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Harley MS 3043

Record Id:

040-002048874

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048874

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000171

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3043

Title:

Passionale

Scope & Content:

This composite manuscript containing saints' Lives consists of two separate parts that were joined together by the 15th century.

Part 1 (ff. 2r–124) was written in the 15th century.

Part 2 (ff. 125r–228v) was written in the 2nd half of the 12th century.

Contents:

Part 1:

ff. 2r-4r: Passio sancti Andree apostoli.

ff. 4r-7r: Vita et passio sancti mathie apostoli.

ff. 7r-9v: Miracula sancti mathie apostoli.

ff. 9v-10v: Passio sancti iacobi minoris apostoli.

ff. 10v-11r: Passio sancti Philippi apostoli.

ff. 11r-14v: Passio sancti Barnabe apostoli ihesu Cristi.

ff 14v-16v: Vita sancti luce evangeliste.

ff. 17r-31r: Vita beati Turpini archiepiscopi Remensis in historiam Karoli magni imperatoris.

ff. 31v-100v: John the Deacon of Rome, Vita sancti Gregorii pape; in 4 books.

ff. 101r-102r: A miracle concerning two fighting dukes ('visio quedam satis mirabilis provocans ad largicionem elemosinarium'), beginning: 'Rem refero vobis fratres quam fideli ac probabili racione audivi modernis accidisse temporibus'.

ff. 102r-104v: Passio ymaginis domini nostril ihesu Christi.

ff. 104v-124r: Historia sancta virginis et martiris Barbare.

Part 2:

ff. 125r-136r: Vita sancti Basilii episcopi.

ff. 136r-147r: Vita sancti Juliani martyris.

ff. 147r-156v: Vita sancti Iohannis evangeliste.

ff. 156v-163v: Passio sancti Thome apostoli.

ff. 164r-178r: Vita sancti Silvestri episcopi.

ff. 178v-186r: Vita sanctæ Martinæ virginis et martyris.

ff. 186r-191r: Passio sanctorum apostolorum Petri et Pauli.

ff. 191r-194v: Passio sancti Pauli apostoli.

ff. 194v-204v Miracula sancti Andreæapostoli.

ff. 204v-206r: Passio sancti Iacobi apostoli.

ff. 206r-208v: Passio sancti Bartholomei apostoli.

ff. 209r-213v: Passio sancti Mathei apostoli et evangeliste.

ff. 213v-217v: Passio santorum apostolorum Symonis et Jude.

ff. 217v-218r: Passio sancti Marci ewangeliste.

ff. 218r-225r: Maurice of Sully, Sermon (here entitled: 'Sermo beati gregorii ad sacerdotes'), beginning: 'Ewangelistis ewangelizare praedicatoribus praedicare'.

ff. 225r-227r: Maurice of Sully, 'Exposicio super oracionem dominicam', beginning: 'Inter omnia quae fragilitas humana facere potest'

ff. 227r-228v: Untitled sermon, beginning: 'Homo de semine aaron si fuerit leprosus'.

f. 228v: Maurice of Sully, Sermon (faded), beginning: 'Credimus sanctam trinitatem patrem et filiumet spiritum sanctum'.

f. 228v: Unidentified sermon (faded and fragmentary), beginning: 'Ego quasi vitis fructificavi suavitatem'.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. 1r: Table of contents for the whole manuscript (including both parts); written in the 15th century.

Decoration:

Part 1:

Large (4- to 6-line) red initials with minor forms of decoration throughout. 1 large (8-line) added initial outlined in brown ink with foliate motifs inside the letter (f. 2r). Capitals highlighted in red. Rubrics in red.

Part 2:

Large (7- to 12-line) initials outlined in brown ink with foliate mofits inside their letters on a grounds of green, red, and yellow (ff. 136r, 156v, 164r, 178v, 186r, 203v [with a winged hybrid biting the letter], 209r, 217v). Large (5- to 8-line) initials in blue, green, or red, or outlined in brown ink, with penwork decoration with 'arabesque' motifs in colours (ff. 125r, 147r, 147v, 191r). Large (5-line) initials in green or red with minor penwork decoration in the opposite colour (ff. 164r, 194v, 219r, 225r). Large (2-line) plain initials in blue, green, or red throughout. Large Rubrics in red. Marginal miniatures in colours of St John the Evangelist (f. 152r), St Andrew (f. 194v), and St Bartholomew (f. 206r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048874

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3043 : Passionale

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3044]/040-002048874

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:

1150

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

2nd half of the 12th century-15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 425 × 295 mm (text space: 335 x 210 mm, in 2 columns [Part 1]; 350 x 230 mm, in 2 columns [Part 2]).

Foliation: ff. 228 (+ 3 paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); the final leaf was formerly used as a pastedown, and shows the offset of (what appears to be) a papal letter; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [ii]recto (bibliographical notes).

Script: Gothic; Protogothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled purple half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; marbled endleaves.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Germany (Trier?).

Provenance:

The Benedictine abbey of Santa Maria ad Martyres extra Muros, Trier, 15th century: its ownership inscription on f. 1r: ‘Liber monasterii beate marie ad martires extra muros’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 331).

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.

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, ed. by Robert Nares and others, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808–12), p. 727 (no. 3043).

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 331.

Marijke Carasso-Kok, Repertorium van verhalende historische bronnen uit de middeleeuwen (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1981), p. 16.

Almut Suerbaum, ‘Erzählte Geschichte. Dialog und Dialogizität in der “Kaiserchronik”’, in Wolfram-Studien XVI: Aspekte des 12. Jahrhunderts Freisinger Kolloquium 1998, ed. by Wolfgang Haubrichs, Eckart C. Lutz, and Gisela Vollmann-Profe (Berlin: Schmidt, 2000), p. 241.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

John the Deacon of Rome, Deacon of Rome; also known as Johannes Hymonides, c 825-c 880,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000458654103,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95148471
Maurice of Sully, Bishop of Paris, c 1120-1196,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000087847730,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/88627694

Places:

Germany
Trier, Germany