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Harley MS 3173

Record Id:

040-002049004

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049004

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000209

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3173

Title:

Remigius of Auxerre, Expositio Missae; Bernard of Clairvaux, Apologia erga monachos Cluniacensis; De sacramentis

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 2v-24r: Remigius of Auxerre, Expositio Missae.

f. 24r: A tract on the Dispersion of the Apostles, beginning: 'Petrus namque accipit romam, Andreas Achiam, Jacobus Ispaniam'

ff. 24r-24v: A tract on three Marys, beginning: 'Tres sorores fuerunt Maria mater domini, maria mater iacobi alfei et iosep et maria mater filiorum zebedei scilicet maioris iacobi et iohannis evangeliste'.

ff. 24v-37r: Bernard of Clairvaux, Apologia erga monachos Cluniacensis ('Apologica ad Villelmum abbatem').

ff. 37r-55r De sacramentis, beginning: 'Magnitudo celestium beneficiorum angustias humane mentis excedit'.

ff. 55v-56r: A tract on finger-counting, beginning: '[C]entesimus, sexagesimus, tricesimus fructus quamquam de una semente nascatur differt tamen'.

The manuscript contains various additions:

f. 1*recto, 62r: Fragment of a letter in English, beginning: 'Right deare and welbeloved Mother'; written in the 17t or early 18th century.

ff. 1r-1v: A fragment of a work by Laurentius de Aquilegia, with the explicit: 'Et sic finitur liber [? S[al]utandi or Dictandi] Magistri Laurencij de Aquileia'; copied in the 15th century.

f. 56v: An inscription: 'Iuvenis cum virgine me studiat superne ... loquitur liber iste'; added in the 15th or 16th century.

ff. 57r-57v, 60r-60v: A bifolium with legal texts in Latin and Anglo-Norman) beginning with a fragment of the Charter of the Forest of 1225: 'In primis omnes foreste quas H[enricus] rex avus noster afforestavit videantur per bonos et legales homines'; written in the 14th century.

ff. 58r-59v: Previously unidentified fragment of a Life of Thomas Becket, including a fragmentary letter by Pope Alexander to the bishops of London, Salisbury, Exeter, Chester, Rochester, St Asaph, and Llandaf and ending with a letter by Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, to Pope Alexander, perhaps originally part of the second book of the Vita et Miracula Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis by William, monk of Canterbury; written in the late 12th century.

f. 61r: Unidentified Latin document, referring to 'our father pastor and abbot William' (pater noster pastor et abbas Willemus'); written in the 15th century.

Decoration:

Large initials in red, many now oxidized, some with foliate designs. Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049004

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3173 : Remigius of Auxerre, Expositio Missae; Bernard of Clairvaux, Apologia erga monachos Cluniacensis; De sacramentis

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3174]/040-002049004

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: 180 x 120 mm (text space: 155 x 90 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 62 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); f. 1* and f. 62 are paper leaves and f. 1 and f. 2 are parchment leaves that previously served as flyleaves; f. 18 is an added parchment fragment.

Collation: Each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.

Script: Protogothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; rebound on 8 July 1968.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England

Provenance:

The Cistercian abbey of Fountains, founded in 1132: their ownership inscription on f. 2r: 'liber sancti Marie de fontibus' and press-mark 'Th. E. 10' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 156).

Henry Savile, of Banke (b. 1568 d. 1617), collector of manuscripts: his name inscribed in shorthand on f. 2v; and recorded as no. 150 in his library catalogue (see Watson, The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke (1969), p. 47; and Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 298).

'G. C.', 17th century: their initials inscribed on f. 1v and f. 2r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 158).

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 7 (no. 3173).

Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by Neil R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 89.

Andrew G. Watson, The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke (London: The Bibliographical Society, 1969), p. 47 (no. 150).

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. 156, 158, 298.

Anne Lawrence, ‘English Cistercian Manuscripts of the Twelfth Century’, in Cistercian Art and Architecture in the British Isles, ed. by Christopher Norton and David Park (Cambridge: University Press, 1986), pp. 284-98 (p. 295).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbot of Clairvaux, ?1090-1153,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120962264,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/59875293
Remigius of Auxerre, 841-908,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000117020049,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/121885360

Places:

England