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Harley MS 3834

Record Id:

040-002049670

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049670

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000159

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3834

Title:

Bernard of Papia, Breviarium Decretalium; Ordo iudiciorum; Ordo Criminalia iudicia; Gilbertus Anglicus, Collectio Gilberti aucta; Gregory IX, Decretales

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 2r-121v: Bernard of Papia, Breviarium Decretalium.

ff. 122r-127v: Ordo iudiciorum [Pseudo-Ulpian, De edendo].

ff. 128r-139v: Ordo Criminalia iudicia.

ff. 140r-201v: Gilbertus Anglicus, Collectio Gilberti aucta.

ff. 202r-356v: Gregorius IX, Decretales, here entitled: 'De summa trinitate et fide catholica'.

The manuscript contains a few later additions:

f. 357v: Book curse and other inscriptions from the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Denis; added in the 13th century.

f. 358r: A description of the manuscript; added in the 13th century.

ff. 357v-358r: Latin sayings added by Gilles de Brueil in the 15th century.

Decoration:

3 large puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours extending into the margins to form a partial border (ff. 2r [including a dragon head], 140r, 202r). 12 smaller puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours or in the other colour (ff. 25r, 45v, 76r, 94v, 154v, 167v, 181r, 188r, 243v, 269r, 315r, 330v). Numerous smaller initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour. Coloured initials in red or blue. Some descenders extending in the lower margin are combined with simple ink drawings (e.g., a horse [f. 60r], a figure [ff. 60v, 63r], a face and ?bird [f. 65r], a face [ff. 65v, 66r, 69r, 89v, 94v], a face and a hand [f. 83r], a rabbit [ff. 228v, 230v (in drypoint)], a grotesque [f. 229, in drypoint], a dog [f. 231, in drypoint]). Trinitarian ink diagram (f. 205).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049670

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3834 : Bernard of Papia, Breviarium Decretalium; Ordo iudiciorum; Ordo Criminalia iudicia; Gilbertus Anglicus, Collectio Gilberti…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3826]/040-002049670

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1200

End Date:

1249

Date Range:

1st half of the 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 205 x 135 mm (text space: 155 x 85 mm).

Foliation: ff. 358 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 unfoliated modern paper mounted between f. [1] and f. 1, containing bibliographical notes; f. 1 is a paper leaf that originally served a flyleaf; ff. 357-358 are parchment leaves that originally served as flyleaves.

Script: Gothic, written above top line; written by different hands.

Collation: Indicated by horizontal catchwords.

Binding: British Museum in-house; green half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Paris.

Provenance:

The Benedictine abbey of Saint-Denis, near Paris: its 13th-century pressmark 'DH+' and 15th-century pressmark 'xxx.ixc.iiiixxxvi' on f. 2r; its 13th-century book curse on f. 257v: Titulis beati Dionysii Areopagitae. Qui hunc deleverit Anathema sit' [6x] (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 292).

Gilles de Brueil (probably Egidius Brueil, monk of Saint-Denis featuring in the abbey' s necrology: Samaran, 'Études Sandionysiennes. II', no. 182), ?15th century: inscribed with his name on ff. 138v, 357v, 358r; this signature is found in another Saint-Denis manuscript, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, ms lat. 6400 C (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

Nicolas Le Fèvre (d. 1613), schoolmaster of Louis XIII: added table of contents (f. 1v) and notes (f. 358v) in his hand (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), but see Nebbiai-Della Guarda, La bibliothèque de l'Abbaye de Saint-Denis (1985), no. 11).

Pierre Séguier (b. 1588, d. 1672), chancellor of France from 1635: acquired from him through Andrew Hay on 5 September 1720 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 301).

Andrew Hay (d. 1754?), dealer: sold together with other manuscripts from the Séguier collection on 5 September 1720 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. 68 n. 1; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 183).

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 ‘5 Septembris, 1720’ (f. 2r).

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), no. 3834.

Léopold Victor Delisle, Le Cabinet des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Impériale, 3 vols (Paris, 1868-81), I, p. 203; III, p. 356.

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. 68 n. 1.

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. 182-83, 292, 300-01.

Donatella Nebbiai-Dalla Guarda, La bibliothèque de l'Abbaye de Saint-Denis en France du IXe au XVIIIe siècle, Documents, études et répertoires, Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (Paris: CNRS, 1985), pp. 84, 104, 190, 217, 240, 269, 271, 288, 377, 381; no. 11.

Donatella Nebbiai-Dalla Guarda, 'Livres et lecteurs a l'abbaye de Saint-Denis (fin du XIIIe-debut du XVIe siècle)', in Saint-Denis et la Royaute: Etudes offertes a Bernard Guenee, ed. by F. Autrand, C. Gauvard, and J.-M. Moeglin (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1999), pp. 355-74 (p. 362).

Kenneth Pennington, 'Decretal Collections 1190-1234', in The History of Medieval Canon Law in the Classical Period, 1140-1234: From Gratian to the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX, ed. by Wilfried Hartmann and Kenneth Pennington (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2008), pp. 293-317 (pp. 304 n. 52; 305 n. 59).

André Gouron, ‘Un traité écossais du douzième siècle: l’ordo Ulpianus de edendo', The Legal History Review, 78 (2010), pp. 1-13 (p. 10).

Charles Samaran, 'Études Sandionysiennes. II. Un Nécrologe inédit de l'abbaye de Saint-Denis', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes, 104 (1943), 27-100, no. 182.

'Harley 3834' in Manuscripta juridica (Max-Planck Institute fur europaische Rechtsgeschichte, 2012), [accessed 27 April 2022].

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Gilbertus Anglicus, called Gilbert the Englishman, physician and writer, c 1180-c 1250
Gregory IX, Pope, c 1145-1241,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/91013639
Papiensis, Bernardus, Bishop, of Pavia, d. 1213,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000066309124

Places:

Central France
Paris, France