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Harley MS 3300
- Record Id:
- 040-002049131
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049131
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0002c8
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3300
- Title:
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Formulary from the diocese of Exeter
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1v: Two Latin indentures from Devon, one relating to the vicar of Cornwood, and the other to Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond.
f. 2r: A Middle English poem on the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit, 'Love come outte fro heven'; ending with the attribution: 'Quod Breche' [NIMEV 1999.77; DIMEV 3262.1].
f. 2r: A Middle English Nativity Carol, 'A principal poynt of charitee' [NIMEV 88; DIMEV 149.3].
ff. 2r-7v: Table of contents.
ff. 8r-295v: A formulary from the diocese of Exeter.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049131", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3300: Formulary from the diocese of Exeter" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049131 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3300 : Formulary from the diocese of Exeter - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3301]/040-002049131
- 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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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Mixture of parchment and paper.
Dimensions: 280 x 200 mm (text space: 220 x 150 mm).
Foliation: ff. 296 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 2 unfoliated paper leaves and 1 unfoliated parchment leaf after f. 3; 1 unfoliated paper stub after f. 3; 1 paper and 1 parchment stub after f. 234; 3 unfoliated parchment stubs after f. 253; 1 unfoliated parchment stub after f. 277; and 1 after f. 288; f. 15 is a parchment fragment.
Collation: Each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; the previous binding (blind-stamped and gold-tooled speckled leather) has been pasted on the inside covers; re-bound in 1968.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Exeter, England.
Provenance:
The Cathedral Church of St Peter in Exeter, Devon, also known as Exeter Cathedral: the manuscript contains a formulary for the use of the cathedral (but not recorded under its entry in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 149-50).
Robert Burscough (b. 1651, d. 1709), prebendary of Exeter: sold the manuscript to the Harleian Library on 17 May 1715 (see 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 forms 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), III (1808), p. 15 (no. 3300).
Wright, Cyril Ernest, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 87-88, 149-50.
Martin Camargo, 'Two Middle English Carols from an Exeter Manuscript', Medium Ævum, 67 (1998), 104-11.
Julia Boffey and A. S. G Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (The British Library: London, 2005), pp. 9, 134 [= NIMEV].
'London, British Library Harley 3300', in The Digital Index of Middle English Verse [= DIMEV] [consulted 2 March 2022].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Exeter, England