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Harley MS 103

Record Id:

040-002045931

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002045931

MDARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 103

Title:

William de Lanicea, Dieta salutis, and other theological texts

Scope & Content:

f. 1*v: Table of contents, added late 15th century.

ff. 1r–70v: William de Lanicea, Dieta salutis.

ff. 71r–81r: Two tables of contents to Dieta salutis, the second arranged in distinctiones.

ff. 81v–84r: Publilius Syrus, Sententiae (labelled in a contemporary note as Seneca, Proverbia).

ff. 85r–92v: Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Meditationes piissimae de cognitione humanae conditiones, ‘Multi multa sciunt et se ipsos nesciunt. Alios inspiciunt. et se ipsos deserunt.’

ff. 93r–94v: Adam of Dryburgh, De quadripertito exercitio cellae 19–24, ‘Sedens itaque in claustro tuo vel in cella tua recogita in amaritudine … ad anulos aureos spectat.’

ff. 94v–96r: Pseudo-Anselm, Oratio 10.

ff. 96r–97v: Pseudo-Anselm, Oratio 2, changing to the following text mid-sentence, ‘Invoco te deus meus … Nimirum deus meus si equa’.

ff. 97v–101v: Aelred of Rievaulx, De institutione inclusarum, extract, ‘secreta ditauit sanctificavit ieiunium … dicas que illud quod in canticis scriptum est’. Followed by a rubric seemingly intended to apply to ff. 93r–101v, ‘Expliciunt meditaciones bernadi abbatis’.

ff. 102r–106r: Arnold of Bonneval, De sex uerbis domini in cruce, extract, ‘Incipiunt meditaciones Anselmi. Quia iter longum erat per precepta … Vt quorum recolit gloriam imitetur …’, with an abbreviated closing, ‘et fundebant.’

ff. 106v–108r: Bernard of Clairvaux, Ep. de moribus et officio espiscoporum (ep. 42), extract, ‘Quid castitate decorius quae et mundum de immundo conceptum semine? De hoste domesticum angelum … manus omne alienum diripiunt patrimonium.’

ff. 108r–108v: Q. Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni 7.8.10–7.9.1, ‘Oratio citharedus ad alexandrum depredantem et uastantem terram eorum. Sichis non ut ceteris barbaris rudis et inconditus sensus est … Dimissis que legatis etc.’

ff. 108v–109r: Description of the body of Christ using terms of metallurgy, ‘Scias quod aurum est dominus corporum et lapidum nobilius et rex nec ab aere nec aqua nec igne corrumpitur … conveniens auro et argento et ferro.’

ff. 109r–114r: Anselm, Proslogion.

ff. 114r–115r: Bernard of Clairvaux (?), Sermo ad religiosos, ‘Ex quo surgitur ad uigilias … se existimet qua si ipse solus et deus sit.’

ff. 115r–116v: Pseudo-Anselm, Oratio 10.

ff. 116v–118v: Pseudo-Anselm, Oratio 2.

ff. 118v–119r: Pseudo-Anselm, Oratio 14, ‘Omnia diuini amor in minis [= numinis] patris omnipotentis prolisque beatissime … per iesum cristum salvatorem meum. Qui cum patre in unitate vivit et regnat per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen.’

ff. 119r–124r: Aelred of Rievaulx, De institutione inclusarum, extract, ‘Ad dei dilectionem duo pertinent. affectus mentis et effectus operis … pro peccatis meis intercedat.’

f. 124r–v: Meditation on Veni sancte spiritus: ‘Veni sancte spiritus reple tuorum corda fidelium, et tui amoris in eis ignem accende. Veni reple: accende. Veni ut emundes. reple ut fecundes. Accende ut consumes … et consumma omni bonorum largitatem infunde. Amen.’

ff. 124v–125v: Pseudo-Anselm, Oratio 29.

ff. 125v–129r: Pseudo-Bernard, Planctus Mariae (a standard extract from Oglerius of Locedio, De laudibus sanctae dei genitricis), ‘Meditaciones beati bernardi. De compassione beate virginis marie in morte filii eius domini nostri iesu cristi. Quis dabit capiti meo aquam et oculis meis imbrem \lacrimarum/ ut possim flere per diem et noctem donec dominus iesus servo suo appareat visu vel in sompno consolans animam meam. O vos filie ierusalem sponse dilecte dei. una mecum lacrimas fundite … Benedicta sint ab ea qui diligunt eam et super omnia benedictus sit filius eius. Qui cum patre et spiritus sancto vivit et regnat in secula seculorum amen.’

ff. 129r–134v: Henry of Sawtry, Tractatus de purgatorio S. Patricii.

Decoration:

Marginal sketches of heads in profile (f. 85r, 85v, 86r, 88r). 2 large initials 'H'(ec) and 'M'(ulta) in colours and gold (ff. 1r, 85r). 3 puzzle initials in red and blue (ff. 109r, 115r, 129r). Blue initials with red pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue. Capitals marked in red. Ruled in ink.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002045931

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 103 : William de Lanicea, Dieta salutis, and other theological texts

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0102]/040-002045931

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:

1350

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

2nd half of the 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: parchment.

Dimensions: 260 × 165 mm (written area 210 × 120 mm), some folios in two columns.

Foliation: ff. 1* + 2* + 134 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment and 1 paper flyleaf at the end).

Collation: i (f. 1*), a² (ff. 2*a–2*b), i–vi¹² (ff. 1–60), vii^12–2 (ff. 61–70), viii¹² (ff. 71–82), ix² (ff. 83–84), x–xiii¹² (ff. 85–132), xiv² (ff. 133–134), i (f. 135). Catchwords at the end of most quires; signatures indicating the order of both quires and pages.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

John Tiptoft, earl of Worcester (d. 1470), administrator and humanist: inscribed with his name and the date 1470 (f. 1*v).

Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright 1972).

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 103.

C. H. Talbot, ‘A List of Cistercian Manuscripts in Great Britain’, Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought and Religion, 8 (1952), 402-18 (p. 410).

H. L. D. Ward and J. A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), II (1893), p. 459.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 131, 329.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

William de Lanicea, monk and writer, fl 1310