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- [mid-15 cent.] (Creation)
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ii, 94 ff. (ff. i-ii and 93-94 are nineteenth-century paper flyleaves, ff. 91-92 original parchment flyleaves; twentieth-century pencil pagination and foliation) : Parchment ; 230 x 155 mm. (written space 140 x 90 mm.).
Bound in calf, blind-tooled, on four bands, [19 cent.] (after 1837), in the same style as MSS II.3 and II.4; lettered: 'SEVEN POINTS / OF / TREWE LOVE / OR / HOROLOGIUM / SAPIENTIAE / M.S. VELLUM / 1419', 'No 19' and 'PORKINGTON LIBRARY' on red lettering pieces. Worm-holes in ff. 1-21 and 80-92 are evidence of earlier wooden boards; binding too tight to see earlier sewing holes. Between ff. 73 and 74 is a 70 mm. length of a pink silk bookmarker.
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Archival history
MS 21 in Thomas Phillipps's 1837 printed catalogue of Porkington MSS; MS 19 on spine, in the revised versions of the catalogue (Brogyntyn MS I.23 and NLW MS 1197A) and in the Second Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (London, 1874).
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Scope and content
The Tretyse of þe Seven Poyntes of Trewe Love and Everlastynge Wisdame, translated from the Latin Horologium Sapientiae; see the edition of K. Horstmann, 'Orologium Sapientiae or the Seven Poyntes of Trewe Wisdom aus MS. Douce 114', Anglia, 10 (1888), 323-389, from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 114 (announced variant readings from Caxton never published). W. Wichgraf, 'Susos Horologium Sapientiae in England nach Handschriften des 15. Jahrhunderts', Anglia, 53 (1929), 123-,33, 269-287, 345-373, and ibid. 54 (1930), 351-352, identifies the Latin origin of the text in Henry Suso's Horologium Sapientiae, comments on Horstmann's edition and lists five manuscripts of the complete English text, excluding ours, together with manuscripts in which chapters 4 and 5 each appear on their own; see also W. Wichgraf, 'Susos Horologium Sapientiae in England nach Mss des 15. Jahrhunderts', Archiv für neueren Sprachen und literaturen, 169 (1936), 176-181, which includes discussion of MS Cambrai 255.
The Latin colophon on f. 90, referring to Mount Grace, is probably derivative; it appears at the end of the same text in MS Cambrai 255 (see Catalogue générale des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France, vol. 17 (Paris, 1891), p. 88; cf. N. R. Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (London, 1964) and Andrew G. Watson, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: Supplement to the Second Edition (London, 1987), Mount Grace). Written by a single hand, in good anglicana formata. Brown ink. Parti-coloured red/blue 7-line initials on ff. 1 verso and 8, accompanied by red and purple penwork and by red/blue nerfs and flourished borders; on f. 1 and elsewhere for chapter-openings, 3-line blue initials with red penwork (4-line for 'I' on f. 41 verso); headings and sidenotes in red, alternate red and blue paragraph marks.
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Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
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Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
- Middle English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Middle English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Mould stains in the upper and lower margins of many leaves.
Finding aids
A detailed list of the contents is available at https://archives.library.wales/external_documents/brogii5.pdf
William Marx, Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru), Aberystwyth, The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist 14 (Cambridge, 1999), p. 27.
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Available on microfilm at the Library.
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Title based on contents.
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Formerly Porkington MS 19.
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[Produced in England.]
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Secundo folio: Herte for.
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Frame ruling in brown crayon, 24-28 long lines.
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Collation: 1-11 (8), 12 (4). Leaf signatures on leading leaves, of pattern i.a-iii.a, some cropped; catchwords.
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Preferred citation: Brogyntyn MS II.5 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].