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Harley MS 3046

Record Id:

040-002048877

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048877

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000174

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3046

Title:

Collection of sermons

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1v-300v: Collection of sermons, entitled: 'Omeliae divi Hieronimi Gregorii aliorumque doctorum felic. Incipium'. Includes sermons by John Chrysostom (ff. 24v-27r; 205v-209r; 270v-272r; 278r-283r), Origen (ff. 53r-55v; 192r-196v; 251r-259r) and Gregory of Nazianzus (ff. 219r-222r; inc. 'Viri amatores Christi').

Decoration:

Full-page architectural border in colours and gold with a large historiated initial (the letter 'D', featuring Pope Gregory the Great at a writing desk) and the arms of Ferdinand I of Aragon, king of Naples (f. 10r). Very large white vine initials in colours and gold with partial white vine borders (ff. 2r, 4r). Titular wreath in green and gold (f. 1v). Large (4- or 5-line) white vine initials in colours and gold throughout. Smaller gold initials on blue, green, and purple grounds. Running headers in blue and gold. Rubrics in red. Headings in gold or blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048877

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3046 : Collection of sermons

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3047]/040-002048877

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:

1486

End Date:

1496

Date Range:

c 1491

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 410 x 260 mm (text space: 280 x 165 mm, ruled in hardpoint)

Foliation: ff. 300 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end); 1 unfoliated ruled parchement after f. 300; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [ii]recto (bibliographical notes).

Collation: Indicated by (vertical) catchwords.

Script: Humanistic.

Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; the previous 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled and -stamped red leather has been pasted on the inside covers; rebound in 1965.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Central Italy.

Provenance:

Ferdinand I of Aragon, king of Naples (b. 1424, d. 1494): his arms painted on f. 10r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 150).

S. Andrea [? della Valle, the mother church of the Theatines, founded in Rome 1524]: its late-16th century book stamp (entirely effaced) on f. 2r: 'BIBLIOTECAE S. ANDREAE ROMAE' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 289).

John Wright, librarian to George Henry Hay, 7th earl of Kinnoull and husband of Abigail, youngest daughter of Robert Harley: sold by him to Harley on 24 June 1723 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 417 n. 4; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 363).

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 ‘27 die Junij, A.D. 1723’ (f. [ii]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), III (1808), p. 729 (no. 3046).

Giuseppe Mazzatinti, La biblioteca dei Re d'Aragona in Napoli (Rocca S. Casciano: Licinio Cappelli, 1897), no. 562.

Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny, 'L'homéliare de Ferdinand Ier d'Aragon (Paris, Bibl. nat. lat. 813-814)', in Studi di bibliografia e di storia in onore di Tammaro De Marinis, 4 vols (Verona: Mardersteig, 1964), II, pp. 33-60 (p. 33).

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. 417 n. 4.

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. 150, 289, 363.

Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum: Accedunt Alia Itinera: A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and Other Libraries, 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute; Leiden: Brill, 1963-1997), IV (1989), p. 166.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Gregory, Saint, of Nazianzus, c 329-389?
John Chrysostom, Saint, Archbishop of Constantinople, c 347-407,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000456059482,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/305214868
Origen, c 185-c 254,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123213322,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95155322

Places:

Central Italy