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Harley MS 4880

Record Id:

040-002050723

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050723

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4880

Title:

Peter Lombard, Sententiae

Scope & Content:

Peter Lombard, Sententiae. The manuscript is composed of three parts, which originaly possibly formed portions of different manuscripts.

Part 1:

ff. 1r-118v: Books 1-2, begins imperfectly in Book 1, distinction 1, chapter 2 (end), incipit (f. 4r): 'perfruitionem perveniatur. Unde augustinus in libro decimo de trinitate'; prefaced with 3 leaves, possibly from a different manuscript, including a list of contents of Book 1, incipit (f. 1r): '...ierum sunt intelligenda hic de committabilitate hic de simplicitate.'

ff. 117v-118r: Added notes, early 14th century, with a heading 'Loca ubi magister sententiarum male alegat.'

Decoration: Initials in red (ff. 4r-7r). Spaces left blank for initials at the beginning of distinctions, Book 2 and some rubrics. Capitals marked in red.

Part 2

ff. 129r-178v: Book 3, incipit: '[C]um venit'.

f. 178v: Added note, early 14th century, with a heading: 'de statu coniugum', incipit: 'Quod prima nocte coniuges debent abstinere.'

Decoration: Spaces left blank for initials at the beginning of distinctions and Book 3. Capitals marked in red.

Part 3

ff. 179r-236v: Book 4, preceded by a table of contents, imperfect at the end; incipit (f. 180v): 'Samaritanus'; explicit: 'Augustinus sic ait. Ira dei et in iudicio erit et hic est inceritate mentis.'

Decoration:

Puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours at the beginning of book 4 (f. 180v). Smaller initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour. Coloured initials in red or blue. Capitals marked in red.

ff. 238r-240v: Leaves from a late 12th-century legal manuscript containing excerpts from Justinian, Digest, Book 3, and Codex, Book 2.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050723

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4880 : Peter Lombard, Sententiae

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4879]/040-002050723

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:

1250

End Date:

1274

Date Range:

3rd quarter of the 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 305 x 210 mm (text space: ff. 1r-22v: 220 x 135 mm; ff. 23r- 67v: 210 x 135 mm; ff. 68r-117v: 210 x 135 mm; ff. 119r-178r: 180 x 110 mm; ff. 179r-236v: 195 x 120; ff. 238r-240v: 180 x 100 mm).

(Foliation: ff. 240 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaf: 1 at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Script: Gothic; ff. 238r-240v: Protogothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house binding. Rebound in 1964.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Added annotations in various medieval hands throughout.

Added texts in 14th-century cursive hands (ff. 117v-118r, 178v).

Clement Heigham, probably Sir Clement Heigham (d. 1634), M.P. for Suffolk in 1593, Justice of the Peace of the Quorum for Suffolk (1562) and Norfolk (1601): inscribed with his name (f. 1r).

John Batteley (b. 1647, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John Batteley on 5 November 1723 (see Wright 1972).

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 die Novembris, A.D. 1723’ (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.

Administrative Context:

England.

Information About Copies:

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-1812), III (1808), no. 4880.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 263 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. 66-67, 185.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

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