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Harley MS 2361

Record Id:

040-002048192

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048192

MDARK:

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ISAD(G)

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Harley MS 2361

Title:

Collection of theological treatises and poems, including Honorius of Autun, Elucidarium, and Richard Rolle, Expositio super symbolum apostolorum

Scope & Content:

This composite manuscript contains a large collection of theological treatises, excerpts and poems.

The manuscript consists of at least seven parts that were produced separately in England between the 2nd half of the 13th century and 15th century.

Part 1 (ff. 1r-4v) dates to the 15th century.

Parts 2 (f. 5v) and 3 (ff. 6r-13v) date to the late 14th or early 15th century.

Part 4 (ff. 14r-23v) dates to the 2nd half of the 13th century.

Part 5 (ff. 24r-68r) dates to the late 14th or early 15th century.

Part 6 (ff. 69r-80v) dates to the 14th century.

Part 7 (ff. 81r-140v) dates largely to the 14th century, but has 15th century additions throughout.

Part 1:

f. 1r: Table of contents.

ff. 1v-2r: 'Quod Maria Nautica STella sive Stella Maris interpretetur'.

f. 2r: Poem on the Cross: 'Ara crucis tumuli que calix lapidis que patene / Sindonis officium candida bissus habet'.

f. 2r: Tract on the purification of the waters of Jerico.

f. 2v: 'De brevitate huius vita'.

ff. 3r-3v: Tract on swearing of oaths, begining: 'Lex et fama, fides, reverencia, caucio dampni'; perhaps excerpted from the Fasciculus Morum.

f. 4r: 'Utrum dominus noster ihesus Cristus passus est mortem juste vel injuste'.

ff. 4r-4v: Tract on Barlaam and Josaphat, followed by theological excerpts.

Part 2:

f. 5v: Diagram on virtues and vices, beginning: 'Pater noster Hic petimus esse filii dei patris', and containing spiritual armor against the deadly sins, e.g.: 'Lorica humilitatis contra superbiam' and 'clipeus compassionis contra invidiam'.

Part 3:

f. 6r: Fragmentary theological text.

f. 6v: Latin poems on Christ and the Virgin Mary.

f. 7r: A Latin tract [crossed out].

f. 7r: 'Qualia sunt tria que vere faciunt scriptorem sebe dolere'.

ff. 7r-7v: 'Narratio legendaria de Rege quodam Anglie qui habuit plures milites sub se inter quos erat unus quem prae ceteris adamavit sed fuit Luxuriosus'.

f. 7v: Bernard of Clairvaux, excerpt from a sermon, beginning: 'Triplici morbo laborat humanum gentis'.

f. 7v: A theological tract, beginning: 'De septem proprietabius Galli'.

f. 7v: A theological tract, beginning: 'Quod Ecclesia sit quadruplex'.

ff. 8r-10r: Treatise on oaths ('De Juramento'), beginning: 'Contra eos qui accipiunt nomen dei in vanum'.

f. 10r: Tract on the observance of the Calendar, beginning: 'Kalendarum observaciones agere non licet'.

ff. 10r-10v: 'Quod in infirmitatibus hominum Incantatores nihil remedii prestent'.

f. 10v: Tract on the Egyptian days ('Dies Egipciaci') in January, attributed to Augustine.

ff. 10v-11r: 'Quod nullus in ecclesia fabulari debeat'.

ff. 11r-13v: Treatise on confession, with an explanation of the Ten Commandments, beginning: 'Ut confessionem et decorem induas amictus lumine'.

f. 13v: Theological tract, beginning 'Anima est spiritus intellectu'; attributed to 'Gelasius papa'.

f. 13v: Theological tract, beginning: 'Tria sunt loca Celum, Terra et Infernus'.

Part 4:

ff. 14r-23v: Theological treatise on vices and virtues, beginning with 'superbia'.

Part 5:

ff. 24r-24v: Theological excerpts 'De anima', beginning: 'Tres sunt spiraciones anime antequam exeat de corpore'; ending with the rubricated text: 'Annosa passio momentaneo remedio non curatur'.

ff. 25r-59r: Honorius of Autun, Elucidarium.

ff. 59v-61r: Pseudo-Richard Rolle (?), 'Expositio Orationis Dominice secundum Ricardum heremitam', beginning: 'Haec oratio privilegiata est in duobus scilicet in dignitate et etiam in foecunditate'.

ff. 61r-68r: Richard Rolle, Expositio super symbolum apostolorum, beginning: 'Decimo die post ascensionem domini discipulis'

Part 6:

ff. 69r-70v: Theological tracts on lectio, compunctio, and oracio.

ff. 71r-80v: Fragment of Pseudo-Isidore, Liber de Numeris.

