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Harley MS 3072
- Record Id:
- 040-002048903
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048903
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00018e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100057809820.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3072
- Title:
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Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Eclogues; Sedulius, Carmen Paschale; Hymns; Arator, Historia Apostolica; Pirminius, sermons; Prudentius, Cathemerinon; Servius, Commentary on Georgics; Priscian, Institutio de Nomine et Pronomine et Verbo (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
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This volume consists of different parts that were bound together at an early period. The first part (ff. 1r-6r) was written in the second half of the 10th century. The second part (ff. 7r-87r) was produced in the third quarter of the 10th century. The third part (ff. 87r-90v) contains sermons copied by an 11th-century scribe. The fourth part (ff. 91r-93v) contains a fragment of Prudentius (b. 348, d. 410)' Cathemerinon (The Daily Round), which comes from an early 11th-century manuscript. The fifth part is a fragment of Servius's commentary of Virgil's Georgics (ff. 94r-94v; 103r-103v), which comes from a manuscript that was produced in the third quarter of the 9th century. It was perhaps written in the region of Paris (see Bischoff, Katalog (2004)). The sixth part (ff. 95r-102v)consists of Priscian (fl. 500)'s Institutio de Nomine et Pronomine et Verbo (Institutes on the Noun, Pronoun and Verb), which is is dated to the first half of the 10th-century.
Contents:
ff. 1r-2v: Servius [Maurus Servius Honoratus] (fl. 400), Commentary on Virgil's Eclogues.
ff. 3r-6r: Sedulius (fl. 450), Carmen Paschale (Easter Song), dedicatory prologue to Macedonius, beginning: 'Domino Sancto ac BeatissimoPatri Macedonio Presbitero Sedulius salute in Christo. Priusquam me, venerabilis pater'.
ff. 7r-39v: Sedulius, Carmen Paschale, preceded by a versified prologue to the reader (f. 7r), beginning: 'In nomine Sancte Trinitatis incipit prologus Sedulii. Pascales quicunque dapes conviva requiris'; text beginning (f. 7r): 'Cum sua gentiles studeant figmenta poetae'. It includes marginal and interlinear glosses.
ff. 39v-42r: Sedulius, hymns, beginning: 'Cantemus sociae domino cantemus honorem'; ending: 'Calcavit unicus Dei, Seseque celis reddidit'.
ff. 43r-87r: Arator (fl. early 6th century), Historia Apostolica (On the Acts of Apostles), with interlinear and marginal glosses.
ff. 87r-90v: St Pirminius (d. 753), Abbot of Reichenau, Two sermons, beginning: 'Videte, fratres sicut Dominus noster Iesus Christus, triginta annorum passus'.
ff. 91r-93v: Excerpts from Prudentius, Cathemerinon, beginning: 'O crucifer bone lucisator'.
ff. 94r-94v; ff. 103r-103v: Servius, Commentary on Georgics, 1.56-63, 70-93, 186-218.
ff. 95r-102v: Priscian, Institutio de Nomine et Pronomine et Verbo, imperfect at the end; beginning: 'Omnia nomina quibus latina utitur eloquentia'.
Decoration:
Initials in brown, red, and yellow with foliate and/or interlace motifs (ff. 7r, 13v).
Initials in brown ink with foliate, interlace, and zoomorphic motifs. Initials in red (oxidised), some large, some small.
- 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
040-002048903 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3072 : Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Eclogues; Sedulius, Carmen Paschale; Hymns; Arator, Historia Apostolica; Pirminius,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3073]/040-002048903
- 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_100057809820.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0850
- End Date:
- 1099
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 9th century-11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 250 x 180 mm (text space 200 x 115 mm; ff. 91-92v in two columns).
Foliation: ff. 103 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 at the end); f. 1* is an early-modern paper flyleaf, including a fragment of parchment pasted onto it, with a 17th-century title 'Sedulius et Arator/ MS/ Antiqui'; ff. ii, iii are early modern paper flyleaves.
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1958.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France; ? Paris, Ile-de-France.
Provenance:
? A scriptorium in the region of Paris: ff. 94r-94v and ff. 103r-103v may have been written in the region of Paris, according to Bischoff, Katalog (2004).
An unknown 11th-century owner: added marginal glosses (ff. 43r-53r, 72v).
Matthew de Varenne, London bookseller and auctioneer (fl. 1723/4): his sale (through Nathaniel Noel), 21 December 1723, lot 233.
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 ‘21 die Decembris, A.D. 1723’ (f. 1*recto).
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. 3072.
[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. 72.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingishen Miniaturen', in Zweiter Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 58).
Arthur Patch McKinlay, Arator: The Codices (Cambridge, MA.: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1942), pp. 44-45.
Aratoris Subdiaconi, De Actibus Apostolorum, ed. by Arthur Patch McKinlay, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, 72 (Vienna: Hoelder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1951) p. XII, no. 17.
Arthur Patch McKinlay, 'Latin Commentaries on Arator', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des Études relatives aux manuscrits, 6 (1952), 151-56 (p. 151).
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. 266 n. 1.
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. 336.
Colette Jeudy, 'L'Institutio de nomine, pronomine et verbo de Priscien: manuscrits et commentaires médiévaux', Revue d'Histoire des Textes, 2 (1972), 73-144 (pp. 106-07).
Marina Passalacqua, I Codici di Prisciano (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1978), pp. 144-45.
R. D. Williams, T. S. Pattie, Virgil. His Poetry through the Ages (London: The British Library, 1982), p. 135.
B. Munk Olsen, L’Étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 3 vols (Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982-1989), II (1985), p. 732, no. C. 103.
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen, 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, p. 120 (no. 2475).
Carl P. E. Springer, The Manuscripts of Sedulius: A Provisional Handlist, Transaction of the American Philosophical Society, 85 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1995), pp. 63-64.
Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Latin Literature 600-899 (London: Hambledon Press, 1996), pp. 483-84 n., 490-91.
- 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.