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Harley MS 3823
- Record Id:
- 040-002049659
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049659
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x00014e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3823
- Title:
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Notes on the Old Testament; Summa de septem viciis capitalibus; a work on the Seven Deadly Sins
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-37v: Latin notes on the Old Testament, beginning: 'Frater ambrosius etcaetera'.
ff. 50r-407v: Summa de septem viciis capitalibus, beginning: 'Quoniam ut ait sapiens, peccantem uirum inuoluet laqueus'; Latin sermons with verses in early medieval English on ff. 129r, 182v, 183r, 354v (2x).
ff. 409r-434r: A theological work on the Seven Deadly Sins, beginning: 'Sequitur de vij vitiis que significantur per bestiam quem vidit Johannes in apocalypsis'.
The manuscript contains later additions:
ff. 38r-49v: A table of contents for the Summa de septem viciis capitalibus, beginning: '[U]rgebat me frater Johanes de H[...] [surname effaced]'; in a 15th-century hand.
ff. 50v, 407v-408r: Notes on the Summa de septem viciis capitalibus by Samuel Knott.
Decoration:
Puzzle initial 'Q'(uoniam) in blue and red, with a dragon motif (f. 50r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or in red with blue pen-flourishing, some large, some small. Paraphs in red or blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049659", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3823: Notes on the Old Testament; Summa de septem viciis capitalibus; a work on the Seven Deadly Sins" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049659 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3823 : Notes on the Old Testament; Summa de septem viciis capitalibus; a work on the Seven Deadly Sins - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3815]/040-002049659
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1250
- End Date:
- 1349
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 125 x 90 mm (text space: 100 x 70 mm).
Foliation: ff. 434 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 blank unfoliated parchment leaf between ff. 37 and 38; and 1 between ff. 408 and 409; on several folios, the text is written around holes in the parchment (e.g., f. 23r).
Collation: Indicated by catchwords; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Script: Gothic, written below top line.
Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather binding with the Harleian armorial gold stamp on the outside covers; rebound on 6 February 1964.
- Custodial History:
- Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Samuel Knott (d. 1687), rector of Combe Raleigh, Devon (1661-1668), antiquary and collector of manuscripts: notes in his hand (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 211).
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 Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. 11 n. 6; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 211).
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 die Maij, A.D. 1715’ (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), II (1808), p. 84 (no. 3823).
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.
Siegfried Wenzel, The Sin of Sloth: Acedia in Medieval Thought and Literature (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1967), p. 108 n. 62.
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. 88, 211.
Siegfried Wenzel, 'Unrecorded Middle-English Verses', Anglia, 92 (1974), 55-78 (nos 8, 51, 53, 65, 87).
Margaret Laing, Catalogue of Sources for a Linguistic Atlas of Early Medieval English (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1993), p. 97.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England