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Harley MS 5767
- Record Id:
- 040-002051614
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051614
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000121
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5767
- Title:
- Gospels of Luke and John in the later Wyclifitte version
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-113r: The Gospels of Luke (ff. 1r-63v) and John (ff. 63v-113r) in the later Wyclifitte version.
The manuscript contains a few later additions:
f. 113v: Latin notes with numerals, added in the 15th century.
f. 1*verso: An inscription: 'Mem[orandum] compare this with Hampole and Wickliffe's Gosp'. This addition probably comes from the 1884 British Museum exhibition, where Hampole refers to Richard Rolle of Hampole, who is credited in the exhibition with writing an English translation of the Psalter. The exhibition showed three manuscripts of Rolle's Psalter: Arundel MS 158, Royal MS 18 C XXVI, and Harley MS 1806.
Decoration:
Blue initials with red pen-flourishing for each biblical chapter and book; red slash between each verse. Each chapter is numbered within the text with roman numerals in red ink; Arabic numbers with black ink in the margin. Frame-ruled in red ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051614 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5767 : Gospels of Luke and John in the later Wyclifitte version - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5770]/040-002051614
- 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:
- 1449
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 150 x 110 mm (text space: 125 x 85, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 114 (+ 3 unfoliated flyleaves at the beginning + 6 at the end); A red star is affixed between two columns (f. 68): This star was used to mark display pages in an 1884 British Museum exhibition of Wycliffite writings.
Collation: i - iii8 (ff. 1-24), iv8-1 (ff. 25-31; 8th leaf cancelled), v - xiv8 (ff. 32-111), xv4-1 (ff. 112-114; 4th leaf excised, probably blank).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Harleian binding of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers; gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
? John Treherne, 15th century: his name ('iohn treherne') inscribed on f. 114r (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972))
William Oldisworth (b. 1680, d. 1734), writer and translator: gave the manuscript to Harley; see Harley’s inscription on f. [vi]verso: ‘This was sent me by Mr. Oldisworth’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 261).
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. 294.
Elizabeth Solopova, 'Index of Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible', in The Wycliffite Bible: Origin, History and Interpretation, ed. by Elizabeth Solopova (Leiden: Brill, 2016), p. 488.
E. M. Thompson, Wycliffe Exhibition in the King’s Library (London: Clowes and Sons, 1884), no. 57.
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. 261.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)