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Harley MS 1918
- Record Id:
- 040-002047749
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- 040-002047749
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x0001aa
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056034372.0x000001
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- ISAD(G)
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- Harley MS 1918
- Title:
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Homiliary with lectiones
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Contents:
ff. 1r-3r: Bede, Homiliae in Evangelia, Homilia in Vigilia Paschalis, beginning: 'In Sancto Sabbato secundum Mattheum. Que luscecit in primam (sic) sabbati [...] Omelia Venerabilis Bede presbiteri, de eadem lectione. Vigilias nobis hujus sacratissime noctis', ending: 'qui vivit et regnat cum Patre in unitate Spiritus Sancti Deus per omnia secula seculorum. Amen'.
ff. 3r-4v: Pope Leo the Great, Sermo in Sancto Sabbato, beginning: 'Sermo Beati Leoni Papae in Sancto Sabbato. Totum quidem, dilectissimi, Paschale sacramentum'.
ff. 4v-6r: St Gregory the Great, Homilia in Die Paschalis, beginning: 'In die Paschale, secundum Marcum lectio IX [Gospel of St Mark 1:7]. Maria Magadalene et Maria Iacobi et Salome [...]. Omelia lectionis eiusdem Beati Gregorii. Multis vobis leccionibus fratres karissimi'.
ff. 6r-6v: Pseudo-Saint Maximus of Turin, Sermo in Resurrectione Domini, beginning: 'Sermo beati Maximi episcopi in resurrectione Domini, lectio prima. Non immerito fratres hodierna die psalmus hic legitur'.
ff. 6v-7r: Pseudo-Saint Maximus of Turin, Sermo de Pascha, beginning: 'Magnum fratres et mirabile donum concessit'.
ff. 7r-8v: Pseudo-Faustinus, Sermo de Pascha, beginning: 'Beneficia Dei nostril cum magna atque mirifica sint'.
ff. 8v-9r: Pseudo-St Augustine, Sermo de Pascha, beginning: 'Passionem vel resurrectionem domini nostri'.
ff. 9r-10r: St Gregory the Great, Homilia in Evangelium Lucae [Homilia 23], beginning: 'Feria II secundum Lucam, lectio I [the Gospel of St Luke 24:13-35]. In illo tempore, duo ex discipuli ibant [...]. In cotidiana vobis solemitate (sic) laborantibus pauca loquenda sunt'.
ff. 10r-12v: Bede, Homilia in Lucae Evangelium, beginning: 'Feria III secundum Lucam, in illo tempore, stetit Ihesus in medio discipulorum suorum [...]. Omelia venerabilis Bede presbiteri de eadem lectione. Gloriam sue resurrectionis dominis et redemptor noster'.
ff. 12v-14v: St Gregory the Great, Homilia in Iohannis Evangelium [Homilia 24], [John 21:1-14], beginning: 'Feria IIII secundum Iohannem lectio 1. In illo tempore, manifestavit se iterum Ihesus discipulis suis ad mare Tiberiadis [...]. Lectio sancti evangelii que modo in vestris auribus lecta est'.
ff. 14v-18r: St Gregory the Great, Homilia in Iohannis Evangelium [Homilia 25], [John 20:11-18], beginning: 'Maria Magdalene que fuerat in civitate peccatrix'.
ff. 18r-20r: Bede, Homilia in Feria VI inter Octavam Paschae, beginning: 'Evangelica lectio, fratres charissimi, quam modo audivimus et iuxta gaudio plena refulget'.
ff. 20r-23r: St Gregory the Great, Homilia in Iohannis Evangelium [Homilia 22], [John 20:1-9], beginning: 'Fractus longa molestia stomachus diu me charitati vestrae de lectionis evangelice expositione loqui prohibuit'.
ff. 23r-24v: Pseudo-St Augustine, Homilia de Sancto Christi Resurrectione, beginning: 'Non queo, fratres karissimi quod mente concipio'.
ff. 24v-27v: St Gregory the Great, Homilia in Iohannis Evangelium [Homilia 26], [John 20:19-31], beginning: 'Prima lectionis huius evangelice question animum pulsat'.
