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Harley MS 747

Record Id:

040-002046576

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046576

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0000fd

LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 747

Title:

Petrus Riga, Aurora, expanded by Gilles de Paris; poems by Hildebert of Lavardin

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains a copy of the Aurora, a moral commentary on the Bible written in verse, by the French poet Petrus Riga (b. c. 1140, d. 1209), in the expanded version by Gilles de Paris [Aegidius Parisiensis] (b. c. 1160, d. 1223/1224). The manuscript ends with a section of poems, including a few by Hildebert Lavardin (b. c. 1055, d. 1133), archbishop of Tours.

Contents:

ff. 1r-185v: Petrus Riga, Aurora, beginning with a Prologue ('De nomine illius qui hunc librum edidit') and ending with a summary of the work (Recapitulationes).

f. 185v: Gilles de Paris [Aegidius Parisiensis] (b. c. 1160, d. 1223/1224), Oratio ('Oratio Egidis in fine operis').

f. 185v: A poem on the number of books contained in the Aurora, entitled: 'De numero libellorum qui in hoc volumine continentur'.

f. 185v: A poem on the number of verses contained in the Aurora, entitled: 'De numero versuum istius libri'.

ff. 186r-187r: Gilles de Paris [Aegidius Parisiensis], Mysterium de Tobia [a correctore appositum]; intended supplement to the Aurora.

ff. 187v-194r: Hildebert of Lavardin, Versus de mysterio missae, here called 'Concordia Novieet Veteris sacrificij'

ff. 194r-195r: Hildebert of Lavardin, Versus de Missa.

ff. 195r-195v: Hildebert of Lavardin, Versus quare dominicum corpus in tres partes frangatur.

f. 195v: An untitled poem on the feast days of the Church, beginning: 'In festo pisce primum deponitur alleluya'.

ff. 195v-196r: An untitled poem on biblical Prophets and Apostles, beginning: 'Venit de celis testis de lege fidelis - Moyses'.

ff. 196r-196v: An explanation on the Lord's Prayer in prose, beginning: 'Septem sunt petitiones huius orationis'.

f. 197r: Versus de ordinibus Angelorum, beginning: 'Qualiter ordinibus ornetur curia celi'.

The manuscript contains a few later additions:

f. 1r: A title inscription: 'Summa Cap. Vet. Testamenti etc.'; added in the 17th century.

f. 198v: Theological notes, added in the 13th century.

Decoration:

28 puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours, some large, some small (ff. 3r, 3v, 8v, 11r, 22v, 42v, 50v, 57v, 60r, 63r, 66r, 67r, 72v, 76v, 79v, 83r, 87v, 93r, 96r, 98v, 101v, 106r, 106v, 133r, 151r, 168v, 173v, 181r). Large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing and in red wirh blue pen-flourishing. Plain initials in red or blue, some large, some small. Rubrics in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046576

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 747 : Petrus Riga, Aurora, expanded by Gilles de Paris; poems by Hildebert of Lavardin

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0747]/040-002046576

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:

1249

Date Range:

1st half of the 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 250 x 135 mm (text space [ruled in hardpoint]: 190 x 50 mm).

Foliation: ff. i + 198 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 unfoliated balnk parchment leaf after f. 197 (f. [197a]); f. i is a parchment leaf after f. 198.

Script: Gothic, written above top line.

Binding: British Museum in-house: Gold-tooled black half leather binding with the Harleian armorial bookplate goldstamped on the outside covers; marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

France.

Provenance:

Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 316).

Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 316).

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:

Paul Beichner, Aurora Petri Rigae Versificata, 2 vols (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1965), I: xx-xxvi

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), p. 431 (no. 747).

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. 316.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Gilles de Paris [Aegidius Parisiensis], c 1160-1223/1224,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/GillesdeParis
Hildebert of Lavardin, Bishop of Le Mans, Archbishop of Tours, c 1056-1133/4,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000449360680,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/282035032
Riga, Petrus, canon of Rheims cathedral and poet, c 1140-1209

Places:

France