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Harley MS 43
British Library
London
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United Kingdom
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3r-3v
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NE: I believe DIMEV is in error (likley a simple typo) in placing the text on ff. 3r-4v, as the DIMEV itself describes the text as "a single leaf"; the MS as a whole is dated by CIM 1426-1461, but CIM also treats the Cato as an added text, not original to the MS's creation, and dated no more exactly than XV
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An excerpt from the Disticha Catonis, translated into English by Benedict Burgh
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English (DC)
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Verses in English (imperfect) (per CIM) | "Cato Major" [...] A fragment, comprising a single leaf, recto and verso, at front of MS: lines 87-147 (per DIMEV no. 1418)
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…But yf thou kepe þin thy name þou sleyst / To serue thy behest do thow thy cure… (per DIMEV no. 1418)
History
…Take pacyently pouert for the best / Ryches comyth not of nature but of quest… (per DIMEV no. 1418)
Benedict Burgh
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1426-1500
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1426-1500
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England
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"Owned and partly written by Thomas Chaundler (b. c. 1417, d. 1490), university principal and humanist scholar, chancellor of Wells and Oxford (from 1461) [...] The Latin text is in Chaundler's hand until f. 29v (according to Watson, 1966), some of the headings and marginalia certainly in his hand [...]; Verses in English (imperfect), 15th century (f. 3); John Bunge, 15th century [...]; Pen-trials in various 15th-16th-century hands (see ff. 2r-v, 45, 87r-v) including various names: 'Elizabeth', 'Richard Gournard', 'Richard ?Wender', 'Charles' (f. 2); [...] William and Robert Richbell, late 16th century [...]; John Johnson of London, late 16th century [...]; Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton; [...] Sir Simonds D’Ewes (d. 1722), 3rd baronet and grandson of the former: inherited and later sold the D’Ewes library to Robert Harley on 4 October 1705 for £450 [...]; 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." (per CIM)
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CIM (http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=4546&CollID=8&NStart=43) | DIMEV (http://www.dimev.net/Records.php?MSS=BLHar43)
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NE: I believe DIMEV is in error (likley a simple typo) in placing the text on ff. 3r-4v, as the DIMEV itself describes the text as "a single leaf"; the MS as a whole is dated by CIM 1426-1461, but CIM also treats the Cato as an added text, not original to the MS's creation, and dated no more exactly than XV
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