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Harley MS 325

Record Id:

040-002046153

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046153

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x000296

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 325

Title:

Alexander Nequam, Sermones; Lotharius (Pope Innocent III), De contemptu mundi; William de Montibus, Numerale, Speculum penitentis; St Jerome, De Hebraicis Nominibus; Priscian, About Greek prepositions; Hildebert, Poem on the Mass

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-8v, 34r-37v, 59v-64r: Alexander Nequam, Sermones.

ff. 9r-29r: Lotharius (Pope Innocent III), De contemptu mundi.

f. 29r: an unidentified letter.

ff. 29v-33v: Hildebert, Poem on the Mass.

ff. 39r-82r: William de Montibus, Numerale.

ff. 82v-86v: Sermones.

ff. 87r-94r: William de Montibus, Speculum penitentis.

ff. 94v-180v: Various theological tracts and sermons.

ff. 181r-198r: St Jerome, De Hebraicis Nominibus.

ff. 199v-202v: Priscian, About Greek prepositions.

ff. 203r-208v: A sermon titled 'Sicut spina rosam genuit Judea Mariam'.

ff. 209r-320r: Petrus de Vinea, Epistolarum libri sex de rebus gestis Friderici II Imperatoris.

ff. 321r-325r: Emperor Frederick II, Letters.

ff. 327r-376v: Peter of Blois, Epistolae, preceded by an added table of contents (ff. 326r-326v).

Decoration:

ff. 9-94: Initials with penwork decoration extending into the margins in blue and red. Rubrics and marginalia in red. Initials highlighted in red. Marginal drawings added to the lower margin of f. 16r.

ff. 209-325: Puzzle initials with pen-flourishing extending into the borders in blue and red (ff. 233v, 284r, 290r, 312v). Initials with pen-flourishing extending into the borders and paraphs in blue and red. Rubrics in red. Running titles in blue and/or red.

ff. 327-376v: Initials with pen-flourishing extending into the borders in blue and red. Rubrics in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046153

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 325 : Alexander Nequam, Sermones; Lotharius (Pope Innocent III), De contemptu mundi; William de Montibus, Numerale, Speculum penitentis;…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0324]/040-002046153

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:

1349

Date Range:

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

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: ff. 9-94: 240 x 160 mm (written space: 150 x 95 mm); ff. 209-325: 240 x 165 mm (written space: 180 x 120/125 mm); ff. 327-376: 235 x 165 mm (written space: 180/185 x 125 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 376 (f. 1* is an original flyleaf; + 2 unfoliated original parchment and one modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and the end).

Script: Gothic (written above top line); Gothic cursive.

Collation: Gatherings mostly of 8, with numerical quire signatures in the lower margin of the rectos in the first half of the gatherings and horizontal catchwords within frames in the lower right corner of the last verso.

Binding: British Museum in-house binding. Rebound in 1954.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

The 14th-century table of contents (ff. 326r-326v) added at the beginning of Peter of Blois's epistolary and the quire signatures 'I-XXI' in the lower margins of rectos (ff. 209r-376r) suggest that the last two units were together by the first half of the 14th century.

Peter of Blois's epistolary is preceded by a table of contents added in the 14th-century (ff. 326r-326v).

Patrick Young [Junius] (b. 1584, d. 1652), librarian and biblical scholar and writer: his list of contents (f. 1*v; see Wright 1972).

Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Watson 1966, Wright 1972): his addition to the list of contents (f. 1*r; see Watson 1966); his manuscript no. 73 : his note (f. 9; see Watson 1966; 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 Add MS 70478 (formerly Loan 29/254 packet 2); Watson 1966; Wright and Wright 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:

Edward Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ in unum collecti, cum indice alphabetico, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, 1697), II, p. 388, no. 10042.

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I, no. 325.

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. 408).

Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), pp. 126 no. [A235], 285 no. [E157], 300 no. [B182].

Siegfried Wenzel, The Sin of Sloth: 'Acedia' in Medieval Thought and Literature (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1967), p. 75.

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, 367, 377.

Hans-Eberhard Hilpert, Kaiser- und Papstbriefe in den Chronica majora des Matthaeus Paris, Publications of the German Historical Institute London, 9 (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1981), pp. 63, 70-71, 84.

Richard W. Hunt, The Schools and the Cloister: The Life and Writings of Alexander Nequam (1157-1217), ed. by Margaret Gibson (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1984), pp. 150, 152.

Joseph Goering, William de Montibus (c. 1140-1213): The Schools and the Literature of Pastoral Care, Studies and Texts, 108 (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1992), p. 570.

Lena Wahlgren, The Letter Collections of Peter of Blois: Studies in the Manuscript Tradition, Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia, 68 (Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 1993), p. 192.

Richard Sharpe, A Handlist of the Latin Writers of Great Britain and Ireland before 1540, Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin, 1 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1997), p. 106.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Places:

England