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Harley MS 3241
- Record Id:
- 040-002049072
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049072
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00026d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059347692.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3241
- Title:
- Peter Lombard, Sententiae
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the Sententiae (Sentences) of Peter Lombard (b. c. 1096, d. 1160), a systematic compilation of theological texts, that was extremely popular in the 12th and 13th centuries. The volume also contains the diagram of a tree of consanguinity, illustrating the relationships between family members.
Contents:
ff. 2r-156v: Peter Lombard: Sententiae, beginning: 'Multi unam substantiam patris et filii predicant'.
ff. 157r: A diagram of a tree of consanguinity.
[ff. 158v-162v are blank].
Decoration:
1 large initial in gold and silver, with penwork decoration in green, red, and blue, at the beginning of book 1 (f. 4v). Large initials in blue and/or red with penwork decoration in blue, red, and green, at the beginning of other books (ff. 45v, 83r, 113r). Large initials in red, blue or green, many with penwork decoration in another colour or colours. Small initials in red or blue. Rubrics in red. Added full-page diagram of a tree of consanguinity in brown ink (f. 157r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049072", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3241: Peter Lombard, Sententiae" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049072 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3241 : Peter Lombard, Sententiae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3242]/040-002049072
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059347692.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 285 x 200 mm (text space: 230 x 150 mm).
Foliation: ff. 163 + 1* (+ 3 paper flyleaves at the beginning and 5 at the end); ff. 1*-1 are medieval parchment flyleaves.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house; rebound in 1972.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
The Dominican Priory of Sudbury, Suffolk, founded in 1272: inscribed with its name in a 15th-century hand, 'de con[ven]tu fra[trum] Sudbur.' (f. 3r) (see Ker, Medieval Libraries (1964), p. 184).
? John Mannyng: his name inscribed in an early 16th-century hand on f. 1*v; this is the same 'John Mannyng' who owned a copy of the Ancrene Wisse, now Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 402 (his name inscribed in the same early 16th-century hand on f. 112v); perhaps also owned 15th-century book of hours Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Barlow 47; it contains an ownership inscription with his name, 'John Mannyng hys booke' (f. 150r), in an early 16th-century hand.
'Stephen Pott': his name inscribed in a 16th-century hand, 'master Hyllyard this book I doe give you to be at your one disposing your Loving friend Stephen Pott' (f. 163r).
'Master Hyllyard': owned in the 16th century (f. 163r).
Sir Henry Spelman (b. 1563/4, d. 1641), historian and antiquary: inscribed 'Henrici Spelmann Lib' (f. 2r).
John Covel (b. 1638, d. 1722), chaplain of the Levant Company at Constantinople 1670-1676: sold, together with Covel's other manuscripts, to Edward Harley for £300 on 27 February 1715/6 (The Diary, ed. C. Wright (1966), p. 211; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 113-14).
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.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-1812), III (1808), no. 3241.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by Neil R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 184.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, pp. xxxiv-xxxvi; II: 1723-1726, p. 211 n. 1.
Cyril E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 113-17.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.