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  • mssHM 744
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Date
  • between 1425 and 1450
Language
  • Middle English
Title
  • Didactic pieces : manuscript, [between 1425 and 1450].
Agent
  • Preferred form
    • Thomas Hoccleve (1369?-1426)
    Original form
    • Hoccleve, Thomas, 1370?-1450?, author.
    Other form
    • Thomas Hoccleve
    • Thomass Hoccleve
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  • Preferred form
    • Augustin (saint, 0354-0430)
    Original form
    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, author,
    Other form
    • AUGUSTINUS (S.)
    • Ange Vergèce
    • Nicolas Mourmouris
    • Héphestion
    • Homère
    • Jean Dokeianos
    • Saint Augustin
    • Augustin (saint, 0354-0430)
    • AUGUSTIN, Saint
    • Augustinus (saint ; 0354-0430)
    • Augustinus
    • AUGUSTINI
    • Augustin (0354-0430 ; saint)
    • Augustinus Hipponensis
    • Saint Augustin
    • Augustin d'Hippone
    • Augustin (saint ; 0354-0430)
    • S. Augustinus
    • AUGUSTINUS HIPPONENSIS ep. (s.)
    • AUGUSTINUS (s.)
    • AUGUSTINUS
    • Augustin, S.
    • Augustin (sain ; 0354-0430)
    • AUGUSTINUS HIPPONENSIS
    • Augustinus (s.)
    • S. Augustinus Hipponensis
    • Augustinus Hiponnensis
    • Augustin
    • Sancti Augustini
    • Sanctus Augustinus
    • S. Augustinus (?)
    • S. AUGUSTINUS HIPPONENSIS
    • Augustinus episcopus
    • Augustini
    • Sancti Augustini
    • S. Augustin
    • [Augustinus]
    • [AUGUSTINUS]
    • Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis
    • Augustin (Saint)
    • Augustin saint 0354-0430
    • Agustí, sant, bisbe d'Hipona, 354-430
    • Agustín, Santo, Obispo de Hipona
    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • Augustinus, Aurelius, 354-430
    • Augustinus (heilige)
    • Author: Augustinus, Aurelius
    • Translator: Augustinus, Aurelius
    • Augustine
    • Augustine of Hippo
    • Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
    • Augustine of Hippo, 354-430, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • Augustin (0354-0430 ; saint). Auteur des citations ou des fragments textuels
    • Augustine (attrib.)
    • St Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (354-430)
    • St Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (354-430), author
    • Pseudo Augustine
    • Pseudo Augustine (Quodvultdeus)
    • Pseudo Augustine (Patrick of Dublin)
    • Pseudo Augustine (Jeronimus)
    • St Augustine
    • Augustinus, Aurelius, Hipponensis, 354-430
    • Augustinus, Aurelius, Hipponensis, 354-430 (role)aut
    • Augustin (saint)
    • Augustinus, Aurelius
    • S. Augustin
    • Aurelius Augustinus (354-430)
    • Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430)
    • Augustine, of Hippo, Saint (354-430)
    • Augustin d’Hippone (0354-0430) > Docteur de l'Eglise
    • Augustin d’Hippone (0354-0430)
    • Augustin d’Hippone (0354-0430) > Evêque
    • Augustinus, Aurelius (354-430)
    • Agustín, Santo, Obispo de Hipona, 354-430
    • Agostinho, Santo, 354-430
    • Agostinho, Santo, 354-430 > , co-autor
    • Agostinho, Santo, 354-430 > , ant. bibliog.
    • Augustin (05.. ?-0604 ? ; saint)
    • Augustinus - auteur
    • Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis - 354 - 430 - auteur
    • Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis - 354 - 430 - oorspronkelijke auteur
    • Saint Augustin d'Hippone
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    • Isidore de Séville (saint, 0560?-0636)
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    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636, author.
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    • Isidorus Hispalensis (saint ; 0560?-0636)
    • S. Isidorus Hispalensis
    • Isidorus Hispalensis
    • Isidore de Séville (saint ; 0560?-0636)
    • ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS (s.)
    • ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS
    • Sancti Isidori Hispalensis
    • ISIDORE
    • Isidore de Séville (0560?-0636 ; saint)
    • Isidorus
    • Isidore de Séville
    • Isidori Hispalensis
    • Isidori
    • ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS (s)
    • Isidorus Hispalensis (?),
    • Isidore (Saint), de Séville
    • Isidore de Séville saint 0560?-0636
    • Isidor, de Sevilla, sant, ca. 560-636
    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636
    • Isidoro, Santo, Arzobispo de Sevilla
    • Isidorus Hispalensis 560-636
    • Isidorus van Sevilla
    • Author: Isidorus, Hispalensis
    • Isidore
    • Isidore of Seville
    • Isodore of Seville
    • Isidore of Seville, c 560-636, Saint, Bishop of Seville
    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636
    • Isidorus Hispalensis, 560?-636
    • Isidore de Séville (saint ; (0560?-0636)
    • Isidorus<Hispalensis>
    • Isidorus Hispalensis, 560-636
    • Isidorus, Hispalensis, 560-636
    • Isidore de Séville (saint)
    • Isidorus <Hispalensis> (560-636)
    • Isidore of Seville, Saint (-636)
    • Isidore de Séville (0560-0636)
    • Isidore de Séville (0560-0636) > Père de l'Eglise
    • Isidorus, Hispalensis (ca. 560-636)
    • Isidoro, Santo, Arzobispo de Sevilla, ca. 560-636
    • Isidorus <Hispalensis>
    • Isidoro de Sevilha, Santo, ca 560-636
    • Isidoro de Sevilha, Santo, ca 560-636 > , co-autor
    • Isidorus Hispalensis - ca. 570 - 636 - auteur
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  • Preferred form
    • John Wycliffe (1330-1384)
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    • Wycliffe, John,-1384, author
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    • John Wyclif?
