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Harley MS 3123

Record Id:

040-002048954

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048954

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0001d2

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3123

Title:

Innocent III, De missarum mysteriis; Pseudo-Hugh of Saint-Victor, Speculum de mysteriis ecclesiae

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-68v: Innocent III [Lotharius de Segnis] (b. 1160/61, d. 1216), De missarum mysteriis

f. 69v: A short tract on John 13:34: 'Mandatum novum do vobis diligatis invicem sicut dilexi vos'.

f. 70r: A theological note, beginning: 'peccatum originale est corruptio'.

ff. 71r-119v: Pseudo-Hugh of Saint-Victor (not attributed in this manuscript), Speculum de mysteriis ecclesiae.

Decoration:

Foliate motif in red in the lower margin (f. 74r). 1 large initial in blue with penwork decoration in red and green, possibly added (f. 1r). Smaller initials in red. Rubrics in red. Paraphs in red. Capitals marked in red. Unfinished initials drawn in plummet (ff. 3r-7r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048954

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3123 : Innocent III, De missarum mysteriis; Pseudo-Hugh of Saint-Victor, Speculum de mysteriis ecclesiae

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3124]/040-002048954

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:

1200

End Date:

1249

Date Range:

1st half of the 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 210 x 150 mm (text space: 160 x 100 mm).

Foliation: ff. 119 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end).

Script: Gothic, written above top line.

Binding: Post-1600. Mottled brown leather with blind-stamped and gold-tooled borders.

Custodial History:

Origin:

France.

Provenance:

The Dominican convent of St-Jacques (the Jacobins) in Rue St. Jacques, Paris, owned in the 13th century: its late 13th-century ownership inscription in the upper margin of f. 1r: 'Iste liber est de sancto jacobo par[isiensis]'; and its anathema (book curse) in the lower margin: 'Iste liber est de sancto Jacobo parisiensis . quicumque alienaverit vel titulum istum deleverit anathema sit' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 266).

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 to Harley on 13 August 1724 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 304 n. 7; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 254-55).

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 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.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 4 [no. 3123].

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), pp. 254-55, 266.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Innocent III, Pope, 1160/61-1216,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122769169,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/16017787

Places:

France