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Harley MS 3246
- Record Id:
- 040-002049077
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049077
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000272
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3246
- Title:
- Thomas Gallus of Vercelli, Explanatio super Canticum canticorum;Pseudo-Hugh of Saint-Victor, Expositio in Regulam Sancti Augustini
- Scope & Content:
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This composite manuscript consists of two separate parts. The first part (ff. 2r-41r) contains the commentary on the Song of Songs by Thomas Gallus of Vercelli [of Saint-Victor] (b. c. 1200, d. 1246). The second part (ff. 42r-61v) contains the commentary on the Rule of St Augustine spuriously attributed to Hugh of Saint-Victor (b. c. 1096, d. 1141). The two parts were joined together at an unknown time after their production in the 14th century.
Contents:
Part 1:
ff. 2r-41r: Thomas Gallus of Vercelli, Explanatio super Canticum canticorum.
ff. 42r-61v: Pseudo-Hugh of Saint-Victor, Expositio in Regulam Sancti Augustini.
Decoration:
Part 1:
Large (3-5 line) initials in red. Small (1-line) capitals highlighted in red. Rubrics in red. Text highlighted in red. Underlining in red.
Part 2:
Large (2-line) initials in red. Small (1-line) capitals highlighted in red. Rubrics in red. Paraphs in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049077", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3246: Thomas Gallus of Vercelli, Explanatio super Canticum canticorum;Pseudo-Hugh of Saint-Victor, Expositio in Regulam Sancti Augustini" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049077 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3246 : Thomas Gallus of Vercelli, Explanatio super Canticum canticorum;Pseudo-Hugh of Saint-Victor, Expositio in Regulam Sancti Augustini - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3247]/040-002049077
- 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:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 265 x 175 mm (text space: 195 x 120 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 61 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown speckled leather with blind-stamped and gold-tooled borders.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
? Germany. Both parts may have been produced in Germany: suggested by a note on f. 41v: 'hunc liber […] philosophie in racispona [i.e. Regensburg] […]'; and the script of ff. 42r-61v.
Provenance:
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. 12.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Pseudo-Hugh of St Victor, 12th century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000051962382
Thomas Gallus of Vercelli, c 1200-1246,
see also http://isni.org/isni/ThomasGallusofVercelli - Places:
- Germany