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Harley MS 3008
- Record Id:
- 040-002048839
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048839
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00012a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100064374770.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3008
- Title:
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Augustine of Hippo, De Medela animae and Tractatus ex Epistola Sancti Johannis; Passio Altera Sancti Andreae Apostoli
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains two theological works by St Augustine of Hippo and a work concerning the miracles and martyrdom of St Andrew (Passio Altera Sancti Andreae apostoli). Its place of origin is unknown but it was probably produced in France or Germany: other copies of the Passio that have been identified by Max Bonnett (‘Passio sancti Andreae apostoli’ (1894), 373-78) were probably all written in France of Germany.
Contents:
ff. 1r-12r: Augustine of Hippo, De Medela Animae (On the Healing of the Soul), beginning ‘Prima via salutis est homini fideli timor dei’.
ff. 12r-16r: Passio Altera Sancti Andreae Apostoli [also known as Conversante] (The Second Martyrdom of St Andrew the Apostle), beginning ‘Quod oculis nostris vidimus omnes presbyteri’.
ff. 16v-78v: Augustine of Hippo, Tractatus ex Epistola Sancti Johannis (Treatise from the Letter of St John) or Sermones X super Epistolam Johannis (Ten Sermons on the Letter of John), imperfect due to the loss of folios at the end; includes Sermons I-VIII.
Decoration:
Large plain initials in red (oxidised). Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048839 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3008 : Augustine of Hippo, De Medela animae and Tractatus ex Epistola Sancti Johannis; Passio Altera Sancti Andreae Apostoli - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3009]/040-002048839
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100064374770.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0975
- End Date:
- 1024
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 230 x 155 mm (text space: 175 x 115 mm).
Foliation: ff. 78 ( + 3 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. Gold-stamped red Morrocan leather, re-backed and the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: ‘MEDELA ANIMAE PASSIO D. ANDRÆ APOSTOLI SERMONES B. AUGUSTINI IN I EPIST. D JOANNIS’.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France or Germany.
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 Edward Harley on 13 August 1724 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 255).
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 ‘13 die mensis Augusti, A.D. 1724' (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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Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 742 (no. 3008).
Max Bonnett, ‘Passio sancti Andreae apostoli’, Analecta Bollandiana, 13 (1894), 373-78.
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. 180, n. 12.
Jack David Angus Ogilvy, Books Known to the English, 597-1066 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Medieval Academy of America, 1967), p. 95.
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. 255.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- 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.