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Harley MS 3221

Record Id:

040-002049052

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049052

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000249

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3221

Title:

Servasanto da Faenza, Sermones Dominicales

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 4r-242v: Servasanto da Faenza, Sermones Dominicales [Sermones de Dominicis et Festivitatibus].

The manuscript contains various additions:

ff. 2r-2v: Table of sermons; added in the late 13th or early 14th century.

ff. 3r-3v, 127v-129v, 243r-246v: Theological notes, including a Middle English verse on f. 3v, beginning: 'Hwo þe wel bithoste'; added in the late 13th or early 14th century.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049052

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3221 : Servasanto da Faenza, Sermones Dominicales

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3222]/040-002049052

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1250

End Date:

1349

Date Range:

2nd half of the 13th century-1st half of the 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 180 x 130 mm (text space: 145 x 100 mm).

Foliation: ff. 246 (+ 1 unfoliated paper and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end); 2 unfoliated paper leaves after f. 1; 1 unfoliated parchment stub after f. 6 and f. 48.

Script: Gothic.

Collation: Indicated by catchwords.

Binding: British Museum in-house; blind-tooled and gold-stamped brown speckled leather.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Thomas Hendemann, Archdeacon of Exeter (1410-1417): his ownership inscription on f. 1v: 'Ex bonis magistri Thome Hendemann' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 186).

Samuel Knott (d. 1687), rector of Combe Raleigh, Devon (1661-1668), antiquary and collector of manuscripts: a note on the manuscript's contents in his hand on f. 1v(see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 211).

Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold by his widow on 17 May 1715 to Robert Harley, along with other manuscripts (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. 11 n. 6; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 87-88).

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 ‘17 Maij, A.D. 1715’ (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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 10.

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. 11 n. 6.

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. 87-88, 186, 211.

Siegfried Wenzel, Preachers, Poets, and the Early English Lyric (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986), p. 163 fn. 68.

Margaret Laing, Catalogue of Sources for a Linguistic Atlas of Early Medieval English (Cambridge: Brewer, 1993), p. 96.

Bert Roest, Franciscan Literature of Religious Instruction before the Council of Trent, Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 117 (Leiden: Brill, 2004), p. 37 fn. 98.

'Harl3221', in Siegfried Wenzel, Medieval Latin Sermons 1350-1500: A Finding List [accessed 17 November 2021].

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Servasanto de Faenza, Franciscan preacher, fl 13th century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000041881925X

Places:

England