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Harley MS 3148
- Record Id:
- 040-002048979
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048979
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0001f0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3148
- Title:
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Richard of Saint-Victor, Explanatio in cantica canticorum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-86r: Richard of Saint-Victor, Explanatio in cantica canticorum.
Decoration:
1 large (7-line) blue initial with decoration in pink, green and gold (f. 1r). Numerous smaller (3-4 line) plain initials in red, some with geometric motifs. Capitals highlighed in red. Rubrics, paraphs, underlining, and line-fillers in red. Cadels in brown ink extending from first and last lines into upper and lower margins, sometimes highlighted in red ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048979", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3148: Richard of Saint-Victor, Explanatio in cantica canticorum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048979 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3148 : Richard of Saint-Victor, Explanatio in cantica canticorum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3149]/040-002048979
- 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:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 310 x 220 mm (text space: 220 x 145 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 86 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 blank parchment leaf at the beginning + 2 unfoliated paper and 1 ruled parchment leaf at the end); 1 unfoliated paper strip with a 17th-century title inscription ('Rich. de S. Victore MS.') and 1 unfoliated paper pastedown (bibliographical notes) pasted on f. [iii]recto.
Collation: Indicated by horizontal catchwords.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Blind-stamped and gold-tooled mottled brown calf.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Western Germany (? Trier).
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of Santa Maria ad Martyres extra Muros, Trier: the script bears a strong resemblance to that of Harley MSS 3149 and 3152, which were owned by the monastery. Similar in style and handwriting to Harley MSS 3149 and 3152 and perhaps part of the same set of manuscripts (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 331-32).
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.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 6 [no. 3148].
Rudolf Goy and E. Hildegard Goy, Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke Richards von St. Viktor im Mittelalter, Bibliotheca Victorina, 18 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005), pp. 382-84.
J. M. W. Schellekens, 'Enkele Verkenningen rond Richard van St.-Victors 'Expositio in cantica canticorum' in het Middelnederlands naar aanleiding van recent ontdekte handschriftenfragmenten' (Unpublished dissertation, Katholieke Leergangen Tilburg, 1976).
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. 331-32.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Richard of Saint-Victor, Prior of the Augustinian abbey of St Victor, Paris, d 1173,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121448179,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/98148813 - Places:
- Trier, Germany
Western Germany