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Harley MS 7333

British Library

London

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United Kingdom

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25r

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Explicit [?primus] Cato (per DIMEV no. 6321)

Disticha Catonis, translated into English by Benedict Burgh

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English (DC)

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"Parvus Cato" (DIMEV no. 6321)

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When I aduertise in my remembraynce / And se how fele folke erren greuously (per DIMEV no. 6321)

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Whan ye hit rede let not your hert bethens / Doth as he seith with all youre hole entent (per DIMEV no. 6321)

Benedict Burgh

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1426-1475

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1426-1475

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England (Leicester)

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"Written at, or owned by the abbey of St Mary de Pratis, Leicester (see Matheson 1998 and Shonk 1988). William Stoughton, 15th-century cellarer of the abbey of St Mary de Pratis, Leicester: inscribed, 'Stoughton' (f. 41); [...] John Somers (b. 1651, d. 1716), baron Somers, lawyer and politician: pressmark 'H. 10' (f. 2). [...] Inscribed, c. 1500: 'Doctor Peni writ this book' (f. 150). Inscribed, 'quod Ipingham' (f. 122). Sir Joseph Jekyll (bap. 1662, d. 1738), lawyer and politician, brother-in-law of Somers (see Wright 1972). 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: inscribed by Edward Harley, 'Oxford BH, Dec 1738' (f. 2)." (per CIM)

John Shirley

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CIM (http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=6337&CollID=8&NStart=7333) | DIMEV (http://www.dimev.net/Records.php?MSS=BLHar7333)

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