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Harley MS 6511

Record Id:

040-002052360

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002052360

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 6511

Title:

'Nota sex tantum casus', a treatise adapted from Raymond of Peñafort's Summa de casibus poenitentiae

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 5r-50v: 'Nota sex tantum casus', a Latin treatise adapted from Raymond of Peñafort's Summa de casibus poenitentiae.

The manuscript contains various additions:

ff. 1r-1v: An exposition on the mass, beginning 'Missa ideo [sic] vocatur quia missa est pro nobis hostia ad deum placandum'; added in the 14th century in an (?) Italian script.

ff. 2v-4v: A table of contents (ff. 2v-4v); added in the 14th century [one bifolio (ff. 3r-4r) was replaced in the 15th century.

f. 50v: A description of the Fourth Council of the Lateran from the annals of Reiner, prior of the Benedictine house of St Jacob in Liège, in the year 1215; added in the 14th/15th century.

f. 51r: A form of absolution for excommunication, instructing one to recite Psalm 50 (Miserere mei), the Gloria Patri, Kyrie, Pater Noster, a prayer beginning with ‘Deus, cui proprium est', and a formula for lifting the censure of excommunication; added in the 14th/15th century.

f. 52v: Inscriptions in Italian on weights and measures, beginning: ‘lostaio delcomune pesa libre’; added in the 14th/15th century.

f. 52v: The prayer Anima Christi introduced by the indulgence: ‘Dominus Johannes papa .xxij. pontificatur fui anno .xxiiij. concessit cuilibet totiens quotiens dixerit hanc oracionem peccatorum criminalium tria milia dierum enie et peccatorum venialium mille annos’; added in the 14th/15th century.

Decoration:

Numerous initials in red, occasionally with pen-flourishing in brown. Rubrics in red. Paragraph marks in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002052360

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 6511 : 'Nota sex tantum casus', a treatise adapted from Raymond of Peñafort's Summa de casibus poenitentiae

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[6516]/040-002052360

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Italian
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1349

Date Range:

1st half of the 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 230 x 150 mm (text space: 165 x 110 mm, in 2 columns).

Foliation: ff. 52 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 at the end).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house. Gold-tooled sprinkled brown leather over wooden boards.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Italy.

Provenance:

? Andrea di Cione di Arcangelo (d. 1368), also known as Orcagna: his name in a 14th-century inscription on f. 52v: ‘mess. And(r)ea di cione’.

John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; acquired from him in 1726 for the Harley collection (see Wright and Wright, Diary (1966), p. 339 n. 12; 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, p. 371.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 339 n. 12.

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:

Raymond of Peñafort, Saint, Dominican friar and canonist, ?1175-1275

Places:

Italy