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Harley MS 1021

Record Id:

040-002046850

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046850

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00020f

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1021

Title:

A collection of excerpts from scriptural commentaries

Scope & Content:

A florilegium of scriptural commentaries by Augustine, Bede, Ambrose, Jerome and others. The individual excerpts are almost all without acknowledgement of the source, and they are only sometimes grouped into larger categories. It is imperfect at the end.

Contents:

ff. 1r-48v: Excerpts from commentaries on Genesis. The first is from an anonymous commentary on Genesis, beginning: ‘In principio creavit Deus celum et terram, id est in filio, spiritualis qui celestia meditantur’.

ff. 49r-56v: Excerpts from commentaries on Ezra. The first is an excerpt from Bede, In Ezram et Neemiam Expositionis libros III (On allegories in Ezra and Nehemiah in three books). It starts by quoting Ezra 1: 1-4, followed by the commentary, which begins: 'Magna est in his verbis fides regi magna claret pietas' (see Migne (ed.), Patrologia Latina, 90:812).

ff. 57r-64v: Excerpts from the works of Ambrose. The first excerpt seems to be a version of De officiis ministrorum, book 1, chapter 2, beginning: ‘Audiamus captionis [sic] magistrum quod neminem videbat castum' (see (Migne (ed.), Patrologia Latina, 16: 25-26).

ff. 65r-72v: Excerpts from the works of Augustine. The first excerpt is from Confessiones (Confessions), book 1, chapter 1, beginning: ‘Homo circumferens mortalitatem suam’ (see Migne (ed.), Patrologia Latina, 32:660-61).

ff. 73r-80v: Excerpts from the works of Jerome. The first excerpt seems to be a version of Jerome, Epistula 125: Ad Rusticum monachum (Letter to Rusticus the monk), beginning: ‘Magni quisquis es monace incepisti, excelsa sectari, et adolescencie immo pubertatis incentiva calcare’ (see Migne, (ed.) Patrologia Latina, 22: 1072-85).

ff. 81r-120v: Excerpts from various authors about goodness and morality, with the rubric ‘Ambrosius’ in the upper margin. The first excerpt quotes Luke 18: 19, and continues: ‘Bonus hoc de thesauro suo proscis bona'. The last excerpt ends imperfectly: 'qui populum dei ad colendum eum nolunt [damna]tore...'.

Decoration:

1 large initial in red with green pen-flourishing (f. 1r).

Capitals marked in red. Marginal notations and paragraph marks in red or brown ink throughout.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046850

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1021 : A collection of excerpts from scriptural commentaries

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1021]/040-002046850

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1175

End Date:

1225

Date Range:

1175-1225

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 200 x 130 mm (written area: 170 x 105 mm, in two columns); except ff. 105-112, which is a smaller quire, c. 190 x 130 mm. The margins were cropped after the manuscript became part of the British Museum since a British Museum-mark has been partially cut off (f. 1r).

Foliation: ff. 120 (+ 7 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 6 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end).

Script: Protogothic (written above top line), by multiple scribes.

Binding: British Museum in-house, 1968. The gilt-tooled brown leather covers of a previous binding are pasted inside the present covers.

Collation: i^10-2 (ff. 1-8, fifth and sixth leaves lacking); ii-v⁸ (ff. 9-40), vi^10-2 (ff. 41-48, fourth and sixth leaves lacking); vii-xvi⁸ (ff. 49-120).

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani, 1972).

Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani, 1972).

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.

Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, 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.

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 1021.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 316.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Ambrose of Milan, Saint, Archbishop of Milan, c 339-397,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121452186,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100227669
Augustine of Hippo, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, 354-430,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121376443,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/66806872
Bede the Venerable, Saint, c 673-735,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120962352,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/61539765
Jerome, Saint, c 345-420,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123213293,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95147024
Stillingfleet, Edward, Bishop of Worcester, 1635-1699
Stillingfleet, Edward, physician and Church of England clergyman, 1661-1708

Places:

England

Related Material:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, I (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808), no. 1021, p. 510:

'Codex membranaceus in 4to, in quo habetur, Loca Theologica ex Operibus SS. Augustini, Ambrosiij [sic], Hieronymi; et aliorum in S. Scripturam Commentatorum sumpta. In sine truncatur.'