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Harley MS 3222

Record Id:

040-002049053

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049053

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00024a

LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3222

Title:

De Gallo super Ecclesiam posito; Epistola de monachorum officiis; Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum; and other theological texts

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-16v: De Gallo super Ecclesiam posito, beginning: 'Cum multa et diversa sint avium genera quadam naturali pulcritudine'.

ff. 17r-42r: Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum, chapters 1-68, extracts

ff. 42v-44r: Untitled letter ('Epistola de monachorum officiis'), beginning: 'Primum omnium caritatem vestram admoneo ne me amplius velut sapientem sed ut qualemcumque alloquatur hominem'.

ff. 44v-45v: A tract entitled 'Vox Sponse', beginning: 'Anima mea liquefacta est'.

f. 45v: A tract entitled 'De Canticis', beginning: 'Sicut lilum inter spinas'.

ff. 45v-46v: A tract entitled 'De Canticis', beginning: 'Levi eius sub acapite meo'.

ff. 46v-56v: A tract entitled 'De Trinitate', beginning: 'Presenti lectione percipimus'.

ff. 57r-63r: Eucherius of Lyon, Formulae spiritualis intelligentiae, here entitled: 'sentencia sancti ieronimi de essentia divinitatis dei et de invisibilitate atque immensitate eius in octavis sancte Trinitatis', beginning: 'omnipotens deus pater et filius et spiritus sanctus unus atque trinus unus videlicet extat in natura trinus in personis'.

f. 63v: Marbod of Rennes, Poem on the Ten Plagues of Egypt, entitled: 'De decem plagis Egypti', beginning: 'Prima plaga eypti limphas in sanguine vertit'.

ff. 63v-64r: Poem on the Heavenly Bread (De [...] fractionibus celestis Panis'), beginning: 'Ecclesie partes credunt tres esse fideles'.

f. 64v: A Greek alphabet; with the letters' names written above them.

f. 64r: Tract on the Three Marys, beginning: 'Tres sorores fuisse legitur maria mater domini et maria mater iacobi et mater filororum zebedei'.

ff. 65r-70v: Theological tracts, beginning: '[N]isi signum ione. Ostendit ideuos ad instar Ninivitarum criminosos et nisi peniteant subversioni proximos'.

ff. 70v-76v: Short excerpts, entitled: 'Anbrosius in Exameron', beginning: 'Ornando enim polo celi germinaturis terris pulchre spiritus superferebatur'.

ff. 77r-80r: Guitmund, Bishop of Aversa, Confessio de Sancta Trinitate, excerpt, beginning: 'Credo sacrosancte divinitatis eternam unitatem. Credo in eadem unitate coeternam trinitatem. Creator etenim omnium est deus'.

ff. 80r-89v Short theological tracts and notes (including later additions).

ff. 89r-90v: Prologue to Arnulf's Delicie cleri, entitled 'Argumentum subsequentis opusculi', beginning: Versificator iste merovingus fertur fuisse et sicuti posterioribus pandit cucullatus veraciter fuit. Iste subdialogo componens istum libellum nonnulla Salomonis perscrutando librorum aliquot adactis e[x] quorundam actoritate [sic] doctorum strictim excepsit [sic] pulcherrima proverbiorum'.

ff. 90v-106v: Arnulf (here attributed to Merovingus), Delicie cleri ('liber qui vocatur cleri delicie').

The manuscript contains a later addition:

ff. 107v-108r: Middle French text, beginning: 'Item quele dit (?) Grenier en se deffence'; written in the (?) 15th century.

Decoration:

Large initial in colours with interlace decoration and a bird (f. 1r). Large initials in oxidised red with penwork decoration in green (f. 17r) and in red (f. 89r). Initials in oxidised red or in green, with the occasional foliate or penwork decoration in green. Rubrics in oxidised red or in ink highlighted in green (ff. 72-76). Initials highlighted in green (ff. 46v-47v) or red (ff. 63v-64r, 83r-85v). Marginal diagrams in red and green (ff. 96v, 106r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049053

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3222 : De Gallo super Ecclesiam posito; Epistola de monachorum officiis; Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum; and other theological texts

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3223]/040-002049053

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:

1125

End Date:

1149

Date Range:

2nd quarter of the 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 175 x 100 mm (text space: 130/150 x 60/80 mm).

Foliation: ff. 108 (+ 3 unfoliated early modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); ff. 107-108 are parchment leaves that originally served as flyleaves.

Script: Protogothic; written by several scribes.

Binding: Post-1600: 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather attributable to Thomas Elliott; marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England or France.

Provenance:

Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie: purchased by Edward Harley on 13 August 1724 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 304, n. 7; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 255).

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, ‘13 Augusti, A.D. 1724’ (f. 1r).

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 (no. 3222).

Henri-Marie Rochais, 'Les manuscrits du Liber scintillarum', Scriptorium, 4 (1950), 294-309 (p. 300 [no. 94]).

Henri-Marie Rochais, 'Textes anciens sur la discipline monastique', Revue Mabillon, 43 (1953), 41-47 (p. 43).

Henri-Marie Rochais, 'Defensoriana: Archéologie du Liber scintillarum', Sacris erudiri: Jaarboek voor Godsdienstwetenschappen, 9 (1957), 198-264 (p. 216 [no. 107]).

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 304, n. 7.

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. 255, 424.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Places:

England
France