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Harley MS 3077

Record Id:

040-002048908

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048908

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3077

Title:

Augustine of Hippo, Liber exhortationis ad quemdam comitem and other texts

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-9r: Pseudo-Augustine, De vita Christiana, beginning: 'Et ego peccator et ultimus insipientior que ceteris'.

ff. 9r-11v: Augustine, De perfectione iustitiae hominis, beginning: 'Ante omnia interrogandus est qui negat hominem sine peccato esse posse'

ff. 11v-12v: Jerome, Tractatus de obedientia, here entitled: 'LIber beati augustini episcopi de tenenda obedientia', beginning: 'Nichil sic deo placet quamodo obedientia'

ff. 12v-30v: Augustine, Liber exhortationis ad quemdam comitem, here entitled 'liber beati augustini episcopi ad comitem devotum suum', beginning: 'O mi frater si cupias scire quamvis ego nesciam quam perfectissima atque plenissima est iustitia'.

ff. 31r-52v: Pseudo-Augustine, Liber soliloquorum, beginning: 'Agnoscam te domine cognitor meus'.

ff. 53r-57v: Augustine, De disciplina Christiana, beginning: 'Locutus est ad nos sermo dei'.

ff. 57v-59v: Pseudo-Augustine, De miseria corporis et anime, beginning: 'O vita quae tantos decipis, de propriis tantos seduxisti, tantos excaecasti'.

ff. 60r-79v: Auctoritates Sanctorum, beginning: 'Erubescat homo esse superbus quem humilis factus est deus'.

ff. 80r-92v: Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Liber meditationum, beginning: 'Multi multa sciunt qui seipsos nesciunt'.

ff. 92v-94r: Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, De formula honeste vite, beginning: 'Petis a me fili et frater quod numquam et nusquam a suo provisore audivi aliquem petisse'

ff. 94r-95v: Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Summa confessione, beginning: 'In nomine patris et filij et spiritus sancti. Amen. Ego miser et reus cunctorum malorum'

f. 95v: 'Verba dicta fratribus suis in suo testamento'.

The manuscript contains a few later additions:

f. [iv]verso: off-set of an unidentified text.

f. 59v: Table of contents; added in the 15th century.

Marginal notes in Italian throughout; added in the 15th century.

Decoration:

Large decorated initials in blue or red with reserved designs and elaborate penwork decoration often including foliate forms, occasionally with pen-flourishing (ff. 1r, 9r, 11v, 12v, 31r, 53r, 57v, 80r). 1 puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing (f. 61v). 1 simple initial in blue with pen-flourishing in red (f. 60r). Simple initials in red, occasionally with some penwork decoration, pen-flourishing or a reserved line. Catchwords framed, some elaborately. Letters following large initials frequently in display script and highlighted in light brown. Simple floral ornaments (f. 30v). Paraphs in red or blue. One maniculum is decorated with red and blue (f. 79v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048908

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3077 : Augustine of Hippo, Liber exhortationis ad quemdam comitem and other texts

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3078]/040-002048908

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Italian
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 240 x 175 mm (text space: 160-170 x 105-115 mm, on ff. 1r-30v and ff. 53r-58v in 2 columns).

Foliation: ff. 96 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end); f. 96 is a parchment leaf that originally served as a flyleaf.

Collation: Indicated by catchwords in decorated frames.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Gold- and blind-tooled brown sprinkled leather over paste boards; marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Italy.

Provenance:

Unknown medieval or early modern owner: their erased (?) ownership inscription in the lower margin of f. 1r.

John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; acquired from him in 1723/4 for the Harley Collection; Gibson sent this and 19 other manuscripts on 27 January 1723/24 to Edward Harley; on 10 Feburary Gibson and Harley's librarian Humfrey Wandley agreed on a price of £ 2. 10s. for this particular manuscript; the negotiations came to a conclusion on 13 February 1723/24 when a sum of £ 100 for all 20 manuscripts and 4 printed books was agreed on (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 273 n. 5; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 162).

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 ‘13 die Februarij, A.D. 1723/4’ (f. [iv]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.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 733 (no. 3077).

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 273 n. 5.

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. 162.

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
Jerome, Saint, c 345-420,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123213293,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95147024
Pseudo-Augustine of Hippo,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000007738148X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/7386286
Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux

Places:

Italy