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Harley MS 3239

Record Id:

040-002049070

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049070

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00026b

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3239

Title:

Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologiae; commentaries on the Fourth Lateran Council; Bonaventure, Breviloquium pauperis; Gerard van Vliederhoven, Cordiale quatuor novissimorum

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-102v: Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg (here attributed to Thomas Aquinas), Compendium theologiae (Compendium theologicae veritatis).

ff. 103r-175v: Commentaries on the Fourth Lateran Council, beginning with Konrad von Soltau's Lectura super Firmiter credimus: 'Firmiter credimus et simpliciter confitemur quod unus solus est verus Deus eternus immensus et incommutabilis optimus et ineffabilis

ff. 176r-216v: Bonaventure, Breviloquium pauperis seu Compendium sacrae Scripturae.

ff. 217r-236v: Gerard van Vliederhoven, Cordiale quatuor novissimorum (untitled and previously unidentified), beginning: 'Memorare novissima tua et in eternum non peccabis'.

Decoration:

Historiated initial in colours and gold of the author with a full border with naturalistic columbines (f. 1r). Large initials in blue, some as with penwork decoration or puzzle initials in red and blue, with red and/or purple pen-flourishing, occasionally with a green wash (ff. 13v, 33v, 44v, 57r, 77v, 93r, 103r, 176r, 217r). Initial in colours and gold (f. 1r). Coloured initials in red or blue. 2 initials in brown with a touch of blue and red (ff. 163v, 169v). Paraphs in red or blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049070

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3239 : Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologiae; commentaries on the Fourth Lateran Council; Bonaventure, Breviloquium…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3240]/040-002049070

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1475

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

4th quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper; parchment (ff. 1, 237). The paper changes after f. 102. Two watermarks not fully visible, one of linked circles (see f. 2), the other one seemingly a tête de boeuf (see f. 103). Bookmarks of leather tinted in pink (ff. 57, 77, 93, 103, 110, 116, 138, 143, 150, 157, 170, 183, 189, 193, 200, 205, 212, 217, 221, 227, 231).

Dimensions: 290 x 190 mm (text space: 195 x 120 mm).

Foliation: ff. 237 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 at the end); 2 unfoliated paper stubs after f. 36; 1 unfoliated aper stub after f. 102; f. 72 is a half paper leaf that has been inserted with text written in a contemporary hand to provide text missing from f. 71v; f. 237 is a parchment flyleaf (former pastedown).

Collation: Indicated by leaf signatures and (horizontal) catchwords.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown mottled calf with gold fillets; title inscribed on the fore-edge.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Northern Netherlands.

Provenance:

Johannes Joseph, a monk at the Franciscan convent of Worcester, 15th century: his name ('Joseph') inscribed on f. 236v; and his ownership inscription on f. 237r: 'Liber Joh[ann]is Joseph ordi[ni]s mino[rum] co[n]ve[n]tus Wigor[n]ie' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 207).

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 11 (no. 3239).

Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 215.

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. 207, 360.

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
Gerard van Vliederhoven, Procurator of Augustinian canons at Utrecht, c 1340-1402
Hugh Ripelin of Strasbourg, Dominican theologian, c 1205-c 1270,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000061756304

Places:

Northern Netherlands