London, British Library, Harley 6571
| England |
| London |
| British Library |
| Harley 6571 |
| The Royal Book |
| ?s. xv |
| English |
| Scribal Dialect: south Herefordshire (Whitchurch area), or north east Monmouthshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped (Benskin and McIntosh 1986, p. 200). |
A manuscript in one hand located to the Herefordshire/Monmouthshire border containing a treatise regarding sin, particularly pride, anger, envy, covetousness, lechery, gluttony, blasphemy, murmuring, lying, evil speaking etc.
Item: 1| ff. 1r-68v |
| Treatise on the Seven Deadly Sins |
| 'Seynt iohan şe euangelist in his boke of pryuytes telleş şat he saw a wondeful & a degysere beste come out of şe see'.
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| 'god şat wiş his preciouse blode vs bouhte şenne brynges vs to şe ioye şat euer schal laste amen'. |
| 'Iste liber factus fuerat pro instructione cujusdam mulieris simplicis et devotae: nomen scriptoris wilhelmus plenus amoris'. |
| In the same hand on ff. 69r-73v is a table of contents in Latin. |
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| Codex |
| Parchment |
| 270 x 190 mm |
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Quires remounted. 112, ff. 1-12v, catchword; 212, ff. 13r-24v, catchword; 310, ff. 25r-34v, catchword; 42; ff. 35r-36v, catchword; 510+1, ff. 37r-47v, catchword; 612, ff. 48r-59v, catchword; ff. 710, ff. 60r-69v, catchword.
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| Pricking not visible. Writing space of 200 x 120 mm overall. Double columns: first column - 200 x 60 mm; second - 200 x c. 55 mm. Ruled for 62 lines in drypoint with frame ruled in brown crayon. |
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One scribe writing in an Anglicana hand with black ink. Characteristics: 2-shaped r; e with pointed head; double compartment a; sigma s in final position; B-shaped s in final position; descenders very short; descender of h, y, fine hairline stroke; ascenders barely above body height/minims; small compact hand. Body height: 2mm.
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| Five-line red initial S begins text. Red paraphs. Two-line red initials; seven-line initial Is, red; some text underlined in red.
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Not medieval. British Museum binding.
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| ff. 1-73. No original flyleaves. |
| F. 14r - fifteenth-century inscription. F. 14v - 2 long notes? by a c. sixteenth-century? owner. F. 23v inscription in brown ink along bottom margin, perhaps a name. F. 73v blank column filled by writing of a fifteenth-century? owner - perhaps two prayers.
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| Good |
| Colophon - 'Iste liber factus fuerat pro instructione cujusdam mulieris simplicis et devotae nomen scriptoris plenus amoris'. |
| Unknown |
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, March 2004.
- Casley D., Hocker, W., Morton, C., index by Astle T., 1801-1812. A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1808-1812, 4 vols., London: G. Eyre and A. Strahan, 1. Commenced by H. Wanley, and successively continued by D. Casley, W. Hocker, C. Morton, index by T. Astle, vol. 2, p. 376.
- McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary, 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4.
