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Harley MS 3059

Record Id:

040-002048890

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048890

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000181

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3059

Title:

Collection of theological works by Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux, Jerome and Augustine of Hippo; a treatise on the plague

Scope & Content:

A collection of works by Anselm of Canterbury (b. 1033/4, d. 1109), Bernard of Clairvaux (b. 1090, d. 1153), Jerome (d. 420), and Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430). Compendium de epidemia, a treatise on plague compiled by the Paris medical faculty, has been added to the end of the volume, as well as a note concerning the outbreak of plague in Milan in 1373.

Contents:

ff. 1r-8v: Anselm of Canterbury, De casu diaboli (On the Fall of Evil).

ff. 9r-25r: Anselm of Canterbury, Cur deus homo (Why God Became Man).

ff. 25r-30v: Anselm of Canterbury, De conceptu virginali et de originali peccato (On the Virgin Conception and Original Sin).

ff. 30v-34v: Anselm of Canterbury, De processione spiritus sancti (On the procession of the Holy Spirit).

ff. 35r-39v: Bernard of Clairvaux, De laudibus Virginis Matris (On praise of the Virgin Mary).

ff. 39v-43v: Jerome, De Assumptione Beatae Mariae Virginis (On the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary).

ff. 43v-44r: Augustine of Hippo, De assumptione (On the Assumption).

ff. 44v-45r: Anselm of Canterbury, De sacrificio Azymi et fermentati (On the Sacrifice of Unleavened and Leavened Bread).

ff. 45r-46r: Anselm of Canterbury, De redemptionis humane (On human redemption).

f. 46r-v: Anselm of Canterbury, De terrore judicii (On the fear of judgement).

ff. 46v-48v: Anselm of Canterbury, Prosologion.

ff. 49r-52r: Anselm of Canterbury, Orationes (Speeches).

ff. 52r-59v: Anselm of Canterbury, Homiliae (Homilies).

ff. 59v-65v: Anselm of Canterbury, De excellentia Beatae Virginis (On the excellence of the Blessed Virgin).

ff. 65v-66r: Bernard of Clairvaux, Epistola ad Raymondum militem (Letter to the soldier Raymond).

ff. 66r-68v: Paris medical faculty, Compendium de epidemia, beginning, 'Visis effectibus quorum causa latet etiam ingeniosissi mos intellectus'.

f. 68v: an added note in Latin, referring to the outbreak of the plague in Milan in 1373: 'quod ipsum portavit de parisiensi scola flori/da. eum volentibus comunicando ex / caritate utilima dura in medyolano .m^o. ccc^o lxxiij regnante pestilentia'.

f. 69r-v: Bernard of Clairvaux, Epistola ad Raymondum militem.

Decoration:

Large puzzle initial in red with pen-work decoration in purple (f. 1r). Initials in red or blue with pen-work decoration in purple or red. Titles and rubrics in red; paraphs in red or blue.

The cataloguing of this manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048890

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3059 : Collection of theological works by Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux, Jerome and Augustine of Hippo; a treatise on the plague

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3060]/040-002048890

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:

1300

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 270 x 195 (written space: 210 x 155 mm), in two columns.

Foliation: ff. 69 (+ 2 unfoliated paper and 1 parchment flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation: Gatherings: i-iii¹², iv¹⁰, v¹⁴, vi^10-1 (tenth cancelled).

Alpha-numerical leaf signatures in red or black on rectos.

Horizontal catchwords on lower left corner of last versos.

Running titles and invocation ('Virgo maria ora pro me amen amen amen') on upper margin of ff. 29v-66r.

Script: Gothic (ff. 1-29v, 29v-66r); Gothic cursive (ff. 66r-69v), written by several scribes. Crossed tironian ets.

Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of blind- and gilt-tooled mottled brown calf-skin, attributable to Thomas Elliott.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Southern France or Northern Italy.

Provenance:

John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer: sold to Edward Harley on 13 February 1723/4 (see Diary (1966), II, p.216 n. 22; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 162); Gibson claimed that the manuscript came from a monastic library allegedly founded or endowed by the Florentine family of the Guicciardini, though the volume does not contain any evidence for this.

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 ‘13 die Februarij, A.D. 1723/4’ (f. [iii] 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:

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808-12), II (1808), no. 3059.

K. Sudhoff, 'Pestschritten aus dem ersten 150 Jahren nach der Epidemie des 'schwarzen Todes'. 1348. XVIII', Archiv fur Geschichte der Medizin, 17 (1925), 241-91 (p. 288).

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 216 n. 22.

Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, rev. ed. (London: Mediaeval Academy of America Publication, 1963), p. 1703d; its electronic version on CD-ROM (Ann Arbor, MI, 2000), no. 1703D.

Cyril E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 162, 174, 421.

Stuart Jenks, 'Review: The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe. By Robert S. Gottfried (New York and London: The Free Press, 1983)', The Journal of Economic History, 46.3 (1986), 815-23 (pp. 819-20).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Anselm of Canterbury, Saint, Abbot of Bec and Archbishop of Canterbury, c 1033-1109,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121451191,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100187025
Augustine of Hippo, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, 354-430,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121376443,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/66806872
Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbot of Clairvaux, ?1090-1153,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120962264,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/59875293
Elliott, Thomas, bookbinder, fl 1712-1763
Faculty of Medicine, Paris
Gibson, John, book-dealer, fl 1720-1726
Jerome, Saint, c 345-420,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123213293,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95147024

Places:

Northern Italy
Southern France