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Harley MS 102

Record Id:

040-002045930

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002045930

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x00011f

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 102

Title:

Nicholaus de Aquaevilla, Semones dominicales; John of Genoa, Catholicon (extract); Pseudo-Bonaventure, De passione domini; Richard Rolle of Hampole, Speculum peccatoris

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-133r: Nicholaus de Aquaevilla, Semones dominicales.

f. 133v: Extract from John of Genoa, Catholicon, on the seven petitions of the Lord’s Prayer.

ff. 135r-145v: Pseudo-Bonaventure, De passione domini.

ff. 145v-149r: Richard Rolle of Hampole, Speculum peccatoris.

Decoration:

1 large initial in red and blue with red pen-flourishing (f. 1r). 3 large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing (ff. 135r, 145r, 145v). Smaller initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red and blue. Some rubrics in blue. Underlining in red. Capitals marked in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002045930

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 102 : Nicholaus de Aquaevilla, Semones dominicales; John of Genoa, Catholicon (extract); Pseudo-Bonaventure, De passione domini;…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0101]/040-002045930

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:

1400

End Date:

1449

Date Range:

1st half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 260 × 180 mm (text space: 195 × 120 mm).

Foliation: ff. 149 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation: i–xiv⁸ (ff. 1–112), xv¹⁰ (ff. 113–122), xvi¹² (ff. 123–134); xvii⁸ (ff. 135–142), xviii^8–1 (ff. 134–149; 8th cancelled). Catchwords at the end of each quire in the first part.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house: rebound in 1965.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

An unknown owner: their (?) ownership inscription, erased at the top of f. 1r.

Henry Savile, of Banke (b. 1568, d. 1617), collector of manuscripts: no. 91 in his library catalogue (see Gilson, 'The Library of Henry Savile' (1906-08), 127-210; Watson, The Manuscripts of Henry Savile (1969), p. 36 [no. 91].

Sir Simonds D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton; acquired by him in 1624/5 for 4s; inscribed a title and his name on f. 1r and f. 134v, and supplied a title-page to the following tract; listed in his catalogues as A.266, B.112, and C.199 (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), pp. 133 [A.266], 241 [C.199], 294 [B.112]; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 131-37).

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.

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), p. 31.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. xviii n. 3.

J. P. Gilson, 'The Library of Henry Savile, of Banke', Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 9 (1906-08), 127-210.

Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), pp. 133 [A.266], 241 [C.199], 294 [B.112].

Andrew G. Watson, The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke (London: Bibliographical Society, 1969), p. 36 [no. 91].

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. 131-37, 298.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Balbi, Giovanni, of Genoa; grammarian and Dominican priest, d 1298
Nicholaus de Aquaevilla, Franciscan writer, 13th century
Pseudo-Bonaventura
Rolle, Richard, c 1310-1349,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121177882,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2465074

Places:

England