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Harley MS 3074

Record Id:

040-002048905

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048905

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000190

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3074

Title:

Letters of Pope Leo I; Anselm of Canterbury, Cur Deus Homo

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. 2r: Faded theological text, written in 2 columns, beginning: 'Virtus peccati lex est quia lex prohibendo / Incitat affectum peccandi in reprimendo'.

ff. 2v-86v: Pope Leo I [Leo the Great], Epistolae (Collection of 56 letters).

ff. 86v-89v: Pope Hilarius, Letters to Ascanius of Tarragona.

ff. 90r-125r: Anselm of Canterbury, Cur Deus Homo.

ff. 125r-125v: Pope Gregory I [Gregory the Great], Epistola XXX, entitled: 'Gregorius Venantio ex monacho Patricio [Syracusano]'.

f. 125v: Pope Gregory I, Epistola XXXII, entitled; 'Gregorius ad iustinianum'; left in complete.

f. 125v: Commentary on Lamentations, with three sections attributed to 'Pascasius' [Pascasius Radbertus], beginning: 'Sunt cantica canticorum sunt et lamentationes lamentationum'; 'Quadruplici plangit alphabetico'; and 'Constat multa esse genera fletuum multas differentias lacrimarum', imperfect at the end; excerpted from the Glossa ordinaria in Lamentationes Ieremie prophete by Gilbert Universalis (d. 1134), Bishop of London.

The manuscript contains a few additions:

f. 1r: A description of the manuscript by Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), Library-Keeper of the Harleian librarian.

ff. 126v-127v: A bifolium containing a fragment of Gregory the Great, Homilia VII (Habita ad populum in basilica sancti Petri apostoli) [previously unidentified]; written in a Carolingian minuscule from the (?) 11th century.

Decoration:

1 large initial in red, green, and orange with acanthus motifs (f. 4v). 1 large initial in red (oxidised), blue, and green (f. 90r). Plain initials in red, or red and purple, some large, some small. Rubrics in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048905

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3074 : Letters of Pope Leo I; Anselm of Canterbury, Cur Deus Homo

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3075]/040-002048905

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:

1100

End Date:

1149

Date Range:

1st half of the 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 245 x 160 mm (text space: 190 x 120 mm).

Foliation: ff. 127 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); f. 1 is a paper leaf.

Collation: Each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.

Script: Protogothic; Carolingian minuscule (ff. 126v-127v).

Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside cover; part tof the previous spine (brown leather with the gold inscription: 'MS Epist. Leon. M. Ansel. Opusc.') has been pasted on f. [iv]recto; rebound on 10 September 1965.

Custodial History:

Origin:

France or Southern Netherlands.

Provenance:

The Benedictine monastery of St Trond (Sint Truiden) near Hasbanos (La Hesbaye or Haspengouw), in Limburg, North-East Belgium, owned in the 16th century: its ownership inscription on f. 2v: 'Liber monasterii S. Martini apud Hasbanos'; and f. 125v: 'Liber monasterii Divi Trudonis apud Hasbanos' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 295).

The Augustinian priory of Val St Martin, Louvain: its late 16th-century ownership inscriptions on ff. 4r: 'Liber Monasterij Sancti Martini Can. Reg. Lovan[ensis]'; and f. 89v: 'Liber monasterij Divini Martini Diocesi Leodiensis' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 228).

John Chamberlayne (b. 1666, d. 1723), son of Edward Chamberlayne (b. 1616, d. 1703): sale of his library conducted by Daniel Browne, bookseller at the Black Swan and Bible Without-Temple-Bar, on 11 March 1723/4 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), p. 281 n. 6; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 85, 101).

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 ‘11 die Martij, A.D. 1723/4’ (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: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 733 (no. 3074).

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. 281 n. 6.

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. 85, 101, 228, 295.

André Chavasse, 'Les lettres du pape Léon le Grand (440-461), dans l'Hispania et la collection dite des Fausses décrétales', Revue de droit canonique, 25 (1975), pp. 28-39 (p. 33).

Willem Lourdaux and Marcel Haverals, Bibliotheca Vallis Sancti Martini in Lovanio: Bijdrage tot de studie van het geestesleven in de Nederlanden (15de-18de eeuw) [=A Contribution to the Study of the Intellectual Life in the Netherlands (15th-18th C)], 2 vols, Symbolae facultatis litterarum et philosophiae Lovaniensis, Series A, 8 (Louvain: Louvain University Press, 1978-82), I (1978): De bewaarde handschriften

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Places:

France
Southern Netherlands