ff. 27v-28v: St Gregory the Great, Homilia in Iohannis Evangelium [Homilia 24], [John 10:11-16], beginning: 'Audistis, fratres karissimi, ex lectione evangelica eruditionem vestram'.
ff. 28v-30r: Bede, Homilia in Iohannis Evangelium [Homilia 2:13], beginning: 'Leta Domini et Savatoris nostri promissa'.
ff. 30r-32v: Bede, Homilia in Iohannis Evangelium [Homilia 2:11], beginning: 'Sicut ex lectione evangelica fratres karissimi audivimus dominus et redemptor noster imminente sive passionis'.
ff. 32v-34v: Bede, Homilia in Iohannis Evangelium [Homilia 2:12], beginning: 'Potest movere infirmos auditores quomodo in capite lectionis'.
ff. 34v-35v: Pseudo-St Maximus of Turin, Sermo in Rogationibus, beginning: 'Legimus in prophetis cum Ninive'.
ff. 35v-38r: Bede, Homilia in Lucae evangelium [Homelia 43], beginning: 'Rogatus a discipulis salvator'.
ff. 38r-39r: Pseudo-St Augustine De Letania III, beginning: 'Quoniam ieiuniorum tempus est'.
ff. 39r-41r: St Augustine, Homelia in Iohannis Evangelium, beginning: 'Glorificatum a patre filium secundum formam servi'.
ff. 41r-42v: Pope Leo the Great, Sermo de Ascensione, beginning: 'Post beatam et gloriosam resurrectionem domini nostri'.
ff. 42v-45r: St Gregory the Great, Homilia in Marci Evangelium [Homilia 29], [Mark 16:14-20], for the Ascension, beginning: 'Quod resurrectionem dominicam discipuli tarde crediderunt'.
ff. 45r-48v: Bede, Homilia in Iohannis Evangelium [Homilia 10], for the Ascension, beginning: 'Ex multis sancti Evangelii locis invenimus quia discipuli ante adventum'.
ff. 48v-52r: Bede, Homilia in Iohannis Evangelium [Homilia 11], for Pentecost, beginning: 'Quia sancti Spiritus hodie, fratres karissimi'.
ff. 52r-55r: St Gregory the Great, Homilia in Iohannis Evangelium [Homilia 30], [John 14:14-20], for Pentecost, beginning: 'Libet fratres carissimi, evangelice verba lectionis'.
ff. 55r-58v: Pope Leo the Great, Sermo de Pentecoste, beginning: 'Hodiernam, dilectissimi, festivitatem toto orbe terrarium orbe venerabilem'.
ff. 58v-59r: St Augustine, Tractatus in Iohannis Evangelium, 12 chapter 3, beginning: 'Ergo, quantum in medico est fratres sanare venit egrotum'.
ff. 59r-v: St Augustine, Tractatus in Iohannis Evangelium, 26 chapter 6, beginning: 'Magna gratie commendatio, nemo venit nisi tractus'.
ff. 59v-60v: Bede, Homilia in Lucae Evangelium [Homilia 46], beginning: 'Concessa primum potestate signorum misit predicare regum Dei'.
ff. 60v-61v: Bede, Homilia in Lucae Evangelium [Homilia 68], beginning: 'Ubi dominus sedens docuerit'.
ff. 61v-62r: Bede, Expositio in Lucae Evangelium, 2:4, beginning: 'Si verum a demonio liberatum moraliter animum'.
ff. 62r-64r: Concilium Toletane (11th council of Toledo in 675), beginning: 'Tractatus de Fide, ex concilio Toletano XImo. Confitemur et credimus sanctam atque ineffabilem Trinitatem, Patrem et Filium et Spiritum Sanctum'.
ff. 64r-66v: Bede, Homilia in Iohannis Evangelium [Homilia 157], beginning: 'Sicut ex lectione Sancti evangelii fratres karissimi, audistis, princeps Iudaeorum'.
