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Harley MS 3952
- Record Id:
- 040-002049789
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049789
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0001d0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3952
- Title:
- John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady; The lamentacione of ladyes for the deth of king Edward IV
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-1v: A table of contents.
ff. 2r-105v: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady.
f. 105v: A poem on the death of King Edward IV, entitled ‘for the deth of king Edward the iiijth’; beginning ‘[In Ma]y whan every herte is lyghte’.
The manuscript contains a number of additions:
f. 105v: Two Latin excerpts: 'Equore cum gelido’ (first words of the pangram); ‘Regnum celorum pauperum est’ (excerpt from St Augustine of Hippo, De contemptu mundo), added in the 15th century.
f. 105v: Copies of the opening lines of the poem on f. 105v and the title ‘The lamentacione of ladyes for the deth of king Edward the iiijth’, added in the late 15th or early 16th century.
Decoration:
Small initials in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049789", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3952: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady; The lamentacione of ladyes for the deth of king Edward IV" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049789 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3952 : John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady; The lamentacione of ladyes for the deth of king Edward IV - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3945]/040-002049789
- 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:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 290 x 215 mm.
Foliation: ff. 105 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end); the lower margin of f. 57 has been cut off; the final leaves of the manuscript have been damaged, causing some loss of text, and repaired with new paper; 1 unfoliated modern paper pastedown on f. [ii]recto (note of examination) and f. [106]verso (note of repair).
Script: Gothic script.
Binding: Post-1600.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
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.
- 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. 98.
Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: The British Library, 2005), nos 1505/1, 2574/21.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Lydgate, John, poet, monk of the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds and Prior of Hatfield Regis Priory, c 1370-1449/50?,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108778237