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Harley MS 6515
- Record Id:
- 040-002052364
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052364
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x000027
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6515
- Title:
- Collection of theological texts
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1*r: list of contents.
ff. 1r-18v: Life of St basil.
ff. 19r-38v: Pseudo-Eusebius, Vita et Transitus Sancti Hieronymi (The Life and Passing of St Jerome).
ff. 39r-40v: Pseudo-Augustine, Sermones ad fratres in eremo (Sermons to the brothers in the desert), no. 57.
ff. 41r-66v: Gregory the Great, Commentary on the Song of Songs.
ff. 67r-105v: Gregory the Great, De cura pastorali (On Pastoral Care), with an added late 14th century prologue and table of contents (ff. 67r-68v).
f. 106r: Bernard of Clairvaux, letter to a nun of St Mary’s abbey, Troyes.
ff. 106v-108r: Extracts from Peter Damian, Jerome, Ambrosius, and Nicholas of Lyra on Solomon.
ff. 1*v, 108v are blank.
Decoration:
Large historiated initial in colours and gold with a standing bishop (Basil) (f. 1; perhaps altered). Large initial in red with reserved designs and blue and purple penwork decoration (ff. 19, 39). Large puzzle initials in blue and red with red and purple pen-flourishing and pale brown wash (f. 41). Large initials in red with reserved lines and purple pen-flourishing (f. 67), or in blue with red pen-flourishing (f. 67v). Initials in blue or red with blue, red, or purple pen-flourishing. Capitals marked in red and yellow.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052364", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6515: Collection of theological texts" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052364 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6515 : Collection of theological texts - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6520]/040-002052364
- 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:
- 1275
- End Date:
- 1324
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 210 x 145 mm (140 x 100 mm to 185 x 110 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 108 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 4 ruled unwritten leaves after f. 1* and 2 after f. 18 + 4 partly ruled unfoliated unwritten parchment leaves after f. 66 + 3 ruled unfoliated unwritten parchment leaves after f. 108 + 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown mottled calf with gold fillets.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy.
Provenance:
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Edward Harley on 22 June 1726 (see Diary 1966; Wright 1972).
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. 1*).
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), no. 6515.
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. 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. 162-63.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)