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Harley MS 2377
- Record Id:
- 040-002048208
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048208
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000375
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2377
- Title:
- Prick of Conscience
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-106v: Prick of Conscience (East Midland recension), misbound; the original order is ff. 1-33, 36-106, 34-35.
Decoration:
Large and small initials in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048208", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2377: Prick of Conscience" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048208 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2377 : Prick of Conscience - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2378]/040-002048208
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1350
- End Date:
- 1449
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 14th century-1st half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 220 x 150 mm.
Foliation: ff. 106 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); remnants of tabs made from blue rope on ff. 2, 16, 34, 42, and 99; a strip of paper has been glued to f. 36v.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Harleian binding.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin:
England.
Provenance:
An unknown 15th-century owner: inscribed a draft of a testament on f. 30v: ‘In dei nomine Amen. In hunc modum [...] condo testamentum meum In primis [do et] lego animam meam Deo, et beatae Mariae, et omnibus Sanctis ejus, et corpus meum ad sepeliendum [in] ecclesia sancti Petri de’ (now erased).
An unknown 16th-century English owner: added on f. 70r: ‘A prophecie aganst the Pope’.
? William Howard (b. 1563, d. 1640), of Naworth Castle: probably part of no. 670 in Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae (1695-97), II (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 199).
? Charles Howard (b. 1669, d. 1738), 3rd Earl of Carlisle, in the 18th century: probably owned most of the manuscripts purchased by Harley from John Warburton (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 198).
John Warburton (b. 1682, d. 1759), antiquary and herald: purchased from him by Harley in 1720 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 347.
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 ‘16 Julij, 1720’ (f. [i]recto); the notes on f. 66v (‘Here ends so much of the Poem as remaineth in this Book’) and f. 106v (‘Turn back to fol. 35.’) probably were added in the Harley Collection as well.
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. 673.
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. 3429/8.
Edward Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 2 vols (Oxford: Adams, 1695-97).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)