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Harley MS 3597
- Record Id:
- 040-002049429
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049429
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x00006a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3597
- Title:
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Collection of saints' Lives
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-200v: Vitae Sanctorum,including (among others) the Lives of saints Paulus of Verdun (bishop of Verdun), Sigismund of Burgundy, Gangulphus of Burgundy, Maximin of Trier (archbishop of Trier), Poppo von Babenberg (archbishop of Trier), Chlodulf of Metz (bishop of Metz), St Hidulf (reputed bishop of Trier), Glodesind (abbess), and Sigolena of Albi (deaconess).
f. 201r: A table of contents with the rubricated title: 'horum sanctorum passiones vel vitas invenies secundum hunc modum'.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 201v: A fragmentary Latin text about the life of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1508-1519), beginning: 'Magnificentissimo excellentissimoque principi domino Maximiliano Romanorum imperatori electo', by Johannes Scheckmann of St Maximin's Abbey in Trier ('Johannes Scheckmannus Treuir).
Decoration:
33 initials in red, or red and purple, some with pen-flourishing and geometric motifs (ff. 1r, 11v, 27v, 34r, 38r, 43r, 44r, 50r, 56v, 59r, 68v, 71r, 83v, 85v, 92r, 103r, 107v (x2), 123v, 147v, 154r, 154v, 159v, 166v, 169v (x2), 177r, 179r, 182v, 189v, 190v, 192r, 197r). Numerous smaller plain red initials. Incipits and paraphs in red; Roman numerals in purple and red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049429", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3597: Collection of saints' Lives" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049429 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3597 : Collection of saints' Lives - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3599]/040-002049429
- 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:
- 1474
- End Date:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- 1474
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 280 x 195 mm (text space: 215 x 150 mm).
Foliation: ff. 201 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); a blank unfoliated leaf after f. 146 (f. [146a]); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 1[i]recto (bibliographical notes).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Mottled brown leather with gold tooling; re-backed. Harleian armorial bookplates gold-stamped on the insides of the upper and lower covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Western Germany (? Trier).
Provenance:
Written by Oswald of Welschbillig in 1474: inscribed in a colophon on f. 200v: 'Scriptum per me fratrem Oiswaldum de Welschpilch Anno domini milesimo cccc septuagesimo quarto secundum stilum Treverensem quinto Kalendas Marcij' (see Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts (1979), no. 770).
The Benedictine abbey of Santa Maria ad Martyres extra Muros, Trier, 15th century: its ownership inscription on f. 1r: 'Codex monasterii beate marie ad martyres prope Treverim super litus moselle' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 332).
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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), pp. 45-46.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), no. 770.
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. 332.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Western Germany