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Harley MS 5215
- Record Id:
- 040-002051059
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051059
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0002de
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5215
- Title:
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Collection of satirical and religious poems in Dutch
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript originates from the milieu of the rederijkerskamers ('chambers of rhetoric') in the Low Countries. It contains a sequence of religious and satirical poems that are dated between 1547 and 1552. The manuscript was copied by a single scribe, most likely in the province of North Brabant, as the author refers to the cities of Breda and Den Bosch.
Contents:
ff. 1r-85v: A sequence of forty-five theological poems in Dutch; featuring a Protestant ('Infortunatus procul amicus') and a Catholic ('Naer hoepe jolijt') rederijker; with references to the paraphrase of the Psalms published by the Dutch Christian Hebraist Jan Van Campen [Johannis Campensis] (b. c. 1490, d. 1538) at Nuremberg in 1532: 'Den derden Psalm' (f. 1r); and 'den 2 Psalm' (f. 81v); and including the dates 1549 (f. 11r); 1550 (f. 14r); 1547 (f. 22v); 1548 (f. 24v); 1551 (ff. 28r, 29v, 31v, 33v, 35v, 38r), and 1552 (f. 40r).
f. 86v: An index of poems.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051059", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5215: Collection of satirical and religious poems in Dutch" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051059 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5215 : Collection of satirical and religious poems in Dutch - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5215]/040-002051059
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Dutch
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1547
- End Date:
- 1557
- Date Range:
- c 1552
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 195 x 155 mm.
Foliation: ff. i + 86 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper leaf between f. 85 and f. 86.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: Post-1600; white leather on pasteboard.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
? Brabant, The Netherlands.
Provenance;
? Written in Brabant, The Netherlands: suggested by references to the cities of Breda and Den Bosch.
An unknown owner or author: their name most likely inscribed on f. i recto, but blocked out by black ink.
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 (1812), p. 252.
Robert Priebsch, Deutsche Handschriften in England, 2 vols (Erlangen: Junge, 1896–1901), II, p. 19 (no. 32).
C. G. N. De Vooys, 'Schriftuurlijke Refereynen', Nederlandsch Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis, Nieuwe Serie, 32 (1941), p. 28.
A. van Elslander, Het refrein in de Nederlanden tot 1600 (Ghent: Erasmus, 1953), pp. 23 (K), 185.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Brabant, the Netherlands