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Harley MS 5442
- Record Id:
- 040-002051288
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051288
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0003c3
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5442
- Title:
- John Borough [John de Burgh], Pupilla oculi
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r–4r: Table to John Borough [John de Burgh]'s Pupilla oculi.
ff. 5r–201v: John Borough [John de Burgh], Pupilla oculi.
The manuscript contains various additions:
f. 1v: Theological excerpt attributed to St Gregory the Great; added in the early 16th century.
f. 1v (paper pastedown): Statement on confession by John Eye, 1504.
f. 2r–2v: Two papal bulls on hearing confession addressed to the abbot of Bury St Edmunds, dated 1432.
f. 201v: Theological notes, featuring the date 1451 and 1447.
f. 202r: A prayer, beginning: 'Deomine deus noster' quam admirabile est nomen tuum', added in the 15th century.
f. 202r: A note on John Borough: 'Hunc tractatum composuit Johannes de Burgo rector ecclesie de Colyngham cuius anime propicietur deus Amen'; added in the 15th century.
Decoration:
1 very large (5-line) blue initial with red penwork decoration and partial borders in blue and red with a hybrid fighting a dragon in red ink (f. 5r). Large (2- and 3-line) initials in blue with red penwork decoration throughout, some including partial borders with hybrid figures in red ink. Red paraphs. Underlining in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051288", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5442: John Borough [John de Burgh], Pupilla oculi" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051288 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5442 : John Borough [John de Burgh], Pupilla oculi - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5444]/040-002051288
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 240 × 175 mm (text space: 170 × 120 mm).
Foliation: ff. 202 (+ 2 paper endleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 1v.
Collation: Indicated by leaf signatures and catchwords; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; rebound on 13 May 1965.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England. Written by Richard Delling: 'Quod Richardus Dellyng', in scribe's hand at end of table (f. 4r).
Provenance:
John Pynswale (d. 1476), of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Rector of Little Bardsfield, Essex, and Redgrave, 1463-1476: once owned the manuscript according to an inscription on f. 202r: 'Hic liber erat quondam Magistri Johannis Pynswale Rectoris de Redgrave' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 279); his caution notes
Johannes Eye, dompnus, 1504: his name in a confession statement on f. 1v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 148).
Robert Myldenhale, prior of Bury in 1504: his ownership inscription 'Liber domini Roberti Myldenhale prioris' on f. 3r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 248).
? The Benedictine abbey of Bury St Edmunds: its pressmark 'P ·22·' on f. 3r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 90).
Clement Heigham, probably the judge and speaker of the House of Commons (d. 1634) who was grandson of Sir Clement Heigham, Chief Bailiff of the liberty of St Edmunds (appointed in 1528): his name written on f. 3r see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 186).
John Batteley (b. 1647, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary [son of an apothecary of Bury]: sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John Batteley on 5 November 1723 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 263 n. 1; 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 1723' (f. 2r).
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 (1808), p. 268.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 263 n. 1.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 67, 90, 148, 186, 248, 279.
Richard Sharpe, ‘Reconstructing the Medieval Library of Bury St Edmunds Abbey: The Lost Catalogue of Henry of Kirkstead’, in Bury St Edmunds: Medieval Art, Architecture, Archaeology, and Economy, ed. by Antonia Gransden, Conference Transactions, 20 (Leeds: British Archaeological Association, 1998), pp. 204–218.
Kate Harris, ‘The Patronage and Dating of Longleat House MS 24, a Prestige Copy of the Pupilla Oculi Illuminated by the Master of the Troilus Frontispiece’, in Prestige, Authority, and Power in Late Medieval Manuscripts and Texts, ed. by Felicity Riddy (Woodbridge, Suffolk: York Medieval Press, 2000), pp. 35–54 (at p. 37).
Neil R. Ker, Richard Sharpe and James Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, 2015 http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England