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Harley MS 3009
- Record Id:
- 040-002048840
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048840
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00012b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059344413.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3009
- Title:
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Gregory the Great, Dialogi; Pseudo-Jerome, Quindecim Signa ante Iudicium; Alcuin of York, Interpretationes Nominum Hebraicorum Progenitorum Iesu Christ
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the last two of the four books of the Dialogues (Dialogi) written in 593-594 by Pope Gregory I (b. c. 540, d. 604), commonly known as St Gregory the Great. The Dialogues discuss the miracles and prophecies of holy men in 6th-century Italy, especially those of Benedict of Nursia, to whom the second book is entirely dedicated, and were particularly popular among monastic audiences. This manuscript probably originated at a monastic community, since it was owned by the Dominican friary of Saint-Jacques in Paris in the 13th century.
Contents:
ff. 1r-101v: Gregory the Great, Dialogi (Books III-IV).
f. 102r: Pseudo-Jerome, Quindecim signa ante iudicium.
ff. 102v-106r: Alcuin of York, Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum progenitorum Iesu Christ.
ff. 106v: Augustine of Hippo, various excerpts (including excerpts on penance and second marriage).
f. 107v: Epistola Widonis, an excerpt against simony (here attributed to ‘Gregorius In Registro de simoniacis’).
ff. 108r-108v: Gregory the Great, an excerpt from his letter to Theoderic and Theudebert against simony.
f. 108v: Gregory the Great, various excerpts (with the headings: ‘In Pastorali’ and ‘In Registro’).
ff. 108v-109r: Ecclesiasticus 34:23, followed by further excerpts, attributed to ‘Salomon’.
ff. 109r-109v: Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus, two excerpts from his Expositio psalmorum.
f. 109v: Gregory the Great, excerpts from his letters to Januarius, bishop of Cagliari, and Constantius, bishop of Milan.
Decoration:
Initials in red or dark brown, occasionally with reserved line, frequently with sparse penwork in same colour or with highlighting in red. Rubrics in red. Book 4 of the Dialogi (ff. 53v-101v) is preceded by a list of chapters, written entirely in red ink (ff. 50r-51v).
- 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
040-002048840 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3009 : Gregory the Great, Dialogi; Pseudo-Jerome, Quindecim Signa ante Iudicium; Alcuin of York, Interpretationes Nominum… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3010]/040-002048840
- 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_100059344413.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1224
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 225 x 145 mm (text space: 160 x 80 mm).
Foliation: ff. 109 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. Gold-tooled mottled brown leather, the spine inscribed (with some letters illegible due to damage) at the British Museum: ‘G[R]E[G]ORII MA[G]NI DI[AL]OGI, CUM [A]LIIS’.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ?Paris, Ile-de-France, France.
Provenance:
The Dominican friary of St-Jacques, Paris: inscribed in the late 13th century with 'Sancti jachobi' (f. 1r, Humfrey Wandley added 'Par.').
An unidentified 13th-century owner: faded or erased 13th-century inscriptions (ff. 39v, 40v, 61v, 65v and 108r).
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 (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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘13 die mensis Augusti, A.D. 1724’ (f. 1). 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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Full 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. 724.
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. 255, 266.
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, pp. 304-05 n. 7.
- 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.