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Harley MS 2330

Record Id:

040-002048161

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048161

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000346

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2330

Title:

Middle English translations of tracts by Pseudo-Augustine

Scope & Content:

Contents:

Middle English translations of four pseudo-Augustinian texts thought to have been made by an anonymous Wycliffite translator.

ff. 1r-66v: Middle English translation of Pseudo-Augustine, De salutaribus documentis (beginning 'A my dere broþir if þou coneitist to wite').

ff. 66v-97v: Middle English translation of Pseudo-Augustine, De vita Christiana (beginning 'þat I synner and þe laste and unwiser þan oþere').

ff. 98r-100v: Middle English translation of Pseudo-Augustine, De creatione (beginning 'How greet is þe dignyte of mannes makyng').

ff. 101r-119v: Middle English translation of Pseudo-Augustine, De duodecim abusionibus (beginning 'þe firste abusioun is a wise man without gode werkis'), imperfect at the end due to loss of leaves.

f. 120r: an added lullaby carol in Middle English (beginning '(Lul)ay lay lulay lay my dere moder lullay'; ed. Sandison, "Chanson d'Aventure" (1913), p. 103; NIMEV, no. 352), imperfect, 15th century.

Decoration:

1 puzzle initial in red and blue with red pen-flourishing (f. 1r). Blue initials with red pen-flourishing at the beginning of each section. Paraphs and chapter headings in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048161

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2330 : Middle English translations of tracts by Pseudo-Augustine

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2332]/040-002048161

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:

1424

Date Range:

1st quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 150 x 105 mm (text space: 105 x 75 mm).

Foliation: ff. 120 (+ 3 unfoliated paper and 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning and 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end, + one unfoliated blank parchment leaf after f. 119).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled black leather; marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Text added, 15th century: first five stanzas of the lullaby carol in Middle English (ed. Sandison, "Chanson d'Aventure" (1913), p. 103; NIMEV, no. 352) on f. 200r).

Added inscription, late 15th or early 16th century, erased: 'Memorandum that I Rychard...' (f. 120r).

Elizabeth Vincent and Robert Vincent, late 16th century: inscribed 'Elizabeth Vincent' (f. 17r) and 'Robert Vincent His Book' (f. 45r) (see Watson, 'Harley manuscripts' (1973), 606).

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.

Information About Copies:

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 2330.

Helen Estabrook Sandison, The "Chanson d'Aventure" in Middle English (Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College, 1913), p. 103.

Sven L. Fristedt, The Wycliffe Bible, 2 vols (Stockholm: Almquist & Wiksell, 1953-1969), Part I: The Principal Problems Connected with Forshall and Madden's Edition, Stockholm Studies in English, 4, pl. VII (as 'Ha').

Sven L. Fristedt, The Wycliffe Bible, 2 vols (Stockhom: Almquist & Wiksell, 1969), Part II: The Origin of the First Revision as presented in De Salutaribus Documentis, Stockholm Studies in English, 21, p. LXXI [text printed pp. 1-60].

Andrew G. Watson, 'Harley manuscripts', Journal of the Society of Archivists, 4:7 (1973), 603-609 (p. 606).

P.S. Jolliffee, A Check-List of Middle English Prose Writings of Spiritual Guidance (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1974), pp. 74-75, 80, 100, 102-03.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)