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Harley MS 3907
- Record Id:
- 040-002049743
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049743
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0001a2
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3907
- Title:
- Goffredo da Trani, Summa super titulis Decretalium
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-344v: Goffredo da Trani, Summa super titulis Decretalium; ending with the words 'Explicit expliceat ludere scriptor eat' (f. 344v).
The manuscript contains several additions:
ff. 1**, 1***, 350, 350* and 351: Fragments from a liturgical manuscript with lections (probably German) dating from the 2nd half of the 12th century, with musical notation on four-line brown staves and without staves.
ff. 345r-349v: A table of contents; added in the 15th century.
Decoration:
Historiated initial in colours and gold combined with a partial foliate bar border including a bird, men, hybrid creatures, interlace, at the beginning of each book (ff. 1r, 94r [and with figures sketched from the historiated initial in the lower margin], 164r, 227v, 263v). Initials in red with purple, red and blue pen-flourishing or in blue with blue and red pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue. Catchwords with brown ink decoration including faces (e.g., f. 12v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049743", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3907: Goffredo da Trani, Summa super titulis Decretalium" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049743 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3907 : Goffredo da Trani, Summa super titulis Decretalium - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3899]/040-002049743
- 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: 165 x 100 mm (text space: 120 x 70 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1*-1*** + 2* + 350* + 351 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); ff. 1**, 1***, 350, 350* and 351 are fragments from a liturgical manuscript, and ff. 1*-1*** and 350-351v are former pastedowns; f. 2* and f. 350* are parchment leaves; parchment bookmarks on ff. 94, 164, 227, 264 (trace only); 1 unfoliated modern paper pastedown on f. [303]v (note of examination); only original foliation in red Roman numerals on ff. 1r-344v.
Collation: Mainly in quires of 12. Indicated by catchwords (written horizontally) and leaf signatures; quires have been mounted separately onto paper guards.
Script: Gothic
Binding: British Museum in-house: brown half leather binding with the Harleian armorial bookplate goldstamped on the outside covers; rebound in 1981.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Southern Netherlands.
Provenance:
Dominus Heymericus de (?)oed[er]toi, 'quondam capellanus sancti lamberti' [in Liège], 15th century: inscription recording his gift of the manuscript to the convent of Crutched Friars at Liège on f. 2*v; see below for transcription (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 189).
The convent of Crutched Friars, Liège, Belgium: inscribed, 15th century, on f. 2*verso: 'Liber fratru[m] s[an]c[t]e Crucis Conve[n]t[us] leodicu[m] que[m] eis co[n]tulit d[omi]n[u]s heymeric[us] de oed[er]toi[…] quo[n]da[m] capellan[us] s[an]c[t]i lamb[er]ti Et co[n]tinet in eo Su[m]ma m[a]g[ist]ri gaufridi de casib[us]', followed by a ?pressmark '?G xiii' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 223).
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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808-12), III (1808), no. 3907.
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. 189, 223.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Goffredo da Trani [Galfredus Tranensis], canon lawyer and cardinal deacon, d 1245,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000110593135 - Places:
- Southern Netherlands