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Harley MS 3061
- Record Id:
- 040-002048892
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048892
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000183
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056052280.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3061
- Title:
- Paschasius Radbertus, De corpore et sanguine domini; St Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 52; Lanfranc of Canterbury, De corpore et sanguine domini; Caesarius of Arles, De igne purgatorio
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains theological texts and sermons mainly focusing on the Eucharist. The last text of the manuscript is probably a contemporary addition written by a different scribe, according to Gullick, 'Professional Scribes' (1995).
Contents:
f. 1r: List of contents, added in the 14th century; indicates that the present contents of the volume were originally followed by works of William of Saint-Thierry (b. 1075/1080, d. 1148) and Anselm of Canterbury (b. c. 1033, d. 1109).
f. 1v: Full-page author portrait, possibly slightly later than the text. The opening words ‘Dilectissimo filio’ of Paschasius, De corpore et sanguine domini were added later to the figure’s book.
ff. 2r–28v: Paschasius Radbertus (b. 785, d. 865), De corpore et sanguine domini (On the Body and Blood of the Lord), preceded by capitula (ff. 2r–3v) and the prologue (ff. 3r-4v); beginning of the prologue: 'Dilectissimo filio et uice Christi presidenti magistro monastice discipline'; beginning of the text (f. 4v): 'Quisque catholicorum recte Deum cuncta crease de nichilo corde credit ad iustitiam et ore confidetur ad salutem'.
ff. 28v–35r: St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430), Sermon 52; presented here as a continuation of Paschasius, with the rubric ‘Huc usque de eucharistia', beginning: 'Evangelica lectio proposuit nobis unde loquamur'.
ff. 36r–58v: Lanfranc of Canterbury (b. c. 1010, d. 1109), De corpore et sanguine domini (On the Body and Blood of the Lord), beginning: 'Lanfrancus misericordia Dei catholicus Beringerio catholice ecclesie aduersario: si diuina pietas cordi tuo inspirare'.
ff. 58v–61v: Caesarius of Arles (b. c. 470, d. 542) [here attributed to St Augustine], De igne purgatorio (On the Fire of Purgatory), beginning: 'In lectione apostolica que nobis Paulo ante recitata est'.
Decoration:
Full-page author portrait in brown ink (f. 1v).
A large inhabited initial in green and red with dogs and a dragon (f. 4v).
A large initial in green with red penwork foliate decoration (f. 3v).
Initials in red or green, some with simple penwork decoration in the same or the other colour. Highlighting of capitals and paraphs in red.
Rubrics in red.
Quire signatures.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048892 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3061 : Paschasius Radbertus, De corpore et sanguine domini; St Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 52; Lanfranc of Canterbury, De corpore et… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3062]/040-002048892
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056052280.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1124
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 265 × 175 mm (text space: 190 × 120 mm).
Foliation: ff. 61 ( + 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end).
Collation: i–vii8 (ff. 1–56), viii6–1 (ff. 57–61; 6th cancelled).
Script: Caroline minuscule. Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England or Northwestern France.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin, Abingdon (Berkshire), founded in 675: its late 13th-century ownership inscription and book curse, ‘Liber ecclesie Sancte Marie de Abbendone. Quicumque ipsum alienaverit anathema sit / Hec sentencia singulis annis data est in capitulo cum libro et candela.’ (f. 1r); added 14th-century list of contents indicating that the present contents of the volume were originally followed by works by William of Saint-Thierry and Anselm of Canterbury, possibly also from the abbey (f. 1r).
Johannes Vlimmerius (d. 1597), Prior of the Augustinian Priory of St.-Maartensdal (Val St Martin), Louvain (1559-1562): his name inscribed, 'F. Iohannes Vlimmerius contulit Bibliothece' (fol. 1r), in a late 16th-century script; probably donated the manuscript to the Priory (see Ker, 'English Manuscripts' (1942), p. 206).
The Augustinian Priory of St Maartensdal (Val St Martin), Louvain, founded in the early 15th century: its ownership inscription, 'Liber monasterii sancti Martini in Lovanio', inscribed in a late 16th-century hand.
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 '11 die Martii A.D. 1723/4' (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.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 3061.
Neil R. Ker, 'English Manuscripts owned by Johannes Vlimmerius and Cornelius Duyn', in The Library, 4th series, 23.4 (March 1942), 205-07 (p. 206).
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. 3.
Paschasius Radbertus De corpore et sanguine domini, ed. by Bedae Paulus, Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Medievalii, 16 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1969), pp. xvi, page after xl.
Michael Gullick, ‘Professional Scribes in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century England’, in English Manuscript Studies, 7 (London: British Library, 1995), 1-24 (p. 10, pls 3-4).
Richard Gameson, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 107.
R. B. C. Huygens, Serta Mediaevalia: Textus varii saeculorum X-XIII in Unum collecti (Turnhout: Brepols, 2000), p. 230.
Richard Sharpe and James Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: The Bodleian Libraries, 2015) «http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/241/» [accessed 26 October 2016].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.