London. British Library, Harley MS 3145

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  • Latin
Title
  • Petrus Comestor, Pseudo-Petrus Comestor, Maurice of Sully, Geoffrey Babio, Sermones ; Alain de Lille, De Sex Alis Cherubim ; Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (excerpt)
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  • Preferred form
    • Isidore de Séville (saint, 0560?-0636)
    Original form
    • Isidore of Seville, c 560-636, Saint, Bishop of Seville
    Other form
    • Isidorus Hispalensis (saint ; 0560?-0636)
    • S. Isidorus Hispalensis
    • Isidorus Hispalensis
    • Isidore de Séville (saint ; 0560?-0636)
    • ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS (s.)
    • ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS
    • Sancti Isidori Hispalensis
    • ISIDORE
    • Isidore de Séville (0560?-0636 ; saint)
    • Isidorus
    • Isidore de Séville
    • Isidori Hispalensis
    • Isidori
    • ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS (s)
    • Isidorus Hispalensis (?),
    • Isidore (Saint), de Séville
    • Isidore de Séville saint 0560?-0636
    • Isidor, de Sevilla, sant, ca. 560-636
    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636
    • Isidoro, Santo, Arzobispo de Sevilla
    • Isidorus Hispalensis 560-636
    • Isidorus van Sevilla
    • Author: Isidorus, Hispalensis
    • Isidore
    • Isidore of Seville
    • Isodore of Seville
    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636
    • Isidorus Hispalensis, 560?-636
    • Isidore de Séville (saint ; (0560?-0636)
    • Isidorus<Hispalensis>
    • Isidorus Hispalensis, 560-636
    • Isidorus, Hispalensis, 560-636
    • Isidore de Séville (saint)
    • Isidorus <Hispalensis> (560-636)
    • Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636, author.
    • Divus Isidorus
    • Hisidorus Hispalensis
    • S. Isidorus
    • Isidorus Hispalensis episcopus
    • Isidorus Hispalensis santo
    • Isidorus : Hispalensis santo
    • Isidorus Episcopus Hispalensis
    • Isidore of Seville, Saint (-636)
    • Isidore de Séville (0560-0636)
    • Isidore de Séville (0560-0636) > Père de l'Eglise
    • Isidorus, Hispalensis (ca. 560-636)
    • Isidoro, Santo, Arzobispo de Sevilla, ca. 560-636
    • Isidorus <Hispalensis>
    • Isidoro de Sevilha, Santo, ca 560-636
    • Isidoro de Sevilha, Santo, ca 560-636 > , co-autor
    • Isidorus Hispalensis - ca. 570 - 636 - auteur
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  • Preferred form
    • Pierre le Mangeur (1100?-1179?)
    Original form
    • Petrus Comestor, c 1100-c 1179
    Other form
    • Pierre le Mangeur (1100?-1179?)
    • Pierre le Mangeur
    • Pierre Comestor
    • Petrus Comestor
    • PETRUS COMESTOR
    • Petrus Comestor (1100?-1179?)
    • Pierre Le Mangeur
    • Petrus Comestor (?)
    • Author: Petrus, Comestor
    • Peter Comestor
    • Pierre le Mangeur (1100?-1179)
    • Petrus Comestor (attrib.)
    • Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
    • Comestor, Peter
    • Petrus<Comestor>
    • Petrus <Comestor> (1100-1179)
    • Petrus Trecensis
    • Pierre le Mangeur, chancelier de l'Université de Paris (1100?-1179?)
    • Petrus, Comestor, 1100-1179
    • Petrus <Comestor>
    • Petrus, Comestor, 1100-1179 > , co-autor
    • Petrus Comestor - ca. 1100 - 1179 - auteur glossen
    • Petrus Comestor - ca. 1100 - 1179 - auteur
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  • Preferred form
    • Alain de Lille (11..-1202?)
    Original form
    • Alain de Lille, c 1128-1203
    Other form
    • Alanus de Insulis
    • Alain de Lille
    • Alanus ab Insulis (1115?-1202?)
    • Alanus ab Insulis (11..-1202?)
    • ALANUS DE INSULIS
    • Alanus ab Insulis
    • Alanus (Magister)
    • Author: Alanus, ab Insulis
    • Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille)
    • Alanus<ab Insulis>
    • Alanus, ab Insulis, 1120-1202
    • Alain du Pui
    • Alanus <ab Insulis> (1120-1202)
    • Alanus
    • Lille, Alan, 1128-1202
    • Alan of Lille (b. c. 1128, d. c. 1202), theologian and poet
    • Alain de Lille (1116-1202/1203)
    • Alanus <ab Insulis>
    • Alanus, de Insulis, 1128-1203, O.Cist.
