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Harley MS 2415
- Record Id:
- 040-002048246
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048246
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x00039b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2415
- Title:
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Walter Hilton, The Prickynge of Love
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains The Prickynge of Love, an English translation, perhaps made by the Augustinian canon and mystic Walter Hilton, of the late 13th-century Stimulus Amoris by the Franciscan friar James of Milan. The translation survives in 16 manuscripts. Other copies can be found in Harley MS 2254 and Add MS 22283.
Contents:
ff. 1r-135r: Walter Hilton, The Prickynge of Love; written in Middle English with a Latin explicit; imperfect at the beginning and at the end.
Decoration:
Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Rubrics in red. Paraphs in blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048246", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2415: Walter Hilton, The Prickynge of Love" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048246 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2415 : Walter Hilton, The Prickynge of Love - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2416]/040-002048246
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 190 x 125 mm (written space: 140 x 85 mm).
Foliation: ff. 135 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. 135 is a torn leaf, repaired with blank parchment, with some loss of text (explicit).
Collation: Horizontal catchwords and leaf signatures.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house: gold-tooled purple half leather with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the outside covers; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
An unknown owner: inscribed the date '1423' in a (?) 16th- or 17th-century hand on f. 136v.
Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: perhaps his title inscription and notes in the upper and lower margins on f. 1r; sold by his widow on 17 May 1715 to Robert Harley, along with other manuscripts (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. 11, n. 6; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 87-88).
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, ‘17 Maij 1715' (f. 1r).
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), no. 2415.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 11, n. 6.
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. 87.
The Prickynge of Love, ed. by Harold Kane, Elizabethan & Renaissance Studies, 92:10, 2 vols (Salzburg: Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik der Universität Salzburg, 1983), I, p. ix (as Hi).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Hilton, Walter, c 1343-1396,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118213408 - Places:
- England