ff. 66v-71r: St Gregory the Great, Homilia in Lucae Evangelium [Homilia 40], [Luke 16:19-31], beginning: 'In verbis sacri eloquii, fratres karissimi, prius servanda est veritas historie'.
ff. 71r-74v: St Gregory the Great, Homilia in Lucae Evangelium [Homilia 36], [Luke 14:16-24], beginning: 'Hoc distare, fratres karissimi, inter delicias corporis et cordis solet'.
ff. 74v-79v: St Gregory the Great, Homilia in Lucae Evangelium [Homilia 161], [Luke 15], beginning: 'Estivum tempus quod corpori meo valde contrarium est'.
ff. 79v-80v: Bede, Homilia in Lucae Evangelium, book 2, chapter 6, beginning: 'Misericors est dominus super ingratos et malos vel multiplici'.
ff. 80v-81v: Bede, Homilia in Lucae Evangelium [Homilia 5], beginning: 'Stagnum Genesareth idem dicunt esse quod mare Galile'.
ff. 81v-82v: Excerpts from various homilies on the Gospel of St Matthew, beginning: 'Id est, nisi non solum illa minima'.
ff. 82v-84r: Bede, Homilia in Marci Evangelium [Homilia 121], beginning: 'In hac lectione consideranda est in uno eodemque redemptore nostro distincta operatio divinitatis et humanitatis'.
ff. 84r-86r: Pseudo-Origen, Homilia in Matthei Evangelium, beginning: 'Quod Paulo superius spatiosam et latam viam nominavit'.
ff. 86r-87r: Bede, Homilia in Lucae Evangelium [Homilia 8], beginning: 'In villico hoc quem dominus eiciebat'.
ff. 87r-90v: St Gregory the Great, Homilia in Lucae Evangelium [Homilia 39], [Luke 19:42-47], beginning: 'Lectionem brevem sancti Evangelii'.
ff. 90v-92r: Bede, Homilia in Marci Evangelium [Homilia 19], [Mark 7], beginning: 'Surdus ille et mutus quem mirabiliter curatum a Domino modo cum Evangelium legeretur'.
ff. 92r-93v: Bede, Homilia in Lucae Evangelium [Homilia 12], beginning: 'Non oculi scribarum et Phariseorum qui corpus'.
ff. 93v-95r: Bede, Homilia in Lucae Evangelium [Homilia 13], beginning: 'Leprosi non absurde intelligi possunt'.
ff. 95r-96r: Bede, Homilia in Lucae Evangelium [Homilia 14], beginning: 'Quia non valet et transitoria simul et eternal diligere'.
ff. 96r-v: Anonymous, Homilia, beginning: 'Naim civitas est Galilee in secundo miliario'.
ff. 96v-97v: Bede, Homilia in Lucae Evangelium [Homilia 16], beginning: 'Ydropis morbus ab aquoso humore vocabulum trahit'.
ff. 97v-98v: Bede, Homilia [Homilia 21], beginning: 'Loca rebus congruunt'.
ff. 98v-100v: Pope Leo the Great, Homilia [Homilia 91: 1-6], beginning: 'A devotionem fidelium dilectissimi'.
ff. 100v-103r: St Gregory the Great, Homilia in Lucae Evangelium, beginning: 'Cogitanti mihi de mariae paenitentia'.
ff. 103r-104v: St Gregory the Great, Homilia in Lucae Evangelium [Homilia 31], beginning: 'Dominus et redemptor noster per evangelium suum aliquando verbis'.
ff. 104v-105r: Excerpts from various homilies on the Gospel of St Matthew, beginning: 'Ostenditur ex hac interrogation scribe'.
ff. 105r-106r: Pseudo-Peter Chrysologus, Homilis in Matthei Evangelium, beginning: 'Christum in humanis actibus divina gessisse mysteria'.
ff. 106r-110r: St Gregory the Great, Homilia in Matthei Evangelium [Homilia 38], beginning: 'Textum lectionis evangelice, fratres karissimi'.
