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Harley MS 6613

Record Id:

040-002052462

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002052462

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x000089

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 6613

Title:

Lanterne of Light

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-57v: Lanterne of Light, imperfect; with occasional contemporary marginal notes. A Lollard text composed after the 1409 Constitutions of Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury. This is one of two manuscript copies of the text to survive: the other is Harley MS 2324 (see Fletcher and Hudson, ‘Compilations’ (2008), p. 334 n. 4).

Decoration:

Large initials in blue with pen-flourished decoration in red. Rubrics in red. Paraphs in blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002052462

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 6613 : Lanterne of Light

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[6618]/040-002052462

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:

1409

End Date:

1430

Date Range:

1409-c 1425

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 160 x 105 mm (text space: 110 x 70 mm).

Foliation: ff. 57 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated original parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 1 original unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 7 and f. 8.

Collation: Gatherings mostly of 8, with quire signature in red and brown in the lower right corner of the rectos in the first half of the gatherings and horizontal catchword, occasionally framed, in the lower right corner of the last verso. A number of leaves are lost within the text and at the end.

Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound on 21 February 1966.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Thomas Gawdy (b. 1531, d. c. 1595), of Weybread, Suffolk: his name inscribed [3x] on f. [v]recto (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 160).

Henry Gate, c. 1600: his name inscribed on f. [58]recto (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 160).

? John Edwards, 17th-century: inscribed his name on f. 9v: 'John Edwards his writing' (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

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. 380 (no. 6613).

Alan J. Fletcher and Anne Hudson, 'Compilations for Preaching and Lollard Literature', in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 2, 1100-1400, ed. by Nigel Morgan and Rodney M. Thomson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), p. 334 n. 4.

Anne Hudson, Lollards and Their Books (London: Hambledon, 1985), pp. 185 n. 4, 234-36 and nn. 25-29, 252 no. [94].

Anne Hudson, 'Lollard book production', in Book Production and Publishing in Britain 1375-1475, ed. by Jeremy Griffiths and Derek Pearsall, Cambridge Studies in Publishing and Printing History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp 125-42 (p. 138 n. 12).

Jane Roberts, Guide to Scripts used in English Writings up to 1500 (London: British Library, 2005), p. 181 [with pl. of f. 8r].

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. 160, 468.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England

Related Archive Descriptions:

Harley MS 2324