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Harley MS 3020

Record Id:

040-002048851

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048851

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000146

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100059909805.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3020

Title:

Bede, Homiliae in Evangelia; Bede, Historia Abbatum; Vita Sanctissimi Ceolfridi; Vite Sanctorum; Paul the Deacon of Naples translation of Eutychianus' Theophili Actus including a fragment of a Troper; a sequence and responsory with musical notation

Scope & Content:

This manuscript consists of three main parts gathered together at an early period (see Provenance), it includes a fragment of a Troper (f. 35r).

Contents:

ff. 1r-6r: Bede, Homiliae in Evangelia, 1:13, Homilia in natali Benedicti Abbatis (Homily on Benedict Biscop), beginning: 'Sermo Beati bede sacerdotis et confessoris in natale sancti Benedicti abbatis fuit constructor monasterii Sancti Petri principis apostolorum [...]. In illo tempore dixit Petrus ad Ihesum: Ecce nos reliquimus Omnia et secuti sumus te et reliqua? Audiens a Domino Petrus qui dives difficile intraret in regnum celorum'.

ff. 7r-21r: Bede, Historia abbatum, beginning: 'Incipit vita beatorum abbatum Benedicti, Ceolfridi, Eosterwini, Sigfridi atque Hwaetbernti (sic). Religiosus Christi Famulus Biscopus cognomento Benedictus'.

ff. 21r-34r: Vita Sanctissimi Ceolfridi (Life of Ceolfrith), beginning: 'Incipit Vita Sanctissimi Ceolfridi abbatis [...]. Praecipit Apostolus Paulus scribens ad Hebreos'.

f. 35r: A fragment of a troper.

ff. 37r-45r: Passio Sancti Calesti pape (Passion of Pope St Celestine), beginning: 'Incipit passio Sancti Calesti Papae mense octobrio die xiiii. Temporibus Macrini et Alexandri incendio divino concremata est'.

ff. 45v-62r: Vita Sancti Stephani martyris et pontificis (Life of St Stephen), beginning 'Martiris atque pontificis mense Augusto die II. Temporibus Valeriani et Galieni multi Christiani (sic) declinantes sevitiam tyrannorum occultabantur'.

ff. 62v-72v: Passio Sanctorum et martyrum Abdonis et Sennis (Passion de Saint Abdon et Saint Sennen), beginning: 'Incipit Passio Sanctorum Martirum Abdonis et Sennis. Orta tempestate sub Decio Cesare multi Christiani (sic) necati sunt'.

ff. 73r-77r: Passio Sancte Felicitatis cum septem filiis suis (Passion of Saint Felicitas of Rome and her seven sons), imperfect, beginning: 'Incipit Passio Sanctae Filicitatis (sic) cum septem filiis suis, mense Iulio die decimo. Temporibus Antonini imperatoris orta est'.

ff. 77v-79v: Passio Sanctorum Simplicii, Faustini et Beatricis (Passion of Saints Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix), beginning: 'Temporibus Dioclitiani et Maximiani sceleratissimorum imperatorum multi christianorum peccati sunt'.

ff. 80r-82r: Passio Sancti Felicis martyris et pape (Passion of pope Saint Felix), beginning: 'Incipit passio Beati Felicis martiris adque pontificis Urbis Romane via portuense mense Iulio die xx et viii. Fuit autem temporibus Constantii filii Constantini magni principis usque ad Constantinum augustum Liberius quidam papa Urbis Rome'.

ff. 82r-89v: Passio Sancti Agapitipape (Passion of Saint Agapitus), beginning: 'Incipit Passio Sancti martyris Agapiti qui passus est sub Antiochio rege die xv kl septembris. Sub rege Anthioco pagano erat quidam puer nomine Agapitus timens dominum'.

ff. 89v-93r: Passio Sancti Cornelii pape (Passion of pope St Cornelius), beginning: 'Temporibus Decii Cesaris maxima persecutio orta est'.

f. 94v: Sequence and responsory with musical notation.

f. 95r: An added riddle written by a 11th-century hand.

ff. 96r-112r: Passio Sancte Juliane (Passion of Saint Juliana of Nicomedia), beginning: 'Incipit Passio Sancte Iuliane martyre quod est idus februarii initium Nicomedia sub Maximiano imperatore. Tempore illo quidan senator nomine Eleusius, amicus Maximiani imperatoris'.

ff. 113r-132r: Paul the Deacon of Naples, translation of Eutychianus' Theophili Actus, beginning: 'ActusTheophili qui Christum negavit et recuperavit'.

Decoration:

See separate parts.

