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Harley MS 3244

Record Id:

040-002049075

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049075

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000270

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3244

Title:

Theological miscellany

Scope & Content:

The manuscript contains:

f. 1v: Table of contents.

ff. 2r-18v: Honorius Augustodunensis, Elucidarius.

ff. 19r-26v: Alain de Lille, Liber Penitentialis, appended with 'De confessione' (f. 26r) and Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo de diversis (ff. 26r-26v).

ff. 27r-33v: Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis (extract).

ff. 33v-35v: Alan of Lille (?), De sex alis cherubim; the earliest manuscript attributions of this text are to Clement of Llanthony (prior of Llanthony and theologian) (see Carruthers, 'Ars oblivionalis, ars inveniendi' (2009), p. 5).

ff. 36r-71v: Bestiary.

ff. 72r-86r: Collection of exempla.

ff. 87r-121r: Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis (imperfect).

ff. 121r-128r: Pseudo-Bernard, Tractatus sive meditatio Bernardi de interiori homine.

ff. 129r-138r: 'Expositiones nominum Bibliotece'.

ff. 138r-145r: Robert Grosseteste, Templum Domini.

ff. 146r-185r: Richard Wetheringsett, Summa Qui bene praesunt (or Summa de doctrina sacerdotali).

ff. 185v-186r: Two texts, on spiritual virtues, and on consciousness, attributed here to Bernard of Clairvaux.

ff. 186r-190r: Richard of Thetford, Ars dilatandi sermones.

Decoration:

A set of four full-page miniatures in colours (tinted drawing) (ff. 27r, 27v, 28r, 28v).

Smaller miniatures (tinted drawing) on every page illustrating the bestiary (ff. 36r-67v).

Large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing.

Small initials in brown or red. Rubrics in red.

Paraphs in blue or red, some with penwork decoration.

Decorated nota marks, some with a face or animal head (ff. 108v, 118v).

Guide letters for rubricator.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Harley Science Project

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049075

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3244 : Theological miscellany

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3245]/040-002049075

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

192 folios.

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1236

End Date:

1255

Date Range:

1236-c 1250

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment codex.

Dimensions: 280 x 165 mm (text space: 200 x 105/110 mm).

Foliation: ff. iv + 192 + iii (all unfoliated flyleaves are modern paper leaves; f. 192 is a parchment flyleaf).

Layout: written below top line; in two columns (except ff. 129r-145r).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600 green leather binding with gold tooling, gilt edges and marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin: England. Written after c. 1236 (the date of the composition of Willelmus Peraldus's Summa de vitiis et virtutibus).

Provenance:

Produced under Dominican patronage: an image of a Dominican friar praying to Christ (f. 27r).

Added list of contents, late 15th/early16th-century (f. 1v).

Richard Edwards: 17th-century inscription 'Rich Edwards' (f. 1r).

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, née Cavendish 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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 3244.

A Selection of Latin Stories from Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries; A Contribution to the History of Fiction during the Middle Ages, ed. by Thomas Wright, Percy Society Publications, 8 (London: Percy Society, 1842), p. 112 [for transcription of some texts].

Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 6.

H.L.D. Ward and J.A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), III, J.A. Herbert, pp. 457-63.

M.R. James, The Bestiary: Being a Reproduction in full of the Manuscript Ii.4.26 in the University Library, Cambridge (Oxford: Roxburghe Club, 1928), p. 17, no. 22.

C.H. Talbot, ‘A List of Cistercian Manuscripts in Great Britain’, Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought and Religion, 8 (1952), 402-18 (p. 405).

M.-T. d'Alverny, 'Alain de Lille: problèmes d'attribution', in Alain de Lille, Gautier de Châtillon, Jakemart Giélée. Actes du colloque de Lille, ed. by Henri Roussel and François Suard (Lille: Presses universitaires de Lille, 1980), pp. 27-46 [on the text De sex alis cherubim].

Michael Evans, 'An Illustrated Fragment of Peraldus's Summa of Vice: Harleian MS 3244', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 45 (1982), 32-55.

Nigel Morgan, Early Gothic Manuscripts, 2 vols, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 4 (London Harvey Miller, 1982-1988), I: 1190-1250, no. 80, figs 26-27.

The Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagent England 1200-1400, ed. by Jonathan Alexander and Paul Binski (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1987), no. 150 [exhibition catalogue].

Two East Anglian Picture Books: A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms. Ashmole 1504, ed. by Nicholas Barker (London: The Roxburghe Club, 1988), p. 5.

Kathleen Scott, ‘Caveat Lector: Ownership and Standardization in the Illustration of Fifteenth-Century English Manuscripts’, in English Manuscript Studies, 1, ed. by Peter Beal and Jeremy Griffiths (London: British Library, 1989), 19-63 (p. 60 n. 57).

Anne Payne, Medieval Beasts (London: British Library, 1990), p. 15.

Dora Faraci, Il bestiario medio inglese (Ms Arundel 292 della British Library) (Rome: Japadre, 1990), p. 258, pl. 5.

Debra Hassig, Medieval Bestiaries: Text, Image, Ideology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 3, 9, 11-12, 55-56, 88-91, 149, figs 89, 140.

Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 6, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 1996), II, pp. 195, 353.

Ron Baxter, Bestiaries and Their Users in the Middle Ages (Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1998), pp. 141, 147, 156, 189-190.

The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come, ed. by Frances Carey (London: British Museum, 1999), no. 8 [exhibition catalogue].

Susanne Rischpler, Biblia Sacra figuris expressa: Mnemotechnische Bilderbibeln des 15. Jahrhunderts, Wissensliteratur im Mittelalter, 36, ed. by Horst Brunner and others (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2001), p. 45 n. 16.

Alixe Bovey, Monsters and Grotesques in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2002), p. 23, pl. 18.

Paul Binski, Becket’s Crown: Art and Imagination in Gothic England 1170-1300 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004), pl. 147.

Elizabeth Morrison, Beasts: Factual & Fantastic (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007), p. 92.

The Medieval Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages, ed. by David Badke, http://bestiary.ca/manuscripts/manulocshelf.htm [accessed 14 August 2009].

Aden Kumler, Translating Truth: Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), pp. 81-82, figs 15, 16.

Nancy Freeman Regaldo, 'The Wings of Chivalry and Order of Bodleian Library, Ms. Douce 308', in Collections in Context: The Organization of Knowledge and Community in Europe (14th-17th Centuries), ed. by Karen Fresco and Anne D. Hedeman (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2011), pp. 30-63 (p. 44).

Mary J. Carruthers, 'Ars oblivionalis, ars inveniendi: The Cherub Figure and the Arts of Memory', Gesta (2009), 1-19, pp. 10, 13, 14, 19 ns 59-63.

Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World, ed. by Elizabeth Morrison (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019), no. 13.

Exhibitions:

Battles and Dynasties, The Collection, Lincoln, 27 May 2017 - 3 September 2017
Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 14 May 2019 - 18 August 2019
Ocean Explorers: From Sindbad to Marco Polo, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, 15 November 2016 - 26 February 2017
The Middle Ages, (online), 26 March 2015-

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

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