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Harley MS 4665

Record Id:

040-002050508

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050508

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0000b7

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4665

Title:

John Lathbury, Alphabetum morale siue Distinctiones theologicae; De articulis passionis Christi

Scope & Content:

ff. 1r–152v: John Lathbury, Alphabetum morale siue Distinctiones theologicae.

ff. 153r–159v: Alphabetical index to John Lathbury.

ff. 160r–201r: De articulis passionis Christi.

ff. 201v-203v: Pseudo-Origen, De Maria Magdalena, ending imperfect.

Decoration:

Large initial in colours and gold with a partial bar border with foliate feathering, at the beginning of the text (f. 1r). Catchwords written on scrolls with pen-flourishing in brown ink (not after f. 151v). A few marginal drawings in brown ink: a curtain (f. 172r), a monk kneeling beside a sword (f. 181v), a bleeding heart (f. 198v). Added ink drawing of a bridge (f. 70v). Spaces for initials left blank.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050508

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4665 : John Lathbury, Alphabetum morale siue Distinctiones theologicae; De articulis passionis Christi

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4664]/040-002050508

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1430

End Date:

1470

Date Range:

Mid 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: parchment.

Dimensions: 250–255 × 180 (written area 165 × 115, ff. 1r–152v; ff. 153r–203v written in 2 columns, 160 × 120 mm).

Foliation: ff. 203 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated parchment leaf at the beginning + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation: i–iii¹⁰ (ff. i, 1–29), iv–v¹² (ff. 30–53), vi–x¹⁰ (ff. 54–103), xi–xv¹² (ff. 104–163), xvi–xx⁸ (ff. 164–203). Quire ix (ff. 84–93) has been misbound and should follow f. 9. Catchwords.

Script: Gothic and Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound in 1965.

Custodial History:

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 4665.

John P. McCall , 'Chaucer and the Pseudo Origen De Maria Magdalena: A Preliminary Study', Speculum, 46 (1971), 491-509 (p. 494 n. 7).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Lathbury [Lathbery], John, Franciscan friar and theologian, d 1362,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000049505799