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Harley MS 3034
- Record Id:
- 040-002048865
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048865
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000154
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056051844.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3034
- Title:
- Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (excerpts); St Augustine of Hippo, Enchiridion; Candidus Wizo, Sermons and Opusculum de passione domini
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-10r: Excerpts from Isidore of Seville (d. 636), Etymologiae (Etymologies)books VI, VIII, XV, XVII, XIX, XX, with added titles in the margins (ff. 9v-10r). For detailed contents, see Steinová 'Innovating Knowledge' online.
ff. 11v-58r: St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430), Enchiridion (Manual), preceded by capitula (ff. 10v-11v).
ff. 58v-65v: Sermons attributed to Candidus Wizo (fl. 793-802), including Sermo de Natale domini (Sermon on the Nativity) (ff. 58v-61r), beginning: 'Scire debetis fratres dilectissimi, causam presentis sollemnitatis'; sermon on the Trinity and penitence, beginning: 'Fratres mei, sciendum est vobis quod quicumque salvus esse vult' (ff. 61r-63r); sermon on Saint Servatius beginning: 'Audite fratres verba domini et intellegite' (ff. 63r-65v); a short text on the significance of number three, beginning: 'Omnia tribus constant esse, posse, velle, sed de esse sunt posse et velle'.
ff. 66v-96v: Candidus Wizo, Opusculum de passione domini (Short Treatise on the Passion), beginning: 'Notum est vobis fratres karissimi et frequenti sancti Evangelii lectione', ending imperfectly: 'pro ea caritate qua nos dilexit, mortis debitum'.
Decoration:
Initials in red or black ink highlighted in ochre, grey or blue.
Titles in display capitals in silver, showing its red ground, or silver and colours (ff. 10v, 11v, 12r).
Rubrics in uncial minuscule in silver showing its red ground.
- 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
040-002048865 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3034 : Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (excerpts); St Augustine of Hippo, Enchiridion; Candidus Wizo, Sermons and Opusculum de… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3035]/040-002048865
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056051844.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0800
- End Date:
- 0824
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 310 x 210 mm (text space: 225 x 150/155 mm)
Foliation: ff. 96 (+ 4 unfoliated early modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gilt-tooled red morocco attributable to Thomas Elliott; marbled endleaves.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Southern Germany.
Provenance:
? Cathedral Church of St Peter, Cologne: according to Kramer, Handschriftenerbe (1989); perhaps added the interlinear and marginal notes in Caroline script throughout and the interlinear pen trial in Old High German (f. 66v).
Johann Georg Graevius (b. 1632, d. 1703), German classical scholar and critic: his manuscript number 3; possibly sold to Wilhelm in 1703 with the rest of his library (Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658, d. 1716), owner of a library in Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Mattaire, the classical scholar and historian of printing: bought the Wilhelm library sometime before 1724 through Johann Büchels (b. 1659, d. 1738) (Wright 1972); sold to Edward Harley on 20 October 1725 (see Wright and Wright, The Diary of Humfrey Wanley (1966); 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 ‘20 die mensis Octobris, A.D. 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), no. 3034.
Albert C. Clark, 'The Library of J. G. Graevius', The Classical Review, 5 (1891), 365-72 (p. 370).
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingishen Miniaturen', in Zweiter Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 58).
Wallace M. Lindsay, Notae Latinae: an account of abbreviation in Latin manuscripts of the early minuscule period (c. 700-850) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1915), pp. 50, 462.
Herbert Thoma, ‘Altdeutsches aus Londer Handschriften’, Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutscher Sprache und Literatur, 73 (1951), 197-271 (pp. 265-67).
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 385 n. 6.
Cyril E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 169, 367, 421.
John Marenbon, From the Circle of Alcuin to the School of Auxerre: Logic, Theology and Philosophy in the early Middle Ages, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, III,15 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), pp. 57-62, 168-70.
Sigrid Krämer, Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands der Schweiz, ed. by Bernard Bischoff, Supplement 1, 3 vols (Munich: Beck, 1989-1990), II (1989): Köln-Zyfflich, p. 417.
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: Laon-Paderborn, p. 120 (no. 2472).
Christopher A. Jones, 'The Sermons Attributed to Candidus Wizo', in Latin Learning and English Lore: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature for Michael Lapidge, 2 vols (Toronto: university of Toronto Press, 2005), pp. 260-283.
L'Edition Critique des Oeuvres D'Isidore de Seville: Les Recensions Multiples ed. by A. Andres Sanz, J. Elfassi and J.C. Martin (Paris: Institut d'Etudes Augustiniennes, 2008) pp. 195-230.
'London, British Library, Harley 3034', at 'Innovating Knowledge', ed. by Evina Steinová ((Huygens Institute, Amsterdam, 2021), online at https://db.innovatingknowledge.nl/#detail/M0171 [accessed 28.01.2022].
- 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.