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Harley MS 2333
- Record Id:
- 040-002048164
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048164
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000349
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2333
- Title:
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Middle English and Latin devotional texts for spiritual pilgrimage to the Holy Land
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-37r: A Middle English guide for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem known as The Ynformacion, which provides a terminus post quem of 1480 by referring to the destruction of the port town of Otranto in that year (ff. 33v-34v); edited from the only other known copy in Oxford, Queen’s College, MS 357, by Josephie Brefeld, 'An Account of a Pilgrimage to Jerusalem', Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina Vereins, 101: 2 (1985), pp. 134–55.
ff. 37v-40v: Peregrinaciones in Ecclesia Sancte Marie Bethleem.
ff. 40v-59r: Preces in sacratissimo monte Syon et in circuitu Hierusalem.
ff. 59r-62v: Processio peregrinorum in Ecclesia Sancti Sepulcri Domini nostri Jesu Cristi.
ff. 62v-78v: Precis et hymni recitandi ad diversas peregrinationes in Hierosolymis, Palaestina et Syria.
ff. 79r-82v: A Middle English tract on the building and destruction of Jerusalem; imperfect at the end.
The manuscript contains a few later addition:
f. 1*verso: Latin proverbs (‘Da tua dum tua sunt post mortem tunc tua non sunt’; and ‘femina nulla bona tes [sic] ter mutatur in hora’; written (upside down) in the 16th century.
f. 1r: A note on the faded rubric on f. 1r: ‘NB. The Rubric above is in these Words In the hnoure of our Saviour Almighti Jhesus Crist’; added in the 18th century (? by Humfrey Wanley).
ff. 82v-83r: Latin notes by Samuel Knott; added in the 17th century.
Decoration:
Large (2-line) and small (1-line) red initials, and rubrics in red throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048164", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2333: Middle English and Latin devotional texts for spiritual pilgrimage to the Holy Land" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048164 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2333 : Middle English and Latin devotional texts for spiritual pilgrimage to the Holy Land - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2334]/040-002048164
- 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:
- 1475
- End Date:
- 1505
- Date Range:
- c 1480-c 1500
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 140 x 95 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 83 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); each quire has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 18 July 1968. The previous Harleian binding (gold-tooled and brown-stamped brown leather) has been pasted on the insides of the upper and lower covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
‘Thomas Berye’, owned in the 16th century: his ownership inscription on f. 1*recto: ‘Thomas Berye his boocke’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 72).
Richard Jewell, owned in 1585: his name inscribed on f. 2r: ‘Rychard Jewell oner 1585’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 205).
Samuel Knott (b. 1661, d. 1668), rector of Combe Raleigh in Devon, antiquary and collector of manuscripts: his ownership inscription on f. 1*verso: ‘Liber Samuelis Canuti’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 211).
Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d. 1709), Prebendary of Exeter; Archdeacon of Barnstaple: owned since 1697; Harley purchased the manuscript from him through his widow on 17 May 1715 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 88).
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 ‘17 Maij 1715’ (f. 1*verso).
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), p. 656.
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. 407.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England