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Harley MS 3060

Record Id:
040-002048891
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002048891
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000182
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3060
Title:
Collection of Patristic texts, imperfect
Scope & Content:

ff. 1r-63v: Sententiae sanctorum patrum (Sentences of the Holy Fathers), imperfect, missing the first 24 leaves.

ff. 63v-118v: Julian of Toledo, Prognosticum futuri saeculi (Prediction of the Future World).

ff. 118v-122v, letters of Julian of Toledo.

ff. 122v-169r: Ephrem the Syrian, De paenitentia (On penitence), imperfect.

Blank spaces for initials (ff. 52v-53r).

Decoration:

1 very large initial in brown with interlace and clasps (f. 122v). 1 very large zoomorphic initial in red, green, and brown (f. 124). Numerous large initials in colours with foliate and zoomorphic motifs. Smaller plain initials and rubrics in red, now oxidised.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-002048891
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 3060 : Collection of Patristic texts, imperfect
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[3061]/040-002048891
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:
1000
End Date:
1099
Date Range:
11th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 280 x 185 mm (text space: 230 x 135 mm).

Foliation: ff. i + 76 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning).

Script: Caroline miniscule.

Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound in 1984.

Condition: Lower half of f. 169 has been excised.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Germany.

Provenance:

Johann Georg Graevius (b. 1632, d. 1703), German classical scholar and critic: sold to Wilhelm in 1703 with the rest of his library; appeared in his 1703 catalogue as 'G.15' (see Wright 1972).

Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658, d. 1716), owner of a library in Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (see Clark 1891; Wright 1972).

Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Mattaire, the classical scholar and historian of printing: bought the Wilhelm library sometime before 1724 through Johann Büchels (b. 1659, d. 1738): sold by him to Edward Harley on 20 October 1725 (see Wright 1972).

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 ‘20 die mensis Octobris, A.D. 1725’ (f. 1).

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), no. 3060.

A. C. Clark, 'The Library of J. G. Graevius', The Classical Review, 5 (1891), 365-72 (p. 370).

The Prayer Book of Aedeluald the Bishop, commonly called the Book of Cerne. Edited, from the MS. in the University Library, Cambridge, with introduction and notes, ed. by Arthur Benedict Kuypers (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1902), p. 278.

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. 385 n. 6.

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. 169, 367.

Thomas Smith Pattie, 'Ephraem the Syrian and the Latin Manuscripts of 'De Paenitentia', The British Library Journal, 13 (1987), 1-24 (p. 3, fig. 2).

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)