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Harley MS 6208
- Record Id:
- 040-002052056
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052056
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x0003a3
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6208
- Title:
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Dissertatio de scriptore Pentateuchi; Thomas More, A Treatise: To Receive the Blessed Body of Our Lord; Expositio precationes dominicae per Henricum Stile monachum ab utero matris rarum; sermons
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-42v: Dissertatio de scriptore Pentateuchi; written in the 17th century.
ff. 43r-50r: Thomas More (b. 1478, d. 1535), A Treatise: To Receive the Blessed Body of Our Lord; here introduced as ‘A Tretice howe to Receave the Blessid Sacrament writene by Sir Thomas Moore Knighte (f. 43r); ‘To Receyve the Blessyd Bodye of owre lorde Sacramentally and Virtuallye Bothe’ (f. 44r); written in the late 16th century.
ff. 50v-51r: An English commentary on the Lord’s Prayer, entitled Expositio precationes dominicae per Henricum Stile monachum ab utero matris rarum [introduced on f. 43r as: ‘An Exposytione of the pater noster made by one Style A monke that was blinde evene frome his his Byrthe – Jesus – writene owte of an othere coppye or presidente Anno domini 1575’]; written in the late 16th century.
f. 51v: The opening of Psalm 78; followed by a versicle, beginning: ‘Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat in aeternum et in seculum seculi’; followed by a Latin prayer: ‘Domine deus, pater coelestis misericordiae et consolationis oramus te per nomen unigeniti filii tui domini nostri, et servatoris nostri Jesu Christi’; written in the (?) late 16th century.
ff. 52r-70v: A sermon on ‘1 John 3.20: For if our heart condemne us, God is greater then our hearte, and knoweth all thinges’.
ff. 71r-80v: A sermon on ‘Psalme 36.5: Thy mercy, o Lord, reached unto the heavens and thy ffaithfullnes unto the Clouds’; written in the late 17th century.
ff. 81v-88r: A Sermon Preached by Mr Nathaniell Wanley M:A At the funerall of Dr Bryan March 7th 1675’ [Nathaniel Wanley (b. 1634, d. 1680) was the father of Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), Keeper of the Harleian Library]; written in the late 17th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052056", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6208: Dissertatio de scriptore Pentateuchi; Thomas More, A Treatise: To Receive the Blessed Body of Our Lord; Expositio precationes…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052056 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6208 : Dissertatio de scriptore Pentateuchi; Thomas More, A Treatise: To Receive the Blessed Body of Our Lord; Expositio… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6212]/040-002052056
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1575
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century-4th quarter of the 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: paper.
Dimensions: 195 x 150 (ff. 1-[42b]); 210 x 150 mm (ff. 43r-[51a]); 200 x 150 (ff. 52-[80b]); 190 x 145 mm (ff. 81r-88r).
Foliation: ff. 88 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); 2 unfoliated paper leaves between f. 42 and f. 43 (f. [42a] and f. [42b]) and f. 80 and f. 81 (f. [81a] and f. [81b]); 1 unfoliated paper leaf between f. 51 and f. 52 (f. [51a]).
Script: 16th- and 17th-century script.
Binding: Post-1600.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 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 (1694-1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 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), pp. 645-46.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- More, Thomas, Saint, Lord Chancellor, humanist, and martyr, 1478-1535,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000367457307