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Harley MS 1294

Record Id:

040-002047123

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002047123

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000320

LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1294

Title:

Gregory the Great, Liber Pastoralis Curae; Adso of Montier-en-Der, De Antichristo; Peter Cantor, Verbum Abbreviatum; Galand of Reigny, De Colloquio Vitiorum; sermons by Peter Comestor and Hildebert of Lavardin; Allegories of the Old and New Testament; (?) William de Montibus, Peniteas cito peccator

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-39r: Gregory the Great, Liber Pastoralis Curae.

ff. 39r-40v: Adso of Montier-en-Der, De Antichristo.

ff. 41r-87r: Peter Cantor, Verbum Abbreviatum (abridged selections)

ff. 88r-89v: Part of Galand of Reigny [Galandus Regniacensis], De Colloquio Vitiorum, from his Parabolarium, beginning: 'Forte die quadam avaricia libidini obvians'.

ff. 89v-92r: Part of Galand of Reigny, De Colloquio Vitiorum, from his Parabolarium, beginning: 'Omnes virtutes convenerunt aliquando in unum ut ex sempitipsis unam sibi reginam eligerent'.

f. 92r: A tract on charity, beginning: 'Quicumque volunt perfecte placere Deo, tam castitate quam caritate splendere debent'.

ff. 92v-95r: (?) Peter Comestor, a sermon beginning: 'letare ierusalem: et conventum facite omnes qui diligitis eam. Jerusalem .iiij. modis dicitur'.

ff. 95r-96r: Peter Comestor, Sermo in synonodo ad sacerdotes.

ff. 96r-98v: An unidentified sermon, beginning: 'Vanum est vobis ante lucem surgere; surgite postquam sederitis qui manducatis panem doloris. Nota est et frequenter vobis omnibus hec exhortatio sed ut notior appareat videndum est quis loquitur'

ff. 98v-100r: Hildebert of Lavardin, Sermo ad monachos benedictinos.

ff. 100r-101v: Peter Comestor, Sermo XLII.

ff. 101v-102r: Peter Comestor, Sermo ad clerum.

ff. 102r-103r: Peter Comestor, Sermo in annuntiatione Beatae Virginis Mariae.

ff. 103r-105r: Peter Comestor, Sermo de ramis palmarum.

ff. 105r-106v: Peter Comestor, Sermo in dedicatione ecclesie.

ff. 106v-107v: Peter Comestor, Sermo in hypapante Domini vel in purificatione beatae Virginis; imperfect at the end due to an excised leaf after f. 107.

ff. 108r-108v: Hildebert of Lavardin, Sermo in festo sanctae Magdalenae sermo unicus; imperfect at the beginning and and due to the loss of folios.

ff. 109r-113r: An unidentified theological tract, beginning: 'Cum appropinquasset Iesus Ierosolimis: Hoc evangelium bis in anno legitur quia de adventu domini in ierusalem loquitur' (also in (?) Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 52; and Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner 4); followed by other tracts on Christ.

f. 113v: The opening lines of an unfinished sermon: 'Simile est regnum caelorum homini patrifamilias qui exiit etcaetera / Paterfamilias est deus pater vinea est ecclesia forum mundus"

f. 113v: A poem on the Parable of the Vineyard, beginning: 'Vinea culta fuit cultores premia querunt'.

ff. 114r-137v: Allegories of the Old and New Testament (some from Pseudo-Hugh of Saint Victor's Allegoriae in Vetus et Novum Testamentum).

ff. 137v-138v: An unidentified theological tract, beginning: 'Cum sederis [...] mensa principis ut comedas cum eo diligenter attende'.

ff. 139r-141r: (?) William de Montibus, Peniteas cito peccator; with interlinear commentary.

ff. 143r-144r: An unidentified theological tract, beginning: 'Debet etiam sacerdos considerare per discretionem videliset: divitum mediocrum pauperum militum rusticorum suburbanorum negosciatorum clericorum sanctimonialium'.

f. 144v: A tract on the legend of the twelve Fridays, attributed to Pope Clement, beginning: 'Ego clemens romanus pontifex vitam eternam. Invenio in canonibus apostolorum in canonibus apostolorum quod dominus dixit ad beatum Petrum apostolum de xii diebus veneris'

f. 144v: A diagram of sins and virtues.

The manuscript contains an addition:

f. 1r (lower margin): A title inscription: 'Pastoralis Liber [Ex] Gregorii'; added in the (?) Late Middle Ages.

Decoration:

Initials in red with blue penwork decoration or in blue with red penwork decoration. Plain initials in red, some large, some small. Small (1-line) initials alternating between blue and read on ff. 140r-143r. . Paraphs in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002047123

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1294 : Gregory the Great, Liber Pastoralis Curae; Adso of Montier-en-Der, De Antichristo; Peter Cantor, Verbum Abbreviatum; Galand of…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1294]/040-002047123

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: 200 x 160 mm (text space: 145 x 110 mm, in 2 columns [ff. 1r-40v]: 140 x 90 mm, in a single column [ff. 41r-87r]; 145 x 110 mm, in 2 columns [ff. 88r-108v]; 140-155 x 90 mm, in a single column [ff. 89r-144v])

Foliation: ff. 144 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment stub after f. 107; 1 unfoliated parchment pastedown on f. 1r (lower margin).

Script: Protogothic, written above top line; by more than one scribe.

Collation: Indicated by catchwords (largely cropped); each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.

Binding: British Museum in-house: red half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the outside covers; rebound in 1968.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

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. 650 (no. 1294).

John Hennig, 'The Manuscript Sources of Early Scholastic Theology', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des Études relatives aux manuscrits, 4 (1950), 309-13 (p. 311).

Siegfried Wenzel, The Sin of Sloth: Acedia in Medieval Thought and Literature (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1967), pp. 120, 215, 260.

Morton Bloomfield and others, Incipits of Latin Works on the Virtues and Vices, 1100-1500 A.D. (Cambridge, Mass: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1979), no. 3812 [but should appear under no. 3819].

Richard Newhauser, 'The Text of Galand of Reigny's "De Colloquio Vitiorum" from his "Parabolarium"', Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, 17 (1982), 108-19 (pp. 108-09, 111-14).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Places:

England