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Harley MS 3156
- Record Id:
- 040-002048987
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048987
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0001f8
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3156
- Title:
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Nicholas of Lyra, Commentarius super quatuor Evangelia; Amicus (alphabetical sermon collection); two short sermons
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: A description of the manuscript’s contents (‘lyra super quatuor ewangelia et quedam alijs secundum ordinem alphabeti’).
ff. 2r-258r Nicholas of Lyra (b. c. 1270, d. 1349), Commentarius super quatuor Evangelia (Commentary on the Four Gospels).
ff. 259r-321r: A German collection of sermons organised according to the alphabet known as Amicus.
ff. 321v-322r: Alphabetical register for the Amicus collection.
ff. 323r-327v: Two short sermons.
The manuscript contains an addition:
f. 328r: A charter by a certain ‘henricus dudeßbach’ of a community of canon regulars, written in Middle German.
Decoration:
Initials in red throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048987", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3156: Nicholas of Lyra, Commentarius super quatuor Evangelia; Amicus (alphabetical sermon collection); two short sermons" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048987 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3156 : Nicholas of Lyra, Commentarius super quatuor Evangelia; Amicus (alphabetical sermon collection); two short sermons - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3157]/040-002048987
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- German, Middle High
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1459
- End Date:
- 1459
- Date Range:
- 1459
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 290 x 200mm.
Foliation: ff. 328 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); 3 unfoliated blank paper leaves between f. 258 and f. 259 (ff. [258a]-[258c]); 1 unfoliated blank paper strip between f. 324 and f. 325 (f. [324a]); f. 322 is a paper strip.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Harleian binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Germany.
Provenance:
A German scribe named ‘Jacobus prüm[...]’ around 1459: added a colophon with the year 1459 on f. 258r: ‘Expliciunt ewangelia Anno domini MoCCCColix ipso die pancracij etc.’; according to Watson, Dated and Datable Manuscripts (1979), p. 132 the rest of the manuscript is in the same hand and undated, but the second item also ends with a colophon with the year 1459 in which the scribe identifies himself: ‘Explicit amicus per me Jacobum prüm[...] Anno eius lix ipso die blasij martiris’.
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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Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 6.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I: The Text, p. 132 (no. 732); II: The Plates, pl. 595.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Lyra, Nicolaus, ord. Minorum, d 1340
- Places:
- Germany
- Related Material:
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Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 6.