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Harley MS 2396
- Record Id:
- 040-002048227
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048227
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000388
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2396
- Title:
- Wycliffite sermons on the Sunday epistles, Sunday gospels, and ferial gospels
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-78v: Wycliffite sermons on the Sunday epistles, Sunday gospels, and ferial gospels, beginning incompletely in the epistle sermon for the Second Sunday in Advent, and ending with the Friday gospel sermon for the 5th week after the Octave of Epiphany. For a detailed list of sermons, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, II (1808), pp. 683-84.
The manuscript contains a few additions:
f. 1*verso: A note on the manuscript: 'This MS contains a part of Wiclif's Homilies the whole collection is also found in Bibl. Reg. 18.B. IX'; added in the (?) 19th century.
f. 2*recto: A title inscription: 'Epistels and Gospels in old English'.
f. [iv]recto: Small diagram in brown ink, originating from a consanguinity table.
Decoration:
Large plain initials in red. Underlined in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048227", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2396: Wycliffite sermons on the Sunday epistles, Sunday gospels, and ferial gospels" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048227 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2396 : Wycliffite sermons on the Sunday epistles, Sunday gospels, and ferial gospels - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2397]/040-002048227
- 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:
- 1375
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 210 x 140 mm (text space: 160 x 100 mm, with the text on f. 15v and f. 45v in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 2* + 78 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated parchment and 3 paper flyleaves at the end); f. 1* is a paper flyleaf; f. 2* is a parchment flyleaf; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [i]recto (British Museum description of the manuscript).
Collation: Indicated by catchwords and quire marks.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600; Mottled brown leather with gold-tooling; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England (? Huntingdon, suggested by dialectal features).
Provenance:
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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), pp. 683-84 (no. 2396).
Edward Maunde Thompson,Wycliffe Exhibition in the King’s Library (London: Clowes and Sons, 1884), no. 64.
English Wycliffite Sermons, ed. by Anne Hudson and Pamela Gradon, 5 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983-96), I (1983), pp. 81-82.
Anne Hudson, Lollards and Their Books (London: The Hambledon Press, 1985), pp. 187, 189, 250.
Veronica O'Mara and Suzanne Paul, A Repertorium of Middle English Prose Sermons, 4 vols , Sermo: Studies on Patristic, Medieval, and Reformation Sermons and Preaching, 1 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), II: London, British Library (Arundel), to London, Westminster Abbey Library, p. 1352.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England
Huntingdon, England