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Harley MS 4968

Record Id:

040-002050812

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050812

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4968

Title:

William of Pagula, Cilium oculi sacerdotis; Jacob of Lausanne, Sermones de communi sanctorum

Scope & Content:

f. 1*v: Contemporary table of contents, corresponding to medieval foliation (as it now stands).

f. 3*r–v: Fragment of a late 12th-century copy of Hugh of Fleury, Historia ecclesiastica.

ff. 1r–46v: William of Pagula, Cilium oculi sacerdotis (Oculus sacerdotis, part 4).

ff. 47r–63v: Jacob of Lausanne, Sermones de communi sanctorum 34, ‘Tractatus de decem preceptis. Serua mandata et uiues. Prouerbiis 7. In bello mortali melior est sapientia boni regiminis’.

ff. 63v–71r: Duodecim articuli fidei, a commentary on the Apostles’ Creed: ‘Incipiunt xii. Articulu fidei. Credo in deum patrem omnipotentem, etc. Primus fidei articulus in quo …’

ff. 71r–79r: Duodecim articuli fidei distincti, a more discursive commentary on the Apostles’ Creed with further notes at the end (ff. 76v–79r), ‘Quid sit simbolum’, ‘Quid sit articulus’, ‘Quot sunt simbolum’, ‘Quando illud simbolum cantabitur’.

Decoration:

New works open with a 3-line puzzle initial in red and dark blue, with penwork decoration. New sections open with a 2-line initial in blue with penwork decoration; new sections marked with paraphs, alternating between red and blue. First letter of new sentences stroked in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050812

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4968 : William of Pagula, Cilium oculi sacerdotis; Jacob of Lausanne, Sermones de communi sanctorum

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4968]/040-002050812

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:

1330

End Date:

1370

Date Range:

Mid 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: parchment.

Dimensions: 240 × 160 mm (written area 175 × 105 mm).

Foliation: 1*–3*, ff. 82 (+ 3 paper endleaves at the front and back). Medieval foliation: 1, 12, 13 (= modern f. 1) through 93, with the page after the original 54 (modern f. 43) skipped.

Collation: i^4–1 (ff. 1*, 2*a, 2*b), ii^one (f. 3*, a flyleaf), iii–v¹² (ff. 1–36), vi¹⁰ (ff. 37–46), vii–ix¹² (ff. 47–82). Catchwords.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum, 31 October 1968.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

John (de) Timworth, abbot of Bury St Edmunds (r. 1379–89); ‘De procuratione I. de tymworth abbatis’ (f. 1*v).

Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Inscribed, ‘Liber monachorum sancti Edmundi de empcione I. Tymworth abbatis. O·28’ (f. 2*r); ‘Liber monachorum sancti Edmundi. O·28' (fol. 1r, at top).

Sir Clement Heigham (b. in or before 1500, d. 1571), judge and speaker of the House of Commons (as also Harley MSS 5334, 5388 and 5442, from Bury); inscribed, f. 1r.

John Batteley (d. 1708), archdeacon of Sudbury and canon of Canterbury, son of an apothecary of Bury. Acquired by Harley 5 November 1723, from estate, inscribed on f. 2*r (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, 1972, p. 67).

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Robert Nares and others, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808–1812), iv. 234.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 67, 90, 333.

R.N. Swanson, Indulgences in Late Medieval England: Passports to Paradise (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 284.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Jacobus de Lausanne, Prior Provincial of the French Dominican province
William of Pagula, canon lawyer and theologian, d ? 1332,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139689034