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Harley MS 3016

Record Id:

040-002048847

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048847

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000142

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3016

Title:

Hildebert of Lavardin, Epistolae and Sermones, Expositio super Missam, De querimonia et conflictu carnis et animae, and Vita metrica Sanctae Mariae Aegyptiacae

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-52v: Hildebert of Lavardin, Epistolae and Sermones, beginning: 'Incipiunt epsitole domini hildeberti cenomannensis episcopi Guilelmo de campell'.

ff. 52v-63v: Hildebert of Lavardin, Expositio super Missam.

ff. 63v-68r: Hildebert of Lavardin, De querimonia et conflictu carnis et animae.

ff. 68r-73v: Hildebert of Lavardin, Vita metrica Sanctae Mariae Aegyptiacae.

ff. 73v-74r: A prayer for remission of sins, entitled: 'Confessio Sancti Augustini', beginning: 'Omnipotens deus pater eterne tu es domine deus meus'.

The manuscript contains various late 12th- and/or early 13th-century additions:

f. 74r: A charm for toothache, beginning: 'Dominus noster ihesus Christus super petram marmoream sedebat petrus tristis ante eum sedebat'.

f. 74r: Names of the city of Jerusalem, beginning: 'Solima . Lura. Dethel'.

f. 74r: A poem on the ten plagues of Egypt ('De decem plagis egipti'), beginning: 'Prima rubens unda tabes ranae secunda'.

f. 74r: Excerpt from John of Salisbury, Policraticus: 'Vita animae deus est haec corporis, hac fugiente Solvitur hoc, perit haec, destituente Deo'.

f. 74r: A note on simony ('De simoniacis'), beginning: 'Hec duo dampna feres viciorum simonis'.

f. 74r: A poem entitled 'heres', beginning: 'Sacramentum regum francorum'.

f. 74r: A poem entitled 'de homine': 'Res ratione carens legi rationis obedit / Res rationalis procul a ratione recedit'.

f. 74r: A saying: 'Error principum trahitur in exemplum'.

f. 74r: A poem on the three marriages of St Anne: 'Ex Ioachim . Cleopha . Saloma . iii anna marias / quas habuit iunxit Joseph . alpheo . Zebedeo / Unius hec mater . hec iiior . illa duorum'.

f. 74r: A poem on the Hours of the Passion: 'In matutino dampnatur tempore Christi / Prima flagris cedit , adducit tercia morti / Sexta tegit solem . Sed nona videt morientem / Vespera deponit . ponit completa sepulcro'.

f. 74v: Liturgical instructions, headed: 'loco dedicationis ecclesiae Carnontensis [Chartres Cathedral, Feast of the Dedication, 17 October] ad vesperas', 'Ad matutinas invitatorium', and 'in laudibus Post partum virgo antiphona'.

Decoration:

Numerous small initials in green, red or blue, with penwork decoration in red or blue (f. 1r). Rubrics in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048847

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3016 : Hildebert of Lavardin, Epistolae and Sermones, Expositio super Missam, De querimonia et conflictu carnis et animae, and Vita…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3017]/040-002048847

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:

1150

End Date:

1199

Date Range:

2nd half of the 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 220 x 145 mm (text space: 170 x 100 mm, on ff. 67r-73v occasionally written in 2 columns).

Foliation: ff. i-iii + 74 + iv-vi (+ 1 transparent paper flyleaf and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated transparent flyleaf at the end); ff. i and vi are remains of a Harleian binding (described further below) that have been pasted on the inside covers; f. ii contains remains of a former spine on a white paper pastedown on the second unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning (f. [ii]recto); ff. iii, iv, v are blank parchment leaves at the beginning and end that originally served as flyleaves; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on the first paper flyleaf at the end (f. [75]verso), containing modern notes of examination. Multiple leaves are lost before f. 1: the extant quire marks (in the centre of the lower margin of the verso of the last leaf of the quire) are 'h' (f. 8v) 'i' (f. 19v), 'k' (f. 28v), 'l' (f. 38v), 'm' (f. 48v): Therefore 7 quires might be missing at the beginning of the manuscript.

Collation: Indicated by quire signatures (last versos); each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.

Script: Protogothic. Tironian ets, occasional ae-caudatas.

Binding: British Library in-house: red half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the outside covers. Rebound in 1974; remains of Harleian binding (gold-tooled red leather) pasted on the inside covers and on f. [i]recto (three spine fragments with gold-stamped inscriptions); traces of turn-ins of a previous binding on f. v verso.

Custodial History:

Origin:

France (? Chartres).

Provenance:

An unknown late 14th-century or 15th-century owner: their partially erased ownership inscription on f. 74v: 'Iste liber est [...] [? Anno] .1381. in [...] Juno circa festum nativitatis Johanis baptisti'.

Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 225).

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 ‘13 die mensis, A.D. 1724' (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), p. 725 [no. 3016].

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 304 n. 7.

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. 255.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Augustine of Hippo, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, 354-430,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121376443,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/66806872
Hildebert of Lavardin, Bishop of Le Mans, Archbishop of Tours, c 1056-1133/4,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000449360680,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/282035032
Salisbury, John of, Bishop of Chartres (1176-1180)

Places:

Chartres, France
France