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Harley MS 3044
- Record Id:
- 040-002048875
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048875
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000172
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059345306.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3044
- Title:
- St Jerome, Epistulae and other works
- Scope & Content:
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This large manuscript contains the Epistulae (Letters) by St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420), the Vita Hieronymi (The Life of St Jerome), attributed to Sebastian of Monte Cassino, as well as the famous story of St Jerome and the lion. The manuscript lacks at least one leaf at the beginning, as the opening text is the latter part of Jerome’s explanation of the Creed.
Contents:
f. 1r: St Jerome, Explanatio Symboli ad Damasum (St Jerome’s Exposition on the Creed) (4-14), beginning: ‘deitatem nec ut quidam‘.
ff. 1v-189v: St Jerome, Epistulae, beginning: ‘dilectissimo filio Ieronimo, Damasus dormientem te’.
ff. 189v-190r: Miraculum de leone (The Miracle of St Jerome and the Lion), beginning: 'Contigit autem huiusmodi miraculum in monastario’.
ff. 190v-192r: Pseudo-Sebastian of Monte Cassino, Vita Hieronymi, beginning: ‘plerosque nimirum Illustrium viros’.
ff. 192r-192v: Miscellaneous excerpts including a short glossary of Greek words from Scripture and various hexameter verses, beginning: ‘sintagma id est incompositionem sive compositionem’.
Decoration:
Large initials in blue, red, and green, some plain and others with reserved designs, arabesques, and/or foliate motifs. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048875", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3044: St Jerome, Epistulae and other works" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048875 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3044 : St Jerome, Epistulae and other works - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3045]/040-002048875
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059345306.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1174
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 440 x 320 mm (text space: 340 x 225 mm, in two columns).
Foliation: ff. iii + 192 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); ff. i-iii are original parchment flyleaves.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1969. The brown suede covers of a previous binding are pasted on the inside of the upper and lower covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
? An English Cistercian monastery: suggested by the use of the punctus flexus.
Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold by his widow on 17 May 1715 to Robert Harley, along with other manuscripts (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 88).
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 ‘17 May 1715’ (f. [i] 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.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.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: British Museum, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 727 (no. 3044).
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 11 n. 6.
Bernhard Lambert, Bibliotheca Hieronymiana manuscripta: La tradition manuscrite des œuvres de Saint Jérôme, Insturmenta Patristica, 4:2 (Steenbrugge: Abbey of St Peter, 1969), p. 65.
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. 88.
Bernard Lambert, Bibliotheca Hieronymiana Manuscripta, 4 vols, Instrumenta Patristica iv (Turnhout: Brepols, 1969-85), I (1969), p. 200.
- 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.