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Harley MS 3012
- Record Id:
- 040-002048843
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048843
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00013e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056048276.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3012
- Title:
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Augustine of Hippo, De quantitate animae; Sedulius, Carmen Paschale; Pseudo-Jerome, In Apocalypsim
- Scope & Content:
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Content:
ff. 1r-32v: Augustine of Hippo, De quantitate animae (The measure of the Soul), preceded by the Retractationes (Retractions), Book 1, chapter 8 (ff. 1r-v).
ff. 33r-70v: Sedulius, Carmen Paschale (Easter Song).
ff. 71r-84v: Pseudo-Jerome, In Apocalypsim (Commentary on the Apocalypse), preceded by a preface.
Decoration:
Title in rustic capitials and 1 large initial in red (f. 1r).
Plain initials in black.
Rubrics and abbreviations of protagonists' names in red.
Medieval parchment bookmark (f. 70).
- 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
040-002048843 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3012 : Augustine of Hippo, De quantitate animae; Sedulius, Carmen Paschale; Pseudo-Jerome, In Apocalypsim - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3013]/040-002048843
- 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_100056048276.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0825
- End Date:
- 0849
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 220 x 175 mm (text space: 175/80 x 135 mm)
Foliation: ff. 84 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound in 1964. Remains of the previous binding (gold-tooled red leather) pasted on the inside covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
?Tours, Central France.
Provenance:
The manuscript may have been produced in the Tours region, as the script bears several Turonian characteristics, according to Bischoff, Katalog (2004).
Inscription in a late 14th-century German secretary hand: 'Augustin[us] de qua[ntita]te a[n]i[ma]e' (f. 1r).
The Benedictine abbey of St Martin, Ulm, Württemberg: inscribed, 17th-century ownership inscription, 'Ex libris S[ancti] Martini Mon[aste]rii Wiblingen (f. 1r).
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 20 January 1721/22 (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 ‘22 die Januarij, 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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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.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), no. 3012.
Johann Huemer, Sedulii opera omnis, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, 10 (Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1885), pp. xxvii-xxviii.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingishen Miniaturen', in Zweiter Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 58).
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), pp. 254, 354.
Michelle P. Brown, A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600 (London: British Library, 1990), pl. 23.
Carl P. E. Springer, The Manuscripts of Sedulius: A Provisional Handlist (Philadelphia: Diane, 1995), pp. 23 n. 53, 63.
Berhard Bischoff, Katalog der festlandischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen) (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II: Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger (2004), p. 118 (no. 2465).
- 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.