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Harley MS 4027
- Record Id:
- 040-003696179
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-003696179
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100108226579.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4027
- Title:
- New Testament, in the later Wycliffite version
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-181r: New Testament, in the later Wycliffite version (c. 1380), including the Gospels of Matthew (ff. 1r-22r), Mark (ff. 22r-36v), Luke (ff. 36v-61v), and John (ff. 61v-79v); Pauline Epistles (ff. 79r-130v); Acts of the Apostles (ff. 130v-146r); Catholic Epistles (ff. 146r-167v); Apocalypse (ff. 167v-181r).
ff. 181v-186r: A table of lecterns in Latin.
The manuscript contains a few later additions:
f. 184r: A list of purchased items, including shears or wool, in English, partially effaced: ‘scherys that [...] bowt at parys’ and a ‘peyre [of] scherys of iij levys the pece'; added in the (?) 15th century.
f. 184r: A list with page references to biblical books in this manuscript; added in the 15th century.
ff. 187r-187v: Pen trials and various inscriptions in Latin and English, including a 15th- or 16th-century reference to a payment (‘Price vjs viijd’), perhaps referring to the manuscript.
Decoration:
8 large initials in gold on coloured grounds (ff. 1r, 22r, 36v, 61v, 79v, 130v, 146v, 168v). 1 large initial in green with red pen-flourishing (f. 1v). Large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Rubrics and running headers in red. Paraphs in red or blue. Ruled in purple. An added sketch of a man in brown ink (f. 186v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-003696179", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4027: New Testament, in the later Wycliffite version" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-003696179 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4027 : New Testament, in the later Wycliffite version - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7824]/040-003696179
- 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: 275 x 190 mm (text space: 200 x 125 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 187 (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); f. 134 is wanting; f. [ii] is a paper leaf pasted onto a parchment one.
Collation: Indicated by horizontal catchwords in frames of black and red ink; leaf signatures (first 4 folios of each quaternion).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather with gold tooling; red edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
? Baudet Anderton, 15th or 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 140v (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
Hamlet Anderton, tailor of King's Lynn, Norfolk, owned in the late 16th or early 17th century: his name inscribed on f. 183v (1x) and f. 184r (2x); and perhaps his list of purchased items on f. 184r, which includes shears; Hamlet Anderton is not listed in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972). He is the 'Hamlet Anderton, tailour' of King’s Lynn who is recorded in A Calendar of the Freemen of Lynn (1913), p. 106; Anderton was admitted as a tailor on 29 August 1566 (entry in King’s Lynn Borough Archives, KL/C 7/6, f. 466r). He remained a tailor for the next decade, since a tailor-apprentice of his was admitted in 1579-1580 (see A Calendar of the Freemen of Lynn (1913), p. 115). He was elected gaoler on 17 March 1570 (see King’s Lynn Borough Archives, KL/C 7/7, f. 10v). Further entries indicate that he retired from this office in 1614 (King’s Lynn Borough Archives, KL/C 7/8, f. 70v; KL/C 7/9, ff.. 63v, and 66r), and died in 1615 (King’s Lynn Borough Archives, KL/C 7/9, ff. 66r, 76r, 106r). We are grateful to Susan Maddock, former Principal Archivist of the Norfolk Record Office, for generously sharing her research on Hamlet Anderton with us.
Thomas Bloye, owned in the 16th century: inscribed his name (2x) on f. 102r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 74).
William Peirson, early 17th century: inscribed his name on f. 9r: 'William Peirson' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 272).
Thomas Peirson, owned in 1678: his ownership inscription on f. 181v: 'Ex libris Thomas Peirson esq anno domini 1678' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 272).
Thomas Johnson, 1670: his ownership inscription on f. 181v: 'Ex libris Thomas Yonson Esq[uire] anno domini 1670' (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:
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Anonymous, A Calendar of the Freemen of Lynn, 1292-1836 (Norwich: Archaeological Society, 1913), p. 106
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 105 (no. 4027).
E. M. Thompson, Wycliffe Exhibition in the King’s Library (London: Clowes, 1884), no. 46.
Matti Peikola, ‘Tables of Lections in Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible’, in Form and Function in the Late Medieval Bible, ed. by Eyal Poleg and Laura Light (Leiden: Brill, 2013), pp. 351-78 (p. 357).
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. 74, 272.
Elizabeth Solopova, 'Index of Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible', in The Wycliffite Bible: Origin, History and Interpretation, ed. by Elizabeth Solopova (Leiden: Brill, 2016), p. 488.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England