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Harley MS 3036
- Record Id:
- 040-002048867
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048867
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000156
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3036
- Title:
- Gregory the Great, Homiliae XL in evangelia
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1-3v: Numerous added texts and excerpts, written by several 12th-century hands, beginning with Alcuin (d. 804), Ad Pueros Sancti Martini de confessione peccatorum (To the young men of Saint-Martin on the confession of sins), and including a short account of the life of Hugh, abbot of Cluny (b. 1024, d. 1109).
ff. 4r-132r: St Gregory the Great (b. c. 540, d. 604), Homiliae XL in evangelia (Forty homilies on the Gospels).
f. 132v: An added register, in a 13th-century hand, now partly obscured by later damage, beginning: ‘Census de ve[ctation]e qui redditur’.
Decoration:
Numerous large initials (4-5 lines) in red, one with added pen-work decoration of the late 12th or early 13th century (f. 19r).
Space for large initial, marking the beginning of the preface of Homiliae XL in evangelia, left blank (f. 4r).
Rubrics in red. Highlighting in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048867", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3036: Gregory the Great, Homiliae XL in evangelia" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048867 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3036 : Gregory the Great, Homiliae XL in evangelia - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3037]/040-002048867
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 305 x 195 mm (written area 220 x 150 mm).
Foliation: ff. 132 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end).
1 unfoliated parchment leaf between ff. 3 and 4.
1 leaf excised before f. 4.
f. 132v: An added inscription on the lower half of the folio, no faded or erased.
Script: Protogothic.
Ruled in hard point; ae-caudata; ampersands and tironian ets.
Binding: Post-1600. Harley binding of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers.
Collation: Occasional quire marks at the beginning of the quire, as a Roman numeral with a square border in brown ink (e.g. f. 4r, f. 12r). Quire signatures.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France.
Provenance:
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), p. 255; Wright and Wright, Diary (1966), p. 304 n. 7).
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, HumfreyWanley ‘13 die Augusti, 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:
- Select digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 727, no. 3036.
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), p. 255.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Alcuin of York, c 735-804,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115788089,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/96533523
Gregory I, Saint, Pope; also known as 'the Great', c 540-604,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121451132,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100184667
Noel, Nathaniel, bookseller, fl 1681, d c 1753 - Places:
- France