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Harley MS 3030
- Record Id:
- 040-002048861
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048861
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000150
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056050254.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3030
- Title:
- Origen, Super Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos; St Jerome, Commentariorum In Epistolam Pauli ad Ephesios
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript consists of two commentaries on the Pauline epistles written respectively by Origen (b. c. 185, d. c. 254) and St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420). This volume was produced in the 2nd half of the 11th century in Western Germany, perhaps Paderborn.
Fragments from a 9th-century text of extracts from a canonical collection made in Eastern France, featuring remains of a 15th-century Latin text on divorce, have been used as pastedowns and flyleaves (ff. 1-2; 231-232).
Contents:
ff. 3v-181v: Origen, Super epistolam Pauli ad Romanos (Commentary on Paul's Letter to the Romans); translated by Rufinus of Aquileia (b. c. 345, d. 411).
ff. 182r-230r: St Jerome, Commentariorum In epistolam Pauli ad Ephesios (Commentary on St Paul's epistle to Ephesians).
Decoration:
Two initials in brown ink (ff. 2v, 231v).
Display script in brown ink (f. 1v). Rubrics in light brown and red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048861", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3030: Origen, Super Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos; St Jerome, Commentariorum In Epistolam Pauli ad Ephesios" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048861 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3030 : Origen, Super Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos; St Jerome, Commentariorum In Epistolam Pauli ad Ephesios - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3031]/040-002048861
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056050254.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1050
- End Date:
- 1099
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 325 x 215 mm (text space: 250 x 175 mm, in two columns).
Foliation: ff. 232 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); ff. 1, 232 are lifted pastedowns; ff. 2, 231 probably served as flyleaves; f. 1 includes another pastedown from a 15th-century manuscript.
Script: Late Caroline minuscule, written by 6 scribes, the main part is written by 5 scribes from Paderborn, the 6th (ff. 222r-230r) from Helmarshausen in Germany, according to Hoffmann, Bücher und Urkunden (1992).
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Paderborn, Western Germany.
Provenance:
An unknown 13th- or 14th-century owner: added the title 'Origenes super epistola Pauli ad Romanos a Rufino [...]' (f. 3r).
An unknown (?) 15th-century owner: added, perhaps in the 15th century, leaves from a 9th-century manuscript used as pastedowns and flyleaves (ff. 1-2; 231-232), f. 1 includes an excerpt from a 15th-century manuscript.
The Cathedral Library, Paderborn: recorded in the Library's catalogue of 1672 as 'Origines super Epistolas s. Pauli in perg.' (see Hoffmann, Bücher und Urkunden (1992), p. 28).
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 (Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972); Watson, 'An Early Thirteenth-Century Low Countries Booklist' (1981), p. 43).
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 by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘Dominus meus coemit codicem a Nath. Noel A.D. 1716’ (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), no. 3030.
E. Maunde Thompson and G. F. Warner, Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-1884), Part II, Latin, p. 88.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingishen Miniaturen', in Zweiter Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 58).
Bernhard Lambert, Bibliotheca Hieronymiana manuscripta: La tradition manuscrite des œuvres de Saint Jérôme, Insturmenta Patristica, 4:2 (Steenbrugge: Abbey of St Peter, 1969), p. 283.
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. 253.
Andrew G. Watson, 'An Early Thirteenth-Century Low Countries Booklist', British Library Journal, 7 (1981), 39-46 (p. 43).
Sigrid Krämer, Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz: Ergänzungsband 1, 3 vols (Munich: Beck, 1989-1990), II (1989), p. 417.
Hartmut Hoffmann, Bücher und Urkunden aus Helmarshausen und Corvey, Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Studien und Texte, 4 (Hannover: Hahn, 1992), pp. 18-19, 28, 75, pl. 1.
Berhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen) (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, no. 2469.
Origen, Commentaire sur l'Epître aux Romains, ed. by C. P. Hammond Bammel, 4 vols. (Paris: Editions du Cerf, 2009-2012), I, p. 112.
- 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.