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Harley MS 7358

Record Id:
040-002053212
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002053212
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x000377
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7358
Title:

Collection of theological, liturgical and computistical notes, mnemonic verses and prayers

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-25r: A collection of theological, liturgical and computistical notes, mnemonic verses and prayers, almost entirely in Latin; featuring a drawing of the pontifical cross and drawings of mnemonic hands (f. 1r); a note about the Virgin Mary (f. 1r); the Sacraments (ff. 2r-2v); a note on the wood of the Cross (f. 1v); prayers to saints (ff. 5r-8r) [crossed out]; a carol of women in Middle English, beginning ‘Wymmen beþ boþe goud and trewe wytnesse on Marie’ (f. 8r); Cisiojanus (f. 8v); De annis embolismalibus (f. 9r); a responsory of the Matins for the Office of the Dead (‘Libera me domine de viis inferni’); Lollay lollay þu lytel chyld wy wepys þou so sore’ (f. 12v); a note on testaments and an example of a testament in the name of ‘Johannes de R’, with executors named as ‘'Robertus attegappe et Johannes attestyle et Galfric by þe Weye’, dated to 1373.

Decoration:

Small initials in red.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-002053212
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 7358 : Collection of theological, liturgical and computistical notes, mnemonic verses and prayers
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[7368]/040-002053212
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
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User Conditions:
Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 150 x 110 mm.

Foliation: ff. 25 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 1 unfoliated modern paper pastedown on f. [i]verso (bibliographical notes); each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

‘Johannes Sperhanck’ of (?) East Lulworth, Dorset, wrote the manuscript in the 15th century: his name inscribed in the same hand as the manuscript’s contents on f. 2v (‘Joh[an]nes Sp[er]hanck’); a testament on f. 14v ends ‘Datum apud Estlolleworth’; his name inscribed in the same hand as the manuscript’s contents on f. 24v: ‘Sp[er]hanck de estlolleworth’.

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:

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: The British Library, 2005), nos 2024/1, 4219/1.

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 527.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)