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Harley MS 3218
- Record Id:
- 040-002049049
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049049
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000246
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3218
- Title:
- Jacobus de Voragine, Sermones dominicales
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-145v: Jacobus de Voragine, Sermones dominicales, beginning: 'Preparare in occursum dei tui israel. Amos. IIIIo. Quando rex vel alius princeps maxime dignitatis ad civitatem aliquam est venturus'.
The manuscript contains an addition:
f. [1a]: Note for the binder on a piece of paper inscribed with the title to appear on the spine, with the annotation 'calf' designating the type of leather to be used for the binding; written in the (?) 17th century.
Decoration:
Initial in blue with red and blue pen-flourishing (f. 1r). Smaller (2-line) initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in both colours. Paraphs in red or blue. Capitals marked in red. Underlining in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049049", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3218: Jacobus de Voragine, Sermones dominicales" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049049 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3218 : Jacobus de Voragine, Sermones dominicales - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3219]/040-002049049
- 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:
- 1350
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 170 x 115 mm (text space: 130 x 80 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 145 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper fragment between f. 1 and f.. 2 (f. [1a]); elaborate stitching and embroidery in green, red, yellow and pink thread (often used in combinations) to mend holes in the parchment on ff. 2, 3, 6, 9, 12, 14, 17, 19, 23, 43, 44, 48, 51, 56, 59, 67, 72, 89, 90, 96, 98, 106, 107, 108, 112, 114, 116, 119, 121, 122, 126, 135, 137.
Collation: Indicated by horizontal catchwords on last versos.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown mottled calf with gold fillets and blind tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
? South-Western Germany or Switzerland
Provenance:
The decorative embroidery from silk thread in different colours that features in the holes and tears in the parchment is typical for monasteries in South-Western Germany and Switzerland (see Sciacca, 'Stitches, Sutures and Seams' (2010), p. 58).
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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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 10.
Christine Sciacca, 'Stitches, Sutures, and Seams: "Embroidered" Parchment Repairs in Medieval Manuscripts', in Medieval Clothing and Textiles, 6, ed. by Robin Netherton and Gale R. Owen-Crocker (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2006), pp. 57-92 (p. 58) [without this manuscript].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Jacobus de Voragine, chronicler and archbishop of Genoa, c 1230-1298
- Places:
- Southwestern Germany
Switzerland