London. British Library, Harley MS 2

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  • Middle English
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  • Elias of Evesham, ‘Quadrilogus’ Version of the Vita Beati Thome Archiepiscopi et Martiris ; Herbert of Bosham, Catalogus Eruditorum Beati Thomae ; Causa Exilii et Martirii ; Thomas Becket and Alexander III, Letters; Vita Sancti Wilhelmi [Guillelmi] Eboracensis Archiepiscopi ; Eustace of Faversham, Vita Sancti Edmundi Cantuariensis ; William of Malmesbury, De Gesta Pontificum (imperfect); Vita et Miracula Sancti Johannis Patriarche sive Eleemosynarii ; Pseudo-Gregory of Tours, Liber de Miraculis Beati Andreas Apostoli ; Vita Sancte Mariae Magdalenae cum Translatione Eiusdem ; Vita de Sancta Martha ; St Augustine, Sermo de Igne Purgatorii ; Innocent III, De Missarum Mysteriis ; St Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermones super Cantica Canticorum (Sermons: 44-58); Pseudo-Robert Grosseteste, De Effectibus Virtutum (imperfect and complete version with diagrams); De Aversione a Summo Bono
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    • Thomas Becket (saint, 1120-1170)
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    • Becket, Thomas, ?1120-1170, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury
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    • Thomas Cantuariensis
    • Author: Thomas, Becket
    • Thomas Becket
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    • Augustin (saint, 0354-0430)
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    • Augustine of Hippo, 354-430, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
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    • AUGUSTINUS (S.)
    • Ange Vergèce
    • Nicolas Mourmouris
    • Héphestion
    • Homère
    • Jean Dokeianos
    • Saint Augustin
    • Augustin (saint, 0354-0430)
    • AUGUSTIN, Saint
    • Augustinus (saint ; 0354-0430)
    • Augustinus
    • AUGUSTINI
    • Augustin (0354-0430 ; saint)
    • Augustinus Hipponensis
    • Saint Augustin
    • Augustin d'Hippone
    • Augustin (saint ; 0354-0430)
    • S. Augustinus
    • AUGUSTINUS HIPPONENSIS ep. (s.)
    • AUGUSTINUS (s.)
    • AUGUSTINUS
    • Augustin, S.
    • Augustin (sain ; 0354-0430)
    • AUGUSTINUS HIPPONENSIS
    • Augustinus (s.)
    • S. Augustinus Hipponensis
    • Augustinus Hiponnensis
    • Augustin
    • Sancti Augustini
    • Sanctus Augustinus
    • S. Augustinus (?)
    • S. AUGUSTINUS HIPPONENSIS
    • Augustinus episcopus
    • Augustini
    • Sancti Augustini
    • S. Augustin
    • [Augustinus]
    • [AUGUSTINUS]
    • Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis
    • Augustin (Saint)
    • Augustin saint 0354-0430
    • Agustí, sant, bisbe d'Hipona, 354-430
    • Agustín, Santo, Obispo de Hipona
    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • Augustinus, Aurelius, 354-430
    • Augustinus (heilige)
    • Author: Augustinus, Aurelius
    • Translator: Augustinus, Aurelius
    • Augustine
    • Augustine of Hippo
    • Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
    • Augustin (0354-0430 ; saint). Auteur des citations ou des fragments textuels
    • Augustine (attrib.)
    • St Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (354-430)
    • St Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (354-430), author
    • Pseudo Augustine
    • Pseudo Augustine (Quodvultdeus)
    • Pseudo Augustine (Patrick of Dublin)
    • Pseudo Augustine (Jeronimus)
    • St Augustine
    • Augustinus, Aurelius, Hipponensis, 354-430
    • Augustinus, Aurelius, Hipponensis, 354-430 (role)aut
    • Augustin (saint)
    • Augustinus, Aurelius
    • S. Augustin
    • Aurelius Augustinus (354-430)
    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, author,
    • Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430)
    • Augustine, of Hippo, Saint (354-430)
    • Augustin d’Hippone (0354-0430) > Docteur de l'Eglise
    • Augustin d’Hippone (0354-0430)
    • Augustin d’Hippone (0354-0430) > Evêque
    • Augustinus, Aurelius (354-430)
    • Agustín, Santo, Obispo de Hipona, 354-430
    • Agostinho, Santo, 354-430
    • Agostinho, Santo, 354-430 > , co-autor
    • Agostinho, Santo, 354-430 > , ant. bibliog.
