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Harley MS 1712
- Record Id:
- 040-002047543
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047543
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x0000dc
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056033404.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1712
- Title:
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Petrus Comestor, Sermones
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
This manuscript consists of Petrus Comestor's sermons (ff. 17r-233v), and was produced at the very end of the 12th century.
Contents:
ff. 3r-16r: Table of contents and indexes.
ff. 17r-233v: Petrus Comestor, Sermones (Sermons).
The manuscript contains later additions:
ff. 3r-16r: table of contents and indeces to sermons have been added later, in the 2nd quarter of the 15th-century.
Decoration:
Large initial in colours and gold, with foliate tendrils extending into the margins (f. 4r).
ff. 3r-16r: Numerous initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs. Coloured initials in red or blue. Capitals marked in red. Cadels in brown and red ink.
ff. 17r-233v: Large arabesque initial in yellow with red penwork decoration (f. 17r).
Initials in green or red with red pen-flourishing (ff. 163v, 166r, 169r, 175r, 177v, 179v, 181v, 183r, 187v, 188r, 190r, 212v, 214r, etc.).
Coloured initials in red, yellow or green, sometimes extending into a leaf pattern in the same colour (e.g., ff. 146v, 170v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047543", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1712: Petrus Comestor, Sermones" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047543 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1712 : Petrus Comestor, Sermones - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1714]/040-002047543
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056033404.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 315 x 220 mm (215/25 x 155/60 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 235 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); one unfoliated parchment leaf after ff. 2 and 16; ff. 1-2 is a bifolium with notes (see Provenance), f. 1 has been trimmed off (290 x 75 mm).
Script: Protogothic and Gothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1967.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
An unidentified late-14th century owner: added a table of contents (f. 1r).
The Augustinian abbey of St John the Evangelist in Haughmond, Shropshire: 15th-century ownership inscription 'Liber iste est monasterij s[an]c[t]i Joh[ann]is evangeliste de Haghmond' (f. 17r); added 15th-century foliation.
An unidentified owner: added a marginal sketch of a fleur-de-lys (f. 45r).
An unidentified ?15th-century owner: added a drawing in brown ink of a sleeping figure directly related to the sleep of the soul referred to in the text (f. 50r).
An unidentified 15th-century owner: added verses beginning: 'Sunt tria que vere faciunt me sepe dolere' (f. 233v).
An unidentified late-15th-century owner: added English notes (ff. 136v, 137r); 'gentyll man' (f. 137r).
An unidentified 16th-century owner: inscribed 'Feste Nicholao Wakeman' (f. 137r).
Several unidentified owners: added inscriptions in 16th/17th century hands (ff. 2v, 16v, 234r).
An unidentified owner: inscribed 'floruit anno D. 1182' in a post-medieval hand (f. 17r).
An unidentified owner: Inscribed 'Jo. Heynes' in a 17th-century hand (f. 3r) (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
Henry Worsley (b. 1675, d. 1747), scholar and manuscript collector, envoy at the Court of Portugal (from 1714-21) and governor of Barbados (from 1721-31): donated by him to Robert Harley together with other manuscripts from Worsley's collection (now Harley MS 1585-1747, 1811, 1812) before December 1712 (see Wright and Wright, The Diary of Humphrey Wanley (1966) and Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
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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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 1712.
John Hennig, 'The Manuscript Sources of Early Scholastic Theology', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des Études relatives aux manuscrits, 4 (1950), 309-13 (p. 311).
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, pp. xix-xx.
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. 182, 189, 361.
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. 96.
Richard Sharpe and James Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: The Bodleian Libraries, 2015) http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/3030/?search_term=harley%201712&page_size=500 [accessed 4 May 2017].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.