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Harley MS 6628

Record Id:

040-002052477

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002052477

MDARK:

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LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 6628

Title:

St Augustine of Hippo, De Haeresibus; Petrus Wiechs of Rosenheim, Roseum memoriale divinorum eloquiorum; Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologiae veritatis; Duns Scotus, Commentary on Lombard's Sententiae (excerpt); Pseudo-Bonaventura, Compendium metricum super libros Sententiarum; Articuli in quibus magister non tenetur communiter a doctoribus; Versus super quatuor libros sententiarum; Decretum abbreviatum; Werner von Schussenried, Decretum versificatum; Auctoritates Aristotelis (florilegium); A diagram and tracts on Philosophia; A diagram and tracts on Anima; Hieronymus of Sancto Marco, Opusculum universalis mundi machina

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 2r-2v: St Augustine of Hippo, De Haeresibus.

ff. 3r-37r: Petrus Wiechs of Rosenheim, Prior of the the Benedictine abbey of Melk (r. 1418-1423), Roseum memoriale divinorum eloquiorum (‘Biblia versificata’).

ff. 39r-183r: Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologiae veritatis.

ff. 184r-187r: Duns Scotus, an exerpt with seven Quaestiones from his Commentary on Lombard's Libri Quattuor Sententiarum('Sequuntur Aliqua communica circa prologum Sententiarum dubia').

ff. 188r-205v: Pseudo-Bonaventura, Compendium metricum super libros Sententiarum: a versification of Peter Lombard’s Libri Quattuor Sententiarum, here attributed to Bonaventura (f. 205v: ‘per sanctum Bonaventuram ordinis Minorum’).

f. 206r: A list of articles of Peter Lombard’s Libri Quattuor Sententiarum (‘Articuli in quibus magister non tenetur communiter a doctoribus’).

ff. 206v-208r: Versus super quatuor libros sententiarum.

ff. 209r-222v: Decretum abbreviatum, perhaps excerpted from the collection Modus legendi abreviaturas in utroque jure.

ff. 222v-225r: ? Werner von Schussenried (fl. 1206-1207), also Wernerus Sortensis, Decretum versificatum, perhaps excerpted the compilation Modus legendi abreviaturas in utroque jure.

ff. 234r-258r: Auctoritates Aristotelis; a florilegium of excerpts from philosophical and other works.

ff. 259v-270v: A diagram showing the subdivision of ‘Philosophia’ followed by a compilation of excerpts on philosophy.

ff. 270v-273v: A diagram showing the subdivision of ‘Anima’ followed by a compilation of excerpts on the soul; probably excerpted from a copy of the Copulata super tres libros De anima Aristotelis of Lambertus de Monte Domini (b. c. 1430/1435, d. 1499), also known as Lambert of Cologne; printed in 1490.

ff. 274r-293v: Hieronymus of Sancto Marco, Opusculum universalis mundi machina; printed in 1505.

The manuscript contains a number of later additions:

ff. 1r-1v: Proverbs in Latin and a verse in Middle English (‘As naked to ye world wee came / soe hence must naked goe / And here have but one charges borne / by labor care and woe’), added by different hands in the 16th century.

ff. 37v-38v, f. 39r (lower margin): An English tract on grace and virtues, added by a 16th-century owner (‘wee bee Justified and saved by only grace’).

ff. 183r-183v: A Latin verse and English theological citations ('Schisme is a separation'), added by different 16th-century hands

Decoration:

Medium and small black initials highlighted in red and small red or blue initials, sometimes with blue and/or filigree penwork decoration; 1 red initial with foliate penwork decoration on f. 274r.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002052477

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 6628 : St Augustine of Hippo, De Haeresibus; Petrus Wiechs of Rosenheim, Roseum memoriale divinorum eloquiorum; Hugh Ripelin of…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[6633]/040-002052477

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1500

End Date:

1524

Date Range:

1st quarter of the 16th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 140 x 115 mm

Foliation: ff. 293 (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end); 1 unfoliated paper leaf between f. 183 and f. 184 (f. [184a]); 1 unfoliated paper stub between f. 55 and f. 56; all quires have been mounted on paper guards.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house: re-bound on 12 December 1963.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Germany.

An unknown (?) Franciscan scribe, wrote ff. 39-183 in 1504: a colophon on f. 183r: ‘Explicit compendium theologie ut fertur sancte Thome quibusdam [...] in die sancti Antonij confessoris ordinis fratrum minorum Anno domini 1504’; the scribe’s affiliation with the Franciscan order is suggested by the colophon and his additions from the writings of Duns Scotus, Pseudo-Bonaventura, and Hieronymus of Sancto Marco, an Italian Franciscan friar; ff. 2, 184-293v were written in the same hand; the rest of the manuscript probably is contemporary. Although the manuscript’s place of production previously has been located to England on the basis of its early English ownership (Watson, Dated and Datable Manuscripts (1979), p. 147), its contents (many of the manuscript’s texts had previously been unidentified) suggest that a German origin is more likely.

Unknown 16th-century English owners: added Latin proverbs and an English verse to ff. 1r-1v; English texts on grace and virtues to ff. 37v-38v, f. 39r; a Latin verse possibly excepted from Robert Green’s Farewell to Folly (1591) quotations from St Augustine about the definition of schism and schismatics and other theological excerpts to ff. 183r-183v; a Protestant owner crossed out sections about Purgatory and papal indulgences (ff. 171v-172r, 173v).

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 381.

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. 844); II: The Plates, pl. 900.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England
Germany

Related Material:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 381.