ff. 110r-111r: St Gregory the Great, Homilia in Iohannis Evangelium [Homilia 28], beginning: 'Lectio Sancti evangelii, quam modo fratres audistis expositione non indigent'.
f. 111r: Pseudo-Jerome, Homilia in Matthei Evangelium, beginning: 'Familiare est Siris sive Palestinis'.
ff. 111r-112r: Pseudo-Jerome, Homilia in Matthei Evangelium, beginning: 'Nuper sub Cesare Augusto'.
ff. 112r-113v: St Augustine, Tractatus in Iohannem, 24, beginning: 'Miracula que fecit dominus noster Ihesus Christus sunt quidem divina opera'.
ff. 113v-114r: Excerpts from various homilies on the Gospel of St Matthew, beginning: 'Bethphage domus bucce'.
ff. 114r-115v: St Gregory the Great, Homilia in Lucae Evangelium [Homilia 1], beginning: 'Dominus ac Redemptor noster paratos nos invenire desiderans'.
ff. 115v-116v: St Gregory the Great, Homilia in Matthei Evangelium [Homilia 6], beginning: 'Querendum est nobis Iohannes propheta'.
ff. 116v-118v: Bede, Homilia in Lucae Evangelium [Homilia 3], beginning: 'Exordium nostre redemptionis fratres karissimi hodierna nobis sancti evangelii lectio'.
ff. 118v-121v: Bede, Homilia in Lucae Evangelium [Homilia 40], beginning: 'Lectio quam audivimus, sancti evangelii et redemptionis nostre nobis semper veneranda primordial predicat'.
ff. 121v-124v: St Gregory the Great, Homilia in Lucae Evangelium [Homilia 20], beginning: 'Redemptoris nostri precursor quo tempore verbum predicationis acceperit'.
ff. 124v-126r: St Gregory the Great, Homilia in Iohannis Evangelium [Homilia 7], beginning: 'Ex huius nobis lectionis verbis fratres karissimi Iohannis humilitas'.
ff. 126r-128r: Pseudo-Origen, Homilia in Matthei Evangelium, beginning: 'Que fuit necessitas ut deponsata'.
ff. 128r-v: Excerpt from the Vulgate, Isaiah, 9.
ff. 128v-129v: Pseudo-Isidore, Sermo de Nativitate Domini, beginning: 'Natalis Domini dies ea de causa a patribus votive solemnitate institutus est'.
ff. 129v-132r: Pope Leo the Great, Epistula ad Flavianum, beginning: 'Lectis dilectionis tue litteris'.
ff. 132r-v: Pope Leo the Great, Homilia in Nativitatem Domini, beginning: 'Salvator noster dilectissimi hodie natus est'.
ff. 132v-133v: Pseudo-St Fulgentius of Ruspe, Homilia in Nativitatem, beginning: 'Cupientes aliquid de huius diei solemnitate narrare'.
ff. 133v-135r: Pseudo-Maximus of Turin, Homilia in Nativitatem Domini, beginning: 'Iustissime, fratres, festivitate presentis Dei'.
ff. 135r-136v: Pseudo-St Augustine, Homilia, beginning: 'Vos inquam, convenio o Iudei'.
ff. 136v-137v: Pseudo-St Augustine, Homilia, beginning: 'Legimus Sanctum Moysen populo Dei'.
f. 137v: Excerpt from St Jerome, Commentarium in Sancti Matthei Evangelium, beginning: 'In Isaia legitur: generationem eius quis enarrabitur'.
ff. 137v-138r: St Gregory the Great, Homilia in Lucae Evangelium [Homilia 8], beginning: 'Quia largiente domino, missarum solemniter hodie celebraturi sumus'.
ff. 138r-139v: Bede, Homilia in Lucae Evangelium [Homilia 6], beginning: 'Nato in Bethleem domino salvatore'.
ff. 139v-142r: Bede, Homilia in Iohannis Evangelium [Homilia 7], beginning: 'Quia temporalem mediatoris Dei et dominum'.
ff. 142r-143r: Pseudo-St Fulgentius of Ruspe, Homilia in Nativitatem Domini, beginning: 'Heri celebravimus temporalem sempiterni regis'.
