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Harley MS 3001

Record Id:

040-002048832

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048832

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000123

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3001

Title:

Gregory the Great, De Cura pastoralis; Epistola ad Palladium; Epistola ad Leandrum; Jerome, Ad Amandus; De Duodecim abusivis saeculi; Florus of Lyon, Sermo de praedestinatione

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. 1r-v: List of capitula for St Gregory the Great (b. c. 540, d. 604), De Cura pastoralis (Pastoral Care).

f. 2r: An added prayer, in a late 12th or early 13th century-hand, crossed out.

ff. 2v-75v: St Gregory the Great, De Cura pastoralis.

ff. 75v-76v: St Gregory the Great, Epistola ad Palladium presbyterum de Monte Sina (Letter to Palladius, priest of Mount Sinai).

ff. 76v-77v: St Gregory the Great, Epistola ad Leandrum (Letter to Leandrus).

ff. 77v-82v: St Jerome (b. c. 345, d. 420), Epistola 55, Ad Amandus (To Amandus).

ff. 82v-90r: Anonymous Hiberno-Latin treatise, De Duodecim abusivis saeculi (On the twelve abuses of the world), here attributed to St Cyprian of Carthage (b. c. 200, d. 258).

f. 90r-v: Florus of Lyon (b. c. 810, d. c. 860), Sermo de praedestinatione (Discussion on predestination), also known as Opusculum omnipotens Deus (Little work on the omnipotence of God) (see Patrologia Latina, ed. Migne, vol. 119, 95-102).

Decoration:

Large initial in black ink with pen-work in black, added in the late 12th or 13th century (f. 2v).

Initials in red, some oxidised. Rubrics in red throughout.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048832

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3001 : Gregory the Great, De Cura pastoralis; Epistola ad Palladium; Epistola ad Leandrum; Jerome, Ad Amandus; De Duodecim abusivis…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3002]/040-002048832

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:

1050

End Date:

1124

Date Range:

2nd half of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 235 x 160 mm (written area 185 x 120 mm).

Foliation: ff. 90 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end).

Script: Caroline minuscule, written by several scribes.

Binding: Post-1600. Harley binding of gilt-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Probably France.

Provenance:

Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie; sold to Harley on 20 January 1721/22 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 254).

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, HumfreyWanley, ‘20 die mensis Januarii, A.D. 1721/22’ (f. 1r).

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:

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 724, no. 3001.

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. 138 n. 7.

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. 254.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Florus, deacon of Lyon, 1st half of the 9th century
Gregory I, Saint, Pope; also known as 'the Great', c 540-604,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121451132,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100184667
Jerome, Saint, c 345-420,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123213293,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95147024
Noel, Nathaniel, bookseller, fl 1681, d c 1753

Places:

France

Related Material:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, II (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808), p. 724:

'1. Gregorii I. Papae de pastorali cura, liber. XI.2. ---- ad Palladium Presbyterum de monte Syna, Epistola.3. ---- ad Leandrum episcopum Hispaniorum Epistola. "Sanctitatis tue suscepi epistolam."4. S. Hieronymi presbyteri ad Amandum Epistola. "Brevis epistola longas."5. Historia Synodi Placentiae habitae, A.D. 1095. 6. ----- reconciliationis Conradi 2 regis, et Urbani papae, Anno. 1095.7. S. Cypriani Carthag. episcopi Sermo de 12. abusivis. 8. Sermo cujusdam de predestinatione & prescientia Domini. Pagina unica principii restat. Codex membranaceus in 4to.'