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Harley MS 3080
- Record Id:
- 040-002048911
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048911
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0001a6
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059346555.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3080
- Title:
- St Augustine, Confessiones
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-v: St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430), bishop of Hippo, Retractationes (Retractions), beginning: ‘Incipit prologus libri confessionum sancti Augustini episcopi’.
ff. 2r-116r: St Augustine, Confessiones (Confessions), beginning: ‘Magnus es domine et laudabilis valde’.
[f. 116v is blank].
Roman numerals in the upper margin indicate the book number.
Decoration: Large initials in red or green with penwork decoration in the same and occasionally in the alternate colour, some with flourishing (ff. 1v, 2r, 11r, 16r, 22r, 30r, 37v, 47r, 56v, 65v, 74r, 90v, 100r, 111r). Small initials in red or brown. Rubrics frequently in red, one in green (f. 1v). Display script in brown with some red, for letters following large initials. Paraphs occasionally with penwork decoration.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048911", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3080: St Augustine, Confessiones" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048911 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3080 : St Augustine, Confessiones - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7765]/040-002048911
- 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_100059346555.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1050
- End Date:
- 1099
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 290 x 190 mm (text space: 195 x 120 mm).
Foliation: ff. 116 (+ 6 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1967; remains of the previous binding (blind-tooled brown leather) pasted on the inside covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Western England.
Provenance:
William Cecil, first Baron Burghley (b. 1520/21, d. 1598), royal minister: his sale, 21 November 1687, lot 48, bought by Edward Chamberlayne for £1.2s. (see Diary, ed. by Wright, (1966), II, p. 489).
Edward Chamberlayne (b. 1616, d. 1703), writer: his name is inscribed on f. 1r: 'Hunc [E Libris Illustrissimi Domini Domini Gwillielmi Cecill Baronis De Burleigh Et Unius E Secretarijs Elizabethae quondam Angliae Franciae Et Hiberniae Reginae] Manuscriptum [Circiter Annum Domini 1204] Ego Edoardus Chamberlayne Iunior Studens Viginti Et Duobus Solidis Emi Londini Duodecimo Die Decembris Anno Jesu Christi 1687'; his seal with the inscription 'Edw[ard] Chamberlayne 1688' on the first flyleaf.
John Chamberlayne (b. 1668/9, d. 1723), translator and literary editor, son of Edward Chamberlayne (b. 1616, d. 1703): his sale conducted by Daniel Browne, bookseller at the Black Swan and Bible Without-Temple-Bar, on 11 March 1723/4 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani, (1972), p. xxvi and inscription on f. 1r). Purchased by Humfrey Wanley on behalf of Robert and Edward Harley.
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, ‘12 Die Martii 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:
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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. 3080).
André Wilmart, ‘Les manuscrits des Confessions de S. Augustin Répertoire méthodique’, Revue Bénédictine, 41 (1929), 325-32 (p. 329).
Neil R. Ker, English Manuscripts in the Century after the Norman Conquest (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960), p. 8 (no. 2).
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II, p. 281 (no. 6).
Franz Römer, Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des heiligen Augustinus, II/2: Grossbritannien und Irland: Verzeichnis nach Bibliotheken (Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1972), p. 180.
Cyril E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. xxvi, 85, 99, 101, 422.
Neil R. Ker, 'The Beginnings of Salisbury Cathedral Library', in Medieval Learning and Literature: Essays presented to R. W. Hunt, ed. by Jonathan J. G. Alexander and Margaret T. Gibson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), pp. 23-49 (p. 44).
Frank A. Rella, Some Aspects of the Indirect Transmission of Christian Latin Sources for Anglo-Saxon Prose from the Reign of Alfred to the Norman Conquest (unpublished doctoral thesis, Oxford University, 1977), p. 80.
Teresa Webber, Scribes and Scholars at Salisbury Cathedral ca. 1075 – 1125 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1992), pp. 72-73.
Richard Gameson, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066 – 1130) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 107 (no. 447).
Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 241 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001), p. 77 (no. 434).
Michael Lapidge, The Anglo-Saxon Library (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 282, 290.
Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), p. 357 (no. 434).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
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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.