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Harley MS 5272
- Record Id:
- 040-002051117
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051117
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000318
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161516668.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5272
- Title:
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John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady; The Life of St Dorothy; The Abbey of the Holy Ghost
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-98v: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady (verse), imperfect at the beginning.
ff. 99r-104v: The Life of St Dorothy (verse).
ff. 105r-137v: The Abbey of the Holy Ghost; ending with the colophon 'This endith without bost / The abbey of the holigost'.
Decoration:
Blue initials with red filigree penwork decoration throughout. 1 puzzle initial in blue and red (f. 105r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051117", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5272: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady; The Life of St Dorothy; The Abbey of the Holy Ghost" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051117 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5272 : John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady; The Life of St Dorothy; The Abbey of the Holy Ghost - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5273]/040-002051117
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100161516668.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1475
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 240 x 170 mm.
Foliation: ff. 137 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Johannes Foster; a colophon on f. 98v: 'here endith þe life of oure lady. Quod Johannes Foster'.
Various late 15th and 16th century owner: the openings of indentures and letters added by 16th-century owners throughout. Erased ownership inscritions (16th century) on f. 97v and f. 98v.
John Cradock of Bedminster (Bristol), owned in the late 15th or early 16th century: his name inscribed on ff. 32r, 33r, 74r (‘John Cradock de bedmynster’), and 98r.
‘Robertus Heynes’, owned in the late 15th or early 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 73v: ‘per me Robertum [Heynes]’ and f. 75r (2x ‘Robertum’).
‘Thomas’, 16th century: his name inscribed on ff 11r. 35r, f. 41v (3x), 42v, 47v, 50r (2x), 54r (2x)
‘John Mellowes’, owned in the late 16th century;’ his name inscribed on f. 18v and 33r.
Elisabeth Dane, owned in the late 16th century: her ownership inscription on f. 42r: ‘Thys ys Elsabeth danes boke / he that stelhyn shall be hanged by a croke’.
John Dane, owned in the late 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 59v
John Batteley (b. 1647, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: purchased from him by Edward Harley through his newphew, John Batteley (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 67).
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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘5 die Novembris, A.D. 1723’ (f. 1r).
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: The British Library, 2005), nos 2447/3, 2574/24, 3592.55/1.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 252.
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. 455.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)