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Harley MS 2403
- Record Id:
- 040-002048234
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048234
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x00038f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2403
- Title:
- John Mirk, Festial; The Apostles’ Creed
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-191r: John Mirk, Festial; including verses on f. 151r (Seven Joys of the Blessed Virgin); and f. 13r (Seven lines, ‘Wherfor pray we to hym to make us studfast yn our fay’); ending with the verses ‘Mentem sanctam [habuit], spontaneam [mortem sustinuit], honorem deo [dedit] et patrie liberacionem [meruit]’.
ff. 191v-194r: The Apostles’ Creed, entitled: ‘These byn þe XII articules of þe feyth’; ending with a rubric: ‘þy X comaundementis of god kepe þou hem well'; and the number verse ‘Kepe well ten and fle from sevyn Rule wel vyve and com to hevyn’.
Decoration:
Small initials in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048234", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2403: John Mirk, Festial; The Apostles’ Creed" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048234 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2403 : John Mirk, Festial; The Apostles’ Creed - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2404]/040-002048234
- 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:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 200 x 140 mm.
Foliation: ff. 194 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 3 unfoliated parchment stubs after f. 194 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [iv]recto (bibliographical notes); all quires have been mounted on paper guards.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house: re-bound in 1968; the previous binding has been pasted on the insides of the upper and lower covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
‘William Grainger’, owned in the 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 194v (crossed out).
Thomas Whincop (b. 1697, d. 1730), playwright and literary biographer: according to a note by Humfrey Wanley on f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 353).
Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie: sold to Harley on 23 February 1719/20 according to a note by Humfrey Wanley on f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleini (1972), p. 254).
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 ‘Mr Noel (from Dr Whincop.) Febr. 1719/20’.
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. 686-88.
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. 408.
Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: The British Library, 2005), nos 462/7, 1817/7, 4068.3/6.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)