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Harley MS 6923
- Record Id:
- 040-002052775
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052775
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x0001c2
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6923
- Title:
- Prick of Conscience
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-117v: Prick of Conscience.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 1r: A title and contents page, where the work is attributed to ‘St Richard Roll Commonly call[e]d Hampole of Hampole near Doncaster, who dyed, anno 1349’, added in the 16th century.
Decoration:
Small red initials.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052775", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6923: Prick of Conscience" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052775 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6923 : Prick of Conscience - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6931]/040-002052775
- 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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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper and parchment.
Dimensions: 175 x 130 mm.
Foliation: ff. 117 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end); ff. 63, 105, 106 are damaged leaves (with loss of text) that have been repaired with new blank paper.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house 1968.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
? ‘Selna conyers’, owned in the 15th or 16th century: her (?) name inscribed on f. 81v: ‘per selna conyers’ (not in Wright, Fontes Harleini (1972).
‘George [Nuw]els’, owned in the 15th or 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 79v (not in Wright, Fontes Harleini (1972)).
John Snydall, owned in the 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 69v: ‘Per me J[o]han[nes] Snydall’; and ‘Per me Joh[a]n Snydall’ [2x].
John Holmes, owned in the 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 69r: ‘By me John holmens’ [5x] (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 195); and f. 69v: ‘By me John holm[es]’.
John Sanford of Combe Florey, Somerset, owned in the 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 29r: ‘John Sanford [2x] of of Combe florye in the countye Som[er]set’; not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), who erroneously gives ‘Samford’; or Andrew G. Watson’s review of Fontes Harleiani; but probably the same John Sanford who owned Harley MS 2277 and inscribed his name on f. 21r (‘John Sanford’) and f. 22r (‘Dieu saulue nostre royne Elizabeth 1577 per moy Johan Sanford). However, according to Wright, this John Sanford belonged to the family of ‘Sanford of Comersley’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 296).
‘John Hilton’ of Northumbria, owned in 1524: his name inscribed in a bond dated to the fifteenth year of the reign of Henry VIII on f. 98v: ‘Nov[er]int universi per p[raes]entes me Johan[nes] Hilton in com[itatu] No[rthum]b[riae] teneri et teneri et firmiter obligari Edwardo Car In viginti libris sterling[orum] solvend[is] Eidem Edwardo aut suo certo attornato hered[ibus] Seu Executoribus suis in ffesto Natalis domini prox[ime] futur[o] pst datum p[raese]nciu[m] Ad quam quidem Solucionem Bene et fidelit[er] faciend[am] Obligo me hered[es] executo[res] meos per p[reaese]ntes sigillo meo sigillato data primo die septembris Anno Regni Regis Henrici octavi quintodecimo’ (not in Wright, Fontes Harleini (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:
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Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: The British Library, 2005), no. 3428/45.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 449.
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. 470.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)