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Harley MS 6577

Record Id:

040-002052426

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002052426

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x000065

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 6577

Title:

Copia bulle indulgenciarum concessarum in festo corporis christi; Pseudo-Augustine, De visitatione infirmorum; Epistola sancti Ignatii ad mariam Christiferam; Epistola beate marie ad sancti ignatium; Jean Gerson, De consolatione theologiae; Gregory the Great, De cura pastoralis; Bona Expositio Orationis Dominicae; Divisio Symboli Apostoli; Innocent III, De miseria humanae conditionis; Gregory the Great, Homilies

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-10v: Pseudo-Augustine (here attributed), De visitatione infirmorum [here entitled: ‘de consolatione infirmorum’] (On the Visitation of the Sick).

f. 46r: A letter of St Ignatius to the Virgin Mary and her reply (‘Epistola sancti Ignatii ad mariam Christiferam’; ‘Epistola beate marie ad sancti ignatium’).

ff. 11r-46r: Johannes von Dambach, De consolatione theologiae (On the Consolation of Theology).

ff. 46v-90r: Gregory the Great (b. c. 540, d. 604), De cura pastoralis (On Pastoral Care).

ff. 90r-96r: Bona Expositio Orationis Dominicae (Good Exposition on the Lord’s Prayer).

ff. 96r-97r: Divisio symboli apostoli (Division of the Apostles’ Creed).

ff. 97r-101r: Pope Innocent III (b. 1160/61, d. 1216), De miseria humanae conditionis (On the Wretchedness of the Human Condition).

ff. 101v-170v: Gregory the Great, 40 homilies, with a table of contents and preface.

The manuscript contains a number of additions:

f. 1v: A table of contents, added in the 15th century; Latin excerpts attributed to Anselm of Canterbury (b. c. 1033, d. 1109) and Jacobus de Voragine (d. 1298), added in the 15th century.

ff. 2r-3r: Copia bulle indulgenciarum concessarum in festo corporis christi (Copy of a Bull Granted on the Feast of Corpus Christi); Ratification of the indulgences of Urban IV, Martin V and Eugenius IV for the observers of Corpus Christi by the Council of Basel, added in the 15th century.

ff. 3r-4v: Theological and biblical excerpts, added in the 15th century.

ff. 170v, 171v: Excerpts from Bernard of Clairvaux (b. 1090, d. 1153) and Augustine of Hippo, added in the 15th century.

f. 170r: An erased Latin inscription: ‘Omnibus ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit’; an excerpt from Bede the Venerable (b. 673/4, d. 735), ‘Ne indignemini fratres,si mali florens in hoc mundo et vos patimini’; and Latin saying: ‘Dum sumus in mundo vivamus corde jocundo’, added in the 15th century.

Decoration:

Small initials in red throughout the manuscript.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002052426

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 6577 : Copia bulle indulgenciarum concessarum in festo corporis christi; Pseudo-Augustine, De visitatione infirmorum; Epistola sancti…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[6582]/040-002052426

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:

1454

End Date:

1454

Date Range:

1454

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper and parchment.

Dimensions: 210 x 145 mm.

Foliation: ff. 171 (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the end); f. 1 is formed of a paper leaf that has been pasted against a parchment leaf.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600. British Museum binding.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

'Radulphus James,' written in 1454: added a colophon with his name and the year 1454 to ff. 46r, 90r, 96r, 97r, and 170v: ‘finitus per Radulphum James presbiterum anno domini Jhesu M^o cccc^o liiij^o’.

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:

Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 377.

Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I: The Text, p. 147 (no. 843); II: The Plates, pl. 545.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Gerson, Jean Charlier, scholar, reformer, poet and Chancellor of the University of Paris, 1361-1429
Gregory I, Saint, Pope; also known as 'the Great', c 540-604,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121451132,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100184667
Innocent III, Pope, 1160/61-1216,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122769169,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/16017787
Pseudo-Augustine of Hippo,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000007738148X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/7386286

Places:

England