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Harley MS 3253
- Record Id:
- 040-002049084
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049084
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000279
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100062422353.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3253
- Title:
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Peter Lombard, Collectanea in omnes Pauli apostoli Epistulas
- Scope & Content:
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This late 12th or early 13th-century manuscript contains the Commentary on the Pauline Epistles of the French theologian Peter Lombard (b. c. 1096, d. 1160). The manuscript was originally bound in two or more volumes, the second one starting on f. 205r (f. 204v is blank and unruled; f. 244v has the quire mark 'v'). Although the manuscript’s origin is unknown, the script and style of decoration suggest that it was produced in England or France.
Contents:
ff. 2r-306v: Peter Lombard, Collectanea in omnes Pauli apostoli Epistulas (Commentary on the Epistles of Paul).
[ff. 1r, 1v, 204v, 307r, 307v are empty].
Decoration:
27 large initials in red, blue or green or puzzle initials in red and blue, red and green, brown and green, brown and blue or violet and green, with reserved designs and penwork decoration including foliate motifs in several of these colours and yellow (ff. 2, 3v, 84r, 142v, 143r, 167v, 168r, 189r, 189v, 205r (2x), 217r (2x), 227v (2x), 228r, 235v, 236r, 241r, 241v, 254r, 254v, 262r (2x), 266r, 266v, 267v). Simple initials in red, green, blue or light brown. Display script in alternate red and blue letters (f. 262r; in all other places the display script has not been filled in). Paragraph marks and running headers in red and brown, occasionally with penwork decoration. The rubrics have not been filled in. Underlining in brown and red ink. Quire marks and catchwords in brown ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049084 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3253 : Peter Lombard, Collectanea in omnes Pauli apostoli Epistulas - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3254]/040-002049084
- 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_100062422353.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 345 x 260 mm (text space: 230 x 160 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 367 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 3 at the end); 1 parchment stub between f. 4 and f. 5; and 1 between f. 204 and f. 205; water damage in the first quire has caused the loss of some text; the quires have been mounted on paper guards.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum/British Library in-house: red half leather binding with Harley’s bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers, the spine inscribed in gold: ‘COMMENTARY ON THE PAULINE EPISTLES’. Rebound in 1967; remains of previous binding (blind-stamped and gold-tooled brown leather) pasted on the inside covers and of the spine (inscribed in gold: ‘BIBL.’) pasted on on f. [ii] recto; traces of wooden boards (f. [iv]); trace of one of two metal fittings (f. 2r).
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England or Northern France.
Provenance:
‘John Dryden’: owned in the 16th-century: his ownership inscription, written in a 16th-century script, on f. 1r ('John Drydens Booke'); perhaps also added marginal notes throughout the manuscript and a title on f. 307v: ‘exposicio super epistolas Pauli ad litteram’.
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 (1812), p. 12.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 139.
- 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.