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Harley MS 4890
- Record Id:
- 040-002050733
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050733
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000198
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4890
- Title:
- The New Testament in the later Wycliffite version
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-93r: The New Testament in the later Wycliffite version with a table of lections (ff. 1r-8r).
Decoration:
Large (5-line) 'Champ' initials in gold in frames with blue and purple grounds, with foliate extensions, at the beginning of each book. Large (3-line) initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Smaller initials in red or blue. Capitals highlighted in red or yellow. Rubrics in red. Paraphs in blue or red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050733", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4890: The New Testament in the later Wycliffite version" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050733 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4890 : The New Testament in the later Wycliffite version - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4889]/040-002050733
- 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:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 320 x 215 mm (text space: 270 x 180 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 93 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600; blind-stamped and gold-tooled brown speckled leather.
- 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. 216.
The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments with the Apocryphal Books, in the Earliest Versions Made from the Latin Vulgate by John Wycliffe and his Followers, ed. by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, 4 vols (Oxford: Clarendon, 1850), I, xlii.
Edward Maunde Thompson, Wycliffe Exhibition in the King’s Library (London: Clowes, 1884), no. 45.
Matti Peikola, '"First is writen a clause of the bigynnynge therof": The Table of Lections in Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible', Boletin Millares Carlo, 24-25 (2005-06), pp. 343-78 (p. 370).
Elizabeth Solopova, 'Index of Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible', in The Wycliffite Bible: Origin, History and Interpretation, ed. by Elizabeth Solopova (Leiden: Brill, 2016), p. 488.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England