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Harley MS 4132
- Record Id:
- 040-002049969
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049969
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000296
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4132
- Title:
- Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-109v: Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica; heavily annotated by various later hands.
Decoration:
Several puzzle initials in red and blue with penwork decoration. Numerous simple initials in red or blue, frequently with penwork decoration in the alternate colour. Running headers in red and blue, occasionally with penwork decoration. Rubrics in red. Paraphs in red or blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049969", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4132: Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049969 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4132 : Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4125]/040-002049969
- 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:
- 1249
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 310 x 200 mm (text space: 210 x 130, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 109 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 at the end).
Script: Gothic, written above the top line.
Binding: Post-1600. Gold-tooled light brown leather over wooden boards.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England or France.
Provenance:
William Mongeham, Chaplain to the Abbot (1463-1468) and Treasurer (1469) of the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury: his name inscribed on f. 1r: 'Historie scolastice Will[elm]i Mong[e]h[a]m'; donated the manuscript to St Augustine's Abbey.
The Benedictine abbey of St. Augustine, Canterbury, 15th century: its ownership inscription on f. 1r: 'Mon[asterii] S[anc]ti August[in]i Cantua[riensis] de lib[er]ario' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 95); previously compared with BA I.45 in its catalogue of c.1491-1497 (see James, The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover (1903), pp. 199 and 515 (no. 47)); but now identified as BAI.65 (see St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, ed. by Barker-Benfield (2008), I, p. 394 (BA1.65)).
Jacobus Rathborne, 17th century: inscribed with his name on f. [ii]recto (see Wright, Fontes Harleinai (1972), p. 281).
Abigaill Moundeford, 17th century: inscribed her name on f. 1r: 'Abigaill Moundeford of Moundsford' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 246).
The Young family: names of several members of the family listed in a 17th-century hand on ff. 64r ('Tho[mas] Younge', 'Abraham Younge', 'Benjeman Younge', '[?] Ester Younge [...] to John Younge'); and 85r ('Tho[mas] Younge, 'An Younge', 'Mary Younge', '[?] Esther Younge', 'John Younge', and 'Mary Younge' [with above 'Dafter[s] to' pointing to John Young]) (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 366).
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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St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, ed. by Bruce C. Barker-Benfield, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 13, 3 vols (London: British Library, 2008), I: The Catalogue, First Part, p. 394 (BA1.65).
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 119.
Richard Gameson, The Earliest Books of Canterbury Cathedral: Manuscripts and Fragments to c. 1200 (London: Bibliographical Society, 2008), p. 375.
Montague Rhodes James, The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903), p. 515.
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. 44.
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. 95, 246, 281, 366.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Petrus Comestor, c 1100-c 1179,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083431084,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/40175167 - Places:
- England
France