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Harley MS 3216
- Record Id:
- 040-002049047
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049047
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000244
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3216
- Title:
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Thomas à Kempis, De imitatione Christi; Libellus excerptorum et diversis operibus divi Hieronymi; Bonaventure, De triplici via
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-4r: Capitula for Thomas à Kempis, De imitatione Christi.
ff. 5r-106v: Thomas à Kempis, De imitatione Christi.
ff. 108r-108v: Capitula for the Libellus excerptorum et diversis operibus divi Hieronymi.
ff. 109v-179v: Libellus excerptorum et diversis operibus divi Hieronymi.
ff. 180r-199v: Bonaventure, De triplici via.
Decoration:
Large historiated initial in colours and gold of the Resurrected Christ (f. 5r). Initial in gold on grounds of blue, red and black (f. 37r). Initials in gold with blue, and sometimes gold or red, penwork decoration. Rubrics in gold, red, or blue. Paraphs in blue.From f. 108, initials in red with blue penwork decoration, or in blue with red penwork decoration. Large initial in blue with green and red penwork decoration forming a partial border (f. 180r). From f. 180, initials in red or blue. Rubrics in red.
Added miniatures in colours and gold pasted in from another manuscript: of a priest administering the Eucharist (f. 86v); of Jerome and the lion, at the beginning of excerpts from his works (f. 107v); and an historiated initial in colours and gold of Christ showing his wounds [Man of Sorrows] (f. 179v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049047", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3216: Thomas à Kempis, De imitatione Christi; Libellus excerptorum et diversis operibus divi Hieronymi; Bonaventure, De triplici via" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049047 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3216 : Thomas à Kempis, De imitatione Christi; Libellus excerptorum et diversis operibus divi Hieronymi; Bonaventure, De triplici via - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3217]/040-002049047
- 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:
- 1454
- End Date:
- 1454
- Date Range:
- 1454
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 170 x 120 mm (text space: 120 x 70 mm).
Foliation: ff. 199 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 3 unfoliated parchment leaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves and 1 unfoliated paper flyleafat the end); 1 unfoliated parchment leaf after f. 4; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [ii]recto (bibliographical notes).
Collation: Indicated by horizontal catchwords.
Script: Humanistic; written by several scribes, one of whom wrote the lists of capitula (ff. 1-4) and the text on ff. 5-106; several others wrote ff. 107-199 (see Watson, Catalogue (1979), no. 737).
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers; gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy.
Provenance:
Written in 1454: inscribed on f. 106v: 'Laus honor et gloria Deo nostro in secula seculorum. Amen. Completum xxjo decembris 1454'.
Johannes Pastritius (fl. c. 1700), born at Split, Dalmatia, author of litugical works, reader in theology in the Collegium de Propaganda Fide, Rome: his gift, according to an inscription on f. [iv]recto: 'Ex Dono D. Joannis Pastritij' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 269-70).
John Wright, librarian to George Henry Hay, 7th Earl of Kinnoull and husband of Abigail, youngest daughter of Robert Harley: sold by him to Harley on 24 June 1723 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 418, no. 13; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 363).
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 ‘24 die Junij, A.D. 1723’. (f. [iii]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:
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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. 3216.
Pierre Edouard Puyol, Descriptions bibliographiques des manuscrits et des principales editions du livre 'De Imitatione Christi'(Paris: Victor Retaux, 1898), p. 119.
Tiburzio Lupo, Validità della tesi Gerseniana sull' autore della 'Imitazione di Christo', Biblioteca del Salesianum, 59 (Turin: Società Editrice Internazionale, 1960), p. 19.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 418, no. 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. 269-70, 363.
Cyril Ernest Wright, 'Manuscripts of Italian Provenance in the Harleian Collection in the British Museum: Their Sources, Associations and Channels of Acquisition', in Cultural Aspects of the Italian Renaissance. Essays in Honour of Paul Oskar Kristeller, ed. by C. H. Clough (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1976), pp. 462-84 (p. 472).
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), no. 737.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Bonaventure, Saint, born Giovanni di Fidanza; scholastic theologian, 1221-1274,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000045724994X
Jerome, Saint, c 345-420,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123213293,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95147024
Kempis, Thomas à, mystic and writer, c 1380-1471 - Places:
- Italy