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Harley MS 2406

Record Id:

040-002048237

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048237

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000392

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2406

Title:

Miscellany of prayers and devotional texts

Scope & Content:

The manuscript is a composite codex formed of three separate parts (ff. 1-11; 12-35, and 36-85).

ff. 1r-11v: Prayer and devotional texts.

ff. 12r-35v: Richard Rolle, Commentary on the Lord’s Prayer, incipit: 'Pater noster qui est in celis.'

ff. 36r-86r: Devotional texts including Richard Rolle, Emendatio vitae, an exposition of a lost Latin epistle of Walter Hilton 'Noviter militanti nova congruit milicia, the Abbey of the Holy Ghost, and the Charter of the Abbey of the Holy Ghost, with added verses.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048237

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2406 : Miscellany of prayers and devotional texts

Contains:

Harley MS 2406, ff 1r-11v : Prayers and devotional texts
Harley MS 2406, ff 12r-35v : Richard Rolle, Commentary on the Lord’s Prayer
Harley MS 2406, ff 36r-85r : Colletion of devotional texts

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2407]/040-002048237

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:

1400

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: parchment and paper.

Dimensions: 200 x 135 mm (text space: ff. 1r-11v: 150 x 95 mm; ff. 12r-35v: 115 x 75 mm; ff. 36r-85r: 145 x 85 mm).

Foliation: ff. 85 (+ 8 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves: 4 at the beginning and 4 at the end; ff. 84-85 are parchment leaves originally left blank).

Script: Gothic and Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding. Covers of 18th-century 'Harleian' binding of blind-tooled mottled brown leather pasted onto modern pastedowns.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England (West Norfolk or Fenland, see Beadle, 'Prolegomena', 1991).

Provenance:

ff. 1-11:

Matilda Stuerd: her ownership inscription 'Iste liber pertinet domine matilde stuerd', 15th century: (f. 11v; see Wright, Fontes 1972).

All parts:

Thomas Leventhorp, 16th century: his name with date '1557' (ff. 1r, 83v; see Wright, Fontes 1972).

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.

Administrative Context:

England (West Norfolk or Fenland, see Beadle, 'Prolegomena', 1991).

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 2406.

Cyril E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, pp. xix, xxviii.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 222-23, 321, 408.

Richard Beadle, 'Prolegomena to a Literary Geography of Later Medieval Norfolk', in Regionalism in Late Medieval Manuscripts and Texts, ed. by Felicity Riddy (Cambridge: Brewer, 1991), no. 61.

S. J. Ogilvie-Thomson, The Index of Middle English Prose: Handlist XVI: Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in the Laudian Collection, Oxford (Cambridge: Brewer, 2000), pp. 3, 4, 5, 6.

A. S. G. Edwards, ‘Journeyman manuscript production and lay piety: The Hopton Hall Manuscript’, in Medieval Texts in Context, ed. by Graham D. Caie and Denis Renevey (Abingdon: Routledge, 2008), pp. 113-21 (p. 117).

Ralph Hannah, The English Manuscripts of Richard Rolle, A Descriptive Catalogue (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2010), no. 51.

The Digital Index of Middle English Verse, http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/imev/Records.php?MSS=BLHar2406 (accessed on 17 May 2013).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

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