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Harley MS 3751
- Record Id:
- 040-002049583
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049583
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000104
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3751
- Title:
- Papal decretals
- Scope & Content:
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A composite manuscript of papal decretals, beginning with the Clementines, named after Pope Clement V, promulgated by his successor as pope, John XXII, in 1317, with the Glossa ordinaria (Ordinary Gloss) of Johannes Andreae (c. 1270-1348). Followed by decretals of Innocent IV, Gregory X, and Benedict XII.
ff. 1r-49v: Clement V, Clementines, glossed by Johannes Andreae, with preface by John XXII (ff. 1r-2r).
ff. 50r-67v: Dinus de Rossonis, De regulis juris (On the rule of law).
ff. 68r-78v: Innocent IV, decretals, glossed.
ff. 78v-89v: Gregory X, decretals, glossed.
ff. 90r-v: Benedict XII, decretals, 15th century hand.
Horizontal catchwords.
f. [1v] is blank.
Decoration:
Miniature in gold and colours of a pope being presented with books (f. 1r). Historiated initial in gold and colours with a standing man (f. 1r). Large puzzle initial in blue and red with pen-flourishing in the same colours (f. 68r), combined with initials in blue or red with pen-flourishing in both colours forming the names of 'Innocencius iii' and 'Gregorius decimus' at the beginning of their decretals (ff. 68r, 78v). Large initials in colours throughout in the Constitutions of Clement V. Smaller initials in blue or red with pen-flourishing in the other colour or in both colours. Coloured initials in red or blue. Paraphs in red or blue. Line-fillers with pen-flourishing in brown ink (e. g., ff. 14v, 15r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049583", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3751: Papal decretals" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049583 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3751 : Papal decretals - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3752]/040-002049583
- 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:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1349
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 425 x 260 mm.
Foliation: ff. i + 76 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house. Remains of the previous binding (gold- and blind-tooled dark brown sprinkled leather) pasted on the inside covers. Rebound in 1967.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France, E. or N. or Netherlands, S.
Provenance:
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 ‘20 die mensis Januarij A.D. 1721/22’ (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
- 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. 3751.
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. 138.
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. 434.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)