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Harley MS 23
- Record Id:
- 040-002045851
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002045851
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0000b6
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 23
- Title:
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Richard of Saint-Victor, Liber exceptionum
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r–55v: Richard of Saint-Victor, Liber Exceptionum, Part II (‘Allegorie hystoriarum Magistri petri. In precedentibus premissa descriptione originis’);
ff. 55v–56v: Sermo de offendiculis mundi, ‘Quoniam sub nostra conuiuiendi modernitate inter cetera animi exercicia inter creba mundi incommoda’;
ff. 56v–58r: Richard of Saint-Victor, Sermo de omnibus sanctis, ‘Finis ergo huius eloquii est. in qu ofecimus elegi mundi miserationes’;
ff. 58r–v: Sermon, ‘Ego sum pastor bonus etc. Cristus est pastor. cuius cornu predicatio est.’;
f. 58v: Sermon, ‘Modicum et iam non uidebitis me. et iterum modicum et uidebtis me quia uado ad patrem. Hec dixit dominus discipulis suis. in die cene ante passionem suam’.
Decoration:
A parted initial in red and blue (f. 16v). Some large and numerous smaller initials in red or blue, occasionally with penwork decoration in the alternate colour or in green. A small initial in green (f. 53r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002045851", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 23: Richard of Saint-Victor, Liber exceptionum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002045851 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 23 : Richard of Saint-Victor, Liber exceptionum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0022]/040-002045851
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1160
- End Date:
- 1240
- Date Range:
- Late 12th century-Early 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 300 × 210 mm (written area 230 × 150) in two columns.
Foliation: ff. 60 (+ 5 paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end). Quire marks (in the centre of the lower margin of the verso of the last leaf of the quire): 'i'–'vii'.
Script: Gothic, written above the top line.
Binding: British Museum.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England, S. (Rochester?).
Provenance:
The cathedral priory of St Andrew, Rochester; perhaps owned by Alexander, precentor of Rochester in the early 13th century: inscribed, late 13th/14th century 'Liber de claust(ro) Roffens(is). Alexand(er) p(re)ce(ntor)' (Harley 261, f. 4); (for this type of ownership inscription and its reliability see English Benedictine Libraries. The Shorter Catalogues, ed. by R. Sharpe, J. P. Carley, R. M. Thomson and A. G. Watson, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 4 (London: British Library, 1996), pp. 465-467; see ibid. p. 526 for information on Alexander, the precentor); perhaps no. 120 ('Hystoria Willelmi Malmesburiensis') in the library catalogue of 1202 (the entry is identified with this manuscript in Medieval Libraries 1964 and Richards 1988; but not in English Benedictine Libraries, p. 512, B79.120).
Added notes by various 13th-17th century hands (ff. 59-60).
Robertus, 16th century: inscribed with this name (Harley 261, f. 2v).
P. W., 16th/17th century: inscribed with these initials (Harley 261, f. 4). Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright 1972): annotated the list of contents (Harley 261, f. 2) and added no. '13' (Harley 261, f. 4); the manuscript is recorded in his catalogue as no. A219 (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.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 23.
Hugonis de S. Victore, Allegoriae in Vetus Testamentum and Allegoriae in Novum Testamentum, Patrologiae cursus completes: Series Latina, Second Series, ed. by Jacques-Paul Migne, 221 vols (Paris: [no pub.], 1844-1863), 175 (1854) col. 634-828 [for an edition of the text].
Philip S. Moore, ‘The Authorship of the Allegoriae Super Vetus et Novum Testamentum’, New Scholasticism, 9 (1935), 209-25 (p. 211 n. 11).
Richard de Saint-Victor Liber Exceptionum: Texte Critique avec introduction, notes et tables, ed. by Jean Chatillon (Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1958) pp. 35, 63 n. 1; 221-373, 439-517 [for an edition of the text].
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 161.
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), pp. 124, 135 (no. A219).
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 48, 131, 264, 288.
Mary P. Richards, 'Texts and Their Traditions in the Medieval Library of Rochester Cathedral Priory', Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, n.s. 78 (1988), i-xii, 1–129 (p. 35).
Rudolf Goy, Die Handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke Richards von St. Viktor im Mittelalter, Bibliotheca Victorina, 18 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005), p. 45.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
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Before the 17th century, Harley MS 23 formed ff. 173–223 of Harley MS 261.
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. min. quo continentur,
1. Allegorie Hystoriarum Magistri Petri (i.e. Comestoris) 14 Libris.
2. Sequuntur Sermones nonnullt, forte ejusdem Auctoris: quorum primus ab his verbis Incipit.
Quoniam sub nostra convivendi modernitate.
3. In illud, Reddet Deus mercedem Laborum sanctorum suorum.
4. In illud, Cum effet sero die ilia, &c.
5. In illud, Ego sum Pastor bonus.
6. In illud, Modicum et jam non videbitis me.
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Harley MS 261