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Harley MS 6573
- Record Id:
- 040-002052422
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052422
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x000061
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6573
- Title:
- Walter Hilton, Scale of Perfection (Books 1 and 2)
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1*r-114v: Walter Hilton, Scale of Perfection (Books 1 and 2).
Decoration:
Numerous large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraph marks in blue (ff. 1*r-2*v); paraph marks in red (ff. 3r-114r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052422", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6573: Walter Hilton, Scale of Perfection (Books 1 and 2)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052422 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6573 : Walter Hilton, Scale of Perfection (Books 1 and 2) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6578]/040-002052422
- 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: 245 x 165 mm (text space: 185 x 120 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 2* + 114 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning +1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 3 unfoliated papers flyleaves at the end); ff. 1 and 2 are blank parchment leaves that originally served as flyleaves; ff. 1*-2* are text pages; each quire has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Collation: Mostly in quires of 8. Decorated catchwords.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 27 October 1965.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Matthew Parker (b. 1504, d. 1575), archbishop of Canterbury and patron of scholarship: his typical red chalk markings on f. 1 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 268).
‘JMS’ [? John Murray (b. 1670, d. 1748) of Sacombe, Hertfordshire], owned in the late 17th or early 18th century: monogram written on f. 1v; the same initials also feature in other Harleian manuscripts (for his entry see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 291, where this manuscript is not listed).
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. 376.
The Scale of Perfection, ed. by Evelyn Underhill (London: Watkins, 1948), pp. xlvii-xlviii.
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. 467.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Hilton, Walter, c 1343-1396,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118213408 - Places:
- England