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Harley MS 1725
- Record Id:
- 040-002047556
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047556
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x0000e9
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165165560.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1725
- Title:
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Hildegard von Bingen, Collectio epistolarum and other texts
- Scope & Content:
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This volume contains an extensive collection of letters and other Latin works by Hildegard von Bingen (b. c. 1098, d. 1179), a German Benedictine abbess, polymath and medieval mystic. The volume is an early 16th-century copy of the Wiesbaden Codex, also known as the 'Riesencodex' (now Wiesbaden, Hess.LB, Hs. 2), a giant manuscript of Hildegard's collected works, made around 1200.
Contents:
ff. 1r-5v: A Latin table of contents, comprising 287 items.
ff. 6r-330v: Hildegard von Bingen, Collectio epistolarum, a collection of her letters, interspersed with several of her other Latin works, including:
ff. 159r-172r: Liber Questionum, beginning, 'Matri sanctissimae Hildegardi Guibertus'.
ff. 210r-219r: Vita sancti Roberti dilectissimi patroni nostri, beginning, 'Nam ut in vera visione video'.
ff. 260r-268v: Explanatio Regulae sancti Benedicti, beginning, 'Et ego paupercula feminea forma'.
ff. 273v-286v: Vita sancti Disibodi episcopi, beginning, 'In mistica quoque visionis ut Deus voluit'.
ff. 287r-330v: Expositio evangeliorum, beginning, 'Cum esset desponsata mater Ihesu Maria Joseph'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047556 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1725 : Hildegard von Bingen, Collectio epistolarum and other texts - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1727]/040-002047556
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165165560.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1540
- Date Range:
- Early 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 280 x 190 mm (written space: [add this]).
Foliation: ff. 330 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated paper leaf after f. 5 + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Red half-leather binding with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers; fore-edges speckled with red. Rebound 15 August 1966.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Germany.
Provenance:
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), pp. 360-62).
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 forms 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), II (1808), pp. 187-90.
G. S. Pertz et al., Archiv der Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichtkunde (Hannover, 1819-20, pp. 7, 79.
Adelgundis Fuehrkoetter and Mariana Schrader, Die Echtheit des Schrifttums der heiligen Hildegard von Bingen (Köln-Graz: Bohlau-Verlag, 1956), p. 195.
Wright, Cyril Ernest, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 360-62.
Konrad Bund, 'Die Prophetin, ein Dichter und die Niederlassung der Bettelorden in Köln', Mittelateinisches Jahrbuch, 23 (1988), 171-260 (p. 179).
Hildegardis Bingensis Epistolarium, ed. by L. van Acker, 2 vols, (Turnhout: Brepols, 1991-1993), I, p. XXIX
José C. Santos Paz, 'Un manuscrito desconocido con obras de Hildegarde de Bingen', Filologia Mediolatina, 3 (1996), 237-53 (p. 250).
Susann El Kholi, Lektüre in Frauenkonventen des ostfränkisch-deutschen Reiches vom 8. Jahrhundert bis zur Mitte des 13.Jahrhunderts (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 1997), p. 135.
Michael Embach, Die Schriften Hildegards von Bingen: Studien zu ihrer Überlieferung im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2003), pp. 62, 203, 209, 215, 229, 240, 246, 247, 249, 401.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)