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Harley MS 1762
- Record Id:
- 040-002047593
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047593
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x00010e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1762
- Title:
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Richard of Saint-Victor, De statu interioris hominis; De sacrificio David Prophete; De Sacrificio Abrahe; Adnotationes in Psalmos; Stephen of Tournai, Epistola
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-31v: Richard of Saint-Victor, De statu interioris hominis; imperfect at the end.
ff. 32r-39v: De sacrificio David Prophete; imperfect at the beginning.
ff. 39v-51r: De Sacrificio Abrahe.
ff. 51r-75v: Adnotationes in Psalmos.
ff. 75r-81v: Stephen of Tournai, Epistola.
The manuscript contains a few additions:
f. 1*recto: Modern notes in pencil and ink with a reference to another manuscript.
f. 2*recto: Notes on the contents, added in the (?) 17th century.
f. 157v: Inscriptions in French: ‘Helas mon dieu [...]’; added in the 16th century.
Decoration:
3 large initials in blue or red with reserved designs and penwork decoration including arabesque motifs in red and blue, one with green (ff. 1r, 2v, 75v). Numerous initials in blue, red or green, with penwork decoration in red or blue and occasionally with a reserved design. Simple initials in red, blue or green. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047593", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1762: Richard of Saint-Victor, De statu interioris hominis; De sacrificio David Prophete; De Sacrificio Abrahe; Adnotationes in Psalmos;…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047593 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1762 : Richard of Saint-Victor, De statu interioris hominis; De sacrificio David Prophete; De Sacrificio Abrahe; Adnotationes in… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1764]/040-002047593
- 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:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1224
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 320 x 230 mm (text space: 240/250 x 170 mm, in 2 columns)
Foliation: ff. 1* + 2* + 159 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. 1* is a paper flyleaf; 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf after f. 1*; f. 2* is a parchment flyleaf; 1 leaf lost after f. 31.
Script: Gothic, written above the top line.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France or Southern Netherlands.
Provenance:
Written after 1177: the letter of Stephen of Tournai on ff. 75v-81v) refers to Stephen as abbot (f. 75v: 'Incipit epistola domini stephani abbatis de monte sancte genovese'). Stephen of Tournai was elected abbot of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris in 1177.
Beaupré, owned in the 16th century: inscribed on f. 159v: 'Sum de bello prato' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 69).
? Paris, Bibliothèque royale: perhaps removed from it in 1707 by Jean Aymon.
Jean Aymon (b. 1661, d. 1734): purchased in Holland from him for the Harley Collection (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 56-57).
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), II (1808), no. 1762.
Rudolf Goy, Die Handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke Richards von St. Viktor im Mittelalter, Bibliotheca Victorina, 18 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005), pp. 196, 320, 341, 344.
John Hennig, 'The Manuscript Sources of Early Scholastic Theology', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des Études relatives aux manuscrits, 4 (1950), 309-13 (p. 311).
Registrum anglie de libris doctorum et auctorum veterum, ed. by Richard H. and Mary A. Rouse, and R. A. B. Mynors, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 2 (London: The British Library, 1991), p. 241.
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. 57, 69.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Richard of Saint-Victor, Prior of the Augustinian abbey of St Victor, Paris, d 1173,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121448179,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/98148813
Stephen of Tournai, Bishop of Tournai, 1108-1203,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000081553416,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/74648663 - Places:
- France
Southern Netherlands