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Harley MS 203
- Record Id:
- 040-002046031
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046031
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0001ac
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056035130.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 203
- Title:
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Innocent III, De Officio Missae; Anselm of Canterbury's theological treatises
- Scope & Content:
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Composite volume consisting of two booklets (ff. 1–28, 29–98).
ff. 1r–26r: Innocent III, De Officio Missae (The Office of the Mass).
ff. 26r–28v: Commentary on the Apostles’ Creed and Lord’s Prayer, ‘Credo in deum patrem omnipotentem'.
ff. 29r–52v: Anselm of Canterbury, De Incarnatione Verbi (On the Incarnation of the Word).
ff. 40r–47v: Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion (Discourse on the existence of God).
ff. 47v–52v: Anselm of Canterbury, Letters.
ff. 53r–60r: Anselm of Canterbury, De Conceptu Virginali et Originali Peccato (On the Virgin Birth and Original Sin).
ff. 60r–65r: Anselm of Canterbury, De Libertate Arbitrii (On free will).
ff. 65r–75r: Anselm of Canterbury, De Casu Diaboli (On the fall of the Devil).
ff. 75r–94r: Anselm of Canterbury, Cur Deus Homo (Why God became a Man).
ff. 94r–98v: Anselm of Canterbury, De Veritate (On Truth).
Decoration:
Large initial in green with pen-flourished decoration in red (f. 26r). Initials in red or green, some with penwork decoration in the other colour. Rubrics in red or framed by a red frame. Initials highlighted in red (ff. 1r–28v).
Initials with foliate decoration in red (ff. 29r, 40r, 47v, 49r, 51r, 52r). Rubrics in red. Initials highlighted in red (f. 29r) (ff. 29r–98v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046031 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 203 : Innocent III, De Officio Missae; Anselm of Canterbury's theological treatises - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0202]/040-002046031
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056035130.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 205 × 135 mm (text space 140/155 x 100/105 mm).
Foliation: ff. 102 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and one early modern + 3 modern at the end).
Collation: i12 (ff. 1–12), ii16 (ff. 13–28); iii–iv8 (ff. 29–44), iv8–1 (ff. 45–51; 8th cancelled), v12–1 (ff. 52–62; 12th cancelled), vi–ix8 (ff. 63–94), xi–xii4 (ff. 95–102).
Script: Protogothic. Produced in Normandy (France) in the 2nd half of the 12th century, according to information supplied by Michael Gullick
Binding: British Museum, rebound 1968.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
North-West France.
Provenance:
?The Benedictine abbey of Notre-Dame-du-Bois, St Pierre, at Saint-Evroult-sur Ouche: the style of the decoration of one of the initials (f. 40r) with small motif found so far only in manuscripts from the abbey, according to unpublished notes of Michael Gullick.
Added, 13th century, note on the Eucharist (f. 28v).
Erased inscription (f. 1r); see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966).
Henry Savile (b. 1568, d. 1617), of Banke, scholar, medical practitioner and collector of manuscripts: identifiable with no. 153 in his library catalogue, now Add. 35213, f. 25 (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966); Watson, The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke (1969); Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)): acquired in 1625 from the Savile collection for 3s; his name and notes (ff. 1, 29; see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (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 Add. 70478 (formerly Loan 29/254 packet 2); Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966); Wright and Wright, The Diary of Humphrey Wanley (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.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Edward Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ in unum collecti, cum indice alphabetico, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, 1697), II, p. 388, no. 10051.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 203.
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), pp. 130, 243, 300, nos. A254, C217, B191.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. xviii, n. 3.
Andrew G. Watson, The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke (London: Bibliographical Society, 1969), p. 48 no. [153].
Cyril E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 131, 298, 374.
Richard Sharpe, 'Anselm as Author: Publishing in the Late Eleventh Century', Journal of Medieval Latin, 19 (2009), 1-87 (pp. 10, 24 n. 62, 28 and n. 72, 29 and n. 74, 83, 86, 87).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.