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Harley MS 3150
- Record Id:
- 040-002048981
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048981
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0001f2
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3150
- Title:
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Gilbert of Hoyland, Sermones in Canticum Salomonis
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the Sermones in Canticum Salomonis (Sermons on the Song of Songs), a collection of sermons written by Gilbert of Hoyland (d. 1172), abbot of Swineshead Abbey, a Cistercian monastery in Lincolnshire. Gilbert wrote a total of 47 sermons on the biblical book, a continuation of a series begun by Bernard of Clairvaux (b. 1090, d. 1153) before his death. The text in this manuscript begins imperfectly in the middle of the seventh sermon, due to the loss of the first gathering.
Contents:
ff. 1r-61v: Gilbert of Hoyland, Sermones, imperfect, beginning in the middle of the seventh sermon.
f. 62r-v: Prayer to the Virgin Mary, attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux, beginning, 'Gloriosa dei genitrix perpetua virgo Maria Sanctitatis exemplum'.
Decoration:
Initials in red or blue with pen-flourished decoration (ff. 1r-30r, 62r). Paraphs in blue and red. Rubrics in light brown or purple.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048981", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3150: Gilbert of Hoyland, Sermones in Canticum Salomonis" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048981 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3150 : Gilbert of Hoyland, Sermones in Canticum Salomonis - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3151]/040-002048981
- 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:
- 1425
- End Date:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 305 x 210 mm (written space: 190 x 130 mm).
Foliation: ff. 62 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and the end).
Collation: Gatherings of 10, with horizontal catchword at the centre of the lower margin of the last verso of each gathering. Wanting the first gathering.
Script: Humanistic cursive, written above the top line.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of blind- and gilt-tooled mottled brown leather, attributable to Thomas Elliott; marbled endleaves.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy.
Provenance:
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Edward Harley on 13 September 1722 (f. 1r; see Diary (1966), p. 143 n. 10; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 162).
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 Septembris, 1722' (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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Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.
- 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), no. 3150.
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. 410).
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 143 n. 10.
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. 162, 423.
Marsha L. Dutton, 'The Works of Gilbert of Hoyland: Manuscripts and Printed Editions', Cistercian Studies Quarterly, 35 (2000), 161-85 (p. 182).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Elliott, Thomas, bookbinder, fl 1712-1763
Gibson, John, book-dealer, fl 1720-1726
Gilbert of Hoyland, Abbot of Swineshead Abbey, d 1172,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000081477484,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/67781845 - Places:
- Italy