    • Augustin (05.. ?-0604 ? ; saint)
    • Augustinus - auteur
    • Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis - 354 - 430 - auteur
    • Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis - 354 - 430 - oorspronkelijke auteur
    • Saint Augustin d'Hippone
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    • Guillaume de Malmesbury (1080?-1142?)
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    • William of Malmesbury, c 1080-1143
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    • GUILLELMUS MALMESBURIENSIS, O.S.B.
    • Guillaume de Malmesbury (1080?-1142?)
    • Guillelmus Malmesberiensis
    • Guillelmus Malmesburiensis
    • Willliam of Malmesbury (collected by)
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    • William, of Malmesbury, approximately 1090-1143
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    • Bernard de Clairvaux (saint, 1090?-1153)
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    • S. Bernardus
    • BERNARDUS CLARAEVALLENSIS (s.)
    • Bernardus Claraevallensis (saint ; 1090?-1153)
    • Bernardus Claraevallensis
    • Bernardus Claraevallensis,
    • Bernard
    • Bernard de Clairvaux (saint ; 1090?-1153)
    • S. Bernardus Clarevallensis
    • Bernard de Clairvaux
    • Bernard, de Clairvaux (S.)
    • Bernardus beatus
    • BERNARDUS CLARAEVALLENSIS
    • Bernardi Claraevallensis
    • Beati Bernardi
    • S. Bernardus [Claravallensis]
    • Bernardus
    • S. Bernardus Claraevallensis
    • Bernair
    • S. Bernardi
    • Bernardi
    • Sancti Bernardi [BERNARDUS CLARAEVALLENSIS]
    • BERNARDI abbati |BERNARDUS CLARAEVALLENSIS]
    • Bernard (Saint), abbé de Clairvaux
    • Bernard de Clairvaux, saint, 1090?-1153
    • Bernhard von Clairvaux
    • Bernardo de Claraval
    • Bernat de Claravall
    • Author: Bernardus, Claraevallensis
    • Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153
    • Bernard of Clairvaux
    • St. Bernard of Clairvaux
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    • St Bernard
    • Bernardus Claraevallensis, 1090-1153
    • Bernard (saint)
    • Bernhard von Clairvaux, Heiliger, 1090-1153
    • Bernardus<Claraevallensis>
    • Bernhard <von Clairvaux, Heiliger> (1090-1153)
    • Sant Bernhart
    • Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint (1090 or 1091-1153)
    • Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint (1090 or 1091-1153)
    • Bernardus (ca. 1090/91-1153)
    • Bernardo, Santo, 1090-1153
    • Bernhard, von Clairvaux, Heiliger, 1090-1153
    • Bernardus <Claraevallensis>
    • Bernardo, Santo, 1090-1153 > , co-autor
    • Bernardus Claraevallensis - 1090 - 1153 - auteur
    • Bernardus Claraevallensis - 1090 - 1153 - auteur (dubium)
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    • Innocent III (pape, 1160?-1216)
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    • Innocent III
    • Innocentius III
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    • Innocentius III papa
    • INNOCENTIUS III, papa (Lotharius Signiensis)
    • Innocent III, pape
    • Innocent III, pape, 1160-1216
    • Innocenci III, papa, 1160-1216
    • Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 61-1216
    • Innocentius III (paus)
    • Innocentius Papa, III. fl.1198/1216
    • Inocencio III, Papa
    • Author: Innocentius III, Papa
    • Innocentius III, Pont. Max.
    • Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 1161-1216
    • Innocent III (1160-1216 ; pape)
    • Innocent III (Lotharius de Segnis)
    • Innocent III (Lotharius de Segnis) (attrib.)
    • Innocentius III, paus, 1160?-1216
    • Innocent III (pape ; 1160-1216)
    • Innozenz III., Papst, 1160-1216
    • Innocentius III. Papa
    • Innozenz III.
    • Innozenz <III., Papst> (1160-1216)
    • Innocent III, Pope (1160 or 1161-1216)
    • Innocent III, né Lothaire de Segni, 176e pape de l'église Catholique de 1198 à 1216 (1160?-1216)
    • Innozenz
    • Innocentius <Papa, III.>
    • Igreja Católica, Papa 1179-1180 (Inocêncio III) > , co-autor
    • Igreja Católica, Papa 1179-1180 (Inocêncio III) > , compil.
    • Inocêncio III, Papa, 1198-1216
    • Innocentius Papa, III. - ca. 1160 - 1216 - auteur
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    • Alexandre III (pape, 11..-1181)
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    • ALEXANDER III, papa
    • Alexander III, Pope, -1181
    • Pope Alexander III, -1181
    • Alexandre III, pape
    • Igreja Católica, Papa 1159-1181 (Alexandre III)
    • Alexander Papa III - gest. 1181 - auteur
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    • Grégoire de Tours (saint, 0538-0594)
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    • Gregory of Tours, ?538-594, Bishop of Tours
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    • Gregorius Turonensis (saint ; 0538-0594)
    • S. Gregorius Turonensis
    • GREGORIUS TURONENSIS ep. (s.)
