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Harley MS 3098
- Record Id:
- 040-002048929
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048929
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0001b8
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100062421264.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3098
- Title:
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Liber Pancrisis
- Scope & Content:
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This 12th-century manuscript contains the oldest of three existing copies of the Liber Pancrisis (The All-Golden Book) (the other manuscripts are Avranches, Bibliothèque Municipale, 19 and Troyes, Médiathèque du Grand Troyes (olim Bibliothèque Municipale), Fonds ancien 425). This is an anthology of texts of the Church Fathers and 12th-century theologians illustrating the teachings of the theological school of Laon.
Contents:
ff. 1r-91v: Liber Pancrisis.
[ff. 1*r, 1*v are empty].
Decoration:
1 large initial in blue with penwork decoration in the same colour including foliate motifs (f. 1r). Numerous smaller coloured initials in red, blue or green, occasionally with penwork decoration in the same colour or with reserved lines. Line-fillers in red. Capitals marked in red. Rubrics in red. Quire marks.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048929", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3098: Liber Pancrisis" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048929 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3098 : Liber Pancrisis - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3099]/040-002048929
- 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_100062421264.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1160
- End Date:
- 1170
- Date Range:
- 1160-1170
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 280 x 185 mm (text space: 200 x 115 mm).
Foliation: ff. i* + 91 (+ 3 paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. 1* is an original parchment leaf; 1 parchment stub after f. 91.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1965.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France.
Provenance:
An unknown 14th-century owner: inscribed with the note 'panerisis totus aureus ley. a.' and 'lib[er] bonis co[n]tine[n]s p[rin]cipuas auctho[r]itates s[an]c[t]o[rum]' in a 14th-century hand on 2 pieces of parchment pasted on f. 1*r.
The Carthusian monastery of Rettel-lès-Sierck, also called Rutila, France: its ownership mark in a 15th-century hand: 'Iste liber e[st] dom[us] s[an]c[t]i Sixti in Rutila ordi[nis] carthus[iensis] ...' preceded by a pressmark 'B xxviii' (f. 1*v) and the inscription 'Iste liber est fr[atru]m carthusiensiu[m] in Rutila p[ro]pe Sirck' (f. 1r).
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.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- 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), p. 735 (no. 3098).
Odon Lottin, 'Pour une édition critique du «Liber Pancrisis»', Recherches de Théologie Ancienne et Médiévale, 13 (1946), 185-201.
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. 284-85.
Richard W. Southern, Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe, 2 vols(Oxford: Blackwell, 1995, 2001), II: The Heroic Age, p. 53.
Cédric Giraud and Constant J. Mews, 'Le Liber Pancrisis, un Florilège des Pères et des Maîtres Modernes du XIIe Siècle', Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevi - Bulletin du Cange, 64 (2006), 145-91 (pp. 145, 147).
Philip L. Reynolds, How Marriage Became One of the Sacraments (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), p. 293.
- 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.