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Harley MS 4971, ff 4-41
- Record Id:
- 041-003314454
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050815
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100032028328.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4971, ff 4-41
- Title:
- Grammatical and legal tracts, letters and documents
- Scope & Content:
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f. 4r: Guide to French pronunciation.
ff. 4r–6v: Orthographica Gallica (sometimes attributed to Thomas Sampson), with running commentary in Anglo-Norman on Latin rules and vocabulary lists (Dean 1999, nos. 287, 300).
ff. 7r–9r: Outline of the responsibilites of a clerk of a manorial household, with lists of objects in Latin and French (Dean 1999, no. 397; detailed inventory in Herbert 1910, 288–89).
ff. 9r–22v: Version of the Ars dictaminis, ‘Regule faciendum literas in gallicis et plura alia secundum nouum usum et a[l]tera’, with model letters and replies in Anglo-Norman (ff. 13v–22v), possibly by Thomas Sampson.
ff. 23r–26r: Guide to conjugations based on Donatus, Ars minor (De verbo), with running French translation (Dean 1999, no. 293).
ff. 26r–29v: John of Bromley, Tract on keeping household expenses (elsewhere attributed to Thomas Sampson); includes roll of expenses for 1355 (f. 27r).
f. 29v–32v: Guide to making a billa in French.
ff. 32v–34r: Examples of billae, including a memorandum of a loan from Roger E. to Isabella Cornwayl (1376/7) and safe conduct from Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, Marshal of England to 'Isard Plaue, Franceys' to go to France (1344–69).
f. 34r: Remedy for hemorrhoids (Dean 1999, no. 439).
ff. 34v–38v: Regule cartarum secundum nouum usum, in French.
f. 39r–v: Conversion table for marcas in libris.
ff. 39v–41r: Modus tenendi curiam, in Latin.
f. 41r: Litera attornatoria.
f. 41v: Pen trials, with many standard opening phrases of charters.
Decoration:
Large initials in brown with penwork decoration and grotesques (f. 4r, 7r). Initials in brown or red with penwork decoration. Paraphs in red (ff. 4r–7r). Ascenders with exaggerated loops (ff. 26v–32v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050815
041-003314454 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4971 : Grammatical, legal, and philosophical tracts
Harley MS 4971, ff 4-41 : Grammatical and legal tracts, letters and documents - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4971]/040-002050815[0001]/041-003314454
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1350
- End Date:
- 1374
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 240 × 175 mm (written area 200 × 140 mm).
Script: Gothic cursive.
- Custodial History:
- Origin: England.
- Publications:
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Ruth J. Dean, Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999).
D. Vance Smith, Arts of Possession: The Middle English Household Imaginary (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003), pp. 14–15.
Brian Merilees and Heather Pagan, ‘John Barton, John Gower and Others: Variation in Late Anglo-French’, in Language and Culture in Medieval Britain: The French of England, c.1100–c.1500, ed. by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Woodbridge, Suffolk: York Medieval Press, 2009), p. 122 [text of f. 7r with translation].
Martin Camargo, ‘If You Can’t Join Them, Beat Them; or, When Grammar Met Business Writing (in Fifteenth-Century Oxford)’, in Letter-writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present: Historical and Bibliographic Studies, ed. by Carol Poster and Linda C. Mitchell (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007), p. 70.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- John of Bromley, grammar master, 14th century