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Harley MS 3232
- Record Id:
- 040-002049063
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049063
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000254
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3232
- Title:
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Commentary on the Mass; Speculum laicorum
- Scope & Content:
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A composite manuscript of two parts that were produced separately in England.
The first part (ff. 1r-9v) was written in the 2nd half of the 13th century.
The second part (ff. 10r-179v) was written in the 2nd half of the 15th century.
Contents:
Part 1:
f. 1r: An untitled tract on penance, beginning: 'Peccator debet habere contricionem cordis et dicere confessionem et satisfacere pro peccato'.
f. 1v: Quindecim signa ante judicium.
ff. 2r-9v: Commentary on the Mass, beginning: 'Magnum est pietatis sacramentum'
Part 2:
ff. 10r-179v: Speculum laicorum; in 92 chapters; preceded by a prologue and a table of chapters (ff. 10r-11r).
Decoration:
Part 1:
Miniature of Christ head in a roundel in colours, perhaps added (f. 1r). Penwork decoration in the lower margins. Initials and paraphs in red. Initials highlighted in red. Biblical sentences underlined in red. Part 2:
Initial with penwork decoration in red (f. 11r). Initials, rubrics and paraphs in red. Initials highlighted in red. Cadels in black highlighted in red in the upper and lower margins. Sentences and running titles underlined in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049063", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3232: Commentary on the Mass; Speculum laicorum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049063 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3232 : Commentary on the Mass; Speculum laicorum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3233]/040-002049063
- 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:
- 1250
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 13th century-2nd half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment (ff. 1-9); paper (ff. 10-179).
Dimensions: 285 x 210 mm (ff. 1-9); (215 x 130 mm, in 2 columns (ff. 1r-9v); 180/190 x 105/120 mm (ff. 10r-179v).
Foliation: ff. 179 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end).
Collation: Gatherings of 10, with quire signatures in the lower right corner of the rectos in the first half of the gatherings.; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Script: Gothic, written below top ruled line (ff. 1r-9v); Gothic cursive (ff. 10r-179v).
Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; the previous binding (18th-century 'Harleian' binding of blind-stamped and gold-tooled brown speckled leather, possibly attributable to Christopher Chapman) has been pasted on the inside covers; rebound on 13 April 1965.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
'Waryn' and 'De Rowsyng', 15th century: their names inscribed on f. 179v; possibly the names of the scribe and rubricator of the Speculum laicorum (see Herbert, Catalogue of Romances, III (1910), p. 412).
Unidentified Dominican friar, owned ff. 1-9 in the 15th century: their erased (?) 15th-century ownership inscription on f. 1r, partially legible with UV light: 'Tractatus de […] Iste q[ua]t[er]nus est f[r]a[t]r[i]s [...] ordinis fr[atru]m pr[edicatorum]'.
Adam Lakynheye, 16th-century: his name inscribed on f. 3r: 'Lakynheye Adam quondam'.
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. 11 (no. 3232).
Harry L. D. Ward and John A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), III (1910), ed. by John A. Herbert, p. 412.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England