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Harley MS 2346

Record Id:
040-002048177
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002048177
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000356
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2346
Title:

Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum ecclesiae; collection of Latin sermons; treatise on the Ten Commandments; treatise on the division of the Ten Commandments; De decem Plagis et decem Praeceptis; The Long Charter of Christ; Bernart Amoros, Speculum Sacerdotum

Scope & Content:

This manuscript is a composite miscellany of three parts (ff. 1r-11v; ff, 12r-33v; ff, 34r-72v) that have been written at the end of the 14th century and in the 15th century.

Contents:

ff. 1r-11v: Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum ecclesiae (here with the added title De gradus contemplationis), beginning imperfectly with a tract on the Seven Sacraments (Chapter XIV).

ff. 12r-33v: A collection of Latin sermons (e.g. on the Ascension, Easter, Lent, the Nativity of St John the Baptist), here with the added title 'Sententie et Sermones', featuring many exempla, imperfect at the beginning and end.

ff. 34r-47v: A Middle English treatise on the Ten Commandments entitled ‘Mandata dei’.

ff. 47v-49r: A Latin tract on the division of the Ten Commandments according to St Augustine and Origen.

ff. 49r-50v: De decem Plagis et decem Præceptis; a typological tract relating the Plagues of Egypt to the Ten Commandments.

ff. 51r-55r: The Long Charter of Christ (English verse).

ff. 55v-72v: Bernart Amoros, Speculum Sacerdotum.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-002048177
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 2346 : Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum ecclesiae; collection of Latin sermons; treatise on the Ten Commandments; treatise on the division of…
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[2347]/040-002048177
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:
1370
End Date:
1500
Date Range:
c 1375-1500
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 180 x 125 mm.

Foliation: ff. 72 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); f. 1* is a parchment flyleaf; 1 unfoliated parchment styb between f. 11 and f. 12; 1 after f. 72; a paper pastedown (bibliographical notes) on f. [ii]recto.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600. Harleian binding.

Custodial History:

Origin:

? England.

Provenance:

Sir Simonds D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 131): inscribed with D’Ewes’s number ‘109’ on f. 2r; the manuscript is recorded in his catalogues as A.871 and B.231; according to A.871 the manuscript was ‘found in Sion in an old Cell’.

Sir Simonds D’Ewes (d. 1722), 3rd baronet and grandson of the former: inherited and later sold the D’Ewes library to Robert Harley on 4 October 1705 for £450.

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. 662.

Harry Leigh Douglas Ward and John Alexander Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), III (1910), pp. 674-75.

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.

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: The British Library, 2005), no. 1718/6.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Places:
England