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Harley MS 5026

Record Id:

040-002050870

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050870

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000221

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5026

Title:

Collections of sermons and expositions on the Psalms

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains sermons and expositions on the Psalms, and seems to comprise three parts that may have been produced separately in the 13th century

Part 1 (ff. 1r-42v); Part 2 (ff. 43r-139r); Part 3 (ff. 140r-145v).

It contains a previously unnoticed line in Early Middle English on f. 5v.

Contents:

Part 1:

ff. 1r-10v: A collection of sermons on the Cross, beginning: 'Sapientia est lignum vitae hiis qui apprehenderint eam'; featuring a line in Middle English on f. 5v: '[dixit anglice Wordes:] blisse wend a wey þat i þe lete wayl a way for þa lesse þe more hic habbe forlore awey þe stonde þat hic wal i bore'.

ff. 11r-22v: An exposition of the Psalms, entitled: 'Moralia Psalterii', beginning: 'Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum. Nos dicimur esse viri nec effeminate. In homine sunt duo sensualitas [etc.].

ff. 23r-42v: Collection of sermons, beginning with a sermon on the Advent of Christ, beginning imperfectly with an exposition on Malachi 3:1: 'statimveniet ad templum'; citing Hugh of Saint-Victor's Soliloquium de arra animae (f. 28r); followed by sermons on the Passion, Cross, Advent, and ending with a sermon 'In nocte Natalis', also found in Hugh of Saint-Cher's sermons, beginning: 'Angelus domini stetit iuxta illos. Nota quod ea que tunc in pastoribus'.

Part 2:

ff. 43r-139r: An exposition of the Psalms, entitled: 'Psalmorum expositio', beginning: 'Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum. Nos dicimur esse viri nec effeminate. In homine sunt duo sensualitas [etc.].

Part 3:

ff. 140r-145v: Timor Domini, beginning: 'Est timor qui est principium sapiencie'.

This manuscript contains later additions:

f. 1*verso: A list of theologians: 'Ambrosius / Chrisostomus / Hieronimus / Augustinus / Gregoriae / Barnard / Anselmus / Ernaldus / Yisiodorus / Rabanus / Damasus / Fulgentius'; added in the 17th century.

f. 1*verso: Table of contents: 'Sermo de Cruce […] ?Adventi / Sermo de Passione / Psalmorum Expositio / Moralia Psalterij'; added in the 17th century.

f. 2*recto: Theological notes; added in the 13th century.

f. 2*verso: A reference to words in 'ynglyshe' on f. 5v; added in the 16th or 17th century.

f. 146r: An English rhyme: 'Good man [? tere] Booke / and ye were my Brother / Feare no Boke before / ye can geve such another / Nota Hoc / Good man Dawcock'; added in the 16th or 17th century.

ff. 146r-146v: A letter in English by 'Robert Gittins': 'To his very loving ffrend Mr Earley [Erley]. Paston dd.'; added in the (?) late 16th century.

Decoration:

Part 1:

Large (2-line) plain red initials. Rubrics in red. Line fillers in red. Underlining in red.

Part 2:

1 large (4-line) gold initial with penwork decoration and pen-flourishing in blue ink (f. 43r). Large (2-line) initials in blue or red with penwork decoration and pen-flourishing in red or blue ink.

Part 3:

Underlining in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050870

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5026 : Collections of sermons and expositions on the Psalms

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5026]/040-002050870

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
English, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1200

End Date:

1299

Date Range:

13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 170 x 120 mm (text space: 130-135 95-105 mm, in 2 columns).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 2* + 146 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment stub after f. 85; a thin loose strip of parchment has been inserted between f. 101 and f. 102.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house; brown mottled leather with the initials 'M. B.' (Museum Brittanicum) gold stamped on the upper cover.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

'R. H.', unidentified 15th-century Dominican owner, owned in 1420: his ownership inscription on f. 2*verso: 'Iste liber est magistri R. H. 1420 frater predictorum' (Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 175).

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 Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 263 n. 1; 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, inscribed as usual by their librarian Humfrey Wanley '5 die Novembris, A.D. 1723' (f. [ii]recto).

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. 241.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1725, 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. 67, 175.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Hugh of Saint-Cher, Prior Provincial of the Dominican Order for France, and Master of Theology, d 1264,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120955582
Hugh of Saint-Victor, c 1096-1141,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121201563,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/9865788

Places:

England