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Harley MS 5395

Record Id:

040-002051241

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051241

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000394

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5395

Title:

Isaac the Syrian, Liber de contemptu mundi; Caesarius of Arles, Sermons; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Lamentatio in passionem domini; James of Milan [Pseudo-Bonaventure], Stimulus amoris

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-27v: St Isaac the Syrian (fl. 7th century), Bishop of Nineveh, Liber de contemptu mundi; here entitled: ‘Liber ysaac abbatis syrie Sermo primus quomodo anima possit quiescere in deo que de accessu eius a deum qui creavit illam Et de contemptu mundi videlicet honoris divitiarum que voluptatum’.

ff. 28r-46r: Caesarius of Arles (b. 468/470, d. 542), Sermons [here: ‘Liber omeliarium’].

ff. 46v-49v: Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux [here attributed; also attributed to Bernard in Add MS 18318], Lamentatio in passionem domini [here: ‘stimulus amoris dei’], beginning: ‘O quam vehementi amplexu amplexisti me O bone Iesu’.

ff. 50r-51v: Vita beati petri de murano qui fuit papa [Pope Celestine V], beginning: ‘Quanta autem in ibi in locis solitarijs orridis que arridis que fere hominibus inaccesis vestium asperitatem’.

ff. 52r-73r: James of Milan (fl. 13th century); Pseudo-Bonaventure [here attributed], Stimulus amoris.

Decoration:

Large and small red initials, some with minor penwork decoration, and small (one-line) initials highlighted in yellow throughout the manuscript. Paraph markers in red or brown ink. Decorated boxes in brown or red ink for catchwords. A few manicules in brown ink added to the margins.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051241

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5395 : Isaac the Syrian, Liber de contemptu mundi; Caesarius of Arles, Sermons; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Lamentatio in passionem…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5397]/040-002051241

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: Paper.

Dimensions: 220 x 145 mm.

Foliation: ff. 73 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 at the end); paper or parchment strips used for repairs on ff. 1r, 10r, 11r, 11v, 12v, 20r; 2 unfoliated paper stubs after f. 73.

Script: Italian Gothic rotunda.

Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Italy.

Provenance:

An erased ownership inscription, partially torn off, in the lower margin of f. 1r.

John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer: purchased from him by Harley on 22 June 1726 (see 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), III (1808), p. 264.

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)

Names:

Caesarius of Arles, Saint, c 470-542,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118454017,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/102305735
Isaac the Syrian, Saint, Bishop of Nineveh, 7th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115848125
Jacobus Mediolanensis, fl 13th century,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/7011404
Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux
Pseudo-Bonaventura

Places:

Italy