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Harley MS 3254
- Record Id:
- 040-002049085
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049085
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00027a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3254
- Title:
- Hugh of Saint-Cher, Commentaries on single books of the Old Testament
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1v-2v: An index of contents; imperfect and lacking entries for letters A-G.
ff. 3r-238v: Commentaries on single books of the Old Testament, comprising Proverbs (ff. 3r-91r), Ecclesiastes (ff. 92r-145v), the Book of Wisdom (ff. 146r-183r), Prophets (ff. 184r-227r), and the Song of Songs (ff. 228r-238v).
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 1r: A parchment title-label from a 14th- or 15th-century medieval binding: 'Expositio librorum salamonis / Et duodecim prophetarum'.
f. 2v: A table of contents; added by a 17th-century hand.
f. 227v: Erased (but partially legible) annotations in Latin; added in the (?) 13th century.
Decoration:
Puzzle initials with penwork decoration in blue and red (ff. 3r, 4r, 92r). 1 large (4-line) red initial with penwork decoration in blue (f. 205v). Large (3-line) initials in blue with penwork decoration in red (ff. 146r, 184r, 199r, 201r). Large (2-line) initials in red, oxidised. Running titles in blue and red (ff. 3r-92r). Initials highlighted in red and bible citations underlined in red. Occoasional long ascenders and descenders on first and last lines
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049085", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3254: Hugh of Saint-Cher, Commentaries on single books of the Old Testament" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049085 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3254 : Hugh of Saint-Cher, Commentaries on single books of the Old Testament - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3255]/040-002049085
- 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:
- 1225
- End Date:
- 1274
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 345 x 245 mm (text space: 245/260 x 155/165, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 238 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 6 at the end); f. 1 is a fragmentary parchment leaf repaired with modern paper; 1 unfoliated parchment pastedown (title inscription) on f. 1r.
Collation: Gatherings mostly of 8, with quire signature in the lower margin and horizontal catchwords in the lower right corner of the last verso of gatherings.
Script: Gothic; written by a number of scribes both above and below the top ruled line.
Binding: British Museum in-house; black half leather binding with the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the outsides of the upper and lower covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France.
Provenance:
Pierre Séguier (b. 1588, d. 1672), count of Gien, chancellor of France from 1635 (see Diary, Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. 68 n. 1; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 183).
Andrew Hay (d. 1754?), dealer: sold to Edward Harley together with other manuscripts from the Séguier collection on 5 September 1720 (see Diary, Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. 68 n. 1; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 300).
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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘5 Septembris, 1720’ (f. 2r).
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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 12 [no. 3254].
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 68 n. 1.
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. 183, 300, 425.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Hugh of Saint-Cher, Prior Provincial of the Dominican Order for France, and Master of Theology, d 1264,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120955582 - Places:
- France