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Harley MS 5768
- Record Id:
- 040-002051615
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051615
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000122
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5768
- Title:
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New Testament Epistles, Revelation, in the later Wycliffite version
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-82v: New Testament Epistles (ff. 1r-39r) and Revelation (ff. 39v-82v) in Middle English, in the later Wycliffite version.
ff. 83r-84r: A Middle English translation of Matthew 5:1-17, beginning: 'and ihesu seynge þe peple wente up into an hil and whane he was sett: his disciplis camen to him and he openede his mouþ and tauȝte hem and seide Blessed bee pore men in spiret'.
The manuscript contains several additions:
ff. 1*r-2*v, 3*r: Latin texts; those on ff. 1*r-2*v are faded and unidentified, but those on f. 3*r contain biblical quotations; added in the (?) 16th century.
f. 1*verso: An effaced Middle English text.
f. 2*r: Latin proverbs; added in the 16th century.
f. 84v: An erased Latin instruction for an amulet against toothace that cites a narrative about St Peter sitting outside Jerusalem Gate and being healed from tootchache by Christ, ending with: 'h[o]c scriptum super se portav[eri]t'; added in the 15th century.
15th- and 17th-century marginal notations throughout.
Decoration:
1 'champ' initial in colours and gold (f. 1r). Numerous painted initials in blue with red pen-flourishing throughout. Alternating blue or red paraphs; capitals slashed in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051615", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5768: New Testament Epistles, Revelation, in the later Wycliffite version" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051615 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5768 : New Testament Epistles, Revelation, in the later Wycliffite version - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5771]/040-002051615
- 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:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 100 x 70 mm (text space: 65 x 50 mm).
Foliation: ff. 3* + 84 (+ 1 unfoliated flyleaf that consists of a paper leaf glued against a parchment leaf and 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the end + 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves and 1 unfoliated flyleaf that consists of a paper leaf glued against a parchment leaf at the end). A red star is affixed to the margin (f. 37v), used to mark display pages in an 1884 British Museum exhibition of Wycliffite writings.
Collation: Quires of 8; leaf signatures and catchwords.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-stamped and -tooled red leather; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Abraham Olney, 17th century: donated the manuscript to William Eyres according to an inscription on f. 2*recto (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 261).
William Eyres, 17th century: received the manuscript from Abraham Olney according to an inscription on f. 2*recto: 'Guil. Eyres ex dono Abraham Olney' and 'Nosce te ipsum' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 148).
Sir Richard Gipps (bap. 1659, d. 1708), topographer, 17th century: received the manuscript from William Eyres according to an inscription on f. 2*recto: 'Richard Gippes ex dono Guil. Eyres' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 164).
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: the manuscript contains an inscription ('Oxford, Feb. 17. 1732/33'), probably by Harley, who was entering the dates he acquired manuscripts during this time-period (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright, (1966), II, p. lxxvi).
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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British Museum Bible Exhibition 1911: Guide to the Manuscripts and Printed Books Exhibited in Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Authorized Version (London: British Museum, 1911), no. 27.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 294.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: The Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1722-1726, p. lxxvi.
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, 1884), no. 61.
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. 148, 164, 261.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England