    • Gregorius Turonensis
    • GREGORIUS TURONENSIS
    • Grégoire de Tours
    • GREGOIRE DE TOURS
    • S. GREGORIUS TURONENSIS
    • Grégoire de Tours (saint ; 0538-0594)
    • Gregorius Turonensis,
    • Grégoire de Tours (0538-0594 ; saint)
    • Gregorio Turonensi
    • Gregorii Turonensis
    • Gregorii, Turonensis episcopi
    • Grégoire de Tours.
    • Georgius Florentinus Gregorius episcopus Turonensis
    • GREGORIUS TURONENSIS ep.
    • GREGORII ep. TURONENSIS
    • S. GREGORIUS TURONENSIS.
    • Grégoire de Tours saint 0538-0594
    • Gregori, de Tours, sant, 538-594
    • Gregorio de Tours, Santo
    • Gregorius Turonensis 538-594
    • Gregorius van Tours
    • Gregory, Saint, Bishop of Tours, 538-594
    • Author: Gregorius, Turonensis
    • Gregory of Tours
    • Gregory, Bishop of Tours, Saint, 538-594
    • Gregor <Tours, Bischof, Heiliger> (538-594)
    • Grégoire de Tours (saint) (538-594)
    • Gregorius <Turonensis>
    • Florenti Gregorii Turonici
    • Gregório de Tours, Santo, 538-594 > , co-autor
    • Gregorius Turonensis - 538 - 594 - auteur
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    • Elias Eveshamensis
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    • Elias of Evesham, fl 1200
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    • Herbert de Boseham (1120?-1194?)
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    • Peter Lombard, edited by Herbert of Bosham
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    • Eustace of Faversham, fl 1242-1244
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    • Pseudo-Robertus Grosseteste
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    • Pseudo-Robert Grosseteste, Unspecified
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Description
  • This manuscript contains ten parts that were written in England during the 2nd half of the 12th century or the 1st half of the 13th century and most likely were once part of different manuscripts (this, for example, is suggested by a quire mark (‘III’) on f. 257v). A (? late) 13th-century table of contents that lists all their contents indicates that the different parts were joined together soon after their production. These parts may have been written and bound together at the Augustinian abbey of Thornton-on-Humber in Lincolnshire, which certainly owned the manuscript by the 14th or 15th century. In the early 16th century, the manuscript was selected by Henry VIII for acquisition for the Royal Library and possibly annotated by him as well. The manuscript contains saints’ lives, sermons and an incomplete copy of the Gesta Pontificum Anglorum (Deeds of the Bishops of the English) by the Benedictine monk William of Malmesbury (b. c. 1080, d. 1143). The Life of St Edmund by Eustace of Faversham is linguistically interesting since it cites the saint’s last words (f. 94v) in Early Middle English. Contents: ff. 1r-69r: Elias of Evesham (fl. c. 1200), 'Quadrilogus' compilation of materials related to the life of St Thomas Becket, here entitled Vita Beati Thome Archiepiscopi et Martiris (Life of Thomas, Archbishop and Martyr). ff. 69r-71v: Herbert of Bosham (d. after 1189), Catalogus Eruditorum Beati Thomae (Catalogue of Teachers of St Thomas), beginning 'Et quoniam in historia hac de eruditis Thomae nunc domini et gloriosi'. ff. 71v-73vr: Causa Exilii et Martirii (Cause of Exile and Martyrdom), listing the Constitutions of Clarendon of 1164 that caused the conflict between Thomas Becket and Henry II (b. 1133, d. 1189). ff. 73v-75r: Letters sent by Thomas Becket (d. 1170), Archbishop of Canterbury, to a friend (ed. by Duggan, The Correspondence (2000), II, p. 238), and by Pope Alexander III (Rolando Bandinelli) (b. c. 1100, d. 1181) to Thomas Becket and other English clergymen. ff. 76r-87v: Anonymous, Vita Sancti Wilhelmi [Guillelmi] Eboracensis Archiepiscopi (Life of William, Archbishop of York), including a section of miracles (ff. 80v-87v). ff. 88r-97r: Eustace of Faversham (fl. 1242-1244), Vita Sancti Edmundi Cantuariensis (Life of St Edmund of Canterbury), composed c. 1242-44, begining 'Beatus Eadmundus Cantuariensis archiepiscopus ex piis parentibus Abendione genitus' [Quotes Edmund's last words in Middle English on f. 94v: 'Men seith gamen gamen goth in wombe, ac ich saie gamen gamen goth in hert']. ff. 98r-171r: William of Malmesbury, De Gesta Pontificum , Book I, Prologue of Book II, ends abruptly. ff. 172r-196r: Anonymous, Vita et Miracula Sancti Johannis Patriarche sive Eleemosynarii (The Life and Miracles of St John the Merciful, Patriarch [of Alexandria]). f. 197v: A quotation from Matthew 12:30 (‘ qui non est mecum contra me est ’), added in a (?) 