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Harley MS 2379

Record Id:

040-002048210

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048210

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000377

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2379

Title:

Tracts on vices and virtues; Speculum Christiani; Gospel harmony; De Spiritu Guidonis; Speculum sacerdotum; William of Pagula, Oculus sacerdotis; The Gret Sentence; theological verses and notes; Decretum abbreviatum; Pseudo-Bonaventura, Dieta Salutis; Tabulae Dieta Salutis

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-56v: A collection of Latin tracts on vices, virtues and catechesis, entitled ‘vinea domini de cibu anime’; featuring excerpts from the Cibus Anime.

ff. 57r-70v: Speculum Christiani, featuring Middle English verse on f. 62v (‘Whose wyll have helle / he must do as we hym telle’); ff. 65v-68v (Ten Commandments); and ff. 62v-64v (Seven Deadly Sins); with a diagram on f. 70r: two ladders made out of virtues and vices, one leading to Heaven (‘Celum’) and the other to Hell (‘Infernus’).

ff. 70v-72v: A short Gospel harmony; beginning ‘Sciendum est quod dei filius natus est de virgine nocte media’; at the end attributed to a certain 'master of History' (‘[quedam] magister in historia’) and verified by the author or scribe ‘Bertrandus’; followed by two verses: ‘Si quis amat quod amare nocet deponat amorem / Inportunus Amor dampnum paret atque dolorem’.

ff. 73r-80r: De Spiritu Guidonis.

ff. 80v-92r: Speculum sacerdotum.

ff. 92v-104v: William of Pagula, Oculus sacerdotis.

ff. 105r-109v: The Gret Sentence [General Sentence of Excommunication or Sentence of Cursing], Middle English prose.

f. 110v: Theological verses and notes; beginning ‘Littera gesta docet, quid credas allegoria’; ‘Notandum quod ubi sensus litteralis est falsus’ [attributed to ‘henri[cus] de (?) gadenio]; ‘[...] est mundus scilicet archithopus’; ‘Sepcies in die laudem dixi tibi’ [St Augustine’s commentary on Psalm 164].

ff. 111r-119r: Decretum abbreviatum, beginning ‘Liber decretorum distinctus est in tres partes’.

ff. 120r-201v: Pseudo-Bonaventura, Dieta Salutis.

ff. 201v-211r: Tabula Dieta Salutis; appendix to the Dieta Salutis allocating lections from the text to feasts of the Temporale; beginning ‘Dominica prima adventus domini: Abiciamus opera tenebrarum et induamur arma’.

ff. 211r-219v: Alia Tabula Dieta Salutis; alphabetical register of subjects for the Dieta Salutis.

The manuscript contains a number of additions:

ff. 220v-221r: 15th and 16th century inscriptions: including hymns, a draft for a bond, and a reference to the feast of St Barnabas (‘Sancti Bernabi’).

f. 222v: Three pastedowns, two including 15th-century inscriptions; one a 17th-century inscription.

Decoration:

Small red initials.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048210

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2379 : Tracts on vices and virtues; Speculum Christiani; Gospel harmony; De Spiritu Guidonis; Speculum sacerdotum; William of Pagula,…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2380]/040-002048210

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper and parchment.

Dimensions: 225 x 150 mm.

Foliation: ff. 221 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper leaf between f. 109 and f. 110 (f. [109a]); 3 paper and parchment pastedowns on f. 221v; all quires have been mounted on paper guards.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. British Library in-house: re-bound in 1986.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

? Nicholas Beaupre (b. 1465, d. 1514) of Wellingham, Norfolk [or a namesake of the same family]: his name inscribed on a paper label pasted on f. 221v: ‘Constat N beaupre d[omi]no de Wellyngh[a]m’; the family name also inscribed on f. 1r (‘Beaupre’); on f. 221r is the draft for a bond related to Wellingham: ‘Noverint universi per presentes Johenni Hyrne [of þe] civitat[i]s Wellingh[a]m husbondsma[n] teneri et firmiter obligari [þe] Rob[er]to Wulwy of þ[e]’ (not in 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.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), pp. 674-75.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972).

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: The British Library, 2005), nos 1286/17, 3687/9, 4150/19.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Pseudo-Bonaventura
William of Pagula, canon lawyer and theologian, d ? 1332,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139689034