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Harley MS 3923

Record Id:

040-002049760

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049760

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0001b3

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3923

Title:

Collection of theological texts including Peter of Blois, Compendium super Job; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Meditationes; Hugh of Saint-Victor, De Institutione Novitiorum

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-4r: Pseudo-Augustine, De Conflictu Vitiorum.

ff. 4r-10v: Pseudo-Augustine, De Spiritu et Anima.

ff. 11r-17r: Peter of Blois, Compendium super Job.

ff. 17r-24v: Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Meditationes.

ff. 25r-36r: Hugh of Saint-Victor, De Institutione Novitiorum.

ff. 36r-44r: Theological extracts and sermons.

f. 44v: Table of lections for Sundays.

ff. 45r-49v: Theological extracts and sermons, beginning: 'Apostoli lectionem mecum audistis dilectissimi ait enim de domino christo'.

ff. 50r-56v: Collection of prayers and devotions, beginning: 'Oracio ad beatissimam virgine m Mariam et ad filium eius'

ff. 57r-64v: Pope Innocent III, De Contemptu Mundi.

ff. 65r-68v: Exposition on Luke 10:4, beginning: 'Nolite portare sacculum neque peram neque alceamenta et neminem per viam salutaveritis'.

ff. 69r-83v: Theological excerpts, beginning: 'Quemadmodum si videas hominem assidue amicitias medicorum colentem'.

Decoration:

Added large (2-line) initials in black ink (f. 1r). Capitals highlighted in red. Rubrics in red. Theological diagrams in red ink.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049760

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3923 : Collection of theological texts including Peter of Blois, Compendium super Job; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Meditationes; Hugh…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3916]/040-002049760

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:

1200

End Date:

1299

Date Range:

13th century

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 180 x 120 mm (text space: 135 x 100 mm, in 2 columns)

Foliation: ff. 83 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment tab on f. 17; 4 unfoliated parchment stubs between f. 33 and f. 34.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600 Harleian binding: blind-stamped and gold-tooled brown speckled leather.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

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.

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 forms 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. 96.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Places:

England