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Harley MS 3820

Record Id:

040-002049655

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049655

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3820

Title:

William of Rimington, Stimulus peccatoris; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Lamentatio in passionem domini and Meditationes; Pseudo-Augustine, Meditationes; and other theological texts

Scope & Content:

One of the two surviving manuscripts from a reclusory at the Carthusian priory at Sheen in Surrey, now Richmond. The other manuscript is Oxford, Magdalen College, MS lat. 77 ('Revelationes beate Brigitte libri duo').

Contents:

f. 2*verso: A table of contents (‘Contenta’).

ff. 1r-6r: A treatise entitled: ‘Contra iniquas temptaciones’; beginning: ‘Contra temptaciones et molestias que’ (listed in Bloomfield, ‘A Preliminary List’ (1955), p. 278 no. 151).

ff. 6r-18r: Pseudo-Augustine, Meditationes (‘Incipit meditationes sancti augustini ad patrem et filium et spiritum sanctum’); beginning: ‘Domine deus meus da cordi te desiderare desiderando querere querendo invenire inveniendo amare amando mala mea redimere redempta non iterare’.

ff. 18r-34r: ‘Incipit tractatus beati bernardi abbatis contemplacione super septem horarum passionis domini nostri hiesu Christi’; beginning: ‘Species in die laudem dixi tibi Rogasti me ut aliquem modum’.

ff. 34r-64r: William of Rimington, Stimulus peccatoris.

ff. 64r-69v: Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Lamentatio in passionem domini (‘Incipit contricio beati bernardi’); beginning: ‘O quam vehementi amplexu amplexastis me’.

ff. 69v-90v: Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Meditationes ('Meditationes sancti Bernardi'), beginning: 'Multi multa sunt et semetipsos nesciunt'.

ff. 90v-110v: Pseudo-Augustine, Meditationes ('Liber sancti augustini episcopi et doctoris de diligendo deum'), beginning: 'Vigili cura mente solicita summo conatu'.

ff. 110v-111v: Table of chapters of Pseudo-Augustine, Meditationes.

ff. 111v-135v: Pseudo-Augustine, Meditatio de Spiritu Sancto ('Meditationes beati Augusti de Spiritu Sancto'), beginning: 'Deus spiritus sancte timeo et desidero loqui tibi de te pro me'

ff. 135v-142v: Pseudo-Augustine, De Tribus Habitaculis Animae ('liber sancti Augustini doctoris egregij de gaudijs electorum et supplicijs dampnatorum', beginning: 'Tria sunt sub omnipotentis dei manu habitacula'.

ff. 142v-153v: Pseudo-Augustine, Manuale ('Prologus libri Augusti episcopi et doctoris de contemplacione domini'), beginning: 'Quoniam in medio laqueorum positi sumus facile a celesti desiderio frigescimus'.

ff. 153v-161r: Pseudo-Augustine, Speculum Peccatorum, 'Tractatus bernardi qui dicitur Speculum peccatorum', beginning: 'Quoniam lumen in hac vita desit. vite sumus dies nostri sicut umbra pretereunt'.

ff. 161r-169v: Pseudo-Origen, Homelia super evangelium Maria stabat ad monumentum foris plorans ('Omelia Origenis super evangelium Maria stabat ad monumentum foris plorans'), beginning: 'In illo tempore maria stabat at monumentum foris plorans'.

ff. 169v-171r: 'Stabat iuxta crucem [...] O domina mea ubi stabas? Numquid tamen iuxta crucem?'

Decoration:

Large (2-3 line) initials in blue with red penwork decoration and pen-flourishing. Rubrics in red. Capitals (1-line) highlighted in red. Paraphs in blue. Rubrics in red. Underlining in red. Cadels in brown ink in the upper margins of ff. 1r-7r.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049655

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3820 : William of Rimington, Stimulus peccatoris; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Lamentatio in passionem domini and Meditationes;…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3811]/040-002049655

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:

1450

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

2nd half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 125 x 90 mm (text space: 80 x 55 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 2* + 171 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 unfoliated folded paper leaf with bibliographical notes between f. [iii] and f. 1*; 1 unfoliated blank parchment leaf between f. 1* and f. 2*; 1 unfoliated parchment pastedown on f. 2*recto.

Script: Gothic.

Collation: Indicated by horizontal catchwords; each quire has been separately mounted onto a paper guard.

Binding: British Museum in-house; red Morocco leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; re-bound in 1969.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Central England (? Oxford).

Provenance:

Hugo Fraunce, magister, Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, in 1461-62, rector of various parishes in London, and fellow of Eton College 1488-94 and 1497-99: his name inscribed on a parchment fragment pasted onto f. 2*recto, his ownership inscription on f. 2*verso (‘Lib[er] M[agistri] Hugon[is] ffraunce’), and an inscription recording his gift of the manuscript to the Sheen reclusory: ‘Iste lib[er] e[st] reclusorij de schene ex dono m[agistri] hug[onis] ffraunce . Orate q[uae]so p[ro] a[n]i[m]a ei[us]’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 157). Fraunce also owned a theological miscellany, now Royal MS 8 A XIII, and three printed books which he gifted to Queen's College, Oxford; a printed copy of the Decretum Gratiani, now at Ipswich Central Library, which he donated to Syon Abbey; and a printed copy of Peter Comestor’s Historia scholastica, now at Cambridge University Library (see Syon Abbey, ed. by Gillespie (2001), p. 577).

A reclusory in the church of the Charterhouse of Jesus of Bethlehem (Sheen Charterhouse]), which had been founded in 1414 near Sheen Palace (now Richmond Palace) in Surrey: according to the inscription cited above (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 303).

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 84 [no. 3820].

Lawrence Hendriks, The London Charterhouse: Its Monks and its Martyrs, with a Short Account of the English Carthusians after the Dissolution (London: Paul, 1889), p. 13.

C. H. Talbot, ‘A List of Cistercian Manuscripts in Great Britain’, Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought and Religion, 8 (1952), 402-18 (p. 417).

Morton W. Bloomfield, ‘A Preliminary List of Incipits of Latin Works on the Virtues and Vices, Mainly of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries’, Traditio, 11 (1955), 259-379 (p. 278 no. 151).

Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 179.

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. 157, 303.

Syon Abbey with the Libraries of the Carthusians, ed. by Vincent Gillespie, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 9 (London: The British Library in association with the British Academy, 2001), p. 577.

'Miscellanea theologica (Contra iniquas temptationes, etc.)', in MLGB3 [accessed 15 January 2021].

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Pseudo-Augustine of Hippo,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000007738148X,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/7386286
Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux
William of Rimington, Prior of Sawley, d. after 1380

Places:

Oxford, England