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Harley MS 5017

Record Id:

040-002050861

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050861

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000218

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5017

Title:

Glossed Wycliffite Bible, in the later version (from Macabees to Revelation)

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains the books of the Bible from Macabees to Revelation, in the later version of the Middle English translation produced by the followers of John Wycliffe (b. c. 1320s, d. 1384). Accompanying marginal glosses appear throughout the book, written in the same hand as the main text.

The manuscript was originally the third of three volumes. The first volume is now Royal MS 1 C IX, while the second volume, containing Psalms to Malachi, is lacking.

Contents:

f. 1*r: a note by Sir Frederick Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), keeper of manuscripts at the British Museum, stating that the manuscript once belonged to Royal MS 1 C IX.

ff. 1r-15r: 1 Maccabees;

ff. 15r-25r: 2 Maccabees;

f. 25r: Prologue to Matthew;

ff. 25r-38v: Matthew;

f. 38v: Prologue to Mark;

ff. 38v-46v: Mark;

ff. 46v-47r: Prologue to Luke;

ff. 47r-60r: Luke;

f. 60r: Prologue to John;

ff. 60r-69v: John;

f. 69v: Prologue to Romans;

ff. 69v-74r: Romans;

f. 74r: Prologue to 1 Corinthians;

ff. 74v-78v: 1 Corinthians;

f. 78v: Prologue to 2 Corinthians;

ff. 78v-81v: 2 Corinthians;

f. 81v: Prologue to Galatians;

ff. 81v-83r: Galatians;

f. 83r: Prologue to Ephesians;

ff. 83r-84v: Ephesians;

ff. 84v: Prologue to Philippians;

ff. 84v-85v: Philippians;

f. 85v: Prologue to Colossians;

ff. 85v-86v: Colossians;

f. 86v: Prologue to 1 Thessalonians;

ff. 86v-87v: 1 Thessalonians;

f. 87v: Prologue to 2 Thessalonians;

ff. 87v-88r: 2 Thessalonians;

f. 88r: Prologue to 1 Timothy;

ff. 88r-89r: 1 Timothy;

f. 89r: Prologue to 2 Timothy;

ff. 89r-90r: 2 Timothy;

f. 90r: Prologue to Titus;

f. 90r-v: Titus;

f. 90v: Prologue to Philemon;

f. 90v: Philemon;

ff. 90v-91r: Prologue to Hebrews;

ff. 91r-94r: Hebrews;

f. 94r-v: Prologue to Acts of the Apostles;

ff. 94v-106v: Acts of the Apostles;

ff. 106v-107r: Prologue to James;

ff. 107r-108r: James;

ff. 108r-109r: 1 Peter;

ff. 109r-110r: 2 Peter;

ff. 110r-111r: 1 John;

f. 111r-v: 2 John;

ff. 111v-112r: 3 John;

f. 112r: Prologue to Revelation;

ff. 112r-117r: Revelation.

f. 117v: a heavily erased and unidentified text, written much earlier than the rest of the manuscript, possibly dating to the 10th century.

Decoration:

A partial border in colours and gold with foliate decoration and a large initial (f. 25r). Large puzzle initials in red and blue with red and sometimes purple pen-flourishing. Smaller blue initials with red pen-flourishing. Running titles and chapter numbers in red. Paraphs in red or blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050861

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5017 : Glossed Wycliffite Bible, in the later version (from Macabees to Revelation)

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5017]/040-002050861

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English, Middle

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1424

Date Range:

1st quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 390 x 275 mm (written space: 310 x 180 mm) in 2 columns.

Foliation: ff. 1* + 117 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end); f . 1* is a paper leaf; ff. 76 and 77 have been repaired with patches; f. 117 is a singleton that has been trimmed vertically.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound 7 April 1964. The covers of a previous tan binding with gold tooling are pasted inside the present ones. A fragment of the spine is pasted onto f. [i] recto.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

The manuscript once formed a part of Royal MS 1 C IX: according to a note by Sir Frederick Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), keeper of manuscripts at the British Museum (f. 1*r); see also Royal MS 1 C IX (f. [iii] recto).

Rob Kock: his name inscribed in a 17th-century hand (f. 1*r).

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.

Information About Copies:

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 5017.

E. M. Thompson, Wycliffe Exhibition in the King’s Library (London: Clowes and Sons, 1884), p. 33.

Henry Hargreaves, 'The Vernacular Scriptures: The Wycliffite Versions', in The Cambridge History of the Bible, 2 vols, ed. by G. W. H. Lampe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969), II: The West from the Fathers to the Reformation, 387-415 (p. 397).

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 213.

Mary Dove, The First English Bible: The Text and Context of the Wycliffite Versions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 165, 170.

Matti Peikola, 'Aspects of mis-en-page in manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible', in Medieval Texts in Context, ed. by Denis Renevey and Graham D. Caie (Taylor & Francis, 2008), pp. 28-67.

Michael P. Kuczynski, ‘Glossing and Glosses’, in The Wycliffite Bible: Origin, History and Interpretation, ed. by Elizabeth Solopova (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 346-67 (p. 351).

Elizabeth Solopova, ‘Index of Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible’, in The Wycliffite Bible: Origin, History and Interpretation, ed. by Elizabeth Solopova (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 484-92 (p. 488).

Elizabeth Solopova, Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible in the Bodleian and Oxford College Libraries (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016), p. 260.

Matti Peikola, 'Paratextual Frames for the Middle English Reader: The Additional Pauline Prologues in Cambridge, Emmanuel College Ms 108, a Wycliffite New Testament', in Writers, Editors and Exemplars in Medieval English Texts, ed. by Sharon M. Rowley (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. 151-84 (p. 156).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England