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Harley MS 3717
- Record Id:
- 040-001617448
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-001617448
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000109.0x0002c1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3717
- Title:
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Thomas of Cantimpré, De naturis rerum
- Scope & Content:
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The manuscript includes De naturis rerum by Thomas of Cantimpré, in the first shorter version of 19 books, written between 1228 and 1244. The core of the book (ff. 36r-130v) of c. 1230-1240, and the added section at the beginning (ff. 2r-33v) of c. 1250 date from the author's lifetime. The manuscript's provenance from the Augustinian Priory Val-Saint-Martin, Louvain, raises the possibility of some further connections with the author, who entered the Order of St. Dominic at Louvain between 1230 and 1232, after leaving the Abbey of the Canons Regular of St. Augustine in Cantimpré.
The manuscript was supplemented in a mid-15th century hand (ff. 34r-35v; a note on a preceeding folio reads 'hic deficiunt duo folia', f. 33v); and ff. 131r-159v).
Decoration: Initials in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Harley Science Project - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-001617448", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3717: Thomas of Cantimpré, De naturis rerum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-001617448 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3717 : Thomas of Cantimpré, De naturis rerum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3719]/040-001617448
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 159 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_3717 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1230
- End Date:
- 1455
- Date Range:
- 1230-c 1450
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment codex.
Dimensions: 220 x 145 mm (text space: ff. 1-33: 185 x 100 mm; ff. 34-159: 185 x 120 mm).
Foliation: ff. vi + 159 + 1 unfoliated parchment leaf at the end.
Script: Gothic and Gothic cursive (ff. 34r-35v and 131r-159v).
Binding: Post-1600; brown leather binding with tooled decoration.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Southern Netherlands (Louvain?).
Provenance:
The Augustinian priory of Val St.-Martin, Leuven: inscribed, 14/15th century 'liber monasterii canonicorum regularium vallis sancti martini in louanio' (f.130v).
Added leaf from a 15th century manuscript (f. 1v).
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, née Cavendish 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.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 55.
Helmut Boese, 'Zur Textuberlieferung von Thomas Cantimpratensis' Liber de natura rerum' in Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum, 39 (1969) 53-68 (pp. 55, 58-67).
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 228.
Thomas Cantimpratensis, De Natura Rerum I: Text, ed. by Helmut Boese (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1973) [edition of the text].
Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Latin Literature 600-899 (London: Hambledon Press, 1996), pp. 289-91, n. 80.
John Coakley, 'Thomas of Cantimpre and Female Sanctity' in History in the Comic Mode, ed. by Rachel Fulton and Bruce Holsinger (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007) 45-55 (p. 46) [on the text].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)