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Harley MS 6571
- Record Id:
- 040-002052420
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052420
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x00005f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6571
- Title:
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Book for a Simple and Devout Woman
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-68v: Book for a Simple and Devout Woman, beginning: ‘Seynt Johon þe evangelist in his boke of pryvytes telleþ þat he saw a wondirful and a degysed beste come out of þe see þat haddde a body like to a libarde . ffeet as hit were of a bere prote as hit were of alyon and he hadde seven heedes and ten hornes and ten crownes’; ending: ‘Iste liber factus fuerat pro instruccione cuiusdam mulieris suuplicis et devote et nomen scriptoris Wilhelmus plenus amoris’.
ff. 69r-73v: A table of contents (Latin).
The manuscript contains a few later additions:
f. 73v: A devotional instruction, beginning ‘Confitemini Domino, quoniam bonus etcaetera Acknowlege to god þat he is god’; added in the 15th century.
f. 73v: A prayer to Christ, beginning: ‘O good lorde by how many ways printeth þou in þe mynde þat we shuld slyde no way’; added in the 15th century.
Decoration:
Large and small red initials throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052420", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6571: Book for a Simple and Devout Woman" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052420 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6571 : Book for a Simple and Devout Woman - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6576]/040-002052420
- 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: Parchment.
Dimensions: 270 x 190 mm.
Foliation: ff. 73 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end); each quires has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 22 December 1965. The previous binding (gold-tooled brown leather) has been pasted on the insides of the upper and lower covers.
- Custodial History:
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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:
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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. 376.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)