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Harley MS 1659

Record Id:

040-002047490

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002047490

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x0000a7

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1659

Title:

Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis et virtutibus

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 4r-394v: Willelmus Peraldus [William Perault (d. 1271)], Summa de vitiis et virtutibus.

The manuscript features several later additions:

ff. 1v-3r: Pope Innocent III, De contemptu mundi; added in the (?) 15th century.

ff. 395r-97r: Theological notes in Latin, featuring a few inscriptions in Hebrew and a short Middle English inscription ('Loke boy') on f. 396v; added by various hands in the 14th or 15th century.

Decoration:

Puzzle initials in blue and red, some large, some small. Smaller initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue. Rubrics in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002047490

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1659 : Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis et virtutibus

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1661]/040-002047490

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English, Middle
Hebrew
Latin

Scripts:

Hebrew
Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1324

Date Range:

1st quarter of the 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 220 x 155 mm (text space: 150 x 110 mm, in 2 columns).

Foliation: ff. 397; 6 blank unfoliated parchment leaves after f. 3; and 2 after f. 223.

Script: Gothic cursive, written below top line.

Binding: Post-1600. Mottled brown leather with gold-tooling.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

The Benedictine cathedral priory of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Worcester, owned in the 15th century: its ownership inscription on f. 4r: 'liber monasterij wygornie' (see Ker, Medieval Libraries (1964), p. 206; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 360).

Henry Worsley (b. 1675, d. 1747), scholar and manuscript collector, envoy at the Court of Portugal (1714-21) and governor of Barbados (1721-31); donated by him to Robert Harley together with other manuscripts from Worsley's collection (now Harley MSS 1585-1747, 1811, 1812) before December 1712 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 361).

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), II (1808), no. 1659.

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. 207.

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. 360-61.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Innocent III, Pope, 1160/61-1216,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122769169,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/16017787
Willelmus Peraldus, d 1271,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000456196700

Places:

England