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Harley MS 3207
- Record Id:
- 040-002049038
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049038
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00023b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3207
- Title:
- William of Pagula, Oculus Sacerdotis; Arnold of Liège, Alphabetum narrationum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-14r: William of Pagula (d. 1332), Oculus Sacerdotis, beginning: 'Cum ecclesiae quibus preficistuntur [sic: preficiuntur] persone minus ydonee Sciencia moribus'; imperfect, ends abruptly on f. 14r, leaving f. 14v blank.
ff. 15r-248v: Arnold of Liège (fl. 1290-1310), Alphabetum narrationum, beginning: 'Antiquorum patrum exemplo didici nonnullos ad uirtutes fuisse inductos'; imperefect at the end; ending in the letter 'S'.
The manuscript contains a few later additions:
f. 1r: An ownership poem (see Custodial History); added in the 15th century.
f. 21v (lower margin): An inscription written upside down: 'Hec Indentura'; added in the 16th century.
f. 22r (lower margin): An inscription written upside down: 'Thys indenture made the'; added in the 16th century.
f. 37v (outer and lower margins): Inscriptions written vertically and upside down, including: 'Thys yndenture made the next yere after the […]'; added in the 16th century.
f. 249v: A partially erased copy of an indenture in Latin (see Custodial History).
Decoration:
Large (2- to 3-line) initials in blue with red penwork decoration and in red with purple penwork decoration. Small plain initials in blue or red. Paraphs in blue or red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049038", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3207: William of Pagula, Oculus Sacerdotis; Arnold of Liège, Alphabetum narrationum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049038 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3207 : William of Pagula, Oculus Sacerdotis; Arnold of Liège, Alphabetum narrationum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3208]/040-002049038
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 135 x 95 mm (text space: 110 x 75 mm).
Foliation: ff. 249 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); f. 249 consists of two separate detached parchment fragments, the upper and lower half originating from different leaves; 1 unfoliated paper strip inserted between f. 2 and f. 3, containing binding instructions ('Loci Communes Theologici Calf.').
Collation: Indicated catchwords on last versos; and leaf signatures indicated by red dots (ff. 26r-31r); and vertical lines (ff. 50r-54r).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Blind-stamped and gold-tooled brown speckled leather.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin:
England.
Provenance:
An unknown 15th-century owner: their ownership poem on f. 1r: 'Possidet hunc librum qui petit et velit esse / Celestis premij deo Juvante compos [? civis] ut sim et ego non nunquam precor et [? ipso'].
An unknown 15th-centry owner: perhaps their indenture copied on f. 249v: 'Pateat universis per praesentes quod ego [....] perpetuus vicarius ecclesie parochialis de [...] et Wellensis diocesis'.
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. 9.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Arnold of Liège, Dominican preacher, d c 1308, (Author)
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000357723261
William of Pagula, canon lawyer and theologian, d ? 1332, (Author)
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139689034 - Places:
- England