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Harley MS 3040

Record Id:

040-002048871

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048871

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00015a

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3040

Title:

Caesarius of Arles, Homiliae X ad monachos; Pseudo-Caesarius of Arles, De vita Christiana Liber I ad Iulianam viduam; Eusebius, Homiliae X ad monachos

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-31v: Caesarius of Arles, Homiliae X ad monachos.

ff. 32r-46v: Pseudo-Augustine and Pseudo-Pelagius, but here attributed to Caesarius of Arles, De vita Christiana Liber I ad Iulianam viduam, entitled: 'admonicio Beati Cesarij Episcopi ad sororem suam'; and beginning: 'Et ego peccator et ultimus insipienciorque ceteris et impericior universis'.

ff. 47r-72v: Eusebius, Homiliae X ad monachos; complete and does not omit homilies 7 and 10 as was frequent in English copies of this text.

The manuscript contains a few additions:

f. 1*recto: A pencil note: 'Cod. Sec. XII. Sec[undum] Casley sed Qu. ob Altra [...] speciem [...] sec. XV'; probably referring to David Casley (b. 1681/2, d. 1754), deputy to Richard Bentley, keeper of the Royal Library and the Cotton Library, who visited Humfrey Wanley, Keeper of the Harleian Library, between 1720 and 1725 to borrow manuscripts for Bentley's use.

f. 1*verso: A draft indenture: 'Noverint universi per preaesentes no Nicolamy Upten'; written in the 15th or 16th century.

f. 73v: A quotation of Job 1:21-22: 'Dominus dedit dominus abstulit sit nomen domini benedictum'; added in the (?) 15th century.

Decoration:

3 large initials in colours and gold enclosing a flower or acanthus leaves, with foliate feathering extending into the margin (ff. 1r, 47r, 54r). Large initial in colours and gold enclosing an acanthus leaf (f. 32r). Initials in blue with red penwork decoration or in red with brown penwork including foliate motifs (ff. 4v, 6v, 8v, 11v, 13r, 20r, 27v, etc.)

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048871

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3040 : Caesarius of Arles, Homiliae X ad monachos; Pseudo-Caesarius of Arles, De vita Christiana Liber I ad Iulianam viduam;…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3041]/040-002048871

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1425

End Date:

1474

Date Range:

2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 290 x 210 mm (text space: 200 x 155 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 73 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end); f. 1* is a parchment leaf; 1 unfoliated ruled parchment leaf after f. 1*; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown (with a pencil inscription and printed Harleian shelfmark) on f. 1*recto.

Collation: Indicated by catchwords (written horizontally) and leaf signatures.

Script: Semi-humanististic.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown mottled calf with gold fillets and blind tooling.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England or Northern Netherlands.

Provenance:

Ricardus Cobbe, vicar of Aldbourne, Wiltshire, 15th or 16th century: his ownership inscription on f. 1*recto: 'liber Ricardi cobbe vicarie de Aldeborne' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 106).

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: sold to the Harleys on 7 July 1716: according to Humfrey Wanley's inscription on f. 1*recto: 'Bought of Mr Noel 7 Juij 1716'; (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 253).

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 ‘Bought of Mr Noel, 7 July 1716’ (f. 1*recto).

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.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 727 [no. 3040].

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. 106, 253.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Caesarius of Arles, Saint, c 470-542,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118454017,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/102305735
Eusebius of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, c 263-c 340,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122758806,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/4929593

Places:

England
Northern Netherlands