ff. 143r-v: Excerpt from St Jerome, Commentarium in Sancti Matthei Evangelium, beginning: 'Hoc quod antea dixeram'.
ff. 143v-144v: Pseudo-St Maximus of Turin, Homilia in Natali Sancti Stephani Protomartyris, beginning: 'Lectio actuum apostolorum que nobis hodie lecta est'.
ff. 144v-147r: Bede, Homilia in Iohannis Evangelium [Homilia 9], beginning: 'Lectio sancti evangelii quae nobis lecta est fratres mei tanto maiori a nobis intentione'.
ff. 147r-v: Pseudo-John Chrysostom, Homilia, beginning: 'Dedicatur novus ad infantibus sermo'.
ff. 147v-149r: Bede, Homilia in Matthei Evangelium [Homilia 10], beginning: 'De morte preciosa martyrum Christi'.
ff. 149r-152v: Excerpt from Bede, Expositio in Lucae Evangelium, chapter 2, beginning: 'Nasciturus in carne Dei filius sicut parentes sibi quos voluit'.
ff. 152v-158r: John Scotus Eriugena, Homelia in Prologum Evangelii Secundum Sanctum Iohannem, beginning: 'Vox spiritualis aquile'.
ff. 158r-159v: Pseudo-St Maximus of Turin, Homelia in Nativitatem Domini, beginning: 'Hodierni mysterii sacramentum, fratres carissimi'.
ff. 159v-160v: Bede, Homilia in Lucae Evangelium [Homilia 32], beginning: 'Patrem salvatoris appellat Ioseph'.
ff. 160v-161v: : Excerpt from Bede, Expositio in Lucae Evangelium, chapter 2, beginning: 'Ritus et religio circumcisionis a beato Abraham patriarcha sumpsit exordium'.
ff. 161v-164r: Bede, Homilia in Lucae Evangelium [Homilia 11], beginning: 'Sanctam venerandamqure presentis festi'.
ff. 164r-v: Pseudo-St Maximus of Turin, Homilia de Circumcisione Domini, beginning: 'Quanquam non dubitem vos'.
ff. 164v-165v: Bede, Homilia in Matthei Evangelium [Homilia 10], beginning: 'Obitus Herodis terminum intentionis maliciose qua nunc contra ecclesiam iudea sevit insinuat'.
ff. 165v-166v: Pope Leo the Great, Homilia, beginning: 'Celebrato proxime die, quo intemerata virginitas'.
ff. 166v-168r: St Gregory the Great, Homilia in Matthei Evangelium, [Homilia 10], beginning: 'Sicut in lectione evangelica, fratres audistis'.
ff. 168r-169r: Pope Leo the Great, Homilia in Epiphania, beginning: 'Gaudete in domino dilectissimi, iterum dico'.
ff. 169r-v: Pope Leo the Great, Homilia in Epiphania, Dominia II, beginning: 'Iustum et rationabile'.
ff. 169v-170v: Pope Leo the Great, Homilia de Pentecoste, beginning: 'Hodiernam festivitatem dilectissimi apparitio Domini'.
ff. 170v-172r: Pseudo-St Fulgentius of Ruspe, Homilia, beginning: 'Nostis, karissimi fratres, quia dies iste qui nobis'.
ff. 172r-173r: Pseudo-St Maximus of Turin, Homilia in Epiphania Domini, beginning: 'In hac dilectissimi celebritate, sicut relatu'.
ff. 173r-v: Pseudo-St Maximus of Turin, Homilia de Baptismo Christi, beginning: 'Complura nobis, fratres, atque diversa festivitas'.
ff. 173v-174r: Pseudo-St Maximus of Turin, Homilia in Epiphania Domini, beginning: 'Audistis, fratres lectionem Evangelii salutaria'.
ff. 174r-175r: Pseudo-St Maximus of Turin, Homilia in Epiphania Domini, beginning: 'Quamvis dilectissimi fratres, Christus salutis nostre Dominus'.
