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Harley MS 11

Record Id:

040-002045839

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002045839

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0000a4

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 11

Title:

Peter Lombard, Gloss on the Psalms (Magna glosatura)

Scope & Content:

Peter Lombard, Gloss on the Psalms (Magna glosatura), ends imperfectly in Psalm 73; preface (ff. 1r-2r) with a rubric damaged at the beginning, incipit: 'sancti revelatione constet esse locutos'; commentary (f. 2r), incipit: 'Beatus, cui omnia optata succedunt'.

Added numerous 13th and some early 14th-century marginal glosses.

Decoration:

1 large initial in gold, green, blue, red and black with some white (f. 2r). 2 large puzzle initials in red and blue with penwork decoration and reserved dots (ff. 1r, 96v). Smaller initials in red or blue, with penwork decoration in the alternate colour and, occasionally, a reserved line. Simple initials in red or blue. Display script in alternate red and blue letters or in blue. Rubrics in red, with instructions for a rubricator written vertically in the margins.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002045839

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 11 : Peter Lombard, Gloss on the Psalms (Magna glosatura)

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0010]/040-002045839

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1200

End Date:

1224

Date Range:

1st quarter of the 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment codex.

Dimensions: 320 x 210 mm (text space: 220/230 x 145/150 mm).

Foliation: ff. 136 (+ 6 unfoliated paper flyleaves: 3 at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation: i-xvii⁸ (ff. 1-136); quire numbers: i-xvii.

Script: Gothic, written above top line.

Binding: British Library/British Museum in house binding.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Inscribed: '38 comm. in Psalmos', 17th century? (f. 1r).

Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st Baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright 1972): acquired by him for 3s. in 1625; added Psalm references (ff. 128r, 136v); included in his inventory (Add. MS 22918), his account book for the years 1618-1627 (Cotton Charter XVI 13), and in his catalogue in Edward Bernard, Catalogi manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, 1697), II, no. 67 (see Watson 1966).

Sir Simonds D’Ewes (d. 1722), 3rd Baronet and grandson of the former: inherited and later sold the D’Ewes library to Robert Harley on 4 October 1705 for £450 (see Watson 1966).

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.

Administrative Context:

England.

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-1812), I, no. 11.

Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), nos A275, B67, C226.

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. 131.

C. F. R. de Hamel, Glossed Books of the Bible and the Origins of the Paris Booktrade (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1984), pp. 21-27 [on the layout of Lombard's glosses generally].

J. P. Gumbert, 'The Layout of the Bible Gloss in Manuscript and Early Print' in The Bible as Book, ed. by Paul Saenge and Kimberley van Kampen (London: British Library, 1999), pp. 7-10 [on the layout of Lombard's glosses generally].

S. Wittekind, 'Veram etiam sub alia forma depingere: Illuminierte Psalmenkommentare und ihr Gebrauch' in The Illuminated Psalter: Studies in the Content, Purpose and Placement of its Images, ed. by F. O. Buttner, (Belgium: Brepols, 2004), pp. 272-80 [on the layout generally].

Philipp W. Roseman, The Story of a Great Medieval Book: Peter Lombard's Sentences, (Ontario: Broadview Press, 2007), pp. 43-44, 50-53.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Portland, née Harley, collector of art and natural history specimens and patron of arts and sciences, 11 Feb 1715-17 Jul 1785,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115857160,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2356861
D'Ewes, Simonds, 3rd Baronet, grandson of the Antiquary, c 1670-1722
D’Ewes, Simonds, 1st Baronet, diarist and antiquary, 1602-1650,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083393524,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12656415
Harley, Edward, second earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, 2 Jun 1689-16 Jun 1741,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108078249,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/160524259
Harley, Henrietta Cavendish, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, née Holles, patron of architecture, 4 Feb 1694-9 Dec 1755,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000030125833,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/6045563
Harley, Robert, first Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, 5 Dec 1661-21 May 1724,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083423906

Related Material:

OCR-generated record (may contain errors) from A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London, Eyre and Strahan, 1808-1812), I (1808):

Codex Membranaceus in fol. quo continentur,

Pars Libri Psalmorum cum Glossis. Definit enim abrupte in Psalmo lxxiii.