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Harley MS 5247

Record Id:

040-002051091

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051091

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0002fe

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5247

Title:

An English miscellany including a treatise on oaths; theological questions; a catechism

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-3v: Miscellaneous notes and sayings in English or Latin.

ff. 4r-33v: ‘A Briefe Treatise of Oathes exacted by Ordinances and Ecclesiastical Judges to answer generally to all such articles or Interrogatories as pleaseth them to propound and of their forced and constrayned oathes and examinations ex officio wherein is proved that the same ar unlawful’.

ff. 34r-92r: Tracts on theological questions, beginning: ‘whether it be a godly and religious worke to goe on pilgrimages’.

ff. 93r-98v: A catechism, beginning: 'What is the duty of every Christian'.

ff. 99r-109v: Tracts on theological questions, beginning: ‘Old Customs abrogated’.

ff. 110r-116v: A tract entitled: ‘Grindallus Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis Regiae Majestati’.

ff. 117r-129v: Tracts on theological questions, beginning: 'Whether it be convenient to make curtesy and to put of the cap at the name of Jesus'.

ff. 130r-134v: Miscellaneous notes in Latin and English, beginning: ‘The Rhenish ar not precise in diminishinge of their Lattin text wherein they brag that they are precise’.

f. 135r: An index for the theological questions in this manuscript; incomplete.

ff. 135v-137v: Miscellaneous notes in Latin and English, beginning: ‘The 6 dayes after mary conception, he is nothing but milke: the 9 following blood: 12 daies after, flesh’.

The manuscript contains an addition:

f. 1v: A strip of paper with a (?) 16th-century printed text in English (featuring the line: 'at the length of thine owne') on its verso; on the blank recto have been written names and a (?) rhyme in English, beginning: ‘crooked word Rams horne’; written in the (?) 17th century.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051091

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5247 : An English miscellany including a treatise on oaths; theological questions; a catechism

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5247]/040-002051091

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1575

End Date:

1624

Date Range:

4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 145 x 95 mm.

Foliation: ff. 74 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning); 3 unfoliated paper leaves between f. 8 and f. 9; f. 11 and f. 12; each quire has been mounted onto a paper guard.

Script: 16th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house; Harley MS 923 has been bound together with Harley MSS 924 and 925; re-bound in 1967.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Alexander Cooke (bap. 1564, d. 1632), Church of England clergyman and religious controversialist, owned in 1596: his name inscribed on f. 2r: 'Alexander Cooke, Collegii Universitaties Oxon 1596 Feb.' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 111).

A list of English names on the paper pastedown on f. 1v: 'George Blackand, John Blackand, Lion Walker, Robert Walker, John Boston, Isuah Wright, Sal[...] Bradley, Thomas Gibbin, Stephen Person, Oliver Person, John Person, John Verlay'; written in the (?) 17th century.

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), I (1808), p. 255.

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. 454.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England