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Harley MS 3073
- Record Id:
- 040-002048904
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048904
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00018f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056053092.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3073
- Title:
- Nicholas of Clairvaux, Sermons; Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons; Adnotationes Elucidatoriae in Quosdam Psalmos David; Two offices with responsory, lections and sequences
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript may be the presentation copy of the text given by Nicholas of Clairvaux to count Henry I of Champagne (d. 1181), according to Benton, 'Nicolas of Clairvaux and the Twelfth-Century Sequence' (1962), p. 163, n. 44. Nicholas of Clairvaux was appointed the head of the Benedictine priory of Montiémary, Saint-Jean-en-Châtel in 1160 by Henry I of Champagne. Nicholas of Clairvaux, who served the count of Champagne produced a volume containing sermons and offices which he dedicated to Henry I of Champagne. In the dedication letter, Nicolas of Clairvaux attributed to himself all the texts of the manuscript although only 19 sermons (ff. 4r-60v) and the offices (ff. 108r-140v) are by him (see Leclerq, 'Les collections de sermons de Nicolas de Clairvaux' (1956)).
Contents:
f. 3v: Nicholas of Clairvaux, Letter of dedication to count Henry I of Champagne, beginning: 'Singulari domino et benefactore suo Henrico, Trecensium comiti palatino'.
ff. 4r-60v: Nicholas of Clairvaux's sermons for the feast of St John the Baptist to the feast of St Stephen, beginning: 'Hodie, dilectissimi, dies illuxit insignis', ending with the sermon for the feast of St Stephen: 'Domine, ne statuas illis hoc peccatum, summe Deus qui es benedictus in secula'.
ff. 61r-66v: St Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons, beginning: 'Iustum deduxit Dominus per vias rectas [...]. Est iustus qui in principio sermonis accusator est sui'.
ff. 67r-98v: Adnotationes elucidatoriae in quosdam Psalmos David, attributed to Hugh of St Victor, beginning: 'Quosdam tibi psalmiste versiculos comes dulcissi prelibavi'. Chapters 60, 63, 70, 73-82 are lacking.
ff. 98v-100v: Anonymous, Sermon on the Psalm 85:10, beginning: 'Misericordia et veritas obviaverunt'.
ff. 100v-103v: Petrus Comestor's sermon beginning: 'Non vos me elegistis'.
ff. 104r-107r: St Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermon, beginning: 'In via estis fratres que ducit'.
ff. 108r-140v: Two offices with responsory, lections and sequences including musical notations for the responsory and sequences.
Decoration:
The decoration is similar to other manuscripts illuminated in Troyes and commissioned for Henry I of Champagne in the 1160s and 1170s, according to Stirnemann, Splendeurs de la Cour de Campagne (1999).
Initials in colour with foliate motifs, some large, some small. Large initials in red with blue penwork decoration or in blue with red penwork decoration (ff. 109-140). Small plain initials in red or blue. Rubrics in red. Cadels. Some initials are unfinished.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048904 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3073 : Nicholas of Clairvaux, Sermons; Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons; Adnotationes Elucidatoriae in Quosdam Psalmos David; Two offices… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3074]/040-002048904
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056053092.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 250 x 150 mm (text space: 185 x 115 mm).
Foliation: ff. 142 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 paginated paper flyleaf at the end).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather with gold tooling, including a central medallion, 1st half of the 18th century, gilt edges; vestiges of leather ties; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Troyes, Northeastern France.
Provenance:
Letter of dedication to Henry I, count of Champagne (d. 1181), by Nicolas of Clairvaux (f. 3v).
The Collegiale church of Saint-Etienne in Troyes: included in the 1319-1320 inventory made by Charles Lalore, no. 2305 (see discussion Stirnemann, Splendeurs de la Cour de Campagne (1999)).
Jean de Meenghen: inscribed, 15th-century 'Johannes de Meenghen natus de Bruxella Brabantigenus' (f. 142r).
Added 17th-century foliation and a summary of the 28 sermons (f. 280v), probably written at the request of Dom Bertrand Tissier, prior of Bonne-Fontaine in the diocese of Reims who prepared an edition of Nicolas of Clairvaux's sermons in 1660 (see Stirnemann, Splendeurs de la Cour de Campagne (1999)).
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; sold this manuscript to Harley on 13 August 1724 (see 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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley, '13 die Augusti, 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.
- Information About Copies:
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- 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. 3073.
C. H. Talbot, ‘A List of Cistercian Manuscripts in Great Britain’, Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought and Religion, 8 (1952), 402-18 (p. 413).
Jean Leclercq, 'Les collections de sermons de Nicolas de Clairvaux', Revue Bénédictine, 66 (1956), 269-302 (pp. 270-79, 300-02).
Jean Leclerq, Recueil d'études sur Saint Bernard et ses écrits, 4 vols (Rome: Edizioni di storia e Letteretura, 1962), I, pp. 47-82 (pp. 49, 80).
John F. Benton, 'Nicolas of Clairvaux and the Twelfth-Century Sequence, with Special Reference to Adam of St. Victor', Traditio, 18 (1962), 149-79 (pp. 151, 157, 164-73).
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.
Patricia Stirnemann, catalogue entry, in Spendeurs de la Cour de Champagne: au temps de Chrétien de Troyes, catalogue de l'exposition Troyes, Bibliothèque municipal, (Troyes: Champagne Historiaque, 1999), no. 25.
Patricia Stirnemann, ‘Reconstitution des bibliothèques en langue latine des comtes de Champagne’, in Le Moyen-âge à livres ouverts - Actes du colloque (Lyon, 24 et 25 septembre 2002) (Lyon: ARALD, 2003), pp. 37-45.
Theodore Evergates, Henry the Liberal: Count of Champagne, 1127-1181 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), pp. 94-96.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.