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Harley MS 2251
British Library
London
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United Kingdom
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Language:
169r-169v
DSB Title:
NE: the Cato Major on ff. 170r-178r is "Followed, as if part of the same work, by stanzas 2 & 3 of ‘A Moral Balade’," that is, DIMEV no. 3645 (per DIMEV no. 1418)
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Explicit Cato in minori (per DIMEV no. 6321)
Disticha Catonis, translated into English by Benedict Burgh
MS Author:
English (DC)
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Incipit:
"Parvus Cato" (DIMEV no. 6321)
Explicit:
Whanne I aduerte to my remembraunce / And see how feele folkis erren greuously… (per DIMEV no. 6321)
History
…Whanne ye it Rede late nat youre hert be thens / But doth as this sayth with al youre hole entent (per DIMEV no. 6321)
Benedict Burgh
CAT Date:
c. 1460-c. 1483
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1455-1488
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Additional Information
England (London)
Digital reproductions:
"Probably written by John Multon, stationer (his will of 1475): his monogram of the letters 'val' surrounded by' Q[uod] and 'I d', which may refer to the John de Vale mentioned in Multon's will [...] ?Nycolas Skyn, 15th century: inscribed with his name (f. 9). [...] John Stow (b. 1524/1525, d. 1605), historian: added notes in his hand (ff. 229, 257, 293v). Inscribed 'Adam Andre', 16th century (f. 170v). Richard Jones (d. 1722), bookseller: sold to Robert Harley (see Catalogue1808-1812, p. 578). 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)
John Multon
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Bibliography:
CIM (http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7318&CollID=8&NStart=2251) | SOCAM (http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-002048082) | DIMEV (http://www.dimev.net/Records.php?MSS=BLHar2251)
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NE: the Cato Major on ff. 170r-178r is "Followed, as if part of the same work, by stanzas 2 & 3 of ‘A Moral Balade’," that is, DIMEV no. 3645 (per DIMEV no. 1418)
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