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Harley MS 5267/2

Record Id:

040-002051112

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051112

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000313

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5267/2

Title:

Cicero, Disputationes tusculanae; Bernard of Clairvaux, De gratia et libro arbitrio and De diligendo Dei, and other works

Scope & Content:

This is the second volume of Harley MS 5267. The first volume is Harley MS 5267/1.

Contents:

ff. 1r-6v: Pseudo-Sallust, In M. Tullium Ciceronem invectiva.

ff. 7r-83v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Disputationes tusculanae.

ff. 84r-101v: Bernard of Clairvaux, De gratia et libro arbitrio.

ff. 102r-119r: Bernard of Clairvaux, De diligendo Dei.

ff. 119r-145r: Bernard of Clairvaux, De amore Dei.

ff. 145v-154r: Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo de septem gradibus confessionis, here entitled: 'De Viis Domini'

ff. 154v-171r: Bernard of Clairvaux, De XII gradibus humilitatis.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

ff. 172r-173v: A folded fragment from a 16th-century antiphonary with musical notation on a 4-line stave in red ink; one of the initials includes a face in profile.

Decoration:

Large initial in red with blue pen-flourishing (f. 7r). Coloured initials in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051112

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5267/2 : Cicero, Disputationes tusculanae; Bernard of Clairvaux, De gratia et libro arbitrio and De diligendo Dei, and other works

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5268]/040-002051112

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:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper and parchment: ff. 1-6 are parchment; ff. 7-[101a] are paper and parchment with the outer and inner bifolios in each quire made of parchment; and ff. 102-171 are paper; ff. 172-173 are parchment.

Dimensions: 215 x 155 mm (text space: 145-150 x 95-100 mm).

Foliation: ff. 173 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves + 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); 1 ruled unfoliated parchment bifolio before f. 1; 1 unfoliated parchment leaf after f. 101 (f. [101a]); 2 unfoliated paper leaves after f. 171.

Collation: Indicated by horizontal catchwords.

Script: Humanistic; Humanistic cursive; Semi-humanistic.

Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; rebound on 15 August 1966.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Italy.

Provenance:

? An annotation by the manuscript's maker on f. 101v: 'Primus opus huius cartas ?xcix'.

John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer: each part sold as individual manuscripts to Edward Harley on 22 June 1726 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 340 n. 2; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 162).

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 ‘22 die Junij, A.D. 1726’ (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.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 257 (no. 5267).

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. 340 n. 2.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 162.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbot of Clairvaux, ?1090-1153,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120962264,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/59875293
Pseudo-Sallust,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000107859414,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/92416118
Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600

Places:

Italy