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Harley MS 1031
- Record Id:
- 040-002046860
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046860
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000219
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1031
- Title:
- Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis et virtutibus
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r-186r: Willelmus Peraldus [William Perault (d. 1271)], Summa de vitiis et virtutibus.
The manuscript contains several additions:
Theological notes added throughout the manuscript.
f. 1*recto: A title inscription: 'Tractatus moralis de virtutibus'; added in the (?) 17th century.
f. 1*verso: A title inscription: 'Tractatus moralis de viritutibus'; added in the (?) 14th or 15th century.
f. 1r: A tract on the Virgin Mary, citing Ratramnus (d. after 868), monk of the Benedictine monastery of Corbie, Liber de Nativiate Christi; written in the 13th century.
ff. 1v-2v: A subject index of the Summa de vitiis et virtutibus; written in the (?) 14th or 15th century.
f. 3r: A title inscription (upper margin): 'Parisiensis de virtutibus'; added in the (?) 15th century.
f. 3r: A collation (upper margin): 'Ite l[iber] continet 15 sextar[?niones]'; added in the (?) 15th century.
f. 186v: A Latin instruction for a prayer, beginning: 'doctores (?) m[u]ratru[m] que turba pia virgines que cum maria mihi [...] succurite Et oretis in hac hora [etc.]'; added in the (?) 14th century.
f. 186v: An instruction for a prayer that claims that it was written by St Brendan, when he was inperiled at sea, and dictated by St Michael the Archangel, beginning: 'Beatus brendanus abbas fecit ista oracionem sequentem de verbo dei per michahelem [sic] archangelum'; written in the (?) 14th century.
Decoration:
Puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours (ff. 3r, 146r, 165r). Initials in blue or red with pen-flourishing in the other colour. Paraphs in blue or red. Manicules in brown ink added to margins throughout the manuscript. Foliate motifs in brown ink added to the outer margin of f. 82v.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046860", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1031: Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis et virtutibus" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046860 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1031 : Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis et virtutibus - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1031]/040-002046860
- 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:
- 1275
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 235 x 150 mm (text space: 160 x 110, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 186 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end); f. 1* is a parchment flyleaf; 1 unfoliated paper pasedown (inscribed with the number '147' in brown ink) on f. 1*recto; original foliation in Arabic numerals in the lower margins; a manufacturing aid in the lower margin of f. 3 states the number of quires.
Collation: Indicated by horizontal catchwords.
Script: Gothic, written below the top line
Binding: Post-1600: Brown mottled calf with gold fillets.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
The cathedral church of Ely, Cambridgeshire, owned in the 15th century: their ownership inscription on ff. 2v and 186r: 'Iste liber p[er]tinet eccl[es]ie Elien[si]'; and their library mark in the outer margin of f. 3r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 145).
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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 1031.
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. 78.
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. 145, 316.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Ratramnus, Monk of the monastery of Corbie, d. c 870, (Author)
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000383234875
Willelmus Peraldus, d 1271, (Author)
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000456196700 - Places:
- England