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The '''MS Harley 3542''' is a compilation manuscript containing a [[fencing manual]], created in [[nationality::English|England]] in the early to mid 15th century.<ref name="Brown">{{cite web |url=http://aaoema.com/Two-Hand-Sword-Translation-SECURE.pdf |title=A Transcription of ff. 84-85 of Harleian 3542 (A verse describing the use of the Two hand Sword) |author=Terry Brown |date= |work= |publisher=Anglo-Saxon Books Ltd |accessdate=30 June 2010}}</ref> It currently rests in the holdings of the [[British Library]] in London, United Kingdom.<ref name="BL">"[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-002049374 Explore Archives and Manuscripts]". [[British Library]]. Retrieved 08 August 2016.</ref> The manuscript seems to be three separate works bound together, including two alchemical compendia (ff 1-16, 17-94) and a medical compendium (ff 95-118). The fencing treatise, known as ''Man yt Wol'' ("The Man that Will"), comprises ff 82-85 of the larger manuscript. Along with the [[MS Cotton Titus A xxv|Cotton Titus]] manuscript and the [[Ledall Roll (Additional MS 39564)|Ledall manuscript]], this is one of only three extant treatises on Medieval English martial arts.<ref name="BL"/> | The '''MS Harley 3542''' is a compilation manuscript containing a [[fencing manual]], created in [[nationality::English|England]] in the early to mid 15th century.<ref name="Brown">{{cite web |url=http://aaoema.com/Two-Hand-Sword-Translation-SECURE.pdf |title=A Transcription of ff. 84-85 of Harleian 3542 (A verse describing the use of the Two hand Sword) |author=Terry Brown |date= |work= |publisher=Anglo-Saxon Books Ltd |accessdate=30 June 2010}}</ref> It currently rests in the holdings of the [[British Library]] in London, United Kingdom.<ref name="BL">"[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-002049374 Explore Archives and Manuscripts]". [[British Library]]. Retrieved 08 August 2016.</ref> The manuscript seems to be three separate works bound together, including two alchemical compendia (ff 1-16, 17-94) and a medical compendium (ff 95-118). The fencing treatise, known as ''Man yt Wol'' ("The Man that Will"), comprises ff 82-85 of the larger manuscript. Along with the [[MS Cotton Titus A xxv|Cotton Titus]] manuscript and the [[Ledall Roll (Additional MS 39564)|Ledall manuscript]], this is one of only three extant treatises on Medieval English martial arts.<ref name="BL"/> | ||
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Man yt Wol | |||||
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MS Harley 3542, British Library London, United Kingdom | |||||
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Type | Commonplace book | ||||
Date | ca. 1440 | ||||
Place of origin | British Empire | ||||
Language(s) | |||||
Author(s) |
John Dastin
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Material | Paper, with a British Library binding | ||||
Size | 118 folia (145 mm × 200 mm) | ||||
External data | Library catalog entry | ||||
Other translations |
The MS Harley 3542 is a compilation manuscript containing a fencing manual, created in England in the early to mid 15th century.[1] It currently rests in the holdings of the British Library in London, United Kingdom.[2] The manuscript seems to be three separate works bound together, including two alchemical compendia (ff 1-16, 17-94) and a medical compendium (ff 95-118). The fencing treatise, known as Man yt Wol ("The Man that Will"), comprises ff 82-85 of the larger manuscript. Along with the Cotton Titus manuscript and the Ledall manuscript, this is one of only three extant treatises on Medieval English martial arts.[2]
Contents
Provenance
The known provenance of the MS Harley 3542 is:[2]
- 1500s - owned and annotated by Thomas Byard, vicar of Bockerill [Devon].
- 1600s - owned by Samuel Knott (d. 1687), rector of Combe Raleigh and priest of Broad Hembury, co. Devon.
- 1600s-early 1700s - owned by Robert Burscough (1650/51-1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705.
- 17 May 1715 - acquired by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician.
- 1724-1741 - owned by Edward Harley (1689-1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer.
- 1741-1753 - owned by his widow, Henrietta née Cavendish Holles (1694-1755) and her daughter Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), duchess of Portland.
- 1753 - sold for a fraction of their value to the British Museum (at the time of its founding).
- 1973 - moved to the British Library (at the time of its founding).
