London. British Library, Harley MS 1712

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The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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London. British Library
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  • British Library, Harley MS 1712
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Language
  • Latin
Title
  • Petrus Comestor, Sermones
Agent
  • 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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Description
  • Contents:This manuscript consists of Petrus Comestor's sermons (ff. 17r-233v), and was produced at the very end of the 12th century.Contents:ff. 3r-16r: Table of contents and indexes. ff. 17r-233v: Petrus Comestor, Sermones (Sermons). The manuscript contains later additions:ff. 3r-16r: table of contents and indeces to sermons have been added later, in the 2nd quarter of the 15th-century.Decoration:Large initial in colours and gold, with foliate tendrils extending into the margins (f. 4r). ff. 3r-16r: Numerous initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs. Coloured initials in red or blue. Capitals marked in red. Cadels in brown and red ink.ff. 17r-233v: Large arabesque initial in yellow with red penwork decoration (f. 17r). Initials in green or red with red pen-flourishing (ff. 163v, 166r, 169r, 175r, 177v, 179v, 181v, 183r, 187v, 188r, 190r, 212v, 214r, etc.). Coloured initials in red, yellow or green, sometimes extending into a leaf pattern in the same colour (e.g., ff. 146v, 170v).
Place
  • 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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  • Public domain in most countries other than the UK
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