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Harley MS 3022

Record Id:

040-001608795

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001608795

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001442.0x0001db

LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3022

Title:

Collection of texts on theology, instruction and natural history

Scope & Content:

The manuscript includes:

1. Giles of Rome (Aegidius Romanus), De regimine principum (ff. 1r-32r);

2. Aristotle, De natura animalium (ff. 32v-54v);

3. The Life of St Veridianus (ff. 55r-57v);

4. Cassiodorus, Varia (ff. 57v-67v);

5. Cassiodorus, De anima (ff. 68r-79v);

6. Augustine, Speculum (ff. 80r-83v);

7. Augustine, Soliloquia (ff. 83v-128v);

8. Pseudo-Augustine, Liber de vita Christiana (ff. 129r-139v).

Decoration:

3 historiated initials, the first with a three-sided, the following with partial foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 1r, 32r, 57v). 4 large decorated foliate initials with foliate extensions into the margins, in colours and gold (ff. 68r, 80r, 83v, 129r). 10 smaller decorated foliate initials, in colours and gold (ff. 4v, 6r, 10r, 14v, 18v, 20v, 22v, 23v, 25r, 35r). Small initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraph marks in plain red or blue. Decorated catchwords.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Harley Science Project

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001608795

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3022 : Collection of texts on theology, instruction and natural history

Contains:

Harley MS 3022, ff 1-32 : Giles of Rome (Aegidius Romanus), De regimine principum
Harley MS 3022, ff 32v-54v : Aristotle, De natura animalium.
Harley MS 3022, ff 55-57v : Life of St Veridianus.
Harley MS 3022, ff 57v-67v : Cassiodorus, Varia
Harley MS 3022, ff 68r-79v : Cassiodorus, De anima
Harley MS 3022, ff 80r-83v : Augustine, Speculum
Harley MS 3022, ff 83v-128v : Augustine, Soliloquia.
Harley MS 3022, ff 129r-139v : Pseudo-Augustine, Liber de vita Christiana.

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3023]/040-001608795

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

139 folios.

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Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1325

End Date:

1349

Date Range:

2nd quarter of the 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment codex.

Dimensions: 200 x 145 mm (text space: 130 x 85 mm).

Foliation: ff. iv + 139. Catchwords.

Collation: i-v¹² (ff. 1-49), vi¹⁰ (ff. 50-59), vii⁸ (ff. 60-67), viii-xiii¹² (ff. 68-139).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600 polished brown calf binding (18th century?).

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy.

Provenance:

John Gibson, bookseller (bulk purchase from him noted in Humfrey Wanley's Diary).

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.

Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish Holles (d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (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: 1808-12), III, no. 3022.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: The Bibliographical Society, 1966), II, 1722-1726, p. 312.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)