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Harley MS 3065

Record Id:

040-002048896

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048896

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000187

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3065

Title:

Jerome, Adversus Iovinianum; Rufinus of Aquileia, Commentarius in symbolum apostolorum; excerpt from St Jerome, De Viris illustribus

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-76v: Jerome (d. 420), Adversus Jovinianum (Against Jovinianus). Part of book 2, chapter 19, is written in an inverted triangle shape spread out over the entire page of f. 61v. An early modern added inscription in the lower righthand corner of f. 1r.

ff. 76v-99r: Rufinus of Aquileia (b. c. 345, d. 411), Commentarius in symbolum apostolorum (Commentary on the Apostles' Creed).

f. 99r-v: Chapter 11 of Jerome, De Viris illustribus (On Illustrious Men).

f. 100r: Partially erased ownership inscription: 'Hunc librum dedit abbas Radulfus', mid-11th century.

f. 100v: Pen-trials and a partially erased and struck out inscription recording the gift of the book and a book curse. This inscription reads: 'Hunc librum dedit abbas Radulfus [......] si quis accepit anathema sit'. Mid-11th century.

Decoration:

1 drawing of a man in brown ink with some green (f. 85v, partly erased).

1 large decorated initial with stems and foliate motifs, a clasp, and a face, outlined in brown ink, with yellow wash, on a red ground (f. 1r).

1 added drawing of a head in profile (f. 99v, unfinished or partly erased).

1 added small (3-line) initial in plummet with foliate motifs and a bird (f. 60v).

Plain initials in red or occasionally dark brown (and one initial with some green, f. 45v). Display script and marginal annotations in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048896

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3065 : Jerome, Adversus Iovinianum; Rufinus of Aquileia, Commentarius in symbolum apostolorum; excerpt from St Jerome, De Viris illustribus

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3066]/040-002048896

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:

0900

End Date:

0999

Date Range:

10th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 260 x 185 mm (written area 195 x 135).

Foliation: ff. 100 (+ 5 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end).

Script: Caroline minuscule, written by several scribes.

Binding: British Library in-house. Rebound 1980; gilt-tooled spine cover of previous the binding is pasted inside the upper cover; traces of previous metalwork fastenings on first and last parchment leaves; quires are mounted on separate paper guards.

f. 100 is a medieval parchment flyleaf.

The outer and lower margins of ff. 32 and 33 have been repaired with modern parchment.

f. 1r has an early modern added inscription, the number '39', in the lower right-hand corner.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Eastern France.

Provenance:

Inscription recording the gift of the book and a book curse, added in the late 12th or early 13th century: 'Hunc librum dedit abbas [......] si quis accepit anathema sit' (f. 100v; further partly erased inscriptions on ff. 100r, 100v).

Possibly Simon Harcourt, Esq. of Penley (see Wright and Wright, Diary (1966), II, p. 304).

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 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 255).

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, HumfreyWanley, ‘13 die Augusti, A.D. 1724’ (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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. , no. 3065.

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. 304 n. 7.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 255.

Bernard Lambert, Bibliotheca Hieronymiana manuscripta : la tradition manuscrite des œuvres de Saint Jérôme, 4 vols in 2 parts (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1969-72), IV B (1972), p. 89, nos. 252, 260.

A. C. de la Mare and Lotte Hellinga, 'The First Book Printed in Oxford: The Expositio symboli of Rufinus', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 7:2 (1978), pp. 184-244, at 212 n. 44.

Aline Canellis, Régis Courtray, Yves-Marie Duval, Jean-Louis Feiertag, Benoît Jeanjean, et al., 'Editer et traduire saint Jérôme aujourd’hui dans la Collection des Sources Chrétiennes', Actes de la journée d’étude à la mémoire d’Yves-Marie Duval (Lyon, 13 octobre 2007), p. 47.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Jerome, Saint, c 345-420,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123213293,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95147024
Rufinus of Aquileia, c 345-411,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109183286,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/77679446

Places:

Eastern France