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Harley MS 3183

Record Id:

040-002049014

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049014

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3183

Title:

Devotional manual in Old Provençal

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-14r: A confession formulary including detailed lists of vices and virtues, with a section for each of the Seven Deadly Sins and its subcategories, mortal sins, Cardinal and Theological Virtues, the Sacraments, Articles of Faith, sins against the Holy Spirit, sins of the tongue, the Seven Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy, Eternal Sins, Beatitudes, Twelve Fruits of the Holy Spirit.

ff. 14r-47v: Ars moriendi treatise (‘Tractat del ben morir’), with sections on temptations of the Devil and means to counter the temptations, attributed to the angels.

ff. 48r-53v: A collection of prayers, including prayers to the Trinity, the Holy Spirit, God, and Christ, the Lord’s Prayer, the Hail Mary, Apostolic Creed, Hymn of the Angels (‘Gloria in excelsis Deo’).

ff. 53v-59r: A litany for Pierre de Luxembourg (b. 1367, d. 1389).

ff. 59r-64r: Prayers to God.

ff. 60r-64r: Verses of St Bernard of Clairvaux.

ff. 64r-66v: Prayers recited by St Onophrius.

ff. 66v-69r: Three prayers of the Virgin Mary.

ff. 69r-69v: The heavenly letter of Pope Leo III to Charlemagne (with an introductory rubric).

ff. 69v-85v: Fifteen prayers on the Passion, preceded by an introductory rubric in which Christ reveals to a hermit the number of the wounds (6666) that he endured in the Passion, and instruction to venerate each wounds with a Paternoster and Ave Maria, and the spiritual rewards that are attached to this devotion.

ff. 88r-88r: A prayer for benefactors (‘oratio per los benfactors’).

ff. 88r-91v: A prayer attributed to Thomas Aquinas for Mass.

ff. 91v-99r: Four prayers for knowledge (‘scientia’), attributed to Thomas Aquinas.

ff. 99r-101r: A sequence of prayers for knowledge that St Paul would have ordered guided by the Holy Spirit in his conversion.

ff. 101r-103r: Prayers to the Nine Choirs of Angels.

ff. 103v-114v: A sequence of five prayers, referred to as ‘sequens figuras’.

ff. 114v-117v: A prayer for knowledge, attributed to St Augustine.

ff. 117v-122v: A prayer inscribed in a stone in Rome in the Church of St John Lateran.

ff. 122v-124r: The Mass of St Gregory (version with 3 prayers).

ff. 124r-129v: A prayer to the Virgin Mary with an indulgence attributed to Pope Boniface IV.

ff. 130r-133r: A prayer to the Virgin Mary.

ff. 133r-134r: A prayer related to a miracle in Rome in the year 1200, involving the confession of seven murderers.

ff. 134r-140r: Prayers to the Fifteen Joys of the Virgin Mary attributed to a vision of Thomas Aquinas.

ff. 140r-143r: A sequence of prayers attributed to St Bernard

ff. 143r-147v: Bede, prayers on the Seven Last Words of Christ

ff. 147v-148v: A prayer to Christ with an indulgence by Pope Alexander.

ff. 148v-153r: Quicumque vult (‘Lo psalme quicumque vult salvus esse’).

ff. 153r-159v: Prayers to God.

ff. 159v-166r: A prayer guaranteeing remission of sins and protection.

ff. 166r-173r: A prayer against tribulations to be read for thirty days.

ff. 173r-175v: Prayers to the Virgin Mary and God.

ff. 175v-178v: Oration contra Tempestat et mort subitana.

ff. 178v-181r: A prayer attributed to St Anselm.

ff. 181r-190r: A prayer written in an altar of St Peter in Rome, and attributed by Pope John XII; followed by an antiphon.

ff. 190r-191r: A prayer taught by the Virgin Mary.

ff. 191r-192r: A prayer to the measure and length of Christ.

ff. 192r-195v: A prayer to the length of Christ, referring to a spindle (‘Mesura de fus figuranda’), which, when extended twenty times, represents the measure of the body of Christ.

ff. 195v-205r: Prayers for protection in tribulations and while travelling.

ff. 205r-209r: A prayer for protection used by ‘Count Sigismund’ (‘conte sigismundo’); followed by other unspecified prayers.

ff. 208r-209r: A prayer to St Restitutus, bishop and confessor.

ff. 209r-210v: A prayer to St Susanna.

ff. 210v-212r: A prayer to St Francis.

Decoration:

3 full-page miniatures in colours, symbolizing the Deadly Sins of Despair, Pride, and Avarice (ff. 24v, 36r, 40r). 12 large initials in gold on blue or red grounds (ff. 1r, 14r, 60v, 71v, 88r, 99r, 118r, 124v, 154r, 161r, 166v 181v). Numerous smaller initials in gold on blue or red grounds. 21 blue initials on red grounds (ff. 47, 188v, 190, 191, 193, 195v, 198v, 200v, 201v, 202v, 203v, 204, 205v, 206, 206v, 207, 207v, 208v, 209, 210, 211). Line fillers in red and blue and gold. Rubrics and various texts in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049014

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3183 : Devotional manual in Old Provençal

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3184]/040-002049014

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

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Languages:

Provençal, Old

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1500

End Date:

1524

Date Range:

1st quarter of the 16th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 150 x 110 mm (95 mm x 65 mm).

Foliation: ff. 212 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house. Brown leather with gold tooling; gilt fore-edge.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Southern France (Périgord).

Provenance:

Pierre Jardin: inscription recording his gift of the manuscript to Jean Lacombe on 18 July 1660 (f. 212v).

Jean Lacombe, 17th century: his ownership inscriptions on ff. 103v and 212v.

Anthoine Lacombe, 17th century: ownership inscription (ff. 127v-128); perhaps also inscribed ‘Lacombe’ on ff. 11v-12r, 62v, 176r, 211v-212r.

? ‘Gontard’, 17th century: their (?) name inscribed on f. 66r.

Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer in London; his sale, 20 February 1720/21, lot 12, bought for Edward Harley through Nathaniel Noel.

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 ‘23 Februarij 1720/21'(f. [iv]recto).

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. 8

Clovis Brunel, Bibliographie des manuscrits littéraires en ancien provençal, Société de publications romanes et françaises, 13 (Paris: Librairie E. Droz, 1935), p. 7 [no. 19].

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. 89 n. 13.

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. 62, 424.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

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Not Public Record(s)