 16th or 17th century: their names inscribed on the third unfoliated flyleaf at the beginning (f. [iii]recto), followed by the number '3'; also owned Harley MSS 2250 and 3277 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 281).

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. 655.

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. 406.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Gropper, Kaspar, Catholic theologian, 1519-1594,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000073260541

Places:

England