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Harley MS 916

Record Id:

040-002046745

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046745

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0001a6

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 916

Title:

An abbreviated summary of William of Tocco, Ystoria sancti Thome de Aquino, with excerpts from the hearing for Thomas Aquinas' canonization in Naples, 1319

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-64r: An abbreviated summary of William of Tocco, Ystoria sancti Thome de Aquino (beginning 'Deus qui dixit de tenebris lucem splendescere modernis temporibus quasi ad mundi uesperam'), with excerpts from the hearing for Thomas Aquinas' canonization in Naples, 1319 (imperfect, 2 leaves missing between ff. 24 and 25, and 1 between ff. 25 and 26).

f. 65r: Partial list of contents.

Decoration: 1 historiated puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in red, extending into a partial border in red and blue, depicting Thomas Aquinas seated at a book stand (f. 1r).

Small initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraph marks in plain red or blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046745

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 916 : An abbreviated summary of William of Tocco, Ystoria sancti Thome de Aquino, with excerpts from the hearing for Thomas…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0916]/040-002046745

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:

1330

End Date:

1370

Date Range:

Mid 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 140 x 100 mm (text space: 100 x 70 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 65 (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end); ff. 1* and 65 are medieval parchment flyleaves.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Blind-tooled brown leather.

Medieval foliation in arabic numerals.

Catchwords, leaf signatures.

Custodial History:

Origin: England (possibly London).

Provenance:

Inscribed, 15th century: 'Thomas de aquinio ...(?) consensus' (f. 65v).

Medieval foliation in the centre of the upper margins, with coordinated partial list of contents (f. 65r).

Inscribed, 15th century: 'vita Thomae Aquinatis' (f. 1* verso).

Inscribed, 16th? century: 'Vita santi [sic] Thomae / Aquinatis' (f. 1* recto).

Inscribed, 17th? century: 'Walter Marshall' (f. 1r).

Robert Ainsworth (b. 1660, d. 1743), lexicographer and schoolmaster: given by him to Peter Le Neve; inscribed, 'donum Roberti Aynsworth / Petro Le Neve Norroy / Anno Domini 1706' (f. 1* recto).

Peter Le Neve (b. 1661, d. 1729), herald and antiquary (see above).

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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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808-12), I, no. 916.

Antoine Dondaine and J. Peters, 'Jacques de Tonengo et Giffredus d'Anagni, auditeurs de Saint Thomas', Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum, 29 (1959), 52-72 (p. 55).

C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 48, 219, 235.

Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum: Accedunt Alia Itinera: A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other Libraries, 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute; Leiden: Brill, 1963-1997), IV (1989), p. 155.

Ystoria sancti Thome de Aquino de Guillaume de Tocco (1323), ed. by Claire le Brun-Gouanvic, Studies and Texts 127 (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1996), pp. 65-66 (sigla L¹).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)