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Harley MS 6553

Record Id:

040-002052402

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002052402

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x00004d

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 6553

Title:

Collection of explanations of Biblical passages and philosophical texts

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains a collection of tracts on Biblical passages, written in a hand that may date to the 1st half of the 17th century, and another collection with philosophical texts in a hand that may date to the 2nd half of the 16th century.

Contents:

ff. 1r-4r: '2 Pol. 6 - Recte Hippodamus legem tulit ut si quis util quid reip. adeoque novas leges inveniret praemio afficeretur'.

ff. 5r-6v: '2 Rhet. 12 - Senes magis quam juvenes in illud Chilonis (ne quid nimis) peccant'.

ff. 7r-8v: '3 Pol. 9 - Inaequalitas in statu Democratio non est tollenda per Ostracismum'.

ff. 9v-37v: Biblical passages explained in English: 'Ideo tentatus est Christus ne vincatur a tentatione Christanus -The Places of scripture explained in this booke - 1: Math: 4.1 ad finem vers 11: Then was Jesus led alive of the spirit in to the wilderness to be tempted of the Divell […] 2: Luke 13.5 I till you nay, but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish […] 3: Ps: 109.7. And let his prayer be turned into sinne […] 4: Math: 5.3 To the end of the 10th verse, containing those 8 beatitudes or degrees of blessedness which our saviour published in the first Sermon that ever he made to his disciples . Blessed are the poore in spirit, for theirs is the etc. 5. Rev: 18.4. Come out of her my people that ye be not partakers of hire sinnes […] 6: 1. Joh: 3.10. In this the children of god are manifest, and the children of the Devill etc.'.

ff. 38r-41v: Quaestiones on natural philosophy, beginning: 'Oratiuncula in ludem philosophiae naturalis'.

ff. 43r-45r: Texts on Nature, beginning: 'Natura est substantiale principium mutationum atque accidentalium formarum rei'; perhaps derived from Jacques Lefèvre d'Etaples, Introductio in physicam Paraphrasim (Beck, 1514).

ff. 46r-78v: Biblical passages explained in English (continuation of ff. 9v-37r).

ff. 79r-81r: 'Annotationes in libellum Aristotelis de memoria & recordatione'.

ff. 82r-83v: 'Annotationes in Aristotelis labellum de adolsecentia et senectute, vita et morte'.

ff. 83r-93v: 'Annotationes in Aristotelis Meteorologica libros 4'.

ff. 94r-107v: 'Annotationes in Aristotelis de animo libros tres'.

f. 108r: 'Quatuor sunt qualitates primae et principales'.

ff. 109v-111v: 'De Periœcis, Antœcis, Antipodibus'.

f. 112r: 'Causa inundationis Nili est Aquæ Æthipicæ copia'.

Decoration:

f. 45v has remnants of glue and paper, which suggest that it once featured a print or drawing.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002052402

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 6553 : Collection of explanations of Biblical passages and philosophical texts

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[6558]/040-002052402

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:

1550

End Date:

1649

Date Range:

2nd half of 16th century-1st half of the 17th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 195 x 140 mm (text space: 180 x 120 mm).

Foliation: ff. 112 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 unfoliated torn paper stub between f. 44 and f. 45; f. 96 is a folded paper leaf; 10 unfoliated torn paper stubs with writing on them from the original undamaged pages and 2 unfoliated (the first one containing old foliation number '108') blank paper leaves between f. 107 and f. 108.

Script: 16th- or 17th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled brown speckled leather with the initials 'M.B' (Museum Brittanicum) gold-stamped on the outside covers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 375.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Aristotle, philosopher, 384 BC-322 BC

Places:

England