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Harley MS 6333/2

Record Id:

040-003797836

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-003797836

MDARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 6333/2

Title:

Pauline Epistles to Apocalypse, and Gospel lections, in the Late Wycliffite Version

Scope & Content:

This is the second part of a two-volume set with biblical translations in Middle English (the first volume is Harley MS 6333/1). The first part contains a Wycliffite translation of Clement of Llanthony's Harmony of the Gospels, and the second part contains biblical books from the Later Wycliffite Version of the New Testament. Together, the two volumes contain the texts of the New Testament.

Contents:

ff. 145r-223v: Pauline Epistles (Late Wycliffite Version).

ff. 223v-261r: Acts of the Apostles (Late Wycliffite Version).

ff. 261r-277r: The Catholic Epistles (Late Wycliffite Version).

ff. 277v-297r: Apocalypse (Late Wycliffite Version).

ff. 297r-297v: Epistle to the Laodiceans (Late Wycliffite Version).

ff. 297v-306r: Order of the Gospels according to the liturgical year, with the rubric: 'Be cause þat certeyn gospel stonden not in ordre word be word in þis stori of oon of foure hit muste be souȝte in dyvers placis wherefore here after suen summe of þo gospels as þei ben red in þe chirche'.

ff. 307r-364v: Gospel lections (Late Wycliffite Version), with the rubric: 'Here bigynneth þe lessons and pistlis of þe oolde lawe þat ben red in þe chirche in al þe ȝeer after þe uss of salisbiry'.

ff. 364v-365r: Lists of books in the Old and New Testament, with enumerations of their chapters; and ending with enumerations of the books in the Old and New Testament ('47' and '28').

Decoration:

Large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours extending into the margins including foliate motifs and flowers marking the main divisions (ff. 147r, 160r, 173v, 183v, 188r, 192v, 196r, 199r, 201v, 203v, 207r, 210r, 211v, 224, 261v, 265v, 269r, 271v, 275r, 275v, 276r, 279r, 297r, 307r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs. Smaller coloured initials in red or blue. Capitals marked with yellow. Underlining in red. Line-fillers in red and blue. Paraphs in red or blue. Some catchwords written on scrolls. Manicules in black ink.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-003797836

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 6333/2 : Pauline Epistles to Apocalypse, and Gospel lections, in the Late Wycliffite Version

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[7836]/040-003797836

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English, Middle

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1425

End Date:

1435

Date Range:

c 1430

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 270 x 195 mm (text space: 190 x 125 mm, in 2 columns).

Foliation: ff. 221 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated (ruled) flyleaf and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); break in the foliation sequence, omitting 177, but no text missing; 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 299 and f. 300 (no text missing); continuously foliated with Harley MS 6333/1 by a 16th-century owner; this volume also contains earlier medieval foliation in Arabic numerals for the section with the Pauline Epistles ('1'-76').

Collation: Mainly in quires of 8. Indicated by catchwords (written horizontally), leaf signatures, and quire numbers (written above catchwords in Arabic numbers); each quire has been seperately mounted onto a paper guard.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house. Red half leather binding with the Harleian armorial bookplate goldstamped on the outside covers; rebound on 10 March 1966.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Henry Flyck, 1581: added folio numbers in the table (ff. 1r-17r), foliated both volumes, and inscribed his name on f. 17r in volume 1 (Harley MS 6333/1): 'By Henry flyck Anno 1581 this folio was made' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 154).

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. 358 (no. 6333).

Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments with the Apocryphal books, 4 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1850), I, p. xlii (no. 25)

Edward Maunde Thompson, Wycliffe Exhibition in the King’s Library (London: Clowes, 1884), pp. 20-21 (no. 22).

Christopher Wordsworth and Henry Littlehales, The Old Service-Books of the English Church, 2nd edn (London: Methuen, 1910), p. 263.

Sven L. Fristedt, The Wycliffe Bible, 3 vols, Stockholm Studies in English, 4, 21, 28 (Stockhom: Almquist & Wiksell, 1953-1973), I: The Principal Problems Connected with Forshall and Madden's Edition, p. 17.

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. 154.

Mary Dove, The First English Bible: The Text and Context of the Wycliffite Versions, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 66 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 484-92 (p. 97).

Mary Dove, The Earliest Advocates of the English Bible: The Texts of the Medieval Debate, Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2010), pp. 103-05, 174-79 [Gospel Prologues, ff. 1r-23r].

Matti Peikola, 'Manuscript Paratexts in hte Making: British Library MS Harley 6333 as a Liturgical Compilation', in Discovering the Riches of the Word: Religious Reading in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. by Sabrina Corbellini, Margriet Hoogvliet, Bart A. M. Ramakers, Intersections, 38 (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 44-67.

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.

James H. Morey, 'The Wycliffites: Hosts or Guests, First Finders or Followers', in The Wycliffite Bible: Origin, History and Interpretation, ed. by Elizabeth Solopova, Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts, 16 (Leiden: Brill, 2017), pp. 85-105 (p. 96)

Mary Raschko, 'Taking Apart the Wycliffite Bible: Patterns of Selective and Integrative Reading', Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 47:3 (2017), 461-86.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England

Related Archive Descriptions:

Harley MS 6333/1