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Harley MS 2866

Record Id:

040-002048697

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048697

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000088

LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2866

Title:

Recapitulationes veteris et novi testamenti from Petrus Riga's Aurora; benedictions of Praemonstratensian and Cistercian abbots and abbesses; ordination rites for holy orders; benedictions for priests

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. 1r: Prayer to God, beginning: '[O]mnipotens deus qui unigenitum suum hodierna die in assumpta carne in templo voluit praesentari, benedictionis suae vos munere fultos bonis operibus faciat exornari'.

ff. 2r-11r: 'Recapitulationes veteris et novi testamenti' from Petrus Riga (b. c. 1140, d. 1209)'s Aurora, an allegorical commentary on the Bible in verse.

ff. 12r-15r: Benediction of abbots in the Premonstratensian Order, entitled: 'Ordo quo modo monachus premonstracensis vel canonicus regularis ordinetur in prepositum sive in abbatem'; beginning: 'Karissime frater quia gracia dei et electio fratrum priorisque vite tue conversatio ad hoc pro vocavit officium te'.

ff. 15r-18v: Benediction of abbots in the Cistercian Order, entitled: 'Ordo ad monachum nigrum vel cysterciensis ordinis faciendum abbatem'; beginning: 'Karissime frater quia gracia dei et electio fratrum priorisque vite tue conversatio ad hoc pro vocavit officium te'.

ff. 18v-24v: Benediction of abbesses, entitled: 'Ordo qualiter monialis ordinetur in abbatissam, beginning: 'Karissima soror quia gracia dei et electio soror priorisque vite me conversatio ad hoc provocavit officium te'

ff. 24v-42r: Ordination rites for holy orders, entitled: 'Qualiter sacri ordines agantur videndum est'; beginning: 'Accedant qui ordinandi sunt ostiarii'.

ff. 42v-69v: Benedictions for priests, beginning with 'Benedictio communis in celebratione ordinum si nec habeatur propria'; with a litany of Saints (ff. 47r-48r), including Lambert, bishop of Maastricht; Vedast, bishop of Arras; and Amand, bishop of Maastricht, and a litany (ff. 64v-67v), including the aforementioned saints and Remigius, bishop of Reims, Ghislain of Hainaut, and Aldegonde, abbess of Maubeuge Abbey.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

ff. 70v-71v: Rituals for the consecration of altars, begininng: 'Sanctificetur hoc altare in nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti'; added in the 14th or 15th century.

Decoration:

5 large puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same collours (ff. 12, 20v, 24v, 42v, 46v). Initials in blue or red with blue and/or red pen-flourishing. Rubrics in red. Small plain initials in red or blue. Capitals marked in red.

Music notation in black neumes on 2-line staves of red ink throughout the manuscript.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048697

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2866 : Recapitulationes veteris et novi testamenti from Petrus Riga's Aurora; benedictions of Praemonstratensian and Cistercian abbots…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2867]/040-002048697

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1350

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

2nd half of the 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 150 x 100 mm (text space: 95 x 70 mm).

Foliation: ff. 71 (+ 6 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather with gold tooling; marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Southern Netherlands or France.

Provenance:

The Charterhouse of Louvain [also known as 'Kartuize Heilige Maria Magdalena-onder-het-kruis op de Calvarieberg' or 'Chartreuse Sainte-Marie-Madeleine-sous-la-Croix'], Belgium: inscribed on f. 1r (upper margin) with 'Carth in Lovani[s]' in a 17th-century script and on f. 2r with 'liber Cartusianorum Lovanij' in a 16th- or 17th-century script (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 227).

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), p. 716 (no. 2866).

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 227.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Riga, Petrus, canon of Rheims cathedral and poet, c 1140-1209

Places:

France
Southern Netherlands