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Harley MS 586

Record Id:

040-002046415

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046415

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 586

Title:

Simon of Hinton, Summa iuniorum; Bonaventura, Incendium amoris; (?)Adam of Dore, Pictor in carmine; Guibert de Tournai, Sermons

Scope & Content:

This composite manuscript consists of four parts.

The first part (ff. 1r-85r) was written in the 2nd half of the 13th century.

The second part (ff. 86r-169v) and third part (ff. 170r-170v) were written in the 14th century.

The fourth part (ff. 171r-173v) was written in the 15th century.

Contents:

ff. 1r-48v: Simon of Hinton (b. fl. c. 1248, d. 1262), Summa iuniorum, here inscribed with the rubricated names of Jesus, Mary, John, and St Francis; with an index at the end.

ff. 49r-56v: Bonventura, Incendium amoris.

ff. 56v-59r: Three excerpts of Bonaventura’s Breviloquium, beginning ‘Flecto genua mea ad patrem domini nostri jhesu christi ex quo omnis paternis in caelo’; ‘Cuius sacrae scripturae fine cupito et intento et principio credito simul et invocato’; and 'Habet nihilominus sacra scriptura in suo processu sublimitatem’.

ff. 59v-85r: ? Adam of Dore, Pictor in carmine [abbreviated], here entitled ‘Concordancie veteris ac novi testamenti’, beginning 'Colloquium gabrielis et virginis de incarnacione verbi’.

f. 85r: A Latin note on the Evangelists, beginning 'Designantur evangeliste iiii figuris que non sunt illosorie sed iocundi misterii sibi conscie'.

ff. 86r-169v: Guibert de Tournai, Sermons.

ff. 170r-170v: A sermon on the Virgin Mary, beginning ‘Quod utrum beata virgo maria meruit Christum concipere: aut fuit concepcio illa solem ex munere divine gracie’, imperfect.

ff. 171r-173v: An unidentified tract on the Symbolum Apostolorum.

The manuscript contains several later additions:

f. 173v: De IX filiabus diaboli, beginning ‘Diabolus duxit uxorem scilicet iniquitatem de contra genuit novem filias’; followed by theological notes; added in the 15th century.

ff. 173v-174r: A Heavenly Letter in Middle English, beginning ‘Seynt leo þe pope wrot þis lettre to kyng charles and seyth þat he þat bereþ þis lettre he shal not drede of his enmy not overcomen shal he not ben not falsli be damned ne with fendes be acumbred no with wykked dede be take no wyth oute schryft die no in no nede mysfare no in batayle be overcome no of souereyn wretch take wyth oute gret cause no in fyre non in water be perysched non with wykked eyre be asayled no wyth leytt be smyte no wyth fende be travailed’; added in the 15th century.

f. 174v: A Latin wisdom, ‘Quid est fides nisi credere quod non vides’; added in the 16th century.

f. 175r: A herbal recipe using lavender, beginning ‘Nardus est herba calidissima’, added in the 15th century.

f. 175r: A calculation of the years from Adam to Christ (5199), added in the 15th century.

f. 175r: A note about the four types of trees from which wood was used for the Cross, beginning ‘Notandum quod crux dicitur fieri ex iiij^or lignis et ex cedro cipresso plama et oliva’, added in the 15th century.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046415

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 586 : Simon of Hinton, Summa iuniorum; Bonaventura, Incendium amoris; (?)Adam of Dore, Pictor in carmine; Guibert de Tournai, Sermons

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0586]/040-002046415

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1250

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

2nd half of the 13th century-15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 170 x 130 mm.

Foliation: ff. 175 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 69 and f. 70; all quires have been mounted onto paper stubs.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house: re-bound in 1967.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

George Hickes (b. 1642, d. 1715), bishop of the nonjuring Church of England and antiquary: given by him according to the Harleian catalogue (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 189).

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), p. 355.

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. 382.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Adam, Abbot of Dore, fl 1200
Bonaventure, Saint, born Giovanni di Fidanza; scholastic theologian, 1221-1274,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000045724994X
Guibert of Tournai, Franciscan friar, c 1200-1284,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000374370189
Simon of Hinton [Henton], Dominican theologian, c 1248-1262,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/17630115

Places:

England