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Harley MS 5086
- Record Id:
- 040-002050930
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050930
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00025d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161516503.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5086
- Title:
- Edward of Norwich, The Master of Game; The Babees’s Book; The ABC of Aristotle; Dietary for King Henry V; Treatise on equine medicine
- Scope & Content:
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This 15th-century miscellany contains Middle English and Latin verse and prose treatises relating to hunting, manners, human and veterinary medicine. The cataloguing of the manuscript was partially funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Contents:
ff. 1r-85r: Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, The Master of Game (a Middle English translation of Gaston de Foix, Livre de Chasse); preceded by a table of contents (ff. 1r-2r) [see Voigts and Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings (2006), nos 1147.00, 6844.00].
ff. 86r-90r: The Babees’s Book [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 1576/1].
f. 90v: The ABC of Aristotle [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3793/4].
ff. 91r-98v. Dietary for King Henry V (r. 1413-1422) [see Voigts and Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings (2006), nos 2200.00, 1666.00].
ff. 99r-128v: A treatise on equine medicine with the added title: ‘The boke of medycen for horsses and to know of what Cuntrey the best horses be bredin contaynyng 30 leves’ [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3318/2; Voigts and Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings (2006), nos 6633.00, 2700.00].
Decoration.
A full-page drawing of the Wheel of Fortune [upside down], partially tinted in blue, on f. 129r. Large initials (2-3 lines) in blue with contrasting penwork in red throughout; rubrics and paraphs in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050930", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5086: Edward of Norwich, The Master of Game; The Babees’s Book; The ABC of Aristotle; Dietary for King Henry V; Treatise on equine…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050930 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5086 : Edward of Norwich, The Master of Game; The Babees’s Book; The ABC of Aristotle; Dietary for King Henry V; Treatise on… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5086]/040-002050930
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100161516503.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1449
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 295 x 220 mm (200/205 x 140/145 mm).
Foliation: ff. 2* + 129 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); ff. 1*, 2*, and 129 are parchment leaves; 1 unfoliated paper leaf between f. 85 and f. 86; f. 90 and f. 91; and f. 98 and f. 99; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown (bibliographical notes) on f. [iv]recto; 2 unfoliated parchment strips (with Latin inscriptions) pasted on f. 1*recto; each quire has been mounted onto a paper guard. ff. 99r-128r were originally foliated as ‘1’-‘30’.
Collation: i14-1 (1st missing), ii-vi12, vii12-1 (twelfth excised), viii12, ix14, x12, xi8-1? (eight excised), with horizontal catchwords.
Script: Gothic cursive (littera cursiva media - Anglicana with secretary features).
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 28 September 1966.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
William Coket and his son John Coket of Huxley in Cheshire, owned in the 15th or 16th century: their names inscribed in the draft of an indenture on f. 129v: 'hec indentura testatur quod willelmus Coket filius Johannis Coket de huxeley in Comitatu Cestri [...]' (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
Peter Otteley, ‘Parson of Wansted frome London sivene mile in Essex’, owned in the early 16th century: his name inscribed in mirror writing on f. 1*recto: (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 263).
Rafe and Etheldreda Parker ‘de ffulham’, owned in the 16th century: their names, and those of their children (Henry and Margaret ['Margera']), inscribed on f. 2*verso: 'Rawfe parker de Fulham gent. et Etheldred uxor eius' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 268).
? 'William', owned in the 16th century: his name inscribed in an unfinished memorandum on f. 129r: 'Be it remembred that I william Sust[.]pe [...]' (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
? John Wetenhale, owned in the 16th century: his name inscribed in an unfinished memorandum on f. 129r: 'Memorandum that John wetenhale' (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
? Edward Kennington, owned in the 16th century: his name in a memorandum on f. 129r, beginning: 'Official[is] Londsey Dilecto nobis filio D[omi]no Tho[mas] v[er]non vicar de Sudmy[n]st[er] [Southminster] etcaetera [...] Edwardu[m] Ke[n]ny[n]gton [...] (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
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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Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: British Library, 2005), nos 1576/1, 3318/2, 3793/4.
Willy Louis Braekman, Studies on Alchemy, Diet, Medecine [sic] and Prognostication in Middle English, Scripta: Mediaeval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 22 (Brussels: Omirel, 1988 for 1986), pp. 51-52 [for the dietary for King Henry V].
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-1812), III (1808), pp. 244-45.
R. H. Robbins, 'Medical Manuscripts in Middle English', Speculum, 45:3 (1970), 393-415 (p. 404 n. 30) [for the dietary for King Henry V].
L. E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd edn (Ann Arbor, MI, 2006), nos 1147.00, 1666.00, 2200.00, 2700.00, 6633.00, 6844.00 [= eVK2].
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. 453.
Catalogued for the Harley Medical Manuscripts Project , accessed 28 July 2009 [with detailed list of contents].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)