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Harley MS 3079
- Record Id:
- 040-002048910
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048910
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0001a5
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059345912.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3079
- Title:
- Homiliary
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r-296v: A collection of homilies (sermons) by Haimo of Halberstadt (b. c. 778, d. 853), Bede (b. 672, d. 735), Fulgentius Ferrandus (fl. c. 500), St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430), Eusebius of Caesarea (b. c. 260, d. c. 340), St Caesarius of Arles (b. c. 468, d. 542) and others, for use between Christmas and Easter, beginning: ‘sibi pater genuit eternum sibi verbum’.
Decoration:
Several large decorated initials in red and blue (ff. 195v, 208r, 217r, 221r, 225r, 230v, 237v, 258r, 264v). Small initials in red, green, some with penwork decoration. Initials in red, blue and green (ff. 297r-297v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048910", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3079: Homiliary" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048910 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3079 : Homiliary - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3080]/040-002048910
- 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_100059345912.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 270 x 195 mm (text space: 210 x 135 mm).
Foliation: ff. 297 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 at the end); ff. 1-2 are parchment flyleaves; f. 297 is a parchment flyleaf, formerly a pastedown, from a 12th-century manuscript.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Tan leather with gold tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? England or France.
Provenance:
An unknown library: inscribed with its pressmark ‘110.B.1’ (f. 1r).
Richard Alef (b. 1564) owned this manuscript in or before 1603: his name inscribed on f. 2v: 'Ita censebat Ricardus Alef, Anno domini 1603, aetatis 39, huius libri posessor'; also added notes on ff. 1r, 3r.
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; purchased by Edward Harley on 13 August 1724.
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 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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 733 (no. 3079).
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. 305 (n. 10).
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. 254-55.
- 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.