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Harley MS 3913

Record Id:

040-002049749

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049749

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0001a8

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3913

Title:

Treatise on the Seven Deadly Sins; collection of theological extracts; Apocalips of Jesu Crist

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-18v: Treatise on the Seven Deadly Sins, beginning: 'Daniel .5. Quando elevatum est cor Nabugor'.

ff. 19r-111v: Collection of theological extracts with headings such as De homine; De preceptis datis; De casu primi hominis; De tribulacione, including passages from John Wyclif.

ff. 112r-113v: Extracts from Richard Rolle's English Psalter.

ff. 113v-203v: Apocalips of Jesu Crist, with commentary (Version A).

ff. 203v-204r: Biblical quotations in Middle English on following the 'lawe of god', beginning: 'Malachie primo: The sone onoureþ þe fadir'

f. 204v: Pseudo-Augustine (here attributed), De spiritu et anima, beginning: 'Anima felix separata a corpore induit vesta alba que septies splendidior est sole'.

Decoration:

Underlining in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049749

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3913 : Treatise on the Seven Deadly Sins; collection of theological extracts; Apocalips of Jesu Crist

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3905]/040-002049749

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:

1449

Date Range:

1st half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment; A red paper star is affixed to the margin of 139r: This star was used to mark display pages in an 1884 British Museum exhibition of Wycliffite writings.

Dimensions: 140 x 100 mm (text space: 100 x 70 mm [ff. 1-18]; 110 x 80 mm [ff. 19-111]; 90 x 60 mm [ff. 112-204]).

Foliation: ff. 204 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. 35 is a parchment fragment that has been mounted onto a blank parchment leaf.

Collation: Indicated by catchwords; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600: gold-tooled brown leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Francis Harewell, 17th century: his ownership inscription in the upper margin of f. 1r: 'Liber Francisci Harwell'; and the lower margin of f. 204v: 'Liber Francisci Harewell de Bu. Armig[er]'; perhaps Francis Harewell (b. 1570, d. 1629) of Birlingham, Worcestershire, who donated printed books to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, in 1615, and also owned Sloane MS 226 (f. 1v).

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 forms one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 96.

Edmund Maunde Thompson, Wycliffe Exhibition in the King’s Library (London: Clowes, 1884), pp. 23-24 (no. 25).

Christina von Nolcken, 'Notes on Lollard Citation of John Wyclif's Writings', The Journal of Theological Studies, New Series, 39:2 (1988), 411-437 (p. 413).

James H. Morey, Book and Verse: A Guide to Middle English Biblical Literature (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000), p. 351.

Anne Hudson, Two Revisions of Rolle's English Psalter Commentary and the Related Canticles, 2 vols, Early English Text Society, Original Series, 340-341 (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012-2013), I, p. lxviii.

Constant J. Mews, 'The Diffusion of the De spiritu et anima and Cistercian Reflection on the Soul', Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 49:3 (2018), 297-330.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Pseudo-Augustine of Hippo,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000007738148X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/7386286
Rolle, Richard, c 1310-1349,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121177882,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2465074

Places:

England