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Harley MS 3117

Record Id:

040-002048948

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048948

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3117

Title:

Biblical commentaries

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-37v: Gilbert Universalis (d. 1134), Glossa ordinaria in Lamentationes (Ordinary Gloss on Lamentations), with prothemata (ff. 1r-2r), ending with an author attribution: ‘que de patrum fontibus hausi ego Gillebertus autisiodorensis ecclesie archidiaconus'. Imperfect, lacking several quires in the middle (book 1 chs. 9-14).

ff. 37v-45r: An anonymous commentary on the Song of Songs, beginning: ‘Canticum amoris admonet ut de amore’.

ff. 45r-48v: Geoffroy Babion (d. 1158), Sermo in adventu (Sermon on Advent), beginning: ‘Dicite pusillanimes confortamini’.

ff. 48v-51v: Another sermon on Advent, beginning ‘Hodie fratres celebramus adventum inicium’.

ff. 51v-53v: Excerpts from a gloss commentary on Proverbs 31:10 and 1:7.

f. 53v: Various short verses and prayers, in a contemporary hand.

Decoration:

1 large zoomorphic initial in brown ink (f. 48v).

Initials (2-3 lines) in red (ff. 1r, 2r, 37v, 38r, 40r, 44r, 45v, 47v, 48v, 49r), or light brown (ff. 39r, 40v, 41v, 42v, 43v, 45r, 46v, 49r, 49v, 50r), occasionally with a reserved line and pen-work decoration.

Paraph marks in brown ink, some with decoration, e.g., one with a lion as a pen-flourish (f. 49v), one with an animal head (f. 56v), several with pen-work decoration including foliate motifs (e.g., f. 26v), or an eye (e.g., f. 37r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048948

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3117 : Biblical commentaries

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3118]/040-002048948

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: 205 x 130 mm (160-170 x 110 mm, written mainly in 1 column, in 2 or 3 columns for the gloss commentaries).

Foliation: ff. 53 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end).

Script: Protogothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound in 1965; remains of the previous binding of gilt- and blind-tooled dark brown sprinkled leather pasted on the inside covers; quires mounted on separate paper supports.

Custodial History:

Origin:

France.

Provenance:

Jacques Poirier (fl. 17th century), of Amboise and Tours, France, physician and collector of manuscripts: previous owners (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 277).

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:

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 4, no. 3117.

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. 277.

Gilbertus Universalis: Glossa ordinaria in Lamentationes Ieremie prophete: prothemata et liber I: A Critical Edition with an Introduction and a Translation, ed. by Alexander Andrée, Studia Latina Stockholmiensia, 52 (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 2005), pp. 100-1, 160 [MS siglum ‘Bb’].

Cornelia Linde, 'Notandum duas hic litteras, phe et ain, ordine praeposteratas esse: Rupert of Deutz, Guibert of Nogent and the Glossa Ordinaria on the Incorrect Order of the Hebrew Alphabet', Archa Verbi, 7 (2010), 68–78 (p. 74).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Gilbert Universalis, Bishop of London, d 1134,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000050106592,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/73812270
Poirier, Jacques, of Amboise and Tours, physician and collector of manuscripts, fl 17th century

Places:

France