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Harley MS 3050

Record Id:

040-002048881

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048881

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000178

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3050

Title:

Collection of excerpts and sermons from the works of Augustine of Hippo

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1v-3r: 'Capitula excerptorum de quibusdam opusculum sancti Augustini'.

ff. 3v-82v: Excerpts and sermons from the works of Augustine of Hippo.

Decoration:

Large (3- to 5-line) decorated initials in red, some with a reserved design and penwork decoration, including balls and occasionally more elaborate foliate motifs. Simple (1-line) initials in red with minor penwork decoration (ff. 1v-3r). Capitals highlighted in red. Rubrics in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048881

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3050 : Collection of excerpts and sermons from the works of Augustine of Hippo

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3051]/040-002048881

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:

1199

Date Range:

2nd half of the 12th century

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 380 x 270 mm (text space: 290 x 200 mm, in 2 columns).

Foliation: ff. 82 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [i]recto (bibliographical notes).

Script: Gothic; copied by Timo, canon of the Premonstratensian abbey of St Mary and Nicholas, Arnstein.

Collation: Indicated by quire marks (lower case Roman numerals, surrounded by four dots and wavy lines); each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.

Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; remains of the previous 'Harleian' binding (gold- and blind-tooled dark brown leather) are pasted inside the upper cover and on f. [iv] recto (old spine); Rebound in 1968.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Western Germany (Arnstein).

Provenance:

Written by Timo (d. after 1226), canon of the Premonstratensian abbey of St Mary and Nicholas, Arnstein, founded in 1139, and also owned by the monastery: according to an inscription on f. 1r: 'Liber sancte marie Sanctique Nicolai in arenstein. Quem scripsit Timo canonicus ibidem'; notes in later hands include that of abbot Heinrich Schupp (d. 1574) (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 53);

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; selected by Edward Harley on 9 January 1720/21 with other manuscripts which Noel had 'lately brought from Germany' (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. 81 n. 10; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 254).

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 ‘16 die Ianuarij, A.D. 1720/21’ (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, p. 729 (no. 3050).

A. Kohl, 'Arnsteiner Handschriften im Britischen Museum zu London', Nassovia. Zeitschrift für nassauische Geschichte und Heimatkunde, 4 (1903), pp. 106-08, 120-21, 133-34 (p. 120).

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. 81 n. 10.

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. 53, 254.

Sigrid Krämer, Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz: Ergänzungsband 1, 3 vols (Munich, 1989-90), I (1989), p. 26.

Bruno Krings, Das Prämonstratenserstift Arnstein a. d. Lahn im Mittelalter (1139-1527) (Wiesbaden: Selbstverlag der Historischen Kommission für Nassau, 1990), p. 250 (no. 21).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Augustine of Hippo, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, 354-430,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121376443,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/66806872

Places:

Arnstein, Germany
Western Germany