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Harley MS 209

Record Id:

040-002046037

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046037

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 209

Title:

Richard of Saint Victor, De statu interioris hominis post lapsum; Raymond de Penaforte, Summa de casibus pœnitentialis; Peter of Oxford, Summula Confessionis and other theological texts

Scope & Content:

A collection of theological and ecclesiastical texts, probably created for a monk of Abingdon Abbey.

Contents:

f. 1*v: Partial accounts of Abingdon Abbey, notes on sugar, and medical notes on bloodletting, 14th century.

ff. 1r-30v: Collection of short theological texts and copies of ecclesiastical documents, some relating to Abingdon Abbey (ff. 1v-10r, 11v-12r), sermons, fables, homilies, and short extracts on various theological questions (ff. 18r-24r).

ff. 31r-54v: Richard of Saint Victor, De statu interioris hominis post lapsum (On the Inner State of Man After the Fall).

ff. 55r-83r: Raymond de Penaforte, Summa de casibus pœnitentialis (Summary of the Types of Penitence).

ff. 83r-87v: Rules to be followed in choir at Abingdon Abbey.

ff. 88r-107v: Peter of Oxford, Summula Confessionis (Short Summary of Confession), imperfect.

ff. 108r-120r: Collection of short theological texts and copies of ecclesiastical documents.

ff. 121r-122v: Reused and trimmed leaves of accounts, 15th century.

ff. 123r-v: Reused and trimmed leaf from a missal, 13th century.

ff. 1*r, 18v, 120v, 121v-122r are blank.

Decoration:

1 large initial in red with red penwork decoration (f. 31r). Plain initials in red, some large, some small. Rubrics and marginal annotations in red. Capitals marked in red. Paraphs in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046037

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 209 : Richard of Saint Victor, De statu interioris hominis post lapsum; Raymond de Penaforte, Summa de casibus pœnitentialis; Peter…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0208]/040-002046037

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English, Middle
French, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1260

End Date:

1340

Date Range:

Late 13th century-Early 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 195 x 150 mm (written space: 160 x 110 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 123 + 9* + 18* (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and + 2 at the end).

Collation: Gatherings: i², ii⁶, iii⁸, iv^8-1 (fourth missing?), v⁸, vi², vii-viii¹², ix⁶, x¹², xi¹⁰, xii^6-1 (first missing), xiii¹², xiv⁸, xv⁸, xvi⁴⁺¹ (fourth added), xvii², one leaf, with quire signatures at the beginning and the end of gatherings iii-xii; gathering xii (ff. 83-87) misplaced from its original position as gathering ix after f. 54.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house. Brown leather, gold-tooled, gold-stamped with the Harleian armorial bookplate on the upper and lower covers; marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Abingdon, England.

Provenance:

The Benedictine abbey of St Mary, Abingdon, Berkshire: added list of abbots up to Richard de Henred, abbot from 1262 to 1289 (f. 1v); and customs of the abbey (ff. 11v-12r, 85v-87v).

Daniel Foxcroft: 16th-century inscription recording the gift of the manuscript by him to Henry Savile (f. 2r).

Henry Savile, of Banke (b. 1568, d. 1617), collector of manuscripts: no. 172 in his library catalogue (see Gilson, 'The Library of Henry Savile' (1906-1908), p. 192; Watson, Manuscripts of Henry Savile (1969), p. 51); and inscription in his hand recording the gift of the manuscript to him by Daniel Foxcroft (f. 2r).

Sir Simonds D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist and antiquary: acquired in 1625/6, his name (f. 1r), listed in his catalogues as A.901, B.105, C.216, and E.55 (see Add MS 22918, f. 40r; Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ (Oxford, 1697), t. ii, pt. i, p. 387 [no. 9965]; Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), pp. 206, 243, 276, 294; 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 Add 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), no. 209.

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. 3.

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. 47, 131, 156, 298.

Ruth J. Dean and Maureen B. M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman Text Society, Occasional Publications Series, 3 (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999), p. 509.

Rudolf Goy, Die Handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke Richards von St. Viktor im Mittelalter, Bibliotheca Victorina, 18 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005), p. 196.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin, Abingdon, Berkshire, 675-1538
D’Ewes, Simonds, 1st Baronet, diarist and antiquary, 1602-1650,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083393524,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12656415
Foxcroft, Daniel
Peter of Oxford
Richard of Saint-Victor, Prior of the Augustinian abbey of St Victor, Paris, d 1173,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121448179,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/98148813
Savile, Henry, of Banke WR Yorkshire