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Harley MS 3068

Record Id:

040-002048899

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048899

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00018a

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3068

Title:

Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae; Ephrem the Syrian, Sermons; and other theological texts

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-6r: Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, Book 1-Book 2 (beginning).

ff. 6v-44v: Ephrem the Syrian, Six sermons ('books'), including De compunctione cordis (ff. 6v-13r); De judicio dei et resurrectione et de regno celorum et mundicia animae (ff. 13r-16v); De beatitudine anime (ff. 16v-19r); De penitentia (ff. 19r-22r); De luctaminibus huius seculi (ff. 22r-40r); De die iudicii (ff. 40r-44v).

ff. 44v-58v: Unknown author, De Humilitate vel opera ['ofe'] monachorum, beginning: 'Ammonendus est monachus ut reverentiam abitus sui in actu. in locutione. in cogitatione sua semper circumspiciat atque ea quae mundi sunt perfecte deserat.

ff. 58v-62v: Pseudo-Gregory the Great (here attributed), Tractatus de homeliis evangelicis beati Gregorii papae, beginning: 'Si volumus timere deum in tranquilitate'.

ff. 62v-66r: Augustine, Ammonitio ad populum.

ff. 66v-67r: Unknown author, Sermo de Sancto Paulo Apostolo, beginning: beginning: 'Gaudeo ergo fratres karisimi'.

f. 67v: Prayers to Christ and God, beginning: 'Domine ihesu Christe fili dei vivi per quinque plagas corporis tuis sana quinque sensus corporis mei'; and 'Domine sancte pater omnipotens aeterne deus dignare mihi donare inetellectum qui te intelligat'.

Decoration

9 large initials in red and yellow (ff. 6v, 13r 16v, 19r, 22r, 40r, 44v, 59r, 62r). Smaller initials in red, some with simple penwork decoration. Decorative motifs in the margins in red and/or brown (ff. 20r, 22r, 28v, 44r, 56r). Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in red. Flourished descenders.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048899

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3068 : Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae; Ephrem the Syrian, Sermons; and other theological texts

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3069]/040-002048899

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:

1125

End Date:

1174

Date Range:

2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 255 x 110 mm (text space: 205 x 80 mm, ruled in hardpoint).

Foliation: ff. 67 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end)

Script: Protogothic; copied by Arnulfus.

Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled brown half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

France.

Provenance:

Written by the scribe Arnulfus in the 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century: his colophon on f. 67r: 'libri per scriptor qui sic et constitit actor / dicutur arnulfus tribuatur ei paradisus […]'.

'Aegidius', 16th century: inscribed with his ex libris on f. 1v: 'Ex libris AEgidii Ragu[...]'.

'De Rochefleur', 16th century: inscribed with his name on f. 2r.

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.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 732 (no. 3068).

Thomas Smith Pattie, 'Ephraem the Syrian and the Latin Manuscripts of 'De Paenitentia', The British Library Journal, 13 (1987), 1-24 (pp. 3, 6, 10, 13-14).

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.

Codices Boethiani: A Conspectus of Manuscripts of the Works of Boethius, ed. by M. T. Gibson and Lesley Smith, Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts, 25, 27, 28, 29 (London: Warburg Institute, 1995-2001), I: Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland, pp. 143-44 (no. 122).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Augustine of Hippo, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, 354-430,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121376443,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/66806872
Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus, c 480-524/525,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122834442,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100218964
Khuri, Ephrem, Ephrem the Syrian (Syriac Christian), c 0306-0373,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000114532348,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100177778

Places:

France