Contents
This is the table of contents provided by the museum.[2]
1r - 14r | Treatise on alchemy (The Mirror of Lights) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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14r - 15v | Four alchemical recipes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16rv | Three Alchemical recipes (Modus Maurandi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
17r - 25v | Alchemical text (Semita recta Alkymie Alberti) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
25v - 28r | Alchemical text on the transmutation of metals ('Per artificium vero fit & transmutacio me/tallorum) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
28v - 35v | Alchemical text attributed to Ramon Llull (Verbum albrematum verissimum & approbatum de occultis) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
40r - 41v | Alchemical text (Compo[si]cionis / lapidum philosophorum .4. modis) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
41v - 44r | Alchemical recipes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
44v - 55v | Epistola boni viri, possibly Guillelmus Sedacerius, De alchimie perfectum | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
55v - 57v | Alchemical text and recipes (Casus magnorum lapsus gravis anteriorum / Sunt afflictorum solamina philosophorum) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
57v - 59v | Breviloquium lapis philosophorum by Johannes Pauper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
59v - 60v | Alchemical recipe (Opus mirabile) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
60v - 64v | Alchemical treatise by John Dastin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
64v - 67v | Alchemical text | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
68v - 80v | De occulta philosophia by John Sawtry | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
80v - 81r | Alchemical verses | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
81r - 82r | Alchemical verses | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
82r - 84v |
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84v - 85r |
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85r - 94v | Recipes for medical and alchemical processes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
95r | Collection of texts on pulse in Middle English, followed by verse on pulse and humors in Latin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
95v - 97r | Gualterius, De pulsibus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
97v - 100v | Text on women's medicine (De ornatu mulierum) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
101r - 102r | Treatise on medical herbs (Materia medica) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
103r - 110r | Astronomical-medical treatise by Ralph Hoby | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
110r | Eight-line poem on pulses | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
110v - 111r | Notes on urine (De urinis tractatus) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
111rv | Notes on urine (Omnis urina est colamentum sanguinis) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
111v - 112r | Text on phlebotomy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
112r | Three paragraphs on astrological reckoning for bloodletting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
112v | Pen drawing of bloodletting man, with text on veins, but veins not marked | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
113r - 115v, 116v | Excerpts of Rogerina minor by Roger de Baron | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
115v - 116v | Excerpts from Summa parva (?) by Roger Frugard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
116v | Tables on latitudes of seven climates, all with Greek names | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
117r - 118v | Pseudo-Nennius, De mirabilibus Britannie maioris | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
118v | De mensuris |
Gallery
Additional Resources
The following is a list of publications containing scans, transcriptions, and translations relevant to this article, as well as published peer-reviewed research.
- Bradak, Benjamin 'Casper'; Brandon Heslop (2010). Lessons on the English Longsword. Boulder, CO: Paladin Press. ISBN 978-1-58160-734-5.
- Gaite, Pierre (2018). "Exercises in Arms: the Physical and Mental Combat Training of Men-at-Arms in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries." Journal of Medieval Military History XVI. Ed. by Kelly DeVries; John France and Clifford J. Rogers. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. ISBN 9781783273102.
- Geldof, Mark Ryan (2011). Þe Herte Þe Fote Þe Eye to Accorde: Procedural Writing and Three Middle English Manuscripts of Martial Instruction [Unpublished MA dissertation]. University of Saskatchewan. http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-2011-08-77
- Hester, James (2006). 'The Vse of the Two Hand Sworde': The English Fight Manual of MS Harley 3542 (A Critical Edition) [Unpublished thesis]. University of York.
- Hester, James (2009). "Real Men Read Poetry: Instructional Verse in 14th-century Fight Manuals." Arms & Armour 6(2): 175-183. doi:10.1179/174962609X417590.
- Hutton, Alfred (2002). The Sword Through the Centuries. Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0486425207.
- Voigts, Linda Ehrsam (2008). "Wolfenbüttel HAB Cod. Guelf. 51. 9. Aug. 4º and BL, Harley MS. 3542: Complementary Witnesses to Ralph Hoby's 1437 Treatise on Astronomical Medicine." Electronic British Library Journal 2008. doi:10.23636/952.
References
- ↑ Terry Brown. "A Transcription of ff. 84-85 of Harleian 3542 (A verse describing the use of the Two hand Sword)". Anglo-Saxon Books Ltd. http://aaoema.com/Two-Hand-Sword-Translation-SECURE.pdf. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Explore Archives and Manuscripts". British Library. Retrieved 08 August 2016.
- ↑ or each other, or him, hë
- ↑ visage
- ↑ reuence
- ↑ allure's
- ↑ allure
- ↑ or it, yt
- ↑ a for the
- ↑ or him, or quickly, hÿ
Copyright and License Summary
For further information, including transcription and translation notes, see the discussion page.
Work | Author(s) | Source | License |
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Images | |||
Modernization (82r - 84r) | Jon Pellett | MEGALOPHIAS His Page | |
Modernization (84v - 85v) | Terry Brown | American Academy of English Martial Arts | |
Transcription | Alfred Hutton, Terry Brown | Index:Man yt Wol (MS Harley 3542) |