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Harley MS 3062

Record Id:

040-002048893

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048893

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000184

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3062

Title:

Martyrology of Usuard

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-139v: Martyrology of Usuard, with an introduction from St Augustine, beginning: 'Populus Christianus memorias martyrum religiosa solempnitate', and beginning: 'Eodem die apud Antichochiam [sic: 'Antiochiam'] syrie'.

The manuscript contains a later additions:

Marginal notes added by medieval (12th- to 15th-century) hands throughout.

f. 1r (upper margin): References to the author: 'Adon's [Ado of Vienne], crossed out and replaced with 'Usuardi'; written in the 17th century.

f. 1r (upper margin): A title inscription: 'Passionale sanctorum'; written in the 14th or 15th century.

ff. 16r, 53v, 57v: Additions relating to the obits of Valerius at Trier, Simeon the deacon, and archbishop Theoderich; written in the 11th century (see Hoffmann, Buchkunst und Königtum im ottonischen und frühsalischen Reich (1986), pp. 501-02).

Decoration:

Large initial with interlaced foliate decoration ink and red (f. 1r). Initials in red. Rubrics in display capitals in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048893

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3062 : Martyrology of Usuard

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3063]/040-002048893

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:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 260 x 220 mm (text space: 190/195 x 140/145 mm).

Foliation: ff. 139 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 the end).

Script: Caroline minuscule.

Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled brown Morocco leather.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Western Germany (? Trier).

Provenance:

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: sold to the Harley in 1716 according to an inscription on f. 1r [transcribed below] (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 253).

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 by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley, ‘Dominus Coemit Codicem a Nath. Noel. Bibliopola, A. D. 1716’ (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: [n. pub.], 1808-12), II (1808), p. 732 (no. 3062).

Henri Quentin, Les Martyrologes historiquesdu moyen âge: étude sur la formation du martyrologe romain (Paris: Gabalda, 1908), p. 473.

Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingishen Miniaturen', in Zweiter Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 58).

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. 253, 421.

Hartmut Hoffmann, Buchkunst und Königtum im ottonischen und frühsalischen Reich, 2 vols, Schriften der Monumenta Germaniae Historica, 30 (Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1986), I, pp. 501-502.

Andrew G. Watson, Review of Cyril Ernest Wright Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts [...], Journal of the Society of Archivists, 4 (1973), 603-609 [repr. in Andrew G. Watson, Medieval Manuscripts in Post-Medieval England, Variorum Collected Studies Series: CS775 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), p. 607].

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Usuard, Monk of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, d c 877,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000382421548,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/264282437

Places:

Trier, Germany
Western Germany