13th-century script. ff. 198r-208v: Pseudo-Gregory of Tours [here not attributed], Liber de Miraculis Beati Andreas Apostoli (Book of Miracles of St Andrew the Apostle), beginning 'Igitur post illum dominicae ascensionis nobile gloriosumque triumphum', imperfect. ff. 209r-212r: Anonymous or unidentified author, Vita Sancte Mariae Magdalenae cum Translatione Eiusdem (Life of St Mary Magdalene and her Translation), beginning 'Fuit igitur secundum saeculi fastum clarissimis beata Maria natalibus orta'. ff. 212r-213r: Anonymous or unidentified author, Vita de Sancta Martha (Life of St Martha), beginning ‘Martha ierosolimitana opido bethanico regali pro sapia patre syro eucharia matre oriunda’. ff. 213r-215r: St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430), Bishop of Hippo, Sermo de Igne Purgatorii (Sermon on the Fire of Purgatory), beginning 'In lectione apostolica que nobis paulo ante recitata est'. ff. 216r-233r: Innocent III (Lotharius de Segnis) (b. 1160/61, d. 1216), De Missarum Mysteriis (On the Mysteries of the Mass), here entitled ‘De Missarum Solempniis’, beginning 'Tria sunt quibus praecipue lex divina consistit'. ff. 234r-261v: St Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermones super Cantica Canticorum , Sermons: 44-58. ff. 262r-263r: Pseudo-Robert Grosseteste, De Effectibus Virtutum (On the Effects of the Virtues), beginning ‘Nichil fit in terra sine causa dicit Job .v. et ita omne quod sit propter aliquid fit’, ends imperfect on f. 263r. ff. 264r-266r: Pseudo-Robert Grosseteste, De Effectibus Virtutum , beginning ‘Nichil fit in terra sine causa dicit Job .v. et ita omne quod sit propter aliquid fit’ (complete text). ff. 266r-269r: Pseudo-Robert Grosseteste, diagrams showing the effects of the preceding virtues and vices. ff. 269v-287r: Pseudo-Robert Grosseteste, De Aversione a Summo Bono (On Turning Away from the Highest Good), beginning 'Primum in via mali est aversio actualis a summo bono quod patet'. ff. 287v-288r: Pen trials and Latin quotations, added in 13th- to 15th-century scripts. [ff. 75v, 97v, 171v, 215v, 233v, [260a]recto, [260a]verso, 263v, 287v, 288r, 288v are blank]. Decoration:Large and medium initials in blue with penwork decoration in red, or in red with penwork decoration in blue. Small initials in red or blue. Rubrics in red. 1 medium puzzle initial in blue and red with blue penwork decoration (f. 76r); medium initials in red or blue, some with arabesque motifs. Rubrics in red; 1 medium puzzle initial in blue and red with blue and red filigree penwork decoration (f. 88r); 1 medium initial in blue (f. 93r). 1 rubrics in red or green and red (f. 88r); Large and medium initials in red, two with added decoration in black ink and penwork decoration in red (ff. 99v, 100r). Rubrics in red. Spaces have been left empty for coloured initials but have not been filled. Manicules in brown ink added to the margins. Medium initials in blue or red, one with penwork decoration in the other colour (f. 172r) and one with penwork decoration in the same colour (f. 193r). Human faces in brown ink have been added to ascenders and descenders of minuscule letters (ff. 174r, 189r, 191v, 194v) and paraph marks (ff. 178r, 182r); A rubric in red on f. 198r. Empty spaces have been left empty for coloured initials but have not been filled. Small initials in blue or red. Rubrics in red. Rubrics in red. Small (one-line) initials in red. Empty spaces have been left for coloured initials but have not been filled. Manicules added in drypoint in the margins. Medium initials in blue or red. Small (one-line) initials highlighted in yellow or red. Rubrics in red.
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