ff. 175r-v: Pseudo-St Maximus of Turin, Homilia in Epiphania Domini, beginning: 'Ait prophetarum precipuus Isaias, fratres karissimi'.
ff. 175v-176r: Pseudo-St Maximus of Turin, Homilia in Epiphania Domini, beginning: 'Salutare nobis est, fratres, atque conveniens'.
ff. 176r-v: Pseudo-St Maximus of Turin, Homilia de Baptismo Christi, beginning: 'Licet fratres dilectissimi, de solemnitate diei huius'.
ff. 176r-177r: Pseudo-St Maximus of Turin, Homilia de Baptismo Christi, beginning: 'Redemptionis nostre auctor eternus'.
ff. 177r-178r: Pope Leo the Great, Homilia in Epiphania, beginning: 'Quamvis sciam, dilectissimi, quod sanctitatem vestram hodiernae festivitatis causa non lateat'.
ff. 178r-180v: Bede, Homilia in Matthei Evangelium [Homilia 23], beginning: 'Lectio sancti evangelii quam modo, fratres audivimus magnum nobis et in domino'.
ff. 180v-182r: Pseudo-Bede, Homilia, beginning: 'Iohannes babtista qui fuit precursor domini salvatoris nostri'.
ff. 182r-183v: Bede, Homilia in Lucae Evangelium [Homilia 19], beginning: 'Aperta nobis est fratres carissimi sancti evangelii lectio recitata'.
ff. 183v-186r: Pseudo-Bede, Homilia in Iohannem Evangelium, beginning: 'Dominus et salvator noster ad nuptias vocatus'.
ff. 186r-189r: Pseudo-Origen, Homilia post Epiphaniam, beginning: 'Docente in monte Domino'.
ff. 189r-189v: Pseudo-Origen, Dominica IIII, Homilia Post Epiphaniam, beginning: 'Ingrediente Domino in naviculam', imperfect at the end.
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Large zoomorophic initial in green, red, brown, and blue (f. 1r). Initials in blue, red, brown, or green, some with penwork decoration in the same colour or in another colour or colours. Incipits in red. Highlighting of capitals in red or green.
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- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
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040-002047749 - Is part of:
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- Languages:
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- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1149
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 12th century
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 360 x 255 mm (text space: 255 x 175 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 189 ( + 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 at the end).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1964.
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Origin: Northwestern France or England.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Mary, Glastonbury, Somerset: probably listed in its 1247/48 catalogue, no. 39 (see Sharpe, English Benedictine Libraries (1996)); 16th-century inscription 'Ex Abbatia Glasconiensis nam scripseret quidam folio finali: Robertus Wottone mo[nachus] Glasconis (f. 1r).
Robert Wottone, monk of Glastonbury, 16th century: inscription (f. 1r; see above), added small parchment leaf inscribed 'Robertus Wottone' (f. 191v).
John Long, of Dorchester, in Dorset, matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford, 1 July 1664, aged 18: inscription recording his gift to Samuel Knott in 166[?] (f. 1r; see below).
Samuel Knott (d. 1687), rector of Combe Raleigh, Devon (from 1661-1668), antiquary and collector of manuscripts: partially effaced inscription ''Bought of Mr John Long of Dorchester . . . of which I gave . . . 18 of November 166[?] . . . I have . . . this booke is mine Sam. Knott' (f. 1r).
Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold by his widow on 17 May 1715 to Robert Harley, along with other manuscripts (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 87-88; The Diary of Humfrey Wanley (1966)).
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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘17 May 1715’ (f. 1r).
Added 18th-century list of biblical readings quoted in the homilies of the manuscript (ff. 190r-v).
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.
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 1918.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 91.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 11 n. 6
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 87-88, 165, 211, 227, 363.
English Benedictine Libraries: The Shorter Catalogues, ed. by R. Sharpe and others, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 4 (London: British Library, 1996), B39.39.
Richard Sharpe and James Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: The Bodleian Libraries, 2015) http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/2917/?search_term=Harley%201918&page_size=500 [accessed 05 October 2016].
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- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.