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Harley MS 3362
- Record Id:
- 040-002049193
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049193
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000306
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3362
- Title:
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Collection of macaronic poems, songs, proverbs and riddles; grammatical rules; the last words of Thomas Cromwell; trilingual courtly love lyrics
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-79v: A collection of Latin poems, songs, proverbs and riddles on various religious and secular subjects, sometimes featuring Middle English verse (ff. 2v-5r, 21r, 33r, 36r, 89r-91r). Entitled ‘Collectio Carminum de rebus varijs et rythmicorum’ and associated with a canon of Bridlington by a later hand; beginning ‘Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis ȝoung seynt old devyl’. Contains references to John of Garland.
ff. 47r-78v, 79v-89v: Grammatical rules in Latin, attributed to John of Garland’s Synonyma by a later hand.
The manuscript contains a few later additions:
f. 1r: Latin notes about holy days, the moon for calculating the day of Easter, and Middle English notes ‘Brystow’ (2x) and ‘Kyngston A Gorgie yn gylford / Sir Robert Syre vycary to myle [...]’), added in the late 15th or early 16th century.
f. 1v: A proverb in Latin, beginning ‘Munera pauca seni iuvem des aut mulieri’), added in the 15th or early 16th century.
ff. 79r-79v: An English tract with the titles ‘Thomas Crumwelli verba novissima’ and ‘Saying and ordre of Thomas Crumwell late Erle of Essex uppon the Cowrt hyll at the tyme of his deathe’, added in the mid-16th century.
f. 89r: A couplet, beginning ‘At my begynnyng Crist me spede / In vertu and lernyng for to spede’, added in the 15th or early 16th century.
ff. 89v-90r: An excerpt from the Book of Genesis (in Latin), added in the 15th or early 16th century.
f. 90r: A courtly love lyric, beginning 'My joy it is from here to here / whom that my mynd is ever to see', added in the early 16th century.
ff. 90v-91r: A courtly love lyric in French, English and Latin, beginning ‘A celuy que pluys eyme en mounde / Of all tho þat have I founde’, added in the early 16th century.
f. 91r: A courtly love lyric in French, English and Latin, beginning ‘A soun treschere et specyal / fer and ner and overal’, added in the early 16th century.
f. 91v: English and Latin notes, including a draft for a bond; a pangram (beginning ‘Equore cum gelido Zephirus fert exennia kymbus’); an excerpt from Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae (beginning 'Philippus Aristoteli salutem dicit'); and an English letter, beginning ‘wyth harty commendacions thys shalbe to declare unto you that y mervell mytche what you mene that you make no Answer’; added in the 15th or early 16th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049193 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3362 : Collection of macaronic poems, songs, proverbs and riddles; grammatical rules; the last words of Thomas Cromwell; trilingual… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3363]/040-002049193
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Middle
French, 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: Paper and parchment (f. 1).
Dimensions: 220 x 150 mm.
Foliation: ff. 91 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end); f. 1 is a parchment leaf that originally functioned as a flyleaf; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [iii]recto.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
? Robert Syre, a vicar in Burston, Norfolk, in 1433-36, perhaps owned the manuscript in the 15th century: his name inscribed on f. 1r.
? Johannes Burton, owned in the 15th or early 16th century: ‘Noverint universi per praesentes me Johannem Burt[o]n’.
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. 1v).
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), III (1808), p. 20.
Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: The British Library, 2005), nos 16/2, 19/2, 430.5/2, 808/2, 906/7, 1170.5/1, 1251.5/3, 1396/1, 3122/5, 3199.5/2, 3318.8/4, 3322.5/1, 3706.2/4, 3792.5/4, 3894.6/3, 4079.3/3, 4079.8/2.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)