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Harley MS 7641
- Record Id:
- 040-002053499
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002053499
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000984.0x000286
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7641
- Title:
- Theological compendium on confession and penance
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-78v: A theological compilation, consisting of many expositions on biblical quotations relating to confession and penance; imperfect at the beginning and end, and in between; the first line on f. 2r begins mid-sentence with 'non gregatim cum aliis sed singulariter volans'; a few subject headings in upper and lower margins highlight sections on the Seven Deadly Sins, and sections entitled: 'De tribus partibus penitencie' (f. 7v); 'De premeditacione' (f. 13r); and 'Dilacio confessionis' (f. 34v).
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. i recto: A note by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum: 'Formerly Add. 8130 now Harl. 7641'; followed by the note: 'Found among the refuse, in 1830'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002053499", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 7641: Theological compendium on confession and penance" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002053499 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 7641 : Theological compendium on confession and penance - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7655]/040-002053499
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 140 x 100 mm (text space: 110 x 75 mm).
Foliation: ff. i + 78 (+ 3 unfoliated blank paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); ff. 1, 17, 18, 22, 23, 35, 76, 77, 78 are fragmentary leaves (with large portions of text lost) that have been repaired with blank paper; the lower margin of f. 73 has been cut out, causing some loss of text, and reapired with blank paper; a tear in the upper margin of f. 40; modern foliation in pencil throughout (followed here) alongside medieval folation. The latter begins at '27' and ends with '120', but its pattern suggests that the manuscript is bound in the wrong order. The sequence of extant old folio numbers is as follows: 27 (f. 2) - 36, 38-42, 45-47, 63 (f. 24) - 71, 60 (f. 33), 48, 50-59, 72 (f. 46) - 96, 117 (f. 71) - 120.
Script: Gothic; two documentary cursive scripts: (A) ff. 1-12v, 75-78v; (B) ff. 13-74v.
Collation: i10 (lacks 1), f. 11 mounted separately, ii10, iii12, f. 34 mounted separately, iv-v12, ff. 59-62 mounted separately, vi-vii8; indicated by catchwords on ff. 11v, 46v, and 58v; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard. This manuscript is heavily repaired and, in view of the sequence of old foliation noted above, the present arrangement of gatherings should be treated with caution.
Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather binding with the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the outside covers; re-bound on 24 October 1966.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
John Batteley (b. 1647, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John Batteley, Master of the Court of Augmentations, on 5 November 1723 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 263 n. 1; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 67).
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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley, '[5] Novembris 1723' (f. 2r).
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.
Acquired by the British Museum with the Harleian Manuscripts in 1753, but not placed with that collection. Found among refuse and accessioned as Additional MS 8130, the item was subsequently identified as a Harleian manuscript and re-numbered Harley MS 7641 (see f. i recto). The manuscript may have come to the Harley collection in fragments, as is suggested by an incomplete acquisition note '5 di', in Wanley's hand, on fragmentary f. 1r.
- Former Internal References:
- Add MS 8130
- 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. [541] (no. 7641) [annotated copy kept at the British Library].
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 263 n. 1.
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. 67.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Batteley, John, Archdeacon of Canterbury; antiquary, 1646-1708
Batteley, John, Master of the Court of Augmentations; nephew of antiquary John Batteley, fl 1723 - Places:
- England