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Harley MS 3063
- Record Id:
- 040-002048894
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048894
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000185
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056052551.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3063
- Title:
- Ambrosiaster, In Epistulam Beati Pauli ad Corinthios Secundam; Theodore of Mopsuestia, Commentarii in Epistulas Pauli Minores
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-38v: Ambrosiaster (fl. 370), In Epistulam Beati Pauli ad Corinthios Secundam (Ambrosiaster's commentary on St Paul's Second Epistle to the Corinthians), (imperfect), 8 quires are lacking at the beginning: '[...] vincitur quod Apostolus semper sprevit', ending: 'perfectio consummatio sit hominis in salutem'.
ff. 38v-192r: Theodore of Mopsuestia (b. c. 350, . d. c 428), Commentarii in Epistulas Pauli Minores (Commentaries on the minor epistles of St Paul), beginning with the argumentum (ff. 38v-39r): 'Beatus apostolus Paulus fidem que in Christo est evangelizans venit ad gentem Galatarum'; beginning of the text (f. 38v): 'Paulus Apostolus non ab hominibus neque per hominem', ending with the commentary on St Paul's epistle to Philemon.
Decoration:
Initials in brown ink with penwork decoration, a few with added green (ff. 39v, 60v, 75v, 77r, 97v, 98r, 112r, 126r, 136r, 136v, 141v, 142r).
Small initials in brown. Rubrics in brown or green.
ff. 189-192 have been damaged.
- 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
040-002048894 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3063 : Ambrosiaster, In Epistulam Beati Pauli ad Corinthios Secundam; Theodore of Mopsuestia, Commentarii in Epistulas Pauli Minores - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3064]/040-002048894
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056052551.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0775
- End Date:
- 0824
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 8th century-1st quarter of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 260 x 200 mm (text space: 190 x 140 mm).
Foliation: ff. 192 ( + 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. 'Harleian' covers of red leather with extensive gold tooling pasted inside the upper and lower boards.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Corbie, Northern France.
Provenance:
'Humfridus', 9th-century inscription added to end of the text (f.192r).
Added, lections written by a 10th-century hand (e. g., ff. 15r, 88r).
Nicholas of Cues (b. 1401, d. 1464), bishop of St Brixen in Tyrol in 1450, cardinal in 1449, founder of the hospital of St Nicholas at Cues on the Moselle: his marginal annotations from f. 75v; bequeathed by him in 1464 to the Hospital of St Nicholas, Cues on the Moselle: inscription (f. 1r).
The Hospital of St Nicholas, Cues on the Moselle: a 15th-century inscription (f. 1r, upper margin).
Nathaniel Noel (d. 1753), London bookseller: sold to Harley between 1717 and 1718 (see The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726 (1966) and Wright, Fontes Harleiani (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.
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: [n. pub.], 1808-12), II (1808), no. 3063.
[E. Maunde Thompson and G. F. Warner], Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-1884), Part II, Latin, p. 50, pl. 35.
New Palaeographical Society: Facsimiles of Ancient Manuscripts etc., First Series, 2 vols, ed. by Edward Maunde Thompson and others (London: [n. pub.], 1903-1912), 1 [-2], pl. 235.
Paul Lehmann, Mitteilungen aus Handschriften, 2, Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Abteilung, 2 (Munich: Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,1930), pp. 3-55 (p. 23).
Codices Latini Antiquiores, ed. by E. A. Lowe, 11 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-1966), II: Great Britain and Ireland (1935), no. 200.
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, pp. xxxix-xl.
Joyce Irene Whalley, The Pen's Excellence: Calligraphy of Western Europe and America (Tunbridge Wells: Midas Books, 1980), pl. on p. 44.
Joyce Irene Whalley and Vera C. Kaden, The Universal Penman: A Survey of Western Calligraphy from the Roman Period to 1980 (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1980), no. 9.
Michelle Brown, A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600 (London: British Library, 1990), pl. 12.
David Ganz, Corbie in the Carolingian Renaissance, Beihefte der Francia, 20 (Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecki, 1990), p. 50.
Marie-Pierre Laffitte and Charlotte Denoël, Trésors carolingiens: Livres manuscrits de Charlemagne à Charles le Chauve (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2007), p. 123.
Theodore of Mopsuestia: The Commentaries on the Minor Epistles of Paul, ed. by Rowan A. Greer (Leiden: Brill, 2011), pp. x, xxvii, xxix.
- 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.