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London. British Library, Harley MS 658

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Source
The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
Library
London. British Library
Shelfmark
  • British Library, Harley MS 658
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Language
  • Latin
Title
  • Glossed Gospel of St John; Peter of Poitiers, Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi ; Theological and computistical tracts; Richard of St Victor, Commentary on Joel and Nahum
Agent
  • Preferred form
    • Richard de Saint-Victor (1110?-1173)
    Original form
    • Richard of Saint-Victor, d 1173, Prior of the Augustinian abbey of St Victor, Paris
    Other form
    • Ricardus de Sancto Victore
    • RICARDUS DE SANCTO VICTORE
    • Richardus Sancti Victoris (1110?-1173)
    • Richardus de Sancto Victore
    • Ricardus
    • Richardus Sancti Victoris
    • Richardus de S. Victore
    • Richard de Saint-Victor (1110?-1173)
    • Richard de Saint-Victor
    • Author: Richardus, de Sancto Victore
    • Richard of St. Victor
    • Richard of Saint-Victor OSA
    • Richard of Saint-Victor OSA (attrib.)
    • Richard, of St. Victor, -1173
    • Richardus de Sancto Victore, 1110-1173
    • Justin
    • Richard von St. Viktor
    • Richard of St. Victor (-1173)
    • Richard, of St. Victor (-1173)
    • Richardus
    • Richardus de Sancto Victore, ?-1173, C.R.S.A.
    • Richardus de Sancto Victore, C.R.S.A., ?-1173 > , co-autor
    • Richardus de Sancto Victore - 1110 - 1173 - auteur
    • Magister Riccardus
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  • Preferred form
    • Pierre de Poitiers (1130?-1205)
    Original form
    • Peter of Poitiers, c 1130-1205, Chancellor of Paris
    Other form
    • Pierre de Poitiers (1130?-1205)
    • Petrus Pictaviensis
    • Petrus Pictavensis
    • Petrus Pictaviensis (112.?-1205)
    • Pictavensis
    • PETRUS PICTAVENSIS, cancellarius ecclesiae Parisiensis
    • Pseudo - Petrus Pictaviensis
    • Peter of Poitiers
    • Peter, of Poitiers, approximately 1130-1205
    • Petrus <Pictaviensis, Cancellarius>
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  • Preferred form
    • Gilbert de la Porrée (107.?-1154)
    Original form
    • Gilbert of Poitiers, c 1075-1154, Bishop of Poitiers
    Other form
    • Gislebertus Porretanus
    • GILBERTUS PORRETANUS
    • Gilbertus Porretanus
    • Gilbertus Porretanus (107.?-1154)
    • Gilbert de la Porrée (107.?-1154)
    • Gilberti Porretani
    • Gilbertus Porretanus ep. Pictaviensis
    • Gilbert de la Porrée
    • Gilbert de la Porrée 107.?-1154
    • Gilbert, de La Porrée, bisbe, ca. 1075-1154
    • Gilbert, de La Porrée, Bishop, ca. 1075-1154
    • Gilbert de La Porrée, Obispo
    • Author: Gilbertus, Porretanus
    • Gilbert de la Porree
    • Gilbert, de La Porrée, approximately 1075-1154
    • Gilbertus<Porretanus>
    • Gilbert de La Porrée (approximately 1075-1154)
    • Gilbert de la Porrée (1076-1154)
    • Gilbertus Porretanus, 1142-1154
    • Gilbert de la Porrée - ca. 1080 - 1154 - auteur glossen
    • Gilbert de la Porrée - ca. 1080 - 1154 - auteur
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  • Preferred form
    • Étienne Langton (1150?-1228)
    Original form
    • Langton, Stephen, d 1228, Archbishop of Canterbury
    Other form
    • Stephanus Langton
    • Langton, Stephanus (1150?-1228)
    • Stephanus Langton( ?)
    • Étienne Langton
    • [STEFANUS LANGTON]
    • Etienne Langton
    • Langton, Étienne (1150?-1228)
    • STEPHANUS LANGTON card.
    • STEPHANUS LANGTON, card.
