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Harley MS 3049

Record Id:

040-002048880

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048880

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3049

Title:

Ambrose, De Fide; Joachim of Fiore, Enchiridion super Apocalypsim; and other theological works

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. 1v: Table of contents.

ff. 2r-30v: Ambrose, De Fide ('Liber de fide sancte trintatatis ad Gracianum imperatorem').

ff. 30v-51v: Ambrose, De Spiritu Sancto ('Liber de Spiritu Sancto ad Gracianum imperatorem'); imperfect at the end.

ff. 52r-56v: Ambrose, De Incarnationis Dominicae Sacramento ('Liber de incarnacione domini ad Gracianum imperatorem'); imperfect at the beginning.

ff. 56v-113r: Ambrose, Liber Epistolarum.

ff. 113r-119r: Ambrose, Epistola ad Ecclesiam Vercellensem de Pastore eligendo.

ff. 119r-120v: Ambrose, De Salomone ('Tractatus super ille salomonis ubi tamen impossibilia sibi esse dicit et quartum penitus ignorare').

ff. 120v-129v: Jerome, Commentarium Epistolae Pauli ad Titum.

ff. 130r-134v: Jerome, Liber Victorini super Apocalipsin.

ff. 135r-218v: Joachim of Fiore, Enchiridion super Apocalypsim.

ff. 218v-222v: Isidore of Seville, Allegoriae Sacrae Scripturae ad Orosium.

ff. 222v-232v: Pierre d' Ailly, De Potestate Papae et Auctoritate Cardinalium.

ff. 232v-237v: Francis of Mayrone, De Dominio Civili.

ff. 237v-239v: Walter Hunt, Quid est Ecclesia.

ff. 239v-241r: Walter Hunt, De Preeminencia Petri super Alios Apostolos.

ff. 241r-245v: Isidore of Seville, Liber de Ortu et Obitu Sanctorum Patriarcharum.

ff. 245v-253v: Liber Provincialis de Sedibus Archiepiscopalibus et Episcopalibus Mundi.

ff. 253v-254r: Pseudo-Joachim of Fiore, Tract on clerical possessions, with the heading: 'Hec extracta sunt de exposicione abbatis Joachym super Ysaiam ubi agit de onere Babilonis'.

Decoration:

3 full foliate bar borders and large initials in colours and gold (ff. 2r, 119r, 138v). 13 large puzzle initials in blue and gold extending into the margins, also with red and purple pen-flourishing (ff. 30v [x 2], 56v, 158v, 167v, 181r, 185r, 189v, 193r, 210v, 218r [x2], 223r). 9 large initials in gold on blue and pink grounds, some with a foliate extension into the margin or forming a rectangular box around the text in gold and colours (ff. 44v, 69r, 74v, 80v, 87r, 98v, 113r, 120v [x2]). 3 large puzzle initials in blue and red with pen-flourishing (ff. 162r, 163v, 173v). 6 large initials in gold with purple pen-flourishing (ff. 170v, 176r, 181v, 197r, 199v, 200v). Large initial in gold, with extensions into the margins in red, gold, and blue with pen-flourishing (f. 232v). Large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, often in the form of leaves. Paraphs in red or blue, or in gold with pen-flourishing in colour(s).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048880

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3049 : Ambrose, De Fide; Joachim of Fiore, Enchiridion super Apocalypsim; and other theological works

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3050]/040-002048880

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:

1458

End Date:

1458

Date Range:

1458

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 390 x 265 mm (text space: 285 x 175 mm, in 2 columns).

Foliation: ff. 254 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment stub after ff. 13, 51, 129, and 134; a parchment tab on f. 118

Collation: Indicated by leaf signatures and catchwords.

Script: Gothic cursive

Binding: British Musuem in-house; gold-tooled brown half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Northern England (Durham).

Provenance:

William Ebchester, Prior of Durham Cathedral (1446-1456), commissioned the manuscript in 1458: according to an inscription on f. 1v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 143)

The Benedictine cathedral priory of St Cuthbert, Durham, apparently made in 1458 for its library: an inscription on f. 1v records that William Ebchester, prior of the Cathedral, had the manuscript made: '[V]enerabilis pater Magister Willelmus Ebchester nuper prior huius ecclesie Cathedralis Dunelmensis fecit hunc librum fieri et assignavit ipsum librarie eiusdem ecclesie Anno domini Millesimo CCCCo lviijo - Lector oret devote pro anima eius ut in pace domini requiescat'; with a table of contents in the same hand on f. 1v; and the library's pressmark '2a.2l.Q' on f. 2r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 143).

Samuel Hawes (d. 1722), rector of Braybrooke in 1686: sold to the Harleys on 7 March 1720/1, according to an inscription on f. 1r (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. 93 n. 2; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 182).

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 '7 Martii 1720/1' (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.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 729 (no. 3049).

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. 93 n. 2.

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. 142.

C. H. Talbot, ‘A List of Cistercian Manuscripts in Great Britain’, Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought and Religion, 8 (1952), 402-18 (p. 411).

Marjorie Reeves, The Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages: A study in Joachimism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969), p. 513.

Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), no. 725.

Margaret M. Harvey ‘Harley manuscript 3049 and two questiones of Walter Hunt, O. Carm.’, Durham Archaeological Journal: Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, New Series, 6, (1982), pp. 45-47.

Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 73.

Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, Supplement to the Second Edition, ed. by Andrew G. Watson, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 15 (London: The Royal Historical Society, 1987), p. 30.

Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Books under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006), 88-89 and 433 n. 57.

Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, 'English Joachite Manuscripts and Medieval Optimism about the Role of the Jews in History: A List for Future Studies', Florilegium, 32:1 (2006), 97-144 (p. 107).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Places:

Durham, England
Northern England