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Harley MS 3596
- Record Id:
- 040-002049428
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049428
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000069
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3596
- Title:
- Prévostin of Cremona, Summa theologica; Peter the Chanter, De tropis loquendi and Summa de sacramentis et animae consiliis
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-2r: added theological notes, 14th century.
f. 3r: an alphabetical index.
ff. 4r-66v: Prévostin of Cremona, Summa theologica.
ff. 67r-83r: Peter the Chanter, De tropis loquendi.
ff. 84r-143v: Peter the Chanter, Summa de sacramentis et animae consiliis.
ff. 144r-v:added theological diagrams and notes, 14th century.
Added theological notes in several hands written in the margins throughout, 13th-14th century.
Decoration:
2 puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours (ff. 4r, 67r). Smaller initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour or in both colours. Coloured initials in red or blue. Paraphs in red. Unfinished circular diagram in brown ink (f. 133v). Added horizontal tree diagrams (ff. 1r-2v, 3v, 144r-145r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049428", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3596: Prévostin of Cremona, Summa theologica; Peter the Chanter, De tropis loquendi and Summa de sacramentis et animae consiliis" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049428 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3596 : Prévostin of Cremona, Summa theologica; Peter the Chanter, De tropis loquendi and Summa de sacramentis et animae consiliis - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3598]/040-002049428
- 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:
- 1210
- End Date:
- 1255
- Date Range:
- 1210-c 1250
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 280 x 170 mm (text space: 190 x 105 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. i + 145 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end); ff. i and 145 are former pastedowns.
Script: Gothic, written above top line.
Binding: British Museum; rebound in 1976. Quarter binding of brown leather and cloth. Remains of the previous binding (gold- and blind-tooled dark brown sprinkled leather) pasted on the inside covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England, perhaps the South West.
Provenance:
Added horizontal tree diagrams, texts and inscriptions, in medieval hands (ff. 1r-2v, 3v, 144r-145r).
Peter de Stanshaw, 14th century: given by him to an unknown house, as recorded in inscriptions on f. 1r: 'Istum librum [con(?)]tulit fratri Petro de Stanschawe in presencia fratrum T. de Stanschawe magistri et F. de Kayrlyon' and 'Istum librum [frater Petrus(?)] Stanschawe contulit fratri [...] in presencia fratris Willelmi Melonbe bachillarium et aliorum pluriums' (Watson, 'Harley Manuscripts' (1973), 607-08).
Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold by his widow on 17 May 1715 to Robert Harley, along with other manuscripts (see Wright, Fontes (1972), 87-88; Wright and Wright, Diary (1966)).
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 '17 Maij 1715' (f. i recto).
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:
- Select digital coverage: Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/
- 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), no. 3596.
P. Glorieux, Répertoire des maîtres en théologie de Paris au XIIIe siècle, Études de philosophie médiévale, 17-18 (Paris, J. Vrin, 1933-34), p. 267.
John Hennig, 'The Manuscript Sources of Early Scholastic Theology', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des Études relatives aux manuscrits, 4 (1950), 309-13 (p. 311).
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. 11 n. 6.
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. 87-88.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)