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Harley MS 47

Record Id:

040-002045875

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002045875

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0000d4

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 47

Title:

Guigo I, Epistula ad fratres de Monte Dei (fragment); Bernard of Clairvaux, Super Magnificat and Meditationes; Thomas of Celano, Vita prima sancti Francisci;Ps.-Augustine, Dialogus questionum LXV

Scope & Content:

This composite manuscript consists of three parts that were separately produced. The first and second parts (ff. 1*-12 and ff. 13-43) date to the 13th century. The third part (ff. 44-60) dates to the early 14th century.

Contents:

f. 1* recto: Guigo I, Epistula ad fratres de Monte Dei 2.293–300, here attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux (opening mid-sentence, with four quires missing).

ff. 1* verso–4r: Bernard of Clairvaux, Super Magnificat.

ff. 4v–12r: Bernard of Clairvaux, Meditationes.

ff. 13r–43r: Thomas of Celano, Vita prima sancti Francisci.

ff. 44r–60r: Pseudo-Augustine, Dialogus questionum LXV.

Decoration:

ff. 1–12: New sections open with 2-line initials, alternating between red and golden in colour, sometimes with penwork decoration in the opposite colour. Additional floriated borders in some margins. Headings in red. Some spaces left for unfinished initials.

ff. 13–43: New sections open with 2- to 4-line Arabesque initials in red and green with penwork decoration; some solid, with penwork in the opposite colour. The first letter of each sentence is coloured red. Headings in red.

ff. 44–60: New sections open with 2-line initials in blue; on f. 44v, a 5-line initial with penwork decoration. Headings in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002045875

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 47 : Guigo I, Epistula ad fratres de Monte Dei (fragment); Bernard of Clairvaux, Super Magnificat and Meditationes; Thomas of Celano,…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0046]/040-002045875

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:

1324

Date Range:

13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 275 × 200 mm (text space: 210 × 135 mm, in 2 columns).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 60 (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end).

Collation: i⁸ (ff. 1–8), ii⁴ (ff. 9–12); iii¹⁰ (ff. 13–22), iv¹² (ff. 23–34), v^10–1 (ff. 35–43; 10th cancelled); vi⁸ (ff. 44–51), vii⁸ (ff. 52–59), viii^one (f. 60; a singleton). Quire i has the signature ‘.v.’ (f. 8v). Quires in the first and third booklets have catchwords.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

John, 1st Baron Lumley (b. c.1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: his inscription on f. 1r; No. 143 in the 1609 catalogue of his library (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 229).

'T. Davie', 17th century: his name inscribed on f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 125).

Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton: listed in his catalogues as B.133-135, (?) A.947, and (?) B.51; inscribed with the number '113' in his hand on f. 1r (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), p. 296; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 131).

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; according to a receipt in Additional MS 70478 (Portland Papers) [formerly Loan 29/254 packet 2] (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (1966), pp. 60, 91 n. 308; Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), p. xviii n. 3).

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), p. 13.

The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609, ed. by Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson (London: British Museum, 1956).

Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), p. 296 [B.133-135].

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 125, 131, 229.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbot of Clairvaux, ?1090-1153,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120962264,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/59875293
Guigo I [Guigues du Chastel or Guigo de Castro], Prior of Grande Chartreuse, 1083-1136,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000383391926
Pseudo-Augustine of Hippo,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000007738148X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/7386286
Thomas of Celano, Franciscan friar, c 1185-1265

Places:

England