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Harley MS 3707
- Record Id:
- 040-002049539
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049539
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0000d8
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059463256.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3707
- Title:
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Baudri de Bourgueil, Historia peregrinationis Ierosolimitane (with a continuation by Lisiardus Turonensis); Petrus Alphonsi, Contra Judaeos dialogi
- Scope & Content:
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This 12th-century manuscript contains the Historia Ierosolimitana (History of Jerusalem) by Baudri de Bourgueil (b. c. 1050, d. 1130), abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Bourgueil and bishop of Dol-en-Bretagne. The work presents a history of the events of the First Crusade in four books, beginning with Pope Urban II (b. c. 1042, d. 1099)’s call for the capture of Jerusalem in 1095 and ending in 1099. The Historia is followed by a continuation by Lisiardus Turonensis (fl. c. 1150), a clerk of Tours and dean of the Cathedral Chapter at Laon, that describes the events in the Holy Land after the Battle of Ascalon until 1123. The manuscript also contains the Dialogi contra Judaeos (Dialogue against the Jews) by Petrus Alfonsi (fl. 1106, d. c. 1130), an Andalusian polemicist and translator who had converted from Judaism to Christianity in 1106 and in his work, dated to 1108 or 1110, stages a dialogue between his former Jewish and present Christian selves.
Contents:
ff. 1r-106v: Baudri de Bourgueil, Historia Ierosolimitana.
ff. 107r-163v: Lisiardus Turonensis, a continuation of the Historia.
ff. 164v-166v: Petrus Alphonsi, Dialogi contra Judaeos.
Decoration:
1 large zoomorphic initial (a dragon) outlined in black ink with foliate interlace against a background in red and green (f. 1r). 1 medium puzzle initial in red and green with pen-flourishing in red (f. 2v). 28 medium initials in red or green, some with pen-flourishing in red or green (ff. 4v, 8v, 25v, 52v, 83r, 107r, 109v, 118r, 125v, 130r, 130v, 131r (2x), 135r, 136r, 137r, 138r, 138v, 140v, 141r, 143r, 144r, 146r, 147v, 150v, 151v, 152r, 153v). One rubric in red (f. 1r).
- 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
040-002049539 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3707 : Baudri de Bourgueil, Historia peregrinationis Ierosolimitane (with a continuation by Lisiardus Turonensis); Petrus Alphonsi,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3709]/040-002049539
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059463256.0x000001
- 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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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 225 x 140 mm (text space: 145/155 x 80/85 mm).
Foliation: ff. 166 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf and 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves and 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather; the Harleian bookplate gold-stamped on the marbled endpapers on the inside of the upper and lower covers; traces of two metal fastenings (ff. 164-[168]).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France.
Provenance:
An unknown 17th-century French owner: a note in French on the first text, written in a 17th-century script, on f. 1r: 'ce Baldric assista au concile de clermont tenu en 1091, pour la guerre S[ain]te dont il fait l'histoire et mourut en, 1131, voyes moreri dictionaire historique manuscrit rare'. The council of Clermont was, in fact, held on 27 November 1095.
Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie; purchased from him for the Harley Collection on 13 August 1724 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p.255).
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 ‘13 die mensis Augusti, A.D. 1724’ (f. 1r).
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, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 54.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 304 n. 7.
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. 255.
Klaus-Peter Mieth, Der Dialog des Petrus Alfonsi: Seine Überlieferung im Druck und in den Handschriften: Textedition (Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Freie Universität Berlin, 1982), p. xxvi.
John Victor Tolan, Petrus Alfonsi and his Medieval Readers (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993), p. 189 (L1).
Steven Biddlecombe, The Historia Ierosolimitana of Baldric of Bourgueil (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2014), pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi (H).
- 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.