    • John Wyclif
    • John Wycliffe (1320-1384), et al.
    • Wycliffe, John, -1384
    • John Wycliffe
    • Wyclif, Johannes
    • Johannes Wyclif (1324-1384)
    • John Wycliffe -1384
    • John Wycliffe, -1384
    • Wycliffe, John (-1384)
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    • Bertram Ashburnham (1797-1878)
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    • Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878, former owner.
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    • Ashburnham (comte d')
    • Ashburnham, Bertram (1797-1878)
    • Bertram Ashburnham
    • Lord Ashburnham
    • Ashburnam
    • Comte d’Ashburnham
    • Comte d'Ashburnham
    • Quatrième comte d'Ashburnham
    • Lord Ashburnham
    • Bertram Ashburnham, comte d'Ashburnham (1797-1878)
    • Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878)
    • Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham, 1797-1878
    • Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878
    • Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, earl of, 1797-1878
    • Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham.
    • Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham
    • Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham 1797-1878
    • Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of, 1797-1878.
    • Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham Earl of (1797-1878)
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    • George Dunn (1864-1912)
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    • Dunn, George, 1864-1912, former owner.
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    • Dunn, George, 1856-1912, of Woolley Hall Maidenhead
    • George Dunn, 1864-1912
    • Dunn, George, 1864-1912
    • Dunn, George (1864-1912)
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    • Israel Gollancz (1864-1930)
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    • Gollancz, Israel, 1864-1930, former owner.
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    • Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928)
    Original form
    • Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928, former owner.
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    • Henry Yates Thompson
    • Thompson, Henry Yates (1838-1928)
    • Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928)
    • Former possessor: Henry Yates Thompson
    • Henry Yates Thompson, 1838-1928
    • Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928
    • Henry Yates Thompson.
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Description
  • Physical Description:
    68 leaves : parchment ; 160 x 233 mm.
    Notes:
    Ms. codex. Title from printed catalogue. Parchment - 160 x 233 mm - 1-2¹² (through f. 24) 3-5⁸ 6⁴(through f. 52) 7⁸ (2 center bifolia bound in exchanged order) 8⁸. In the first section (quires 1-2), 29-32 lines of prose or verse, frame ruled in ink with horizontal rules in crayon. In the second or Hoccleve section (quires 3-8), catchwords towards center lower margin; quire and leaf signatures in red ink as letters and roman numerals, with "c" in this section’s third quire (now the fifth) and "e" in its fifth (now the seventh); leaves of present quires 5-7 also signed with roman numerals in brown ink in upper right corner. 21 lines of verse (3 stanzas), ruled in crayon with top and bottom 2 lines full across; other horizontal lines generally not visible; pricking along outer margin of many leaves. Written in England, its various parts at different times: the date of 1386 in the Easter table is the date of composition rather than the date of this manuscript, whose first 2 quires were probably copied towards the middle of the fifteenth century; the Hoccleve section was copied by the poet himself during the first quarter of the century; the 2 parts of the inventory on the back flyleaf are dated 1444 on the verso and 1463 on the recto (in the same hand). ff. 1-3v: [Table for determining Easter day, 1387-1527]. ff. 4-10v: [Isidore, Consilia, preceded by English verses]. ff. 10v-11: [Augustine, De contemptu mundi]. f. 11r-v: [Cur Mundus Militat]. ff. 11v-12v: [Erthe upon Erthe]. ff. 12v-13: [The Eight Ghostly Dwelling Places]. ff. 13v-23v: [John Wyclif?, Commentary on the Ten Commandments]. ff. 23v-24: [John Wyclif, The Seven Works of Mercy Bodily]. f. 24: Form of absolution by a confessor to a penitent. f. 24v: Unidentified text on the Ten Commandments breaking defectively. ff. 25-28: [Hoccleve], Invocacio ad patrem. ff. 28-30: [Hoccleve], O blessid chyld Ihesu. ff. 30-31v: [Hoccleve], Now holy goost of the hy deitee. ff. 31v-32v: [Hoccleve], Worsshipful maiden to the world Marie. ff. 33-36: [Hoccleve], Syn thow modir of grace haast euere in mynde. ff. 36-39: [Hoccleve], Who so desirith to gete and conquere. ff. 39v-50v: [Hoccleve], L'epistre de Cupide, Cupido vn to whos commandement. ff. 50v-51v: [Hoccleve], Balade to King Henry V. ff. 51v-52v: [Hoccleve], Three roundels. ff. 53-68v: [Hoccleve], Syn alle men naturelly desyr. f. i recto-verso: Inventory of a household. Binding: Old limp leather, ca. 16th-17th century; much repaired.
    Biographical Note:
    Thomas Hoccleve or Occleve was an English poet and clerk.
    Subjects:
    Hoccleve, Thomas,1370?-1450? ; Didactic poetry, English (Middle) ; English literature Middle English, 1100-1500. ; English poetry Middle English, 1100-1500.
    Form/Genre:
    Manuscripts England 15th century. (aat)
    Provenance:
    In the collection of the Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878), Appendix n. 133, with the characteristic yellow circular label on the spine. The Appendix manuscripts sold privately in May 1897 to Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928); his sale of the items he did not wish to retain, Sotheby's, 1 May 1899, n. 81 to Leighton. Belonged to George Dunn (1865-1912); his sale, Sotheby's, 11 February 1913, pt. I, n. 518 to Maggs. Owned by Sir Israel Gollancz (1864-1930). Acquired by Henry E. Huntington in June 1925 from A. S. W. Rosenbach.
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