Part 7:

ff. 81r-81v: Tract on the Twelve Articles of Faith, beginning: 'Duodecim sunt articuli fidei'.

f. 81v: 'Contra clericos negociatores'.

ff. 82r-83r: Liber penitenciarii, beginning: 'Peniteas cito peccator cum sit misera'.

ff. 84r-84v: Planctus de adulacione mundi, beginning: 'Ecce mundus moritur viciis sepultus'.

f. 84v: 'Quod Grex fidelis triplici cibo sustentetur'.

ff. 85r-87r: Disputatio inter corpus et animam ('Altercatio Carnis et Spiritus'), beginning: 'Noctis sub silencio tempore brumali'.

f. 87r: A short text on swearing oaths, beginning: 'Qui iurat super librum'.

ff. 87v-95v: Short theological tracts, beginning: 'In omni oracione primum est habere cordivisum ab ore vel os habere divisum a corde'.

ff. 96v-102v: Peter Abelard, Expositio Orationis Dominicae, beginning: 'Inter omnia que fragilitas humana facere potest'.

f. 96v: Added theological note: 'Nota satisffaccio'.

ff. 103r-104v: An untitled theological treatise, beginning: 'Ad refellendam eorum peridiam qui dicunt observacionem Mandatorum Decalogi fore impossibile Christianis'.

ff. 105r-108r: Tractatus de officio sacerdotis, begining: 'Notandum quod in quinque Sacerdotis officium videtur includi'.

ff. 108r-112r: Theological excerpts.

f. 112v: Tract on the Six Ages of World.

ff. 113r-132r: Pseudo-Bernard, Meditationes, beginning: 'Multi multa sciunt et seipos nesciunt'.

ff. 132v-136v: Theological notes, including: 'Nota quod in lege et in prophetis quinque erant quorum necessaria est'

ff. 137r-137v: 'Excerpta de historia barlaam et iosaphat'.

ff. 138r-139v: Pseudo-Turpin, Chronicle (excerpt), 'Bellum Ferracuti et Rotholandi et de eorum disputacione'.

f. 139v: Quindecim signa ante iudicium.

f. 140v: Notes on swearing oaths, beginning: 'Jurare est sub attestacione divina aliquid pollicere'.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. 1*recto: A poem by 'R. Johnson', beginning: 'Moribus est bonis'; added in 1503.

Decoration:

6 large initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour extending into the margins (ff. 25r, 37r, 48r, 59v, 61r, 81r); puzzle initial on f. 59v. Smaller initials in red with purple, blue, brown or red pen-flourishing, or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Coloured initials in red or blue. Added ink drawing of a face in the margin (f. 91v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048192

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2361 : Collection of theological treatises and poems, including Honorius of Autun, Elucidarium, and Richard Rolle, Expositio super…

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032-002045828[2362]/040-002048192

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1250

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

2nd half of the 13th century-15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 160 x 110 mm (text space: variable sizes, mostly in 2 columns).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 141 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); a fragment of a late 15th-century blind-stamped English leather binding with the inscription 'Ihesu Maria' pasted onto f. 1.

Collation: Indicated by quire marks and horizontal catchwords; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; rebound in 1967.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

John Odlyn, magister, Cambridge University administrator 1470-71: inscription recording his gift to Johnson in 1503 on a piece of parchment pasted onto f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 260).

R. Johnson, 'dominus', owned from 1503: according to inscriptions on ff. 1*recto and f. 1r [see above] (see Doyle, 'Books Belonging to R. Johnson' (1952); Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 205).

Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d. 1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705; sold by his widow on 17 May 1715 to Robert Harley, along with other manuscripts (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. 11 n. 6; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 87-88).

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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘17 May 1715' (f. 1r).

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), pp. 667-68 (no. 2361).

A. I. Doyle, 'Books Belonging to R. Johnson', Notes and Queries, 197 (1952), 293-94.

Harry Leigh Douglas Ward, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), I (1883), pp. 582-83.

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, p. 11 n. 6.

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. 87-88, 205, 260.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000012102945X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/88995118
Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbot of Clairvaux, ?1090-1153,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120962264,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/59875293
Honorius of Autun, c 1080-c 1155,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000117981982,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100201145
Rolle, Richard, c 1310-1349,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121177882,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2465074

Places:

England