    • Author: Langton, Stephanus
    • Langton, Stephen
    • Langton, Stephen (1150?-1228)
    • Stephen Langton
    • Langton, Stephen, -1228
    • Stephen Langton (1155-1228)
    • Langton, Étienne (1150?-1228) > Archévêque
    • Étienne Langton (v. 1150 - 1228), Archevêque de Canterbury et cardinal
    • Stephen Langton - ca. 1155 - 1228 - auteur (dubium)
    • Stephen Langton - ca. 1155 - 1228 - auteur
    • Stephen Langton - ca. 1155 - 1228 - auteurauteur (dubium)
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Description
  • This manuscript contains a miscellany of study aids for the Bible, bound together with a collection of scientific, poetic and theological diagrams. It includes the Gospel of St John with glosses, the Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi (A Compendium of History in the Genealogy of Christ) by Peter of Poitiers (d. 1215) and the Commentary on the Old Testament Books of Joel and Nahum by Richard of St Victor (b. 1110, d. 1173). Contents: ff. 3r-32r: The Gospel of St John with marginal and interlinear glosses by Gilbert of Poitiers (b. 1076, d.1154). f. 32v: Six theological questiones in a 13th-century hand. ff. 33r-38v: Peter of Poitiers, Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi . ff. 39r-121v: A series of diagrams on theological and scholastic themes followed by a collection of theological and computistical tracts, including, among other texts, a Commentary on the Patriarchs, sermons and a collection of materials for the composition of sermons (ff. 42v-52r), an anonymous computistical treatise (ff. 53r-56v); an extract from the Moralium Dogma Philosophorum (The Morals of the Philosophers' dogma) (ff, 75v-78v) and Stephen Langton (b. c. 1165, d. 1228)'s Commentary on Isaiah (ff. 83r-119r). ff. 122r-163v: Richard of St Victor, Commentary on Joel and Nahum , beginning: ‘Incipit Ioel propheta. Iohel filius Fatuel in ordine prophetarum secundus’. Decoration:A chronological table of kings of Judea and Israel (f. 39r), a schematic plan of the city of Jerusalem and its surroundings (f. 39v), a diagram of the brain and humours (f. 40r), of the virtues (f. 40r), vices (f. 40v), of the muses (f. 40v), of the soul (f. 41r); a diagram-taxonomy of arts and sciences (f. 41r); a diagram of metrical feet (f. 41v); a tree of consanguinity (f. 41v); 2 large initials in red with minor penwork decoration (f. 3r). Small initials in red or blue, with pen-flourishing in the alternate colour. Simple initials in red, green or blue, occasionally with some penwork decoration in the same or an alternate colour. Green or red paragraph marks. 2 large puzzle initials in red and blue (ff. 122r, 123r). Some large and numerous smaller initials in red, blue or green, occasionally with reserved line or some penwork decoration.
Place
  • Preferred form
    • France
    Original form
    • France, Europe
    Other form
    • France
    • France (Paris ? Fontainebleau ?)
    • France.
    • France (?)
    • Lieu de copie : France ( ?) : cf. Hans-Collas ― Schandel, p. 327
    • France ?
    • France -- 16e siècle
    • Frankreich
    • França
    • Francia
    • Frankrijk
    • Abbaye de Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Abadia de Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Abtei Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Abbey of Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Abadía de Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Abdij van Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Région de la Loire (Abbaye de Fleury ?)
    • Loire Region (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • Regió del Loira (Abadia de Fleury ?)
    • Región del Loira (Abadía de Fleury ?)
    • France (Abbaye de Fleury ?)
    • França (Abadia de Fleury?)
    • Francia (Abadía de Fleury?)
    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • Frankreich (Abtei Fleury?)
    • Frankrijk (Abdij van Fleury?)
    • France (est : Lorraine ?)
    • França (est: Lorena?)
    • Ostfrankreich (Lothringen?)
    • Eastern France (Lorraine?)
    • Francia (este: Lorena?)
    • Lothringen
    • Lorena
    • Lotharingen
    • Lorraine
    • França (Borgonya?)
    • France (Burgundy?)
    • Francia (Borgoña)
    • France (Bourgogne ?)
    • Frankrijk (Bourgondië?)
    • France (Bretagne ?)
    • França (Bretanya?)
    • Frankreich (Bretagne?)
