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Harley MS 5042
- Record Id:
- 040-002050886
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050886
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000231
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5042
- Title:
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David of Augsburg, De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione secundum triplicem statum incipientium, proficientium et perfectorum libri tres
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a copy of the Formula novitiorum, a work on monastic asceticism by David of Augsburg (d. 1272), a Franciscan friar. The work survives in almost 400 manuscripts, but is not identified in the only edition of the work: De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione (1899).
Contents:
ff. 1r-4r: A table of contents, entitled: 'Incipiunt distingciones [sic] primi libelli qui intutulatur formula noviciorum [etc.]'.
ff. 5r-127r: David of Augsburg De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione secundum triplicem statum incipientium, proficientium et perfectorum libri tres, also known as Formula novitiorum (here: 'Formula Vitae Humanae'), beginning: 'Primo considerare debes quare veneris et ad quid veneris et propter quid veneris'.
Decoration:
4 large (2- to 5-line) initials blue (ff. 5r, 14r, 20v, 50v). Capitals highlighted in red. Paraphs in blue or red. Underlining in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050886", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5042: David of Augsburg, De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione secundum triplicem statum incipientium, proficientium et…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050886 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5042 : David of Augsburg, De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione secundum triplicem statum incipientium, proficientium… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5042]/040-002050886
- 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:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 170 x 130 mm.
Foliation: ff. 127 (+ 3 unfoliated paper and 3 parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Collation: Indicated by catchwords; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; re-bound on 15 Noember 1965.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
? England.
Provenance:
Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire, family seat of the Harleys: after Robert Harley's death, Edward, his son, sent the manuscript to London for the Harleian Library, where it was received on 16 October 1725 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 81).
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 '16 Octobris, 1725' (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 forms one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 242.
David ab Augusta, De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione secundum triplicem statum incipientium, proficientium et perfectorum, libri tres (Florence: The College of St Bonaventure at Quaracchi, Clara Aqua, 1899) [without this manuscript].
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. 80-82.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- David of Augsburg, Franciscan friar, preacher and author, c 1200-d 1272,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108808651 - Places:
- England