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Harley MS 5366

Record Id:

040-002051212

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051212

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000377

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5366

Title:

Pseudo-Isidore, Liber de Ortu et Obitu Patriarcharum; a Eucharist miracle; Pseudo-Caesarius, De Tribus Habitaculis Animae; Pseudo-Bernard, Speculum Peccatoris

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-39r: Pseudo-Isidore (here attributed), Liber de Ortu et Obitu Patriarcharum, here entitled: ‘Liber ysidori de obitu patriarcharum et apostolorum ceterorumque sanctorum et ubi nati sunt et ubi sepulti’.

ff. 39v-44r: The history of a Eucharist miracle at the church of a Cistercian monastery in Germany in 1209, entitled: ‘Effectus sacramenti altaris quantum prosit fidelium animabus pro hijs dominice passionis misterijs cotidie in missa mistice iteratus idipsum effectualiter cuidam monacho inter missarum solemnia revelatum facto mirabili detegit quod historia sequens declarat’.

ff. 45r-54r: Pseudo-Caesarius (here attributed), De Tribus Habitaculis Animae, here entitled: ‘Sermo cesarij episcopi de tribus habitaculis [? hominis] videlicet celesti, terrestri et infernali’.

ff. 55r-64v: Pseudo-Bernard (here attributed), Speculum Peccatoris, here entitled: ‘Exhortacio beati bernardi ad quidam monachum’.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. 1r: A table of contents (outer margin).

Decoration:

Small blue initials with red pen-work decoration and pen-flourishing throughout the manuscript; some with more extensive pen-flourishing in blue and red (f. 23v). Small (one-line) initials highlighted in red. Decorated cadels in blue and red, one with a human face (f. 46v). Rubrics in blue or red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051212

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5366 : Pseudo-Isidore, Liber de Ortu et Obitu Patriarcharum; a Eucharist miracle; Pseudo-Caesarius, De Tribus Habitaculis Animae;…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5368]/040-002051212

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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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 150 x 100 mm.

Foliation: ff. 64 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Johannes Graunge, owned in the 16th or 17th century: his ownership inscription on f. 1r: ‘Johannes Graunge me possedet’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 170).

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, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 262.

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. 456.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England