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Harley MS 3033
- Record Id:
- 040-002048864
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048864
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000153
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100061385603.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3033
- Title:
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Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, imperfect
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-124v: Gregory the Great (b. c. 540, d. 604), Moralia in Job (Morals on the Book of Job), beginning: 'Reverentissimo et sanctissimo fratri Leandro coepiscopo Gregorius servuus servorum'; imperfect ending (book 5, chapter 46): 'quia tabescentem mentem sua pena sauceat, quam felicitas torquet'.
Decoration:
Large initials in brown ink, some with red and/or yellow or silver. Added initial in brown ink with simple foliate motifs (f. 1r). Capitals marked in red (oxidised) or silver.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048864", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3033: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, imperfect" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048864 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3033 : Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, imperfect - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3034]/040-002048864
- 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_100061385603.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0850
- End Date:
- 0874
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 300 x 225 mm (text space: 220 x 160mm).
Foliation: ff. 124 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1964. The covers of a Harleian binding of gold-tooled red leather are pasted inside the present ones.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Paris, Ile-de-France.
Provenance:
An unknown 10th-century owner: added 'Audis (sic) tellus, audis (sic) magnis (sic) malis (sic) limbus' (f. 5r).
An unknown 10th- or 11th-century French owner: a hymn 'Beate martyr prospera diem' with neumes, added in Northern France at the end of the 10th century or early 11th century (f. 1r); contemporary addition of neumes (f. 92r).
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; purchased by Edward Harley 13 August 1724 (see The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726 (1966)).
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 Augusti, A.D. 1724’ (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. 3033.
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. 304 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. 254-55.
Sigrid Krämer, Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters, 3 vols, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, Supplement 1, ed. by Bernhard Bischoff (Munich: Beck, 1989-1990), II (1989), no. 2471.
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen), aus dem Nachlaß herausgegeben von Birgit Ebersperger, Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für die Herausgabe der Mittelalterlichen Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, pp. 119-20 (no. 2471).
Jesse Keskiaho, Dreams and Visions in the Early Middle Ages: The Reception and Use of Patristic Ideas, 400-900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), p. 239.
- 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.