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Harley MS 5369
- Record Id:
- 040-002051215
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051215
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00037a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5369
- Title:
- Tabula super methodias Fulgentii; Gesta Romanorum; Pseudo-Robert Grosseteste, Summa Justitiae; collection of sermons
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-37v: A work entitled 'Tabula super methodias Fulgentii', beginning: 'Abraham pares in merito fuerunt'; perhaps the 'table' belonging to In Mythologias Fulgentii ex Ridevallo attributed to the Carmelite friar Joannes [Johannes] Tompsonus [Tompson] in Thomas Tanner, Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica Londini (London: Bowyer, 1748), p. 718.
ff. 38r-100v: Gesta Romanorum, beginning: 'Exemplum bonum de uno rege qui habebat filiam nimis pulcram nomine Atlantam'.
ff. 101r-196r: Pseudo-Robert Grosseteste [here not attributed], Summa Justitiae, beginning: 'Quia iustitia fidelium est declinare a malo'.
ff. 196v-273v: Collection of sermons, beginning: 'Convertimini ad me in toto corde'; with an alphabetical subject index (ff. 270v-273v).
Decoration:
Large (4-line) puzzle initial in red and blue with full border and, in the lower margin, two shields with red crosses on dark [? gold or silver] grounds (f. 38r). Large puzzle initial in red and blue with a shield with a red cross on a dark ground and a full bar border (f. 196v). Large (4-line) initial in blue with red pen-flourishing and partial bar border in red and blue (f. 1r). Smaller initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue. Cadels.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051215", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5369: Tabula super methodias Fulgentii; Gesta Romanorum; Pseudo-Robert Grosseteste, Summa Justitiae; collection of sermons" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051215 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5369 : Tabula super methodias Fulgentii; Gesta Romanorum; Pseudo-Robert Grosseteste, Summa Justitiae; collection of sermons - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5371]/040-002051215
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1425
- End Date:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 165 x 115 mm (text space: 130 x 80 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 273 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); f. 1*, 1 are parchment leaves that originally served as flyleaves; 4 blank parchment leaves after f. 100.
Collation: Indicated by leaf signatures and catchwords; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Script: Gothic cursive; written by more than one scribe.
Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; rebound on 22 December 1965.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
South-East England (Canterbury).
Provenance:
George Penshurst, abbot of St Augustine, Canterbury from 1430 to 1457: according to Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 273.
The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury: its ownership inscriptions onf. 1*verso: 'De librario sancti Augustini ex Cantuariensis'; and f. 2r: 'liber de librario s[anc]ti Augusti[ni] Cant[uariensis]' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 95).
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. 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:
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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. 262 (no. 5369).
Montague Rhodes James, The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903), p. 521.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 44.
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. 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, 95, 273.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Canterbury, England
Southeastern England