    • Alanus ab Insulis - ca. 1128 - 1202 - auteur
    • Alanus ab Insulis - ca. 1128 - 1202 - auteur (apocrief)
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  • Preferred form
    • Geoffroy Babion (1103?-1158)
    Original form
    • Geoffrey Babio du Louroux, 1136-1158, Archbishop of Bordeaux
    Other form
    • Gaufridus Babio
    • Gaufridus Babio (1103?-1158)
    • GAUFRIDUS BABIO
    • GAUFRIDUS BABIO, O.S.B.
    • Author: Galfredus, Babio
    • Geoffrey Babio du Louroux
    • Babion, Geoffroy.
    • Galfredus
    • Godefridus Babio, ?-1158, O.S.B.
    • Galfredus Babio - gest. 1158 - oorspronkelijke auteur
    • Galfredus Babio - gest. 1158 - auteur
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  • Preferred form
    • Pseudo-Petrus Comestor
    Original form
    • Pseudo-Petrus Comestor, Unspecified
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  • Preferred form
    • Maurice de Sully (1120?-1196)
    Original form
    • Maurice of Sully, c 1120-1196, Bishop of Paris
    Other form
    • Maurice de Sully (1120?-1196)
    • Maurice de Sully
    • Mauritius de Sulliaco
    • MAURITIUS DE SULLIACO, Parisiensis ep.
    • Mauricius de Sulliaco
    • Author: Mauritius, de Sulliaco
    • De Sully, Maurice, 1120?-1196
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Description
  • This 12th-century manuscript was written at and owned by the Cluniac Priory of Wenlock in Shropshire. It contains a large collection of sermons that is attributed to the French theologian Peter Comestor (d. 1178). The collection, however, also contains anonymous sermons, and sermons that have been attributed to other authors, including Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636), the French theologian Alain de Lille (b. c. 1128, d. 1202/1203), Maurice of Sully (1120-1196), Bishop of Paris, and Geoffrey Babio (b. 1136, d. 1158), Archbishop of Bordeaux. The fact that the manuscript almost entirely consists of sermons by 12th-century French authors, is indicative of Wenlock Priory’s close connection with the Cluniac priory of La Charité-sur-Loire and its mother house, the Abbey of Cluny. Wenlock Priory was founded between 1079 and 1082 at a former house for Benedictine nuns (the Abbey of St Milburga), as the first English dependency of La Charité-sur-Loire. Wenlock Priory’s first monks are thought to have come from La Charité-sur-Loire, which usually also nominated Frenchmen as abbots for the priory. Contents: ff. 1r-110r: Petrus Comestor and Pseudo-Petrus Comestor, Sermones (Sermons), beginning: ‘Ordo Sermonum Magistri Petri Manducatoris in Synodis’. ff. 110r-112r: Alain de Lille, De Sex Alis Cherubim (On the Six Wings of the Cherubim), beginning: ‘Prima ala: confessio non laudis’. ff. 112r-113v: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (Etymologies), Book 16, Chapters 25-26, beginning: ‘Ponderum ac mensurarum iuvat cognoscere modum’. ff. 113v-176v: Petrus Comestor and Pseudo-Petrus Comestor, Sermones (attributed to him in the explicit on f. 176v: ‘Expliciunt Sermones Magistri Petri Manducat[ori]’); the section, however, also includes at least 14 sermons by Maurice of Sully (ff. 126v-127v; 127v-128v; 128v-129v; ff. 130r-131r; 131r-132r; 139v-140v: 144r-145; 145r-146r; 146r-147r; 149v-150v; 152v-153v; 154v-156r; 160r-160v; 163v-164r) and one by Geoffrey Babio (ff. 161v-162v). f. 176v: A prayer to St Milburga: 'Hunc t[ibi] Myldb[ur]ga sc[ri]psi • mea c[ri]mina purga ; / Virgo deo digna • veniam m[ihi] posce benigna. / Et p[ro] mercede ; corpus req[ui]escat in ede. / Qui t[ibi] tollet eu[m] p[er]eat [v[el] sic sit] maledict[us] in evum ; / Corp[us] da[m]pnet[ur] ; s[ed] [vel ut] sp[iritu]s igne pietur.'The manuscript contains a number of additions:ff. 176v-177r: A table of contents, added in a 12th- or 13th-century script. f. 177r: An epitaph (‘Epitaphium huius auctoris’), added in a (?) 15th-century script. f. 177v: Latin verses, imperfect, include a reference St Milburga, added in a (?) 15th-century script.[f. 178v is empty]. Decoration:1 large initial in gold with penwork decoration in red and green (f. 1r). Medium and small initials in green, red or ochre, often with penwork decoration in the same or in one alternate colour, occasionally with a reserved design; some with pen-flourishing (f. 3v). Simple initials in red and green (f. 176v). Small initials highlighted in red. Rubrics and paraph markers in red. Manicules in brown ink added to margins throughout the manuscript.
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