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Harley MS 3027
- Record Id:
- 040-002048858
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048858
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00014d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059344653.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3027
- Title:
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Augustine of Hippo (and Pseudo-Augustine), various theological works; Prosper of Aquitaine, Pro Augustino responsiones ad capitula obiectionum Vincentianarum; sermon collection with texts by Pseudo-Augustine, Pseudo-Eusebius and Origen; Paulinus of Aquileia, Liber Exhortationis ad Quendam Comitem
- Scope & Content:
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This 12th-century English manuscript contains a collection of sermons, and theological writings by and spuriously attributed to the Church Father St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430), and his disciple Prosper of Aquitaine (b. c. 390, c. 455). The manuscript was owned and perhaps also produced at the Benedictine abbey of Bury St Edmunds; it is recorded in a catalogue of the abbey's library that was probably written in the 3rd quarter of the 12th century.
Contents:
ff. 1r–20v: Augustine, Soliloquia (Soliloquies) [Clavis Patrum Latinorum 252], begins imperfect, ‘mea. lux mea. vita mea.’.
ff. 20v–27v: Augustine, De Immortalitate Animae (On the Immortality of the Soul) [CPL 256].
ff. 27v–36v: Augustine, De Praesentia Dei (On the Presence of God) [Epistola 187; CPL 262].
ff. 37r–86r: Augustine, De Sermone Domini in Monte (On the Lord's Sermon on the Mount) [CPL 274].
ff. 86r–99r: Augustine, Expositio Quarundam Propositionum ex Epistula ad Romanos (Exposition on Certain Propositions from the Epistle to the Romans) [PL 280].
ff. 99v–105v: Pseudo-Augustine, De Duodecim Abusivis Saeculi (On the Twelve Wordly Abuses) [CPL 280].
ff. 105v–122v: Pseudo Augustine, Dialogus Quaestionum LXV (Dialogue of Sixty-Five Questions), rubric: ‘Questiones Orosii. Ad Beatum Augustinum Edite’.
ff. 123r–140r: Augustine, De Gratia et Libero Arbitrio (On Grace and Free Will) [CPL 352].
ff. 140v–152v: Augustine, De Octo Dulcitii Quaestionibus (On Eight Questions by Dulcitius) [CPL 291].
ff. 153r–157r: Prosper, Pro Augustino Responsiones ad Capitula Obiectionum Vincentianarum (For Augustine: Answers to Chapters on the Objections of the Vincentians) [CPL 521].
ff. 157r–169v: A sermon collection found in other English manuscripts, including Pseudo-Augustine; Pseudo-Eusebius; Origen, trans. Jerome, De circumcisione domini (On the Circumcision of the Lord) [Homiliae in Lucam 14; Clavis Patrum Graecorum 1451]: for other manuscripts see Sharpe, English Benedictine Libraries (1996), pp. 60–61.
ff. 170r-192v: Pseudo-Augustine (Paulinus of Aquileia), Liber Exhortationis ad Quendam Comitem (Book of Exhortations to a Certain Count) [Patrologia Latina 40, cols 1047-78).
ff. 192v–207v: Augustine, De Videndo Deo (On Seeing God) [Epistola 147; CPL 262], imperfect the end.
Decoration:
Numerous large and small initials in red, occasionally with reserved designs and some penwork decoration in red or plummet. Display script in brown ink for letters following large initials. One running header with some penwork decoration (f. 98v). Rubrics in red. Rough drawing of a human figure in plummet (f. 42r, lower margin). Underdrawings in plummet are visible for a number of initials (e.g. ff. 103v, 165v, and 166v); occasionally the design differs (e.g. f. 192v). Manicules added in brown ink. A marginal drawing of a triangle in black ink on f. 200v.
- 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
040-002048858 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3027 : Augustine of Hippo (and Pseudo-Augustine), various theological works; Prosper of Aquitaine, Pro Augustino responsiones ad… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3028]/040-002048858
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059344653.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1174
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 325 x 205 mm (text space: 230 x 135 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 207 (+ 4 paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end); + 1 unfoliated blank but ruled parchment leaf between f. 169 and f. 170.
Collation: i8-2 (ff. 1-6; 2 leaves missing before f. 1), ii-xxi8 (ff. 7-162v), xxii8 (ff. 163-169, [169a]), xxiii-xxvi8 (ff. 170-201), xxviisix (ff. 202-207). Leaves missing before f. 1 and after f. 207. Signatures in the centre of the lower margin of the verso of the last leaf of the quires; catchwords.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound on 10 November 1966: red half leather binding with Harley’s bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers, the spine inscribed in gold: ‘S. AUGUSTINE. SERMONS. ETC.’; the old binding (gold-tooled and blind-stamped dark brown sprinkled leather) pasted on the inside covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ?Bury St Edmunds, Eastern England.
Provenance:
The Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: recorded in a list of books from the library of Bury St Edmunds (Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 47, f. 117v); the respective section of the list was probably written in the 3rd quarter of the 12th century (see Sharpe, English Benedictine Libraries (1996), pp. 50-52 and pp. 60-61 [B13.50]).
?‘John Lynsey’, owned in the 15th or 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 86v.
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: the Harley family seat Brampton Bryan (see Wright and Wright, Diary (1966), I, pp. xlii-xliii) and then brought to London after Robert's death in 1724, received in the library on 16 October 1725, inscribed by the librarian Humfrey Wanley 'Hunc Codicem e Bramptenia [...] 1725' (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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- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: n. pub., 1808-12), II (1808), p. 726.
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. 387 n. 16.
Sancti Aureli Augustini Opera, Sect. 4, Pars I, ed. by John Divjak, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, 84 (Vienna: Hoelder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1971) p. x (no. 16).
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. 81.
English Benedictine Libraries: The Shorter Catalogues, ed. by Richard Sharpe and others, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 4 (London: British Library, 1996), pp. 60-61 (B13.50).
- 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.