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
040-002048851

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3020 : Bede, Homiliae in Evangelia; Bede, Historia Abbatum; Vita Sanctissimi Ceolfridi; Vite Sanctorum; Paul the Deacon of Naples…

Contains:

Harley MS 3020, ff 1-35 : Bede, Homiliae in Evangelia, Historia Abbatum; Vita Sanctissimi Ceolfridi
Harley MS 3020, ff 36-94 : Vitae Sanctorum
Harley MS 3020, ff 95-132 : Passio Sancte Juliane; Paul the Deacon of Naples, translation of Eutychianus' Theophili Actus,

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3021]/040-002048851

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

A parchment codex

Digitised Content:

https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059909805.0x000001

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Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

0900

End Date:

1099

Date Range:

10th century-11th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 220 x 135 mm (text space varies).

Foliation: ff. 132 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end).

Script: Caroline minuscule.

Binding: Post-1600. Tan leather with gold tooling; marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Provenance:

The Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin, Glastonbury: owned, evidence of the cult of Ceolfrid at Glastonbury (ff. 21r-34r), (see Carley, 'More pre-Conquest Manuscripts from Glastonbury abbey' (1994)); ?seen by John Leland (b. c. 1503, d. 1552) at the abbey according to Richard Sharpe and James Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: The Bodleian Libraries, 2015) [accessed 12 September 2016].

Added late medieval table of contents, 14th century, describing all the items of the manuscript (f. 132v): 'Hic libellus continet omeliam Bede super Evangelium Ecce nos reliquimus Omnia. Inde vitam sanctorum Benedicti, Ceolfridim et aliorum trium abbatum de ulmo. Inde passiones sanctorum Rome pontificum Calixti et Stephani, Abdon et Sennes sub regulorum, Felicitatis et septem filiorum eius, Simplicii, Faustini, et Beatricis, Felicis pape, Agapiti pueri, Cornelii pape ac Iuliane virginis, Theophiliumque de Christi negacione et sua reconcilacione'.

Eleventh-century additons of music, including a sheet from a discarded Troper (f. 35r): see discussion Hartzell, Catalogue of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England, (2006).

William Fox, 16th century: his name inscribed 'Willyam Fox' (f. 91v).

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)): sold to Harley on 13 August 1724.

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.

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808-12), II (1808), no. 3020.

Bede, Bedae Opera Historica Minora, ed. by Joseph Stevenson, 2 vols (London: English Historical Society, 1841), II, pp. 139-62, 318-34, 335-38.

H. L. D. Ward and J. A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), II, H. L. D. Ward (1893), pp. 595, 719.

Bede, Opera Historica, ed. by Carolus Plummer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1896), pp. 364-87, 388-404.

T. A. M. Bishop, 'Notes on Cambridge Manuscripts', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 3 (1963), pp. 413-23.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 307 n. 5.

Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, ed. by Bertram Colgrave and R. A. B. Mynors (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969), p. liii.

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. 156, 255.

Gerald Bonner, Wearmouth, Bede, and Christian Culture: An Exhibition of Manuscripts at The Central Museum and Art Gallery, Sunderland (Sunderland: [n. pub.], 1974), no. 14 [exhibition guide].

The Making of England: Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600-900, ed. by Leslie Webster and Janet Backhouse (London: British Museum, 1991), no. 94 [exhibition catalogue].

Richard Gameson, 'The decoration of the Tanner Bede', Anglo-Saxon England, 21 (1992), 115-59 (p. 117 n. 10).

James Carley, 'More Pre-Conquest Manuscripts from Glastonbury Abbey', Anglo-Saxon England, 23 (1994), pp. 265-81.

English Benedictine Libraries: The Shorter Catalogues, ed. by R. Sharpe and others, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 4 (London: British Library, 1996), p. 235.

Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 241 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001), no. 433 [ff. 1-34], no. 433.1 [f. 35], no. 433.2 [ff. 36-94], no. 433.3 [ff. 95-132].

Bede, Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow, ed. by Christopher Grocock and I. N. Wood (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 2003), pp. xcvii-xcviii, civ-cv, cxiii.

K. D. Hartzell, Catalogue of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England up to 1200 containing Music (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2006), no. 161.

Adrienne Williams Boyarin, Miracles of the Virgin in Medieval England. Law and Jewishness in Marian Legends (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010), p. 45 n.14.

Mercedes Salvador-Bello, Isidorean Perceptions of Order: The Exeter Book Riddles and Medieval Latin Enigmata (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2015), pp. 48, 55.

Richard Sharpe and James Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: The Bodleian Libraries, 2015) [accessed 12 September 2016].

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.