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Harley MS 5751
- Record Id:
- 040-002051598
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051598
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000111
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5751
- Title:
- A book for the instruction of young clerks proceeding to holy orders
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r-327r: A book for the instruction of young clerks proceeding to holy orders, containing guides to confession and penance, practice translations into English (f. 146r), beginning ‘Grammatica vel Grammatice est literalis sciencia radix omni scienciarum cum qua omnia sine qua nichil et dicitur a grammaton grece quod est littera latine et ycos quod est sciencia’.
The manuscript contains a few additions:
f. 1v: A row of numbers entitled ‘ffigure algorismi’; with the date ‘1540’.
f. 2r: A Latin text entitled ‘De figuris Algorismi’.
ff. 329r-329v: A charter in Middle French, referring to a 'John of Sandwich' [? Sandwich, Kent]; written in the 13th century.
Decoration:
1 full-border of anthropomorphic and floral figures in brown ink highlighted with red ink (f. 3r). Large and small initials with calligraphic decoration in brown ink and highlighted in red ink. Cadels decorated with anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures, initials with human faces, and marginal drawings in brown ink and highlighted with red ink throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051598", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5751: A book for the instruction of young clerks proceeding to holy orders" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051598 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5751 : A book for the instruction of young clerks proceeding to holy orders - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5754]/040-002051598
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper; parchment (f. 329).
Dimensions: 165 x 120 mm.
Foliation: ff. 329 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 2 unfoliated paper leaves between f. 2 and f. 3; f. 329 is a folded parchment leaf; each quire has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 28 April 1967. The fore-edge contains an untranscribed inscription in brown ink.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
‘Rochus Sallay’, compiled the manuscript in the 15th century: his name inscribed in the borders on f. 3r.
Sir Thomas Tempest (d. 1692), 4th baronet, county Durham, in his library: his name inscribed ‘S[i]r Tho[mas] Temp[es]t Baronet’ (f. 1r); bequeathed to his daughter, Jane (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 325).
William Widdrington, 4th baron Widdrington (b. 1678, d. 1743), husband of Jane (d. 1714), disposed of Tempest’s medieval manuscript collection to the Harleian Library after her death (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 325).
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 (1808), p. 293.
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. 462.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England