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Harley MS 3011
- Record Id:
- 040-002048842
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048842
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00013d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3011
- Title:
- Gregory the Great, Dialogi
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-99v: Gregory the Great, Dialogi.
Decoration:
1 large miniature in brown ink, tinted in yellow and red, on a green ground at the end of book 3: Gregory the Great writing, inspired by the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove, in a rectangular frame with foliate motifs; by the artist Teodericus, who inscribed it: 'Teodericus depinxit hanc imaginem Gregorium papam' (f. 69v).
1 half-page drawing in brown ink at book 2, chapter 24: the Deposition from the Cross, with unusual iconography including details associated with the Nailing to the Cross. The drawing depicts Christ, wounded but with his eyes open; one arm loose, supported by Nicodemus (named in a label); one arm still nailed, approached by Joseph (named in a label) on a ladder holding a hammer; and flanked by the Virgin Mary and St John; the lower 20 mm of the page folds down to reveal the full drawing (f. 33v).
4 large initials, outlined in brown ink, with foliate motifs, dragons or clasps, at the beginning of each of the four books (ff. 1r, 20r, 40v, 71v).
Large initials in red, occasionally with minor penwork decoration. Display script in red and dark brown ink. Simple initials in red for lists of chapters.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048842", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3011: Gregory the Great, Dialogi" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048842 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3011 : Gregory the Great, Dialogi - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3012]/040-002048842
- 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:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1124
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 225 x 180 mm (text space: 190-200 x 130 mm).
Foliation: ff. 99 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyelaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers.
Quire marks and quire signatures.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Germany.
Provenance:
The miniature was executed by Teodericus: inscribed 'Teodericus depinxit hanc imaginem Gregorium papam' (f. 69v), who may also have been the scribe (Alexander, Medieval Illuminators (1992), p. 16).
Franz Otto Leukher, 1645: inscribed with 'Ex Biblioth. Franc. Ott. Leükheri / 1645' (f. 1r).
Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent: inscribed 'Noel', possibly in hand of Humfrey Wanley (f. 1r).
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: Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808-12), II (1808), no. 2904.
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 5.
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 223.
Sigrid Krämer, Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz: Ergänzungsband 1, 3 vols (Munich, 1989-90), I (1989), p. 25.
Jonathan J. G. Alexander, Medieval Illuminators and their Methods of Work (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992), p. 16, fig. 22.
Nicholas Bell, Music in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2001), p. 7.
Christopher de Hamel, The British Library Guide to Manuscript Illumination: History and Techniques (London: British Library, 2001), pl. 48.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)