    • France (Brittany?)
    • Francia (Bretaña)
    • Frankrijk (Bretagne?)
    • France (ouest : Bretagne ?)
    • Western France (Brittany?)
    • França (oest: Bretanya?)
    • Francia (oeste: Bretaña?)
    • Frankrijk (westen) (Bretagne?)
    • Westfrankreich: Bretagne?
    • Bretagne
    • Bretanya
    • Bretaña
    • Brittany
    • Probably the Loire region
    • France: Auxerre or Brittany
    • France: Fleury. vicinity of Paris (Saint-Denis?) (Bischoff)
    • France: Ile-de-France (Sens?)
    • France: Fleury; Reims?
    • France (Southern France?)
    • France: Fleury
    • France: probably Auxerre
    • France: evidently Eastern France
    • Central- or southern France
    • France, Vienne
    • [France]
    • Paris (?)
    • France (Paris?) or Flanders
    • France (3rd part)
    • Strassburg (probably)
    • Paris (?) or Tours (?)
    • France (Normandy?)
    • Rouen (?) or Paris (?)
    • France: Champagne, Burgundy or Centre
    • Lyon or Luxeuil (?)
    • France (Besançon?)
    • France (Paris?)
    • France, Northern (probably)
    • Probably Eastern France
    • St. Denis near Paris (monastery) (?)
    • Tours (?)
    • France (possibly near the court)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • [Provence?]
    • France, East (?)
    • France, Northeast?
    • France, Pontigny (or Paris?)
    • France, North?
    • France, Paris?
    • France, Diocese of Limoges?
    • France, Auxerre or area
    • France, Burgundy?
    • France, Brittany or Paris?
    • France, Angers?
    • France, Normandy?
    • France, East?
    • France, Bourges?
    • France, Anjou?
    • France, Northwest?
    • France, Tours?
    • France (probably Paris)
    • SW France?
    • FR
    • [FR]
    • Frankreich (Angers?)
    • Frankrijk (?)
    • Gallia
    • Gallia (Frankrijk)
    • Gallia? (Frankrijk?)
    • Frankreich (I.)
    • Frankreich (III.)
    • Frankreich (III)
    • Frankreich (II)
    • Frankreich (I)
    • I./III. Frankreich
    • II. Frankreich
    • Frankreich (Ergänzung)
    • [Frankrijk]
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  • Preferred form
    • England (United Kingdom)
    Original form
    • England
    Other form
    • Angleterre
    • Angleterre (?)
    • Angleterre.
    • Angleterre ?
    • Anglaterra
    • Inglaterra
    • Engeland
    • Angleterre (Salisbury ?)
    • Anglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • Inglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • England (Salisbury?)
    • [Oxford?]
    • [England]
    • England, Norwich?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's Abbey?
    • England, Cornwall?
    • England, St. Albans?
    • England, North?
    • England, York?
    • England, Witham?
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • England, Reading or Leominster
    • England, Cirencester?
    • England, Sherborne?
    • England, Worcester?
    • England, Bury St. Edmunds?
    • England, Tewkesbury?
    • England, East Anglia?
    • England, Peterborough?
    • England, Mercia?
    • England, Canterbury, Christ Church?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's?
    • England, Winchester?
    • England, Oxford?
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • England and Netherlands
    • England, Canterbury?
    • England, West Midlands?
    • England, London?
    • England, Crowland?
    • England, Wessex?
    • England, Reading?
    • England, Northeast?
    • England, Southeast?
    • England, Ely?
    • England, Winchester or Hereford?
    • England, Salisbury?
    • England, Oxford or Salisbury
    • German (but made in England)
    • England, South East (?)
    • England. Peterborough (?) or Lincoln (?)
    • Hereford?, England
    • England, Durham ?
    • England, Durham?
    • England, probably Durham
    • England, Oxford (?)
    • England, possibly Oxford
    • England (?Oxford)
    • England, Durham (?)
    • England, London/Westminster
    • Unknown, possibly London and Cambridge
    • Royal Chancery, London; Cambridge
    • Engeland (?)
    • England (II)
    • I. England
    • [Engeland]
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Rights
  • Public domain in most countries other than the UK
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